Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1884, Page 5

(————————— —————————————— . AT THE CHURCHES. Fntertainmentsat the Congregational and Baptist Churches, Thursday the Young People's Asso- siatlon of the Congregational church gave their first entertainment in the parlors of the church. A large number of the friends wera prosent, The programme opened with an over- tare rendered by Miss Jennie House. “‘A Christmas Festival” followed, in which Mr, Fred Hainsworth personated “‘Santa Claus.” and Miss Georgia Brun- ner ‘‘Christmas.”” Miss Luln Heroy told the Ohristmas story and Miss Chase sang the molo accompanyiog it, while the children of the Sunday school sang the chorur, Three petite artists personated the dolls—Manse Taylor the walking doll, Lila Towaa the singing doll, and Emily Heroy the crying doll, Basketa of Howers were presented to Mr. W, O, Taylor, superintondent of the school, and Mrs. C. E. Squires, the chorister, the resentation wpeeches being made y Mis Bessio Howard in behalf of the school, and by Miss * Blanche Estabrook in behaif of the Infant class. Music by the Misses House and Himebaugh, and a recitation by Miss May Bonner. Mr. C. G. How- ard directed the presentation of a serles| of tableaux, which provuked great merri- ment. The young people and the chil- dren acquitted themselves most credita- bly, and the singing, recitations and pos- ing were good. THE BAPTIST, At the Baptist church last night the ladies gave thelr third annual supper. About 260 persons took supper in the church parlors, which considerably In- creased the ladies fund. After the sup- per was over the tables were cleared away and s number of instructive and interest- ing speeches were made. Rov. Dr. Stone presided and made the princlpal address, the subatance of which was in reference to the establishment of a unlon of Bap- tist churches in Western Iowa and East- ern Nebraska, for denominational work. The idea met with great favor, but no definite steps were trken iu the matter. YARD NOTES, An [dea ot the Amount of Business Done in the Union Pacific Yards, A carefully complled tabulated state- ment of the number of trains arriving and departing in and from the Omaha yards, together with the number of cars, has been prepared. The figures are ar- ranged for twenty-four hours. It is found by close and careful calcu- lation, that everv twenty-four hours 84 rai ns, containing 716 cars and engines, arrive In the Omaha yards, and 86 trains, containing 700 cars and engines, depart from the Omaha yards. This ls an enor- mous amount of business when it is tak- on into consideration that all of these trains have to paes over a single track, as thera is no double traok leading . out of the yards, It will be understood that all the switching has alsa to be done, the switch engines being required to look out for in-coming and out-golng trains, When 1t is under- stood that 170 trains pass over this track daily, besides the switching which is done upon the same rails, it is known how careful a yardmaster must be to avoid confusion and accident. UNION ELEVATORS. The Union elevators are now doing an enormous bueiness. They are receiving about 100 cars of grain dally, and are shipping about the same amount. The Union Paclfic company is now running three extra trains dally over the O. & R. V. branch to haul the grain for the ele- vators, and the men employed by the elevator company are now working night and day. THE HARDWARE TRADE, Its Appeal to Congress for a Water Houte Transportation West, At the semi-annual meeting of the Miseissippi and Missouri Valley Hardware | and Association, held in Davenport on the 3d, tth and 5th of this month, a large num- ber of representatives of the trade of the northwest were present, During the first Jay'a sosslon tho following resolutions wore thoroughly - discussed and upani- mously adopted: WiiknEAS, The business interests ropresent- &d in this orgavization, extended as they are over » wido aren of tho country, are largely dependent for their most succossful develop- ment upon adus increase of facilities for cheap transportation of raw materials and heav: products bstween the west and the east; and, Witknkas, The northwest, particulars, has stantly reaping vast benefits from the facilities and competition secured in the continuously free water route of the Hud- son, the Eiie canal, and the lakes, and such Denefits as are keenly appreciated by the trade in which this body is directly concerned; and WiikrEAs, The extension of that route from Chicago, its present terminus, to the upper Mississippi has becomo a necessity of the agri- ciltural and manufacturivg industries and intorests of the northwest, and of ely loss; therefore, Resolved, That the Mississippi and Mis souri Valloy Hardware Association herety places on record it earnest desire for the early Cconstruction of the proposed canal from the Tllinols river