Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 October 1885 — Page 9

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IE ITER FROM LONDON.

WHAT HE FUSS is ALL ABOUT WITH ROUMELIA AND TURKEY. 8/

Portraits of the Sovereigns Interested 4 in the Question—Turkey Ought

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rSpeclal Correspondence.!

LOJTDOV, Oct 7.—What the map of southeastern Europe

with

is to-day can be made

will be a year from now

oat

some painstaking attention.

What it

be

would be a reck­

less man indeed who should undertake to

g'edict

There is a curious toy called Prince

upert's tears. It is a pretty-looking bit of glass blown into shape with such tension .upon it that a touch at

on9

:?yTHB

part will shiver

it into atoms. That expresses the present status of the part of Europe known as the Balkan peninsula. A good many worthy people about this time will glance at the dispatches headed the "Uprising

in

Rou­

melia," and say to themselves: "What in the name of fury is it all about?" A few words here will probably make it clear to them—that is, as clear a? it is to anybody.

At the close of the last war between Russia and Turkey the great powers of Europe met %t Berlin, and settled the question between those two ancient enemies for the time.

TURKEY

^independent!

BALKAN PENINBULA AS IT IS NOW. They parceled out the peninsula this way and that Servia, Roumania and Bulgaria, all ancient dominions of the Turk, were erected into provinces to themsalves. Bulgaria was tributary to the Turk. Between Bulgaria and Constantinople the little province of Eastern Roumelia was established. It was meant for a safeguard between Turkey and Russia, a sort of neutral ground, as it were. Eastern Roumelia at the same time was a semi-independent province. The Bultan appointed the governor, though the little state was supposed to govern itself. Its subjection to Turkey consisted chiefly in its paying taxes to the porte, tolerably stiff taxes, too. Philippopolis is the capital.

That was in 1878. All went smoothly Car as outside knowledge went, till suddenly, on the 18th of this September, without a word of warning, the inhabitants of Philippopolis rose and proclaimed that they no longer belonged to Turkey, but to Bulgaria. They seizad the Turkish governor and officers and imprisoned them. Then they pat their own men in the places of these, and a provisional government was formed.' It and the Roumelian soldiers swore allegiance to Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, on the spot

That was all there was of it A revolution that may shake the thrones of Europe before it is done with was accomplished without a drop of bloodshed.

Prince Alexander of Bulgaria accepted the plucky little state thus made a present to Mm, in a manner so cool and quiet a3 to hint that he knew all about it beforehand. He appointed at once M. Btrausky, governor of the province, and himself proseeded to Philippopolis at his leisure.

PR1NCK ALEXANDER I OF BULGARIA. 4 The prince is a fine, manly looking feftow, son of Prince Alexander of Battenberg.

He is brother of that Princa Henry of Bat- •#, tenberg, who recently married the queen's daughter, Beatrice. The little Battenbergs

may yet make a great figure in Europe. The sympathies of Bulgaria are emphatically Russian. The prince himself won his spurs by fighting on the Russian side "J| in the last Turco-Russian war. Re was at the famous siege of Plevna, and v, crossed the Balkans with Gen. Gourko,

He was elected by the Bulgarians them.1 selves, in 1§79, hereditary prince of the $ state. Consequently, unless there are fome more revolutions, his son wftl succeed to his title. But nobody can tell. He is yet a young man, having been born in 1857.

The war strength of Bulgaria is 52,000. The province was captured by the Turks as long ago as the year 1392. The people are Sdavio in blood and Christians of the Greek church in religion. In the six nan-

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curies during which they have been subject to Turkey their history has been one record of oppression at tha hands of their Mohammedan ruler. The people of East Roumelia were taxed to death and oppressed frightfully, it is claimed, and they rose in revolt, flow, an endless chain of war and diplomacy hang on this question of whom East Roumelia is permitted to belong to. The boundary lines of Greece, Roumania, Servia and several other states were sharply defined by the Berlin treaty. If Bulgaria is permitted to pocket the little province, Servia is an ambitious neighbor that will insist on having another slice of something too. *So will Greece, so will Roumania anl the rest

As a matter of fact, the army of Bervia is already in fighting trim. Servia's hand Is against both Bulgaria and Turkey. It i3 almost safe to predict that by the time this reaches you there will be fighting along the borders of Bar via and Bulgaria. It will be a three-cornered fight.

