Bloomington Telephone, Volume 10, Number 11, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 July 1886 — Page 3

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A fishekmaF at cttanf ord, Ky . ,

ties short fishing lixwk -with baited hooks to the feet of his geese and drives them into the water. When fish bite at the hooks the geese become frightened and swim to the bank. He catches large quantities offish in thi manner.

A lot of boys in Nicholasvillts KyM played at hanging the other day, and induced Walter Clarke, aged 12, to be hanged. He stuck his head in the noose and a boy kicked a barrel from under him, and then his companions ran away and left Walter kicking. He was cut down by passing men, but was unconscious for several hours.

A well-known New York lawyer, while addressing a country jury, got down on his knees to illustrate the manner in which his client prayed. The awkwardness of the effort provoked .some laughter among the spectators, which the judge promptly rebuked, eaying: "This emotion is disrespectful to the court, and unfair to the counsel. It is probaby his first experience. A wood duck was shot near Eagle Pond, Ind., in whose under bill was a large hole through which the tongue protruded. The hole was evidently caused by an eld shot wound. On the same shooting ground seven jacksnipe were killed which were marked with old shot wounds. Old Western gunners say that there is not a live jacksnipe to-day which has not had at least a score of shots fired at it.

The occupation of Jaehne, the convicted ex-alderman of New York, is described thus: "He stands in front of a table en which rests a vessel containing some water, and from a basketful of shirts which have been washed and wrung out, he picks out one and dips its bosom and wristlets in the starch. Then he lays this shirt aside and repeats the operation until there are no shirts left He leaves off work at 6 p. m. Charles Miller was talking about the persecuted laborers one afternoon recently at Cincinnati to a crowd of strikers, and accidentally vented some socialistic ideas. Suddenly Thomas Gorman, a son of Erin, stepped up and asked: "Are yes wan of thim socialists ? "I am, my friend and you n But the representative of socialism failed to proceed, as a six-ton sledgehammer blow fell on his mouth, and he was carried to the hospital. Thirty-two years ago the father of Aleander Bailes died, and after the estate had been settled, as was supposed, some papers and family relics were locked in a chest and given to the care of the boy's grandmother. She died and the chest went to the mother. Bailes was married a while ago and went to housekeeping in Greenville. Mich., and his mother sent the chest to him. He opened it, and in the old family Bible found documents which make him heir to property worth $40,000. Grant Shaw had a peculiar adventure the other day, near Confluence, Pa. He was walking through a jtetch of timber, when a familiar sound of a turkey gobble came to his ears Going in the direction from which the sound came, and imitating the gobble, he soon came upon a large flock of wild turkeys, which were walking in his direction, being attracted by his call. When the turkeys observed their deceiver they immediately began an indiscriminate attack upon him, Grant had a hard fight with them for several minutes, but succeeded finally in escaping with two of the turkeys under his arms. California carries on a large business in sea shells, which are gathered on its coast and shipped to Europe. One firm has a contract to ship forty tons of shells every sixty days. They are worth from $700 to $1,900 a ton. They are used in all kinds of decorative industries, returning to the United States from France vastly increased in price, when transformed into pearl buttons, brooches, shawl clasps, knifehandles, or inlaid work. Tahita shells, large flat mother-of-pearl shells are worth from $1.50 to $1 each, and the finest selected pairs are sometimes sold for as much as $50. A correspondent in Montana, telling of the fortuitous discovery of silver mines, relates this incident: A prospector in New Mexico with the honored name of John Quincy Adams found his

haversack on fire, his prospector's glass

having focused the sun's rays on 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 into a crevice, and a large rdck was thrown up. Adams returned mournfully to gather up what might be left of his effects, and found an exceedingly rich vein of ore which the explosion had exposed to view. He sold a third interest in his find for $16,000, and very consistently named the mine "The Nick of Time." The latest novelty in Chicago is the "rainbow party." The young ladies wear little aprons with the bottom left nhemmed. Every young lady has a

