The Abilene Journal from Abilene, Kansas • 3

MARTHA. "WASHINGTON. THCXDEE STORMS. FARM AND RANCH. KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The Wife of Our First President, and Her Characteristics. The manners of Martha Washington. are said to have been most engaging. She never assumed to be anything ex not been friends for quite a while before, and busy-bodies had amned the flame by carrying tales. Steele had occasion to visit the ranch and he went armed-Beers met him about one hundred feet from the house and showed a disposition to fight.

Steele warned him off and then pulled a revolver and fired twice one shot hitting Beers in the back, near the shoulder and the other shot taking effect in his legs. Beers recovered from his wounds, though his right arm is partially paralyzed. DRIFT. traordinary intellectually, wasn much of a reader, but her elegance of manner has been mentioned again and again in descriptions of that historic time when she was the first lady of the land, th wife of the revered first president of the United States. Washington correspondent of the New York Sun, one would judge that the members of the house of representatives were not as tidy as they should be in their personal habits, for they were accused of neglecting the cuspidors to the damage of the carpets.

From the report of the clerk of the house, which made its appearance to-day, a very different impression would be derived, as the laundry bills paid by that official siow a most extraordinary attempt at cleanliness, or a waste of money at a spigot that should be plugged up. Congress was in session about 240 days, and according to the wash bills used 138,560 tewela, an average of about 600 per day, or more than two per member in attendance. There is not a hotel in the country where so many towels are washed per day as in the house of representatives, nor in which bo much money is paid for washing them. many people, if they had their choice, would doubtless prefer a good half-hour's thunder-storm to six or eight hoars of slimy fog bath. But, without going into any detailed scientific arguments on this subject, we must state that, in our opinion, the evidence in this case ia not sufficient to procure a conviction.

It is a matter of common knowledge that thunder-storms are very local events; the weather is not unfrequently fine and bright ten miles away from where a severe storm is raging. If, then, smoke causes thunder-storms, we should expect to find them most frequent and most severe in these places where smoke is most abundant. But the very same statistics go on to show that the proportion of houses struck by lightning in country places to those so injured in towns is nearly as two to one. And, again, if smoke is a good preliminary condition to getting up a storm, there ought certainly to be plenty of thunder in our own black country, but we are She is described as having been rather below the medium height, but daintily formed, with a pleasing face and dark hazel eyes. Perhaps the best 6ketch of her now in print is the one in Laura O.

Holloway's popular book, "The ladies of the White House," which also contains a fine en graving of her in her youth, as well aa The total expenditure for this purpose one when she had become a white haired grandmother, engraved from Stuart'a not aware that this district is especially noted for its storms. picture. Therein is charmingly told the story of her first meeting with the illus trious Washington, then a young colonel. It waa in 1758, at the house cf Mr. Chamberlayne, at New Kent, wbHa Washington was on his way to Williams burg, attended by a body servant.

bhe was 26, beautiful, ncli and a Gypsum Banner: We are told that some of our farmer neighbors were plowing for oats the fore part of the week. Kansas is truly a marvelous state. Eureka Hera Id: Thrall of Janes-ville, have meet with considerable loss' to stock from being bitten by a rabid dog, and as the dog is known to have bitten other animals, dogs horses and cattle, the end is not yet. McPherson Democrat: Hamilton Barnes had his blackberry patch, 20 tons of hay and some 1G0 acres of hedge burned up Thursday evening. The St L.

Ft. S. Sc W. passenger set it on fire. D.

D. Carpenter also had some hay buraedSaturday from the tame cause. Esmond Times: From the talk we hear among the farmers we judge that there will be a larger acreage of spring wheat sown the coming spring than for years past. March is almost here and those intending to bow this kind of small grain should get it in as early as possible. Dighton Journal: Last week Mr.

J. C. Johnson, living in Wilson township, lost six head of valuable cattle from poison given to them by some one unknown. A post mortem examination was held by a local veterinary surgeon, and poison found in the stomach of each animal, Winfield Tribune: Many of the farmers are already complaining about the chinch bug. They seem to have had an easy tfiae of it this winter, and are alive and are already traveling out of the corn stalks and from under the prairie grass.

A thorough and systematio burning is the only remedy, and it should be administered at an early day to prove successful. Let them burn. Garden City Sentinel: There is considerable uneasiness among the farmers here caused by a disease among horses which is nearly always fatal. The horses affected die in a few hours after they take sick. There is a difference of opinion in regard to the cause, some claim that it is caused by eating loco, others think from being fed bad com.

