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Fob the murder of his father, Joseph Sarver, aged 18, was hanged at Indiana, Fa. Mifliftrtl Mtlnay, whose sanity was questioned, was executed at Ebensburg, Pa., leaving a letter stating that persons who lad the power of witchcraft exercised a spell orer him, which prompted him to commit tfce murder.. .Near Bratdeboro, Vt, scar of a mixed triuii Mt the track, dragging four other cars, including a passenger coach, down a steep embankment Two or three persons were fatally and a number slightly injured. . . . A boiler explosion in Witters' brewery at Elisabeth, N.7., fired the building, which, with its contents and an adjoining grocery, was destroyed, the loss leaching $25,000. Two men are said to have been killed. Aw urn which ornamented the roof of a building on West Twenty-third street, New York, was dislodged by the flapping of a flag. It fell to the sidewalk, killing a man engaged in examining colored lithographs on a bulletin board....Burdett&Pond,of New York, engaged in the South American trade, have failed. The liabilities are placed at $250,000. As association has been formed in Oil City, with a capital of $1,000,000, to purchase oil property belonging to men who will not join the association for the purpose of shutting down the territory and restricting production.,. , Philadelphia telegram: The Secretary of the American Iron and Steel Association says the price of steel rails is undoubtedly much firmer to-day than it was a month ago. Then we heard
of the bottom price being $26. 50 in Pennsylvania, but now no well-inf oixned person thinks of a lower price than $27.50. 11ns recovery of $1 per ton is an exceedingly hopeful sign ox the times. . . . The late Francis B. Hayes, of Lexington, Hass., in willing away $8,000,000 or more, left $10,000 each to Harvard and Dartmouth colleges and Berwick Academy Galbraith McMullen died at Sandy Lake, P, at the age of 105. . . .One UUman, a German, aged 75, fatally shot his wife, 65 years old, near Whitestown, Pa. AT Pittsburgh, Abel Smith & Co.'s extensive glass works, a machine shop, and five frame dwellings were consumed by a re. The loss is placed at $200,000. The A. T. Stearns Lumber Company's property at Neponset, Mass., was burned, the loss reaching $240,000. William Fun da A Son's ppg mill at Syracuse, N. Y., was destroyed. On the fair grounds at Erie, Pa., one of the pole props holding a balloon fell when the aeronaut, Oscar Hunt, had ascended, killing one person outright and badly crushing a number of others, and ' resulting in a panic. Hunt descended into the lake, ana was drowning when rescued. . , . In -a Brooklyn court a sentence of three and one-half years in the penitentiary was passed upon a nan dsome woman of 20 years named Mien L&rrabee, known to the' police as a professional burglar. She has already served two terms in prison. A Connecticut
with the fair thief, and beg&d per
mission to marry her. TIaAM&b destroyed the Buckingham Hotel at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, uixh guests having barely time to escape wth their lives. A force of marines from the navy yard rendered all the aid possible. The loss is estimated at $140,000 The director of the New York Central Boad, at a special meeting authorized the issue of $15,000,000 debenture bonds to run twenty years at 5 per cent.... Commodore Thomas S. Fillebrown, commander of the York Navy Yard, died of heart diflease. . . .A daring thief made way with a ?ld b& from No. 102 Broadway, New ork. Tabled at $597. He was closely followed, but made good his escape. Dispatches from Allegany county, New York, and the Pennsylvania line tell of a terrible cyclone. At Shongo, eight miles south of Wellsville, the town was destroyed and four persons were killed. In Buffalo the wind was forty-four miles per hour, and considerable damage was done. Great damage was inflicted at Alton, many houses being demolished and several persons injured. The injury to farm property along the back of the storm is very
Ix Dakota and Northern Minnesota the farmers have determined not to. go into the wheat-raising business as extensively as heretofore. Many of them will take to the cattle business as more profitable. The uncertain seasons, the low price of the cereal, and the high freights are the causes which have led to this determination Near Albert Lea, Minn., three nien went out in a sailboat; which soon capsized. The heaviest man retained hold of the craft, while the others swam ashore for assistance. One of the latter cave out before
