Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 9, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 July 1884 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINQTON, INDIANA, Vf MITER a BRAPFUTE, - - Pubebct, THE HEWS CONDENSED.

Ex-Jailer Merrick, of Cannel, K. J., convicted of manslaughter by beating a prisoner to death, has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude Four of William B. Hooper & SonV cotton-duck mills at Woodbury, H, have dosed down until September or until tho trade show greater improvement. Ahthont WooiiTEB, a wealthy farmer of Brie Oumty, Pennsylvania, stood on the edge of the family well and out hie throat; with a razor. In fatting to the bottom he was caught by projecting timbers and res-:

coed, bat died in two hoars. Me was aged

TKsawberof kflleA and drowned by

tile nulroad disaster near Cunningham, Mo.,

June is now staled to be fifteen, and as many "wounded- The railroad authorities are reticent.... Samuel Young, a noted counterfeiter of Indiana, has been lodged in jail at Indianapolis. He was captured on a farm near Barney, Mo., after a fight with Winchester rifles IL M. Cherrie & Co., pig-iron raanufactarers, of Chicago, Bern failed. The liabilities are placed at $350,00, the assets at $650,000. Ihb buOHngkt at Dodge City, Kan., on the national holiday, attracted six thousand persona, among' them being many Texan cowboys. Two of the bulls showed sufficient ecmbatativepess to interest the crowd. One of the Mexican matadores received what may prove to be a fatal wound in the ribs Boger C. Guthrie, ex-City yoxAfti of Omaha, has been convicted of bribery after a protracted trial A windstorm swept over Macon, Sangamon, and Christian Counties, Illinois, which destroyed much property and severely injured a somber of people. . . .A mysterious die? ease has within two weeks swept off fifteen hundred hogs in the vicinity of VandaHa, Illinois.... At Fond du Lac; Wis., the other night, Lawrence Connaughty struck William Puis over the head with a billiardcue, earning injuries from which the victim died next morning.

Db Awenarcs Boson, who died from sunstroke at Hot Springs, recently, was the first to suggest to Senator Logan the wisdom of establishing a Government hospital for soldiers and sailors v . .Two probably mini cases of sunstroke occurred on the 6th test in Dallas, Tex. , where the mercury registered 108 degrees in the shade, and the water supply is so low as to cause

...The premature discharge of

at Centralis Mo., killed two

WAgnmcaTOJu . FOMiOWDW is the last regular monthly statement of the public debt: Interest-bearing debt Four an me-balf per sorts... $ 350,eoo.sos JVrarper cent.... 737,C6i,7W

14,000,

TotsHrtersrt tcarrog debt U223,88t

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Debt besrtmt uonwerea Lestendcrnutea,. 816,730.496 Certificates of deposit. ........ 1265,008 Gold and stiver certificates. 218,204,361

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Total debt ftgmcipsO.......... .$190,538,988 Total mtenst.. ...... 11,507,240 Total cash to Treaaurv. 391,985,99 Pefafr leas cash in Tilsi j- 1450,060,335 Perrease durh) June.... 9,217.256 Decrease of debt sines June SQL

SK-. 101,040,971

reported from Toulon that five persons afflicted with cholera have been cured by in haling pure oxygen. The effect, it is said, is that immediate warmth is restored to the system and the pulse becomes normal. The cure is the subject of general comment and investigation by physicians and surgeons. Sokb of the leading patriots in China are rousing the people to repudiate thb recent Franco-Chinese treaty. France threatens that, in case China does not carry out the agreement fixed upon, she will demand a large indemnity, feather than pay this, the Celestial Jingoes propose to go to war. i ADDITIONAL HHBWS. Fbesxdent Aethuk has iiominated the members of the commission 1o investigate concerning the best means of establishing closer commercial relations between the United States and South American countries. ; THB Stae Veterinarian of Kansas inspect-

