Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 7, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 June 1884 — Page 2

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

Bisho Matthew Simpsojt, of the Methodise Episoopal Church, breathed his last at Philadelphia, after a lingering illness at the close of his seventy-third year. About lire thousand persons, mostly Spanish-Americans, assembled at Central Park, New York, to witness the unveiling of a statue to Bolivar, the great liberator. ....Mrs John Both escaped from a burning building at Erie, Pa. She rushed back to get her clothing and was bunted to death. A SXATUS of the late Gov. Buckingham, of Connecticut; was unveiled at Hartford, in presence of six thousand militiamen and a vast concourse of citizens. : , .By a decision of the New York courts the Bev. John P. Newman is restrained from officiating as pastor of the Madison Avenue Congregational Church, taking charge of its services or meetings, or from receiving salary, save as acting pastor, since March 31 of this year. , JxnxB 21 was the hottest day of the seaeon in New York; the thermometer in various parts of the city markoda temperature from 95 to 102 degrees in the shade. A large number of cases of prostration by heat were reported two of them fatal. IHB wholesale bakery of A. D. Bassman, in Brooklyn, N. Y.f valued at $100,000, was burned a few days ago. Three firemen were kitted by falling ywalls, and eight horses were suffiocated ia the stable.

THE WEST.

Hbs. Wabbkn, wife of Bishop Henry

W. warren, of Denver, Colo., has donated $100,000 to Denver University for the establishment of a Department of Divinity to be known as "The Biff school of Divinity, on condition that others eiOow a single professorship Margaret Sling, a 14-year-old gui of Milwaukee, has eloped with Henry Geahrig, 60 years of age, for years an inmate of the Soldiers Home. . . . Owing to a dispute touchinga mining claim, Edward Gallagher shot lbs. Greenwood, near Sonora, CaL The woman's sou, Otis, followed Gallagher; and fired at him without effect, Bobert Watson chased young Greenwood, but the latter turned on him, shooting him mortally. Watson's son next pursued Greenwood, but he escaped and surrendered to the Sheriff, and both himself and Gallagher are in jail. Mrs. Greenwood and the elder Watson have died from their wounds. KibaIjFY Bbothebs' great spectacle, "Excelsior, continues to be the attraction at He Ticker's Theater, Chicago. It is a notable production, some of the most pleasing effects being introduced! The pantomimic work is good, in several instances highly commendable. Mile. Nani and Sig. Ettore Coppini being really admirable in the intelligence and cleverness and force of their respective performances. The ballet figures indicate a greatdeal of study and pains in discipline, though it is difficult to contool the 382 people employed on the stage. Gsr. Mxras, commanding the District of theColumbia, has appointed an expedition to explore the Copper Jttver, in Alaska, which is considered a dangerous undertaksag, as the Indians are exceedingly hostile. ....In Retract a bolt of lightning wrecked the front portion of the residence of A. T. McBeynoids and stunned six persons .... In the Circuit Court at Chicago. Edward F. Thomas and an accomplice were convicted of swindling a woman by trading her a warranty deed to lots to which they had no title. Thomas was sentenced to three ynars in the penitentiary. . , .Because she was not given $2,000 insurance at the death of her mother, Miss lizzie Bradley, of White Cloud, Kan., entered upon & fast forty-three days ago. She ia now face to face with death, as her stomach revolts at everything offered ' Judos Puxsbtjbt, who was terribly injured on an Alton train In the riot at Brighton, ULf two years ago, was awarded damages of $12,500 by a jury at Joliet. . . . Isaac B. Sharp, formerly Circuit Judge at Wyandotte, Kan., killed himself with a revolver, because of ill-health. . . . The sire of Johnston, the fastest pacer in the World, has been purchased by'H. S. Woodruff, of JanesviUe, Wis. . . . .Alfred Yandeear charged at Waupaca, Wis., with the mnrder of H. C. Mead, a banker, in October, 1882, has been released on his own