Mr. McGinnis has lost three and Mr. A. J. Bestisworth has lost a span of valuable work horses.

Harper Graphic: During the past week we have examined many fields of wheat and find the crop in really good condition. The winter has been the dry est in ten years. On examination we found that in the wheat fields the widow. He was nearly the 6ame age, famous and handsome. They were mutually pleased, and after a few meet ings arranged for a marriage.

Martha Danbndge was the daughter of a Virginia planter, and was born in 1161. Her education waa suh as tne The Cause Assigned by German Sarants for the Continuous Increase During tbe last Forty Years. London Globe. The last year wiJl long be remembered upon the continent, both in France and Germany, for the number and severity of its thunder-storms. In this country the number of storms in 18S6 was below the the average, and nothing occurred to draw any special attention to these occasional displays of the majestia forces of nature.

But in Germany, particularly, a certain amount of uneasiness has been caused by the publication of official statistics which show beyond all question that, in that country, at least, thunderstorms have been steadily increasing in frequency, and, eo far as can be judged by the injury inflicted on life and property, in severity also, ever since the record was commenced in the year of 1844. The German savants have, therefore, been paying a good deal of attention to the phenomena of thunder-storms, and the question naturally arises whether any reasonable can be assigned for their continuous increase during the last forty years. Is it due to purely naturally causes, such as are altogether beyond human control? Or is it in any way the result of the conditions of modem civilization? And, if so, can anything be done to mend thia undesirable state of affairs At first sight the latter question may seem rather extravagant; nevertheless, the Germans are inclined to answer in the affirmative. They are desidedly of opinion that the increase of thunderstorms is to be attributed to artificial causes, and that "something might certainly be done to diminish their frequency. Before stating their views we would hazard the opinion that they will not be accepted without free criticism.

Long ago Franklin taught us how to erect me-alic rods projecting at one end above the topmost roofs of our buildings and buried at the other end in the soil, and by this means to conduct the dangerous discharge harmlessly to earth. Since Franklin's time we have made one step in advance in this matter, and until quite recently only one. The early lightning conductors terminated in round knobs. With this construction the lightning could be seen visibly to strike the conductor, and this was considered a very satisfactory result and indeed it was better than nothing. But at the close of the last century Eichmann, of St.

Petersburg, while experimenting with such an apparatus, received a discharge which killed him on the spot, although no storm was previously raging. A little later it was discovered that conductors had a more important office to fulfill; if they were made pointed at the end, they were capable not merely of conducting a flash safely to the ground, but of absolutely preventing the instantaneous discharge of electricity in their own immediate neighborhood provided, however, that the electric tension did not rise beyond some (Btill unknown) limit. The experiment limited facilities of the times afforded, her social pleasures compassed by the society of Williamsburg. When very-young she was married to Colonel Custis, Th Winfield Courier, speaking of the inmates of tbe Cowley county poor house, says: "In thia house is Julia Montgomery, a girl who has been idiotic almost from birth, the daughter of the notorious Colonel Montgomery, of Kansas border fame. She has been an inmate of the house for rears.

She is subject to epileptic fits, and is one of the most pitiable creatures imaginable. Winfield Courier: Dave Madison, the barber, has sued B. Weitzel, the landlord of the St. James in the district court, fer $5,000 damages in ejecting him from the dining room of the hotel a few weeks ago. The papers set up that the ejectment wa3 on the ground of prejudice against the colored race, and not because of any unbecoming conduct or appearance cf the plaintiff.

It will make a warm case. Caldwell Journal: The case of the state ts. Holmes, a school teacher of Alton township, who was arrested for assault and battery for whipping one of his young lady scholars by the name of Beck, was compromised Saturday night after two trials, both resulting in a htug jury. Mr. Holmes paid the costs of the suit, amounting to $46, and vent home, leaving the jury locked in the room trying the case, where they remained until 'Squire Thomas happened to think of them, and released them.

Jewell County Democrat: A very sad occurrence a few days ago, south-west of Ionia, near the Buchner school house came to our notice a short time since. A young man by the name of Lyons had been attending a revival, held in the neighborhood, and becoming serious concerning his spiritual welfare has become so deranged on the subject of religion as to necessitate his being sent to the insane asylum. He is an object of pity and it ia to be hoped that his in-sonity is only temporary. Junction City Republican: The remains of a child of Dr. Luther Hall was dug up by the parties excavating the cellars of J.

