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I olumbia HARLEM GEORGIA priH.ISHIf.H EVERY THURSDAY. Ballarci <*> A-tlalnaon. rKOI’HIHTO**- |t would I* Mi|>|r >'•• <! that the Pn*«i- Hh<l lb** ii"iub<i“ of th'* cabinet would rwHv th> Im*.'**' mail in Wa>h iitgton Thia b not mi, however. I hat dwtiiu tiou fall- upon » j»n>-ioii attorney, wli/w daily mall fr< •jii«-ritl> ininil'cr* 300 latter* (‘urea of m mtn a are reported a* having taken place in pari* lifter a •ingle appli* cation of Dr D< lain•'» method of fr<> z ir»g the Mkiti also'* th' painful part* with a apray of ehlotide of m' thyl Tin - "|**r ation i* said to Ih appli* abb id*o to fa*iai neuralgia If th' latter !>■ tru*, Dr. De tune ia a iienefa* tor to the human race. < hi< ago ha* reached th'* arm" of ama teur photography. Some ingenious |ht aim baa invent'd a hat, in whl< h a cam era ia connalw), *o that the wearer can lain a picture a* in walk* along the atre't. Th* young men are utilizing the invention to •r. urr [icrtrait* of all th* pretty girl* Un v meet Dakota i> cry ing aloud for *pin«t< r*. •nd the editor of tlw Fargo Argus «ay«: “We can a<<on>m<-late 10.000 girl* with [ hu*ban<l« in Dakota on ninety <lay»‘ no ; U<<. We hav< publish'd 2.000 letter*; from a* many young women, and made ae many inatihe*.’’ With nil thin talk it m> strang' to learn that Major Edward*, editor in i hies, and Major Plumley, man aging editor ol the .L*/"«, are both un ■Mrried, although they have looker! over tlx 2000 love letter*. Dr. Daverqiort, a Brazilian travclei, relate* how butter is made in that conn try. They fill a hide with milk, and it ta tightly 'lonrrl and lu-tily shaken by n athletic native at either end. or it in dragged about upon tin* ground after u gallofring horse until th* buttci come*. In Chili Uli* till'd hide* are placed u|>on a donkey’* l»ai k, and hr* i* trotbsl about , until thr butt< r i rrnrr - In Morocco a filled goatskin i« rolled ale ill and kneaded by women until tin Mitin > Ifer t is pro. dliced. The English trarir journal* lire jubilant, just now, over th* growth of the Indian wheat export. One re|H>rt* the r XJiort of wheat from India in 1875 at 1,200.000 hundred weight, while in 1884 it had in crease*l to 10,000,000 hundred Wright, ‘ the value of the i xpirt lor the two year* rnqiei tivr ly la ing £669,000 and £3,175, (KM) This need not alarm American wheal growers, for the Indian w heat doe* not make the best flour, ami need* to lw* mixed with th* harder gradea of Ameri can wheat. People who wear *|H* ta< le«, anil the iiumla r i* im n using daily, may not be aware that two men claim the honor of having invi-nted the*, aids to vision. One ia Spina, a Florentine monk, ami the other, Roger Bacon. An Italian anti quary say* Spina was indebted for his in formation to on** Salvino, who died in 1818. A manuM ript epitaph in the |a>* taw-ion of tin* antiquary reads: ‘‘Here lie* Salvino \rmoto d’Annuti. of Florence, the invent"! of *|**i ta* le* May Gori pardon hi* *iu*. The year 1318." ■•Curiou* how one’s feeling*get blunter! by the sight of blood and horrors," mink Sir < hath * Wilson, in hi- lira narrative of the Nile < vpcrhtion There wa* one striulge im i<|< nt. An unwounded Arab, armed with a *|a*ar, juni|a*d up and i-liarged ail oflicer. The officer grn«|**d the*|»*nr with his left hand, and w ith Ids right ran In* sword through the Arab body ; and there for a few second* they vtriod, the ofllr r r being unable to w ith draw hi* sword until a num ran up ami shot tin Arab. It was a living emlvodi merit of one of the old gladiatorial fro* voe* of Poin|M*ii. It did not, Mange to •ay. Mini horrihl* rather, after what hail |ra.**ed, an everyday occurrence. 1 used to wonder before how the Boman* could look on at the gladitorial tight*. I do so no longer." In cutting through a gorge in tlw Blue Ridge mountain*.mar Buncombe county. North Carolina, recently. a party of eon victa, m charge of ( apt. \\ (' Troy. at work oxi a railriuni, found an ancient hermitage dug out of the side of the mountain, in a M-cludvd plaee. It was a rude hut, construct's! w ith *f few pole* and boards with one window with a Singh |wne. Hxt, to admit the light. The only i-M i-upant* were an old hennit. who ha* lived there more than fifty years, a largey»Huw dog, a big cat. anil a rac ouon. The upimarances were thos< of a happy family In conversation with the old man V aj>t Troy found him very ig. uorant. lb never had teen a steam etigim or a railn.ul, and wa* greatly diaturiwd las auw the lalairvr* interfe red wth his home. Hi* lad -clothe* were la-gv l« arskin* *e*ed t-.wiher. with a beautiful buck hide a* hi* facnv *pt* ,ai to uw on big mx-asion* The bracket* on the wall* were of iinm n*e deer horns, inti the gun ruck over th- door was of the •ami material. The old fellow is a great v.nger, and atmiM-d the captain grvatlv • ith vc.al music. A batiouai abceys-abcaring contest ia ta 1 take place in Hi. Louis. April 7-B, under