Bulgaria is only a pr ncido-v tJTervi and Rcumaniaarenlrea.y HI. u.i

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KINO AND QtnftBSr OF SERVIA.

I, King of Servia, was torn in 1851. In 1815 Milos Obrenovich, a peasant, headed an insurrection Of Servians against the Turk, and was acknowledged by the Bultan Prince of Servia. Milan is the descendant of this brave peasant, and the fourth of the dynasty. He became prince by the assassination of his uncle in 1868. There is considerable more excitement than quiet satisfaction in bains ruler of on9 of these bloody little states in the Balkan peninsula. A king or prince never knows what day his head may not come off. Milan wa3 crowned prince at Belgrade in 1872. The map in the beginning of

thi3

letter shows the distribu­

tion of territory for the Balkan peninsula by the treaty of Bar 1 in. By that treaty Servia became independent of Turkey in 18781 Then Milan became king, and was solemnly proclaimed such. Belgrade is the capital. Milan's queen is Natalie, a daughter of Col. Keschko, of the Russian Imperial guard. So that Servia too is closely in sympathy with Russia. At once the news of the Roumelian revolution reached Servia the army of that little kingdom moved toward tha southern frontier. It is 60,000 strong. The pretense was that the boundary of Servia must be protected in case the adjoining Turkish provinces of Macedonia and Albania rose in revolt. King Milan said in such a case he would be forced to act with the insurgents or be deposed. Certain it is that all Servia is wild for war in some shape.

Being himself of peasant blood, not many removes, King Milan is very popular among his subjects. You will observe that the kings and princ83 of these half barbarous little states are well madex and handsome fellows, looking to be men of power and presence. They are young, too, ia the flower of their aga, and cultivated and ambitious to a man. Nobody knows what yet may happen. King Milan is strongly built and swarthy. He is a fine linguist^ of a free-handed, frank nature. In some respects he resembles the lat9 Victor Emanuel of Italy, being passionately fond of hunting and averse to appearing in public. He likes to play cards and his favorite reading is military works and novels. Beautiful Quean Natalia is now only 26 years old, though she has been ten years married. Her proclivities are English. She speaks that language well, and prefers its literature. She is a tall brunette with faultless features and winning ways. She, too, knows many tongue*, speaking almost equally well French, English, Russian, Romanian and Servian. But educated Russians always are greab linguists.

KINO AND QUEEN OF ROUMANIA.

The estimated population of Roumania is somewhat less than 5,500,000, though the total number of Roumanians is about 8,000,000. They are scattered through the neighboring states in large numbers. Bucharest is the capital, a shabbily built town of 250,000. In tima of war, Roumania can muster an army of 100,000.

In 1861 the two provinces of Wallachid and Moldavia were united. The new state was given the name of Roumania. Th« present ruler, whose portrait appears in the illustration is King Karl or Car4 He was born in 1839, elected prince in 1866, and crowned king in 1881. He is of German descent His wife, the queen, was Princess Elizabeth von Nemviad.

Roumania o«K its present independent position to its friendship with Russia. When the war broke 6ut between that country and Turkey in 1877, Roumania signed an agreement with the czar's government, granting free passage to Russian troops through Roumanian territory. Then, while Turkey had her hands lull, the government assembly proclaimed tha independence of Roumania at Bucharest The Roumanian army went into the war on the side of Russia, and fell upon tha Turk tooth and nail They distinguised themselves before Plevna. When in 1878 the Berlin congress met to straighten things oat, it agreed to recogniza the independence of Roumania. So that the kingdom of Roumania too is a creation of the treaty of Berlin.

The Roumanians speak a language whicb is a direct descendant from the ancient minglari with many Slavonic words. In blood the inhabitants are as mixad as a

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 29. 1885.T\VO PARTS: PART SECOND.

mince pie. There are 31)0,000 gypsies among them, and 400,000 Jews. By the treaty of Berlin it was settled that no man's religious belief should abridge his civil rights.

KOTO AND QUEEN OF GREECE.

