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EX-SENATOR FERRY. The Michigan Politietan an Exile from Ilim Country. "It is not very generally known," said a Michigan man to a reporter for 2The New York World, "that ex-Senator Thomas W. Ferry is an exile from has state and country. Be dare not return until the matters pending against him are either outlawed or settled. There is an indictment against him for for gery." "Up to the time of his defeat for re election a few years ago he passed as a very rich man." "Yes, but that was far from the truth. Ten or fifteen years ago he was worth considerable money. He had an interest with his brother in some Mich igan pine lands, and together they op erated an extensive lumber yard in Chicago. I say together, but Thomas never had anything to do with the man agement of the business. They made considerable money for a time, and-as usual their fortune was greatly over estimated by the outside public. Re. verses came, however, sad in addi tion to this the senator got to leading a very wild life in Wash ington. He spent more than his salary in dissipation, and became involved in several disgraceful scandals. You re member how he was horsewhipped in his rooms at the National hotel b an irate young lady and her father. Poor Ferry crept under the bed and howled for mercy, but his assailants only stopped when they were completely exhausted. The story told at the time was to the effect that Ferry had insult ed the young lady in some way, and that was the method chosen to avenge it. Ferry never made any complaint, but the father of the young lady re ceived a note from the senator a eoule of days after the attack. Heopened it expecting to find at least a challenge, but instead he found an annual pass for himself and family over the Penn sylvania railroad. Queer way of de ananding satisfaction, wasn't it? "Ferry's exposure would have come several years before it did but for the fact that he lacid a -i;ct in the United States senate, and .f he had been re elected I prestam* his affairs would have been huhitd up somehow; but when he became a common citizen, with no patronage at his disposal, thea all of his creditors jumped on him. It was learned that he had been engaged int a number of very questionable trans actions, among which was the charge of try;n; to imitate another man's s1. nature. Ferry naule a desperate effort to get back to the senate, and the me chine discipline organized by Zach Chandler in Michigan held his forces in line down to the eighty-first ballot. Then a break came, and the present Senator Palmer was the result. Ferry fled at once to Europe. and had scarcely got out ot the country before warrants were issued for his arrest on several dif ferent counts. This was three years ago. He has never returned, and he may die in exile. The ex-senator's brother, however, is devoted to Tom, and he has been trying to build up the fortunes of the family. He is by far the better man of the two, and has considerable business ability and push. I am told that he has been very fortunate in some silvermine investments and may become rich again. In that case I suppose all the claims against Thomas where a criminal prosecution could be brought will be settled up and the exile will lnd it safe to return. But he never ean ain be a factor in Michigan politics. Of late years he has become a victim of the morphine habit, which has al most completely undermined his Intel lect." " Where is he living?" "I believe he has passed most of his exile in Italy, but he has been roaming all over Europe. A great effort was made to persuade President Authur to give Ferry the Russian mission just af ter the death of Minister Hunt, but Mr. Arthur concluded that it was not best to appoint a man who could not visit his own country to present his applies tion. Senator Conger made the erort, I believe, out of Charity. 'It's a little bit singular that a man who served eighteen years in the sen ate-six years as president pro tern pore of that body, acting vice president, sad acting president for a day. on the Sunday intervenIng between Gen (;rat as retirement and President Hayes' inauguration-should find him self an exile from his own country and a futitive from justice. It illustrates the ups and downs of politics with a vengeance." A Strange Coelnldeeea. The truthfulness of the old saying that misfortunes never come singly bI sustained, says Tie 8es Frermsc Cronmie, in the strange fatality fol lowing John and Maurice Nugent. brothers, who reside in Oakland. oth men me eandy-make:s by trade, snad dMauries had been employed in Sem Jose o the pest six months. On Wednesday afternoon be determined to some to this city. ad uas he was bard lagthe train in the San Jeos depot heI slppead and felt Beore he eould re sover himself his left arm was so badly