jed the livery-stables in Leavenworth, and

found twenty-five cases of glanders. He ordered the shooting of five horses, valned at $1,000 Notwithstanding the prohibition law. the distillers at Dubuque, Iowa, are manufacturing as usual, and the saloons are openly selling liquors. The wholesale dealers are also busy, but they send out their packages in new shapes. A Toulon dispatch says: Dr. Koch reports the cholera here as Asiatic, from the extreme East. He found the (tame microbes here as in Egypt and India. The intestines being the seat of danger, fumigation is useless. He says the cholera will reach Germany; it will go everywhere; having a center like Toulon it must spread.".,.. In the French Chambers, Premier Ferry said that the attack on the French troops at Langson by Chinese regulars was an instance of base and foul treachery on the part of the latter, for which China will have to give immediate and complete satisfaction. A London Times dispatch from Dongola announces that the Mudir of that place defeated the Soudanese near .Debbah recently, inflicting great loss upon them A jury at Dublin rendered a verdict in favor of William O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, in the suit for 5,000 brought against him by Secretary Cornwall, of the postoffice. The secret service division of the Treasury Department has received advices that a new counterfeit $10 silver certificate has appeared in the West. It i s supposed to have been printed from a vrood-cut, but is likely to deceive the ordinary judge of money, It is of the series of 1880, Q. W. Schofield, Register, James Gilfillan, Treasurer. The note is one-juaiter inch shorter than the genuine paper, is composed of two thin layers with silk parallel lines and fiber placed between them. In the scroll on the back, where it should read, "And all nublio dues and when so received," the word "all" is entirely omitted, and tha words "when so," are read together as one word. THE assignee of Grant J; Ward, of New York, has filed an inventory showing liabilities of $16,792,647, actual assets of $67,174, and nominal asset! of $27,139,098. He reports that they kept no journal or cash-book, had no complete list of assets, and rehypothecated large amounts of securities left with them as collateral for loans .... In the inter-collegiate regatta on Saratoga Lake the Pennsylvania University crew were the victors. The contest between the Pennsylvanians and the Cornell crew was olose and exciting. The Princeton crew came in third and the Columbias fourth.

Cokqubss reached a final adjournment at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of July 7. During the morning all differences bstween the House and Senate on the appropriation bills, with the exception of the navy bill, were settled by mutual concessions. The Hons refused to recede from its position on the navy bill, and the Senate refused to yield. The measure did not pass. The last hours of the session were tame, comparatively speaking. President Arthur spent several hours in the Capitol dgninff the appropriation bills.

fettemst due and unpaid... 4 1,505,718 Dab on which interest has ceased,.. 19.666.3S9 Interest thereon...- . 347,214 Oold and sirrer oerttgemtaa 218,204,851 VfTUdbtates notes heldforredempMom 12,385,006 Ciah balance available.......... 139,37,430 Total-... . ...$. flOl ,0Sfi HTH Available amrrta haft mTsaaaui j. ....f 891,985,998 Bonds Issued to Pacific Baflway Principal outstanding. $ C4,23,5tt Interest accrued, not yet paid. m 1,938,706 EtsrsstpaldbyllnissaHtaM...... 81408,198 Isteieat repaid by oauissiiles Bycrsasnortatfcmservloeu .$ 18.148,933

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BUtCSU.................,......v 4W58.8W JMMLITICAI Thk Illinois Democratic State Convention, in session at Peoria, nominated Carter 3. Harrison fox Governor, Henry Seiter for Lieutenant Governor, Michael J. Dougherty for Secretary of State, and Alfred Orendorff for Treasurer, John iL Pab-er, William IL Morrison, John C. . BlaJc, and Lambert Tree were chosen as ddegates-at-large to the Chicago ' convention. The platform de- ' nouoces the present high protective tariff as a masterpiece of injustice and false preterm e, favors af tariff for revenue only, and heai-tiry approves of the course of William R. Morrison in his earnest efforts to reduce the tariff taxation.