number, and these numbers are placed in a box. The gentlemen buy tickets and draw from the box. After all the young men have found the aprons, or rather their young ladies wearing the proper aprons, the master of ceremonies announces the conditions. The young men are to hem the aprons, and the one doing the neatest, quickest, and most careful piece of work is to receive a prize. The young ladies supply their escorts with needle and thread, and at the call of time the fun begins with the efforts of the contestants to thread their needles. The prizes are sometimes quite valuable. The aprons are raffled off after the prizes are awarded, and sometimes fetch big prices. Says the Philadelphia Times: George A. Jenks, who has just resigned the Assistant Secretaryship of the Interior to keep a promise to a dying man, is one of the most interesting characters Pennsylvania has produced. He began life as a carpenter, but with the distinct determination to.become a lawyer. He earned his way through college working at his trade and teaching school. He is usually called Judge, but it is a misnomer. It is his elder brother, William P. Jenks, who has served a term on the bench. They tell a story in point up in Jefferson County. He was once trying an important case before his brother, who charged the jury strongly against him. The jury, however, promptly brought in a verdict in his favor. When one of the jurors was reminded that their verdict was contrary to law, he denied it. But hadn't Judge Jenks charged so and so? "Oh, yes," he sponded, "we understood that. But George Jenks told us the law M as the other way, and we all knew George knows more law than Bill."

The statistician of the Department of Agriculture writes: "We certainly eat more pork than England consumes of beef, after duplicating the allowance of that prime article in the British nation; and we far exceed the French quota of all meats in pork product alone, and surpass by a still larger measure every other continental country. Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas have larger numbers of swine than all Russia with 60,000,000 people to feed. Indiana and IUuois have as many as Austria and Hungary, and, with Kentucky and Ohio, more than all the swine of the German empire; and Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas more than the numbers of France. The wonderful elasticity of this industry is worthy of notice. As with corn, there is never a famine or a glut; a small crop will suffice ; a large one only makes greater abundance and lower prices. In both cases the main consumption is at home. No good patriot can wish to export corn from the Missouri to Liverpool at a cost of 25 cents for transportation of a bushel, that may, perhaps, be bought for 20 cents, when pork or lard can be sent from the farm to the same market for a tenth of its home value."

In forty years from now the Argen

tine Bepublio may speak of her eighty-

sixers as California now talks of her forty-niners. A violent gold fever prevails along the Southern border, and the city of Buenos Ayres is all agog

with the bustle of departing treasure-

hunters and the competition of rival

outfit-dealers. The Siglo, The Standard (English), and a few other papers

publish semi-weekly bulletins from the

"camp," and the excitement runs higher and higher, for by this time there seems reallv no doubt that the bonanza is something more than a "pan-hole." The new diggings are on the Bio Gallegos, in a part of Patagonia claimed by the Argentine Government, and it seems certain that the results of a day's work have risen from an average $3 to $18 per miner. Moreover, new placers are discovered every week, and there must by this time be several thousand tents in the field. According to the Standard, one party of five men and two half-breed boys panned out sixteen pounds of gold in one week. The Eldorado boom of 549 may repeat itself in all but the profits of the provision dealers. Buenos Ayres is the cheapest meat-market of the American continent, and every batch of gold-hunters is followed by a consignment of came secca y habas dried beef and beans.

Civilized. "Samson, why don't you buy your children some clothes?" a white man asked of an old negro. "Kaint erford it, sah." "Don't gamble, do vou?" "faw, sah." "Get drunk?" "Nsclr" "Then what becomes of your money ?" "Gins de mos o' it ter de s'ciety, sah." "What for?' "Ter pay funul spences. When one o' de members dies we gins him er big turn out, sah." "You are foolish to stint your family in order to help pay for big funerals." "Foolish, w'y yer doan know what ver's talkin Txrat. Knowed ole Brocky Dan, didn't yer?" "Yes." "Wall, he wa'n't no 'count, but he difed las' week an' we gin him er fine funul. Hadtwenty-fT hacks." "And do you deprive yourself and family in order to be buried this way?" "Co'se, I does. Beckon I ain't got no sense? I may lib like er nigger, but I wants ter be buried like er white man. I doan want ter be buried in no ole box. I wants er fine coffin wid silver on it. Doan talk ter me, fur I'se er ciberlized pusson." Arkansaw Traveler).

