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*0 : d s ur ton Star.
J. W, ANDERSON, Editor and Propretor.
The Eight Will Right Itself.
When overcome with anxious fears,
And moved with passion strong,
Because the right seems losing ground
And everything goes wrong,
How oft does admonition say :
■‘Put trouble on the shelf;
Truth will outlive the liar’s day,
And Right will right itself!”
By all the triumphs of the past,
By ali the victories won,
The good achieved, the progress made
Each day front sun to sun;
ti spite of artful ways employed
By perfidy or pelf,
Of one thing we can rest assured.
The Right will right itself!
tisliaken in our faith and zeal,
’’Pis ours to do and dare,
To find the place we best can fill,
And serve our Maker there;
For he is only brave who thus
Tuts trouble on the shelf,
Ami trusts in God, for by HI aid
The Right will right itself.
—[Josephine Volhnd in the hedger.
WHAT THE WOMEN BID.
BY HELEN EOKUKST GRAVES.
It was one of those June days when
the wiki roses dye all the woods with
deepest pink and the farmer begins
meditatively to decide which of his
fluids will first be ripe for the glitter¬
ing scythe.
Mr. Chipfield sat by the window,
with his farm calendar and. account"
hooks piled upon the low wooden sill,
a stumpy pen in his hand and a cone
shaped glass iukstuud on tiie table be
fore him.
A. iAosq prisoner w ithin his house
from anile rScmnatistn, he yet ruled
his donyin with a rod of iron, and
boasted that everything on the farm
went by clockwork, the same as if he
were able personally t > supervise it.
lie was a small, sallow man with
bead-like black eyes, closc-ent hair and
a grim, Napoleonic jaw.
By the opposite door sat Mrs. Chip
field, a clean gingham apron tied hur
riedly over her charming costume,
while Joanna, her red-cheeked sister,
leaned over the back of her chair. Tiie
minister stood in the middle of the
room, a paper in ids hand.
“It’s a very commendable purpose,
Chipfield,” said lie. “These
poor creatures have long needed a
chapel in their midst, and it’s an out¬
rage longer to neglect it. IIow much
shall 1 put you down for?”
“For nothing at all,” said Mr. Chip
field.
“Eli?” said the minister.
(i I c.in’t afford no such luxury as
missions,” said Mr. Chip
field. “Times are hard. Farm pro
is low. No, you needn't put my
name down at all, pat son. yy
Mr. Clover turned to Mrs. Chip
field.
“Generally,” said lie, “(lie ladies
are more generous. YVJiat will you
me, Sister Cliipfic’d?”
“I haven’t a cent to give,” faltered
Mrs. Chipfield, with an appealing
glance at her husband. U Chipfield
buys every yard of calico I wear and
gives me every cent I send out for
Beast.”
The minister looked very grave.
“And yon, Miss Joanna?” said he.
“I’d give you a hundred dollars.Mr.
’lover, if I had it, cried Joanna,
‘lushing to the roots of her shining,
licstnut brown hair. “But the poor
st beggar in the city streets ain’t poor
v than I am.”
“Ilumpli!” said Mr. Clover, “where
hall I find Ylr. Zcphaniah Gcdney? yy
There was a moment’s silence. Ylr.
'liipfield stared straight out of the
rindow. Mrs. Chipfield turned her
'ace away. Joanna Gedney was the
ine to speak at last,
r “ IVc don't know, yy said she. 1 “lie
tout away this morning. Seth told
[im lie wouldn’t have him idling
Bund the place no longer. yy
“I suppose lie would have worked
i he could find something to do,” said
Ir. Clover.
4 < r fids ain't house of refuge for
no
11 the drones i:i creation, yy said Ylr.
liipfield, with the Napoleonic jaw set
huarc and firm, “Them that won't
fork, neither shall they cat. tt
[Mrs. Cliipfield's apron was at her
N- Joanna bit her lip.
| f'dier Hie minister gathered ids paper* to
and departed, not greatly en
luraged by the success of his mission
this especial household.
‘Y\ hat are you standing there for,
ai ‘V f s aid Mr. Chipfield, harshly.
Aiu t that there churning sp’iling?
fa and drive tiie ved calf outen the
pek-garding, Joanna, as quick as you
1 .