crushed by the wheels of the moving train that it was found necessary to ]mputrte it near the shoulder. Hs brother Joan N at was in Sea Joses in search of emplyment at the thes, but he did not bar of the ee. deat which had befallen Maurice. He was without money, and, being desirou of retrlaing to ths dity, he started out to walk. He reacbed Mealo Park early -1efrda moraingas the freight train was - lheobarded th ears withw theIneto of stealing a ride. B audras s San Mateo, sad while .endaverin¶ to .limb to the roo of one the ms he-m his baslae sad feb to the teek, the wheels of the ears pane t evr his left aurm, above the elbow. tia d a brakeia, who had the tra, eped sad the nfortnrte man wis up end broeght to this eity. He am erward rewa ed to he receiving Imtpal satd the loitered member was ingep d ear the hboulder jolat. His S leg _was ale badly lacerated ad a 4' er ofttches d were taken in the ". h te draw it together. •:. m" said a ttle girl, "why l: V yes @ag to h baby whale you *5e sinsu lag" plieU4 grandma, ae teeth." · -,-whdmu wLyo uld ye SWINDLING THE GOVERNMENT. Ie Hlow Canceled Stamps are Cleaned and Used a second Time. " *Tie most troublesome of8enders r against government laws are the ex >r pxrts who use canceled postage-stamps!" is said a postoffice official the other day. t ' They have a system of washing out the cancellation marks that is so suec-I Secetsful as to make detection allmost im possible. In the offices of large cities like New York and ('hi.ago. where so many letters are handled daily, andi a where rapidity is the most desirable feature, it is impossible for the men e who cancel stamps to examine each one I carefully. Then, too, a great deal of i the work is done by Fas-light. and this I I- is a point which tends to aid the con p- spirator against the government's in In come. u"Anyone who has seen a postoffice employe iu the New York office grab a bundle of letters and cancel the stamps le with lightning-like rapidity can readily M see how impossible it is for him to de . tect bad stamps unless they are partio Snularly had. The nlen engaged in the business of using canceled stamps are extremely clever. They have an acid in which they wash the stamps. The acid acts Iupon the cancellation marks, and not upon the colors of the stamp. In this way a stamp that has once been used is relieved almost entirely of its black marks. If any black remains af D ter the washing process, the operator takes a sharp knife. which he has made for the purpose. and deftly scratches the stamp until the remnaining black marks are almost. if not entirely, re moved. This can be done readily when the marks are upon the bald head or face of the historic personage whose vignette adorns the s*'llp, as this por tion is white; aild iui.l:i a white space the stamp can be scratched until it is tnearly through without detection. •*Ano her clever trick that is em ployed is the cutting of stamps. Often in the hurry of postoffice work the can eellation-mark does not cover the ;tamp. bult falls only upon one corner, the rest going upon the envelope. The le operator takes a stamp that has a black mark. say uitln the left-hand lower corner. lIe carefuily cuts a square id piece out of that corner, making it t arge enough to cut :way all of the aanceled Iortion. Ile then secures a i tamp on wh:c:i the caneellat'oi mark It bas fallen in some other corner. He 9d carefully cuts out the same-sized square f (roum the lower left-hand corner of this stani', and joining it with the first F ,temp he has a whole stamp upon rt whica there are no cancellation marks. e These stamps are used upon packages wh which are tied with a string. and the s strin i is ingeniously placed over the ,t. :ut stamps. at "Take any package of a dozen let ters and ylou will se: how easy it is to lfind stanil a f.r this t,' s'ness." As lie is spoke the otfiri:l thdr*'- from his pocket if- a bundle. of half ia tiozen letters. Upon o. the first I It r thei catierllation mark ewas only uIpon the lower right corner rg, the sttlamp. The setond was can Le celed completely, and the third was of marked only upon the upper le.ft-hand o corner. So a otub;nation cou!d have b been easly nade with the stamps upon Id the Frst and third letters. e "'Many of these oplerattori." continued me the official. '.grew expert in the work. ll They have clever tgais and the right a kind of iau 'l:dae, :and some go even so ht far as to have coloring proc 'sses for td touching up a (;arti,.l I black eye or a y Washington sioile d t h.ck. What do , they do with the worke I-,ver stamps? T They do not sell them. as many sup d. pose. and that fact renders detection j. more d;fficult. When a nlllman becomes successful in working over canceled stamps he endl.avors to get into some ts business which will require the sa nd.ng ag and