the auspice* of the Missouri Anaociation of Wool-Growers At Uua couteat oom |a* tit ion will be open to sheep-owner* from all aretiooa of the V nitnd States, and in carb claaa. fine wool*, middle wools and long wools Fifteen hundred dollar* in cash are off* red aa premium* for fleeces Everybody derirous of enter ing the contest must maki his entries on or before April I. and have the sheep on h»ml for in*ja* 1 1***! by th' < omnidtees on th'- first dav of th' contest Additional information will b> furnished on written application V> A J Child, aocretary, 20» Market »trei t St. Louis. Mo. Some idea <rf the eanstant demand that t here is for place irt Washington may be gathered from th' numerous application* that there arc lor even the smalleat posi tions in the gift of th'- government. One would •'•arcely nippoM*., say* a corre spondent, that there would be great de mand for p'sitiona paying t***’ a month, a* do the w at* hinen * |*o*itionsin the de partme-it*. but there is a scramble for pla* * * which pay even less than that. In th< variou* departin'nt * there are em ployed a hundred or two of womenwho*** duties are to *< nib the floors and sweep 1 the rooms in th'- great buildings which dot Washington. These women get for theirwrvicc* the princely salary of |lsa month. They go on duty at the closing of th* depnrtiiu nts and work far into the ; night sometime*, getting <lown on tlieir j kin's in the hallways and scrubbing by ■ hand the filthy floors liegrimmed with the dirt of the street and the saliva of to. hue* o i hew* r*. Certainly not a pleasant ociupntion nor a very profitable one; yet the demand forthene place* ia incessant »nd urgent. Tin most reient estimate that has liein made by the French engineer* in regard to the projiosed African inland sen is that the undertaking could be con siimmabd in the maximum |w riod of five years, at a co*t of about |30,000,000, it being suflii ienl to ( nt, in the alluvial part of the region travelled, a canal aver aging some so to 100 feel in width,which would be further widen'd by the action of the current. It appear* that the cstu ary of Owed .Mellah, which i* to be tin beginning of the canal leading to the place to be inundated, offer* n port, cov ered at high water, of ade<|Uat'* breadth, which might easily be excavated, and would form a port sheltered bv nature from all th* winds from northcast to south, passing by the west; the winds from north'a*t to south, passing by the cast, would not be dangerous to the I break waters. The navigation of the canal, it is also said, w ill offer no difli i nlty, as the i anal would form almost a 'traight line. The pro|s**cd inland sea would be fifteen time* as large as the Lake of Geneva. Chlneae Burglary. It i* u custom among the Chines'* to give several dollar* to tin- man who is first to report to a family the fact that their son has received the degree of Ku Yan. A numb' r of men determined to avail themselves of the opportunity of making money which such a custom pre sented. These men armed themselves with knives and pistol*, which they con cealed under their < lothing. Others of them held leaflets, which are regularly sold in the street during an examination. These leaflets contain the names of tho successful candidates. Thus prepared they pna'eeded to the house of a mall mimed ilo. The foremoyt man went t< the dixir to congratulate the family on its good fortune. The second report was close ut his heels, and then foPowed the men with leaflet* The men marched in side, and tlwn revealed tlieir true mis sion. They then robbed the hou- of some thousand dollar* in money and clothing. On coming out their congratu lation* were long and loud At tin door they fired off their crackers, thus thor oughly deluding the neighbors, and amid tin noise and uproar of n pretended fam ily rejoicing p>t away. The hard part of the luck i* the fact that u> member of the Ho family had got a degree A CAiii'i Mail. I’ostponed. ‘‘Gentleman," *aid u colleg* president at a meeting of tin Faeualty. "we must take means nt one* to stop tie name of f(s*t ball. It i* bringing our grand old institution into disrepute.” •lu*t then a great noise wa* h< :i I < ut side, and the president demanded the cause of it. "New* has just been receivtal,’’ ex plained oiu of the younger prof*-***»rs a|ailogvtii ally. "that our men have wre*t'sl tin foot l«!l championship from Princeton." ••Good!" shouted the president, flush ing with ex. itenient, "I didn’t dan* hope it 1 think . nt'iH '-i. w b, tt. t be too—er hasty in this matter."