Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1889, Page 15

THE OMAHA FORT ONAHA LIFE DESCRIBED Interesting Faots (;aflmrsd at Our Near-by Garrison. A STFCLL THFCUGH THE POST Ofcera and Enlisted they Lodge, Eat and and the A dvantages Enjoyed. Dutics of the Men, How Work, The Lot of a Soldier. Omaha is the hendquarters of the parti tte, United limits Fort States army, has within its Omaha, W r the paratively i of the cit Omaha's people now. hut there is now quartored Socond regiment of infantry, Com- rosidents fort. enste is known by lifo at the Ation many ibject is entirely ot of we rn pop to whom this I'o the old 1t the same time rosidents it is an old an iatoresting sut j For benoficof all these the Iny at the fort recently, flicient data for an entire writer spent o and sec book. The fort is ired s situated about miles northwest of the center of the city, and is a beautiful place. The parade ground, about four neres in extent, occuples the center. On the north, cast and south sides are situated the company quar- ters. band quarters, guard house and other buwildings, while on the west side are the officers quarters. As above stated at present the Second regiment infuntry is quartered here. This consists of the mental staff, ofticers and ten companies under con- mand of & colonel. To the north of the parade ground is the hospital, a large two-story brick building (the finest one in the po which is fuenished with all the modern improvements, heated by gteam, ete. The term of enlistment in the (nited States army is yeurs and once arecruit passes tho exami tions, he 1 to stay. The men ap- penr 1o he satisfied with their lot and arve n set. While not having ex yimforts of home, they are w of und are in the main healthy and happy The first place of interest to visit is the four \ore well entleman] COMPANY QUARTERS post there are ten company quarters and quarters for the band. There are few posts in this department (the Platte) that have worse quarters than Fort Omaha. The quarters of the culisted men are all built on the same plan, and that a very poor one. More attention seems to have been paid to uniformity than to health or comfort. They ure’ one-story buildings, with an L. in the rear, which is used as company kitchen and dining room, that portion connecting the two buildings being used for the lavatory and barber shop.” The main building is used as living roon dritl room and dormitory. It is one large room without an ornamental fes ture aboutit. It is heated with two ovdinary stoyes, one at each end of th room, and in extremely cold weathe the men roast on one side and freeze on the other. and in summer the only w 0 keep cool in the room is to open all the doors and windows, and then go out and lie under the trees. The sleeping accommodations will compare favorably with those of an Ohio river flat-boat, the bunks being arranged on cither side of the room,the space between them depending on the size of the company. [f small there will be plenty of room, but if a full compuny be present they will be close enough tozether to look like a contin- uous bunk from one end of the room to the other, and to one new in the quar- ters it would be necessary to mark his place to find it again. But at this post the companies are seldom up to full complement, and i consequence the is suliicient room. The arrangements for keeping cloth- fng and cquipments are very neat and simple. A shelf about six feet num the floor over each bunleis the reeeptable for the clothing.neatly folded, and upon srow of pegs just beneath the shelf hangs the equipments, haversack, can- teen blanket, bag, cartridge belt, ete. OFFICERS QUARTERS, The officers’ quarters at this post are now much better than those of the en- listed men. They are not. however, all built upon the same plan, are the latter, but there scems to have been no particular style foliowed. Some are frame and others brick buildings, and se built whore the post was first es hed are nearly s bad as the bar- s, Lately there have been a few rs made on some of them, and more are being repaired at the present, the war department having appro- printed money for that purpose re- cently. Ofiicers are usually assigned to quarters cording to rank, the com- manding officers having the first choic and then on down to the junior lieu- tenant. Some officers are content with one or two rooms furnished in simple style, while others are dissatisfied with any quarters they get. One would naturally suppose that the lower th rank of ‘the oflicer the easicr satisfi be woula be, but such is not the c Captains and majors sometimes choos: the smallest quarters in the garrison. 