Greece, too, is preparing to reach her paw into the 1eehive and draw out such chunks ,of honey as she may. Greece did not get what she considered her just dues at the treaty of Berlin bufehe did not make much fuss about it at the time, chiefly, because she could not help herself. She acquiesced outwardly, and lAded her time. It looks now as though possibly she might get her inn tags. She can muster an army of 146,000 men. Like the other states mentioned, tha moment the Roumelian rebellion took place Greece began to prepare for war. If Macedonia rises in an effort to throw off the Turkish yoke, what more natural than that Greece should join in and help her ancient province, in the hope and expectation of getting it back?

George I is the present King of Greece. He is a son of the King of Denmark," consequently brother of tha Empress of Russia and the pretty Princess of Wales. Her# again Russian and English connections are doubled and twisted. George's wife, moreover Quean Olga, is a cousin of Czar Alexander 1IL King George 40 years old: hit /rite in 84, and they have a large ami in* attesting family. rne one dream ot Greece is Hellenic ex':?nsion. .We may bo sure she will lose no shadow of a chance to impress her idea on the powers.

Finally, the onq olh« party chiefly interested in tha Roumelian question if ths ruler of the sublime porte.

SULTAN ABDUL—HAMD XL

It is not healthy to be sultan of Turkey. Consequently they never live to be very old. An accident is apt to shorten their lives. Abdul Hamid II was born in 1843. HU brother Murad was sultan before him, but in 1876 the council of ministers declared Murad to be suffering from idiocy, so they deposed him and put Abdul Hamid in bi3 place. We cannot give a picture of the sultana or empress, from the fjict that there are "so many of her," as Artemus Ward would say. Otherwise we would be glad to do sa Quite as an aside in this question, is it really worth while to perpetuate in civilized Europe such a barbarism and anachronism as Turkey, with its savage cruelties of government and the morals and manners of King Solomon's time? To the unprejudicial eye it really seems small business for Christian England and Germany to be bolstering up harems and polygamy, and eunuchs and bastinadoing and other abominations.

The porte appeals to the powers to see that the provisions of the Berlin treaty, giving it thd sovereignity over Eastern Roumelia, are carried out.

But the porte has lived long enough. Better let it go. It is a blot on Chris tain Europe, anyhow. JOHN STETSON.

An Old War

Horse*

OEN. ROBERT TOOMBS. [Special Correspondence.!

WASHINGTON, Ga., Oct 19.—Robert Toombs, probably the strongest figure and the least understood among the leaders in the late rebellion, is about stepping over into the great bayoni. Since the death of his wife three years ago he ha# anxiously looked forward to the time when he can again see her. She was his companion for over fifty years, and there never lived a more devoted husband than he. A few weeks ago he was in Atlanta bidding his old friends good bye and making preparations for his death, which he had a premonition was fa*t approaching. Since then the scenes around his bedside have been touching. Hi3 former slaves and their descendants hava come in from far and near to bid farewell to their old friend and master. Between him anl them there has always been a strong affection. Prominent men, among them many union soldiers, t**» come to nay their last resnects to

their old adversary. One of them said: "Bob Toombs, though a bitter foe, was the erne I most admired among the Confederates. At tome time or another during the war all their other leaders seemed to waver so that we scarcely knew whether they intended to return loyal or not But with Bob Toombs we knew for every moment from 1860 till to-day just how he stood. He held convictions, and dared assert them." Whether Gen. Toombs ever bragged that "he would yet call the roll of hi3 slaves under the shadow of Bunker Hill" is an open question, but it expresses in a mild way his hopes in those days. A. correspondent of The Atlanta Constitution thus sums up his strong characteristics: "The home life of Gen. Toombs stands in strange contrast with bis stormy public career, in which his impulsive, determined and unsubmissive disposition found such ample sway. At home, howaver, he was always as gentle as a lamb, kind, sympathetic and indulging. An even feigned sternness immediately melted at a wistful glanca, and instead of ruling the household he completely subjected himself to its members. Thus it was with those whom he loved. With them his rebellious spirit and fiery temper was as mild as a woman's, and in his household reigned the sunshine of devotion, peace and good will.

How different his public life. "Born," as he himself expressed it in the last public speech he ever made, "as good a rebel as ever came from revolutionary loins," his chief characteristic was to break where he could not bend. He willingly submitted himself to no authority. As a school boy he was a rebel, and as he grew older he formed earnest convictions by which he stood, whether or not orthodox. As a statesman ho was impulsive, fiery and intolerant, but tho acme of his revolutionary disposition developed in his service as a soldier He could not brook superior authority which became so personal, and to his realization of this fact is due the shortness of his career as a soldier.

