The Burrton Weekly Graphic from Burrton, Kansas • 2

THE SUPEEME COUET. THE GR APHIC. OSBORN KE2sT, Propfs. TEACHING A CHINAMAN. tlttla Girl Artlessly Relates Her Xlxf rleuce With a lieatbeo.

THE Tv EEff BUSINESS. Prospects Improve, with the Eeport3 Good Crops. It WINGED MISSILES. Chancellor Bojrss, of the Georgia Stats University, is said to be the youngest man in the United States occupying- such a position. Zinc-covered kitchen tables sro fndicg favor now with housewives ana servants.

They are easy to keep clean and are exceedingly durable. A blanket fish is one of the curiosities in the gulf between Key West and Tampa. It loolis like an untanned cowhide coating in the water. Since tha recent experiments with smokeless powder Germaay the question of suppression of the spiked helmet has been much agitated. The Supreme cf the United States three years behind in Its business, which piling up at a rate that i3 likely to set court still further in arrears, Nearly the whole of Sennacherib's great palace ia Assyria has been cleaned result is that L7l0 tables eta.

havt EXCUESI0N3. An Effort Put Perth to Draw Wiclutans to Geuda Springs. GETOA SpeHsGS, June 7. Special Correspondence. The news of the purchase of the Frisco road by the Santa Fe had no sooner reached us than steps were taken to secure a better train service.

Prof. Beal has spent most of his time for the past week away from here in quest of the railway officials, and tie result is that soon as the powers that be will make a round trip rate a train will leave Wichita every Saturday afternoon and the passengers will be in Geuda Springs in two and one half hours ithout change of cars. Returning Monday morning the train will leave here at 9 o'clock a. and alter a slight delay at Winfield land the travelers Wichita at 12:30 p. m.

This will make very marked difference in our railway connections, as heretofore it has taken a whole day to go or come to or from Wichita. Mr. S. L. Gilbert left for Kansas City Friday evening to secure if possible a low-round trip rate and in the near future we exDect to see more of our Wichita friends.

E. A. and Arthur Dorsey have been with us for the past week and will be joined by their wives tomorrow. F. M.

Hansell, our Santa Fe friend, has entirely recovered and returned to Xewtcn Thursday. A grand ball will be sriven in honor of our tirst through train, an announcement of which will be made in your local col umns. BASE BALL. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT PHILADELPHIA.

011002004 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 01 Base Hits Brooklyn 4, Philadelphia 13 Errors Brooklyn 1, Philadelphia -Pitchers McFetridge aL outz. AT CHICAGO. Chicago 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 01 Cleveland 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 l- a Base hits Chicago 5, Cleveland TL Errors Chicago 5, Clevelrnd 0. Pitcheis Buryea and Baker. AT crxcixxATi.

........0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 Pittsburg. 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 Base hits Cincinnati 9. Pittsburg 7. Errors Cincinnati 2, Pittsburg 3. Pitchers Duryea and Baker.

AT XEW YORK. New York. .0,0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 0 .....0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 Base hits Boston 3, New York 11. Errors Boston 5, Xew York 4. Pitchees Rusie and Getzein.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. AT EOCHESTEE. 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 1- 9 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 36 Base hits Rochester 12, Athletics 8. Errors Rochester 7. Athletics 4.

Pitchers Barr and McMahon. AT BROOKLYN. Brooklyn 0 80020003 013 0 24020O23 114 Base hits Brooklyn 17, Syracuse 13. Errors Brooklyn 8, Syracuse y. Pitchers Mattimore and Keefe.

WESTERN ASSOCIATION. AT KANSAS CITY. Kansas 0 0 0 2 15 0 3 011 St. Paul. .2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 Base hits Kansas City 17, St.

Paul 11. Errors Kansas City 8, St. Paul 4. Pitchers Smith and Mains. WlXFlELD, June 7.

Harvesting has commenced in this section, although but little of wheat is ripe. The damage to tne crop by the frost was greatly overestimated. In many fields it is not perceptible. Arrangements for the assembly are mov ing along. The camp is now platted and locations are being selected so rapidly that the managers made a second order for tents yesterday.

