Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Number 33, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 October 1889 — Page 3

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Thkek sisters named Cuvelior have committed suicide at Vesinex on account of losses in bettiug. Mrs. G. F. Negoes2Hth, wife of a Harlem, N. Y., policeman, has fourteen living children, and is but 42 years old. It is death to any person in Siam to mention the Kings name. This is a custom that many other tribes adhere to. A judge down in Tennessee has instructed his grand jury w to indict; all persons who publicly express infidel sentiments."

The author of the homestead law, Oeorge W- Alien, of Ohio, has no homestead of his own, and it is stated is About to die in abject poverty. Boxtlangeb is not to have a courtmartial trial after all. It is doubtful if uchabody could convict him, so no one will be surprised that his request h&a been denied.

One hundred and thirty thousand persons sleep in the New York station houses during a year. The larger numler of them were, in previous years, men; now the majority are women. A fuserai was announced recently in Connecticut to which relatives and friends were regularly invited, but it was also announced that the burial would be "at the convenience of the family." A mormon elder says the religious mormons are steadily drifting out of Utah toward Mexico, where they can live up to the full requirements of their iaitb, and that altogether fully 10,000 will eventually leave the territory. A receict discussion about the height of trees ia the forests oE Victoria, Australia, brings from the government botanist the statement that he has seen one 525 feet high. The chief inspector of forests measured a fallen one that was 485 feet high.

A Kingston horse, it is alleged, has a record ot having gone ninety miles over a country road in one day. Then it became frightened at a train of cars, ran away, smashed the wagon to kindling wood, and came out of it all in a comparatively fresh and healthy condition. Capt. L. O. Shepabd, commander of he revenue cutter; Bush, the great seizerof the Behring Sea, has been in the revenue marine sen ice since 1866, and has served through all the grades from third lieutenant to captain. He is a native of Massachusetts, and is regarded as a cool and brave officer. Prcxce Bismarck is suffering from inflammation of the veins. This is the outcome of his refusal to obey hi$ physicians. They forbade him to drink wine or beer or to smoke cigars. With Montaigne's contempt for the advice of doctors, he continues his usual habits, and the result has proved disastrous. Mb. Neville, the great London baker, was offered and refused $4,000,00 for his business shortly before his death. In early life he failed and had his accounts settled by the bankruptcy oourt. Later, when his second venture had made him rich, he paid all his old creditors the balance of their claims in full, with interest.

other Ilaytians have preceded him and have received a welcome. About thirty years ago Soulouque, the Emperor of Hayti, lied to France, and for some years lived in grand style in Paris, He carried n large fortune with him and enjoyed life. It is not known just how much boodle Legitime has, but he probably picked up everything in sight. Old Christ Church, Alexandria, of which one George Washington was some time a vestryman, had twice a woman sexton. In 1776, Susannah Edwards seated the congregation, "each according to his dignity." From 1810 to 1821 a Mrs. Cook held sway, and it is said would lock the people in their pews and patrol the aisles in a most martial manmanner. She was also a terror to such as infringed the decorum of the place. So it is no wonder she was retired upon a pension long before her usefulness was past. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette says that Pekin is not worth visiting. It is not a quarter as interesting as San Francisco. One by one the show places have been closed to foreigners, and the Marble Bridge, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven io mention only the first that come to mind are now hermetically closed against the barbarian, and neither rank nor money nor impudence can force an entrance. Even the ascents to the top of the wall the only place where a foreigner can walk in comfort and decency, owing to the vile odors are now barred, and you must find a bribably sentry. The Brsxel cottage at Mount McGregor, in which Gen. Grant passed his last hours, is kept just as it was when he died, with the exception of the removal of a few personal belongings of the family. The two big leather-covered easy chairs in which he passed so many painful days are draped in black and left in the same position they were in when he occupied them. The clock on the mantel has been silent since the moment of his death, when the doctor stopped it, and the writing tablets that he used when speech was prohibited are in a case on the wall, together with his pencil and a couple of messages in writing to Mr. Drexel.