The business quarter of Port Perry, On tori?, wro swept away by fire, the loss being over $150,000. ...The eetabhflhment of the 8ifVef and Deming Manufacturing Company at Salem, Ohio, was entirely destroyed by rire. The loss is estimated at $100,000; the insurance is $40,500. About 150 men are thrown out of employment by the fire. jaCKST deaths: The wife of Bear Admiral Amman, at Washington; at Indianapolis, ev. J, D. Jones, Presbyterian, who during the war was Chaplain of the One Hundred and Seventeenth New York Regime nt Infantry; at Saratoga, N. Y., James P. Dennison, proprietor of the Arlington HotL .I'HK destruction by fire of the Newark (Oldo) Machine Company's works entailed akssotf about $600,090, with $200,000 insuznee. . . .The propeller Philadelphia finished a trip from Chicago to Butialo and return in six dayst beating the record of the H. J. Jewett ,

The "pic-nio pie" is the latest. Its dissimilarity from the ordinary common run of pies permits it to bo used as a cushion until dinner time. Cincinnati Merchant Traveler.

Now that Oscar is married he will probably get over his Wilde ways. He won't have time to put on knee breeches when he has to walk the floor with the baby all night. A great many young men get stoopefied during the summor months; judging from the time they spend on the stops of houses where there are good looking girls. The depth of poverty is reached when a man cannot get a coat on his tongue.

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FOREIGN.

!I1HB German Government has given an TfoffigH shipbuilding firm an order for the eoitnction H a torpedo ht of enormous

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THE WORK OF CONGRESS.

What Is Being Bone by the National Legislature. The river and harbor bill pare eel the Senate ou the 1st lost. The bill as paused by the Senate appropriates $13,684,700. As It lotjt the House it provided for an apiropriation of $12,086,200. Bills were also passed to provide for a branch of the Soldiers' Home west of the MlsBifisippi; for the relief of soldiers improperly charged with desertion, and to grant a pension of $50 per month to the widow of Gen. James B. Bteedman. It was agreed to refer w the Committee on Finance resolution for the redemption of 10,000,000 trade doligrs, and for an investigation into the condition of the banks in New York. In the House of Representatives, the Conference Committee on the naval appropriation bill announced its inability to apree, objection beiog made to the items for the new cruisers and to continue work on the monitors. The House voted to insist on its disagreement on both of these questions, and new conferrees were appointed. The Conference Committee on the postolfloe appropriation bill reported a failure to 8ree on the items of railway mail clerks and for compensation to land-grant roads, but the House voted to recede and accept the Senate's decision. The fortification bill was discussed in lihe House again, Mr. Randall offered a bill embodying the views of the minority, and pending a vote to substitute this for the bill reported by the majority, the House adjourned. Thjc Senate passed the sundry eivil appropriation bill on the 2d after stating out the clause providing salaries instead of fees for United States Marshals. The House, by a vote of 150 to 91. adopted the fortifications bill recommended by the minority of tbe cconmittee which considered the measure. It appropriates $595,000, The majority recommended a bill appropriating $4,500,000. The President sent to the House a message vetoing the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter, the Attorney General having pronounced it unconstitutional. The House, on motion of Mr. Blocum, of New York, immediately passed tbe measure over t ue President's veto by 168 to 78. The President, in his veto message, takes the same view act the Attorney General regarding the constitutionality of :the bill, and says : There are other causes that deter me from riving this bill the sanction of my appro va 1. The indgmentof the court-martial by which more than twenty years since Gen. Fitz John Porter was tried and convicted, was pronounced by a tribunal composed of nine general, officers of distinguished oharacter and ability. Jits investigation of the charges of which i'l found the accused guilty, was thorough and conscientious, and its findings and sentence in due course of law approved by Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States. Its legal competency its jurisdiction of the accused and of tftie subjects of accusation, the substantial regularity of all its proceedings, are matters which have never been brought in question. Its judgment, therefore, is final and conclusive jn its character. The Supreme Court of the United States has recently declared that a c curt -martial such as this was, Mis tbe organism provided by law and clothed with the duty of administering justice in this class of cases. Its judgments, when approved, rest on the same basis and are surrounded by the same considerations which give conclusiveness to the judgments of other tribunals, including as well the lowest as the highest" It follows accordingly that when a lawfully constituted-court martial has duly declared its .findings audits sentence and the samg has been duly approved, neither the President nor ConSress has any power to set them aside. The extence of such a power is not openly asserted ,nor perhaps is it necessarily implied in the provisions of the bill which is before me, but .when its enacting clauses are read in the light .of the recitals of its preamble, it will be seen 'that it seeks in effect a practical annulment of the findings and sentence of a comiwent courtmartial. A conclusion at variance with these findings has been reached after investigation by a board consisting of three officers of the army. 'This board was not created in pursuance of any statutory authority, and was powerless to compel the attendance of witnesses or to pronounce judgment which could be lawfully enforced. The officers who composed it, in their report to the Secretary of War, dated March 19, 1879, state that in their opinion "Justice requires such action as may be mjcessary to annul and set aside the findings find sentence of the court-martial in the case of Haj. Gen. FitzJohn Porter, and to restore hira to the position of whioh their sentence deprived him, such restoration to take effect from the date of his dismissal from office. The pro'.visions of the bill now under consideration are avowedly based on the assumption that the findings of the court-martial are found to be erroneous. But It will be- borne in mmd that the investigation which is claimed to lia ve resulted in this discovery was made many years after the event to which these findings related, and under circumstances that made it impossible to repro

