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vriter io a French journal state
here are now In the six New Eng.
itulcs 302,500 French Canadian.
in estimated Hint thero are about
t thousand milk producers who Bhip
f product to New York City ami
eklyu.
T.e German Government has been
night face to face with the necessity
, pensioning poor families whore
jUrnl prelectors hnve been forced into
'6 army,
The difficulties under which an Inven
it of limited means pursues his calling
'111 be appreciated, insists the Electrical
iceicw, when it is stilted that tho model
jbr a piece of apparatus which can b
juilt (or f 2 sometimes costs $900,
r ,
- -
J "iTeally," ejaculates the Now York
"if consumption under Kock is to
follow the course of rubies under Pas
tour snd nmnll-pnr undr Jonnr, pos
ferity will have on its hands the ques
tion, What to do with our old folks
meaning us."
I. - ...HfU. -IM. M1MIM. IM
A prominent railroad official reports
that, beginning with uext summer, all
rwmgu Ctorrwuieat railroads which aro
nn it'll used by tourist will be provided
with carriages qf American pattern. This
is due, states the Chicago Time$, to the
Emperor's personal intervention in fayor
of Uncle Sum' superior institution.
Tho Tronton (N. Y.) Amerimn is con
vincud that "in Canada .capital punish
ment has its terrors because of tho cer
tainty and speed with which it follows
capital offences. In the United States It
is generally so managed that before a
murderer is hung about half the people
come to look upon him as a victim of a
blood -thir.-ty iuw, and descrviug of deep
sympathy.''
"Twelve months ago," soliloquizes the
Chicago Time, "the German Govern
ment a mighty powerful corporation
undertook to abolish the Socialist party.
At a result of a persecution, where there
. .mii-ano Socialist at the outset, there are
now ton. The party 'has become so
strong that the Government has been
' oblige4 to recognize it as a political ele
ment too powerful for regression." ' v
A New-Yorker, cited by the Atlanta
CW-fifiirMflj-objccU to church steeple.
Tt .1. - A it. - . . .
.,,. t iuui mo mouey wasted on them
" millions of dollars, and
1 ' missionary work
is hard to de
ne. "If steeples
he Conttitution,
irehes to be con
est and simplest
Idaho are among
prld, avers West
Jed, and, are now
ores known in tho
iuce their first dis
dado hnve produced
I $!57,83O,0C3.6J.
t year amounted to
lis there was of gold,
H7,5G7,500;' lead,
r, fS5,000.
jools aro to ba made
ating youug children
jernal care cf the Em
nchlcatiou also of tho
of socialism. It is
Huucb headway will be
me, for the very essence
'" life and thought is
ditary nulbority and
ening of the people with
ructed to feed the am
ain the throne of a ruler
with, the New York stock
minified seventy forgeries
I 11 nil to lose jji.'SO.OOO, is
ery nico inun, sarcastically
tttlunta Constitution. When
lit lie confessed, and said
jted to be puuished. Ho
icilly have his wish. It is
( to let a common tliiqf go
?t sentence, but these nice,
and moral fellows who swin
ends out of a cold quurtor of
tould, the Constitution avers,
) suller. Mr. Smith should be
lor a generation or so.
je Wythe, aged sUteeu, of San
i, who lately came by way of
toughest kiud of litigation into
V worth nearly 14,000,000, bus
ie court for an allowauco of
mouth, or in all about $103,000,
Jrom her father's death in April,
The girl pleaded thnt sho needs
11000 a month for her mainte
ind education. Tho court finally
d her a back allowance of $300 a
or about $ 30,000, and future
lYu-e of $S00. This disposition of
til's fortune gives lawyers a chance,
S (he New Oilcans I'icayune. It will j
all be squandered on the owuvr.
e fees cau bo covered,
BONO. .
Strike me a note of sweet degrees
Of sweet degree
Like those in Jewry heard of old j
My love, If thon wouMst wholly please,
Bold in thy hand a harp of gold, -And
tounh the strings with finger light
And yet with strength as David might
As David might.
