Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 7, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 June 1884 — Page 3

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Pcbiko fbe last two or tLnw-years the moral condition of Boston has degraded rapidly. Such is the assertion at the Congregationalism which specifies that gambling hells, liquor saloons, and other bad resorts hare multiplied swiftly, and have carried on their work of corruption and ruin with shameless and increasing boldness. A Saw Francisco showman is advertktng a troupe of educated flies. As the warm weather approaches the fly becomes an object of interest, and will no doubt command attention when all others of the performing fraternity are taking a holiday. If the fly can be educated io keep out of the victuals and off bald heads that is about all the public will ask of him. Thkbk are no snakes in Ireland, but the eel makes up for any deficiency in this regard. It is a common thing to catch eels in Ireland ten feet long, and as trig round as a man's thigh. They are found only in the deepest water, where they lurk under the rocks. When one is caught lie lashes around like a boa constrictor, and if he gets a man's foot into his mouth he will not let go until his head is cut oft S. K Bolton writes in the New York Independent: "Great numbers of Postpffioes in England are managed by women. I said to one in London, 'You manage by this as well as a man 'We are said to do it better she replied, 'because, people say, we are quicker and more patient.9 All through Norway and Sweden women's names are often

on the business signs. They are most efficient in some of the Stockholm banks. In one provincial town a woassa is manager of the State. Saving Bank. ' Thkbk is a story eurrentof a quartermaster at a frontier reservation post who alter many fruitless applications for additional food for the Indians at the agency, at last put in a requisition lor a Getting gun. The commanding officer forwarded the application with this indorsement : "In my opinion the Indians at this agency are starving to death, and I recommend that a Gatling gun be sent to compel them to starve peaceably. The gun was sent, so the story goee, and the Indians are now starving peaceably.

labor nor anything can stop. It is similar to that of pendulum, which at each motion of i;oing and returning gives him the spacu of three seconds, so that twenty of them make a minute, these he adds to others continuously.

The Isle of Man, says the St James Gazette, ought to be more correctly styled the Isle of Woman, since it is only in the kingdom of Manxmen that the claims of women are properly recognized. By way of precedent to the Government which has the franchise bill in hand, it is iointed out that the last time the Mans: Legislature had before it the question of Parliamentary reform it dealt with the question of female sufferage as welL In 1881 the House of Keys passed a bill which con ferred the same electoral privileges on women as on men. But, enlightened as it is in other respects, man still groans under an Upper Chamber; and that body refused to pass the bill in its entirety, and only allowed i ownerajftip qualification $o give the vote to women. However, even this is some, thing! Captain Walh:b Mobgan, of the steamship Assyrian Monarch, which

1 runs between London and New York,

having married a beautiful4 Britisher, has taken up his abode in London. The Yankee skipper's boyhood home was built sometime during the Eighteenth century, and i$ youth he had an opportunity to study Colonial architecture, but now he lives in a house three hundred years old. h those far-away days when an Englishman built a house, he did not intend to have it blown down, shaken down or wear out. The prevailing American idea is less substantial and less creditable. The idea of an American house, as now constructed, withstanding elemental wear for a hundred years is preposterous, and when three hundred years as the limit of duration is mentioned, the proposition is treated as the ntging of a lunatic

Lady Bcxncrr-Comrni has succeeded in making the goat-farm popular in England, and we observe that a Texan has established a goat-herd near a Texas town and proposes to supply the people with goat milk. He may be as successful as the Baroness if he con. tinues himself to milk, but the . goat as a butter animal can never be made popular. The Bareness goats have not been bred for butter, as she has an income which relieves her from any anxiety about the common necessaries of life, but the Texas man evidently hopes to make his bread and butter out of them. J

Ik belaud it is common fear one person to put spells on another, and to influence those at a great distance; thus, if any oi the friends or children be traveling on Friday, the Irish mother does not brush ot comb her hair that day, cr else they would surely wander and lose their way. Some people do not wash on Friday as a cure for toothache, and many wear little bits of folded paper sewn in their clothes as charms against the same affliction There are charms and spells for other illnesses, end haU the old women wear Messed

