People'* Champion Kept In Quad. May I call attention to the case of a worthy man who is in prison for resist ing the attempts of landowners to seize and inclose the land of the people? The case I refer to is that of the liev. F. Haydn Williams, who is incarcerated in Holloway jail, and has now been impris oned for a whole month because he! knocked down a wall which had been built to incloso what had been from time immemorial an open space, called the Abbey plain, where the people used to play football and other games. The injustice of Mr. Williams' impris onment is, that instead of being properly tried and if it is found that he has done wrong made to pay for the damage he I has done to the wall of the lord of the | manor, he has been sent to prison with out trial on a charge of contempt of , court, and there he may remain month after month, according to the caprice of | the court of queen's bench. This power of committal to prison for an indefinite period on such a fanciful charge as con- i tempt of court seems to me to be a thing savoring of the proceedings of the court of the star chamber, which was abolished for its arbitrary acts by the breath of popular indignation. In my ignorance I thought there was passed by the repre sentatives of the people, for their protec tion from arbitrary imprisonment, an act called th&habeas corpus act, which pre vented a man from being capriciously imprisoned for an indefinite time with out fair trial if he has been guilty of any crime. But here is a man—a gentleman and a minister—being treated as if he had been guilty of robbery.—Cor. Lon don Chronicle. Somewhat Eccentric. A strange case of insanity has recent- I ly come to light at Ballston. The un fortunate person is Charles H. Morris, thirty-two years of age and an expert accountant. He has for a long time been Jcnown as a man of many eccen tricities, and has frequently been made the object of practical jokes by sporting men. It is thought that constant joking and teasing have been a potent factor in impairing his mental faculties. He has several times lately left town for a few days, sometimes 011 business, sometimes 011 pleasure, and before leav- ; ing caused to be published in the local papers paragraphs to the effect that he •'had gone to New York to attend a con vention of the ragpickers at the Fifth Avenue hotel." About two months ago invitations were sent out announcing that he was about to marry a well known j young woman from another town. The ' invitations were liona fide, but on the day of the wedding Morris remained in town, denying that he had any thought of marrying. He is considered a first class accountant, and appears to be as sane as any one except for these actions. —Albany Journal. TliouHUiidtt of Ton* of OH. Oil is to be used as fuel instead of coal in all the big furnaces at the World's fair grounds. The exposition company will pay the Standard Oil company sev enty cents a barrel until 1893, and then have the privilege of getting the oil at the lowest market price, not to exceed cents a barrel. The contract will be for perhaps the largest quantity ever sold to one consumer. The lowest es timate that has ever been made of the amount of coal that would be burned at Jackson park during the exposition was 75,000 tons. On this basis 225,000 bar rels of oil would be used, but it is prob able that the amount will be largely in excess of that estimate.—Cleveland Her ald. Divorced for Telling: Ele*. In the circuit court at Beatrice, Neb., Saturday, William Truesdale was grant ed an absolute divorce from his wife, Amelia. The petition reciting the charges on which divorce was sued foi is the most curious one ever filed in court It recites the fact that the wife is an incorrigible gossip, whose tale tell ing propensities and penchant for gos siping render life with her unbearable. Truesdale avers that in the three year* he has lived with his wife she has told 10,000 lies. "She cannot tell the truth," j he declares in his petition, "and while it Is in the nature of a disease, I believe it incurable. Hence I ask relief in a divorce."—Cor. Philadelphia Press. lfl* Dottle Proved to Do Loaded. A young boy named Gilson, in com pany with one or two other boys, wa* on the Bewer dock and discovered sev eral bottles in an old iron tank. In one of the bottles was a white substance. Young Gilson's curiosity was aroused. He produced a match and, lighting it, dropjed it into the bottle. He held the bottle in his right hand, and no soonei had the match struck the bottom of the bottle than an explosion followed, blow ing the bottle to atoms, filling Gilson'* hand with the fragments of the glass and also nearly blowing the thumb ofl his hand.