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Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. "WALTER S. BKADFDTE, - - Publishes.

it oar a & gossip. To Matilda a Thirty. Hi looka, I agree, can't allure too; He's bald as the palm of toot hand His years forty-one, I assure you; Bis flgrure inclined to expand. Time was when such lovers you might have rejected! Time is, when yon 11 take him, or linger dejected His prosing, ho doubt, will perplex yon; His love for the poet is nil; Hell seem to Uve only to vex yon. When once he recovers his will. Vo si. ark of the hero in his composition. But get him be thankful and bless your condition! At breakfast he's sure to be surly; Tiros heroes are, too, I am told. Converse not when forced to raise early! (N. B. Ho won't eat mntton cold.) Rococo and rare are the oaths that he uses Consider his coffee, and cot the nine Muses! And when, his brief idyl well over. Your evening yen have to yourself. You'll say as you rit there in clover: "Alone, yes, but not on the shelf!" Sood fish in the sea, we have an of us seen them Cut few fish that bite, and a long way between them Life. Rustic Simplicity. Axe you, sweet maid, searching among the dewy verdure for the tinted hare-bell? Or do the gold-tipped cow slip or the graceful fern wile thee from he crowded haunts of men?" was asked Si rustic maiden, as she stood with her large, liquid eyes gazing in wrapped Meditation on the grassy knoll. "I'm a hnntin' dandlion ruts, yer tore-clothed ijjiot," she softly murmured; "an' ef yer sling anymore o' yer sass at me Til put a head on yer." Evansville (Ind.) Argus. Part of a GirP Vacation. On Monday we went fishing and aught forty-two trontl I walked out on c log oyer the stream, with my fishpole in one hand and my shoes in the other. The brook was swollen by a shower, A large, round stone lay in the middle of the brook. I jumped from the log upon the stone, slipped aff and lell into the water. I was carried down the stream about fifteen feet before I scrambled ashore. Jennie, the hateful thing, very near killed herself laughing at me. I wonder what Johnny Rogers would have thought if lie thad seen me there? New York Sun. Women Smoking Tobacco. It may be true that the Princess Louise and Modjeska, both estimable women, are addicted to the use of tobacco smoke, but nevertheless every woman of sense will consider it an unspeakable calamity lor a self -respecting member of her ex to soil her lips with the weed. An Oglier thing than a woman's mouth stained and smeared with tobacco is hardly conceivable, and to smirch the petals of the rose would be an offense akin to the contamination of woman's lips with, the vile juices and smoke of tobacco. Few men who chew or smoke tail to admonish their boys to abjure the filthy practices, and the introdue" turn of tobacco to feminine use would be regarded with almost universal disgust and horror among the opposite

sex. It may be that the smoke is to obtain relief from various maladies in peculiar cases, but the use of tobacco by a young woman ought to be regarded as the index of a wanton if not of an invalid. Neio York Mail. The Slack-faced Women of Alaska. ' At Junean, Alaska, the women and children tripped down in their bare feet, and sat around on the dripping 4 wharf with a recklessness that suggest ed pneumonia, consumption, rheumaiha tism and all those kindred ills from f which they suffer so severely. Nearly all of the women had their faces blaced, and no one can imagine any. thing more frightful and sinister on a melancholy day than to be confronted

by one of these silent, stealthy, figures with the great circles of the whites of the eyes alone visible in the shadow of -fche blanket. A dozen fictitious reasons 3& are given for this face-blacking. One . "'Tndian says that the widows and those mar- r

wno nave sunerea great sorrow wear the black in token thereof. Another native authority makes it a sign of happiness, while occasionally a giggling dame confesses that it is done to preserve the complexion. Ludicrous as this may seem- to the bleached Caucasian and the ladies of rice-powdered and enameled countenances, the ma-

t trons of high fashion and the swell i damsels of ,the Thlinket tribes never make a canoe voyage without smearing jr themselves well with the black dye that I 'they get from a certain wild root of the ! -woods, or with a paste of soot and seal oil. On sunny and windy days on shore

they protect themselves from tan and aunburn by this same inky coating. On feast days and the great occasions, when they wash off the black, their complexions come out as fair and creamy white as the palest of their Japanese cousins across the water, and the women are then seen to be some six shades lighter than the tan-colored nd coffeor colored lords of their tribe

