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Trade for Bloomsburg and yidnity supplied fcj TOyBi . pugs, Bloomsburg, Pa. HOOK AGEKTS WANTED OB MY STORY OF THE WAR JiyMaryA. Jjivennore llarown Ntrr.tlT.of "ftum VI1RJ FKRMX1L XiriSl- fMlll 1141" iu lloiplul Omr ind on lh. U.ttU-l.ld. No other touk hu qrtwa m nur lun. iifichi, lr. tnd Goml. ul m.tchuu taUrMt 4nd urofuuad lUIM, U Mill at wiit to it Tht .tMxrfalof 'buoK to nun. ou bow ul for Utt bolldut. nTJio comiHtatv. TOO lt'i iplcDdll RUI I'UUa. iul old SUUlJTUc la ! Ltti. e 1 .1 iSw.m.1, CVSsVv men JfvtU WmttA invAa Ht4 lo Mxtn IW WiltScSrBJwli A. U. WiUtlUUVtVH M trarttwt, iimm. lass-owt. BALLOT BEFOEM. Prom llairtttnira VaUv Patriot. Tho Philridelnhla Press with nn au dacity that puts to shamo tho boldncRS ot tho ordinary campaign falsifier, in serts that tho acmooratlo party is op posed to ballot reform and that the re publican party is struggling with might and mam to ncoomplisu it, or words to that effeo'. It rulers to tho veto of tho Saxton bill by Governor Hill, of New York, and tho dofoat of a ballot reform bill by the Now Jersey legislature. Hut Governor Hill vetoed tho Saxton bill on constitutional grounds and tho democrats of the New York legislature supported a ballot re form bill winch embodied all tho lea- lures of tho Australian system that could have been adopted in accordance with tho constitution of tbo state. 1 he republicans, knowing their Saxton bill to bo unconstitutional, roluaoil to amend it so as to avoid tho constitu tional obji ctions to it which thoy know would bring a veto from tho govornor. Thereforo tho republican tricksters of tho Now "Sork logtulaturo (not Gov ernor Hill ) are responsible for tho do- feat of ballot rotorm in that state. As for tho bill before the Now Jersey legislature, it is true that it failed, but tho democrats of that state have taken up the matter and Hon. Leon Abbot, Ihcir candidate for govornor, endorses tho Australian ballot system in his let ter of aooeptanoe and is making it one of tho important issues in tho stuto canvass. Tho Democratic logislaturo ot Ind iana at its last session passed a bill es tablishing tho Australian system of voting in that stato. 1 no democratic legislature of Tennessee did tho sanio thing last winter for that noble demo cratic commonwealth. Tho democra tic state of Kentucky is trying the ox Derimeut in tho city of Louisville. Th demooratio stato of Montana has fixed the reform in its constitution. Such is the record of tho demooraoy on this question as far as it has bcon made. Hut how does tho repubhoan party stand with recard to it! A sincie re publican stato has adopted tho Austra liau system, to-wif. Massachusetts Tho republican trovernor of Connect!' ' . .. . i .1 cut vetoeu mo jvusiriiiiuu uiu )aset:u bv tho Iecislaturo last winter on grounds almost identical with those taken by Uovornor uiu in uis veto 01 tho Saxton bill. The only change in tho election laws of Connecticut to which this republican governor would agreo was to require the voter to put his ticket m an envelopo furnished by the slate and to do this in private, Not one of tho essential features of tho Australian system-would ho suffer to be inserted in the election law. In no other renublican state has any ballot reform bill thus far had a ghost of r show. In not one of the three new n publican Northwestern states was this principlo of ballot reform inserted iu tho state constitution as was dono in the now democratic stato of Montana, In Pennsylvania tho idea of ballot reform is laughed to scorn by the ma chine politicans who control the coun oils of tho republican party. Tho of forts of tho ballot reformers last winter to eft their bill considered by tho re publican legislature were utterly futilo, As early as January 24 the bill was read in place in the House. It was held in committee until March IB, near ly two months. Va March 26 it was laid aside for second reading. Nothing was done with it until April 12 .seo Legislative Jteeord p. 1,4 12J, wbon Mr., Baker, of Delaware, moved to make it "a special order for second readinn on Tuesday, April 16, at o'clock, p. m., and for third reading and final passage, on Thursday, April 18. at 11 a. m. This motion was voted down: yeas 69; nays 89. Messrs Caflrov and Farrol, labor leaders, and tho democrats