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RESCUED FROM A WELL.
John Anderson, of Nebraska,
Entombed Ten Days.
Thrilling Experiences in the Depths
of the Excavation.
John Anderson, of Johnstown, Neb., was
at the bottom of a seventy-five foot well I
making some repairs ten days ago, when the j
sides of the orifice caved in and imprisoned i
him. An alarm was immediately sent
throughout the neighborhood, and people as- i
6embled from far and near to assist in liber- i
ating him For eight clays over on? hun- I
dred sturdy neighbors labored to acc omplish
this end,but it was only on the ninth that the
excavators got within sound of the imprisoned
man's voice. A dispatch dated on the day of
his rescue gives the following particulars:
Over one hundred feet of lumber were
used in the construction of the framework
by means of which he wai> to be rescued. He
was perfectly cheerful throughout, in spite
of his terrible situation, a-ui directed the
work of the other men. It was hoped that
he would bo rescued the day before, but when
the sun went down it was found impossible
to get light to him so that he could see to
work. It was accordingly decided to wait
for daylight.
At daylight the work was resumed with renewed
courage and determination. A box,
eighteen inches long and ten by eleven inches
square, open at both ends and thoroughly
soaped inside, was lowered to the boards that
were protecting him In this covering a
hole was cut ana the box was slipped through.
At ten o'clock Anderson, after pulling off his
clothes, tied a rope under his arms,and holding
his hands straight above his head, was pulled
through the box and finally released from
his prison.
Before raising him to the open air hi3
clothes were put on and stimulants were administered.
After reaching the top of the
ground he shook hands with his rescuers and j
tried to thank them, but could only say:
"God bless you, boys!" when his voice was
choked.
There were two hundred people present,
and there were very few dry eyes among
them. He was at once carried to the farmhouse
and placed under the care of two
physicians.
After he was taken into the house the
crowd gave three cheers for Henry Archer
and George Campbell, the men who took
him from the well. They were so overcome
with fatigue and joy that when the crowd
began congratulating them they were like
children. There is as much rejoicing as if
Anderson had been a brother to every person
in the community. So intense was the excitement
and anxiety that farmers left their
fields and merchants their stores and flocked
to the scene of the accident Every day
supplies were sent to the workers from
private residences and stores, and the
women were unceasing in their kindly offices.
But, although the rescuing party did all in
^ their power, Anderson would never have
Bfe been saved but for his own efforts. He
f planned and directed the work during the
r last two days.
f The rescued man in relating his experience
says that when the boards and sand closed in
over him, he was crowded into a box about 2
feet BiJU&re and with not room for him to
stand erect He could not get on his knees
nor sit down.
D "About the first three days," says Andermr\r\
"T orftf. olnnor wrv waII Inf. flftflr that I
began to want water badly. The fourth
day when it rained I heard what I
thought was water slowly dropping. Feeling
around I found it and holding my mouth
open managed in this way to get about a
dozen drops of water which gave me much,
relief. I had no difficulty in breathing until
the well below me came so near being filled
by 6and occasionally coming in,caused by the
diggers above.
"Having a supply of chewing tobacco I did
not suffer so much for food as might have
been expected. From the beginning I could
hear considerable that was said and done
above. I heard the wagon when it started to
town for lumber and heard some one say the
man is dead and the order given to try to pull
my box out. When they began to pull I knew
there was great danger of the boards giving
way and crushing me, and for my own safety
and to give evidence of being alive, I cut the
ropes and heard the exciting talk that
prevailed when it was discovered that I was
alive. It was music to me, and from that
time on I was hopeful of being rescued.
"About the sixth day I felt something
crawling on my hand and found it to bo a
flv. I thought by this that an opening had
been made from above. I was correct, for
soon a wet rag was passed to me. It was
covered with 6and, but no honey ever tasted
better than the moisture in that raj. Soon a
bottle of water and a piece of bread were
given me."
COMING FAIRS.
Leading Fairs To Be Held in the
United States This Fall.
*
The American Agriculturist publishes the
following; list of prominent fairs that will be
held throughout the United States this fall.
The cities in which the fairs are to be held
and the time of holding them are given
below: j
Am. Institute....New York Oct 3-8
Arkansas Pine Bluff Oct. 9-13
Buffalo New York Sept. 4-14 i
California Sacramento.... oept. ;>-i3 i
Colorado Pueblo Oct. 2-0 :
Connecticut Meriden Sept 11-14 :
Dakota Huron Sept 24-30 i
Del & Md. Peninsula,
1st Horti- i
cultural Ex Wilmington...Sept. 18-21
Delaware Dover Sept. 24-29
Georgia Macon Oct 10-10
Illinois Olney Sept 24-28
Illinois Fat Stock.Chicago Nov. 13-21
Indiana Indianapolis.. .Sept. 17-22
Iowa Des Moines. Aug. 3l-Sep. 7
Kansas... Topeka Sept 17-22
Kentucky Lexington.. Aug. 28-Sep. 1
Louisiana Rhreveport Nov. &-10
Maryland Higerstown Oct 16-19
Maine Lewiston Sept 11-14 I
Mass. Bay State. .Springfield Oct 4-9 I
Mass. Horticult'l..Boston Sept. 18-21 |
Michigan Jackson Sept 10-14 i
Minnesota. St Paul Sept 10-15 I
Mississippi Jackson Oct. 8-13 '
Missouri St. Louis Oct 1-6 I
Montana. Helena Aug. 20-25 (
Nebraska Lincoln Sept. 7-14 i
N.England,Mass. .Worcester Sept 4-7 j
N.Hamp. Grange. Tiltoa Sept. 12-14 i
New Jersey Waverly Sept 17-21 1
New York. Elmira Sept 17-22
North Carolina. ..Ra'eigh Oct 16-20
Ohio Columbus Sept. 4-19
Ohio CenteimiaL .Cincinnati. .July 4-Oct 27
Ontario, Provin'l. .Kiimston Sept 10-15
Oregon Salem Sept. 17-21
Pennsylvania Philadelphia....Sept. 3-15
Knoae jsiana rro vmence oepu.
South Carolina...Columbia Nov. 13-16
Tennessee Nashville Sept. 23-29 ,
Texas Dallas Oct. 11-31 1
Vermont. Burlington.... Sept. 11-14
Virginia Richmond..Oct.3-Nov. 21 t
West Virginia Wheeling Aug. 27-31
Wisconsin Madison Sept. 17-21 i
Wisconsin Indus.. Racine Sept. 4-7
Wyoming (Jhoyene Sept. 25-28 r
A $50,000 TEOTTEE.
