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GENERAL LABOR NEWS.
Let every workingman prepare to
strike at the ballot box.,
T. B. McGuire denies that he is a
candidate for JPowderly's place.
New Haven (Ct.) knights had a big
picnic last week at Hamilton Park.
A two-story brick mill 40x80 feet, for
the carding of tine shoddies, is being
built at Hazardville, Ct.
The Amalgamated Iron and Steel As
sociation met at Pittsburg for the pur
pose of arranging a scale.
Powderly says he has not been cap
tured fcy the communistic element in
the Knights of Labor organization.
Richard M. Hoe, the great inventor
and perfector of printing presses, died
last week.
Four thousand striking miners at Ir
wins, Pa., who have been out three
months, voted last week to return
work at the old rates.
Several members of the New York
Typographical Union, No 6, have
started a co operative music publishing
lusiuess.
It is safe to say that from 7-5,P)0 to
85,000 men, women and children gained
something in the way of shorter hours
in Chicago.
True statesmanship consists, not in
endeavoring to stamp out popular dis
contents, but in laboring to satisfy and
placate them.
Fifty compositors, 10 stereotypers
and pressmen at Mershon & Co.'s shop,
Raleigh, N. J., struck for weekly pay
ments on the 9th.
At St. Louis, on the 10th, a jur
brought in a verdict of not guilty in the
case of thirteen striking operatives of
the Missouri Pacific road.
The Knoxville Labor Globe warns
Typographical Unions to beware of one
Wm. J. Staley, a
Labor
irat,"
who has a
Union traveling card in his possession.
Secretary Twiner, of the Knights of
says that there is no opposition
to Mr. Powderly in the executive board,
which is harmonious in support of the
general master workman.
The executive board of journeymen
tailors at New York last week voted
down a proposition to return to task
work, and resolved to accept no over
tures from bosses not conceding week
work.
The New Haven (Ct.) carriage body
makers' strike, which has been in pro
gress three months, ended last week,
when all but a few of the men returned
to work on the1 terms paid before the
strike.
The International Typographical
Union and the Amalgamated Sheet and
Iron Association have declined to join
the Knights of Labor, though profess
ing good will for that organization and
a willingness to assist them if neces
sary.
At the recent session of the Interna
tional Typographical Union it was re
solved to send a copy of The Crafts
mon to every member of the Art Pre
servative under International jurisdic
tion.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
eight-hour movement has been declared
a failure in the East, tiiere are thou
sands of men now working only eight
hours a day at the same wages they
formerly received for ten hours.
The International Typographical
Union, in its late session at Pittsburg,
decided to lend $500 to the union at
Jacksonville, Fla, $500 to Kansas City,
Mo., $200 to Topeka, Kan., $200 to New
Haven, Ct., and $200 ta San Antonio,
Tex.
A meeting of the International
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was held at Jackson, Mich., Sunday
last. The attendance was very large,
there being twenty-three special car
loads of delegates, besides those who
came on regular trains.
The Boston chamber of commeice re
cently adopted resolutions approving
the proposed amendment to the revised
statutes of the United States to pre
vent interference with transportation
over railways, and protecting property
from destruction by strikers.
The proposition of various Washing
ton trades return to work at nine
hours with the retention of the card
has been defeated by thc refusal of the
carpenters to agree to the compromise.
There is a belief, however, that this
plan will be adopted ia the end, and it
now has strong support.
Four years ago scarcely a dozen labor
papers were published in the country.
Now there are about two hundred
weeklies and, several dailies devoted to
labor intereets. In this monopoly can
find little room to rejoice. Until the
labor press came into existence Jay
Gould controlled absolutely every
source of newspaper information.
P. I). Davis, master workman of the
Knights of Labor assembly at Pacific,
Mo., was sentenced to two years in the
state penitentiary and fined $500 in the
circuit court of Frankiin county at
Union, Mo., on the 9th. He was a
leader in the late southwestern strike
and was arrested by Thomas Furlong,
chief of the Gould system secret ser
vice, for attempting to wreck the first
freight train that left St. Louis during
the strike on March 24 and shooting at
guards. He was convicted and sen
tenced to two years on the former
charge and pleaded guilty to the latter,
for which he was fined $500.
