Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 39, Bloomington, Monroe County, 29 November 1884 — Page 2

Blooraington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA, WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - rtJBUsmca

THE KEWS C03DE3$ED.

THE EAST.

Thb Craighton House and Brickett

Building; at Haverhill, Mass., were de

stroyed by fire. Several inmates of the

hotel escaped by tying bed-clotlring into a

rope, and by this means sliding to the

ground. Two girls lumped from a window.

one being fatally hurt and the other seri

ously, while a baby's life was saved by

throwing it, tied up in a fheet to a fire

man... .In the United States Circuit

Court, at New York, Judge Ship

man directed the jury to return a ver

dict for Secretary McCulloch in the action

brought by A. D. B. Lamar to recover

9110,000 for cotton confiscated during the wr. . . .Students at Harvard have begun an

effort to make attendance at morning chapel voluntary for men 21 years old. and op

tional with parents for students under that

age. The co-operation of Harvard graduates throughout the country will be in

voked. . . . Clergymen of various sects held a meeting at New Haven, Conn., and agreed

ito hold a congress of American churches in that city next May. Reports of heavy reductions in the number of operatives, and of fears that

many of the manufacturing interests con

cerned win close down indefinitely, come from Boston, Fall River, Pittsburgh, and other centers. The outlook for the winter is not a specially attractive one to the skilled working classes in the East. .. . A street-car dashed down the incline in Butler street, at Pittsburg, and jumping the track, ran on the sidewalk for' a block, when the horse? fell and the car passed over tfran, inflicting injuries which necessitated their being killed. The twenty-three passengers on board were badly bruised, two of them seriously. . . .A meeting of Boston merchants urged Congress to suspend the silver dollar coinage, to pass a bankruptcy law, and to effect as speedily as possible reciprocity with Mexico and Canada. . . . While being warmed by workmen, at Worcester, Ma6s, Atlas powder cartridges exploded, one of the men being killed, two injured, and all the windows in the vicinity wrecked. ...The United States dispatchboat Dolphin, built by John Boach, broke down on a trial trip off the ccast of Connecticut. A SKBlotrs drought prevails in New Hampshire. In Nashua scarcely any water can be obtained for household purposes. The sewerage of the city is affected in consequence of the scarcity of water, and scarlet fever has broken out The schools of the city have been ordered closed. . . . J. L. Granberry, a clerk in a wholesale house in Baltimore, lost $1,500 of his employer's money while on a spree. On fully recov

ering Ms equilibrium he was so conscience-stricken as to kill himself by severing an artery in his wrist New Hampshire experienced several further shocks of earthquake in various parts of the State on Nov. 22. Charles A. HiU ate a crow in Boston, in payment of an election bet. He ate it all except the bones. THE WEST. Michaeii H. Ds Toting, proprietor of the San Franc sco Chronicle, was shot in that city by Adolph Spreckels, a son of Clara Spreckels the Hawaiian sugar king,

on account of a recent article in the Chronicle respecting the affairs of the Hawaiian Commercial Sugar Company. The affair took place in the business office of the paper. Two shots were fired, the first lodging in De Young's left arm a little above the elbow and the second in his left shoulder. Both woun&i were slight, the bullets were soon removed, and De Young walked to his carriage and was driven home. Spreckels was promptly arrested and locked up for safe Keeping. The affray naturally calls to mind the tragic end of Charles De Young, a brother of M. H. De Young, four years ago, through the deadly aim and fatal execution of young Ealloch's pistol.... Proposals are solicited for the grading of fifty miles on the extension of the Vanderbilt line in Northwestern Nebraska, which will bring the road-bed to a point ninety miles south of Deadwood by July 15.... Dakota's new Capitol, at Bismarck, having been completed, Gov. Pierce has issued a proclamation, under the removal act, requiring all Territorial officers to be at Bismarck within1 thirty days. Jtjdgs Utt, in the Circuit Court at Dubuque, Iowa, has rendered a decision sustaining the defendants demurrers to a peti-

