Demarralic Wat,
Bellefonte, .Pa., May 23, 1890.
FHE INNER LIFE.
We know there is a life within the life
Of each who, toiling, treads the conguered
Way ;
Ever By tons strife behind the strife
That each is seen to wage from day to day.
We find ourselves contending with aworld
‘In which ambition rules and pride holds
sway ;
We nh and scoff, like others,are pesaessed
With zeal to grasp the baubles as we may.
So we are judged to be alike as base
As he pi for pottage all he hath—
Who yields not only love and joy and truth,
But yields for this his soul’s immortal
worth,
Be theu serene before the heartless judge,
Brave heart that hath with unseen walor
fought ;
Strive ot to hold against the world a grudge,
And sell the sunshine of thy life for naught.
The world ean never know thee as thou art,
Much less with truth can judge thee as it
ought ;
But if as hast with courage done thy part,
For thee there's nothing further te be
sought.
‘Tis well for us to toil and strive to win
All that our health and comfort may re-
aire ;
But let the angel still within us reign,
That he may aid the world to something
igher.
Then:let the inner life be full and free—
Let mind rule with the scepter of its might,
Let heart and soul with aspiration turn
Toward all that’s great in nature, grand in
thought.
Then be the world in judgment true or false,
The heart,secure in consciousness of worth,
Can find within its battlements of truth
The greatest pleasure possiblé to earth.
Phenological Journal.
STRANGE EXPERIENCE,
I bad just been successful in defend-
ing one prisoner, and was about to pass
out of the court-room, when my atten-
tion was arrested by the striking face
of another one 1n the larger dock.
The look of which I have spoken as
striking as really indescribable. His
eyes shown like the flashing of a fire in
the darkness; his skin had a death-
like pallor; his lips were thin and tight-
ly compressed.
The impression one had in looking
at him was of something unnatural
and uncanny.
He beckoned me to the dock, stated
that he had been arrested for the larce-
ny of a horse and carriage, protested
that he had no knowledge of having
taken them—that he woke to cousci-
ousness in jail, and that what preceded
this was a blank to him.
He begged me to undertake his de-
fense, and gave me the address of his
wife, saying that she would pay my
fee and assist me in procuring witnes-
ses on his behalf.
I obtained an adjournment until the
next day, and went to see his wife,
who told me that Le was subject to
epileptic fits, and not entire sound in
mind ; but that, as they had only re-
cently removed to the city, she could
not produce medical evidence of his
good character.
She also said that her own health
was such that she could not go upon
the stand to testify, but that their
daughter, who was then at school,
would do so.
Feeling that the look-out for my
client was a rather gloomy one, I went
to my office the next morning, wi.ore I
was met, promptly at the appointed
time, by Mrs. Higgins and her daugh-
When I cast my eye upon the latter
I was almost stupefied with amaze-
ment and delight.
She was a girl of sixieen—the most
beautiful being I had ever beheld. If
her father’s face had in it something
demoniac, hers was beautiful enough
to be almost angelic.
Her voice was low and sweet, her
accent perfect, and her whole manner
full of the charm of intelligence and re-
finement.
The prosecuting attorney proved that
the prisoner had been arrested while
driving away with a horse and carriage,
the property of a well-known physi-
cian ; that he was at the ‘time slightly
under the influence of liquor, but was
apparently entirely rational, and
claimed that the property belonged
to him.
In answer to this overwhelmirg ar-
ray of evidence, I had to depend whol-
ly upon the beauty of the prisoner's
daughter and the apparently improba-
ble story she was about to tell.
After a brief address to the jury, in-
tended to dispel the prejudice rais-d
by the evidence for the prosecution, I
called upon my witness. tea
When, in response, Lillie Higgins
appeared in the witness-box, I saw that
all the jurors gave her a look of admi-
ration, and heaved an involuntary
sigh at her bard fate in being the
daughter of a criminal.
As I looked at her standing there,
her face rosy with shame, and her
large lustrous eyes shining with un-
shed tears, it took all my reason and
resolution to keep from falling madly
in love with her, :
In her low, sweet voice, tremuloue
with suppressed grief, she said that for
some years her father hadjbeen subject
to epileptic fits, occurring with more or
less frequency and violence, and leav-
ing him after the paroxysm had pass.
ed, in a condition of only partial con-
sciousness—sometimes for several days
—during which time he was subject to
delusions, and was not responsible for
his acts.
