Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 47, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 April 1884 — Page 3

Bloomington Telephone BLOQIONGTON, INDIANA. WALTER & BBADFUTE, - - Pubushhl

Week Wendell Phillips was in the Northwest ome six or seven years Ago, he was so attracted to a bright little girl in a family -with whom he spent a day or two that he laid his hand on her head and said: "If I live twenty-two years longer, I trust I shall hear of this little one as -the Governor of Minnesota." The mother inquired: ""Why, Mr. Phillips, would yon approve of such a thing?" To which he replied : "Certainly, why not?"

At dinner in Cincinnati -Matthew Arnold remarked that American women looked pale, unhappy and careworn. A lady at his side said: "If you look ebout you, Mr. Arnold, you will see that the ladies here to-day are as fair, free and happy as it is possible for people to be." The teacher of lucidity raised his eye-glass and gazing critically, said in a surprised tone: "Well, upon my soul, Mrs. Arnold is the only careworn one in the room."

The Norwegian shoe, or skee runner, fa used in Colorado for long journeys over glassy snow, or when going up or down a steep mountain. Everyone has a pair of these ungainly shoes men, woman, and children. Those wljo have mastered the art of snow-shoeing can go very rapidly on them. There is a Norwegian there who is willing to wager that he can travel fifty miles -across the country in ten hours, but that is much faster than the majority of skee runners.

Siheoh Shobteb, a Birmingham workman, who presented Mr. Gladstone with an ax, has received the following letter: "Mr. Gladstone desires me to express to you his best thanks for the detailed account of the making of the ax which you kindly presented to him. Although Mr. Gladstone is loth to defend its polish in any degree, he feels bound to contemplate making a trial with it, in order to see the effect of an ax made wholly of steel."

An Arab woman, when left a widow, mourns her husband much, but often marries again, f he night before her second marriage she pays a visit to her first husband's grave. There she kneels and prays him not to be offended. As, however, she feels he may be, she brings with her a donkey laden with two goat skins filled with water. The prayer ended, she pours the water on the grave to keep him cool under the circumstances about to take pHce, and, having well saturated him, departs. There is a Mrs. Wellon in England who reversed the usual order of things and brings suit to compel her husband to live with her. Her claim is for "restitution of conjugal rights," and the court has no option but to compel Mr. Weldon to live with her or to go to jail ; but it sympathizes with him and suspends punishment pending an appeal he has made. He offers the wife 500 a year for his liberty, but she obstinately refuses. Of the two horns of the dilemma Mr. Weldon will probably choose to go to jaiL

The recent decision of the New York courts in the Sarah Burr will care brings to a close a long litigation, and distributes among fifty-five charitable institutions the $500,000 which the old lady possessed. Miss Burr was cue of five sisters, who were left orphans in early life with a fortune of $12,000 between them. This had been invested in lands on what were then the outskirts of New York City. The sisters kept the estate intact until it was worth over $1,000,1)00. They are all dead now. and most of the money goes to charity. Ax English paper says that penal servitude is, as now carried out in England, a very dreadful punishment indeed. From the dock the convict is carried away in the prison van, and on his arrival at the jail the heavy gates are shut to, with a horrible sound, behind him. lie is thrust into a narrow cell, there to remain without companionship for nine months. Scarcely ever bearing a human voice, save the warder's, fed on coarse food, his fate is sealed for thirty-six weeks, and after that he will probably be sent to another establishment where the discipline is somewhat less severe. The nine month's solitary confinement of a five years' convict is hard to bear. About five feet from the floor is a peep-hole. The warder can look in at any moment, and the dread of this constant unpervision induces in sensitive prisoners nervous anxiety, in sub cases the most severe part of the punishment inflicted upon them. The period of solitary confinement at an end, they are allowed to work in gangs, under a strict and purposely vexatious discipline. It is now generally admitted by the German military authorities that finan