Generally, voted yea the HON. HENRY KLINE DOYEIi, Spoaker, voted NAY. Thus ballot ro form was throttled, choked, asphyxiat ed. in a repuplioan house of representa tives, led by tho present repamican nominee for Stato Treasurer. In yiow of this ofUoially recorded and indispu table fact, let tho Philadelphia Press be consistent enough either to cease its advocacy of ballot reform or to with draw its support from Honry K. Boyer, who at present constitutes the republican state ticket As for tho democrats of Pennsylva nia, their position on the subject of ballot reform is broadly and dearly defined. The democratic stato plat form on which HON. EDMUND A. BIGLEli stands as tho candidate for ststo treasurer, contains a plank on which tho Australian ballot reform is written in langaago that oannot bo mistaken. Tho declaration of tho democratic party through its stato con vention is so unequivocal as to empha size tho failure ot tbo republican stato convention to express itself on this sub ject. Tho iesue on this qucuiou of ballot reform is fairly joined, with Mr. Bigler standing on a platform urging its adoption and Mr. Boyer standing on his record of opposition to the measure as tho leader of tho liouso of representatives which killed it. A Long Shot- A. DKEIl THAT WAS KILLED A. HALF MILE AWAY. Mv hunting experiences have, as a rule, been very tamo and uninteresting, but I had 0110 last month, whon on my vacation, which I think is worth re cording. I had been tramping all day in tho woods about Louis Lake and tho little sheets of water of that noiehbor hood in tho Adirondacks and had bag ged nothing of any oonscquonoo. I was Just hungering tor ueor ana just, as I emerged from a bit of forest upon the edgo of one of these littlo lakes ray oyc3 fell upon a fino stag drinking from the lake, but opposite 10 rao aim fully naif a milo away. It was tantalizinir, for I am not a half-mile shooter and, any way, if I shot tho noblo fellow ho would only dart back into tho woods to din and 1 would never bo ablo to find him. But I was desperate and raining my rifle I 'blmratHT away at him. Tho deer gave a bound at tho report of my weapon and darted into tho woods, while I set on my way around tho edge of tho lake. I had not trav eled more than half a mile when I oamo upon tho dead body of my deer. He had run a third of tho distanco round the lake toward mo beforo fall inc. I knew it was my deor from the peculiarity of bis horns. New York Evening World. ABUS8IAH OHAIHOAHQ. EH 1'IOTUItB OF A NOT 1NKHEQUKNT SCENi; IN T1IK. C'ZAlt's DOMINION. "What's tho matter herol" asked I, finding a considorablo crowd assem bled around the lontr low front of tho great Eastern depot at Moscow, tho starting point of tho railway that con- n,nl. 1 n'j r.A ll.litnl Willi tlin famous commercial centre Nijnil-Nov-gorod, 011 tho upper Volga. "Some fellows going along tho Vlad imir road," said a paiser-by, carclossly. I shivered involuntarily nt tho words, which are a provebial phrao in Russia for transportation to Siberia, tho maim focturinc town of Vladimir standing on tho groat Eastern highway, which Is the most direct route to tno ponai settlements. But before I had time to reply a peculiar chinking sound only too familiar to my ear from tsy visits to countless prisons in all parts of tho world told mo that tho ohaiu-gan was at hand 1 and in another moment tho crowd pirtod liko water cleft by tbo prow of a ship, and tho procession came filing through it. It was a strangq spectacle, ana noi without a certain gloomy picturosquo noss of its own, Bad nnd hnart-sioken-ing though it was. Most of tho prnon ors had the sullen, dogged look of the hardened social outlaw, who wages a lifelong war against society, neither giving or expecting mercy, in tnesunK en eyes of others lurked tho half cow td, half-ferocious glare of a trapped beast of proy, as thoy kopt glancing stealthily but ceaselessly around tbeni, bent upon attempting an escape, or upon some other venturo more desper ate still, if they could but find a fit motnont and a ready wpapon. 