Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 13, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 August 1884 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOUINGTON, INDIANA.

WALTER a BRADFUTK, - - Pubumub.

IHE NEWS CONDENSED.

Tun Tkbtis, Alerts and Bear arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the 1st iat, where Lieut Greely was joined by his wife aad children, from California, and his nether aad brother, from Massachusetts. Secretary Chandler and Gen. Haaen exfended their heartiest congratulations. . . . Ihe Wannamaker Company's furniture ftsctory, Howard's Hotel, a planing-mill, lumber yard, and four saloons at Philadelphia were destroyed by fire, musing' a loss of $100,000 The Delaware and Hudson and Plattsburg Doc Company's freight houses at Plattsburg, N. with their contents, two warehouse, and a number of loaded freight earsrere swept away by fire By the burning of a building at New York a child perished in the flames, and four persons were fatally burned Che financial loss is 155,000. . . .Jay-Eye-See trotted a mile at Providence in 2:10, beating the record of MaudS. Th big hotels in the fashionable resorts f the East are cot as extensively patronised this year as during last and previous reasons. People do not appear to have so nuch money to spend, and axe willing to rot up with boarding-house aocommodaaons in order to economize Nearly half ihe buildings in Afton, N. Y., were swept '-way uy fire, the lost being $75,000.

Ax investigating committee of cattle men, tocompanied by a special State Commisdoner, visited Rankkin, Neb., and discovered that Texas fever, brought in a herd

Texas, caused the death of several

dead of cattle there, and that some of the stock had been sent to Montana, undoubtedly spreading the disease. The sale of meat by butchers at North Platte has been prohibited. . . .J. C. S. Harrison's report as Receiver of the Indiana Banking Company it Indianapolis is understood to indicate a shortage or $95,611.05, and that he pleads poverty and inability to make up the shortage. Harrison was placed under arrest on a charge of embeEzlement, his bail being fixed at $60,000.... Sobie frightened stockholders in the Bar num wire-works at Detroit levied on its property to secure advances made, and imt nil an assignment. The concern em lbyed 500 mien The Commercial Bank rf Brazil, Ind., has suspended. Its assets ire nominally $170,000, and its liabilities 1140,000, including the entire school fund tf Clay County Seven horse-thieves were found Wangling from trees at the month of Musselshell river, in Meagher Oopnty, Montana In a freight train collision near Elkhart, Ind., one man was killed and three sericuaty in juzed. Joh$ C. Mohtgomsbt, one of the defendants in the Emma Bond outrage case, is about to begin suit against the members of the Christian County mob who threaten-xl-to hang him, and who actually put a rope round his neck, soon after the outrage for which he was aftermod tried had been committed. . . . lbs. Upmeier, of Cincinnati, undertook U split open a rocket with a hatchet. She indner daughter were fatally injured by ike explosion which followed, and two children were fatally hurt Four daughters of Nathan Miller, reacting near Marysrille, Kan , were killed by lightning while Ueeping The village of Luning, Nev., Rxept the xaihoad depot, was destroyed by

W. "W. ClTCiBSBTSOir, a member of Congress Aran Kentucky, who was stopping at 1 Batumel Hotel in Washington, fired five ihots into his head, inflicting dangerous woundsu The cause is said to have been depression from excessive indulgence in liquor. Whoa practicing on the Shelbyville (Jnd.) track, Mies Nellie Burke, the rider, ma thrown from her stallion, Hancock, but not seriously hart, while, by rushing gainst a fence, the horse, which was reined at $2,000, was impaled, and died cm the spot. .. The Grand Central Depot at Cincinnati was formally opened last week, the building cost $800,000. Toss of dead fish, chiefly perch, are daily taken from Fourth Lake, near Madittm, Wis., and buried in: the sandbanks sutside the city. The cause of the mortality can not be learned. "Shadows of a Great City" is in the fourth week of a successful rijn at MoVkkers Theater; Chicago. It will be followed text week by "The Pavements of Paris," bom the French of Adolph Belot, said to be a play of unusual strength and interest Epoab L. Wakbhaw, of Chicago, has organized a company with a paid-up capital sf $100,000 to continue the publication of his sterling literary work, the Current At a reception tendered by the St Paul Chamber of Commerce to Bobert Harris, he stated that the Northern Pacific intended within three years to comStlete its branches. Maud S. troted a mile at Cleveland without a drip in 2:09. She was not accompanied by a running horse. ...The present wheat crop of Colorado 2,100,000 bushelsis 5 per cent greater than any previous yield.