nop by tne citizens Jbeague for an injunction to restrain certain saloon-keepers from selling liquor, on the ground that such sale was a nuisance and opposed to the State law. In his decision: Judge Utt holds that under the prohibitory law there must be a conviction before an injunction can issue, and that to grant the peti

tion woTua oe jo deprive tne aefenaants of the right of trial by jury Maurice M. Despres, born at Tamblaine, France, Aug. 15, 1781, and consequently 103 years of age, has just died in Chicago, la his youth and early manhood he was an eye-witness of many of the stirring scenes during and subsequent to the French Revolution. . . .Dawid Eastman, of Harlem, Winnebago County, HI., lost a $5,000 farm by betting on Blaine, and long after election day refused an offer of $400 to draw the wager. A young lady of Cairo is said to have won a husband by betting on Cleveland. . . .Between 1,500 and 1,800 men have been thrown out of employment by the closing down of the North Chicago Boiling Mill Company's mills at South Chicago.... Workmen boring for natural gas at Findlay, Ohio, struck a vein of crude petroleum at a depth of. 718 feet Depkessioh in the sugar trade has resulted in the serious embarrassment of the Belcher Sugar Befining Company of St Louis, one of the oldest and best-known firms connected with the sugar interest in this country. Its total indebtedness is ' reported at $650,000. Thb total vote of Dakota in 1882 was 45,185, indicating a population of 236,000. The vote this year indicates 205,000 in Sooth and 170,000 in North Dakota,or 420,000 in the whole Territory, an increase of 45 per cent in two years. . . .Gas from the well being drilled on the Pole farm near Cleveland, Ohio, ignited, destroying the rig and burning two men severely. The flame mounted upward forty feet, illuminating the surrounding country Three children of John Boeder perished by fire in his farm-house near Yasstfr. Mich., while the parents were at work in the fields. ... .A three-days' convention of Christian workers, under direction of Mr. Moody, was held at Detroit. . . .The grain commission firm of Grier Brothers, of St. Louis, has failed. , A TKBBIBLE disease is raging in the Kansas Penitentiary, where 800 prisoners are

confined. The disease is pronounced malignant typhoid fever by physicians who have investigated it. Six convicts are sick and ten have already died. Th e penitentiary has been turned into a gref it hospital, many of the convicts being emplod as nurses arid in burying the dead.;.. The assignment of B. C. Winston & Co, y hardwood dealers at St Paul, with liabilities of $80,000, was directly caused by the death of S. R. Stimson, the junior partner. .... The trial of Daniel Holcomb, at Jackson, Mich., for the murder of tiie Crouch family, has been indefinitely postponed on account of the death of Frank E. Hewlett, Prosecuting Attorney A factory at Youngstown, Ohio, is engaged in making nickel-plated shingles for the New Orleans Exposition .... TJie Grand Opera House, St. Louis, Mo., was: destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $175,000. It was insured for $150,000 The Superintendent of Public Instruction for Dakota reEorts 50,000 children enrolled in the schools ist summer.

rHE SOUTH.

Tee strange disease reported ts prevailing in Virginia also exists in Kentucky and West Virginia, where whole families have been swept away, and thirty or more new graves are seen in a small cemetery. The people call it cholera, for wan" of a better name, and the malady upholds its dreadful title, victims, upon being seized, seldom living longer than twenty-four hours. It is said the scourge affected ma jorities in some precincts at the recent election. Numerous corpses have been left unburied, and the stench from the decaying carcasses of animals pollutes the air. Flour, corn, and meal are needed to succor tha starving population, and, unless rain falls, annihilation may be anticipated. Acute typhoid dysentery is the medical name given to the fatal scourge which has recently broken out in the westerr. portions of Virginia. One hundred and fifty deaths have occurred in Wise County alone San Antonio (Tex.) telegram: Lieut. Eggleston, who was ordered in pursuit of the Apaches who raided Presidio County, telegraphed the result of his scouting to Gen. Stanley. Farmer Petty was shot tjiree times in the head, and his wife had been outraged and murdered. Three children wero found butchered. The Indians were trailed to where they crossed the BioGrande into Mexico. Eggleston gave up the pursuit at the river, as the

reciprocal treaty for the crossing cf troops has expired.