receipt of many regis:ered letters as and packages. "Thi most popular to scheme is to go into the ebeiIp jewelry f- and fancy-trick business. Tile operator r. lays in a stock of the cheapest kind of af jewelry and advertises thoroughly tt through the country, espec 'ally in rural s- districts. A gold watch with chain and r, charm for $4.50 is a bait that catches a great many green speculators and as they are instructl to send remittances a- by registered letter,the operator receives t a number of 6 and 1-cent stamps. It, These stamps he operates on, and when he he returns the jewelry he pays the poe a. tage in whole or in part with canceled at stamps. He makes 100 or 200 per cent. rn on the jewelry, and does a thriving ad business in illegal stamps at the same t time. a Ah,' yes, there are a great many in the business, and their success is won derfuL All that we can do is to keep on the lookout asml catch one of them when we esn. We get an idea that a g man is doing crooked work. and then i watch him. When we once get an idklea cc it does not take us long to ascertain the ul truth. Whenever the person presents ta package for registration we have it held for ianspection, and if there areean celed stamlps upon it we are pretty sure to nd them. Often the bad stamps are detected before they reach the can Da esliaton clerks. When they are being to taken from the receiving-baskets they rd- am sometimes detected. There is now he awaitiug the action of the grand jury a man who is held for doinlg a rushiang In b essl in aesnceled stamps from his ) store on Broadway. He followed the usuoal plan."-New York Str. e GlBdstonem's Egg-Fgllp. Obsrervers familar with the house of Be commons for a great many years are a s good deal scandaliaed at the recent mt adoption of a American freedom of ny manners by some of the most distin Sgnished members. It is all very well Sfor Mr. Gladstone, at his time of life, 0* to refresh himself from time to time me with amoothful of egg-flip, but the cus to tom which now seems to have come es- into fashion with some much younger w. orators oac the froet opposition bench of i- having a brandy and soda on the table d to -p from while they are speaking is rs deddedly to be reprobated. Even in Be the old hard-drinknlg days Mr. Pitt ag used to go beh~ed the speaker's chair to ras drink his tumbler of port wine before Us addremssing the bos. Another objee Ia tiomable and even disgusting habit in he trodoued by someoccupantsof tbefront opposition bench is that of reclining back in their seats and planting their feet on the historic table of the house of commons. Spittoons will probably be the next anovatione.--Lo.ao Cer. '4 NIght Rave Been Wore. Cstheti Yo ung lady-"Can you eomelsve of anything more sombrely 1 and poetically solemn, than the demm meat of meo and JalletP Could the II poet have aisthelaate more weirdly jls'l Dehl h yes he migh THE BENDER DEN. Recollections and Observations of a Pack Peddler. "I have been a pack peddler for more than twenty years." said the old man, as he whiffed away at his pipe to get it alight, "and you may suppose I have met with some stirring adventures. I have traveled a great deal in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota, and for weeks and months I have been on thealert, not only to preserve the contents of my pack, but to defend my life. "My line of trade has been Yankee no tions w ith jewelry added. I have had with me at one time as much as $2,000 worth of gold and silver watches, ear-rings, finger rings, etc. 1 have sat on a log beside a high way in Kansas and sold 5400 worth ofstock to three or four men, and I have disposed of $50 worth of ladies' jewelry at a pioneer cabin which had neither floors nor part! lions. On two differentoccasions I ate din ner at tile cabin of old Bender, the Kansas fiend. On the first occasion the old man was away, and I saw only two women about the place. Six months later, when I called again, it was about 11 o'clock in the fore noon. Then I saw old Bender for the first time. I have heard him described as a pleas ant-faced old man whom no one would sus pect, but I tell you the very first look at him put me on my guard. For the first time in t a year I felt that my LIFE WAS IN DANGEL. The same two slatternly women were about the house and there was a young man whom I took to be old Bender's son. This young man disappeared soon after 1 arrived, but whether he hid in the house or rode of scros the prairie 1 never know. Bender's women purchased about 52 worth of notions, and the old man dickered with me for an hour over a gold watch. It seemed he had but a small stock of cash, but he offered me per sonal property in exchange. He had three or four silver watches, all of wh!eh had been earned, two or three revolvers, two bosom pins made of lumps of pure