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A Frnltful Five-Dollar Bill*
A little money sometimes goes a great
way. As an illustration of this, read^the
following, founded upon an incident which
is said to have really occurred
A. owed $15 to B. B. owed $20 to Cf:
C. owed $1-5 to D. D. owed $30 to E.
owed $12.50 to F. F. owed $10 to A.
Air of them were seated at the same
table.
A. having a $5 note handed it to B., re
marking that it paid $5 of the $15 he,
owed B.
B. passed the note to C. with the re
mark that it paid $5 of the $20 which he
owed.
C. passed it to D., and paid with it $5 of
the $15 lie owed D.
D. handed it to E., in part payment of
the $30 owed him.
E. gave it to F., to apply on account of
the $12.50 due him.
F. passed it back to A., saying, "This
pays half the amount I owe you."
A. again passed it to B., saying, "I now
owe you only $5."
B. passed it agpin to C., with the re
mark, "This reduces my indebtedness to
you to $10.
C. again passed it to D., reducing his
indebtedness to $5.
D. paid it over to E., saying, "I now owe
you $20.
E. handed it again to F., saying, "This
reduces my indebtedness to you to $2.50."
Again F. handed the note to A., saying
"Now I don't owe you anything."
A. passed it immediately to B., thus
canceling the balance of his indebtedness.
B. handed it to C., reducing his in
debtedness to $5.
C. canceled the balance of his debt to
D. by handing the note to him.
D. paid it again to E., saying, "I now
owe you $15.
Then E. remarked to F», "If yois will
give mo $2.50 this will settle my in
debtedness to you."
F. took $3.50 from his pocket, handed it
to E., and returned the $5 note to his
pocket, and thns the spell was broken, the
single $5 note having paid $82-50, andean
celed A.'s debt to B., C's debtt to D., E.rs
debt to F. and F.'s debt to A~, and at the
p-,iae time twmng reduced B.'a debt to C.
from $20 to $5 and D.'s debt to- E. ficoa
$30 to $15.
Moral—"Here and there a little helps
to pay off laree scores. Money circulates
from hand to hand and business moves.
Pay your debts—in full it you can, and if
you cannot pay in full, pay something.
What helps one helps another, and so. the
round is made.
Our Telephone Olrt
It was during the blizzard, and th«re
was a great deal of talking going on over
the lines. The girl in charge was tised
and. had lost her temper, and as usual, set
her heart on being avenged upon some
body. Jack Button's baby was very ill,
and" lie was tryicg to get Dr. Acanitei to.?
come down and minister to it.
"Hello said the doctor.
"Hello is. this Doctor Aca-nite?** in
quired Bunton.
"It is."
"Come over right away, doctor.""
"Why, I am busy with a surgical opera
tion just now. Who is it?"'
"Jack Bunton."
"Well, I'll be around in about ars hour,"
"res, doctor but an hour from now
may be too late. We need yon and need
you badly right away, and if it is impossi
ble for you io come I am afraid I will have
to get somebody else."
"Why, what is the matter?" asked the
doctor, who had lied about the surgical
operation in order to finish a rubber in
which he was engaged. At this juncture,
the wretched telephone switched on a man
who was talking to a policeman, and the
answer which the doctor supposed eame
from Bunton, was as follows:
"Why, I have a cat that is having fits
every four minutes. I was going to kill it
myself, but all my neighbors advised me
to call you in, as everybody believes yon
are sure and expeditions in such matters."
The whist-players never knew exactly why
the doctor said cusswords when he hung
up his receiver, and then sat down in the
game and trumped his partner's ace at
third play, but the telephone girl did and
she also knows why Bunton and the
doctor are so mad they walk around the
block to avoid meetiug.
Miscellaneous.
Mr. Yardwide is a member of the
Nebraska Assembly—an all-wool Legisla
ture, as some wit says.
One firm in Germany has made and
sold, during the last five years, 3,000,000
thermometers.
The Chinese adulterate their tea
with willow leaves, and last year the
people of this country paid for over 500,
000 pounds of willow leaves mixed with
tea.
Mr. Young, of Wabasha, Minnesota,
locked hss wife in the house Mr. Potte,
of Pekln, Wisconsin, locked his wife out
of the house and now both women are
suing for divorce. It certainly is a diff
cult thing to please a woman.