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While towing a bark from' New York in the Mississippi the iron tog W. W. Wood suddenly careeffcd and sunk, drowning the pilot and two other persons. Abotjt 5,000 mat assembled at Greensboro, N. C, to celebrate the completion of 190 miles of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad. Gov. Jarvis, Senator Vance, and Judge. Guhaer delivered speeches. Foub negroes were killed at Albany, Ga., by the explosion of a boiler in Fields u tios brickyard. A TELBGBAJf from Mountainburg, Ark., states that Sheriff C. P. Chandler, of Linn County, Kansas, who, with two deputies. bad been tracking Lords Wampler (the fiend who murdered the Anderson family of six persons near Fleassnton, Kau. , some weeks ago), came upon Wampler in the mountains near that place. He fired two shots at the Sheriff and then fled The pursuers then gained upon him, and when within forty yards Wampler placed a pistol at his own head and fired, and died in a few minutes. The body was sent to Pleasauton. Across the Virginia line, opposite Bomney, W. Va., a wood-chopper found $1,000 in gold concealed in a hole in a tree.

ported by the Senate Committee, adds $1,037,402 to the total agreed to by the House, making the aggregate $2,647,259. The Sen committee's estimate provides salaries for 8,759 employes, while the House

estimate are tor 8,202.

Gen. Birr&EB has formsUy accepted the nomination for President fcy the National Greenback Convention. .', .The Ninteenth Illinois District Republicans nominated by acclamation, for Congress, Thomas Ridgeway, of Shawneetown. .. .The Democratic State Convention of Delaware adopted a resolution presenting Thomas F. Bayard as a statesman whose nomination for President would furnish4 at once the platform and the candidate. The Texas Democratic State Convention eelected as delegates at large to Chicago, (jov, Hubbard, D. C. Gidding, Thomas J. Brown, and John P. SrHth. Before th$ declination of Mr. Tilden ma ciade known the delegates were instructed for the old ticket; but subsequently 1 resolution was passed allowing the jreprenentatives of the State in the national convention to act on their judgment ' In the New York Democratic State Convention at Saratoga the differences of opinion among the various sections of the New York City Democracy were settled and harmony secured by allowing Tammany thirtyone delegates in the national convention, the County Democracy thirty-one, and Irving Hall ten. The convention did not instruct its representatives at Chicago, but they are believed to stand 46 for Cleveland, 14 for Flower, and 7 for Bayard. The delegates -at-large are Danitel Manning, Edward Cooper, Lester B, Faulkner, and John C. Jacobs. Among the district deleSites are August Belmont, John Kelly, and bram S, Hewitt The. delegates to the National Democratic Convention, selected by the Michigan Democrats at Detroit, are mostly for Cleveland. One delegate is for Thurman. The platform denounces the present tariff laws as iniquitous and unjust, the parent of every economic evil, and demands a tariff" for revenue only The Democrats of the Fourth District of Maine have nominated John F, lynch for Congress. Ik the Indiana State Republican Convention, the first ballot for Governor resulted in 594 votes for W. H. Calkins, 512 for W. W. Dudley and 48 for Gen. J. P. 0. Shanks, and the nomination of Calkins was

made unanimous. The platform favors the framing of a new constitution for the State. . . .The Prohibitionists of Illinois, at their State convention at Bloomington, nominated J. B. Hobbs, of Chicago, for Governor, and Dr. Perryman, of Belleville, for Lieutenant Governor. The sum of $2,700 was raised for campaign purposes. Ex-Senatob S. C. Pomeuoy. of Kansas, has been nominated for President of the United States by the American (AntiSecret Society) party. Jo hn A. Coutant, of Willimantic, Conn., is this nominee for Vice President The platform adopted by the convention at Chicago clemibnds the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks; that the charters of all secret lodges granted by Federal or State Legislatures should be wi thdrawn; that land and other monopolies should be discouraged; and the abolition of electoral colleges and a direct vote for President and Vice President of the United States. The committee appointed to notify Mr. Blaine of his nomination by the Republican National Convention for President waited on h in a body at his home in Augusta, where Gen. Henderson, Chairman of the committee, made the address of notification under an dim 1 tree in the grounds surrounding Mr. Blaine's residence. In replying Mr. B'aine expressed the profound gratitude which he felt for the great honor bestowed upon ban, and promised a more formal acceptance at a future time. After the addresses the committee, with Mr. Blaine, were entertained, at luncheon at the house of CoL Osgood, a neighbor of Mr. Blaine.

