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The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has decided that the Bible has no placa in the public schools. Nearly every town in Georgia is pre¬ paring to put up a cotton seed oil mill. And yet but a few years ago these seeds were considered worthless The House Committee on Pensions estimates the number of survivors of the Federal army at 1,200,000, and that the average age of the surviving soldiers is now 51 vears. An attempt is being made to propa¬ gate Chinese quail in California, and 600 have beeu sent to the large ranches in great valleys. The birds resemble English snipe or the American meadow lark in size and color. Calhoun, in Illinois, is the banner county of the Union, There is not within it a railroad, telegraph, bank or Express office. The county jail has not had an inmate for five years and the courts rarely have anv lnw««P* to settle. A remarkable coincidence in connec¬ tion with the death of the president of an electric railway in Ohio is that he was killed while violating a rule which he himself had made, forbidding pas¬ sengers to get on or off the front plat¬ form while he cars were in motion. His coat got caught in some way or other, and he was thrown under the wheels. A hill 400 feet high, composed of copper, silver and gold, has been dis¬ covered in the Mexican State of Chiapas. A river flowing on one side of the hill has largely uncovered the deposit, and many thousand tons of ore are in sight. The ore assays from three to four ounces of gold and forty to sixty ounces of silver per ton, with from 23 to 25 per cent, of copper. According to a French paper the in¬ quiry made by the administration in order to carry out the new law giving certain advantages to fathers of more than seven children, has shown that in France at present there are 2,000,000 households in which there has been no child; 2,500,000 in which there was one; 2,300,000, two children; 1,- 500,000, three; about 1,000,000, four; 550,000, five; 330,000, six and 200,- 000, seven or more. Smugglers are reaping a rich harvest near the Canadian frontier, They pursue their unlawful work in houses built on the boundary line, half in Canada and the other half in the United States. Generally these houses contain a tramway, upon which cars, contain¬ ing contrabrand goods, can be moved from one country to the other. When United States officers make a raid the cars are pushed over into Canadian territory, and vice versa. The Cana¬ dian government will take measures to prevent a continuance of the fraud. The young Emperor of China is dis¬ playing a good deal of vigor as a re¬ former. He is inquiring into every de¬ partment of his Government, and is is¬ suing orders for the removal of abuses. He recently published a decree requir¬ ing periodical returns relating to the strength of the army, in order to pre¬ vent officers from drawing pay for troops which did not exist, He has also abolished a largg number of un¬ necessary Government places in the provinces. He has attacked the Pekin police force for their negligence and has ordered the provinces to reform their police service. Altogether he bids fair to be a progress ive and en¬ lightened potentate. The Caucasian proprietors of the big steam laundries in the United States, representing $25,000, 000 in their plants, have decided to drive the Chinese lauu- drymen out of the business. This dc- '"’sion has been precipitated by the at¬ tempt of the Chinese Six Companies to purchase one of the largest laundries in the United States and run it exclusively by Chinamen, Statistics have been collected showing that 1300 Chinese laundries in New’ York city have de¬ prived 15,000 citizens of employment, and that they were sending $40,000 a week out of the country. One China¬ man docs the work of eight girls. The system to be adopted to run the Celest¬ ial laundrymen out of the country is to Establish American laundries alongside of the Chinese laundries and take their custom away by persuasion, by cutting rates, and even by doing washing for nothin". A number of capitalists have fitted out a fast steamship at San Franciscc for seal poaching in Behring Sea. As every skin is worth $12. 51 these capi¬ talists believe that illicit sealing is profitable. They have no fear of being apprehended by the Government author¬ ities, as the revenue cutter Bash can only make eight knots an hour, and the Bear is equally slow, It is intended that the poacher 6hall make twelve knots an hour, so that she can kill seals wherever she pleases and then run away from the Government vessels: “It may have been noticed,” says the Galveston News, “that the widow of Jefferson Davis, since his death, signs her name •V, Jefferson Davis. Many persons doubtless suppose she has added the name Jefferson to her Chris tian name Yarina. But this is not the proper explanation. V. is the abbre¬ viation of veuve, the French for widow, and it is the custom in Louisiana, and perhaps in other parts of the