cial consideration alone prevent the immediate adoption of a magazine, or repeating ritle, as the general armament of the infantry of their army. Not enly would the direct expense of providing the new weapons be very great, but the cartridges now used with the Mauser, of which immense supplies are stored in the Gorman fortresses and arsenals, would be rendered useless, as owing to certain weak points in their manufacture, they could not be safely fired from a magazine rifle. How enormous must be the amount of ammunition which would have to be replaced mav be reduced from the fact that, according to lately published returns, the war establishment of the German army comprised op the 1st of January last, including all ranks and arms of the service, no fewer than 1,076,563 officers and men, while the total number of trained men available in the Empire wdl shortly not fall short of 8,000,0001 Of the actual organized forces 1,521,405 are infantr soldiers; so that, even leaving out of account all together the ammunition which would le required for magazine carbines carried by troopers, gunners, engineers.etc., it is evident that the cost of substituting new cartridges suitable for a magazine weapon for the present stores of breech-loading ammunition would be very great. That the general introduction of a magazine rifle will be sooner or later inevitable is no longer denied, but the change of armament will be deferred by Germany to as distant a date as possible, unless some one or other of the great European armies, by adopting the new arm, obliges Germany to follow her example.

The manufacture of barbed wire has male millions for many men. The great "West may be said to be fenced with barbed wire. The 3,500 miles of fencing destroyed by the Blue Devils of Texas this winter was all of barbed wire. The most familiar pattern of thi fencing is made by twisting two strands of thick wire together so that at every few feet the pointed ends of the metal thread project at right angles with the lengths. Dnr'ng le CY ar or len years thereafter thirty patents were issued for barbed wire. Before that plain wire had been used on the great farms and pastures, its cheapness rendered it preferable to any other material. A Worcester man bought Tip all the barbed wire patents and the firm he established had the patents reissued, and then asserted that this gave them the control of the principle. It took them years to get a decision sustaining them, and in the mean time barbed wire factories sprung up like mushrooms all over the West. After the decision, the Worcester men got all the other makers together and issued forty licenses to as msny firms to continue making the wire, each being limited to a certain output, obliged to sell at a certain figure, and compelled to pay the Worcester men $15 a ton. The little makers were all crushed out The monopoly raised the price 2 cents a pound and added $10,000,000 to the profits in half a dozen States. Iowa felt the burden most, and there some farmers formed an association and set up a Pes Moines man to manufacture moonshine wire for them, and to te.t the rights of the monopoly. The law directly aided them. x The Supreme Court in Washington, in the case of Miller against the Brass Company dealt a blow at the abuse of reissued patents. Persons had been hunting up patents for inventions distantly resembling successful now devices, and by purchasing these patents for a song, had been getting them reissued in shapes so broadened and strengthened as to make them cover the new devices. The Supreme Court's decision strengthened the Iowa farmers. In 1883 the United States District Court for Southern Iowa declared the; reissued barbed wire patents invalid, and last week another decision in a measure reaffirmed that decree. Thq fight still goes on upon such grounds as remain for the Worcester men.

Ilice Culture. The best rice is that raised in South Carolina, where the rice is sown in trenches, which are eighteen inches apart, and flooded to a depth of several inches. The water is then drawn off and later, tte fields are flooded again, to kill the weeds. The water is allowed to stand nearly two weeks this time, and is-not agdin turned into the field until the grain is almost 'ripe. Marshy places are not so good as well-irrigated land. Most of the rice used in Europe is imported from India. There, and also in China, the hills are chosen rather than the plains, and are so well irrigated that often it is only with the greatest difficulty that the fields can be weeded on account of the water. In seme districts canals are carried along the hillsides. Upland rice is a species cultivated in Ceylon, Fara ana Hungary, which requires dry land, rotting if placed under water. Tho only States of North America which cultivate rice for market are South Carolina and Georgia. Rice will not grow as far north as Minnesota. What the Indians use there is Canadian or wild rice, which grows abundantly in the Northwest, in miry places, and often on the margin of the lakes. It reaches the height of seven or eight feet, and the Jong and narrow seed makes a nourishing meal of which the Indians are very fond. Inter Ocean,

FEMALE DUELISTS.