1?HE committee, appointed by the National Republican Convention to notify Mr. Blaine of his nomination for the Presidency proceeded to his residence in Augusta, and Gen. Henderson, Chairman of the committee, read the address. Mr. Blaine responded that t'ie platform adopted

at Chicago had hjs unqualified approval,

and that he fully appreciated the responsibility attached to his leadership He was glad to meet in the delegation many with whom he had shared the duties of public service. The committee were given a reception at Portland in the evening.

Masea e Carrara, at thp southern declivity of the Appenine range of mountains and tw&n-ty-thrqe miles northwest of Carrara. ' Extraokpinaby precautions are taken by the Government authorities in London to guard against dynamite outrages. Every public building is closely watched by sentries, the Ministers and prominent public men are guarded by detectives, the houscb of Parliament are searched before the members enter and during the session. . . . Joseph Scharf , who was acquitted in Hungary of die charge of having murdered a Christian maiden as a sacrifice, has been compelled to flee to London. ADDITIONAL, NEWS The Senate Committee on Public Lands will make a favorable report on the bill providing for the forfeiture of the land grant of the Marquette, Houghton, and Ontonagon Eoad. Thirty deaths from cholera have occurred at Toulon in the South of France. The plague broke out among the soldiers and dock laborers. Quarantine has been already established. The report of the outbreak caused a profound sensation in Paris. Thousands of people tied the city, and the evacuation of the barracks was ordered by the Government. . . .Severn! persons were severely injured during a panic in a Methodist ch arch of Anglesea, Wales . . . .The whaling vessel Chieftain has arrived in the Tay from the Greenland fisheries with the crew of but one of her boats. It is believed the crews of the other boats were lost. The aggregate of clearances in twentythree of the leading clearing-houses of the United States during Abe last week, as compared with the aggregate for the corresponding week of last year, shows a decrease of 22.8 per cent. Outside of New York the decrease was 13 per cent. A large natural gas deposit was struck in the Jefferson Iron Works at Steubenville, Ohio. The roar of the escaping gas could be heard for a quarter of a mile The strike in the Hocking Valley mint s, in Ohio, against a reduction of wages, includes about five thousand men. At an election held at Clinton, N. YM to determine whether water-works should be established in the place, twenty-two women who are taxpayers voted. Fifteen others offered ballots, but were not allowed to vote, as the Assessor left their names off the taxrolls An explosion of gas caused the destruction of the oil refinery of George Allen & Son, at Franklin, Pa., and ruined the railway track for 100 yards. In the Senate June 23, a resolution was adopted for an investigation into the recent defalcations in the departments, by the committee on expenditures of public money. After prolonged debate on the Mexican pension bill, the amendment of Mr. In palls, te extend the time in which to fill applications for arrears, was lost by 20 to 27. In the House, a bill was introduced to authorize the funding of the entire bonded debt in 2 per cent, bonds running fifty years. The Suudry Appropriation bill was passed, under a suspension of the rules, amended in several respects. The clause which cuts off the power of members to print speeches in the He cord not actually delivered was struck out.

WAIIIft4TOX. A cxbctjXiAB addressed to the foreign MfgcacptativeB fay Dr. Carta Zaremba proposes the celebration of the discovery of America, 490 years ago, by a universal exposition at the capital of Mexico, and the erection of a colossal statue of Columbus vpen the spot selected by an international oommittee, upon a base of stones contributed by the nations of the world which have since the discovery of America taken part in its colonization civilization, and progress J. H. McKenney, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, was stripped of $61,000 by the ooJlobse of Middlemen's bonk at Washington. Envelopes in which he had left securities in their safe were ewt open and the contents abstracted. Xhb legislative appropriation bill, as re-