The specimen woman at Juneau wore a thin calico dress and a thick blue blanket. Her feet were bare, but she was compensated for that loss of gear by the turkey-red parasol that she poised over head with all the complacency of a Mount Deseret belle. She had blacked her face to the edge of her eyelids and the roots of,her hair; she wore the full parure of silver nose-ring, lip-ring and ear-rings, with five silver bracelets on each wrist and fifteen rings ornamenting her bronze fingers, and a more thoroughly-proud and self-satisfied creature never arrayed herself according to the behests of high fashion. Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. What Women Can Do. "Women," said a successful woman jeweler, "can do anything and everything nowadays. When I first had to earn my living I thought myself fortunate when I secured a place behind a milliner's counter. Well, I sold bonnets for a year, and the store was closed. Then I painted furniture, if you will believe it. It wasn't hard to learn, and I earned $12 a week instead of $7. But I soon quit that for better employment, and was hired in a jewelry establishment. There I learned the trade, and I am as independent aa yon are." Miss Dora Kinney, of Wild Cat, Ind., is a successful, money-making shepherdess. A few years ago an uncle gave her an orphaned lamb to raise by hand, which she did successfully, and becoming so much interested in sheep husbandry, she procured a mate for the lamb, and she now sports a fold of twenty-eight old sheep and thirty-three lambs sixty-one in all, all from the first pair. Miss Kinney attends to her flocks altogether, both winter and summer, and now receives quite a handsome little income from the annual sales of wool and mutton. New occupations for women are yearly springing into being. The latest things I've heard of are landscape gardeners, bird fanciers, architects, junk dealers ana) pawnbrokers. Women do all these things now. Indeed, I'm afraid a bad time is coming. Women do so many) kinds of work that the men will all be-, come dudes. The fine, idle creature

these days certainly are not women. A Happy Ending. A milk-wagon with red wheels turned into Charlotte avenue from Woodward.! At the same moment a milk-wagon with a view of Yosemite on the cover turned into Charlotte from Park. They met. The driver of one had a long nose and a melancholy look. The driver of the other had a fat face and was minus two front teeth. They stopped. The driver of one turned red and, green, and his eyes flashed, and his hair stood up, and there was murder in his eye. The driver of the other seemed to sink down into his boots and look wildly around for a club. "You hyena V yelled the first. "You calf!" was the prompt reply. At that moment a policeman came up and remarked that if there was any row going on he wanted to take a hand in it. "Ill crush him I" howled the one with the long nose. "I defy you!" whooped the one with the missing teeth. Then the melancholy driver of tha milk-wagon with red wheels told a story. He had courted a girl in the suburbs for five years. They loved and were engaged. They were to have been married this fall, but he with the Yosemite landscape came along, wearing a new brand of paper collar, smoking a 75-cent pipe and using real hairoil on his locks, and he won the girl's admiration and affection. She had left the old for the new. i "And 111 pulverize him!" howled the rejected. "Fll leave him a corpse !" chirped the accepted. By-and-by they agreed to leave the settlement of the case to the officer, and both made a solemn promise to abide his decision. "Well," said the offioer, after deliberating awhile, "a girl should marry where she loves. She evidently prefers a man with two teeth gone to one with a long nose. Still, the rejected has taken her on two excursions, given her a 50-cent fan, and bought more or less candy. He should have some damages." "I'll give him three quarts of milk," announced the lucky man. "And I'll never take it," said Melancholy. "My decision is that you must allow him nine quarts," remarked the officer. "I figure his actual damages at $3, but knock off 20 shillings for the comfort he has taken in sparking the girl." There was a war of words over the decision, but the one finally gave in, and the other accepted, and the milk changed cans and the men shook hands. "Thatts what I like to see," observed the officer. "Why should two men fight over a woman when a little candid talk and nine quarts of milk will bring about a happy arrangement? Drive on, my children, and may the crea-m of happiness attend you!" Detroit Free . Press.