“Seth, ’’ cried his wife, wkh a sud
n acccssiou of couragc, ‘•I wish
iu d do like Squire Staples, and give
f pc lUl out allowance, of.” that l could tnaybe
I"And 1 wish,” valiantly added Jo
hu, “that you'd pay me fair wages
' What I do in this house over and
rve my board’s worth. I declare, 1
t justlike a pauper just now 1”
Seth Chipfield snarled like an ill
conditioned dog.
i. Because Squire Staple* is a fool, n
said he, “that’s no season I should be
one. And as for you, Joanna Ged
ney, if you don’t like stayin’ in my
house on these terms, you can leave
it. It passes mo what use you wo
men can have for money. You’d only
waste it if you had it. I can’t trust
neither of you with no 8am bigger
•hati a dime!”
Joanna’s eyes flashed.
“You’re a mean, stingy miser, Seth
Chipfield I said she. “Mary is tied
to you. She can’t go and leave you,
but I can, and I will I And if you
wanl a drudge in your kitchen alter
this, you can hire one! M
Joanna Gcdney was as good as her
word. She left the house that even
ing, but on the morrow she was
obliged to return to her sister’s aid.
SethChiplield’s ailment had suddenly
taken an inflammatory turn. He was
coulincd to his bed, helpless a 3 a log.
“It’s a judgment on him,” said the
girl.
. . Oh, Joanna, don’t talk so!” said
meek Mrs. Chipfield.
But through all his pangs and tribu¬
lations, Seth adhered to his financial
policy and dealt out tho fluids, penny
by penny, as they were needed.
<1 Women liain't no buduess idee*, 1 •
said he. 4 . You need to treat ’em jest
like they was children. Mary wouldn't
know what to do with a big sum of
money, if she had it. As for the farm,
if l’eter Priekett can’t come to look
aider it, I s’pose you’ll have to send for
Zcphaniah again. 7t
ii Zephaniah’s clerking it, down at
tiie now store,” said Joanna, who just
then came in with a bowl of chicken
broth.
“What new store?”
“One that they’ve opened down at
the cross roads.”
“A pretty clerk they’d have v
snarled Seth. “I’d advise ’em to get
ready for bankruptcy, un’—owl
there’s no need to scald a fellow’s
throat with your boiling hot stuff, Jo¬
anna! YVlio’s been fool enough to
open a store at Hawley’s old stand?
Whoever it is ’ll make u dead failure,
tliut’s snrtain 1”
“The)' say it’s doing a good busi¬
ness,” observed Joanna, stirring the
broth around to cool it.
“Don’t you never believe ‘they
say!’” growled Seth.
The next day bad tidings came to
them. Tiie Nccker Banking Com¬
pany, in which Cuiptield’s little sav¬
ings were invested, had 'cloed its
doors. Tiie YVilding Iron Syndicate,
to join which he had mortgaged his
farm, had deserted its shafts, left Its
derricks standing like skeletons
against the mountain side and dis¬
solved into thin air.
' Seth heard the news silently.
“Mary, ’ said he, “give 111 “ the old
pistol that belonged to < r lat-uncle
Jeduthum. 1 may as well clean and
oil it, lyin’ here with nothing to do. V
u I won’t give it to you, Seth Chip
field!” said hi* wife. “I can read your
eve?, if I can’t trust your voice; and
you shan’t have Great-uncle Jedu
thurn’s pistol I yy
Seth turned his face aside. A tear,
salt as the Dead Sea and bitter as gall,
crept down His wrinkled face.
“If a man’s ruined,” said he, “the
best tiling he can do will bo to die!
Oh, wliat a fool I’ve been—what a
fool!”
Joanna Gedney watched him In
tently.
<4 I guess likely you wish now, •» said
she, “you’d subscribed somethin’ to
Mr. Clover’s mission, and laid pipes to
the well to save Mary carrying water
up the hill, and bought her the black
*ilk gown she wanted—”
“Don’t! t Ioauna! f yy pleaded Mrs.
Chipfield.
“Yes, I do,” said Seth. “There,
now—I wish it like all everlastingI
Tiie old farm will liavo to go, Mary.
Y'ou and Joanner ’ll have to go out to
service, and me— YVcll, there's always
the town-house for me. I’ve brought
it on myself!”