Sometimes in this state
threatened their lives,
For three days he had been absent
from home. She had visited all the
hospitals in search of him, but did not
dream, until they had learned the fact
from me, that he could be in jail,
charged with this awful crime.
“Oh, sir,” she cried, in pitiful be-
seeching tones, turning to the judge,
“have pity on him. If he took the
horse and carriage, he did not know
what he was doing.”
Her voice had been growing more
and more tremulous, and at this point
he had
she poured forth a flood of tears.
I looked at the jurymen and saw
that they were deeply affected—most
of them indeed being touched even to
tears,
The prosecuting attorney declined to
cross-examine, and when I announced
that I had no more witnesses, proposed
to submit the case to the jury without
argument—an offer which I gladly ae-
cepted.
To my surprise, the judge delivered
no charge. The jury, without leaving
their seats, found a verdict of not
guilty.
I stepped to the dock to congratu-
late my client, but he drew back with
a look of horror in his eyes, and said,
in accents of fierce intensity, yet in a
voice scarcely more than a whisper.
“I know you, sir ; I have seen your
cunuing, and I have plainly read in
your face the fact that you have learn-
ed my secret.”
This strange behavior would have
convinced me of the girl's truthfulness,
if I had before doubted it, for I.eaw by
the gleam of his eyes, as well as from
his words, that he was the victim of in-
sane delusions.
Without considering that he might
be dangerous, or indeed, reflecting at
all upon the possible consequenees of
my course of action—for I was then
young and inexperienced, aud some-
what flushed. with the success which
had been so easily won for me by my
beautiful witness—I moved his dis-
charge, which motion was of course,
granted; and, in company with his
wife and daughter, he left the court.
Some minutes later it dawned upon
me that, in his present mood, their
presence with him might not be safe,
and I rushed to the street to find that
they had disappeared.
That night I was seated alone in my
office, where I spent the greater part of
my time. Iwas a bachelor and did
little more than sleep and occasionally
entertain a few friends in the gloomy
apartments which I called home.
As sat in an easy-chair in half
somnolent idlenesss, enjoying my fra-
grant cigar, I heard a light step on the
stairs. Ordinarily this would perhaps
scarcely have attracted my attention,
but now whether it was that there was
something stealthy in the step, or from
some cause, I do not know—at the in-
stant I heard the sound, I felt a strange
premonition of danger, and in conse-
quence arose and shifted my position to
the side of the room, so as to face any
visitor who might enter.
For a little time I sat in perfect si-
lence. At last I heard the door slowly
open.
“What! you here?” I exclaimed, as
my strange client entered the room.
“Yes,” he answered. “With the
help of the girl you have saved me
from going to prison. For that I thank
you. But you also discovered my se-
cret. For that I am come to kill you.
My life is not safe while you live. Self
preservation is the first law of nature.”
So saying he drew from behind his
coat a huge butcher's knife, and pro-
ceeded calmly to feel its edge, at the
same time looking about to see
whether there was any means of es-
cape save by the door, to reach which
I must pass him.
The inspection seemed to satisfy
him, and well it might, for we were on
the third floor, rear, of a large build-
ing, used exclusively as offices, and we
were the only peoply in it save the deaf
old janitress, who lived on the top floor
under the roof.
I knew that my only chance of es-
cape, if any chance there was, lay in
keeping my self-possession and turning
the madman’s mind from his purpose
by some diversion adapted to reach
his fancy.
But I could see that he was cunning
and alert, as insane people usually are,
and not to be easily duped.
A struggle with him was not to be
thought of, since, to say nothing of his
weapon, he was a man of tremendous
frame, with muscles of iron—a very
Hercules ; while I was shghtly built,
and all my muscles were flabby, from
the want of systematic exercise.
Accordingly I summed up all my
resolution to answer him in the cool-
est tones I could command, and act-
ually surprised myself by the calmness
of my voice as I replid
“Yes, 1 looked for you, and came
here to meet youn.”
“You lie!” he answered with a sneer
and a frown. “Had you believed 1
would come here on the errand I have,
you would have gone into the tiger's
lair as quickly as come here unarmed
and alone.”
“You are mistaken,” I rejoined, ‘in
supposing other people to possess the
same cowardly fear of death as your-
self. But, to be frank with you, I did
not anticipate the nature of your er-
rand. Had I done so, I should have
been prepared to foil you.”
