Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1884, Page 2

oy T A B e apae e SR~ Will_cure Neo mbago, Rhou ne hrough wtant by the patient. $1.000 Would Not Buy It. Dr, Horxn—1 whs & loted with rheumatism and cured by using a belt. To any one afflicted with ‘that disease, 1 wonld y, buy Horne's Eleotric Belt Any one can canfer with me by writing or callink at my store, 1420 Douglas strect, Omaha Ne! 3 WILLIAM LYONS. 4 Fren MAIN OFFICE—-Opposite postoffice, oo sor blook. Rar¥For rale at C. F. Goodman's Drug store, 1110 Farnam St., Omaha, Crders filled C 0 . EUROPE!! GRAND EXCURSIONS leave New York in April, May and June, 1884, PASSAGE TIC| securing GOOD BERTHS ST TICKETS for travel ra in EUROPE, by a'l routes, at reduced ratos. COOK'S EXCURSIONIST, with maps and full par- ticulars, by mail 10 cents. Address o HIHOS. COOK & SON, 201 Brosdway, K. Y. 10.w-2-t-a-wwite, -u‘ffe‘ DISEASES) DISEASES, AR (. IMPURE BLOO Sold by all Wice Merchants aud Groca: Stove Repair Works, 109 South 14th 8t. « speciarty of furnishing castings and repalr- ng stoves of all aescription, wood stoves, ohanged to Durn coal, yrates, nreback, dsmvers, &. constantly; on hand. ' Tey one 0 our stove pny wnelves am Totnos dryer. . 8. H. ATWOOD, Plattsmouth, - - - - Neb BREADKR OF THOROUGHBRED AND HIGH GRADN HEREFORD AND JERSEY CATTLE AND DUROO OR JNASKY RKD SWINN A& Young stook for sale, Correspondence solleltod, Nebraska Cornice —~AND— Ornamental Work 1 MANUFACTURERS OFj| BN GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES Dormer Windovwms, FINIALS, WINDOW CAPS, TIN, IRON AND SLATE ROOFING, PATENT METALIC SKYLIOHT, Ilron Fencing! Crostings, Balustrades, Vorandas, Offico and Bavk Railings, Window and ColarGuards, Ete, OR, 0, ANDetn STREE, LINCOLN NEB, PAIRER, Manage! Northeast Nebraska ALONG THE LINE OF THE Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolls and OMAHA RAILWAY. m:‘lu pow extension of this line from Wakufleld up BEAUTIFUL VALLEY of the LOGAN through Concord and Coleridge TO EARTINGTON, Reaches the hest vortion of the State, Special ex- ayine, Norto1k . Haekngion: o sl Hitr 50 Al yl;lpdnhnnlhl ington, and via r o al SIOUX CITY & PACIFIC RAILROAD Traing over tht 0., bt. P. M. & 0. Railway t» Cov. ., Bloux v ity P Hartlngtou, Way oo, yy Ponca, Hartlngton, Wayne and Qonnoct at Blaixr ¥or F.emont, Onkdale, Netigh, aud through to Val- cutine. &4 For rates muil all information call on F. B WHULNEY, Goneral Agent, ftraog's Buildieg, Cor. 10th and Farnain 5t Omaha, &3 Tickets can be secured st depot, cornes and Webster Stroets, 2. Sapsh. e A POSITIVEg: iz tobor 10, 76 One b, 1th box No, 1 will cure any case In four I No, ummmmohnm-um'flni * Allan's Soluble Medicatsd Bougies No naussous doses of subebs, copabls, or ol of san- o uce SigAwanee. CURE, DISEASES OF THE J, T. ARMSTRONG, M. D., . Ocwuiimt land Aurist. affloo, on account of fire, with Dr. Far- . Crelighton Biock, 16t aud Lougias u7and 219 North Maln 6t 8t Louls | WHOLESALE DEALERS IN IPAPERS, ¥ KaVELOFES, CABD BOARD AND iR'S 8TOCK wood, that are a~. ain dwpopela the of tho atomacy. “Frice $1.60 Bold by af) & or mailed o Tecelpt of For wend for c'reul. 1n Church—Daring the Tatany, T'm glad we got there early, Noll; We're not obliged $o sit to day Textde those horrid Smith girls ~well T'm glad they o 8o soon Away. How doss this costame mateh my dress? 7 think it looks quite charmingly. “‘Bowed sweotly to the Smiths”" Oh! yes [Rexponds). ... " Pride, vanity, hypoorisy, Good Lord, deliver us,” 1 hato those haughty Courtenays! T'm sure they needn't feel so fine, Above us all—for mamma_saye Their dressos aren’t 8o nico s min, And ones engaged; so, just for fun, To make her jealous—try to win Hor lover—show hor how 'tis done— [Responds)....“From hatred, envy, mischief, sin, (ood Lard, deltver us, To-day the rector is to preach In aid of missionary work; He'll say he hopes and trusts that each Will nobly give, nor duty shirk. 1 Jate o give, but then one must, You know we have a forward seat; Poople can seo—they will, 1 trust— [Responds....