Bloomington Telephone, Volume 11, Number 13, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 August 1887 — Page 2

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The United States pays every year lor cigars and cigarettes $186,500,000 and $20,000,000 for tobacco smoked in pipes. To this it adds the cost of chewing tobacco, $50,000,000, bringing the -entire tobacco bill for the year up t6 3256,500,000. Coin James Stapletok, of Stapleton, Oa., has several bales of cotton that he has kept ever since the war. He says he can keep cotton easier than he can money, and as the staple ceased long ago to lose in weight he may le said to bo saving as much money as the cotton is worth. . Two villagers in the West of En;gland clubbed together and bought a liearse as a public memorial for the Queen's jubilee. It was done in good faith, but the gruesome object was considered a trifle out of place in the procession, and the testimonial was quietly returned to the donors.

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Princess Eugeme, of Sweden, who takes a great interest in the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the other day invited the cabcirivers of Stockholm to "afternoon coffee" in the large hall of the Exchange, where a lecture about the horse and it s proper treatment was afterward delivered. One of the Princess' ladies in waiting officiated as hostess.

Senator Stewart, of Nevada, says that instead of cutting off the railroad passes of Senators and Representatives, as has been done by the InterState Commerce Law, he would give them all pAtf-s and compel each man to travel at least 5,000 miles a year, in order to have them learn something about all parts of the country ior which they have to legislate. Queen Victoria, while on her way from Balmoral to Windsor xo attend 'the jubilee, was stopped by a swarm of bees. It was at night The bees had swarmed in the glass box of a signal lamp and put out the light. The engineer not seeing the customary light stopped the train, and would have secured the bees and taken them on to Windsor as a memento had there been time. ; President Cleveland writes few letters and dictates none. Hi public papers he writes with his own hand, fie uses a stub pen and a cork penholder, and in reading or writing wears spectacles wuh a black steel frame.

usrany wears a dislck rrarar aiuert coat and black trousers, excepts in summer, when he wears a blue-fiannel or - aerge suit with sack coat. He wears a 7 hat ' Prof. Bolton expresses the opinion that the crowning glory of modern -chemistry is the power of producing in the laboratory, from inorganic matter, substances identical with those existing in the vegetable and animal kingdoms 'it being known now that the same cheAical laws rule animate and inanimate nature, and that any definite compound produced in the former can be prepared by synthesis as soon as its -chemical constitution has been made out Harriet Beecher Stowe is failing rapidly. The brilliant intellect which conceived the immortal tale of "Uncle Tom's Cabin9 is perceptibly shattered. 'The death of Prof. Stowe has added :years to the appearance of his lonely rife, and she has lost entirely her vigor and enthusiasm. In her modest little house in Hartford she awaits list4easly the end of her busy life. Sadly -ahe said a few days ago to a friend, No; I write no more. I have done, I ttave done, I have done." Among the few survivors of Waterloo is Lord Albemarle, who entered the English army on April 4, 1315, and -served on Juno 18 with the old Fourteenth Foot He retired on half-pay ma Major, became a Major General October 26, 1858, and a General February 7, 1874. The other survivor whose name is in the army list, :1s Gen. Oeorge Whichcote. This veteran sollier received his commission in January, 1811, and served in the Peninsula with the Fifty-second Light Infantry. The Congregational Society on the Pacific Coast employes twerty-two -American teachers and eleven Chinese assistants. It has five schools in San Francisco and fourteen elsewhere, least year the pupils numbered 1,279. The Chinese converted in these schools . join the Congregational Association of Christian Chinese, the conditions of membership being the same as to a church. The association now has 420 members, 117 being also members of churches. Last year its contributions were $1,937. 15. -John Tonne, the Kansas City man "who has been lecturing against morraonism, is about to institute suit against Salt Lake Oity for $1,000,000. In 1868 be was obliged to fly with the penalty of death hanging over him ahould he return. Just before John J). Lee was hngad for the Mountain Meadow massacre he confessed that he bad been employed by Brig ban:. Young te murder Tobin, but only succeeded in

wounding him. At that time Tobin was obliged to fly from Salt Lake Cifcv. He then owned considerable property in the heart of the city, which is now estimated at being worth over $1,000,000. Mrs. Elizabeth Mackinder died at Anna, 111., in the 82d year of her ago. She had illustrious lineage. Her maiden name wjis DeBow. Her father, John DeBow, was the son of James DeBow, who was born in New Jersey in 1785. Her mother was Sarah Montgomery of Eglmton, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Along this line the records go back by way of Hugh, created first Earl of Eglinton by James IV. in 1585, to Arnulp, Earl of Pembroke, 1102; toKoger, Count of Mont gomerie, who came over with William the Conqueror, in 1066; to Roger, the firsf historic Count de Montgomerie in Normandy, A. D. 900.