rings of brass to preserve than fi

hn ma tiara Thkbk are now 314 cotton mills in the Southern States, having 1,276,432 spindles and 24,873 looms, while at the time the census was taken in 1880, the South had only 180 mills, with 713,989 spindles and 15,222 looms. The largest increase in the number of mills was made in North Carolina, where a gain cf forty-three mills and 110,595 spindles is exhibited, while Georgia made an increase of 1C945 spindles and twentytwo mills. In 1880 the value of the manufactured cotton produced at the South was a little over $21,000,000, while in 1883 the value had risen to he? tween $35,000,000 and 40,000,000. During three years and a half about $20,OOO.OGO has been invested by new and old Southern cotton mills in machinery. L D. Chxvallkb, a native of Switzerland, aged 66, when, recently on borfrd a steamboat on the Lake of Geneva, engaged to indicate to the crowd around him the lapse of a quarter of an hour, or as many minutes or seconds as any one chose to name, and further, to indicate by the voice the moment the hand passed over the quarter minutes or half minutes or any other subdivision stipulated. This he did without mistake in the midst of a diversified conversation. He acquired by imitation and patience a movement which neither thought nor

A number of young English nobles, including the Earl of Mayo and Lord Ronald Gower, ha ve been hunting wild elephants in the Terai, a forest preserved for the purpose at the( foot of the Himalayas. When the hunters have found a herd of a hundred or so of wild elephants, 200 coolies are telegraphed for to do thd "beating. They surround the herd, and; by gradually narrowing the circle and making all sorts of frightful noises, frighten the elephants into a narrow1 space in the center, where a stockade has been built and an intrenchment dug, so that they cannot get away. The difficulty is in getting the elephants tied down, as they are very wild and dangerous at first The hunting party have about fifty tame elephants with them, and these play a prominent part in forcibly civilizing their 'wild brethren. The poor coolies often get killed in this work, and are always reluctant to go. Happy is the man these days, says the Springfield Republican, who holds no stocks in railroads., car companies, banks, and other transitory enterprises of this fleeting world. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth," said the Savior, looking down serenely from the hill on the humble people of the world around, him, and on the earth, the enjoyment of which was their sure possession, Quito likely he uttered those words in the spring time, certainly in some open season when multitudes could follow him and listen to outdoor teaching There is a wealth of comfort and even, of luxury io enjoying the freshness of spring, its familiar but ever mysterious development and its clothing on of nature. Those who thus "inherit the earth" can afford to be indifferent to anything more than a fair competence, a comfortable livelihood, from the money counters of the world. Many who are far from humble in circumstances are so cumbered with the cares of the world and crusted over with sated appetites that they have a very pitiful share in the inheritance of the simple pleasures of life A happy home, in modest circumstances and sensibilities, alive to all tlie innocent delights of life, are more comforting to the hearts of men than any amount of fortune-chasing amid the vicissitudes of Wall street

All in the Meat. A wolf having fallen a victim to the tiger, set up loud' lamenting and begged hard for his life. He made such & fuss over it that the tiger finally released him and bade him go his road. The wolf was hardly a stone's throw away whot Jxe me t a hare and pounced upon her. "Spare my life rs the tiger just now spared yours I cried the hare. "Not this evening !rt wt$, the calm reply. "Tis true that the tiger spared my life, but while xe doesn't cai: f. cent for wolf-meat, I am extremely ioud oi. bare! Mokal: When you appeal to the honor of a crook you make him tired. Detroit Free Press. YE6tw said the young clergyman, WI have always said to myself that I would marry that girl if I could, and now 1 am going to do it But it is to another fellow she is to be wedded, I am sorry to say. The only consolation I get oat of the affiiir will be the fee.

ABOUT MfliUSM.

