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A RABBIT PLA&UE.
A State and Two Terrritories
Overrnn With the Pests.
The Infliction Almost as Damaging
as in Australia,
General Brisbiu says in a special to the
New York World that "the rabbits are again
becoming a plague in many portions of Idabo,
Nevada and Wyoming. These little bonnies
bid fair to do as much damage in our
country aa they have in Australia unless
timely steps are taken for their oxtermina- j
tion. In Australia in many places they
have eaten up the whole of the country,
even the sheep pastures being destroyed by
them. It seems strange that national legislation
should be required against so small an
animal as a rabbit, but the English
colonists of Australia are glad enough to
have the Government aid them in de
stroying the little pests. Everything green
and every blade of grass is eaten by
them to the earth, and, except the
grasshopper, it would be impossible to conceive
of anything more destructive to vegetation
than a rabbit They appear in vast I
armies, and, moving across a country, strip j
it of all vegetable matter. Gardens are their ;
special deught, and not a vegetable is left ]
where they can once take held. {
"When out in Idaho, a year or two ago, I i
had some experience with rabbits. They appeared
in great numbers along the Oregon '
Short Line, and at some towns destroyed all j
the gardens. Near Boise they attacked the !
grain fields and even the pastures. The ineth- !
ods of destroying them were sometimes quite ;
novel One gentleman who bad a grain j
field and a garden patch surrounded the !
field with a board on his feroe next to the j
ground. Above the board he Jrew a wire
very tightly, and just close enough to the
board to let the rabbits' head t': rough. In
. trying to get over the board tht/ got fast
"nrl harxrari f.homs?lve<L His field was OTOttV
well strung around every morning with dead j
rabbits.
"Another farmer put a brush fence around |
his held and here and there made a hole
through it. On the other side of the holes i
he sank large boxes in the ground. The |
bunnies would run through the hole, fall into j
the boxes and be unable to get out. Another !
farmer put boxes under his fences with tilting !
lids. The outside was firm enough, but no sooner
would the rabbit attempt to run through than j
the treacherous lid would tip upand land him j
in the box below. Then it would tip back ;
into its place again and be ready for another
rabbit. In the morning the boys, armed
with pitchforks, would go around* the field,
kill the rabbits and pitch them into a wagon.
. They often got a wagon load in a morning.
The rabbits were fed to the hogs.
"Another method was the 'surround.1 A j
large pit or hole was dug in the ground where |
the rabbits were thickest, and brush piled i
around the pit for some distance out. Then i
the men and boys made a surround, beating j
the brush up and frightening the bunnies to- i
ward the pit As they closed in t&e raouits
would take refuge in the brush around the hole
or pit. When all had closed in the brush was
fired all around the outside, and the little
creatures to escape the flames would jump
into the pit. Those that did not fall into the
pit were roasted or killed by the men and boys
who stood close together around the outside i
armed with clubs and pitchforks.
I "Lux & Miller, the great cattle raisers, i
whose ranches were completely overrun with j
rabbits, offered a reward of five cents apiece '
for tb?m, and the boys made good wages
killing them. A boy in a day with good j
'luck could kill and deliver from fiity |
to one hundred, so he made a good enm. |
|Lux & Miller threw ft he dead rabbits into a big I
jvat, where they were boiled, skin and all,and J
then fed to t"ie hogs to fatten them. It is I
,said they make Rood hog feed, and the hogs j
!fatten very rapidly upon rabbit flesh.
I t'Poc+onr tho Vronoli nnH !
curer of mad-dog's bite by inoculation, says i
!he can kill off all the rabbits in tiie United j
.States and Australia by inoculation. His j
plan is to inoculate live rabbits with .
jchicken cholera and then let them go I
among the other rabbits. The disease is very
'contagious and fatal, and he contends they !
Iwould soon give it to each other and all die !
off. It is certainly worth trying, for a
greater pest than an excess of rabbits can- |
inot be imagined.''
LATER NEWS!
|
Dairymen of New York State, in sessior !
at Middletown, petitioned Congress not U
change the Oleomargarine act
Ge.veral Thomas Kilby Smith, a promi- ,
??? TTa WoI ir? f.Vin olvt'l wnr HioH fl I
few days ago in New York. He was born in
Ohio in 1821.
The largest capture of illicit distilleries J
' " ever made at one haul took place a few days !
since near Jasper, Ga. llevenue officers captured
four stills in full operation.
Two out of thro* colored men who shock- >
ingly assaulted Mrs. D. J. Oberry and hei !
daughter at Pemberton Ferry, Flo., wer<
caught in the woods and roasted alive.
Stockmen are invoking Federal or Stat<
aid against the thieves and desperadoes op
eratlng in the public land strip on the north ;
ern border of the Panhandle, Terns. Mur- i
^An/.iiMxnnnr. ori/1 noftlo on i
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stolen and killed for their hides by thousands ;
A sheep herder, named Jamison, was killed
and afterward the murderers lynched his
father, brother and uncle.
Mrs. Cleveland has declined a gift of i ;
very handsome and expensive jewel' casket !
sent her by an Italian dealer in works of art.
Secretary Fairchild has recommendei j
* the appropriation by Congress of $2o0,030 foi !
the establishment of a marine hospital ir j
New York City.
Senator Frye's bill to promote the political
and social prosperity of the United States |
by providing for a congress of American Re I
publics in October of next year was passed j
unanimously by the Senate in the last Con !
gress.
Mr. Blaine was presented to President j
v^ai nub, vi riaiu o, u uaja omw, wj :
United States Minister McLane.
The German Crown Prince's throat disease
is again reported worse, an 1 his physiciau,
Dr. Mackenzie, has been summoned in ho"
haste to his royal patient's side at Sai
Remo.
"V^illiam McCormick, a poor man resid I
ing at St. Martins', New Brunswick, is alleged |
to have found a pot buried in the beach con I
tainlng $40,000 in gold.
. EECESS APPOINTMENTS, j
A Lonx List Sent to the Senate by !
the President.
The President has sent to the Senate a long j
list of appointments made during the recess
n#rv?iirK>N inolnrlinr those of the following i
V4 WU^iVW, ? 0 w ;
Ministers to foreign governments:
Oscar S. Btrauss of New York to Turkey, j
Alex. R. Lawton of Georgia to Austria-Hun- j
gary, Bayless W. Hanna of Indiana to the {
?- Argentine Republic, S. S. Carlisle of Louisi- j
ana to Bolivia.