A Renowned Younjj Stallion Sold '
in Kentucky. c
Th? renowned young trotting stallion Bell
Boy has been sold at Maple Ridge Farm,near c
Lexington, Ky., at auction for $50,000. The
tale was made to close a partnership in the 0
horse which was owned by Mr. C. C. Seaman,
of San Diego, Cal, and Taomas Jefferson,
of Kentucky. A large crowd of horsemen
from all parts of the country was pres- 1
ent, but only two men engaged in the bidding.
Mr. John S. dark, of Elmira, N. Y.. ;
started the horse at $^0,000, Mr. Seaman I
raised him $10,001 From that on $1000 bids
came fast and furious until Seaman bid $40,000.
Then Mr. Clark bid $500 better, and '
bids of the latter amount were the order till *
Mr. Seaman bid $4'J,O0J, when Mr. Clark
only raised it $ 100. Mr. Seaman's next bid c
was $50,000, and there being no advance, j
Captain Phil C. Kidd, the auctioneer,
knocked the horse down to Mr. Seaman at t
the highest price ever paid for a horse at c
auction in America.
Bell Boy is three years old, by Electioneer, p
dam Beautiful Bills, by The Moor. He has a 1;
two-year-old record of 2:26. J
Mr. Seaman will place Bell Boy in the
hands of Mike Bowermm,of Lexington,Ky., 1
to be trained for the fall's campaign. 0
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate Proceedings.
139th Day.?Mr. Saulsbury made a lengthy
address in favor of ratifyine the Fishery
Treaty....The Sundry Civil Service bill was
taken up for consideration. The proviso that
there shall not lie an iucrease in the number
of steam plate printing machines in the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing was agreed
to.
140th Da v.?An amendment to the Sundry
Civil bill providing for the widow of
Spencer F. Baird was passed, after debate
.... The Committee on Education and Labor
reported favorably the bill to create Boards
of Arbitration tor settling controversies and
differences between railroad corporations
and their employes.
141st Day.?The Senate spent the greater
part of the day discussing an amendment to
the Sundry Civil bill which looks to the reclamation
of lands in the arid regions of the |
West, for agricultural purposes, by means of j
a system of reservoirs and irrigating ditches. |
The amendment was finally passed appropriating
?250,000 for preliminary work in reclamation
A bill introduced by Sonator
Blair, at the request of the Federation of Labor,amends
the law prohibiting the importation
of foreigners under contract, so that the
importation of any alien or foreign laborer,
mechanic, artist or artisan,under agreement
to perform labor, is unlawful.
142d Day.?The resolution to appoint a
committee to investigate the commercial relations
between the United States and Canada
was agreed to The Select Committee on
the Pacific Railroads, reported the Union Pacific
Funding bill providing for a settlement
of claims growing oat of the issue of bonds
and to secure a payment of all indebtedness
The Senate then considered the Sundry
Civil bill, the question being on the amendment
of Mr. Spooner appropriating $75,030
for a public building at Atchison, Kan. The
amendment was rejected?yeas, 21; nays, 23.
Mr. Spooner offered as an amendment the
bill to refund the direct tax. Mr. Harris j
made the point of order, that the amendment
was general legislation, and not in order j
on a general appropriation bill, and Presi- |
ripnf-. Trio-nils nromDtlv ruled the point of j
order as well taksn.
143d Day.?The bill appropriating $3,000,- i
000 for the purchase of a site or sites lor a I
new Custom House and Appraiser's Stores in
the city of New York was passed. It is the |
same bill which passed the House some time
ago....The Committee on Agriculture re- |
ported back the bill to enlarge the powers of
the Department of Agriculture and to create
an executive department to be known as the
Department of Agriculture.... A joint resolution
empowering the President to employ
such means as may be necessary to promptly
obtain indemnity from the Venezuelan Gov*
ernment for damages suffered by the Venezuelan
Steam Transportation Company of
New York through tne seizure of its steamers
Hero, San Fernando, and Nutrias in 1S71
by Venezuelan beligerents was adopted
The Senate passed the following bills:
The House bill for the erection of an appraiser's
warehouse in the city of New York, the
House bill to provide for the disposal of the
Fort Wallace Military Reservation in Kansas,
the Senate bill appropriating $30,000 for
a monumental column to commemorate the
battle of Princeton, N. J....The Sundry
Civil bill was again brought up for discussion.
Mr. Call's amendment appropriating
$10,030 for the recovery of property of the
IttlO VUlUDU0iai,0 ?JU*uoo uu?? uwiu iu u^tvjow
possesion to the government waS considered.
Mr. Allison moved to lay the resolution on
the table, and the motion was agreed to without
division. The Sundry Civil bill was
then passed.
Honse Proceedings.
173d Day.?The war claim section of th?
Army Appropriation bill was discussed. A
request by ex-Confedorates for return ol
money paid out by them on November 25,
1862, was passed.
174tii Day.?Mr. Conger, from the Com
in it tee on Agriculture, reported to the Hous<
the substitute for the Butter worth bill tc
regulate the manufacture of compound lard
.... Mr. Payson spoke on the subject of land
grants....Mr. Voorhees delivered a speech
urging the admission of Washington Territory
into the Union?The bills favorable re
ported to the House from the comraitteei
were the following: The Senate bill tcf amend
the Interstate Commerce act; the Senat?
bills for the erection of a monument to th<
memorv of General Henry Knox, of Thornaston,
Me., and for the completion of a monument
to Mary, the mother of Washington,
at Fredericksburg, Va.; to incorporate tb?
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AlJUCliUlii msbviivai noowiawvu.
175th Day.?The House Committee on
Manufactures submitted a l-eport on the
trusts investigation and mapp:ng out a plan
of procedure against them.... A joint resolution
calling for information from our Consuls
in foreign countries relative to emigration
to the United States was passed....Mr.Sowden
reported favorably to the House his bill
appropriating $70,000 for a public building
at Allen town, Penn... .The following bills
were introduced: Directing the Superintendent
of the Eleventh Census to ascertain and 1
publish the birth and death rate among pure
whites and among colored people, Chinamen,
Indians, half breeds or hybrids of any de- .
scription or character of the human race
who are found in the United States, as well <
as of mulattoes, quadroons, and octoroons; ,
to set apart a tract of land in New Mexico,
adjoining the Cochiti Indian reservation, aa
a public reservation, on account of its archaeological
remains; to amend the Inter-State
Commerce act, so as to prevent discrimina- 1
tions in favor of the owners of tank cars,and J
to allow fines imposed to ba paid over to the |
koAnAniiillK/K Al'ftlAMB Tka fll/Ii/tt QltTT 1
i he annual consujicion 01 cuu.ee is wu,uw j
ons throughout the world.