Two hunters found the dead body of

a young and pretty woman, neatly dressed,

in Baltimore Couxty, Md. In her arms was

a baby, in an unconscious condirion, but nothing was found to show the identity of the mother. A ring on her finger boie the inscription, "Mizpah, May 1, 1883," o the back of her gold watch were tha words:

IU Jill i JJUlbl? HI tilt) pocket of her gown was $32. An alligator ten feet in length, which -for

years has been the terror of Jefferson County, Arkansas, was last week killed with a shot-gun, by Miss Dottie L. Steck, of Bellwood, Pa.

trict, has served a notice of cont est upon Congressman Steele, bis Republican competitor, and has already obtained a recount of the vote of Howard County.. .Whitelaw lleid deems it necessary to write to a Rochester newsaper that he declines to be a candidate for the United States Senate. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean telegraphs that journal as follows: A gentleman who saw Gov. Cleveland several times last week, and talked with him at length on the sabject of civil service, returned to Washington to-night, and says the next President's policy will work no harm to public interests, whatever it may do to individuals. Gov. Cleveland frankly said he should make no removals lor political reasons, except so far as to secure an administration that would work harmoniously. No man in any subordinate position need fear displacement if he doen his work faithfully. But the whole question of removal and appointment will be subjected to the simple employment of the spy system to tell who shall stay and who shall go. There will beat least one Democrat in every branch and office of the Government, It will be the duty of this Democratic monitor to report as to the promptness, industry, capability and faithfulness of Republican officials, and removals will follow in every case where an adverse report is made. A special correspondent of the Chicago Times telegraphs the following from New

Orleans: Tho excitement reported among the negroes in Cieorgia South Carolina, Tennessee, and other Southern States, In consequence of a lielief that the Democratic administration means a re-establishment of slavery does not exist in Louisiana. In interviews held with them nearly aU the negro leaders here express their belief that the election of Cleveland will break up race lines and be to the beuefit and advantage of their race. Kx-Gov. Pinch back, now Surveyor of the Port, and the most prominent colored man in the State, declared that while he voted for Blaine, and while he would have been personally benefited by hi success, he thought the election of Cleveland would do more to destroy race prejudice than ten thousand civilrights bills, and that it -would result in a political revolution that would completely destroy the color line and develop new parties composed equally of whites and blacks. A number of other prominent colored leaders are reported by the Times correspondent as having expressed similar views. The total vote of California was 193,738. Blaine received 100,816; Cleveland, 88,307; St. John, 2,610; Butler, 1,975, Blaine's plurality is 12,500.... Official vote of" Virginia: Cleveland, 146,189; Blaine, 138,474, Cleveland's majority, 7,715 A Columbia dispatch says the State Board of Canvassers have completed the tabulation of the vote in South Carolina for Presidential electors. The highest Democratic elector received 69,890 votes, and the lowest 69,764. The highest Republican elector received 21,733 votes, and the lowest 21,551.... Blaine's plurality in Iowa is 19.803. St.

I John received only 2,000 votes.

WASIIIXCiTOX. The Garfield Statue Committee, consisting of Secretary Lincoln, Senator Sherman, and Gen. Barnett, of Cleveland, have decided upon a site for the statue to be erected by the Army of the Cumberland. The place fixed is the circle at the point where Maryland avenue reaches the Capitol grounds westward from the building. According to the annual report of thd Third Assistant Postmaster General, the total value of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, postal-cards, etc., issued dining the year was $41,515,877 a decrease of $1,394,442 as compared with the year previous. . . . Col. C. B. Corkhill, one of the attorneys in the Guiteau case, was assaulted by Maj. Gen. Sprigg Carroll in Washington. The former is counsel for the latter's wife in a divorce suit. Some one has taken pains to ascertain from the army register that during President Cleveland's tenn there will be retired Gens. Hancock, Pope,Augur, Sackett, Holabird, and Murray. 1

general:

