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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
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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
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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