G. Stokes and Louis Haus-erman's business house just north of the Central Kansas Bank on Washington street, recently. Dr. Hall had a drag store on the preset sits of the bank in 1859 and the ground scon to be occupied by handsome business blocks was his garden. His infant child died in 1859 and was buried in the garden.

Quite a number of tbe old residents of tbe city remember the circumstances. Cedarville Globe: Smith county has a real curiosity in the shape of Ito3a Uildebrand (known as Kosa Breem) who lives twelve miles north of Cedarville. This young lidy has for several years dressed in mail attire boots, breeches, coat, vest and hat. She does all the work on her mother's farm. She markets the grain, bogs and other farm products.

The is iu our town every few week a clothed in the manner described above, and is of course taken by all strangers with whom she comes in contact as a youth of sixteen or seventeen Bummers. McCune Times: In the district court of Cherokee county last week, Mrs. Amy Coplin was convicted of forgery. Seventy years old. The county papers speak of Shakespeare too Much for the Jury.

Philadelphia Eecord. In a will case before a court and a rustic jury, Jere Black appeared as counsel for the youngest of three Bisters, and Bought to break the will on the grounds that the two elder sisters had, with the assistance of his learned brother, the counsel on the other side, cajoled and coerced the dead father during his dying hours into signing a will giving them all his property and leaving the youngest daughter out in the cold. Black, who was young then, made a great speech to the jury, in which "King Lear" very naturally appeared. "Goneril was at the bedside, gentlemen of the jury," he exclaimed. Regan was there.

But where was CordeliaV The jury remained out for some time. At last they came in, but the foreman reported that they could not agree. All of them except one man were in favor of the younger sister, but the one man was not satisfied, and could not be satisfied about what he thought a flaw in the evidence. "What ia it?" asked the court of the obstinate juror. "Why, your Honor," said the fellow, "if Mr.

Goneril and Mr. Regan were present, as the lawyer said, why didn't he put them in the witness box?" Habits of Whales. San Francisco Bulletin. a refined, polished and generous man. They lived not far from lie plantation of Mrs.

Custis' father, happy and blessed during a few fleeting years. They had three children, ILd eldest, and unusually bright who died "a few month be by the house of representatives last year was 82,770.95 for washing towels alone. Tho first part of the year 50 cents a dozen was paid, but in the spring the the price was cut down to 25 cents a dozen. The work is not let by contract, but is given out by the doorkeeper to whomever he pleases, and paid for at such prices as he may fix. The position of asherwomen to the house of representatives is an honorable and lucrative one, and in times past ladies of social standing have not been ashamed to take the work and have it done by their servants while they lived comfortably on the proceeds.

No complaint ia made that such is the case now, but not many years ago a doorkeeper was found to have given the towels of the house of representatives to a lady friend, to be washed at 50 cents a dozen, who had men employed in the basement of her house doing the work for 81 a day. According to the accounts of the clerk, each congressman must have used at least 420 towels during the year, but they did not show any signs of it. The report of the clerk shows other entertaining entries. He appears to have purchased tooth-brushes nail-brushes, hair-brushes, combs, sponges, and other toilet articles by the gross, and it is in-ciedible that the quantity accounted for could have been used by the house of representatives. There were enough for all the legislative bodies in the world, although the tooth-brushes might not have 'gone abroad.

The quantity of soap consumed was enormous, and in the list of purchases were gallons of cologne, bayram, toilet-cases, manicure-cases, nail polishers, nail -powder, nail-files, nail-scissors, by the dozen and gross, as well as quinine and cathartic pills and corset-laces. The latter are supposed to have been issued to Mr. Barnes, of Georgia, and Mr. Baker, of New York. Michael Davitt is credited with the positive assertion that Ireland will have home rule within three years.

A Brooklyn burglar was recently captured by the police while attired in three suits of clothes and two overcoats. Stanley saved eighteen little black boys to be trained for the new order of things on the Congo by buying them from their Arab captors for a handkerchief apiece. The Philadelphia American is moved to remark that "Gotham dudes have a sort of sympathetic regard for Miss Liberty because her head is so hollow. There are a good many weddings at Castle Garden. A policeman ia generally best man.