a Few Comparison Between Russia 'and Amerlcu When you ctear your tables of commentators on jour great blooms of Nihilism allow an old observer to have a word also. Nihilism does not bloom in a day, and its fruit is noi yet ripe. Let ur compare our boasted "best government in the world1 with the "Kussian tyranny f 1. There are not steam mills in Russia grinding, in open day, terra alba and other poisouous elements for our food. 2. Poison iu Russia can only be hough t on proper certificates,, wliich alibrds at least a clew to murder. 3. Houses of prostitution are not pointed out in a thousand ways, as through our secular and religious press, or such facilities given through advertisements , as increase the social eril, which by nature is certainly strong enough. 4.. Should a clergyman violate the fhastity of his parishioners there, he jvould not be backed up by other clergymen in the murder of the victims, to shield the purity of the gown, and save the credit of the church. , 5. Obscene literature, which! now more corrupts the youth of our country than all the pulpits can restore, is not allowed to tlourish alongside Sunday schools and missionary societies. 6. There it is possible to get something pure in the menu and in the drag stores. Oleomargarine is not allowed to be sold as butter, nor tea dyed with green coloring, and mustard, filled with cabbage-seed or bean meal and poisonous c Oioring. Cheese is not made of the fat of diseased cattle, dead without the aid of the butcher. I give but a point in this horrid direction. 7. The most ignorant and corrupt men are not systematically put on juries to suppress crim e. The judges are not chosen by the roughs and Nihilists. The whole force of law is in ttie suppression of crime not toward the suppression of honesty. 8. Men are put in office because they are worthy not because they have criminal following. 9. It is not their interest there to keep the meanest men in the community iu power to rob the treasury in order still more to rob the productive class of the nation. 10. A man can have a just hearing in Russia outside of the autocracy. It is not considered fair pJiay for the press to slander her best men and then refuse them a hearing in defense. 11. Will any man deny that with rare exceptions the press of America will wink at and circulate a known calumny for the sake of party success? 12. I ask a hard question : Has not the press come to be the ruling power in Christendom, and :is it not more corrupt in America than in any other civilized nation? 13. Is not our whole judicial, political and religions systems based upon the false idea that education will of itself make men better, showing the fallacy of such teaching? 14. If the salt has lost its savor, wherewithal shall it be salted? I throw out these hints for thoughtful men. Cassias M. Clay. The Crow. This black-coated visitor is not very popular, though some kind-hearted people have tried to say a good word for him. He is a grevt scavenger, being fond of meat, and not at all particular as to its age; and it is common to say, when his tribe come cawing around the back meadows in the spring, "The crows have come after their, taxes" (i. 6., the farmer's dead lambs). Much as he likes meat, however, Cofvus rather prefers grain, when he can get it, especially the tender and swelled grain in sown or glttnted fields ; and as this is handy in the season of insects which the farmer would lie to have destroyed, the good he might do as a bug and worm-kilJier is pretty much neutralized, in popular opinion, by his

mischief in the com -patch. His defenders have maintained that he is only after tbe wormy grains, the kernels that have weevils, etc., in them, but naturalists who have watched him, and made post-mortem examinations of crows shot in the act of field-stealing, say that this is a mistake. Put a fat worm and a fat kernel of corn before a crow and he would probably eat both, but he would swallow the corn first He is fond of eggs and does not scruple to rob the nests of better birds to gratify his appetite ; and since the victims of his plundering are as apt to be the little singers of the woods and fieadows as the favorite insect-eaters of he orchard and garden, the poets and the children join with the agriculturist in scoring black marks against him. On the whole, as a bird on the farm, the balance of evidence stands1 against the crow. The verdict that hands him at once to the shot-gun should perhaps have a "recommendation of mercy," for the thievish fellow may become an insect-eater in cold weather. The Norwich (Conn.) Telegraph tells the following curious story of crow fchat made himself familiar, and apparently somewhat useful, last winter among a rlock of sheep on the farm of Jjorin Wilcox, about two miles from Oxford, in thnt State. A great intimacv sprang up letween

the crow and the lambs, and the crow hopped about the backs of the flock with a deal of familiarity. So grteat was the attachment that the lambs exhibited much uneasiness if his crowship was not perched upon one of their backs. Amid a storm, or at night when the Sock was driven to the fold, the bird hopped upon the back of one of the sheep and went with them into seelter, and was seen in the same position next morning, ready to go out with the flock. The bird grew fat and sleek, and his plumage was bright, glossy and black o jet. Mr. Wilcox said his sheep never did fetter than they did last winter, and they were perfectly free from ticks. All birds and animals were created for a purpose, even the abused crow. When tame;! he becomes very familiar and interesting. Youth's Companion. Trying to Get Used to it An old lady who bad purchased anew bonnet received it on Saturday. Not ung after she was missed and her ab-