Thus it is that the greatest of living Georgians is rapidly journeying to tha: bourne where rests bis old colleagues and companions. He is almost alone, of those who are left Those whose destinies he figured so conspicuously in shaping look with anxious eyes to the dying statesman. Their heartfelt sympathy is with him, and even those who disagreed with him can but admire his manly character, the nobleness of bis patriotism and the loftiness of his purposes.

His last great encounter is characterised by gentle submission. He is quietly passhnj away, and the #urdy support of his devoted townsmen is but emblematic of ths reverence of the people of his state an£ every tear that falls from the eyes of hii beloved granddaughters, and wastes itself on his macilent form, carries Huh it tht Sorrow and smpathy the entire people."

E. J.

•'Josh Billings."

"Josh Billings is dead," an announcement which brought regrets to this whole land, for there was scarcely a hamlet from one end of the country to the other whose inmates were not familiar with the name, or acquainted with the quaint sayings of this humorist philosopher. Death and mirth are so far disassociated that the announcement carries with it a peculiar shock. The thought that Josh, who has enlivened thousands by his wit, cheered up many a sinking heart, and brought sunshine into numerous homes, who saemed to possess a fountain of lon-gevity-producing joy, and yet he must answer the summons like the rest of us. While on lecturing tour he died suddenly in a hotel at Monterey, California, on Oct 14.

Henry W. Shaw wai born in Lanesboro, Mass., ii*1818. He came of a distinguished family. His grandfather

both

and

been

father

had

members of congress. It was the

intention of his parents to bring him up a "politician," though

they gave

that was not the

the

name

profession in those days. The

position of private secretary to\ John Quincy Adams

had been

the

we3t

assured him,

to satisfy

but

future "Josh." while a large, ungainly boy of 14, ran away from school and started

the

passion he

pos­

sessed for roving. The history of his life as a frontiersman is one long list of failires. He tried his hand at everything, acsumulating nothing

but

an insight into

iuman nature that brought him a fortune '.ater on. Of his western enterprises Josh would lay very little. One of his friends once gave the following account of bis life there: "Josh first opened a country store, keeping stock of goods more remarkable for rariety than riches, including grindstones, needles, scythes, cathartic pills, calico, iheap confectionery, jewsharps and jujube easts. in a year or so ne closed tue e»*ao iishment,but not without the sheriff's sansfe ance. Then he took a farm on credit, and was obliged at the end of the third season to discontinue the occupation for a lack ol

THE LATE HENRY W. SHAW.

money. Next he hired himself out to drive cattle, and was again unfortunate. Having obtained the place of master of a small steamboat \)n the Ohio, ha navigated tho river for two years, having in that time sunk three vessels and lo*t according $o his own calculation, (8,000 or $10,000, which was all tha more deplorable as he had no money to begin with. Teaching was his nexi enterprise, and later banking. He had neither capital nor credit, and soon suspended." As a failure in life be was thus far a success.

Finding himself at tha age of 40 with three growing daughtars hs cama east with the intention of S3carin an education for them. He settled ac. Poughkeepsie. on the

niiason, in we ousineu ot auctioneer. Among his various callings this was one in which he had same previous experience and one in which his natural humor aided him materially. His luck seemed to change. He actually made money here. His ready wit on the auction stand attracted the attention of a new3f»per editor in the village, and he invited him to contribute to his paper. He did so to the extent of about forty essays, whicb atiractal little attention, though it needed but a siglht change in them to bring their iuthor fortune, which they afterward] did. One.day Mr. Shaw read one of the squibs of Artemus Ward on a subjact that he had treated in one of his short essays. He real it over and over and over again and the more be read it the less he understood why Artemus Ward's writings should ba popular, while his pieces bad fallen stillborn from the press. He made up his mind that it was the bad spelling that had lent wings to Artemus Ward's humor and made him famous, and that it was his own loyalty to Webster's Unabridged that had weighted his humor down. So he took his essay an the mule. ''The mule's a favorite animal with me," Josh once said. "He has treated me pretty rough, and Fve traated him pretty rough we understand each other"—and without changing a word "ha slewed round the spelling," as he expressed it, and sent it to a weekly paper of not large circulation at the time. Before mailing it hesigned it "Josh Billings." "Josh" was in honor of an old comrade (Josh Care w) of his western life "Billings came by inspiration as it were." The misspelled Essa on the Muel" was printed and instantly "went the rounds of the press," and the name of Josh Billings became famous. $1.50 was his pay for the first essay he offered to a newspaper. Then a New York paper gave him $100 a week for a half oolumn of squibs. As a lecturer he also commanded large audiences and good prices. His lecture on "Milk" will be long remem* bered. Indeed, it mattered little what the topics were to ha treated of in his lectures bis title was generally "Milk."