There are some interesting items on England's civil pension list. Sir Richard Owen has had $1,000 a year since 1842 and Lord Tennyson the same since 1845. Thfs widow of Kitto, the biblical encyclopedist, gets $250 and the widow of Haydn (of the "Dictionary of Dates") $500. The daughter of Douglas Jerrold gets $250. Mr. Gerald Massey, because he is "a lyric poet sprung from the people," gets $500 a year; the same sum is awarded to Mr. William Allingham, Mrs. Oliphant, Mr. Robert Buchanan, the widow of George Cattermole, and the Rev. Dr. George Macdonald. Faraday's niece gets $750, Mr. Tupper, $600, the widow of Charles Kingsley, $1,000; two ladies descended directly from Defoe, $375 each; the widow of Richard A. Proctor, $500; the sister of Keats, $400; Mr. Philip James

Bailey, $500, and the daughter of Nelson's adopted daughter, $1,500.

A KOTOS rOUS WOMAX.

She Tried to Klein up tho Govenor to Bavo Utr liovars jLU'o. The most notorious as well as voluptuously beautiful woman it. Philadelphia in the early part of the century was Mrs. Ann Carson, the daughter of an English sea captain named Baker. She was born in 1784 and when 2? years old married a .sailor named Carson who was about 25 tear her senior.

The two lived most unhappily and several years after their marriage Carson mailed on a trip to China. After he had left, Mrs. Carson opened a gambling den, which soon became known as the most notorious joint in the vicinity, but which was visited by Philadelphia's most prominent residents, among them Richard Smith, a lieutenant in the United States armv. With this man Mrs, Carson became infatuated and, as there was every reason to believe that Carson was dead as he had not been heard from in four years, Smith and the woman were married in the fall of 1815. Soon alter the marriage Carson returned from his long trip, but his wife refused to leave her new husband to live with Carson, and quarrels between Smith and the woman on one hide and Carson on the other occurred frequently. These quarrels ended when, in January, 1815, in the parlor of the woman's house Smith shot and killed Carson. The lieutenant was held for trial on the charge of murder and later convicted aud sentenced to die. The woman was arrested as an accessory, but was released. As soon as she was released she set to work to save her lover from the gibbet. Simon Snyder was then Governor of the State, and in his employ was a man named Binns, who had considerable influence and was valuablo in assisting the Governor. This man Mrs. Carson-Smith decided to kidnap and hold as a hostage till Snyder would pardon Smith. She got two of the most desperate men in the vicinitv to aid her in her work. One evening the three proceeded to the house of Biians. As they reached their destination, they heard a terrible noise in the house. A domestic quarrel was raging and Binns us ed his voice in such a powerful manner as to frighten them all away. Before they had another chance to do the kidnapping, Binns was informed of the plot and guarded himself to prevent being bothered again. Nothing daunted by her first unsuccessful kiduapping attempt, the woman decided to capture the Governor or some member of his family. "With her two former assistants she started out for Selinsgrove, Gov. Snyder's home, situated miles away from Philadelphia. "With her went her two former coadjutors. When Harrisburg was reached one of the men turned traitor and for $!lOO disclosed t he plot. Mrs. Carson -Smith was arrested and lodged in jail ati Harrisburg. She escaped and reached Philadelphia just after Smith had been executed. In Philadelphia she became associated with the most desperate characters and was landed in jail various times for various crimes. The last time she was arrested she was given charge of a woman's ward, where her cruel treatment provoked the prisoners into a revolt, and in a fight Ann Carson-Smith was beaten to death.

