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Speaking of China will Germanys
nibble be followed by Englands bite
The chief trouble with American
Juries Is that they hang too much with
out ropes
That man who called a back fence
the womans telephone probably re
ferred to their talking over it
Ex Consul General Iasigi is to keep
books during his term In prison That
Js hard labor for those who find it dif
ficult
Its such a pleasure for the girls to
look over the hats in the millinery
stores they never think of those behind
them in the theater
Ohio has decreed that all medicines
containing poison must be labeled with
a skull and crossbones Will the dis
tillers observe the law
An Eastern contemporary says that
a philosopher is a man who rides a
philosopede Nonsense The mod
ern philosopher usually is a woman
The Sultan has declared riding the
bicycle to be immoral and irreligious
So would you perhaps if you had 368
wives each clamoring vociferously for
a wheel
The Boston City Council has ordered
the police force to wage war upon
bean shooters Here is a commenda
ble crusade It is little less than crim
inal to waste beans like that
Governor Plngree of Michigan says
that asphalt Is the paving of the
future and will be used exclusively
How about that future place which is
said to be paved with good intentions
Mrs Josephine K Henry of Ver
sailles Ky announces that she will
be a candidate for President in 1900 on
the Prohibition ticket Good If Josie
can carry her own State she will have
no trouble with the rest of the country
A novel called The Typewriter Girl
lias appeared in England It is rather
remarkable that the typewriter girl
hasnt been made prominent before now
in fiction She wields a vast influence
over the worlds destinies in these busy
modern times
i Turkey is buying a lot of big Krupp
uns Should Russia in consequence
of this maneuver take the Sultan by the
throat his Ottoman majesty would
pretty certainly develop a ease of croup
which Krupp himself would find it im
possible to alleviate
A new zone the intemperate is to be
added to the list if the words of Dean
Parrar prove true He lately said
with refreshing bluutness that he was
afraid England was creating a zone
of drunkenness in all parts of her em
pire which was destroying many of the
native races
The Xew Orleans papers continue to
call attention to the fact that the mor
tality of the city during the epidemic
was but little higher than the normal
figure But this will count for noth
ing in a yellow fever scare The safe
and profitable thing to do is to give
the closest attention to thorough sani
tary work
Tohu Chinaman has had a thought
and wants his head rubbed He has
found that he can get Great Britain to
defend all his coasts All he has to do
is to give Great Britain the aforesaid
coasts and she will defend them to the
bitter end It is as simple and practical
as the Irishmans plan for selling his
frying pan to get something to cook
in it
The proposed telegraphic communi
cation between Iceland and the Shet
land Islands would give the world
daily weather reports from Iceland
The weather predictions made in that
far region would not affect the attend
ance at a picnic say on the Penobscot
or the Sacramento but they would
show that the ends of the earth are
getting nearer together Such approxi
mation means progress
That the curiosity seeker sometimes
finds more than he wants is shown by
a recent experience of Mark Twain
Mr Clemens has been viewing from the
gallery with artistic appreciation the
performances of the Austrian Reichs
raths When the show broke up In a
general row he was violently welted
over the head by a Czech deputy Of
course it was a case of mistaken Iden
tity and an apology followed but it Is
afe to say that the humorist will ba
satisfied to gather his further impres
sions of Austrian legislation at long
range
It is well understood that Japan is
steadily preparing to lock horns with
Russia for the control of the far east
The island empire is building a large
and powerful navy and Is steadily imT
proving its military strength The
presence of Germany adds to the ob
stacles which Japan would have to
overcome Should Germany side with
Russia which she might readily do if
her interests should He that way
Japans chances of success would van
ish and the sacrifices she has made to
ppcure Corea would be entirely lost
It is hardly probable that the Dolly
Varden paper currency to be substi
tuted for that in uae at present will be
i great improvemet over the elaborate
Forks of art that it displaces Perhaps
e nearest apprsftch to perfection in
paper money Is in the highly unorna
mental notes of the Bank of England
The engraving is such that any ordi
nary engraver could duplicate it to per
fection yet the notes have rarely roen
counterfeited with success The safe
guards are in the paper and the ink
and not in the engraving The history
of counterfeiting shows that there are
always engravers as skillful as other
engravers
The proposal of the War Department
to reduce the strength of the ten cav
alry regiments by transferring men to
artillery regiments has caused a good
deal of indignation in army circles
This practice of weakening an arm or
branch of the force to increase another
is known among army men as skele
tonizing and is claimed by them for
evident reasons to be destructive of the
esprit de corps and the spirit of disci
pline Frequently whole companies
have been decimated by this process
and officers find themselves attached