reaching land itnd perished, and the nan supported by the boat becoming exhausted was also drowned. . . . The Illinois Liquor-Dealers' Association passed resolutions in favor of a general li
cense system, ana pteugmg iw memoera to use all legitimate means for the repeal of certain objectionable features of the dram-, shop act. . . .Ex-United States Senator Nesmith has been placed in an insane asylum ai Portland, Oregon. Ah accident to the engine of a Chicago and Alton passenger train compelled it to stop between Paducah Junction and Cayuga, HL. and a man was sent back to flag a freight following after, but did not go for enough., The freight crashed into the stationar; jtti aenger, throwing two passengers oft t&e txaiik and setting them on fire, they being consumed with the engine, baggage, and fifteen freight cars. A heavy rain and thunder storm prevailed at the time, but the passengers miraculously escaped. . . . The cashier of the First National Bank at Las Vegas, New Mexico, heard robbers tunneling under the vault. He immediately placed guards around the building. A few hours afterward the masonry of the vault gave way. A Mexican descended into the cellar to investigate and shot one of the would-be burglars dead. He proved to be one of the masons who had built the vault Frederick S. Nichols, the chief editor of the Memphis (Tenn.) Daily Avalanche, died very suddenly at Davenport, Iowa, of paralysis of the brain .... Giltie Leigh, a member of the British Parliament, lost his life in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming, where he became separated from a hunting party. His body was
found at the base of a precipice .... Jim
The Wisconsin brewers, it is said, refuse to contribute money for the election of the Democratic State ticket, but are working
It will aggregate 22,500,00tff or Cleveland.. .State councils of the
American jroiuicai finance nave oeen ordered to make up electoral tickets for Ellsworth and Waterman The Butlerites of New York City havt nominated Hugh J. Grant for Mayor. The Democratic Congressional dead-lock in the Second Wisconsin District was ended by the nomination of Gen. Bragg on the 150th ballot
sporting man who retired
m an intoxicated conaraon toe previous night, threw im K from a thirdstory window of an Indianapolis hotel, receiving fatal injuries....
Three cases pf Texas fever were discovered among native milch cows at Manhattan, Kan., but the latter axe incapable of trans
mitting the disease Wisconsin's tobac
co crop this y
pounds, and vffl bring the growers about
-"$2,000, 000;;... & stroke of lightning at' Elmwood: 111., killed a babe lying asleep between jjjp pont& leaving tie latter, unharmed, v r.y The managers of the Soldiers homes closed their examination of western points for a new institution by a visit to Leavenworth, where the scenery, atmosphere, drainage, and water supply seemed to make a lasting impression. Gen. Franklin is understood to have committed himself in favor of the site. . Justice Field has ruled at San Francisco that Congress intended by the act of
1884 to exclude parol evidence, thus shutting out Chinamen who left this country previous to the act of 1882 Miss Wilton, a wealthy young lady of New York, was frozen to death in a snowstorm on Long's Peak, in Colorado. She ascended tiie mountain with a guide, but the storm coming on he went for assistance, and when he returned found her dead. . . . Father Stack has begun anew suit at Philadelphia to compel Bishop O'Hara to reinstate him in his priestly offices. The contest involved has b$en going on for more than twelve years. ..Leavenworth, Kas,, has been selected as the location of the new Western branch of the National Soldiers' Home. A iiABGE party of lumber-yard laborers at Michigan City, Ind., sprang into the ferry-boat, and broke the supporting chain, the result being the drowning of two or more persons. Incexdiabies in Cleveland fired the lumber-yard of the Saw Mill Company, causing a loss of $20,000. One firm, which received a threatening letter, has employed twenty-men to guard its premises. Two large buildings in Superior street were set afire, but the flames were quickly extinguished One freight train crashed into another near Dunlap, 111. Michael Badigan, the engineer, was killed. A stock car full of cattle was destroyed by a fire ensuing John Wren, dealer in dry goods at Springfield. Ohio, failed, with liabilities of $20,000; assets. $15,000.... Ehler & Co.'s sash and blind factory and McCracken's tile workd at Cincinnati were damaged $30,000 by fire. . . .Only the lightest boats can navigate the Ohio River at Cincinnati, where die water is. sixty-eight feet lower than in February last.
rH SOUTH.
