Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 40, Bloomington, Monroe County, 6 December 1884 — Page 2

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At the Erie railway election the ParkerMills interest Toted on $40,000,000 of stock and bonds,and the English party showed np half that amount. John King was chosen president, and Bird W. Spencer resigned as treasurer. It is announced that salaries in the general offices will be reduced 25 to 50 per cent, with outs in all the departments. President-elect Cleveland ate his Thanksgiving dinner at the Executive Mansion in Albany. There were present only these: Ber. W. N. Cleveland, of Ifarestport, Oneida County, a brother of Gov. Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hoyt, of FayetteviHe, the latter Gov. Cleveland's sister; Miss JL E. Cleveland another sister, and Mr. and Mrs X. G. Yeoman, of Wayne County, the latter being also a sister of the Governor. DXPOSITOB8 in the Middletown (N..Y.) t National Bank found the doors of that institution closed the other morning. The President; Thomas King, had accepted without security heay drafts by Benjamin I. Brown a Western grain-dealer, who has since made an assignment. These advances were made without the knowledge of the Directors, of whom Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska, is one. The bank's capital was $200,000, its surplus $115,000, and the ex tent of its loss is unknown. Wages have been reduced 8 per cent at the Bigelow Carpet Company's factory, Clinton, Mass.- The company employs nearly 1,000 hands. There is a perceptibly better feeling among Pittsburgh iron men, caused by the receipt of several large orders, and the promise of more to tolly shortly. . . . .Two men digging at Dafiville, Pa., unearthed a box containing ,47,000 in coin.

'JTAUS WiliSr Db. John Maxweli, of Springfield, Ohio, gave his four children a mixture of aconite and chloroform, wrapped their faces in cloths saturated with the poison, and placed them on a bed. Then he took a similar dose, and made the same preparations for death. When Mrs. Maxwell returned she found one of the little ones dead and the others unconscidhs, two of them ying within a few hours. The Doctor revived, and has been imprisoned.. He says he was tired of living, and wanted. the childrrn to go with him.... Another company of Oklahoma raiders is ' said to be forming at Emporia, Kan., with the intention of crossing the border at Hunnewell Chief Bushyhead has vetoed the bill recently passed by the Cherokee Council to exclude all white people from the nation. Aseposz reaches Billings, Montana that Indian Agent Armstrong, CoL Blake, and others have been endeavoring to secure from the Crow Indians, for a land syndicate, a lease of 3,000,000 acres of their reservation for ten years at 1 cent per acre per annum. This scheme, if perfected, will, it is alleged, rob thousands of their homes, . , . Another "last spike" was driven the other day, and the country uow has four anscontinental lines. The latest add-on was farmed by the connection at B-antmgton, Ore., of the Oregon Bailway an-d Navigation Company's system with the gon Short lane of the Union PacificA National Convex01 f cattle growers was held at Chiyg week and was largely atn4H, A National Association was formed, an committee appointed to attend the St Tttnris oonvention with a view to bringing, body under the provisions 0f the ou-ganixatteo. Besolutions were oAffnted indorsing the work of the Bureau

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Horace A Hurlbut, a retired druggist of that city, receiver of the Times newspaper and of the rents fonits real estate. The receiver is not to interfere, however, with the present management of the paper. Ax San Bafael, CaL. a buggy, containing six persons, was struck by a locomotive at a crossing "two were lolled, one fatally injured, and the fourth having an arm broken. . . . .Gapfc. David L. Payne, the well-known invader of Oklahoma, died suddenly while breakfuting at Wellington, Kan.