South, for widows to place that letter before the Christian names of their deceased husbands. V. Jefferson Davis simply means the widow of Jefferson Davis.” The mercenary character of the mat¬ rimonial alliances contracted by titled personages in Europd is illustrated by the publication of some letters received by a New York lawyer asking him to arrange a marriage between some wealthy American heiress and a scion of the imperial family of Austria. An Astor was preferred, if one existed still unmarried, but was not necessary, the conditions being youth, wealth and beauty, Large money was promised .he Iawyej in the event of a successful match, and an intimation that a num¬ ber of officers in high position were ready to secure similar services. The new Brazilian marriage law makes civil marriage obligatory. Any marriage not made before civil powers is null and void. The parties have tc pay to the judge $1 and to the clerk 50 cents if the marriage is performed at his office, and double that if in a pri- vite house, besides the cost of carriage or traveling expenses. Relatives of the first and second degrees, girls under fourteen and boys under sixteen year: are prohibited from marrying. Widow* may not marry until ten months after the decease of their husbands, Civil marriages may be preceded or followed by religious services. About every so often the public is harrowed by reading that there are un¬ mistakable proofs that some unfortu¬ nate person has been buried alive, or an account appears stating how a supposed dead person has narrowly escaped this terrible fate. The last case of this kind occurred at Mount Blanchard, Ohio. The body of a young boy was prepared for burial, but fortunately signs of life were discovered before he was put in the ground, and the little fellow was soon on the road to recovery. There is no doubt, says the Atlanta Constitution , that many premature interments occur, and that people wake up occasionally to find themselves under ground. In such cases, the invention of a certain Frenchman would be a blessing. It consists of a dagger and spring attach¬ ment to a coffin. At the least move¬ ment of the supposed corpse, the dag¬ ger is released, and pierces the heart. No such invention would be necessary if due care were taken by the living. This is a matter in which we are all in¬ terested. A romantic episode in General Crook’s courtship is related by his cousin, Frederick A. Crook. The General was stationed at Cumberland, Aid., during the war, and his sweetheart, who was ihc daughter of John Daly, proprietor of the G ades Hotel iu Oakland, -was temporarily living near Cumberland. The Daly family were strong Southern sympathizers, and a brother of Mary Daly was in the Confederate army. YouDg Crook secured a leave of absence rad called on his sweechcart, spending the night at the Daly home. About 1 o’clock he awoke to find a dozen bayo¬ nets at his throat and his room full of Confederate soldiers. Crook surrend- ed, and before daybreak was on his way to Libby prison, where he re¬ mained until exchanged three months afterwards, The information was given by Mary’s brother, who was one of the captors. Since his marriage to Mary Daly General Crook had been a good friend tc the young man, ‘owards whom he never displayed the slightest resentment ANTELOPE KILLING. An Animal Which is Nearly j Extinct. A “Round Up” in a Barbed Wire Enclosure in Wyoming. An interesting story of an antelope hunt in Wyoming was told in a down¬ town gun store the other day. But, though interesting, it was by no means cheering to the sportsmen who dread the utter destruction of all game by useless slaughter. It appears that a large ranch in Wyoming was managed by an Englishman and owned chiefly by Englishmen, although there was some American capital invested. The ranch included eighteen sections of land, and was laid out three mile3 wide by six long. The whole was enclosed by a five-wire buckthorn fence of the most substantial character. Large breadths had been sown to wheat, and so last spring, after warm weather came, the antelopes gathered from great distances to eat the young grain. To the mind of the English manager of the estate this called for a violent remedy. The antelopes must be exter¬ minated. He therefore sent to his friends around about, and a party was gathered as if for a wolf hunt. Mount¬ ing their horses, they formed a line across one end of the plantation and then rode slowly toward the opposite end, intending to corner the game and then shoot it down comfortably, just as the natives in Africa drive game into a V-shaped corral and butcher it. This was made possible, with skilful management, by the fact that antelopes, although they easily jumped a fence when entering a field, get so excited when chased by a whooping gang of horsemen that they run hither and you along the fence, until at last they charge back among the advancing butchers. The line in this case was fortunately not well managed, though the slaught¬ er was bad