Another attraction has been added to the already attractive program in "setting apart an especial time for the A. O. U. W. July 3, is to be known as A.

O. U. W. day. trand Master Emery and Ixand Recorder Ford will be present and address the meeting, and many other gentlemen prominent in the order will favor the meeting with heir presence.

Invitations will be sent to all the lodges in Kansas and a large representation will be present. The order now numbers nearly fifteen thousand in Kansas, and such a meeting as this will undoubtedly add to its strength. DEMOCRATIC CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT AUGUSTA June 6. Yesterday the Boston Globe correspondent circulated among the delegates to the Democratic state convention slips asking certain questions, includingthe following: Whom do you favor at the present time for president in 1892; your second choice; your choice for vice president? Two hundred and twenty-one delegates returned answers, showing the following result: For President Cleveland, 186; Hill, 28; Carlisle, Whitney, 20. Second choice Cleveland, 84; Hill, 60; Campbell, Carlisle.

16; Whitney, 12; Voorhees, Gray, Wm. L. Putman, of Maine, Palmer, of Illinois, 2. For Vice President Gov. Campbell, of Ohio.

73; Carlisle, 38; Putnam, 37: G. M. Black, 12; Gray, of Indiana, 16; Whitney, Tl.filloi 11 PqItviap 11' Ainotn. TfA.pr T- ex-Gov. Plaisted, Senator Turpie, W.

E. Russell, Senator Reagan, Breckinridge, Thurman, Bayard, Voorhees, It F. Ci AIIptv nf Maine. EVANGEUCAL LUTHERAN SyNOD. Dcbuoue.

June 7. The Evangelical Lutheran synod of Iowa and other states is holding its biennial meeting here, There was 150 delegates, representing 70,000 communions and 300 clergymen. Washington, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Jdin-- nes -ta, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana are represented. The Rev. Grossman, ot vvaveny, is president or tne1 synod A committee was appointed with ror.

lmxz, ot nope, at its nead to iorm; an anti-Bennett law and similar enact ments. It is understood the synod will put itself on record as strongly opposed toi any attempt to force the church to educate, its children outside of the parochial; schools. The treasurer's report shows that' the total income during the last year to be 43.530 IN JURED BY A TOUGH CHARACTER. Burlisgtojt, June 7. Last evening a tough character got into a quarrel with the driver of a beer wagon.

Vhen an of ficer attempted to arrest him he retreated to a barber shop, where he fought desper ately, lelling tne omcer with a cnair. A second officers was called but was kicked in the abdomen and so badly injured that he is confined to his bed. Bystanders attempted to assist the officers but were beaten off and the desperado escaped. The injured men are in a critical condition. MINNESOTA'S POLITICIANS WORRIED.

St Tttt finT. TUa committee of the Farmers' Alliance held a secret meeting here yesterday to consider tne advisability of placing a ticket in the field at the coming election. Nothing having been heard from enough of the Alliances to which the matter had been referred, no action was taken. State politicians are awaiting the action of the Alliance on the matter of a ticket with considerable apprehension, as there are now over 3.000 members of the organization iu Minnesota. EEKLY of 8.

1 ci New York, June 6. R. G. Dun Cos Weekly Review of Trade says: All indications regarding legitimate bus ness continues encouraging. The reports' from other cities are almost without exception favorable.

Boston notes not much change. Wool is quiet but firm, cotton goods hold the late advance, and lumber is firm with good business. Philadelphia has reported three mill failures in the neighborhood, and 60 per cent the spindles are idle. The situation in wool is one of waiting. Iron improves, coal stiffens.

Pittsburg notes improvement in iron and no expectation of trouble about the new scales of wages. Cleveland finds trade good and iron improving, and at Detroit trade brightens with crop prospects. 3 In general throughout the west the rains have made the outlook very much brighte and business everywhere improves accordingly. Chicago notes increase in the movement of all grains and meats, better trade in dry goods and fairly good in boots and shoes, with pod payments in all. St.

Louis finds the situation generallv favorable with bank clearintrs exceeding all past records. At Milwaukee, St. Paul, Kansas City and Omaha the improvement in crop prospects stimulates trade. At Salt Lake trade is active for the season with real estate firm, and at Memphis decided gain in cotton prospects give new activity. The great industries show clearly the general tendency toward improvement.