1B BEGIMENTAL BAND, mental band consists of twen- ns, and is in command of e two principal mu- siciuns who rank as ser ots, the so nior seargent having charge of the roster, roll calls and diseiplive, and the junior sergeat charge of the mess. The duties of the members of the band are light compared with those of the pri- vate soldier [n the summer time their dutics are ac guard mount at 9 a. m..rehearsul at 10 o’clock,afternoon con cert on Monday, Wednesday and 1ri- day, and dress parade every evening at sunset, weather permitting. In the winter time they practice and play fo the dances and balls of the oflicers ounly. They have quarters of theirown I'he mewbers of the band have plenty of opportunity to engage with private partics und “make considerable extra money by so doing. The eutire band is often engaged, and being an excellent oue, communds good prices. Tue piy of the musicinus is the same as that of a private. principsl musicians re- ceive ame us a sergeant in the line, while the leader gets %30 per mouth, The men enlist as musicians, but can for bad behavior be reduced to the company. The leader, being as- signoed by tho secretary of war, cannot be reduced, but can be transferred. KOSTER OF A COMPANY, A company is composed of three comw mwissioned ofticers—captain and first and second lieutenant—and forty-eight en- listed men. Among the enlisted men are nine non-commissioned officers—ona first sergeant, four sergeauts and four corporals. ‘There are also two field musicians, or buglers, who have no rank, but are graded above the private. The first sergeant is responsible for the condition of the barracks and the cleanliness of the men. Usually & non- commissioied officer is detailed in charge of the quarters and they are re- sponsible for that duy, being relicved the next day by a like detail. Sergeants Bre available for all details. Fov co At this The r ty-ono musici a leader. Th porals the usual routine dutios are guard, fatigue and escort duty, such as nducting prisoners to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas The daily routive duties vary at the different posts, being arranged by the commanding officer. Those at " Fort Omaha for the winter months > a8 follows: Reveille at 6 o'clock, followed fifteen minutes after by the discharge of a gun and the musicians sounding the march five minutes later. At the sound of the “‘assembly” roll is called by the sergeant. Then foilows the breakfast call. At 9 o'clock comes sick call and guard mount. xt is com- pany drill from 9:40 to 10:40. Then fol- lows on Monday and Thursday from 10:40 to 11:30 the school for non-com- mis 1 officers Tucsday and Friday t \essioned of- Al at'l, recall from fu 330, fiest retreay cali at fif- teen minutes be nd treat or assembly . supper fler retreat, tato cull av 8:15, CITANCES FOR A mechanic enlisting dutivs to perform as the men, hut ean be detuiled for extra duty and receive extra pay for it. A good barber can get tho company shop and make from 330 to 35 per month over his pay, his cxtras coming from th men of the company in exchange for hair cutting and shaving. Carpenters, masons, or any mechanic detailed on extra duty receives 50 cents per day ex- tra. amsters get 35 conts per day over their allowuncs Men detailed for oxtra duty are changed from time to time so as o retain their proficiency in drill duty. Clerks in the quarterrns- ter’s oflice receive $15 per month extra, but extra clerks at regimental head- quarters receive no extra pay. No gambling 15 allowed, but is in- dulged in on the sly, und many shrewd men make large gains thereby, There > a great many married in 2 army. but no mareied men are isted or re-enlisted unless hy special permission of the adjutant gencral. At one time men who married had their wives enrricd on the company books s laundresses, so many to each company, they being furnished quartc and drawing rations the same enlisted men, but by act of congress this has been discontinued. But the married men still occupy the quarters that were crected for the useof the former laundresses, the gentle sex being found a necessity for the laundry business connected with a post. Chin men were tried, but were found incom- petent on account of their inability to properly mend torn clothes, THE HOSPITAL SERVICE, Congress pussed a law authorizing what is known as the Hospitai Corps comprising enlisted men of the “line.’ The qualification of the hospital service 18 determined by the post surgeon. wl has immediate command of them. A man must be in the service at least one 1w and must be aman of intelligence and steady habits. The men once in the corpsare non-combatants and are unarmed. The uniform of the corps is nearly the sume as that of the infantry- men except that the trousers are a dark blue instead of a sky blue cloth, the stripes are of green and an inch wide and ti Ap ornament isa bright motal cross. The men are under the charge of a hospital steward. Hospital stewards are in - two sses, first and second, and have to pass an exami- nation’ that in many cases would credit to an M. D. Tho best men in the army to-day belong to the hospital corps. Every man is instructed in nursing the sick and caring for the dead and wounded. In connmection with the hos- vital corps is what is known as compeny itter bearers, four to each compan who go with the IRed Cross ambulance, Their duties are to carry the dead and wounded to the rear, whare they ave at- tended to by the surgcon and nurses. They are instructed in their duties twi week and are recoznized by the red cross worn on the sleeve of the blouse. THE The rocruit and on or com ore il at MECTTANICS, has the other same men oro do RECRUITING SERVIC tor the army is ¢ ried on in nearly all of the large citie and in all the mili posts throughou the army. The ofticer in cha erally one who understands human ture and is & judge of character, With him there is us iy a detail of four en- listed men who have immedi of the rendezvous and examination of all applicants for enlistment. Some men enlist from necessity, some from curiosity, and many because they would like to be a soldier. The latter make by far the hest soldiers, as they seldom desert and generally come from good { familics. The examinations ave quite severe and only about 20 per cent of all examined avedcecpted and some of these are rejected ou final examination. When there are ton or more accepted recruits the rendezvous they ave forwarded to the general r iiting depotsat David’s Island, or Columbus, O., when they are rin e wed, and if they pass th are, to all intents, asoldier. They arc then issued o uniform and are drilled two hours ench day for thirty days.aftor P which they ave talken up on the books of their company as a private, having been carried on as a recruit up to this time. After having been at the depot for four montlis they are sent to a regi- ment and assigned o 1 company, where they remuin until their enlistment ex- pires, unless they desert or are dis- sharged before that time. TIE POST CANTEEN, The Post Canteen is a relic of the French army. ‘The one at this post was established whout one year ago, and proved a good thing for the enlisted men. The funds necessary for its in- auguration were voted by the company communders and taken from the com- 1y funds. The profits are turned ovel to the companies in the shupe of dividends, and the compunies are the stockholders, When beer and wines were sold the dividends w sometimes much as 8100 per month, and were very aceeptable i equipping the com- piny mess with such things as ave not ved in the rations, By recent or- from the scerelary of war the uor business of the Canteen wus abol- ished, and the dividends have fallen considerably in consequence. The busi- ness was done principally on the credit systeun, Men wishing eredit would pro- cure a chock for a certuin amount from the company commandor, which would low him credit for that amount, and should he fail to make payment for the same at the following "pay day the amount would be deduced from the dividend of th , compuny. $5,000 Rewar For a better or mors pleasant for the cure of consumption, bronchial troubles, cough, croup and whooping cough