HER SIMPLE ST0RI,

Uut It Stopped All Racy llacttala Among the Men That Iay. Three men sat in one end of a diaw-ing-room car telling stories. They appeared to be good stories, too, judging by the frequent laughter and slapping of knees and exclamation of surprise. In the middle of the car was a young woman, the wife of one of the storytellers. She did not appear happy. Her face was very solemn, and black eyes sparkled beneath her troubled brow and cast angry glances in the direction of the merry trio. Finally she rose from her seat with a determined look on her face, approached the group of story-tellers, and somewhat pettishly inquired : "Henry, what are you doing here?" "Telling stories, my dear innocent stories, you know." "Why have you not invited me to join you, instead of letting mo sit back there alone?" "Because I didn't know you liked stories, my dear. Women never do. Besides, it is the rule that every man in a crowd must tell a story. You couldn't do that, vou know." "Couldn't I though?" Catching the drift of the lady's remarks, the other members of the trio at once insisted that she take the vacant seat and initiate herself as one of them by telling a story. The lonely woman sat down and prepared to pay her way with an anecdote. "I don't know what kind of stories men are in the habit of telling when they get off in a corner by themselves," she began ; "but, from the fact that they neglect their wives in order to be alone, I judge they must be queer stories, not dignified ones for middle-aged men to relate, and not over-burdened with the truth. If, in my ignorance, I tell a commonplace story, and a truthful one as well, you must forgive the fault and attribute it to my inexperience." As she gave her companions these rather severe but not altogether unmerited raps they looked at each other out of the corners of their eyes and would have spoken in self-defense had she not immediately begun her anecdote. "Some years ago," she said, before I was married, a most laughable incident occurred at our house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. My little sister, then 3 years of age, was an exceedingly lively child. She ran all over the place, and found it impossible to sit still a minute except when she was asleep one of these irresponsible, uncontrollable little jumpabouts. Next door to our house was a church, and the parsonage was also close by. The minister used to make a good deal of little Genevieve, and she thought him one of her best of friends. It was an every-day trick for her to steal out of the house and run over to the parsonage or the study in the rear of the church to see her indulgent and fond favorite, the pastor, "One Sunday and mind you this is a true story I am telling you morning services were in progress at the church, and little Genevieve was at home with me. Carrying out mother's instructions, I took my little sister into the bath-room, and prepared her for her bath. It was a warm summer morning, and through the open windows of the church came the words of the good man, eloquent and not too low-voiced in the delivery of his sermon. I happened to step out of the bath-room a few moments to find some towels or something, and on my return little Genevieve was not there. I hurridly looked into the other rooms of the house, and then, fearing the worst, rushed out the front door, along the sidewalk, and up the steps leading to the church vestibule. I arrived there just in time to see that little thing flying up the aisle of the church toward the pulpit as fast as her short legs could carry her, and as naked as when she was born. I did tiot dare to folloAV her, and almost fainted with excitement, and probably would have done so had I not found relief for my agitation in a burst of weep-

can be seen, lay the loop over it, close the eye, and the mote will come out as the hair is Avithdrawn. If the irritating object cannot be seen, raise the lid of the eye as high as possible and place the loop as far as you can, close the eye and roll the ball around a few times, draw out the hair, and the substance which caused the pain will be sure to come with it.

