Bloomington Telephone, Volume 10, Number 7, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 June 1886 — Page 3

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER 8. BRADFUTE, - - Publxshk

T. B. Axdrich, editor of the Atlantic Monthly is quoted as saying of the Granary burying ground, "which his office overlooks: "I have excellent neighbors; they never send in any manuscripts. w Isr a polygamy case before a Salt Lake court the other day a woman testified in substance that "she didn't know whether her husband had another wife or not; it -wasn't of sufficient importance to talk about. "

In one Pennsylvania county schoolteachers receive $12.50 per month and are compelled to change their boarding places every week. At the end of a year of "boarding round" in this way educational ideas must be thoroughly disseminated through the community. A cattle dealer in Pomerania was trving to teach a calf to drink bv letting it suck his fingers. In the operation the calf sucked a ring from the hand of the dealer, who didn't then notice the loss. He sold the animal, and a w eek after read hat in the stomach of a calf slang ' m Berlin his ring, minutely descri nad been found. The most economical man lives in Southern Georgia. He bought a flock of turkeys, but wJien he found that he would be charged ferryage, "jest tuck them right back to the settlement and swapped them for geese, so that he could git even with that ferryman." The geese swam the river while the owner went over in the ferry. The Watertown Times is responsible for the statement that Paddy Ryan has a double who travels with him, and personates him in barrooms and on occasions of convivialitv, "while the real Paddy sleeps and rests, and keeps himself in that prime condition which he topes will one day result in his knocking out John L. Sullivan, who has no double to drink and smoke for him.

A cherry tree stood in the way of the Southern Pacific narrow gauge railway extension that is being pushed at Almaden, and the owner asked about $900 for the tree. Experts were appointed, and he then showed that it had for years yielded him crops each of which sold for sums equivalent to the interest on the amount above named. They finally agreed to award him $600, and the tree had to go. The house in which Lincoln died was a lodging house. John Matthews, a comedian, who was a great friend of John Wilkes Booth, had rooms there, and his room was the one in which President Lincoln died. A few nights before the assassination John "Wilkes Booth occupied Matthews room, and it is a curious fact that he slept on the same bed upon which the man whom he afterward murdered breathed his last breath. Love letters at breach of promise suits are usually amusing, but none more so than one written by an English young man, which was of such a strain as the following: "Dearest, most charming, superlative Sally I am longing really for the time to come when I shall have you in a home, a bower of lovers' bliss, where we can coo and bill all the day long. We shall soon have a splash, dash-up wedding of our own, and then we shall take the shine out of them." Washington Post: When one looks at the diminutive form of Representative Wheeler, of Alabama, the long, thin, straggling black hair, the bald crown, and the big beard in which the email, pale face is hidden, it is difficult to realize that this is the dashing, daring, clever cavalry General of the Confederate armies. "When the General puts his little soft round hat on the back of his head and hurries along with quick, short step, his head away in front, the identity is still more incredible. "The best preserved man in Congress for his age is the Hon. William D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who enjoys the titie of 'Father of the House " savs the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution "He was 72 last Monday. On that day he walked up to the Capital with the elastic step of a man of 40. His eyes are bright and strong enough to defy glasses ; his thick, brown hair is not even sprinkled with gray ; his voice is one of the clearest and most ringing to be heard in the halls of Congress. Few of his colleagues do more work." Marshall Field, the well-known Chicago merchant, is called lucky by his friends. A few years ago, in settling with a country merchant, he was induced to take $300 of mining stock. He didn't want it, and offered a big discount for cash, but the merchant didn't have the cash, and so Mr. Field kept the stock. In seven years he has drawn $30,000 in dividends from that stock, and it is said that all the money he has ever invested in mining stock, and he has invested considerable and with great success, was his profits on that $300 worth. Tax longest word in the English, or rather elsh language , has, after a long