TflS SOUTH.

Hjcbbebt Lktth, one of Stonewall Jackson's soldiers, who lost both legs during the war of the rebellion, fatally shot his cousin, John Bowlings, at Leesburg, Vs., during a drunken quarrel. Both men have been prosperous formers. Aw association formed in Hamburg has purchased 134,000 acres of land in the corner of North Carolina, next to Georgia. The agent will compromise with 1,500 squatters, and intends to colonise 2,000 or more Germana on the tract MSB. Fs&xgks StzoaHj, a widow, aged 70, who died a few days ago near Monroe, Bf. C, confessed that she had murdered her husband by pouring molten lead into his ear thirty years ago. She refused to say what was the motive of the crime.

Prohibitionist are disposed, it is

said, to ooofinc themselves to the effort to carry Kansas t ad Maryland for St John. If they can obtain a large campaign fund they spay extend their operations to other States. The lenders have great reliance on the generosity at the California Prohibitionists.... The national Democratic notification committee waited upon Gov. Cleveland at ft Capitol in Albany on the ?9th utt.

Col. Vilas, in addressing the nominee, reminded him that he was sought out for what reforms he could accomplish as the servant of a free people, from high expectations created by his record as an administrator of ability and fidelity. The Governor replied by expressing confidence that the happiness and prosperity of the people lay in the application of Democratic measures to national affairs. The notification committee of the National Democratic Convention went from Albany to Saratoga and officially informed Gov. Hendricks of his nomination for the Vice Presidency. The ceremony took place in a parlor of the Grand Union Hotel, Hon. W. F. Vilas acting as spokesman for the committee. Mr. Bell, Secretary of the committee, read the formal address, to which Mr. Hendricks responded in a five minutes' speech accepting the nomination. Mr. Hendricks was then introduced to each member of the committee. A general handshaking followed, after which the people paid then: respects to Mrs. Hendricks, and then quietly dispersed. Tkb Democratic Congressional Convention at Columbus, Ohio, nominated the Hon. Joseph H. Outhwaite. The present Representative from that district is George L. Converse, who was conspicuous for bis opposition to the Morrison tariff bill, at the last session of Congress. His high protective views led to his defeat fora renomination Congressman Collins, of Boston, has accepted the Chairmanship of the Massachusetts Democratic Committee. .The liepublicans of West Virginia have formed a coalition with the Greenbackers and accepted the nomination of Maxwell for Governor. Senatob Mahonb has secured the dismissal from the folding-room at Washington of Col. W. E. Sims, with whom he had a bitter quarrel in the Republican National Convention, because the latter voted for Blaine. It is probable that the Democrats and Anti-Prohibition Republicans of Kansas will unite in the nomination of a fusion ticket for State officers and Supreme Court Judges. The Democratic convention will be held at Topeka the 20th inst, and the Anti-Prohibition Republicans will meet at the same place the same day. WASHIKQTOK. FoLiiOwtNG is a recapitulation of the national debt statement issued Aug. 1: Interest-bearlntr debt Four and one-half per cents. $ 950,000,000 Four per cents. 737.680,350 Three per cents. 223,453,250 Befundiag certificates. 274,350 Navy pension fund. 14,000,000 Total mterest-bearinjr debt. $1,2125,407,950 Matured debt $ 12,606,365 Uebt beaxinjr no interest Lepal-tender notes. 846,739,431 Certificates of deposit. 