At Haysville Tenn., Capt. E. T. Johnson surprised Maj. Edwin Henry and shot him dead. This is the result of a scandal a year ago at Indianapolis, when Johnson's wife committed suicide, confessing previously, in letters to her husband, that she had been seduced by Henry. From that time Johnson has been on Henry's i:rack, but at last has had his revenge .... Capt. W. H. James, Assistant United States Engineer on the Upper Cape Fear River works in North Carolina, committed suicide last week. A tramp who assaulted a child at Shelbyville, Ky., was within six hours sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. . . . The Chinese Government has applied for . 3,000 square feet of space in the New Orleans Exposition. At Meadville, Miss., a mod surrounded the Franklin County Jail, took out four prisoners and hanged them to trees ia the yard- Two of the victims were charged wrth murder and the others with outrage and arson, respectively. Four other prisoners were not molested, but the lynchers left word that they would return if the County Judge did not dispose of them at the next term of court The Georgia Capitol Commission awarded the contract for the -building to a Toledo firm for $862,765. The. material will be limestone from the Bedford quarries in Indiana Mr. John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died at Deer Park, Md.. after a lingering illness. He was in his 65ih year. The bodies of George Faustrick and Annie Manlor, strangers m the vicinity, were found near Dallas, Tex., lying side by side. Between them lay a revolver, two chambers empty. Near by was found a note: "As we cannot be united in life, we will be in death."
1 WASHINGTON. The gold reserve in the United States Treasury is $129,000,000, or about $1,000,000 more than it was two weeks ago. W. Q. Gbesham has resigned the Postmaster Generalship and entered upon his duties as Secretary of the Treasury. . Mr. Coon, one of the assistant secretaries, was designated as next in authority. Frank Hatton becomes acting Postmaster General for ten days. It is still asserted that either Hugh McCulioch or George S Boutwell will shortly take the Treasury portfolio, and that Gresham will be appointed to the Circuit bench at Chicago, leaving Hatton to be Postmaster General. It is reported that Judge Greshaza will succeed Justice Bradley on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States in a few months.
POLITICAI
Mb. Bxaine had an enthusiastic reception in Thiladelphia. Thousands of people called at the rooms of the Union League Club to shake hands with him. jn the evening he reviewed a large political jtarade. The fireworks display was stopped after three bombs had been exploded, some of the blazing fragments falling and burning many persons. The Butlerites of Massachusetts met in convention at Worcester. Over 1,500 delegate were present and all were enthusiastic for Butler and the Butler platform and party. The following candidates were nominated, all of them by acclamation and amid enthusiastic cheering: Governor, Maj. M. J. McCafferty, Associate Justice of the Boston Police Court; Lieutenant Governor, CoL John F. Marsh, of Springfield; Secretary of State, Col. John P. Sweeney, of Lawrence; Treasurer, Nathaniel S. Gushing, of Middleboro; Auditor, Israel W. Andrews, of Danvers; Attorney General, CoL Thomas W. Clark, of Boston. Gen. Butler was present and made a characteristic speech. .The Texas Republicans nominated a State ticket at Dallas. Judge A. B. Norton is the candidate for Governor. After a session of nearly twenty-four hours, the Republican State Convention of South Carolina nominated a ticket headed by D, T. Corbin for Governor, each alternate nominee being colored. . . . Gen. Butler has engaged a special train to carry himself and Senator Grady about Ohio and Michigan during the week beginning Oct. 6. . . It is expected that 800,000 votes will be polled in Ohio at the October election.
tiEERAL.
Capt. Hines of the whaling schooner Byron, which has just returned to Gloucester, Mass., from the Greenland coast, reports poor fishing in that region this year on account of the icebergs and the" exceptionally severe weather. He reports the
