Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 April 1885 — Page 9

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SOME RECENT APPOINTMENTS.

Portraits of Men lio Will Fill Important ,: I Ii*rt«l TNmitlous.

JOHX D. C. ATKINS.

Mr Atkins, the new Indian commissioner, will be 60 years old in Juno. He is a native of Tennessee, received a collegiate education, and began business life at the profession of law. When 24 years old he was a member of the Tonnesseo house of representatives, and at SO a member of the state senate. In 1857 he was sleeted to congress. During the war he was a member of the confederate congress. Ho v.-as again a member of the United State congress from 1873 to 1877. He has always taken pleasure in farming, at which occupation he has spent his lime during the intervals from public duties, and where the call from the president found him.

The Lime Kiln Club I'roipen. [Detroit Free Press "Gem'len," said the president a! the cash box was about to be passed, "I want to remark a lew observasliuns. Somebody has bin frowin' buttons, nails an' punched nickels into de eo" '•••ibushun box. De aiverage receipts hev also steadily decreased fur de past three months.

am gwine ter foller dat box

wid bocf my eyes to-night, an' de fust button dropped inter it will bode signal fur dis floah to settle threo inches. I doan' ax you to rob yourselves, but I want it distinctly understood dat at least a dozen of us kin detect da difference between de chink of a nickel and a quarter."

The box wa3 then passed in a slow and imprassive manner by Sir Isaac Walpole, and the receipts counted up over $13—being a clear gtun of $7 over the previous mooting.

Aftsistanf Secretary of the Interior.

11ENUV LOWNDES MULDBOW.

Henry Lowndes Muldrow, the assistant recretarv of the interior, and acting secretary and memlx-r of the cabinet during the sickness or absence of the secretary, was born in Lowndes county, Mis3., and is close on to 50 years of ace. He graduated at the Mississippi university, at Oxford, and received the degree of A.B. in 1856 and L.B. in 1858. He was admitted to the bar in 1839. He entered the confederate army in 1861, and surrendered as a colonel of cavalry at Forsyth, Ga., in 18(55. He was elected district attorney for the Sixth judicial district of Mississippi, and held the office from 1869 to 1871 was electcd to the state legislature in 1875, and to the Forty-fifth national congress from the First (Miss.) district as a Democrat, and re-elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth congresses. Vi

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...Sot Nfceuarlly far Publication. [Hartford (Oonn.) Times.] The New lxudon Day, which has twice recently erred in announcing the death of people, gives notice that hereafter any young man bringing news oi a death at an hour so late as to make verification impracticable, must be accompanied by the remains, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good i'aith

Appointment Clerk or tli* Treunr/.

IXGEN HIOl-INR.

Though the position which Mr. Higgins has -been chosen to (ill is a comparatively unimportant one, his appointment has attracted as much attention through the discussion of his past record that bis portrait, which is supposed to be an index of character, may en« able the reader to form his own opinion in regard to his. Mr. Higgins is just 50 yeari •old,and was bora and raised in Baltimore,Md., graduating from Georgetown college with the highest honors. He early entered a mercantile life, and is said to be one of the most expert accountants in the country. He has served as a member of the Baltimore city council, and has been a member of the legislature of Maryland, and later was secretary of naw of that stata

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A XTlDQt* tO WOUIU. .t [Chicago Ledger

As a rapid and exhaustive observer woman outshines man more than the beauty and glory of day at high 13 surpasses the flicker of a brimstone match. With one little bat of hor eye a woman can see things to which man with all his boasted discernment remains forever blind, and though she may be somewhat slow about getting up in the morning, or in fixing herself up to go somewhere, she is qu^ck of eye and wide sweeping in her glance. The focusing machinery in the visionary department of her mechanism is always in gear, and operates with lightning precision without hitch or friction. Put her in a cannon and shoot her through a millinery store, and if she survives the shock to her nerves she can tell you with a precision that seems phenomenal the exact shade of every ribbon in the entire concern. Send hsr aloft in a balloon when the wind is careering over the city, and, she can toll you ths contents of every clothesline in town, without stopping to catch her breath.