1 saw one white-haired out man, very poorly dressed, whoso haggard face, hollow eyes and bowed attitude of ut ter despondency showed that ho had reached tbo lowest depth ot misery where bono ceases to oxist, and all that can bo wished or expected is a lesson- oa moaiuro 01 wretchedness, ueiuuu him catno several young lads evident ly professional criminals, with a whou lifetime of viciousncss and cuilt brand od on their beardless faces, which had barely outgrown tho years of boyhood, These strove to assume an air of swag gering and reckless defiance ; but the uoor nrctenso imposed upon no one, and least of all upon tho stalwart soldiers that marched besido them, who, knowing well what real courage is, looked down with just contempt on this miserable affectation of it. Almost at tbo end of tho gloomy file catno tho fitrure of a woman, still young, whoso faco wasted and deform ed thouuh it was by vice and misery, still boro manifest traces of former beauty. Tho hardness and hoavini m of tho lower features a characteristic defect with nearly all women of Sla vonian race contrasted startingly with tho unnatural brilliancy other wonder ful eves, which kept daiicinc around with a fierce restlessness that reminded mo of tho look which I had onco seen in the eves of a snared wolf. "What has she doncl" inquired I of ono of tho guards. "Murdered her child," said tho man auito coolly, and I asked him no more Suddenly thero broke from the crowd a voico as sharp and full of atonv as tho cry of a sleep walker suddenly awakened. "Ach Moesha moi Mcciha!" (Oh.Michael 1 my Mich aeh Framed in tho darkness of tho prison-car door way stood a solitary form, tho last of that doomed band, takinir his farewell look of the world ho was leaving. The faco was that of a vountr maD, and thouuh white and shrunken as the faco of a corpse, it had in it a nameless something wluoh showed him to bo far above the foul creatures with whom it was now Iub doom to livo forever, At the cry be turned his head, and I had jast caught a passing glimpse ot young girl in the crowd sbo perhaps, lor whoso sake ho had plunged into crime strctohing out her arms to him despairingly, when tho whistlo sound cd its warning scream. I had barely time to spring into my own car when the lataf door shut upon its prisoner with a dult thud, like tho falling ot i coffin lid. There came a long grind ing creak; and off went tbo train and its dismal freight, I looked out : tho girl was gone, but I could eeo far in the distance two grpy coated "gorodo viyo'Yconstables) carrying away a mo tionless figure between them. David Ker in Harper's, Disappearance of Deserts- KVEN SAHARA MAY UECOMB A l-LAIN OK 8UIL1NO MEADOWS AND OIlCIIAIlDJ, From Iron What were supposed to bo deserts aro rapidly vanishing bjforj thu ad vancc ot civilization. There was timo whon tho United States had 0110 of no small size, when it was considered that all tho land West of tho Missis sippi River was a barren wasto. Tho tanners 01 ivatis.n, iNeurasKa ami Da kota have disposed of much of tit's great American Desert. Onco upon a timo large portions ot the interior of Africa woro behoved to be arid and un cul'.ivatable. Now wo learn that they aro lruitltil and well populated. Tho interior ol Australia has been held up as an awful example of a howl ing wililei ness, destitute of water and of animal or vegetable lifo. That il lusion is now being rap-dly dispelled Kccent explorers report that inner 11siraliaU noSaharau waste, and that though uninhabited, it can support a largo population. Thtro aro grassy plains, largo lakes and aieo traces ot gold and precious stones, A .North and south railway Is now being made through tho cent of Australia, and doubtless with its completion tho last trace of tho di-Bort will vanish. Tho iron horso is a wonderful dispellcr of illusions of that kind. Tho truth that there aro vast regions in America Asia ami Australia which aro barren from tho standpoint of primitivo and ignorant agriculture, but which, whon taken In hand by tho educaicd fanner of tbo present day, with his implements, uevuiop luvo lervuu uuiim uuu pastures, A Queeu Comiiination Tho Post mastor General has established a now post ofllco in Unita county, Wyoming, and called it Grovor. Tho Post mist er's namo is Thuritiau. Grover and Tburman go together gracefully, but it is regardod a? an oitraoruuiary coram 1 nation lor Jar. wanaiaaker to set up 1889. THREE OF TEE 0REATE3T. OLD OAimiKI, TUB OLDEST, MR. ltOCKE- FELI.KK Tilt: IttClIP.ST, mil 0A11I.TON THE UUNTK1I. Tho oldest man on earth, tho rioh- est man on earth, and tho greatest tinter