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"As I afterward learned the congre

gation was so much astounded that no one tried to stop Genevieve, and she ran to the altar rail, holding out her hands to the minister, whom she loved so well. There the good man met her, took her to his breast and carried her down the aisle to the vestibule, saying as he went : " 'May the Lord bless this little angel and keep her heart always as innocent and pure as it is at this moment. As Jesus said, , Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such cherubs as this is the kingdom of heaven," may the Lord bless and preserve this fearless flower.' "So saying, over and over, with impressiveness and affection, the minister walked slowly to the vestibule and delivered little Genevieve into my arms. "This, gentlemen, is my little story. You think it very laughable? Oh, so do I. We made merry over it for many a day. And little Genevieve would say that she loved the minister more than ever, because he had called her his little angel. "But, gentlemen," the lady continued after a jmuse, "please do not laugh any more. I must add a word to my story. Three weeks from the occurrence of this pretty incident, which made Genevieve the best known and best loved child in our town, there came another bright morning, when the birds were singing and the plants and trees waving with the sighs of a gentle, intermittent wind. The old church was filled to the doors, and outside were hundreds who could not gain entrance, but who stood aside with uncovered heads as little Genevieve again approached the altar, to meet her favorite, the pastor. This time she came to join the angels for sure, and never to return to us again." Here the story-teller gazed intently out of the window, winking fast over her black eyes. One of her listeners became suddenly interested in his newspaper, while another sought a drink of water and then took a seat in the other end of the car. There were no more stories told there that day. Chicago Herald. The Medical Times says that a good way to remove irritating particles from the eye is to take a horse hair and double it, leaving a loop. If the object

A Wild Buffalo Hunt Upward of ten years ago I was hunting on the plains. One afternoon I left Fort Wallace, close to the line between Kansas and Colorado, carrying a rifle and ammunition. I followed the railroad for a short distance and then struck across the prairie. I soon came in sight of a herd of buffalo. Crawling a short distance I got in range and brought down five fine, fat ones. Taking off their saddles, or hind quarters, I left the carcasses intending to return the next day with a team and haul them to the, fort. By tho time I had them dressed it M as dark, and I had a good long stretch to get to camp. I shouldered my rifle, and struck out. In a short time I became aware by the sound that there was a herd of buffalo ahead of me. Which wav thev were traveling I could only guess. After listening a few moments I decided to keep on, but soon came right on to the herd. They appeared to be traveling the same way I wanted to go, so I followed, as I supposed, bringing up the rear. But they did not go fast enough for me, so I struck off at right angles to see if I could get past them, and soon found that that was out of the question. I then tried the left ; there, again, I found buffalo. I then faced to the rear, and what was my astonishment to see aline advancing in that direction. I must confess that mv hair raised a little when I saw the predicament I was in. I had deliberately walked right into the center of a herd of buffalo, and they were bringing up the rear instead of me. It was dark and I could not see a hundred feet, but I could distinguish plainly that I was in a little square, with buffalo all around me. I had to travel as the herd was moving, and the rear bulls were crowding a little too close for comfort. Every few moments an old bull would turn around, shake his head and bellow, as if to challenge a fight. But I was not looking for a fight then. I knew if I fired my gun the herd would stampede, and that would end my career. I would be trampled to death in the shake of your finger. I thought once of killing a bull and getting on his dead body and let the herd run around me, but I gave up that idea, as they would crowd each other in their terror, and I would be sure to be knocked over and killed. All tnis time my circle was getting smaller and smaller, and I could see the bulls were getting restless. Every minute one would turn, paw and bellow, while I would dodge, and those behind were so close that I could almost touch them. I saw I must do something, and at once decided on a bold push for liberty. Watching my chance I edged p close to a 2-year-old, then, making a spring, landed square on his back, sinking my hands into the long hair that grows on his fore shoulders. I gave a yell that would have made an Apache Indian ashamed of himself, and the fun commenced. Away we went, the dust and sand flying, the buffaloes crowding and jamming each other, up and down hill, across gulches, their hoofs rattling, the bulls bellowing, making a noise that could be heard for a mile. I hung on tenaciously like grim death. How it all woidd end I could not tell. As long as my bull kept his feet I stood a chance,, although I came near having my legs broken by the crowding animals. They kept up this race for perhaps half an hour. It was very uncomfortable, and I felt that I could not hold on much longer, and was thinking vhat I should do next, when the animal I rode made such a short turn to the right that I nearly went off his back. Looking up I saw the herd had divided, some going to the left and some to the right. The cause of it was plain. We had struck the railroad, where the bank was very high and steep, and I was now going parallel with, and close beside, thetrack. I placed the muzzle of my revolver close to the head of my poor beast, pulled the trigger and the next minute I went over Ids head all in a heap, but I had killed my buffalo, and was safe, although a good deal shaken up, but, after resting a little, was able to go to camp, well pleased that things were no worse. Detroit Free Press.