POLITICAL. The official majority for Cleveland in West Virginia is 4,203 Complete returns from Michigan show a plurality for Blaine af 2,839. The St John vote is 18,163. . . . Official vote of Minnesota: Blaine, 111,923; Cleveland, 70,144; St. John, 4,691; Butler, 3,587. It is stated that the alleged shortage of the Republican National Committee reached $68,000, instead of the much larger sum at firfet reported, and that Chairman Jones and Mr. Elkins paid it out of their own pockets and put the committee out of debt The total amount received by the Democratic National Committee during the campaign is said to $333,000 The Presidentelect, in assuring an interviewer that the negroes of the South could be robbed of no rights acquired by the war, remarked that the efforts of the Democracy to benefit the whole people would be rendered, easier if mischievous croaking should cease. AiaAKY (N. Y.) special: The State Board of Canvassers has completed its labors and adjourned. The proceedings throughout the sessions were harmonious and without a ripple of excitement.. No questions arose that were not easily, properly, and satisfactorily settled. The technical errors in several of the counties were rectified by general consent, and the best of feeling prevailed among the members of the board. The result as declared verifies the official figures heretofore published, and shows them to have been remarkably accurate. The footings of the tables are as follows: Highest Democratic elector, Priest 563,154 Highest Republican elector, Carson. 662,005 Plurality 1,149 Lowest Democratic elector, Ottendorfer. .. 563,048 Lowest Bepublican elector Harris. 561,971 Plurality 1,077 Highest Prohibition elector, Miller 25,006 Lowest Prohibition elector, Ellsworth. . . . 24,948 Highest Butler elector, O'Dozmell. 17,004 Lowest Butler elector, Campbell 16,751 Official vote of North Carolina: Cleveland, 142,905; Blaine, 125,068; St. John, 448 Returns to the Secretary of State show the vote in Georgia to be: Cleveland, 94.567 , Blaine, 47,964; Butler, 125; St. John, 184 Forty -four counties in Dakota give Gilford for Congress 40,000 majority, with thirty-five counties to, hear from. His majority will reach 9,000. MosTOOH:ax.(Ala.) dispatch: The business men of Montgomery this evening passed resolutions protesting aainst the "unfair, untruthful and partisan statements" in several papers in thf North in reference to the Southern people. Southern white people, the resolutions say, propose to protect the negro in all his 'rights. fi We loci not back to Appomattox, b it forward to the great future that awaits our common union." M. H. Kidb, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Eleventh Indiana Dis-

Ah Kee, a Chinaman, who shipped on a vessel at Calcutta and deserted at New York, has been ordered by a United States Commissioner to leave the country. A Boston" ship the Alert bound from New York for Shanghai, and carrying 400,000 gallons of4 kerosene oil, was struck by lightning near Pernambuco and burned The officers and crew were saved. At most of the leading business centers throughout the country, as reported in special telegrams to Bradsircet's (New York), last week, there has been a slight

gain in the demand for staple articles, more noticeably for dry goods. This improvement is chiefly noticeable, however, by comparison with the extreme dullness which immediately preceded and followed the Presidential election, for there are yet no visible evidences of a real or widespread increase in the demand for or shipment of goods. The tendency of prices of most staples continues downward, but there are some exceptions. In print cloths in New England the impression exists that bottom prices have been touched, and that low stocks warrant more firmness. Breadstuffs have declined almost steadily. Full, immediate, and prospective supplies of wheat at home and abroad check export ' purchases. Phenomenally low prices prevent extensive short sales, and no advances can be secured on that basis. British stocks are smaller than last year, but ours are larger. Hog products have been cheaper, in sympathy with corn and owing to unexpectedly free receipts of of hogs. The relative cheapness of corn, as compared with the price at which hogs are selling, should encourage the fanners to ship fewer hogs until after fattening them at least to last year's average of weight. Theke were 248 failures in the United -States and twenty-nine in Canada during the week a total increase of forty-one over the week previous. The increase is mostly in the "Western and Southern States. . . .Oliver Bateman, who murdered and outraged the little McLaughlin girls, was hanged at Savannah, Mo. John Bush (colored) was executed at Lexington, Ky., for murder committed "six years ago Congressman Tucker, of Lynchburg, Vs., has been appointed guardian of the minor children of the late President Garfield, and will have control of all the Garfield property in Virginia. . . .The Canadian Government has decided not to take part in the New Orleans Exposition, for lack of time to prepare exhibits. Eleven hundred Italian laborers have sailed for Italy from New York. They have made money here and go back to enjoy it, where living is cheaper, . . .Two men started in a sloop from Victoria, British Columbia, with a cargo of nineteen Chinese, who were to be smuggled into Washington Territory, but all were drowned.