to the Mississippi, known as the Hennepin canal, and for the enlargement of the Ttlinois and Michigan canal. Resolyed, That this association therefore urges upon the present congress the duty of prompt action by that body upon the bill now pending in the House, providing for the con- dtruction of the so-called “Hennepin canal by the United States, to the end that the said work of internal improvement may bespeedily undertaken and completed. Itosolvod, That a copy of those resolutions, duly signed by the president and_secretary of this associ ation, be forwarded to Hon. J." H. Murphy, member of congress, for submission %0 that Lody in behalf of this association, Rasolved, That » similar copy be also sent to each United States senator from each state veprosented in this association, and to each member of congress who has a coustituent in this body, snd that the members of this as ciation b3 requested to seo that their sen and congressmen immediately representin their state and district, respsctively, are thus supplied. e e—— “Touched " for $300, Aboat 10:30 Thursday night & manwho was greatly excited was moton Twelfth stroet by Officer Moyston, The officer brought him to a halt and between the man's gaaps for breath, learned that he had been robbed of §500 while in a house of 11! fameon Twelfth street near Harney. He could not tell how he lost it and his storles were somewhat conflicting. He first said that the money had been taken from his pocket while conversing | to it was ever offered. | with theinmaten of the dive, but later on #aid that he had been shown to a room, rotired and in & few minutes was fast asleep. During his slumbers some one entered the room by a secret panel and took from his clothing his pocket book containing the 8500, Several policeman went to the locality designated and made a thorough search but failed to find any clue to the misslng money or the thief. The man who was robbed refused to give his name, but it waa hinted by the police that he was a gallant “cop” from Leadville and that he came cast to see the world. TIOKETS .UNDEK TARIFF, General Agent Keith Oharges the Milwaukes & St, Panl and M, P, with Breaking their Contract, General Agent Keith of the C., B. & Q , charges the Mlilwaukee & St. Paul and the Miesouri Pacific with breaking the agreement entered into on December 8, respecting passenger rates. The con- ditions of this agreement, to which all the Missouri river roads were parties, was that a tariff rate on tickets should be kept up and in case they were sold at cut rates they should be redeemed at the tarlil rates by the road issulng them. Yesterday (ieneral Manager Keith bought tickets for Chleago over the Mil- waukee & Chicago road in the Blufls at a cut rate and coming over to this side procured a party to go to Frank Moores and buy thirteen tickets for St. Loul Mr. Moores refused to sell him the ticketa at firstbut told him to meet him at the depot with his men. Mr. Keith's man was on hand with his thirteen laborors and bought his tickets at cut rates. They then demanded that these two roads pay the tarifl rate for them, but this they re- fused to do, saying they had been bought of scalpers, purchased by them before thisagreemont wasentered into. What the result will be is difficult to say, but this small beginning may lead to a war of rates. COMING EVENTS. A feries of Amusements for Christy mas Week, As Christmas draws near the number of social entertainments increase, and a partial list of such is given below. On Saturday afternoon,December 21st, at Tarner hall, the Musical Uaion or- chestra will glve a very fine concert. This band is noted for its fine music,and it s announced that this will be the finest concert ever given by this band of music. fans, The orchestra will consist of twenty-five of the best musicians in the union. On the evening of the 25th, the turn verein will have a Christmas tree at Germania hall. This will be foll>wed by dancing, and a magnificent time is anti- cipated. On the same night a pumber of the members of the Musical Union orchestra will go over to Council Bluffs to farnish music for a grand masquerade to be given by the typograpical union, No. 203. At Turner hall Christmas evening the operetta, “Merry Wives of Windsor” will be rendered, At St. Philomena’s cathedral on Christ. mas morning ‘‘Mozart's Twelfth Mass” will be sung by the choir. The full Mueical Union orchestra will furnish the accompaniment, On the evening of December 26th the Sans Ceremonie club will give a party at Masonic hall. e — Upjust Rallway Tariffs, CH1cAGo Lave Stook EXCHANGE, Un1ox Srock YARDS, - OnicaGo, December 15, 1884.] At a full meeting of this assoclation, held in this *‘Exchange building” this day, the following resolutions were re- ported from the undersigned committee and by a unanimous vote of this assocla-~ tlon were adopted: ‘Wikgkas, The east-bound pool of railroads running