Consuls General?Jared L. Ratlibone, of
California, at Par s; Charlton H. Way, of
Georgia, at St Petersburg; D. L. Pringle, of
Soutn-Sarolina, at Constantinople; H. M.
Sewell of Maine, at Apia.
There are also several Secretaries of Legation,
a large number of Consuls, G. Browne
Goode to Ive Fish Commissioner, Leigh XV.
Reed of Virginia to be Assistant Register of
the Treasury, four Collectors of internal rev- j
enue, ten Collectors of customs, a number of
appraisers and special examiners in the cus- 1
toms service, promotion in the revenue marine
service, two supervisors of steam vessels,
s PnofmoQharQ*
&DU trn luuumuft A
William W. Fisk. Athol, Mass.; Frank A.
Campbell,Woonsocket,R. L; Louisa T. Long,
Greenville, Ala.; James W. White, Kosciusko,
Miss.; Louis E. Humricbouse, Dighton,
Kan.; William W. Thielkeld, fc-'cott, iCan.;
Herbert Battenberg, Haysprin^s, Neb.;
Frank Pay, Benkleman, Neb.; William S.
Marrow.Nashville, 111.; Hugh C. Armstrong,
Noeaho. Mo. _______ _
Nearly $500,000 in deposits is lying miclaimed
in the savings banks of Boston. It
belongs to 3(37 unknown depositors, not one
of whom has put in an appearance at (his
bank for more than 20 years.
THE NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
The schooner Nellie S. Jerrell, bound from
Baltimore to Wareham, Mass., collided off
the New Jersey coast with the 6teamer Algiers,
and was sunk. The steward and two
: men were lost.
The tab^e glassware workers of Pittsburg,
Penn., struck against the rules adopted by
the manufacturers. Every factory but one
waa closed, and 3,500 men were idle.
The Rev. Charles A. Berry, of Wolverj
bampton, England, has declined to accept
the pastorate of Plymouth Church, to which
he had been called some time since.
Mrs. John J. Astor, the leader of fashionable
New York society, is dead in her sixtysecond
year.
*? ?-? 1 f it? nt tha
I he uenertu ucvuinti uwtu .... .
Knights of Labor have issued a circular, preI
pared by Grand Master Workman Powderly,
| attacking Jay Gould for his monopolistic ten- }
j dencies and strongly favoring the establish? !
| ment of a postal telegraph by the National
I Government.
1 Henry S. Ives, the young New York finanI
eier, who failed recently for many millions,
has been arrested upon the charge of grand
larceny, growing out of his railroad transactions,
ana held in $2.5,000 bail.
! Mayor O'Brien has been re-elected in
Boston by 2*i,fi2l to votes to 24,865 for Hart,
nominee of the Republicans and 1 ndependents
The Common Council is Democratic.
Salem and Newburyport have gone Republican,
and with Worcester have been carrieJ
in favor of liquor license.
Sonth and
Ten leaders of the striking ore handlers at
Fairport, Ohio, were arrested and taken to
Gainesville on tne cnarge 01 inciung vo nut.
One man was instantly killed and seven
were seriously injured by the fall of a scaffold
near Alton, 111.
As a passenger train approach Geneva, a
small town in Miller County, Ark., at seven
o'clock the other evening, three man boarded
the train and two miles east of the station
rang down the brakes and, entering the express
car, robbed the safe of its contents.
A Dallas (Texas) inventor has an electric
fish line which kills a fish as it seizes the
hook, and at the same time rings a bell on
shore.
In* the stomach of a blue heron shot by
Charles Smith at Burg Hill, Ohio, were found
forty-seven carp. From their appearance
thftv fYinsti tuted but one meal.
A VKIM of coal four feet thick has been discovered
near Blanstown, Iowa.
Forty-two United States prisoners, the
largest party of the sort on record, have just
been taken in a batch from Indian Teritory
to Fort Smith, Arkansas.
A shock from an electric bell wire behind
the scenes instantlv killed Stage Manager
James O'Connell, of Andrews s "Michael
StrogOiT' Company in Cincinnati.
The first cremation in Michigan has just
taken place at Detroit. The body cremated
was that of Mrs. Barbara Schow, of Millersburg,
Ohio.
Thirty Chinese women, who arrived re>
cently in San Francisco, claiming previous
residence, have been refused a landing.
TO T O TT n* Sow
UbV, 1. O. A.AliliUV n, OA-iuajVl VI wan
Francisco,who was shot and severely wounded
by Charles De Young, proprietor of the San
Francisco Chronicle, eight years ago, has
just died in Washington Territory. De Young
was afterward shot to death by Kalloch's
son, whose trial resulted in an acquittal.
E: L. Harper has been sentenced to ten
years' imprisonment for criminal acts in connection
with his position as Vice-President
of the Fidelity National Bank at Cincinnati.
Mayor Latrobe, of Baltimore, welcomed
the delegates to the second annual convention
of the National Federation of Labor, and
President Gompers replied.
A firr in Chicago destroyed nearly one
million dollars' worth of property.
A balloon, containing a man who had
evidently starved to death, tumbled from the
sky to earth, near Owensboro, Ky.
A joint committee of the Presbyterian
Church, North and South, have been in ses- |
sion at Louisville, Ky., considering the
question of organic union.
Washington.
The Republican National Committee published
an address to the voters of the country
announcing; the preparations for the next
convention.
The delegates of the Evangelical Alliance
called in a body at ths White Hous9 and
were received by the President and Mrs.
Cleveland. Rev. Dr. Burchard was among
the visitors. Mr. Cleveland made a short j
address to the delegates.
There are thirty-eight widows of revolu- i
tionary soldiers on the pension lists.
Ant effort will be made in the present Con- j
gress to reduce letter postage to one cent.
Judge Sn'ell of the police court in Wash- i
ington lined George W. Harvey, a restaur- I
ateur, *100 for refusing to serve a colored j
lawyer named Hewlett. Harvevltook an an
peaf.
Chairmen of the Senate Committees, as I
appointed by the Republican caucus, are:
Appropriations, Allison; Commerce, Frye; J
Finance, Morrill; Foreign Relations, Sher- I
man; Judiciary, Edmunis; Pensions, Davis; !