enough. The men iu line were armei with repeating rifles. Be¬ fore more than half the ground was covered two or three of the party be¬ came so excited over the appearance of the game that they opened fire. Ante¬ lopes that were from 1200 to 1500 yards away were shot at with the effect of alarm¬ ing them and causing many of them to stampede back through the line before it had closed in sufficiently to make the slaughter complete. A little later, when the game was being driven toward a corner, a bunch broke back through the line, and two of the men got down off their horses and shot three dead. It happened that this killing was done in a hollow where the rest of the men in line did not see it. So the line kept advancing, and, luckily for the antelope, a widening gap was left in the centre of the line where the two men had droopped out to cut the throats of the game shot. Through this gap more than a score of the antelopes escaped. Having finished with the three dead antelopes the two men galloped on after the line. When they overtook it there were still nearly a hundred ante¬ lopes enclosed within it, and the long- range shooting w r as still serving to save the lives of some of the unfortunate beasts. Eventually, however, the men got so close to the game that five antelopes were killed from one bunch. When these had been attended to the grand final onslaught wa3 made. Curiously enough it happened that the main body charged on a man who had been reserv¬ ing his fire in order to make it deadly at short range. His associates looked on as the game approached him with the liveliest anticipations of seeing a great slaughter, but only to see him at last working the pump handle of his gun with 1 desperate but unavailing energy, He went through all the motions properly, * but no flash nor smoke was seen nor was any report heard. Again the pump w r ould be worked, but with the same result. When the game had all scattered and other men in the line had killed three head only, they gathered about the luckless gunner. He declared that he had somehow forgotten to charge his magazine, and he was in a state of great excitement over it until some of the party went to the placa where he had stood when trying to tire, There they found a megtzineful of cartridges lying on the ground. An examination showed that the cartridges had been re - loaded by the guuuer kimse.f, but be had forgotten to remove the old caps from the shells, and put on new one* before reloading. In all eleven antelopes were kil led in the round up, and it is supposed a dozen more were wounded, but escaped. That was bad enough, though not so bad as other round ups which were probably held afterward were likely to be. It seems particularly un- fortunate that an animal like the ante¬ lope should be slaughtered in such merciless fashion, ivhen it is remem¬ bered that save in Western Texas and in two or three districts in the northern part of the country the species is ex¬ tinct.— N. Y. Sun. Both Had Traits. “I have a friend here whom I want to introduce you to,” he said, after they had met and chatted a moment in the Erie depot across the river. “Oh, certainly.” “I beg to state in advance, however, that he has one curious trait of charac¬ ter which you may expect to see de¬ veloped.” “All right. My friends contend that I also have one.” The two were intrdtluced, shook hands, passed the usual talk, and after four or five minutes No. 3 suddenly queried: “By the way, have you a pocket knife?” “Yes.” “If you please.” He pared his nails and talked for three or four minutes longer, and then put the knife in his pocket and excused himself on the grounds that he must look after his baggage. “That’s his trait,” whispered the man who had introduced him—“he’s taken your knife away with him. Curi¬ ous, isn’t it ?” “Not half so curious as my trait!” exclaimed the other, and striding after the man he seized him by the shoulder, whirled him around iu a savage mauuer and said: “Either return that knife or I’ll lick you out of your boots right here and now!” “Ah! Beg pardon!” and the knife was handed out so quickly that it seemed to be red hot. An Obliging Spaniel. Dogs are useful to mankind in many ways, but it is doubtful if more than one has ever been used as a hassock at dinner time. The dog in question is a very lat cocker spaniel. Nearly every evening in the week it follows two quietly dressed women to a table d’hote restau¬ rant not far from Union Square. Intc the dining room the canine struggles, panting furiously, and as soon as a ta¬ ble has been selected, under it he crawls and lies down. Generally he rests his head on his forepaws and blinks bis eyes until the last cup ol coffee is drained. As soon aS his mistresses arc seated they place their feet on the spaniel’9 back, and thus they sit and eat and chat. The dog doesn’t soem to mind it at all. In fact, he acts very much as if he liked serving as a hassock. He eyes everybody who enters the restaur¬ ant, and when he sees a person who doesn’t