gold, and three or four pairs of valuable euff buttons. We had nearly effected an exchange when he suddenly decided ti leave the matter open until after dinner. "Months afterw.i:d, whin the discovery of his crimes came out, I thought the matter over and could remember just how neely he played me. Without seeming to interro gate me for information, he asked how long a trip I had made, what sa-eess I had met with, who I was, where I lived, and whom I knew in that locality. The old murderer was flgur;o: up the chances of my being missed in case he put an end to me. And he bad a curiosity to know before hand what the harvest would be. While I told you that I did not like his looks, and that I had a creepy feeling In his presence. I had no idea of an attempt to murder by Tdaylght and in the manner he was plannig for. I had a trusty revolver and I bad the courage to de fend myself. Had L met him out on the prairie, or had we been jogging together along some lonely hibway, I should have been prepared to pull my pistol at his first movement. IN THI JAWS OF DEATH. "Dinner was announced son after 19 o'clock. I took my pack with me Into the dining-room where I found the table set for one. There were three rooms in the house. The front room was a reeral sittinr-room and office combined. Bender kent a sortof tavern, you know, and travelers had this front room. The ,°'xt room back was the dining-room ard f im v room combined. There was a hbe-.-, to !.ading of. Ontbe walls of this family room were a few old fashioned prin's in old-fashi, ned frames, a shelf on which stood a elrek and a few scant eviJecce at women's preanee. The backroom was the kit'hen. I had my eyes wide open when I entered that dining-room and the v-ry first thing I noticed was that the table was set lengthwise of the roam and that nly chair and plate had been s, placed that my back would be toward the kitchen door, which wis no! over five or six feet away. Had it b-eu it been at the other end my back woud have been toward the offie door. The first move 1 made was to turn the chair around to the side and sit down. I now fa 'ed the bed room and had the other doors to my riaht and left while there was no window behind me. The )ounger wo man was in the room and she looked atere in a queer. strange wa3 as I up'et the sr rangements she had perfected. Bender did not look iate the room for two or three migates, and then retired without speak ing. A minute later he passed around the house and entered the kitchen by the back door. While I could not see him, I heard him anad the woman whispering together, and I caught the words as spoaen by her: '1 tell you be kid it himselt' RIGHT ONTO THEIR GAME. "I could not catch a word from hiblm, and directly he went out uid she care in with the rest of the eatablas. Her face was fluosh ed anadbe manner verynyros. hbe put on a plate of bsed ads platter of meatlnd then weat out for the oee. As she set the cup and sacer on the board bshe partly ujpset thb enp and spillaed half the contents on the table. 'Excuse me, I'm sorry.' she said, as Ishoved bak to keep the botliquid from dripin on m ' ever mind no harm de,'I reled'It was so reas of me. Youbad betrchbane yoar seat to the end while 1 sop It aup.' 'Oh, don't tmind. I'm not hungry, and shall satbuta fewI mouathfuls anyway. Iforgetto tellyou that I preferred water to coee' ut-you yoa'-'IPm al right' She ive meeeof the qoeerest looks I ever afrst luabhan ap in l then tauanig pale. Spllig that coFee a p aup ] jobttogetmy lekot kiteb aloo. I asseped it the. A few mn menta later I had planty or horrible proofs. "Before the meat was flnshed, Beader lookedin from the kitLehen door roand drew bek and when I bshoved awayr and entere4d the odkea he was not there and did not show up for fle minuates. When I went to din nr, a duble-barrelled shotgua stood la a corn of the ofee. Whea I esm out it wUas go. Theold ma eae ina after awhile, ad it was easy to a that he hd to free himself to converse. I pMaidhim for the meal and was redyto go. was a lonelyred I had to travel with no other house for miles, and it addly struck me that the yongoa m had gaoe oa to lie to ambush rad lat la ease I escaped assasis tou at tbe base. or a mauto or two I quoae lost my saad, ad n can jaudge what a rsele it wasto ma r team drive anp with trese men the veblele sad room for one more. They stopped to water the herses and hat a ew momentas ad radily gav e me a lift on my way. I did not impart my se picous tothern, sad it wasnot eail the hor rible stories eame out that I fetl sure ain my own mind what a elose esll I had had. rATE 0? TaE aN1DE. "Do I know what beeame of old Bender and his family? You remember that they ed the couatry, or that the papers so re ported,ad r maths we ned to hear tmme aty and otherbof the fug tives eg seen or capstured. I bhave