to divisions of troops which practically
have no existence except upon paper
The artillery seems to be specially fa
vored in this respect In 1890 two com
panies of each regiment of cavalry and
infantry were skeletonized for the ben
efit of the artillery and now7 it seems
the process is to be further continued
Skeletonizing has been pronounced ille
gal by the judge advocate of the army
but jis long as Congress refuses further
to increase the army the War Depart
ment is practically compelled from
time to time to repeat the process In
order to keep each branch of the serv
ice as efficient as possible Secretary
Alger has withdrawn for the present
the order which has called forth so
many protests but will probably in the
end be compelled to insist upon it
From the subversion of the Roman
empire to the fourteenth or fifteenth
century women spent most of their
time alone almost entire strangers to
the joys of social life they seldom
went abroad but to be spectators of
such public diversions and amuse
ments as the fashions of the times
countenanced Francis I was the first
who introduced women on public days
to court before his time nothing was
to be seen at any of the courts of Eu
rope but gray haired politicians plot
ting the destruction of the rights and
liberties of mankind and warriors
clad in complete armor ready to put
their plots in executioa In the thir
teenth and fourteenth centuries ele
gance had scarcely any existence and
even cleanliness was hardly considered
as laudable The use of linen was not
known and the most delicate of the
fair sex wore woolen shifts In Paris
they had meat only three times a
week and one hundred livres about
twenty five dollars was a large portion
for a young lady The better sort of
citizens used splinters of wood and
rags dipped in oil instead of candles
which in those days were hardly to
be met with Wine was only to be
had at the shops of the apothecaries
where it was sold as a cordial and to
ride in a two wheeled cart along the
dirty rugged streets was reckoned a
grandeur of so enviable a nature that
Philip the Fair prohibited the wives of
citizens from enjoying it In the time
of Henry VIII of England the peers
of the realm carried their wives behind
them on horseback when they went to
London and in the same manner took
them back to their country seats with
hoods of waxed linen over their heads
and wrapped in mantles of cloth to se
cure them from the cold
When the potato crop is short said
an old farmer I never have any to
sell but when there is a great hue and
cry that potatoes are going to be
scarce and I plant a lot of them the
bottom drops entirely out of prices
Two or three years ago there was no
end to the comments on the decadence
of the horse He was going out of use
forthwith the bicycle was supplanting
him for cheap purposes trolleys and
rapid transit had finished him up as a
suburban necessity and the few people
who simply wanted him to ride about
with were taking their exercise in
some other fashion Of course as a
draft animal he must still be in evi
dence but this was about all that was
left to him Horse raisers went out of
business or turned their attention in
other directions It didnt pay to grow
ordinary animals and the average
hard headed farmer is not very much
given to doing unprofitable things
when he knows they do not pay Even
with the greatly decreased demand for
horses which is the natural result of
electricity and steam the supply has
run very low Horsemen are beginning
to discover that there is a possibility
of something not very far from a horse
famine And just here comes a curious
working of the law of supply and de
mand That which it Is difficult to se
cure immediately arises in market
value and good horses are growing
scarce and expensive Especially is
this the case with saddle horses It is
said that a really first class saddle ani
mal will bring almost any price one
chooses to ask for him on account of
the scarcity One of the most profitable
of Industries for the next few years
where land Is cheap and pasture good
will be the rasing of hoxses and these
should be gooa ones It costs justs as
much to bring up the cheapest kind of
a colt as to raise a good one and the
wonder is that there Is not some con
certed action taken toward clearing the
country of some of the wretched stock
that still exists Horse breeders asso
ciations could do excellent work in this
lirection
No Chance to Fight
Jones and his wife are a happy cou
ple
How do you know
Shes deaf and he has the writers
paralysis Cleveland Leader
The father of triplets considers three
of a kind better than two pair
BODY SNATCHING
A Vocal ion Oace Profitable Is Recalled
by Recent Ghoulish Outrages
Body snatching has again thrust it
self upon public notice through a series
of particularly atrocious offenses one
at Dunning near Chicago another at
Mlllville N J where a womans gravi
was desecrated and her body dragged
from the coffin and mutilated and a
third at Londonderry Ohio In the
latter case the body of Carlton Kelly
was taken from its grave doubled up
In a trunk and shipped to Columbus
dumped into the cellar of the Ohio
Medical college and re embalmed
doubled up into another trunk and left
on a street corner It was finally found
by the police and returned to its grave
Twenty years ago grave robbing was
a vocation profitable enough to keep a
considerable amount of talent em
ployed But the burying ground cus
todians of to day scarcely recall an in
stance of the kind within their experi