The Ohio Supreme Court rendered decisions on the Scott law, declaring the second section of the act, providing for a lien on real estate tenanted by a liquor dealer, to cover the tax, unconstitutional, but refusing to say whether the entire statute is valid, claiming that that question has not been presented in the cases under consideration. . WhUjE a train on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Road was passing through the long tunnel near Magnolia, two strangers sprang upon a passer ger with a coupling pin, and knocked: him inder his seat. He struggled until the robbers leaped from the train, for fear of capture The Dominion Government has granted permission to the Canadian Pacific Bond to carry Montana cattle over its line in bond. ' Ok representations c f the Canadian Pacific Boad, Canadian customs rules will be

t relaxed so as to enable cattle from Montana

uu cuiuvu iii vuuu iu juuuuow xui export There were 187 failures in the United States the past week, against 184 the week before. FliAUES swept away the six-story shirt factory of Skelton Brothers & Co., in Montreal. The falling walls crushed an adjoi'i dotel, causing the death of one mitn and severely injuring five others. The loss is estimated at $190,04)0 At Toronto in a collision between two freight trains, Walls, a brakeman, and Tiemellion, a fireman, were killed. The Queen's -Hotel at Port Arthur, Manitoba, was destroyed by an incendiary fire. William McPherson, a commercial traveler, of Winnipeg, was burned to death.

Adaptive Mimicry in Plants An extremely curious Chinese plant, called the Hias-taa-tom-chom, exists in the Flowery Empire. The name of this singular plant means that during summer it is a vegetable, but that in winter it becomes a worm. If it is observed closely at the latter end of September, nothing; simulates better the eye of a yellow 'worm about four inches in length. The apparent transformation takes place gradually, and one can see head, eyes, body, etc. , in course of formation. Thisplcntis extremely rare; it is to be met with in Thibet, and in the Emperor's garden at Pekin, where it is reserved for medicinal purposes. The Chinese tiavants say it ia a capital strengthening medicine. A ttempts are being made to acclimatize it in South Africa. L ilium Ar batch, whether planted in the open border or pots, requires deep planting. It is a good idea to place a little clean sand about the bulb on first settin g out. The situation in the garden should not be too much exposed to the sun, but on the contrary paaiually shaded. Bulbs planted in pots should have a period of rest after flowering. Good drainage is absolutely essential to all lilies. What, think you, is the rose ar lily the queen? the one '"love'1 the other "purity.

VOR1BICHY

A cable dispatch announces the death of Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir-apparent to the throne of the Netherlands. The deceased Prince was an Admiral in the navy of the Netherlands, a Major General in the army, and the last male heir of a famous race. , A cable dispatch from Borne reports the explosion of the powder mills at Pontremoli, killing thirteen and wounding seventeen Others, Pontremoli is in the Province of

THE MARKET. NEW YORK. BEffVES $ COO & 8.25 HOGS. .0 0 5-?5 Flour Extra. 3.00 & a 75 Wheat No. 2 Chicago 95 0$ M No. 2 1.01 $ 1.02 COBN No. 2 White .68 ! .G4 OATS-White. as .43 POBK Mess 1C.50 C$17.00 CHICAGO. Beeves -Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 7.25 Fair to Good 5.76 6 25 Butchers.,, 6 00 q$ 5.75 Hogs 5.00 5.50 FLOim Fancv White Winter Ex 5.26 $ 5.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 1$ 5,2 Wheat No. 2 Sonne 85 q .86 No. 2 Ited Winter t2 & M CORK No. 2, 54 W .55 Oats No. 2 M & M KYE-No, 2 65 (4 .66 EAHLEY No. 2, t .62 3 .65 Butter Choice Creamery 10 ( .20 Fine Dairv. 14 l M Cheese Full Cream 08 (08 .00 Skimmed Flat 03 W .05 Eggs Fresh 15 $ .17 Potatoes New, per brl 3.75 15 4.25 Pohk Mess 19.00 (10.50 Lied 07 & .07 & TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 92 Si Mi Corn No. 2 66 .57fc Oats No. 2 U & M MILWAU1CEK Wheat No. 2 85 .60 Corn No. 2 55 .67 Oats No, 2 32 .335 Barley No. 2. 69 & .61 Pork Mess 13.25 igsiio.75 L.ARD 7.2i. & 7.75 6T. LOUia Wheat No. 2 Red 1.07 1.09 Corn Mixed. 52 & .54 Oats No. 2 S2 & .34 Byb 66 .57 Pork Mess 17.60 if.oo CINCINNATI Wheat No. 2 Bed l.oi 01.0s Corn .55 $ .67 Oats Mixed. , .32 .33 Pork Mess u.&o is.oo Lard 07540 .WH DETROIT. Flour 6.25 c.75 WheatNo. 2 Red 95 .00 Cork No. 2 53 & .57 Oats No. 2 White as & .36 Fork Mess 19.80 &20.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Red 03 3 Corn Mixed 61 & .f.3 Oats Mixed .sa & .33 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle Best tf.oo fi.50 Fair. ; 6.50 m c.25 Common 8.76 ($ 4.25 Hogs. 6.60 & coo Sheep , V5 a? -25