The Egyptian Government expended $i50,- i
KHJ boring for oil and got none.
Delaware has this year the largest peach
rop ever grown in its history.
New York City real estate is increasing
it the rate of $ 1,000,08J a week. j
The Florida orange crop is expected to
each 3,000,000 boxes this season.
The deficit in the Postoffke Department
his vear will bo onlv about ?5,000,0j0.
Two counterfeiters were recently arrested
n Pittsburg with $45,000 in spurious green>acks.
Large numbers of cattle are being shipped
rom the Sandwich Islands to the United J
States. j
Greece has had such hot weather that the j
urrant crop has been damaged twenty-five ;
>er cent. j
Fish-salt, which is sure death to sheep, ia |
>eing put out on their ranges by Montana j
tattle men. ,
The amount necessary for maintaining the
5an Francisco school "department for next |
ear is placed at ?970,000.
There are thirty.seven tunnels of more than
000 yards in England, the longest being that
if the Severn, yards. '
'
A GREAT CORN CROP.
in Estimated Yield This Year
of 2,000,000,000 Bushels.
An Increase of 540,000,000 Bushels
Over Last Year.
The importance of the corn crop in its
affect upon the prosperity of the country is
often lost sight of in considering the value of
our wheat crop. The fact is, says a New
York paper, that the latter cuts but a small
fieure as compared with the former. The
relative value of corn or wheat per bushel i?
now about 50 to 90 cents. The wheat
yield this year may be roughly estimated
at 420,000,000 bushels, worth, say,
$378,000,000. Thfr yield of corn will probably
approximate 2,000.000.000 bushels, worth,
sav, $1,000,000,000. These figures show the
relative importance of the two crops. Again,
it should be remembered that the average
yield of corn per acre is from twenty-two to
twenty-five bushels, while wheat averages
about twelve bushels. At the prices which
have been ruling recently the value of corn
per acre will average about $12, while wheat
will barely average $11 per acre.
Corn is therefore by far a moro important
crop than wheat, and the excellent prospect
of a big corn crop this year is one of the most
favorable features of tho crop situation. Dur- |
ing the past week there h is been the same !
favorable conditions affecting corn that have j
been noticed for several weeks. The Cincin- I
nati Price Current says:
:'With sufficiency of moisture and seasonab!e
conditions otherwise for a few weeks. I
the crop may.be confidently expected to equal j
the production in 1885,or to exceed it; in that ;
year the area was about 2,300,000 acres less j
than planted this season, according to indi- I
cation of official estimates, and yielded an !
average of 2CJ4 bushels per acre for the en- I
tire country. This season's gain in area, j
compared with 1885, is greater in the South
Mion in fVio Western erouD of corn-raisine: !
States?the latter representing about 700,OuO
acres, or about IX per cent, and the former
1,600,0JO acres, or 7% per cent. The present
outlook appears to be for a crop of about
1,950,000.000 bushels, on continuance of favorable
conditions.
"Taking the area of the corn crop harvested
in 188?,an application of the estimates
of the different States as reported by the |
Department of Agriculture in July, 1887, re- 1
suited in about 77,985,000 acres, as representing
last year s planting. The returns of area
harvested are stated as 72,392,720 acres, or
5,592,000 acres less than were planted. Applying
the estimates of this year's planting
to harvested area in 1887, the indicated
planting this season is 75,430,000 acres, again
of 3,037,COO acres compared with last year's 1
crop harvested, but a decrease of 2,555,000
acres compared with last year's planting."
With a view of showing the indicated area
of corn planted and harvested last year,
compared with this year's estimated planting,
in leading States and for other portions
of the country, the Price Current submits
the following compilation:
Planted. Harvested. Planted.
1887. 1887. 1888.
Dhio 3,017,160 2,805,961 2,974,320
Indiana 3,757,830 3,569,994 3,831,290
Illinois. 8,644,625 7,347,915 7,715,310
Iowa 8,085,560 7,191,148 7,483,990
? ** tyao nur c ai\u ro" r coo fWi
Missouri U, lfO)VO& UjIW/jIW \j)'j*/yjy0inj
Kansas 6,393,875 5,242/J79 5,609,985
Nebraska 4,111,870 3,865,158 4,097,055
Minnesota.... 681,750 606,756 624,960
Dakota 795,150 636,120 737,900
Wisconsin.... 1,131,975 1,018,778 1,059,530
Michigan 967,0*0 841,310 900,210 I
Kentucky.... 3,.551,310 3,1(M),668 3,255,490
Tennessee... 3,569,230 3,497,848 3,637,760
Total 51,451,410 46,196,426 49,586,500
Southern
States, 12...23,270,390 22,995,75S 23,638,175
Middle States,
4 2,725,520 2,667,428 2,672,180
New England
States 2G4,310 263,917 263,243
Others 269,170 209,191 270,000
Aggregate,
acres 77,986,800 72,392,720 75,430,406
The area planted this year is about 2,300,000
acres greater than tbe acreage harvested
in lb85, and the present outlook indicates
that the acreage harvested this year will be
in excess of that of 1835. In that year the
yield was 1,93(5,176,000 bushels, and, barring
unforeseen mishaps, there is little doubt that i
the yield this year will be larger than that
of 1885, and we will not be surprised should '
the crop turn out a round 2,000,000,000 !
bushels. This will furnish big business for
the railroads, for it will mean an increase of
more than 540,000,000 bushels over last year
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
prU9Uv;uviU? Ubiwiis. . . . auo uuuivtai j vwjumittee
asked unanimous consent that the International
Copyright bill be made a special
order for Wednesday, December 5.
176Tn Day.?In the absence of Speaker
Carlisle, Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, was
called to preside over the House.... The conference
report on the Omaha Public Building
bill was rejected, and the measure has
again been sent to conference The House
Committee on Naval Affairs reported favorably
a joint resolution granting permission
to the City of New York to improve and
beautify Governor's Island, in conjunction
with a public park to be laid out on said island
The Army Appropriation bill, with
Senate amendments, was discussed in Com- j
mittee of the Whole.anrt all the amendments
were non concurred in with the exception of
those relative to fortifications and ordnance.
These amendments were considered in order,
but no action was taken.