* From want of charit, Good Lord, deliv Did yon know Mr, Gray had gone? I'hat handsome Mr, Rogers, too Dear me! We shall be quite ferlors 1f all the men leave—and # fow! T trust that we with Cupid's darts May capture some-—let them beware: [Responits). ... Behold the sorrows of our hearts, And, Lord, with mercy hear our prayer.” e — HONEY FOR THE LADIES, The wife of the Rev. Josepn Cook has gone to lectnring. Such isthe effect of a husband's awfnl example. The most exclusive and fashionable dress. makers of Paris announce the revival of the short waists of the first empire. Volvet is pre-ominently the favorite mate- rial of the season, and pink velvet is much liked for ball and reception toilets, Swiss bodices and wide girdles of velvet, pointed back and {ront, are worn with grand- mother dresses of cashmere or surah. Miss Emma Latham, the daughter of a San Francisco banker, is one of the most * hand- somely dressed ladies on the Pacific const. Fashionable young lady, detaching her hair before retiring—'*What dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil! A new London wrap, christened after Mary Anderson, is o jacket of sealskin, opening zonave fashion over a vest of undyed sealskin, Miss Mable Collins, the novelist, has mada modjeska’a early lifo tho subject of o story entitled ‘“The Prettiest Woman in Warsaw.” Lucy Larcom’s last poem is entitled *‘I Climb to Rest.” Lucy should marry some rch fel- low who could afford to have an elovator in the house. In France nearly all the railroad ticket and signal clerks aro women, who are paid as much as men, They are preferred because of their sobriety, The tournure is reaching quite prominent proportions; but, let us add, the old-time hoop 18 not restored to favor, nor is there a pros- poct of ita being go. Among favorite monogram decorations for noto paper is & sunken square of darker tint than the paper, with the monogram in a light- or shade raised upon it. A woman con rip and tear and darn and ot bo considered _sweet-tempered, but just ot & man do it and people will say all manner of hard things about him. A society young lady told her illiterate but wealthy loyer that she was going to give a german, and he said that he'd be sure to come, s he was very fond of boer, “1'd like to give you lrlm of my mind, Mrs. Smi| “I wou dn't talk of inpossi- Dilitios, Mr, Smiggs. The article you peak of is to small to be divided.” Velvet dresses are handsomest when made all of one kind of velvet and trimmed only with a little lace, black or white; or both, or tinted to match the color of the d.ess, A man's brains wafflhl threo and halj pounds, A woman’s brain is somewhat light er, but of finer quality, That is what enables her to taste lard in her neighbor's pastry. Asin the spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, it is not nn- rensonable to expect ere long to hear of M, ’ll"‘l‘}du 's engagement to ‘‘a beautiful young ly, Gloves thirty-one Inches long in mosque- taire shape, without a single button, are made of reddish tan Swede ier, t0 be worn with “rle'd- ing dress, either white, black or col- ored. Pokin velyet with chocolate ground and red satin stripes is used for the gathered vest and full skirt of elegant costumes thnt are completed by a long pelisse of plain brown velvet. Boston girls nover say *‘He s a gonegoose.” ‘When a lover s observed to be idiotically sweeton any particular young lady, the other girls refer to him as “‘a departad aquatic flow- er of the genus anser,” Litorary bracelots aro adopted by studious transatlantic bellos. The bangle consists of twelvo tiny gold books Jinked together, with the name of some favorite author enameled on the back of each book. A roport comes from an Illinoin town of o woman falling dead at the piano, We have no desire to make light of the sorrows of an afflicted family, but this ought to be & warn: ing to a great many piano-players, A favorite dross iu the front and sides of one material; the waist or corsage, as it Is termed, and the train of another, ' The waist may have tiny basque skirt, jor may curve to a peak, and be edged with Jace or a ruching of the fabrio, A country gir', coming from the field, being told by her poetic cousin that she looked as fresh as o daisy kissed with dew, said: “Well, it wasn't any 1ellow of that name; but it was Steve Jones that kissed me. I told him that every one in town