THE WORK OF CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done by the National Legislature. In tbe Senate, on the 17th, Mr. Brown stigmatized the recent remarks of Mr. Inealls an a deliberate insult, and contended that Senators were always accorded an opportunity to revise their remarks before being printed in the official proceedings. Mr. lmralis retorted that all he had said in regard to interpolation might be conPtmetl as the Senator from Georgia chose. A joint resolution was passed to lease to the Michigan Fish CommiHioners a strip of land adjoining St. Mary's Falls Canal Mr. Sherman argued against the wisdom of ordering an investigation into the condition of the banks of New York, but suggested a stringent law prohibiting bank officers other than directors from engaging in speculative operations. The house, by 158 to 61, agreed to the conference report on tuo bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter, providing that he shall receive no compensation for the period since his dismissal. The deficiency appropriation bill was passed, the chair ruling out a proposition by Mr. Randall airainst political assessments. A bill to amend t he Pacific Kail road acta In relation to the survey of lands was passed. In the Senate, June 18, after the reading of the journal, which contained an allusion to the Fitz John Porter bill, the Chair utated that no further action on that bill was necessary than to have the action announced to the Senate. A debate ensued as to whether the provision relating to back pay secured the object in view, which was ended by the Chair laying be 'ore the Senate a message of the House ol Representatives announcing the concurrenc 3 of that body in the report of the conference committee, which recommended that the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate and atrree to the same. '1 his action takes the Porter bill back to the House of Representatives as finally passed, bo far as the action of Congress is concerned. By a vote of S3 to 15 the Utah bill was then passed. The bill embodies many suggestions offered by the Utah Commission and by District Attorney Van Tile, and is intended to afford some means by which polygamy can be punished. It compels wives to testify against their husbands as to the fact of marriage, and declares children born in polygamy illegitimate. In the House a further conference was ordered on the postofflce bill, and Messrs. Townshcnd, Holman, and Horr were appointed conferrees on the part of the House. The remainder of the day was spent in considering a bill to extend the provisions of the Thurman act to the Kan sas Pacific, the Sioux City and Pacific, and the Central branch of the Union Pacific Road. It requires the Union and Central Pacific Companies to pay annually into the siuking fund $2,000,000 each, with lesser amounts for the smaller lines. In the Senate, June 19, when the Mexican pension bill came up, Mr. Beck said the amendments proposed would, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Pensions, involve an outlay of $246,000,000. The House of Representatives passed the Pacific Railroad bill, with the amendment to make the Central Pacific Road pay yearly into the treasury 55 per cent, of its net earnings. The bill to prohibit the importation of aliens under labor contracts was passed without division. In the Senate, June 20, a favorable report was made on the bill to amend the act relating to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods. The credentials of Ephraim K, Wilson as Senator-elect from Maryland was presented. The Mexican pensions bill was debated at considerable length, but no actio a was reached. The House, in the Ohio contested election case of Campbell versus Morey, decided to seat the former, and he were duly sworn. Bills were passed to reduce the clearance fees levied upon vessels engaged In domestic commerce, and to forfeit the unearned land sn-ant of the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company. The Judiciary Committee reported in favor of appropriating for the relief of ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Thompson the amount of the judgment received by Hallet KU bourne. Ox June 21t the Chair laid before the Senate a bill amending the Thurman act relative to the Pacific railroads. Mr. Van Wyck desired that this bill be referred to the Committee on Public Land? rather than to the Committee on Judiciary. It was with some surprise that he had for the first time learned from the public pres. thnt the Judiciaty Committee had resolved not to act on any bill of this kind this session. Mr. Hoar said the Senator from Nebraska was wholly mistaken (of course unintentionally) as to the action of the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Van Wyck insisted that for twenty years the railroads had controlled the Government, as shown, in his opinion, by the operations of the Land Dei artment, the opinions of the Attorney Generals, and some of the opinions of the Supreme Court. Mr. Garland said the sp cial matter referred to by the press was different matter to that covered by the bill from the House. After some lurther discussion, Mr. Van Wyck withdrew his motion to refer the" bill to the Committee on Ptfblio Lands, and it was referred to tbe Committee on Judiciary. In the Houe, the electoral count ,blll was taken up, and Mr. Hart addressed the house In favor of the Senate measure, Mr. Parker made a constitutional argument against thr Eaton bill. Mr. Springer lavored the Eaton bill, asserting that it was safer to leave the decision of a disputed Presidential elation to a joint convention and the House than to a returning board or a committee which might be provided in any State. Mr, Peters spoke in support ol the Senate bill. The previous que.ion was ordered upon the bill and amendments, but no further action was 'taken.