“When I saw you look from the girl
in the witness-box to me in the dock,”
he said, “I caught the meaning of your
look, and knew you had divined that
she was not my child, but the daughter
of my wife's first husband, whom I
murdered. So you did not expect me
to kill you? Pray tell me on what
errand you expected me to come?’
And as he spoke, his great brilliant
eyes flashed fire.
My heart was beating fast with ab-
solute terror; but I continued my self
restraint by a mighty endeavor, and
answered quietly :
“To buy my silence.”
“And be forever in your power? I
am not such a fool as that. Say your
prayers for in five minutes you die!”
I'looked at him with a sneer upon
my lips, and said :
“You think yourself very shrewd;
but I have outwitted you.
me you take the surest way to make
your secret known."
“I suppose,” he senswered with a
sneering laugh ‘that you refer to some
ghostly nonsense. But I know that
‘dead men tell no tales.’
“True; but living men may write
down tales to be read after they are
dead.” TI replied; “and I have writ-
ten the facts I have learned and the
suspicions I have formed concerning
By killing |
your crime, and have enclosed the pa-
per with my will, to be read after my
amy death, unless sooner purchased by
ou.”
Y “Then I must have that paper!” he
exclaimed, his pale brow lowering like
a thunder-cloud and his .eyes flashing
will torture you until you give it up!”
As he spoke, I saw that the master
passion of his soul was a cowering ter-
rer of meeting a felon’s death.
“I defy your torture!” I said, draw-
ing forth a small .phial of toothache
mixture. “This poison will produce
instant death, and I assure you that I
will take it the instant you asempt to
lay hand on me.”
A look of agony eame into ‘his face
as he scrutinized me. This was grad-
ueliy changed into one of deadly hate.
Perspiration in great drops like beads
stood upon his brow.
At last I conld see, by the cunning
glances which flashed from his steel-
gray eyes, that he had resolved to tem-
porise.
“Where do you keep the paper ?”’ he
asked.
“In yonder safe,” pointing to the
huge fire proof built in the wall.
“Behold a vault that will easily re-
sist all your puny efforts to break open,
being both burglar and fireproof.”
“If I spareyour life, will give me the
paper ?"" he asked eagerly.
I knew that this was enly a ruse to
get the paper, and that, after obtaining
it, he meant to disregard any promise
he would make, and ruthlessly to take
my lite. Still, I was gaining time, and
I thought it best to humor him.
“Oh, as to.sparing my life,” [ an-
swered, “I am indifferent about that,
and will not exact any premises from
you ; but if yon want to leok at the
paper, I will open the safe for you.”
I had formed a wild hope that I
might inveigle him into the safe, and
by suddenly closing the door make a
prisoner of him.
But this hope he soon dissipated.
I turned to the safe, adjusting the
lock to the combination and flung the
door wide open. Then I lighted the
the gas jet attached to the rubber
tube which was used for lighting the
interior of the vault, and took it to its
place inside the massive door. Then
I stepped back a few paces and said :
“You will find the paper together
with my will, in a sealed envelope con-
tained in the pigeon-hole marked “W.”
He advanced to the door and careful
ly inspected the vault so as to satisfy
himself that it afforded no means of
escape.
Then he returned to his former po-
sition under the chandlier, which was
in full blaze.
His fiendish face was rendered more
hideous by the sneer upon it as he
said :
“Your plan to make a prisoner of
me is cunning enough bat it requires
more grain and less chafl' to catch as
olda bird as 1 am. Go in the safe
and bring out the paper. Don’t be
afraid ; I will not imprison you in it.
If I kill you, T will do it speedily. 1
will not doom you to a lingering death
by suffocation or starvation in such a
dungeon.”
Seeing that it was useless to parley,
I stepped into the safe and selected a
sealed envelope, which I took to him,
and which he eagerly received from
my hand.
As he turned tothe chandelier and
broke the seal, I returned to the safe,
took down the gas-tube, and prepared
to reclose the door, wheu like a flash, a
possible means of escape suggested it-
self to my mind.
I silently blew out the gass, and
placing the burner to my lips, I blew
with all the power of my lungs into
the tube, stepping outside of the vault
as I did =o, and continuing the effort
while awaiang the denoument.
During the time the maniac was en-
deavoring to discover the character of
the paper I had put into his hands, the
gas had continued to be consumed.
Presently the stratum of breath
which had been blown into the pipe
reached the chandelier-burner, and in-
stantly the flame flashed up with a
snap and expired.