than SANTA ABIE, the Cali- fornia king of consumption, Every hottle warranted. If you would be cured of that disgusting disease, catarrh, use CALIFORNIA CAT-R-CURL, $1 a jar; by msil $1.10. Santa Abie and Cat-Re Cure are sold and warranted by Good- man Drug Co, “Said Pusha," an American comic opera in three acts, by Richard Stahl, originally given al the Tivoli opera bouse, San Francis:o, was beard in Philadelphia, last week, at the Grand opera house. Ihe music is sald to be wneful and catchy, though possessing little claim to be called original. The actio of the plot proceads from Coustanunoplo to Hindustau, $5,000 medy enlisted | DAILY BEE: OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBORS. Canadians and Thoir Customs as Soen by a Nebraskan, THEY'RE DECIDEDLY ENGLISH, ble A Peculiar No Prospect of Peac nexation Old Fogy Farmors Busi ness People—Overdone Moral ity —~Wage Workers. A Nebraskan in Canad ORONTO, ONTARIO, Jan [Special correspondence of Tit Q.-How is the it bounded on the north? -By the Dominion of C: tish possessions n and ansy geographies winada, and juoted in the schools of the States, affords the only of the greatest of the British posscessions that is hield by the average Ame¢ whose home 1s removed by afow from the Canadian border. T'rue histories of the great republic tain accounts of the battles of the war of 1812 which occurred in Canada, but they fail entirely in giving any account of the growth and progress of OUR BURLY NORTHERN NEIG HBOTR, and it would be hard to convince the native of the western or southern states of the greatness of this domain of the queen, He will be slow to renlize that the Dominion of Canada is larger in aren than the United States, and settled with a cl of citizens who are as desirous of build- ing uptheir country every way,however they may fail in oxecution, as the most zenlous hoomer of a western state, The recent talk of annexation aad the ac- tion taken in this direction in the American congress is doing much toward TURN and he quest e e the common from in use United information icun citizen miles the con- NING ATTENTION TO CANADA people and industriss, Bx readers will perhaps bo inte in the impressions formed, in a years' residence in the dominion, by L newspaper man, who until” two ago could not have answered in- SU \DAY |u\.1-,n-mlv if asked whether Oatario is the name of a town or a province. Can you, now? Entoring the dominion by crossing the Detroit river, n magnificent stream, at Detroit, the brakeman gives you your first intimation that youkareKon Canadiun soil by his ery of * ndsor,” and you are in a Canadian w\vn of 5,000 people, but too near the large city of Detroit to have any speeial national characteristic except its name, which puts you at once o THINKING OF HER MAJESTY. If the name don’t, an_clo ted de- scendant of John Bull, with heavy side whiskers and a decided drawl in toue, does when he demands an investigation of your bag The red tape o the average American vernment official is bad enough, but heave iver me from the clutehes of the customs house I|l~yh‘| tor. He is slow, painfully slow liberate to an exasperating degree, and as curious as an old maid elerk in a country post- oftice. The fact that he spent half an hour examining the baggage of a newss paper man is ovidence enough of hi. fixed policy of dehberative proceedury He appropria a half box of “im ported” cigars that were made on Tenth strect in Omaha, and read through severel bundles of rejected manuscripts for the puvpose of sceing whether or not they contained any of state or matters that could be classed under the head of treason to her majesty. As he read the documents carcfully his serious illness a fow days later did not surprise me. Our train wasa heavy one and we were consequently deluye: several hours while this APPENDAGE OF ROYALTY pried into the family scerets of the soveral hundred impatient pussengers. escaped from him at st and were whirled through the most fertile portion of Ontarvio, the Garden of Canada, skirting the north shore of Lake Erie on the line of the Michigan Central, an American railroad whose thorough cquipment and rapid transit are a constant astonishment to the leisure-loving slow-going Canucks Loaving Windsor the brakesman kept reminding me that