in oxistanco aro herewith rep resented. Three characters of more general Interest could scarcely bo grouped. ''Old Gabriel," tho first, is ono hundred and fifty years of nge. Ho is an inmate of tho county poor liotiso at Monterey, Cal. Tho oxaet date of his birth is unknown, but suf ficient cvldonco has been adduced to rovo tho truth of his being from ono undrcd and forty-fivu to ono hundrod and fifty yoars old. It is well authen ticated that at tho landing of Junipero Serrant Monterey ho wai a grand father, and when tho first chapol was built in tho sito of tho present Carmolo mission in 1771-72 he was present and assisted in erecting tho adobo walls. Old Gabriel" has never used liquor or tobacco. His diet has beon of tho simplost and plainest food, his habits, ucluding that ot frequent bathing, egular. i'robably tho oldest man in tho world is an Indian. Standing botweon tho pauper who is tbo most ancient and tho old hunter is tho man of to-day, in tho Hush of man hood John ii. llockofeller whoso in. oomo is $20,000,000 a year. Ho is presi dent of the Standard Oil Company. He was educated in Cleveland, O., where, thirty years ngo ho was tho proprietor of a small refinery. From tins beginning bo has achieved his enor mous wealth and power, lie spends a great part of hie timo in Now York, where the offices of the company aro situated, and in other places besidos Cleveland, but is still superintendent of tho Sunday School of ono of the baptist churches ot that city, attend- 11 K its sessions whenever ho can do so. He has long been an earnest member of Baptist denomination, to tbo inter ests of which ho contributes liberally, Mr. Rockefeller has mado a splendid contribution, said to bo millions ol dol ais, to the Baptist University at Chicago, placing this institution be yond tho possibility of its being pinch ed for funds. Ho is a quiet, retiring man, domcstio in his halits, and tho lead of a household which is said to be a model in its simplicity of life. Not so old as Gabriel and far from being on a financial footing with Mr. Kockolcller is Undo iiob Uarlton, ot Arkansas. IIo claims to bo tho great est Nimrod on oartb. However that may be, it is conceded that ho is tho greatest squirrel hunter, no is ono hundred and twenty-six yoars of age, Ho was born in 1703 in North Caro lina. Ho remembers Marion and Sumter, and can tell many thrilling stories of revolutionary times. He says he help- ei to make Washington President Ho has voted tho straight Republican ticket over since tbo formation of that party. Ho removed from North Caro lina to Tennessee 1815, whero ho lived a prosperous farmer until 1882, when ho came to Magazine, Logan County, Ark. "Uncle liob has in years gone by followed the blacksmith trade. Ho is living on his farm, spending most of his time in hunting and fishing, Uuclo Bob" is a great squirrel huntor. ofton killing as many as a dozen on single hunt. He is strong and hearty, and has remarkablo eyesight. Uis gun, "(Jul Trusty, is a largo, old fashioned ntlo which has a strango history, having gono through tho revolutionary war. "Uncle Bob' favor.to position m shooting squirrels is to lie down on his back, and ho rarely fails to kill his game. Ho takes great delight in counting his children and grandchildren, tho latter of which ho numbers by tho score. Most of them have settled around him, and Bop is quite happy, TEE DBEAD OF DEATH. FACTS THAT SEEM TO rltOVE THAT DO NOT KEAlt TO DIE. fVorn tlte Sew Idea. Sir Lord Payfair, in a letter to Jun ius Henri lirowne, author 01 a paper with the above title, says: "Having represented a largo oonstituenoy (tho University of Ediuburg) for seventeen years as a member of 1'arliment, naturally came in contact with tho most eminent medical men in England 1 have put tho q.icstion to most of them. 