duce the evidence on which they were based. It,

seems te me tnat tne proposed legislation would establish a dangerous precedent, calculated to imperil in no small measure tho binding force and effect of the judgments of the various tribunals established under onr Constitution and laws. I have already. In the exercise of the pardoning power with which the President is vested, remitted the continuing; penalty that made it impossible for Fitz John Porter to hold an office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States. But I am unwilling to give my sanction to any legislation which shall practically annul and set at naught the solemn and deliberate conclusions of tho tribunal by which he was convicted, and of the President by whom the findings were examined and approved. The anti-Chinese bill passed the Senate dh the Sd inst by a vote of 43 to 12. The Senate, by a vote of. 27 to 27, failed to pass the Fitz John Porter bill over the President's veto. A resolution was adopted for an inquiry into the oapa'city of the steel-producing works in the United States and the tools in the navy-yiirtia to furnish outfits for new vessels or guns for tseacoast defenses. The bill to forfeit unearned lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was passed, with an amendment to refer to the courts the ouestlon of title afwr forfeiture. In the House of Representatives, the select committee made a report that William H. English was not guilty of a breach of privilege, while a minority declare that he lobbied on the floor in the interest of his son. The House refused t concur in the Senate amendments to the fortification appropriation bill, and appointed new conferrees. An attempt to iass the Mexican pension bill was followed by the loss of a quorum. Bxixs to pension the widow of G. Ord, to increase the allowance to Mrs. Frank P. Blair, and to authorize the retirement of Gen. Averill with the rank of Colonel passed the Senate on the 4th mst. The conferrees on the deficiency appropriation bill were reappointed, as t& Senate insisted on its amendments. The postal telegraph bill was postponed for the session. The House of Representatives resumed consideration of tho Mexican pension bill, and as a quornm was not present a call of t he House was ordered. Amotion to recede from disagreement to the amendments made by the Senate to the general deficiency appropriation bill was lost, and the conferrees were reappointed. The conference report on tho river and harbor ap

propriation was agreed to. In the Senate, July 5, Mr. Logan made a fresh denial of the charge that he was interested in a large tract of land In New .Mexico, unlawfully taken from the Zuni Indians. The interstate commerce bill was postponed until December. The Senate insisted on lis amendment to the legislative appropriation bill reducing the number of customs and revenue collectors. A new conference was ordered, and the House finally surrendered. The report of the conference committee on the fortification bill wan agreed to. The House of Representatives reftiscd to postpone for the session consideration of the Mexican pensions bill, by a vote of t!5 to 135, and much time was consumed by filibustering. The conference committee on the consular-appropriation bill reported disagreement on the item of $250,000 for the Nicaragua project, and a motion to recede therefrom was lost. At tho eveni ng session Mr. Browne proposed to lay aside the Mexican pensions bill, but Mr. Townshond objected. Both houses held sessions ou Sunday, the Gtb Inst Conference commit (s disposed of the fortification and sundry civil-crylue appropriation bills. The Senate finally yielded to the elimination of the item of $J5!,005 tor tho purchase of canal rights in Nica-fniruu, and tho House receded from its disagreement to the salary system for court officials