“Seth,” cried Mrs. Chipfield, “don’t
take on so! Tiie farm won’t have to
g°- Mo and Joanna will lake care o'
that. And there ain’t no question of
tiie poor-house for you. Tell him.
Joanna—tell him what we’ve done! i»
“It was my plan, yy said Joanna,
44 but Mary she joinod into it, and
Zephaniah ho backed us up. It's our
store down at the Cross Hoads, Seth,
and I bought the goods down in Phila¬
delphia, and hired the house and put
Zephaniah iu to clerk it. And we’ve
doubled our money a’readv, Seth, for
all you used so often to declare that
women hadn’t uo business ideas, and
we've done a capital business in cali-
1 coes and crockery and canned things
; aud Yankee notions. And we’ve paid
! back all we borrowed of Squire Sta¬
I pies, and got a nice little sum ot
1 money iu the bank a’ready-our own
COVINGTON, SEPTEMBER 1890.
money, Seth, Unit we don't have to go
begging to no man artcr. And you
needn’t fret about the mortgage and
tiie YVilding Company and the pooi
housc, for Mary and me will take carq
of you 1 ))
Seth Chipfield gave a little gasp.
“You — ain't — jokin’— be — you ?’
said ho.
“I’ll show you am oank-books, if
you want,” said Joanna, briskly.
“Ah, Seth, you never had no respect
for what you used to call our money
faculty, but Mary and I know wliat
colors women liked in their gowns,
and what the best brand in flanncli
was, and which pattern in bowls an!
tea saucers was fancied most at mil
Hollow! YVc ain’t a bad pair of mer¬
chants; give us plenty o’money and
discretion combined to use.”
Mary Chipfield looked wistfully at
her husband as Joanna went away to
produce the vouchers for her words,
in (lie shape of leather-bound bank¬
books.
“Seth,” faltered she, “you ain’t
mad with me, bo you? But Joanna,
she planned it a'l out, and I was so
put to it for a little money to spend
yy
“Yfad with you?” repeated £cth.
“I’m mad with myself. I jest wish I
could undo all the last ten years 1”
lie lay quite silent for some time.
Then lie spoke up.
“If I had jest a hundred dollars left
outen the ruin,” said he, “I know
wliat I’d do with it.”
“YVhat?” asked Mary, who was si¬
lently rubbing- Jiis pain-swollen joints
with liniment.
U I’d send for the parson, and give it
to him for that’ere mission. YVheua
fellow lias turned his back on tho
Lord lie can't expect the Lord to look
out for him. yy
“There needn’t be no ‘if’ in the
matter, Seth,” said His wile. “Mo
and Joanna will draw out the money
you want any time yon say. n
“Y’es, that we will,” acquiesced
Joanna, eagerly.
Seth Chipfield lifted his eyes re¬
morsefully to her face.
“Y T ou ain’t following my example.
said lie. “1 Wouldn’t lot you liaVO
nothin’ to subscribe. yy
Joanna laughed cheerily.
“YVe’ll ict bygones be bygones,”
said she, “if only you’ll own up,Seth,
that women can manage money. yy
And Seth “owned up.”—[Saturday
Night.
A Market for Old Fes!age Stamps.
There is an asylum for orphan girls
in Loci’, Switzerland, which finds a
market for all the ohl postage stamps
sent to it. Nearly everybody far and
near acquainted with (lie fact sends to
the asylum iiis or her second-hand
stamps, and, for the information of
those who are ignorant, a circular is
issued calling for tiie contribution of
stamps and also setting forth the uses
to which they arc applied. Bare
stamps, of course, go to dealers or col¬
lectors, while tiie commoner sorts are
applied to decorative purposes, being
used to ornament icreens, shades, etc.,
and even, so says the circular, to paper
rooms.
Over a million of stamps were ie
ceived by the institution from all over
the world in 1888, and a considerably
larger number last year. The stamps
are assorted by the children and put up
in packages of 50 or 100 each, Those
collected in 1889 were sold for 1200
francs or $240, and those of last year
for $260. This may not seem much
to Americans, but money goes further
in Switzerland than here. Persons,
therefore, who want to put their old
{fusittge siamps where they will do the
most good should send'them to M. J.
Nougier, Dir-cteur de l’Asilc ties Bil
lodes, Locle, Switzerland.
Glimpses of the Sultan’s Treasures.