In 1871 he began the publication of his

1'Farmers?

Alminst," which in its second

year had a sale of 127.000 copies and netted the author and publisher $30,000 each. Mr. Shaw looked like a very malancholy man. His strong features and long gray hair attracted attention every where. As a story teller he was inimitable. His faculty of serving up homaly truth* with a dressing of bad spelling and a sauce of Yankee wit may never be equaled.

A Celebrated American Artist.' [Special Correspondence. 1 CINCINNATI, Oct 17. A few years bafore

the civil war a boy name! Henry Mokler assisted in the support of a large family by peddling cigars in the streets of Cincinnati. Lately that same Mosler walked those same streets, having since become one of the foremost painters of the world. Ha was xnakln? arrangements for tha exhibition her* of some of his bast work, which will be firs') shown in New York, and later in

HENRY MOSLER.

Chicago. Henry Mosler was a New .York boy, born in 1841. At the age of 9 years his family brought him to Cincinnati. From cigar peddling he went at wood engraving, and later into the studio of James H. Beard. For two years during the civil war he sent sketches from the battle field to Harper's Weekly. After that he went to Europe to study, where he has sinca remained, with but short intervals at homa His painting entitled ''The Lost Cause" was the first to attract very general attention. This was in 1873. Since then, however, Mr. Mosler has won the distinctive honor of being the only American artist who has found a place oa the historic walls of the Luxembourg gallery, where great works of great living artists are hung, awaiting the day when they may further immortalize tha masters by being transferred to the Louvre. Every year since 1878 he has had a work at the Salon, and the originality of his sul'jacts, together with h's fidelity of drawing and strength of characterization, has won for him a high place in tha judgment of European critics. "The Rstum" (La Rat our), one of tha great features of the Stfion oi 187V, was purchased by thj French government and placed in the Luxembourg gallory. This picture. '•The Raturn," and his painting, entitled "The List Sacram?nt," now the property of the Louisville Polytefchnic institution, are alone sufficiant to immortaliza their author. Much of his other meritorious work is owned by individuals throughout thi* ccuntry. F. E. HOWABA

Differing Views. lPhiladelphia Call.]

Mrs. De Boggs—Did you take Johnny, to teiiool, Jeremiah? Mr. Da Bogga—I did. "An excellent school it is, Matilda. The scholars are models of deportment the curriculum is first-class, and the professor a man of ability. At least, that is tne way he struck me.

Johnny (with a groan)—Ycu ought to have stayed about an hour and seen how he struck me.

Wall

Street Animal*.

[Burlington Free Press. 1

"WeT# you a bull or a bear?" asked an acquaintance of a speculator. "Neither," be replied *'I was an as&"

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST PILFERING*

Kiklag It Basjr for Honest Employes to Maintain Their Integrity. [New York Oar. Inter Ocean.]

In the matter of pay for aervloej the gen* »ral assumption in the business of New York city has come to be that ail men are thieves. That seems harsh and hard, but experience has taught that safety against robbery lies in treating every handler of one's money as possibly dishonest. It is only ten years ago that the street oar conductors were indignant because the bell punch was introduced but soma of them proved by ingenious devices to beat it that that they deserved the precaution. Mechanical guards against stealing have muk' tiplied, until new a machine for registering receipts is conspicuous on half the cashiers' desks in town. Bartenders in the big* ger groggerisa have to hand all the money to a chap behind an apparatus that stamps the amount of every sale on a strip of paper, and drops,^.clipped bit into a locked receptacle^:'.