A recent application of a West Virginian named Brown at the pension office in Washington brought to lighf the fact that one mother had given sixteen sons to the service of the union during the war. She had borne thirtythree children in all, of whom twenty were boys, and of these only four did not serve as soldiers in the union army. Two wert killed and fourteen survive. Each of the latter is to-day in receipt of a pension from the Government for disabilities received in the service, and the death of her other soldier sons entitles the mother also to a pension. The case is an interesting one, not only for the remarkable number of sons of one mother who wore the blue, but as illustrating how contagious was the war spirit in some families along the line of fire.

A auner named Bobbins got a ver diet against the Erie Telephone Company for $375 because of an electric shock given him by Belle Hepburn, one of the girls of the central office of El Paso, Texas. Paul Keating, exMayor of El Paso, is proprietor of a saloon opposite the central telephone office. He had two rings hung from the awning in front and at just the height to tempt one to "try his muscle" by drawing himself up on them. Two invisible wires from the telephone office connected with the rings. When a man seized the rings to draw himself up, as Bobbins did one day, the watchful Belle Hepburn turned on the current and fastened him to the rings. When he was released he had to treat the crowd in Heating's saloon. Bobbins was so severely shocked that he was laid up for a month or more, and he brought suit for $20,000, Judge Falvey, before ihom the case was tried, is said to have himself turned on the curassessor to the rings. The assessor was a witness for Bobbins. Three hundred and seventy-five dollars was not satisfactory to Bobbins, and he has appealed. The area of the thirty-eight States and Territories (excluding Alaska) is 1,856,070,400 acres. Of this, 24.6 per cent., or 487,280,000 acres, was, according to the last general census, covered with forest. In the States west of the ninety-fifth meridian, and ( ex eluding the Indian Territory ) which cover 65.5 per cent, of the total area of the United States, there is only 15.2 per cent, of forest, and if from this is taken California. Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Texas, the remainder west of the ninety-fifth meridian west longitude has only 8.1 per cent. The thirty States east of that meridian have an area of 640,000,000 acres, or 34.5 per cent, of the whole, and the census gave 47.5 per cent, of this as forest. In this group the twenty Eastern and Northern States, including as such Maryland and West Virginia, have an area of 313,547,200 acres, of which 44.4 per cent, was timber. The ten Southern States of this group have almost the same area as the Northern and Eastern twenty, via, : 326,421,600 acres, of which 50.6 per cent aves forest. The group east of the ninetyfifth meridian, containing only 34.5 per cent, of the whole area, had yet 62.2 per cent, of the whole forest space.

CHOICE THOUGHTS. The inventor only knows how to know. Bight ethics are central, and go from the soul outward. With the .great, our thoughts and manners easily become great. Thkpe are those who never reason on what they should do, but on what they have done. How many of our troubles ever happened ? We dream of ten for every one that comes. Thk great high road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well doing. Every one can do his best thing easiest. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. The boy who can claim honesty and sobriety in a word, unimpeachable integrity for his inheritance has a great estate to begin life with. The world has a sure chemistry, by which it extracts what is excellent in its children and lets fall the infirmities and limitations of the grandest mind. It is not necessary or right that all men should enjoy art, nature, or music to make them useful or honorable. When we go a pleasuring at least let us be honest, and not pretend to a liking for white-bait when we hunger for a good meal of wholesome coarse broad and salt herring.