Public Lands, Plumb; Agriculture and For- j
estry. Palmer; Education and Labor, Blair;
Postoffices, Sawyer; Civil Service and Re- 1
trencnment, uiiacc.
The second National Convention of third j
and fourth class postmasters of the United |
State? met in Washington. About 250 postmasters
were present, representing twenty- !
three States.
Forelen.
The concentration of large bodies of Rus- !
sian troops on Austria's frontier has caused
int?nse excitement throughout the latter
country.
Advices from tha Orkney Island! report
the loss of twenty fishing smacks in a hurricane.
M. Goblet beinjr unable to form a new
French Cabinet, President Carnot called
upon M. Falliere to undertake the task.
Twenty-two persons were drowned and
twenty-two fishing smacks lost in the recent
hurricane off the Orkney Islands.
M. Falliere having been a? unsuccessful
as M. Goblet in forming a new French cabinet,
President Carnot called upon M. Tirard
to make the third attempt to organize a min
istry.
Yaqli Indians are devastating a large |
region iu Mexico despite a big force of troops
hunting close on their trail.
Larue seed and oil mills at Driffield, Eng- j
land, have been destroyed by lire; loss, ]
$750,000.
The charges against M. Wilson, ex-Presi- i
dent Grevys son-in-law, accusod of par- j
ticipation in the sale of French decorations tc !
whoever would buy, have besn dismissed, j
The affair has created a great scandal in j
France.
General Digby Willoughbt, ex-Minis |
ter of England to Madagascar, has been arrested
for embezzling $60,000 government I
bonds.
Mme. Boucicact, a wealthy Parisian lady. |
just deceased, leaves by will $3,000,001) tc ;
charity.
Presidekt Carnot's first message to the j
French Parliament is considered a weak j
document
M. Hertenstein* has been elected Presid- i
ent of the Swiss Republic.
A FEW "CENTENARIANS.
Jdst one week before her death, Mrs.
Harriet Baker, of Philadelphia, walked to
the cemetery and selected her own burial
spot She was 102 years old.
One of the oldest Democrats in the
United States is Captain Nicholas Costello,
of Boston, who is 104 years of age, and voted
the straigdt ticket at the late election,
i Mrs. Rachel Ireland, of Covington,Ky.,
j has just celebrated her 100th anniversary.
She walks two miles to church, is in health, j
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Mrs. Mart Gilbert, of Gloucester, Mass.,
has just celebrated her 101st birthday, 011
which oocasion she recited a poem with a delivery
that might excite the envy of many
elocutionists.
Mathew W. Burchard. of Detroit, will
be 10!) years of age on the next 4th of July.
He is a native of Massachusetts and a selfmade
man. He rises early and sits up lall
day, enjoys life and has eleven children.
Frank Hicks, when he was sold as a slave
in 185U to F. H. Welch, was said to be eighty
years of age. He does not look over seventy
now, has never failed of doing a man's work
at boeing, and this year, with his wife's aid
(she is ninety), hi s harvested eight bales of
; cotton. He t-fcUl lives with Mr. Welch ai
ilcKiuaey, Texas.
FERRY FIRED UPON.
Attempt , to Assassinate the ExPremier
of France.
Shot at Thrice in the Chamber of
Deputies and Wounded,
II. Jules Ferry, ex-Premier of France, was
fired at three times Saturday afternoon by a
man in the lobby of the French Chamber of
Deputies. There was great excitement in and
around the government buildings. M. Ferry
waa shot by a man who gave his name as
Aubertin. The assassin appeared in the halj
of the Chamber of Deputies and asked to see
both M. Ferry and M. Goblet. M. Goblet did
not respond to Aubertin's request for an interview,
but M. Ferry did, and on his appearance
Aubertin drew a revolver and fired
three times at him.
The would-be assassin is fifty-two years
old, with short, wiry, grizzly blonde hair and
beard. His surname is Herckheim. He is
the son of a small ironmaster near Metz,who,
failing in business, hanged himself. Aubertin
has been all over Europe and is a
Jack of all trades, discovering singular
adaptability to new situations and
..M/lrvM ni/ti'Mi'fnHAo Uo Koo nnfantiv) I
OiOCtUUCJ UUUCi V lUIOOlVUUVO, A^VI llt?v< puw.iwu
many inventions, published scboolbooks.been*
a music-hall bard, a maker of stained glass
panes, a man-milliner, a photographer, and
lately a profess onal blackmailer.
HiB murderous attempt was made at 3 p.
M. Aubertin got hold or a card of Academician
Herve, and sent it to M. Ferry with?
written in his own hand?a few introductory
words, as if from M. Herve. Thel-ewith was
a slip of paper on which was:
"A Lorrainer desires a short conversation
and begs you will come to speak with him."
M. Ferry was walking in the lobby with
two friends when the message was brought to
him. Quittingthem, he went to the round
Jobby where the stranger awaited him. M.
UViwtt mlin hoc hw>n f.hp mrwf. iinnnniilnr man
in France since tbeTonquin misfiaps, has not
for many weeks dared to venture into the
public lobby, but, by arrangement with the
questors,meets acquaintances in the rotunda.
Going thither he met M. Revillon, who said:
"You're'sought for yonder."
Thereupon Mathieu, the head usher, ran up
to M. Ferry, warning him of a sinister presentiment
he had about the stranger. Pointing
to the round-room Mathieu said: "Don't
go there," but was calle 1 off before he could
say more. M- Ferry, unheeding, proceeded
and entered the round room. Aubertin
stepped forward, saying:
Tarn the person wanting you. I am come
to show you a letter and pamphlet."
He proceeded to the chair in the corner, on
which lay ft portfolio, and fumbled therein
for a sealed Jetter, which he handed to the
statesman. M. Ferry went to a window
and was opening the envelope when the
stranger drew nigh to him and
twice fired aslant in the heart region. Rapidly
perceiving that the wouni had not been
mortal or even disabling?the weapon being
only a flimsy plaything?he shot M. Ferry in
the forehead near the temple, but the ball
glanced off without fracturing the bone.
Ere the fourth shot could be discharged the
crowd from the great lobby came rushing in.
The assassin was collared and fearfully
beaten and mauled. He seemed nothing
daunted and cried out to his assailants:
" I am a Lorrainerl I have avenged Lorraine
and am happy 1"
XM LI 1 1 ~ \1 !nrr I
m, rtsrry, uiuuuieu u&c a vuipnc, icuimh
and tearing open his waistcoat, exclaimed:
*'I am not seriously injured," and staggered
forward like one drunken. He was kept
from fallen by four colleagues. A medical
deputy took off his clothes to investigate
the wounds and found them slight
in character. He was conveyed to a hospital.