from Caicaza to seaboard towas adopted & new tariff on dressed meats, the samo to take offect this day, Decembsr 16 ‘WiEReas, By the provisions of said tariff the ratos are made as follows from Chicago: Dressed hogs, 1n . common care, in car-load lots, 5% per 100 lbs, to New York, bjc per 100 Ibs to Boston; dreseed hogs, in common cars, less than car-lond lots, 850 per 100 1bs, to New York, 93¢ per 100 1bs. to Boston; dressed hogs, in_refrigerator _cars, car-load lots, 550 per 100 1bs, to New York, 60c per 100 Ibs, to Boston; dressed sheep, in common cars, any quantity, 75¢ P 100 1bs to New York, 95¢ per 100 1hs. to Boston; dressed sheep, in re- frigerator cars, alone or with other meats, 90c per 100 1bs, to New York, ¥1,00 per 100 lbs, to Boston; and__ ‘WHEREAS, Said tariff provides that when ditferent classes of meats are loaded in the same car, the highost rate shall apply to tho entire car-lond, thus compelliug a car-load of dressed beef which contains even one or moro dressed eheep to pay the shean rato of %0c per 100 pounds to New York, or 1 per 100 pounds to Boston, while the rate which the railroads exact for dressed beef is only 70c per 100 pounds to either Boston or New York, and thus also compel ing one or more dressod hos loaded in car with dressed boef to pay the dressed boef rate of 70c per 100 pounds, while the railroad companies rate on dressed hogs is only b5 to Now York or 60c to Boston per 100 pounds. Therefore be it Resolved, That we consider the rates on dressed hogs and sheep as fixed by atoresaid tasiff, as exorbitant and calculated to injure the business of this market. Itegolved, That we hereby most emphatic- ally protest against euch action by the rail road companies, and we hereby respeotfully ask that they reconsider said tariff and make instead such rates as will not so clearly and unjustly discriminate againtt this market and against the Jive stock intereats of the west. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwsrdedto; he managers of each of the railroads running east from Chicago, 8. E. Woon, Chairman, | E. R, Prick, Tuos. BROWN, Ji, J. M. RoBINSON, B, HaNcock, X 0. W. Bak, Secrotary. | - Committee, o —— A Futlle Anempt, The large front plate glass in the store of Mr, Harrigan, on north Sixteenth street, was broken last fall and the store entered. Last night it was broken In again but the officer on the beat heard the nolse of falllng glass and arrived In time to see the burglar departing, Be pulled his revolver but it would not work and the robber escaped. It is the belief of people living in that port of the city that an organized gang of thieves has been doing its work of late and vigorous efforts will be made to break it up. — Dugrkee's Sarap Dressina & Corp Mear Sauck for all kinds of salads, veg- | Cheeper and | No eauce wqullll-hun, why do you want me to by ] e {tables, cold meats. better than home-made, IS LFE WORTH LIVING ? in New York, Thirty Cents a Dozen—A Man and Two Women Pald $7.75 for Mak- ing 201 Undergarments, From the New York Herald, When Thomas Hood's poetic soul, an- gered at the inhuman manner ln which indignant Eoglish seamatresses treated by th to produce his immortal *‘Song Shirt,"England responded to his ery for jastice and vowed that the evil which ho deplored should be at least mitigated if not deplored. A similai eal to hu- manity seems to be desirable in this city il ) judge from the heart-rending Which & prominent merchant told a Her- ald reporter yestorday afternoon. “Six dollars and fifty-throo cents is Haw the " Soog of the Skirl” 1§ Suog were employers, inspired him of the just at present, at least 1t one is 80 to story He |the pisno would not feel o lone l had to gat his own braakfast the nest ing. At the Skating-Rink, On tho rollers he glides like the cars, But on accident his happinces marst \s 80 swiftly ho sped, He st down on his head And saw about tn million * * <} [Norristown Herald There are thirty.nina professors and instruc- tors in Princatown college, aud 510 under grad- ustes in the varions departments, The university of Pennsylvania has disti dlshed itself during the past week by est lishing & department of biology and a depart- ment of physical culture. There are threo Roman Catholic {nstitutions of learning in Cincinnati -St. Navier's colege, St* Joseph's college, and St. Francey' college. They are all in sn excoptionally flourishing conaition, John Tacob “Astor “and Miss Catherine Wolfe, of Now York, are co-operating in an effort for the cstablishment of n college in Floronce, where American wonien can persue any branch of art. Much progress is _reparted to have bsen made in Ireland of late in the study of the Irith language. The largest school-book firm nice pavment for making 201 shirts, 1s 1t not?” was his indignant question, as he in Ulster has just issued models of Trish char- acters for use in slate writing in the national