The madman uttered a frightful
scream of anger, accompanied by an
oath that fairly froze my blood ; then I
heard him spring towards the spot
where I stood.
The next instant I heard a heavy
fall, almost at my feet, followed bv a
succession of groans and & low, gurg-
ling sound, as of water escaping from a
bottle.
Very soon all was as still as death,
except the sound of my wildly beating
heart.
For a moment I stood still in shrink-
ing horror, then I moved noiselessly in
the darkness, made my way to the door
flung it wide open, and bounded down
two flights of stairs.
On reaching the pavement, I found a
policeman on his beat, to whom T re-
lated the story ; and together, he with
his lighted lamp leading the way, we
sought my room
On entering it, a shocking sight met
our gaze. My strange client was lying
on his face upon the floor in a pool of
blood.
In ma cing a leap to seize me, in the
darkness, he had stumbled over a rug,
and in falling, the knife, which he
held in his hand, had pierced his jugu-
lar artery.
During the rest of that night sleep
did not visit my eyelids. I thought
much of the beautiful girl whose testi-
mony, in saving her father from prison
| had so nearly cost me my life, and has
! actually cost his.
The next morning I went to the
house where the mother and daughter
t had lived, to acquaint them with the
"terrible tragedy of the night, but found
the house closed. They had disappear-
ed,and I have never since heard aught
of them.
Whether my lunatic client had real-
ly committed the crime of which he
spoke, or was merely laboring under
an insane delusion, will always remain
a mystery.
like the lightning’s startling blaze. “T'
:age is becoming more pronounced every
Oak Very Scaree.
The Fact to Tell on the Price of
Furniture.
A Grand Rapids special to the Chica-
go Herald says: Dry Oak lumber of
ood qualities is at a premium, and the
Toad who has a large stock on hand is
in the possession of a bonanza which any
iceman might envy. There is a big
shortage in the market, and the short-
day. The oak cut last year was an
average ; the demand and consumption
the past year have been far above the
normal. Oak is the most popular fur-
niture wood, and enormous quantities of
it have been used for this purpose, the
factories in this city alone getting away
with 30,000,600 and 40,000,000 feet,
with all the other factories in the eoun-
try hard at work in the same direetion.
Hardwood finishes for house interiors
have become more popular the past year
than ever before, and oak is used more
than any other material. The demand
for oak has increased during the year to
such an extent that an average cut of
logs will hardly suppiy the trade, hence
the present shortage. The prices have
advanced within the past three months
from $16 to $17 for strait sawed oak to
$24 and $26, and dealers who have a
supply on hand do not like to let it go
even at the figures quoted. Further ad-
vances are expected before the season
closes, The shortage in the supply and
the advanced prices largely increase the
cost of furniture, especially the cheap-
er grades. One furniture company has
announced an advance in prices of 10
per cent.
Somerhing Worth Seeing.
Philadelphia Record.
In the way of politieal strategy noth-
ing could be shrewder than the post-
ponement for an indefinite time of the
meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Republican National Committee,
which was to have been held in Wash-
ington yesterday. e heavy fire that
has for some time past been concentrat-
ed upon Messrs. Clarkson, Dudley and
Quay has not been without effect; and
any partisan action in which these val-
uable members of the Executive Com-
mittee might participate at this time,
would doubtless intensify the general
feeling of disquiet that prevails in the
ranks of the Grand Old Party. If there
is to be a quarrel—as it now seems pro-
bable—between the President and the
President-makers, the struggle would
naturally be put off until the very last
moment. It is, therefore, the part of
worldly wisdom to avoid the imminent
occasion for conflict which the proposed
committee meeting might have precipi-
tated. When the battalions of the
great moral idea wing of the Republi
can army shall finally attack the cohorts
of the practical politicians with whom
they have stood shoulder to shoulder so
long, it will be a fight well worth seeing.
“Joel” McKinley and Farmer “Amasa.”