'Did you, in your oxtensivo practice, over know a patient who was afraid to diet' With two exceptions they answered MNo. Uno ol theso exceptions was bir Benjamin Brodie, who said ho had seen ono case. Tho other was bir Robert Christian, who had seen ono case, that ot a girl ot bad character who hail a sudden accident. I havo known threo friends who were partial ly devoured by wild boasts under apar- eutiy hopeless circumstances ot escape Tho first was Livingstone the great African traveler, who was knocked 00 his back by a lion which began to munch his arm. Ho assured mo that ho folt no foar or pain and that his only feeling was ono of intenso ctiri osity as to which part ot tho body tho lion would tako next. Tho next was Rustem Pasha, now Turkish Ambassa dor in London. A bearattcked him and tore off part of his hand and part of his arm and shoulder. Ho also assur ed 1110 that 110 had neither pain nor fear, but that ho felt oxcessivoly angry beoiusi) tho bear gruntod with so much satisfaotiou in inuohing him. " I lio third caso is that oi bir Ed ward liraiitorci, an Indian otiicer now occupying a high position in tho Indian Office. Ho was seized in a solitary -.1 1 !.!!. 1.-11 1; piuuu uy 11 tiger, which nuiti mm iirm ly behind the shoulders with ono paw and then deliberately devoured tho wholo of his arm, beginning at tho end and ending at tho shoulder. IIo was positivo that ho had 110 sensation ot foar, and thinks that bo folt a lutl nain when tho fangs went through his hand, but is certain that ho felt none during tho munching of his arm.'1 Ringing Noises In tho cars, sometimes a roaring buzz ing sound aro caused by oitarrah, that exceedingly disagreeable and very com mon disease. Loss of smell or hearing also result lrom cataraii. flood s bar- saparilla, tho groat blood purifier, is peculiarly successful remedy for this duease, which it cures by purifying th blood. If you suffer from oatarnh,try liood s barsaprilla, tho peculiar med cino- YOL. 24, NO.44. Convert the Rioh. AN ESTEEMED HF.IlItF.W CONTEMPORARY KINDS MANY FLAWS IN CRffiSUS. Thoro is a good deal of cant express ed nowadays about tho education of tho poor, and wo regret that it is creep ing also into Jowish ciroles, as if tho education of Jowish wealth should bo loss an object of solicitude than that of tho Jowish poverty. Sift nion and womou closely, anil tho motivos and temptations of all, rich and poor, aro pretty much tho same. Tho communi ty has equally to feat from tho yicos and weaknesses of both classes, al though money, ra'mont, fino houses and mlluenco can often sproad a con venient veil over tho failings of tho ono. It will bo a sad day for our commu nity when "missionary" efforts aro re stricted to tho poor, whilo often tho sons and daughters of tho wealthy show perhaps more urgent need of mis sionary work in their midst. Jewish fooiety, unhappily, is so profoundly influenced by society, in general that tho money standard is universally em ployed in our opinion of people. It is utterly foreign to tho spirit of Judaism howover, to nourish casto and develop cant in its most obnoxious form under tho guiso of charity. As has been well said, tho poor require justice, not alms giving. At any rate tho Jowish corn unity has more to fear from a moneyed class without refienmont, culture and religious sentiment than from squalid emigrants, will eradully develop into urily and useiul citizens. Mrs- Hamiltom's Parents- WILLIAM STEEL AND HIS WIFE DENY THAT SHE WAS AN 'ADOITED CHILD. Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton is report ed to havo said recently in an interview that sho was not tho daughter of Wil liam Steel and his wife, but that they had adopted her when she was a baby and that sho did not know who wero her real parents. In a recent intorviow Mr. Steel said: "Wo livo now in Dallas Township, about two miles lrom .Dallas village,in .Luzerne uouuty. Mrs Hamilton was born in Wilmot Township, Bradford County, Pa. She was our child and not adopted, as she claimed. Eva lived in Towanda, I think, when Bho was 18 years old and she claimed to havo been married to Walter Parsons, but did not remain with him a great while Sho has never had a child born to her that wo over know of. Her claim that b!io has a daughter now living, 13 years old, wo beliove to bo tabricated, and wo cannot understand why it is that sho claims to be on'y an adonted child of ours. 1 remember that she worked for a littlo timo in storo in Ji.lmir.1, after which she wont to New York City. Sho carao homo several times, and a man came with ber whom thoy called 'Doty, and she claim cd that ho was her husband. After wards wo heard that sho wa3 married to Mr. Hamilton." Novel and Useful. Retail grocers, and other retail deal ors doing a credit business are adopt ing a plan that is at onco novel and decidedly useful. Thoy issue to