147th Day.?The Senate amendmenta to
the Army Appropriation bill were under consideration
in the House during the greater
part of the day,the pending motion being that
af non-concur in the amendment appropriating
$2500 for repairs to the sea wall and
tvharf ac WiHet's Point, N. Y. After debate
the amendment was non concurred in without
division, as was also the amendment appropriating
$(i'J0,00J for the manufacture or
purchase of cannon and carriages. Mr. Buries
opposed the establishment of a gun facjory
at Watervliet Arsenal.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS. ;
Califor.ma has 5,000,OOO sheep. f
Gold is discovered at Ishpeming, Mich.
Cholera is epidemic at Hong Kong, .
.hina. j
Six Kentucky counties are without
lnrches. j
The shad-fly plague in Chicago is becom- f
ng unendurable;.
Buenos Ayres is shipping wheat to the :
lorth of Scotland. ,
There are 800 men engaged in hunting for
liamocds in Australia. j
m i i.: .a an CfA AAA i
Report of the Bureau of Statistics
on Our Foreign Commerce.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics for the
United States reports that for the year ended
June 30, 1888, our foreign commerce shows
in increase of $11,336,786 in the total values
if the imports and exports of merchandise
aver the previous year. There was a
decrease of $20,203,51*2 in exports, but an
increase of $31,545,378 in imports. Imports
exceeded exports by $25,S'J0,527; the
former being $723,fc(i},148, and the latter
JC95,974,619. A comparison of the domestic
sxports of the last fiscal year with those of
the fiscal year 18S&-'87 shows that the decline
was principally in exports of wheat, corn,
refined sugar, ana leaf tobacco; but
there was an increase in exports
of cotton, wheat flour, beef products
and animals. The imported articles which j
axhibit the largest increase during the last |
fiscal year are coffee,vegetables, tin (in bars,
blocks and pigs), wool manufactures, hemp, I
barley, silk manufactures, wool and railway |
baxs of steeL
THE LABOR WORLD,
Electricians are everywhere overcrowded.
There are now nearly 15,000,000 organized
wage workers in the land.
In Philadelphia 4310 houses were built,
xgainst 3670 last year to this date.
The telegraph operators are preparing to
torm another national organization.
Amos J. Cummings is talked of as a Labor
candidate for Mayor of Now York.
An immense car factory to employ 3500
men is to be built at Duluth, Mich.
Over SG500 has been contributed to the
Knight of Labor Educational Fund.
A convention of journeymen type foundsrs
was recently held in Philadelphia.
Three new blast furnaces to cost $700,000
ire to be erected at Birmingham, Ala.
Brooklyn labor unions will carry only
American flags in their Labor Day profession.
A co-operative broom factory has been
itarted at Harrisburg, Oregon, by the
Knights of Labor.
Tens of thousands of laborer! in the New
England and Middle States are paid one dol- I
lar a day and less. I
There is a heavy demand for machinery,
soilers, engines, tools, electrical appliances,
md builders' materials in all centers.
There are 673 rules necessary for trainmen's
guidance under the new system of tho
Did Colony Railroad in Massachusetts.
An order has been received at a saw works
n Beaver Fal's, Penn., for large planer;oothed
circular saws for Burmah, India.
A machine has just been eonpleted that I
svill revolutionize the cooper trade. With it |
;hree men will be ablo to make 600 barrels a j
lay.
Canadian cigar-makers average four dolars
per week. They are required to pay for
;as out of that sum, whether they use it or
lot.
The Knights of Troy, N. Y., purchased
;he State Armory in 1SS3. but have had to
et it drop through because of lack of funds
io pay for the structure.
The capacity of a locomotive is seldom
ated by the horse-power, but rather by the
lumber of pounds or tons load it will haul at
i given speed on a level or on a given grade.
A manual training school at Cleveland,
3hio, has 121 pupils who are taught in carxmtry.
turning, pattern makiug and forgng.
There are about twenty such schools in
;he country.
The steam engine is at last to have a comjetitor
in the petroleum engine now in quite
general use in England, where it is giving !
general satisfaction, even with cheap coal to I
iompeto with.
Michigan lumbermen have just made a j
mrchase of 45,000 trees, each over two feet 1
it the stump, in North Carolina, nearly all
vhite wood. It will be rafted to Chattanooga, j
Conn., and cut up, 75,000 feet a day.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
Governor Hill has commuted the sentence
of thfl Italian woman, Chiara Cienarale,
who was to have been hung in New
York on August 17th, to imprisonment for
life.
cnief Engineer k. J. Kenton, of the
United States Navy, has died at Oswego, N.
Y., of heart disoaso.
A disease of the bowels prevails in a virulent
form among the farmers in a large
section of Southern Ohio. The indication is
drowsiness, preceding the fatal attack several
days. It prevails on farms almost exclusively.
Reports from New B>dford, Mass., of late
date, were to the effect that General Sheridan
was steadily improving.
Charles Cummings,second steward of the
Brighton Hotel, at Atlantic City, N. J., and
Henry Boyd, an employe of the hotel, got
beyond their depth while bathing and were
drowned.
Bartley Campbell, the actor and plav
wright, has died at the State Homceopathia j
Asylum for the Insano in Middletown, N. Y.
He was admitted to the asylum November
30, I860.
Catharine Gaffney, who is one of tha
three heirs to a fortune of about $150,000'left
by her brother, Patrick H. Gaffney, has been
found in the almshouse on Blackwell's Island,
New York.
The New Jersey Court of Errors and appeals
has sustained in a recent test caw, the
constitutionality of the High License County
Option law.
Christopher Meyer, the New York
millionaire manufacturer and railway
magnate, died suddenly at his Fifth avenue
home.
The six thousand river miners who have
been at work near Pittsburgh since January
1, and have mined over 50,u03,00j bushels of
coal, have begun a strike against a reduction
in wages from three cents per bushel to two
and a half cents.
A coal train engine exploded at Scran;
ton, Penn., and the engineer, Irwin Stern,
and the fireman, Oscar Kriedler, were killed. I
South and West.
John Moore killed his sister-in-law in Detroit
because she asked him to pay his board.
He then fatally shot her daughter and himself.
Near Bentonia, Miss., the young daughter
of Dolph Miles (colored) poisoned her father
and three brothers, all of whom died in her
presence in great agony.
Eugene Zvnxir, of Indianapolis, committed
suicide at a prayer meeting in church
by drinking a bottle of carbolic acid. His
aged father and mother killed themselves
two weeks ago.
deptty Sheriff L. S. Elmer, of Wahpeton,
Dakota, murdered pretty Miss Mollie
Kerbell under circumstances of peculiar
atrocity. On the following day a masked
mob of one hundred determined men overpowered
Sheriff Miller, who had him under
arrest,and took the murderer out, and hanged >
him to a bridge over the Boisde Sioux River.
