Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 18 June 1895 — Page 2

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BLOOM INGTON, INDIANA. . If they do not exercise more care it 4s to be apprehended that Messrs. Corbett and Fitzsimmons will some time meet by accident. Any criminals that get in the way of that Indiana postmaster who wants to be a detective will be promptly sent to the dead letter office. The alleged decrease in the visible supply of wheat is no greater than the decrease in the visible supply of cash in the possession of the bears. The Yale-Harvard athletic contests appear to have reached the basis of professional sporting events. The ablest letter writer will win. What profiteth it a man to be born in the White House and die a pauper? That is the sad fate which has overtaken a grandson of President Tyler. In the bath scene in "Charlotte Corday" Mrs. James Brown-Potter accidentally stabbed Kyrle Bellew. Have the other methods of advertising failed? And now comes a family which has been blessed with one more than triplets, and the fond parents have named the fourth one Groveretta. This nam ing fad ought to be chequed. Russian journals are still in mourning for the czar. They will continue to surround their front page with a border of black until a year shall have elapsed from the date of his death. There is probably nothing in the story that Queen Victoria is contemplating early abdication. The old lady finds it just as easy to sit around and be queen as to sit around and not be queen. Harvard has been beaten this year at base ball, athletics, trap shooting and other kinds of sport, but has come out ss well as ever in literary contests with rival colleges. After all, however, young men are supposed to go to college for literary purposes, not for athletics, and-Harvard men should not be downcast. An Oklahoma convict who was nearly dead with lung disease, having been given the liberty of the penitentiary corridors at Guthrie, pried open the doors with an iron bar and made his escape. These prison consumptives will stand a great deal of watching. In default of pardon they usually manage to slip out in some other way. ' A teacher in a Russian university, and quite a famous man at that,has been banished from the school and from the country because he would not cut his hair. There was no appeal and he had to go. Russian tonsorial artists are now having the order printed in large letters, framed and hung up in their studios. And we might add that, owing to the rush of business, the price of hair cuts has advanced. One of the attorneys who argued the income tax case before the supreme court gives ;the opinion that while the decision does not affect the income tax of war times, "those who paid the tax before it was due in order to go to Europe or elsewhere without making a protest will not be able to secure its return, as the payment was in the nature of a voluntary one." It is said that a certain Swedish copper mine has been worked without interruption for 800 years, and is estimated to have had a total yield in eight centurie of 1,200,000 tons, worth at t the average value of f 28 per ton more ithan 32,000,000. A record of its production shows that the output was 1,336 metric tons in 1633, reaching a maximum of 3,455 tons in 1650, and slowly decreasing since 1890, being 271 tons in 1891. It is in a lugubrious tone that some of the leading papers of Europe are telling a new and interesting story in regard to Japan. They have suddenly reached the conviction that the little empire is as smooth in diplomacy as she is puissant in war. According to the European authorities referred to, the powers have been induced to play Japan's own game and now that they have been victimized see bow the shells were worked. They say that the empire expected interference so soon as its terms of peace were announced and arranged its stipulations with a view to having them interfered with just as they were. Japan gets a big pay in return for a comparatively small amount of teiTitory which she used as a decoy, and is to remain in control of that territory until the debt is paid. With such real estate security she is not liable to push the debtor, and the wise old governments of Europe are rubbing their eyes to take another look at this precious upstart that so cleverly took them in at the first attempt. Every multi-millionaire .testifies that 'iche'S do not bring happiness. There can be no doubt that dodging taxes is a harassing sort of business, easy as it seems to people whose ;ot is to huve no taxes to dodge. When an advertiser w.ho seeks publicity for his goods through the medium of almanacs and pamphlets wants a little complimentary notice printed in regard to the same he does not apply to the publishers of other almanacs and pamphlets, but to the editor of a regular newspaper.

BEAUTY OF THE BENCH.

