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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.
Her husband died in 1S40 as a result of his
etiortsto combine business with delirium
tremens. Whisky at that time in Omaha
was often attended with fatal results. It
would remove wart, corns and bunions.
Mr. Kontenelle csed it frequently in order
to afford exbilaratiou. i mally it began to
afford not only board and lodging, but also
pectacular entertainments, during ono of
which Le suddenly expired, leaving four
eons and one daughter. Logan was finally
killed by the iiionx, after having made a
good many experiments with the demon
mm. Albert was a blacksmith up to his
death, since which little is known of him.
He was thrown from a mule in a vertical
direction, and when he struck the town his
soul had tied. The mule's injuries were
slight. Tecumseh was killed by his brother-in-law
in a drunken frolic, lie was a love
ly character, except when drank. "When
be was drunk bo frequently said things
which he afterward bitterly regTetted.
Mrs. Fontonelle had the ill fortune to see
one of her little sons coming home from
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DEB SEBB 1ST AUFEBSTANDEIT.
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Revenge is Sweet.
fc?iool with a spear inserted in him, ono
day, fvcm which he died. She found out
that the deed was done by an Iowa Indian.
She concealed aft ax under her blanket
and. telling him to look at the beautiful
snnilzht which bathed the entire landscape
and liooded it with glory, she spat on her
hands and, swinging the ax about with
great vigor, buried it in the center of the
low, coarse brute. Wiping the ax care
fully with her pocket handkerchief, she
returned to her home and wrote up the
occurrence for the local papers, laying the
blame mostlv on the deceased for the un
fortunate a flair.
Omaha is situated in the eastern partof the
State, herfeet being bathed by the waters of
theMiasouri. The Missouri carries quite a
cjiantityof Nebraska down to Louisiana
every rear, but reDlaces the loss bv lea vine
"irge deposits of Dakota in the meantime.
The Missouri is quite a wet stream, how
ever, compared with the Platte. In August. "
street sprinklers have to run up and down
over the parched bosom of the Platte.
- Nebraska was organized as a .territory on
May 23, 18o4, and she figured prominently
in the great Kansas-Nebraska bill intro
duced bv Stephen A. Douglas, the tight
over which was undoubtedly the skirmish,
in the early gray of the morning of that'
day which at its close found the negro of
America a free man but out of a job, a citi
zen with a ballot but a dull market ior it,
a sovereign with no possessions, a prattling
infant suddenly requested by the law to be
a full-grown man.
Slavery does not exist in the State of Ne
braska to-day. and politics is said to be
very pure, i gainer ims uum iuo papers.
The Republican press admits the purity of
the Kepublican party .in Nebraska, and
tacitly the Democratic papers refer to the
chastity of the ballot in that party. I am
glad to know this at a time when corrup-
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Tion serins 10 creep iu to puinics trisowiiero
and embitter the lives of the many, even
driving out of pnblic life many who would
otherwise be willing and almost glad to mix
up with it. I may trulv say that it is really
the amenities of public life which have
kept me out of it. I dread opposition and
vituperation at all times. Vituperation,
bitter words and paucity of votes have
kept me out of politics and deprived the
country of a man who would otherwise
have shone with a degree of intellectual
olish in any position to which he might
lave been called.
I am indebted to Mr. A. Sarenson, of
Omaha, and his justly-celebrated history of
, Omaha for the facts given in this letter.
The word painting is my own.
..Inay sp;ak further of Nebraska in my
next lexier, giving two or mreo cuiuuius ut
thrilling statistics and bright, racy gossip
relative to the crop acreage and mean tein
jerature. t
T m n xt olort qnnul- tt fb a Tmblbif ton mftTA.
ment in Iowa, showing how it has embit
tered the life of the saloon-keeper and
built ud and fostered the drug store in its
Ftead, also showing the great falling off in
the consumption of whisky and so forth,
while the price of liniment has gone np 100
per cent. j Bill Nye.
Copyright, 1889, by Edgar W.Kyc.
Grotesque Mimicry In Irish Castles.
Edgar L. Wakeman's Limerick Letter.
To return to the castle life of the servants,
one discovers most grotesque mimicry, save
tn bad habits and character, of aristocracy
above stairs. Among the servants there
nre what might be called an upper and a
lower house. Precedence is as severe a
TnttAr nrwl nnnrf Iipt as with tho Tinhili-
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ty tuemseives. ine nours ior servanxs'
meals are: Breakfast 8; lunch. 11; dinner,
1; tea, 5, and supper from 9 to 10. The
upper house includes the steward, butler,
housekeeper, head cook, the valets and the
. ladies' maids. These usually take all their
meals by themselves, in either the steward's
or housekeeper's room, where they also oc
casionally lounge and do their necessary
ioTresnondence.