would find it out.” 1t Is said that puffing and draping must go; that the A:‘llllll style is to provail; that long, flowiog trains (which are already worn for full dress) and the dewni-train will bo the fashion- able skirt of epring; but lot us hope this does not include street wear, for surely women of to-duy are too sensible to ever constitute themselves ‘‘streot sweepers” again, 1s thero any ono thing interests a woman than the novalty of some. fuvention Totended directly for them? Among the latest is the Solf-adJustablo corset, for Iadice, Who Tequire padding (which wo all know is {njurious) fer & perfoat fitting dress, This bust is capablo . EYE & EAR of being made large or small, as a woman's ol Pt M B S steel springs it canbut_be healthy. Very light weight, it is made of the sume materinl and the samo non-breakablo bones as the cor- st designod for stout women, that|which there nothing better made. Either of these cor. sots will prove a favorite when once worn, Every woman dhould havo a sealskin vacu Tu the first place it is rich and becoming tole of dress, and is excoedingly comfortable when the thermometer is down in the nelgh 0 | borhood of zero and cold north winds vails, It can be worn ineithor sunshine or storm without fear of being spoiled, It looks well at the theatre or on the fashionable promenade; in fact, it is en reglo under almost all circumstances during at least six months of the year, But thero is another great and con. trelling reason why this delightful article of attire should be in the wardrobe of every mewber of the opposite sex, So graat is the fascination it possosses for metropolitan wan- ind that it never fails to secure for its wearer o seat in either the stroet cars or the elevated roads, Black or blug velvet will not do it. Leta sealskin sacque enter oue of these con. veynnges; & dozen newspapers will be folded up at ouce, & score of sleepy men will sud- denly awaken and the sealskin sacque will huve its choice of thirty seats. o —— EDUCATIONAL Forty students of the Texas university are Womeu, A two-year-old child at Gainesville, Ga,, can alreadly ropeat the entire alphabot. A petition has been nted to the Con- necticut | ure, asking for the passage of I‘fl:m biting use of tobacco in the o A primary teasher asked one of her scholars e 'dlferance. bekwesn. woaee and gosse, ‘Ono geese is & goose, and a whole lot of gooses i geoso " Twenty-tive firus In this country publish school book, but five of thea do- two.tairds X it gk 3 of all the business. The annual product smounts to about $8,000,000, \h Sin, the Milwankes Chinaman who ex- ncta to enter Cornell university,says ho made 200 in two yesrs in the laundry business. Miiwaukeo must be cloanr than it looks. Misa Anna P Sill has st rosigned tho po- sition of putncipal of the Rocklord (T1l) ke- malo seminary after 35 vears' servico, She Tonndod tho sthool, and has boen remarkably wiccessful in ite conduct. A census of & Philadelphin boarding school of forty-sight girls showed that one could make_brend, ono knew how to fry oysters, three knew how to broil beoksteak, forty-eight conld embroider and ferty-seven dance. New York state expended £1,: 71 on its sublic schools during 1883, of which amount .¥:.m<-,. 1 was expended in tho cities. Though the returns show the number of children of school ageto be 1,685,100, but 1,041,000 at- tonded. e — The Old Elm Trec, As 1 st beneath an old elm tree, the wind went whistling by. Tt bent its_boughs and_softly breathed the following with a o sigh: “T have lived here for many a yearand seon_the summer come and go. The spring timo with its flowers and rain, the autumn with ity fruit and grain, the winter with its chilling 'blast, when with snow and fco the skios are overcast. In summer time be. neath my shade have children often played, and oh, how oft, bencath my boughs have lovera renowed their plighted vows, and_many n timo the old and feeblo have sought my ¢hade to smoke their pipes or ply tho needlo; and thus it's been with umiles and tears T have watched them come and go for throe-score ‘yoars, and many n tale I could tell of what in that time be- fell. But age is creep- ing o'er my head and 1 foar my roots are _getting