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-.-ft - & '3 r ? r IB IS. k r r THE RED CLOUD CHEF. . L. THOMAS, roblhlier. RED CLOUD, - NEBRASKA. HEKE AXD THERE. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, says he Knows a man who will be entitled to $18,000 under the back pension act, and who now receives a pension of $100 a month. A San Franciscan, who was sued for the value of half-a-dozen shirts made to his order, pleaded a misfit, and appear ed on the witness-stand wearing one of the garments. He won the case. The heading of an account in a San Francisco newspaper of a mining acci dent, " One Man and Twelve Chinese Killed," is an indication of the ruling prejudice on the Pacific coast. Over the frozen surface of the Niaga ra River smugglers in sleighs have been carrying petroleum into Canada and bringing back tobacco. Arrests of sus pected parties have just been made in Buffalo. A Richmond (Va.) woman of 85 gave birth to a child recently. Her husband i3 about the same age. They have four or five children, all of whom arc grown, and the youngest possibly 40 or 50 years old. A little girl in Hartford, while suf fering'from a severe attack of mumps, held a kitten in her lap and constantly caressed it. In a few days the face of the kitten began to swell and there were mumps for two. A nu.m I5ER of young citizens of Zurich, Zwitzerland, have started' for Georgia, where it is proposed to establish a Swiss colony under the auspices of the Work men's Society. Others will follow. One hundred and twenty-five families from Sharon, Pa., will locate in the spring upon Government land near Glyndon, Iowa. The heads of the fami lies were former employees of the large iron-mills near Pittsburg. One of the applicants for a divorce, at Galesburg, 111., the other day, was a lady who said she had lived with her husband 18 years, and all the clothes he had bought her was a bunch of hair pins and a tooth-brush. The Supreme Court of Tennessee has just decided that the rents and profits of the estate of a married woman, not settled upon her for her sole benefit and use, are subject to the payment of the debts of her husband. In one of the Brooklyn docks night has been turned into day by an electric light for the purpose of enabling a small army of workmen to. repair one of the largest European steamers. Hitherto work of this character at night, was impossible. The benevolent clergyman who goes about with large estates in his pockets -for buxom widows, has been getting in his 'work at rrand View, two ladies thefe having been induced to advance him money with which to recover the property" left by hitherto unheard-of relatives. . -Funeral reform is desirable in some parts of New York. A paper in that city states that the remains of a child 5 years old wer followed to the grave " by 48 carriages, and a poor Irish woman spent $450 of the $000 which her bus "band left her to give him "adaccnt burial." r A new sect, the believers in the age to come, has been started at Boston, oompesed of enthusiasts, who hope some time. to join in rescuing Palestine from Moslem-rule. Jonathan Cummings, formerly a Methodist minister, one of the leaders; and editor of the Age lo Come Herald, hopes to remove his paper d Jerusalem for publication as soon as he can raise the funds. A Birmingham (England) manufac turer has received from his agent in Turkey Ihe following order: " One of my customers is in want of a dog-skinning machine. You have probably seen or known such a thing. Through the machine holding the dogs, when still alive, in a few minutes the skin is off them, andthe dogs also killed thu3, without giving them much torture. Please send drawings and lowest prices, etc Charles F. Barry, who committed suicide in New Orleans, left the follow ing: note to the Coroner's Jury: "Gen tlemen, you can bring in your verdict without trouble or delay. I have taken my own Jife by talcing morphine and laudanum. I tried hardjto make a liv ing, but utterly faded. No person had compassion on my old age or would give me employment. I was reduced to ut ter destitution. There is not a cent to bury me." "Mrs. Mix has the reputation of a miracle worker in Litchfield County, 'Conn., and wonderful stories of her powers are told. She is said to cure by the laying on of hands. The strange thing is that she will take" no pay, be lieving that she has been divinely ap pointed to heal the sick, and that she could effect nothing if she had a mer cenary motive. The physicians say that her influence is remarkable, but ascribe it to the creduMty of her patients. Her success is usually confined to supersti tions persons. A well authenticated report comes of a recent case where a doctor from New York City, called to a supposed dying patient in Hartford, Conn., got so impatient waiting for the decease that lie finally filled out and signed the cer tificate of