rNYrraa to dakota. A POETICAL APFBAL TO TENDKRFBKT, Don't prate about our cyclones, our blizzards, and our storms ; don't weary us with chestnuts on the way our wind performs; these yarns were long itgo called in it's time we had our dueit's time to drop these fairy tales and give us something now t Come out and get acquainted; don't stay at home an 1 pout ; we only auk inspection to remove all honest doubt ; we have cattle by' the thousand and corn aud hay galore ; wo could feed the half of Kuropa aud still have plenty more. Just come and see our wheat crop, our No. 1 hard red; of alt tho favored western states vt plaen is at tho head our famous catnle ranchoa, too. the highest pmiao command, and nowhere on this continent is better grazing land. With building stone tor eburebpfs, for schools and business blocks ; with mino-t of gold acid gypsum nnd silver-bearing rockfi ; with growing, thriving cities that are marvds of the plain; with sturdy western rustlera full ef muscle, grit, and brain. To our educational system we fan point with honest pride ; graded scliooln and colloge bui Mings meet tho eye on every side; ehnrchon rise as if by lnacric, an l cultured homes appear, whur once the hum bio uhantry housed the sturdy pioneer. Dakota Bell.

ON THE BEACH.

BZ FBAKK J. MARTIN. Mr. Richard Ryder, attorney at law (with a very meager practices reclined upon a lounge iu his bachelor room, holding an open letter iu his hand. It was a pretty, well-furnished room in the front of a house on one of the most fashionable up-town streets in New York, and presented such a cheerful appearance that we might fairly suppose that even a bachelor lawyer could be happy within its limns. Yet Richard Ryder was far from being contented, and the letter in his hand was the cause of his dissatisfied frame of mind. This is what was written in the letter; -Rkd Shell Bat Monday. Deabbst Dick: It is along whilo since I wrote you, but I hope you have not thought very 111 of me. I could not write before, and now It is almost breaking my heart. I can never be your wife, Pick, for 1 am goinr: to marry Walter Bookwell aud I hate him. Oh, Dick, my love, how can I ever murry that man wben my heart is yours? Yet, 1 must, I must. Do not scorn me, Dicki but pitv me. Will you aome and see me once more, dear, before the a? II bo, come on Thursday. "Mildred." It was now Tuesday evening, and Dick wondered whnt.good could come of another visit to his love. Dick liyder was a goodhearted fellow, and loved Mildred Frevor . dearly, but he felt a It' tie sore over the contents of her letter. He was pretty well acquainted with the circumstances which led np to this decision of Mildred's. The Frevors had been rich and had raised thuir only daughter amid all tho luxury and refinement which wealth could command. Two years before our 6tory opens, however, Mr. Trevor had died, leaving hia wife and daughter much poorer than onght to have been the case. Mildred herself loved wealth and affluence, but her mother much more so. The latter had led her daughter to believe that the one object now to be attained by her was a rich husband. So when Walter Bockwell, a wealthy young merchant, offered his hand in marriage she accepted his offer. She never loved him never pretended to love him but then up to that time she had never loved any one. And then Dick Ryder, handsome, clever, and good-hearted, came upon the scene, aud Mildred Trevor loved him and he loved her. Perhaps if Mildred had been left to herself and her feelings in the matter she would have broken her engagement with Bockwell and married Dick. Hut strong well, too, pressed his suit and tried to hasten the date for the wedding, while Dick's practice grew very slowly. So the end of it all was the letter which Dick now held in his hand. Mr. Ryder could not make up his mind that evening as to whether or not it would be wise for him to go to Red Shell Bav, and retired to spend the night in troubled dreams of Mildred and the Rockwell ogre. Next morning he was no nearer a solution of the difficulty, but, as 10 o'clock drew near, he remembered that he had promised to see his chum, Tom Stevenson, embark on the Etruria for Europe. He

hurried to the pier and fc und his friend.

They chatted away amid the din around them, and just as began to clear the decks of were not passengers Stevenson

"By the way, Dick, I Jpsard something a day or two ago of yourtival, Rockwell. I heard he was married to an English girl in London a year or two ago and did not use her very well. I think there is more txuth than fiction in the report, too." "Step off the gangway, sir," said one of the ship's officers to Dick, giving that young man a gentle shove on the pier. But Dick was aroused by his friend's remark, and, at the risk of being noticed by the crowd, shouted "Stevenson! Tom!" Mr. Stevenson appeared at the side of the steamer. "Try and learn all you can of that matter, Tom, for God's sake, and telegraph mo." "All right," replied Stevenson. "Is it so bad as that? Well, good-bye, old fellow, I'll not forget." But Dick was too much engrossed in his own thoughts to bid his friend "good-bye"or wish him ban voyage. One thing Dick Ryder was resolved upon. He would go down tri Red Shell Bay, and he would start that 'ery evening. Red Shell Bay is an out-of-the-way, quiet little summer resort on the New England coast. Besides the one small hotel there are perhaps a dozen cottages altogether too insignificant a place for the railroad to include along its line. So the Iron Horse passad Red Shell Bay full ten miles to the westward, and communication with New York and Boston is kept up by means of a steamer which, duringrhe summer months, makes bi-weekly trips. This was Wednesday, and the steamer left New York Tuesdays nd Fridays, bo, If Dick would be at Rod Shell Bay on Thursday he must take the train to Derbyville and walk or diive the additional ten miles. "Well," thought he, "I have often walked it before, and I think I can do it once more; I can walk over early in the morning." However Dick missed the night train, and the train that left New York on Thursday morning did not bring him to Derbyvifle until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Meanwhile he had telegraphed to Miss Trevor-