In a letter from Bucharest, Colonel
A. Loudon Snowden, United States
minister to Greece Servia and Hon
mania, gives tiie following account of
an experience in the far Last:
“On my way here 1 stopped over in
Constantinople for a few days, visit¬
ing the objects of interest in that re
markable city, Tlie Sultan designated
ail aide-de-camp, who conducted us to
such pluces of especial interest as the
gene al visitor is not expected or per
milted to see. Thc treasure house of
the Sultan, which contains the ac¬
cumulations of centuries, is simply in
describable. Ilero are stored dia
moods, emeralds, pearls, and other
precious stones, such as exist in n*
other place in the world, and iu quan¬
tities bsyond calculation as to value.
The palaces on the Bosphorus are mar
vcis of beauty and splendor.’’
Heavily Handicapped.
44 Always pay cash as you go. That’*
my principle," said Scedie.
« . Humph 1 That accounts for your
Blowness, I presume,” remarked hi*
^ friend- [Argosy.
[
A FLOATING ISLAND.
Remarkable Freak of nature in
a Vermont Lake.
^/er 100 Acres of Moveable
Land, With Trees For Sails.
The floating island in Sadawga Lake,
in the town of Whittingkani, Vt., is
one of the most remarkable freaks of
nature and one of the greatest curiosi¬
ties in the world. The island contain*
over 100 acres, and it actually floats
upon the top of tho water. There is
no doubt about it. ft iny is not attached
to the niaiu’aud or part of the
lake.
The fact that it realty floats on the
water was made evident last year. At
that time a stone dam Was built at the
outlet of tiie lake over six feet high,
which raised the water a little more
than six feet. When the gates were
shut and tho water for the first time
began to rise in the Jake, there was
great curiosity to seo whether tiie
island would be submerged or rise
with the water. It took about 48
hours for the water in the lake to rise
to tiie top of the dam, And it was then
discovered that the island presented
exacily the same appearance that it
did when the waterWsM six feet low¬
er. There is no part <x the island that
lias ever been more, tjiai two or three
feet above the surracGujf the water.
Therefore, if it did not float when tiie
hike was raised six feet < by this new
dam, it would have been entirely sub¬
merged.
Since the water was raised this great
mass of land lias floated about mor e
readily than it previously did. Por¬
tions of it, containing from one to
three acres, have been broken away
from tiie main island, and go swim¬
ming around independently. There
are four such pieces. Three of them
are close together, and already 50 or
CO rods to the northeast of the main
island. Sometimes they are five or six
rods apart. Then again they will be
all in a cluster, the smaller ones float¬
ing waotRT Taster than tne huger ones,
as the wind carries them more easily.
The great main island, which con
tains over 100 acres, moves about
slowly. The prevailing winds are
from the soufli and west, and after it
has blown hard fora flavor two the main
island is found to have changed its po¬
sition several rods. Sometimes it will
bo near the east shore, ami then again
it moves over toward the west. It
never lias come nearer- than a quarter
of a mile of tho north shore.
There is a small forest of tamarack
frees growing upon this remarkable
i land. Some of them are more than
twenty-five feet high. They are in a
thrifty condition, and are of largo size
at the butt. Smaller trees of the sami
kind are rapidly growing up beside
them. The wonder is how the roots
of these trees are nourished. Tiie
lake is situated in marshy surround¬
ings on tiie southwest side, and it is
supposed that there is vegetable mat¬
ter enough in the water to keep
tiie grass in healthy condition. Cran¬
berry bushes grow in gi eat luxuriance.
In some places they are so thick that
it is difficult to pass through them, and
tiie berries, which are of (lie wild sort,
are gatlicied iu large quantities by the
natives that live about tiie islauds.
Alder berries and a great variety of
native weeds grow on all parts of tho
island. The surface is spongy, and in
many places soft, but there are other
parts of it where it is comparatively
solid.
There is no difficulty j n getting
upon the island, although in some
places persons who visit it have to be
careful that they do not sink through
it.—[Boston Globe.
Making Hucksters’ Veils Pleasant.
A suggestion to persons whose sleep
is interfered with by the shutting of
hucksters is made by a correspondent
of the Washington Star. He advises
that they cut two small squares from
s soft handkerchief and iu tiie centre
of each place a bit of spermaceti.