JDUAJIATIC ANL MUSICAL.

W. J. FL03ENCE is 52. John McCuixough is 43. Miss Beatrice Lieb will be Frank Mayo's leading support this season. Emma Abbott has started out again, &nd is singing to enormous audiences wherever she appears. ' "Sam'i. of Posen's" recent Chicago engagement was one of the most brilliant that he has yet played. John McCuixough continues to defy the croakers. He is acting with uncommon vigor, and is in the highest spirits. John T. Raymond is engaged all over the country, from Kalamazoo to Montgomery, for every day up to June 7 excepting two. The prima donna Peralta, the "Nightingale of Mexico," died recently at Mazatlan, of tonto fever. Three members of her opera company have died of the same disease. A rickety bridge on which a number of actors and "supea" were standing while rehearsing in Colville's Fourteenth street Theater, New York city, gave way, and the actors and "supes" fell about thirteen feet. Seven people were rather seriously hurt. The New York Mercury says that Alice Dunning Lingard has applied for a divorce from her husband, William Horace, because there is another undivorced Mrs. Lingard in existence. The Mercury also says that Mrs. Gustavus Levick seeks a divorce. The words of Mr. Jefferson, "If actors would treat their fun-making as thoughtfully, earnestly and with as strong a desire to be artistic as they do their pathetic work, the class of fun on the stage would be vastly better and more amusing," should be framed and hung up in the dressing-room of every comedian. Lotta in the studio is kittenish and full of fun, just as she appears on the stage. When shown one of her proofs she ejaculated, "Umph J is my foot as big as that? If so, cut it out." But upon being informed that the embellishments and a little photographer's art would fix that, she said, "If you don't do me justice, please do so to my foot." An overwhelming audience assembled to witness the appearance on British soil of Miss Minnie Palmer, a young American actress who has achieved some degree of celebrity on the other side of the Atlantic. Briefly stated the debut was a decided success, the fair performer being most enthusiastically received, and called to the front again and again throughout the evening Glasgow News. Is there any necessity for such a wickedly-extravagant use of money in dresses as is sometimes seen on the stage? Why real silks or satins, or diamonds, any more than real trees or real houses? It is an extravagance that leads to a good deal of sin and sorrow sometimes. To "do all things decently and in order," is & motto that should be adopted throughout the profession. Music and Drama. Lydia. Thompson is making preparations for an extensive tour of America. She has one great advantage over other actresses in that she never has to pay out any money for extra baggage, her stage wardrobe requiring no larger trunk than that ordinarily used by an editor when he starts out on an annual press excursion with two old socks and a fine tooth-comb. However, it speaks well for Miss Thompson that she depends for success upon her art and not upon her attire. A late London paper says the Jersey Lilly, chaperoned by "the young gentleman who has been playing leading business with her in America, and has mounted a pincenez" (what ever that is), attended a. performance at Drury Lane Theater recently. The same paper says: "The professional beauty's beauty has suffered considerably during her travels; the light has disappeax'ed .from her eyes, and she looked thin and careworn." A sad, sad lesson to all beauties with a weakness for nocturnal suppers and modern dudes. Miss Cabbie Swain, the actress, has a just claim to be called an athlete as well. The other day, just previous to her departure from New York for New England, she rescued three bathers from drowning at Bayport, Long Island, and, a few weeks ago, she swam oat while bathing near New Haven, Ct., and rendered noble assistance in bring four others ashore. On the Pacific coast she is noted as a swimmer, holding a medal given by the San Francisco Humane Society for her bravery in saving the life of a Miss Pickering, who was being carried to sea in an undertow. A gentleman who lately returned home from London, says Mary Anderson has had a more cordial reception there than has been given to an American actress for many years. He also tells a story which, if correct, cannot fail to increase the respect of the Amer