If you are to have a fashion report in lif te* minutes that would take you three weeks to prepo.ro, send the dear creature to church. If you want to know anything that can ba seen shut your eyes and teil your wife to look. If you want wisdom of any description that is visible from the housetop or a box at the opera, blindf( Id yourself and bid her gaze. With one corner of her eye she will see more in the fragment of an instant than you could discern in two eks with afield glass. For breadth, scope a:id accuracy the amount of observation she can gresp with a single wink makes a government survey seem contracted and deficient.

Minister to Italy

ANTHONY M- KEIIiET.

Anthony M. Keiley, recently appointed minister to Italy, was bora of Irish parents in 1834 at Paterson, N. J. His parents removed some time afterwards to Virginia, where they have since resided. Young Keiley received an excellent education and graduated from the university of Virginia in 1854, and immediately after was employed as editor of The South Side Democrat at his home in Petersburg, Va. It was at the time when the Know-Nothing movement was at its height, a spirit which joung Keiley held to Iw injurious to the growth of the country. He immediately attacked it with such ability as to attract the attention of leading politicians in the Democratic party, and resulted in Henry A. Wise, the Democratic governor, stamping it out forever. The courage and tact displayed by Keiley at this time placed him immediately in the front rank as one of the most promising young leaders in the Democratic party of Virginia, a position he 'has since maintained. Before the war he opposed secession, both by bis pen and in conventions, but when the fatal ordinance was passed he bowed to the majority and joined the confederate army. He was elected to the Virginia legislature from the field and attended the sessions in winter, returning to the army each summer. After the war ie commenced the publication of The News Petersburg, which was suppressed by Secretary Stanton, and its editor imprisoned. On regaining his liberty he started The Petersburg Index, in connection with The Norfolk Virginian, which he continued until he was chosen to a seat in the house of delegates of Virginia.

While in Richmond he began the practice of law, and took an interest in The Richmond Examiner. In 1869 he was elected to the first assembly under reconstruction. The principal points in his career since are: He acted as pall bearer to Gen. Robert E. Lee he has betsu three times mayor of R-ichmond. •»nd for 13 years past president of the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union of America.

rniiimiMiiMirr of the Genernl I,«nd t'Oiec.

WILT.IAM A. J. SPARKS.

The new commissioner of the general land office, William A. J. Sparks, of Illinois, was torn in New Albany, Ind., Nov. 10, 1828. His parents removed to Illinois in 1836, and soon afterwards both of his natural protectors died, leaving him alone in the world to shift for himself and work out his own career. He labored on a farm, and at odd intervals attended a country school. Subsequently he became so far advanced in educa* tion as to "teach the young idea how te shoot," and was able to graduate at McKen. dree college, Illinois, in 1850. He studied law, and was admitted to tfae bar in 1851. In 1858 President Pierce appointed him land receiver for the Ed wards ville (III.) land office, and this position be held until 1857. He was presidential elector in 1858, was elected to the lower bouse of the Illinois legislature in 1856 and 1857, and tp the state senate la 1868 and

TEBRE HAUTE INDIANA, THURSDAY. APRIL 16.1885.

28Cf, and was a delegate to tne national r»eniocrntic convention at New York in 1868. In 1874 he was elected to the Forty-fourth congress, as a Democrat, from the Sixteenth Illinois district, and nselected to the Fortyfifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh cou

Mr. Sweeney's In Fly Time. |Bin Nye.] But I was going to speak more in particular about Mr. Sweeney's cat. Mr. Sweeney had a large cat named Dr. Mary Walker, of which ho was very fond. Dr. Mary Walker remained at the drug store all the time, and was known all oyer St. Paul as a quiet and reserved cat. If Dr. Mary Walker took in the town after office hours nobody seemed to know anything about it. She would be around bright and cheerful the next morning and attend to her duties at the store just as though nothing whatever had ever happened.