The lower house comprises all other house
"servants of whom tho under-butler or as
sistant cook takes precedence. In many
houses all the servants diDe. together, the
tipper servants assembling in. the house
keeper's room, from which they solemnly
inarch to the servants' dining-hall,the low
'er servants remaining standing until their
betters nre seated, the butler at the head of
the table. No conversation whatever is
permitted while the joint is being partaken
of. The lugubrious silence and austerity
of this gathering are inconceivably ludi
crous. Vhen the meat course is hnishd,
the upper servants rise. The lower serv
ants follow, with military alacrity. The
former, in their proper order of precedence,
then, like automatic puppets, march back
into the steward's room, where, in the
greatest punctilio, pudding and desert are
served. Mean while the lower servants, re
lieved of the presence of these their sever
est masters, fall to small talk, cheese and
small beer to their heart's content.
A Hint About Bridal Presents.
JPhUadelphi Record.
"It is scarcely the right thing," said a
young bride. "to look a gift horse in the
mouth; and yet it is hard not to speak one's
wind on a nutter of this kind. It does
teem to me that py)ple might think a while
before buying weddiucrpre ents. I am sure
if thev had done so I should not have re
ceived nine biscuit boxes. What am I to
do with them allT I can only use one at a
time, or, at the'inost, two. Now, what is to
be done with the other seven! It's too per
plexing. If I could only show them it
wouldn't bo so bada but I can't even do
that."
"Dear me! I don't know why you should
worry over such a little thine as that," ob
served her sister; who had Deen married
nine years. 'Those extra biscuit-boxes will
be very useful byf and by. Select tho one
or two you want to keep, and then put the
others carefully away. Whenever any of
your friends marry, let a biscuit-box be
your gift. It'll save you lots of money.
When I was married I received six fish
servers among my presents. I was cross
until some one gave me the hint that I havo
just given you, and then I was happy. It
wasn't long before I had made good use of
the livo tish-seryers."
They Are Still nt Large.
Chicago Journal.
An Arkansas jury has fonnd a "White
Cap" ruffian guilty and ho has been sen
tenced to twenty-one years' imprisonment.
Hut the men who stole the ballot-boxes in
Conway county and who murdered CoL
'.John M. Clayton to prevent detection for
the crime, are -Mill ntlai
large, and likely to
escape altogether.
Anticipating the Inquirers.
llttat or ClirouJcIe.
Oeorgo Herbert, in 1040, ea.d: To a
cloe-horn sheep God gives wind by meas
ure." and in 17Qi Lawrence Stcrae put the
eentenco into its present 6hape: "uodtem
pers the wind to the shorn lamb.' This ex-
1Ianation that the quotation is not from the
iible or bhakspcure ought to last until
Ctxtesrins.
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READ1XG FOR THE SABBATH.
On Easter Morn.
The day was worn. The baMiath eve crept on
And vanished In the night the eot-ond since
That det d on Calvary Oh. dire the deed
That made the earth to tremble and the run
Grow black, while Nature turned and hid hex
face
In agony and hame!
And now the morrow's dawn stretched up
And hung its timid light above the hills.
Throujrh the sxa.v shadows flieittlr two forms,
The tearful Marys, bent their steps toward
Tte place, the hollowed rock wherein their Mas
ter lar.
One look they craved on that pale, thorn-pierced
brow
A last fond look on IHm they loved on Him
Whose love for them, yea, more, for all the world,
Outweighed His life ou Calvary's ton.
They reached tho siot. No hindering stone
found they
To block the tomb; but near it, lo, they saw
A sight that shook their hearts with fear and joy.
Clad In the white of heaven sat its messenger,
Whose face was like tho lightning's flash, and yet
Whose words did drop like balm upon their
wounded souls. 1
"Be not afraid Why come ye here! Why look ye
For the living 'niong the deadl (Jo, comfort ye,
For Christ, the crudiled, whom ye do seek,
Is risen with the mom:"-
J oss ph Whitton.
The Risen Lord.
New York Independent.