—New Haven Register. Taken In. A woman with a baby in her arms ap proached an innocent looking young man who was sitting in Central park yesterday. She asked him to hold the baby while she went to look at the menagerie. As she did not return the young man thinks sho must have been taken in by the boa constrictor 01 the rhinoceros, but the sparrow cop tc whom he confided his suspicions is oi tljfi opinion that it was the young man who was taken in.—New York Evening Bun. A Ilapid Water Wheel. In one of the Coinstock mines a new water wheel is to be placed, which is tc run 1,150 revolutions a minute and have a speed at its periphery of 10,805 feet per minute. A greater head of watei than has ever liefore been applied to u wheel will be used.—Exchange. A Suicide's Gloomy View of Marriage. "I am as happy as though I was going to be married," was one of the queer sentences of a note left by Vito Miraglio. who committed suicide by shooting himself on Tuesday.—Philadelphia Itec •rd. Enterprise Aiuong Eiigllli Paper*. The boat race between the representa tive crews of Oxford and Cambridge is ■ rgwed annually 011 the river Thames. • This year's race was noteworthy, not only on account of the breaking of the record in point of speed of the contest ants, but as enabling the London press ! to carry out sucessfully a remarkable ! piece of enterprise. | The London papers containing the re j suit and full details of the race were on j sale within four minutes after the Ox- I ford crew had passed the winning post. , The press boat as it steamed up the Thames paid out a cable consisting of a seven strand conductor, insulated with vulcanized rubber, with warps and braids of flax, which had been specially manu factured for the puriiose. Over this ca j ble the progress of the boats at intervals of a few minutes along the entire course was transmitted to the papers and pub lished all over London almost as the crews wore passing the points indicated. : Immediately following the result there was dispatched a complete description of the race from start to finish, which was in tho hands of the newspapers and others provided with instruments long before a single pressman was able to land his "copy" from the press boat at Mortlake, and also long before the pigeons dispatched from the scene were able to settle down in a homeward direc tion. The instruments used were Morse j sounders. The short description of the race which was finally sent contained over 150 words.—London News. l'apcr Maker* to Stop for Awhile. Representatives of nearly all the Hol yoke paper mills that make fine writing papers and one of the mills in Mit | tineague and one in Westfield met in this city Tuesday morning to consider the matter of the annual shutdown. These manufacturers belong to the tine writing paper section of the American Paper Makers' association, and a shut down means a reduction of from sev enty-five to 100 tons a day in the output. It was understood that the mills would shut down from July 1 to midnight of July 11, although no formal vote was taken on the subject. The Holyoke mills will be forced to shutdown from July 1 until midnight of July 4, as the water is to I*3 drawn from the canals during these days. The shutdown is to enable the manufacturers to work off the surplus stock, and is a little longer than the usual summer vacation.— Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A Long llly an Ihlhihl. Captain George W. Torrey, of the fishing schooner Alice, reports that his boat was almost run down by a floating j island in the Pacific ocean off Cape Flat tery. The captain and crew went on it and made partial exploration. There was a hut and a small farm on the is land and other signs of habitation, al though there were no signs of life.— Seattle Letter. Australians have had hitter experi ence of the mischief which rabbits are capable of doing, and now they seem likely to have trouble of a similar kind from the introduction of foxes. [ A sore throat troubled John Haines, of Danville, Ills., and he lost his voioe in consequence of it. After a few days he j coughed up a brass pin and his voice ' Was restored. Tho New Treanury Notes. Perhaps tho principal object of the re vision of the United States paper money is to make the backs of the notes more ' open, that is, less covered with tho en graving, so that the silk fibers shall bo j more distinctly visible. | The distinctive paper now in use no ; longer has the two threads of silk run j ning longitudinally through the note, I but in their place are two stripes, each ! half an inch wide or so, of short red and j blue silk fibers scattered thickly in the paper, in such manner that they show only on the reverse of the bill. I