The panic in Paris over the prevalence of cholera is subsiding as the disease gradually disappears Henry George, the land refonn agitator, proposes to visit the Isle of Skye and address the crofters on their land troubles. . . .The Radicals attack Gladstone for compromising with his political opponents on penoing questions in Parliament It is said that Gladstone will accept a peerage after the passage of the franchise bill The British Government proposes to borrow 25,000, 000 for the restoration of the navy It is reported that Germany proposes to annex' several islands in the Pacific Ocean,, as well as a part of New Guinea. ADDITIONAL NEWS A nationatj banking institution has been established at Pekin, half the capital and half the Directors being foreigners. The democratic lenders at Washington propose for the Cleveland inaugural procession a battalion of five hundred veterans of the civil war from every State in the Union, with General Hancock as chief marshal, his staif to be selected in equal numbers from the leaders in the great struggle. Just before the recent election, Gen. AV. T. Sherman, in a public speech at St, Louis, accused Jeff Davis of ulterior motives touching the rebellion, having seen a letter from Davis' pen supporting his charge. To this Davis replies that no such paper was ever written by him, and invites Sherman to make it public, otherwise he must stand convicted of slander and a breach of truth. To reporters at St. Louis Gen. Sherman said that now the matter was a question between gentlemen, and would be settled without the intervention of the press Clearing-house exchanges last week $800,708,500 were $42,906,204 greater than for the previous week; but, compared with the corresponding week in 1883, the falling off amounts to $159,959,463. A peominent ex-Union officer in Baltimoro has in his possession a remarkable letter in reference to the assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. The letter is from an intimate friend and companion of Booth. It goes on to say that Booth did not assassinate the President for any political reasons whatever. But, on the" contrary, it was' simply to wreak private vengeance. It appears that Booth went to Mr. Lincoln and begged him to pardon his friend, ('apt. John Yates Bcall, who was condemned to be shot as a Confederate spy. Mr. Lincoln

was inexorable, but after Booth bad gone down on his knees and bathed Mr. Lincoln's hand with tears and kissed it, he finally relented and promised Booth to pardon Capt. Beali. Booth left, well satisfied with the result of his mission, but when he mad, a day or two afterward, that his friend had been shot, he became wild with rage and concocted his scheme of assassination, which he afterward carried out.

Keab Gambier, Ohio, Mrs. Wclka, a spiritualist, grew ill, refused to 6ee a physician, but submitted to treatment by a "medium," named Burrows, who alleged that the woman was afflicted by devils, to expel whom he beat her cruelly with a stick, resulting in her death. Burrows then said the demons had entered his wife, whom he thrashed severely, but not fatally. Burrows' sanity will be tested, and it found to be of sound mind, he will be tried for homicide. At Lloydsville, Ohio, a Democratic jollification was held, at which an old anvil was used as a cannon. While it was being loaded a boy lighted a roman candle, ths sparks from which set fire to the powder, which was in a heavy box, and an explosion resulted, by which Orvilie Bcwley, William Barnes, and Joseph Loper were fatally injured, and two boys named Daniels and Donner dingerously hurt.... A large crowd of tbe anti-liquor element at Bladenburg, Knox County, Ohio, made an attack on a saloon man named Chapin. The proprietor was struck on the head by stones and his skull fractured. All the liquor was thrown into the streets, and when physicians arrived Chapin was dead The directors of the Northwestern Road declared the regular dividend of 2 per cent, quarterly on preferred stock and 3A per cent, semi-annual on common David L. Wells, of Milwaukee, Wis., one of the most prominent railroad builders of the Northwest, is dead The store of the Chicago Paper Company, ou Monroe street, was destroved by fire. The loss is estimatad at $i00,000. Official vote of Illinois: Blaine, 337,481 ; Cleveland, 312,355 ; St. John, 12,074; Butler, 10,910. Blaine's plurality, 25,126. The vote of West Virginia, as officially canvassed, is as follows: Blaine electors, 63,096; Cleveland electors, 67,317; St. John electors, 939 ; Butler electors, 810. Cleveland's plurality, 4,221.