Tho most joyful event in the world's his
tory is the resurrection from the crave of
our Lord Jesus Christ. On that first East
er morning the world's great failure was
recovered and reversed. The fall of man
out of purity into the denths of depravity
and condemnation was replaced by his
resurrection into the favor and holiness of
God. The race wbich fell rose again when
Jesus Christ rose from the grave. Out of
despair came hope; ont of death life. Our
risen Lord became the type of risen hu
manity. As he rose out of the eepulcher,
attended by angels, so, under heavenly
ministrations the race began to rise out of
the grave of sin, and to enter into its new
life. In him was light and the light was
the life of men.
The resurrection was the proof of the
mission of our Lord. Hut for that crown
ing evidence of His power over the grave,
the religion of Jesus nad been nothing more
than a forgotten story of a wandering
rabbi. With the crucifixion came sudden
and completeparalysis over the whole body
of disciples, when He rose from the grave
there entered into their souls a courage and
a resolution that were superhuman. Now
nothing, conld daunt them. They had the
risen God on their side. The disciples saw
Him again and again. Hundreds saw Hira
at once. They, beheld His ascension into
Heaven. Nothing elso but his firm belief.
in the resurrection of the Lord, whom be
too had seen in a vision, could
account for the career of tt
Paul. "I bear in my body," said be, "tho
marks of tho Lord Jesus;" "1 know iu
whom I have believed;" "If Christ be not
risen what advantageth it me to have
fought with beasts at Ephesusl'' The im
mense power of the faith in the risen Lord
appeared not only in the martyrdom of
Paul's whole life, out in the whole story of
the faith of that early church which en
dured ten persecutions, with scarce a resting-place
between them.
The whole history of the church is tho
product of two CTeat facts in Christ's
history on earth the one His crncitixion,
his sacrifice. His redemption; the other His
resurrection. His conquest and victory. A
man might die on the cross many
men have died but only a God could
conquer death by His owu might.
The church trusts for its salvation
in the death of the Sou of Hod; it
triumphs in His resurrection, in Hisglorv,
m His might. Now it knows no defeat. It
says: "I can do all things through Him that
strengthened me." It goes on conquering
the death of sin, through the might of the
resurrection of its Lord, challenging the
power of death and the grave, and assured
that the power which raised Christ from
the dead shall raiso this dead world out of
its grave and bring it into the life of Christ.
This is the hope of the church in this Eas
ter season.
Sunday-School Lesson fur April 20.
PF-STUrcTlON OF THK TEMPLE FORETOLD.
Mark xiii, 1-13.
tiolden Text Hut I say unto you, that in this
place U one greater than the temple. Matt,
ill, ;.
HOME READINGS.
3Ion. Destruction of temple fore
told .....Mark alii. 1-13
Tues. Kcniemhrance of former
Klory Ezra iii. 8-13.
Wed. Destruction threatened.....! Kiugslx.l-tf
Th. Prophesy of destruction Dau. ix, 110-27
FrL The greater temple Kcv.ixi, 10-27
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Pat. False teachers 1 John iv, 1-6
Sun. Promise to the faithful Kev. iii, 7-13
It was Tuesday, and the last day that tho
Lord sent in the temple. As he passed out
with his disciples they called his attention
to the great stones of which it was built.
He then declared that in a short time the
whole building would be destroyed. After
they reach tho Mount of Olives some of the
disciples ask him about the destruction of
the temple and "tlie end," and what were
to bo the 6igns of the event. Redraws a
fearful picture of the signs that were to
precede the fall of the Holy City, and that
were realized some forty years later. At
the samo time and in the same answer he
referred to the end of the world and to his
own second coming.
WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
New York Independent.
This is hardly an edifying lesson for
children. This passage, with its correspond
ing accounts from Matthew and Luke, have
been the vantage-ground for hundreds of
treatises of explanation. The obscurity is
great and intentionally so, but the warn
ing conveyed is not the less terrible and
plain. To understand the whole import of
these words of Christ is impossible. It is
best to con tine one's attention to the plain
truths they teach. It is wise to deal with
the things we do know and not waste our
time with things we cannot grasp. The
largest monuments we rear, that seem im
perishable with their stones and mortar,
have no guarantee of age unless they are
used to .perpetuate a pure Christianity.
The coming of Christ and the end of
the world are subjects that occupy our
ripest thoughts more often than once
or twice. They are legitimate and weighty.
