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There are now on the pension rolls of the war of 1t812 only 2,945 surviving i pensioners, while there are 17,212 cur- to viving widows of lnsiotllerI . This fur- m nish, another convmtEinf: proof that 1" widow'. like spinsters, never grow old. ' lit r Von ehaffle, formnerly the Austrian ci .:sb,int minister, has. gone in for war d statiti'ti,. li, s5ay war between France and (:..ernaty wold eo.t $8,200,000,000. If ouer countris--Austria, Russia, France andi Gertmany-fought, he says the bill 0 woulld Ie c6,0O,000000, and he also ' thinks European war would bring uni- u versal bankruptcy, which seems reason able, considering his figures. The greater the truth the greater the I libel" is a legal maxim frequently quoted. The English Court of Appeals has, just atrmed it in a remarkable manner. A man named Batchelor died, owing about $16,000. He was very popular in his native town, and a monument was erected to his memory. Baneath the name and age of the deceased were chiseled in marble the words: " Deeply regretted." A local solicitor wrote to the country newspaper, suggesting the addition of the words: " Especially by those to whom he died indebted to the extent of £50,000." For this he has been found guilty of libel, not on the dead debtor, bet on his sur viving relatives. English Judges and uries seem getting a trife mixed. An army officer says that small as our may is, there is an excessive percentage of desertion from it, although the men are far better fed and paid than any soldiers in the world. The reason is that a great number of men enlist for the pur pose of being sent West, and then de sert. This class is very large and ex ceedingly hard to deal with, as it is next to impoe-ible to apprehend them, owing to the general feeling throughout the moun tain regions that they have escaped from akind of slavery. Another class liable to desert consists of young men of good family who have become dissipated and enlisted in a moment of despair. But the strangest class is that of the chronic de serters. These men enlist, desert and then enlist again. Some men enlist to ev.sape intolerable blackmail. The announcement was recently made that a new process for making steel had been discovered; it was to revolutionize the industry and cause an immense saving of booth time and mloney. The news came from Louisville, where the inventor lives. It was added that the new process made it possible to change ,ordinary soft steel to that of Ithe iardest quality In a very few niu.,te-. &:4.1wrior ca'e-lhardening qualities were ,linmed, anld the President of the ,tnpasn owning the process visited Washington and offered the Gov ernment the sle right to make the steeL The Chicago A e of C.d sent a descrip tion of the new process and the superior qualities claimed for it to one of its cor respondents, said to be a competent ex pert, and asked his opinion. In a late issue of the journal an opinion is given and proves to be decidedly unfavorable to the new process. Many of the claims made for the new discovery are stated to be baseless, from the fact that many so perior qualities claimed for it are already attained Ly t.ic Bessemer and open earth process. The claims made areex amined in detail, and the opinion is given that many of the virtues stated to exist in the new disc ,very are beyond belief. The letter ,snl by cougratulating the editor of the Age ofJ tRee on his aoethav ing pemnittud his enthusiasm to carry him away. The journal quoted seems to plate grreat faith in this correspondent, and as it does not give any opinion itself, eders are left to judge foe thmelves. The Louisville Iaventr of the nrew pro cam now has the eoor. The Emperor of China insIsts on har ing bears' paws, antelopes' tails, ducks' tongues. torpedo eel.' eggs, camel' hump, H, monkey's lips, .arps' tails and marrow hone-s served on his table every day in the year. Then, according to the facetious A Burlington Free Pra,. he drops off to sleep, and dreams that he is shooting down a 4,000-foot toboggan slide, with a fifty-pound weight on his stomach. we The four daughters of Ignatius Itiggin, th of Madison County, Illinois, not only c make their own dreasr. and other cloth- i 6 ing, but spin and weave the cloth of ca which they are made from raw cotton and wool. Mr. Riggin is a rich man, rated worth $250,000, and hi.s daughters are pretty, intelligent, and accomuplihed. m They live luxuriously in a lianudsome house, expensively and tastefully fur nished. Home-made clothing is the father's hobby, and the tirls sensibly in dulge him in it. The pecuniary value of "a good time' would seem to be as difficult of estima tion as the weight of an odor or the 1l breadth of a smile. Yet a-New York jury will be called on to perform the deli cate task. The City S.rveyor of Roch ester was invited to be present at the un veiling of the Statue of Liberty in