bustle and tho sailors those who said:

"Will walk over from Derbyville Thursday evening. Try and meet mo at tho oil p ace." The Derbyville road lay for more than two miles along the top of the c litis before It entered the seaside village of Red Shell Day. Dick had been wont to leave the highway and take to the sands where Mildred had several times met him to bear him company at the close of his walk. It was jutit sundown when Dick came to the point whore ho usually left the road for the beach, and although it was the close of a sultry day in August, the otvnn appeared nnusunlly sullen, wbile the sky looked wild with that strange mixture of thick blackness and fiery redness which we sometimes see before a terrible storm. Dick began to think that h3 wan. in for a wet skin, if for nothing else, utul hoped that Mildred had not started out. Hardly had the hope escaped bis thoughts when from his elevated position he saw in the fading light, oarnaps a quaiter of & mile

down the shore, the well-remembered girlish figure Mildred. He quickened hia footsteps, and as speedily as possible descended to tho beach. It did not take him more than two minutes, but in that short space oil time the stormy twilignt changed to pitchy darkness. It was fearfully dark so dark that Dick could not see the waves, though he could feel the surf break at h:i;i feet. Ah! It was a high tide, too, and si;iil running in. If it were not that he had seen Mildred he would certainly now havo returned to the roadway; now he must hasten to her aid. Yet he could not make mucli headway. He had to repeatedly dodge the advancing waters, and it was so dark he could see nothit g. When ho thought he had walked a q uarter of a mile he ha ted and shouted "Mildred!" But no voice responded to Ins cull. Again tod again he repeated his halloo, and, jast as he began to think a terrible calamity had overtaken his sweetheart, he stumbled over something a woman Mildrtul Dick was on his knees in on instant, and was horrified to find Mildred's dress and hair soaking wst She lay as though deal perhaps she was dead and 3et she could hardly have been drowned, though even at tiiat moment n. huge wave broke uncomfortably close to Dick and his lifeless companion. Dick Ryder was no simpleton; he did not lose his senses, although his heart was sad and heavy. Hw first core was to carry the poor girl as fax as be could from the water, and when he had deposited his burden at the foot of the clirf be felt her pulse and found it still boating, feebly. He chafed bar hands and tore away the dress from the slender nock. Then he put his ear down to her face and found that she wan breathing faintly, in short, quick gaspa. It was an embarrassing situation. The night so dark that he could not see the senseless girl at his feet. On one side the high cliffs und on the other the sea running in on a high tide, threatening to exit oi' retreat by way of the beach. There wasor.ly one chance and he would take it. He must hurry back to the pathway by which he bad descended from tho road and secure help from the cottage which he knew to be a few rods back from the cliff at that point. He kissed the cold, wet lips, and started off. In ten minutes ho was at the cottage. While waiting J'or the man he found there to light a lantexn, he noticed that his hand held a miniature portrait in a setting oi! diamonds. He must have torn it from Mildred's neck when he loosened her dress., for there was a .fragment of silk thread attached to it. Unconsciously, almost., he looked at the portrait, it wt.s M alter Rockwell! He had completely forgotten the existence of such a person during the excitement of the last half hour, but even at such a time as this the distasteful fact of his engagement to Mildred mu6t be forced upon him. "Well, no matter, " thought Dick, "I must;