hardhearted or not, but thinks if $h eats much more ice cream she will hav$ to have a dose of ginger, responds: "Oh, no, but you have been cruel in not let ting mo pomeuear you." Then he wonders that the ground doesn't open and swallow him, for she has been running after him day and night uutil he has quite nvade up his mind to leave the place. -If she knew how to be coy this would bo her opportunity, but instead

she says: "Well I will try and bo kinder -o you in the future, To-morrow you filial 1 go buokboard riding with me in the morning, you shall lunch at our table, and we will have a long quiet afternoon together." Peculiarities. Opie P. Read, editor of the Arkansaw Traveler, attended the meeting of National Editorial Association, at Detroit, and relates this incident: In the rotunda of the Itussell House I was introduced to fitty prominent citizens, who, every week, buy the Arkansaw Traveler "around at Billy Smith's." "Delighted to meet you," said 'Squire Aimsworth. "I read your paper every week buy it around at Billy Smith's. Why, sir, if I didn't take your paper home every week my wife would refuse to give me Anything to eat. Ah, let me introduce Major Butterfield." The Major grasped me warmly. " Why, sir' said be, "I have been wanting to meot you for a long time. I have read yonr--your " " Paper, " suggested 'S quire A imsworth. " Yes, your paper," the Major continued, "and am delighted with it, I assure von. I buv it everv week around here at Billy Smith's. Do you know Mr. Moffett? No? I'll introduce him." Mr. Mofiett was delighted to meet me. "I read your paper 'all the time,1 said ho. "Couldn't get along without it. My wife, daughter, son all read it. Let me present my friend, Mr, Brizeutine." Mr. Brizeutine declared that he bought the paper every week at Billy Smith's, and that whenever he left the city, always had his favorite publication forwarded to him. Well it went on this way until I met fifty devoted readers, all patrons of the enterprisiug Billy. It made me feel proud, but in my exuitatation I did not forget business. I called on a number of patent medicine men and assured them that an advertisement in our paper meant a shower of gold. I don't ask you to take my word concerning our circulation, but am prepared to present facts that cannot be disputed. We have an enornous circulation even in vour town. Come with me to some of the newsdealers. Suppose we go around to Billy Smith's, for instance." Several of them went with me. We found Mr. Smith counting a number of dusty, unsold copies of "Robert Elsmore," and the "Quick or the Dead." I

handed him my card. "Glad to meet you, sir." "Mr. Smith, how many copies of our paper do you sell each week?" "Six," he answered. "Gentlemen," said I, "shall we walk around toward the hotel?" It strikes me that somebody has lied and I do not believe that it was Billy.

A Chinese custom practiced at San Francisco is the throwing into the ocean of thousands of pieces of paper when friends are about to sail away. Each piece bears, in Chinese characters, a prayer. At areceut sailing the woman sat on the dock and uttered these paper appeals to the sea gods, the friends on the steamer doing the same thing. A condemn kd criminal in England must be allowed to see three Sundays between his sentence and his execution. Of course he can thus be hung in a little over two weeks, but .the three Sundays must pass over his head before the gallows claims him. The custom is a relic of mediaeval times, when a criminal was allowed that much of a respite to prepare for death. A joke ceases to be a joke when it ends in the death of the victim. The case of a workman in a New York papermill, whose fellow-employes found him asleep, and, in order to scare him, tied a tope around his feet and threw the end over a rapidly-revolving shaft, affords tho courts an opportunity to define the dividing-line between a practical joke and a crime. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stows once Tisited Ediuburg, where she was invited to dinner by William Chambers,

the dull but pompous publisher of i

Chambers? Journal, of which he was exceedingly vain. Mrs. Stowe accidentally mentioned that she believed he published a journal of some kind, but she really forgot its name. Mr. Chambers was speech1 ess with astonishment. Legitoik lias decided wisely in making up his mind not to settle in this ountry. He will go to Chicago, where