Desperate Kncounter Among Women on thti ITieldof Honor. AlU California. A Duel took place at Paris, January 31, 1762, between Mile, de Guignes and Mile. d'Aigtiillon (two ladies of quality), who had quarreled about precedency at a soireee, and retired to a garden adjacent to the scene of disturbance, and fought with knives until both were wounded the former in tho arm and the latter in the neck. It is recorded of Mile. Moussin, a French prima donna, that, after killing three men in duels in the woods near Paris; by sword, sho fatally wounded her fencing master, Serano, and fled to Brussels, where sho domiciled with the elector of Bayaria for a brief period. Lola Montez was also skillful with both pistol and rapier, but it does not appear that she ever engaged in anything of a hostile character above the dignity of a street light. She once challenged a journalist at Grass Valley, California, to meet her with pistols according to prevailing rules govei'ning such meetings; and, upon his refusal to do so, thrashed him with a cowhide upon a public street. In 1845 she was a witness in the trial of M. Bouvallon for killing M. Dujarier, at Paris, and said in her testimony; "I was a better shot than Dujarier, and if Bouvallon only wanted satisfaction, I would have fought him myself." Dujarier was the friend of Lola Montez, and in his will, written the evening before his death, he bequeathed the (afterward) Countess of Lansfeldt 100,000 francs. On the 21st of August, 1777, Mdlle. Leverrier, a young lady of good family, who had been jilted by a navy officer named Duprez, met the latter in the street, and handed him a pistol and told him to defend himself at the same time she drew a weapon and shot her false one in the face, while he discharged his pistol in the air. An extract from a Georgia newspaper, published in 1817, says : "Last week a point of honor was decided between two ladies near the South Carolina lino, the cause of the quarrel being the usual one love. The object of the rival affections of these fair champions as present on the field as the mutual arbiter in the dreadful combat, and he had the grief of beholding one of the suiters for his favor fall dangerously wounded before his eyes. The whole business was managed with all the decorum and inflexibility practiced on such occasions, and the conqueror was immediately married to the innocent second, comformably to the previous conditions of tho duel." A Buffalo, New York, paper of August, 1853, gives an account of an arrest of Catherine Hurley and Jane Hall, "who had met on the toll bridge on Ohio street, in the presence of a vast assemblage, to fight a duel with Allen's revolvers." No other accounts of similar performances have come under the observation of the writer. Avery interesting anecdote, however, touching female heroism, may be related of tho Countess de St. Belmont. When M. do St. Belmont, who defended a feeble fortress against the arms of Louis XIVM was taken a prisoner, his intrepid wife, Mm?, la Countesse de St. Belmont, who was of a most heroic disposition, still remained upon the estates to take care of them. An officer of cavalry having taken up his quarters there without invitation, Lime, de St. Belmont sent him a very civil letter of complaint on his ill behavior, which he treated with contempt. Piqued at this, she resolved that he should give her satisfaction, and rent him a challenge which she signed "Le Chevalier de St. Belmont." The officer at once accepted the challenge, and repaired to the place appointed. Mme. do Belmont met him, dressed in male attire. They immediately drew their swords, and in a short time the heroine disarmed him, when she paid with a gracious smile: "You thought, sir, that you were fighting the Chevalier de St. Belmont; but you were mistaken I am Mme. de St. Belmont. I return your sword, air, and politely beg you to pay proper respect to the request of a lady in future." The heroic woman then took her departure leaving the vanquished officer covered with shame and confusion. The most singular combat, says an English writer, by which arms were ever gained, was one which happened in the family of Hotot. The family of Dudley, in Northamptonshire, heirs for a crest a woman's head, with a helmet; her hair disheveled and her throatlatch loose. The occasion of this crest, was singular. In the year 1380, Hotot, having a dispute with one Kingsdale about the title of a piece of land, they agreed to meet on the disputed ground aud decide it by combat. On th9 day appointed Hotot was laid up with the gout; rather than he should suffer in his honor, or lose his land, his daughter Agnes armed herself cap-a-pie, mounted her father's steed, and went to meet Kingsdale at the place appointed. After a stubborn fight she dismounted her adversary, and when lie was on the ground she loosened her throat-latch, lilted up her helmet, and let down her hair upon her shoulders. Agnes afterward married into tho Dudley family; and in honor of her heroic action her descendants have always used the above described crest, with.' the motto Galra spes sahttis. Madness Among Convicts. That criminal acts aro in nine cases out of ten attributed to madness is a theory which finds many advocates; and some interesting observations on this subject are to bo found in extracts from the report of the medical officer of the working prison for females for tho past year, just issued. After instancing the case of a woman, who was over and over again convicted and sent to prison, whoso passion for destroying prison furniture and her own clothing never ceased, and who died at 50 years of age whispering a regret that her strength would not permit her to indulge as formerly in acts of violence, the medical officer goes on to say in connection with the subject of wrongdoing and the condition of the brain, that he was led during a serios of examinations to the discovery that a very notable number of convict women have had their skulls fractured. It is not uncommon to hear a woman say : I was mad." This iracibility and loss of selfoontrol are, he adds, not unfrequently