New w York IHarbor :and laid lhiielf out for sa good time. The trains which he took d should have brought hint t,, New York in ample time,. hut for ,som. rsna.,ou it ar rived six hoIsl I:late anld he: gsowd time was irretricvaly lsp,i',l. Th'e surveyor v has rned the ra.ilr.,sl ,opa,,sis :and laid his damages' at $1i.4Ni, which is his es mate of what a gool time would have f been worth ist him in the eitati.,i of his r spirits, the rejuiventttei use of hi. y"tem, I theexpainsion of hi- idea- an:d. incident ally peI hapt , of hi- lead :, well. i Whether a jury will put it as lhich isv that i- still problematic. Animals that Charse C'olor. There is a tiny cnruta:t,'an., the chalme leon shrimp, which can alter its hue to I that of any manterial en uhiclh it happens to rest. On a sandy Jt;tom it appears gray or sand-colonred; vlan lurking among se.aweed it )ecomas green, or red or brown, according to the nature of its momentary background. Probably the effect is quite unconscious, or at least in voluntary, like blushing with ourselves and nobody ever blushed on purpose, Sthough they do say a distinguished poet once complained that an eminent actor e did not follow his stage directions because he omitted to obey the rubrical remark, "Here Harold purples with anger." The change is produced by certain automatic muscles which force up particular pig 4 ment cells above the others, green com l ing to the top on a green surface, red on a ruddy one, and brown or gray where the srinrre t:aaee" demand them. Many g kinds of li-h similarly alter color to suit it their Im,-.kgras,,ml by forcing forward or a backward certain special pigment-cells r known as chromatophores, whose various combinationa proshace at will almost any L.required tone or shade. Almost all rep. P- tiles and amphibians possess the power of se changing their hue mn accordance with r- their environment in a very high degree and among certain tree totds nd rogs it is dilcult to say what is the normal to coloring, as they vary indefnitely from en buffand dovcolor to chocolate-brown, le rope, and even lilac.--CorsAiU. t g en Vieterla's Coah. tMe-rs. Holmes, eoachmakers of Derby, a- have just renovated a state coach 1wlong ly ing to the queen. It is one of the . queen's six dress state coache, and has ubeen made nearly equal to new for use during the jubilee year. It is an exceed ~ ingly handsomew vehicle. The armorial lt bearings are of gold, as well as the door f. handles and the creet and O.der of 8t. e George on the roof. The carriage is painted vernillion, picked out with gold, ' ad the springs andl all the iron work r 7 gilt. The doors and the iaek and front to are ornamented with the royal arm,, and the namIller part- have representatio-s u pon them of the c-own anld garter and the Order of St. George. The coach is - lined with blue silk, and 4,000 leaves of ro- A beeashsn used in the deron st~u ~kJ.rer BUDGET OF FUN. Ite by HUMORto'SI SKETCHEn FROM of VARIOUS Sot ll('E. pr in A Case of Necessity--T1tes Have Changed-No Sign of Sweet- ril newt-Why a Calf Iw For Sale, E. c. Minister tto boy who is digging for worms): "Little boy don't you know It that it is wrong to work on Sunday. ex cet in c(a~i of necesstit' tBoy (going on with his digging): a "This is a case of necessity. A feller lik can't go ftihin' 'thout bait."-.S'inag. de Times Have Changed. Anxious Daughter-"Mother, did papa have his salary increased when he was nmarriedl ' fo Omaha Matron-"No, my child." "I don't suppose he had any money saved up, did l"e "Not a penny. He spent all he ' earned." be "Did you get along comfortably" "We were very happy." "Well, you know, George hasn't been in able to save a cent, but" "See here, if that poverty-stricken fel- in low dare to show his face here again I'll et your father to kick him out " - OnAa imWorld. No Sitg of Sweetness. Thereis a young man in the parlor wishes to see you. miss." remarked the go hall door a:ttndant at i downtown resi a deuce. in "Did heI I. minu1 a:athlinsg with hima-an to box or parel:" "Only a tal.e, Iist. l" "Did his. c-o.t tail rattle when he walked, as if the re wa. a package of it candy in his pocket?" n "Nothing of the sort. mis."' " Then tell him I' e gone to visit a sick tl friend and won't be hIome for a week," replied the fair girl, falling back into an horizontal position. and resuming her perusal of "Truth Stranger than Fic tion; or, The I.iar Unmasked."