oad; and soon LIl w- ither and decay 1ike those who songht my shade each day, ~[Chicago Sun, ——— SINGULARITIES. A rooster at Vorbona, and threo legs. Tt is sald that the ducks in Chesapeake bay, California, subsists ontirely upon wild celery, which, it is reported, growsin abundance in that vicinity. A successfol taxidermist of Trwintown, Ga. rocently killed a blackbird which he has skili fully mounted and turned into a very unique and protty neck-scarf or cravat. In, has two tails Awild duck took a direction parallel to a locomotive leaving Tarrytown, and it was a close race for two miles, but just befure reach- ing Irvington the bird forged ahead of the en- gine. A gold watch with a bullet in the back of the case, whero it lodgod after going through the time piece, bnlun%utn\ . R. McGunnigle, of Saginaw, Mich, 1t saved his father's life during the war. Samuol Fogely, of New Philadelphia, 0., put.n heavy oad of powder inko a log, and, as tho fuse failed to fire it, he went up and sat astride the log. Then the charge exploded and Fogely will die. Mrs. Louise Lyman, of Cabot, Mass., made a clothes line from the combings of hor hair. She began the industry in 1829, and made 100, foet of the cord, which the family used for years as clothes lines. A walking skeloton in Lille, France, can #0 contract his <lmrhrugm ax to drive the air completely nut of his chest, 0 that not mors that on'lnchuh{mua remains hetween his hoart and his backbone, Archdeacon Rruges wentions a gentleman ‘who was so thoroughly a gamester that he leftin his will an injunction that his bones be made into dice, and hi» skin so prepared as to be a covering for dice-boxes. Forty conts a week is_all that it costs John ‘W. Nissley, of Mount Carmel, Pa., who is €5 years old, and weigks 175 pounds, to live. His diet is dry bread and hot water, and has been 80 for the last seven years, A flock of wild turkeys walked around the public square of Perryville, Mo,, apparently without fear, but wore gono again bofore the pooplo recovered from - their ~surprise and could capture any of them. Threo months ago a resident of Preston cniy, Conn,, part'al y swallowed a fish bone. It lodged in the back of his mouth, between the lower jaw and cheek, and being unable to remove it, waited for it to work loose. In- stead it disappeared, and o few days ago was taken out below the chin, It had traveled four inches, and finally produced an uleer and found its way out, Thers is a Malteso cat in Babylon, N. Y., that attends the Presbyterian church regu. larly morning and evening, Tabby is always found by the sexton sitting on the' door ataps when he opens the church, The cat patters up the aisles and takes up a position near the stove, whero ho remaina throughout the ser- vice. After the benediction Tabby loaves tho church with tho congregation, and disap- pears. The animal has becomo o be known 8 the religious cat, A cat that had in some way become a pris- onor on the top of & house in Philadelphia soventy foet high, became frightened at the frantic offorts of 'tho crowd bolow, and aftrr clinging to the eaves of the bullding for some time suddenly dropped to the ground. Of course tho cat wasn's killed, for if the Dhils- delphians are to be belioved the tough foline it on all tours and immediately mede a bee- line for the backyard fence, where ho is now tuning himself for the coming concert, A gentloman while passing alony a Hart. ford, Conn., atreot recently noticed the singu- lar actions of what first appeared to bo & couple of sparrows in the frozan sleet of the gutter, tied together, neck and legr. Upon further examination, however, he discovered that one bird was foeding the other. Tho bou- ovolent bird started off when the gentleman came too close, and attempted to carry off its omaful. It was o clear case of sympathy for wuffering helplessnoss; 1uro birt philunthyopy. Wi liam Fergison, of Philadelphis, although 46 years old, iy sl aliced with . pecuiles and terriblo birth-nark, which was the re-ult of his mother, shortly before his birth, wit. nessing the ‘contortions and evidences of which had been thrown into . Kvor since the victim of that serious iction was 7 yoars old he has been annu. ally at and euch