ence
Body snatching is a lost art so far
as the large cemeteries are concerned
said the assistant superintendent of
Graceland cemetery in Chicago Such
a thing would not be possible in a well
regulated burying ground of to day
Aside from other considerations it
would be next to impossible to get a
body out of Graceland without being
detected in the act The grounds are
patrolled through the night and every
precaution is taken to prevent depreda
tions of any kind The memory of the
oldest employe here probably does not
furnish a single instance of the kind
Another cemetery superintendent
aid The body snatching business
ceased to be profitable when we began
to use the pine box to inclose the coffin
or casket Before the introduction of
this outer box it was comparatively
easy for the grave robber to make a
narrow excavation at the head of the
grave lift the wooden lid over the glass
through which the face of the corpse
is seen smash the glass insert a body
hook under the chin and jerk the body
out of the grave But now the whole
grave must be excavated and the hd
of the pine box unscrewed before the
coffin Is accessible This takes so much
time and so increases the chances of
discovery that few care to engage in
the business for the money there is
in it
As a matter of fact the commercial
value of a corpse is very slight now
adays The physicians and schools can
steering purpose only In this tricy
cle cab the coachman or operator sits
in the rear and the passenger in front
The conveyance is propelled by a sim
ple up and down movement of the feet
just as a sewing machine is operated
and there is no chain or sprocket ar
rangement
The cab is so constructed as to be
suited for all kinds of weather For
bright balmy days when no covering
CHEAP CAIJ QUESTION SOLVED
there
can
is required is a hood arrange
ment that be detached In
stormy weather it can be easily replac
ed thus affording all the protection de
sired from the weather
Dining Gars in England
Dining cars have existed in England
for nearly twenty years but until quite
recently they have only been available
for first class passengers says the Bos
ton Herald Four years ago dining
cars for third class passengers also
were introduced between London and
Scotland between which points the
traffic is almost entirely third class
One route from Scotland passes
through Leeds consequently dining
cars between London and Leeds be
ing available for third class passengers
by this route the other route was con
strained to follow the example on Its
local London and Leeds service Nat
urally Liverpool and Manchester com
plained that similar accommodation
was not afforded to them Thereupon
the Midland Company which carries
an unusually small percentage of first
class passengers adopted a practice
of allowing third class pasengers to use
the first class dining car without extra
charge Theoretically they were re-
BODY SNATCIIERS AT THEIR GHOULISH WORK
get all the bodies they want at the Hos
pitals and morgues The only bodies
for which a high price can be obtained
are those of persons dying in some
mysterious way or some rare disease
For these physicians or others inter
ested are often willing to pay enough j
to induce the body snatcher to take
long chances Of course the body of
a person of great wealth is always in
more or less danger but their tombs
nre usually made practically impenetra
ble
While there is little body snatching
now the evil that men do lives after
them and work done by the body
snatchers of a past generation often
comes to light when through the
wishes of relatives or otherwise it be
comes necessary- to transfer a corpse
to another spot Many an empty coffin
Is found and man are the artifices of
cemetery men to conceal from the rela
tives the absence of the remains from
their resting place The custodian of
the dead will seek to convince the
friends of the long departed one that it
is better that they should not look upon
the corpse that It is decayed beyond
recognition and that the sight of It
would be unpleasant to them
If he succeeds as he usually does in
persuading them to forego the privilege
of another last look he manages to get
enough sand and earth Into the coffin
to give It the proper weight and thus
eludes suspicion In other cases the
head of the coffin is found to have been
smashed in and there are marks of the
ghastly body hook under the efcin but
the remains are Intact showing that
the robbers were interrupted at their
work or found that they had the wrong
corpse
LATEST IN CYCLES
Fifty Tricycle Cabs Can Be Seen on the
Streets of Berlin
A tricycle cab is one of the latest fea
tures of the streets of Berlin It Is
called the Heydt cycle so named after
the inventor and a company has been
organized in the German capital which
now has fifty of these tricycle cabs in
use The cab is built on thevprinciple
of the bicycle with the difference that
it has three wheels instead ofi two The
two large wheels support a comfort
ably cushioned seat on their axle and
tbs small wheel in the rear is used for
quired to leave the car when they had
finished their meals practically of
course they sat still and refused to
budge Habitual passengers between
London and Manchester soon got to
know about this and booked when they
wanted to dine en route third class by
the Midland rather than first class by
the London and North western So
now it is announced that the North
western will run third class as Avell as
first class dining cars both from Liver