—/ 'a A Little Misunderstanding. Angry Pur, ha** You told n. the hor* wasn't balky Ndler N l didn’t. Angry Pm, ha*. : Yv»U ccrtainlv did. A oil *aid that when it came to p .» that horse wa* there every time. Slier- Ye*, that * wh t I *.,:* t H * there, but the trouble ■* le *t.,y- I u*od to build a iwutirv uuil-: b.n \ e ) i >. IXEQUALLED CRIME. The Adage that “Murder Will Out” Again Confirmed. QueHtionx Rawed by the Discovery of a Ter* nble Triple Tragedy in Ireland. The remit of a trial which recently ter minated in Cork, Ireland, adds confir mation U> the old adage that "murder will out.” William Hheehan waaconvict "l of the murder of Catherine, Hannah, and Thoma* Sheehan, his mother, sister, and brother. The crime was c ommitted in October, 1877, but wa* not discovered till the summer of 1884. At that time a fanner named Broderick discovered at the bottom of a well seventy-two feet deep the bode s of the three Sheehans. They were fully ind'-ntified by their old neighliors by their clothing and articles in their pockets. The skull of each was broken, clearly showing that they were not drowned, but had been thrown into the well after they were murdered. It was known throughout the neighborhood jhat the four Sheehan* were living on a farm belonging to a widow, a near rela tive, during the fall of 1877. On a cer tain day then* was no one living in the house but William, who stated that the remainder of the family had left for America, which was to be their future home. Their friends thought it strange that they should leave without saying anything about the matter, and the won der was increased when neither they nor certain relatives living at some distance from the farm received any letters from them. William affirmed that they left in the manner they did because they object ed to his marrying a Mis* Browne, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. The night after the alleged departure of the three Sheehans for America William gave a musical party at the house, which Mia* Browne and her brother attended. In a few days William married the girl, and continued to live on the farm till July, 1883, when he was evicted for non-pay mentof rent. He then left with his wife for Australia. After the finding of the three bodies in the well, John Daune, who with his wife and Ron were working for the Sheehans during the month of October, 1877, was arrested on suspicion, and being thor oughly frightened, related the story of the murder. He stated that he and his family lived in a cottage on the farm, and that on the morning of the disappearance he saw William Sheehan, accompanied by David Browne, brother of the future Mrs. Sheehan, strike Thomas Sheehan to the ground with a blunt instrument, lo cally called a "griffaun,” after which the two men entered the house and killed the women in the same manner. The three bodies were then taken to the burn and the door locked. David Duane, son of John, confessed that on the night of the musical party he was attracted to the house by the music and a desire to have a good time, that he quietly seated himself beneath a window, where he could see and hear without being observed. He jemained in his place till the party broke ap and the visitors went away. Not wishing to be discovered then for fear of jeing reproved, he still sat quietly. Soon tie saw AVilliani Sheehan, David Browne, and a man he did not know go to the barn, open the door, take out three bod ies, drag them to the well on the next farm, and throw* them in. The officials being in possession of this evidence traced William Sheehan to Auckland, New Zealand, where he was arrested and brought to Cork for trial. On his passage home he told many con flicting stories about the disappearance of his relatives. His father-in-law attempt ed suicide as soon as he heard of his ar rest. Sheehan was convicted chiefly on the testimony of the two Duanes, but there was much circumstancial evidence to corroborate their testimony. This remarkable case serves to raise gome interesting questions. A numerous family drank for six years the water fur- I nished by n well that contained the bodies of three human beings. Its tastes and 1 smell finally became so offensive that they j were obliged to clean out the well or to j fill it up. How many wells in this coun try that have been abandoned and filled up on account of the condition of the water they furnished contained hu man bodiee? The three persons whose bodies were found in this well suddenly disapjH’ared. and it was reported that they had gone to a distant country. How many persons that suddenly and myster iously disappear without any apparent cause, and from whom no tidings ever come, are murdered? Unless a body is found under circumstances that serve to make it probable that a murder wa* Committed, no one is accus'd of commit ting a crime, and in the majority of cases no one is suspected. Still, if a murder is deliberately planned it is a very easy mat ter to dispose of a body. A week rarely passes that someone of considerable prom inence does not mysteriously disappear from this city. Hundreds of obscure persons disappear in the course of a year, whose absence is never noticed even by persons who lived near them. In a large city there is a vast population who have no regular abiding-place. Many of them nrght drop out of sight forever and never be m.