There is a man who owns fourteen large bar-rooms, all extravagantly fitted up, and located in places of fashionable thronging. He says that he woujd be ruined in year, instead of enriched by his extensive business, if he did not take such measure against pilfering. Every horse ear company uses a complicated and effective system ot bell-ringing aud registry for fares. Retail stores of all kinds are similarly outfitted! Even the more prosperous soda, water and cigar stands are provided witlt checks and clock-work to enforce honesty. On the Brooklyn elevhted railroad, the ticket-sellers do not so much as touch the tickets, but jigger them ont through the spout of a registering maohina, from which the passengers carry them to the drop-boxes at the gates. Thus nobody employed in tha stations ever handles a ticket, and there is no chance for collusion. Resentment over these things has worn away, and I shouldn't be surprised at the early introduction of patent, self-registering contribution baskets in churchei.

The good Deacon E, noted for piety and fresh-every-hour candy, and warmly eulogised after his recent death for having insisted that the girls in his store should all belong to his Sunday-school class, did not allow religion to be their only shield against temptation. "What makes you use checks und a punch-' ing-box on your counters, Brother H?" a fellow churchman asked. "Are not your young ladies honest?" "Perfectly," was the bland reply, "and I mean to make it easy for them to keep sa"

After the inventors have solved the problem of compelling all of us to be honest to our employers, perhaps they will discover bow to make us true to ourselves, and then we shall have the milleniuui.

Humorous Elephants. -[Foreign Correspondence.]

A young friend asked me once to show him some elephants in undress, and I took him along with me, having first borrowed an apron and filled it with oranges. This he was to carry while accompanying me in the stable, but the moment we reached the door the herd set up such a trumpeting— they had scented the fruit—that be dropped the apron and its contents and scuttled off like a scared rabbit. There were eight elephants, and when I picked up the oranges I found I had twenty-five. I walked deliberately along the line giving one to each. When I got to the extremity of the narrow stable I turned and was about to begin tne distribution again, when I suddenly reflected that if elephant No. 7 in the row saw me give two oranges Jn succession to No. 8, he might imagine he was heing cheated, and give me a smack with his probocis—that is where tbe elephant falls short of the human being—so I went to tb» door and began de novo as before.

Thrice I went along the line and then was in a fix. I had one orange left and I had to get back to the door. Every elephant in tbe herd had his greedy gase focused on that orange. It was as much as my life was worth to give it to any one of them. What was I to do? I held it up conspicuously, coolly peeled it, and sucked it myself. It was most amusing to notice the way those elephants nudged each other and shook their ponderous sides. They thoroughly entered into the humor of the thing.

Tapestry Weaving[Art Journal.]

Tapestry weaving was one of tbe distinctive arts of Florence at that time when tho busy fingers and refined taste of her citizens evolved artistic forms out of every material they touched, be it marble or canvas, stone silk wood or precious stones. Like most of the arts of the renais-ance, this also was brought from the east at the time of the crusades, took root in France and Germany, and reached its culmination "in Italy. The story may be briefly traced in its' successive names, Sarapinois, Arras, and tapestry. The earlier English anl French tapestries, such as the veli3 depictis of DagoIwrt in the church of 8t. Denis in the sixth century, the Auxerre etnbroidere 1 hangings in 840, and the Bayeux tajj&stry ot Matilda, do not enter into the history, as they were not woven but worked with a needle, as were also the Byzantine" ones. The Flemish fact^riej began in the twelfth century, and those of Arra3 in Picardy flourished in the fourteenth and fifteantb.

Woman's Fortitude. [Chicago Ledger.]

Man is a feeble child of destiny, who can't Inea a dollar oa a horse-race or find a shoebutton in his soup without showing vexation in every line of his fao as plain as red letters on a circus bill, while a woman will not so much AS bat an eyela«h if she happens to come unexpectedly face to face- witn an old beau who honeyed up to her five years or more in the most attentive courtship, and (hen jilted her without a word of 'warning to marry a dowdy with a little money drawing interest A. woman may not bn able to slice onions without shedding tears of pain, but s&e can step on her own heart and never wince.

Too Many English Doctors.

The new registrations of English doctors last year were mor* than double the number of vacanies created by ascertained deaths. The lancet thinks the profession is becoming greatly overcrowded.