reason to beiee te never got at of the state, ayet a h rd rmiles ro tbat lone tavr era on the prarie. with Ito hrble eelhar andameath ad its ravad in the rear. Bandsof me were rdin in thiselr that dir ection bet eon vruegaee. sad see of these ovae-haled the party. I bhave baen toldthis a the best authority. As Beader had no mercy towads the !pmpsano tnravl es, woho wre shot tn tge beck fu that Itheb deer as they set his tobleonem was a to or his. They wee wap edeat and planted whirp their beesa wall never be turned up to te light of day.'' N. Y. Son. by BeOaiaUham's Dye tr the Whaskers. As an eantdoe for malarial d1isois, L as Ague Cure as no equal. It naver New Hmpehbie contributes to the strike aews smeth stane uiqne ad stra A dispateh fre Laea says: "The l borers In this ago a ease·e tha bet theea o ease fr f alarm mi a stae rat," u---tebm in bent A LIBERAL OFFER. Five Thousand Dollars to any 1 Charitable Institution. If It Cannot Be Done as It Is Stated. I Friends of Ex-President Arthur are very much disquieted. Of course he is not going to die! He is in the hands of a very particular physician. His doctor does not call it Bright's l)is- t ease I No, it is stomach disorder that he is suffering from now, and every few hours lie takes a cold, and from time to time many other symptcm are developed. These syvup- I toms the public should know are really see ondary to Bright's Disease. His physicians say that everything that 1 medical skill can do for him is being done. 1 That is not so: Tnis case is a prominent one because the general is an ex president; and yet there are 4 thousands of farmers quiety dying. in their farm houses, of secondary symptoms of Bright's Disease, called by every other con ceivable name; thousands of workmen, lke wise dying, leaving helpless families; hun dreds of thousands in all walks of life who have siekened, and are likewise dying, help. lees victims of powerless physicians. Eight years ago a very well known gen tleman was about to enter upon large commercial transactions. His medical ad viser quietly droped into, his omce one day aend toad his eoniiential clerk that he would be dead in three mouths, and that be ought to settle up his business staffairs at once! That man is alive and well to-day, yet he I was given up as Incurable with the same disease that is killing General Arthar ! Our reporter met tbhi teatleman Jester day and in eonversation about the General's I ease, he said: "1 wi!l give &,000 to any chasitable in "stitution in the state of New York, to be "designated b the editor of the New York "World, the editor of the Bufalo News and '"W. E Klsselburgh of the Troy Timss, if "Warner'ssafe care (taken acoording to my I"directions) which cured me elht years 'ago, cannot cure General ('hester A. Ar "tour of Bribht's disease from which he is "now sufferin." "Now I want you to understand," he said "that we do not profess to make new "kidaney, but we do know from personal "experience and from the experience of "many thousands of similar cases, that we "stop the con.umption of the kidneys. "Many a man has gone through life with "one kidney without inconvenience. Tt.ous "ands of people have lived a majority of "their life with one lung. They did not "have a new lung made. We do not make "new kidneys, but if the kidney is not con "sumed too much we ean stop disease and prolong life if taken in time." This ofer comes from H. H. Warner pro prietor of Warner's safe cure, of this city. Mr. Warner also said. "My dear sir. there "are governors senators, presidential ean "didates. members of congress, prominent "men and women all over the country "whom I personally know have been cared "of disease, such as General Arthur suffers "from, by our Warner's safe cure, but ow "lug to the eircles in which they move do '1t care to give public testimonial to the Mr. Warner is Interested in General Ar thur's case because he Is personally acquaint ed with him sad be says that it is a shame that any man should be allowed to die under the operation of old-fashioned powerful cathartics, whiceh have no curative effects, rather than that a modern, coneded speeife for kidney disease whose worth is aeknowl edged world-wide. should save him. "'If you doubt the efficacy of Warner's safe cure" ay the proprietors. "ask your friends and neighbors about it. This is askin but little. They can tell you all you want to know." "We have kept a standing offer before the public for four yars." says Mr. Warner, that we will give $5,000 to any person who can successfully dispute the genuineness, so far as we know, of the testimonials we publish, and none have done t." WereoGeeralArthur a poor man, unable to be lelt "ia the bands, of his physician," he would use that great remedy, as many thousands of others have don*, and get well. ow aboasurd then for people to