A decree has recently been promulgated
in Austria to the effect that no married
subject shall henceforth receive a passport
for journeying beyond thefrontier without
the express consent of his wife. Austrian
women do not seek the right of sufferage.
They do not need it.
The book on which all the kings of Eng
land, from Henry I. to Edward VI., topk
the coronation oath, Is in a private library
in England. It is a manuscript of the
four evangelists, written on vellum. The
original binding, in a perfect state of
preservation, consists of two oaken boards
an inch thick, fastened together with a
thong of leather.
Some Americanisms,
The New York Tribune calls attention
to the fact that New England papers are
very fond of prefixing the profession or
calling of a man to his name in a way
that is sometimes rather amusing. It will
not be long before they will contain some
thing like this: As Tailor Shears was
walking along the street one day last
week he was assaulted by Ditcher Doe,
who had got full in Saloonkeeper Ginsling's
place along with Painter Chromo. The
assault was witnessed by Druggist Mixem,
Weaver Flax, Gardener Spring, Wood
chopper Jones and Teamster Whin.
Tailor Shears was taken to the house 6f
Rector Ritual, which was near at hand,
and Ditcher Doe was marched off to the
lockup by Constable Clubber, aided by
Blacksmith Sledge and Post Hole Digger
Bore. Lawyer Brief will defend him."
•. Big Checks,
The
lai\e check for $250,000, sent to
Mrs. Grail by the publisher of the general's
memoirs, is the largest sum of money ever
paid to an anther or his representatives.
Macaulay received $100,000 for his "His
tory of England," and the largest sum
ever,received by Sir Walter Scott from his
publisher was $200,000.
A Handy Remedy.
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THE HAN WITH
If he dies as well as he eats, just im
agine, just think, what a glorious, tri
umphant death that man Will die.
Shortly after dinner the poor man came
into the coach and sat down opposite me.
"Ah," he said, with a deep groan, "I
don't know what I wouldn't give if I could
eat like you."
"Sir I said, in a fine burst of indigna
tion, for I feared he was going to accuse
me of swallowing my knife every time I
took a bite of pie, and I just made up my
mind that I would cut his heart out if he
hinted at such a thing.
"Oh, it's a fact," he replied "I haven't
en joyed a meal for years."
"Was it possible?" I asked, in amaze
ment.
"Indeed, yes," he said. "I'm ail out of
fix. I've no liver at all to speak of."
"I didn't suppose one liver would be of
any account to him. I rather thought
that if he could get a couple of gangs of
livers, and vvorktbem by reliefs, they
might be able to help him alone, especially
if he had them made of tin. But then be
was a stranger to me, sol didn't feel justi
fied in making the suggestion.
•.No," he continued, "my liver no
more account than a lump of lead. I
suppose," he said plaintively, "it's as big
as four of youirs.™
And he looked at me with an appealing
glance, asi though he expected me to take
my liver out and let him examine it, as
though it were an oroide watch be wanted
to trade for.
Now, if there fe anything in this wide,
beautiful world that will make me mad,
it is to have a man who is ailing sit down
and bore me with a list of his diseases
and a detailed account of his anatomical
derangements. Audi the men of free
America, it seems to me, would rather
talk about their perishing livers than their
never-dying souls, and it always makes
me naad for a man to come at me and bur
den me with complaints about the tor
pidity of his liver, as though 1 were his
physician. 1 am paroud to confess to the
blindest, densest iignorance concerning
my own inner life. I don't know whether
my liver is. sound or shaped like a gun
case, and 1 don't know whs-ire it is* and
I don't care a continental, although I al
ways had the impression that it was just
under the shoulder, blades. So. I said to
the man with great enthusiasm:
"Oh, do tell me all about, yomr liver! I
should so like to know all about it. I Am
so interested in such things-"
The man looked a little surprised at my
sudden enthusiasm, buls he said there
wasn't much to tell about it. It was as
torpid, he said, as a snake in December.
"Oh, charming, charming!n I exclaimed.
"And is it tame? Da you let it run
around loose or do yau have to keep it
chained up?"
The stranger stared, and looked as
though he would like to nit a little further
away. He said he diduvt just exactly un
derstand me.