1M30.0C0 Gold and silver certificates 238,421,661 Fractional currency 6,978.491 Total without interest. 605,369,693 Total debt (principal) $1,843,383,898 Total Interest 8.583,052 Total cash in Treasury- 405,910,003 Bonds Issued to -Pacific Pall way ( ompanies. Interest payable by United States Princtoal outstanding. $ 64.62S.512 Interest accrued, not yet raid. ...... 323,117 Interest paid by United States. 63,099,504 Interest repaid by companies By transportation service. $ 18,148,923 By cash payments, 6 per cenc net earnhiirs. 4 $65498 Balance of interest paid by United States,.. 44.295,381 CSEGRAL, John Caswell & Co., tea merchants, New York, have failed John Kimpel, carriage manufacturer, St. Louis, has made an assignment, placing his assets at $45,556, but not stating the amount of liabilities. Wall & Johnson, Milwaukee, druggists, were closed by the Sheriff; and P- M. Hargrove, private banker, at Lampasas, Tex., failed for $40,000. BiohbaIjIi and Johnston, the pacing horses, have been matched for a race for $5,000. Mb. Thbodobb H. Gbowney, a civil engineer of San Francisco, who has been employed on the Panama Canal, in an interview published in the San Francisco Chronicle, gives it as his opinion that the work will not be completed under the present management. The expense will exceed the estimates eight times. Extravagance and fraud have characterized the conduct of the work so far, the contractors have been ruined, and the mortality among the workingmen has been great The executions of the week included three young white men at Scottsboro, Ala., for arson; Frank Williams, at Fine Bluff, Ark., for the murder of his wife; Wilson Stevens, at Edgefield, S. C, for killing a peddler; Frederick Cephas, at Cambridge, Md., for murdering Mrs. Murphy; Alexander Jefferson, in Brooklyn, for taking two lives and terribly wounding a third person; and a negro named Charles Phillips, at Huntingdon, Tenn., for the murder of another negro. Heavy rains have damaged hay seriously and caused the potato rot to put n an appearance in Quebec. .The customs authorities at Montreal raided fotuvwholesale jewelry establishments and seized goods worth $60,000 for undervaluation. At a picnic near Glasgow, Mo., two persona from Moberly got into a quarrel. Two policemen endeavored to restore peace when one of them, Tom Suphey, was shot dead by Harrison Mickey, ono of the parties to the quarrel. A mob lynched the murderer A small party of mounted men took from the jau at Orange Court House, Ya., a negro named John Fitzhugh, who had made a criminal assault upon a white lady, and hanged to a tree in the woods near by. At Baton, New Mexico, a greaser who had assaulted a young girl was given a horse-whipping by the American citizens and then hanged to a cottonwood tree by thirty men of his own race. FOREIGN. Cora wall, the English Secretary of the Irish Postoffice, has been returned for trial on four different charges of immoral and felonious practices..,. Mild forms of cholera have appeared at St. Petersburg and towns in Russia. The trial of dynamiters at Warwick, England, resulted in a sentence of penal servitude for life for John Daly and a term of twenty years for James Egan. McDonnell pleaded guilty to treason-felony, and was released on bail. Daly admitted having buried nitro-glycerine in his garden Sixfy-five pounds of dynamite were stolen from a magazine near Glasgow, Scotland. The thieves are not known, and some alarm prevails.... Henri Laube, the German poet and litterateur, died at Vienna, aged 78 years A panic prevails at Foo Choo, owing to the belief that war between China and France is considered inevitable, Joek Mokley, th", English Badical member of Parliament, said at a reoent