nence was se protracted that the family became concerned about her and instituted a search. After looking the premises all over, her daughter found her in the chamber sitting quietly with the new bonnet on. The daughter exclaimed, "Why, mother, what are you doing here?" "tro along down, the old lady replied. ""I am only fretting used to this thing so that I shall not be thinking about it all the time in church tomorrow." Home (New York) Sentinel Faith in Popular Gullibility. Faith in the inexhaustible credulity of the masses has boon the foundation of many charlatan's fortune. At the time of the South Sea Bubble, when new projects of the most wild and preposterous character found promoters with case, an astute and audacious adventurer advertised for subscriptions to an enterprise the nature of which was to be concealed for a certain time, and he actually made several thousauds of pounds out of it, the people paying for shares with blind eagerness. With this adventurer deserves to be ranked the ingenious but unprincipled American citizen who has , just been arrested for doing an extensive business in advertising all manner of enticing things to be Bent on the receipt of postage stamps. Cases of this kind have occurred before, but then the impostors usually send something, however fraudulent, in return for the stamps. This genius, however, had made no provision whatever in that way. He simply appropriated the stamps, and refrained from answering the letters ; and though so reckless swindle would seem certain to come to grief in a short time, he appears to have kept it up and made considerable profits by it, for several months. He also a Iverttsed largely through the newspapers, never paying them, but giving them references to aliases of his own and himself answering all letters inquiring about his character. The defect in his plan was certain sooner or later to become the subject of investigation, and the moment it was inquired into the truth came out. The number of swindlers who have waxed fat on similar but more carefully devised schemes is no doubt very considerable. The rogues who engineer them rely upon the desire of most people to get much for little. They know that the greed of gain often obscures the judgment, and that through all cool-headed business men suspect offers of the kind, remembering the Duke of Wellington's maxim that "good interest means bad security' yet there are always plenty ready to spring at any bait, if it is only gaudy and glittering enough. The so-called "sawdust" sharpers, who pretend to sell counterfeit money, and send the victim a box of sawdust, act upon a shrewd knowledge of the baser elements in human nature. They select for their dupes persons who are willing to be knaves themselves, and whose own knavery shuts their mouths when they find out the swindle. Probably no professional sharpers would enter upon so very bold a game as the young man of the postage stamps played, for as they mean to make their living by their wits they dare not thus openly advertise their dishonesty. But the fact that such a trick should have been so suc

cessful, and that it should have been carried on for so long a time without detection, shows that the crop of gulls

continues to be as large as ever, and

that whatever else fails there is no pros

pect of "shortage" in that line of pro

duction. New lork Tribune.

Changed delations

"Now that we are engaged' said Miss Pottleworth, "come and let me intro

duce you to papa."

"I believe that I have met him1 re

plied young Spickle.

"But in another capacity than that oi

son-in-Jaw.

"Yes erf but I'd rather not meet him

to-night"

"Oh, you must," and despite the almost violent struggles of the young fel

low he was drawn into the library, where a large, red-faced man, with a

squint in one eye and an enlargement of nose, sat looking over a lot of papers.

"Father," said the girl. "Hum," he replied, without looking up. "I wish to present to you n "What!" he exclaimed, looking up and catching sight of young Spickle,

"Have you the impudence to fsllow me

here ? Didn 1 1 tell you I would see you to-morrow ?w "Why, father, you don't know Mr. Spickle, do you?" "I don't know his name, but I know that he has been to my office three times a day for the last week with a bill. 1 know him well enough. I can't pay that bill to-night, young man. Come to my office to-morrow." "I hope," said Spickle, "that you do not think so ill of me. I have not come to collect the bill you have referred to,

but--"What! Got another one?" "You persist in misunderstanding me. I did not come to collect a bill, I cat come to-morrow and see about that. To-night I proposed to your daughter and have been accepted. Our mission is to acquaint you with the fact and gain your consent to our marriage." "Well," said the old fellow, "is that all? Blamed if I didn't think you had a bill. Take the girl, if that's what you want. But say, didn't I tell you to bring the bill to-morrow?" ' "Yes, sir." "Well, you needn't. Our relations are different now. I wish I had a daughter for every bill collector in town. Exchan g e. A Singular Meeting Two gentlemen meet in the depot in Austin and engage in conversation, "1 have seen you somewhere, but I am in the dark as to where it was." "Well, I have a dim recollection of having seen you, too, somewhere." "If one of you was in the dark and the other h is only a dim recollection, X think, perhaps, you must have passed each other in the cars, in a railroad tunnel aorae years ago," observed a third party who was present. Texas Sif tings. All reports appear to agree that the moht expensive hotels in all Europe are those of Vienna.