their customers, Coupon Books, (patented) similar to Miloago Books for Railways, out instead 01 the coupons being 0110 milo, they aro for ono cent each: the value of tho books varying from two to twenty dollars. Theso coupons aro good for their faco valuo in groceries or othor mcrchandiso at tho storo of tho firm issuing tbom. When tho books aro issued, the dealer charges uis customer with tho valuo ot the book. Whon nay-day comes tho cus tomer pays this amount, and meai timo uses tho coupons for tho purchase of supplies, same as paving oash. thus avoiding all disputed accounts and saving valuable tirao to both the d -alor and his customer. Every retail dealer doing a credit business should adopt mis pian, and snouia write tho publish ers for information, and if overy ens- Luuici wuuui iii93i, upuii nis ucaier using them, thero would bo much less , 1 .1 : .. . . 1 . 1 oocasiou for tho disputing of accounts, Manufactured by Tho Historical Pub lishing Co., of Dayton, Ohio, to whom an inquiries tor specimens and partic ulars suouid bo sent. The chances proposed in tho Protest ant episcopal I'rayer-book which pro vided for n communion service at fun orals and changed tho order of pr.iyers so as apparently to emphasize the con secration of tho saoramental elements woro both lost in the lower chamb r of tho Protestant Episoopil Conven ion, 1 ho vote was narrow, and a very s ight otiango would have boon enough to pas ineso alterations, but thoy wero defeated, first and foremost, becius thoy woro open to tho suggcstii n of ritualism, or, to bo more accurate. sacerdotalism. In this, as in much else done by tho Convention, its chief char aoteristio has boon groat conservatism, 1 ho statistics of tho denomination show that it is keeping ahead of the normal growth of tho country. Its communi cants in tho last threo yoars hat gainod iu poroent, wlulo tbo country at largo has gained 9 por cent in tho same time. As tho nurabsrs of tho denomination havo probably grow faster .than appears relativo to tho growth of tho country. Proper Bible 'Wine. Alfred Sneor. who bos larrro yards near Passaic N. J. is extensively uujjugwu u preserving uniernientcil j : - t. . r Urnpo Jmoo from tho Oporto Grapes and supplies it to many roligious soci eties for Communion purposes. Tho iuuuwiii) in iruui ur. 1)01111 I'.lllH, wil has written several works on Bbl ru...: ti t-i. i?n; . . wine: "Tho writer obtained from Mr, Specr a bottlo of his Unfermcnted Wine and found it a very pleasent and nutritious wine. A chemist put appor tion of this wino into a retort and' dis tilled and condensed about ono third of tho contest! of tbo retorU Tho dis tilled had neither tho sraoll nor tho tisto of alcohol, nor did oehmioal tests indioato any traco of alcohol.'' P. T. Itanium, tho showman, sailed for Europo on Friday with his wife and grandson ou tho Etruria. ilo will ojien a grand winter season of his circus in London and states that the English railway companies havo offered him freo transportation for his show, BRIQHT BITS OF WIT. After all tho principal raco troubles occur in paying tho bets and walking home. man jrancisco jiua. Willis. "So your cook has left yoti, oht Did sho go off with tho hired mniiT Wallace " No sho wont off with tho keroscno can. New York Sun. Tommy. "I wish I had n littlo brother." Mamma. "Yon dot" Tommy. 'Yes, I do ; I'm tired of kicking tho cat." Terra Haute press. THE 1NVENTOK. Keep still and slop your fidgotlng, and listen now, my son, This story of good Joshua is only "Don't liko it" crossly said tho boy, kept lu against his will. "'Cattso ho's tho man who first in vented making sons stand still. "'exas Silings. EvEnmiiNO LovELY.-Bo9ton mother (whilo tho ball is at its full height). "Is everything going smoothly, Janet?" uaughtcr. " x os, mother ; tho oator- or lias just opened tbo soventh barrel of beans." Judge. Flippor. "Aren't you afraid, old follow, that your relatives will try to break your will whon you are dead T suppio. "No danger, my boy. My will was broken long ngo by my wifo's mother." Lawrence American. Small boy. "Grandpa, I heard tho dootor say you wero liablo to dio soon of spontaneous combustion." Grandpa. "Yes dear. Small Boy. "Well trv to keep alivo until tho Fourth of July won't youl" The jspoei. Mountaineer (watching a crowd ex amine tho pavement in Maiden