Ex-Governor Carney,the war Governor
of Kausas, died a few days ago of apoplexy
at Leavenworth.
A. Kleshar cut his wife's throat at Ferndale,
CaL, aud took poison himself. Both
died.
The Indians who have been in council at
Standing Rock Agency, deliberating the proposition
of the Government to throw open
their reservation to settlers, finally, atter
much speech making, decided unanimously
not to sign any treaty to that effect
A daybreak duel occurred at Norfolk,
Va., on Saturday between John F. Evans, a
prominent saloon keeper, and Peter McLean,
a popular sporting man. McLean was instantly
killed, and was carried home with
four bullets in his body.
William St. Clair and Bob Ashley
crossed the river on a ferryboat at Alton, I1L,
and after landing on Missouri Point auarreled.
Ashley ran at St Clair with a bowie
knife and drove him into the river. St. Clair
could not swim. Ashley preventad him
from regaining the shore and he was
drowned.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, has publicly
notified his Michigan constituents that
he would not be a candidate for re-election.
His term expires March 4th, 1889, and he intends
to retire to private life.
At a Scandinavian gathering at Lake
Vadnais, Minn., Ole Oleson was struck on
the back of the neck with a club by one of a
gang of "fakirs" and instantly killed. Another
of tbe gang disemboweled a carpenter
named Johnson with a dirk and fatally
stabbed two other Scandinavians.
a party oi Doys oi oomersec, were
playing Indian and engaged in a fight
Virgie Hamilton, whose side was getting
worsted, seized his father's gun and fired,
killing Willie Haines instantly and fatally
wounding his brother Lee.
Fremont Emmons, who murdered Bertha
Schultz because she refused to marry him,
was taken from jail at Pawnee City, Neb.,
and lynched. He was led through the public
square in broad day light with the rope
around his neck and made to haug himself
by jumping off a high rail way trestle.
Dr. Robert Morris, a Presbyterian
minister, the Poet Laureate of Masonry, and
recognized as the most distinguished Mason
in America, has died at his home in Lagrange,
Ky.
The first State Convention of the Prohibi- i
tion party of West Virginia has been held in
Parkersburg. A full State ticket, an electoral
ticket and a Congressman for the First
district were placed in nomination. Thomas
It. Carskadon for Governor heads the ticket.
While indorsing the national ticket the platform
does not indorse the nation U platform,
with its women's rights and tariff reform
clauses.
Cable dispatches received from Rome I
announce the appointment of the Rev. Dr.
John S. Folev. for the last twentv vears pas
ior of St. Martin's Church. Baltimore, to be
Bishop of the diocese of Detroit, and the
Rev. J. J. Hennessy, of St. John's Church,
St. Louis, to be Bishop of Wichita, Kan.
V. J. Shipman, a wealthy resident of
Pensacoift, has been nominated for Governor
by the Republicans of Florida.
Washington.
During the first six months of the present
year 316,211 immigrants arrived at the ports
of the United States from the principal foreign
countries, except the Dominion of Canada
and Mexico. In th9 same period last year
the arrivals numbered 28j,45'J.
Ex-Speaker Samuel J. Randall has
bo far recovered from his recent illne-s that
he has been removed to Wayne Station, near j
Philadelphia, where he will pass the period
of his convalescence.
The first certificate of election to the Fiftyfirst
Congress has just been received by General
C!ark, Clerk of the House. It certified
that Binger Hermann, of Oregon, had been
elected to the House of Representatives by a j
vote of 3"J,820, over John M. Gearin, who received
-5,413. The certificate is handsomely
engrossed upon sheepskin.
The President returned to Washington
from his fishing jaunt off the coast of Fire <
Island, and had an interview with Chief I
J UMiL'D A" UUOi
Foreign.
A volcanic eruption at Bandaisan, fll'ty
leagues from Yokohama, Japan, has d&i
stroved several villages and killed one thou-j
sand persons, including one hundred visitors
at the thermal springs.
Th ? Empress of Germany was safely de-?
livered of a son at 1:80 o'clock Friday morning
in the royal palace at Potsdam. Em-,
peror William, who was at Stockholm, has
asked King Oscar, of Sweden, to be godfather
of his last born.
The coroner's jury in the casa of Mandeville,
the Irish agitator who died in prison,,
dec !n red his death to be due to treatment
received at Tullamore Jail
Eight thousand laborers have gone on j
strike at Paris, France.
Jules Boucher, an official in the Quebec
(Canada) City Government, tied his wife's
thumbs together and hung her to hooks in
a closet. Then he flogged her terribly.
Next day she committed suicide.
Mil Jxmieson, the naturalist, writes
from Kasongo, Africa, on the Congo River,
that he is making preparations to 'eave with
Major Barttelot, Tippu Tib, and 'J00 men to
search for Henry M. Stanley.
During the celebration in Munich of the
100th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig
I., of Bavaria, frichtened elephants rushed
n-'ong the spectators and killed twenty persona.
john Haggert has been appointed Paymaster-General
of Canada, and the Hon.
Edgar Demdney, Minister of the Interior
and Superintendent - General of Indian
/
J
/
ASTT Koach, aged fifty, his only son
and a nephew were drowned while sailing at
Halifax, Nova Scotia, their boat having been
capsized in a saualL
LATER NEWS.
Thx boiler of a locomotive on the Reading
Railroad exploded in the suburbs of Philadelphia,
killing the engineer and fireman,and
injuring five passengers. *
James Rath, a farmer who had placed
Paris green in a neighbor's well at Virgil,
N. Y., hanged himself through remorse.
jjorinb a quarrel over a trivial matter at
Lafayette, Ind., "Bert" White, a youth seventeen
years old, shot and killed William Ellsworth,
aged nineteen.
R B. Van Valkenburo, Associate Justice
of the Florida Supreme Court, died suddenly
at Suwanee Springs. He was about seventy
years old. He was Minister to Japan under
Lincoln.
George Harris,"fourteen years old, was
target firing with a rifle at East Norwood,
Ohio, when his eleven-year-old sister seized
the muzzle of the gun. In the struggle it
was discharged,the bullet entering her heart,
killing her instantly.
At Pittsboro, Miss., Bob Reagan had an
altercation about business with Charles Cochran,
E N. Enochs and James Enochs. They
assaulted him, when he drew his pocket knife
and with it instantly killed Cochran and
fatally cut the two Enochs, receiving himself
a blow which broke three of his ribs.
Suffolk, Va., has been visited by a fire
which consumed over one hundred houses in
the heart of the business saction, well nigh
destroying the city and inflicting damage to
the amount of $400,000.