Getting a Furlough, Mr. Samuel F. Holbrook, late of the United States Navy, gives a racy example (in his book of recollections) of the proper way to get a favor from an ionic al dignitary in buttons and epaulettes. The directions may apply to visits at other headquarters than military and naval. At least it is a sure rule that Courtesy , if not allied to inpincerit, smooths one's way, and opens doors otherwise impenetrable. A midshipman just home from a long cruise applied to the commander of tho Navy Yard for leave of absence to visit his friends, who resided in Charleston, South Carolina. The old gentleman gruffly answered, "No, sir, your services are required in the yard." As the midshipman was passing down to his ship, venting his disappointment audibly, in rather unmeasured terms, he met Mr.P , the first lieutenant of the yard, to whom he told his trouble "Ah," slid Mr. P , "you don't know how to approach the Commodore. I'll teach you how to do it, and if you follow my directions, you will surely accomplish your purpose. Just wait a day or two say till day after to-morrow morning and then watch when he enters his office, and in a few minutes go in, make a very low bowt say, Goodmorning, Commodore; how is your health this morning? You look charmingly; I hove never seen you look better in my life. Does your lady enjoy her health?' And then pop the question about your leave. n The young man followed out the suggestion. On the morning appointed he watched the old gentleman as he entered his office, and in a few minutes knocked on the door and was admitted. He made a very handsome bow, and in the most polite manner commenced. "Good-morning, Commodore; how is your health this morning, sir? I think I never saw you look so well in your life." "Exceedingly well, thank you sir." "And your lady: does she enjoy her usual health?" "Excellent, excellent; I am obliged to you, sir.'' "Commodore, I should feel extremely grateful for a few days leave to visit my friends." "Certainly, sir; how much time do you wish?" "About three weeks, sir.n "Oh, take six, sir, with my best wishes. Will you dine with me to-day, sir, at three o'clock?" "Thank you, sir. I shall be happy to do myself the honor." Newspapers. According to Fosbroke, Plutarch notes country people were very busy in inquiring into their neighbors' affairs. '1 he inhabitants of cities thronged the court and other publio places, as the Exchange and Quays, to hear the news. The old Gauls were very great newsmongers ; so much so, says Caesar, that they even stopped travelers on this account, who deceived them, and thus brought error into their counsels. Boman women for deluges, earthquakes, etc., as now, for wonders and private matters. Merchants and purveyors of corn, as now stock jobbers, used to invent false news for interested purposes. It was not uncommon to put the bearers of bad news to death. In the middle

j ages pilgrims and persons attending

jfairs were grand sources of conveying intelligence. Blacksmith's shops hermitages, etc., were other resorts for this purpose, in common with the mill and market Great families used to pay persons in large cities for letters of 2ews. In London, as St Paul's Church was the great place of advertising, so it was also for news. In Nichols' Projgress, a gentleman says "that his lackey had not walked twenty paces in

Pawles, before he heard that sundry friends of his master had taken leave at eourt and were all shipped away." Servants were sent there on purpose to etch news. Of the introduction of newspapers by thj Gazetta of Venice everybody has read. Herbert calls the 'Siege of Rhodes.' by Caxton, "the anItientest Gazette in our language;" but to prevent the mischief of false alarms through the Spanish Armando, the first newspaper, styled 'The English fMercura' then, as afterwards, in the ihape of a paxnplet, appeared in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. His Wile was a Jumbo. . Two Jersey City farmers, Hiram Bannian and Christopher Kaufman, were arraigned at the Tombs to answer a charge of intoxication. "Please, sir, let us go this time," ex

claimed' the former, "we-

"Hold your horse, Hiram," interrupt

ed his friend, " and let me do the chinning, for you might say too much and spoil all. Judge, we are two hardworking farmers, and our old gals are watching anxiously for us to come home. Cheer up our hearts, sir. and let us depart."

"Your wives know where you went, j

why should they feel anxious over your absence?'1 asked the Justice. "Jf you knew my old woman you wouldn't ask me suoh a question." an swered Christopher. "We told our wives that we were going to a dying lodge member's bedside, and I suppose when we didn't turn up last night they went there and learned that we had lied. That suggests to me another reason who you should discharge us." "And what is that?" "Yon ain't a married man. Judge, or you'd know. I ain't afraid of my old woman, for she's little, but goodness help my friend, Hiram. His wife is a Jumbo They were discharged. New York World. Suspicious lharactf r. Col. Percy Yorger was putting on his coat to go out, for it wa lodge night. Mrs. Yerger looked up, and . remarked quietly: "I wish we lived in St. Petersburg." "What do you waut to live in Russ.a

for?"

"O, nothing!" she replied with a sigh, "except that I read iu a paper that in St. Petersburg no suspicious characters were allowed on the streets after dark."

Texas Sifting.

"I take my tex dis morning said a colored preacher, "from dat po'tion ob tie Scripture whar do PostolPaul pints ids pistol to de Fesions.

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