Lano during his first visit to Now York). let mo hov a squint at ther trail. ' Policeman. "Stand back. There's diamond lost and you cannot pass." Mountaineer. "Humpl Beg yer pardon. I thought thoy was trackiu' boss-thief. Jewelers weekly. Blobson. "Dr. Poundtext's voico has a bad break in it T" Dumpsy. "Yes, and I don't wonder, ho lots it fall so ofton." Burlington Free Press. Scotchman, "You havo road Burns, of course!" Chicago Girl. "Well I reckon so. I stepped with my bare feet on a par lor match last night." New York Journal. Some New Sonos. "I must Leavo Thee, Annie Darling," by tho author of "Papa's Footsteps." "xao Telegraph .Lineman, by tho author of "You'll bo an Angel by nnd by." "All on Account of the Guv nor,' by tho author of "When Sullivan's Colors aro Down." "Do Culled Folks nex' Door," by tho author of "Tho Lost Chord." "Tho Truck Driver," by tho author of "Listen to My Talo of Whoa." Times. A Railroad Diversion with Live Pegs A Maino traveler, who has been tra veling through tho Pine Treo Stato, tolls of a fino beguiling littlo gamo called "wayside cribbago." Tho gamo is finished at fifty. One person takes the right-hand biuo ot tho road, tho other tho left, and both keep a sharp lookout for objects that arc specified in tho game. A horso counts one, a cow two, a dog five and a cat ton, and aro claimed by the person upon whoso sido they aro seen. In other parts of tho stato wo would sometimes drivo for half a day without seeing a snflicent number of animals to decide tho gamo but hero upon almost every hillside herds of fiftoen or twenty cattlo would bring shouts of triumph from tho win ning sido. In tho wonderful wino collar under tho Hotel de Villo in Bromon thero aro twelve oases of holy wine, eioh caso inscribed with tho namo of ono of tho Apostles. This ancient wino was depositod in its present resting placo 265 yoars ago. Ono caso of this wino, consisting of five oxhofts of 201 bottles, cost 500 rix-dollars iu 1021. Including the exponso of keeping up tho collar, interest on tho original outlay and in terests upon interests, one of thoso oxhofts would to day cost 55.r,G37,6i0 rix dollars ; three single bottles, 2,273,- BI2 rix dollars ; a glass, or tho eighth part of a bottle, is worth 310.-17G rix dollars or $272,380, or at tho rato of 540 rix-dolhrs or 272 per drop 1 Don't Weak Youit Dkess Suir. It seems to bo a fact, says tho Now York Aim, that the really fashionable mon of Now York do not assumo ovoning dress overy night. Whon thoy go to thn opera they put on tho unconven tional toggery of tho street, and, as a rule, it is the cheap swells and tho men that poeo who aro to bo seen in claw hammer ooats regularly after C o'clook. Tho first night performance of a fash ionable nature will seo thirty or forty society and club raou of unquestion able social position dressed in ordinary street clothes, while a lot of nobodies sit solemnly in tho orchestra chairs wearing evening dress deceiving no ono but themselves. "Blocks of Five" is tho latest fad in puzzles. In n box similar to that of tho famous Fifteen Puzzle nro twenty fivo small squares, colored rod, whito and blue. In tho c ir.ro of tho box is a picturo of the White Hhisc, and tho letters on tho blue nquares immedi ately surrounding it form tbo namo Blaino. Tho puz.lo is by moving tho squares to substituto Harrison's namo instead, nud tho Now York World has offered a prize of $100 to tho person who does this in tho shortost time. Just how tho decision is to bo initio is not stated. It Comes High Over 7,000,000 are anuually spent in Now York for champagne, tho four Delmonioo restau rant averaging over 1,000,000 alono. Tho next day headaches have not yot been computed. A Tiny bister of Columbia-J-Yom Vie iMiaun SUtnaariS. Probably tho smallest republio in the world is tho one which declared its independenco on August 9, at Fraoe villo, ono of tho Islands of tho Now Hebrides, and olected M. Chovilliartl its President. Tho inhabitants consist of forty European6(inoluding a solitary Englishman, a nitssioner,) and 500 black workmen employed by n French company. The now flag of tho repub lio having beon duly hoisted, tho French gunboat Saono landed a de tachment and saluted tho flag. It is said tHt John L. Sullivan has already spent in dieeipat ou all thu monoy ho woain the Killraiu GgbU