period of oblivion, been once more ex humed. It is Llanfairpwllgwngyllger-trobgllgerchwyrnbyllgogerbwllzaufctvy-iliogogogoch. This awful word of seventy-two letters and twenty-two syllables, the name of a village in Wales, constituted the subject of a lecture lately given by Rev. J. King, M. A., at the museum, Berwick, in which he showed that it means: "St, Mary's white hazel pool, near the turning pool, near the whirlpool, very near the pool by Llantsilio, fronting the rocky islet of Gogo." John QuinoyjwVdams, a namesake of the great John Q., struck a rich mine somewhere down ia Mexico quite by accident. While prospecting ho found his haversack on lire, his prospector's glass having focused the sun's rays upon it. As the haversack contained about a dozen pounds of powder he dropped it and got out of the way in a hurry. It fell in a crevice and a largo mass of rook was thrown up. Adams returned mournfully to gather up what might be left of his effects, and found a rich vein of ore which the explosion had exposed to view. He sold a third interest in his find for $1(5,000, and very consistently named the mine " The Nick of Time."

What is the natural term of a carp' life? The question is suggested by the announcement by the Berlin papers that a fish of this kind has been taken from the Spree at the age of 268 years. Some days ago a fisher was plying his vocation when, like his olden predecessors, he was favored with a mighty draught. His catch consisted of a carp beneath whose mouth a ring was found affixed. Scratches upon this ring, we are told, make it clear that the fish was placed in the water in the year 1618, or nearly two and three-quarters centuries ago. This venerable inhabitant of the Spree weighed thirty-six pounds, and measured a hundred centimeters in length and seventv-eight centimeters in circumference.

Sir James Cairo, whose recent statement that there are 53$, 000 small tenants in Ireland who will be unable to pay any rent if the present low prices of produce continue has attracted so much attention, writes to the London Times again on the same subject. He classifies Irish holdings under nine heads, as follows : 1. 218,000 holdings averaging 2 rental. 2. 396,000 holdings averaging 7 rental. 3. 78,000 holdings averaging 12 rental. 4. 4b,000 holdings averaging 18 rental. 5. 47,000 holdings averaging 25 rental. G. 24,00 J holdings averaging 35 rental. 7. 14,000 holdings averaging 45 rental. 8. 24,000 holdings averaging 7."3 rental. 9. 12,000 holdings averaging 200 rental. This makes a total of 059,000 holdings on which the annual rent is $52,085,000. He says further that many tenants farm two or more holdings, and estimates the number of Irish bona

fide agriculturists at 400,000. He states

that he has learned that a majority of Irish landlords do not want to sell out, but the statement has been received with incredulity.

Tiie late Dr. Samuel Wolcott, the eminent Congregationalist minister, in his later life wrote many hymns, and has left on record an account of how he began to do so. He was 56 years old, and had never put two rhymes together, and had taken it for granted that he was as incompetent to "write a hymn, or even a stanza, as to work a miracle. "However," he says, "I resolved that I would try to write a hvmn of five stanzas, and proceeded to plan it, precisely as I would plan a sermon. I said the first stanza shall be a recognition of God the Father; the second a recognition of Christ the Redeemer; the third a prayer to God the Father ; the fourth a prayer to Christ the Redeemer; the fifth shall blend the two in one address. A more perfect recipe for wooden stanzas it would be difficult to frame." The result was the hymn beginning "Father, I own Thy voice," and the author was much surprised to find he had written what could actually be sung. Many of his hymns have become favorites throughout the country. About Beaver Hats. "Give me a beaver hat," said a gentleman in a hat store. As he left the store the hatter turned to a friend and said : "His asking for a beaver' reminds me of an incident which happened when I worked for a hat manufacturer a long time ago. At that time silk hats wen styled, and believed to be, heaver-skin hats. Mv boss commanded the trade of a large number of the rich residents of the citv. A man called one day for a beaver hat, but while trading oxpressed a doubt as to its being genuine beaver. 'I'll prove it said the boss. So he sent me a note to rumple up a hat the best I might and send it by the boy who brought the note. I did so, and sent it down. He said in the note that I was not to mind his ringing at the tube which ran from the .store to the work-room above, so I paid no attention to his calls for me to hurry, but did the jeb as soon as possible. It w as shown to the man, who was perfectly satisfied that the long, hair-like threads were genuine fur, and bought a fine 10 hat. "The boy, who was soundly raLed for being so long coming down, was given a quarter, and the boss and I had a smoke at the firm's expense. That scheme was worked a good many tint", but now that these hats are called by their true name it would fail to raise the price at all," and the man sighed. Boston Globe.