Greenlanders in a pitiable state of servitude to the Danes, who pretend to christianize them. The Danes will not even allow them to work for Americans, and two whom he employed were taken off by a Danish man-of-war. Altbed G. Isaacson, of. Montreal, has absconded, and is a defaulter for a large amount, the funds having been intrusted to him for investment. . . .Four students of the Collegiate Institute at St. Catharines, Ont., were drowned in the canal near Port Dalhoueie. Thomas S. Jtjdah, a Montreal Justice of the Peace, has been arrested on the charge of obtaining $25,000 from G. A. Burland under false pretenses giving a mortgage on property he did not own. Burland and Judah were friends and belonged to the "first families' of the Canadian city.... A. Dickson, an insurance agent at Montreal, has absconded, leaving numerous creditors. Neab Pickering Station, Ont., a broken frog threw three coaches and a special car of an express train down a 25-foot embankment, the cars turning over a couple of times, and the special catching fire and being consumed. Rain was pouring in torrents at the time, and the shrieks and groans of the travelers multiplied the horror of the occasion. Nobody was killed, but a dozen were injured, some painfully. The financial loss is said to be $100,000. ... .At St. Boniface, Manitoba, fire swept away Sutherland's extensive saw-mill and sufficient lumber to make the total loss $60,000. Canadian ranchmen complain that the Piegan chiefs demand 10 cents on every head of cattle passing through their territory from Montana to Manitoba, and enforce it by shooting sufficient stock to equal the tax .... G illie Leigh, who recently perished in the Big Horn Mountains, was heir to Stanley Abbey, one of the finest estates in England. A brother of the deceased, now visiting in San Francisco, is next in succession. . . . The schooner Golden Rule capsized off Michigan Island, Lake Superior, and two persons perished. . . .Caoeres, the Peruvian revolutionary leader, is a fugitive, and the country.is resuming a peaceful condition. Replies to the circular proposing a reduction of the pig-iron production have been tabulated and put in shape for ready reference. The number of firms agreeing to restrict are as follows: Maine, 1; Vermont, 1; New York, 9; New Jersey, 2; Pennsylvania, 23; Virginia., 5; West Virginia, 4; Kentucky, 3; Tennessee, 2; Georgia, 2; Alabama, 3; Ohio, 24; Indiana, 2; Illinois, 2; Missouri, 1; Michigan, 4; Wisconsin, 2; Texas, 1; ColoraJo, 1. Those declining to restrict are: New York, 1; New Jersey, 1; Pennsylvania, 1; Virginia, 1; West Virginia, 1; Alabama, 1; Ohio, 6; Wisconsin, 1. A suit for $50,000 has been brought on account of the drowning of Mrs. E. R. Beach in the City of Columbus disaster. . . . Bill Bellmont, a Toronto barkeeper, working for $8 a week, is heir to $100,000 by the death of his father in London.
FOBElGIf.
Tuesday, Sept 23d, was the anniversary of the revolution which, in 1830, resulted in the independence of Belgium. The Liberals made it the occasion of a demonstration against the present Ministry. At Brussels a veteran, addressing an assembled multitute, said: "Our ancestors fought to make Belgium free. She is no longer 6o. Belgians will never be Romanists." The crowd sang the "Marseillaise" and other revolutionary songs. Two Republican editors were arrested and the police seized a number of Republican and Socialistic pamphlets. . . . The British gunboat Wasp was wrecked off the northwest coast of Ireland. Fifty-two persons, including all the officers, were drowned. Six of the crew were saved Notice is given by the National Gazette of Berlin, that any step taken by France with regard to the finances of Egypt will receive the support of Germany, Austria, and Russia. There were 435 new cases of cholera in Italy and 265 deaths on the 23d of September. In the city of Naples there were 152 deaths. There were but nine new cases in the Alicante and Tarragona districts of Spain, though theie were fourteen deaths. It is reported that a section of the Mayo Irish Nationalists' meeting at Balla decided to nominate Capt, Boycott and John WillJam Nally as candidates for Parliament in their county. Capt. Boycott was once the most execrated man in Ireland the word boycotting is derived from his name;' Nally is now in jail, serving a long term of imprisonment for conspiracy to murder. The candidature of either would be farcical. . . . M. Ebensburg, proprietor of the Hotel Splendide at Paris:, has iled to Brazil, his' defalcations reaching $320,000. He had a wife and family, kept three mistresses, and deserted with a fourth. . . .Li Hung Chang, the leader of the peace party in China, has been reinstated in the office which he formerly held. This may be taken as a step toward peace with France. It is stated that Nubar Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, will make but a formal acknowledgment of the protest of France, Austria, Russia, and Germany against the suspension of the Egyptian sinking fund The prevalence of cholera will prevent the Papal Consistory assembling at Rome until December. Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, has been granted a special rescript, however, so that he may attend the Baltimore conference with all the authority that the pallium confers .... The corporation of Limerick, by a vote of 18 to 2, resolved not to provide for the payment of the special tax, even when reduced by the Lord Lieutenant. Patrick Egan cabled from Nebraska his approval of their decision. Deaths in,Europe from cholera thus far number 14,132, of which 7,974 were in Italy, 5,798 in France, and 360 in Spain. . . .English detectives, in anticipation of mischief by dynamiters, axe keeping a close watch on suspicious characters in London. , , .The Mackey-Bennett Cable Company is making lavish preparations for the beginning of operations, and a war in cable rates is ex-