<s<xi by more than two or three per son* who might desire to be rid of them. I How many murder* arc committed of 1 which the public never have any knowl . edge ?— Chieagu Timet. The Thirteen Snperatltion. M. Leaclide, tell* us. among many oth er things, that Victor Hugo confessed to the (xmesaion of only one superstition. Nothing could induce him to form one of thirteen at table. Whenever a thirteenth arrived at the last moment it was M. Les clide’a business to pick up his hat and depart. The vitality of this hoary super stition, which no doubt originally grew out of the story of the last supper and of the tragic events which so quickly fol lowed it, is remarkable. Any one who j takes the trouble to refer to the accepted table* may see for himself w hat is really the expectation of human life. It will be found that, in order to obtain a math ematical probability that one out of a given thirteen healthy persons will ex pire during the following twelve months, the average age of the thirteen must, in default of the presence of one or two on the verge of centenarianisin, be very great indeed. It must, in fact, lie about eighty-eight years, and it is scarcely necessary to say that, in practice, the united years of a festive party of thirteen never amount to the requaite 1144. Ths annual rate of mortality among males and females of all ages is only one in forty one, and forty-one, therefore, instead of thirteen, should be held to be the un lucky number. This has been demon strated over and over again ; yet the num ber thirteen still remains ominous to thousands of excellent people in all class es of life. In Paris there are streets in which twelve bis does duty instead of thirteen, and the householders who thus ingenuously sought to circumvent fate would not for the world let the proper number be painted upon their doors. Some years ago Prince Napoleon tried to to laugh his countrymen out of tho su perstition, but his effort* did not benefit his cause, for, with characteristic perver sity, he used to invite twelve friends to | carouse with him on Good Friday, where by he grtively scandalized right-feeling people, whatever their theological views. In America similar but less aggressive at tempts have been made to correct popu lar error, and numerous thirteen clubs have been established, the members 1 pledging themselves to dine thirteen at ] table on ever opportunity. In France, too, there is a thirteen club, the head quarters of which are at Senlis; and in England there is a little coterie of thir teen men who dine together monthly at a house numbered thirteen and pay 13s. each for their dinner and 13d. each to i the waiters. Yet still the superstition is us lively as of yore, all over Europe and America, and probably it will continue to flourish and to make people uncomforta ble until the end of time.— English Paper. A Dangerous Counterfeiter. The “pen-and-ink man" is still a mys tery to the officers of the secret service, says a Washington letter to the Boston Traveller. The most strenuous efforts have been made to catch him, but he has I eluded their vigilance so far, and there is not the slightest trace of his identity or locality. The “pen-and-ink man” is the person known in police circles who makes counterfeit money with pen and ink so cleverly as to pass it without detection. The secret service has about fifty speci mens of his handiwork which have passed the scrutiny of the bank clerks and tell- ' ers, and been detected by the experts of the national bank redemption agenev of the treasury department. The “pen-and ink man” devotes most of his time to ■ twenties and fifties. He has made a few $lO notes, but the bulk of those captured are of the denominations indicated. The secret service officers believed for a long time that the “pen-and-ink man” was some < Xpert who merely employed his i leisure time in counterfeiting. They j have given up that theory and are now* firmly convinced that he is making a living at it. The reason given for this is that the officers have information that he produces one of these counterfeits each week, which return* him only fair wages. "The pen-and-ink man” is a wonderful expert, and his is an instance of a man who prefers doing wrong at less wages than he could earn by doing right j in a respectable avocation. Easily Avoided. M. and Mme. Prudhomme find their new rooms ill-heated by the furnace, and decide to buy a stove to keep them warm. M. Prudhomme reflects: "Stoves are sometimes dangerous. We must be careful not to run any risk of asphyxiating ourselves by coal gas.” He reflects some mon*: “Ah! That’s easily avoided. We will never light it." He smiles at his cleverness, and buvs it.— French Fun. An Unfounded Suspicion. Mrs. Clapper—Arthur, I fear you do ' not love me. Mr. Clappef—What a ridiculous idea. ; What makes you think I have ceased to love you? “Because you show signs of impatience i when I talk to you.” “H’m! Well, my dear, be assured that I love you”—(a pause)—“still.”