Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 20 October 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPHONE

By Walteb Bradfutk.

B LOOM INGTON

INDIANA

A GERMAN MARKET-FAIR. Ancient Teutonic Custom a It Still FloarUhe at Hanover.

This week there has been an opportunity to see a market-fair in Hauover, which occurs only thrice a j-ear, and lasts but two or three days, says a correspondent of the Hartford CourarU. In fact I am just returned from wandering about town in a drizzling rain, bumping umbrellas m the crowd of chaffering Hanoverians, and receiving an occasional curse from some boothnvner because of the unintentional .itt none the less wet stream of water A-hich my umbrella-tip plumped down Upon her cakes or caudy. The stalls and booths for the display of the wares wore to bo found in various parts of the tovgn. according to tho nature of the sales; thus live stock was to be iiad in one section, books in another, "notions" iu the third, and so on. To-day I spent my time in the old portion of the city, and here the center of bustle and interest was the ancient Market church. From the square upon which this cnurch stands the lines of booths stretched up the streets, radiating right and left from the Market square. These booths were hastily rigged affairs, built of boards, with their tops covered with can vas against the rain, so that they looked like a row of Indian wigwams. Every conceivable article, and some inconceivable, were to bo purchased along these rows, behind which stood men and women crying up their wares or doling out small portions to the peasant buyer. Before 4 o'clock of this rainy afternoon the oil lamps were lighted and tlared picturesquely in the wind. Through the middle of the streets surged the crowd of buyers, many of them country folk, who had come in solely for the fair. Thev clattered over the cobble-stones in their sabots and beat down prices with high heart and volubility. Above rose the gray old houses and high over all the venerable and massive church, under whose wails for live centuries humanity was bought and sold, lived and diet!. It was a sceno for a Dickens and I sighed for his insight and his graphic power of description. At some of the booths a foreigner was especially tempted to rid himself of a few pennies or marks.. For example, here hung by the score those long, porcelain-bowled pipes which are so typical of this country, and hard by were all maimer of blue earthenware drinking jugs, mugs, and tankards, with bibulous mottoes in German script and metal covers that were a joy to see. In some cases some magic sign like "Aus Italien" was hung iu front of the booth, and there you are sure to iind cheap jewelry, tawdry paintings, or bizarre house, ornaments, those behind the improvised counter being dark, sallow, and melancholy eyed, aud wearing large rings in their eafc'S after the maimer of their race. There seemed to- be no congruity here in the arrangement of the successive stands; beside one exclusively devoted to worsteds would be another where the succulent sausage aud the malodorous but beloved limburger reigned supreme, ami a little farther on the toys of childhood hobnobbed with a murderous array of knives, big and little, ranging from the tiny nailtrimmer to the long, keen blade of the hog-killer. The motley sales and sights only made the scene richer and a characteristic picture of foreign street lifeI am told that the articles to be bought at these fair?, though cheap, are shoddy and unreliable, and are avoided by the wily citizens, the chief protit accruing from the open-mouthed country bumpkins who judge by outside show and the oily assurances of the proprietors. Chinese Ideas of Hell.

The sixth court of the Chinese hell is situated at the bottom of the great ocean, north of Wuchio Kock, says a writer in the St. Louis GLobe-DemocraL It is a vast, noisy gahenna, many leagues in extent, arouud it are sixteen wards or ante-hells. In the lirst ward the sinful soul is xnad to kneel for long periods on hot iron shots; in the second they are placed up to their necks in filth; in the third they are pounded till the blood runs out; in the fourth their mouths are opened with red-hct pincers and tilled with needles; in the fifth they are inclosed in a net of thorns and nipped by poisonous locusts; in the seventh all the flesh and bones are crushed to a jelly, all except the head; in the eighth the head is denuded of skin, and the flesh beaten ou the raw; in the ninth the mouth is tilled with fire; in the tenth the pounded flesh of the body is licked and roasted by sulphurous flames; in the eleventh the nostrils are subjected to all ioathesome smells known to their tormentors; in the twelfth they are to le butted by rams, oxen, and buffalos, and at last subjected to crushing pressure by beinej trampled by horses; in the thirteenth the heart will be taken ont and skinned; in the fourteenth the skull will be rubbed with sandstone until it has been entirely worn from the jelly-like mass which was once the bod-; in the fifteenth the body will be separated in the middle and carried, with the bare, bleeding ends sitting on red-hot plates, to the sixteenth ward, where the skin will be removed, dried, and rolled up, after having written on