death, leaving the date to be inserted thereafter, and hastened back to the delights of New York. In view of this cfc the family abandoned hope " and ordered their mourning goods, but when the aeariy aeaa paiwjm, neanroi kthlS Je WM SO iraws mauiuiHsum tolmproTe, and he isnowcon- Bred.oat of danger, for the time be- r'mt least Tomra?lfr. Preoca a4e his appear- kt ancc in Stanstead, Canada, half a year ago, and took board in the village tav ern. He seemed to have no buiiness, and devoted considerable of his Use to courting Miss La Pete, much to the dis pleasure of her parents, who finallyior bade him to see her. One tlay Frencn informed Mr. La Fete that he had made up his mhid to go away, and asked for the use of a horse and wagon with which to get to the railroad station, 10 miles distant. La Pete was delighted bv the proposed departure, and readily lent the horse and wagon, which were to be sent back by a boy. Mr. and Mrs. La Pete waved French a joyfnl adieu as he drove off, and were glad that Miss La Pete was not there to show regret. They afterward learned that she was curled up under the wagon seat, thus eloping from under their very noses. In Japan, during the New Year's holi days, the shop-keepers are troubled with pilferers. Some of the lower classes of Japanese actually believe that the theft of some article exhibited at the stalls or stands, without detection, will insure good fortune for the following year, and that the larger the article stolen the greater will be the luck to come. The thieves go in parties. One or two di vert the attention of the shopman by asking the price of this or that ware, while the others carry off the bulkiest thing which they can manage without exposure. One young man last Christ mas actually succeeded in carrying oft a mortar hollowed out of the trunk of a tree, and used in pounding rice. It was some three feet high and four feet in di ameter, and of course of enormous weight. An unsuccessful attempt makes the thief the laughing-stock for the crowd. An astounding case of imposition has taken place at Altrincham, in England. A poorly clad woman went to the house of a Miss Fairbank, representing that she was in an abject state of poverty and destitution, and that her husband was lying dead in the house. Miss Fair bank informed the applicant that she was not in the habit of giving assistance without visiting the houses of those seek ing it. The woman asked her to be good enough to do this, and she subse quently did so. She found every ap pearance of squalor and destitution, and to verify the truth of the woman's state ment, she went up stairs to see the corpse, which was scarcely covered with rags. On going down stairs she gave the woman some money and went away, leaving her umbrella in the house.. She shortly afterward returned for the um brella, when she was horrified and dis gusted to find the "corpse" and his wife dancing about the kitchen, ap parently delighted with the success of their ruse. Snow-Kiiiscd Bread. A correspondent of the English Me cktmic writes that snow, when incor porated with dough, performs the same ollice as baking-powder or yeast. I have this morning for breakfast partaken of a snow-raised bread-cake, made last evening and which was made as follows : The cake when baked weighed about three-quarters of a pound. A large piled tablespoonful of fine, dry, clean snow was intimately stirred with a spoon into the dry Hour, and to this was added a teaspoonful of caraways and a little but ter and salt. Then sufficient cold water was added to make the dough of the proper usual consistence (simply stirred in with the spoon, not kneaded by the warm hands), and then immediately put into a quick oven and baked three quarters of an hour. It turned out very light and palatable. I have understood, but not yet tried it, that boiled suet pud dings, dumplings, sailors' duff' and the like can be made light by the same means. Now, as to the rationale of this process. It may appear a paradox to many that frozen water in any form should produce an expansive effect, as it is already by freezing expanded to its utmost capability. But that snow actu ally has this property is well known to every farmer who experiences its dis integrating effects on the hardened clods of his field. The true reason appears to be this-rlhe light mass of interlaced snow crystals hold imprisoned a large quantity of condensed atmospheric air, which, when the snow is warmed by thawing among the clods and very rap idly in the dough, expands enormously and acts the part of the carbonic acid gas in either baking-powder or yeast. I take the precise action to be then, not due in any way to the snow itself, but simply to the expansion of the fixed air lodjred between the interstices of the snow-crystals by application of heat This theory, if carefully followed out, might perchance give a clew to find a simple