A Natural Weakness. She wanted to know all the customs and habits of catamounts, cougars, of raccoons and rabbits, and each reptile and fish that the ocean inhabits, and all of their traits and condition. She thought that no knowledge was trite or irrelevant, from a wee, tiny humming-bird up to an elephant, and she swam around in her own proper element while learning their habits and missions. And it was known truth that no possum or beaver coidd in the least fashion ever deceive her, for she'd traveled all lands from the Nile to the Neva and knew all their fish and their vermin. She knew all the habits and the traits of the condor, she was foud of the boa and the long anaconda, of the cobra and copperhead she was much fonfler, and all snakes that kept?fcoiling and squirming. She scoured the earth from the poles to the equator, for the ape and the monkey and the tough alligator, and the crocodile, shark, and all things of that natur' she sought with peculiar devotion. And whenever this kind of live stock grew monotonous, she sought the rhinoceros and tough hippopotamus, and she waded right in, and surely she fought 'em worse than they had any previous notion. But in spite of her knowledge and physical bravery it was whispered, by men who were given to knavery, that ske was still bound by a feminine slavery that holds all its sex in its power. For whenever a mouse came any where near her, she screamed so loud that her neighbors could hear her, and her poor little beau he loved her the dearer when she'd screech on a chair for an hour. Lynn Union