FttRlEICii.

Bismarck has a new project for bettering the condition of the workingmen and counteracting the influence of the Socialists among them. Ha proposes the establishment of trade committees in ail the German manufacturing centers, with a view to regulating the labor supply according to the demand, and ascertaining where labor con be best employed Bradlaugh has opened out en Gladstone in his most savage style, denouncing: the Government and accusing it of having betiayed its trust by meekly surrendering to the Lords while pretending to have won a practical victory. . , . In the Congo Conference, in session at Berlin, John A. Kasson, the American Minister to Germany, announced that Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, had been appointed technical delegate to the conference for America. .. .The German Bcichstag was opened Nov, 20, with the usual formalities. The Emperor, in the course of his speech, spoke of the continued accord between Germany and France. Peace negotiations between France and China have been suspended, and a couple of Chinese ironclads will be sent to force the French blockade ot Formosa. Admiral Courbet, of the French forces remains at Kelung, unable to advance. In the celebrated Adams-Coleridge libel suit at London, the jury returned a verdict of 3,000 for the plaintiff, which th6 court overruled and gave a verdict for the defendant Small-pox is spreading rapidly among the English and Egyptians at Dongola, a:ad interferes with Gen. Wolseley's expedition

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Fanny Efssler's life,. "Do I remember Fanny Elssler?" said George W. Smith, the veteran ballet-master, repeating the question of a reporter. wI)o I remember her? Friend " and a far-off look came into the eyes of tho old man 4no one who ever knew Fanny Elssler could forget her. She was the queen the matchless queen of tho ballet. The world is full of imitations, but there never was but one Elssler. I first met her in the fall of 1839. Fresh from her triumphs in Paris she had come with the Chevalier Wyckoff to kick her way into the American heart. A two weeks' engagement in Now York, at the old Park Theatre, at a salary of $500 a night, prepared her for a tremendous ova ion in Philadelphia. And she got it, too. She opened at the old Chestnut Street Theatre, on Chestnut, above Sixth, on the site where Rockhill and Wilson's clothing house stood for so many years. It was my second season at the Chestnut. Between the acts I used to entertain the audience wih exhibitions of jig and fancy dancing "Elssler immediately engaged me fpr her company. She had previously contracted with the French Vallie sisters, who had been living in Philadelphia, and these charming dancers, with myself and Louis Aylwain, the ballet-master, who, by the way, was a brother of Barry Sullivan, and Mile. Jardienne, who came over with her from Paris, formed the company which afterward stormed the country. "I shall never forget the wonderful form and superb carriage of that woman. Educated in the Academie Royal, under such masters as Coralli. Barbiere, and Pierofc, she was the embodiment of all that was graceful, beautiful, ravishing. She opened herein La Tarantula. Her success was instan