"And how is your spleen." I asked
eagerly, "and your ventriclcs? And do tell
me about your thoraic duct, and how do
you izei along with your tonsils? And
have you raised any new bones since 1
saw
you last add when did you hear from
your diaphragm? Do tell me all about
all your viscera make a clinic of your
self nnd tell me the Christain names of
all your bones and the appurtenances
thereunto appertaining. Tell me—"
But he got up and slowly backed out of
the car, and the conductor shortly after
ward told me that the man with a liver
told him that the man who escaped from
the asylum at Jacksonville last week was
in the rear coach.
ELOPED IN HALE ATTIRE,
Miss Ella Carson is Assisted F'om a
Window by Mr. Arthur Hlce,
A Stanhope, N. J., dispatch says: Miss
Ella Carson, the 18-year-old daughter of
a well-to-do farmer, eloped from her home
on Saturday with Arthur Rice. The lat
ter is a son of a wealthy oil well owner in
Bradford, Pa. Her father had forbidden
him to enter the house because, it is al
leged, she was engaged to be married to
Charles Boyden, the son of a neighboring
farmer. Rice wrote her a letter contain
inga plan for her elopement. In accord
ance with this plan he appeared under
the window on the following night and
assisted her down. They went in a buggy
toward Waterloo, hotly pursued by her
father and brother.
The
elopers boarded a train at Water
loo. on the Sussex road, a few minutes
before their pursuers reached the station.
Ella was then attired in her own clothing.
At Newton they left the train, and when
they procured a turnout both were in male
attire. They drove across the country to
Milltown, where they were married by
the Rev, Thomas Fletcher, Twenty
minutes later their pursuers arrived.
On the following day Thomas Carson
received a lettter from Rice dated at
Philadelphia, notifying bim of their mar.
rlage and asking forgiveness. On Satur
day there was a reunion in the Carson
homestead, the runaways received the
parental blessings, and the young wife
was presented with a check for $3,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Rice will make Bradford
their permanent home.
In the Same Neighborhood*
Two wretched looking tramps were
brought up before a Texas justice of the
peace. Addressing the worst looking one,
the justice asked:
•'Where do you live?"
"Nowhere."
"And where do you live?" said the jus
tice, addressing the other.
"I've got the room above him."
A Successful Career.
'*How is your son doing, Mr. Smith,
who went to New York a few years ago?"
"He has made a name for himself/' said
Mr. Smith.
••Indeed? In what way?"
"1 understand he calls himself femythe."
No Fellow Can Find Ont.
One of the things that no fellow has yet
found out is why the crush hat was dedi
cated to man, who always attends the
theatre bareheaded, and not to the. woman,
who now tickles the dome of the house
with a marabeau leather.
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THE IRISH STANDARD: SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1886.
LIVEB.
A
Bnrdette Runs Across a Fellow WItb
Ills Liver Oat of Order.
I had,such a pleasant companion on my
way home from Aurora. He got on at
Bristol and took dinner at the "Cosmo
politan." He sat with me at dinner, and
didn't seem to have much appetite. He
groaned when he took up the bill of fare,
and sighed as he looked across the table
«t my order, and then shook his head
flolefully and told the waiter to bring
him a little boiled trout, with egg sauce
a bit of boiled mutton, with caper sauce:
some roast beef a trifle rare, just a taste
of roast lamb, turkey with cranberry
sauce, mashed potatoes, roast duck, some
pork and beans, Boston style, stewed to
matoes, corn, turnips, squash, a bit of
cold tongue, some sharp relish and a cup
of coffee. Then he ordered some assorted
cake, cranberry pie, Ir.diau pudding and
ice cream for desert, and said he felt a
darned sight more like dying than eating.
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MYSTEBIOUSLY HISSING.
People Vbo are Suddenly Swallowed
nptn ttae City.
Every week or two the police are asked
to look out for some one who has mysteri
ously disappeared from home. A portrait
of the man or woman who has been sud
denly swallowed up is sent to all the po
lice stations of all the large cities of the
country. But usually nothing is ever
again heard from one marked "missing"
on the police record.
The disappearance of Alex. F. Oakey is
one of the mysteries of the time. He was a
young man of good family and education,
and had made a reputation as an artist
and designer. He was well known in art
circles. After a protracted tour of study
abroad Oakey returned to this country
and married the daughter of ex-Senator
Sprague, of Buffalo. He settled in New
York, where his art work and arcitect
ural designs procured him a situation
with Tiffany & Co., with whom he was
engaged at the time of his disappear
ance. This occurred one Saturday evening
after Oakey had been visiting his family,
who were summering at Bell port, L. I.