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la regard to the plague prevalent in Southwest Virginia, a telegram from Lynchburg says: The latest advices concerning the epidemic in Wise, Lee, Dickinson, and Buchanan Counties are heartrending. On . Guests Biver, Wise County, ' within a J radius of four miles are thirty cases of rdfr the (Msease. In one instance the father, mother, and six children died. Many persons die for want of attention. Business is suspended, all being concerned with the sick and dying. Six persons were buried in one graveyard in one day. The disease

assuming a milder form m some localities. Not less than 175 of the best citizens of Wise County alone have died. Eighteen masked citizens of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, took from a Deputy Sheriff and strung up a colored burglar named George Briscoe, who had repeatedly been warned to leave the neighborhood Abe Frazier (colored) was hanged at Warren, Bradley County, Ark.t for the murder of Lewis Davis (colored), two years ago. On the gallows he protested his innocence A fire at Jacksonville, Fla., consumed an elevator andonill and did other damage to the total extent of $60,000. Two 7BSX0HX trains on the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad collided near Hennxng's Station, Term., killing three train hands outright, fatally injuring three others, and causing a general wreck Two sisters, Georgiana and Ellen Conway, shot Jack Logan and J. Devonshire in New Orleans for leading them astray. The latter was not injured, but Logan is in the hospital. . . .Whole families are dying in Martin and adjacent counties, Kentucky, victims of the prevailing plague. . . .Seven men were killed at a boiler explosion near Eligabethtown, Ky.

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party, was strongly, indorsed for one of the vacant second lieutenancies, but will be disappointed. The places were filled last week try others, one being the stepson of Attorney General Brewster. It is reported in Washington that a plan Ms been agreed upon by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Flui

ds Adams representing the Union Pacific, and Secretary McCalloch, which seeks to adjust the difficulties between the Central and Union Pacific and the Government. The plan is said to resemble in its general nature Senator Gotland's Central Pacific proposition at the last session. A keobo named Frank Casey was hanged at Little Bock, Ark., for the brutal murder, in October last, of an inoffensive young white man named Charles Watson. He confessed the crime. The whisky interest will evidently renew its efforts for an extension of the bonded period. Representative Phil Thompson, of Kentucky, is named for Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

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Official figures of the recent election; Virginia Cleveland, 145497 ; Blaine, 139,356; Cleveland'! plurality, 6,141. Ne-

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trade is at a Bta idstill, cholera is raging, the treasury is bnJoiipt, and a revolution is impending.C hina will continue the war against France , and will sectjre 15,000 re-enforcements. Premier Ferry has aban doned all hopes of i a successful issue of the mediation between China and France.

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An attack was made on the Bev. Dr. Ball's house at Buff&lo Sunday night. The missiles usete"were lumps of coal, windows bepfcij! wrecked and the inmates frightened. - . yi i

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braska Bkiine, 76,877: Cleveland, 54,344; U alld t rep0rts that that country will receive St. John, 2,859; Blaine's plurality, 22,533 .a - . A 4 . m A KAntn-IniAVAl-l fta.THTj mlimQ. lts supplies of wheat from Russia, and he

118,674; Butler, 1,665; St John, 3,106; laterality for Cleveland, 34,083. New JerseyCleveland, 127,784; Blaine, 123,42; St John, 6,156; Butler, 3,494; Cleveland's plurality. 4,352. Iowa Blaine, 197,08np; Cleveland, 177,286; St John, 1,564; plurality for Blaine 19,803 A dispatch frfom Indianapdlis says, "the State Boarjp of Canvsrsers has not yet connpleted the tfork of tabulating the f vote of Indiana on President. The returns from Daviess and Warren Countis were returned, the Clerks having omffited the seals from them. Without these wo counties, whose pluralities about oflfeef t each other, Blaine received 233,783 afhd Cleveland 243,512; Cleveland's; plurality 9,729. The votes for Butler and St John were not' tabulated." f Senator Coxgetr, of Wtichigan will re-, sign his seat in the Senate; the latter part of December to. accept a ju&icial appointment at Washington. The Alabama Legislature has reelected James L. P?gh to the United States Senate. He received the unanimous vote in the House and idl but one in the Senate. . Revised and official fijnres of the vote of Indiana show that Cleveland polled 244,992; Blaine, 238,480; ButV 8,716; St John, 3,078; Cleveland's pluraj ; 6,512.... The official vote of Wif icons, for the several Presidential candiclates; as as follows: Blaine. 161,147; fveland, 146,. 454; St John, 7,6: Bufler, 4,597; Blaine's plurality. 14,693 As officially declared, tfeo vote of Maine is as follows: Highest nfunher of votes received by Blaine n lectors, 72,209; 3,953; Cleveland, v 52,140; Butler, St John, 2.160; fine's plurality, 20,069 Following is) the official vote of Oregon: Blaine, 26.852K Cleveland, 24,593; Butler, 723; St John, 48; i Blaine'splurality, 2,259. ) ) Washinotok cbrresi&oprdents aver that two men are certain toAma part of President-elect Clevelandrs Cabinet Senator Bayard, as Secretary )pi State, and Senator Garland, as AUorv& General and that to them thejV Chief Magistrate will look mamlxfcH advice in shaping the policy of his adminiBlzation A grand banJuet, t"4?sred by leading Philadelphia Jemots, has been declined by Gov. Cleveland. . a.'Hirofficial vote of Colorado was : Blaine, 96,277; Cleveland, 27,627; Butler, 1,957; and St John, 759,