time he suffers more than the lig. At exactly the same period of convultions and paroxysms visit him, and at the same hour of the even. iog, He is now undergoing the tortures in a worse form than any before, and, although soores of physicians have visited him, none have been able to suggest a sufficient remedy, A fow doys ago o large mountain awouped down, gethered 1h the pot dog ':nxl: woman living near Glendive, meuu., and attempted to make oii with it. The woman was not, as some might think hecanse she had a pot dog, & dudine, but a determined woman, aud sho dotermined to have that dog, She bounced into the house, seized her husband's trusty old rifle which had put an end to many a poor Lo, and ina_ moment she had her trained eye along the harrel of the gun directly against the emblem of our national }fl.uly wl.;o was mhl-hfi huxlnul:(lly of ite al lowance of saussage, The plucky woman shy Reraver. bumed B hesd 'aax pulled e ger, with the result -namely, an eagle freed from its load, and the remains of a yel- low poadle seatéared upan the ground, aug. u wowan with a dislocated shoulder, ARE YOU GOING TO EUROPF? In another column will be found the au. ouncement of Messes. THOS, COOK & SON, ourist Ageuts, 201 Broadway, New York, relativo o the 'very complote arraugements thoy have made for tours in Euicps thy comlog Sprivg and Summer. *Cook's Exeur- sionist,” conf and full partiouiace, ;l:lub.nnudwnny:s:hflnn receipt of 10 A Valentine, A valencine! Ah, can it be That some one has addressed to me These lines, so sweet and tender? Name or initial is not set Upon the page, and yet—and yet think 1 know the sender, What though the writing be disgueed, And many a little trick devised ald the fond decoption; Bt. Valentine provides the key That spoils the little mystery The moment of reception, We may be right, we may be wrong; For lack of confirmation strong Wo give the rein to fanoy, And let hor wander at hor will, And her bright destiny fulfill In fields of necromancy. And valentines would Jose their If they at oncs could doubt disarr Fore yot the soal was broken; And 80 the deeper the disguise, The more delightful the surprise, And sweeter iy the token, —[Josephine Pollard. e 3IALI CON Mgr. Capel ia no longer popular with the ladies of Washington, They have awakened to the fact that he exnnot marry, A novel wedding gift is that of the Mar- quis of Kildare, who has ordered watchos to Vo prepared as his gift to each of the brides. maids, The consus proves that the number of per- wons in a family fnthix country iu a small frac. tion over five. Insome families the husband ia the small fraction over. “Your husband always appears to be in very high spil Yo, returned his wife “Aif they didu’t come so high I should have had & uew fur sacque this wintor,” M. de Fay, the great Paris matrimonial agent, has mads an enormous fortune, and has retirod to private life, refu: 0 part with oud-will of his profession. ome, lot's bill and coo a little, as we used to,” said Mixey to his wife, after thoy had been married & yoar, *Yes,” sho roplied, “tyou look out for the bills and 'l do the coo- y dear,” said a dying husband to his ¢, *when Tam dead will you seo that my ave i kept green? *Yos,” sobbed the t-broken woman, I will for a little while,” “If it bo true that tho huirs of one's head are all numbered,” said the man_after he had ecaped from his wifo's clutches, *‘there will bo ono angel at least who will show up with big dericit,” W hat this country is yearning for is a pub- lic school system which will teach the wives of the future that light housekoeoping is some- thing more than reading novels and starching their husband’s stockings. “‘Fred Douglass first met his new wife when she was six years old. Sherofused to kiss him at that timo. Mrs. Douglass must have been a six-year-old girl of considerable Intelligence, but she soems to have lost it. Capt. Paul Boynton, horatovoro the lone voyager, is to be_married in Chicago on the ovening of the 1ith inst., to Miss Maggio Connolly, daughter of Mr. Gornelins Connolly, of Chicago, and will bring his bride to Lis home in New York. A barbed wire fence will be built in the In- dian territory ard New Mexico 200 miles