political meeting iin London in reference to the House of Lords: "We must end it or mend it. This is the motto of the English Badicals in their crusade against the House of Peers Mr. Gladstone, in announcing tiie failure of the Egyptian conference, stated that, while the delegates agreed upon the necessity for a fresh loan, France refused to assent to any diminution of dividends under the law of liquidation.... It is announced that the breach between Parnell and Davitt has been temporarily closed. The English journals, however, expest that Davitt will make trouble for the Parnellites at the time of th? general election. ADDITIONAL NEWS. This Pennsylvania Railroad depot, ferryhouses, sheds, and drops at Jersey City, to gether with the piers, upon which were a number of loaded freight cars, were swept away by fire. A gas explosion caused the fire, the loss from which amounts to about $600,000.... LieutJ Greely and his surviving companions were given a brilliant reception at Portsmouth, N. H. Nearly half the people of the State turned out to welcome them. As soon as they had disembarked a procession was formed, and they were escorted through the city amid the cheers of the assembled multitude. They were formally welcomed by Secretary Chandler, the Governor of New Hampshire, and the Mayor of Portsmouth. Since Jan. 1 the importer of merchandise to the United States have exceeded the exports in value $75,739,902. In the same time the exports of specie exceeded the imports $36,124,187 The fire losses during July in the United States and Canada aggregated $8,800,000, being the largest since the Portland (Me.) fire of July, 1866. Since Jan. 1 the loss by fire has been $62,550,000. ....Returns from twenty-seven Clearing Houses of the United States show for last week an aggregate decrease of 6.1 per cent compared with the corresponding week of last year. Outside of New York the decrease amounted to 19.2 per cent Mb. Walkeb, the Irish Solicitor General, stated in the British Commons that Lord Lieutenant Spencer had decided to dismiss Crown Solicitor Bolton in consequence of the charges made against him in the Irish National press. It was for publishing those charges that O'Brien, the editor of United Ireland, was mulcted in $15,000 in a libel suit at Belfast. Lord Spencer evidently does not think the jury in the case acted without prejudice. Bolton will hardly try to recover the damages awarded.... Marseilles reparts twenty-eight deaths from cholera on the 4th inst There were no deaths at Toulon. The fact that the swallows and sparrows still keep away from the city is held to bo evidence of a contaminated atmosphere At Birmingham, England, 200,000 people assembled to indorse Gladstone's reform measures. According to the reports of the Lynchburg (Ya.) Tobacco Association the sales of leaf tobacco thus far this season have aggregated 19,000,000 pounds, 2,000,000 pounds less tlian the sales for the corresponding period of last year. The sales are now increasing and the manufacturers report a better demand. A dispatch from Lexington, Ky., says: Reports from