A Fretty Girl Once Sat with California' Supreme Court. . "Few people are aware that a woman once sat on the supreme bench in California," said ex-Secretary of State Thomas Beck. A look of incredulity overspread the features of his listeners. "It is a fact, nevertheless," continued Mr. Beck. "It. wan in well, never mind the year, but I was then secretary of state, and court was being held in Sacramento. Judge Wallace was on the bench, and among those in the capital city during the session was Col. Shafter and a number of his officers. The colonel was accompanied by his daughter, a very young, bright and handsome girl. "One morning at the breakfast table in the Golden Eagle hotel Justice Wallace said: Miss Shafter, I feel quite slighted. Since you have been in Sacramento you have not deigned to visit me. Won't you come up this morning and sit with us in banc? My colleague, Judge Crocker, is absent, and you might as well occupy his seat.' " 'Oh, yes, I'll come,' returned Miss Shafter, and the subject was dropped, and I am sure that Judge Wallace never dreamed that the invitation would be accepted. "About an hour afterward. Miss Shafter, accompanied by one of the efficers of her father's staff, came to my office and said that she wanted to go to the Supreme Court. Would I take her? With pleasure. And away we went. A young attorney was arguing a case when we entered the court. He did not notice us as we quietly seated ourselves and went on with the most brilliant eloquence. Judge Wallace laid his hand on the arm of the empty chair and nodded to my companion to take it. " 'Shall I go up?' she asked of me. " 'Why, certainly,' I responded. 'It would be discourteous to the bench not to do so.' "She hesitated a little, but as Judge Wallace regarded her with a smiling invitation and patted the chair provokingly, she arose and firmly and with the grace of a queen walked up the aisle to the platform. The judges arose and gravely bowed. Wallace stepped forward, and, extending his hand, escorted her to the vacant chair, and each justice was presented to her in turn and shook the tiny hand of their dainty associate. Miss Shafter was quite equal to the occasion, and, bowing, took her seat and let the case proceed. The young attorney, though, lost his head, and afterward lost his case. Whether he wished to make an impression on the new associate or whether the strangeness of the proceedings rattled him I never learned, but he got badly tied up in his peroration. "What did Judge Wallace do? Why, at the dinner that evening he conferred with the new judge and insisted upon hei occupying the seat on the bench neuz day. After dinner he asked me to take a walk with him. 'Beck,' said he, 'if you do not bring that girl into court in the morning I'll have proceedings instituted to declare your position vacant.' " TRIED IT ON A FRIEND. Puzzled by a Poison, the Professor Gets Fetie to Taste It. A well-known Bohemian visited his friend, Prof. Price, at the latter's laboratory yesterday, says the San Francisco Post. The professor was examining a dark brown substance spread on a paper. "Say, Petie, would you kindly let me place a little of this on your tongue? My taste has become so vitiated by tasting all sorts of things." "Certainly," responded the ever-accommodating Petie, thrusting out his tongue. The professor took up a little of the substance under analysis and placed it on Petie's tongue. He worked it around for fully a minute, tasting it much as he would a fine confection. "Not any effect?" inquired the professor. "No, none." "It doesn't paralyze oil prick your tongue?" "Not that I can detect." "I thought not. There are no alkaloids in It, then. How does it taste?" "Bitter as the dickens." "Um-m; all right." "What is it, anyway?" inquired Petie, as he spat out the hold-over taste. "I don't know. That's what I'm trying to find out. Some one has been poisoning horses with it out in the Mission." Petie rushed to the telephone and called up a veterinary surgeon. Thought the Balloon the Devil. Superstition is still very strong in some parts of Germany. A few days ago a balloon, sent up by the army balloon battalion near Dantzic, and in which two aeronauts of that corps wew studying atmospheric conditions at an altitude of 6,000 feet, happened to pasis the district of Tuchel, inhabited by people of the original Slav race. They took the balloon a thing never seen before to be the Szank (or dovil) and followed it for miles, intending to slay it whenever it should happen to alight. Fortunately for the aeronauts they passed the region safely and the bullets fired at their balloon did not reach it. Otherwise they would have fared badly. Aclver.lshig Pays. If you intend to secure the trade of, let as say, 05 people, $2 would not be an unreasonable expenditure, would it? If you appeared to be succeeding, you might put out 81 more possibly $5. The proprietors of Cottolene have starterl out to gain the patronage of 65,000,000 people. Tiiey are getting it, too! and their expenditures for advertising have not yet reached $2,000,000. This is a great country! Look at the Royal baking powder business.