He'd Jtather Bo ilun?. Jn the middle ages there were two chances of life at tho last moment accorded to a malefactor condemned to death, besides a free pardon from the sovereign. One of these was the accidental meeting of a cardinal with the procession to execution; the other was the offer of a maiden to marry the condemned man, or, in the case of a woman sentenced to death, the offer of a man to make her his wife. The claim of the cardinals was a curious one. They pretended to have inherited the privileges with which the vestal virgins of old Home were invested. In 1309 a man Mas condemned to be hung in Paris for some offense. As he was being led to execution down the street of Aubry-le-Boucher he met the cardinal of St. Eusebius, named Kochette, who was going up the street. The cardinal immediately took oath that the meeting was accidental, and demanded the release of the criminal. It was granted. In 1376 Charles V. was appealed to in the case of a man who was about to be hanged, when a young girl in the crowd cried out that she would take him as her husband. Charles decreed that the man was to be given up to her. In 1382, a similar case came before Charles VI., which we shall quote verbatim from the royal pardon. "Henrequin Pontart was condemned by the judges of our court in Peronne to be drawn to execution on a hurdle, and then hung by lie neck till dead. In accordance with the decree ho was drawn and carried by the hangman to the gibbet, and when he had the rope round his neck, then one Jeannette Mourchon, a maiden of the town of Hammaincourt, presented herself before the provost and his lieutenant, and supxlicated and required of the aforesaid provost and his lieutenant to deliver over to her the said Dontart, to be her husband. Wherefore the execution was interrupted and he was led back to prison and by the tenor of these letters it is our will that the said Dontart be pardoned and released." Another instance we quote from the diary of a Parisian citizen of the year 1430. He wrote: "On January 10, 1430, eleven men were taken to the Halles to be executed, and the heads of ten were cut off. The eleventh was a handsome young man of 24; he was having his eyes bandaged when a young girl born at Halles came boldly forward and asked for him. And she stood to her point and maintained her right so resolutely that he was taken back to prison in the Chatelet, where they were married, and then he was discharged." This custom has so stamped itself upon the traditions of the peasantry that all over France it is the subject of popular tales and anecdotes ; with one of the latter we will conclude. In Normandy a man was at the foot of the gibbet, the rope was round his neck, when a sharp-featured woman came up and demanded him. The criminal looked hard at her, and turning to the hangman, said : A pointed nose, a bitter tongue! Proceed I I'd rather far be hung." Belgravia. The Memory of Faces. We must say to begin with that a large proportion of mankind, as any great portrait painter will testify, never see faces actually at all. Some are short-sighted and see no definite edges to anything, and consequently, though unconsciously, rely for identification on the evidence which is not that of sight, and is frequently all wroifg. They see tho type, but not the true face, and as a considerable portion of mankind possess type faces, distinguished from other of a like kind by differences as minute as those of leaves, the short-sighted, are constantly liable to error. Bo are the inattentive. They fail sometimes, after many interviews, to catch the expression of the face ; cannot state, except in the vaguest way, the color of the eyes or hair, and will misdescribe features perhaps prominent features as if they were paid to do it. They have never attended to the face at all, but have been content with a general impression ; have never observed with any true observation, and are as little to be trusted in their accounts as women believe most men to be when describing women's dress. They will even confuse dark persons with light, and declare that a long face struck them as a short one, or hesitate, as a witness did in a bigamy ease, about the presence or absence of a mustache. Indeed, it is probable that a large section of mankind cannot observe, for of all who land for the first time in India or China, at least half declare that all Indians or Chinese are practically alike. Yet, though Chinamen hove certain broad points of resemblance in color, shape of brows and absence of hair, thev are in details as different as Europeans; while Indians, owing to their difference in color, the use or disuse of hair on lip or chin, and the existence among them of features due to varieties of original race, are more different than the white men. Inattention is, however, the main cause of error, and is sometimes carried to extraordinary lengths. We have known brothers unable to state the color of each other's eyes, and fellow collegians who could not remember whether acquaintances wore the mustache or not. London Spectator.

The manufacture of malleable nickel, as the result of M. Garaier's experiments, has been realized by the addition of 0.3 per cent, of phosphorus or manganese, and others have found that by adding one-tenth or one-third per cent, of magnesium it is practicable to weld the nickel thus obtained to iron and stefl, roll it out in sheet and shape into tubes, pipes, etc. A series of tests made with the solid malleable nickel gave the following results: In the case of a 0.465inch round bar there was exhibited a limit of elasticity of not far from 60,000 pounds, a tensile strength of about 96,000 pounds, with elongation of seventeen per cent, and a contraction area of 50.6 per cent. A second, 0.44 inch in diameter, had an elastic limit of nearly 41,000 pounds, a tensile strength of about 70,000 pounds, an elongation of 20.25 percent, and a contraction area of 45.5 per cent. Young man, never say to your sire: fcl"ou might go, father, and fore worse.4