The second week of Mr. Lawrence Barrett's engagement at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, was devoted entirely to the production of George H. Boker's fine classical tragedy, "Franceses da Bimini," a play abounding in many passages of singular beauty and poetic thought As Lanciotto. the hunchback, the great actor is seen at his best Mr. Baixett continues another week at McVicker's, when he will give place to Miss Lizzie Uhner, a charming young comedienne. Betbknchment has extended to the railroads, and the Pennsylvania and Michigan Central are among the first to consolidate departments And otherwise reduce their working forces. . . .The Superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Koad promises to keep 20,000 men at work all the winter on construction, and to complete the road by October next. . , .Mr. Fehrenbatch, who has been appointed Commissioner of the National Labor Bureau, is at present Steamboat Inspector at Cincinnati. At a copper camp in Sonora, Mexican police attempted to disaqn a number of Americans, and in the affray six men were killed, and many olhers wounded Mrs. Boutel, the Quebec murderess, will not be hanged, her sentence having been commuted to imprisonment for life. Last week's failures in the United States were 222 and in Canada 27 a decrease of 28 over the week previous. Bradatreefs Journal, in its commercial summary for the week, says: "The general commercial situation throughout the United States as reported from important trade centers shows no ..marked change, although there are several reports of a more encouraging nature than have been received for a long time." Dry-goods imports at New York during the week were $1,362,000, and the amount marketed $1,479,000. Reports from Sonora are that a fight has occurred between the Mexicans and Americans in which thirty persons have been killed.

urges American exporters to send a competent agent to Europe to acquire information on this question. .. .John O'Connor (Parnellite), has been elected Mayor of Dublin, and Madden (Nationalist), Mayor of "Cork, Estimates submitted to the House Committee on Appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 39, 1886, include: Pensions, $60,000,000 ; Military Academy, $393,244; fortifications, $7,-303,000; Consular and Diplomatic expenses, $1,623,176; navy, $30,654,000; Postoffice Department, $56,099,164; Indian Bureau, $7,328,049; army, $2(5,110,489; legislative, executive, and judicial expenses, $32,326,402; District- of Columbia, $1,740,073; rivers and harbors, $8,177,400; total, $254,820,707. This is an increase over the estimates of the present year of $43,462,054. In a street brawl at Vienna, Mo., John H, Driggs, editor of the Courier, shot and killed Thomas M. Watkins, editor of the Herald. The fight grew out of a personal controversy in the columns of their newspapers. Science HaiiTj, at Madison, Wis., with its chemical, physical, zoological, and geological appliances and collections, laboratories, etc., was entirely destroyed by fire. The insurance is $41,000, but the loss can not bo estimated, as some of the materials and collections destroyed can not be replaced. Capt. A. H. Muephy, Superintendent of the workhouse at New Orleans, was assassinated on Claiborne street, while supervising the cleaning of the canal. Judge Thomas Ford and seventeen others have been arrested for the crime. . The second session of the Forty-eighth Congress opened at Washington on Monday, Dec. L Promptly at noon of that day the President of the Senate called that body to order, prayer was offered, and word was sent over to the Housa that the upper house was ready to proceed to business. Messrs. Sherman and Garland were appointed a committee to inform the President that the Senate was ready to receive any communication he miffht be pleased to make. Mr. Cullom Introduced a bill to prohibit distinctions being made in the military service of the United States against any class of American citizens; also, to enable oificers of the army, promoted for gallant and distinguished services in the war of the rebellion, to be retired with the1 rank and full pay of the grade to which they were promoted ; Mr. Doloh presented a bill to prevent the obstruction of the navigable waters of the United States and to protect public works against trespass or injury. Mr. Ingalls offered a resolution which was agreed to, instructing the Committee on Public Lands to report sueh letrislation as is necessary to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to summarily remove all fences illegally constructed on the public domain. The President's message was received and read, after which the Senate adjourned. The Speaker's gavel rapped the House to order promptly at noon. The roll-call disclosed the presence of 223 members, and the Clerk was directed to inform the Senate that the House was ready to proceed to business. The Speaker appointed Messrs. Randall and Cox, of New York, a committee to wait upon the President in conjunction with a similar committee from the Senate, and Inform him that Congress was ready to receive any communication he might be pleased to make. Mr. Holmau presented the credentials of Mr. Shevely, member elect of the Thirteenth Indiana District, to succeed Mr. Calkins, resigned, and that gentleman took the oath of office. After listening to the reading of the President's message, the House voted to adjourn.