FOR WOMAN'S WEAR.

SNAP SHOT AT THE WINDOWS OF FASHION. The Bag Front Blouse Tan Shoes All tho Rase A Shot Silk Slik and Wool Bracelets and Precious btoncs. T IS stylish to have the front of you blouse-like in its looseness, and the need of attention to this rule is imperative, but there are several ways of satisfying it. The most popular of all Is the bag front that overhangs the belt, and this is seen not only on bodices but on skirt waists for the summer. This device seemed ungainly at first, and now it may be objected to because it is so generally worn as to be already almost common. Fqr those who are not attracted to it for either of these or any other reason, the novel blouse waist shown to-day may be a suitable substitute. Its chief material is pale almond green surah, which puffs out between the long lace tabs that reach from lace yoke to waist. The latter is encircled by a plain brown satin belt, ornamented with two large silver or paste buttons. The upper parts of the sleeves are of brown serge, which is the material of the plain skirt, but the cuffs are of silk with lace trimming. The Shirt Waiate. The shirt waist is a becoming and artistic article, and some ladies' tailors make a specialty of It, and as much attention is given to it as to any other part of the costume. It is astonishing what difference there is in the effect of a well-made garment of this sort in contrast with many that are worn by ladies who think themselves well up in matters of the toilet. The most approved waists have outside yokes pointed at the back, regular turnedover collars and wide cuffs. An effort was made to make the sleeves much larger, but this was found to have its inconvenience when worn under the blazer, and the idea did not obtain as much favor as was supposed. Silk and Wool Mixed. The dress pictured here should be the source of much satisfaction to the wearer, because of its unusual cut. Made of silk and wool mixed goods, its blouse waist has a deep yoke of silk, a large baggy pleat in front, and an arrangement of drapery beside this, which is bunched up into full rosettes on the shoulders. The back is made similar, except for the draping. Ilosettes also trim the folded collar. The sleeves end in fitted cuffs, and the skirt is garnished with ribbon straps and bows. A Shot Sillc. Sleeves that look as If they could bo unbuttoned and taken off arc the latest variety. This would be a comfort to

the wearer of coats. The puff could bj removed and laid away where it could not get wrinkled while the happy wearer donned her jacket and tripped off to church, without a misgiving and with the comfortable sensation that one feels to know f -t one's arms are not in the way. ri re are two occasions when the arms are very much in the way when dress sleeves are too large for the coat that goes over them and when one first takes a coat off in the early spring. This scheme of taking the puffs off would be very nice for dresses that are to be laundered. One device for summer dresses is to button

the puff around shoulder and elbow.. This makes it easy to remove and launder. Those shown here are toot really removable. They are made with gcdet folds like those is the skirt and radiate from the point of the shoulder from beneath a large button. The dress is a shot silk trimmed with guipure lace, which is appliqued over the seams back and front and across the shoulders. The front is trimmed with a cascade of lace and the lower sleeves are of lace. Silks, by the way, have been relegated to the second-best gowns. The first-best are crepons, even to one's fancy waist. The only silk that is really elegant is the Dresden variety, which has tiny figures all over it. Bracelets. Bracelets are coming in vogue again, and it is possible that they may be worn over the gloves, which seems a hideous fashion, but one of the prettiest tricks of new jewelry is a dainty bracelet of linked violets, the stems o which are as naturally tinted as is the real bloom. This bracelet is equipped with a tiny catch which nips the kid of the glove, thereby holding it in place. Every woman knows how unbecoming a bracelet tumbled over the hand is, and how difficult a matter it is to keep it in place without marring the flesh. The present trick settles the difficulty. These ornaments never come in pairs, their workmanship is exquisite, and an admirer may present one of these flower bracelets as safely as he may send a perishable bunch of the real bloom. One may always accept flowers, and though it is nice to know that the admirer is running up a pretty littlf florist bill, it is still mo&k comforting to keep on adding to the collection of flower bracelets. Tailor Made. An extremely elegant three-quarters' ) length coat of velvet has a lining of j cerise pcau tie sole. Tho garment is tailor-made and without tiinmriirj, j save the necessary buttons. This is j worn with a skirt of black satin and a i waistcoat of white broadcloth trimmed with white and gold braid. Hosiery Is ( hunt; jug;. Ilu'ioiy if changing in fashion. While black remains the standard, there is a decided call for fancy styles of all sorts. Some extremely handsome ,sa7iiil' in fancies arc shown, and the indications arc that costumes will be matched in all shad.. from black to white.