The Republican Chicago T7ibune te-
sorts to a scriptural simile in speaking
of the effect the McKinley bill will
have on the interest of the farmers. It
is a very fitting application of the Bible
story of Joab and Amasa, and has
double force coming from so influential
a;Republican paper as the Tribune:
“Joab McKinley is just now full of
tender solicitude regarding the health of
his friend Amasa, the American farmer,
and he is filling the ears of that simple-
minded individual with fine stories of
all he is going to do for him. Higher
duties on hops, eggs and beans are to be
imposed on consumers for Amasa’s
‘‘protection,” but he does not observe
Joab’s sharp sword ready to be thrust
under his fifth rib in the shape of much
higher duties on the farmer's clothing,
hosiery and overcoats; on blankets, car-
pets, felt hats; on cotton wear of all
kinds; on linen fabrics; on china dish-
es and earthenware ; on glass of all sorts;
on knives, forks, spoons and all kinds of
cutlery ; on kitchen utensils; on tin
cups, dishes and buckets ; on tin cans
for fruit, vegetables and meats ; on sug-
ar of milk for sick children; on sulphur-
ic acid—a constituent of fertilizers; large
direct bounties from the National Treas-
ury to Lousiana sugar planters to make
their business profitable, but not a cent
of bounty to Illinois growers of wheat,
oats or corn when produced at a loss.
The farmer, with the kisses of Joab Me-
Kinley fresh on his lips, is so delight-
ed that he does not see the sword, or
rather the whole arsenal of deadly weap-
ons which that individual is carrying
around with him. He does not observe
that Joab, while promising him higher
prices: for his truck, is preparing to
thrust a sword under his fifth rib.”
An $8,000 Liquor License,
LowgLn, Mass., May 12.—The little
town of Draycut is disgusted at the re-
sults of the $8,000 liquor license, the
holder of which had his second day’s
busiress to-day. In the neighborhood
of this, the only bar room in the town,
the scenes have developed into a carni-
val of debauchery. The mayor and
chief of police of Lowell have refused to
send officers there for duty, but twice
has the patrol wagon been called there
and returned londed. There were num-
berless small fights and a man named
Farrell was unmercifully pounded and
kicked. Another man named Rourke
fell off an electric car to-night on the
way to Lowell and had his ankle frac-
tured.
The Lowell officers were stationed at
the lie and arrested and handcuffed the |
intoxicated persons as fast as they came
over in the vicinity of the saloon.
Scores have laid out in the fields, tramp-
led over planted land, drank and danced
in high carmival. At 7 o'clock to-night
the holder of the license was forced to
shut down business for. his own peace
and it is believed that a general uprising
of citizens will cause a change of af-
fairs,
nrc
A curious phenomenon is reported
from Batoum, on the shores of the
Black Sea. During a complete calm
the sea is said to have suddenly reced-
TS SOA TI TET Tega,
ed from the shore, leaving it bare to a
depth of ten fathoms. The water of
the port rushed out. to sea, tearing many
of the ships from anchorage, and caus- |
ing a great amount of damage. After |
a short time the sea resumed its usual |
i level.
Demand for Walnut Logs.
It is stated that a practicing attorney |
of Sella, Ia., bas made a large amount
of money not only for himself, but for
the Towans, by buying up. the stray wal-
nut logs of the State and shipping them
direct to Germany and England. Last |
year between 1,200 and 1,500 carloads |
were shipped, nearly all picked in Towa. |
Few among the early settlers of the |
State ever dreamed of the value that |
walnut trees would possess, and that |
within a quarter or a half of a century |
after settlement. Theusands of fine
trees were cut down, barned or allowed |
to rot on the ground, or split up for old-
fashioned rail fences. Now buyers
rummage every mile of territory in the .
State to find the logs, and put them on |
board the cars to be carried thousands |
of miles across the ocean to be worked |
up into fine furniture for the adornment
of European palaces.
SAE 4, SEB SACRED.
Missed the Target and Shota Girl,
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STAMFORD, Conn., May 12. —At the
performance of Washburn & Arling- |
ton’s circus, Saturday night, while the |
wife of 8. F. Cody, Jr., the cowboy pis-
tol shot, was firing at a target, Mary A.
King, aged 12 years, was struck in the
right breast by one of the bullets. The
bullet has been extracted and the child's
condition is critical. She was about
twenty feet from the target. The wo-
man had her buck to it and took aim
with a mirror.
Mrs. Cody is under arrest at a hotel,
and the circus, now at Norwalk, has
been detained by Sheriff Bolster. The
accident is supposed to have been caused
by the rifle becoming entangled in Mrs.
Cody's hair. She has been shooting in
public for a year. Previously she held
glass balls in her hands and mouth for |
her husband to shoot at. She says she
will never shoot a rifle again.
Money Kings of Tramps’ Roost.