No reason could be found for his commit
ting suicide and lus family relations were
of the most happy nature.
A similiar case occurred at Syracuse, N.
Y., William M. Rapalje, a well-known artist
and architect of that city, was missed sud
denly. He was twenty-one years old and,
like Oakey, had studied and travelled ex
tensively. No cause can be given far his
disappearance, as both his business and
social relations were agreeable.
Another case is that of young Thomas
W. Fisher, son of Thomas J. Fisher, a
prominent real estate broker of Washing
ton. For some time young Fisher, who
was in partnership with his father, was at
tentive to a well-known Baltimore belle. It
was his custom in the evening after busi
ness hours to take the fast express to
Baltimore and spend the evening wiith the
young lady, returning home at midnight.
The young people were engaged, and Fisher
spent all his spare time at her home.
One evening Fisher went as usual to
call upon his intended bride. During his
stay a trivial dispute arose, and the-young
lady in a moment of pique declaired the
engagement broken off. Fisher- left the
house without a ward.
The strange disappearance of S. S.
Conant is still fresh in every one's mind.
Another interesting case was that of
Theophilus Youngs* who was missed from
Boston in 1875. He was a man of wealth
and the usual efforts were made in every
direction to discover his whereabouts.
The search was kept up untiringly by his
wife until 1SS1, when she abandoned the
matter and applied for letters of adminis
tration on the estate. This move brought
out a man who claimed to be the missing
one, but Mrs- Youngs refused to recognize
him save as an iinposter. A Lang suit fol
lowed over the possession of the dead
man's estate, which was finally compro
mised.
In addition to these very strange dis
appearances, eaeh one of which ereated a
a sensation at the time, there are count
less others. On each occasion rewards
have been offered and every endeavor has
been made to find the lost one. But the
police seem powerlese to trace these miss
ing persons. That a well-known man,
with hosts of friends and acquaintances,
can so absolutely disappear from the
community seems almost an impossibility.
But that such is the case the frequent
disappearances in all metropolitan cities
show. The number of mysterious disap
pearances in London alone can be deter
mined from a report in 1882, of the Com
"rnSssioner of Police, which shows, that 1T4
men and women suddenly sunk out of
sight,
A REMINISCENCE.
John Morrlssey, tlie ongres»fc»nal
Prise Fla liter.
Ben: Perley Poore, the veteran Wash
ington
correspondent, writes: John Mor
rissey was one of those representatives for
whom strangers visiting the gallery of thr
House always inquired. He was not very
t-all, but his shoulders were broad, his
chest was deep, and his head was solidly
planted on his body. His black, curly hair
and beard were always elaborately dressed.
His eyes were mild and pleasant in their
expression, and the only feature»which be
trayed his
former
occupation was his small
broken nose. He dressed unostentatiously,
and might have passed for the presi
dent of a country bank or the superinten
dent of a branch railway. When I went
to Mr. Morrissey to obtain from him the
statistics of his life for the "Congressional
Directory," and asked him what his
occupation was. lie replied, with a smile,
"prize-fighter." Then, reflecting a mo
ment, he said "No I have come to
fcongress to make my name respectable
on my boy's account- Put it down
moulder in a stove foundry." It gave
him pleasure, however, to privately nar
rate in the cloak-room his prowess in the
arena, especially his fight with Heenan.
"Golly," said he, one day, "how I did
tremble when I was coming to the scratch
that time. Heenan was too big for me,
and that morning I'd have given a good
deal to get out of the scrape. Still, I
made up my mind that as I had put all
my money, every cent I had, (I think he
said $1,700,) into the thing I was going in,
and then, thought I, I'll be blanked if I
don't whip him, too. When I looked at
Heenan, stripped for the fight, I thought
I'd be whipped sure then again I made
up my mind to make him work for it. I
eyed bim all over as he sat in his
corner. 'Good gracious,' says I to
myself 'I can't do nothing with that
fellow but then again I thought I
must. Well, we came up for the first
round. Whew! I remember how he did
plug me. I tell you what it is, gentlemen,
I don't wftnt to brag of my own pluck, for
it would be no use now that I am out of
the ring, but if I hadn't been pretty good
game I'd have caved in on that first
round. After a long tussle we fell, and 1
•was mightily glad of it. It was while Ave
were down this time that I made up my
mind that I was going to whip him.