Draw the four corners together and
work the linen-covered wax into each
ear, turning and working it until tiie
orifice i9 completely closed, “Then
as your cheek presses the pillow, fan¬
cy yourself in the depths of a forest,
silent, except for the rumble of a dis¬
tant waterfall, and if you do not fall
into a long, unbroken sleep, rest as
cured there is something wrong, cither
with your circulation or your con¬
science. it
An Unsatisfactory Miniature.
Count de Geese—Do you call that a
good portrait of me? YY'liy, that is
the face of a dead beat!
Miniature Painter (calmly)—In¬
deed? Then, sir, you will have to pay
for it in advance.— [Jeweler*’ YVcek
iy-
Slept for Four Months.
itrlck Meehan, 22 years old, an in¬
mate of the insane department of the
Philadelphia Hospital, lias just awak¬
ened from a sleep of four months,
recognized those about him, and asked
for the attendant who was with him
when he sank into lm slumber, says a
Philadelphia dispatch to the Boston
Herald He came from Ireland a few
years ago. He became mentally dis¬
eased, was sent to the hospital Febru.
ary last, was seized with • ‘La Grippe V
in March, the attendants found great
difficulty in keeping Him awake, and
finally lie fell Into a deep Sleep. Tho
luck of nourishment became ovideut
by decreasing weight, a deathlike pal¬
lor and pinched wan features, accom¬
panied by a corpselike rigidity, together
with an apparently general suspension
of animation.
Efforts to pry open the set jaws for
the administration of food proved
futile. A silver tube was inserted
through the nose and down into the
throat. A quart of milk in four doses
was first given, after that eggs whipped
Mt milk and a varying liquid diet was
administered, together with medicine.
The first month passed without inci¬
dent. Meehan slept on immovable
when pins were inserted into his flesh,
electricity applied and other heroic
measures of sleep disturbance tried.
Three weeks ago the first change
was noticed. The muscles of tiie jaws
relaxed, and shortly afterwards his
eyes opened. Motions made as if to
strike him did not cause any tremor of
the lids, however, and a fly walked
across the pupil without effect.
On June 30 there were movements
of the lips and other signs of returning
consciousness; then motion returned
and the patient turned his head. Food
was now administered through tiie
mouth direct.
Two weeks ago he moved and mum¬
bled some unintelligible sentences.
Speech was restored a day or two ago,
and tiie first sentence he spoke was to
ask for His clothes, and then for tiie
attendant who had beeu with him when
he went off four months before.
His clothing was placed at bis bed
vftftr, ami last yvccK nxj arose, tirussca
and walked about tiie ward, still, how¬
ever, in a half awake condition. Full
consciousness has now returned, mus¬
cular action lias grown stronger, and
rapid recovery is now certain. The
patient cannot yet take solid food and
there is no change iu his mental con¬
dition.
Exercise in Heart Disease.
The fact is well known that Oertcl,
the distinguished German writer, lias
warmly advocated for certain forms of
functional heart trouble, not rest, but
active exercise, such as mountain
climbing. Iu pursuing this practice,
however, the utmost care is found
to bo necessary, and the distance to be
covered is of course regulated for each
patient; and, as its object is to
strengthen the heart muscle uud pro¬
mote the circulation, and as only
Healthy arteries can stand the strain,
such treatment is, of course, contra¬
indicated in atheroma. Formerly the
detection by physical diagnosis of a
heart murmur was regarded as a grave
fact, an adverse conclusion being at
once arrived at, without sufficiently
considering tho other signs and symp¬
toms.
Such cases, it is found, often do
well with exercise and out-door life.
Again, in fatty degeneration, the
heart in the young person can stand a
moderate amount of exercise and un
doubtedly be strengthened, but it is in
infiltration or fatty overgrowth that
the judicious use of exercise docs
great good—the general diet in such
case to be rngulfttcd, and the general
obesity which usually exists to be re¬
moved by a depleting diet. Some
German physicians in their city prac¬
tice recommend stair climbing when
mountain climbing is not feasible.—
[New York Tribune.
A Vermont Custom.
One of the oldest things I have
heard lately was told me yesterday by
Silas Fletcher of St. Albans, Yt. It
seems that the Green Mountains divide
Vermont into two nearly equal, though
irregular, portions. Tiie law makes
the range ihe dividing line between
the two Congressional districts, but
there is no similar provision as to the
two Senators. Nevertheless, there is
always a Senator from tiie east side
and one from the west. In tiie same
way the Governors alternate, being in¬
variably chosen first from one side
and then from tiie other. It is this
custom that prevents the renomination
of a Governor.—[New York Star.