Thk innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.

ROmiSi EM i s of fi rlh: mex nv i;kn: pkklkv room:. Mike Walsh was very angry when it was in I imated by a witness named Chase that he had voted for the Nebraska bill in return for a contract giveni to his friend George Steers to build a war steamer, lie denied that Steers had a contract, but said that lie had been appointed naval constructor that he might supervise building one of them. Xo inll ience of members of Congress was brought to bear on the appointment, which was given as a tribute' to his genius. He could not avoid the opportunity of saying there were a number of scribbling lazzaroni hanging round the Vix it oL as correspondents for newspapers, hardly able to write soapboilers' advertisements. They go about levying contributions and blackmail . pandering to the weakest and abusing the more prominent members. As to the miserable, sensual bi ast Chase, he was surprised lie was su lie red to pollute the hall by his presence. 11c suggested that the committee call on this creature and ask him whence lie derived his informal ion. And he expressed a hope that tin Speaker, in respect to himself and the House, would rid them of this miserable creature. AVhile such persons were suffered to come in the hall he should fear to hang up his overcoat. The X'n ion Hall, which followed the inauguration oOir. Lincoln, was given in a temporary building erected against the north side of the city hall, tin rooms of which were used for the cloak and supper-rooms. The hall was draped with Hugs, and brilliantly illuminated. Mrs. Lincoln was, of course, much observed and much critit iod, from the moment of her appearance, after her distinguished husband, leaning on the arm of Judge Douglas. Her height and form corresponded more with that of the "Little Oiant" than did the tall, imperial ligure of Mrs. Douglas, and it was sportively proposed during the evening that tho President ami Senator would always do well to promenade each with the wife of the other rather than his own, Mrs, Lincoln was dressed with exquisite taste, wearing a rich blue silk dress, with valuable lace and diamonds. Mrs. Hamlin, the young and accomplished lady of the "Vice President, was in white, with floral trimmings. Mrs. Cameron's dress was highly complimented. Soon after Gen. Taylor's inauguration Col. Alexander McClung came to "Washington in quest of office, and was appointed vhanjz d'affaires to Bolivia. He had served trail ant lv in Mexico as lieutenant colonel of a Mississippi regiment, but was especially noted for demanding ana granting the most extreme terms of the falsely-styled "code of honor." His first meeting was in 1833 or 1834. with a man by the name of Allen. The weapons, pistols, to be tired at ten paces, or while advancing nearer to each other, and then the use of the bowie knife. Allen fell. The second meeting was five vears afterwards, with young Menifee, at Yicksbnrg, the brother of Kichard H. Menifee, member of Congress from Kentucky in ls:;.S-39. The wt apon. the rifle. Both parties were excellent shots, but Menifee fell at the second lire. He was also concerned subsequently in other duels. He remained at Bolivia less than two vears. The trial of Mr. Sickles for the murder of Barton Key was a serious farce, in which Edward L. Stanton made his bow before a 'Washington audience as one of the counsel for the prisoner. The jury in the cast? were absolute ciphers, for there does not seem to have been the slightest hesitation with them. Their process of reasoning was evidently in this wise : Key wronged Sickles : Sickles discovered the fact ; the discovery made him insane, and when insane lie killed Kev; therefore he is not guilty. This was just precisely what might have been said the day they were empanelled. As for Mr. Sickles, the better portion of the public press of the country condemned him. To pillory, as he was instrumental in doing, the woman he loved, whatever might have been her faults, did not bespeak a high order of sensibility. Had Mr. Sickles, at the outset, pleaded guilty to the indictment and calmly left his fate to the prerogative of the President, he would have saved all the huge pyramid of scandal raised by this trial over his family name; he would have been spared the work of intlicting upon her whom he once called by the sacred name of wife a jmblic ignominy sue) as no other woman in this land, however guilty, lias ever been subjected to, and of deliberately, in the face of the world, casting his innocent child into an abyss of shame in comparison with the horrors of which the tires of Moloch Avert Tenderness itself. Mr. Sickles heeded nothing of this. His life was too precious to be risked.- He pleaded "not guilty," and he got clear. The extraordinary demonstrations which followed the verdict, the dancing of Mr. Stanton before the court, "like David before the ark," the shouts of the crowd for "a speech" from Sickles, the oiler to unharness the horses from his carriage, that the men might take tho places of the brutes, the noisy cavalcade rushing and hurrying down the avenue1, tho gratitude of the old fruit-seller, who presented a basket of oranges to the man "who had taught him how todefend his family honor," the crush of "wealthy ft, and respected citizens ' to pour in their congratulations, the serenade of the lawyers, who made addresses from the steps or windows of the hotel, and many other incidents and scenes, which had no parallel in this country, need not be dwelt on now. The llev. John P. Newman, who was Gen. Grant's family chaplain ut the Metropolitan Methodist- Church, and was sent around the world by him under the pretext of examining consulates, brought home a barrel of old Scotch whisky. Not wanting it for his personal use, lie proposed to one of his parishioners, Mr, Cake, then the proprietor of Willard's Hotel, to exchange thirty gallons of it for pale sherry. Glad to accommodate his pastor by rendering spiritual aid for spiritual comfort, Mr. Cake made the bargain. One of his bar-tenders Mas rash enough to mention to a journalist the fact, and it soon became a public matter. Mrs. Newman was distressed beyond consola