and perfectly innocuous method ot raising bread and pastry." n Interesting Statistics. The records of marriage offer some curious columns. Statistics are contin ually forcing upon our notice a fixed percentage of repentant old bachelors; also of young bachelors who marry wid ows ; also of young women who marry old men, and widows who renew their vows ; while the ratio of second, third and fourth marriages is very constant. Indeed, it is most profanely come to pass that, just as the stars are nothing but points of vast triangles and dia grams to a cold-blooded astronomer, so every unmarried woman stands as an algebraic symbol to the eye of the social mathematician; if she is 20 years old, representing three-quarters of a likeli hood that she will change her name ; if 25, standing for one-quarter of the same possibility; if 30, reduced to a fraction of one divided by 10; and then decreas ing in a geometrical ratio which it would hardly be polite to put into figures here. On the contrary, a man of 25 repre sents the fraction one-half as to the probabilities of mrariage, which is so vulgar a fraction that most young men of that period strive ardently to anni hilate it by finding the other and better half which restores their integrity, sub- Utance and show. Exchange. CAKE OF THE HEALTH. Weak Constitutions How Tiiet May be Cared For. The fact that the late Richard Henry Dana was regarded as an invalid until he had reached SO, and yet outlived all his contemporaries, is not so uncommon as it appears. The opinion that it is usually the healthful, robust men who attain longevity, while it is prevalent, is not correct. Many of our citizens now over seventy, and like ly to last much longer,are not and never have been vigorous of body. They have been, on the contrary, delicate from childhood, and keep themselves in active life by prudence and the excellent care they take of themselves. Peter Cooper is a conspicuous example. Ho was puny at his birth, and has continued more or less feeble ever since. Nererthelc-s, he has engaged in various enterprises; has created from nothing a large for tune; has been a most generous bene factor to his native city; and will have completed on the 12th instant his 88th year. The persons who go to their graves at 40 and 50, have frequent ly had any amount of physical stamina, and have depended on it so entirety as to neglect all hygienic laws, and disre gard any thing like discretion. There is a certain arrogance of health which ruins health by excess of confidence. Men of this sort arc persuaded they can do and endure any thing and every thing, and acting on their persuasion they break down suddenly and unex pectedly and slip out of existence. The semi-invalid or valetudinarian, on the other hand, seldom incurs any risk. He guards himself at every point ; he sees where danger is and sedulously avoids it. Hiso condition has rendered him heedful, and heedfulness has grown into unchanged and unchangeable habit. Ease of circumstances also contributes greatly to longevity where a man either has simple tastes or is judicious in his mode of living. Adversely to the adopt ed notion, poverty is rarely good for any body ; for it entails not only absence of comfort, but constant friction and endless worry. Other things being equal, the rich long survive the indigent. New York Times. On Catching Cold. The increase of catarrh remedies is alarming, if the demand is indicated by the abundance of the supply. The cold once caught or more properly having caught us we willingly submit to every kind of reme dy, but if any one hints at precautions against colds in a climate which within a month has more than once varied ."0 degrees in a dozen hours, he is accused of "coddling'' is requested not to " fuss" and soon finds there is nothing against which the population of all classes is more averse to take precau tions. Some one has said there arc only two classes in the community who un derstand any thing about catching celd doctors and people who suffer from face-ache and rheumatism. Very few of us have the slightest conception that when the thermometer stands at 2S de greesa much higher temperature than the average of the past January the warmth of every breath of air which finds its way into our bodies has to be raised 70 degrees. The effort of the vi tal forces to perform this work is of it self exhausting. The changes hourly taking place between one room and an other, the rise and fall of the heat in our stoves and furnaces, dependent on the judgment of our Bridgets or Johns, may involve does involve sudden falls in the temperature to which only a strong and perfect vital apparatus can adjust itself without dilliculty. Chilliness kills from Maine to Texas, in a twelve month, as many victims as last year's visitation of yellow fever, and chilliness is what we seldom understand. We sit patiently in bad draughts