In iron weakness appears nowhere, while advance in many quotations is reported. Consuming works continue 6o fully employed and stocks of pig iron are believed to be so light that the tear of futher decline during the hot months, in which many furnaces close for repairs, has abated. The wool manufacture does not improve so clearly. The cottou manufacture continue fainy active. ine speculative markets are generally strong, though cotton has fallen over cent.

Fori products are a shade lower, oil has declined 2 cents with small transactions, but wheat has risen cents in spite of decided improvement in the prospect end corn has advaned 1 cents and oats cent. Coffee remains unchanged at 20 cents and copper is firmly held at 15 cents while tin has declined to 21 cents with no change in The money market has been variable, the treasury having taken in about more than it has paid out. Exports from New York in May shows an increase of 10J per cent over last years. In short, the monetary prospects in all parts of the country are lavorable to business activity. The business failures occurring through out the country during the last seven days numbered 205, as compared a otal of 218 last week.

For the corresponding weeK or last year the figures were Zia IN FAVOR OF THE CIRCUIT COURT RECEIVER. Washington, June 6. An opinion was rendered here today by Justice Miller, sitting as a circuit judge, in favor of the receiver of the Missouri, Kansas Texas Railroad company.appointed by the United States circuit court and against the receiver appointed by one of the state courts of Texas. Under foreclosure proceedings the United States circuit judges for? the circuits of Kansas and Texas, acting jointly for the reason that the road lay in both their juris-dictions, in 1888 appointed a receiver for the i Missouri, Kansas Texas. A man named Giles was appointed receiver for a part of the road by one of the Texas state courts and it was on his snit to secure possession hat the decision was rendered today.

The case has been under argument in the United States supreme court room for the past two days before Judges Pardee and Caldwell, of the Texas and Kansas circuits respectively, ana netore ustices jttiuer ana Lamar wno are assigned to these circuits. One object sought by this suit wa-s to have declared invalid the sale of the East Line Red River railroad located entirely within the state of, Texas to the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad company, but the judges decided that it was uot necessary for them to pass upon the legality, of this sale in the present proceedings as the sale was effected a number of years before the fore closure proceedincs are -instituted. THE MOHONK NEGRO CONFERENCE. Lake Mohoxk, N. June 6.

The opening of the morning session of tho Lake Mohonk negro conference, President Gates, chairman of the executive committee, presented a series of resolutions embodying the results reached after the various discussions of the conference. -The resolutions urge education as the keynote of the education, normal, industry, uplifting the home and family and developing true mannoou anu womanhood. Tourszee made the oneninar speech of the session on "The Negro's View of the Race Question," taking occasion to present a scries of resolutions much more radical than those of the committee. General Brinderkoff of Ohio, spoke on the question from the standpoint of the white man of the south. Bishop Andrews, of New York, closed the morning session with an encouraging report of the work oi the Methodist church in the south.

The conference will end tonight. This evening's session completed tha meeting. The platform was adopted and then Rev. Dr. Hall, of Brooklyn, made an address.

President Hayes made a brief concluding address and then the confer euce adjourned. TO TIGHT ITHALIh A. Sixth District Alliance Convention Will Put no a Candidate. TTtt.t. City.

June 6. A congres sional convention of the Farmers' Alliance met here today to nominate a canaiaate for congress in this, the Sixth district, in opposition to Webb McNalL the Republi can canaiaate, wno recently ueieaieu uu-gressman Turner for the nomination. The convention is a secret one and no news of the proceedings can be obtained a nomination is made. At 6 o'clock an adjournment was taken until tomorrow. sessions today were stormy, the disturbing feature being the fight against cHwt spssions bv a larcre minoritv of the delegates.

No business was transactea oe yona the choice of Frank McGrath, of Be- loit, for temporary chairman, ana tne appointment of the usual committees. The convention at its evening session took several fruitless ballots, but finally a stampede was made to William Baker, of Lincoln countv. who was nominated. A BAB RAILROAD WRECK. Pes Moixes, 7.