Example. Courage, like cowardice, is contagious, and the officer who longs to lead brave men iuto battle often needs only to show his own personal daring. During the defense of Vicksburg, six batteries were completed by the Confederates, under the eyes aud fire of the Federal troops. One of these batteries, in process of construction, was under tha command Col. Henry W. Allen, and he soon had five or six guns in position. The enemy discovered his rapidly accomplished task, and by the time the last gun was fixe'd, their shells fell thick and fast among the Confederate soldiers. The men, unused to such warm work, began to dodge, a course of action which roused the ire of their intrepid commander. Springing upon the most exposed gun, he shouted : "Soldiers, you came here to fight; you are ordered to build this battery, and," drawing his revolver, "111 shoot down the first one of you that dodges from this work. No soldier of mine shall dodge from his duty." The effect was sudden and tremendous. The Colonel remained standing erect on his gun, and the men at once rushed round him. "We won't dodge!" cried they. "Get off that gun ! We'll die with ,you !" There was no more dodging that day. Self-Puffery in Newspapers. As usual, The Daily Blank-it was far ahead of its contemporaries in reporting the recent convention." In what paper did the above appear? Why, in The Daily Blank-it, of course. No other paper would say it, for each one was occupied in puffing its own enterprise. Headers get very tired of this sort of thing, and it is singular that leading as well as misleading newspa pers keep it up. Self-puffery carries very little weight and is childish. Headers are the best judges in such matters; why not let them give the verdict? But if newspapers must have their work puffed, why can they not arrange to puff each other, turn and turn about? One day let The Blank-it praise the enterprise of The Illuminator, and the next day let The Illuminator extol the work of The Blank-it. Then editorial modesty if not veracity would not be put to such a serious strain as it is under the present method. Texas Sifting h.

u There's one thing that's hard to understand." "What is that?" "Why it is that in this era of trusts it is so extremely hard to get trusted." Merchant Traveler.

He Joined the Procession. During a conversation with Hon. S. S. Cox a few days before he died in reference to his Western trip, ho remarked that it was a mistake to suppose that he did not see Montaua. "I shall never forget our visit to Helena," said the genial Congressman. "Even yet it seems to be dug all over. It was once a mining town. It is now a gay capital. We arrived there on a Sunday. The chef on our car was acquainted there. He volunteered to get us a team wherewith to ride about the hilly city of holes

and rubble. Shortly Robert (for that j

was! the chef s name) announced that the team was ready. "Said I: 'Bobert, did you get us a nice team?' Bobert replied: 'Best could do, Mister Cox. Saw dere picture in the liberty stable 'fore I hired 'em. Splendid span, sah.' Soon along came a turnout that had escaped Barnum's eye and purse. They were milk white all over, except their noses, which were pink snorters. Their tails were long and their eyes and ears all alive witn the vigor of the mountain ether. "We got in behind the driver. He was an early settler, who seemed by his tald to have taken out all the gold and silver in the Territory. He drove lis up the main street in grand style, just as the Salvation Army, in full regimentals, came tooting along. Our driver fell in

behind. 'For Heaven's sake, man, j

dont get into that procession 1 exclaimed. In fact, we anxiously protested against bringing our circus team so near the music. The driver scornfully laughed and said: 'These 'ere animals are used for the hearse here and are quite tame,' He seemed loath to turn down a side street. So we 'caught on to the procession against our will. It was a pretty predicament for a bad Congressman! Luckily no one knew us and we escaped the ridicule of the omniscient press. This was to bo desired, as we did not, for domestic reasons, wish to be recognized. Bar Harbor Flirtation. Sitting on the staircase is the principal form of fliration, aud when there is a ball almost every girl appears with a long-tailed gown that she may cover two or three steps below the one she is sitting on and thus keep her conversation from being heard, says a Bar Harbor letter. She flirts in what might be called sledge-hammer fashion." There are no delicate shadings or leadings up in her book of coquetry. She begins by saying: Do you know, I really wondered whether you really meant what I heard you say about me." The unfortunate young man has probably said nothing, but she is counting on his forgetting whether he did or not, and usually her count is correct. He says : "Oh, really, Miss De "Vere, I couldn't have said anything about you that wasn't pleasant." Miss De Vere feels then that Casey is at the bat and that the game is in her own hand, so she answers with her most intense look, "I heard that you said that you thought I was hardhearted." Then the unfortunate, who dnasn't care whether she is