Linger not long In songs of love
in songs of love; ' -No
serenado. nor wanton airs
The deeper soul of music move;
Only a solemn measure bears
With rapture that shall novef Vs
My spirit to the gate of peac.-lj '
The gates of peace. .J
Bo feel I when Francesco sings '
Franceses sing
My thoughts mount upward, I am dead
To every sense of vulgar things.
And on eeleitial highways tread
With profit of the olden time, - .
, Those minstrel kings, the men sublime
The men sublime.
Thomai W. Prions in Atlantic Monthly.
TI1E FAILURE OF BRADLEY,
BY LUKK SHARP.
"If I only had the courage," said
Bradley as he looked over the stone para
pet of the embankment at the dark
waters of tho Thames as they flashed for
a moment under the glitter of tho gas
light and then disappeared la the black
sight to fiaih again further down.
"Very likely I would' struggle to get
out again the moment I went over," ho
muttered to himself. 'Rut Jf .no help
came it would all be dono - in. a minute.
Two minutes perhaps. I'll warrant those
two minutes would soom an etornity. I
would sec a hundred Way of making 4
living if I could only got out agnin.. Why
cau't I tee one now while I am out. My
father committed suicide, why shouldn't
I? I suppose it runs in the family. There
seems to come a time when It is tho only
way out. I wonder if ho hesitated? I'm
b coward, that's the trouble."
After a moment' hesitation tho man
slowly climbed on the top of tho stone
wall and then paused again. Ho looTted
with' a shudder at the gloomy Hvcr. ' -
"I'll do it," he cried aloud, and was
about to slide down when a hand grasped
his arm ami i v-olce said : t
"What will you dof"
In the light of the gas lamp Bradley
aw s man whose face scorned familiar
and although ho thought ' rapidly,
"Where have I seen that man beforef"
he could not place him.
"Nothing," answered Bradley, sul
lenly. ..- ,
"That' right" was the answer.' "ld
do nothing of that kind if I were you."
"Of course you wouldn't. You have
everything that I haven't food, clothes,"
shelter. Certainly you wouldn't. Why
should you!" " -
"Why should you. if it come to
that?"
"Because ten shilling stands between
me and job. Thar s why, if you want
to know. Thero' eight shilling rail
way farc, a shilHbg for something to eat
to-night and a shilling for something in
the morning. But I haven't the ten
shillings and that's why." ' .
"If I give you the ten shilling what
assurance have I that you will not go aud
get drunk on it?"
"None at all. I have not asked you
for ten shillings, nor for one. I have
simply answered your questions."
"That is true. I will give you a
pound if you will take it, and so if un
fortunately you spend half of it in cheer
ing yourself up, you will still get that
jod. wnat is the job?"
. "I am a carpenter."
"You are welcome to tho pound."
"I will take it gladly. But, miud
you, I am not a beggar. I will take it
if wou give iue your address, so that I
may send it.back to you wheh I earn it."
'By thi time Bradley had come down
on the pavement. The other man
laughed slightly. :
'I cannot agree to that. You are
welcome to the money. More if you
like. I merely doubled the sum you
mentioned to provide for anything un
Beea." "Unless you let me return it, I will not
ibid ine money.
"I have perfect confidence in your
honesty. If I had not I would not offer
the money. I cannot give you my ad
dress, or, rather, I will not. If you will
pay the pound to some charity or will
give it to someone who is in need I will
be satisfied. If you give it to the right
man and tell him to do the same, tho
pound will do more good than ever it
will in my pocket or in my usual way of
spending it."
"But how are you to know I will do
that?"
"I am considered rather a eood iudr'e
'of men. I am certain vou will do wht
you say."
"I will take the money. , J doubt if
thore is auyone in London to-night
who needs it much worse than I do."
Bradley looked after the disappearing
figure of the man who had befriended
him.
"I have seta that man somewhere be
fore," be said tobimself. But in that
he was wxongs? Ho hudu't.
.
Wealth i most unevenly and most un
fairly divided. All of us admit that,
but few of us agree as to what should be
the remedy. Some of tho best minds of
the century have been in doubt as to
what is the true remedy. "The poor ye
have alwsys with you" is as truo to-dav
as it w 1800 years ago. Where so
many are in doubt it ia perhaps a com
fort to meet men who have no uncertain
ty as to the cause and the remedy. Such
a body of men met in a back room oil
Soho Square.