ican publio for Miss Anderson. It seems that upon her arrival she was invited to some of the best houses in London, and stories were told of her beauty and wit that made the Prince of Wales yery anxious to met her. Miss Anderson was informed of this flattering expression of his Royal Highness ; but, most unaccountably, as it seemed to her English friends, she showed no desire for the presentation. Finally, a gentleman who knew her very well was asked by the Prince to say to Miss Anderson that he would be pleased if she would indicate a time when it would be agreeable to her to receive an introduction to his Boyal Highness. She replied that, while she wished to show no disrespect to the future ruler of England, she must decline to recieve him. Such a reply had never before been made to a request for an introduction by a Prince of the blood, and she was asked to explain. "An introduction to the Prince of Wales," she pluckily answered, "can do me no good professionally, and I know very well how he regards actresses generally. Personally, I have always maintained my dignity and self-respect, and I do not mean to put myself in any position voluntarily where I may be compelled to forget them. Therefore I must decline to be presented to him. I have gone this far in life without a breath of scandal attaching to me, and I do not mean now to do anything that might change that condition." This settled the matter. The story got out in London and was widely repeated, and it was noticeable after that that the Princess of Wales invited Miss Anderson to her garden party, an honor she has never before conferred on any actress of the English stage. It is a pity some of the American girls who are getting themselves very muc'A talked about in connection with the Prince of Wales could not follow Miss Anderson's example. BASE-BALL. McCobmaok, of the Cleveland Club, will probably never pitch again. He recently broke a tendon in his arm and was sent home. Bbown, the right-fielder of the Columbus Club, beat the best single game batting record at Baltimore recently, making two single and two double hits, and two home runs. In the six hits he made fourteen bases. The St. Louds team owes its success this season to the daring and almost reckless base-running of the members. Little Nlcol, who got his coaching with the Chicago Club the season before, has set a good example in this respect, which the members of the team have not been slow to follow. The record of the games won and lost by the eight League clubs on Sept. 17, was as follows ; Games Games Clubs. won. lost. Boston 55 a Providence 54 3t Cleveland 53 35 Chicago. 53 37 Buffalo 48 40 New York 42 45 Detroit 35 55 Philadelphia 1U 74 The Union Association of Base-Ball Clubs was formed in Pittsburgh by delegates representing Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Washington, Richmond, Indianapolis and St. Louis. H. B. Bennett, of Washington, was elected President, and Wm. Warren White Secretary and Treasurer. The new league adopted the American Association rules and constitution, and resolved against recognizing the "reserve" agreement. In the course of a discussion lost Wednesday morning at the club-house a good deal was said on the subject of "sacrifice hits" and "placing the ball." Anson took the ground that he could bat a ball in any direction he chose. Corcoran held the contrary, and offered to bet a dollar on every bal hit that Anson couldn't do it. The wager was not accepted, but Anson declared he would demonstrate his claim in the afternoon game. This is how he demonstrated it : Out of six times at bat he failed to make a safe hit precisely what American Sports declared must be the result of trying to "place the ball," with men on bases; the ball once went on the ground to short-stop, once on a fly to right field, once on a fly to first baseman and once on the ground to pitcher ; the other two hits were on the ground to short-stop and second base; only one-half the hits were toward right field, and two out of the nix were easy fly balls ; and all this time, according to previous announcement, Anson was trying to "place the ball." Admitting that Anson can probably come nearer to controlling the direction of a batted batted ball than any other batsman in the League can do, it will be seen that he cannot do it more than half the time, and even then cannot regulate the hits as between fly balls, grounders or fouls. Like evory other batsman who faces curve-throwing, Anson will accomplish more for his side and improve his individual batting record by limiting his efforts to hitting the ball hard ami strong than by attempting the folly of "sacrifice" batting. American Shorts Chicago).