A collision and, wreck occurred yesterday on the Des Moines Union railway between the Wa-. bash and the Chicago, StPaul City passenger trains. The Wabash engine was badly wreked and the rear end of the Chicago, St. Paul Kansas City coach demolished. The passengers were badly shaken up, but none of them injured.

A Wabash brakeman had his hand badly hurt and the tracks were blocked for several hours. The loss will not be far from SilQ.000. ALIEN LAW CONTRACTS. Sfkixgfifxd, 111., June 7. Special Treasury Agent A.

J. Lester has returned from Chicago, where he has been collecting evidence of violations of the alien contract labor law among the Chicago carpenters. The evidence has been forwarded to Secretary Windom, who, it is expected, will order the district attorney to commence suits bv Thursdav next. A I A Number of Decisions Handed Down by That Body. Topeka, June 7.

The following opinions were rendered by the supreme court todav: By Ilorton, C. J. C. T. Rigs, sheriff, vs.

Oliver Bias, error from Kingman county, reversed; In re Cameron, original proceedings in habeas corpus, petition discharged; state of Kansas vs. X. Schaeffer, appeal from Shawnee county, affirmed. By Valentine, J. The state ex rel.

the commissioners of Atchinson county, error from Atchison county, restraining order granted the state of Kansas vs. Joseph J. Spendlove, appeal from Shawnee county, reversed; The Nemaha Fair association vs. S. F.

Myers original proceedings in mandamus, demurr to petition and writs overruled. Bv Johnston, J. The state of Kansas us. Daniel Keedy. et appeal from Norton countv, affirmed; Mary Ann Easter vs.

Anna X. Easter, error from Osage county, affirmed; The State of Kansas vs. James Adams, appeal from Republic county, affirmed; in re. II. B.

Hugh Banks, original proceedings in habeas corpus, petitioner By Simpson. C. State of Kansas vs. James Smith et appeal from Rice county, reversed; John A. Xelson et vs.

the State of Kansas, error from Osage county, affirmed: W. A. Hamilton et aL, vs. Joseph W. Redding, error from Shawnee county, affirmed; the City of Fort Scott vs.

C. Kaufman, error from Bourbon county, affirmed; the Chicago, Kansas Western railway company vs. Lemuel Abbott, error from Sedgwick county, reversed. By Green, The state of Kansas vs. Fred M.

Ash, appeal from Atchison county, reversed: The state of Kansas vs. John Lsth, appeal from Xorton county, affirmed; C. Lyeth vs. J. W.

Griffis, error from Chase county, reversed; Joseph E. Wilson al vs. George S. Emig, error from Ellis county, affirmed; C. F.

Winton et al XK, W. P. Wilson, sheriff, error from Lrbette county, affirmed; John Gibbins vs. v. V.

Adamson, treasurer et al, error from Jackson county, reversed. By Strang, C. The board of county mi tnissioners of Cherokee county vs. W. II.

Chew et error from Cherokee county, affirmed; J. J. Clevelder et al vs. Neils Hansen et al, error from Brown county, affirmed; T. Williams vs.

Louisa May. error from Osage county, affirmed; the Missouri racinc Kauway company vs. JV1. P. Cassity, administrator error from Nemaha county, reversed; the city of To peka et al vs.

lx. (J. uage et al, error from Shawnee county, reversed; the United Telephone company vs. P. H.

Cleveland et aL, error from Sumner county, affirmed; Frederick Koester vs. the board of county commissioners of Atchison county et error from Atchison county, affirmed; the state Kansas vs. E. C. Davis, error from Leavenworth county, reversed.

Per curiam The Kansas City Hay com pany vs. H. Gates, error from Greenwood county, dismissed; George C. Martin vs. J.

L. Miller, error from Leavenworth county, dismissed; James H. Bacon, vs. John W. Davis, error from Kiowa county, dismissed; Ransom Case, al, vs.

B. F. Gibbs, error from Linn county, dismissed; The Farmers and Merchants bank vs. C. L.

Walker, error from Mitchell county, dismissed; James X. Lawrence vs. R. S. Hansberger, et al, error from Sumner county, dismissed; L.