jpected. ...Prince Albert Victor Christian
Edward, eldest son of the Prince of Wales,
will be of age next January, and .Parlia
ment will be asked to vote an allowance or $50,000 a year. The Radicals will oppose the grant.. ...Cairo dispatches state that Wolseley hae started for the front. .... Gladstone has returned from1 his tour in Scotland Christine Nilsson was (brown from her cab, in London, and sustained some severs injuries to the left knee and right hand. :.. .Minister Lowell is to deliver an oration at the opening o;E the medical institute at Birmingham American visitors are burning home a month earlier than they otherwise would, on account of the coming election. ADDITIONAL NEWS. The estimates submitted by Inspector Ha worth to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs made the following allowances for the maintenance of Indian schools for the next fiscal vear: Forest Grove School, Oregon, 940,500; Genoa, Neb., $31,760; Lawrence, Kan., $62,230; Hampton, Vo., $25,250; Caiiise, Pa., $101,000; Chilocca, I. TM $36,125; Alaska, $25,000; schools in States and Territories, $116,900; transportation, $20,000; general educational purposes, buildings, etc., $790,950; construction and repairs, $75,000 Portraits of the wives of Presidents Tyler and Polk were hung in the green room of the White House last week Postmasters commissioned: John D. Adair, North Salem, Ind.; Wm. S. Moore, Meadville, Neb.; Albert M. Beldon, Commonwealth, Wis. The Bounds Type and Press Company, of Chicago, whose liabilities are $45,000, has made an assignment to Samuel D. Ward. It would appear that B. P. Bounds, by a lifetime of hard work, built up a prosperous business, which he sacrificed for one term as Public Printer at Washington.... A boat containing Gardiner's theatrical party capsized at Oshkosh, Wis., and all narrowly escaped drowning The Buffalo Glucose Company shipped two train-loads of corn to Chicago and realized a profit of 16 cents a bushel. Five hundred colored Masons of New England gathered at Boston last week and celebrated the centennial anniversary of the granting of an English warrant to the African lodge .... In a five-mile boat-race at Point of Pines, near Boston, Teemer defeated Ross by half a length. Ross was given a start of five seconds, and the stakes amounted to $2,000. The Tammanyites have made their nominations for city officers in New York. John Kelly made a speech, in which he said that Tammany would give Cleveland a "full, fair, and honorable support.".... Ex-Senator Thomas F. Grady was egged by a band of workingmen during a political meeting in Albany. Hogs are dying by wholesale of pleuropneumonia in Western Maryland, Gov. Hamilton having lost over one hundred. The disease has been spread by the casting of dead animals into the river. .... Mrs. Barbara Becht, of Louisville, arose from her bed to hunt for a cat. Her clothes took fire from a candle, and she was burned to death. Vernon Harcourt, the British Home Secretary, suggested to a company manufacturing explosives the necessity of guarding their warehouses at night. A reply was sent that the plan would cost $125,000 per annum, and asking that a duty be placed on foreign-made dynamite as a protection against American and German competition. , . . .Dynamiters attempted to blow up the Council Chamber at Salisbury, England. A number of window were shattered. Loss of trade being threatened by boats, which are delayed frequently because of low water, the Welland Canal officials propose feeding that dyke from the Grand Eiver whenever the lake level causes inconvenience On account of the recent seizure of the American schooner Island
t Belle by the custom collector at Gananoque, W j- a . 11. TT 11 TTtl
untano, me u. d. revenue cutter riuu overhauled the Canadian schooner Annie Falconer at Charlotte, and reported her at Washington for a fine of $500 because the captain had no manifest
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, let him be never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him in this to be no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to pick out its eyes. Seneca.
Over seven hundred different works have thus far been published in Germany on vegetarianism, in addition to a monthly magazine on the subject
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SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE.