Our own destiny and end thrill us with
their misery. Speculation is not knowl
edge. Imagination that is projected into
divine knowledge should not stop the
hourly beat our feet must make "to do the
deed that our own soul hath to itself de
creed." The world is not yet on "its last legs."
Leaders are continually springing up that
pretend to do what Christ did and who
would command a like following. Only
the other day a man out West, with a very
unmessianic name, assumed the role of the
Christ. Let one's common sense guard in
this as in other matters. When Christ
comes again you mav be sure thero will be
no aouot aoout u. it win Denoamuigu
ous arrival.
It is a disgrace to Christianity that wars
and rumors of wars should shake the world.
The new iron-clad, the latest pueumatio
gun only aggravate tho trouble. Tho
Christian 6tiould grapple the question
which so deeply atl'ects our country
America might become instead of the cess
pool of civilization, the righteous arbi
trator of the wrongs of mankind. Shall wo
not hasten the end and Christ's comlug by
humanitarian means of settling national
disputes?
Personal recklessness is not what is
wanted, but personal courage that will not
be beaten back. Men are still
murdered for Christ's sake, and
delivered up to councils. The
opportunities for bravery and no compro
mise are as many to-day as ever. The end
will not come, as an Englishman predicted,
in a few years unless the churches send oil'
ship-loads of ministers to every quarter of
the globe. There are a billion people j-et who
do not know who Christ is or understand
the tirst principles of decent morality.
Would that ten thousand could go into the
work this year!
It is the end that is tho test Not know
ing when the end comes, the test becomes
successive. Let the material of life be so
tine that it may stand, without crack or
break, any pressure the evil puts upou it at
any moment.
Personal and News Notes.
European passenger lists show that the
annual exodus of clergymen has com
menced. Protestant missions are found in but two
of the live republics of Central America
Nicaragua and Guatemala.
The American McAll Association for the
evangelization of France has sixty-rive
auxiliaries, which last year contributed
over 35,000.
A feature of the new American Church of
the Holy Trinity in Paris is a place where
the sick, or those infirm, can participate in
the service without being 6een.
S. S. Cramer, a young Jewish rabbi, of
Montgomery. Ala., has announced that ho
will embrace Christianity. He has applied
for admission to the Baptist Church.
The followingsuggestivo table of Sunday
school statistics in the United States ap
pears in some of our exchanges, but we do
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BOYAX EDITION.-
not know the paternity of it: Population,
fi0.O00.G00; population of school a?e, about
20,000.000; children in Sunday-schools, 7,000,
C00; children not in Sunday-schools, 13,000,
000. : -
Christ Church, Alexandria, Va., still uses
the velvet bags on the end of a stick, for
collections, that George Washington used
to handle when he was a vestryman there.
The National Council of the Congrega
tional Churches of the United States will
hold its seventh triennial session with the
Plymouth Church, Worcester, Mass., Oct.
9 to 15.
"We dread a rainy Sunday," says a postal
clerk. "The mail always contains more let
ters on Monday than on any other day in
the week, but when the Sabbath has been
stormy the amount is almost doubled.
The wife of Bishop Henry T. Backnran,
secretary of the Provincial Board of the
Moravian Church, has volunteered to go at
once to Alaska for a year to assist the wife
of the Rev. Mr. Kilbuck at the new mission
station of Nushegak.
Virginia preachers are said to make the
best farmers. They make the best crops
and get the best prices. A deacon says: "I
won't give a cent to the support of my pas
tor, lie makes better crops than I do and
gets better prices."
Kev. Dr. J. L. Porter, president of Queen's
College, Belfast, Ireland, is dead. He was
ten years a missionary of the Irish Presby
terians at Damascus, and was known to
thousands by two volumes, "The Giant
Cities of Bashan," and "Five Years in Da
mascus." Count Campello, ex-canon of St. Peter's,
Rome, whose withdrawal from tho Roman
Catholic Church, in 1881, created great in
terest in the religious world, has begun an
active dissemination of his principles in
some parts of Italy, and is attracting in
creasing attention. He holds to the "Old
Catholic" position, and is in harmony with
Dr. Dollinger and Pere Hyacinthe.
The church which can best identify it
self in the popular mind with Christ is the
church for to-day. Not by the stateliness
of its edifice nor by the splendor of its rit
ual, not even by the elaborateness and con
sistency of its creed, is the modern church
to recover its hold upon those whom we
classify in one heterogeneous lot as the
masses. It will do it as it recognizes the
hunger under every workingman's blouse
for the living Christ. It will do it as it an
swers this pathetic, dimly realized, yet uni
versal longing, with a church whose ranks
are tilled with men and women whose lives
are swayed by the power of Christ's incar
nation and Christ's sacrifice. The Congre-
gationalist.