along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad give evidence of a bitter fight over the election of Appellate Judge from the First District of Kentucky. In an altercation at Enterprise, Bobert Griffy shot and killed two men, and then died from the effects of a shot from the pistol of one of his victims, who fired before he was killed himself, or from the pistol of some unknown person. At Morehead a fight took Elaoe near the polls between William Trumo and H. G. Price, and after exchanging shots the fight became general. The first man to drop was Solomon Bradley, killed by a bullet above the ear. and the second death was that of Add Sizemore, of Gates Station, and the wounding of Allen Sut lin and John Martin and John Day followed. The Sheriff is said to have killed Sieemore, but was shooting at someone else in the crowd. Many others were injured. At Someet, James Lay, 60 years old, and Bant Dalttm, aged 50, met at the election and renewed an old quarrel, in the course of which Didton was shot and killed. At an election booth in this city, J. G. Geers, a Bepublican, shot George Stewart, a Bepublican, killing him instantly, and Dick Murphy disemboweled Jack Cleary with a knife." Judge Hayes, of Clinton, Iowa, released a liquor-seller who had been fined and committed by a Justice of the Peace. The effect of this decision is to take all liquor cases to the district courts for trial on indictments by juries. . . .Fred Sharon, son of ex-Senator Sharon, was married at San Francisce to Mrs. Louise Breckenridge, the divorced wife of the Hon. O. C. Breckenridge, and daughter of Mr. Lloyd Tevis, President of the Wells-Fargo Express Company. THE MARKET, NEW YORK. gEEVKS $ 5.00 7.25 OttS 5.50 l 6.25 XOUB Extra 4,50 6.00 Wheat Xo. 2 Chicago 83 & .91 No. 2Ked 95 a .97 Corn No. 2 ea .6S Oats White 42 (m .47 Pork New Mess 1C75 &17.25 CHICAGO. BEEVES Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 7.00 Good Shipping 6.00 (?) 6.50 Common to Fair 4.50 J 5.50 Hoos 6.50 tUM) Fjlouk Koncy White Winter Ex 5.25 5.75 Good to Choice Spring. 4.50 ) 5.25 Wheat No. 2 Spring 82 3 -3 No. 2 lied Winter hs ($ .83 Cony No. 3 65 .56 Oats No. 2 30 3t .31 Kye No. 2 ii0 $ .C2 HAM-EY Ne. '! 01 .63 Buttek Choice Creamery 18 .20 Fine Dairy 13 .15 CaEEsr Full Cream 07 Skimmed Flat 05 j$ .ofi EOOS Fresh H 6 .15 Potatoes New, per brl 1.50 1.75 POKE Mess 2U.75 (&21.25 Lard 07 .07& TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 84 .86 Com? No. 2 54 .56 Oats No. 2 30 .37 MILWAUKEE, Wheat No. 3 82 .83 Corn -No. 2 54 .56 Oats No. 2 ye .37 Barlev No. 3 Gl .62 POBK M63S 10.00 $1&50 Lard 7.25 7.50 ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 84 ,86 Corn Mixed 47 .48 Oats No. 2..., 27 .28 RYB 68 S) .60 Pork Mess. 10.25 16.75 CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Bed...; 85 .86 Corn .54 .55 Oats Mixed .34 .35 Pork Mess 16.60 ($17.25 Lard 07 j .07 DETROIT. Flour 6.25 dv75 Wheat No 1 White 1.01 & lmty Corn -Mixed 57 .5 Oats No. 2 Mixed 34 a .35 Pork -New Mess 16,00 i&50 1 INDIANAPOLIS, Wheat No. 3 dt New 83 .85 Corn Mixed 50 .62 Oats Mixed .31 g .33 EAST LIBERT v . Cattle Best Fair V