One day last summer Mr. Sweeney left a large plate of fly-paper with water on it in the window, hoping to gather in a few quarts of flies in a deceased state. Dr. Mary Walker used to go to this window during the afternoon and look out on the busy street while she called up pleasant memories of her past life. That afternoon she thought she would call up some more memories, so she went over on the counter and from there jumped down on the window sill, landing with all four feet in the plate of fly-paper.

At first she regarded it as a joke and treated the matter very lightly, but later on she observed that the fly-paper stuck to her feet with great tenacity of' purpose. She controlled herself and acted in the coolest manner, though you could have seen that mentally die suffered intensely. She sat down a moment to more fully outline a plan for the future. In doing so she made a great mistake. The gesture resulted in gluing the fly-paper to her person in such away that the edge turned up behind in the most abrupt manner and caused her great inconvenience.

77ie took of pain Hiat Dr. Mary Walker gave him Home one at that time laughed in a coarse and heartless way, and I wish you could have seen the look of pain that.Dr. Mary Walker gav'3 hint.

Then she went away. She did. not. go around the prescription case as the rest of U3 did, but strolk-d through the middle of it and so on out through the glass door at the rear of the store. Wo did not see her go through the glass door, but we found pieces of fly paper and fur on the ragged edges of a large aperture in the glasB, nrl we kind o" jumped at the conclusion that Dr. Mary Wa 5cer had taken that direction in retiring from the room.

Dr. Mary Walker never returned to St. Paul, and her exact whereabouts ore. not known, though every effort was made to find J) or. Fragments of fly paper and brindle hair were fouud as far west as the Yellowstone National park and as far north as the British line, but the doctor herself was not found. My own theory is that if she turned her bow to the west so as to catch the strong easterly jrale on her quarter, with the sail she-had set and her tail pointing toward the zenith, the hauces for Dr. Mary Walker's immediate »etiirn are extremely slim.

Hpt (Jmbrella Was Left Behind. [Engraved from Harper's Weekly.) •n"

"No, mum, yer didn't^ leave no umbrella Here. Yer must havo drapped it somewhere." ne nucw jc' would Home to Tkli*

The roller craze is breaking out in musical circles.^ Gen. Slier-man Ontdone. [Daily Graphic.]

On bis birthday Bismarck kissed every* body who came near him, regardless of race, sex or previous condition of servitude, and he kissed the emperor threo times. On the whole, the prince's birthdays come often enough*

Fall River Advance: The most conscientious man in the world may have a plugged quarter in his pocket when he goes to church, but he never brings it away with him if there has been a collection.

STAGE-SINGING BY PROXY.

A Common Trick of Actresses—How Performed—A Disaster. ["Uncle Bill" in Chicago Herald.]

Among the things that can be had tot iu cents in this city now is "East Lynne," irith the dual role of Isabel and Madame Vine acted with remarkable strength of lungs by an actress whose account indicates that site has not long been out of England, and certainly her fame has not yet arrived in this country but she is worth the admission dime—yea, even the extra coin demtinded for a box seat. She is sonorous in her pathos, guttural in her grief, and vociferous in her passion, but she can't sing "'When other lips and other Learts," without which song

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.Lynne* would be rejected even by a museum audience. It has been a common trick of actresses in ISris part to sit close to a wing, with the Uick turned to the audience, and let son* other woman just out of sight do the wfcrbling. That was the device of Matilda laeron, and she has been imitated in that respect by such notable Isabels as Airs. Bowers and Clara IVtorris.