pulled the psy book from bis pockot and | ebcots. fhiowed tho ‘Bgures in biack and white. | “Verment, apparently, makes & pooe. show: No, 1am wrong, The estimable om. |ing in ite sanoo recors, The. popuistion ployers paid 87.75, but you must deduct from that $1 22 for car farcs, and then you have 6 50 for making 201 shirts. Who was fool enough to accept the jobi T'll tell you. A man came here from Sileaia about hfteen months ago with his wifo and two_children, He is a bright, intelligent fellow, abont forty years old, and has worked for some years on a rail- road in Germany. He brought with him two sewing machines, andhe and his wife mansged to support themselves for some months by makimg shields for caps. When the demand for these articles consed ho songht other emplogment, but was unable to find any. At last a friend told him that a firm on East Fifty-third streot would be willing to employ him at making shirts, He jumped at tho idea, went to the firm, got the material for the shirts and set to work at onco, after he had provided hlmself with cotton thread and other necessaries. This was on No- vember 26. From this day on _until Da- cembar 9, he and his wife and another woman, who provided a third sewing ma- ehine, worked from 6 o'clock in the mrening to 11 at night, and at the end of the time they had finished two hun- dred and ninety one shirts and had recelved seven dollars and seventy.five 1810 was to 332 286, common schools decreased from 97,518 in the Jormer year to 72,744 in 1884, axid, however, that while in 40 years the pop- ulation increased 14 per cent, the number of children under twenty is over b per cent loss than 1840. Tho aver each family has ntaa:filf decraased, not an encoursging exhibi A project to establich & schocl for manual inatruction in Philadelphia has boeen placed before the auth Public Education Society. the present system does not_prepare children for handicrafts which must be their main re- Tiance for support, and that the needed prop- aration cannot be had in shops, owing to the division of trades into specisities and the un- willingness of employers to train workmen in the rudimeats wh them. The managers of Girard college, Philadel. phia, have solved a difficult problem, which was presented to them soveral years ago, and was more puzzling to them than any problem in mathematics to the student, to do with the boys after they had been edu- cated in order to conform to the terms of the bequest of 3.0 0,000 for thia educational in- stitution. and opened, which will accommodate five, hundred boys at a time and supply them with the latest improved machinery fo wood work, ete, skillful teachers of the meshanic arts, 948, and in 1880 it had increased ut the number of children in the It ought to be o number of porsons to This is it ties by a committee of the Tt hasshown that ich are common to most 6f Tt was, what Now a building has been erected ron and Tt is superintended by The cents. TWO CENTS AND A HALF FOR EACH SHIKT. Girard bequest appears to bave been well ‘managed. The estato now produces an annual income of $650,000; the college and buildings cover an area of forty-five acres, and contain “He lived in Brooklyn, at a tonsider- abledistance from the ferry, and had to pay aconsiderable sum in car fares. The agroemont was that he should receive thirty centa for every dozen spirts, and on November the 2Gth he took three shirts to his employers, expecting to be paid at the rate of two cents and a half C. H. Wiilard, state treasurer-elect, is at the Millard, Congressman-elect Geo, W. E, Dorsey was 1,110 pupils and 293 adulte, PERSONAL, a shirt, odd half cent? cents instead of seven and & half? Quite the contrary. They paid hlm seven cents instead of seven and a balf cents, his lawful due. eight dozen shirts to his employers, and received $2 40; on tho 5th he took an- other eight dozen aud received §2 04, the increased wages balng accounted for by the fact that these shirts required to be finlshed better than the others, and on |and the 9th he took a thitd eight dozen and rocetved the same amount as for the pre- ceding lot. NATURALLY INDIGNANT, “I saw him after he had taken his last eight dozen and he told me his stosy. I his company here Christmas time. got his pay book from him and showed it to several influential gentlemen of this clty. Kuowing the price they have to pay for shirts, they could hardly believe that any employer would be so mean as to ask men and women to make them for two and a half centa esch. I told them that the man’s wife could not support her children on such starvation wages, and was obliged to get coal, tea and money from scme charitable ladies in Brooklyn. I then went to a prominent labor bursau and requested the proprie- tor not to recommend any man or woman, however badly off he or she might be, to take employment from this firm at such & rate of payment, and finally I promised