II E Iv It F CLAY'S DAUGHTEB. The Sad liomanoe That Had Its Birth BeMde the Grave, Just to the right of the entrance to ft small, illy-kept, almost uausued grave yard at Lebaapn, Ohio," a little oitj famed the state over as beiug the home for years of the most gifted orator of his time, Thomas Corwiu,is a stained and moldy stone sarcophagus, less than three feet in height and six feet in length, inclosed by a rude fence of barbed-wire, stretched upon clumsy, unhewn posts. The yard bears every evidence of neglect. The ground around it is sunken, and the grass and briers clamber up the dingy stone tomb's side and show a disposition to cover it from view. And yet beneath those rough slabs of stone lie tho remains of a noble young girl, upon whom in life was bestowed the extravagant love of ono of America's grandest-minded men ; a young girl whose ultimate death saddened the life of one of the country's broadest and widest statesmen. The neglected grave contains the remains of a beautiful woman, over whose resting-place a fitting monument should be erected by the people whom her father's brilliant tnlent so ably served. But it is neglected, uncared for, and almost unknown save to a few outside of Lebanon's limi's. It is unpleasant to think that the offspring of such a noble parentage is thus permitted to suffer long years of almost utter neglect among a people who know the story of her birth and distinguished father's merits, but true it is that in that humble grave lies the remains of a daughter of Henry Clay the man whom Kentucky honors above all men; the man who labored so grandly in the interest of the nation, and who was within a step of the Presidential chair. Around that little grave clusters a mournful, romantic history. Henry Clay was one of the four prominent presidential candidates in 1824, striving for election against three other candidates John Quincy Adams, Jackson, and Crawford. He ireceived thirty-seven electoral votes for the position. The Electoral College failed to make a choice, and when the work of electing a President devolved upon the House of Representative, Clay, seeing that he could not win himself, carried his strength over to Adams, and secured the latter's election. In March of the following year, when Adams organized his Cabinet, he tendered Clay the Premier's portfolio. Clay went to Washington, and after he had familiarized with the duties of Secretary of State, be returned on a visit to his home in Kentucky, to see his family, among whom was a beautiful and intellectual daughter, Eliza, whom he particularly loved. Eliza at that time had just turned her 12th year, but she was wise nd womanly for her years, and it was one of the principal objects of Clay's long and tedious journey to Kentucky to bring Eliza to Washington with him on his return. Travel in those days was not the easy, luxurious affair that it is now. The cumbersome stage-coach was the only public conveyance that traversed the pikes, and the trip from Kentucky to Washington City was both long and wearying. Henry Clay and his daughter started for tho Capital from Lexington, Kentucky, early in August Miss Clay was rather delicate physically, and found traveling by coach a very distressing affair. The hotel fare on the route did not agree with her, and the various changes and discomforts she experienced brought on a malady inflammation of the bowels, I believe that became so alarmiing when Lebanon was reached that a stop was made here and medical aid summoned to attend the young lady at her hotel. She grew worse instead "of better, and one night, after a delirious flight, followed by a betef period of consciousness, she died in her father's arms. It was impossible for Mr. C lay to return home with the remains of his dead child, so it was determined to bury her here temporarily. The intention was to remove her remains to Kentnckyt and place them in the family burialplace. Mr. Clay, sad-hearted and weighed down by grief, completed his journey to Washington. His busy and not untroubled life at the Capital, a;3 Premier of A lams' Cabinet, is a matter of public history. The grass over his daughter's grave, and' tho snows of two winters, covered its meanly appearance with spotless mantles of white, and yet no move was made to have the remains transferred to Kentucky. In the third summer, I think, this rough sarcophagus was erected by Mr. Clay, who seemed to have determined not to disturb his daughter's rest. Chillicothe (0.) Leader. Borrowing Trouble. The real troubles of life are few: the imaginary sorrows are many. Most persons habitually forecast difficulty, and imagine evils that are at least in the future, if they exist at all. When