But the actress of whom I speak will •descend to no" such falsity-of art. It may be true that she cannot sing a note, but the audience shall not. know it—at l§as», only when there is such a mishap as occurred at the mntince recently. She bravely faced the audience when the time came to sing, opened Iter mouth expressively, and the familiar melody concerning other lips anu other hearts" was heard. It was only because my seat was in a box close to that side of the stage that I detected the bold feat Che was moutli ing the song without uttering a note. A singer was concealed at her side by the scenery*, while she opened, shut and contorted Her lips in barmony with the voice. 1 admired her audacity and skill. It was worthy^ of .irving, who petforms a somewhat similar deception in "Lugene Aram. where he seems to play on the spinet at which he sits. He goes through the requisite motions, and scarcely a hearer doubts that he produces the music. His assumption of graceful command over the old-fash-ioned instrument is perfect Back to back with the spinet, but hidden by a thickness of painted canvas, stands a piano, on which the sounds are produced, while

Irving gesticulates and poses in unison. But the unseen aid proved disastrous this time. The first verse had been touchingly rendered. The supposed vocalist was so soulful, soiuten.se, so demonstrative that a deep impression was manifested in the audience. Tears were (lovyug and handkerchiefs were out. The applause was loud aud long. The actress bowed low in acknowledgment Then she straightened up for the second verse. The orchestra leader started the accompaniment. She sprung her mouth open to its widest limit and set it going in conformity with the words which ought to have come from the singer, but not a sound wa? heard until the roar of laughter which thr Audience emitted.

''-'"Help the Phonograph Needs. [Pall Mall Gazette. 1 "Why does not some modern Gutemberg do for the phonograph what has been already done for the printing press? is the question asked by a writer in the new number of The Nineteenth Century. To stop short at the phonograph and not go on to invent a reading machine whereby books should be printed upon cylinders of metal would be as if the age of Faus. and (jutemberg had remained cuhtentwitb to movable types. The written word has already been made immortal, and the world has been half revolutionized thereby it only now remains to complete the revolution by giving immortality to the spoken word as well. The metal cylinders might be worn in the hat aud the sounds be conveyed to the ear by wires.

There would be no more cases of blinded eyesight from poring over miserable books the old quarrel between physical and intellectual development would disappear, for "the good genius of humanity" in this metal box would accompany men to the moor and the fields of the ditch. The weary learning of an unphonetic written language could be neglected, and previous years of our lives would be saved from waste. Foreign languages would be learned with far greater caic. for whenever a book was there the spoken language'would be.. The political consequences of lithe inventfon are passed over by the writer, but it would clearly be most important* For one thing, the uecessitv for a representative parlia, ment would disappear, and [direct government by the people would poce more become possible. I •V*

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Gen. Grant In (^lna. [San Fraacisco Ia

When Gen. Grant rettyuied from China I was quite struck withjfCueuuising account he gave of the d^^^lyM^^td in making the court orticiafiFof the middle kingdom understand his position inj/this country. They kept constantly addressing him as the emperor of the United States. "But I am not the emperor," insisted Gen. Grant "I was president of the United States, but I am out of office now. "You are in exile then?" said one of the mandarins in great alarm. "No, I am traveling. I am now on my way back to my country. "Ah, then you are the emperor still." And the moon-eyed Celestials shook their heads and smiled faintly. It was their Chinese idea of a joke.

A Lemon for Newspaper Strategists. |Macmillan''s Magazine 1 We cannot all be- expected to emulate the sobriety of that Parisian bootmaker, a hero of a fable—I am afraid—who, on beiug asked his opinion of the respective merits of Turcnne and the Grand Conde on the stricken field, replied: "I made the boots of both gentlemen. As far as boots go there is not a pin to choose between them beyond thai I cannot go, for it lies outside my profession.

Why His Other Tapa was Thankful. [Philadelphia Call] Bub—"Are you going to be my new papaf Accepted Suitor—"Yes, my dear child." "Have you got your wig yet?' "Wig? "Why, no I need uo wi^T Why do you ask'/" "My other papa always said he was so thankful his hair wasn't fast to him."