it all the sinful deeds done by the soul while an inhabitant of the fleshy body; after that the body will be consigned to the flames. Flowers as Political Emblems. One result of the election has had a strange effect on the flower market in Paris. Since the election the pric e of red carnations has gone down like the shares of a bubble company. While the white carnation is quoted in the Marche aux Fleurs at the respectable figure of 1 franc a dozen, the red is offered freely at no more than 7 sous. Neither in Paris nor anywhere else does anybody care to b :dentilied with the symbof Of a failure.

THE WORLD'S FAIR. A Chapter on Australia In tho Anthropological Building A Wonder of the Fair. Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Wltnout a uiumcnvs wtti-umg. ljaay Broome, whose hu&band was governor of West Australia some years ago, relates two characteristic incidents. "A ranchman who had been extremely kind to the natives was

HE department of anthropology and ethnology is bewildering in its vastness and the infinite variety of its exhibit?. Here

one may study the crude beginning of human industry the first implements roughly wrought in stone and flint and iron; cloth made from the fiber of plants and a little later in the list of progress from wool and silk. There are the clumsy weapons proceeding the invention of gunpowder by manj'- ages, not so swift and sure, but still capable of inflicting wounds and death in the hands of a savage enemy. The sameness of invention and decoration impresses me strongly; the rude figures, the more satisfactory attempts at conventionalization are strikingly alike, whether it be the Egyptian, the product of the Nile basin which Draper terms the

real cradle of civilization or his J

AUSTRALIAN WEAPONS. walking along the trail with several armed natives following him. One of them was a powerful fellow, an expert in throwing his spear, and he carne immediately behind the Englishman. Suddenly he asked permission to walk in front, and when

the belief existing, as among other savage races, that in eating the flesh of a valiant enemy his courage and endurance were transmitted to the eater. Men were killed and eaten during a certain mysterious religious rite which was kept profoundly secret, and upon the eve of a battle where the forces were equally matched and the result a matter of doubt. The favorite food of the natives, with the fruit of the bunya-bunya tree and other fruits, was the iguana. Trollope describes it as 'a lizard with a huge body and a very fat tail." He saw one shot which was five feet in length and weighed twenty pounds. The white people, of course, do not eat them, but the natives declare that the fiesh resembles that of the chicken. As these portraits sufficiently prove, the aborigines have bushy, black hair, dark skin and eyes, and the thick noses and lips of the negroid races, peculiarities that are common to most of the natives of NewT Zealand and of all the South Sea islands as well. Tbe presiding gen: of the exhibit is tho kangaroo that chief of marsupials of a continent where even the mice are constructed upon this most ancient surviving p!an of animal life. M. H. K.

AMONG THE STATE BUILDINGS.

brother the Aztec on the other side of the globe. Of course, this similarity is apparent only to the untrained eye; the student sees a thousand differences, all of weight and import, establishing his theories by indisputable proofs. There are the arrows and spears and war clubs of countless tribes of American Indians, of Asiatic and African, South Sea Islanders and the people of the Arctic zone. They mean not only defense and conquest, but food, strength and light. Of all the varieties none exceed those of Australia and the neighboring islands in interest or workmanship. In the Australian exhibit the

ABORIGINAL Al'STKAUAN CHIEF. spears are arranged in a fan shaped pattern upon the walls, and beneath them are grouped specimens of that unique weapon, the boomrang. With these implements of war there are a number of striking portraits, giving one a very comprehensive idea of the aborigines. Some of the spears are ten feet in length. They are made of the hard woods of that country, of which there are many varieties. The native's idea of deadliness and not without reason was the teeth of a shark. The spears, iu conformity to this idea, have flattened heads, along which have been arranged two rows of pointed spikes as nearly resembling sharks' teeth as possible. The spikes are glued to the wood with a tenacious gum obtained from a tree called ''black boy' The tree has a short, rough trunk, with a cluster of fern-like leaves at the top, at the center of which spings a peculiar blossom spike. The gum of the