The Monster Tree of California, As regards the wonderful size of the Sequoia, thai is a matter which doe not at first fully come to one. 'ihe fact is that all the tree a are so large that one fails to realize the magnitude rf the giants. All Jiave increased in proportion. It rotjuires a mental calculation td convince one's self that the transformation is something quite out of the common. It is Qpiy when you come to walk in and out of the hollow trees and to circle round them and take a constitutional by walking alongside moi a fallen giant, or perhaps (if it has done duty as a chimney beiore it came to grief), by riding up inside the hol"bw for a considerable distance, that you begin io understand their size. You do bo, best when, standing on the 'ground beside a prostrate tree lying buried in a ditch of its own making, you look up at a red wall rising per haps fifteen or twenty feet above your head, bulging outward considerable, and extending in a strainght line for 300 feet along the ground, and tell yourself that it is only a tree! The owners of the beautiful groves near the hotel have erected tall ladders to enable people to climb on to some of these heights ard walk aloag ihe fallen trees as if on garden terraces. It sounds cockney, but it is decidedly leasant to gain a vfew of the forest rom an elevation of thirty feet, and it is not every one who can scale the red rampart without the aid of the ladder. If you choose to clainber along the upturned roots you may find an airy seat some forty feet above the ground. This sounds high, but on further consideration you begin to marvel how such extraordinary small roots can ever have formed a fit pedestal for so ponderous a weight. They have literally no depth and a compar

atively small spread, , so that they havo merely a superficial hold on tho earth's surface. Yet this slight support has enabled these huge bodies to resist the wild storms of many centuries. All the big trees of the district are concentrated in two groves, namely, the little forest gem of Calaveras, and a much larger Jelt known as the South Park Grove, on the Stanislaus River, about six miles further. In the Calaveras Qrove all the Sequoias lie Jwithin an area of fifty acres, over which space altogether about 100 lie scattered singly or in groups. Of these twenty attain a circumference of about eighty feet near the base, and one, which is distinguished as the Father of the Forest, is found to measure 110 feet round, it now lies prostrate, and has apparently done so for many a century, for the well-nigh imperishable wood is in part decayed, and long use as a chimney had burned out its inside and destroyed its summit ere it felL The portion that still remains is like a long mountain, and two la rge archways have been cut iato the side of the said mountain in order that those whose taste lies in that line may rido into the hollow trunk and come out the further opening. It is estimated that the tree, when perfect, must have been about 450 feet m height Of the trees now standing, four exceed 300 feet in height, and one measures 325. About twenty-five are said to exceed 250 feet One can, perhaps, better realize what these sizes mean by finding the amount of house-room to be obtained within a hollow tree. Several, such as "Miner's Camptt and "Pioneer Camp," have been used as temporary homes. In the latter, fifty persons can find sitting room; others are used for stabling hoi sea G. F9 Gordon Cwmming, in ihe Gentleman's Magazine

Something wrong in Ohio again. A man refused tb take $&00 book-pension money. Taking Ohio as a whole, she makes some of the most unexpected breaks of any section in tho universe. Peck's Sun No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction, A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed. Johnson, New York's various prisons now have 15,690 convicts in custody. - '