There is a wedding ring there that has been worn 354 times. Natural gas conducted from its source in McKean county, to Buffalo, in an 8 -inch pipe, traveled at the speed of ninety-nine miles an hour. An oyster weighing three and one-quarter pounds ana measuring ten inches by six inches was taken at Huntington, Long Island. A hen at was placed on a dozen quail eggs, and hatched out eight quail, rfhich she afterward reared with care. The six hundred French army cats, whoee duty it is to catch mice in the clothing store-houses, are have their rations reduced, since they have become too fat and lazy to catch the offending rodents.

Trained dogs were employed to convey messages along the outposts at the German military maneuvers this fall. The dogs also did duty with the sentinels, and were so prompt in giving alarms that their use is to be extended. A Napa (Cal.) man thought he saw a sea serpent in the river there, but it was only a solid mass of little fishes, each about an inch and half long. The school waa about fifty yards long and a yard wide and headed up stream. The commotion they made was caused by hundreds of large fishes that were continually throwing themselves among and eating up the little ones.

A silver dollar weighs very nearly an ounce, hence any letter not heavier than a dollar can go for a single 2-cent stamp. Five nickels and a small copper cent will also give an ounce. One of the most zealous prohibitionists in New England is an extensive manufacturer of pocket-lisks. In the mountains of Heppner, Oregon, one day recently was killed a genuine silver-tipped grizzly bear, which weighed For the last six weeks or bo whales have been coming out of the Arctic ice, and have been making their way south. moisture was found at an average depth of about one inch.

The wheat at first In the winter season there are no whales in the Arctic ocean, for the good reason that they cannot live there when the sight appears dead, but upon examina water is frozen over so that there are no tion it i3 found to have a nice green coat fore his father. Colonel Cts is died consumption, leaving his young widow the possessor of a rich estate. Her country home, where Washington became engaged to her, was called the the white house. From that the executive mansion at Washington took its name. The Washingtona began life at ML Vernon.

They were wealthy and refined, and the best society of the country waa glad to do them honor. For fifteen successive years Washington waa a member of the legislature of his state. His wife always accompanied him to Williamsburg, then the capital of Virginia. And bo treading on flowers, time slipped away noiselessly for these happy people. Then came the time at last when for eight years the boom of cannon and the roar of musketry shook every home in the land.

The happy family at Mt. Vernon Buffered disruption with the rest, for its head was the leader of the old Continentals, who faltered not. Every year in October Mrs. Washington, loaded with supplies, visited her husband in camp and spent the winter with him. Each year she hoped would end the war and conclude his long absence.

At last when peace was declared and the country for which the fathers fought became really their own, Washington was once more called from his home to assume the presidential chair, which he filled conscientiously for eight years, and then refused a third nomination. The seat of government was then in New York. The president's house was elegantly furnished, and almost as for breathing spaces. A considerable number are supposed to die every year by under the winter killed blade. If the spring opens with plenty of rain, as it bids fair to do, we will have a good crop of wheat in Harper county.

being caught under ice bo thick that when thev come up to breathe they can not break the ice. Frequently a dozen Anthony Republican: Farmers are re or more whales may be seen in Bmall areas of open water surrounded by ice joicing over tne prospect ior wneat where no ship can go, or not witnout greater perils than ought to be encoun Some of our best farmers say the outlook on wheat is better now than it has been at this time of the year for five years. The roots are rll alive and growing nicely. The prospect of almost certain war in tered. Just where all the Arctic whales Master Workman Mary.

Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Yea, I am Mary McCormick. Who am Well, I am master workman of assembly 7707 and president of the organization to be known as "Our Girls' Co-operative Clothing Factory." We have been granted a state charter. There are 1,000 3hares valued at 810 each, and nearly all subscribed for, and we have 60,000 Knights of Labor to back us. If we fail we are only 810 out; but we don't intend to fail.

We are not that sort of women. Our object? To give tailor-esses the means of earning a decant Hy winter long been a mooted question. They are found all along the coast of Europe this year makes tbe wbeat an may be repeated with any machine for generating static electricity. If a knob is presented to the charged conductor, a spark, accompanied by a sharp detonation, will be given off, but if a sharp point be used instead of the knob, there is no flash and no sudden noise, the elec California during the summer montns interesting crop. While not wishing harm to any of our sister nations, if war But their breeding grounds are the low er latitudes, as in the Magdalene bay 1,000 pounds and measured eighteen and in the shallow bays of the Lower Mexican coast.

It is probable that some is to come no better time could be chosen than this 6pring to suit the American farmers. A war in Europe would make better prices for wheat, com, oats and all of sorts grain. feet from tip to tip and eighteen inches between the ears. go down as far as the Central American coast. All the right whales seen along It is estimated that the asbetos mines the coast do not enter the Arctic, al Clay Centre Times: Something should though it would seem that th greater number do.