associated with a damaged skull and presumably an injured brain. So seriously aro the functions of the brain disturbed after external injuries, often of a flight degree, that a very small quantity of alcoholic liquor is sufficient to produce a' maddening effect on the subject of such an injury. Perhaps ii the Jaw Avero Icfs lenient to ruffian? who pummel women t heads with fists, hobnailed boots and pokers, there would be a sensible diminution in the number of fumalo convicts. St. James Gazelle. A Cheshire Highwayman. Tho career of the dashing robber, Higgins, is indeed remarkable. We first hear of him in tho Wost, robbing n farmer coming homo from market, and being transported to the American plantations. There ho escapes from custody, breaks into a honsa at Boston, and so, provided with f.inds, gets on shipboard, and back to his native land Then, with renewed confidence and daring, ho takes to the road, and is so successful in his pursuits that ho is enabled to set up housekeeping at Knutsford quite the gentlemen, with sporting dogs and thoroughbred hunters. He marries the daughter of a respecta ble family, and is much look up to by the neighborhood, and pays his way with strict punctuality. But some night, when all the world is abed, hesaddles one of his thoroughbreds, muffles np its hoofs in worsted stockings, rides silently out of the paved courtyard, and, through the sleeping town; then dashes oft' to some redezvous. fifty or 100 miles away. Presently a terrible affair happens at Bristcl; an old lady is found one morning murdered, and her house ransacked. She is known to have had a considerable hoard of coin in Spanish dollars and doubloons; perhaps the old lady herself had been the child of a bold buccaneer and the dollars had been got by evil deeds upon the Spanish main. Higgins is tho first to bring the news to Knutsford, long before tho flying posts and weekly mails have wind of it; and it is noticed that scon alter that Snanish monev has suddenly come in o circulation about Knutsford, where, perhaps, a more cosmopolitan spirit reigned than at present, in the way of currency. People might have put this and that together, but it seems they didn't, for Higgins still continued to move in the best society; and one night attended an assembly at Knutsford, ruffling it among all the county grandees. One Lady "Wnrburton, of ArTv, was noticed for the splendor of her diamond parure and general display of gems and jewels; and Higgens remarked them for his own. He lft earlier than the rest, aud rode to meet tho Warburtonchai.se, which presently came lumbering rp. Higgins, trusting to the darkness of t! e night and hu slouch hat and cloak dashed up to tho coach; but the lady with in g, catching sight of his face, greeted him with a friendly wave of the hand "Oh, Mr. Higgins, why did you leave us so early?' The highwayman, abashed, muttered some polite rejoinder and rode off. His last exploit was to break open the house of a lady of rank near Carmarthen, a terrible ride for tho thoroughbred over the wild mountain passes; but he wan caught red-handed, tried, and convicted, protested that he was a gentleman of condition, and that the whole affair was a mistake. Apart from these eccentricities of conduct Higgins seemed to have been an amiable man anyhow, ho had secured the warm affection of his wife, who stood by him to the last. Just before the date fixed for the execution, a reprieve came down, signed by Lord Shelborne; but the Under Sheriff, 'convinced that this was a forgery, refused to delay the hanging. The gallows was, as was then usual, some little distance from the town, and Higgins walked at such a rate that the attendants could hardly keep up with him, abusing the Under Sheriff all tho w.iy, and protesting that tho reprieve was a good one. On mounting the fatal ladder he handed a letter to the Sheriff, it is said contain ing a full confession of his crimes, including the Bristol murder. According to the Annual Register, however, he only gave a letter to his wife, and died impenitent. A broadsheet exists purporting to be the full confession in question, which is evidence nt all events to the current belief a to his crimes. All the Year Hound. Old, Old Cities. Mr. James Stevenson, of the geological survey, has discovered the site ol several ancient cities in the San Juan region, Arizona, which probably have been deserted since long before the Christian era. The remains belong to what is called the &tone age, which was long before metals were used iu the construction of weapons for war or oi domestic ntonsila for household purpose. Plenty of stone axes and mauls were found but iron was evidently un