Bob McGee and Jack Murphy are
tramps of the most pronounced and
practical type, yet they are worth $20,-
000 and $6,000 respectively. They are
the crowned heads, so to speak, of what
is known as “Tramps” Roost,” the well
established bivouac of their nomadic
kind in West Goshen township, four
miles east of this place. The ‘‘roost,”
was established under squatter’s sover-
eignty rights about two years ago, and,
while it is not 2 thing of beauty in the
eves of the surrounding farmers, it is
tolerated out of a sense of fear, the in-
habitants of that section having a
thought that, were they to rise up and
declare it a nuisance and call upon the
strong arm of the law to abate it, their
barns and farm stock might suffer dam-
ages in consequence of their interference.
So it has grown and become a recog-
nized fixture, and at no time has ita
less number of lodgers than a sccre, and
in the motley group a couple of women
are sure to assert their presence. It is
located in a wood, close to a small stream
and vieing with the giant oaks which
tower up as an evidence of the fertility
of the virgin soil, are great moss cover-
ed rocks that in themselves bear witness
to the strides of progress and the inertia
of the people who have made“Tramps’
Roost” noted throughout Chester
county.
In the fall season the fallen leaves are
eathered by the tramps and husbanded
in spaces between the rocks to serve
them as soft couches during the cold
nights of winter time. From rock to
rock are laid rails and other timber, and
these are covered with branches and
shrubs, and on them a thick layer of
leaves, with flat stones to hold them fast
and this done, the quarters are complete
and in good shape.
Bob McGee and Jack Murphy were
among the earliest settlers here, and a
few months ago they were in turn hunt-
ed up by relatives residing in Pailadel-
phia and told the pleasing story of some
relative of either having died and left
them respectively the sums mentioned
above. They promptly responded to
the call to go to the city and sign the
necessary papers in the hands of admin-
istrators and to taste of the delicious
traits of their sudden windfall, McGee's
portion is left in trust, and he is only al-
lowed $10 per week of the interest ac-
cruing thereon. This is not a large
amount in the eyes of some, but to tramp
it cuts quite a respectable figure. His
fortune did not serve to induce him to
quit “Tramps Roost” or his fellow
loungers, and he regularly visits Phila-
delphia weekly for his $10, and as reg-
ularly returns to his fellows and divides
his income with them in the purchasing
of edibles.
Murphy was bequeathed his fortuae
of $6,000 outright, and with no trust
business to hamper his financial opera-
tions. As a result, his generosity is dis-
bursing it in fine style, and he is regard-
ed as being the king of tramps in all
civilization’s wide domain. Still he is
having what is called a royal good time,
his name will go down to posperity as
relates to tramps and tramp life as being
a ‘daisy’ in the fullest measure of the
term.
Awong the number who make up
this bacchanalian resort or den of iniqui-
ty, ast is called by good people, there
is always one who essays to act the part
of minister, and on Sunday he gives al-
leged religious discourses to his com-
panions and to she visitors who al-
most daily put in their appearance ont
of idle curiosity. But his stock of re-
ligious knowledge is so very short and
his fitness generally so lacking of the
proper inspiration for imparting it,
that his lectures partake of the single
merit, that of brevity, and all are sutis-
fied when he is done.
“Tramp’s Roost” is in four places,
which constitute a cirenit of roosts for
the good-for-nothing people, the other
three being located at Beatty's butned
mill, near Media, at Landsdowne, and
in a tumble-down barn near the city of
Chester. All of these places have a'per-
manent population, though the pemson-
ages change almost weekly. They boast
of their organization and freedom from
work, and to all appearances would en.
tertain a better mode of living as a well-
defined insult. It is no wonder that the
hard-working, plodding people of the
the neighborhood no longer wonder
at the placard over the doorway to
“Tramp’s Roost,” which reads :
“Tramp life 1s not a failure, by a bong
shot.” — Philadelphia Times. |
'
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
_ —P. D. Armour, the Chicago packer,
is worth $30,000, 000.
—Mark Twain is said to be worth
more than two million dollars,
—May will be a month of conventions.
dedications and celebrations.
—Mr. Carnegie’s hotel for working-
men near Pittsburg is to cost $300,000,
—The Trternational Reform Congress
meets this year in St. Petersburg.
—Illinois has four watch fectories
which produce two thousand watches a
day.
—'Tis said that fewer daily papers
81s ablisned in Boston now than in
—A Hillmar (Mich.) man is accused
of selling his vote tor two bushels of
buckwheat.
—Disraeli used to say the test of gen-
tility was to see women eat oranges and
grapes.