the time arrives when the sorrow was expected it has vanished. Many have speculated on the reason for this. Why sliottld so universal an evil exist? Does it grow out of apprehensions resulting from our lack of prescience as to tho future, or is it the outcome of disturbed physical oonditions? Dyspepsia or an inactive liver will fill the mind with

gioomy laeais. uo tui sucn impressions come from disordered health? No doubt ignorance, superstition, and ill-health, or lack of mental balance, have much to do with things. Apprehension and fear are apt to attend what we do not understand. In the old, superstitious times a strange sound, a gloomy day, an eclipse and many other things caused apprehension. Even now there are those who, if they happen to find the number at table to be thirteen, are alarmed. Dreams are thought by some to have intimations of trouble. A dream of struggling with snakes means that a secret foe will assail. And so along a catalogue of superstitions. We have learned, however, that eclipses are governed by natural laws, and that unlucky numbers or days, and that streams, rarely amount to anything, and are not suggestive causes of special f results. Much that was regarded with

superstitious awe is now looked upon as an exploded theory. And thus much of what we call trouble is even yst the

result of old superstitions not entirely banished, even from intelligent minds. But these are being gradually dispell ed. The light of science is rapidly penetrating what was thought to be mysterious a few years ago, and it is relieving much that was the cause of trouble and perplexity. Philadelphia Call Emotional. An orator who uses pathos should be careful that he does not fall into bathos. The best precaution that ho can take against such a disaster is for him to see to it that his emotion is real and not put on, and that it is expressed in homely phrases and short words. In his eloquent speech against the continuance of the Crimean war, John Bright dared to be pathetic, even in the Houso of Commons, whose critical sense is always alive. At one passage of the peroration, "The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings9 the silence was intense. The "beating" might have been heard could it have occurred. But as they left the House, Mr. Cobden, his friend, said to him: "Bright I trembled for you to-night If you had said flapping, we should have laughed at once." But the ear of the great orator was too musical and his taste zoo sensitive to allow him to say "flapping" instead of "beating." "Ilidicule is the test of truth," says an old aphorism. This mayor may not be a true saying, but it is true that the pathos which cannot endure raillery is, at least, suspicions. An anecdote will make clear our meaning. In the days of our fathers, one of the most eloquent of advocates at the bar of New York was Elisha Williams. He was noted lor the gracefulness of his delivery and famous for the melody of his flute-like voice. His power over a jury, when he used his pathetic tones and he did in every case which admitted their use was wonderful. Mr. Williams seldom failed to secure a verdict for his client when he played to jurors on his human flute. But on one occasion he failed so ludicrously that court and spectators were convulsed with laugh tei . He was defending a man charged with murder. The jury was made up of countrymen, each one of whom was thrilled by the pathos of the orator. The friends of the murdered man had retained an unlettered pettifogger, of great local reputation among the farmers, to assist the District Attorney, This ignorant man, following the defence, said: 41 Gentlemen of the jury, I should despair, after the weeping speech, which has been made to you by Mr. Williams, of saying anything to do away with its eloquence. "I never heard Mr. Williams speak that piece of hisn better than what he spoke it now. Onct I heerd him speak it in 81 case of stealin' down to Schaghticoke. Then he spoke it agin in a case of assault up to Alsopus, and the last time I heerd it, before jest now, was when them niggers was tried and convicted, too, they was for robbin' Van Pelt's hen-house, over beyond Kingston. "But I never knowed him to speak it so elegant and affectin' as what he spoke it just now." The jury looked at one another shyly, as if ashamed of the tears they had shed. Then they whispered together. The pettifogger saw at once that be had convinced them. He was shrewd enough to -top with the single remark, "Gentlemen, if you can't see that this speech don't answer all cases, then there's no use of my saying anything more." There was not; his ridicule had done its work. There could not have been truth and real pov.fer back of the pathos. The jury gave the pettifogger their verdict Youths? Companimu Decorative Dogs Any one who has thought about it has noticed that the dog-star is in the ascendency now. Nl'home is complete without a papier mache dog which is usually an artificial pug, the real article being much too high for ordinary service. Dogs of pasteboard are frequently seen in the windows of even stately dwellings, where half revealed, hall concealed by the lace curtains, and held in place by a real brass chain and collar, they bear a strong resemblance to life. The skye terrier is a favorite for this purpose. To the back of the dog an easel is attached, and the animal is so naturally painted that dogs going by on the street have been known to bark at the faithful likeness. Bonbonniere dogs. These are usually mastiffs or St Bernard dogs of paper breed, whose heads come off, showing a hollow space within for the sweets. Probably more dogs have been manufactured this last year than ever before, one reason being that children are almost invariably attracted to the pictorial dog, and a favorite card to give away is one with a group of puppies. Terra Cotta dogs, for lawns and gardens, are always in demand. An amusing case is recorded of a man who possessed a life-like animal of this pattern, upon which he was regularly taxed everv vear. the assessor haviug no

doubt of the genuinoness of the dog. The man paid the tax without a word and, when remonstrated with by a friend, said it was tho cheapest dog he ever possessed, as it ate nothing, kept tramps off his premises, and never got into trouble by biting anyone. The cemetery dog may be considered in a decorative sense as well as an emblem of fidelity and watchfulness. It is usually of iron or bronze, and is a stern mastiff with a mournful countenance. While it is repugnant to the feelings of most people and contrary to tho rules of all cemeteries to have living dogs there, the sculptured semblance of the animal is 1 ever denied an imposing position, either in couohant at the foot of the master's grave, or on watch at the door of the dead. Detroit Free Press. It is believe , thai; four thousand comets have roamed through space since the records began. Most of them were invisible without a telescope.