Loed Nobthcote's scheme regarding Egypt as a whole has been rejected by the English Cabinet. Mr. Gladstone is authority for the statement that the Government has no intention of proposing a second conference of the powers in regard 'to Egyptian affairs... The late Duke of Brunswick bequeathed to the Duke of Cumtrerland an iron safe in his villa at Heitziitg, which was found to contain coin and currency to the amount of $500,000. . . .Spies report that the forces of the ahdi encamped around Khartoum number between 15,000 and 20,000 men, . . . The Bufssian Government intends to construct a line of telegraph from Askabad to Merv. Hebb Bubchasd, the German Secretary of the Treasury, in submitting to the Reichstag the budget for 18S5, admitted that the financial echibit was not satisfactory, the revenues from several sources having dwindled unexpectedly At Paris the wife of Deputy Clovis Hugnes shot and killed M. Monn at the Palais de Justice because he had slandered her. Pbivate letters :from English officials in India state there is a dangerous condition of affaira,in that country, as the feelings of the natives were never so excited against England' as at present. .At Tralee, Ireland, ail attempt vas made, which nearly proved successful, to destroy with dynamite thexesidence oi Samuel Hussey . . . .The

It can truthfully be said of many a young man who has "a girl on the brain," that the young lady has a soft place to sit on. But then, girls as an average dote on soft things such as ice-cream, peaches, rare-ripe bananas, and California pears, three for a quarter. Carl PretzeVa Weekly.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

THE MARKETS, NEW YORK Beeves f4.so 6.00 Hogs 4.2s & 4.75 Floub Bcstra. 4.50 & 5.25 Wheat No. 2 Spring. 80 .82 No. 2 Red 81 (a .82 Corn No. 2 so M Oats White... 33 & .38 Poke New Mess 13.00 ($13.60 CHICAGO. Beeves Chotce to Prime Steers. C.50 7.00 Good Shipping 5.50 a$ 6.) Common to Fair 4.0J 5.00 Hogs 4.25 & 4.75 FlX)UE Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.00 - (rf; 4.50 Good to Choice Spring:.. 3.25 (& 3.75 WHEAT No. 2 Sprint 73 3 .74 No. 2 Red Winter.... ... .74 g .754 Coax Now 2 30 .40 OAT'S No. 2 25 $ .26 Rye No. 2 50 .52 Barley No. 2 67 & .58 Butter Choice Creamery 25 .27 Fine Dairv 18 .20 Cheese Full Cream 12 m .13 Skimmed Flat 06 & .09 Eggs Frenh 21 (& .22 Potatoes New, per bu. 30 & .33 Pork Mess 10.75 m.25 Laud 07 .07 ii TOLEDO. Wheat No. Mled. 60 .70 Corn No. 2 .37 .39 Oats No. 2 27 .29 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 72 .73 Corn No. 2 34 .36 Oats No. 2 27 t .28 Barley No. 2 51 .62a Pore Mess 10.75 il.25 Lard 6.75 3f7.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 75 .7636 orn Mixed 3d .37 Oats Mixed 24 .25 Rye 47 & .48 Pork Mess 10.75 u.?5 CINCINNATI Wheat No. 2 Red 76 & .77?$ Corn 37 .39 O ats M ixed 28 . 29 h Pork Mess 12.00 12.50 Lard 06tt& .07 DETROIT. Flour 5.00 & 5.C0 Wheat No. 1 White. 76 .77 Corn Mixed 33 & .39 Oats No. 2 White 28 .2) Pork Family 12.00 &12.59 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Red, New. 71 .73 Corn Mixed 33 ft .34 Oats Mixed 25 .27 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle Best 6.25 ?$ 6.75 B'air 5.50 6.00 Common 4.00 4.50 Hogs 4.25 9 4.75 Sheet , 4.25 & 5.03