pool and Manchester
New Idea for a Rubber Stamp
In using the rubber stamp with a
rigid handle it is more or less difficult
to get a good clean and regular im
pression as the operator is likely to
press one side of the stamp to the pa
per heavily while the other edge will
A JOKfTED HASDLE
barely touch A new idea in stamp
making is to supply a universal joint
in the handle so that when the robber
type is pressed to the surface of the
paper every part stamps evenly be
cause the pressure is uniform
Swinburne tbe Poet
Algernon Charles Swinburne the
poet is one of the most eccentric in
dividuals In England He is a perfect
master of Greek and French but it is
his delight to pretend to be entirely
Illiterate and though he left Oxford
with a great reputation he never took
his degree Mr Swinburne lives near
London but he is rarely seen In society
One of the most pleasing traits in his
character Is his devotion to children
Many Aged Men and Women
The French village Sournia has
among its GOO inhabitants as many cfi
fourteen who have passed their eigh
tieth year There is no physician in or
near the village
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READY FOR THE BATTLE
The Democratic managers intend to
Inaugurate the Congressional cam
paign at an early day says Senator
Jones national commander of the al
lied forces of Democracy While the Re
publicans are quarreling and fighting
nmong themselves over Cuba the
money question and civil service re
form the Democrats are ready to make
a determined effort to capture the next
House The reports received from all
parts of the country are of the most en
couraging character
According to these reports the Dem
ocrats are practically certain to gain
eight seats in Illinois seven in Indi
ana five in Iowa four in Kentucky
live in Maryland seven in Michigan
four in Minnesota twelve in New
York six in Ohio five in Pennsylvania
and two in West Virginia
This makes a total gain of sixty
three and it is not expected that the
Republicans will gain more than four
seats making the next Democratic
gain sixty According to these figures
the next House would stand Republi
cans 171 opposition 18U It is not
doubted that the Populists and the sil
ver Republicans will act with the Dem
ocrats in the next Congress In or
ganizing the House the Democrats
would be allowed to name the three
principal officers and the chairmen of
nil the important committees while one
of the House officers and a number of
the less important chairmanships
would be given to the Populists and Sil
ver Republicans
So far as the State of Kentucky is
concerned says Representative David
Highbaugh Smith of Hodgensville
Larue County the Republicans have
had their day in court down there and
have shown themselves to be unworthy
of public confidence The administra
tion of Governor Bradley is so disas
trous a failure as to amount almost to
a disgrace The men who have been
sent to Washington by the Kentucky
Republicans luring their lease of
power have not made a favorable im
pression on the country The old com
monwealth is back again in the Dem
ocratic column and there it is likely to
stay At the next election for mem
bers of Congress the Democrats will
carry every district except the eleventh
and the delegation in the next House
will consists of ten Democrats and one
Republican Silver will be the battle
cry all along the line The platform
will be the same in every district It
will be such that there will be no need
for fusion The candidacies in vari
ous districts will le distributed among
the Democrats Populists and Silver
Republicans according to the vote
polled in 1S1J0
Gold Standard Blindness
Like all other champions of the gold
standard the Chicago Times Herald as
sumes that if a farmer only succeeds
in paying his debts it is proof posi
tive of his prosperity and further that
he ought to be supremely happy It
overlooks the circumstance that men
may and do pay debts under great dis
advantages A man may have a mort
gage on his farm Grasshoppers may
come and destroy a crop drouth may
come and ruin another his barn may
be overturned in a cyclone his house
be consumed by fire sickness and
death may invade his family circle
Still by almost superhuman effort and
by denying himself and his loved oues
many things which they need he may
at last pay the mortgage But would
this prove that the grasshoppers the
drouth the cyclone the fire and the
sickness and death were blessings and
helped him to do it According to the
Times Heralds philosophy yes The
mortgagee mightsurreptitiously cliange
a 1000 mortgage into one of 2000
The farmer might succeed in paying it
but would that make the act of chang
ing the figures any less a crime or a
disadvantage to the man who is com
pelled to pay 2000 when he only
agreed to pay 1000 No matter what
robbery and extortion are practiced up
on the debtor it is all right so long as
he succeeds in paying That is the in
fallible gold standard proof
One Way to Wipe Ont Deficit
We observe that quite a number of
moral Republican editors are pointing
with pride to the gratifying increase in
the internal revenue receipts If an
impetus can be given to tbe general
drunkenness of the country the grand
old Republican party will be rescued
from the hole In the treasury and the
ship of state will avoid the rocks
Will Not Down
With a yawning chasm between re
ceipts and expenditures with protec
tion in abundance and revenue a nega
tive quantity the Republicans say they
want the tariff let alone for ten years