it was given and he was pressed for his reason he said: 'I am afraid I will kill you; I have such a desire to throw my spear at your back." The man was perfectly friendly, as friendly, indeed, as he was frank, but the ranchman kept an eye on him for the remainder of the journey." On another occasion Lady Broome found a particularly amiable man among the prisoners upon the island opposite Perth, where convicts in that part of the continent are sent. He was especially efficient when his services were required by the sportsmen of the party, among whom his good nature made him a great favorite. When she inquired into the nature of his offense, she found he had killed a woman who was quarreling with his wife. "But I did not mean to do it," he said, "I only meant to wound her. I aimed at her leg, and the spear glanced and struck her in the throat," an explanation that was received with some incredulity. Tie boomerangs are thin pieces of wood some of them worn and polished from long use. They are used both in hunting and in battle, and in the hands of an expert thrower can inflict dangerous and fatal injuries. They are slightly curved and are about twenty-four inches in length. Boomerang or kylie throwing used to be one of the most interesting entertainments provided English and American tourists. Owing to its peculiar form the boomerang when thrown strikes the object at which it is aimed, then circles and returns and falls at the feet of the

AHORIGINAI AUSTUAI.1AN WOMAN. "black boy" is used by the aborigines for many purposes, or was formerly, before the forests were so wantonly destroyed in clearing the land for "sheep stations. The skill of the people in throwing these spears, a skill which the women acquired as well as the men, was almost phenomenal. And they used them indiscriminately, upon an impulse,

A Bl'SlIMAX. thrower or behind him. This is merely as it is ordinarily used. The artist can use it with a skill that surpasses that of the tyro as much as the crack shot of a rifle corps surpasses the feats of a militia marksman. Several exhibitions were given in honor of Lady Broome and the Governor, which were described as something almost beyond belief. The boomerang was thrown into the air with such force that it disappeared for a few seconds, then reappeared, circling, descending, poising and rising and again descending until it dio ped upon the ground in front of the ''boy" who had thrown it. The portraits of natives which have been sent with the collection by the ethnological societies of Australia are most interesting. They give one an impression of the aborigines before they were vitiated and enfeebled by their admixture with the white race, as seems always to occur. They were of immense stature, six feet and a half being a common height, and e.iht feet not being unusual. They were muscular not fat --erect and physically powerful, but treacherous aud cruel. Cannibalism on of vas ton was practiced,

Wonders of the Fair. Boston Transcript. One of the distinguished delegates to the congress of religions, Dr. Carl von Bergen of Sweden, was walking late one afternoon with a party of friends near the electrical building. He had gone on from surprise to surprise and from wonder to wonder, and at last, coming upon a brilliant sight, stood gazing,

silent. There (it was before the

eyes of all), looking through a wonderful arrangement of ropes and wires, he saw a great glowing ball of fire dissolving in a soft haze, and looking as if presently the wheels might begin to go round and reveal S3me daylight splendors similar to the pillar of fire seen by night in the electrical building. "What is this wonderful sight?" exclaimed the learned professor. And Dr. Alice Stockham (born i quaker) answered, demurely: "That is the sun going down, Dr. von Bergen, just as it does in Sweden." An Illinois gentleman who was at hand asked why everybody laughed, and none more heartily than the savant himself: "Did you think, then, that in our American universe we manage our

j scenery by machinery?" j She Had a Right to Know. I Washington Star. j There is a Washington young woi man who, while not a conspicuous j beauty, is by no means as homeiy as