tion. "The idea,"die said, "of my husband, a Methodist temperance divine, being made known to the community as

! a trailickcr in whisky, and smuggled

whisky at that; and then the thought of having a drink called after him, 'Newmans Hot Scotch!"

Paraguay and Tniguay. Paraguay is one of the smaller states of South America, and, except Rolivia, the only one without any seaboard, its area is computed at U'2,000 square miles and its population at about 47(1,010. Tho chief crops raised in the country

! are maize, rice, cotl'ee, cocoa, indiuo,

manioc, tobacco, sugar-cane, and cotton. Among the principal trees of tlia country art several species of dye-wood, and many yielding juices, as the caoutchouc, or India rubber tree, and the valuable shrub known as the Paraguay tea-plant, which is one of the principal articles of commerce1. The surface of the country is diversified, a range of mountains of considerable elcvati n extending through the middle of tho country from north to south, forming the water-shed of the Paraguay and Parana Kivers, which bound the small lepuhlic on the ca.t and west. The climate is tropical, but is tcmpcicd greatly by the inequalities of surface. The inhabitants of the country mo descendants of settlers form the north of Spain. The language spoken is

Spanish, considerably deteriorated by mixture with Indian dialects. Paraguay was formerly under Spanish rule. In

1M1 it declared itself independent, lor nearly twenty-nine years iis ah'airs were entirely controlled by a dictator. Dr. Francia, who preserved tranquility by the ?killful exercise of arbitrary power. During his administration no foreigner was allowed to enter theeonntry. After his death the country was lirst ruled by a junta of live, then by two, and in l!ii den. Lopez was declared President for life. On bis death, in 1SG2, his s n succeeded to the supremo power withoit opposition. A war with Prail. beginning in ISlio and continuing until 1N70, was ended by the death of the second President Lopez, and the organization of a new form of governmentmodeled on that of the United States, with a President and Vice President elected every four vears, and a ('outness of two houses, the members of both elected by the people. The country is really under the control of Brazil, to which it owes an immense debt, which it has no hope of ever being able to pay. There are 175 schools in tho country, all supported by the government, with about 7,01)0 pu; ils in attendance. There is one railway in Paraguay about fortv-live miles in length, and two telegraph lines, aggregating perhaps seventy-live miles of wire. There is a standing army of about o."0 men. Uruguay is a still smaller state. It has an area of 72,112 square miles, and a population of about ooO.OUO. The country is a vast undulating plain, broken in the interior bv ridges of hills, but uniformly ilat along the sea-coast. The entire territory is extremely well watered. The climate is generally temperate and healthy, in the winter heavy rains and cold winds prevail, but in the low lands frost is unknown. The wealth of the country is the enormous L herds of cattle raised on the wide plains covered "with green turf through the entire year. The soil is fertile, but is little cultivated, being almost wholly used for pasturage. The language of the country is Spanish, and the inhabitants are mostly descendants of earlv Spanish and Italian setth rs. Uruguay was a dependency of Spain until early in tho present century, when it became a part of the Argentine Confederation. Subsequently it was annexed by Portugal, and afterward was seized by Prazil. In 1825 it declared its independence, which was recognized by the other South American states in the treaty of Montevideo in LS2S. Tho constitution of the republic was proclaimed in 131. It is, like that of Para-juav, largelv modeled on that of the United States, having a President (but ro Vice President) elected for four yea.'s, and a Congress composed of a Seni le and House of liepresentatives. Thee mntry carries on an active commerce with foreign countries, and exports such quantities of meat, hides, tallow, etc., that its financial condition is quite prosperous. There is an army of 4,f00 men, and 418 miles of railway are in operation, and 1,105 miles of telegraph.- Chicago Inter Ocean.