say that everything that can be done is being done for the ex-president, when the one sueees ful remedy in the world that has cared, or that can cure a case like his, has not been used by them. She Knew Her Man. Prof. X, an excellent educator and pro found student, who does not spurn a reason able share of homely household duties that falls to the lot of every head of a New Eng land family of moderate eircumstances, was in his den deeply absorbed in the contempla tion of an abstause subject, when his wife opened the door and called softly to him: "My dear, could you help us in our house eleaningby b~ating just three rugs that you'll ad out ounder the south wiadow of I the parlort If you will, please take them out intothe back yard, and beat them and Shang them on the line, and I'll be so much I obliged." The professar arose, seized his most sar viceable walking stilek and went oqt into the yard still deeply absorbed in the learned meditatIons that had oeapied him in the house. He took oe of the three rugs from anbder the pulorwindow, treasferred it to the back yd, beat it log anad menuafly and ungit o the lIm. When he came Ibeck formotherrorng was ll too mue aborbsed to note Wut there were still three Srusunder the wndow, sad when be had beate anoter and had hung that out, anad ihgdeomeb ahkrin,rnd there wrsliD . three ruags under the window, hbi medi tinos never switched o from the subject of their eoneentratio to the reoular nd mys terious renewal of the third ruga d so be kept on beating those three Srugs sad meditating ntil themorniag wore Sto maidsy, and the Ifessor ba to grow I bunr; and we n te arlsofappetite r aailly broghthis contemplio down to a sublunary ting, I oaerred to him to look Sat the cteslin, ad there aeomed ies a thban streen rugs, all beautifully beaten. s S Two Qeulfloa-Jons. r "Bromter, I see that Congressmen Collins Sis bgoing to abandon oh.ial life on eenount of the mpressure of profitable private busl I less." "So I undersutand, Daramner. StanfordI Snotice, will decllne a renomination on as I count of his great wealtb." ' "Broeley, why don't you run for Con Sreast Tbere's a poelible hane." "How s8o?' "Well, if men of bsines will net have the ofie, ad men of fortune don't care boat it, it strikes me that i is yoar oppor r tity. The fild's opes to men who ave Sneither bsines nor fortane. You habve b ea tines to a wonderful extent SLittle Foxes Which Spoil the Vinee One litte fox is "By sad By." If yen Strack him yu eaoms to his hem-Never. Another little foz is"! Uta't" You had Sbetter set ea him a spry, plucky lhttle thibg. "[ O " rby name. It does wem dera. - third lia ifo is "No Use in TrylIg." t e has speed more vie and bid'ae the Sgrowth of more fruit than a worae lokaing A fotb little fox is "IForot." He i tBroulh yr fine lke tms; ie seldo A ltle fox is "Dom't Care." Oh, the mischief he has dosael r Didn't Watt. ChIld (to visator)-"Mamma has gon to SI pot an other dress." Visite--"Ahf" - Child-"Ye. Saw youa comin' an' run • 1 hah." Child--Sai thee -a tha haol Mrs.Aeoa. I wi hemeald ty away. e Ohde't law bar. . WattI mam esme dews, Beautiful Women I are made pallid and unattractive by fune- Ma tional Irregularities which Dr. Pierce's "Fa- me vorite Prescription" will infallibly cure '0o Taousands of testimonials. By druggists. the are Arrangements are being made in England se and Scotland to establsh danger signals, ti in connection with the weather service, for Sts the purpose of making known such atmos pheric changes as may affect the working ) r of the mines. on kni Is It Not Singular ed that consumptives should be the least ap prehensive of their own condition while all their friends are urging and beseeching them Wa to be more careful about exposure and over- did doing. It may well be considered one of vet the most alarming symptoms of the disease. Re r where the patient is reckless and will not tat believe that he is in danger. Reader, f you are in this condition, do notneglect the only 1 means of recovery. Avoid exposure and the fatigue, be regular in your habits, and use t faithfully of Dr. Plerce's "Golden Medical Discovery." It has saved thousands who were steadily failing. tin a The cut in overland rates caused a bix rush wn e of emigrants to the Pacific coast. r Don't hwk. hawk, blow, spit, and dis gust everybody with your offensive breath, in hut use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and end de it ly FIFTY THOUSAND CHARACTERS. S8. ChineseType Cases Sixty Feet Long of and what they Contain. dis The feature of the Toklo Niehb Niohi St. Shinbus oice was its type case-for there was only one of body type. And such a case! It is diviled fo u'illity into two sections to a sloping toward an alley five -eet wide. Each of a section is four feet wide by thirty feet long sty -four by sixty feet. This is