A Timely Hint.
Clara (11 p. m.)—“Do you know
why you are like an old fire-cracker,
Mr. Crawl?”
Crawl—“No; tell me. yy
Clara—“It’s about time you went
off!”—[Judge.
VOL. NO. 40.
THE LABOR WORLD,
The strike fever is abroad.
Railroad contractors in Mexico have sent
to China for 8000 coolies.
There is a strike in New Zealand against
firms that employ women.
Pittsburg and Philadelphia report a bet¬
ter demand for finished iron.
The Reading Company i3 stopping some
of its Pennsylvania collieries.
The great railroad strike in Wales has re
suited in a victory for the men.
The New York Board of Walking Dele
gates now has thirty-two members.
Low water is interfering with the opera
tions of the Minneapolis (Minn.) flour-mills.
The next national congress of French
workingmen will be held at Lille in October.
The green-glass manufacturers and their
employers sealo of have reached an agreement upon 1
a wages.
The laundresses of Benares, in India, are
boycotting ho the Rajah, Shiva Proshad, be¬
cause has decreed that they must pay
taxes. *
A large part of the crauberry picking
on Cape both Cod, Mass., is now done by Portu¬
guese, men and women being em¬
ployed.
The long strike at the Spring Hill, Nova
Scotia, having min es has ended at last, the men
carried ali the points for which they
contended.
In New York city the cigar-makers’ unions
have raised the wages of over 10,000 people
from twenty to forty per cent, during the
last three months.
The miners of the Etna coal minea in
Tennessee, have requested all their comrades
to stay away from that place, as it is crowded
with unemployed men.
Socialists and their allies among the ex
treme radical section have captured the Lon¬
don (England) Trades Council, whose mem
bers represent some 80,000 workmen.
John Burns, who led the great London
dock strike, has gone back to work. He
thinks the good results of a strike, when there
are good results, do not compensate for the
loss to tho strikers.
A Philadelphia syndicate of saw manu¬
facturers it buying up the small shops iu
satisfied Brooklyn, N. Y. The workmen are well
reduced therewith, as their hours have been
to nine per day at tea hours’ wages.
The Italian fruit venders of New York
city have organized a union for mutnal pro¬
tection. They call it Societa Frutti-vendoli
Italian! di Frotezione e Mutuo Soccorso. it
lias now about two hundred mombers, and
the initiation fee is $1.
Grand Chief Arthur, of the Brother¬
hood of Locon. live Engineers, says that the
intention of the order is to extend its organ¬
ization to Great Britain at an early date,
and afterward to European countries so
that the railway engineers of the world ’
be united soon. may
John W ilson, who has just been elected a
Liberal member of the British Parliament
from Mid-Durham, worked in tho mines of
Illinois and Pennsylvania several years ago
as a common laborer. Returning to Eng¬
land he became a strong and successful cham¬
pion of workingmen’s interests.
A new organization, tho Progressive La¬
bor Union, of New York city, invites both
capitalists its and producers to membership in
ranks This new organization has among
alleges its ra-iro» that —■—• he of the rv Maeauly, wnc
founders of the was Knights one of Labor. seven original
TnE official labor statistics of Massa¬
chusetts show that tho protection to women
and children, through the law reducing the
hours of labor for the weaker in the great
industrial army, has reduced the hours iu
general, as there are nowadays few indus¬
tries where only men are employed.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The King of Holiaiiii is in a feeblo con
dition.
General Benjamin F. Butler weighs
£15 pounds.
O’Reilly’s A very face satisfactory mask of John Boyle
was taken after his death.
Ex-Goversor Holliday, of Virginia,has
just returned from his third trip around the
world.
purchasing Abuahatj Could, Jay Gould’s Missouri brother, is
agent of the Pacific
Railroad.
Henry George, tho tingle tax agitator,
is the recipient of marked attention from
London admirers.
Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, has
taken to boatbuilding us a means of recrea¬
tion and mental rest.
The Crown Princess of Denmark is the
tallest Princess in the world. Her height is
announced to be six feet, three inches.