Buying: a Press. He was traveling for an Eastern homte which makes a specialty of printing materials and sight drafts. He tried to sell us a large press with wheels on it and a strongly made and landing chatted mortgage attachment. He spoke very highly of this latter feat ire and said their mortgages were never known to break. He said the mortgages they were now putting in for printers in the Northwest were alik.: satisfactory :;o themselves and the sheriff. He also spoke incidentally of the press itself an I we gathered that it was to be set up and fed with white paper, which would come out nicely printed with tariil editorials and original clippings. We judged that either a Democratic or liepublican press could be rdered and that there was no extra charge for an attachment ,to run in an original poem. Our lirst impulse was to seize a pen and write out a check sufficiently ablebodied to cover ti e cost of recording the mortgage. Turning, we caught a reproachful glance from the dark, castiron countenance of the old Washington hand press and desisted. Part of the desist was caused by not being able to call to mind the address of any bank whi h had ever put in scaled proposals for handling our checks. To turn the matter off we asked the man if he had a sample press with him. He said he had not. Then we said that wo did not believe that his house Mould start him out on the road without one and that it was our opinion he had pawned it. We told him that we proposed to report him and that we had no further use for him. He seemed agitated and after leaving a bill for some type we ordered of his firm last week he went out. One of the kind of presses he sells doubtless has its advantages, especially for use in daily offices in the larger places like Mow York. Still, in many New York offices where the circulation is elderly contined to the affidavit of the business manager, it would seem that the old hand press would not be entirely out of place. When the press peddlei had formally put on his injured look and jumped tho office we turned to the old hand press with a sigh of relief. After all, that style of press seems to give the greatest satisfaction. No one can write intelligently of the power of the press who has not pulled it. It seems to have ea dv in life ordered a large consignment of choice, springy power and to still have most of it on hand. It is all used in holding back. The man who said the press was the greatest power in the world had pulled the Washington hand variety. Some people may think that Washington should have kept right on crossing the Delaware and freezing to death at Valley Forge insi cad of stopping to invent a balky printing press. The calm, dispassionate historian of the future who is working bv the dav will have to decide this point. All this will go to explain why we still work off the paper on the stationary press when we might have one which would be amply competent to get up on the editorial tripod and put its feet on the ta;le. Some people may prefer to have u press sitting around the office blowing about having more brains than the editor, but we do not long for it. (Jive us rather the simple .society of the hand press which will not shy at the cars and was never known to kick its hind feet through the dashboard. KateUlne Dak.) Bell.

PRESIDENTIAL SPORTS.