"We are waiting for you, Bradley,"
said the chairman, as the carpenter took
bis place and the doors were locked. He
looked better than ho had done a year
before on the Thames embamkment.
"lknow I'm late, but I couldn't help
it. They uru rushing things at the ex
hibition grounds. The time is short now,
and they are beginning to be anxious for
fear everything will not be ready ia
time."
"That's it," said one of the small
gTOiip, "we are slave and must be lata
or early As the so-called master choose.'
"Oh, there is extra pay," said Brad
ley with a smile, a he took a seat.
"Gentlemen," said the chairman, rap
ping on the desk, "we will now proceed
to businoss. The secret committee has
met and made a resolution. After the
lots are drawn it will be my task to in
form the man chosen what the job is.
It is desirable that as few as possible,
even among ourselves, should know who
tho man is who has drawn the marked
paper. Perhaps it may be my own good
fortune to be the chosen man. One of
tho papers is marked with a cross. Who
ever draws that paper is to communicate
with me at my room within two days.
He is to come alone. It is commanded
by the committee that no man is to look
at his paper until he leaves this room
and then to examine it in secret. He is
bouud by his oath to tell no one at any
time whether or not he is the chosen
man."
The papors were put into a hat and
each man in the room drew one. The
chairman put his in his pocket as did
the others. The door were unlocked
and each man made his way to his
hqme.
Next evening Bradley called at the
room of the chairman and said: "There
is the marked paper which I drew last
night."
si
The exhibition building was gay with
bunting and was sonorous with the
sounds of a band. The machinery that
would not stop for six months was (till
motionless, for it was to be starred in an
hour's time by His Highness. His High
ness and suite had not yet arrived, but
the building was crowded by a well
drrssed throng of - invited guests the
besfra the land as-far as fame and money
went. Underneath the grand stand where
His Highness and the distinguished
guests were to make speeches and where
tho finger of nobility was to press the
electric button. Bradley walked anx
iously about with the same haggard look
on his faco that was there the nicht he
thought of slipping into tho Thames.
1 ue place underueath.wos a wilderness
of beams and brace. Bradley' wooden
tool chest stood on, the ground airainst
pfne of th timbers; The foreman came
through and struck a beam or brace
here and thero.-
"Everything is all right," he said to
Brjadley. "There will be no trouble,
even if it was put up in a hurry and in
spite of the strain that will be on it to-
. urauioy was not so cure or mat, but
he said nothing. - When the foreman left
him alone he cautiously opened the lid
of his tool chest and removed the car
penter's apron which covered something
in the bottom. . This something was a
small box with a clock work arrange
ment and a Bmall miniature uplifted ham
mer that hung like the sword of Damocles
over a little copper cap. He threw the
&pr3U"0Ter it again, closed the lid of the"
chest, leaned against one of the timber,
loKiea nls arm ami waited.
Presently there was a tremendous
cheer and the band struck up. "He is
coming," said Bradley .to himself and
closed his lips tighter. "Carpenter,"
cried the pcliceman, putting' in his head
inrougn toe little wooden door at the
foot of the stage, "come here quick.
You can get a Bplendid sight of His
litgnness as he comes up the passage.
Bradley walked to the opening aud gazed
at the distinguished procession coming
toward him. Suddenly ho grasped tho
arm of the policeman like a vise.
" Who i that man in the robes at tho
head of the procession?"
"Don't you know! JThat U Ilis High
ness." Bradley grasped for breath. He recog
nized His Highness as the man he had
met on the embankment.
"Thank you," he said the ppliceman,
who looked at him curionlly. . Then he
went undei the grand stand among the
beams aud braces and leaned up against
ono of tho timber with knitted brows.
After a few moment he -stepped to
his chest, pulled out the apron and care
fully lifted out the machine. With a
quick j$rk he wrenched off the little
hammer and flung it from him. The
machinery inside whirred for a moment
with a soft purr like a clock runnig
down. He opened the box and shook
out into his apron a substance like damp
saw-duftt. Ho seemed puzzled for a
while what to do with it. Finally he
took it out aud scattered it along tho
grass-grown slope of a railway cutting.