—Phila delphia Cali. C.OING TO THE SOUTH. A Great Army of Welcome Tramps in Louisiana. Their Services in Taking Off the Sugar Crops and Building the Levees, A recent letter from the Parish of Plaq uemines, La., to the New York Sun says: "The army of wandering laborers —like tin w ild birds which have their summer and w inter haunts—come to us about the first of November and go North about the first of April. Many people call them tramps, but they are si kind of wel come tramp, which is more, I suppose, than could be said for the real, sure enough tramp. We rely on this labor to take off our sugar crops and to build our levees, the latter work being usually done at low water in winter. In February and March it comes in handy in planting cane and digging the ditches and canals by which our fields are drained. Os course we get a good many no-account men, but by weeding the poor ones out we at last reach Darwin’s survival of the fittest and get a pretty good gang organized. The nucleus of this army starts in Canada, is added to in New . York and on the lakes, takes in a large corps of recruits at Chicago, and when it reaches Cairo commingle* with the legions from the great Northwest and California and sweeps on to New Orleans. Its transportation is free. Some few ; work their way on the Mississippi river steamers, but the great majority beat their way on freight trains. Most of the men have money to provide just food enough to exist on, and as soon as they reach the city they are distributed by la bor agents to the various plantations and works needing hands— nd then how they do gormandize! You are not able to tell what a man really is until he has been on the place long enough to get over the prostration caused by over-eating. The fare is not usually very tempting,but Uiere is always a full supply of meat, bread, beans, rice, potatoes, coffee and molasses. A blanket and a little hay are also furnished, and the barracks, or cab ; ins, generally have a fireplace or stove, with fuel supplies. Take it altogether, it is a pretty rough mode of life, but the men seem light hearted and contented. I often wonder if the millionaires who come on Pullmans to the South in winter, and go on Pullmans to Saratoga in sum mer, really get more enjoyment out of life. You will find in this army men of all nationalities, trades, and professions. Not a few doctors and lawyers have I seen putting cane on the earner, and not a few doctors of dentistry using a cold chisel chipping the huge teeth of a spur wheel. And all these men have histories. A man’s name, or the name he gives, is written on the time book, but it is never heard among these associates of a mo ment. The place he comes from or some personal peculiarity christens him with the appellation he bears here and proba bly elsewhere. Frenchy, Dutchy, Pad dy, Scotty, and New* York, Chicago, and Frisco are common nicknames, or if he is small Shorty it is, and an auburn tinge is sure to give the name of Reddy. Now* and then I hear some interesting incidents from the lives of these wander ers. A foreman I now have told me of how near he was to getting into trouble last summer in Sedalia, Missouri. He reached there in the morning and took a room at the Atlantic Hotel, and a few minutes later a stranger wa* given a bed in the same room. Mr. M said his f roommate seemed to be a taciturn kind of a fellow, but otherwise noticed noth ing peculiar about him. After dinner he ; wished to see a friend off on the train and hastened to the depot. The train was a little late, and before it came in a policeman ajipeared and arrested Mr. ; M for murder. Though conscious of innocence, a stranger iu a strange land he could at best but feel uneasy. He was taken to his room, and on one of the beds lay his roommate in a pool of blood —dead! M hen the coroner arrived the 'lead man, who was lying face down ward, was turned over, and the examina tion commenced. It seems that an hour before that the man had been seen to i take a hatchet from near the well in the yard up to his room. It was evident that he had tried with a dull pocket knife, which was found by his side, to cut the arteries of his wrist and then to cut his throat. He had also stuffed a silk hand kerchief as far down his throat as possi ble. and then had wounded his head by self-inflicted blows with the hatchet. i The coroner found that none of the ghastly wounds was fatal, but that death was caused by the stoppage of the air channel with the handkerchief. A verdict of suicide, of course, released Mr. M from his close shave. Too Staid. Farmer Sparrowgrass: “Say, Mariah, t I ain t goin to have Jim Lawson nosin’ around here no more. Are vou listen in’?” Mariah: “Why, paw, I thought you said always he was such a good young man—so staid in his habits.” Fanner Sparrowgrass: "Well, that’s 1 just the trouble with him. He’s staved | up here half the winter nights burning my coal an ile an’ I’m goin’ to kick He’s too stayed fur me; are vou listen in’!”