draughts under doors at our backs in church and we ex pose ourselves to unnecessary draughts for ventilation which, however, should never blow upon ourselves. It may be doubted whether our own total aban donment of the nightcaps and bed-curtains of our forefathers in winter time is altogether a sanitary improvement. The air of a bed-chamber should be pure air purer than a furnaced house com monly provides, but with precautions for keeping the air pure, we think we might safely trust ourselves with the screens and night-caps of antiquity. An other modern idea is not to sleep in flannel. True, flannel may most ju diciously be changed at night, and thus avoid the dreadful state of things we are continually warned about under the head of "Exhalations;" but does a bear take off his warm coat when he goes to sleep in a hollow tree, or a fox undress himself in his burrow? Another trouble is cold feet, and we may get damp feet from shoes that do not let in water. A child sits hours in school with a chill creeping up him from the soles of his feet arising from wet shoe-leather. It would be proba bly safer to run barefoot through the streets and dry our wet feet on warm carpet when we get home, than to sit hours with this dampness rising through our soles. A mother of a family who has successfully raised healthy children told us that her plan while her boys were young, was to dress them warmly, especially their feet and chests, and let them take free exercise in any weather. But she always exacted that they should come home when damp and chilled. She ordered them to run home through any rain rather than to take refuge any where after they had been rained upon, and upon reaching home, if cold or damp, she always superintended their putting on warm stockings and dry shoes. We can offer no better suggestion. "Fresh air with due care" is the precaution against consumption. The late Charles Sum ner was a member of a consumptive family; all of his brothers and sisters, but one, were attacked by it as they reached manhood and womanhood. The disease began to develop itself in Mr. Sumner very early in his public ca reer He was advised by his pbysteian in Boston to dress warmly, protccthjs feet and body, and live in the open auw sawing wood, and engaging as far a? possible in manual labor; leading, in .l,nl4 .Via lifn m UKnrtnff mn vrntllt! SUUI kliU AUU ti i lUVItug .... ..w . lead out doors, and supplementing this regimen by sanitary precautions in tern - pcrature, diet and personal habits when no longer in the open air. In conclu- sion, we will add for the benefit of that class of the community, who, as we have said, delight in remedies and do- spise precautions, the recipe for a cold eiven bv General George Washington to an old lady in Newport when a very young girl in 1781. He was lodged in her father's house the old Vernon man- sion and as she was sent early to bed I be r seven. Seven drinks are poured with a bad cold, he remarked to Mrs. i down seven throats, willing or unwill f ernon : " My own remedy, my dear ing. What is the immediate result of madam, is always to eat, just before I , this hospitality? Six other individuals step into bed, a hot roasted onion if I have a cold." Da'timorc American. Sharp Tricks by Fashionable Women. Startling stories are told in select social circles up-town of recent cases of mistaken identity in clothing that, many ladies think, appear like downright stealing on the part of certain women who move in good society. It is said that a lady can not leave a valuable outer garment in the dressing room, when she attends an evening party or a "tea" at the house of a friend, with any certainty of finding it on her return from the drawing-room. In its place she very often finds a gar ment of the same general texture and pattern, but shabby and unpleasantly venerable with wear and age. This general resemblanco, however, in the vent of the person who made the substi tution being discovered, is made the ex cuse for the substitution, and the lady gets her own again with many apolo gies. So frequent are these cases that it has become positively unsafe to leave valuable shawls or sacques even under the surveillance of merely the maid sta tioned to aid ladies in their toilet. An instance is known of a lady, whose name nearly every reader would recog nize were it printed, who left a 8,000 camel's hair shawl in the dressing-room of a handsome house on a fashionable thoroughfare, where a tea was being given by a hostess also well known in the social world. On retiring tho lady found in place of her now expensive shawl one faded and worn,with the fringe torn in places. On discovering the sub stitution the guest sought the hostess, and, with much emphasis, declared that as the shawl had been lost in the hitter's house, she would hold her responsible. Nerved to desperation by this ultima tum, the hostess