He had failed in his terrible undertaking,
but he had saved tho life of the man
who once stood between him aud suicide.
Detroit Free Prett.
Cobweb Purlieu.
A lady yesterday showed me an in
vitation to attend a "cobweb party." I
was curious to know what sort of a party
that was.
"A central poiut in a house is selected,"
I was informed, "say tho chaudelier in
tho front parlor, aud to this a number of
strings are attached, according to the
number of guests who have been invited
to take part in the game. There may
be tweuty-five or fifty, or even more.
Then these strings are twined about
chairs, around table legs, through key
holes, downstairs into the dining rooji,
out to the kitchen, upstairs again, into
the bed-room, and, in fact, all over the
house. These strings rauke the cobweb.
At the end of each is a prizo, which acti
as a stimulant to the guests, to each
of whom a string is assigned, to follow
his or her thread to its termination
through its many devious aud provoking
intertwiuiugs. In Chicago the cobweb
party has become so popular that men
are employed to prepare bouses when one
is announced, an I it sometime takes
three days to get a large house ready.
Whenhe guests get to following up tho
strings there is plenty of fun, as they
meet Ui ull parts of the house, tress and
recross each other's paths, get their feet
tangled up in threads aud have a great
mauy experiences,"
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
A fireman's electric hand lamp has
been invented in England.
Celluloid artificial eyes are cheaper
than those of glass, and have a good ap
pearance. The Belgian military authorities havo
decided to attach a bicycle corps to every
regiment of the army.
The State Geologist says that the iron
ore fields of Eastern Texas will yield
4,000,000 tons to the square mile.
There is an enormous production of
steel in tho United States; the census re
turns show an increase of 290 per cent,
in ten years.
A compound propeller blade, consist
ing of a sheathing of bronze aud delta
metal cast on a steel core, has recently
been patented in England.
Acrolein, which presents the advan
tage of containing no sulphur, has been
recommended by T. Xewkowitsch for
giving water gas a noxious odor.
Experiments in Sweden show that steel
rails with four per cent. . of carbon aro
liable to break in winter, and steel with
less carbon is recommended for cold cli
mates. Air flow into a vacuum at the rate of
1338 feet a second, and steam at tho
rate of 2000 feet a secoeu". It would
take a column of steam eleven miles high
to produce a pressure of fifteen pounds.
The Buccessful trials at St..-Chamoud,
of gun mounted in armored cupolas,
have been followed by other experiments
equally successful near Madgeburg, but
the guns in the latter case are without
recoil. .
Air brake are not only coming into
general use on freight trains, but have
even been introduced on ttreet cars in
Chicago, taking the place of the old
brake which stops the car by winding a
chain around the crank rod.
The single-rail road system has ap
peared again.- This time it ha9 the ad
vantage of being designed for the use
of electric power, and many of tha
hitherto insuperable difficulties f tfao
system are thus happily avoided.--4
Considering the wonderfully rapid de
velopment of electrical appliances' it
teems remarkable that tho adaptation of
electricity to the purposes of a' motor for
propeling vehicles on the streets of
cities does not make greater progress.
The wings of a fly are used with great
quickness and probably 600 strokes are
made per second. This would carry the
fly about twenty-five feet, but a seven
fold velocity can easily be attainted, mak
Lag 175 feet per second, so Uiat under
ceitain circumstances it ' can outstrip
a race horse.
From a paper read before the biclog
ioal section of the British Association by
Professor Newton it appears that the na-.
tive fauna of the Sandwich Islands is
now undergoing modification and is in
longer of extei inlnatiou on account of
the changes which are now taking place .
ju. the vegetation of the islands. .
How a Diamond Wa Stolen.
It is natural thnt articles of great
value are objects of temptation. We aro
prepared to understand that, the common
thief is constantly scheming to gain
possession of precious stones and
jewelry, but it is a matter of surprise to
(earn, through stories that come across
the ocean, of the tricks indulged in
there by the diamond trade the legit,
mate, every-dny dealers in precious
stones.' The peculiarity of this condi
tion of thffigs is that the shftrp practice
of dealers does not involve their repu
tation or stapdiug, the thing . boing
looked at as a matter of shrewdness and
rather admired as a clever, piece of busi
ness. An anecdote is related -to illus
trate this. y. ,
A dealer called upon a tii iu with whom
be was in the habit of trausactiug'" busi
ness and asked to see a lot of diamonds.