It is said that Flying Dutchman, a trotter under the saddle of tte olden time, stepped twenty-two feet

DYING FIRES.

[Edward A. Fuller.]

The log on which the hearth-fire long has fed Is nigh consumed, and now the flame burns low, With one faint blaae of feeble, flickering red.

That ghostly figures on the wall doth VthroW. But now the wind comes breathing soft along,

It flamta again and lights the gloom about, Thon lower sinks, as quick the wind 1m gone, Then flick'ring fades and with a puff goes out,. .-v. Love's fire, for long has fed upon the heart.

And nigh consumed it through a feeble flame, From out the ashes now and then doth start,

Casting weird shadows on the troubled brain. But mem'ry'a wtnd comes breathing softly by,

It glows again and for a time is bright, T^en the thought passes and lips sadly sigh,

As it dies out and leaves behind but night

BENEFACTOR OF HIS RACE.

Honse-Cleaning

Reduced to Science—

The Usual Discomfort Avoided. [Pittsburg Dispatch.] Down in the pretty town of Mount Vernon, Ohio, houw cleaning has been reduced to a regular systematized business, and the housekeepers there are now contemplating the season of sweet springtime with that dread of impending calamity which makes every Pittsburg housekeeper's heart grow chill and heavy when the buds begin to swell and the violets to bloom. As the story goes, a well-educated man from England settled there, and tried. to get employment, but in vain. Times were dull, and his prospects grew darker and darker. As it happened, one day he heard two ladies discoursing on how difficult it was to get help and how "girls" would per ist in getting "run down," and needing a rest, and going home to their mothers or their sisters until house-cleaniug was over. Thi3 gave him an idea, which he put in practice at once. He secured some competent help and went into, the hou-e-cleaning business, which has grown and flourished, and is pronounced by every woman who can afford to employ him a "Godsend and a blessing."

With a competent corps of assistants he will undertake to clean a house and leave it in first class order in a day, ?unies3 painting or something of that sort is required, which takes more time. They will take possession early in the morning, and by night the ceilings have been calcimined, the walls have been papered, the carpets have been renovated and put down, the furniture has been cleaned and polished, and so quick and deft have the workers become that housekeepers gaze at them in amazement And, as we are told the firm is responsible for any damage or loss, and are so thoroughly reliable and trustworthy that the mistress of the mansion can go away on a visit and come home to a house thoroughly cleaned and renovated from garret to cellar.

If carpets are to be changed, or turned around, or pieced, or mended, it is done. Curtains are washed and pnt up, blinds are hung, raattreBses renovated, bed-clothes are washed, the cellar cleaned, in short everything in the way of a thorough hoi^se-cloan-ing is done up with neatness and dispatch by competent, trained bands who know exactly what to do and how to do it, in the shortest possible time and at reasonably rates, such as plain, every-day people can afford to pay for being spared the yearly pull-up and dragout, and haul-over with all the attendant discomforts and disgusting details incident to the ordinary style of house-cleaning.:

Anecdote of Ez-Senator Bruce. [Ben: rerleyPoore in Boston Budget] Blanche K. Bruce, whose signature as register bf the treasury now graces every national bank bill, was very popular while he was in the senate, although he is of African descent Unobtrusive, attentive to'business and modest, he conquered the prejudices against his race and was treated with marked courtesy by his associates. One day, after be had been a senator for two years or more, Senator Bogy, the aristocractic descendant of one of the old French families of St. Louis, took a seat by his side, saying: "Mr. Bruce, I have a bill here I want you to vote for. It is one in which I have a great personal interest It has nothing political in it Look at it and tell me what you think."