save her for him.w Ten minutes more end Mildred wasbeing carried back to the cottage on a hastily improvised stretcher. When they reached the cottage the man's wife was in. waiting with dry clothing and warm drinks. And then, for tha first time, Dick saw that: the girl he had found on i;he shore was not Mildred at allm And yet the et ranger w;s so wonderfully like Mildred in height and figure, as well as the shape of her head, that it was no wonder Dick Ryder had been mistaken. The eld lady took absolute charge of the stranger and Dick, after promising to call iu the morning, hurried off to Red Shell Bay. Early in the morning he was up to the Trevors' cottage, where he found Mildred perfectly well, find wondaring why he had not been to see her on the previous eveniiw onrse he had to narrate uIn adventure, which !ae ma wuth much modesty, (not mentioning the kiss he had bestowed upon the stranger.) Mildred insisted upon accompanying him to the cottage, and together they set out in a carriage wbioh Dick: had in waiting. They learned that the girl had quite recovered from th-3 effects of her mishap, and half an hdur after their arrival she appeared on the porch in a bright-dress that Mildred had brought for her use. The 'two girls were so much a ike that i;hey would easily havo passed for twin sisters" The stranger spoke first: "Mr Mr" ;"Ryder," suggested Dick,) 4 Mr. Ryder, how can I thank you? I came down from New York on the night train, a:ad yesterday morning started out to walk fiom Derbyville station to Red tthell Bay. 1 thought that I could easily walk ten miles, but I losr; my way, and, as you know, by hi nset I was still some distance from my destination. I was so weary and so frightened when the thick darkness gathered with such rapidity that, when that fearful l'f sh of lightning cam, followed by the iieavy thunder, I fainted. Then I felt the water rushing over me and I recovered sufiicienlly to drag myself a little higher up the beach. After that I fainted again and knew no more until I awoke this morrang. I must have been a threat deal of trouble to you, and I cannot thank you properly." Dick murmured something about "a pleasure," etc., otc. 44 By the way." resumed the young lady, ' I have missed n miniature painting which I value highly. I thought it just possible that you might have found it a portrait of my husband.' Dick was astonished, but admirrbly suppressed his surprise. Kay, more, he was even capable of concocting a small scheme. "I did," said he, "accidentally take this miniature from you last night. It is an exquisite little thing you will not mind Miss Trevor seeing it?" and he passed tho trinket to Mildrd. And now Dick thought he was about to

have another fainting pin on his hands, but Mildred's pride carried her through. She quietly admired the miniature and handed it to its owner. I am lately from England," explained the stranger, ka:tid learning that my husband was at Red hhell. Bay, I thought I vould take him by surprise. His name is Rockwell. Dick felt that he and Mildred had stayed long enough, fcio he suggested that Mrs. Rockwell rest until the afternoon, when he would carl for hor. Ho and Mildred drove Jjnck to the village and a very silent drive it was. When Dick returned to the cottage for Mrs. Rockwell she was gone. She had been driven over to Derbyville aud had returned to New York. Dick and Mildred never saw her i.gain, nor AV alter Rockwell either. That evening, which was quiet aud fair, Dick and Mildred strolled along the sands. Very near to the spot where he found Mrs. Rockwell Dick whispered to his love: "You will not let any one else come between us, will vdu, dear?" For an answer Mildred kissed him. Nothing was then or fiinco said of the letter which had troubled Dick. Arm in um they stroll ad back along the shore, ind they havo walked, arm in arm, along ;he sands oi Time, ever since.

FitKNt:H experiments have shown that nickel may be effectively rolled upon aoft stool plate, which arc thus miule as valuable for lamp rerlectors r,ml other purposes as silvered copper. Hk that is cl oiceof his time will also be choice of Ui;i company and choice of his actions.

Central American Republics There is a strong tendency iu our day, among the more enlightened nations, not only to approach toward thdsa republican institutions which the people of the United States enjoy, but to adopt some form of union, or federation, in more or less respects resembling1 our own. The two great empires of Central Europe Germany and AustriaHungary Have been converted, within the past twenty-live years, into federal unions, in which each component State managea its local affairs, while the cc nmon interests and defence of the States are managed by the Central Government.