A HOME INCIDENT.

Showing How Critical Children SotnctiinoM Bi'fiirae att They Grow Older. "I used to have some credit in my own household," said Mr. .Torgleton, "as a judge of character by minor indications; by handwriting and that sort of thing. The children would bring to me letters from friends and acquaintances and show me the superscription en the envelope and say: 'Papa, what sort of a person would you think this was?" and then I would take the envelope and look at it carefully and presently begin: 'Well, the writer of this is a person of ' and then I would go ahead and describe his or her characteristics, a:id 1 am bound to say that I generally got it pretty near right, as the children acknowledged willingly and with wondering admiration. "Well, I hadn't heard of anything of that for some time for two or three years. Then one day my eldest daughter, now grown to be quite a tall young lady, brought me an envelope to decipher. Honored by this visit after that lapse of time, I gave an elaborate and careful diagnosis. " 'What do you think of this one?' she saiu, handing me another, and I described that, too, and also a third which she handed me, and when I had finished and returned that last one to her, instead of thanking me with the wondering admiration of former years, she began to shout for her brother, a youth grown lofty with the lapse of time, and when he had come they laughed and laughed and laughed. " 'Whence these laughter?' I said, endeavoring to be funny, though I really didn't see any fun in it, and she finally managed to tell me that the three superscriptions whose features I had so carefully described as indicating three persons of widely varying characteristics were really written all by one person. Ha! ha! ha! and then they laughed again with great delight. "I tried to explain that a young person's handwriting, the not wholly formed and settled handwriting, might easily, on one day and another, reaMy reveal all the characteristics I had described, but they only laughed at this; it was enough for them that I had described as the work of three persons the handwriMng of one; but why they should rejoice over the slight incident I cannot imagine, unless they had come to think, as children sometimes do, that they are smarter than their parents." Ex. TO SPARE HIS DOG. Being a Brief Account of Why Mr. tioslington Took Up German. "It will by no means do to assume," said Mr. Goslington, "that because dumb creatures do not respond promptly to our kindness they are insensible to it. This truth was brought home strikingly to me once in the case of a dog I once owned. That this dog was not impervious to gentle treatment was clearly shown by the fact that when you patted it on the head it would wag its tail; thereby showing that it not only understood the kind treatment but that it was pleased with it all through. But I observed that when I spoke to the dog when it was not looking at me, it paid no attention. This was surprising, and at first rather disturbing, but the dog seemed in other respects so kindly that I did nothing about it. '"One day when a German friend of mine was visiting me, and when I had called the dog with the usual result, I asked my friend to call him fo see if he would mind him any better. He did call, and naturally enough, being a German, he; called in German. To our great surprise the dog turned and came joyously bounding toward us. The simple fact was that the dog understood the universal kindness of touch and eye, but the only spoken language he knew was German, from which country, as I subsequently learned, he had been imported only about ten days before I bought him. "The only question now was whether I should teach the dog English or whether I should learn German. I thought it would be easier for me to learn a new language than for the dog, and that is how I came to take up the study of German." New York Sun. Nat Goodwin's Bicycle Bloomers. In wide flowing bloomers, such as many feminine bicyclists affect, belted blouse and nobby cap, Nat C. Goodwin sailed down Michigan avenue on a wheel yesterday as if in training for the coming road race, says the Chicago Tribune. By reason of his peculiar "get-up" he attracted more attention than any of the scores of riders who went flying along the broad, smooth boulevard before, behind, and all around him. At first glance spectators generally exclaimed: "Look at that funny woman!" Then, as they caught sight at closer range of the comedian's face and recognized him, they were both surprised and amused. Goodwin on a wheel and in bloomers ought to be fairly familiar to the people of Chicago by this time. During his recent engagement at Hooley's he was out riding every morning and afternoon. There is not a more enthusiast bicyclist in the country. It has become his sole hobby. Whether in the lobby, cafe, parlor, barroom, bedroom or diningroom, his friends say he talks of nothing else. He owns a bicycle, and carries it around the country with him. Ami Sill! the l'.itii:H Lived. Speaking from the point of view ol numbers, the largest medical consultation .ever held, was that recently convened in China, around the bedside of a member of the imperial fumily. There were ;2-l physicians present; but the patient livc.1, after all.