jdoit't poisoy tour FAMXZT. The American Agriculturist says Stores of vegetables or of fruit have direct effect upon the air of the cellar, and consequently upon that of the rooms above, and, as a matter of health, should ot be tolerated in any considerable quantities. The method oi storing vegetables practiced by the market-gardeners is applicable everywhere; and while it preserves the roots, Btc, in excellent condition, it will relieve the farm-house of one source ol discomfort, if not of disease. Large masses of our products, whether those we term vegetables, such as roots, cabbages, etc., or those commonly called fruits, as apples, pears, etc., are not dead, inert matter, but are constantly acting upon the air which surrounds them. As a rule, they take up oxygen from the air and give off carbonic acid gas, a poison to animal life. No very large mass of vegetables or fruits should be stored in the cellar of the dwelling house for the winter. So far as roots are concerned, as well as cabbages and celery, they are much better stored outside. Of course, on farms where roots are largely cultivated, proper cellars are provided for storing them; but where moderate quantities of beets, carrots, parsnips and other roots are to be preserved, to be taken out as needed for use, or for sale, the method of storing in trenches is to "be commended. The place selected for the trench must be one in which water will not settle, or provision must be made for complete drainage; otherwise the method will fail. A long pit, or trench, is dug, six feet wide and three or four feet deep. The roots are then stacked up in sections about two feet long, and as high as the top of the trench. One stack, or section of roots, being made, another is begun about half a foot from it, and the space between the two filled in with soil. The trench, vjhen filled, will be two feet of roots, six inches of soil, and so on for its whole length. The roots are to be covered with soil, and before freezing weather comes on enough earth should be put on, two feet, more or less, and so rounded as to shed the water from rains and to exclude frosts. CINCINNATI CULTURE, , xh the elegant drawing-room of a Cincinnati pork merchant's mansion a large company was assembled. All the luxury that wealth could command contributed to the gratification of the guests. Upon a blue satin divan the pork merchant's daughter, gorgeous in silks and pearls and diamonds, was conversing with a friend. Presently hex father approached and said : "Pauline, I want to say a word to you." The girl arose and accompanied hex parent to the seclusion of a bay window. "Pauline," began the old man, "there's a couple of Cleveland dudes in the dining-room having a hot talk about Copernicus. I was afraid they were going to ask me to decide the dispute, so I made some excuse to get out and come to you. Now tell me, who was Copernicus, anyhow?" "Oh, father," exclaimed Pauline, "how could you be so ignorant? Why, any school-boy knows who Copernicus was. He sailed from Palos, Spain, on the 3d of August, 1492, and discovered America the following October." The venerable purveyor of swine gazed exulting ly at his daughter a moment and then said, with a suggestion cf sadness in his tones: "Pauline, my child, if I had your biuins I might have been a United Stites Senator from Ohio." Brooklyn Ea 7 le. RArAGES OJPTHE WOLVES IN RUSSIA. A statistical report lately addressed to ths Russian Minister of the Interior estimates the damage done by the wolve. in forty-five European Governments of Russia during the year 1873 at 7,500,000 roubles. The Government of Samuna was set down as the greatest sufferer, to the extent of 650,000 roubles; next came Vogolda at 560,000 roubles, and so on. The Polish and Baltic provinces and Archangel came off best. But competent judges consider this estimate of wolfish mischief as much too low. It is calculated on the basis of a low average value for all Russia, as if the price of an ox or a sheep was about the same everywhere throughout the empire. It also sets the absolute amount of mischief at far too low a figure. Probably 15,000,000 roubles, or $12,500,000 would more nearly represent the value of the doniestio animals annually destroyed ly wolves in European Russia. To this should be added the value of the wild animals destroyed by them. The reindeer alone killed in Siberia would represent a high figure. Then there is the loss of human life, which never can be accurately known. In 1875 the police rt ported 161 persons killed by wolves. London Tirnes.

LrrEitATUBK is a mere step to knowledge, and the enrae often lies in our identifying one with tls 9 ottier. Literature may, perhaps, muke us vain; true knowledge must reudex'us humble. Mrs. Santjord.