known to the dwellers of thesa ancient cities. The house were peculiar. The apartments were dug down into the rocks and the only entrance was from tho top. Evidently these cities were intended as 2laees of refuge in time of Mar. There are many antiquities of t! is kind iu Arizona, New Mexico, and still further to tho south-west. The great antiquity is shown by the fact that th geology of these regions has greatly changed since these cities were habitable. There is no traco of wator in many of the places which formerly must have been densely populated; when, of course, that liquid must have been a prime necessity and easily procurable. Young Americans who think of traveling to Nineveh, liahylon, Egypt, and other eastern regions filled with the ruins of ancient empires, would do well to look for remains equally remarkable in their own country. Demore&Vs Monthly. When hearts were trumps: "Do you over gamble?" sho asked, as they sat togc-ther, her hand in his. He replied : "No; but if I wanted to, now would be my time." "How so ? "Because I hold a beautiful hand." The engage ment is announced. The Harvard annex" for women is eminently successful. Two ladies out of a class of live have become engaged to their teachers.

THE ANIMALS THAT LAUGH.

Birds and Beasts Which Have Their Jokes and Sorr ws. Two essentials are needed in order to piodnce the physical phenomenon of laughter in man. First facial, vocal or other muscles, including the diaphragm, and, second, the emotions or ideas which give rise to laughter. Certain animals possess both the-e essentials. Tho gorilla possesses the facial muscles, and Darwin claims that various monkevs have them. All tlie mammalia, in common with man, have the diaphragm, which is capable of iapid relaxation and contraction as well as spasmodic action. The chimpanzee is said to smile. The smile of the titi monkey is a playful one. The dog can both smile and grin, whether affection or pleasure, hypocrisy or cunning dictate. Dogs distinguish the different kinds of laughter, they n($to the distinction between that which is good humored and that which is sarcastic. They are sensitive to ridicule, yet not unfrequently try to produce laughter in man, and deep is their mortification if they fail. Romanes tell us of a -kye terrier that tried to amuse his master and provoke his laughter by certain tricks it had taught itself, and wae sulky if its efforts proved fruitless. An oran g-outan g in th e London Zoological Gardens showed every sign of pleasure when its practic al jokes excited men's laughter, and ltev. Dr. Wood records tho instance of a tame jackdaw who enjoyed the fun of boys' games like leap-frog and tag as much as the boys did themselves. The parrot is a cajitai laugher. He laughs at his own practical jokes. White, of Selbourne, speaks of the heartiness of laughter in the woodpecker A pet magpipe of Jesse's, he says in that incomparable "History of Selbourne." had a laugh that was so hearty, joyous and natural that no one who heard it could help joining in it. Theie are tales of certain swallows who, on the successful isue of a practical joke played by them on a cat, seemed each to set up a laugh at the disappointed enemy very like a laugh of a young child when tickled. There is a certain hyena which, from the peculiarity of its cry, is styled the laughing hyena, and, in Australia, there is a bird a king fisher which is called, for a similar reason, the laughing jackass. Its uotes strongly resemble a rude, powerful laugh. The great African traveler, Livingstone, speaks of the African brown ibis, whose cry is aloud ha-ba-ha! As it is true that