she affects to believe. A young man has been devoting much of his time to her, and she has given him reason to think that his society pleased her. The other evening he said: "Do you believe that you could learn to care for anybody well enough to marry him?" She caught her breath and then answered in a low tone: 4Yes; I am sure I could." "Have you have you anybody in your mind now for whom you could care in this way?'' "Yes," "Tell me, am I that person?" She opened her lips to speak and then closed them without speaking. She looked at him narrowly for a moment and then said: "First answer me a question. "What is it?" 4 4 Are you doing this on a bet?" For His Boys. In a paper read before Iowa Rankers' Association, Mr. W. H. M. Pusey related a characteristically "human" anecdote of President Lincoln. While in Mr. Pusey's office one day, Mr. Lincoln took out of his pocket an old document, and said: "I wish you gentlemen would locate this land warrant for me. It is my pension obtained as captain in the Black Hawk war." "You ought to have entered the warrant years ago, 1 he said, "when it could have been placed in land further east," "Yes, I know it," said Mr. Lincoln, "but I kept it as a souvenir of war, and to show Bob and Tad that I have been a sojdier." To Cure Toothache. St. Lonis Dentist. Toothache is no longer a serious thing to treat, and can now be stopped in the course of two or three minutes at the outside, and often in half a mi nut?. The method is verv i'imple. Thoroughly clean out the cavity, take a small piece of cotton, twist it up into a roll so that it will eater the cavity, dampen the small end and place upon that three or four grains of cocaine, about the size of a small pin head; press these, with the cotton, into the hole, up against the nerve, and the effect will be instantaneous. Every throb will cease, and the sufferer will think in a few minutes he never had the toothache.

Genuine Goltl Hugs. The gold bugs which were so popular as ornaments a few years ago were pvst ol them manufactured. There is a genuine gold bug, or beetle, colored a pure bronze, but is fi-und only in the tropics, and is not plentiful oven there. The g:4l bug of commerce is simply I he co.:uuon June bug dipped in shellac or some other gum and rolled in very line gold dust. After je dust has dried in the shellac, th'bug, except in woiirht, would pass for a piece of genuine gold jewelry.

TOPICS OFJHESE TIMESwithout a precedp:nt. The proposition for the annexation of the Territory of Utah to the State of Nevada, proposed in a bill recently introduced in Congress, is unprecedented in our political history, and calls public attention to the peculiar position of the diminutive State of Nevada in the sisterhood of States. Always a reproach to representative government, passing years have only served to make it a by-word and add to the disgrace of a situation apparently without a remedy At the census of 1860 the TerriWy of Nevada had a population of 0,857 people, and its population in 1870 had only reached a total of 42,490. The Territory was admitted to the Union as a State in 1861, with an unknown population, but the apportionment of the previous year called for 127,31)1 as the number necessary for a Representative in Congress. In 1880 the State had 62,226 inhabitants, while the apportionment for Congressional purposes called for 151.911 as the number necessary for a Representative. In 1890 the population of Nevada had fallen off to only 45,761, and today its population is less than any territory except Alaska, and it has not a quarter of the population fixed for a Representative under the last apportionment act. Yet Nevada has a Representative in Congress and as many Senators as the Empire State with its millions of population. The injustice of the situation is apparent to all. Utah, if annexed, will bring in a population of 225,000, and an additional area of 82,190 square miles, with wonderful resources, both mineral and agricultural, and a great and growing mercantile business as well. Polygamy is practically at an end in Utah, and the iVlormon influence is fast waning before the tide of Gentiles constantly flowing in. The project is regarded favorably by all parties, as it would settle the vexed question of the admision of Utah as a separate State, and also remove the stigma of a rotten borough commonwealth, as Nevada is universally conceded to be.

two weapons are Intimidation and bribery. This id news, and coming from a man who challenges investigation of his abatements, is worthy of attention, tt is possible that the American people have been hoodwinked and deceived into forming friendly opinions of Mexican progress, and it is proper that we should be set right if such is the case. EDISON'S IDEAS. The money question has at length penetrated into the laboratories of the Wizard of Menlo Park,and he has stopped making rubies, emeralds, electric lights, phonographs, microphones, etc., long enough to give to the world some new ideas on currency, -which, like all of his ideas, are novel to say the least, In an interview at New Xork on the 2d inst., Mr. Edison said: ''The hankering for gold and silver in traditional. What we need is a new standard of value. The best dollar could be made out of compressed wheat. Take a bushel of wheat and squeeze the water out of it, compress it into a hard cake the size of a silver dollar, and stamp the Government mark upon it. That would represent actual value. The bushel of wheat would thus become a permanent unit of value. Gold and silver could be dispensed with and the bimetallic problem would be solved. If metal must be the basis of our money, let iron be the substitute. Iron is the most precious metal. Mankind could dispense with gold and" silver, but iron is an absolute necessity. Iron must be constantly produced or its price will steadily rise. Why not issue treasury certificates on iron? Instead of loading up the treasury with useless gold and sil-

j ver, as people would want bills of

large denominations to accompany the wheat dollar, why not buy iron or steel instead and issue treasury certificates upon that?"

BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS. It is one of the instructive features of the recent financial troubles in this country that the building associations have not in any material degree suffered, nor has confidence in their stability and usefulness been impaired. But very few associations have failed, those susuending having almost without exception gone to the wall through the dishonesty and embezzlement of officials, and not from any cause that could be traced to the prevailing depression. The fact is comforting and reassuring, and goes to show that the building association and co-operative banking system will grow and increase in the volume of business that must necessarily keep pace with the growth of the country. There are 5,860 building associations and cooperative banks in the United States. Pennsylvania, the mother of the building association idea, has 1.100 of the institutions that have proved so useful to the poor of the country. There is a total membership of 1,700,000 in the United States, and the assets of the associations are estimated at $500,000,000. With proper State laws and restrictions, and a reasonable amount of care among stockholders in the selection of officers, these clearing-houses of the common people may be made and maintained as an unmixed and inestimable blessing to their promoters and the country at large. THE OTHER SIDE. The efforts of the present President and government of Mexico to enlist the sympathy, attention and good will of the people of the United States by protestations of great liberality of opinion towards free institutions and numerous concessions to American citizens for the attraction of American capital and enterprise to various great undertakings, has had, as it was doubtless intended it should have, the effect of creating a public opinion in the United States very favorable to President Diaz, and also to what has been believed to be a great and growing and enlightened republic on our southern border. Mr. E. S. Gregory, of Boston, formerly long a resident of Chihuahua, Mexico, writes to the New York Sun in quite a different strain, and desires to go on record as protesting against the false impressions so largely extant on this subject. Ho avers that there, exists in Mexico a universal hatred of the United States; that, the Mexican government is one of tyranny, fraud and violence; that it is n republic at all; that elections are in fact never held, but arc a mere pretense, the result being obtained by military force; that the principal journals of New York are the bought and paid for friends of a government whose

THE PANIC. The panic of 1893 so far as moneyed institutions are concerned, is past. The storm that wrecked so many seemingly sturdy craft has waned, and only the wreckage that continues to wash ashore in diminishing quantities serve to remind the business world of the disaster, which though very destructive, has been in comparison with former visitations very light. Deposits in banks are rapidly increasing and financial statistics show that if the present rate of increase is sustained they will gain more in the next three months than they lost during the period of distrust through which they have safely passed. The banks of New York have made such a remarkable showing that confidence has been practically restored, and the reduction of the Bank of England rate to 3 per cent, has strengthened the buoyant feeling. For the first week in September tbe total bank clearings were $733,000,000. The second week they were $792?000;000, and the last week $798,000,000. This is more than 33 per cent, less thau for the corresponding weeks of last year, but is regarded as very encouraging. The volume of trade has improved. The iron mills in the Pittsburgh district are being put into operation and the industrial situation throughout the country is much more hopeful. Values on the stock market have been well maintained. THE PENSION BUREAU: There has been much criticism of the Pension Bureau under the new administration as well as under the last. The statements of this department of the government are therefore of special interest to a lare number of our readers. Since March 4, 1893, 55,399 new pensions have been granted. Of these 4.128 were issed since Aug. 20; 1,12 were original; 1,497 increases; 326 were for disabilities contracted in the service; 316 under the act of June 27, 1S90. It is claimed that all cases of suspension will be disposed of by October 10, and it is estimated that seventy -five per cent, of these cases will be returned to the rolls, but in the majority of the cases of suspension restored the rate will be changed.

Sure Death. There 13 a certain way that experienced stockmen know of throwing a horse down so as to break his neck and kill him at once. An ordinary halter is put on the horse, the lead strap from it passed between the horse's front legs, a turn being taken arouud the far one near the fetlock. The executioner then hits the horse a sharp cut with a whip, and when he jumps up pulls sharply and strougly on the halter strap. The horse strikes head first, with the entire weight on his neck. The fall is invariably fatal. The band played 4 'Nearer, My God, to Thee," as the aeronaut began his balloon ascension t the Ellsworth (Me.) fair the other day.