THE LSSAXE.

How Thing Appear to Thou Wh Ha Lost Their jttcaton. The first that I remember of my at-, tack was while I was riding in a railroad' car. It seemed to me that the passengers in the forward part were getting up amateur theatricals. The fact that, this did not surprise me, nor appear" 'at all out of place, illustrates one curious feature of insanity, and that is, its close similarity in many respects to dreaming. It is well known that the strange phantasmagoria attending upon most of our dreams never strike us at the time as at all astonishing, illogical or contradictory, because the critical faculty in sleep is partially and perhaps wholly, dormant. And so also is it in insanity.'! And as a sound or touch will suggest or giye direction to an ordinary dream,so everything that occurs within the sight or hearing of an insane man affects him in like manner. Also, he has no more control over his words and actions, when the insanity is complete, than a somnambulist. And, when a patient comes to himself, after having been insane, he feels as though he had been having a long and sometimes a very unpleasant dream. Some of my delusions were of a frightful character, and resembled a nightmare more than anything else; but more often they were by no means disagreeable. Of. course, it seemed strange to me afterward that I could have been carried away by such absurdities. At one time I thought that the end of the world had come and that the day of judgment was at hand. This was somewhat remarkable, because I had not for years been a believer in the scriptural prophecies relating to those two events. Nor had I any faith in the doctrine that there is a hell of fire ; yet, in imagination, I visited that place of torment and witnessed the tortures of the damned without, however, getting scorched myself. Some strange conceits that I had come across in books occasionally suggested material for my mind to work on. I saw men whose souls I believed had been taken from their bodies, leaving behind the intelligent personal identity an idea suggested by a character described in Bulwer's "Strange Story." Again, I thought that demons occasionally reanimated human bodies after dath; 'and this fancy I must have got (from a dramatic work Jjy Bishop Coxe, entitled "Saul," in which the evil spirit sent to trouble that unfortunate monarch reanimated and took possession of the body of a priest whom Saul had shun. I mention these instances as serving to show the dream-like character of insanity. "Insanity," by One Who Has Been Insane, in Popular Science Monthly. A CURIOUS RACE Of MEN. At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir J. Kirk, British Consul at Zanzibar, read an account of a visit' which Mr. J. T. Last made to the Masai people, a race living in a region of East Africa never before visited by a white man. Their manner of building is distinct from that of any other tribe. They select a spot on the tops of hills projecting from the sides of mountains, and inclose a large square with a single row of houses, some of which are six feet in diameter and four feet six inches high. These are covered with ox hides and ox dung till quite waterproof. When this outside ring has been built, a few additional houses are scattered about in the square, and each man's division is marked oft Then a strong fence of bushes and prickly thorns is set up all around, leading here and there gateways, which are closed at night. The men are great dandies. Because they cannot get their hair to grow long enough, they take the inner bark of a small shrab, split it up finely and dry it in the sun, and then, cutting it in lengths about eighteen inches long, weave it into their own natural hah. The whole mass is then well saturated with a mixture of fat and clay, and carefully bound into a kind of pigtail. ' TROUBLE WITH MODERN HEROINES. Indeed, it is the serious-minded heroines who behave worst in their love affairs. The calm manner in which they argue the point out with their parents, always getting the best of it in arguments as well as in fact, is enough to make the father of past fiction turn in his grave. This trait is, after all, the most alarming to us who are approaching the ago when "the heavy father" is more interesting than the young lover. For the heroine of fiction is, let us remember, the ideal woman of the period, the mold of form with which our young women naturally compare themselves. Her example will outweigh with them all the exhortations of their guardians, and for them, therefore, there is the pleasant prospect of seeing the attractive qualities described produced in their daughters and wards. Saturday Bevieto. "The only thing to mar the pleasure of the occasion," wrote a Boston editor in his account of a suburban funeral, "was a little difficulty between the clergyman and one of the mourners concerning the ownership of a flask found in the carriage they had oocupied."