During his recent trip to Georgia, Justice
L. Q. C. Lamar visited his first home and
slept iu the room in which he was born.
The Emperor of China has sent tho Ger¬
man little Emperor dragons a large box of playthings—
and things—for ids five little
sons.
Queen Victoria is seventy-one years old,
and of period has reigned exceeded fifty-three by only years, a length prede¬
two of her
cessors.
George Meredith, the successful English
novelist, had to Jive tor veal's on oatmeal, as
his writings did not bring him enough to
buy better food.
Nicholas Lening, who died suddenly in
San Francisco, Cal., the other night, after
returning from the theatre, is said to have
left a fortune of $15,000,000.
Senator Dawes is seventy-four years
old. He has seen thirty-three years of con¬
tinuous service in Congress since he was
elected a Representative in 1857.
A DAUGJITKn Lincoln, of J. Wilkes Booth, tho «—
rassin ol is a number of a noted
Boston comic opera company. She was
light years old when her father was shot.
Captain Ebknezkr Morgan, of Gro¬
ton, Conn., who died the other week,
first raised tho American flag in Alaska
after that country became United States
property.
Mrs. C. K. Davis, wife of the Minnesota
Senator and one of tho most beautiful
women in Washington, being used horsewemau to have the
reputation of an expert
and pistol shot.
The distinction of being the first soldier
who enlisted for three years in the late Civil
\Var is claimed by Stephen Decatur Phelps,
id Cambridge. Mass. He is a nephew of
Rear Admiral Phelps.
One of the earliest women office-holders in
the West was Miss Jenkins, Kan., who was County
Recorder at Abilene, two full terms
previous to the passage of the Kansas
Woman's Suffrage law.
Boulanger, that once brilliant French
pyrotechnic artist, has turned the journalist.
His paper is called the Voice of and People.
It echoes only the people’s sentiment that
people is Boulanger himself.
The younger Duchess of Leinster, England, who has
been called the prettiest woman and in with
is tall and slender, stately She calm, is
perfectly chiseled features. an
aristocrat trom crown to toe.
Frank A. Ho3ukr, of Great Barrington.
Mass., College, has the accepted principal the presidency educational of institu¬ Oahes
tion of Honolulu. He is a graduate of Am¬
herst College, and is thirty-five years old.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peasodv, who first
brought to this country from Germany the
kindergarten method of teaching children, is
still living in Boston. She is eighty-seven
years old, but retains much of her interest ia
edlucational matters.
'•XEXT."
< . He hasn't much go.”
“Mercy, uo! He hung on at oui
house last night until after twelve o’clock.
Then Pa put out the light and turned to
ChoHieaud s^id. ‘Next!’”
THE NATIONAL GAME
ciation O’Connor, of Columbus, leads the Asso¬
catchers.
Thirty brotherhood players have batting
averages of over .300.
BrouTE, of the Boston League team, has
only struck out once this season.
Welch is the only one of tho New York
League pitchers to win half of his games.
No club now in the Players’ Le ue cir
cuit out. will be out of it in 1891, unless "bought
Jake Beckley is the most reliable man ai
the bat in the Pittsburg Ciub with men ou
bases.
There has recently been a woeful lack ol
discipline League among two or three National
clubs.
Hutchinson, of Chicago, lias pitched in
more games and won more than any pitcher
tn th«
1 he regulation of the hatting order of many
of the clubs on the percentage system is
working like a charm.
Charlie Ganzel is no longer captain of
the Boston National League Club. “Pop”
Smith is now the “boss.”
Never was the baseball situation more
unsteady do that it is at present. The magnates
not know what to expect next.
Syracuse and the Pittsburg League clubs
release are running the a race to see which can sign and
most players this season.
The Boston Herald refers to Weyhing
end Kinelow, of the Brooklyn Players’ Club,
as the star kicking battery of the country.
Rhines and Harrington, the crack battery
of the Cincinuatis, are playing a wonderful
game, put iu. winning nearly every time they are
One of the unique features of the season
was that Louisville should beat Brooklyn
three straight games, each by the same
score, seven to two.
Jim Du rye a, of tho Cincinnati League
team, was paid $400 for pitching a game and
a fraction iu one month. Pretty big pay for
about three hours’ work.
The Cincinnati park is tho hardest in the
country to take care of, because it is covered
and every fall year freshets by the backwater of the spring
in the Ohio River.