the man, whose case attracted my attention to the matter, to do my best to get him some job better than that one. He was an honest man, and he says that it would break hls heart to see his children selling newspapers on the street. That was the reason why he ac- cepted such badly paying work, If the Herald will only give due prominence to this story Hood's hopes may be realized in thls city. You remember Low he says: “*And etill in a voice of dolorous pitch, (Would that its tones could reach the rich) he sang the song of the shurt,” “Not even the most stony-hearted em- ployer would dare to pay & man and two women for thirteen days’ labor such a miserable sum this firm pald Regen and his fellow-workers, if the matcer were known to the public.” ——— CONNUBIAUITIES, Once upon an evening dismal, T gavo her a paroxysmal Kiss, and called her name, baptismal— Procions name, [ loved of yoro, Ab, she was a darling_creatuire, Pert of speech, and fair of foatire; But rgad, you couldn’t teach her, For she hud been thero boforo— Aud only murmured: “‘Buzz me more! At the marriage of Miss Pear] Tyler, daug] ter of the late ex-President Tyler, at Ric mond, Va,, the bride wore the veil which was worn by her mother, A young lady is said tobe *of age” only whon she 18 married. This is the reason, wo supposs, why 80 many eldorly umaarried ladies never got beyond their teens, Crusty old bachelor:—"T hear Smythe s going to b married next week,” *'No, it has been postponed.” o the poor fellow has been granted a respite. Foor dovil, he may get off yot,” At an Engish weddiog the bridremaids with the curious additions of red wreath and red shoes, as relief to the predominant color. 5 A young lady in St. Leuls recently doused & young mau with & pailful of water whilo ho was on his kneos begging her to bo his_bride. Nover get on your kneos to & St Louls girl, Grab hor arcund the waist at once, her mad to lose time, Rod ad & roso was she, Tted as boot was he, And the marriage service was duly read, \ud readily out of the chwrch they sped, I asked the parson the size of his fee, I got mot a rad,” he answered me, A young mav in Chivago, whuse beide was denf, whistled so loudly that her hearing was restored, He is not 80 happy as he was, He 1led to take off his boots when he is now com| sncaks up the staire at midnight, The prac- sice of whistliog cannot be too strongly depre- cated, “Why don't you bavg your hair, love?” he 38 other evaning, as they 't in the ear, do you think asked tl arlor after tea. *‘Why, d t would be becoming”’ * Ob, 'yes, T but T wasa't thinking about’ U it Well, 1 was thinking that if you bang But how could he bo paid the Would his emplogers be magnanimous encugh to _give him eight On December 3 he took e dressed in white lace, with long white | 8 It makes your hair in the city yesterday, Miss Emma Payne, of Nebraska City, is the guest of her sister, Mra, Wilcox, in this city. Mr, and Mrs, M. T. Patrick and Mrs, Bur- dott left yesterday for Worcoster, Massachu- setta, J. M. O'Neil, who has been the guest of Captain Sullivan { ¢ some weeks, has returned to bis homo at Grand Rapids, Michigan, W. W. Welle, S:huylor, T. M, Marquatte, Robert L. Kaynolds, Lincoln, and Claudius Jones, Seward, were at the Millard yestorday. 5 Mr. ¥. M. Daly, represontiog the “Double Uncle Tom's Cabin Company,” is in the clty making arrangements for ths appearance of F. P. Amold, Hastings, (ico. B, Massos, Ponca, Geo. Durston, Red Cloud, R, H, Brown, Grand Island, Mrs. A. A, Covley, Valley, W, Hecht. Kearney, ¥. L. Cotter, Beatrice, C. A, Moran, Highland, Neb., C. E. Woodruff, Chippews, Wis., and J, D. Wallics, of Chicago, are at the Metropolitan. — —The funeral of G, A. Haarmaun yester- day was largely attended. The procession was led by the Union Pacific band, Next came the representatives of the Mannerchor, Turnverio, Swiss and the Concordia singing societies, of all of which tho deceased was an active and honorary member, The presidents of these four socloties carried the pall, after which came the relatives and friends of the deceased in carriages, o —m— Steamboat Collision, NEW OrLeANs, December 19.—The British steamship Victoria met in collision this even- ing with the steamboat Fred A. Blanks mak- 1% an excursion trip to the exposition. The Blanks eank in a few minutes, Sho had a number of passengers ou_board, but they and the crew wero all saved, The Blanks was valued at 100,000, insu-ance $:5,000, ——— The {Congo Conference Committee Agree to a Protocol, Bruuty, December 19, — The committes Congo conferenca considered the question of the importation of spirits wto the Congo and Nigor countries. Germany, France and Holland opposed the restriction, thoy finally agreed to put upon rocord a protocol to restrict as far as possible the liquor traffic. ————— Exposition Notes. Niw Orceans, Decembor 19.