A Tot Who Wanted to Thick the Stars. Mr. and Mrs. Graves, ot Echo, Tenn., were hitting chatting pleasantly in the sitting-room one evening, when their little -4-year-old daughter came in and exclaimed : "Mamma, mamma, come and see." Mrs. Graves got up and went with her little daughter out in the vard. " What is it, mv daughter ?" "Mamma, what is that up yonder so bright?" she asked. "Whore, mv little child?" "Up yonder in the sky" Are they little gold dollars, mamma?" asked little Fannie. "Yes, my darling," said the good woman, laughingly, and went in the house, leaving her to watch the little gold dollars. Little Fannie climbed up on the fence and tried to get one, and her father, seeing her, went to her. "What an you doing up there, little pet V" he asked, as he took her down. "I am trying to get me some little gold dollars to make me some earrings. " "Couldn't you get them, baby?" "No, papa," she said, sweetly; "please get them for me." Little Fannie was taken into the house and put to bed, but she will never forget tho "little gold dollars." Louisville CourierJournal. Why She Hated to Die. Dr. I'ighcad Madam, f am sorry to sav that I don't think vou will live two hours. Mrs. Magcndit -Oh, doctor, it is very hard. Dr. Pighead Verv. to leave such a husband as yours. Mrs. Magendio And only to think; there's my sister-in-law, who knows that mourning is so becoming to her. I'm sure she's been longing for some of the family to drop oil. The itamhler. "My boy," said a fathei tola's young son, "rrcat everyone with politeness; ovoi those who are rude to you. For remember that you show courtesy to others, not because they ure gentlemen, but because you are one."

Winning His Spurs, In the summer of 1878 there was a gathering of the executive officers of different States at Cape May, and Gov. Thomas L. Young, of Ohio, -was among the number. Ho and B. K. Jamison were friends, so the latter tendered him the use of his beautiful cottage for himself and star':' during their stay at the seashore. One afternoon a number of gentlemen called to be introduced to the Governor, who was busy upstairs playing euchre. He was "going it alone" at the time, and, turning to Jamison, said: "Wait until I make my march, and then 111 go to the reception-room with you." He didn't make his march, however, but, on the contrary, greatly to his surprise, he was "euchred." liising from his chair he turned his back to his host and said: "Jamison, I wish you would give me a good kick; I feel that I deserve it. " His host rejdied : "You don't mean it, Governor?" "Indeed I do," was Tom's response. "Try me and see." The words hud hardly left his lips when the toe of Jamison's boot stopped with such suddenness just where his mother used to rebuke him with her slipper, that the -om'ussioh nearly sent him over on his i;;. . The guests were horrified for a moie.-nt, but the Governor with the pTeaN-st good humor said: "lioys, I i;'ot off with very light punishment. Out in Ohio when a man gets euchred on r lone hand they usually take him out and hang him to the nearest lamp-post," Then he went down and received his visitors. That night, before retiring, the G overnor said : "Jamison, do you know that you would make a capital soldier?" "No," was the reply; "why do vou think so?" "liecause you are so obedient to orders. Obedience, you know, is the lirst duty of a soldier, and you have the a, b, cs down tine. Will you accept a commission on mv stall ? It means a Colonelcy." Mr. Jamison didn't see any harm in accepting, and when Gov. Young returned to Ohio he forwarded the exnmission duly signed and sealed. Then a difficulty arose. Mr. Jamison was a citizen of I'ennsvhania, and the commission required that he should swear allegiance to the State of Ohio. This provision was stiiekon out and then "B. K. Jamison" became "aid-de-camp on the stall" of ids Excellency, Thomas L. Young. Governor of Ohio, with tho rank and title of Colonel." The commission, handsomely framed, now hangs in t he handsome residence of Col. Jamison in West Philadelphia, and ho prizes it very highly. Philadelphia Se i c ,s'. Paim-hi rails now being made at St. Petersburg have proved to be extremely durable, while they cost one-third leys than those made of steeL