-- 'li, ton Sigle. f Whv a Calf tI For kale. t A few days ago Mr Jones was away on business and in his absence his better half, a 'Mrs. J., bethought herself of something that would agreeably surprise Mr. Jones and make him smile real broad when he came back. What did she dot Shebought t a calf. Did you ever see or know the woman who, when she allowed her fancies q to roam over things of comfort, didn't Sdream of a cow nd plenty of milk and ° butter and crmeam She thought of the a tisfaction that Jones would have when once again it weaould come around time to d can be when she sawr the calf r his stall and tied up. That night Jones was not apprised of the new member of the establishment. The next morning he was. Going into Sthe barn he saw a calf's tail whiskiag in the frosty air. He saw also the remnants of a $* harness, he saw a colt, shorn of that rarest element of beanty in a horse, Sviz.: a flowing tail-gone the way y as the harness and a bushel of eats. Jones w ma ud. He says that at first he was mystified. Then bhe aw the calf. Thewsy that bhmsailed into that lsif, with a club, he says, was a cation to evil-doers. He daneed around her, for ward and back, grand right and left, balance to pt sall promenade. He h was etting p d of himself. He was Sioirn hands to givethe animal hi coup de grae when Mrs. Jones °came out, and, like Pocahbontas, ater eded with the man and the club ad the * calf's life was saved. Mr. Jones says that now,on the fence at his bhone, appear thsign : "Calf for sale. Warranted to chew Srailroad ron. J. Jones.-Le-# ise (M.) i Jarnal. a He Had Dees in State Prison. A stanger entered as Austin saloon the aothr d after scowling at the al half-dozen tters who were gathered o there, he said: L "Would you gentlemen object to tak irlog a drink with a man what's been in a, Ste prbour' S He was a big. muscular fellow, with a e eye in i head, and he rested his Sleft elb sort of careless oa the bar.fac sa Ig the crowd, his right hand reached id playfully for his hiR pocket. All jumped quickly to their feet ct the of laritative mflvcedI towad the - be, eneblim in hrner: " Ortal met. ·traner !" "rm proud to drink with yeua., the foremost man, grasping im a by the hand. '"I don't think any lI of a man hecrause he has been in prison. In fact. I've served seven an one myself." "II have broke j.il in three ,.aid another; "yet I ain't proud. your hand." "*I have never be.en in tState priS1% markcl a third. "but I don't kaew my ('ase may turn out when through- with it up to the Court It oo'ks pretty .lually." "I believe in giving a man a said a fourth. "I've got abrmther Louisiana peniteutiary, and I like to see folks give him the oMl der when he comens out." .*'Many an innocent man ges tr on." remarked a fifth man. " be there mprelf. I reckon, i tI chief witness hadn't up and did fore the came came on. It was a I tell you." "Well," said the stranger seem to be such a hard lot confession, I retire my invm n. been in State prison for several as prisoner, but am prison m 1 will see you later, no dolubt, ing for his single drink he ing an incesolablecrowd ,:Rinses. Bill Nve on Etiquelu. Whenever I am invited to any doings where fair women sad in their other clothes ar t to gate, I always inquire if there is any etiquette there. The e.tiquette at an otherwise happy ing has frequently debarred me tending, and compelled me to evening with my family, where I lay aside all restraint and my oest. S~o, the life of a President, f it is with the most virulent and rant form of etiquette, would charms for me, and I am not that the boysof America refuse to one man and be President, f naturally that somne time at a ner they might get the great up and the error telegraphed and nght and left,, or at some other festival and hurrah to a the wrung place might be delegate-at-large frm Farther the wife of the clergyman from and herself drinking from the cup that broperly belonged to the ter from Nova Scotia. I am sureI am not peasmnisle thingof that kind when I ay quette is destined to make ponat us a part of omacdal Wd ata that a plaini sea, a small bag of around his neck and a ness of rectitude in i h at 'smooth potto i his pocket to Ilrh'bemre sem ll be thee Other nations have given over to the Inee joyE d f where are the to-daj and princi s have in poiretsnth duty to theo order tfat they might elves to the 8. V.P. and P. (badness, or that they might wedge of cstard pie under a mIstache by meas of a f and where are they nowt Other democratic nations, who drank from a saucer with great low, purring sound, have them.- Ohdep pett.. ruead in Swedis a At Falun, writes a G~I~ Srespondent, we founad the Sdish ina, witha cheerless r- where each table was piled e knackbrod, enough on each taw t twenty _. kThe knati n tional institution and a sign any sign post or frontier stone o w tat he ln Sweden. It ma .) or barley Sour, mixed with antitie caraway seeds; is then htaa foot in diameter, in the middle, and through thi We market women run a string and e around Lor sale. In the br 4 tkockholm they fasten these knackbred to their shoulder k- that rach from the yokes in ground. To an unappreciative. tastes quite as much as it looks a biscitcand i toagher than ayt s I the human teeth struggle with. e- the Ikaekbrod, th Swede d many varieties of sweet bread away seeds, and withthe he give you plater thee feanecy Ihet never 8 paI white led en. asivter w r M edt. I