taneous. People paid fabulous prices to see her. She made the fortune of tbe theatre in a week. Here, for the first time in America, she danced 'La Gypsy the wonderfully pretty ballet from which the 'Bohemian Girl' was afterward taken, and followed her success with 'Natalie La Sylphide and La Bayadere' all unwritten poems that showed her art to perfection. We were in Cuba when Elssler received information of the death of her father in Vienna. We had been dancing at the Theatre Tacon, Havana. She chartered a Spanish steamer and started at once for New York. It was the first Spanish steamer that ever sailed between those ports. Finding no vessel ready to sail the hartbroken danseuse hurried to Boston, whete, the 16th of August, 1842, she sailed on the Caledonia for Europe." "You remember the dates well," said the reporter. . 4,Yes,,? replied the old dancing-master, "I have cause to. The date was engraved on a gold pencil she gave me as she said farewell. I stood on the pier watching the ship as it sailed away. She waved a last adieu. I never saw her again. It was her last and only visit to America." A Word About Disinl'ectants There are many kinds of disinfactants Known, and sold to the public at varying prices, some valuable, others entirely worthless, as disinfectants. Every one is familiar with bleaohingpowder, which was formerly (and is still to a considerable oxtent) so much used. It is very effectual, owing to the chlorine gas which it freely gives off when exposed to the atmosphere, or moistened with dilute acids, such as yinegar. Charcoal, too, is. well known as a disinfectant, and as a powerful deodorant. We may hfere remark that a deodorant simply disguises the bad smell without destroying the poison which it may eontain, and in this respect differs from a true disinfectant. Of all known disinfectants, carbolic acid is now generally admitted to be the most efficacious, and it is the basis of most of the disinfecting agents now sold. The acid is too powerful to be used alone, and is therefore generally mixed with 80 or 90 per cent, of some other substance not possessed of disinfecting properties. Sometimes the bisulphites of lime and magnesia are added, and these substances are themselves possessed of disinfecting properties; but more generally chalk or sand is used; or the acid

is diluted witii water. A small portion of the mixture sprinkled in water-closets and other places where decomposing matter is allowed to re

main will diminish, if not entirely remove, the chances of contagion, and sweeten and purify the atmosphere. Although carbolic acid is so efficacious, there are some who object to its use. It smells rather strongly, and many persons are thereby prevented from using it. It is a pity on this account to be robbed of it advantages; and such persons would do well to try and educate themselves to the smell. Moreover, it is better to breathe an unpleasant and pure atmosphere than a pleasant but unhealthy and dangerous. The smell of pure carbolic is much more easily borne than that of crude carbolic; and we would recommend the use of the purest cabolic procurable, diluted with

80 or 90 per cent, of water, or mixed with the same percentage of precipitated chalk. It is difficult lor the chemist, trained and accustomed to the offensive and unwholesome smells in the laboratory, to understand how any person can retain , a strong dislike to the comparatively sweet smell of carbolic acid. Cawsell's Family Magazine. Tiie Difference in Price. A man went into a store on Chatham street, New York, to buy an umbrella. The proprietor showed him two kinds of umbrellas, which looked very much alike, one of which was worth a dollar, and the other a dollar and a half. After the purchaser had examined them very critically, he said : "I can't see any difference between these umbrellas. What's the difference, anyhow?" "Haluf a tollar," responded the proprietor. Texas Sif tings.

John Van Wert, of White Lake, New York, was stung by a hornet at the base of the brain, and since that time has been blind and helpless. ' If you wish to remove avarice you must remove the mother luxury. Cicero.