These two fiber stripes practically di j vide the note into three sections of about j equal size, and this feature of fiber in | the paper is held to be an almost abso j li&e safeguard against successful coun ; terfeiting. But that is only one of sev i eral devices employed to insure the inviolability of the currency. Each note has an entirely separate design, the work of which is so open as ; to show readily any error of an attempt ed counterfeit, and no portion of the design is repeated on tho same note; so that no small part could be engraved by a skillful oj>erator and then duplicated by mechanical processes to till any amount of space, as has been the cose with some of the previous "paper mon ey" of the government. I The geometrical lathe work of the new designs is said to be the most ex quisite and complicated ever executed, and such as to utterly baffle any at tempt at its illicit reproduction.—Paper World. ltougli on the Siiuke*. Snake stories are always in order in tho spring, and the latest one comes from an interior town in Ohio, where 1 tho heat from the stove awakened the reptiles and they commenced to fall to the floor from holes in tho ceiling. John Thompson, who lives in the Cheat river country, was in the city yesterday buy ing provisions for a lumber camp. He tells a tale that is not unreasonable and one can readily believe it. The mountains along the Cheat are famous for their blacksnakcs, and they 1 can bo seen at any time during the day in the summer sunning themselves on the rocks. Mr. Thompson says when the weather suddenly broke up about April 1 and led a number of people to throw off their underclothes, the black snakes awoke with a start, rubbed their eyes and crawled out on the rocks to stretch themselves. The sun was so warm that many of them ventured far away from their winter homes, and when it suddenly got cold again the snakes couldn't get back. Mr. Thomp son claims he got tired of killing black snakes which were so stiff that they couldn't move. They were stretched out on the stones, and were at the mercy of the lumbermen, who amused them selves making the flat heads of the snakes more flat. This is a true story.— Pittsburg Dispatch. A UouKiii'H Strange Heath. Probably the most remarkable occur rence ever known happened in Dawson Wednesday. Martha Roundtree, the well known negro woman who kept a restaurant at the south end of Main street, now occupies a grave at the ceme tery, the result of a sneeze. The phy -1 siciaus of Dawson say that they have never heard or read of a similar case. Wednesday tho woman, as well as usual, was at the restaurant attending to her work. She had just left the rear of her eating saloon and walked to the front when she was attacked with an exces sive spell of sneezing and coughing. She had been afflicted with hernia, and tho strain was so great as to burst a hole in her stomach. Surgical aid was called in and her stomach sewed up, which gave relief. She lingered until late Saturday afternoon, when she died. The victim of this remarkable oc currence was a large woman, weighing 240 pounds.—Savannah News. ltig Sheep Shearing. Sheep shearing is now being pushed rapidly, and most of the flocks in the valley have been shorn of their fleecy coats. Some big records have been made in shearing, but the ten men headed by O. H. Lane seem to take the lead. They clipped 42,000 fleeces in six weeks. The l>est record for a single day was made by G. O. Meager and L. Palmer, who sheared 155 each. Lane will start in a few days for Flagstaff, where he and his band have work al ready engaged to last three months. The clip this season is unusually good, although the early winter drought killed off a large percentage of flocks. Han son Brothers, of Show Low, were among the heavy losers, having lost SIO,OOO worth of sheep by death and strays.— Arizona Republican. Effective Treatment. j Fifteen natives on the east coast of Australia, suffering from fever, put themselves in tho hands of tho Maori tohunga, or doctor, who prescribed. | After taking his physic they were told to go and "sit in the creek" until the tohunga released them. Thirteen out J of the fifteen died.—Exchange. Queer Chicken, in Ohio. Dr. Btounsbury, of Middleport, has a hen with a brood of twenty-one chick ens that combine all the hues of tho rainbow in their down, much like the grown peacock. It is said the ancestress is a peculiar breed imported from Aus tralia.—Portsmouth Times. At the dictation of tho men put in power by the unionists in Australasia all immigration into the colony is pro hibited, so that the thousands of people j now unemployed there may have an j opportunity to find work. A musical prodigy has been discov