Ir Jarphly Discovers a Plan by Which to Deceive His Wife. The thin man without a shirt-color was evidently tickled. He plainly evinced it, as men who feel tickled generally do, by sundry grunts, nods of the head, and sly glances, accompanied by broad and Knowing smiles. ' "Wot is it, Mr, Jarphly ?" asked tJhe cold tea xaan. "Why, you see, Martha got in the habit of ftetting up for me at an early

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tea, I couldn t persuade her to go to bed and mind her own business, so I studied on the matter We lire in one of the center houses of a block of five two-story and attic buildings. There's scuttles in the roofs of all of them, and I pursuaded Mr. Greenup, who lives in the adjoining house, to let me in his house last night about 1 o'clock, and I went up through his scuttle and over to mine, end so down into our bedroom. I could S(3e Martha, from the head of the stairs, sitting in the front room eyeing the clock with a look that was a very terfc chromo. But I undressed quietly got into bed, and there I lay waiting developments. Every now and then I'o hear Martha give a short, fidgety cough. Then I'd hear her get up and prance around the rcom a little and by-and-by go to the front windows and slam the shutters. Then I could hear Ber talking to herself M "Praying for you, probably?" "So, I reckon; and at last, after I'd lain there about an hour, I heard her get up and go stand out on the front step for e, good five minutes. I'll bet $1 I know where the mop-handle was then ; but I was so comfortable in bed, like, I didn't care to look it up. Then she camo in and slammed the door and locked it, and commenced coming upstairs. Every other step she'd say, 'O, the wretch 1 Won't I give it him ! I know where he is ! I know where he is 1 He needn't think to deceive me ! O, the villain lf 'Bout the time she had nearly got to the landing I think she must have seen the light streaming out of the door that I'd left ajar. I could hear hor stop, and then I commenced to snore, I was afraid to look, you know; but I could feel her cautiously

come up to the door and look in. Well, sir, I'd given my pension from the war of 1770 to have seen her about the time she saw it was me. I'll bet it was fun. But I was afraid to do anything but snore. Then she came into the room, and, by the way she breathed and stood around, I had to nearly bite my tongue off to keep a straight face on me, I could feel that she sat down in a chair and was dumbfounded I never let od, but kept on snoring like thunder; but, when s ho kicked over a chair, I turned and pretended to wake up, kind of dazed liko, and says : u 'Whv, Martha, dear, ain't you come to bed yet?' 'Jarphly said she, awful slow and solemn like, 'when did you come in?' " Why, must be four or five hours ago. Don't you remember when I told you not to go to sleep again in the rocker, but to come up to bed?' and I turned oyer and professed to go to sleep again. "She never made any reply, but acted in a dazed, bewildered sort of way, and when she got to bed I could tell she didn't sleep a wink for three hours. Once she punched me in the ribs and said, ' Jeremiah, where were you tonight?' and I says, Why, I went over to hear Mrs. Coldtabb's lecture on temperance ; let out about 9:30. Then I went to sleep. "This morning it was fun to watch Martha. I could hardly keep a straight face. At the breakfast table, and all the time I was about the house, she'd eye me when she thought I wasn't looking; then, when I'd notice her, she'd turn away and be awful busy at something She caught me kind of grinning once, and, by George, I thought the explosion was about to come. But it didn't, though the look of blank, unfathomable suspicion she wore on her face ail the time was the greatest show on earth. It nearly broke me up, and I've laughed till my ribs ache ever since. I know it won't last. I know there's a day of repenting a-coming, and the thermometer is going up clear out of sight in the Jarphly family. But who's going after trouble ? It'll come soon enough without hunting it, and I'm going to enjoy that scuttle in the roof until the explosion cornea" Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph