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE Black satin, with a small spray embroidered in one corner and a bright ribbon put on, diagonally with coral stitches, makes a . nice pin-cushion. Finish tho edgsr wift. cord or chenille to match the ribbon. A cushion may be made of half black and half pink satin, with each piode embroidered or painted. One with corner turned back, showing a painted spray underneath, is pretty. An experienced buyer of silks says that a good test to secure one from being deceived in the quality of blaek silk is to pinch a specimen on the bias and afterward pull it in an opposite direction. If the crease made by the pinch looks like s similar fold in a piece of writing paper, reject the piece unhesitatingly On the contrary, if the mark smootns out and is hardly distinguishable, it is safe to purchase. Snow-balls which have been used for embroidery designs, are given a more natural appearance this season by making the blossoms of bits of ribbon. A foundation stuffed enough to raise it a full half inch in the center is first made. Two pieces ot very narrow gr os-grain ribbon three-quarters ef an inch in length, and notched on the ends, are crossed and fastened in the center with a stitch of yellow silk to this stuffed foundation, and represent the blossom petals; these are tacked on quite close together, until the foundation is entirely covered. Worked in this way, the snow-ball is ene of the easiest flowers to form that can be used. "John's Wipe," in the Philadelphia Tribune and Farmer tells how she made a novel and effective frame for a chromo card, hardly worth the expense of a frame yet too pretty to throw a way. She sawed a lath in strips, two ten inches long, and two fourteen inches long, and covered them neatly with some black velvet she had in the house, sucuring the edges on the 'back by a stout thread crossing back and forth, and leaving half an inch at the end uncovered. The four sticks were then fastened together with screws, leaving the ends to project two inches beyond the picture. Then she took, white oak acorns the children had gathered, and with gold paint gilded a quantity of these and their cups, fastening the acorns in place with a drop of glue. On each corner of the frame, where the screws were visible, and also on the center of each velvet-covered stick, she arranged a group of acorns and saucers, tome of them gilded and others in their natural, rich brown state, securing them firmly to the velvet by means of glue, and now and then a skillful stitch where the brown and gold stems were not disposed to keep

lath were then gilded, and the picture fastened in place. She characterizes it as "an odd but really elegant wall ornament." Who Struck Billy Patterson I I did! I am old man now, and the sands of life are nearly run, and I cannot be far distant from that traveler whence no bourne returns, and I have decided to make a clean breast of the whole matter, especially as nothing further is be gained by lying. Do you happen to have a quid pro quo about you? Thanks. Yes, I struck Billy Patterson ! V You see we were boys together, him and me. We went to the same district school in the back woods of Troy, New York, and we both loved the same girl; her name was Helen, too; no, it wks Helen Jones, come to think' of it. We swapped chewing-gum and pocketknives, and played hookey at recess.

I loved Bill like a brother. You know how brothers generally love each other. I was the very boy history tells about who gave his brother the brown side of a russet apple and said : "Bite bigger, Billy." I meant it sarcastic like. Billy didn't bite any bigger because he couldn't; he got away with tho whole apple at the first mouthful. Strange what large aches from little oak-horns grow. Billy and me quarreled. He said niy skull wasn't any thicker than a sheet of brown paper; I told him it : t was as thick as his, and thicker too; he threw a paper wad that hit the master. Then he said I done it! Then I turned even a worm will turn and I wasn't no worm and yelled that his sister had red hair! To my dying day, T shall never forget the look he gave me. It was full of concentrated lie; he squinted and that made it worse. It hit me on the left shoulder, and thrilled my being, then it glanced into my bqpts. (This is a figure of speech. I was barefoot.) I struck him then in self-defense. It was a hard whack just behind the ear, and I rather guess Bill saw more stars than he had names for in his astronomy. I heard the master say in a voice of thunder : "Who struck Billy Patterson?" I held up my hand. The master told me to rise. I rose. Ther;, with the unblushing effrontery of youth, and a

glance of malignant triumph at the sniffling Billy, I answer3cl in the language of history : "I cannot tell a lie, sir; I don't know." This late confession is hastened by the article in a recent issue, which assumes that Billy Patterson was baldha Patkan, a sun-god of some ancient order. Billy might have looked like a sun-flower with his carroty top-knot, , but he noted like a son of a gun. and hadn't the first principle of evon a heathen god. This is his true story that I'm tolling now, so help me John Rogers, and the oldest inhabitants of Troy can vouch fc it. I never knew what become of Billy. M Quad. A Journalist with a Big "J." Ho walked into a Detroit hat store and put down a somewhat used up tile and said : "I want a now hat.w Tho clerk looked into the hat and saw it marked "Chicago Gi," so he picked out a new one of tho so mo size, "Oh, that won t do, you know," said the big "J." "Give me a 7. My head has swelled since I came to Detroit."Free Press. 1

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