I was on English soil by bawling out the names of the towns through which ve passed, Esses Maidstone, Woodslee, Charing Charham, Thamesvil nd 50 on to London. At the ations, too, I missed the Trish the Ger- man hotel keeper standing in' his door with his white apron thrown over his he elongated Yankee porter for the village hote! and the generally cosmopolitan air that characterizes the erowd that invariably wel es the ar- ival of the e in at the country ation throu An Irish- 1 or a German he “eption. SVERY THING IS ENGLISIH, The Canadians, while bodsting of their own distinet individuality as Canadians, ape the English ancestors in everything—dress, —conversation, manner of conducting business, and even in prejudice of -\nx_\'Lllin;,' that is of “Yankeo” extraction. [ was sur- prised, too, at the general application of the term “Yankee.” Any citizen of the United States, hail he from Mair or Texas is. in Canada, a Yankee. The sume as a Vermonter 1s called a Yankeo in Omaha, and a bean-eater a Yanke south of Mason and Dixon’s line. They use the term **Yankee trick” if some- thing especially despicable comes under their notice, and always refer to the disagreeuble weather as “‘regular Yankee weather. Zealous annexation- ists among the citizens of the union would have their arvdor cooled by spending u few months among the farmers aud country peoplie of Can- ada, and learning from them direct how little they think of American peo- ple and American luws and customs, Ontario, with heraven of 150,000 square miles, is for the most part an agricul- turat distriet, although on her northern bounduries are EXHAUSTLESS e, Cross, Ly s hack-driver, MINES corren That lie waiting for the coming of American capital for their deyelopment., Southern Ontario has been redeemed from onejvast forest.and is now one of the finest farming and fruitcountries in the world, peopled, however, by o class of farmers who are a century bebind their Americau brethren, but have not found it out, They plant their corn with hand planters yet, always cut and shock it in the fall, husking it from the shock. They have heard of corn planters that are drawn by horses, and some of them “*saw them on exhibition when they WENT WITH UNCLE JAKE to the fair in Detroit eleven years ago come this fall,” but you can’t” convince them that such things as the chec rower and the devices for planting corn by machinery veally exist except in the fertile imagination of the Yankee who tells them of such wm.m-.- 1 spent several months among the farmers of western Ontairo and can speak with knowledge of their peculiaritie: Most of them are well-to-do and add yearly 10 theirsavings by a systematic course OF COAL AND Goodman Drug Co, 1110 Farnam W E Hamilton, 15th nad farne m Omann Drag Co, 1513 Dodg, JA Fuller & Co, Mt and § 1L Farnsworti, No 2105 Ct ostotter, No =23 Cuniings s 0t and Thoward 1 aud Hickor W S Taldif, 16th and Capitol avenue J°3 Beal 12 Bouth 10th street, GF Munro, d North 1ith <tre Kuhn & Co, 14 South 1ith H S Dhyer, Cuthortson, Neb, Clins Raiser, Belloim, Neb, DI Hsn W Ward, OlAF ORI B Wilehy, S Laflin & Dell G M . Zid and Cr 01 N Tith st g Store, ming 25l and Lake sts R neil Bluirs, lowa D. 1L Clark ska. A Kountzin » EH Tracy & L Nobh I W Smith, Blué Springs, Neb A Steon, Afhl C Emmeieth, 151 St ave, Omaha HOA Ml 1, Connotl itus, T TC ik i, Neb. Tamos Kennedy. Dicatur Neb. PEYCKE BROS. Co., FOR THE BEST CLEAR HAVANA CIGAR for 2 S Cents. CALL ON I Mason, 1ith and Cass W F Huttzky, ith and Willinms T W Siith, No I I S 4 Selwoter, nam Sehonbergs MSth and Farnar J W Cluk, ¥ and Woolworth e A R Shannon, Von Kroge & N W and M E James, North |ith St Institute Dy Store, 130h and Dodge, S Rhodes, Cuming L 101 NoTEh Sannders street %0 Clark streot Riggs & Bireh, Fairfield No b, JW White, Méadow Grove, Nob, H.K. Dunbar, Ashiland’ Neb, O1 Byvans, 0136 rant st Ed Bell, Link M Gatlaghar, CouncilBinfrs “ounedl Blutls & Rothrock, Red Clond, Neb m, Nebraska, Tton, No b uska, itral City, Nob undson, Hartingto Hartington, N wiel, Scribner, N m, Deval WM Harman, Missourri Valley In, K 1l 107 1 Bishop, Saunacrs and 1 TSR ST J R Getty, [17 Douslas T Halitior, () Norih 16th Chas 1intz, 1997 Vinton S €M Crissey, 21th and Lake Cornf<i & L Favre, 2ith an Laks Jiwn Coftes Hotse, 118 Lougls 