Characteristics of Smokers. A gentleman who is a great "fumigator" says that he has philosophized about smokers, with the result: "An even-tempered, quiet man never goes to an extreme in choosing his cigar. A nervous man wants something strong and furious; a mild man something that smokes, and nothing mora, There is a great deal in the way men handle their cigar. If a man smokes his cigar only enough to keep it lighted, and relishes taking it from his mouth to look at the blue curl of smoke in the air, set him down as an easy-going man. He has keen preceptions and delicate sensibilities. He will not create trouble, but will be apt to see it out when once begun. Beware of the man who never releases the grip of his cigar, and is indifferent whether it burns or not. He is cool, calculating, and exacting. He is seldom energetic phvsically, but lives easily off those who perform the labor. The man that smokes a bit, and rest a bit, and fumbles the cigar more or less, is easily affected by circumstances. If the cigar goes out frequently, the man has whole-souled disposition, is a devil-may-care sort of a fellow, with a lively brain and a glib tongue and generally a fine fund of anecdotes. To hold half the cigar in the mouth and smoke indifferently is a lazy man's habit. They are generally of little force and their characters are not of the highest strata, A nervous man, who lumbles hid cigar a great deal, is a sort of a popinjay among men. Holding tho cigar constantly between the teeth, chewing it occasionally, and not oaring if it is lighted at all, are characteristics of men who have tho tenacity of bulldogs. They never forgot anything or let ro their holds. The fop stands his cigar on end and an experi3nccd smoker points it ulruight ahead.

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The Iron Crown of Loinbardy. The cathedral contains several relics of great antiquity, among them the Iron Crown whioh pressed so many august brows, from Constantino's to Napoleon's On asking to see it I ivas startled to learn that the cost would be five lier (or francs), exactly five times as much as the most expensive exhibition, sacred or secular, I had hitherto seen in Italy, and ten times the sum usually exacted. But I ceased to be surprised when the sacristan called a custodian, the custodian called a priest, and the priest came, a tall, robust, unshaven personage, with some native dignity, like Friar Tuck, accompanied by two acolytes bearing four great silver candelabra and other sacred properties. The candlesticks were placed on the balustrade of a side-chapel where the relic is kept; tapers were put into them and lighted, and the vessels arranged in order. The priest then recited a short orison before the altar, above which is a sort of press, the size of an ordinary wardrobe, with a very poor gilded alto rilievo on the door, of angels bearing the instruments of the Passion. The custodian then mounted a ladder and opened the first door, which disclosed a second one with two leaves of beautiful glided bronze-work ; these, being opened, showed a rare curtain of golden tissue, and that, falling, revealod the treasures, a great cross set with precious stones and crystal and other objects which I did not notice, perturbed as I was by the ceremony and the attention which it drew upon me, poor solitary, sheepish Anglo-Saxon, from the rest of the people in church. The famous coronal, inclosed in a circular glass case, was then taken down and displayed to me by the elder acolyte, who recited its history for my edification The foundation and origin of the crown is a narrow iron band, believed by the devout to have been made out of a nail which pierced our Savior's hand ; this is encased within a broad, thick gold circlet inlaid with three rows of immense jewels in a splendid, simple, enameled Byzantine pattern. One of the most significant facts in its memorable history is that it was never taken out of Lombardy until this century. What Charlemagne did not do, what Charles V. did not do, what Na