Bruce laughed as he said: "Senator Bogy, I hope we shall arrange this more satisfactorily than our last business transaction." "Our last business transaction? What do you mean?" ''Don't you remember meeting me before my coming to the senate?" "Most decidedly no." "I think I can refresh your memory, senator. Some twenty years ago you were one day running down Olive •treet in a hurry to catch a steamer. You were carrying a very heavy valise. The day was verv hot Don't you remember the colored boy who came up and offered to carry the valise down to the levee for a quarter? You ran along with the boy. Soon the wharf dock was reached. The boat was just swinging out You ran and jumped on board. You called for the valise. The colored boy put the valise behind his back and called for his quarter. You hunted, fished out a quarter and tossed it ashore but the gap was too wide to to3s the valise. The captain had to stop the boat and back up hefore you could get your valise. Do you remember that?" "Well, I should say I da" "I was that colored boy."

A Queer News Item. [Norristown Herald.]

A very funny item of news was telegraphed from London a few days ago. It stated: "Society is greatly exercised over the suicide of a young Englishman'whose name is for the present concealed from the press. He was recently married, and lately lo-t $250,000 gambling at Monaco." His name is "concealed from the prasfi," eh? In this country, in a case of that kind, the press would be the first to get hold of his name. It would be as impossible to keep his name concealed from the press when society was exercised over his suicide, as it would be to dam Niagara—if not more so.

Conversation. [Exchange.

Conversation lil!.s all the gaps, supplies all ticticicncies. What a good trait is that recorded of Mme. de Maintenon, that during dinner, the servant slipped to her side. "Please, uiadamc, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day."

111* Bad of Deacon Berry's CeaeerttM* iPuck.l

Deacon Berry bad a wrinkled concertina, Which he used to sit and deftly agitate/ Pulling out that 3au and sweat old song,

In away that brought a crowd about his gate.

But 'twas known from Aroostook to Carthagena That the deacon's instrument was out of tune, So he sent it, by his pretty daughter Lena?,'"

Down to be repaired by Jedediah Koon.

Had the good old deacon paused, he might have seen a Safer way to send his music box, I think It deserved, in truth and honesty, I ween, a

Better rest than in a roller skating rink! For the maid—a sweet and charming young verbena—

Took it there and set it down in joyous mood, While sho skated out upon the floor to lean a

Pair of prelty lands upon her favorite dude.

Sooi. (jiri came sprawling out of the arena, And she planted both her feet—good sooth I alack!— In the stomach of the deacon's concertina^

Till it groaned, and buret the wrinkles in its back! .,

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Now—no more the deacon plies thie concertina Which he used to sit and deftly agitate, For he gave it as a sort of philopoena

Gift to her who on its stomach tried to skate. .i—w

Under a Craxy Qnilt. IGeorjfe Cooper.]

He slept, and dreamt that the kangaroo Had given a fancy ball -5 The elephant came with the festive gnu,

The mouse with the ostrich tall. A funny giraffe, that did nothing but laugh, Dropped in with a centipede And a cricket and flea, that hail just been to tea,

Waltzed round with remarkable speed. A wasp and a bumblebee had a chat •-.? Just over his little nose

And boa constrictor, upon the mat, J, Di-essed up in his Sunday clothes. A crow and a raccoon, in a flre balloon,

Paused over his bed to sing And a neat armadillo crept up on his pillow To dance the Highland fling. Then all, ere they left, made a graceful bow,

And out in the moonlight sped Except a ponderous brindle cow, Which stopped to stand on its head.' The little boy woke, and grinned at the joke

Sprang out of bis bed with a lilt "I will dream it all over," said he, "if they cover

Me up with this crazy quilt."

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After the Honeymoon. [Fliegende Blutter.]

Frau: But, August, why lookest you to me so sharply at? Husband: I was looking only to know how I earlier in you so mucu beauty found. .j

Where the Doctor Made a Mistake. [New York Mercury.] Husband—I have just wen the doctor, and he says I have water on the brain. :,.

Wife—Are you sure he said that? Husband (sarcastically)—Ya'as, I am sure he said that Do you tbink he made a mistake in calling it water! ^Vife—Oh, no but I think he made a mistake in calling it brain.