J. Webb vs. the Topeka Water Supply company, original proceedings in mandamus, dismissed; T. F. Thompson vs.

the American state bonk, et al, error from Russell Kmnty, dismissed; in re Solomon W. Miles, original proceedings in habeas cor pus, petitioner admitted to oau in the sum of James Moore Co. vs. (David R. Rice, motion for rehearing overr Iruled; in re William R.

Latta, motion for renearing overruled; Jt rantlin Lma company vs the Weal Gas, Coal and Oil company, motion to modify the judgment overruien. OkLahoma City, June 7. This city is much exercised tonight over the official announcement of the county officers of this county, which were first officially published in the Daily Times, as follows: Captain Hammer, probate judge; J. M. Martin, county clerk; H.

H. Howard, county attorney: C. II. Deford, sheriff; Hon. Lewis Biler, treasurer; Captain Hickey, J.

A. Hartbell and Franklin Springer, commissioners. The list is a good one, and comprises representative men. Democrats can take no comfort these appointments. Both Democrats and Re publicans freely admit that Governor Steele has a clearlv level policy and knows how to develop the most strength of the party and at the same time get a full representation of the peo-nle whose interests are at stake in the annointmeBts.

Xo part of the county is neglected. Evervman named possesses high social and moral standing in the com munity. Oklahoma City continues to be the pride and admiration of this section. Our water power will soon be completed. A flouring mill of 350 barrels per day capacity will be in working order by the time that power Is ready for use.

The electric light plant building is completed. The" machinery of the plant has arrived and is being placed in position. Electric light poles are set tnrougnout ine city, majviug a complete Th nostoffice block is completely in closed and is an ornament to the city, being built of brick and dressed stone with plate glass. The first story is for the postomce. The Basement ana second story will be used at offices, while the third floor is for a Masonic hall.

The Bassett block is two stories and basement with excellent store rooms and many suits of omces. Ine opera House, three stories and basement, has progressed to the second story. It will be 75x140 feet, brick, with white stone trimmings and an elegant structure. J. ne uxanu.

avenue hotel is receiving the finishing touches. It will be the largest notei in tne territory and well appointed in every detail. The Bank of Oklahoma City is erecting the finest structure in the territory ior a Dans building to cost 130,000. prospers, ne larmer rejoices in the prospects of good crops of corn, wheat and cotton, which is being harvested and will yield twenty bushels Tier ncre. i ne unoccaw ranroau is uuiiuiuk luw aiu.

the city from east to west, and officials will be here soon on business of vital import ance, as there is talk that tne roaa may hot run tnrougn nere. ine noueia are an ulL Strangers from all over the country arrive dailv. All classes of business thrive i ft A 1 11 and new enterprises start daily. THREE NEGROES EXECUTED. LIXDE June 7.

Three negroes, Tom Mills, Fletcher Holden and Henry Holden, were hanged here today for the murder of James McGreeor. a white man. at Atlanta, on the 7th day of last December. Fletcher had just settled in Cass county and let people know he had monev. He drank freely with the three negroes and they enticed him to the edge of he town where Tom Mills broke his head open with a car coupling.

The body was carried a mile from the town and lett bv the roadside where it was found. All of the condemned men confessed their guilt and died repenting. i TROOPS OUT FOR INDIANS. Tcmbstoxe, June 7. Captain Kennedy, Tenth United States cavalry, arrived here last evening with sixty-two colored troops from Fort Grant, and ten Indian trailers.

rlney left this morning for Bis- Dee, wnere tney will be joined by troops vuuuanua ana go loxne rrontier. as in BURRTON, KANSAS As soon as cholera appears in Mediterranean ports this country is ia danger. It is not the part of wisdom to iinore tho possibility of a cholera invasion even so early as this sura me r. The Cornplanter Indians of the Pennsylvania reservation are a of the once famous Seneca tribe. They have no vote and pay no taxes, jfout seem to be much like white men in other respects.