certain animals possess the physical qualifications for laughter, so, also, is it correct that they possess all tho apparatus for shedding tears. The dog, horse, elephant, bear, rat, donkey, mule, various deer, soko, chimpanzee, mandrill, titi and other monkeys or apes, cattle, ca nel and giraffe shed tears under emotions of prief and sorrow. The parrot does not shed tears, but possesses a kindred power of sobbing. Chimpanzees will weep at dread of punishment, monkeys and elephants on account of mortiticapation and disappointment, the Cingalese elephant on account of captivity and confinement, the liti from fear, terror or fright, the stag at bay and caged rat from despair, certain monkeys because they are pitied, and the youn soko, pays Dr. Livingstone, out of mere pettishness or non-compliance with his whims. Mrs. Burton says she ha seon, in the Syrian Desert, tears roll down camel' cheeks, with thirst." Someone speaking of a mule crippled by a two-inch nail in his foot: "His fpee was the picture of pain and dispair. Tears streamed out of his eyes," Dr. Livingstone records au instance of a young soko, which, if not taken up in t'ie arms like a child when it desired, and appealed to be ao carried, engaged in the most human-like weeping, Di Boerlage shot a female (mother) ape, in Java, that fell, mortally "undod, from a tree clasping the young one in her arms, she died weeping. A giraffe, wounded by a rifle shot, was also found to have tears trickling from the lashes of his dark, humid eyes. Gordon Gumming, the African traveler, speaks of large tears trickling from the eyes of a dying elephant. Some old rata, finding a young one dead by drowning, wiped the tears from their ees with their fore paws, says the Animal World, Instances might be enumerated without limit to show that certain animals have both the physical retirements for grins and tears, and are susceptible to the same emotions that cause tears and laughter in men, Cincinnati Enquirer. Getting at the Exact Truth. As a matter ot fact, nobody ever makes larger allowances for the people, in the estimate of their veracity, than tho scientific inquirer. Knowing himself, by painful experience, how extremely difficult a matter it is to make perfectly sure you have observed anything on earth quite correctly, and have eliminated all possible chances of error, he acquires the fixed habit of doubting about one-half of what his fellow-creatures tell him in ordinary conversation, without for a single moment venturing to suspect them of deliberate untruthfulness. Children arid servants, if they find anything they have been told is erroneous, immediately jump at the conclusion that the person who tqld them mean deliberately to deceive them. In their own simple and categorical fashion they answer promply : '"That's a lie." But the man of science is only too well acquainted in his own person with the exceeding difficulty of ever getting at. the exact truth, llo has spent hours of toil, himself, in watching and observing the behavior of some plant, or animal, or gas, or metal ; and after repeated experiments, carefully designed to exclude all possibility of mistake, so far a3 he can foreseo it, he at last believes ho has really settled some mooted point, and triumphantly publishes his final conclusions in a scientific journal. Ten to one, tho very next number of the journal contains a dozen supercilious letters from a dozen learnod and half-salaried professors, each pointing out a dozen distinct and separate precautions which the painstaking observer neglected to take, and any one of which would be quite sufficient to vitiate the