10N Brown, IEESEMary s avenus OV Palmer & Co, Bluir, Neb 3T Groer, Nortoniunisas Jol Moran, Calloway, Neb L1 Heed, Lith and CRpitol ave It B Twarts, 1317 86 Wars'save, Poiwin & ( W Walker, 6) L Hall, Utan, ACKing, 1 A8 K 1 Rishitor 1 Blutrs Otto Cuery, Friend, Ne ieorue H.Smith, Newman's GroveNebrask w GeoTTANroRd § Co, attle Creek, Nob FH Doy ender. Neh TP Clark, Pender, Nen Ttoss Biros, Howells, Neb 8.0 Odell, Lincoln Neb. Geo B HGland, Ited Cloud Ne, STimerman, Superior, Neb. 4 Roed, 20th and Grace ? ons, #1 North 2lat i & Hinkle, North 1oth St it ud Saundors N 12 8 10th 8t Mathews & Cunninahiam, 508 North 16th J1 Fruphaut, 148 ith 1 N Drake, Louisville, Nob, 88 Abhott, Ashlund, Nob N K Wilcox, Papilion, Nob M Buoslor, Clear Water, Nob 12 Ml Oxford, Nob. J°A Dulzell, 115 S 10t st AR Amison, t Mary A E Ryers, Swanton, Neb S Gooduiun Talmage, Neb A'HUPhiLps, Nolizl, Nib. ST Mullynan |, Nob. L Macklem, Fuilerton, Neb n 3 Albion, Neb, ‘rling, Colorado. Feo 1 Gradon John Tobin, § Mover & ( Nobraska, Philip Kraus, Plattsmouth, Neb A D vouter & “Bro, Connell s, Chiiles Racer & Co, Counell Blufls, lowa Edgar Aplin, 1305 Donglas street, (. 8, Torbite, 2208 Farnam street - Sole Agents, Omaha, Nebraska Any dealer purchasing 1,000 of the above cngar can have his name in the thls advertlsement of close dealing and niggardliness of expenditures thut would turn the stom- ach of the average happy-go-lucky yet prosperous western farmor. The ave age farmer here when he goes to buy a new wagon. purchases only the running onrs and repuints his old wagon bhox,or mikes @ uew one out of rough lumber thereby saving about $20 and goc avound as a consequence with a mistit outfit that a western farmer WOULDNT INSULT IS TTORSES by hitching them to it. They have been for two generations ut work here in western Ontario and have attained about the same degree of progress that will be found in Nebraska county ten years after settlement. They are a peculiur class, hard-work- iug, peiuvious, old-fashioned, slow, stubborn, and above all, self-us- sur In fact, they’re English. Many of these peculiarities are common, too, with the business classes. Merchants seldom reinvest their profits, but save them. An Omaka merchant worth $20,000 has 1t invested to the lust cent in his business. The Ontario merchant worth a like amonnt has $10,000 in his business and the other $10.000 hid away in an old sovk or deposited in some bhunk drawing 2 per cent per annum interest. And yet tney wonder that their prov- ince fails to keep pace in the march of progress with the states across the bor- der D APPLY. v, too, isin an yetin his position of 1 upplicant NO YOUNG MEN NE The business of the cc the hands of the older b exception, not the r to find a young man, say twenties, occupying any trust. To get such a plac must be of well-known ancestry, and is required 0 go through an appientice- ship lusting an ordinary business lifes time. [ven then he is rewarded by sulary that would seem small to the sl\xll« d mechanicina westerncity, In the city of Toronto, with its populution of 170,000 and hoasting an enterprise like unto the western article, experienced bookkeepers get from $6 to $10 pep week, and the number of clerks who work for #30 a month is many times greater than the number of thos no got a larger amount. This in fuce of the fact too that expenses of living there are not 10 per cent less than they are in western cities, Yot you will find it a standing matter of astonishment and wonder that young Canadinns by the thousand yearly scek employment in the United States, They are aston- ished at the statistics which tell them there are 70000 Canadian born citiz employed in Chicago, They derstand why this 15 50 unless, oh, con- soling vheory, they arve SMAMER THAN TS YANK kS and thus able to secure good positions wherever they go. This condition of wage affairs is found in_Ontario, Quebee and the eastern provinces. lu Manitoba and the northwest, the Yan- kee spirit of enterprise and business methods prevails and the condition of the wage worker is greatly improved, My impressions do not extend to that promising part of the dominion. CANADIAN MORALITY. The averare Canadian, I find, is puffed up with the'idea that this is the most moral plov of grouud on the footstool. He