divided into I s small compartments or boxes into whish the a type is laid in regular piles, several piles in a box, with faces all towards the compost- hia k tors, mostly boys, big and little. d Each holds a wooden "stick" with brass Srule, says the Pall Mall Gazette. The type w( is all of a size, the "stick" Is not set to the i rI measure of the column, which is twenty fu s ems plea, but to about half the measure, it at e being the business of the other workmen to r impose the lines in columns, take proof and 1I make up forms. of Armed with sticks and rule and copy the it a dozen compositors read the last in an earo . est, sing-song way, each rushing to some box h far or near for the needed letter then back I e. ten or twelve feet to the needed one. ,f All are on the lively move, rushing and Sskipping to and fro, right and left, up and :e down, ase, e balance to partners, swing de - the corners, up and back singing the copy. d catchin one letter here anothrter e, prane gin and dodging, hummine and skipping S promenade, cotillion, Virginia reel, rae qet and all-hands-around upon the same of Sloor at the same time and the same daacers B I. n eaeh-a perfect maze of noise and con- di It fuslon yet out of confusion bringing printed D y order. It was asigbt to be seen. 4 'How many different characters are there II rs in this ase, anybhow?' was asked of the w r- guide. Then the guide asked the printers th lo and none could answer better than say: e "Nobody knows, sir! Nobody knows many IhbouMand." r. Later on as repeated the same question to m t. a more intelligent person, who said: "At least 50.000." That will account for the re ir markable size of the case and the racing to I and fro of the compositors. For Belling Bibles. A party of ladies were being shown to through the Arkansaw penitentiary. One a is of the party, upon noticing a handsome be a youno fellow, thus addressed him: "You are a very young manto be nla such a place as this." o "Yes'am." o "What must your father think?' S"Think that if I could get out I'd do IL" e "How long are you in fIr?" es "Five years." Il Y "What was your erime?" " Selling bibles." S'"What r' the lady exelaimed in astonish s- ment, S'Yes, selling bibles." "Why, is it a crime to sell bibles in this state?' "It seems to be, mum." . "Oh, what a heathenish country,- 1 a a correspondent for the Apostle at Work and I shall write up your case. Now," taking it out a note boos, "please give me the paruc U. lars." "Well, while I was selling bibles on the street a man came up and arrested me. I a- was taken before the court ad sentenced to penitentiary." "You don't tell me so." "Yes'am." S"And all this for selling the prelcious at book. Where did you get the bibles?' 'tle them." The note book closed with a snap. n - d Counterfel·it Cotse. h Jiglngacolnisnotalwaysa sure way bly whiceh to detect its basetNess. In explana, r- tion of this Mr. Tends, of the Coin Depart Smeet in the Sab-Treasury, New York, tells d areporter: "Many good coins lack ring, " ad many bed ones have it-eselally gold eoins tied with platinum. If a silver coin Sisof lead it aeolr wll betr~ay i; is alled Sshalrp eye en always detect the Joint be Stweenthe two halves. The sbsenceof rlng is easily explained. 8Slver dollars are 4 stamped from long strips, the ends of which Strips res at to get eurled in sueha manaer - as to breakthe lamina of the metal, so that . the cos oeot from It have laws which de stroy the rinlg. - We do not judge cins by the rng, but by w . A couterfeit amon a -inuma of doiu uspread out a a tabie wrlll jI samraa aadb tetsd by a expert Judge. It - ioksl~.rtia a the ril doar i. moat -aiase, allof bas metal its color is s, alwaL bad. Aeolnmadeot let e ud Ioded imsCa H rin. b It Is lways fore means ut title. We haveabout thirty Nad silver dollars brought tN hereevery day, Sand the basinaes seems to be on the m crease. "t With gold otans the.detlo of coanter i- felt is more dielt. T lled with pa tiaum have a tlar ring a the t n t the ege is eace by remfllag. Platiuma is oMth onl abobutc ofthe value of Sgod, wetgt for welshL I have 8#soM s l es take sad rplad by platinum, mak- h jlir an exed ly danseros cnountrfet, i which oly a good Jed of cola can deteet 1 The ring is gweight is there, e Swhile thlew e outsMde of the colan Is gea lae." S A STRANGB COINCIDENCE. Two Pookete UnintUonately Plok ed of Watohees. . Wle Poiases Anadew 8ullivan of the I m Thirty 1h street agqad was gettia of a I Third areue elevated railway trana at ad Thirty foearth street, sabout S o'elock yestr- a g. day morilng, seof hiasbrass bhtees caught I the waeh ali of a man boarding the ." tran. As nelther nooted the entlade e mst, this resulted drmawl tm wateb at 1 of thepoeket dts ownee, who harried a the tra, leavig his timepiee danglig at SSullivan's button. Slli/van did not