long. Tho modest young woman who prefers to go around that fence rather than climb over it, will never reach the other side until she is too old to gebmarried, A Vermont woman who has just had the mumps says sho hopes to gracious she will never have to go through such an experience. sgain, Yor two whule weeke sl haan't boen able to jaw her hueband or to let out a single reighborhood secret; awful martyrdon! Perhaps the reason the young ladies do not take advantage of their lap year prerogative s that the business outlook is not very encour- saging. Of course the dear creatures hesitate to add their support the expeuses of a man with an already restricted incomo, But to hesicate is to lose, There {s & noble old oak on the line of Maryland and Virginia near the littlo village of New Church, which has been famous from timo immemorial as a place whare eloping conplea havo beem jolriod in wedlook; | A sun. away Virginia couplo were married under its spreading branches on Thursday of lst week “My viows on the marriage tie,” sa'd Mon- cionor Capel recently, “‘are, briefly that woman was made by God Almighty to be elther married or to become nuns, and that thero is 1o such stato as old maid recogninble. My advise to all young women is to accept miariage proposals instead of rejecting them.” An intimate friend_of Miss Ella Wheeler, the poetess, now in New Orloans, says that young lady ia to be married in_early spriug to Mr. Yorke. of New York. 1t is reported that tho final 0 of Mr. Yorke's name 1 the spark which caused the conflagration of love now guid to bo. ronring and. seething in Ellla's cart, Tt is recorded of a rich old_farmer that, in giving instructions for hix will, he_directed & logacy of #100 to o given to his wife. Being informed that some _distinction was usually mado in case the widow married again, he doubled the sum, and when told that this was quite contrary to custom, he said, with heart- felt sympathy for his postible successor: “Aye, but him as gets her'll deserve it.” A Pennsylvania mivister who is very popu- lar smoug the matrimonially inclined, says woalthy bridegrooms do not pay_better than those of more moderato means. Ten and twen- ty dollars aud expenses a.e tho average fig- ures, but $100 and 8200 foes are given to big preachers, Sometimes & generous bride hears of tho smoll fae paid by the groom, and at- tempts to remedy the matter by sending the preacher & handsome present. ~ But this is rare. Charlas Richards, a young Englishman, died fu New York of puenmonia, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery last’ Saturday. Tho only mourner was Miss Winfred, governess in & well known family in Now 'Vork, Miss Winfred and Richards were lovers in Eogland but a hrovher of the young lady tried to sspa- rate them. Finally Miss Winfrad loft her home and came to Now York, whither she was followed by Richards, Thoy were about to be married and received the blessivg of the young lady's father, nccompaniod by a chec for & £100, whon Riclards' becaine sick and jed. ——— RELIG1OUS 014 St. Poter's church, New York, has en- red ita one hundredth vear. helpless oumpmhml but was of course unsuor | ¥ The Rey. Mr. Spurgeon, the noted Bantist proacher, has fully recovered from his recent sickness, General McClollan may froquently bo seen at D, John Halls church, Now “York, of whose preaching he is very foid, Bishop Garrett, who presides over & mis- slonary jurisdiction of 100,000 aquare miles, extending from Toxarkana to New Mexico, lives in Dallas, Tex. Mus. Ayer, wife of the late Dr. Ayer, is an Episcopalian_and attends Grace churck, New York. Sho dresses very quiotly and gives a great deal to charities, Dr. Deams, of New York, has about recov- d from his illness, Last Sabbath was the first occasion in twenty years that he has been absent from the pulpit on account of illuess. Father Stephan, the famous Catholic mis- sionary who is now in Washington, has had & life full of advent Fora long time sitting Bull was under his charge, Ho ix the trusted counsellor of all the Northwestern Indiaus, and is said to have more iufluonce over thew than auy other white wan. *‘Camp Meeting” John Allen, of Wilton, Me., has reachod the age of eighty-nine