The following day his wounds weresomev/hat
worse.
The attempt upon M. Ferry's life .* reated
the wildest excitement throughout France;
and from being the most unpopular man in
the country he suddenly became a hero in
the eyes of thousands of frenchmen.
Jules Ferry was born in 1832 at St. Die,
France. He was very poor, and had great
struggles to acquire an education. He went
to Paris in 1854 a lawyer, and began a political
career. He ioined a band of young
lawvers. and aided the Deputies to maintain
a constant opposition upon the Empire. In
1863 he published a pamphlet called "The
Electoral Contest," which made him famous
and influential.
In 1870, after the proclamation of the third
Republic, M. Ferry was appointed one of the
members of the new Government. Ho also
became Mayor of Paris. Hatl he been caught
during the Commune he would have been
executed.
After a brief career at Athens he broke the
Cabinet, and later was nmde Prime Minister j
by President Grevy. Recently he was a for- i
midable candidate for the Presidency, but j
was defeated by Sadi-Carnot..
CHICAGO CHOSEN,
The Republican National Convention
To Be Held Jnue 19, 1888.
The Republican National Convention of
1888 will be held in Chicago on Tuesday, June
19. That was the decision reached the other
afternoon at the meeting of the Republican
National Committee in Washington after the
morning had been givon to listening to 15minut^
speeches from representatives of Minneapolis,
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Omaha,
Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington.
The committee was called to order at 11
o'clock in the morning at the Arlington Hotel
by B. F. Jones, of Pennsylvania. Chairman
Samuel Fessenden, of Connecticut, acted as
Secretary. With one or two exceptions everv
State and Territory responded at roll-call
either by a delegate or proxy.
On the first informal ballot the vote for
cities in which to hold the Convention stood:
Chicago, 11; Omaha, 10; Philadelphia, 9;
Cincinnati, 8; Minneapolis, 6; St. Louis, 2;
Washington, 1.
On the next ballot the vote stood: Chicago
22, Cincinnati 9, Minneapolis 8, Omaha 4,
Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 1.
On the third ballot Chicago received 25, one
more than a majority; Cincinnati 13, Minneapolis
H, and Omaha 1. Subsequently this
vote was made unanimous for Chicago.
Dakota and Washington Territories were
each allowed four contingent delegates in addition
to the two regular delegates to the
convention. The Chairman and Secretary
of the Committee were instructed to
prepare the call for the convention.
A request from. the National Republican
League of Washington to be .permitted
to do campaign work in tho Southern S ates,
under the direction of the National Republi
can Committee, was granted. The Commit- |
<eethen adjourned.
SEVEN LIVES LOST,
A Mother and Six Children Perish
in the Flames.
The residence of Michael Harris, a farmer,
living in the western part of Beadle
county, Dakota, fourteen miles from
Wessington, was totally destroyed by
fire the other night. Mrs. Harris and
six children, ranging from three to twenty
years, were burned to death, having been
overcome by the smoke.
Mr. Harris and one daughter succeeded in
makin? their escaoe. thousrh badly burned. I
NEWSY JJLEANIN GS,
Hard coal is worth $16 ton at Los Angeles,
Cal.
Venice, Italy, is slowly but surely ainking
into the sea.
Tjie States of Georgia, South Carolina and
Louisiana pay taxes on $48,00J,(XX) worth of
property.
A young mulatto girl who barkB furiously
and constantly like a dog is a curiosity of
I Starke, Fla.
A woman living in Watkinsville, Ga., haa
| become the mother of five children within the
I Inst. Alnvpn months
Bikds' nest and sharks' fins were lerved at
a recent dinner given by the Chinese Minister
in Washington.
In Charleston, S. C., $150,003 in Confederate
bil.s were sold the other day at twentylive
cents per thousand.
There are nine British missionary societies
now laboring in Africa, with an aggregate
annual expenditure of
Thk final estimate for the potato crop in
the United States is 134,0JJ,U00 bushels,
against 10>,00",GJU bushels last year.
A blood-red owl was caught in the woods
1 near Jacksonville, III., the other day. It is
| the only one of the kind ever seen hi the
State.
SUMMARY OF 00SGBES3.
Senate Proceedings.
5th Day.?The new list of Committee
was adopted as reported by Mr. Hoar....A
large number of miscellaneous petitions were
received, and among the bills introduced
; were the following: By Mr. Dawes?To
I grant lands in severalty to Indians in
I Dakota; Mr. Beck?For the issue of coin
certificates; Mr. Dolph?To reform the land
laws; Mr. Bowen?To provide a new
basis of national bank circulation;
Mr. Aldrich?To apply the Treasury
surplus to purchasing bonds; Messrs. Hoar,
Sawyer and Mitchell?To amend the Alien
Land act; Mr. Turpie?1To admit Montana
and New Mexico into the Union; Mr. Farwell?Prohibiting
immigration of convicts,
paupers, idiots or insane persons; Mr. Dolph
?Appropriating 1126,377,800 for seacoast
defenses; Mr. Eustis?To provide for a joint
celebration at Washington in 1889 by the
sixteen American republics in honor of the
centennial Constitution of the parent republic?the
United States. It provides for a
Commission of nine memberB to make arrangements
for the celebration, and appropriates
$300,000 for expenses: Mr. Edmunas?
To provide for the establishment of a postal
telegraph; Mr. Vance?To amend the Civil
Service act; Mr. Manderson?Granting a
pension for every soldier and sailor who is
incapacitated for the performance of manual
labor, and for pensions to dependent relatives
of deceased soldiers and sailors. (He
said that he introduced the bill at the
unanimous request of the Executive Committee
of the Grand Armyof the Republic)-....
Mr. Butler offered a resolution, which was
adopted, for the appointment of a select commiffoa
r\9 flna frw innniro infrt tViA orlwicaKili'f.V
and practicability of establishing and maintaining
a postal telegraph.... MnHall offered
a resolution providing for the appointment of
a select committee of seven to examine fully
into the present condition of the civil service
in all its branches... .Executive session.
6th Day.?The bill to refund the direct tax
to the States was unanimously reported
favorably from the Finance Committee....