—Rambler. THE FAMILY PHYSH IAX. Belt For • Npraln. Prof. Brinton says that the best thin, for a sprain is to put the limb into a v sei of very hot water immediately, th.a add boiling water as it can be bort. Keep the part immersed for twenty min utes, or until the pain subsides; then apply a tight bandage and order rest Sometimes the joint can be used j 8 twelve hours. If necessary, use a silicuta of sodium dressing. A Simple Rtnirdy. Lard as an application for bruises i> considered indispensable at our house. If put on as soon as possible it will usualh remove all soreness and prevent discolor, ation that follows such a hurt. If th e bruise is severe it muy not cure it en. tirely, but will help it in any case. blow on the face followed by a black and blue spot is especially annoying, b ut unless so near the eyes as to settle black under them, lard will prevent such dis. coloration. Try it when next you an « unfortunate as to get a bruise. Coffee and Indite at ton. Observing physicians learned long am that coffee is a hindrance to digestion* but scientific evidence was needed, and so M. Lavid, according to La Mahhn Practician, has been making experiment on dogs to determine the exact fact with the following results: “To a dog which has eaten 210 grammes of meat he administered 30 grammes of coffee and 15 grammes d water. After three hours he killed the dog, and found the mucous membrane of the stomach pale, discolored, and pe foundly ansemic. The vessels of the in ternal superficies, like those of the peri phery, were contracted; 145 grammes d the meat remained undigested; the coffee then had retarded the stomach digest ion.” If coffee will thus delay the digestion of a dog, notably strong, especially in the digestion of meat, who will attempt to dispute that it must be equally injur ious to human stomachs? It is a well recognized fact that dyspeptic* are ei ceedingly common in all countries where tea and coffee are frequently used, as in this country, England and Holland. X» dog of common sense would continue the use of the fragrant beverage after be coming aware of the above fact; but how many tea and coffee topers will exercise as much sound judgment in reference to the matter as the average canine?— Qjd Health. The Bright Side. There was never a night so dark tbit some would not speak of the dawn, and never a day so bright that some wouli not think of the midnight. It is well that the enthusiast be balanced by the conservative, perhaps, on the principle that a little shade improves the tone of almost any picture. It is, however, I thankless mission that the grumbler en ters upon, and his is a work that shadou his own mind and heart more than thil of any other. Most of us see enough of the hard side of life, hear enough of the woe arid weariness, adversity and ani mosity, disappointment and disaster ij life, without being formally reminded thereof. The newspaper finds readers when it announces a ship’s wreck than when it chronicles a launch. Iu column of obituaries is more sought ta than its wedding announcements. A firm’s failure is read by a hundred per sons to one who would read of an "open ing”; and a man who steals SIOOO it* ceives more newspaper notoriety that 1 thousand men who should deposi: sloo.* 000 each. It is the natural elasticity d the mind and heart that keeps the aw age man hopeful while the sad and evi things of life are running before his eye or are lieing poured into his ears. Then should be a systematic effort on the ptf of all people to see the bright side, speai of the hopeful things. When a majohu of business men talk the dark side# finance there is a panic; when a majentj of laboring men see the dark side of 1“ there is a Nihilistic tendency. There > too much danger in every direction ft any encouragement of the already W active tendency to see the evil in bus ness and society. Let us see the brigh side and call other people's attention* 1 it.— Boston Traveler. Cremation in Germany. It has taken the Germans rather long* make up their minds as to cremation ;h** at present they are beginning to tiiink * riously about it, and if they adhere* their favorite motto of “Slow and sure, we may in some future day see the I*?* crematorium chimney nse in churchyard of the empire. That ft number of those who have decided* favor of the movement is greatly ine~* ing was recently shown when a petit; the introduction of cremation, cieitau* 23,365 signatures, was laid before ft Reichstag. The following intereoft details about the professions of the < scribers shows in what quarters crer.:***-' finds most favor. The list wa* signed’ 1.942 physicians, 1.046 lawyers and P* 1 fessors, 849 schoolmasters, 1,015 Go r ment officials, 10 Protestant clergy® 11 rabbis, 361 women, and 6,000 workifl men. the remaining number being c up by merchants, manufacturer-, trs® men, and others.— Pall Mall OasetU.