please his cultivated sense he utters a low growl and sticks his head further down between his paws. A little dig in the ribs from one of the small boots generally silences him. When dinner is over this useful spaniel waddles out from under the table, treats himself to a shake, gives a falsetto bark and goes his apopletic way. Abreviated States. An ancient Miss. La. very Ill.; “I can no more be Ga.,” she cried; “I’ll go to Mass., if I get well, and to the Lord my sins confide. * * Go and Col. Pa.,” she whispered low to Del., a sis- ter by her bed; “and brother Cal., tell him to come—I’d see them all before I’m dead. For O., I Wis., I’m grow- ing worse, and soon Ore., Jordan’s brink I’ll glide. The Ind., I know, is near at hand; soon, soon I’ll be a heav¬ enly bride.” They gathered round the sick maid’s bed, and sobbed aloud with heartfelt grief. ‘‘Why, why ^ cfy {qt Mfif Y ou know j soou wm find wlieL • So0n sister Ala> x wiU see, and brother Kas., who’ve gone before; and uncle Wash—” Here death stenped in and took the maid to t’other shore. Alas! but death Tex. us all in; we can’t escape; his scythe do j-i cki the poor, the lame the halt; e’en kings must be by death iaid low. Spilled Milk. A gentleman who chanced to meet . A wee child crying in the street. Paused in his course to ask it why And what it was that made it cry. “I lost my penny, sir,” it said. “Here,” said the friend, “js one instead.” But hardly had he turned to go When tears again began to flow. Returning to the child said he: “Now, w r hv are all the tears I see'” “I’d have two pennies now.” it wept, “If I the other one had kept.” How often with enough we’ve sighed For something we have been denied. Our natures are with longings filled For cream that is forever spilled. —Chicago Herald. HUMOROUS. The man who lacks nerve never I ought to hesitate about going to the. dentist’s. The man who is willing to take I things as they come finds usually that I they never come. Clergymen may not amount to much I as carpenters, but they make the best joiners in the world. In these days of electricity death isn’t obliged to visit a man; he can notify him by*wire if he wants him. A paper has been started at Mel- bourne called the policeman. If it 1 doesn’t give club rate3 it may have to I move on. If the present prices for horses coa-1 tinue to prevail, even a man with al nightmare may be able to get rid of it I at a profit. ‘.‘Don’t you think that doctors are I usually handsome men?” said one| Washington girl to another, “Some of hem are just killing.” Many a man is supposed to be spoiled by success, when he only had enough merit to last him a season. You can’t get water out of a dry well. Mr. Figg—If you were out in a boat with your wfife and your sister and the boat should upset, which one would you save? Mr. Hogg—Myself. “Do you like your new mammY Charlie?” was asked of a precocious) youngster of six. t > No,” he said lofti. ly; “Ido not care for ladies’ society." Piercing the ears is said to quicken the sight. Is this the reason that con¬ cert singers try to attract attention t<» themselves by a shriek at the close oil their performances? Book Agent—But, sir, perhaps Ian® annoying you and interrupting you® business. His victim—Not at all sir® you don’t disturb me in the least. 1'® not listening to a word you say. Division Superintendent—Didn’t tell you to come ’ round here only one® a week? Applicant — Yes, sir; bu Saturday, when I called, it was thi® la® week; and now, Monday, it is week l “Have you selected your bridesmai® yet?” asked the happy mamma. “Yea® replied the happy girl. “Susie Eldar.® “But she’s so ugly!” “That’s why I chose her, mamma, dear. I’m not pa: ticularly handsome myself.” “Oh, no, there isn’t any favorites? this family!” soliloquized Johnny; “ol no! I guess there ain't. If I bite . finger nails I catch it over the knuckl But the baby can eat his whole foo® and they think it’s just cunning.” There was a young lady called Kata Who chattered at such great rate » a That the people they said, “She will talk off her head;” Oh! dear, what a terrible fate! Saved by a Hog. About four thousand anecdotes ha' been published under the above htli in which dogs have figured in preset ing human life. We had a dog onl noted for saving things, but thej wasn’t a life among them, He k the things he saved under the sum kitchen, and his hiding place was! discovered for a long time; not, inde until it became necessary to tear up kitchen floor to find a good place deposit some chloride of lime durin cholera season; then we found * had been “saved by a dog.” There were a couple of kitted cat, two or three rats and a chicken, very dead; a large assortment of bol , the remnants of an ottoman, for theft of which the best, hired gir'l ever had was discharged; a tomato a couple of teaspoons, a torn voluffil Hoyle’s games, an old hoopskir'J canary bird, a nutmeg grater, a p!4 of paris pigeon and a cook bootj is rarely that there is so much sav« a dog, for they are generally imp?! dent.