whole body of his observations. There might have been germs in the tuba ia which he boiled the water (germs are very fashionable just at present), or some of the germs might have survived and rather enjoyed the boiling; or they might ha ve adhered to the under surface of the crock ; or tho mixture might have been tampered with durijjg tho experimenter's temporary absence by the sou, aged ten years (scientific observers have no right, apparently, to hav sons of ten years ok! except, perhaps, for purposes of psychological research); and so forth, ad in Jin Hum. And the worst of it all is that the unhappy experimenter ii bound himself to admit that every one of the objections ia perfectly valid, and that he vary likely never really saw what with perfect confidence lie thought and said he had seen. Cornhill Magazine. The Liltle tiera Urcns. "Ah! good morning," said n brisk, natty little fellow, walking right in on the "Topics of tho Time" serf, and tripping highly over a cuspidor, WI represent the Little Gem Circus. n "We have thrown off on circuses, snapped the serf, "These grand concatenations" "We have not got a single concatenation. We don't carry them any more They are altogether to common. lit fact, we are drawing our circus vory mild this season." "Why, haven't yon got 15,000 feet of venomous serpents?" ''Not a foot not even a dead garter snake In a bottle of aicohol. Boa constrictors and pythons are oat of style. "Don't yon advertise three miles of golden chariots, headed by nineteen silver-plated b&nds, a steam calliope, a galaxy of Circassian beauties, sixteen educated stallions, a bass drum with two e heads, a dozen eighty-ore ton elephants and twenty-six limber-jointed acrobats on bicycles?" "No, O, no' answered the advance agent, with a sickly smile hovering in the corners of his mouth. "We driv into town with an old lumber wagon and a trotting sulky. Our elephant, Henry Ward lleecher, died last season of hay fever and our beauty eloped with one oi the canvas men. We have got a pretty middling good snaredrunimer, and a Bohemian with a flute lip who blows the fife. That is our band. "Of course you have the wonderful gigantic BovoLapus which sweats blood, and disembowels oaniel-leoparda" "Well, no, you see our Bovolapus was ill last fall, and was laid up ia the Marine Hospital for six weeks. finally escaped by chewing up tho hospital steward, three guards and the physician on night watch. But he waa never the same Bovolapus afterwards; he drooped, pined away, and one morning we found him dead ia thd horse tent. "You don't seem to havo nany attractions, that's a fact. Of course yon have the wittiest clowns in the world?1 "Clowns! 0, no, sir. Only oao clown, and he is a blame 1 fool a regular howling idiot. Some of his old jokes are covered with cobwebs, and besides that he is blind in one eye, kneo sprung in fche left leg, and dying with consumption. I hardly expect he wilt lire to get here with the show. But it mill be a small loss."

Of coarse vou have three rings?

On the contrary, we havo only half

a ring. We send the old pug of a pad horse half way around a circle, and there is a turn-table at the end, like a single track car line. We then head him the other way, buiid a fire under him, and he joss back on a slow trot." "I don't see what yon can want with the assistance of an influential newspaper like ours," said the " opics of the Time" man. "You do not seem townut to advertise anything, or rather you do not appear to have anything to advertise." "Advertise! Death on a cream horse, no! What I came in for is toee how nmch you fellows will take to stay away from the show and say nothing about it Name your lignrra, and if they are anywhere between a sour toddy aid sixty dollars, I'll cash right in. Can we trade?" The "Topics" man wa thus easily corrupted, but it was noticed by the managing editor that when he returned from a trip round the corner in company with tho advance agent, he was full of inspiration, and it required the whole force to restrain him from giving the Little Gem Circus a preliminary write up. Texas Sifting. Parlor Unw?. The new game of "Bean bajjH is becoming very popular among our socially inclined young people, and uBean bag" parties are all the rage. The game ia quite a novel one, and considerable 8k ill can le developed in pUying it One of the best features is that it can bci home made without expense. For the benefit of those who would like a new game to help pass away the winter evenings the following directions for manufacturing the apparatus may not come amiss : First, a board three feet long and one and a half feet wide, smooth on one side (if a toai d ot the desired width can iot be found two can be cleitod together on the under side). One end of the board rests on the floor and the other is railed about nine iuchea by means of a prop, so it presents a sloping surface to the player. Nine inches from the top a hole six inches square is cut. Next makd live cloth bags six inches square (vhen finished) and loo ely It 11 them with beans, aud one bag (called "Jumbo"f sue six by ten inches. Each player stands five to eight paces from the board and tbrowu all the bags, trying to make them go through the hole. Every big going throtigh tho hole counts the pbtjer ten; those landing on the platform count , five each, and nil failing on the floor discounts ton. Jumbo" must l thrown last and counts or discount twice as much as one of tho smaller bags. Any number of persons can plav, but if tho paity is a large one captains may 1)6 appointed and sides chosen. The limit of the game U usually five hundred. Ter2ichor "Augusti t..m .he said, "Why is there so much confusion in that stfro?n I know not, dearest," he simpered, "un h ss it u caused by that buatle in tho window."

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