After examining fheiu for some time he
returned the paper, snyiug he would call
again in reference to buyViig thero C .iV"
was at once noticed that a large
stone was missing. "A hasty
search was made, but no trace of
the diamond being discovered,
the dealer, without more ado, was ac- j
cused of having taken" the brilliant. He
indignantly denied the charge, and sub
mitted without hesitation to being
searched.
The stone was not found, and profuse
apologies were offered for the false ac
cusation. The following day the dealer
appeared again, this time with a paper
of diamonds to sell, but also with an
other object in view, which he took good
care not to disclose. A careful observer
might have noticed that while the stone)
were being examined at the light he ran
his fingers along the under surface of the,
portion of f he counter near which he sat
and picked iff something that stuck to
the wood. It was nothiug more nor less
than the d.'amond which hud so mysteri
ously disappeared the day before. He
had fasteued it to the couutor bf means
of a piece of wax with which he had pro
vided himself, and on tho occasion of hU
second visit secured his booty. Jeuelen'
Weekly.
Fooling the New Clerk.
"I was in a bookstore in Nassau street
a few weeks ago talkiug about a new
etching of Lowell when a tall, gaunt
youth rushed in, watch in huud, aud so
out of breath that ho stuttered. 'Mr.
Pliny wants this book immediately,' he
said, 'so that lie can take it with him
when he goes on the 4:30 train,' and
the youth hauded the dealer a slip of pa
per on which was written: 'The Life of
Adam's Father, bouud in half cilf.'
'We l iven't is in stock now, but you
c.- ;0Jt it at Scribner's,' says the pro
prietor, at the same time wiukiug slyly
at me, and adding as the youth sped out
into the street: 'That is the way a firm
of bankers tests the brilliancy of their
new clerks. "The Life of Adam's
Father" has been in existence an a joku
for fifteen years, aud one uow tlerk
bunted it for hours before be fouud
not the book, but that be was a lyul,"
licit Yvrk Vritic.
IN A STRANGE COUNTRY
A BOTJTR AMERICAN CITY OLDXjt
THAN THE 1KCA9.
BomeWonderfnt lining of an Ancient
Race - A Magnificent Teniplu of
the Sun Worshipers,
The tra veler should not bid good-bye
to Bolivia, writes Fannie H. Ward, in ,
the Washington Star, without having
paid some attention to an aucient town
near the northeastern edge of Lake Titi
caca, which Professor Sipiier has dubbed
"the Baalbec of America." It is named
Tiahuanaoo (pronounced Tee-ah-uha-nal)-co),
and is believed by some scientists
to be the oldest collection of ruins on the
hemisphere. At any rate it proves the
existence of a race so far antedating the
time of the incas that all knowledge of
it was lost before the Spaniards came;
for when the latter questioned tho In
dians of thoso days about the origin of
these mighty monumeuts they were told
that before ever the sun appeared in the
heavens a race of giants inhabited the
earth for thousands of years; that they
grew so numerous the gods became jcal
ous'aiid turned them all to stone; and
what appear to be the remains of huge
buildings arc, in reality, some of the pet
rifled giant themselves. The principal
ruins lie on a level plain within walking
distance from the village and cover an
area of about three miles. There aro
several artificial mounds made of earth
and stores, numerous edifices and there
mains of massive walls that probably
served as forts or inclosures. The high
est of the mounds was once terraced,
each terrace supported by a wall of cut
stone, and is completely covered and sur
rounded by ruins, with an enormous
structure on top, which modern visitor
havo named "Tbo Fortress."
Not far from this hill is the finest edi
fice of all, so far as decoration is con
cerned, now known as "The Temple."