Many are found in the sum tricity passes quietly away, with perhaps a Little blue light at the end of the point, accompanied by a slight hissing sound. Accordingly, all modem lightning conductors are made with very sharp points, and the upper part is or should be gilded, bo as to preserve the fine point from the corrosive action of the atmosphere. Six months ago Prof. Hughes announced that from a series of theoretical researches, of too abrruse a be done with the heartless wretches who let their horses stand on the streets these in Canada will this year put out 2,000 tons, much of which is used in deadening walls and floors, and at the same time rendering them fire-proof. mally conducted as the home of a king.

Mrs. Washington was an aristocrat by nature, and, in accordance with the custom of the times, conducted her recep cold nights for hours at a time without particle of protection, not even a blanket or friendly side of a building or fence to protect them from the cold while their tions after the manner of English and French drawing rooms. The republican Fultz Wheat. Manhattan Industrialist. character to be entered upon here, he Perhaps no variety of winter wheat is court then located at No.

3 Franklin square, TMew York, called together the most elegant and estimable of the country. Very different from the present method of receiving the public were those receptions. The most rigid rules had arrived at the conclusion that a lightning conductor should be made in the form of a wide flat ribbon and not as a solid rod at least in that part which unfeeling and worse than inhuman owners are sitting around a warm fire. Such a ease as this came to the notice of a Times reporter last night, before one of the most contemptable, down gambling and drinking hells that we are mer season in the Ochotsk sea and along the coast of Siberia. The right whale seeks out his Bummer feeding grounds in high latitudes and seeks out breeding grounds in low latitudes.

This annual migration and return is counted on with the greatest certainty. As many whales come out of the Arctic in autumn aa enter in the spring. These facts govern tbe operations of the whaling fleet. Hence after the Arctic whaling season is over, many ehips discharge and refit at once and go down the coast in high latitudes. At several points along the coast in this state there are shore stations where a considerable number of whales are more widely grown in the United States than that known as the Fultz.

A note as to its origin may be of interest to some of the readers of the Industrialist. Mr. Abraham Fultz, who discovered it a quarter of a century ago, still lives on his Bmall farm near Allensville, in Miffin comes in contact with the building. governed them, and access was not easy. But notwithstanding our knowledge sorry to eay exists just outside the city limits.

The poor horse was standing ing. Just have a chair and 1 11 give you a few bits of information that may interest your readers. Some little time ago the Knights of Labor advised us to organize. We were then working from 7 till 7, the stoutest and strongest of hs earning no receiving an average of 88. a week, and the less expeditious, though equally capable, getting 83.50.

Things were getting worse rather than better; our condition could not be more miserable, and willing to pin hope to any tangible fabric or plan, we acted on the suggestion of the Knights of Labor and entered their circle. When our movement became known the fires of our purgatory began to blaze, and they have scorched and singed us ever since. We were called "dynamiters," "Anarchists," "snakes-in-the-grass," and kindred pet names by the non-union girls. Our movements were questioned, our motives suspected, and in all the indignities offered, our tormeuters were sustained by the contractors for whom we worked. "You Bee we have already twenty -five machines; the room will be supplied with 6team power, and if there is any money in co-operative work we mean to have it.

The only difference between this factory and the onea we have been slaving and starving at ever since we began the business is this: We will nego Dress, too, was a consideration. Certain requirements in that particular must be observed. of such effectual and simple means of preserving our buildings from the disastrous effects of a lightning stroke, we yet remain very much in the dark upon the whole Bubject of atmospheric elec withoat the least protection exposed to the full sweep of one of the coldest winds that has swept Clay ccunty this winter, while inside, warm and com The second year of Washington's ad ministration the seat of government waa county, Pennsylvania. He found among his bearded red wheat a plant having all the well known characteriticss of Fultz wheatas now grown. He carefully preserved the grain from thia, and continued the process of sowing and gleaning from year to year until he had a sufficient caught as they go up and down the coast.

removed to Philadelphia, where the same ceremony was observed in the manage her as "with one foot in the grave." A pitiable case. At the instance of an ignorant lawyer Bhe signed her husbands name to mortgage and notes, he in turn became one of the main witnesses against her, of whom he held the hand and promised to shield, care for and protect. The aithTeesness of women is often dwelt upon by writers, but of man it is more forcibly illstrated in the case cited. Great Bend Register: About a year ago a lady at Lamed was thrown from a buggy by running over a pile of rocks in the streets and was injured. She sued the city for 810,000 damages.