CEorriXG should bo as various as Iho climate and soil will admit of. lAnd farm values will recover in such measure as men farm every acre well and variously. That will remedy the distemper in time, if persisted in. 1 aj answer 10 mo question, wnai uas "become of the German carp planted in the Kansas Secretary Graham of the State Agriculture college says tho less said about the carp the better. The catfish look wise and say nothing, A German medical journal speaks of Sueci, the fasting man, as a "hunger virtuoso.1' The expression is good, but not sufficiently definite.

A common tramp, a barn-storming actor, or even a small boy, might be a "hunger virtuoso." It is a source of regret that the American seaman, who once navigated the oceans with the smartest vessels in the world, should be forced out of business by the foreign seamen when steam is taking the place of sail in the traffic of the world. TnE Russians are tho more intelligent observers, and indulge in no self-deception in such matters. Russian officials declare that cholera is proceeding northward and westward steadily though slowly, and this is confirmed by the French consulate at Bagdad. Railroad builders are anxious for another boom, but it is not likely to come this year. At the same time, the railmakers all over the country are crowded with work, and are turning out immense quantities of light rails, weighing from 20 to 40 pounds to the yard.

Production in this country is not near as various now as it was thirty years ago. Our farmers generally have but one or two strings to their bow. They crowd each other in single lines of production, overproducing in fact, and thus bear prices below profit. In a recent article in the New York Tribune, Andrew Carnegie, the great iron master, gave it as his opinion that the three greatest obstacles in the way, of the success of young men in busi ness are the drinking habit, the "big head," and outside speculation. Many sagacious men would not hesitate to put down the last as the worst of the three.

A colored woman called at the Brunswick, Ga, telegraph office, and had. dictated the following message to her son: "Are you dead? Ans wer your loving mother, Susie Louisiana Thomas." That was a queer message, but it was sent. The next day the answer came back. It Xot dead, but alive. Will let you know when I die." The young man who surprises his aged mother by lighting every gas jet an the house by simply touching an electric button may some day please as well as astonish the world by throw ing a flood of light upon some of the anost important problems of the elec trical science by simply connecting currents of his own thoughts under the pressure of inspiration.

Boys now rig up alarm bells for their pleased parents and modest nouses are many of them fitted up with electrical conveniences through the ex pertness of embryo scientists. This of thojight among the young toward amusement and employment in ja field of effort which is expanding with amazing rapidity is one of the gratifying signs of the times. The meanest man in Maine lives (near Lewiston. He had an only son, who was drafted and killed in the war. The father now says: "I was short sighted in not paying $400 for a substl tuxe, ior i nave Deen iorcea to nire a man ever since to help carry on the larm, and it has cost me thousands above the price of a substitute.

Be sides, he was a master hand to work. and the smallest eater I ever saw." A distinguished Lrerman professor lias announced that he has discovered the fact that a man's eyesight is im paired by tight collars. If the distinguished German professor had delved less in profound books and ac quainted himself with the practical matters of life and death he would bave known that his discovery was no new- discovery, for every one' has known for centuries that a tight collar made of hemp will utterly destroy a man's eyesight in ten minute3 more or less. vs. C.

J. et S. of et "Oh, say," she exclaimed to a Washington Star reporter, throwing a great emphasis on the "say," and her face beaming with a sudden recollection, "have I told you about my She was a modest little school-girl, and her question seemed a trifle odd, and so the Star man expressed an appropriate amount of genuine surprise, and told her that he had never heard of "her Chinaman." "Well, let me tell you," she continued, and as her auditor did not protest she proceeded: "He is just too cute for anything, and he is so bright that I am sure he will learn to speak real good English very soon, and then am going to have him teach me Chinese. Won't that be nice?" "But you have not told me who and what he'is," suggested the reported'. "Haven't Well, he is my pupil at the Chinese Sunday-school at the Ascension Church all" my own aud I am teaching him.

You see, we have got to teach them to speak English, before we try to teach them any religion, and so I am now trying to'make him understand me. It is pretty hard sometimes, but I am sure that he is going to learn." "llow many lessons have you given asked the reporter. "Only one, but he. can say several things already and he is real bright. You see there is a little primer book that we use that is written partly in English and partly in Chinese just one of those horrid Latin books, you know.