Mr. Hoar introduced the Constitutional
Amendment to change the date of inauguration
day to April 30.... Bills introduced: By
Mr. Cullom?To am md the Inter-State Commerce
law and to establish a postal telegraph;
Mr. Reagan?Providing for an international
silver coinage commission; Mr. lngalls?To
remove the limitation in the payment of arrears
of pensions.... Mr. Piatt offered a resolution
to amend the rules so that hereafter
the Senate shall consider and act upon
treaties and Executive nominations in open
session, except when otherwise ordered. Referred
to the Committee on Rules.
7th Day.?Mr. Hoar, from the Committee
on Privileges and Elections, presented a report
statins that Charles J. Faulkner, and
not Daniel H. Lucas, was entitled to the seat
as Senator from West Virginia. The resolutions
were agreed to, and Mr. Faulkner was
thereupon sworn in.... Bills introduced: By
Mr. |Teller?To provide for the coinage of
half-dollars, quarters and dimes; by Mr.
George?To protect innocent purchasers of
patented articles, making it a valid defence
against actions for infringement that the article
was bought for u9e or consumption, not
for sale, and in good faith, and in the usual
course of trade, and providing that all
patents shall be subject to purchase by the
Government for general use, at a reasonable
valuation. Upon motion of Mr. Piatt, the
last bill wus referred, after debate, to the
a'l^urocj a'i uiu vi*v ?,
partment's Report.
The December statistical report of the Department
of Agriculture relates mainly to
farm prices of agricultural products. Tho
average value of corn is43.8 cents per bushel,
against 36.6 last year and 23.8 in 1883. In
1881 it was 63.8, when the estimated product
was 1,194,916,000 bushels. The difference is
largely due to a general depression of values.
The prices respectively in 1883 and 1887 are
61 and 48 in Ohio, 60 and 45 in Indiana, 38
and 41 in Illinois, 44 and 34 in Iowa, 65 and
37 in Missouri. 58 and 67 in Kansas, and 39
and 30 in Nebraska. Prices in the Gulf
States average lower than last year, resulting
from a nearly full home supply. In the Atlantic
States prices of home-grown corn are
only slightly advanced.
The average value of wheat is B'J cents,
only three mills higher than the average last
year. It is 82 in New York, (il in Pennsylvania,
74 in Michigan, 73 in Ohio, 72 in Indiana,
70 in JLliinois, 64 in Wisconsin, 02 in
Missouri, 81 in Iowa and Kansas, 59 in Minnesota,
53 in Nebraska and 52 in Dakota.
The average for oats is 30.7 cents, against
29.8 last year. Barley averages 52.2 instead
of 53 last year. Buckwheat 56.1, or 1.7 cents
higher than last year. The cereal averages
for the entire country differ very slightly
from those of last year, except as to corn.
The value of potatoes is greatly enhanced,
being 68.5 cents against 45 last year. It is
higher than for seven years, except in 1881.
The value of hay is much increased. It averages
$9.34 per ton, against $7.36 last year.
The advance has been in the drought area of
the West
Cotton values are about half a cent higher
than in December last. The average plantation
prices by States are as follows: 8.7 cento
per pound for the States of the Atlantic
coast; 6.6 for Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana; 8.5 for Tennessee and Arkansas,
and 8.3 for Texas.
PEOMINENT PEOPLE.
Senator Stanford pays the porter of hi*
private car $200 a month.
The Marchioness of Westminster celebrated
her ninetieth birthday recently.
Senators Edmunds, Hoar, Sherman and
Eustis read French like native Parisians.
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, carries
life insurance policies aggregating $12o,000.
Lord Tennyson receives an income of
from $20,000 to $25,000 a year from the sale
of his booka
Peter Hat.iv an Burnett, the first
American Governor of California, is in his
eighty-first year. He enjoys life like a man
ot forty.
It is probable that next spring Queen Victoria
will unveil the colossal bronze statue of
General Gordon, which is to be erected at
Aberdeen, in front of the Art Gallery.
Rev. O. H. Walker, of New London,
Conn., has a greav record as an inauscriou*
preacher. He has been absent from liis pulpit
only two Sundayj in thirty Ave years.
Jay Goulo has only grown indifferent as
to his wearing apparel within lihe last few
years. He once paid big tailor bills, and on
one occasion gave $75 for a pair of suspenders
?:?t- ?ij i 3.1? 1
wim goiu uuukiea, auu uo nuiv ?uvm.
Fault of tho Justices of the Supreme
Court of tho United States?Chief Justice
Waite und Justices Field, Bradley and Miller
?are over seventy years old, and are entitled
ty law to retire With no loss of salary.
Michael Richards, recently appointed
one of tho Railway Commission of the State
of New York by Governor Hill, is a member
of the Utica lJivision, No. 14, of Utica, New
York. Brotherhood of Lecomotive Engineers.
John Good, the Now York manufacturer,
has just been c reated a Count by His Holiness
Pope Leo XIlI., in recognition of his lifelong
devotiou to the Church and bis munificent
gifts to religion and charitable institution*
Committee on Patents by 40 yeas to ?5 nays
... .Mr. Morrill spoke in favor of his bill regulating
immigration. Its main object, hs
said, was to have the character of foreign
immigrants examined first by United States
Consuls at the ports of departure, instead of
by State Commissioners at the porta of arrival.
House Proceedings.
4th Dat.?The Speaker called upon Mr.
Crisp to preside, and requested the House to
appoint a Committee of Elections. He
stated that the e irly election of this committee
would greatly facilitate the appointment
of the other committees.... A resolution was
adopted providing that the House will the
next day proceed to the election of the Committee
on Elections, and the House then adjourned.
> 5th Day.?A large number of executive
communications were laid before the House
by the Speiker and appropriately referred:
nnd then at 12:10 tho House took a recess
until 1 o'clock. After the reces*, Mr. Cannon
(111.) offered a resolution declaring that the following
named gentlemen shall constitute the
Committee on Elections: Messrs. Crisp,
O'Ferrall, Outhwaite, Barry, Maish, Heard,
Johnson of North Carolina, O'Neill of Indiana,
Moore, Rowell, Houk, Cooper, Lyman,
Johnson of Indiana, and Lodge. The resolution
was unanimously adopted. The
Speaker, having resumed the chair, directed
all papers in the various contested election
cases to be referred to the Committee just
elected, and then the House adjourned for
wo days.