A Baptist clergyman in Chicago recently
made a book trade with a Congregational
clergyman, and he discovered that the Con-
gregationalist had carelessly slipped his
next Sunday sermon into one of the beauti
ful folios. Somewhat of a humorist, the
Baptist clergyman determined to profit by
his brother's labor, and to deliver that ser
mon from his own pulnit. The preachers
occasionally enjoy a joke on one another.
But this joke was a double-edged one.
Along about the middle thereof the Con
gregationalist's sermon bore down rather
severely upon the doctrine of immersion,
and the confusion that this discovery
caused our Baotist friend rendered the con
cluding part of his discourse brief and des
ultory. "What apparition makes the pulses start.
And steals rebukinsl.v across the brain
To tap against the doorway of the heartt
The ghost of some good impulse we have slain.
William II. Ilijne, in S. 8. Times.
Who in the dark and silent grave.
When we have wandered all onr ways,
Shuts up the story of our dayal
Hut from this earth, this grave, this duet,
My God shall raise me up, I trust!
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And still maintains with milder laws,
And clearer linht, the good old cause!
Nor heeds the skeptic' puny hand.
While near her school the church spire stands;
Nor fears the blinded bigot's rule.
While near her c hurch spire stands the school.
"Whltuer.
The Roy Settled Matter.
Burlington Free Press.
A Burlington boy of the nnder-the-sofa
variety pinned his sister's beau's sleeve to
her sash, and then told his father there was
a man in the parlor who wished to speak
to him. There was no end of fun for about
two minutes, and it all turned out for the
best, too. The young man proposed on the
spot, and the very next night he brought
the boy a jack-knife and two oranges.
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0UT OF THE ORDINARY.
A fisherman who pulled twelve miles out
into Lake Ontario to rescue a man who Had
lloated off on a cake of ice was rewarded
with half a dollar.
A Western man has devised a contrivance
which rings a bell in a hotel office and reg
isters the room number when some verdant
person hlows out the gas.
On of the great industries of Nuremberg
is making lead toy soldiers. Eight hun
dred work people are engaged, and they
turn out. 10,000 soldiers a day.
Lake Worth, Florida, is said to he so full
of lish that it is nearly impossible to move
a boat through them, and they are taken so
easily that there is no fun in it.
A dead goose cost Postmaster Gerweg. of
Dakota City, Neb., his life. He had shot
the bird and was trying to get it, when his
boat upset and he was drowned.
A Milwaukee man made a cannon, tilled
it with powder and double B shot, got in
front of it and touched the thing off. His
purpose was to commit suicide, and he
succeeded.
A curious result of being hit with a base
ball is reported from Philadelphia. A
stuttering man waa struck in the mouth
and when he got well the impediment in
his speech had disappeared.
A hot spring near Ragtown, CaL, throws
a column of water nearly eight inches in
diameter to a hight of thirty feet. The
water is boiling hot, and the spray scalds
the skin whenever it comes in contact.
A man in Rothschild. Neb., dressed him
self in a shroud and laid himself carefully
into a coffin which he had purchased. Iu
this position he -went to sleep. When his
friends discovered him, some hours later,
he was dead.
A ringt ailed raccoon, kept by a Lansing,
Mich., man as a pet, broke loose tho other
night and ate up a wedding cake, sampled
the rest of the wedding feast, and made
the bride so mad that she almost postponed
the wedding.
In Rose Valley, six miles from Trout
Run, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, aro
seven natural wells extending almost
straight downward to a depth unknown.
Large stones cast into them cannot be
heard to strike bottom.
t One little creature can do a great deal
of mischief. The Calusa (CaL) Sun says
there is no doubt but that a squirrel is
responsible for a break in the Hamilton
levee and a consequent loss of 50.000 acres of
wheat which became submerged.
A hawk attacked a rooster at LaGrange,
Ga., the other day, but the gallinaceous
fowl was more than a match for him, and
the hawk's companion was obliged to come
to his assistance. The rooster kept np the
fight gallantly, but was finally overcome
by the two hawks.
Observations upon the sway of tall chim
neys during high winds show that one of
115 feet in night and 4 feet in .total diame
ter at the top waved 20 inches during a
heavy gale, and another 1W feet high, but
with a 6 1-2 feet diameter of flue, moved
through an arc of only 6 1-2 inches.