called upon that one of her guests who she believed from the description furnished by the maid in at tendance in the dressing-room had ex changed her old shawl for Mrs. X.'s new. She explained her errand, and, while affecting to assume that the ex change had been a voluntary one, spoke with an assurance that argued entire knowledgo as to the identity of the per petrator. The accused woman at once admitted the possibility of a mistake having beer, made, one of her daugh ers coming to the rescue with the as sertion that, on leaving the tea, she had wondered what made her mother's shawl look so much newer and fresher than usual! Mrs. X. is again the pos sessor of her $3,000 shawl. Another story is that a young lady, who is the very opposite of Mrs. X. as regards decision of character, found that, during her absence from the dressing-room, an old and dingy sacque had been substituted for her handsome fur lined cloak Being unlike Mrs. X., she submitted to the situ; tion in silence, and meekly and mildly went home in the old sacque. The person who took her fur-lined cloak has not yet discovered her mistake. New York Sun. The Mule's Opportunity. There can't be many down-town folks who have not noticed that little, dried- up, wicked-faced mule which draws a ten-cent express wagon around the streets. Attention is generally divided between the mule and the driver, who begins pounding him at daylight and never stops while there is a prospect of hitting a spot never discovered before. The mule cares just about as much for the blow of a club or tne proa ot a twelve-ounce tack as a lion would for the buzz of a tlr, and if he was ever beaten into a faster gait than two miles an hour no living man can remember it. Yesterday morning, in turning into Congress Street from Griswold, the driver missed his blow and fell forward upon the beast and then slid down be hind him, with his feet and body some how held fast by the shafts and wagon box. The man realized his peril like a flash, his head being close to the mule's heels, but he did not utter a shout. As pedestrians gathered around he was say ing to the mule : "Now'syour chance, old Sisyjhus! For two long years I've pounded you up and down and back and forth till yon couldn't rest. Now you've got me in a box, go ahead with your kicking, old misery I wouldn't beg if I'm killed for it! I'm glad I pounded yon! I've noth ing to take back! Kick away and be durned to you, because if you don't there won't be any letting up on my part!" The mule ought to have kicked, but he didn't. He stood there as mild as a stick of candy until the man was extri cated from his dangerous position, and then as the blows fell upon him in a perfect tornado he surged forward at the old familiar pace, eyes half closed and ears flapping like the jibs of a becalmed schooner in midocean. Detroit Free Press. Tits heathen Begum of Bophal is a model for some Christian monarchs. She has built the best hospital in India, outside of Calcutta, has made excellent , roads throughout her kingdom, and is about to build a railroad. 1 ABOLISH TREATING. Tfe Nw Tnpritir rhm .SprtaglMC "t ropalariljr Am Kelrctlc l'Ua ef I lr form all on. Knro tbo New York llcrxltl. " Treatinc" constitutes one- of the chief perils attaching to the custom of ! imbibing spirituous liquors, and there j are few persons who could not, if free from its shackles, restrict the indul- gence of their thirst to a decent niodcr- ation. A man meeting a group of his J friend just as he is bent on obtaining , his afternoon allowance of 'sherry and bitters" must, if ho docs not violate usage and if he wishes to do what is ex pected of him, ask them all to join him. Suppose the whole party to nura feel them:-elves mortgaged with an ob ligation to equal it. There may bo a little chat, and then some one says: 4Ah, let's have another drink!" Then seven more drinks arc poured down seven throats. More talk. Another happy thought by another member of uiu iianj. OLven uiort unnu uunuu the seven throats,. More talk. A fourth inspiration bj- a fourth " i i . Some one who ha done his fated duty laicu uuy tries to beg off; has business to trans act; ought not to dnnk any more. His objection is vetoed by the asking party, who is already slightly stimulated per haps. " No shirking, olo feller, come on!" Repetition of the gulping act by seven performers. Every one feels the mellowing influence by this time. Charley," says No. Six affectionately to the genius of the bar, " (Jiv's 'nother! All hands round!" Kncore tho feat of seven men swallowing seven drinks. No. Seven's turn has arrived. The hap py relief is near. Ho happens to be the least experienced of the party. He is already full of bliss. His words arc few but expressive. "Set 'em up again, hie!" Up they go, and then down they go seven more drinks. Let us see. Seven times seven are forty-nino. And all because one man