poleon, with his stupendous audacity, did not do, the unchronicled Francis Joseph II. presumed to do. He had the vulgar impudence to carry this venerable relic and symbol of universal sovemity to Vienna, where it remained for seven years. It was restored by Victor Emmauel, who might most justly have used it to crown himself King of United Italy, but refrained, with that curious mixture of personal modesty and want of imagination which was a characteristic in common between himself and another brave man, General Grant. I looked my fill and thought my thoughts; then the case was replaced, the priest repeated a prayer, the acolyte swung a censur, the glittering curtain rose, the bronze doors closed, the wooden one was locked, and the show was at an end. And I went on my way to the lake of Como, having seen the Iron Crown oi: Lumbardy with candle, book, and bell. Atlantic. Alcohol and the Heart. Dr. N. B. Richardson, of London, the noted physician, says he was able to convey a considerable amount of conviction to an intelligent scholar by simple experiment. The scholar was singing the praises oi the ruddy bumper, and saying he could not get through the day without it, when Dr. Richardson said to him : "Will you be kind enough to foel my pulse as I stand here?" He did so I said, "count it careful ly ; what does it say?" "Your pulse says seventy-four." I then sat down in a chair and asked him to count it again. He did so and said: ''Your pulse has gone down to seventy." I then lay down on the lounge, and said : "Will yon take it again ?" He replied: "Why it is only sixtyfour; what an extraordinary thing!" I then said: "When you lie down at night, that is the way nature gives your heart rest. You know nothing about it, but that beating organ is resting to that extent; and if you reckon it up, it is a great deal of rest, because in lying down the heart is doing ten strokes less a minute. Multiply that by sixty and it is 600; multiply it by eight hours, and within a fraction it is 5,000 strokes different, and as the heart is throwing six ounces of blood at every stroke, it makes a difference of 30,000 ounces of lifting during the night. "When I lie down at night without any alcohol, that is the rest my heart gets. But when you take your wine, or grog, you do not allow that rest, for the influence of alcohol is to increase the number of strokes, and instead of getting this rest, you put on something like 15,000 extra strokes, and the result is you rise up very seedy and unlit fbr the next day's work 'till you have taken a little more of the 'ruddy bumper which you say is tho soul of man below." A German paper proposes to detect watered milk by the following simple process : A well-polished knitting needle is dipped into a deep vessel of milk, and immediately withdrawn in an upright position. If the sample is pure some of the fluid will hang to the needle, but if water has been added to the milk, even in small proportions, the fluid will not adhere to the needle.

Rev. Charles F. Thwino suggests, in The Independent that the functions of a college president should be entirely administrativa This seems to be reasonable. It is too much to expect that a man can properly attend to the executive business of a great college and to the duties of a professorship at the same tima The Current Dsman what spends his his time in groanin' 'bout de wickedness o' dis heah wol!' may cut er better figger at er camp-meeting den de hustlin' sort o' feller, but he ain't gwineter raise nigh so much cotton. Er little sweat mixed wid 'Oh. Lawd, gin us so an' so," heps de cause mightily. Arkansaw Traveler.