—To-night the execeutivo committee of exhibitors and board of management of the World's fair, met and effected o harmonious adjustmont with chivf of instullation Maullen. Smoke Seal of North Carolina Tobac- co, Pcoverbs fur To-Day, A hornet Is more respected thana honey-bee. A bug in a 1»af of bread is remembered longer than & hundred clean loaves, Whoever despises the power of a word is as foolish as he who is careless with a match. Do not try to make peace between a rattlesnako and a skunk, A hangman hes less chance for rlsing in life than the man whom he is about to hang, Yet fortune's blind foot kicks a hangman ona throne snd king into the utter, Speech is the froit of wisdom; silence is the virtue of gaieuance. In youth, sinning is easy and repent- ance hard, in old agesinning is hard and repentance easy. A man’s own comb is best, though it have but one tooth, Who is woase than an unjust tyrant! A just tyrant, Who are worse than a just tyrant/ A submiseive people. ———— brown's Bronchial Troaches for coughs and colds, *“I'here is nothing to be compared with them, Iud, Rev. O, D, Watkins, Walton, mer Albatross will winter in southern waters. A special subject of investigation will be the cause of the strange malady whioh has for a few years past randered the fish In and about Mobile bay unfit for food. The first part of the cruise of the Albatross will be along the coast of Texss and Lousiina, and explorations of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico will be carefully wmade. A littln cloud, An oath alond A broomstick’s fight, aerial; Another swesr A clutch at hai Tho rest is immaterial, terial are the best to select for children's ever; day dresses, Such goods as flannels, cheviots, Eoglish suitings ana soft wool plaids are the most serviceable for such use, Little Willis had often stood by the window and watched the robins feed their yourg. a did you know our hired girl eats worn s 0, Willis, of course she does not.” *‘Yes she dosa too. I eeen pa a-feocin’ her behind the kitchen door this mornin’,” Little Rudolph one day tion to dinner, egged an invita. At the table his hostess anx- fously inqn “Rudolph, can you cut your own meat? “Humph,” «aid Kudolph, who was sawing away, *‘Can’t I’ I've cut up just s tough meat as this at home Little Emma came ruoning into the parlor yesterdny morning, where her mother was on- tertaining young Mr, Rudder until Miss Ma would compl ber toilet and come do tairs, and cried O'h, mamma, John- ny is dot Mary's teof, avd won't give 'em to her,” A new toy found among tho holiday goods 18 & boy or girl ball player, in which the boy kicks and the girl throws a rubber ball across the room with perfect accuracy overy timo the atring attached to the one or the other is pulled, Among the novelties there is not ona which will give more amusement for a little money than this, A popnlar atylo for school dresses for girls from el. ht to twelve, madoe in cloth or flanuel, is a kilt-plaited skirt, with broad ruches of the same waterial to form in an overskirt in the back, The waist is made in a plaited blouse, confined to the waist by a belt. Solid color droasns are lighted up with wool plaids of va- rious colora, Boys in long trousers wear cutawsy jackets, The back is usually slit up in two seams, Tho vest is cut In a small V-shape about the neck. Lvery-day suits are made of Scotch cheviots and are cut in doubls-breastd sacque shapos. High derby hats are worn by youths, Walk- iog boots™ are of calfskin, buttoned or laced, with heavy 3oles and low heels. Tho toes aro less pomnted than those recently worn, For drers oceasions buttoned shoes of patent leather are worn with kid or cloth tops, “Johnny.” said a Chicago scheol ma'am to one of her hopsful pupilsin a reproving tono of voice; ‘“Johnny, when I was of your age and went to echool I could read as well asT can_now.” “Oh, yes,” replied John, with o significant inflection: “‘buc then you had a very different sort of a teacher than the one T've got and that makes a difference,”— [Chi cago Sun. Jay Gould's litlle boy recontly went to visit some country relatives, Iarly in the morn- ing ho arosefand missing his unclo asked one of his cousins: “\Where has uncle Jabez gone?' ‘‘He's gone to water the stock,” re pliod Jabez's little boy. ““What, so early!’ exclaimed Jittle Jay Gould, “Why, my pa never waters ctock until ha goes down it :hle city ‘bout 10 or 11.”