felt like taking a little "sherry and bitters." Terhaps ho goes home to his dinner afterward. Terhaps he don't. Terhap he fails to see his wife and mother-in-law until the next day. Such is life in a country where ' treating" U tho custom. There are a hundred phases of the evil. Not the least ludicrous is tho plight in which a tippler finds himself when he meets at the bar a number of acquaint ances, and is doubly conscious that ho has not enough money to go around and can not get credit for the rcquiite number of drinks. Remarks something like the above were addressed to a Herald reporter by a gentleman who is an enthusiast in tho new temperance movement. Tho re porter afterward paid a visit to Mr. Henry II. Hadley, a lawyer, whose ollice is in the Astor House, one of tho chief promoters of the Business Men's Society for the promotion and Encouragement of Moderation. 14 Our idea," said Mr. Hadley, "had its origin in 1870 at a meeting of the Congressional Temperance Society shortly after the death of Ilcnrv Wilson. That event, it was said, was immediately caused by the excess which he indulged in at the dinner given him at Delmoni co's. It was suggested by me that much more good might be done for the tern peranco cause by laboring to induce men to be moderate in their indulgence than by preaching the doctrine of total abstinence. We think it better you know to go along with a man a little way on the path which he has chosen than to stop him at the steep declivity where there is danger on cither side of his falling to greater depths." "But your ultimate aim is to induce men to be total abstainers?" " Yes, where they can not drink with out getting drunk. We have nothing to say against wine to such as can control themselves in partaking of it. We think that a man is much more likely to keep the pledge for a fixed term than he would be for all his life. No man can look forward with confidence in his ability to fulfill a promise which covers all of his fnture life." " Is your society yet organized ?" " There is a nucleus of five trustees, whose number may be increased to 13. Those that are yet to be added will be selected from the highest social, busi ness, and public positions. We are al ready assured that one or two Senators and four Representatives will serve, but I am not at liberty to mention their names. Our system of reform tends toward total abstinence, but by a grad ual progress, and at the same time it recognizes rights of the maaufacturers and sellers of intoxicating beverages. We believe we shall gain an immense following among young men. I was asked by the members of the Congres sional Temperance Society to perfect a plan for this movement, and they prom ised to co-operate with us, both by their advice and their influence." The blue pledge of the society, which renounces only the practice of treat ing," is embellished with an emblem representing a pelican brooding her young, and having the inscription : " I live and die for those I love." An Italian claims to have made a val uable discovery. lie say3 he has learn ed how to tune up nerves, like the chords of a violin, and bring them into harmony. The nerves lose their tone, he thinks, like any musical instrument, and if they all run down alike, it is of little importance, as they will still act together. But when the general har mony is destroyed, by accident or un even strain, the whole system is di turbed, and health suffers. This difficul ty he claims power to rectify, and calls himself a nerve tuner." Ax impossible feat for a female pe destrian is to walk a thousand miles in a thousand hours past one thousand millinery stores displaying the latest styles of spring bonnets. Philadelphia Chronicle. AX AMIvICICAX llfclU. Tfc tat of a K!lhm WJi C to Thli Cotialrjr, Ctwi! IIU m aatl KIltt a Xnrfr. A Philadelphia correspondent write : The Manchester (Knglaod) thutntmn, of the Cth irut , report an lnt:rntin ... . .. . . , . ease wmen nn juu tcrn ncam wiorc Vice-Cbanccllor Bacon, in which a man from the Cniicd Sutn has .uccccdod ta establishing his claim m heir to an Bn- glish esutc The newspaper. . Tho claimant, Mr. W. H. Cr. n builder, of Mcmphi.Tenn.. -Ku-ht to establish hb rigtt ai heir to a property known a Lennox Lodgr, Southampton He stated that ho was born in tho year ISSO.at Cheltenham, where hU fithcr carried on the buincsof a stl raorcor. At the age of 1 1 ho wont to ca as mid. shipman, serving on bo.ini the John Cootc, which was dispatched with sol- diers to Bombay. From Bombay he sailed to Cnina and thuncc home, and on arriving at Cheltenham ho found that lurinir his absence hit father hid j ,., .. ... .,.... ,n. ChelUrnhan Chrontclt am, htuX ,ub. w.acnliy quiHoil hh nallvo lownf irob. . , . ,.,..