The Cures By Hood's Sarsaparilla are wonderful, but the explanation is simple. Hood's

earsaparuia pumes, vitalizes and enriches the blood, and disease cannot resist its powerful curative powers. Read this : " My girl had hip disease when five years old. She was confined to her bed and for six or seven weeks the doctor applied weights to the affected limb. When she got up she was unable to walk, had lost all her strength and day by day she became thinner. I read of a cuap of a similar case by Hood's Sarsaparilla, and decided to give it to Lillian. When she had taken one bottle it had effected so much good that I kept on giving it to her until she had taken three bottles. Her appetite was then excellent and she was well and strong. She has not used crutches for eight months and walks to school every day. I cannot say too much for Hood's Sarsaparilla It is a splendid medicine and I would recommend it to any one." Mrs. G. A. LaRose, OVoville, California. U Olllcs al'8 tastrle.-s, mikl, effec rlOOd 3 K IllS tive. Ail druggists. 25c 3 2$ nuui Your 3l Wagon to a Star; J9f as Emerson said, that is, don't be content with any bicycle except the best one made the COLUI1BIA. Matchless as these famous bicycles have been in past years, you will rub your eyes when you see the quality and beauty of the 1895 models $100. POPE HFQ. CO. 33! 33! 33! 33! jyJ General Offices and Factories, HABgpB0U BOSTON, NEW YORK, OHIOAOO, SAN FRANCISCO, mOVIDKNCK, BUFFALO. 33! Von need the Colombia Catalogue, a work of art.' that shows every detail of . peerless Columbias and su perb Hartfords. The book is free if yon call at a Columbia agency; by mail for two 2-oent stamps. 331 3s in, aKe -wm "T write' for' f aSidc rformation ilber-$W-P-A? $1.00 WHEAT Wheat Is Advancing From Day to Day. and Now Is the Time to Buy. The Chinch Bug, Heeslan Fly, Drouth, Hot Wind, Heavy Frosts and Light Supplies make Wheat cheap at 81.00. Tnere is no tnon ey to be mode by standing by and looking at this great cereal sell from l to 5 centsi higher each day and uot have a trade on the market. We strongly advise the purchase of wheat at the present price, on a margin of not less than cents double your purchases as your profits will justify it on a safe margin, and the chances are that large profits will certainly be taken on the investment. We had many customers who made from tl.000 to $3,000 in this wav on la vestments of from S100 to (340 during last ten days. There is no mmny ' made watching this market adv nice from diy to day. May wheat at once. Send your orders In by iit, have yonr b.nlc wire us the amount of money deposited to our credit, and we will at once place the order on reeelpt of your telcirrain, wiring you at what price the same was purchased. For further information write us for Daily Market Bulletin, which suggests whatand whon to buy, and also our Manual on Dealing in Grain, Provision and Sto fcs. Horn Frke. V. XV. STAXSKIE. CO.. Koinu K Trader' JBldg., Chicago, III. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR The best FOR Dys pe pt i c,Del icate Jnf i rm and AGED PERSONS JOHN CARLE & SONS. New York. PARKER' " HAIR BALSAM Cleanses and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Falls to E store Gray Hair to its Youthful ColorT Cures oralp diseases & hair tailing. g0c.andSl.OOat Druggists BINDER TWINE Lowest Price Kver Me. Kul! line of in W&. Write jrr',los. Guaranteed manufactured lor l- HEE Ci. tl IN pirn win j-rii,c a Al ia sT I'OMT. Slonlton, Iowa. . W Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Lcito Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau. 3yrsiulal war, lOudjudlcaliusclaims, any sine. UUKES WHERE AIL FISH f-AIIS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Gotod. TTsel in lime. tnm nv nrunzlsts.

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