—{Pittsburgh Chron clo Tho extremely dangerous naturs of man: of tho playthings put into the hands of chil dren was again sbown recently in the death of # boy, fivo years of age at St. Thomas's Hos pital, London, While amusing himself with o “puff dart” the child suddenty drew in his breath, and the dart, with the worsted at tached, paesed 1nto the air passages, lodging in the lower part of the traches. The boy lin- gored a month in great suffering. i e SINGULARITIES, An observer of wasps finds that they are most activo from about 9:30 to 11 a, m., and 205 p. m. A Cuban lighthouse was lately surrounded by such a cloud of red insocts that mariners reported the light at a distance as being red. A_curlous mirage was recently seen at Lindesburg, in central Sweden, It ropresent. ed a town with tour storied houses, a castle and » lake, A monatrous earth worm, eix feet five inch- s long and proportionatoly thick, has sent from Cape Colony, Africa, to the Itoyal zoological society of Kngland, The willow tres at Mount Vernon which overshadows the tomb of Washington was originally the clipping from a tree whi overshadowed the tomb of Napoleon at Helena, There is on_exhibition in a window on School street, Boston, a squash which_girts 7x6} feet and weighs 106 pounds. I:was grown in Nova Scotia and the owner of it last year raised one that turned the sca'es at 292 pounds, g The workmen employed at the Boston navy yard in tearing apart the old United States war ship Virginia find the wood in_a geod state of preservation, This is attributed to the fact that her timbers wera salted. large umps of salt have been taken from her that were put there over seventy years ago when she was built. In Vermont, during the thr-e years ending last January, sixteen centenariaus died—a re- markable record, Luther Holden, of &outh Wallingford, died a few months ago, aved 102, Concerning the living, Miss White, of Newbury, is over 101, She 18 partially blind, but her hearing is good and her memory i% excellent She can repeat poetry —wnich she has committed in the past—by the hour, hus & good appetite and couverses freely, In1754 the great grandtather of Major Reuben (iregory set out an apple tros in Clearing he made in the present township of Polk, in Monroe county, I’a, Major Gregory now ' occupies the farm, The troo is still standing, tound and thrifty, having borno three bushels of apples this y2ar. The trunk of the tree is over fifteen feet in circumfer- ence, and its maiu branches are ns large as an ordinary apple tree. The fruit isred and very sour. Thers i3 no other treo in this country like it, o e— REPAIRING MAIMED VETERRANS A Talk With the dMan Who Serves Out the Woodon Legs, From the Washington Star, *‘We have the names of about 18,000 voterans who have applied for repairs,” said Mt, Ramsey, who has charge of the artificial limb department of the surgeon- general’s office, to & Star reporter. “You know we fit them out with new sets of legs, arms and other apparatus every five yours, It s now gettiog toward the close of one of those periods, and we have re- paired 14,000 veterans.” “‘Aren’t tho one-legged mon dying c 117" agked the Stor man. “Now that’s an Interesting question. I guees tbey are, I presume many of those whose names we have have since dled, but I oan't tell certainly, Now, as I've said, every five years we reconstruct the malmed veteraus of tne army, but they have their choice to take the re. pairs or the money. The allowance for & leg is §75; for anything less than a log is 850, From one period to another many old veterans drop oft. Some of them make one or two applications, and then we never hear from them again. Naturally, we coaclude when they don’t send for their money or legs, they must be dead and have no more use for them. But we don't limit oureelves to men who have actually lost their limbs, A man who has slwply lost the use his limbs is entitled to a wooden leg or srm, as the case may be, though he can't wear them, So you see, we can't keep a record of all the one-legged men, but I guess there aren't as many as there used to be, Yet there are lots of them and many who haven't any legs at all, and some with neither legs nor arms. Then there are many who have not loat their limbs, but who have no power to "The plainest and simplest of stylos and ma " Y | aze the plow and the team. going along, one of the mon discovered a rattlesnake, as I remember, ahout twelve 1in both eyes. { Lis teoth purticalarly fioe writing, but read it I kv of another man—he was in tb eharp s s cervice—who ean't b od on foet becawso he is_ ber tho back so that his head wonld w | the fioor f Think hos many years theeo men havo served, and many of them aro u ving. Why thora's hard euough left of aomy of them to hold to- her, “Bat you asked «f they wera g off N : ara just complet B ral irmenas tally- sheots out on his desk. *‘You can soe how they run. This ls the fourth period, and hero Is & man who has gotten four lege, quit & number for one man, If ho used them all at once. . And here's an- other who has gotten four legs and four arms. No, we don't furnish heads, but wo supply patta of heads, jaws and sco- tions ot skull and ey.s, Now, hero's a man who got one leg In the fire period probably dead. But hero is another, who came in for repairs jnst after the closs of the war and was never heard from again till now when he comes up again, 1o didn't wear out very fast. repaired so often, he his ltmb all these