The case was tried last week in the district court of Pawnee county. Judge Strang appointed Dr. Shaw, of Great Bend, and Dr. Iihea, of Lamed, as expert medical examiners. After the experts gave the result of their, examination, the plaintiff agreed to take 81,500 from the city and dismies the case.

A settlement was made and the case dismissed. Osage County Chronicle: Mr. John S. Kendall of this city, a miner by occupation, was. accidentally killed in shaft No.

4 of the Burlingame coal and mining company, Monday afternoon. The cause of the accident was the falling in in of 8 part of the roof. He was work ing alone at the time and lying on his right side using the pick. The falling roof struck the upper portion of his body, the principal weight lodging about the shoulders and neck. He is supposed to have been instantly killed as there was no evidence that he had made a struggle to extricate himself from the weight which had fallen upon him.

When found he was holding his pick in both hands and the lamp in his cap was still burning. Greenleaf Herald: The farmer's alliance at Clifton are making preparations fortable, sat the inhuman wretch who owned him. Such a man has no business to own a horse or have the least control over one. ment of the president's household as at A Man from Pennsylvania, tricity, and especially upon tne immediate cause of thunder-storms. The difficulty Lies not so much in accounting for the fact that a cloud is Eometimes, or even usually, found to be charged with electricity; the enigma which remains New York Herald.

quantity of the grain to sow an entire "Do congressmen make many re New York. The bouse chosen was on Market street, between Fifth and Sixth, on the south Bide, and it waa handsomely furnished. No house was provided South Haven New Era: It hardly heid. The large yield or tnis attracted the attention of his neighbors to the new quests for passes?" was asked of a prominent railway official at the capital this morning. unsolved is to explain now it is that during a thunder-storm this charge or elec gram, and they procured seed from him seems possible that a man could break the skull of a cow by a blow from his fist, yet Micheal O'Hearn of Guelph township did it.

The facts in the case for the president by the government then, as now. The first president rented and furnished his own. tricity is so rapidly renewed and regen "Don't they I exclaimed that gentle erated after each discharge. It is rash man, in tones or unmistaKBDie oisgust for their own fields. From this location it spread rapidly to adjoining counties and soon became known all oyer the country.

Mrs. Washington held her receptions, to argue too confidently from the behavior of the scintillations which we are about as follows: The other day Mike and another man were doing something with the cattle when one three- "They not only ask for themselves, but for members of their families and friends as welL" or drawing rooms, aa they ere called, on Friday evening of each week. The produce at will in our laboratories to the tiate directly with the wholesale houses instead of through middlemen." guests assembled early, and left before year-old heifer became Borne what unman magnificent exhibition of the power of I think," continued the railway man, 10:20. These occasions are said to have Miss Mary McCormick is a short, sturdy, little woman of 25, with a ruddy, ageable and attempted to break through the fence, getting herself entangled been exceedingly stiff, solemn and awk reflectively, "the meanest man I ever met in the matter of passes was a member of congress. All one winter he had bored healtbful color in ner cneeKs, ana a therein, the fence being scrub hedge and wire, trying to anve tne cow bacs ward.

The atmosphere of awful dignity that radiated from the great Washington rather over-powered the guests. It was an honor to be admitted, but it Mr. Fultz has never proa ted in any way from his discovery, although some of bis enterprising German neighbors made handsome profits from the sale of Fultz wheat for seed, when it was in great demand and, as yet scarce. It is now proposed by tho farmers of Pennsylvania, that every grower of Fultz wheat, in the country shall donate for the benefit of Mr. Fultz, the price of a Bingle bushel of the wheat.

If this were accomplished, it would make Mr. Faltz a wealthy man and quite independent in his old age. dimple, too. Making Verbs Of Nouns. From An Exchange.

those occult forces whicn are at work in the thunder-storm; but yet it is Bafe to say thaf. eo far as our present knowledge goes, the electricity of a thunder-storm has not, as is generally supposed, been gradually accumulated during a previous period in which as a rule, the weather is unusually oppressive, and then dispersed a little at a time with every light-nine flash. On the contrary, the elec The tendency of American newspapers us for passes upon one pretext or another. One day he wrote us to Bend him a pass for himself from Pittsburg to Washington and another for his son from Pittsburg to Baltimore. The lad he explained, was going there to BchooL It appears that he subsequently changed his mind, and kept the youngster at Washington with hirn.