It is 445 feet long, 388 feet wide, made
of cut and polished blocks of dark basalt,
each thirty inches, thick. Thcw-stones
are sunk into the earth like gate posts,
nobody knows to what depth, the parts
abovu, varying in height from nine to
fourteen feet. Those ancient architects,
whoever they may havo been, seem to
have not understood the use of mortar,
or maybe they did not need it, being able
to build so well without. Like King
Solomon's temple, the stones were all
mado to fit exactly into one another,
having round holes drilled into the top
and bottom of each at corresponding dis
tances, into which bronze pins were
placed. Scattered all about are many
highly polished blocks which appear
never to have been placod in position,
indicating that the builders were dis
turbed in their work and left it incom
plete. Among the most most beautiful sculp
tured and curious relic is an enormous
block of sandstone, one single slab, thir
teen feet five inches long, eighteen iuches
thick and standing a little over seven
feet above the ground, which, though
badly cracked (the natives say by light
ning), is still upright. It must be sunk
deeply into the earth, to hav stood so
long without external support, and was
doubtless meant for a doorway, as it has
a central cutting four feet six inches
high by two feet nine inches wide.
Across the upper face above this door
way figures in low relief are carved,
which closely rescmblo tho sculpture of
Egypt, and scientists say that a finer
piece of cutting in the same kind of
stone, by artisans, ancient or modern,
cannot be found anywhere in the world.
Within the temple inclosure is a hori
zontal slab, about fourteen feet square,
with a deep hollow in tho middle, cut
out like a square trough, which is sup
posed to have served in some of the
ceremoj .es of sun worship. The great
tcraplo a composed of huge blocks of
red sand stone, each fourteen feet long
aud of corresponding width and thick
ness, all precisely alike, cut and laid
with nicest care. This is the more re
markable, as thoso early people must
have been entirely unacquainted with
iron and sicel, and could have had no
mechanical apparatus for carrying oi
working heavy bodies, every bit of the
labor having to be accomplished by hu
man strength. Neither could they have
had any knowledge of guu powder or
othor explosives, but that they were fa
miliar with the use ot bronze is prove by
tho pius above mentioned and a few
weapons that havo come to light. From
some c litis of red sand stone, more than
fifteen miles away, every one of these
enormous temple blocks must hnve been
carried, but no basalt ' or tntchyte is
fouuTl nearer than forty mile?.
There seems, besides, to have been a
palace, a prison, a hull of justice aud
other institutions, which show that the
long-past race possessed some degree of
civilization and reHnenieut. None can
gaze upon these mofiuments without be
ing filled with wonder concerning tho
mysterious people who lived aud died
centuries before Columbus or any other
European had sought the western hemis
phere. A Story of Stanley.
One morning last week a short, thick
set man, with white hair aud moustache
jmd piercing eyes, walked into the pub
lishing house of Charles Scribner's Sous
and asked the way to the subscription
department. Haviug learned it, he ran
nimbly upstair and entered tho main
oihee, where he inquired for Sir. Thomas,
the manager of the department. Mr.
Thomas had not coino downtown, aud
the caller was invited to tuke a seat.
After a few moments an idea seemed to
strike the clerk, and he said that if the
gentleman wished to become an ugeut
fr Stuuley's "Iu Darkest Africa'' he
could give him all the uccessury informa
tion. The stranger thanked him, and
replied that modesty forbade his becom
ing an agent for the sale uf the book, as
he had written it himself ! A i'urk
Critic.
.From less than twenty aercs of laud a
farmer near liuttevil'e. Oregon, ol l
bops to the vulue ui 110,501) thii ac-uuu.
WISE WORDS.
Wlien the heart is full the onI tf
No man can die wron w1
right. i
We are never so strong"
are thankful.
Belief is the rudder by which
f our life is directed.
Repentance never comes too h
!t comes from the heart.
Men need moral courage more tL
they do higher foreheads.
- There is no worship in anything you
io simply from a sense of duty.
No man who give as much as ho
ught tt,-doevcr growls about it.
. A man has. much right to kill him
elf as he hastollvw. a useless life.
The un
bright! v
jlack spots a -not noticed.
Ten thousand suns can
'.hing plain to the man
It is a flattery with r
love will love that whicl
us.
Character is what a m
doesn't know ttr.t anybody
him.