Ammonia water is best for cleansing brushes. To freshen velvet hold the wrong sido ore boiling water; ' ? ; Wet mildewed fabrics With lemon juice and lay them in the sun. - A uan c here s s of Washoe valley, Nevada, has invented a novel method of preserving eggs for winter use. During the summer she breaks the eggs, pours the contents into bottles which are tightly corked and sealed, when they are placed in the celler, neck down. She claims the contents of the bottles come out as when put in. Thermometers are inexpensive, and every occupied room should have one. Fuel is often wasted by allowing the air to become too hot, and inmates catch cold by allowing the temperature to fall too low unawares. A thermometer is valuable in a fruit-room, and by keeping the temperature uniformly near freezing, decay by too much heat will be prevented, and freezing and spoiling by too low a tempera ture. A Cheap Wash for Outside Walls. A cheap wash for old brick walls and one that will last for years is prepared as follows : Make a good mixture of fresh lime, about as thick as thick syrup, and add about a twentieth its bulk of linseed oil while the wash is yet hot and about a sixteenth part of glue which has been dissolved in several times its bulk of hot water. Then, when cool, stir to a proper consistence for applying. This wash will adhere firmly. When painting is to be done, wash the wall well with crude petroleum. Work Basket. The hour-gla3s basket, made by fastening the bottoms of two wooden peach baskets firmly together, is much improved by a covering of cretonne or momie cloth, gathered slightly or plaited, and tacked to the top of each basket, one of 1 which becomes the bottom of the stand. The upper basket is lined "with deep pockets of the same, gathered and tied with ribbon bows. A false bottom of pasteboard covered with sateen completes lining, and a cover is made of a circular piece of thin board or doubled pasteboard, lined with sateen and covered with the outside material, gathered to a centre and supplied with a handle, made by fastening the flat sides of two very large wooden button moulds together, and covering them with cretonne. This should be sewed to the middle of the cover, as suspended buttons are sewed on, with the thread wound around several times, between the button and the foundation. A broad ribbon should be tied around the point where the baskets join, and a ruche of ribbon, or plaited cretonne, may be on the top and bottom. Such a basket will be found both useful and ornamental in a room, and if covered with figured Swiss, over light-colored silesia and decorated with lace or embroidery, it -will make a pretty baby's toilet basket, its depth giving it an advantage over the usual shallow baskets, as those who try it will testify. For the latter purpose, the cover may be dispensed with. Drinking in the Middle Ages. We are of the opinion that drinking had not in the middle ages reached anything like the disgnsting extreme at which we find it in the latter part of the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth century. Chaucer, it will be conceded, was an accurate painter of the contemporary manners. With the exception of Shakspeare no Englishman has surpassed him. Many of the characters in the "Canterbury Talesw get drunk, and misfortunes happen to them in consequence, but nothing is ever said to indicate that the poet had any sympathy with the gross form of voice. The same may be said of the Elizabethan dramatists. It is not until we reach the regin of Charles II. that we find writers of repute speaking of excess in drink as if it were no frailty, but rather a virtue This distorted view of things continued getting woise and worse until the days of our grandfathers. All eighteenth century literature is full of if. There was a print once so popular that it was found on the walls of cottages, as well as in bar parlors, which represented two compartments. In each was a man sitting. The first was labled "A Jolly Good Fellow;" he had a tankard of foaming beer beside him. The other had for an inscription, "A Muckworm," and represented a thin and careworn man making entries in a ledger. The inference to be drawn, of course, was that the man who cast up his accounts was infinitely inferior in the social scale to the boon companion who stupefied himself with beer. We imagine this was the common feeling , of the time, and that it continued in many classes down to the beginning of the present reign. We ourselves knew a farmer who had broken his ribs twice and an arm three times by falling off horseback when returning drunk from market. There are a lot of newspapermen in the world, who are continually pounding away at mothers-in-law. We would like to know what kind of looking creatures they would be if there had never been any mothers-in-law in the world, and then, too, there would bo an immense amount of pleasure in getting married, if wives had never had any mothers, wouldn't there ? We are down on the man who has no more sense than to be eternally abusing the good old ladies, who have so much to do with keeping the world in wives. Through Mail By experiments made at the Bavarian Museum a very simple and effective method of bleaching bones, to give them the appearance of ivory, has been discovered. After digesting the bones with ether or benzine, to remove the fat, they are thoroughly dried and immersed in a solution of phosphorus acid in water containing 1 per cent, of phosphoric anhydride. After a few hours they are removed from the solution, washed in water and dried, when thej will appear as indicated above. V He who sedulously attends, pointed ly asks, certainly speaks, coolly aifr ewers, and ceases when he has no morn to say, is in possession of some of thti best requisites of man. Latoaitr.