He wrote U3 this information, to take unwarrantable liberties with cer tain nouns is one of the most unsatisfap Mike found himbelf in front of her, and his "Irish" being up he stiuck her a powerful blow in the forehead with his clinched fist injuring her so badly that she died in a few minutes. It was found upon examination that tbe force of the blow had broken the skull sufficient to cause the death of the heifer. Mr. O'Hearn's knuckles were badly skinned and when rallied about the matter ad tory features of contemporary journalism. tric charge is renewed then and there To turn a aetenseiess noun into an to tuild a 810,000 elevator, with which bet ween the successive peals of tnunder.

aggressive verb is an act as lawless as it to handle their grain. The alhanca at Doubtless the previous condition of the in fact, and inclosed in that letter th is unpunishable. When a reporter as ralmer have Bent for new scales and will atmosphere has much, probably every boy's pass and asked us to Bend him in serts that "John Smith suicided," he A Remarkable Coincidence. Texas Sittings. Gilhooly is quite intimate wiiL th Mose Schaumburg family, bo much that he frequently is a guest at th commence shipping their own grain as mitted it to be a fact, though seeming a thing, to do with preparing the way for makes his meaning clear, but he shocks money the fare from asnington to ial-timore.

He explained that the pass en little ashamed. We have the authority these operations, but it is tolerably cer soon as practical. We only have one thing to regret for thia move, and that is the nerves of those conservatives who tain that the electricity is not itself titled him to the ride, but that he would of John M. Johnson our popular erro-ceryman, for the above and. he assures was also a fearful trial to any addicted, to naturalness of manner or buoyancy of spirits.

The lady of the man3on eat at the head of the room, and the guests were placed in a circle around which the president passed, speaking ceremoniously to each one. There ia nothing to tell ua what Mrs. Washington wore on these occasions, or how she looked. The society reporter had not then been invented, a3 it W83 the age of bronze, not tinsel. We know, however, that the president powdered his hair and never offered hia hand to any of hia guests, and that he wore the old contienntal uniform.

At thi3 time Mx3. Washington waa 58 years old, as was the general, both having been bom in the same year. Mrs. Washington's children, Martha and John Parke Custi3, were cherished and guided by Washington as tenderly as if they Tin1 Kaon Vila oxrn if nffar Schaumburg mansion, on Austin avenue base their English on dictionary prece that C. D.

Potter, a man who is univer bottled up beforehand to any perceptible dents. "Interview," used as a verb, is take the money instead. It was the coolest proposition I had ever heard." One day last week while enjoying tli us that he haa an abundance of proof to extent. hospitality of his Hebrew friend, Gil another outcome of journalistic indepen satisfy pim that it is true. "What was the congressman's name?" sally believed to be honest and just, will be the heaviest loser, by reason of his owning a large elevator there which will necessarily 6tand idle if the farmers re The German observers state that not dence.

But even the two words cited are by no means the most striking queried a curious bystander. "I can't give you that, but I will say that he lived in Pennsylvania. Plainville Times: One of the worst prairie fires that ever burned was the one below town on the divide between tha illustrations of the tendency referred to. fuse, to sell to others outside of their withstanding the great increase in the number of hghtning conductors which has taken place within the last forty years, the ratio between the total num A Western paper says that one of its alliance. Grain dealers who have noth Paradise and Saline, on January 27, subscribers "Thankserave, at home.

ing but com crib and scale ought to feel the fire starting at Asa Dillon's on the Shades of Noah Webster, what a word 1 hooly remarked: "To-morrow will be my birthday." "So it vash mine," said Mose Schaum burg, junior. "Mine doo," chimed in Rebecca. "What a singular coincidence!" ex claimed Gilhooly. "It vash mine doo," said Isaac. "Mine doo," observed KacheL "Mine doo," corroborated Solomon.

"Mine doo," piped Levy, he baby. Ilovr the Berber Kept Tally. St. IiOuia Whip. south side of section 32, township 10, thankful.

Mound City Progress: Wm. John range 16, running northeast across the "No, sir," said the barber to a sus Bon, the man who purchase a pony of Jim Austin, of near rieasanton, some picious looking individual, who affably remarked aa the lather was being laid on that he supposed there were a good many weeks ago, and paid therefor, a 850 con federate bill was captured Tuesday in "I tells you, Mr. Gildooly, how dot men who failed to pay for their shaving township, by Sheriff Chancier. scores. is.