years. “1 find much tiwe to read,” he said the other day, “and have read the Bible through, aud half the Now Testamont the second time in the Lust four months, I have read the Bible through muny times, but uever before quite 80 uick Bellefoutaine, 0., is now the scene of one of the greatost religious revivals ever held w the state. People from thirky miles around are flocking to the town, and conversions are tak- ing place daily, Oue hundred couverts have been added to one denomivution since January 19, and the conversions iu some cases aro sald to be very remarkable, A now religious sect in Beston holds that disease is caused by the absence of Gud from the h»dy1 aud that it can be cured by the pas- o of divive witlucuce from the well to the THE DAILY BEE+~OMAHA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1884, inflience and prominence, and some whose namos are as familiar an honsehold words, At the last Methodist Episcopal General conference, held in 1880, a resolution was passed requesting all the chnrches in the Uni- ted States to pay off as much of their debte as possible before the meeting of the next gen- eral eonference, to be held at Philadelphia in May, 1884, s0 as to make as good a showing in the centennial yoar of Episcopal Metho- dism in the United States, 1884, as ossible, 1t is not possible to et an absolutely correct statement of the total amount paid in response to this advice. Last year the ‘‘spring con- ferences,” which are m the conforences situ- ated in the east, paid off 81,000,000 of church dobt and improved their church property to the extent of § The “‘fall coafer- ence 2, hurch pebts, It is probably an underestimate to say that in four years the churches have paid off £5,200,000 of debt, and probably improved church property to the extent of £3 500,000, a total of $8,700,000 for the entire country. This does not include either the Methodist !“rut;'ulnm.u or the Methodist Episcopal Church South, —— ‘Wendell Phillips, Hae stood upon the world's broad threshold; wide Tho din of battle and slaughter rose; He saw God stand npon the weaker side, That sank in seeming loss hefora ita foes; Many thero were who made great haste and sold Unto the common enemy their swords; Ho scorned their gifts of fame and power and old, Amls underneath their soft and Howery words, Heard the cold serpent hiss, therefore he went And humbly joined him to the weaker part, TFanatic named, and fool, yet well content So he could be the nearer to God's heart And feel its solemn pulses sending blood Thro’ all the widespread veins of endles« grod, ~[James Russell Lowell, BB il PEPPERMINT DROPS. A gasman always sing in long meter, 11 eggs koop on gotting much higher in prico millionaires will woar them as shirt studs, Denis Kearney has found that tho only way ho can reach the uppor crust is by handling ples. There is & man in the Mississippi legislature namned Christinas, He is in favor of annual meetings. John 1. Sullivan boasts that he makes §25,000 a year. Young an, strike out from the shoulder, Every cloud has a silver lining, but it is not 80 with solid silver water pitchers, They are nickel-plated. Another baby left on a Pittsburg door step. Another Pittsburg man wonders if this makes himn o step-father. They say that dogs can’t reason, but no one will doubt that a dog tries to reach a conclu- sion when he chases his tail, Shakespeare said: *“There's good in evory- thing.” William had evidently never tackled a railroad restaurant turnover. When Hamlet said, ‘‘But I have that with- in which passeth show,” it is believed that he had in his pocket a complimentary ticket for a circus, Hon, J. L. Sullivan called his San Francisco audience ‘‘loafers,’ and referred to himself a8 “‘a gentleman,” A Bostonian never for- gets himself, An exchange says that Noah was the first pitcher an record. He “pitched the ark with- in and without.” The game was finally called on account of the rain, A perfect rush of Italian artists with their attendant original dudes is expected in Amer- ica in a few days. The organ-grinders are to be banished from Paris. “T say, Jenkins, can you tell a young, ten- der chicken from an old, tough one!” “Of course I can.” “*Well, how?” **By