-., f financial tttnbar. Ncmnnt nnil innn In Anmrirni ' leaving no trace of hi where- i . . ,,. . . abouts. To Atncnca thu plain tiff immediately followed, and after a long inquiry succeeded in finding bin father through the medium of ad vertisements. His mother an, family he had left in thu care of an aunt, the proprietress of a small hotel where they ntt xa i,0gan to paw tho ivury jcvip all raided. His father was acting at ! r What power'" ul a Utwr lu tho timo as special correspondent of the j lno owner of tho piano "Yw.'' Morning Chronicle, to which he sent I cl3mcd the latter in alarm, ' mwbm letters from Pennsylvania under the lo jmVe considerable tuaei, bat W nom dc plume of " Crump." Tho rea- ounl to Know that thU isn't a fcymoa. son for tho change of name, on which ' ium." AmU-' ftamtr. the main is.-mo of identity rested, wm ' rather obcuro, and probably connected with monetary diilicuHiei. Tho plain- i tiff and his father became joint editors of tho Philadelphia Kwjuircr, ami a such traveled over tho greater part of the United States. Ho utayod at Phila delphia with his father till ab nit IMS, and in tho meantime hi-i family alo came over anil stayed theie. After hi father's death he traveled for a consid erable time, and at lat settled down at a builder in New Orleans. He had alio seen military cxnerienrn. havimr ,,. j t - r i nospn .iiinvimin in rni I rinmiiin mni. .. i ...... .. . i.i . . ., sion and taken an active part m tho m it? t , civil war. Hh business wu removed nrcv'miM to tlm lout im-minn.,-!. ml !,., was now at Memphis carrying on a builder's business. Documentary and ; vi&t voce evidence was given in support J of the eve. IIU Lordship dt-yided in favor of the plaintiff, holding that his identity was established "so many yeans ago." This case recalls memories of a once well known journalist, who is yet re membered by the veterans of the pros ' in Philadelphia. In 1STJ an eccentric , Kuiiliahman made hb nnncaraiicn In Philadelphia, having just arrived from the old country. He was a man of in-' r Proetor had !r his l-.xt a very warm telligence and considerable literary abil- verc, uddnwM-d to thou "on il Ml ,ty, and afterward was well known ai ! hand," and, like the nt of u,hn ."m first assistant editor of the I'cntwjlranin j cd to feel tho ntitAK-mlsiii bitwae ih Ewttircr, of which old Jasper Harding i weather and his Mibject. Jut in-for was proprietor and Kobert Morris prin- tbo benediction he leaned forward ami cipal editor. It is said that Mr. Harding d f " of " deacons hi front of made tho Englishman's acquaintance ! thu pulpit, In tones loud enough to b throngh having helped to fi-h him out beard by all, and in thermal twang ihfit of tho Delaware when he fell overboard ' iHi appreomld by tho ko from the vessel in which he had crossed lvo lUteucd t tho votieraMo l.h the ocean while she was lying alongside , dones, "Brother Oilgg-. do .en tu a wharf. This peculiar introduction to ' i"' "" ' boltr W1 lUh M'"r thc publisher secured him an introduc- ''; '" kind of u for mi to tion to his newsnaner soon afterward. , warn sinners of the dangers nt hell wWn The Englishman called hitn,elf Wil - liani II. Crump, but the accidental meeting with an old acquaintance re - vcalcd the fact that his name in Eng- ( land had been Cox. There appears to have been no reason for the endeavor to hue his identity save a foolish senMiivf- ncss about certain business matters at home. He was of a very nervous, sen - sitive disposition, and tho old printers tcll some curious anecdotes illustrating night." his peculiarity. Mr Crump remained I Hut, Ely," answered Mm. Htmnvr, on the KmHirer for 20 years, and is well, ! haven't any buttons to match that remembered in that office to this day. j vast and " But hi3 son, the present claimant, wis i i Thunder!" brokein Hluntmor, "ih never employed there, so Mr Harding , jjea 0f A woman keeping hoc a lwg says. Mr. Crump was a useful editor, a, vou have, an prntendin' to bo out of and was the author of several books of buttons. Hy George! I b'llcvc yoU reference; among others, "The World mt m0 for rnor.y to buy 'cm with in a Pockctbook." He wai afterward ! next." employed on the North American, and That evening Ulurcrccr hurried died in Camden in 18G2. At one time through his supper and began arralK he acted as British Consul at this port, himteif for the card party. Prccr.Uy Mr. Crump sent for his wife and chil- jl0 oallcti for the broadcloth vrat and dren as soon as he had made a home in ' ji,. Blummer, with marvclcm prosipt the New World. He had five sons and a itudc, handed it lo him. He took if, daughter, the oldest child being Wil iJMtHj unfolded it, and then, as bi eye Ham II. Cox who ha3 just obtained pos- tQofc n hU coaipltc appearance, bs session of the English citato. All the svod as one transfixed. It ww a tit rest of the family arc called Crump; buUon vest, ami there were six buttonii three of the sons one of them a printer on j and the dazed optic of Dluinm-v Ktc here and are well known and high-, obecrrcd