Yen der vash bo many birthdays dot family in, you makes 50 per shent yen you has dem all dot 6ame day on On being questioned by the sheriff, he acknowledged the theft and said he had traded the pony for another which he was in possession of when captured. He was brought to this city and placed reaching maturity. The son, who waa a colonel in Washington's army, waa married and left a widow and four children. Washington adopted two of the children at once, and reared them with the most conscientious care. W'ashington died on Dec.

14, 1799. She turned from the chamber that held hia dead form never to enter it again. This waa the last event of her life. Thirty months later, in the spring of 1801, at the age of CO, she, too slipped out of life, leaving a look of peace on her dead features. explained the head ot tne family.

A Reasonable Request. divide to the Paradise, burning stable and all the hay and com of W. H. Florey, all of Dillon's hay, all of Mr. Nettelton's hay and Nick Pholman's stable, hay and corn, JI.

Manderville's hay, Jacob Boyer's hay and several others the names and amounts which we did not learn. Some lay the damage at from 812,000 to 815,000, and are not far off the mark. The grass was very dry and wind high, it was most impossible to do anything with the fire, or save anything. The fire was caused by being blown out of the stove pipe at Asa Dillon's, the house being a dugout and the dry grass very close to the house. If people would take more care to bum fireguards there would not be so much danger or bo many fires.

ber of buildings in the country and the annual number damaged by lightning has been multiplied five-fold BinctJ the year 18S4. Thia is undoubtedly a somewhat alarming statement, especially if there is any reason for fear that this rapid rate of increase is likely to be maintained. The fact3 also demand close examination from a purely scientific point of view, as they might well throw light upon the obscure genesis of the phenomena of the thunder-storm. The Teutonic savants consider that much, if not all the blame for this state of affairs i3 due to the vae a ever-increasing volumes of smok nd dust and steay which all big cities are continuousle vomiting forth. They hold that th electricity is, or may be generated by the friction of these particles in the air.

Now, we have not a word to say in favor of the foul and sooty fiend which, whatever else he may have to answer for in other climates, certainly does his best to make life is this metropolis unendurable during so many days of the year; and in jail to await his preliminary jvbich It is on a par with another provincialism which sometimes shocks the nerves in such a sentence as the following; "James and his brother Sundayed La town." The list of these vagabond verbs might be indefinitely extended, but the above will suffice. It seems to be a characteristic of our people to take the shortest road to tbe goal of their desires. The process of turning nouns into verbs is one of the most effective methods of making one word serve the purpose of two or three. But is elegance to be sacificed for so petty an object. Ten per cent of the students in tha university of Zurich are women.

Twenty-nine of them are studying medicine, fourteen philosophy, and two political economy. There are now forty-eight female students of medicine in London, and in Paris 103. Within the last seven years eighteen women have taken a medical degree in Paris. Magistrate You are accused of steal will occur at rieasanton on tne 18th inst. The defrauded colored man was in rieasanton when the sheriff, arrived "No, sir; I used to give credit, but I never do now.

In fact, no one asks me for tick any more." "How's that?" "Well, you the barber, trying the edge of his razor on his thumb nail, "I had a set of stiffs who used to ask me to chalk it down. I got tired of Jfceeping books and I adopted a new system. Whenever I shaved one of these old standbys I put a little nick in bi3 nose with a razor and kept tally in that way. They got bo they didn't want to run bills." There was a tremor in the customer's voice as he asked from beneath the lather, "Do you object to being paid in advanceT' with the prisoner, and clapped his hands and exclaimed, "data de man." Barber County Index: The case of the ing chickens, Uncle Bastus. Are you guilty or not guilty? Uncle Bastus I pleads not guilty, yo' Hon ah, an' inquests de priviledgeof fro wing myself on de mercy ob de Cou't in case de evidence goes agin me.

A Nevada woman, who wanted to get a divorce, gave her husband 8100 and paid his board for two weeks as remuneration for not contesting her application to the court for freedom. state of Kansas against Isaac Steele, charged with shooting Theodore Beers, European music- ia now to ba the fashion at the Japanese court. The first Europe? concert ever given in the palace took place at Tokio, when the emperor and empress and all the court officials further copied western usage by wearing European costumes. on the John Cook ranch, last May, was tried by a jury in the district court this Six Hundred Towels a Day From the recent- report of the on acoustics and ventilation, writes a week, and resulted in a verdict of guilty felonious assault. The two men had.