There is, moreover, an active and growing movement to form the kingdoms and colonies of the British Empire into a vast federation, each to have its own local legislature to make local laws and regulations, and the Imperial Parliament to deal with objects common to all. A somewhat similar plan is proposed to be carried out by tho five turbulent little Central American republics, which lie close together between Mexico and the Isthmus of Panama. These States constituted the Central American Federation from 18S!3, just after the Spanish rule had been thrown off, until 1H39, when they flew into fragments, and set up, each for itself, an independent government. One or two attempts have been made since then to re-unite these little republics. The last was that of Barrios, who was for many years Dictator of Guatemala, and who lost his life in the attempt. But now a renewed effort, peaceable in its nature, has been made, and a treaty has already been accepted, forming a more intimate tie between these republics than has existed since 1839. This treaty provides that "perpetual peace shall exist between the republics; that all differences shall be arranged; and that, in the event of this proving impossible, such differences shall be submitted to arbitration" The example of greater and more enlightened nations has thus had a good influence upon those little, jealous, and hitherto quarrelsome States, which have been from time to time domineered over by military dictators, and cc.n only take rank, at best, as semicivilized communities. The Ave States, ranged along the coast of the Pacitic and the Carribean Sea, from north to south, are Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. All are nominally republican and their governments are modelled to some extent upon that of the United States. Each has a president und a legislative body of one or two chambers. Of the live republics, Guatemala is the largest and the most thriving, its area nearly fifty thousand square miles. Next in population is Salvador, with six hundred and thirty thousand, though its area is much the smallest of all. These little States have had "history" in abundance. They have often been afflicted with civil wars, and have also been often aroused, by jealousies, to conflicts with each other. Thoy have been too Xrone to imitate, iu thooo respects, their larger neighbor, Mexico. It may be that now that they see the far greater blessings of concord and mutual co-operation, a brighter era is in store for them. They are so nearly our own neighbors, and they have so many industrial interests in common with us, that our cordial good wishes will attend their effort to put an end to

the period of strife, and to dwell together in amity. In order to attain this end, it is altogether probable that the live republics will soon adopt the federative form, leaving each one still independent in dealing with its own affairs, and establishing a common executive and congress for purposes of mutual defence and well-being. Such a result will certainly tend to ensure greater liberty and prosperity to each and all of them. Youth's Companion. A Visit to a Persian Bride. The seat of honor was given to me, the bride sitting on my right, her elder aunt (her uncle and two wives) on my left. Persians think a great deal of appearance and outward show, and the ladies were decked in their grandest attire, and were blooming in all the fictitious glories of painted womanhood! i?'air hair and eyes are not admired by them, but a fair skin and florid complexion are greatly sought after, and call forth the tribute of general admiration. Even when nature has distributed her gifts to them with no niggard hand they will furbush up nhe complexion with quantities of rogue and powder until they look like full-blown roses. Many an old woman of ioideous, forbidding aspect, whose appearance would be invaluable in melo-drama, is made up into the bad semblance of a young woman ; the furrows Time with his ruthless lingers has traced are filled in with powder, not artistically faced as the European belle many of whose charms might not bear close overhauling often sets off her loveliness with artfully arranged aids to beauty, but laid on in thick layers. Although the bride was very young, having at t he most seen 16 summers, rouge, alas ! was no stranger to her pretty face. Her hair, which was jet black was very long, M as plaited into a number of tiny tails, the ends of which peeped forth from under tho chagat of folded white linen she wore on her head. Nothing can exceed the ugliness or unbecoming! ess of this head gear ; it is merely a squa re piece of muslin or cotton folded cornerwise, and tightly fastened with a pin or tiny brooch under the chin, with two ends hanging down the back, and the remaining two falling over the breast. Over this again is worn tho house veil, which envelopes tho whole figure; It is a large squave or rounded piece of muslin or gay-patterned chintz, and is not fastened on, but simply kept in its place by the arms. Her voluminous skirt was of white and pink striped sacin, handsonielv

trimmed with gold lace, and reached half way to the knees; the legs were bare. Often as many ae twenty yards of silk or satin are employed for these skirts, which are gathered into a band at the waist, and are worn over four or live petticoats very mud. atiftened. The more a skirt stands out die more t&dx