Talk About Slow Trains. "I want to go to bed, so give me a room as soon as you can. I ought to have reached the city early this afternoon and here it is 11 o'clock." "What made you so late?" asked a Girard House clerk, as he threw down a key to which was attached a rough-

edged brass tag about the size of a buckwheat cake. "Oh, slow trains! Slow trains! They seem to sto) everywhere and at all the little cross roads." "That's queer." "I should say it was. Why, at one place last night they stopped about seven minutes, while half a dozen people came out of the only house to be seen in the neighborhood and boarded the train. Did you ever hear of anything like it?" "Never." "I have," said a little old man with long, shaggv hair, who had overheard

the conversation while searching the

Philadelphia directory for the name of a Boston firm. "You have?" "Yes; you may not believe it, but it's a fact. Some years ago I used to travel a good deal on the Old Colony railroad up in Massachusetts. There was a place called Wheat Sheaf Lane, where the train stopped nearly every day for an old woman, who was always there to send some eggs into town. Now, would you believe it? One day the train stopped as usual for Aunt Betsey, who was there with her eggs, but she only had eleven. She said an old hen was still on the nest and she wanted the train to wait until she -could make up the dozen." "Yes?" "Well, 111 be darned if that train didn't wait while the hen laid the extra egg." The late arrival said he guessed he

would go to bed, the bediamoned hotel j clerk swooned and the little old man j walked down into the corridor and 1

dropped wearily into a chair. Phila delphia Record.

A DRIVING Ji'OiJNW JiUB pelayd Train Couldn't Stand Between Him and an iCn;'asrmnt. "Talk about get up and get, with$ dash of American nerve, I i?aw t go7.it sjjeciraeu of it yo-'terdav," said Uncle Silas Bowersox. UA young man jumped on a Broadway car at Chambers street followed by a bootblack. With a curt 'Don't mind us' from the youth, the boot-black went to work on the young mar's booty, while he pulled a writing tablet out of his pocket aud proceeded to dash off a letter. " Here, young feller; you can't black your boots on the car,' exclaimed the conductor. " 'Oh, but I must replied the young man. 'Got to do it; case of emergency.' And as lie handed tho conductor the fare he whispered something in his ear that seemed to satisly that official. " When we reached Prince street the norm's boots wore a patent-leather shine, lie had four letters written, sealed in an envelope and addressed. Handing them to the bootblack, with a coin, he gave the boy directions where to deliver them and return with an answer. Til be there at 4.45 just twenty minutes,' he said, looking at his watch, 'and you have just time to make it. Now gallop.1 The boy left the car and disappeared on a run. "The voung man took a seat in the car, opened a grip and taking out a clean pair of cuffs, collar and white necktie, put them on. He then took out a hair brush and pocket mirror, brushed his hair, put wax on his mustache, squirted some cologne on a fresh handkerchief, put. a clove in his mouth, knocked the dust from his hat and clothing with a wisp broom and giving his cuffs a finishing jerk turned to the people in the car and said: " 'Ladies and geutlemen. an apology is due you, and some explanation is likewise due myself. I don't wish to be considered fussy. I'm no dude, and I don't spend half my time before the looking-glass, as you might infer. I'm a plain, practical, every-day sort of a chap, from Bridgeport, Conn. In just twenty minutes by the watch I am to be married to the boss girl of New York City, barring none. My train was two hours late; but, thanks to the oonductoi of this car and your own kind indulgence, I'll get there just the same. '"And the people in the car thought he would." New York World.

THEY fVKBE ALL 1NY4LL ABLE.