The Relaxation from OfHoffil Duties ly VPresident Cleveland is the onlvPresident in our historv who seems to havo no amusements whatsoever. Georgo "Washington was noted for his muscular development. He was fond of jumping, and to the last day of his life kept ft pack of hounds for hunting. He could dance upon occasion and was careful enough of his health to go to bed every night at 10 o'clock. Jefierson was a great horseback rider, and he rodo throughout the country about Wash ington daily during his Presidency. Hrt us-tally spent two hours in the saddle, and he was fond of mixing with his fellows. At home at Monticello, he paid great attention to farming, and he often walked about the streets of Washington while in the White House. When (.'lev land was inaugurated the press was full of wonder at his getting up for breakfast at S o'clock in tho morning, and the whole nation patted him on tho back for it, as it were. Still Washington got up at daybreak, and Jefferson crawled out as soon as the light struck his chamber. John Adams, who was as fa proportionately as Cleveland is. used to take a walk from the White Housd around the Capitol before his breakfast, which, by the way, he took as early as Cleveland, and his son, John Quiney Adams, was wont to go down to the Potomac and take a swim before he at his morning meal. Both of the Adamses were great walkers, and while John nincy Adams was President h& used to walk out to the race-course, two miles from the city, and back again whenever any great sport was on hand. Andrew Jackson was a hard worker, but he was a democratic fellow, and ha liked horse-racing, cock-fighting, and a good social smoke. He often attended the cock-tights on Washington -Heights, above Sixteenth street, and at one of the great races of the days of his Presidency he had a horse of his own admitted in the name of his Private Secretary, Major Donelson. President Harrison was a great walker, and he did much of his own marketing during his short stay in the White House. He would get up and go to market before breakfast, and, though he was aa old man, he often went about without an overcoat. Frank Pierce was another groat horseback rider, and he was accustomed to gallop through the streets of Washington at midnight on a fine blooded steed. Buchanan was a great beau socially, and he did some walking. Lincoln drove about somewhat, and it was not uncommon to see him on the streets He liked the theater, and a box was always reserved for him. Grant walked up and down the broad pavement in front of the White House for an hour or two every morning, and his love of horses and driving amounted to a passion. He was not averse to having fellows call upon him in the evening, and he partook of much social enjoyment. Hayes' reign was a great one socially, and Arthur kept his house filled with guests, and took a long drive in the country daily. Cleveland Leader.

Pocket Uold Hunting. The pocket-hunter is a comparatively new comer in the California country, and only made his appearance during: the last vear and a half. He, too, is a

prospector, but he despises quartz. He prospects for gold only, and does not desire to find a little of it in huge masses of flinty rock. He expects to dig a hole in the earth the size of a barrel and take therefrom a fortune in the pure article. His hopes are neither groundless nor without precedent. A number of pockets and seam deposits have been found, some containing a few ounces and others thousands of dollars I was shown a hole a yard square from which $2,700 was recently taken. The deposit was found within a foot of the surface on a hillside. These pocket deposits are found in various formations, and "scientific fellows" don't succeed well in locating them, either. They are usually found in decomjiosed quartz, in clay seams and sometimes in wash gravel. The mode of prospecting for pockets is simple, but it, too, requires hard work and faith. The pocket-hunter selects a section where extensive placer-mining has been done and where the yield was rich. He conjectures that the gold came from somewhere, and he follows the gulches up stream as far a3 they have been workedr and there takes pans of dirt from the surface and hillsides. If he obtains a "color," or speck of gold, from the surface it is a line prospect, and he follows the trace carefully, taking the next panful of dirt to be washed from higher ground, and so on until the prospect fails; then he digs for the deposit. Occasionally it is there. Indications are often found where weeks of panning fail to locate from whence they have been washed or thrown ; and again, pockets are found bv mere accident that have thrown no trace to the surface. A good prospect may be obtained from every spot on a hillside, and yet nothing be found beneath the surface. A pocket-hunter will carry and wash dirt for days without obtaining a color. When he obtains a speck of gold, however, and if it is the rough, unwashed pocket metal, his chance is fair of finding a deposit perhaps a fortune. The winter season is the most favorable for prospecting in this manner, as every gulch then contains sufficient wrater for panning, while during the summer the jvrospeetor must either foliow watercourses or carry dirt long distances to springs or streams, and there pan it. There are those who frequently fird pockets, and, even though the deposits are not large, they find them often enough to prosper moderately well in the uncertain occupation, and appear cheerful, confident and always possessed of a little money. I am inclined to thin't, however, that, considering the number engaged, the fortunate ones are few, and for tho amount of labor performed I am forced to believe that both prospectors and pocket-hunters are scantily paid. San Franrisco PJjra miner. A FnKNcii physiologist has ascertained that highly poisonous principles known as oryptomaines may be developed in edible mushrooms under certain conditions.

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