The people who caro tho least h.
living right are the ones most anxio
to die right.
,The picture on tho canvas is -but the
reflection of a brighter one in the mind
of the artist.
The citizen whom the State does not
seek to make a blessing to itself will be
come a curse.
It is not tho gift iUclf, but the mean
ing thjtt is put into it, that give it
meaning above.
Tears of sorrow and tears of joy fol
low each other from tho' same eyes,
down the same cheeks.
There are women who couldn't kill a
chicken with a hatchet, who would kill
full-grown people with tliftir tongues, ii
they could. Indianapolit (Tnd.) Bam)
uvrn.
A Matter of I'oiine Identity.
Two or three lawyers were talking Sf
old lawsuits the . otUvr day, when one of
the oldest member of tho Indianapolis
bar remarked: "I romomber the Perry
township pig case that took up a good
part of one term of ccurt, having come
up through a Justice's Viflise. The caso
was trjid, I believe, by Governor Wal
lace, father of our Postnmter, aijd there
were at least two firms t "lawyers on
each side. Sims Col ley and Thomas
Walpolo were in the case, and, io far as
Mr. Collcy was concerned, be was then
in the full power of his renown. Tho
rase gave him full opportunity for the
display of his picturesque genius, and
the drolleries he infused into it long fur
nished matter of laughter for the bar.
Mr. Colley, however, no matter how ab
surdly droll he might become, never lo
sight of the best interests of his clipn,
and ccrVx&iy never lost sight of his own
in the shape of as fat a fee as it was pos- '
sible to obtain. j
"The question was about the identity
of a shoat," continued the la vyer. t'Tba
witnesses on one side swore it wa a pig
in a barnyard, aud had never been out!
until it had been put into i, from
which it was taken to b
The witnesses on tho oi
thnt they had known it fi
was a suckling. But the 0
the proof of an car mark, v
ant, sustained by one set of w
said he marked nu ear of the sh
hi pocket knife, and the cut
plained at great length to the jury,
other cluiinaint said the line'
ear of his shoat was torn by tl
a dog. It was at this stage '
raony that a sensational fea'
troduced. One witness, b
his testimony to au excitic
.a climax by pulling from
picklrtlpig' ear, which he de
be the car of. the sho;i IfticstM.. 1
created a greatTupfoar in the court roc
as the effect of this pictorial testiino
upon tho jury could not be measure
This with the ear was, however, measi
ably discredited, and the case went oi
Medical experts were culled in to testif
as to wnat tuu aiucrcnce in nppesrar.
would be between a shoat' ear cut' with
a knife and one torn by the teeth of a
dog. The experts did not ngree, and the
jury disagreed, and another trial was
held, the second jury disagreeing as the
first had done. Charges of perjury were
made on each side, and a number of as
sault and battery coses grew out of it.
The costs of litigation were between t4iw
and $500 on each side."
"What was the shoat worth?" "
"About .50; but the Utigaut
fighting 'for priuciple." Ind'
Journal.
Where Bachelors Are Taxed.
A novel suggestion on the subject of
taxatiou comes indirectly through th
State Department from Caracas. No
that political economy is so- largely o
cupyiug the public mind the suggr" "
may be vory interesting and valua
revenue experts. The municipal
cil of Caracas have promulgated
which provides fur an impost
bachelors residing within the jui,
tion. Every unmarried man o
live years of age is reqtrtrtjdT
income tax of one per cent. oS ,
come of not more ttiau $5000, r"two
per ceut. if his income exceils thnt
uiuouut. The poetic justice of thi
thing is in making those men who will
not tuke upon themselves family re
sponsibilities tho duty of providing
revenue for the coiuinuuity. It is de
signed nlso to discourage tho iudu' '
geuce of single blessedness WatMr
ton Star.
Equluo Lpltouies. "
The smallest horse iu the world f
breed of ruaueless ponies whicW re '
for pcU in the province of 'v '
Southern China, aud if fiijr
not much larger tbau a sUnr??.
Several specimens of the lif
were brought to Frauce by tlA
theTunquiii txjeditiou, but f
sensitive to frost aud did
north of Marseilles.
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