PRICES OF PRODUCTS.
cu?._i,a VoAin ?tin AnrlrnUnrnl T)n I
A FLOOD OF BILLS.
The Largest Number Ever Introduced
in the Senate.
Old and New Measures Brought
Up For Action.
The total number of bills and joint'resolutions
introduced in the United States Senate
on Monday was 504, a larger number than
was ever before introduced in one day.
Amonz the bills dresented by the Senators
were a few new ones of genuine importance
and a number of old ones which failed of
passage last session.
The most interesting of the former was
Senator Beck's bill regarding the circulation
of coin certificates, which he entitled:
"A bill for the retirement of
United States legal tender and national
bank notes of small denominations, and
the issue of coin certificates.'' Its purpose
is fairly described in the title, and iterideavore
to secure its object by preventing the
issue of United States notes of less than $10,
limiting national bank notes of less than $10 to
one fourth of the entire circulation, substituting
coin certificates for silver and gold
certificates, which shall be retired when thev
are received at the Treasury, and authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
fHoca in /lonnminnt.innQ lnoQ
than 120 on all the surplus gold and silver
coin and bullion in excess of $100,0J0,0D0 of
gold.
Senator Bowen touched upon the same
subject by his bill providing a new guarantee
for bank circulation, ana bis old bill for
the unlimited coinage of silver. Both these
branches of the financial subject were well
represented among the bills of the other
Senators.
Senator Blair, among a series of labor and
temperance bills, put in his old Educational j
bill again, and Senator Cameron reintroduced,
with some slight changes, bis bill permitting
the International Navigation Company
to bring their fleet of foreign built
vessels under the American "register. This
bill adds also the permission to replace
any of their fleet lost or destroyed
with new vessels constructed or purchased in
foreign countries. He also introduced his
last session's bill to promote the foreign trade
of the United States, which provides compen
sation for carrying the mails to vessels of
specified classes at rates varying from four
cents to four aud four-fifth cents per 100 tons
per mile.
Among other bills were the following:
By Edmunds?Appropriating $2,003,000
for the establishment of a postal telegraph
system, with four main trunk lines, centering
at Washington, and lateral branches to con-'
nect with leading cities generally, to be
operated by the Postoffice Department.
By Mitchell?To regulate immigration and j
prevent the introduction of an objectionable
class of citizens.
By Pugh?To refer all claims coming before
Congress to a committee having power
to send them to the Court of Claims.
By Dolph?To amend the Constitution,
giving Congress power to make laws to govern
marriages and divorces.
By Eustis?Providing for a joint celebration
at the national capital in 1SJ39 by the 16
American Republics in honor of the centennial
of the Constitution of the parent Republic?the
United States. The bill appropriates
$300,000 for this purpose and provides a commission
to have charee of the celebration.
By Turpie?For the admission as States of
Washington and Dakota Territories.
By Hoar?For the erection of a monument
to the negro soldiers and sailors who gave
their lives for the preservation of the country.
By Chandler?Fixing the salaries of the
several Judzes of the United States District
Courts at $5,000 yearly.
By Cullom?For a pension to the widow of
General John A. Logan: also for a constitutional
amendment in relat ion to bigamy and
polygamy: also to reimburse several States
for interest pa d on war bonds.
By Halo?To prohibit the letting of government
work to contractors employing convict
labor.
Bv Dawes?A bill to grant lands in severalty
to Sioux Indians in Dakota.
By Manderson?The Dependent Pension
bill, indorsed bv the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mr. Manderson said he would address
the Senate in favor of the bill.
By Vance?To repeal the Civil Service law.
By Stewart?For the issue of Coin Certificates.
IBE LABOR WOBLD,
English workmen are coming to America
in large numbers.
The barbers have been holding a National
Convention in Buffalo.
Mr. Powderly says there are over 500,000
Knights of Labor in this country.
Northampton (England), factories have
begun a lock-out of 15,000 workmen.
A Nebraska genius has invented an automatic
cow-milker, which is said to be a succesa
A school for political economy for workin
^mon has been started at Cooper Union,
New York City.
South Omaha is proud to be called "the
Meat City." It is becoming a great live
stock and packing centre.
New stock yards covering four hundred
and forty acres and costing $100,000 were
opened at St. Joseph, Missouri.
Since September two thousand five hundred
hands employed in the South Carolina
phosphate industry have been thrown out of
work.
It is said that there are 1,500 unemployed
painters in Ne^v York city. Nearly 10,00;)
carpenters, muurcre, uncKiajt'is, piuocviuio,
etc., are said to be out of work at present.
Srxpearl button factories in Newark, N. J.,
have been clo.se.-l and four are running on
three-quarter time. As a consequence, over
1,000 persons are thrown out of employment
The National Assembly of the Papar
Hangers and Decorators will meet in New
York on January 11th for tha purposa of
electing officers and adopting rules to govern
the trada
THE MARKETS.
new york. 59
Beef, good to prime 5% Vl4
Calves, common to prime.... 5 @ 8%
8heep 3%@ 5
Lam us 6%
Hogs?Live 5 @
Dressed
Flour?Ex. St .good to fancy 4 su (g ?
West, good to choice 3 10 @ 5 Zo
Wheat?No. 2 lied 8?%(& 89
Rye-State 50 @ oS
Barlev?State
Cora?Urzraded Mixed.... 64%
Oats?White State 37 @ 37'f
Mixed Western....... 30 @ 39
Hay?Mei3. to prime 75 @ 90
Btraw-No. 1. Rye <g TO
Lard?City Steam 7 50 @ 7 SO
Butter?State Creamery.... 20 (tij 28
Dairy 10 @ 27
West Im. Creamery IS @ 25
Factory 14 & 23
Clieese?State Factory 10 @ 11%
Skims 4
Western 11M?
Eggs?State and Penn 24 (i$ 27
BUFFALO.
Steers?Western.... 3 35 @ 3 75
Sheep?(rood toUlioice ? 4? <g/ * w
Joints?Western (5 10 CcQ '? '*()
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorka 5 25 @ 5 3"
Flour?Family 4 75 @ 5 15
Wheat?No. 1 8i>}/t($ 110
Corn?No. Mixed 57;f^?5 58
Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? & :>3
Barley?State 72 @ 85
BOSTON.