Heenan tried to choke me while we were
on the ground. He got his hands on my
throat' this way (suiting the action to the
word). When 1 felt him do that, thinks I
to myself, Sonny, I've got you now.' I
thought that a man who'd do that was a
coward, and from that time to the end of
the fight I felt sure
of
whipping him, and
I would have whipped him, just as I did,
if the fight had lasted just twice as long
as it did. If Heenan had pluck equal to
his strength all creation couldn't whip
him but he hadn't, and It's no work at
all to Whip him, if you can only stand up
under him for the first few minutes."
In the-Bowery,
One of the Bowery museums has a
highly colored sign in front of its doors
announcing that within may be seen a
sparring match between the what-is-lt and
the leopard boy, auid, on an adjoining sign,
ia the picture of a giddy Ohio girl who
wears a number thirty shoe and is
willing to give $5,000 and a farm for a
husband. The New Yorker has much
to while away the languid hours.
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THE VANDTCBILT BOYS
Two Well-Tralneu, Well-Behtreflj
Level-Headed millionaires.
The young Vanderbilis—I mean Cor
nelius and William K., the present heads
of the family—have "gone at it" as if they
meant to double the fortune their father
left them right speedily. Indeed, I don't
see how they can help it. .Cornelius Van
derbilt is forty now, and he is worth, I
suppose, at least $80,000,000,. perhaps
more. This, at compound interest, should
double every twelve years, which would
make it no less than $640,000,000 When
Cornelius is seventy-six. It would increase
a good deal faster than that at the inter
est which he is to-day receiving on his
stock and bonds, but there will come
panics, reverses, cataclysms, perhaps, and
he cannot safely count on making more
than $540,000,000 in thirty-six years.
These young men are exceptional char
acters They started In the path of life
under the iron rod of their remarkable
grandfather,the old Commodore. He didn't
believe in boys at all: he didn't believe
anybody much and when Cornelius
and William K. got out of short clothes he
said to their father: •'Look a here, Billy,
boys are no good there's only one way to
save 'em, and that- is by putting 'em,
at something and making "em
work like the devil all the while. Now,
stick these boys in somewhere, and make
'em come down to it. Don't let up on
William H. was not half as hard and In
flexible as his father, but he was accus
tomed to mind that gentleman—as obedi
ent when he was forty as wiien he was
fourteen—and he knew perfectly well that
it was better to kick a boy out of doors*
than to pet him and give him money so
he told the boys, as his father had told
him. that they "must support them
selves."
Cornelius got a little clerkship In the
Shoe and Leather bank when he was six
teen, and for four years he got there as
early as any clerk, and worked as late and
as hard. He allowed himself no extra
holidays, and neither his father nor his
grandfather did anything to make life
easier. During these years his uncle Tor
rance, going to Europe for the ommodor®
invited "the youngster" to go with him,
and the grandfather relented and consent
ed. The boy was delighted at the chance,
but the question of salary was involved.
He presented the matter to the preskient.
"You can goy" said that amiable function
ary "but, of course, you will lose your
salarv, $!
50." That settled it. Cornelius
turned his back on the temptation and de.
clined to go.
When he was twenty he was made a
clerk •*at the bottom of the laddor" in the
HudsonRiver Railroad office,and his young
est brother, William K.,*wa« put at work
there the next year. For more than eigh
teen years, now, they have "bowed down
to it" in that great concern, and they are
far better trained than their father even
was in all the details of the business.
They are not fast men. They own no
yacht. They care nothing for clubs. They
are content, up to the present time, with
one- wife apiece. They love their children,
and each family, filing into church, look
like a pair of gently sloping stairs. They
care little for fast horses. They do not
swear. One of them ia superintendent of
a Sunday school, and both are deeply in
volved in the various charities of the city.
Cornelius is first, vice president and
head of finance, William K. is second vice
president and master of transportation.
Each knows his business thoroughly. The
most striking thing about either of them is
that they work as hatd as if they were
hired by the job—which they are, by the
way—and that they are perfectly demo
cratic and accessible to an yhody who has
business with them. On t)1© whole, the
present seniors of the house --A Vanderbilt
are about the most quiel, unassuming,
well-behaved, well-trained and level-head
ed of the New York millionaires of the
present day.