A Minneapolis Flouring Mill, In the largest mills the appointments and the work accomplished are on a stupenduous scale. The Pitlsbury A, to which is accorded the distinefcien of being the largest tiouring-null in the world, is a noble building, occupying a conspicuous site on the east side of the Mississippi. The walls are of limestone, of enormous thickness, as they must be to support the heavy machinery. Its capacity is 5,200 barrels of flour andabout 180 tons of offal per day. This is made from 24,000 bushels of wheat The aggregate quantity of wheat taken to the mill and of Hour and offal taken away, when it is running to its utmost capacity, makes 110 oar loadii daily. Four days' product would kad an ocean steamer. The mere handling of the wheat and product is no small problem, especially as the "roustabout5 work and the packing are done in ten hours, though the mill runs day and night The flour is packed and loaded at the rate of 520 barrels an hour, or more than eight per minute. A great many 280 pound sacks are used for exporting, and shipments are made daily to the principal European porta The mill employs 200 men, is illuminated by a forty-light electric machino, has a complete fire apparatus, more than fifteen miles of belting, and many ether things that excite the wonder of visitors. The motive power for the vast bulk ef machinery which it contains is supplied by two of the largest-sized turbines, each driven by a column of water twelve feet in diameter, falling fifty feet Each turbine is set in a tube made of heavy plates of boiler-iron, through which the imAenso body of water plunges with terrific force. The impact is received at the bottom of the pit on a solid flooring made of a number of intersecting layers of twelve-inch timbers firmly bolted together and embedded into the sandstone with hydraulic cement The two turbines generate three thousand horse-power, and the crown-wheel and pinion at the top of each weigh nine thousand pounds. The great velocity at which they revolve has caused sever al of those gears to fly into fragments, and they have recently been replaced with steeh On the grinding-floor there are two hundred sets of rolls and twenty pair of mill-stones, and the other five floors are tilled with machinery to

correspond. The structure cost nearly

a million of dollars. It is a erreat spa

from the mill used by the Israelites t

the PiUsbury A mill of to-day.

f , Jennie June oonolules that two ped pie cannot live in auy style in Ne? York on $4,000 a year. They might 1 ' happy, though, which is vastly mo: important than style. ,

IN A CHICKEN'S GI10P.

Finding the Leet Screw of the Binnacle Iamv.A glory of the Bea. Speaking of chickens picking up and swallowing diamonds, "chispas1' of gold, and other bright bits of stone and metal, has reminded Judge- , of this city, says The Virginia City (Nevada) Enterprise of an experience with the chicken at sea. In June, 1850, he mode the trip from Mazatlan to Ban Francisco in the French bark Surprise. One day, when about half way hp the coast, the steward hod out the binnacle lamp and was engaged in cleaning and polishing that bit of nautical apparatus. He had it on the deck, had taken it all apart, and hod the debris, wreckage, or whatever you would call it when at sea, scattered all about The vessel was rolling slightly, asd as it rolled it caused a brass screw about half an inch in length to travel down the deck. Some chickens were loitering about, and the flash of the screw caught the eye of an old hen. She dashed at the bit of brass and in a moment it wet in her crop. The judge saw the transaction and inwardly chuckled, as he knew there would soon be Davy Jones to pay about that screw. When the steward 0had polished up the lamp and waft putting it together again he missed a particular and important screw. After searching for the screw for some minutes in Vain, the steward spoke of his loss to the sailors. They joined in the search, but no screw could be found. Soon the attention of the captain was called to the group of searchers, and the steward was obliged to tell him of the losk. The shipper flew into a rage at once, aud used much profane language in connection with the frequent references he felt called upon to make to - the steward's eye. The poor steward was on the point of taking a short ride on the toe of the captain's boot, when the judge thought it time to appear upon the scene. He told the. captain if he wanted the screw it could be found with little trouble. He had only to order the men to catch an old black hen that he pointed out, cut off her head, open her crop, and the screw would be found. At this the sailors gassed upon the judge as though they thought him some practitioner of the black art, and the steward gave him an appealing look, as much as to beg him not to join sides' with his persecutor. The captain had the fowl caught at once. Its head was cut off, its crop opened, and out rolled the lost screw. Sailors and all aboard were astonished, and even the captain changed color. The delight of the steward showed a queer mixture of delight and awe. After that bit of legerdemain the steward could find nothing good enough for the judge, and wheu the wind failed he heard hints among sailors that they might have a ten-knot breeze any time they wanted, it provided a certain person aboard should see fit to give it tc them. A Turkish Horse-Seller The owner was called for, and a strapping fellow about 30 years of age approached. He was attired in the Turkish costume, consisting of a short j acket, blue vest embroidered and covered with bell-buttons, baggy breeches, yellow sash, goatskin boots, and red fez; his hair was short, face dark with bright, gleaming eyes, and a fierce mustache. He was above the medium size, and withal a pleasantlooking fellow. "Now, my son," said the Captain, "how much do you ask for the horse?" Making a salaam the Kurd answered : "Master, if thy servant hath found favor in thine eyes, thou shalt have the horse for 200 sequins." "O, Father of the Faithful, hear the thief!'1 shouted the old fellow with the swivel neck. "Two hundred sequins for the brute, when I will sell my beautiful beast for 100.n M You ask too much, my son," said the Captain uThouseest, O Frangistani, that my horse is swift as an arrow from the bow, and that he springeth like a jackal See