imagings that crime and licentious- ness in the states,especially in the west, are too commion to attract attention and he wears his “‘l-am-holier-than-thou™ air with o sélf-assurance that would be amusing if it were not such an absurd evidence of ignorance, In Toronto the street cars wre not allowed to run on Sunday,” no ‘unewspapers are printed, bootblacls wre prevented from earning enough to purchuse a meal and a lover of an afwersdinner cigar on Sunday must make ‘hi§ purchase on Satur day. Any infraction of thes rogulation’s is considered a direct blow at the phaded public morality of the city and ig punished by every penalty allowed by u rigorous funatiedl law, In face of these facts I will make the asser- tion and defy successful contradiction that there are MORE WOMEN OF ILL REPUTE in St. John's ward in Toronto than have beea in the city of Omaha for ten yoars, and that if the police of Toronto were as strict, in this matter, as they ave in Omaha, they would have to use the fair grounds or Queen’s park to hold the chippies and street wallkers that would be arrested on Yonge, Queen, Yor Front and King streets any Sunday evening in the year. O, yes; ite & very moral town we have here. I'll venture auother assertion, to the effect that there were more murders and at- tempted murders in the city of Mouj troal, 190,000 people, in the year 1858, than there were in the so-called **fron- tier ' towns of Deunver, Kuansas City, Omaha and St. Paul, with their com- bined population of over a half million TOUGH, IMMORAL YANKEES, ™ [ have had this charge of “Yankce wickedness and general immorality” thrown at me so offen by pompous Eug- lish disciples of godliness that I am afraid of losing my temper if I go into the matter further. There is very much of good in Cana- dian customs and laws that Americans wight copy with advantage, and of these I may speak in a future letter. HAH S H® ——— IMPLETLE An lowa deacon has been arrested for sell- ing whisky. \We suppose he was a spirit ualist, A Bostonian infidels, mere. 1t looks never be ministers. The minister who, sixty years ago, preached the sermon i Chicago, still lives, and he is still of the opinion that Chicago is g0od missionary ground. A lake of lurid and sulphurous fire has been discovercd in Indiana, There is a lake of this kind reserved for the wicked else where, but the Hoosicrs undoubtedly need one immediately for home use. Mrs. Smith —“What do you suppose makes the new minister so undersizedt H as if he hadn't wot his growth.” com— “I dunno, but I kind o' suspect hie was 1ght up on the Shorter catechism, o Sunday School—Teachor any ave four and four! (No answer. ) If & man brings you four collars, man brings you four coilars, how lars? Pupil” (promptiy)—Sixteen “those two great and Robert Kls. speaks of Robert Ingersoll unow as if round dances would ble to square themselves with the anothe many con An excited clergyman wrote 1o a Wash ington editor asking if it was true that there would be duneing ut Harrison’s inaugur tion. “Yes," replied the cditor, *and you had betier cngage your partuers upw. There'll be a rush Thie phrase “put him into the soup,” we regard as a piece of new slan been inuse in the uncouth tongu Islanders, where it possesses o literal sig- and is regarded as 1o joke by thie FICAN INESSI0] ¥ or other unfortunute farer who is “put into the sonp.” acher—*There is no use tart_another live topic in 1o keep some of our i pewhold ers from going to Snorter's church,”’ Wife W do you th of starting this time ! “Well, the wickedness of the daily press would be u good subject, All the big papers would report my scrmons and 1 shall be fatous 1 a mouth SINGULAT which s lons of the Iiji Benjamin Lewis of Pittsburg has a thre months-old baby weighing u pound and on fourth. 