yonre. way, you sce, all tho way through. logs or as many arms.” *‘What aro the legs made of?” asked the scribe. “Willow wood, genorally, and there |« They can take NSome take tho straight Some aren varioty of styles. their choice, stick and stump it through life, legs havo rubbor fect and rubbor joint, There is one made with a very fine ball Thero aro many men with wooden legs whom you Wo furnish linbs to somo brave and distinguished men. There aro soveral ofticers of bigh rank who come here for arms and legs, Thero isa _young licutonant we recenily sup- and socket’ joint at the foot. would never suspect. plied” with one arm, who 1s, I balieve tho only survivor of the Custer mas. sacre.” A Snake that Gommitted Suicide, From Nature, T was one day following one of the that It was drawn by five or six yoke large broaking plows common at time. of oxen, and there were two men to man- As wo were or fourtoen inches in length, They rare- ly oxceod eightoen ox twenty enches, so that this one was probably about two- thirds grown. The man who first saw it was about to kill iv, when the other proposed to see if It could be wade to bite itself, which it was common- ly reported the rattlesnake would do If sngered and prevented from escaping. Accordingly they poked the snake over into the ploughed ground, and then began teasing it with their long whips. Eacspe was impoesible, and the snake so0on becamo frantic at its incftzctual at- tompts either to injure Its esailants or to get away from them. At last it turned upon itself and struck its fange Into its own body, about the middle. ioch- | 'Mhe polson_seswed to take effsct in- stantly. The fangs were not withdrawn at all; aud if not perfectly dead within less than five minutes, it at least showed ne nigns of life, That it should dle 8o qulckly will not reem strange if it is borne in mind that the same bite would have killed a fall grown man in a few hours’ time, The men watched it long enough to be sure that it would not move away, and then went on with their work. I tradged around with them for an hour or more, and every time we came where the snake was, I stopped and looked at it, but it never moved agaln. In this case I do not remember that the snake had been injured at all. I have often heard of rattlosnakes bitting themselves under such circumstances, but this was the only case that ever came under my observa- tion, — —— Music and_lnsanity. The theory of the close connection be- tween muslc and fnsanity was never more closely eatablished than in the re- cent case of Mr. Bertram Bolter of this city, who wes an inmate of o privato asylum hero for ten years, At the expi- ration of that term he suddenly recov- ered his reason, and was able to give a porfectly Insid nccount of how he had loevir. 1 1878 Mr. B. lived next door to boy who was learning to play the plano, The lad was an ardent mucician and one nicht played, *“Come, Bir- dle. Come,” 18 times suceession, in order to learn it proper'y. Mr. Bolter waos found on the floor of his bedroom next day, devouring » Kureka hair-mat- tress, and a ravinz maniac. Oan recover- ing his reason ho told the above facts to hin keeper, who, forgetting that hearing the tune ayain might agitate his patient, said thougntlersly: **Why, that's rather a pretty tuno, 1 always thonght, Goes something like 1his, don'tit?’ard he whistled the first four bars pisintively, “How's that!’ he sald. ‘*‘Is that like it/” But the query was in vain. Hls jaw had fallen, and Mr. Bolter was dead. —San Frangisco News-Lotter., ————— There are probaoly @ million stamp collectors in the United Scates aud Cana- da, and the number is increasing every year. All the way rom $50,000 o §200, - 000 have bsen spent by wealthy sentle- men in makin the most perfect collec tions. TUTTS PILLS EEEEETRRrY 25 YEARS IN USE. The Greatest Medical Triumph of the Age! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Y,ossof nppetite, Bowels costive, Pain In the head, with o dull sensatlon fn the bacls part, Pain under the sho blade, Fulluews after cating, with inclination to exertion of body or irits, with ome duty, ° Tonrt, ver the right ey fiful areams, Highly colored Urin NSTIPATION. TUTT'S PILLS are especially adapted ,‘one doso effcots sucl no sufferer. nd cause the bio ayatem 11 Aciion on ¥ 8ioolsars move. There ls ono man who gota two srms and two logs allowance, who can- not move auy part of his body exsept the little finger of his left hand, which ho can band the least littlo bit, Thers ls another, a Now Eugland soldier, whose arms and logs are dead wnd who - GRAY HATR or WHISKERS changed 1o i GLossT BLACK by a single upplication of this D¥e. It imparts a uatural color, ety instantaneously. Hold by Druggists, or | & by express on receiptof §1. | uifice, 44 Murray St., w York. . | y and has never gotten one; since; he ia[about my cure? 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