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Jonable it is. The bodice is a loos j sort of jacket of silk or velvet trimmed with gold lacs ; the sleeves are long, and terminat in a pointed cuff that tains back, reaching- nearly to tho elbow. This is worn over a calico or linen ahirL Although all dresses agree in their lead ii;g features, and the fashions sever change m the East a& they do in the West, y at they differ to a great extent in detail a:ad afford a scope for the peculiar taste or fancy of the wearer. The con trast between indoor dress and walking attire is very striking, London Society. Where Great Men are Born It is a curious fact, as noted by the Washington correspondent of the Netr York Herald, that the great majority of the prominent men are from the smaller citites and towns, while on the other hand, the number of those bora ia the larger cities of the North and West who have written their names high on the roll of political and military fame wdl scarcely reach a round dozen. Charles Sumner was a resident of Boston, but his jorreat colleague in the Senate, Henry Wilson, came from the insignificant village of Natick, while (lens. Butler and Banks and Sena. Dawef and Hoar are natives of places but little more important in pcint of population. Tilden and Arthur were New York City men, but nearly every e ther New Yorker of prominence like Pres. Cleveland, Daniel Manning, Horatio Seymour, Conkling, Seward, ijrreely and Kernan had their birth and training in the interior citizes, "Sunset" Cox claims New York City as his home, but he made his reputation aa a recontnir and wit before he removed l;o the metropolis and while a re sident of the sleepy old tows of Zanesvil le, O. Sam Sandall is the only Congress nan from Philadelphia in 20 years who & known outside of his state. The other famous Pennsyivaniana Buchan n, Stevens, Cameron, Curtin, Meade, and Hancock all hailed from the provinces, In Ohio the contrast is still more sharply defined. Ben. Wade, Chase, Stanton, Garfield, Hayes, Get- and Senator Sherman, Giddings, Thurman, Sheridan, and William Allen were in every instance citizens of obscure little towns that are known only to the world as the homes of these great men. Cincinnati, aa an offset to this, has furnished to the country but two men of national prominence since the war exAttorney Gen. Taft and George H. Pendleton. Chicago has done even less for herself, inasmuch as she has sent but one may, Lyman Trumbull, of first-class ability, to either branch of Congress. Grant, Lincoln, Logan, and Yates, the best-known names in Illinois politics, laid the foundation of their greatness in the smallest cities and towns of the state. What is true of the statesmen of the pa;3t i equally true of those of to-day. The Morrisons, Springers, Blounts, Hammonds, Butterworths, McKinlevs, Reeds, Mills, Holmans, Paysons, Weavers, Beagens, and Hen

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Raising Horses or Mules It is of ten a question to the average farmer, writes a corrospondent of TAe Breeders' Gazette, which will le the most profitable, to breed his mares for

horse or mule colts. Mules generally sell well, are rather easier to raise, not quiet as subject to disease, will stand more rough treatment, and oin be broken to service younger than horses. They are generally more troublesome about the place, being more inclined to be "breachy," and where the stock is all kept in the pasture together, as ia the case on many farms, they are more troublesome on account of a disposition to run down calves and sheep. They are often more trouble to break and moro liable to kick. They will, taken as an average with the average farm coltft, sell easier and at a higher price at weaning time. If you. lmve only average or below average mares, and you are breeding to the same quality of a horse, I should certainly say take the Jack; As between a scrub colt, which is too often secured by this kind of minting, I should certainly prefer to secure a mule colt, as it would not only prove more profitable to sell, but make a better animal for use upon the farm. If yon have good mareo, well formed and well developed, and can breed, to a really good horse, I should certainly prefer this kind ef a horse col to a mulo. So that in determining which to breed for I ahoul'd con sider the animal I was breeding us well as the quality of the horse that I would secure to mate her with. There is more money in mule colts than only average horse colts, but if you are situated so as to breed and secure a really good colt rather above the average such colts can be made more profitable than mules. Stories of Birds. While Louis Gott was hunting near Palmyra, Mo., he received a violent blow on the side of the head, which

made him dizzy for a few momenta. When he recovered he saw a prairie chicken limping away, and he thinks it was the chicken that struck him. Joseph O'Brien, of Cleveland, says that he once examined a swallow's nest in which were two young birds. Around the leg of one of them horse-hair had been closely wound. Mr. O'Brien removed tho hair and found that the leg had been broken. He thinks that this was a genuine case of bird surgery. A Valdosta, Ga., man driving along the road near his home, saw a large bald eagle devouring a goose by the roadside. He alighted, gathered a light-wood knot, and advance! upon it, but the e&gle, so far from fleeing away at his approach, stood by its game and, showed tight. The mail walked to within a lew feet of it and, with a welldirected blow with the lightwood knot, knocked it over. Ovix sins, like our shadows when opr day is ir. its glory, scarce appear. Towards our evening how great and moastrouii lihey are. Sir J. Suckling., The maa who procrastinates struggle wth ruittv