realie what had bappened untl the train hadgoue. Be repoted the matterto Capt. Ryn later SIn the day, ad a general alarm eallia for tbhe owner of the watch was sent out Whilea reporter of The e wnwas Sthrough the era o board a emvuen rmm to o Sa ltrday eveaiar, after retumnin from the Cdraralurt steM hases he felt a Iwtatc cthaibe n ebr . Plai his bead ri vet be felt a ein bal i - sIritd . T a it Mashed th his man that hm y bad stole his watch. Farther l lmn dissovered ma ranag a wasteh ttle ed of thechain, while his ows wate wTaw mn a e T at Bowen's Budget, Fort Plain, N. Y.. for March, 18l,. says: In the multiplicity ot g. medicines placed upon the market, it is sometimes difficult to distingu.ish between L, the meritorious and the worthle,s. There are at least two excellent remedlles wilely d used, the efficiency of which are unques toned. We refer to St. Jacobs Oil aund Red iStar Cough Cure. g A bunch of very dark purple pat.ics with one or two hiteonee. makes a pretty breast knot for any young woman who) has array ed herself in Lenton black or gray. II Solicitor of Patents, F. o. Mc('leary, of , Washington, II. C., says the only thtng tha; r- did him any good, when suffering with a se f vere cough of steveral weeks standing, was a. Red Star Cough Cure, which is purely 'vege At table and free from opiates and poison. ly The countenance is the very portrait of id the soul, and the eye works its intenuton. al Maxwell's Trial. Judge E. A. Noonan will publish, after the Maxwell trial is closed, a 100-pate vol h ninme under the name of the Trunk Tracedv. which will contain a complete history of the murder of Preller. and the tral of Maxwell. s carefully compiled from the statements of the oicers and testimony of the witliesse' id in the great case, with lIteresting incidental details. The book which will be handsome ly and profusely illustrated, ai;l it sold for 25 cents, and will be placed on sale by the 5 St. Louis News Company. Judge Noonan is a strong and Graceful writer and in hiS hands the story of the mot sensational trial ' of modern years will be told so effectivel\ that the book cannot fail to achieve imme diate popularity and have an enormous sale. hi St. Louis Sunday Say ink . mre r! A foreigner and an alien ought to attend Sto nothing but his own business, never to meddle with the affairs oe others, ard least I of all to pry into the concerns of a foreign ig state. Relief Is immediate, and a cure sure. Plso'a is Rbmedy for Catarrh. 50 cents. in - - - º. The master ought not to be ennobled by his house, but the house by the master. as Faithfulness is necessary in all kinds of pe work. Especially is it necessary, in treat lahe a cold, toprocure the bet remedy, which is Allef's Lung Balsam. and take it faith ty fully aeordng to directions, and it will cure it I a od every time and prevent fatal results. to Sold by all druggists at 25c., 53c., and $1.00 a bottle. When you are aspiring to the first place, he it it honorable to reach the second. u ax Ots pair of boots saved yearly by using ek eLou's Patent Metallo Heel stiffeners. d If you wish to destroy avarice, you must ig destroy luxury, which is its mother. 'y A MOST Ls.ER SL OgFFEI: ?_ Thu VOLTAIC BELT Co., Marshal Mich., Soffer to send their Celebrated VOLTAIC ora BILTS and Electric Appliances on thirty days trial to any man aficted with Nervous Debility, Loss of Vitality, Manhood, Ac. re Illustrated pamphlet in sealed envelope he with full patrticulars, mailed free. Write them at once. What nobler employment than that of the to man who instructs the rising generation. Lt PraclrV Asa BITas warm up and Itvigl omass the stomas), Improves and strengtbens the digestive organs opens the pons, pro m as perspiratio and equallses the airmu lades. As a o eoa tor of ordered system thare I aotkhig to equal It. There is no man- that mpaerteth his joveys to his friend buthej >yeth the more; and no ne man that Imparteth his griefs to a friend as but he grieveh the less. sl se a sml telsesss qt i as s" sad Csatel arsb e alr a Ua meOtes, MLns '" For Cuts, Galls, Old Bores, Scratch es, Thrush, etc., use Stewart's Heal lag Powder, 15 and 60 cents a box. SpDYSEPIA Sb weppge T a thir . Ma i oSnl . da .in.o P+Vv+ lbs was ead Ic-I he ' Id FeVElaRh anAGe Or ms ms e e n Jr e a trea ffra sat wolebt- le aY agnwherd e see then , e e rerwTSwwARAW.W 1A .Bs Y uii .llN'S W Lg0 LST ,Vtr R aend ACUE tr e O i Or CHL LSn aeider see e F** DER thL wrh StEhis. aMea melu Ji17 ihILIs · brts umaawLty ovesafl ~L 5I55WI, 101 She '°ICK ELR . SIý mId It-ý DIllEftaki( Ca*IOI. *.. Iur ltdrtrM r Ctilnbtý" fiM ý. J 1 ""'r, N..··; ' The best and atreet Remedy tor CaUe all disea.ses .,anI I , ay deIranemeate I- the Liver. Kii.ny-. '.tolaeh and Bowel. d l)ypt..ian . Sit k lli. dat he. 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