T. J. Goodwin, Treasurar of Rawlins
County, Kan., has fled, leaving a shortage of
about $100,000.
Fifty armed men broke op an the jail at
Carthage, Tenn., and lynched W. H. Handley,
who recently murdered Deputy Sheriff
Worman.
President Cleveland has approved the
act making Decoration Day a legal holiday
in the District of Columbia and the act to
extend the leave of absence of employes of
the Government printing office to thirty
days each year.
Governor Loch has formally opened
the Australian Centenary Exhibition at Melbourne.
The Turkish Government has sent a protest
to all the European powers against the
occupation of Massowah, Africa, by Italy.
Eddy's steam lumbar mills at Ottawa,
Canada, with 8,000,000 feet of lumber and
fifty tenement houses occupied by mill hands,
V?a no Viaati T .noa t'AVi OOO
THE NATIONAL GAME,
f
The Indiana Ler~ue is a thing of the past
In Texas the games are not called until fire
o'clock.
Anson and Comiskey are both sacriflc#
hitters;
Detroit has a fortunate faculty for bunching
hits.
Pitcher Staley is proving a jewel for
Pittsburg.
Winona, Mich., has a team composed of
school teachers.
Burdock is a great acquisition 10 the
Brooklyn team.
Pitcher Gilmore has at last been released j
by "Washington.
Indianafolis has been doing the heaviest j
batting in the League.
Pitcher Ciarkson is said to be a disappointment
to Boston.
Thepe have been thirty-eight shut-outs in
the League and none of them was for the
Giant*.
StaGG, the Yala praying pitcher, has re- |
fused several tempting oifers from profes- j
sional clubs.
Secretary Bcandrett, of the Pittsburg j
Club estimates tho loss to the club by rain j
this season at $10,000.
Fiiist Bareman Faatz has made only j
seven errors out of 504 chances offered to him ;
on the Cleveland team.
The Newark 'N. J.) is the onl^ club in the j
country tbat Has noc jose a cuauipiuuauip
game on its own grounds.
PiTrsBuno is assured that Buckly is a
E-eat player. He has made only one fieldg
error in twenty games.
The attendance at the Detroit games is
very smalL On some fine days scarcely 500
people go out to the grounds.
In the Detroit Club the Captain has nothing '
to say as to the practice of the men and
nothing whatever about the batting order.
Little Niohol, of the Cincinnati team,
leads the association in base stealing. He i
has stolen fifty-three bases so far this ;
season.
Louisville's ex manager, Kelly, says:
"In Collins, Louisville has the best fielder in
the Association?or League, too, for that
matter."
Umpire McQuade says that Blair, of the
Athletics, has a more mysterious drop ball
than any pitcher in the Association, not barring
Ramsoy, of Louisville.
With the "only" Kelly demoralized,
Clarkson in a huff and lam?, and Nash and
Day injured, the present outlook for the Boston
Club is not very encouraging.
Buck Ewtng's eyes are bright, his hands
are in splendid condition, and, barring an acrident,
the New York captain is good for
twenty-five more games behind the bat.
General Harrison, the Republican candidate
for President, is very fond of the national
game and attends nearly every series
of League games played in Indianapolis.
When the deaf-mute Hoy, of Washington,
wants to question an umpire's decision on
balls and strikes, he makes his complaint
known by holding out his bat where he thinks
the ball went.
Gentleman (to boy outside the Chicago
grounds)?"Game going on to day, Johnny*"
Johnny?"Yessir." Gentleman?"Who are
the contestants, Johnny?" Johnny?"Baby
Anson and de empire."
Whenever a juvenile spectator catches a
foul knocked into the stands at Buffalo, N.
Y., the audience at once shouts: "Sign him,
Chapman, sign him," much to the genial
manager's chagrin, who is trying hard to
strengthen the club, but without avail, it
seems.
Tokio, Japan, has a regularly organized
baseball club, gathared and instructed by H.
Hiraata, a young Jap who studied engineering
in this country five years. Spalding
makes the club a small and special ball. The
regulation ball is too hard and large for
Japanese hands.
When Doescher made a decision thatfailed
to meet the views of the crowd at Cincinnati
& few days since, he walked over to third
base and shouted: "Carpenter, did you
touch McKeon with the ball?" When the
baseman acknowledged ?hat he had not the
hisses of the mob were drowned with applause.
Whit v n crnmn of hflsehftll was in Drocress
in Dallas, Texas, a few days ago, a player,
in attempting to steal second base, disappeared
from sight as suddenly and as completely
as if the earth had swallowed him up.
He had broken through the ground into an
old well, the existence of which had been
foreo(t?n, and was rescued standing up to his
nec k in icy water.
NATIONAL LKAQUB RECOIf).
S'amco' Club. Won. Ijo*l
New York 49 28
Detroit 47 .'}0
Chicago 45 32
Philadelphia 37 39
Boston 37 42
Pittsburg 31 41
Indianapolis 31 45
Washington 29 48
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION )HO.
Fame of Club. />>v.
St. Louis 51 27
Brooklyn 52 29
Cincinnati 48 30
Athletic 40 30
Baltimore 34 45
Louisville 30 48
Cleveland 2b 48
Kansas Citv 22 54
MINERAL PBQDUCTS.
v
Statistics Concerning a Year's
Oatpnt of Onr Mines.
The United States Leading the>
World in Mineral Eesouroes.
Dr. David T. Day, Chief of the Division of
the Mining Statistics, has submitted to thi
Director of the United States Geological Survey
a statement of the mineral product oi
the United States in 1887, in advance of tin
official report, "Mineral Resources of the
United States, 1887." The total value o 1
the mineral products is $538,056,345;
it shows a wonderful gain over 1886,
and is $100,000,000 greater than the output ol
1835. The United States leads the world in
+ tiAfi"An Af minarnla 'I'hft
HUC vi uuuuaia xuo y*
gains in 1887 were in metallic ores and th?
fuels for smelting them. Pig iron alone increased
more than $26,000,090, and the higb
price of copper caused notable expansion in
that industry. The product of coal is the
largest ever recorded. Taken as a
whole, the report shows a year of great
prosperity for the mining industry.