1ts mother weighs 150, The wite is lively. One band bluff, but at K 300 f received voud noa ton, oxville, oL, and in A only slight injuries A bird that bel tree in the Desert of Su hara, and scldom is scen clsewhere (only ouce or twice in Kurobe) was shot on the is land of Moen, in Denmark, some wecks ago. A singular_aceident at Albat recently, A horse being ridden was su denly paralyzed and its hoofs eave way, turning up to its fetlocks, while the horse came down on its ankle bones Fire company No. 10 of Cincinnati owns a dog which s said to huve saved the lives of several firemen. The animal is described s a laree, hundsome Newfoundland, and is credited with being able to climb a laddoer three stories high Acatowned by a farmer who lives near Norwich, Conn., has developed a fancy for stealing clothespins, While the animal 15 never known 1o tonch clothespins beloning 10 its owner, it brings home all it can find Iying round ' loose in the ncighbors' yards Within the last three monthis twenty cight dozen have been brought home in this way. olored man—(irco iy white has come As far buck as the white spots on his Another case of a Howell—gradually tur to light in Miavilie, Ga. rebellion Howell noti body. His hands are almost as white as a Caucasian's, and his skull is of the same color. He suys that his father was what is kuown as a *‘tender man"—that is, he would blister under a hot sun. Green ulso blisters when exposed Lo the hot sun McKenna, tie “glass oater ave a pri- vate exhibition at I’hiladeipnia recently, He ate a large piece of flint glass lamp chimey, several ounces of sharp pointed tacks and then topped off his repast by devouring u I frog. He is on of uge, and his s has puzzled numerous physicians. Kenna does not grind tho glass iuto simall particles, but swallows it in large picces. In addition to carpet tacks, he swallowed a lot of cigar-box nails and then offered to muast cate s huge ten-enny nail. He took o big frog from an aquarium and carefully adjust ing it, gave one gulp, and then allowed the spectators to feel 1t kicking inside his stom. ach. -~ orsford’s Acrd Phosphiate For Night Sweats of consumution, gives speedy beeufiy, EDUCATIONAL Tt is proposed in Now York to spond $103,- 000 the current year in teaching German in the puplic schools. Prof. Joseph Lovering has been conneeted with Harvard college f ¥ years. The circumstance was celebr with a dinner in bis honor. The Now Engiand has asked fora grant of £300,000 from the state of Massachusetts. This institution is a cluster of schools for the education and cul- ture of womeun nd men, Professor William P. Trowbridge, who is at the head of the engincering department of the school of mines in Columbia college, is the originator of the proposed department’ of clectricul engineering in that school. President Dwight, of Yalo, says that the university needs £200,000 endownient to pay the ordinary runuing expenses. He suggests that the sum be raised by every alumnus giving a small amount unconditionally. The effort of the University of Peansyl- van to excavate the ruins of Babylon and the desire of Harvard to dig up the Temple of Apolioat Delphi ha d Princeton to plan an_expedition for colleeting fossils in the bad lands of Oregon. It will bo gratifying to the many friends of Roanoke college, Virginia, to loarn that the prosent session isa vprosperous one. The s come fourteen_states, Tndian ritory and The Choetaws n sendme students to | Roanoke eighteen years., 55 Mary Garrett has given £200.000 to provide suitable quarters for a sehoo! in 13ul timore inwhich girls can_be prepared to cnter Bryn Mawr college, She is personally supervising the work on the building, and it is understond that when it is finished she will uttend to the school’s endowment. The students av Montreal strike because o cluss themselves in an unde expected that after conser atory of music for who went on i e was expelled find ble position. They 2 few days they would be couxed by the col! © authorities to return to their studies. As their expectations were not realized, they asled to be readmitted, but have been refused. Fourteen } ingland coileges—Amherst, Boston univ Bowdoin, Brown, Colby, Dartmouth, Hurvird, Smth, Trinity, Tufts, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Willinins, and’ Yale have now joined the Commission on Advance aminations. Ihis body is composcd of o) member from the taculty of each coll resented. It object 1s to elevate,th nd secure uniformity in the paratory work. RELIGIOUS, In the last 100 years, w! of the carth has doubled, the varions etivistian churches webled President Patton, of Princeton, is to loc- turc on “Theism' b students of the Hartford Theological seminary in Fehwrus and March. 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