Mow Ho weir Cobb Msuafftid to Umt KM Sokm of Uis Subordinate When Howell Cobb was Secretary of Uw? Treasury he summoned to his pre eire one morning the chief clerk of that department. I wish," said the magnate, wto have t-ILvt of the employee of this office. You will mark opposite each name the merit of demerit of the person, and why he ahould not be retained in hi? situation; that is, his importance or unimportance to the Government. Some friends cf mine desire positions here." aI will do eo with pleasure, pif.w "And with all alacrity," ad?dth3 (Secretary. A few hours later the clerk re-eutered, rustling a long list of officials. Over this paper rapidly glanced Hon. Mr. Cobb, then remarked : I see here one who is intimate with all the ramifications of the t'epnrtmont, and, indeed, of the Government. Surely he is indispensable, as you have written. Another has a marvelous knowledge of the intricate duties of the dsk; such as few men could acquire &t till, aud at best only by years of devoted study. So it goes on. Why, sir, I find that none of the numerous gentlemen enrolled can be spared without g eat harm, perhaps ruin to the country. What will become of these poor applicants my eager friends and constituents? Moreover, and of incalculable consideration, what will beme f our beloved land, for we cannor spare these invaluable assistants; neither, I fear, can death. They gone, our country is gcaie. I must not contemplate the future. No, no; it is toe awful! At once I shall have bolts put to all the doors of the building, dismiss every employe and lock the outer portals and throw the keys into the Potomac. The doom of our Republic cannot be long deferred. I am unable to bear the agony of such anticipation; let the lightning strike now." The chief clerk was amazed, but presently repossessed the power of thought, which resulted in the declaration that a number, a considerable and sufficient number, of names on the list might be erased and others with entire gaiety L4 substituted.

From the Jaws o( Dentil. About the year 1839 my grandfather was inside superintendent of the Nesquehoning niine, near Manch Chunk. At that time antharcite coal mining was conducted on a rather primitive scale as compared with the operations of today, and instead of the preaent improved safety lamp, tallow cai idles were used by the miners. One day during the noon hour a number of men, among them my grandfather, had gathered together at dinner. One of the men had stuck his candle in some manner fast to the wall, not noticing that immediately below it stood a large open keg of the heaviest blasting powder. Unsuspicious of danger, the men chatted and ate their dinners. Suddenly, without a second's warning, the candle fell directly into the keg of powder. Every man threw himself on his face, expecting to be blown into atoms. But the explosion did not come. Foi a few awful seconds they lay there, awaiting death with fast-beating hearts. Finally my grandfather said, "Boys, I can't stand this any longer. I am going to get that candle out of there. All of you lie just as you are." He sprang to his feet, rushed to the keg, and there a sight met his eyes enough to shake tho stoutest nerves. Sunk deep intc the powder, but bolt upright, stood the candle, with the flame a short half-inch from the powder. Bringing all his remaining nerve to bear, he reached down into the keg and carefully lifted the candle out. It was some time before the men could realize that they were out of danger, but when they did they awoke the distant echoes of the old man with their cheers. However, like the sturdy Englishman that he was, pooh-poohed them back to their dinner again, and said any one of them would have done the same thing, giving as his reason for doing it that he was the nearest man to the keg. Fhiladelphia Press.

A Story of Edison. Inventor Edison has a farmer brother in Michigan, who enjoys life as much as he does. He tells this story, which he had never seen in print, wIt would require a vivid imagination to beat the truth in Tom's case," he said. 44 He has had many singular experience's. When a watchman at the station iu Stratford, Ontario, he was expected to pull a button every forty minutes during the night to inform alt parties interested that he was on deck. Before he had been in the position long his inventive faculties were set to work. Tom then calmly went to bed and slept all night like a white man. This worked first-rate until two trains came near colliding through his lack of attention, a fact which caused him to throw up his position and return to tlm side of the line.w Boston Traveler.

If Chicago wants a fair, why doesn't she celebrate her own discovery by the railroad companies ? Pvck.

A Bit of Strategy. In the Century for September Dr. J. Emmet O'Brien relates this rather amusing anecdote of telegraphing in battle: "On one occasion an operator started out from. Fairfax Station on a hand car propelled by three contraband.to attempt to restore the line so that Pope's operators could communicate his whereabouts. Finding the line cut beyond Pohick Bridge, he spliced it and got signals from both directions. While so enguged a party of guerrillas emerged from the woods to the track and surrounded him. "Bidding the negroes stand fact he dictated a swift message over the line, which was being repeated back to him and copied as the Confederate leader leaned over his shoulder and read the significant words: 'Buford has sent back a regiment of cavalry to meet the one from here and guard the line. If yoi; are molested we will hang every citizen on the route.' The instrument ceased ticking as the operator firmly replied, O. K, A painful pause ensued. The Confederate might have suspected