AN OLD-TIME SUSP AY, Stralght-Iaced Olwrvance of th Dap Haifa Century Ago Some Queer Cum in the Courts. The Sabbath in Pennsylvania thirty five years ago was regarded by many young people as a "holy terror. n The day might be defined as a bundle of negations "Thou shalt not do this, and thou shalt not do that. Attendance on Sabbath school and church twice on Sunday was part of the unwritten law of the household. The only thing that modified the rigor of this day's observance was a quiescent permission to accompany the girl of your love home after evening service, provided a big brother did not interpose and prevent. Church discipline was rigorous be-' yond measure, and many of the most serio-comic trials took place that hare ever been witnessed in or out of a court of justice. The law prohibited "all hunting or fishing, or sport of whatsoever kind," on this day. It was a dead and awful calm, except as broken the clanging of the church bells and pattering of feet on the way to the sanctuary. But by and by people became restive and weary. They began to discuss what was meant by a day of rest. Those who had been to school six days of the week did not think they rested by going to school twice on Suttday. They could not see where any play or refreshment or "ease of creation," came in. They played truant stole off to the fields and woods. Many of them took their guns and hounds for a day's recreation, and matters became so serious that it was deemed advisable to resort to the courts and see if this laxity could not be prevented A man about to die had made his will on Sunday. The whole town was in a buzz. Could such a thing be? The will was contested and the case went to the Supreme Court, where it was solemnly decided "that the making of a will is a solemn matter, performed without the slightest disturbance of or desecration of the Sabbath," and therefore might be made. John Jones undertook to ride a horse from Canon burg to Wheeling, Ye., John was caught on the said horse one Suaday by a justice of the peace, and arrested for desecrating the Sabbath. "The case reached the Supreme Court, and after exhaustive argument O. J. Gibson held that to ride a horse on Sunday did not violate the act of 1794, but he must not use the horse to carry anyone else. One William Johnston, on September 5, 1853, -fleas arrested for "driving an omnibus from Lawrence ville to Pittsburg on the Lord's day. He set up as an answer that the omnibus was used to convey people to church. Hie plea was held bad and William wae fined. There was a canal that ran through the town where I resided, and a lawsuit grew out of an attempt to open the locks and let the boats pass through After mature consideration it was held that it might be done. It was held to be unlawful to get shaved on Sunday. You might drive to church in your own conveyance, but woe betide the Jehu who took you there in a public one. But the great controversy that stirred Pennsylvania from her center tocir cumference was the running of street cars on Sunday in the city of Philadelphia, The judicial discussion encompassed the whole field of human learning on the Sunday question. All that God uttered, or Moses wrote, or Constantine ordained, or Parliament enacted, or the Colony ordered, or the Legislature established, touching this subject, was exhaustively considered. The case was presented in every phases and discussed by Judge Bead in every phase, and the conclusion reached wae that "the sole mission of Sunday is to inculcate a temporary weekly cessation from labor, but it adds not to this requirement any religious obligation; that the running of the cars was e matter of necessity and charity and could not be enjoined. This discussion and decision took place in March, 1867, and from that time onward np attempt has been niado to carry out the old, rigid notions that had been theretofore so seduously enforced and observed. Jl B. Belford. Blaine on Thunnan. His rank in the Senate was established from the day he took his seat, and was never lowered during the period of his service. He was an admirably disciplined debater; was fair in his method of statement, logical in his argument, honest in his conclusions He had no tricks in discussion, no catrii phrases to secure attention, bnt was always direct and manly. His mind was not preoccupied and engrossed with political contest or with affairs of state. He had natural and cultivated tastes outside of tlxose fields. He was a diecriminating reader, and enjoyed not only serious books, but inclined also t the light indulgence of romance and poetry. He was especially fond of the best French writers. He loved Moliere and Racine, and could quote ;wi&h rare enjoyment the humorous scenes depicted by Balzac. He took pleasure in the drama and was devoted to music. In Washington he could usually be found in the best seat in the theater when a good play was to be presented or an opera was to be gives. These tastes illustrate the genial aide of hie nature, and were a fitting complement to the stronger and sterner elements of the man. His retirement from the Senate was a serious loss to his party t, loss indeed to the body. IJe Ifeft behind him pleasant memories and carried with him the respect of all with whom he had been associated during hit twelve years of honorable service. Blaine's Histoiy. A Mew Garment This conversation was recently overheard on the water-side of Beacon street : Good morning, Mrs. Nouveau-Biche. "Good morning, good morning, Mrs. Pilgrim-Puritan. Did you know xo& daughter was engaged?" "No, indeed, Idid not." "It's true ; we have just sent to Paria, by cable, to order her bridal trouaan. Boston Budget One need not be a brilliant writer to express bimself in glowing terms.