Beef?Good to choi<.*e 7V^@ 8
Hogs?Live 5^'@ 0
Northern Dressed.... *>%(?$ 7^
? - T. 1L1 i-r AA i r *n
forK?u,x. jrrimo, per uui. ..n w w
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 (gi 4 95
Corn?High Mixed. ? @
Oats?Extra White .'#5 ($
Rye?State 60 (S) 05
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLK MARKET.
Beef- Dressed weight W @ ~>lA
Sheen?Live weight 3J^@ 43a
Lamb? 5 @ 0
Hogs?Northern 6 @
PniLADELPHIA.
Flour?Peun.ext.ra family... 3 75 (3) 3 87}?
Wheat?No. 2. Red 87},'? 97^
Corn?State Yellow 5;i^@ 55
Oats Mixe.l 37 @ S8
Rye?State 53
Butter Creamery Extra... ? @ 30
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 12%
BUDGET OF FUN. '
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
He Had Changed His Mind?Negotiating
for a Dog?A Change
of Fortune?The Unmaking
of Him.
Esmeralda Longcoffin to Hostetter McGinnis
?" Are you still mad at me, Mr
MoGinnis ?"
McGinn is?" What about ?"
Esmeralda?44 You know on Christmas
you proposed and I cruelly rejected your
offer. I have?I have thought better of
it since."
McGinnis?Humph! So have I."?j
Siftings.
Negotiating for a Dog.
Robinson?"That's a fine dog you
i have, Dumley. Do you want to sell
I him ?"
|... Dumley?" I'll sell him for $50."
Robinson?" Is he intelligent ?"
j Dumley (with emphasis)?' Intelligent!
W hy that dog knows as much as
I do."
Robinson?4' You don't say so! Well,
I'll give you twenty-five cents for him,
Dumley."?New York Sun.
A Change of Fortune.
" Do vou see that man sawinsr wood
over there ?"
*' Yes. What about him ?"
4< He wasn't always doing such work
as that."
41 Has a history, eh ? What did he
formerly do ?"
" Why, when I saw him last he was
splitting wood."?NeLraska Slate Journal.
The Unmaking of Him.
Omaha Man (on railroad train)?No, I
am not travelling on business exactly. I
am going East after my son. He is in a
college there and was hurt recently in a
I game of football. I shall take him out.
I don't believe in these Eastern colleges
anyhow?all play and no work.
Stranger?Well, I do. I am a college
graduate and I owe my present success
to my collegiate training. I just tell
you, football tOHghensa man up wonderfully.
The knocking around I got in
college was the making of me. .
"Humph! What business are you in?"
"I am a book agent."?Omaha World.
No Time for an Argument.
It was on a Central Hudson train,
bound north, and he had been delivering
a learned disquisition upon the political
and financial outlook to a passenger
i in the seat ahead.
j "My friend," he concluded, "what is
! your opinion of Government bonds?"
i Just then the whistle sounded for Sing
I on/1 Viia fn'fln/l rnnliprl
UUU UJO iwvuv.
"I don't think much of 'em," display- |
ing a pair of handcu.l'cd wrists, "but I'll 1
have to say good-by, sir. This is my
station."?New York kiun.
' How Katie's Father Said Grace.
A South End little girl was taking
' supper with a playmate a few evenings
| ago. After the pater familias had "said
| grace" with due soleinuity, the little
: hostess turned to her guest, and asked:
"Does your papa say grace at supper,
Katie?"
"No," replied Katie with a charming
candor, "but he says something else."
This answer of course aroused the interest
of the elder persons. "What does
he say?" was asked the little visitor."
"Good heavens, what a supper?" was
the sweetly calm response.?'Boston Commnn
trsnlth.
So Sudden.
It is said that a genius has invented
what is called an electrical lounge. The
lounge is connected by wire with the
parental bedroom. At ten fifteen,
prompt, the cruel father touches a knob
in his room and the seat of the lounge
flies up and spills itsorcupants upon the
floor. We can imagine a youth in the
act of proposing when the knob is
touched. He is saying:
"Oh, Jennie I love you more than
tongue can tell. Will you be mine?
My own, ray very own? Will you "
Just then, presto! change! up flies the
seat of the lounge and the pair are sent
spinning across the floor. How natural
it would be for the young lady to say
I then:
'Oh, George, this is so sudden."?
! Boston Courier.
Excusing a Jnror.
| The following was perpetrated by a
judge of one of our higher local courts,
now off the bench, but whose identity
will be instantly discovered by many
lawyers without mentioning his name.
On the first Monday of a term many
jurors were as usual iu line before him
to present reasons for b;-ing excused from
service. Among them was a very dirty,
unkempt, shaggy-bearded man, who,
despite the efforts of the attendants to
restrain him insisted on advancing to the
judge's desk and speaking privately with
him. The judge, noticing his importunity,
signified his willingness to allow
the talesman to approa.'h and then said
to him somewhat sternly: ''"Well, sir; I
what is it?" The man leaned over the
benoh until his lips almost touched the I
judge's ear and then whispered:
< tl?*ta rtr\T fVio itrh "
The crowded court-room was watching
the result with curiosity. "Mr.
Clerk," said the judge instantly, without
the slightest change of expression, and
in a voice painfully loud and distinct:
"Mr. Clerk, he's got the itch. Scratch
him."?Neu> York Tribune.
John Tarbox's Teeth.
Look at the Maine individual over
there in the red flannel shirt which is not
even on speaking terms with soap. You
might not think from casual observation
that he had any peculiarity whatever,
but the other day he came down
with a terrible toothache?an ache that
reared, and kicked, and ''bucked," all
within thirty seconds, till the world |
ceased to have any attraction for the j
man who was entertaining it. Well, he i
couldn't stand it any longer, and started
post ha*te for a dentist in a neighboring
town.
The proprietor of a hardware store in
I clo3e proximity to tliis dentist was standing
in the door of his siore that afternoon,
when he heard the most earsplitting
shriek proceeding from the
otfiee of the man of teeth. lie had become
accustomed to moans and subdued
exclamations from that quarter, but
. i ? 1 1.
| never nan uenru eutu <?o UUn
| pierccd the air. His curiosity was so
thoroughly aroused that a little later on
he walked into the dentist's office, and
said: "Whom have you been butchering
over here' I never heard such a
yell in my life."
; "Oh," replied the extractorof molars,
"that was old .John Tarbox, from T .
lie had a tooth out."
'Had atooth out!" replied the visitor.