that the Tint, or lop one, wsm ly respected in Philadelphia. One of ( a tjny pearl shirt button, awl that the the sons is proprietor of the Colonnade ncxt one was a bra army oTercsfcot Wet Hotel, another has been British Vice q with U. S. gleamlog upon it, ad Consul here for some years. ' thit number ihrec wa an osxjdlxi 3- The estate in England to which Mr. Tcr aflair, and that number for wjm a Cox has proved his claim is said to be a born button, evident! frosi the W f country place worth abont 10,000. It 0ne of tho Puritan fitheiV coaW, al goes bv riirht to the e!dct son, and the then came a sospcodsr button,!! tba. family here do not dispute the legality of 3Ir. Cox's heirship. James Williams, of Castleton, Vt leaves an estate valued at ")fO0O, in which bis wife has a life interest, and which, at her death, is to go to the Bap list Church at Castleton. The charch ha? been so poor that for a number of years no service has been held therc,and it has never had a settb-d pa-tor. .i..f, tAll of A xewspai'ER correspondent leus ox , . . , .. ,, -. nt --re a Boston school-girl of 13 year oi age, .... ." . lV-i iwnv on , wno, with her strap of cbooI-W0KS on . . X- : t,nrura- a her arm, sat reading in a norie-ca book called the "Demon Bride, or Wed- ded to Her Doom." It had this touch- ing motto : " Has thou -,-nuered? If not, this book is not for thee." Ix the United States there are of worn- feet of her forbearance for the boy'- ref eninthe various professions, 530 doc onaatkm; but she ckaaged herraind, tors, 420 dentists, 63 preachers, and 15 j and plied the whip aatil she fainted from or 20 lawyers. OTJt-xertioc- WIT A.VI WItUHOI. Nrvrk trp on a ds taH oaJfc tfw? other end of tha dg U a snii away town the tail. YnUr (fat. Ax argent ned of MinwMa in Jiatf tmnjrth be lran.frTrl from it lo I: ilalrrins cntcnria. fc.ir . .n- Tiik vxx who bed for c bW dW noU W. J1 l In-" ' Auuult It i announced taat U "t" th fruit crop for iW 'a l rumcu. snipper. w, p.- f ",rr " iwumw v. - raieI another Inch or o on the UkUi ot lu-Wi du Uit y'lr Wiikx Colfax marrtol ptvitj NH Wade, year ago. It wu Noblo Vtmm- tis who wont about among k - quaintanccs. sjVUii:. Since CAU l XHlo Wade, why Uexw ho not hare Wr undo weighed alo?" And wh Uwy minW a!l v it up. no mm anwwr . u.,,..- ,. iun us.i "Wt Ai ITUKS wonl lnlna .vorwtoh hnL ' warn .tore the othr day ami bupif.!. llnir mtifh i!a tron k for a bslh-tul i- KIM M Tnnm 'il'r4 ?vml YY- j cntv live centa," wa Uw trply. W'b-ew,M whittled tbo emutwwr. Cue-ti we'll have to keep on wakinj; tho baby In the coa!-euitl$ Ull pclca come, down.".VririA lUtthttn Tim begged hhn to play a UuM IU seemed to be bashful at Hrt. hmi Kf!t 1m a primary jteluKil not !o ajn tW teacher undertook to convey to hwr m plfo an Idea of the umw of tho hj-pWn. She wrote on the blackboard " IUrlV tieaU," and pointing to the hyphen nV. ed tho school, What 1 Owl ff ' After a abort pause a litttd Fmi piped out, "I'laae, ma'am, that fur ih burd to roosht on." A itAti.uoAi conductor wrhn a bj i communication to tho Tn W r m ' bnt the current hallucination tknl h ! eoming k" i " . .. t .1 .. t -A . .11 W ' niinv. ml'kiv. aim niitvim n ui III m i J' j' nerieneo of many jonra con vim him t . . ,. . that tho co nt ran' L the ecvto, ami Uut , . .. , ' vcrK '' ""- "' --' 12 " who travels on a half'faro Uckirt. 1 an largo as a boy or girl of I A or 1ft wd to bo in nnto-rnllrond days. il tMak that nn hut motive and IntrriwUm art- j do might hs wilite-n by noma pbji- ologist on the subject of the ltlMuf tho invention of rallrotwl upon th de velopment of tho Infant Auurriran C7jirti;o Tribune. A iiooi story is told of lUxv. lUtlkf? Proctor, whoonre prachud In UHtlnml, Vermont. One bitter old day, ! the church was but half wnriuml. Broil j l" vrr Mm ,,f ""n u them." Hfrri7o Jif. : """ """ a c-otttfit U She Srwfil on llln Iluttoim, ' I old B!urnmr is tight fisted. Several J days ago bo said to his wife. "Maria. I want you to look over that broadelUi , vcat of mine mid put now buiioM m U, 'cause I'm going to a card party U,- tbe daxjued cjm of old Uisiamar reached the bottom button a pkr chip ( found in Blummer' pocket) with two holes punched through it h: gave a nort that made the chandelier jtcgle. There L, after all, a fia Mate of humor about Blummer, and he laughed till he ' cried. And there wca't be any button money grudged in that household fcere- i after. CtctKlarul Herald. The biggwt boy la the school at Tat- j tell, Md., disobeyed the mbtreu, who .... .. attempted to punish htm. He ksockvd r r her down and went home. His father ret wiU h lo Uje school put a ? -totie teacher' bands, and told oer - ow-9 aa . aac waawsu to. oe uougo k oxs. -uuu. sac wosia tie- cline the privilege, and trust lo the cf- .." H r g. -' , 3S?.-: br-ff ; 4 . &!&'? iSSSit 5lt' kS ' te. t--v . .. " -''"-IHHHHIP -.y . , MMaMaMM---MiM'''''''MBIBM IIHihMa