THE ZENITH ITf.

An Authentic History of the Famon Dnlutli Spi eoli tmatur Knott to u Inter

v ewer.

LawyersT and Editors. H I should charge the Press in the same proportion that lawyers charge for their time I should get about $1,000 for this letter. Here is a case : Mr. Z. L. White (as lovely a fellow as ever wrote a paragraph), now the editor of the Providence Press f and I were associated as correspondents of the New York Tribune. The Alabama treaty, on whose provisions two continents hung breathlessly, had been signed and sent to the Senate. This was many years ago. A copy came to us as legitimately as any piece of news comes into the Press office, but it happened so that we could not tell where it came from. We were brought before the Senate and sent to a committee, and we refused to tell where the treaty, as printed in the Tribune, came from. We were locked up for about a fortnight. The great public was with us, and we had more applications for our autographs than we could pay postage on, and we had cases of wine, cases of brandy, demijohns of whisky, boxes of cigars, woodcock, terrapin, canvas-backs, flowers, and such things galore, Senators came to our rooms for drinks and lunches, and the whole thing from beginning to end was a great joke. But and here comes the point we were, of course, released by a tremendous majority of the Senate, but there were certain legal points to be disposed of. We had been indicted for disrespect to the Senate, or something of the kind. We engaged a lawyer, and he went into court and asked that our indictment be quashed. That was all, and the indictment was quashed. How much, Mr. Editor, do you thUlk he charged for that five minutes work? He charged and I paid him $500 for that job, and I have his name on my check to show it. Suppose a newspaper man had taken $500 1 Well, you know what Pistol said when he was compelled to eat the garlic ZT. J. RamsdelL A Terse Answer. An enterprising boot-black was displaying his abilities on his own pedal extremities, and had succeeded remarkably well in obtaining a " patent leather'9 shine on each of his brogans. He had neglected, however, to give a coat of blacking to the heels, and on being questioned concerning the omission replied: "A good soldier never looks behind. Carl PreizeVs Weekly A Frenchman has discovered and patented a brandy made from melons