the testh.” “Chickens don’t have teeth.” “No, but I have.” The following is & copy of a bill posted on the wall of a country vill: ‘A lecture on total abstinence will be delivered in the open air, and a collection will be made at the door to defray expentes,” ““I say, Mr. Painter, can you doa job for me to-day?” “Certainly, certainly; What it “I ‘want a sign painted.” “All right; what kind of a sign?” A sign of rain.” (Exit, dodging & paint pot.] The man who discovered the key to the. an- cient Aztec writings was formerly employed on The New York Tribune, and acquired the talent ho has used to such good advantage in deciphering Greeley’s manuscript, Queen Victoria’s new book will be illustrat- ed from drawings Dy herself and daughter Beatrice. It 14 believed that Daniel will be easily distinguished from the British Jion by the green cotton umbrell under his arm. Florida strawberries have fallen to 85 a quart, They are quite small and decidodly acid, Some people who like sour things may enjoy them, but for our part we lose taste for thom after tho third plate. ~(Philadelphia all. While scattering a_few crumbs for the spar- rows this severe weather don't forget to throw out a lot of old tomato-cans, barrel-hoops and cast off shoes for the poor goat, which has as much right to live as the imported feather biped. Crushed strawberry color is not now consid- ered the correct thing, The newest color in fashion is ‘the inside of a mule’s ear by star- light.” The outside of a mule's heel will tar- nish tho starlight at short range when the sky is cloudy. A fat man in this city is making quite a for- tune by a shrewd trick. He secretes two cats under his vest, snd when visiting music halls he makes them yell by squeezing their tails. People not posted on the trick 1magine him to be a groat opera singer. ‘*Where shall we bury?” asks » scientific writer. Did you ever try the earth? That is considored a very appropriate place by many people. This practice of burylug a corpse in an ash barrel or throwing it over the back fence into a neighbor's yard cannot be too strongly condemued, At a theatre in Dublin a gentleman request- od & mn in front of him to sit down, adding, sarcastically, I suppose that you are aware, sir, that you are not opaque.” “I shall sit down when it suits me,”. was tho responso, k | “and if you want to handle_my name, mind its not O'Paque at all, but O'Brien,” e ——— Petroleum V. Nasby, . R. Locke, Petroleum V. Nasby (Editor “Toledo Blade,”) writes: T had o & forefinger of my right hand one of those pleasant pets, & “run-round.” The finger became inflamed to a degroo unbearable and swollen to nearly twico its natural size. A friend gave me HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE, and in twenty minutes the pain had #0 much subsided as to give mo o fair night's rast, which T had not had befora for & Wweek. The inflammation left the finger in a day, 1 consider it & most valuable article for the household, Cures the Piles Too, Edonard Reintard, of New York, writes: Tt gives mo groat plogsure to say that a sin- gle box of HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE effected complete cure of Piles, with which T hind been troubled for over a year, aud which nothing elso that T used wonld cure. o ———— ‘When the World Will End, When lawyers fail to take a foo And juries never disagree; Wkei politicians aro content, And landlords don't collect their rent; When partica suash all the machines, And Boston folks give up their beans; When naughty children all die young, And girls are born without tongue; When ladies dow't take time to shop, And office holders never flop; When preachers cut their sermons short, And &)l the folks to church reeots When back subscribers all have paid, Aud wditors their fortunes made; Such happiness must sure portend This world must s00n cowo to an end, —[Pittsburg Dispasch. —— ExtremeTired Fecling, A lady tells us “the first bottle has done my daughter a great deal of good, her food does not distress her now, nor does sho suffer from that extreme tired [feeling which she did before taking Hood's Sarsaparilla.” A socond bottle | effected & cure. 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