The fjreat total value of more than ball
a billion dollars, the report says, resulted not
only from an increase in the quantity oE minerals
mined, but also from a general advance
in the prices of metals. It may be several
years before this total is exceeded, and the
year 1888 will fall considerably below it. j
Among many reasons for the decrease thil
year is the decline in railroad building. The
principal items are:
Iron?Domestic ore consumed about II,- j
300,0C0 long tons: value at mines, $33,900,000;
an increase over 1888 of 1,300,0,'0 tons in 1
quantity and $5,900,000 in value. Imported i
iron ore consumed, 1,194,301 long tons; total
iron ore consumed in 1&87 about 12,494,301
long tons, or 1,454,868 tons more than in 1886. |
Pig iron made, 6,417,148 long tons; value at ]
furnace, $121,925,800. This is an increase
over 1886 of 733,819 tons in quantity and $20,730,040
in value. Steel of all kinds produced,
3,339,071 long tons, an increase of 776,569 tons
over 1886; value at works, $103,811,000.
Gold and Silver?Total value of gold 'produced
in 1887, $33,000,0090, a decrease of
$1,900,000 from 18t'0. Silver increased from
$51,000,000 in 1886 to $?$,441,300 (coinage .
value) in 1687.
Copper?Production, 184,670,524 pounds,of i
WHICH 3,7oU,UUO pounds were made irom im- i
ported pyrites. Total value. #21,052,4-10.
Lead?Production, lft0,700 short tons,
valued at $1-1,468,000. The heavy increase of
"desilverized" lead from 114,82;) short tons in
1886 to 185,552 in 18S7 was probably due to
the importation of Mexican lead silver ores.
Coal?Total output, including colliery consumption,
was: Pennsylvania anthracite,
37.578,747 long tons; an increase over 1S86 of
2,725,670 long tons, or 42,088,197 short tons; !
an increase of 3,052,751 short tons. All other |
coals, 87,837,3o0 short tons; an increase of [
14,129,403 tons, making the total output of i
all coals from mines in the United States, exclusive
of slack coal thrown on the dumps, .
129,925,557 short tons; an increase of 17,182,154
tons, valued as follows: Anthracite, I
$84,552,181; an increase of* $3,433,031.
Bituminous, $97,939,656; an increase of $19,45S.600.
Total value, $182,491,837; an increase
f $27,891,661. All this shows a notable increase
over 1886.
Coke?Total production, 7,857,487 short
tons, valued at $15,723,574, being 1,022,419
tons greater than in 1886.
Natural Gas?Production equivalent to 9,055,000
short tons of coal displaced: value,
$13,582,500, as against 6,356,000 tons, worth
$9,847,150 in 1886. !
Building Stone?Total value, $25,000,000.
This marked increase of $6,000,000 showa
that the statement for 1886 was too small.
Brick and Tile?Value, $40,000,000, an in*
crease of about 13 per cent, in the production
of brick and a decrease in tile.
Lime?46,750,000 barrels, average value of
50 cents a barrel; increase for the year of 10 .
per cent
Cement?6,692,744 barrels, valued at $5,186,877;
increase, $1,196,877.
Precious Stonffe-The value of American
gems in the rough state amounted to 188,600,
beside gold quartz for specimens and gems
valued at $75,000.
Salt?7,831,962 barrels (of 280 pounds;,
value $1,033,846. Tbe annual production baa
increasad each year-since 1883, but the total
value nas declined, being less in 1887 than
1884, although only 6,514,937 barrels were
made in that year.
Borax?Production 11,000,000 pounds, all
from California and Nevada. Total value
$550,000, at five cents a pound for the average
grade.
Mineral Waters?The product^which was
old amounted to 8,259,600 gallons, worth
$1,261,473. A slight decrease.
A MURDERER AT EIGHT,
He Fatally Wounds H!s Younger
Brother and Commits Suicide.
The mother of Alphonse and Louis Siautade,
aged respectively ei^ht and six years,
residing in Paris. France, was awakened on
Monday morning by screams in the bedroom
of the children.
Hastening thither she found Louis lying in
* * - J ? ? ? J t ? 1 in kia ofy\m.
oea wna a ueep cuiu law *u owu.ach.
She called for assistance, but before
her neighbors had arrived Alphonse had cat
his own throat from ear to ear with a razor,
dyin? soon afterward.
Alphonse hated his brother, and had on
two previous occasions tried to kill him;
once by driving a nail into his head with a
hammer. He had stolen the razor from a
shop, sharpened it before going to bed on the
previous evening, and took it to bed with
nim.
The Bee Journal figures that the annual
honey product of North America is about
100,000,003 pounds, and its value is nearly
$15,000,000. The annual wax product is
about .r0J,000 pounds, and its value is more
than $100,0J0. There are about 300,000 persons
keecine bees in North America.
There were produced in the United States
during the first six months of this year 3,020,!K)3
gross Ions of pig-iron, being 29,203 tons
loco than in fchfi first half of 1887. The de
crease was wholly in Bessemer pig, other
kinds being slightly in excess ot la*t year.
THE JIAKKETS.
31 NSW TORK.
Beef. City Dressed 8%
Calves, common to prime.... 5 @ 6%
Bheep 5
Lambs 5 (?j 6%
Hogs?Live 6 60 $ 6 75
Dressed 88%
Flour?City Mill Extra. 4 45 <?) 4 65
Patents 4 i'O @ 5 10
Wheat?No. 2 Red fMX@ 9i}4
Rye?State 66 @ 58
Barley?State 82 @ 85
Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 5>14? 55^
Oats?No. 1 White 44 @ 44%
/ Mixed Western 8J @ 39
Hay?Choice Timothy 95 @ 1 00
Straw?Long Rye -.. 80 @ 85
Lard?City Steam ? @ 8%
Butter?State Creamery.... 20 @ 21
Dairy 14 @ 14%
West Im. Creamery H @ 16 I
Factory 12 @ 15
Cheese- State Factory. 8 @ 9%
Skims 3 @ 7
Western 7 @
Eggs?State and Penn 18_@ 18j?
BUFFALO.
Steers?Western 4 03 @ 4 75
Sheep?Me 11 urn to Good.... 4 20 @4 50
Lambs? Kairt>'?ooil 5 50 (& G 00
Hogs?Good to Choice "iorks 5 !i0 @ (i 05
Flour?Fnmily 4 85 (g 5 25
Wheat-No. Ked 02
Com?Na 2. Yellow 5(^(9 51
Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? ($ 3i
Barley?State. 88 Q 91
BOSTON.