a ruse if at the moment a gleam oi j

sabres had not shone in the direction of Fairfax Court-House. Hastily starting for ithe woods the leader exclaimed; 'Come home, boys; these yere ain't our niggers'; and they disappeared, while the hand car, as if driven by forty con-;

traband power, sped rapidly rearward. One Square Meal Ahead, Aayway. "Father," said the boy, "I'm going to leave the farm. wlve been rather reckless, and I've decided to gc out and see what I can do for myself." "All right, sonny," responded the aged sire. "Good by, and I'll state 111 be ready to kill a veal about next spring. Washington Capital It is strange that a man can stand up and lie. But it is not so strange, al'tei all, when you recollect that a tall man can be "short"

What the Chinese Cannot Inderstani From some extracts published in the Presbyterian Messenger, wo learn that the first major surgical operation performed in Chang-pu by the Presbyterian missionary was in many ways a re

markable one. One evening a beggar .with a dreadful leg, and ia ail but a dying condition, was laid by some of his friends at the door of Dr. Howes house, and left there. The doctor had the patient at once carred to an en pty house belonging to one of our church members, and there on the morrow in the presence of a large and wondering crowd, amputated the limb below the knee. To the surprise of all, the man stood the operation well, and lias since greatly improved in geieral condition. That the foreign doctor should pay so much attention to and spend so much time and trouble on a beggar seems to have astonished the Chinese. They cannot understand how any one should give himself so much trouble without being paid for it. I heard one say, as he was watching the doctor doing his work: "Well, the Chinaman would not do such things." It came to our ears that a number of the shopkeepers in the town are not at all pleased that the man's life has been saved. They hoped he wovld die, for he has been a source of great annoyance to them. He used to go to their shops and expo.se his sickening sore, and refuse to go away until they gave him what he demanded viz, 400 cash from the largest shops, down to 80 cash from the smaller ones. There is every probability of his ro covery. Pall Mall Gazette. An Holiest Laborer's Indignation. It was 1 o'clock at night and two of the City Hall Park summer guests were standing under a street lamp. One of them was large, the other was small Both were ragged and unkempt, and the big man was pouring out a torrent of abuse at his companion, who stood meek and silent. "So you wanter quit eh," said the big man with a brave attempt at scorn, "You ain't fit ter work; with an honest man, you ain't How do you expect ter make a decent living without working? You wanter go to sleep when the night is half over. A. pretty kind of er partner you are. Here I am workin' my side of the street like a man. I've made 17 cents from the blokes, and you've made just 5. And now you wanter quit, eh?" You're the laziest man I ever seen. Yon ain'fc nothin' but a common, low-down tramp, you ain't. I wonder how a hard-work-in' man like me kin have anything tor do with you. Lemme tell you right here that if you expect ter gi t along ia this world, you've got ter work, xbu don't deserve no success, you don't. I won't have nothin' mere ter do with you do you hear? You go your way, go ter the dogs, throw away your opportunities. Don't try ter be an honest, in dustrious, decent gentleman. I wash my hands of you forever." And theft the man of indignation took up his stand beneath another lamp post to wait for some man who was willing to help an honest laborer. N. Y. Tribune

Woman's Influence on Sob. "There is nothing particular new ia the fact that a man of good birth, careful education and thorough breeding shorJd marry into the slums, said a felloir clubman in the Union League, referring to Bobert Kay Hamilton, yesterday. "It is because Hamilton had more or less chivalrio ideas of what a man ought to do that he was led into a marriage with this woman. A tough, or a man of common breeding would have pushed her to the wall, and told her to go and support herself and child after he had got through with her. That is the onl) reason why adventuresses of this type succeed with gentlemen. A boy who is brought up to a high idea of honor and decency ic the ainur of life feels tho responsibility so aeine'y when he becomes a man (hat it is sec md nature for him to do what he considers generoun and right by the woman. - -New York Sun.