Circumstantial Evidence Extra
ordinary.
The French papers have been full of a
case which junior members of the crim
inal bar would do well to take a note of.
A woman was put on her trial for
Strang-
Hug her baby, and at the preliminary
examinaton she confessedi her crime. At
the trial medical evidence was heard, and
the doctor told the Judge he did not be
lieve the woman was the culprit. The
finger marks were fresh on the victim's
throat when he made his examination,
and the marks were singular.. He ex
amined the woman's hands and found
her fingers long, slender and well shaped,
but the marks were of a short-fingered
hand, stumpy and misshapen, and one of
the fingers—the first—was abnormally
short. On this the prisoner burst into
tears, said she was fond of the child, had
not destroyed it, and mentioned in her
excitement the real culprit. He was a
man of .a better class of life, with whom
she had lived as domestic servant. His
arrest followed and the doctor pointed
out that the prisoner's hands were formed
as he had described, and, moreover, that
the first finger was without a nail and
almost deficient of a joint. On this evi
dence the jury convicted. The case is
interesting, first as showing—what our
own books also afford illustration of—
that a prisoner, though innocent, may
confess guilt, and secondly that circum
stantial evidence may be almost abso
lutely conclusive.
The Genius of Common Sense.
1 believe a good editor, a competent
newspaper conductor, is like a general or
poet—born, not m«t8e. On the Londop
daily papers all the historians, nOvelfsEs,
poetft essaying have been employed, tujfl
nearly all have failed. S might say all,
for after a display of brilliancy—brief, but
grand—they died out literally. Their re
sources were exhausted. "I can," said a
late editot of the Times, to Moore, "find
any number of men of genius to write for
us, but very seldom one of common sense."
The "thunderers" in the Times, therefore,
have so far as I know, been men of com
mon sense. Nearly all successful editors
have been men of this description Camp
bell, Bulwer, and Disraeli failed, Barnes.
Sterling and Phillips succeeded. A good
editor seldom writes for his paper. He
reads, judges, selects, dictates, alters and
combines, and to do all this well, he has
but little time for composition. To write
for a paper is one thing to edit a paper is
another.
Calamity Sam's Jokes.
Repentance is the boot-jack upon which
we pull off the brogans of our sins here
we lie down for the last time to sleep.
Remorse and Regret are a team that
takes ns by the shortest route to the end
of life's dreary journey,—and I am in the
wagon behind them.
The "Imitator" is one who wears the
plug hat stolen from the hall of Genius.
The press is the plow that rips up the
garden of our political and social systems
and lays bare all their grubs and worms.
Nothing so surely destroys my faith In
a religious man's zeal than to surprise him
in the act of plugging a silver quarter.
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Ucree
NDER and by virtue of a judgTi nt and de
issued out of and under tb« enl of the
District Court of the State of Miiirio sota, in and
for the Fourth Judicial District, and County of
Hennepin, on the 7th day of Juno, 18Sfi. upon a
judgment endered and docketed in said Court
and County in an action therein, wherein Fred
Anderson was plaintiff and Andrew J. Lind
bergh and Lucy J. Lividber# were defendants in
favor ot' said plaintilF ana against said defend
ants for the sum of two hundred and seventy
seven and 33-100 dollars,
a certified copyof which
said ludjrment and decree has to me,as sheriff of
said Hennepin county, been duly directed and
delivered, I will sell at public auction to tho
highest, cash bidder, at the fronr door of the
Court House, corner of Fourth street and Eighth
avenue south in the city of Minneapolis in said
county of Hennepin, on Saturday the 31st day
of July, 1886, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of
that day all the ri^ht, title andiu'erest of An
drew J. Lindberg and Lucy J. Llndber^ the
above named judgment debtors in and to the
following described property, upon which said
judgment is a specific lien, to wit: Lot five (5)
Block thirty-six (36) in Sherburne and Beehe's
Addition to the city of Minneapolis, according
to the recorded plat thereof on file and of record
in the office of the Register of Deeds in and for
said Hennepin County.
Dated al Minneapolis, Minn.. June 12th, 1886.
WINNLOW M. BRACKETT,
Sheriff of Hennopin County.
George H.White.
Attorney for Judgment Creditor.
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