his loins; they are in strength as the lion." , "I see all these things, O child of the Faithful, but yet thou askest too mueUfe?9 "Well, please God, thou wilt buy him for 150 sequins," "Sow, may dogs defile thy grave, thou robber r Bhouted the fellow who sported the blue gabardine and yellow slippers. "Wouldst thou cheat the stranger within our gates, when for eighty sequins he can buy my beast, the pride of 3assora, instead of mounting thy old camel, which is fit for nothing but lepers to ride?" "I will count down in thine hand twenty sequins with the Sultana of Frangistani thereon for thy horse," said the Captain. "What hath thy servant done to thee, O master, that thou should thus revile him? Say eighty, and we shall rejoice." "No; I will' give thee twenty." "Fifty sequins, and he is thine." "No." "He is of the children of Araby ; but still thou mayesthave him for forty." "Twenty,or we shall depart in peace." "In, Allah's name, say thirty." "No." "Well, thoi shalt have him for twenty ; but be kind to Selim, for he is a good horse, and loves not beating." Boston Commercial Bulletin. iii ii MM The Blind. The last English census reveals the encduraging fact that the proportion of the blind to the population has decreased with each successive enumeration since 1851, in which year account of them was taken for the first time. The decrease in the decade endiug in 1881 was much greater in either of the preceding decennial intervals, the number of cases returned on this latter occasion being 22,832, equal to one blind person in every 1,138. This decrease is fairly altributabla to the progressive improvement in the surgical treatment of affections of the eye and to the diminished prevalence among children of smallpox. Scientific American. Chkkishei superstitions are the

ground svork of religion.

, , i. i ; lTfl AND POUT. If a lady was to hug the new minister could it be Called ft religious press? Warsaw Wdp. Dkr reason Vhy dhere vas so many big fools in det vorld, vas because efery body dinks'; he a Solomon-" Carl Pretzel Weekly. A sailob looking serious in a chapel in Boston waa &sked by a minister if he felt any change? "Not a cent," tid Jack. New prleans Item. As it must appear in England t " 'Ello Tommy. Hi 'ear your learning to hact" Ya's, I'm going to Hamr