PITH AND POINT,
Gas-fixtures (for two years anyhow) The majority oi .GortgfessmeB. The man who hd lift musk in hie sole The, chap rho wears rubber boots. The Rev. Joseph Cook calls himself a pandenorninationalist. If he had had time Jo wotdd have used a longer word. There is a groat deal of billing and cooing, going on at the seaside. The principal part of the billing is being done by the aotelkeepers. "By-by, love, he murmured as he started down to the ofSice in the morning, and she did, to the extent of a $50 bonnet. He says "Good-morning now. Bartholdi's Statute of Liberty has eyes which measure six feet from corner to corner. And yet she isjnnable to see a fund large enough to complete her pedestal. "Do cats reason?" asks ft writer in natural history. We dont know whether they reason or not, but for pure, unadulterated argumentation they take the cake. Bur l ing ion Free Press. A hen's egg measuring 6i by 8i inches has been laid on the table of a Georgia editor. He proposes to keep it and let it ripen for the next dramatic combination that comes down that way. "How no you like Wagner's mnaic? asked Kosciusko Murphy of an Austin society lady. "Like it! I don't like it at all. I'd rather listen to one of Mozart's pauses than all the music Wagner ever wrote." "You ought to put a sign over that hatchway," said a policeman to a storekeeper, 'or someone may tumble into it." "Alt right," replied the merchant; and he tied one of his "Fall Opening" placards to the railing. "Pa, what is that youVe got?" "That is a peach-basket, my daughter." "Ain't it punning? Will you give it to me when yon get through with it?" "What do you want to do with it my dear?" "I want to use it for a thimble case for my little dolL" If there is anything that will make a njpm cordially hate himself, it is when he takes a walk about a mile to the post office to find that he has left his keys at home, and then on going back after them to find on opening the box that the only thing in it is a card notifying Mm that his box rent is due. Boston Post Biggies was feeling poorly "all ran down and no strength," he told his friend Smith. "Does yer ever take any stimilent, Mr. Biggins?" asked Smith. "No, "answered Biggnia, mournfully, "except sometimes just before goin'to bed." "Well, for my part, said Smith, decidedly, "I don't never want to take nothin' jest afore goin" to bed, for I goes right to sleep an loses all the good on it" "John," called the city editor to a reporter, as he came into the office, "there's some kind of a row going on around on the other side of the square from here." "Is that so? I didnt hear of it. Where is it?" "I don't know the exact location, but there's a big row of some kind on." "How do you know?" "Why, I saw all the policemen who belong in that neighborhood standing around on this side as I came up stairs." Merchant Traveler. A Timely Shower "I was mighty thankful for that rain we got yesterday." "Yes, it did the corn a world of good. How many acres have yon got planted in corn?" "IVe got no oorn planted this year at all. I wasn't thinking about crops." "Well, how can the rain benefit yon?" "You see I don't often get a decent dinner at home, as my wife says she can't cook in hot weather : but yesterday there was to be a church picnic, and she fixed up a lunch basket for the preacher's table, but it rained so that the picnic could not come off. To keep the preacher's lunch from spoiling we had it for dinner, and it was the best dinner I've had since we were married. There was no end to chicken, and jellies; and that sort of alleviations. Don't tell me that rain yesterday didn't do the country any good. It was the most refreshing shower we have had for years." "'Ear, ar! (You ought to be able to overhear . all that goes on," remarked the dominie, . gazing derisively at tho long ears of the patient ass. "I do," replied the patient ass. "Get on !" The dominie climbed upon the patient back, and, when his long legs were adjusted, he smote the patient ass with his umbrella, and said: "Get up!" "I will replied the patient assjsince you insist upon it." And 'then he "got up" his back in a sharp hump, and bucked the dominie over the long gray ears, clear through the osage-orange hedge into the guinea hen's nest on the other side. The patient animal reached for a thistle, and laughed a low, mournful laugh. 41 You bet your cassock," he murmured, "I over ear everything that goes on my back. Little pitchers have great ears, but their best holt lies in the projectile tissue of the baok-bone." And in all the pleasant meadow there came no sound save the soft sighing of the summer wind toying with the bend ing grasses, and the hushed breathing of a holy man scraping from his somber garments the debris of the long, too long, hoarded wealth of the guineahen s hidden nest Burlington Haw-
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An old and skilled New York physician, when interviewed on the hot wan ter craze, said : "It has long been need. It is an internal wash; nothing more o less. As such it is excellent An old trainer of prixe-fighters used to tell me about it before I had even heard of it elsewhere. He said he had cured everything from toothache to rheumatism" with it My lady patients often beg me to prescribe it for them, and I very of ten do so; sometimes because I th'nfc it likely to do good, and sometimes because I don't think it will do any harm. It is with some good qualities, as i is with the senses; they are incompre
hensible and inconceivable to such have them not.-- RochejaucaulL