Brooklyn’s infield leads the Players 1
League in making double plays. This was to
be expected, with lightning infielders like
VV ai d and Bierbauer to work together.
Ehret anil Stratton have been the most
effective pitchers in the Association, No
wonder and lively Louisville, with two such pitcheri
lead. a team, should gain and hold the
RadbOURn and Daly have been doing the
best pitching for Boston’s Players’ Club, but
Cuinbert is now doing his share of tho work
in great style. Kiiroy and Madden alone
are not up to the mark.
In the New York League team but throe
have batting averages slightly above .300,
whiie in tiie New York Players’ team seven
men have more than. 300 and tive of them
are far beyond that mark.
Catcher Zimmer, of the Cleveland
League tiain, recently caught his 100th con¬
secutive game. He has already beaten all
previous catching records find intends to
catch in all the remaining scheduled games
this season unless he meets with an injury.
shmujil Clarke, of tho New Ylivk Loagvto Dim team,
standing nobly Hnd m t+hut ia in by
at his post of duty even when
his finger was broken and the liono pro¬
truded. Heis onoof tho very few players
who have the interest of their emtiloyers at
hear*
“Poor Billy Rhines” is the way the Cin¬
cinnati Enquirer refers to the pitcher whose
good work enabled the Cincinnati team to
show so well in front i.i the race for tho
I-eague object pennant. He w:u; a “phenom” then
and an of adoration. Now he is being
pi tied . Truly, tho career of greatness if
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Grapes will bo plentiful.
There are 9810 saloons in Ohio.
There is a water-famine in Chicago.
New Jersey’s population is 1,459,833.
Arizona’s population is put at 57,000.
The Connecticut apple crop has failed.
The cholera is almost stamped out in
Spain.
846,000. The population of Washington State is
000 The in gold. Bank of France is hoarding $250,000,
The exodus of Hebrews from Russia has
commenced.
Women own $53,000,000 worth of United
States bonds.
Texas sold her first bale of cotton in New
York for $830.
Maine appears to have lost 1200 in popu¬
lation since 1880.
The Argentine Government proposes to
put a tax on tobacco.
There is promise of a very abundant rice
crop is South Carolina.
A new Ohio oil well is flowing at tho rate
of 1000 barrels an hour.
Guatemala is driving nun into the army
nt the point of the bayonet.
The peach crop of Southern New Jersey is
reported to be a total failure.
The G. A. R., of New Jersey, has 113
posts, with a membership of 7586.
Emin Paciia, iu a letter, says heismarch
ing into the interior of Africa as an adven¬
turer.
Bolivia has 2000 soldiers and 1001 officers,
or a fraction less than two soldiers for each
officer.
The past few months have shown a de
i'i.l..l daeroaso lu the number of array de¬
serters.
Intense heat is reported throughout Aus¬
tria. There have beeu many fatal cases of
sunstroke.
Silver in paying quantities is reported to
have been found near Pleasantville, Atlantic
County, N. J.
The tobabco crop in Pennsylvania ins
been completely ruined in the southern coun¬
ties by hailstorms.
The German Government has arranged to
lay two telegraphic cables to connect Heligo¬
land with Germany.
Illegal issues of currency in the Argen¬
tine Republic to the ainouut of $9,000,009
have been discovered.
The village of Gelaiiz, Hungary, has been
totally destroyed by fire, the result of a bolt
of house. lightning falling upon a dwelling
The gunning in Maryland and Virginia
this fab promises to be the 'jest that has
been known for ten years.
United States surveying parties have
reached a point in the interior of Alaska
3000 miles from the coast line.
The number of desertions of British troops
in the Halifax garrison has increased to
alarming proportions daring the past few
months.
Many of the settlers ia the Big Bend
County, in Washington, have been driven
away by the ravages of squirrels, which
swarm there in countless herds.
It is said that there are 7000 vacant houses
in Kansas City, Mo., and that it has lost
many thousands of population the past two
years since its “boom" collapsed.
The Fastest Animal on Earth.
The fastest thing on earth for a mile is
a crack thoroughbred horse—remember
we are not now speaking of birds of the
air, but only of beasts of the field, and
the thoroughbred race horse in his best
state can outrun any antelope, deer or
wild creature that puts its feet to th*
ground .—New York Tribune.