I should think sr and it must
?
-t
'
. " " '1 i
'have come mighty hard to fetch rccki
a roar as that."
"Oh, dear no," said the dentist; 4to
didn't make that noise when I palled
the tooth. It was afterward." <<
' Afterward?"
"Why, yes," was the reply. "T1m
tooth came easily enough. The timl
when he fetched that cry of agony wai
when I charged him fifty ccnts for
doing the job."? Lmiston Journal.
Scenes in Japan.
We had boatmen take us over tht ;
water, skirtinc the shores And t?nrhin? 1
at all the little moss-covered temples that 9
are dotted along the shores. There were Xj
no priests, no signs of life or occupanoj I
at aoy of the little temples, bat from the H
curious way in which- one boatman wai jfl
tolled off to watch usit was not intended tfi
that the shrines should suffer any loss I
or desecration, nor their altars be be
spoiled of one of the scorea of little
black wooden images with which"they 9
were decorated. From the water 3
Chnizenji village appears as a small vol- . I
low spot between the unbroken slope of I
Nautasian and the great lake. Its fine g
tea-houses rise straight lrom the water's I
edge, each with a triple row of outev V
galleries looking out upon the beautiful
view. Tsutaya, Idznmiya and Nakamarya
are the names of three of these
pretty inns, and life in them is mufth .
more Japanese than at the much-frequented
inns at Nickko. We have chairs
and tables, but there the foreign concessions
cease, and.we lookout'for our town ^
Knives ana iorKS, Dreaa, o utter, mi tic.
beef, or go without. We sleep oil th*
floar, wash our faces in a common basis
on the inside gallery of the house, and
go about in our stocking feet in thf
house. When we want a servant we slide
a screen, clap our hands, and a vigorous, "
long-drawn " Hey 1" announces that the
rosy-cheekcd mountain maid has heard
us. The gentle rocking of the house
tells that the vigorous maiden is running. <
up the stairs "of the fragile bu;lding.
The washing of the rice and vegetables,
and kitchen utensils, and the family '
clothes, all goes on from the little plank,
of a pier that runs out .from tho lowest
floor of the house. Each hotel has a
similar pier, and there are sociable timet
when each pier has one or more maidens
washing rice in bamboo baskets. Onemorning
at sunrise I slid the screen to
look out on the glorious panorama of
green mountains wreathed in rose-colored
clouds and reflected in the still mirror of'
the lake, and saw a solitary figure standing
at the end of a pior, tooth brush in
hand and lost in contemplation of the
scene. The servants of the houses takethe
whole lake to wash their faces and j
brush their teeth in each morning, but <
now that the nights and mornings are
almost frosty they do not plunge in to
do it.?Ohbe-Democrat.
Grist from Legal Mills. ' . '1
A conductor, says the Texas Supreme- S
Court, must, when collecting fares, give H
a passenger a reasonable time to find his
tickct.
Opposed to the rules prevailing elsewhere,
the Massachusetts Supreme Court
holds that a middle name or initial is
part of a person's legal name.
The highest court of New Jersey declares
that for a false statement affecting
the credit of a merchant, a mercantile
agency is responsible in damages.
A bequest to an adopted child on condition
that she shall remain unmarried
until she becomes twenty-one years of
age, has just been held valid by the
j uuun ui TTCSI# vjigmm.
A lawyer's office table has been decided
in Iowa to be an "instrument" necessary
to carry on bis business, and exempt
under the statute prevailing in that?. ;
State from seizure on a debt.
In Mississippi a passenger on a train
was carried beyond his destination and
then claimed damages on account of the
mental anxiety caused by the separation
from his family. But the Court "could
not sec it."
The English judges were recently very
much divided in opinion as to the cor- ?
rect method of getting out of a berth atsea.
A practical jnry decided the question
in favor of a lady who had stepped
out forward on the top rail of a chair ..j
which the stewardess had put there for - "*
her and had f:illen and hurt herself^- 3
The record of a recent California mur- "t
[ dcr case reads like a romance from the
i 1.1 1 ?i i u:ua. "'3
laius ui uuivuirj'. n. unici ituu cauicu
between two rival Chinese societies
known respectively as the Ho Sin Sear
Society and the Guy Sin Sear Society,
and culminated in a murder committed
by the accused while inra*ed in a steel
coat of mail and irmed with four pistols.
In Alabama it has been recently decided.
contrary to the opinion prevailing
I in nnorlu fill flip Strttpq thftf. thoiich
one committing a murder can distinguish
right from wrong, yet if by disease his- will
is so impaired that he cannot resist
the temptation to do the act, he is not
responsible to the law. This is very
dangerous ground, though the doctrine
which many scientists have advocated.
A Ddtermined Suicide.
Some "Wallachian peasants were one
day working in the field near the banks
of the Maros. Suddenly they saw &.
stranger rush frantically through the
field,and plunge headlong into the river.
They pursued, and dragjjed him out,
dripping;he departed,and they returned
to their work. Shortly afterward
again appeared, and for the second tiwe
took a suicidal "header.1' Again the
peasanls snatched him from the raging
torrent, and returned to their work. Yet
a third time they saw him enter the field:
but on this occasion he did not make for
the river, but, climbing up a tree, delibirt
tn }iAn<r himself from
t/i ij |/1vvwvuvm ?
one of the branches. This time his former
preservers did not interfere, and be
drained the cup of his fate to the last
drop. Presently a crowd of the relatives
and friends of the deceased, from whose
custody he had escaped, arrived, headed
by the parish priest, and roundly abused
the peasants for permitting'the late lamented
to kill himself. The peasants
naively replied that they had pulled him
out of the river twice, and as he was
dripping wet, they thought he had hung
himself up to dry.?Arg maut.
Counting: Apple Seeds.
The following rhyme, long in use in
New England, has followed the eating of
many an apple, and afforded much pleasure
to youthful hearts in trying to decide
their fate in love. The name of
some person having been chosen, the
fortune of the counter is decided according
to the number of seeds, as follows :
One, I love,
Two, I love,
Three. I love. I say;
Four, 1 love with all my heart,
And five least away;
Six, he loves,
Seven, she loves.
Eight, they both love;
Nine, he comes.
Ten, ho tarries;
Eleven, he courts,
Twelve, lio marries;
Thirteen, wishe-,
Fourteen, kisses.
All the vest little witches.
-Fioston Hfrakl.