No doubt but the people who pay these
taxes do not propose to let It alone
Maw make Bill keep quiet every
time I hit him with the hammer he
hollers
As the Republicans Reason
Wonderful is the logic of Republican
ism According to this system the Wil
son bill brought about a deficit of 70
000000 fourteen months before it was
passed and now it has brought about
a deficit of 46000000 five months after
it has been repealed
national and Individail Footpads
When a man with a gun robs a de
fenseless man on the street he is called
a footpad and we send him to the pen
itentiary If we can catch him When
a man with many guns robs a defenJ
less country of Its property and cii
rights we call that diplomacy soi
times statesmanship sometimes ai
sometimes war The moral element
about the same In both eases or a lit
In favor of the footpad who takes
chances while his august exemnJ
takes none Louisville Times
Political Pointers
We now have government by bail
Secretary Gage wants prosperity
the bankers only
If every Democrat puts his shouldeil
to the wheel 1S9S will be a great yeav
for the peope
Is there a Democratic club in y
vicinity If not why not The w
of organization is going on eve
Avhere
Do you belong to a silver club
not why not The battle of you
prosperity can never be won without
your aid
In the Congressional campaigns ei
ery Democratic candidate for CongrJ
must stand on a platform that iudorn
the Chicago platform in every par
ular as well as the financial issue
Do not allow a goldbug into
Democratic club with which you
connected Point to the fact tha
man cannot be a Democrat and an
vocate of the British gold standard1
one and the same time
Are there any gold bugs in your
cinitv Find out who they are andj
about them As such they have
business to meddle in Democratic ij
tics They belong in the Republil
party
If you see an article in this paper
contains any points that would In jj
opinion remove doubt from the ul
of a Republican neighbor please i
him a marked copy The great mil
ity of Republicans are honest and l
need to read the truth honestly toli
It is the duty of every Dm1
to make a personal
bor campaign in behalf of the Den
cratic platform Work among Repnj
licans who are disappointed at the
tion of the administration in slump
to the gold standard Honest Reji
licans will be glad to listen to youj
Says State Senator Burley fRF
of West Virginia The Repub
cans of our State are almol
equally divided on the silver isJ
sue We cannot go before the people
with a gold basis platform and at the
same time hope for success at the
polls Mr Burley is not only a Re
publican but is alsoan advocate of the
gold standard
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THE SOLDIER ABROAD
The Private la Seldom Seen in tne
f
Main Streets of German Cities f
The private soldier is seldom seen
in any of the leading thoroughfares of I
the streets of the large German cltlesr
observed a recently returned military ti
gentleman to a reporter not howeverr
because he would not like to be seeii
there but because it is quite a job for
him should he show up in a crowded
street In Europe it is different from
this country for military officers have
to wear their uniforms constantly In
deed many of them have no other
clothing In this country it is extreme i
ly rare to see an officer in uniform
and never unless he is going or return
ing from some function where the uni
form is necessary and which as Isay
is very very rare There are in all of
the largeeities and towns of Germany
hundreds and hundreds of officers ItJ
is an imperative duty of the soIdierti
formallv salute every time one paM ei
even if the same officer passes him fii
or ten times in an hour The privai
soldier generally takes a side street so
as to avoid meeting officers for salut
ing every five minutes in a da3 and
KMTTipnmes ottener wmen wouiu De
case should he travel in the principt
streets gets to be tiresome after It
observed for three or four hours TI
soldier is nearly always loyal and
takes a pride in saluting his superiot
officers but there is often too much of
a good thing in military life as there is-
in other walks of life Even In the side
streets he has considerable saluting to
do but nothing in comparison with
what he would have to do should he
venture on the largely traveled streets
The officers are very particular In in
sisting on salutes and should a soldier
attempt to pass them without doing
military honors on the excuse that he-
did not see the officer the result woulf
be somewhat serious to him
Drinking Oysters
It mav sound odd to speak of
ing oysters One would assume theirl
ODDortunity to quench their thirst wa
fairly good but oysters must bij
drlnked drank or watered aH
ovstermen say before they are fit for
market The drinking process Is sim
ply a matter of fattening or to be
more truthful inflating
When oysters are raised takem
from the beds to the air they are
dttmped aboard of the sloops and
when a load is obtained the sloop saih
for some fresh water stream At the
mouth of these streams are floats into
which the oysters are dumped at full
tide As the tide ebbs and the fresh
water from the stream gradually fresh
ens the water In the floats the oyster
opens He appears to be drinking but
instead is simply allowing the fresh
water to wash out the salt When this-
is completed the oyster closes The
fresh water causes It to swell some
times till the shell gapes open Tim
the oyster becomes plump and wheij
opened looks fat and fit