ca next segteen." Boston Post If somr tenor voices could be pre- ' served in cans, the public would gain by it. The souvenir tenor is a bad siffectioBwA'ezu Orleans Picayune. "Goon lttck taps at one's door noe in a man' lifetime,9 and most men have just gone over to the neighbor's when tfye knock comes. Btffalo Bfr ' press. , : In 6 "Dictionary of Slang," just published, we have looked in vain for the word "next," and yet it is undoubtedly a batberism. Louisville t CourierJournal A good minister asked a Burlingtoa . girl what representative of the religious press she liked best, and she replied: "My Sunday night beau." FreePres Dk good man outen place son 'specked no mo re den de bad man is. De corn whut grows twfxt the rows is plowed up jes' de same ez de weed. Arkansas Traveler. "Bbita.'xia rules the waves, eh? said a passenger1 on his first ocean voyage. Well, she must rule them with a, zigzag picket fence, judging from their looks." if. Y. Journal "What will the ooming girl wear? . is a query in a fashion magazine. Well, she will wear out yonr patience, if she is the coming irl in a restaurant where they employ waitresses, Boston Bid letin. ; ' The measure or his devotion. A young lady who received a bouquet of roses was somewhat amused to find the donor's visiting card attached to it end ; ' written on the wrong side tese words: "Not to exceed $2. "Love is all very well, aays a cynical -exchange, but it won't pay house rent and tailor's bills. No! And neither does homse rent and tailor bills make love. They don't make you love your tailor, anyhow. Burdette "I preukrve my equilibrium under all circumstances. " she was heard te say in a pause of the music to the tow- ; headed youth who was her escort. "Do yoq" he answered softly. "Mother cans hers." Then the music resumed, A Texas editor had -a very narrow escape. He published a society note ia which "P. O. T." appeared after a lady's name. He only saved himself being: punched full of bullet holes by ex -plaining that it meant "Prettiest Girl , in Texas." The editor wears new slip- y pers now. Peck's Sun. : - A BATUW AB nwntnim -

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Bchool-ctavB, When our inf naiemtnds and oar fast 'were both t.'arel What Irol tea and fun we enjoyed in tboae fjoi days, . When our brows were unknit ana unoqmbtid ws cur hair! Tho' we loved like a lather that steroeet of teiicber-. We will never fcrget the wild pUy of his features As ho roe from the pin that we pUoed on hie ehaii The pin that'was pointed, - ' The pin double-jointed. The pat its-piercing pin that provoked h"m to swear. -r ffiew Yw k Journal : Thk student of nature, Dr. Wood has figured out that a man shotdd eat as much in proportion as bird, a. whole round of beef would be ooneom ed at one meal. It is very evident that the worthy doctor has not bem out shooting ducks or prairie ohiobens, for if he hsid it is more likely that he would , have compared man's appetite to that of a wh ale. Why, when the boys come in from a day's hunt a round of beef don t stand iiny show at all; they have to kill a whole ox for each man. FecAf Sum It wus in a Cass avenne ear. Two young ladies were standing up directly in front of a morbidly eccentric man who had not once looked at theoi og offered them a seat. One of them step ped on his foot, which had no business to be there anyhow, and maintained her position. Then he looked al the other passengers and asked aloud: "Why am I like a character in an old nursery rhyme f Nobody answered, though all were dying to know. "Because, said the eccentric man as he settled lack in his ill-gotten seat, "I have belles on my ' toes." Detroit Free Press. Her Favorite Instrument. "Is your wife a musician ?11 said. Mr Orimeii to Mr. Greatheart "I am proud to say she is a musician of great power, M was the replr. "What is her favorite instrument? "Tho organ "Indeed, what make does she prefer. Mason & Hamlin's or EateyV?" He:r preference is the nasal, organ "The nasal organ? Why, what do

"Juftt what I say. Ton oan satisfy yourself of the truth of my statement any night after eleven o'clock by placing yourself within reasonable distance of our sleeping-room. Washington Hatchet Thi; plow in general use in: Mexico nowadays is the same the Egyptians used 5,000 years ago. It 'consists vf a crooked stick with an iron point nailed to it or tied to it with a pieee ef rawhide, a small handle for the plowman to steer with, and a pole to hitch a yoke of oxen to. This so-called plow will scratch a furrow in the soil three inohett deejx Thk manner of saying or doing anything goes a great way in the value of the tiling itself. It was well said of htm that c alled a good office that was done harshly, and with an ill will, a atony piece of bread. "It is necessary for him that is hungry to reoeive it, but it almost chokes a man in going down. Seneca.

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