THE FAMILY VfQCTOfL I:c is said t hftt dusting finely pow derod chlorate of potausium on the surface of ulcers, and ulcerating epitheliomata relieve piiin and promotes heal ing, by changin g the character of the morbid prooessos. The surface should be cleansed and the powder dusted thickly on twioo a day. Db, Haley, in an Australian Medical Journal, claims that minimum dose of iodide of potassium arc of great service in frontal headache. A two-grain doM dissolved in half a wineglass of water will often cure a dull headache which is situated over the eyebrow. The action of the drug; is quite rapid. A boy, aged 10 years and a half, died in Washington, D. C, after long suffering from a swelling of the abdomen, which defied diagnosis. The small intestines contained twenty large plum, stones, a copper cent, a nickle, a tooth, two buttons, und other foreign sub stances. The liver waa enlarged. It is bad practice to probe a penetrating wound produced by a mis silo entering either the abdominal or tho racic cavity. After ascertaining to a certainty that a cavity of the trunk has been entered, stop all probing at once and hermetically seal the wound and leave the rest to nature. Exclude tho atmosphere, and then the chances of restoration will bo largely increased. Old Dr. Hunter used to say, when ho couldn't discover the cause of a man's sickness: u We'll try this and well trr that Well shoot into the tree, and if anything falls, well and good." "Aye, replied a wag, I fear this is too commonly the case, and in your shooting into the tree, the first thing that generally falls is the patient" And tho wag was not very far from the truth. Preventive IMkdicine is China. It is recorded that on a certain occasion the Emperor of China inquired of Sir George Stanton about the manner in which physicians were paid in England. When he was made to understand what the custom was, he exclaimed, "Can any man in Er gland afford to be ill? Now I have fot r physicians, and pay all of them a weekly salary; but the moment 1 am sick that salary is stopped until I am well again; therefore, my indisposition is never of long duration." Bight Living vs. Drugs. An extract from the .biography of tho late Gen. John A. Dix gives an account of an interview with the eminent Abernethy, whom the General had consulted for professional advice.' It is gratify ing to note that the common sense advice of the illustrious physician, was taken in a common sense way by tho distinguished patient, and that the re suit was a ripe and robust old age (80 years), of which the dyspeptic youth of the General scarcely gave promise. After hearing a few words of his patient's story, Abernethy cut him short as follows: "Sir, you are prety far gone, and the wonder is you are not gone entirely. If you had opmsulted common sense instead of the medical faculty, you would probably have been well years ago. I can say nothing to you except this : You must take regular exercise, as much as you can bear

without fatigue, as little medicine ss possible, of the simplest kind, and jthis only when absolutely necessary, and a modest quantity of plain food, of- tho quality which you find by experience best to agree with you. No man, not ever a physician, can prescribe diet for another. 'A stomach is a stomach,' and it is impossible for any ono to reason with safety from his own to that of any other person. There are a few general rules which any man of common sense may learn in a we, such as this : That rich food, high seasoning, etc, injurious. I can say no more to you sir; you must go and cure yourself. The Fancied Need of Eye-Glasses. "Wearing glasses seems to be considered fashionable by a great many people and every day persons whoso eyes are perfectly good come after something to stick in their eyes, "says Philadelphia dealer. "They are generally dudes and we sell them these large glasses. They are made of the finest imported glass, but have no refracting power and are perfectly harmless. You see, they have no frame and are only meant to be held to the eye or stuck in for a few moments. This is supposed to be an Englieh custom 'and you can see young Anglo-maniacs any day on Chesnut street wearing them. One lady bought a dozen the other day, I can't imagine what for. It takes some practice to oarry them with put letting them drop and they never can be considered graceful. "The wearing of glasses and spectacles is becoming commoner. I don't think this is because there are more weak eyes, but because every year we know more about the eye and are now able to make lenses for many cases that we didn't understand before. Astigmatism, presbyopia, strabismus, diplopia, and the other diseases or defects of eyesight are now generally capable of remedy by different kinds of glasses, and this probably accounts for their greater use. Then there are always lots of people who imagine something the matter with their eyes and insist on wearing glasses or spectacles. Four or five such come in every day and are vexed if we say that their eyesight is all right If we ean't persuade them out of their idea we sell them lenses that will do as little injury as possible and such as many persons use in reading. The number of these cranks is astonishing. They come to be tried for supposed color-blindness, hyperme tropia or oversight and every thing they can think of. A genuine trouble of the eye, however, and one of very recent origin, is that caused by tho glare of the electric lights. To a very sensitive retina tlucm intolerable, and some protection is necessary. For this we use smoked glasses and the demand for them is perfectly surprising. In New York thousands" of gross of these are sold every year. The linemen, who adjust the arcs of the electric lights, and, of course, need very strong glasses, wear oblong pieces of blue glass fastened together, two for eacfc

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Pae excellence a good father. Tfc Judge.

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