Thursday morning ia very polite, pleasant .gentleman came into my room and told me that on the following Wednesday a bill would come up to improve the harbor at Duluth. I turned to him and said with an honest, questioning smile, "My friend, will you please tell me where Duluth is ?M Of course I knew its situation, but I wanted him to understand I did not think much of his bill, and thus the easier refuse his request. He did not see the irony of the remark, but put his hand into his breast pocket and pulled out a map and handed it to me. As soon as I looked at it I saw that here was the finest field for a fanny speech that had ever been presented in the country. No one can rightly appreciate that Duluth speech without having seen that map. On its face the whole civilized world yras drawn in circles. These circles became smaller and smaller, until they terminated at a dot in the center, and at that dot was written "Duluth." On the different circles were the words 100 miles from Duluth, 200 miles from Duluth, 300 miles from Dulut:, 1,000 miles from Duluth, 4,000 miles from Duluth, and so on. All the great cities of the country were noticed, and their distance from Duluth given. Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and Nework on that map looked like hamlets compared with Duluth, and the distances from Liverpool, London and Constantinople were given, as though Duluth was co-equal with them. Below it were printed numerous statistics, showing that here were 2,000,000 . square miles, all tributary to Duluth. I looked at the map while the bland young man delivered his eulogy of this prospective metropolis, and as he closed I said: "Would you have any objections to leaving me this map? I must consider the matter. I live in the interior of Kentucky, in a defile away up at the head of a little creek, and most of my constituents have never seen a ship, I have to be very careful of my conduct in Congress to not displease them" and went on for some time in this man ner. Strange to say, he suspected nothing. He not only cheerfully len me that map, but he gave it to me. As he left my room he looked back and said : "Mr. Knott, after you have studied that map I hope you will go for our bill." "Yes," said I, Til go for itw Inever saw him afterwards. On going up to the Capitol I could not keep the fun out of my mind. It took entire possession of me and stayed with me. I then saw Mr. Kerr. He told me that Holman had consented to let me have the half hour. It then occurred to me that as Superior City was near Duluth and almost connected with it, that I could make some funny remarks about Duluth in the introduction of my speech on the land subsidy, get the good will of the House and have my time extended indefinitely, so that I could deliver my prepared speech. I sent for 'Friday's Globe and by the next day had (thought out many thiugs which I used in the speech. But the great part of came from the inspiration of the mopnent. The situation was peculiarly 'favorable. Every word seemed to be appreciated, and the mind of the audience responded in perfect harmony to mine. After I had spoken out my half hour, I was forced to go on ia the same strain or to risk a failure in the sudden change to my sober and carefully prepared sobriety speech. I saw my danger and wound up as I began. The other speech, over which I had spent days of labor, was never delivered. "Were you not astonished at the reception of your speech by the country V was asked. "Yes," was the reply; "I was never more astonished in my life. It was delivered late in the evening, and the House adjourned ?immedifctely thereafter. The next morning the journals of the country were full of it, and at the Capitol every one was laughing over it and congratulating xae." Cottages and Villas. You will be told about the "cottagers" turning out to greet the President Why, there are no cottagers" here, except the permanent residents who subsist on summer boarders. They occupy the cottages, pretty, simple, modern structures for the accommodation of those who spend a month here, or two or even three, for health and rest. Newport seems to have just two classes these cottagers, who, as I have said, subsist on summer boarders, and the wealthy people from New York, Philadelphia and Boston, who occupy the magnificlent villas on Bellevue avenue and the Cliffs and Narragansett avenue. Why not give them their proper name "villagers' instead of "cottagers," "What is there to indicate a cottage in the elegant and expensive structures of stone and granite, or brick, spacious as a city residence, and reveling in the "early English," at the cost of sixty or a hundred thousand dollars. "What is a name." Much sometimes. The socalled cottages of Newport are as substantial and expensive residences as any city brown-stone front can be. Love in one of theso "cottages" finished .with old mahoganv and furnished with Moquette carpet, Turkish rugs, Persian draperies and Dresden china would hardly be doomed to the fate of "love that goes out of the window when poverty comes in at the door." To call them cottages is a satire on simplicity. But villas they are with beautiful grounds of bewildering variety. There are no two alike, each one seeming to have its own landscape gardener with his own ideas of beauty and harmony.

lite E'eyator. The person that first put an elevator into high structure, so as to save passengers the labor of walking up many steps of Btairs, little dreamed of the important results that have followed the adoption of that expedient. It has practically revolutionized the domestic and business architecture of large cities. In New York there are literally hundreds of high buildings accommodating thousands ot persons, although the apartment and office buildings are a thing of yesterday. In this city there are scores of dwellings between 140 and