A Washington Territory farmer was dig
ging a post hole on the banks of Smoke
river when he unearthed a skeleton richly
dressed in old-fashioned clothing. The coat
was especially line, and was adorned with
velvet collar and culls. The place where
the skeleton was found had been used as a
horse corral for the past hf teen years.
Two Alabama men went wild turkey
hunting and took along a big tame gobbler
for a decoy. The plan might have worked
admirably but an old negro, also turkey
hunting, tilled the decoy full of buckshot
from his rusty musket and made off with it.
The negro was the only man concerned who
took home any game.
Deer and elk are literally massacred in
Wyoming and western Colorado by wealthy
Englishmen who come over to enjoy the
sport. The great htrds along the "con
tinental deer trail" are being rapidly
depleted by this useless slaughter. Men
who belong in the region do not kill an
animal except to use it. and will pass by
whole herds "vithout firing a shot.
The Japanese keep meat fresh in hot
weather bv placing the raw flesh in porce
lain vessels and pouring on it boiling water,
whereby the albumen of the surface is
quickly coagulated and forms a protection
against the further action of the weather.
Oil is then poured on tho surface of the
water, so as to prevent the access of air and
consequent putrefaction of the meat.
' William Ferney, an Astoria fisherman,
En lied into his boat a huge sea lion that
ad become entangled in the meshes of bis
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net, and left it lying in the bottom of the
boat apparently dead. Suddenly the sea
lion revived, and made a lunge for Fernev,
seizing him by the leg. A desperate battle
ensued, in which the hsherman finally came
oft' victorious, dispatching his strange an
tagonist with an ax.
Dublin has had a remarkable dog case in
one of its courts. Two men claimed the
6ame dog. One, to prove his ownership,
told the animal to fetch his cane. The dog
obeyed. The other said that he had owned
the dog in Asia, where he' had heard only
Hindoostanee spoken. So in that laneuage
be told the dog to fetch his hat. The dog
obeyed. No report of the decision of tho
judge has yet been received in this country.
Two remarkable Shetland ponies were
recently sold at Inverness, Scotland. They
are four years old, and thirty-six and thirty-seven
inches high, respectively. Their
hair is fully five and a half inches long, and
their heads are almost entirely obscured by
the mane and forelock, which measure
eighteen and a half inches. The soles of
their hoofs are only two by three inches,
their combined weight being but 449
pounds.
A dog proved to be a dangerous witness
against his master in an Arkansas murder
trial. The man denied ever having seen
the dog before, but the animal picked him
out among a dozen men, and manifested
great delight at finding him. This inci
dent was of importance, owing to the fact
that the dog was found on the spot of the
murder shortly after its occurrence, while
tho man declared that he had not been near
the place.
Colonel Daniel, of Talbotton, Ga.. says
that goats are spunky animals. He 6ays
that nis father had a flock of goats, and
that the goats while grazing came to a
pond of clear water. They went to the
rond to drink, and when they lowered
their heads they saw their shadows in the
water. They began to butt at the goats in
the water, and failing to drive them away
they continued to butt until the entire
flock was drowned.
A singular phenomenon occurred at Ait
ken, Minn., recently. At 4:45 o'clock it be
came as dark that lights were necessary in
business houses and the air was tilled with
snow that was as black and dirty as though
it had been trampled into the earth. Six
ounces of snow and one-fourth ounce of
dirt and sand wore found in the bottom of
a dish. The dirt io very fine, something
like emery, and containsparticles that have
a metallic luster. The flirtv snow fell to
the depth of half an inch. The atmosphere
at the time presented a peculiar greenish
tinge.
Last week a large pond near Mr. Mc
Cartney's, two miles from Abbeville, Ga.,
let all its water out through a hole in the
bottom. The noise of the escaping water
sounded like distant thunder and created a
sensation in the neighborhood. Many fine
lish were taken, though the greater num
ber followed tho receding water. There
was a fissure near the edge of the lake that
bubbled out water, etc., that suggested an
earthouake disturbance. What caused
this phenomenon no one knows, and where
the water went will perhaps never be
known.