First there is a line at the top, where there are given some English words, you know, and opposite these are the same words in Chinese. Down below at the. bottom of the page, there is a little story that brings ia these words and so he learns, lie is very eager to learn, but he can not pronounce some of the words, for he has trouble Avith his which he will persist in calling an l. I can't break him of the habit. I said he was blight, didn't Well, he is in some things.

but he was so stupid last Sundav. The word harid' was in the copv and wanted to illustrate its use to him, and so I iust stretched out my hand and said: 'Mv What does the stupid do but reach over and take my hand and say. 'My hand, ut course. he did not mean to be rude-, but it sounded so presumptuous that it made me mad for a niiuute. But the more I tried to show him his error tne more he persisted in saying that my hand was his.

At last I took hold of his hand and said, "Your hand, and then he did the same for me and said: Your It was a little provoking, but am hopfng lie will know belter next Sunday." "I suppose he is a high-toned China man, from the legatiou, perhaps, with lots of silks and other nice clothes?" sugges-ted the reporter. "No, indeed, he is not," was tho somewhat indiguant reply. "He is not one of those Chinamen, but a real nice, hard-working, poor Chinaman, who washes clothes for a living, and I do not think any the less of him for it. I wouldn't have one of those legation Chinamen; they are so proud aud stuck up they think "that there is nothing like them. They don't come to Sunday-school; they know enough already." "Well, do you like to teach Chinamen?" queried the reporter to round off the conversation.

"I should sav I did. I think it is just too lovely for anything; but I don want to have him think that mv hand is his, for it isn't aud never will be," and a pair of verv black eyes sparkled charmingly. "I really don't know what I aui going to teach him wheu I get him so that he can read, but I suppose that it will be something reli- Did Not Consummate the Sale. A grizzled old farmer with a shotgun put two swindlers to flight a few miles north of Mascoutah. His name is Henry Emmerich.

He signed the old swindling lightning-rod contract under the impression that he was get ting Ins lightning-roils lor lo. hen he discovered the true character of his contract he took down his double-barreled shotgun and waited for the party of the first part. He had not long to wait before tle swindlers came prepared to put the rods on the building. "Stop!" said Emmerich, as one of the agents started to enter. "You can't come in," and backed the assertion with his shotgun.

"But" protested the lightning-rod man, "I have a contract to put up rod3 on your building, and I am hero foi that purpose." How much will it cost?" asked Emmerich. "Something over $15." was the reply. "How much more?" said Emmerich. Well, sir. it will cost you $030." "I don't think it will," said Emmerich, decidedly and he cocked both hammers of the shot-gun.

"Now," he continued. "I will give you just five minutes to get off mv place, aud if yoo don't "get I'll till you so full of buckshot that you won't know what hurt you." They fled. Minneapolis Tribune. The Officeholder and the Farmer. A Missouri farmer with a turn for statistics furnished a communication to his country paper on the subject of official salaries in which he states that au official who receives 4,000 per year salary absorbs the price of 26.66S bushels of corn at 15 cents per bushel, or of 6,666 bushels of wheat at 60 cents per bushel, or 33,333 bushels of oats at 12 cents, or the price of fifty good.

1 farm-horses, lie also estimates that farm hand at 13 per month would have to work the -year round for a quarter of a century to earn the same amount, and adds that in 1866-'67-'63 about 5,000 to 8,000 bushels of corn would have footed the bill, or 8,000 bushels of wheat Peeuliar Paralysis. A business man of Painesville, is afflicted with paralysis in a very peculiar manner. His legs are powerless from dark until daylight, when he recovers the use of them. seen the is is the the bee and her of on 11 secured for the British museum. An English syndicate with Lord Brassey-; Lord Richard Grosvenor at its head is? about to turn Brussels, into a seaport bv building a canal and three immense basins.

Fortune has not kept faith with Anna Dickinson. In tea season she made with and on the lecture platform nearly- She is reportel to have bat little" it now. Kate Field, In her Washington, has excited grave apprehension by threatening to say a word or. two about the pernicious habit in dulged in by so many people, of eating with their knives. Tho Swedish Oyster Culture Society is trying to acclimatize American oysters from Connecticut on the coast of the province of Bahus.