160 feet in heiggit Tie-Ioinr part ot New York has a nniber jf enormous structure! filled with office luxuriously furnished The occupants of '.he upper floorti prefer them to those nearer the surface of the earth. The air, they think, is purer, and there are fewer annoyances, while the elevator is ft swift aud pleasant means of communication. DemoresVs Monthly. (rand Portage and the Old Yoyagears One of the most, interesting places in the early history of Lake Superior was Grand Portage, on Grosselier or Pigeon River. In 1G79 Du Lath built a fort there, the ruins of which were still visible a few years since, but the 1 real importance of the plaee did not begin until after the establishment of the North west Company, though at the signing of the Declaration of Independence it t is said to have already been a commercial emjKrium of the baekwooda, bright w;ith a motley and bizarre existence. Until the boundary treaty the Grand Portage was the general headquarters and rendezvous of trade in this part ot the world, and became a sort of honui, to the vyageur?, or was at least the one place in the wilderness in which their interests centered, and which wftsj associated with social pleasures; and it is in places like. Grand Portage and Fort William that one gets the beet idea of these heroes of the paddle. They were gay, droll, braggart fellows, full of poetry and music, whose every, passing mood found expression in verse, which was often enough doggerel in form, but more or less genuine in feeling. They vere true believers, too, in the old German saying: "Ein anderes Stadtchen, ein anderee Madchen" (another village, another maiden), and often enough had a sweetheart at every post from Montreal to the Pacific, It was therefore natural that some ma Dondette or ma belle Bone should often be made the theme of compositions, the body of which w as made up of the impressions of the journey, the Bteersman

toucning every passing incident in nis composition, and the others joining in joyous chorus, keeping time with their paddles, and their swaying bodies, and nothing could bs more inspiriting than

sweeping down some rapid river. Theirs was, however, a life of hardships, and Lower Canada always remained the home to which they would sometime return, bnt toward which

they nevertheless turned the longing eyes of exiles, and the result was ft peculiar and pathetic sadness running in an undertone through many of their songfj, giving their comidaintes in particular a peculiar interest, and they might often have been seen at evening slowly moving across the polished surface of some' silent forest lake with slowly dipping paddles, chatting a comphmUe, which perhaps related the sufferings and misfortunes of some real or imaginary voyageur At ceriain seasons they came to the. Grand Portage, and later to Fort William, ill numbers swelling the population to several t housands, and it was invariably a season of festivity and rejoicing, when old friends met after scenes of danger, and old vows were renewed over brimming bumpers. During the day there were wrestling matches and In&ian danoes in the open air, and night after night the great banquet haU with its low ceiling was lighted for the dance with blaring pine knots, :revealing its unstudied decora tions a few pairs of snowshoes leaning in the corners, cutlasses crossed with muskets at intervals along thft walls, and an occasional pair of branching antlers, which may have been the gift of some Highland laddie, for Sandy

was by no means a stranger to the furtrade.' The ruling social element, however, was al ways French, and there ore few more picturesque afiairs than those border balls, with an orchestra composed of a bagpipe, a fiddle and a Ante, to the music of which the dark-eyed half-breeds girls moved through the Eitately dances with the wild grace and freedom of the woods,, with gay partners, who were doubtless very handsome in their soft brown deerskin leggings, their Hue capotes and scarlet sashes, from which hung glittering knives and embroidered Indian pouches. John -4, Butler, in Harper's Magar , zine. Old Russian Sayings. Va father's blessing can not possibly be drowned in water nor consumed by fire. Boguers is the last of trades. Every fox praises his own taiL A debt is adorned by payment. A tfood beginning is half the work. When fish are rare, even a crab is ft fish. V,virv liti.1 Ancf la anAAt in Ytta shwm

bog. An old friend is better than two new ones. Trust in God and do not stumble yourself. Money is not God, but it shows great mercy. Go after two wolves and yon will not catch even one. The deeper you hide anything the sooner vou will find it

Be praised not for your ancestors but for your virtues. Ask a pig to dinner and he will put his feet upon the table. Ne ver take a crooked path while yon can see a straight one. Diseases come by hundred weights, and go out by ounces. Fear not for the threats of the great, but rather the tears of the poor. "SoTse Far as Dedhuu" One is reminded of the intelligent contraband who, during our civil war, entertained an audience in Dedham, Massachusetts, with an account of a furious conflict of Federals and rebels on the banks of the Potomac. "But, asked a critical auditor of his flaming narative, "where were you when the battle was raging?" wOhl I was back among the baggage- "But how far were yon from the bullets and the cannon IwJla r "Well," was the instant iwly, "not so far as Dedham. JB. j Whipple, in North American Review. If you would know one of the minor secrets of happiness it is this: Cultivate cheap pleasures.