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A toper's nose is like 11 drowning man's, because he can't keep, it above water. Merchant Tmvelen, It is very funny that wheat 70a weigh a fish, the dealer always counts in the scales. Carle Pretzel Weekly. The name of a Philadelphia vocalist is Thomas a Becket. From this we infer that the martyrdom is on the other side now. Hew York Graphic. Several young girls have been appointed station agents in Minnesota, and engineers are keeping a sharp lookout for miss-placed switches. "I could but love when I saw thv face," writes Lilla Cushxaan. We thought yon acted rather cueerly, Lilla, That is why we rixi.Philadelphia Call A Detroit man is writing about kisses in literature There cannot, however, be much kissing in literature until more ladies shall be put upon the editorial staff "Sing the upper notes?" said a friencl of ours who was enthusiastic over the accomplishment of a renowned soprano ; "she sings so high that it would make a woodpecker dizy." The first thing a man takes in this life is milk. At last, no matter how much of a teetotaler he may be, he takes to his bier. We say it gravely. Caret Pretzel's Weekly. Some of Heissoniers models, it is said, are compelled to retain the same positions for six hours at a time. Almost as long as a well-regulated family can persuade a servant girl to retain her position in these days of cullinary competition. , . Mabel "Do you try to observe the golden rule, Mr. Nicefellow? Nicefellow "Yes, indeed. Do you" Mabel "Yes; I id ways try to do as I would be done by.w Nicefellow "That is the right spirit Mabel "But I sometimes fail. If I were to try I should fail now." Nicefellow "Indeed. Why? No cards SHE WHISTLED. Oh, whistle, daughter, whistle And you shall have a eow; I never whistled in my lite, And Ican't whistle now. Oh, whistlo, daughter, whistle, And you BhaH have a man; I never whistled in my life, , Bat m whistle if lean. Exchange. A gentleman whom it would be gross flattery to call homely remarks to a child at' a house where he is visiting: "Well, my line boy, what do yon think about me, eh ?n The child gagB himself with his fingers and remains silent "Come, now,n says the visitor, kindly, "why won't you tell me what you think about me?" " 'Cause 1 dont want to be whipped. "No," SAiti Mrs. Briny to an inquiring stranger, "we don't hare malaria here, I admit, but it's the best boarding house pn the bay shore, and my daughter Sally makes lemon pies that cant be beat 'round these parts. When the visitor had gone Mrs. Briny said to her daughter: "Well, Jane, I guess we'll have to lay in a stock of that malary, for all of 'em as comes here keep askin' if we've got it." Some of thte butter sold in Austin is not very good. "Do you wan some butter on your bread? asked Johnny's stepmother in a cooing tone of voice, there being company at the table. "Just suit yoursel:?, replied the selfsacrificing little follow; "but, if you spread it as thin as yon usually do, I won't get none of the bad taste in my stomach, nohow. I like it best thin if it is like the butter we have when there is no company here." Texas Sifting s. Little 5-year old Annie, who was suffering from a bad cold, went to pay a visit to auntie. During the day she related her various successes at school, and ended by declaring that she could read a good deid better than Sabina, who was 8 years old. "Well, questioned auntie, "would it not sound better if some one else said it? "Yes, answered Annie, with a very sober countenance. "I think it would. I have such a bad cold that I con't say it very welL Philadelphia Call "Yotrn son leaves college this month, does he not ? asked one lady of another. "Yes, his college days are about over' was the reply. "Will he enter mercantile life or one of the professions? "Be has adopted a professional career. The recent scientific researches of Profs. McCaffrey, Sullivan, Mitchell, and fiourk have diverted his mind into channels of pugilism, and his father says it was never possible to knock anything into him, it is probable that something ean be knocked out of him. Pittsburgh Chronicle. Sleep Men who are the fastest asleep when they are asleep, are the widest awake when they are awake. Great workers must be great rasters. Every man who has clerks in his employ ought to know what their sleeping habits are. The young man who is up till 2, 3 and 4 o'clock in the pioraing, and must put in his appearance at the bank or store at 9 or 10 o'clock and work all the day, cannot repeat this process many days without a certain shakiness coming into his system, which he will endeavor to steady by some delusive stimulus. It is in this way that many a young man begins his course to ruin. He need not necessarily have been in bad company. He has lost his sleep, and losing sleep is losing, strength and grace. HaWs Journal ujf Health. , Man must work. That U certain as the sun. But he may work grudgingly, or he may work gratefully: he may work as a man, or he may work as a machine. He can not always choose his work, but he can do it in a gener ous temper and with an uplookiog heart There is no work so rude that he may not exalt it; there is no work so impassive that he may net breathe a soul into it; there is no work so dull that he may not enliven it-lfenrw

Giles. To save his hogs when attacked with cholera a Pennsylvania farmer buried them up to their necks in the ground and fed them for two week?, at the end of which time he dug them up perfectly cured. -: " Inquirer: A crank is a person who does not always agree with you but has opinions of his own.