Th3 young oysters seem to thrive well. Anew telephone has been brought out in which is said to not infringe up any existent patent. It is of tin most simple construction, consisting of an elec tro-magnet and celluloid diaphragm. A usurer at Ascherslebsn, Germany, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment, marks fine and liveyears' poiica surveillance for charging aa army oCcer ISO per cent interest on money loaned. A man recently hanged ia a southern state was born on Friday, married oa Friday, presented with twins on Friday, committed his crime on Friday and was banged on Friday.

And his name wasn't Friday. French doctors are reported to have dis covered that the essence of cinnamon, when sprinkled in the room of tjphoid fever patients, kills the bacteria within twelve hours and prevents the disease from spreading. A Georgia editor has an old confederate shoe, manufactured for the government in 1SC4, just before the war ended. The sole is ally three-quarters of an inch thick, and is made of. poplar wood, evidently shaped with a hatchet or drawing knife.

A share company, with a considerable working capital, has been Coated ia England to work a patent for what is called tae "sterilization" of milk, that is, the destruction of the bacteria, through which certain diseases, notably typhoid fever, are spread. The height of an olive tree is usually twenty feet, bat it is sometimes as high as fifty feet and it reaches an almost fabulous age. One lately destroyed at Beau-lieu had a recorded of five centuries-and it was thirty-six feet in circumference. Marshal MacMahon is ia favor of retaining the red trousers of the French soldiers. He says that the fuss made about them is altogether too great, because futurefighting must be at long range and red is a color which is lost sight ot at a comparatively short distance.

The homes of rich Mexicans are said to be palaces, and the grounds around them are gardens. There is an oriental splendor around them that is not found ia the United States. There is aa expanse about everything and a retinue of servants that is bewildering. A eentlemaa who lives near Washing- ington Village, Ma, aad deals in sewing machine! ran upon quite a mine of wealth recently. Ia tearing to pieces an old machine which had been in his possession for some time he ran upon a secret cavity containing fifteen bills.

"Sun sickness" is tha term applied to the condition of the people of Melbourne, -who recently passed through a torrid season. So abnormal was the heat that natives of Madras end negrozs from Sierra Leone suffered more than they had ever suffered in their native climes. The bashaw of Tangier has be come so corpulent that he is unable to walk abroad. He is oaly. five fest two inches ia height and must be about the same ia breadth, as he weighs over 403 pounds.

He has been advised by his thirty -two physicians to fast for a month, but ha 8 ays he will sea them bow-strung first. Salvation is free, but it is pretty hard for protection to keep its assessment oS of Mount Calvary. Talmag. however, did succeed ia getting the stone he rollei frcin Calvary admitted duty free through the custom house on tha representation that it had "come to stay" and would be made the corner stone of his new tabernacle. An old duck hunter at Savannah says that a flight of ducks coming south on one dav, if followed by other flights in the same direction days or weeks afterward, will not vary to exceed twenty-five feet from the path of the ducks which have preceded them, and Will alight ia almost the exact spot where preceding flights have settled.

-J There is a new use for hypnotism namely, as a remedy for habitual drunkenness. The drunkard, after being hypnotized, is informed that ardent spirits are nasty and the object of his particular hatred. If this is repeated two or three times the habit of thought becomes so fixed that the drunkard cannot bring himself to drink a drop of the spirits. Stanley describes the dwarf tribe of the forest. He says they are the oldest aristocracy in tha world, with institutions dating back fifty centuries.

I hey are ruled by a queen, a beautiful, charming little woman, who was exceptionally kind to Stanley and his comrades. The dwarfs are of olive complexion, remarkably intelligent, ingenious artificers in iron and ivory, aad probably the only monogamous race ia Africa. A Pittsburg drummer went iato a Cleveland shop to talk steam engines to the proprietor. A pretty little womaa entered at the same time, and the drummer, supposing it was the proprietor's daughter, stepped aside and allowed her to pass. Ha was amazed when she opened the conversation by inquiry after tho health of nis steam gauges, and he nearly had a stroke of apoplexy when she took an order for a lot ct steam fixtures.

She smiled on the other drummer as she tripped out and mitde hita wish he was de I. 1.