Beef?Good to choice. 9;^
Hogs?Live 6
Northern Dressed.... OJvS 7
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 410 5 -5
Corn?Steamer Yellow. < 0 (ft 60}^
Oats?No. 2 White 4t'4@ 4t>*
Ryo?State GO 05 Go^
WATIBTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MAItKKT
Beef- Dressed weight {>14@ 8,'-i
Sheep?Live weight 4)^@ 5
Lamb! 4%@ 63^
Hogs?Northern ? @ ls/\
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn. family 3 75 @ 400
Wheat?No. 2, Red 90% @ 91
Corn?No. 2, Mixed 53)^\a} 53%
Oats? Ungraded Wnite 40>$@ 41
Rye?Na 2 ? 78
Butter?Creamery Extra... ? ? 20
Choese?N. Y. Full ^rearo^. 9. @ 9)^
THAT LAST, LAST NIGHT*
The moon bong gloriooa in the ukf,
As heart to h?art, and eye to ?f6,
Unheeding all the hours flew by
That last, last night . '
..
The trees were brilliant red and gold;
How passing sweet the story told?
Ah! Dever long and never old?
That last, last night
We pledged each other to attain
To Pisgah hights of heart and brain,
And each to each should true remaia,
That last, last night
Your hand, electric to my own.
Your lips more precious than a throne,.
"Were mine, ah, joy I and mine alooe,
That last, last night
I wonder, if in years to be,
You will remember glade and tree, '
And whisnered vows of constancy.
That last, last night?
?Sarah K. Bolton, in Detroit Free Fresa.
PITH AND POINT.
Light minded?The gas man. >; " 'X
Still life?In a whisky factory.
Drawers of water?Marine artist*. - .
A little shaver?A barber's apprentice*.
Teh girl who won't be won, remains
>ne.
Deaf old age is, after all, the "hey"
lay of youth.
Do the pages at Washington constitute
American history?
Musical dicky birds no doubt prefer
;he "Song of the Shirt."
Men are inclined to accept a pretty
svoman at her face value. ;
Tie fortune teller is apt to find in her
did age some of her palmiest days.
Among the fresh novelists is Mr.'SaitoV
3f New York.? Washington Critic. '
Opportunities are like vacant lota,
rhey must be improved to be profitable.
The King of the Dudes has been married
about six months aud is now subiude.
Now is the time to conciliate the girl1
father or make friends with the doge?
Merchant Trawler.
Why is a doctor like a broken windlass?
Bee .use he can draw nothing from thdwell.?Washington
Critic.
Fond Mother?"Do you like babie^
Mr. Crusty?" Ciusty?"Er?yes, when
they're grown up." Judg\
"Will the coming man perspire!*"
queries a scientist. He will if he comet
on a run.?Binghamton Republican.
The reason that birds clean out a fnjjt
tree so quickly is that they take the {rati
away a peck at a time.?Boston Bulletin
If we could see ourselves as others' see
us, some of us would see ourselves a
great deal better than we really are.?,
Detroit Prce Pre is. ; A
She?"Oh, ain't that pitcher josttoa
sweet for anything? He?"Well^ I
notice they ain't getting no flies off him.
?New Hat en News.
Sheridan, the wit, bribed a man by
nrnmininrr him & c.n.nd I fi-snuffer's nlace.
which Canning said was a "flagrant
delictum"?burning shame.
"I will now disguise myself so that
even my most intimate acquaintance
would not recognize me," said the tramp
as he entered the free bath.?Hotel-Matt,
The roses smell sweet /
And the groceries cheesy <
The ladies look neat
And the butter spreads easy.
' I
?Oil City B izzard.
A phrenologist Bays that "fullness
under the eyes denotes language." When
the fullness is caused by another mairii
fist it denotes very bad language, gen*
erally.
Miss Highborn?"I tell you, Mr. .Wildwest,
there is nothing like blood here in
the East." Wildwest?"It's the same iq
the West. We always keep it on tap.'J
?Barlivgton Frt-t Press*
A camping enthusiast loudly declares
Hin kind of vacation immense.
For the man who a cool can rat dvrelli&e
place shares, .. " ^
Finos living a pleasure in tents.
?Boston Budget.
Now it is announced that the troupe
of Russian musicians who play twentyfour
pianos simultaneously is coming to
this country next season, and we are
still without a navy and coast defences.
?Boston Post. '
"Oh, Mrs. Smith, do please introduce
Mr. Jones over there to me." 4<Ifa fi<
good, dear, he won't dance." ""No, i
know, but I want to sit out with him;
he goes with my dress so beautifully.w?
London Judy.
"What's that awful racket in the tool
room?" inquired a customer of one oi
the clerks; "somebody trying to yell %
roof off?" "It's the silent partner, sit*
the firm is after him for more money."?
New York Sun.
She (looking at the seaN~"Howgrand,
how glorious, George, it is to watch the
angry waves as they laah themselvei
against the shore." He (with equal
ecstacy, but less fluency)?"Yes, and
how damp it seems."
An Allentown tailoring firm employs a
young woman to collect from sweil customers
who are inclined to shirk paying
honest debts. This seems to explode th<
old saying that woman's work is nevei
dun." ?Norriitown Herald.
Oh, the skeeter possesses an airy wing,
Ank it helps him to hustlearound,
While he's somewhat, alas! inclined to dn|
And his voice has a doleful sound
As he bores away with his little sting
Till we wish we were under the ground.
?Boston Budget.
Woman (to tramp)?Why don't jt
buy your food 'stead o' beggin' itt*
Tramp?''Madam, I'm too poor to bu;
even toothpicks." Womau?"That so
What d'ye do fer tooth picks?" Tram]
?"I have to use barbed wire fences.
Neto Turk Sun.
"I don't see," said Mr. McGuire, as hi
sat in the stern of the vessel, "how thi
* - ? ~ k5o ttt.i rr o r> rnco fK/
captain can uuu mo nnj
ocean. If he was going the other way!
all he'd have to do would be to folloifl
that white stteak behind there, but ifl
front there's nothing to point the way.*
?Harper's Bazar. 9
The bridegroom keepj his secrets, for hifl
secrets are his own; H
Few people know how large a crop of w1m|
oats he bos sown. H
The bride, less fortunate than he, upon tbfl
wedding day E
Finds, by some fr.end or relative, that s'oe ifl
given away. 9
?Boston Courier. H
Some carpenlcrs were putting a fencfl
around the yard where little M. lived!
Night coming on before they finishedl
they roughly nailed some long strips ol
timber across the posts to protect thl
shrubs. M., looking at it, sa.d : "Thai
fence is just basted! And, my! whifl
long stitches, niaaima!"?Cfu-ittian ifofl
It is stated on reliable authority thai
Miss Mathilda Sheckels will marrH
the Duke of Bangkrupsie,in the autumifl
Mr. Shcckels came to this country fortfl
years ago and is worth $10,000,000 t<fl
day. He has given an order to a florid
to make a grand floral emblem for
wedding, bearing the words: "Frofl
the steerage to the peerage."?New YoiM