—It is reported that in the past fifteen
months 71,000 negroes have left North
Carolina.
—The English language was used in
framing a recent treaty between Russia
and China. ?
—In Sturgis (Mich.) burglars spent
two hours drilling a hole in a safe which
wasn’t locked.
—The Empress of Germany speaks
good French with hardly any percepti-
ble German accent.
—General Early has been the chief
contribator to the Lee monument fund
at Richmond, Va.
—-State Treasurer House says the rev-
enues of Tennessee will be increased
| next year $100,000.
—The Czar of Russia says that he
considers duel ing in thearmy not on-
i ly allowable but necessary.
—Justice Field, of theSupreme Court,
will not go to California as usual this
year, but to Europe instead.
—Chief-Justice Fuller made his first
public speech at a Pierce and King
meeting in Augusta, Me., in 1852.
—The first cargo of Kansas corn load-
ed at Galveston for the European mar-
ket, left that port a few days ago.
—It is said that the postage stamps of
half the nations of the world are en-
graved and printed in New York.
—A Philadelphia jury awarded five
cents damages to a young woman whose
affianced husband changed his mind.
—Sergeant Dunn, elated by his suc-
cess in predicting the Mississippi over-
flow, is out with a second prediction that
this isto be a cold summer.
. —George Augustus Sala, the English
journalist, has just been awarded a ver-
dict of £5 in a suit for libel. The libel
consisted of a caricature.
—-A bible has just been rediscovered
in the Vatican library which is in He-
brew. It is supposed to be the oldest in
the world, and is valued at $100,000.
—dJerome Wood, of Long Lake, N.
Y., found the name ot Annie Hodgson,
of Sheffield, England, in an umbrella,
wrote to her and later married her,
—An Eiffel tower may rise in Ger-
many. The Bavarian Government pro-
poses to build one near Starenberg lake,
as a monument to Bismarck, and second-
ary as an observatory.
—Dr. Joseph Jones, of New Orleans,
is collecting material fora Confederate
medical and surgical history of the war.
yn be a collections of ‘hospital rec-
ords.
—Three men have been arrested in
Wisconsin for the theft of 2,000 chick-
ens. There seems to have been an or-
ganized trust for the unlawful acquire-
ment of fowls.
—A sow in Potter County, Pa., is
raising two bear cubs. The owner be-
lieves that she stole them, as the mother
of the cubs a day or two previous had
devoured two of the pigs.
—The average weight of the brain of
a man is three and a half pounds, that
of a woman, two pourds eleven ounces.
The brain ofa man exceeds twice that of
any other{animal.
-—An effort will again be made in the
present Congress to raise our Ministers
to important foreign courts to the rank
of Ambassadors. An increase of salary
will not go with the new title.
—The heliograph is used to flash sig-
nals between stations in New Mexico
and Arizona that are 75 miles apart.
Experiments will soon be made to test
the power of the instrument to a distance
of 100 miles.
—There have been so many instances
of factory girls getting their hair en-
tangled in machinery that most of those
in New England have returned to the
old and safer style of wearing it a la
young man. :
—Ex-GovernorJ. Sterling Morton. of
Nebraska, father of the Arbor day for
economic tree planting out that way,
says that “more than 600,000,000 trees,
planted by human hands,” are growing
in that State.
—In Jackson County, Mich., a bolt
of lightning shivered a shade tree, up-
rocted five current bushes, melted thirty-
eight rods: of wire fence, smashed a
smoke-house, killed 2 dog and knocked
down two horses,
—A man who was arrested in London
for intoxication gave his occupation as
that of a worm-eater. On being asked
for an explanation he said he was em-
ployed by a furniture manufacturer to
fire shot at furniture so as to give it a
worm-eaten appearance.
—A St. Louis father is suing a young
lady to recover the presents which his
son gave her while they were engaged,
the engagement having heen broken off.
—The New York Assembly has pas-
sed a bill fora commission to consider
the expediency of consolidatine New
York, Brocklyn, Jersey City and other
suburbs into one municipality.
— While Prussia has taken the lead
in the discussion of labor reform, Russia
has taken the lead in setting an example
of practical reform. The Emperial
Council bas passed a bill prohibiting the
employment in factories and workshops
of children under 12 years of age.
-—Some of the worst paid clergymen
in the civilized world may be found in
the Scotch Episcopal diocese of Aber-
deen, where salaries are said to range
from $100 to $400 a year. :
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