A short time ago a negro underwent a
surgical operation at Leipsic, after which
it became necessary to put several small
portions of skin over the wound. The skin
was taken from two white persons, and' as
the wound began to heal the color of theso
pieces of skin began to change, and when
the cure was completed had assumed the
ebony color of the negro's body. In order
to find out whether black skin could in the
same manner be changed into fair, a small
portion of the skin of a negro was wwn
over a wound in a white man's arm. Pres
ently the dark patch began to grow pale,
and at the end of fourteen weeks it had be
come so light that it could no longer be
distinguished from the natural skin.
A Hint to Dr. Talmage.
New York Independent.
Dr. Talmage says the church, if it would
do its duty, could convert the world in ten
years. It has the men and the money. Per
haps so: but it must turn over a new leaf of
generosity very soon if it is going to under
take so great and speedy a task. The Brook
lyn Tabernacle last year, with 4,120 mem
bers reported, gave 151 to home missions,
and $133 to foreign missions.
Symptoms Noted.
Philadelphia Press.
There are melancholy evidences in the
editorial utterances of the Charleston
News and Courier that the brains of tbat
journal were buried in the same coffin with
the lamented Captain Dawson.
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HOIOR OF T1TE DAT.
In All the Girls' Month.
Minneapolis Tribune.
He Dear me, you haven't beard of itT
Why, it's in all the girls' mouths.
She (enviously) What!
HeGum.
A Superior Attraction.
Chlc!?o Herald. 1
Clara Put un vour book. Kate, and let's '
go to the Carter divorce case. They say ita
awful.
Kate No, I don't care to. I'm reading
"The Quick or the Dead."
Taxation In Gotham.
Texas Sift in tr.
Wife Don't forget to bring me what li
told you.
Husband Pll try and not forget it.
Wife You must tax your memory.
Husband Anything but that. Memory
is the only thing in New York that is nott
taxed.
She Had a Fair Figure.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Hello! Charley, I hear you are to b&i
married."
"To the most beautiful creature in crea
tion, ' answers Charley. "You might not
like her face, but, oh! her figure.7' ,
"What st vie of figure, old boy!''
"About &XX).0U0." ' '
The Literary Drift.
Philadelphia Kecord.
Philadelphia Man I hear you are editing (
a sporting paper.
John L. Sullivan Betchrr life,
'And that you have left Boston for j
good!" I
"You're talkin'. Alius Boston literary
men gits to New Yorrick sooner er later." j
Morning Newapaper life.
Minneapolis Tribune
Nellie Well, Bessie, how do you like!
married life? ' 1
Bessie Oh, its just perfectly lovely.
Nellie And you never tire of your bus-,
bandt
Bessie Tire of him! Oh. dear, no. l
never see hira. He is on the Morning liugloi
Call, you know.
A IJttlo Too Lotto.
New Tor- Weekly.
Old Lady "I have determined to leave),
my fortune to the man who saved my lift .
when I was a little girl"
Lawyer "Noble woman! All the world,,
will ring with your praises. Who is tba'
man?"
"Jaiue Jameson, a poor carpenter. Ho
lived n
"Ah, yes, I remember him. He etarvci.
to death forty years ago."
A Likely Story.
Texas SlfUnjts.
One day last week a shabby-looking fe
male witness in a New York court, who wat
putting ou a great deal of style, was asked
the ouefction:
"Y here were you when the row tetweea
your husband and the defendant occurred!'
Wit uess (with conscious pride) An where
wud I be but in my boodwoir stemming the.
strawberries?
N. Ik At that time strawberries wer
selling at about $2 a dozen.
A Ready-YVittd CIrL
Merchant Traveler.
Silence had reigned for some time that
thick, rank silence which is like the calm
before the storm. Finally it was broken;
but his words came cold and imiassioneL,
"Maud," ho asked, "do you tbink mar
riage a failure?''
"I don't feel able to express an opinion on
so grave a subject." she replied, "but 1
know a good way to find it out."
This happened at least two months ago,
and they are both ready now to give an
emphatic verdict of "no failure."
An Editorial Victim.
Merchant Traveler.
"How do you make such beautiful
verses, Herbert." she asked as she gazed ad
miringly into his face.
"Oh. it's easv enough after you once get
started." id Herbert, modest ly.
"It must be delightful to be able to ex-
Envis 3'our jntetic thoughts. 1 sometimes
ave theiii. but I canuot put them into
words. There is poetry everywhere if yon
onlv know where to look for it."
"Yes; it's HurimMiig how much there is.
said Herbert, who had called on an editor
that day. "1 know where there's a wholi
basket full of it riht -u
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