Salem Argus from Salem, Kansas • 3

KANSAS STATE NEWS. KANSAS FA I US, STOCK AND FARM Btookville will soon have a creamery, Sabetha is mo dug to secure a Busi Vood in Vrest, The American girl and woman don't dross as well as they should. Anglo-maniacs of lesser or greater degreo may talk about tho athletic Englishwoman and the extra weight and strength that tho carries if they like. Tho talk isn't good. American femininity has more strong points, outside that of health, than that of any other nation, except tho savages, of which we know little oxcopt that the son and fresh air have plenty of chance at them and that they work very hard and despise the hired girl.

But our women are inartistic dreasora, A promenade on any crowded tract in any American town will show that. Take a trip and see for your-solves. IH wogor a good deal that fat and squatty women will be soen in light-colored garmonts, and thin women in funeral black garments that show their imperfections of figure as luridly as a black-lettored sign on a white card. I wouldn't give a picayune mysolf for a woman who has not the necessary pride to dress herself as well as her means will allow. Clean, neat, and even luxuriant dress always supposing that one can afford luxury toll of ambition, and ambition's an excellent thing if controlled.

It may be an ab-senco of taste that leads a woman to dress in unsuitable dresses and chooso unsuitable patterns and shades for them. But advice ia one of tho cheapest things of the present day. And it is not alone the gaunt and the fat woman who handicap their faces and figures with bad dresses of bad shapes and worse colors. I see girls who are fair of face, but a little fleshy, who use barred goods for their dresses, and wear closo and small hats and bonnets; and tall aud rather diaphanous maidens, who havo an inordinate affection for bars and big brimmed hats. Very bad taste, my dears, I assure you, and unnecessarily bad taste, too.

It ia a taste that no amount of money can put into shape, because it arrays nature and art, against each other. And men are as bad or worse. They do not show as badly as women because the standard of dress ia not as high among them. A really well-dresaed man is something of a curiosity, tliou'gh there are quite a number of thorn in every group. I wish that the average apportionment of brain among them was larger than it is, for it has boon my bad luck to meet a good deal of masculine vapidity in good clothea.

But I suppose tho woll-dressod men of a con' tury of civilization average up bettor on intellectuality. At least I hope so. We all know thin young men who have an Ail Indlun Feast nnd Dance. The "te-can-na" is more, usually indulged in now uh a part of religious worship, This ia proporly tho feast and dauoe. A dog ling been prepared as a sacrifice, and wliilo it is being cooked over a 11 ro in tho lodgo and tho savory odor ia waf id to tho nostrils of the Indian, ho portorms his dovotions.

Only invitod guosts are proseut in thu lodgo to tako part in tho exorcises, aiul outside no ono approaches noar it. When tho dog has been well cooked, it is dishod up and passod around by one of tho priesthood (overy ono having brought his own dish). It is then eaten as quickly as possiblo, when tho ceremonies again begin. Seatod on tho platform are tho "musicians," They are hideously painted, and are in a state of somi-nudity, whilo they glitter with barbaric ornaments. Frantically they beat upon drums, interspersed with the shaking of gourds, singing, meanwhile, the sacred chant of the clan.

Here ia ono commonly uaod Mub-quoh Mak-a-moau Au-wah-tud-su Ku-bUuk-wo Mon-ua, euuu-kut-wo. This is the sacred song of tho Beur (Muhquoh) clan or band, four bands being represented at the Indian village. But now tho discordant tone of the chanting rises higher and higher, then sinks away almost to silence. Again it rises with renewed energy of voice, and anon ia heard no more. This is continued for many hours.

Tho women present are silent, and only the voice of one who has been allowed special privileges is heard. After this to them solemn ceremony the dancing begins, and is also observed as a part of worship. A loud, shrill whistle is blown that reaches to tho distant lodges. Then the covering is removed from the door, that all who wish may behold tho dunce. Ono behind the other with rhythmic, measured step, they slowly move in a circle around the lodge to tho music of the drum and the fierce chanting of tho "orchestra," which is mingled with tho whoops and shrill cries of the dancers.

The step of tho women is a peculiar jump which moves their whole bodies. The danco is generally continued until all are exhausted by tho violent exercise. Every style of costume, or lack of costume, is here depicted on the part of the Indians. Sonio are clothed with a consciousness of virtue and a necklace of bear's claws; others wear buckskin leggins and a dignified demeanor and still others a "beo-so-cah" (shirt) of gay calico (decorated with ribbons) and a war club, wliilo an ancient representative of this historic race, in tho intensity of his religious fervor, appears upon the scene clad with rectitude and a feather fan. The women are dressed usually in broadcloth skirts handsomely embroidered with different-colored silks, and all the paraphernalia of ornament that is used by both men and women on this occasion neither must wo forget the paint, which is put on with a lavish hand.

Allie li. Busby, in Brooklyn Magazine. Jiinls nnd Insects. The use of sparrows alone may bo seen by the following quotation from a small handbook on the subject which Rev. F.

O. Morris has recently published called "The Sparrow Shooter" "Two pairs of sparrows were watched by an observant naturalist feeding their young in their nests in only one-half hour with fflie lavie of tho bluebottle li from a dead cat. They fetched these in all a hundred and four times, and one of the birds also caught fourteen flies on tho wing. Now, the common house fly is computed to produce in one season, so prolific is its progeny after progeny, no less than 20,000,000, say, in round numbers 21,000,000, and thus were prevented by these two pair of birds no fewer than 280,000,000, by the capture of fourteen flics, and 2, 800, 000, 000 by the destruction of the 101 larvic. Again, we read, on unimpeachable authority, that there figured in the parish in Gloucestershire a chargo for seventeen dozen of (so-called) tomtits' heads in another parish, Melbourne, in Derbyshire, a sparrow club destroyed, in ono year, 4,507 small birds, and in yet another, 3,500.

Tako the smaller of these two last numbers, and multiply by it tho number of Hies just calculated as prevented by the two pairs of sparrows and it gives what we may very well call 'a grand total' or Linnmus calculated that the progeny of three flies would devour a dead horse almost as quickly as a lion. The aphis, fed on by several of our small birds, produces of herself as is well-known, female aphides, generation after generation. As many as eleven of these female generations have been produced in ono year, and it ia believed that it may go on in the same way year fter year. 'It is says Mac-Gillivray, the most accurate and observant naturalist that England has ever bad, 'that were tho quantity of seeds of the cereal plants which all tho grani-trorous birds in the country devour annually actually known it would pTove much higher than could bo imagined, pet by far the greater part could be of ase to man were all the birds destroyed, it being irrecoverably dispersed over the Cheap Swells in lioston. A dealer tells mo that there is a custom among certain "cheap swells" of clubbing together and buying a supply of highly-colored neckwear, the various articles of which are worn alternately by different individuals, who thus get tho credit among their acquaintances of being bountiful 1 provided with such attire.

I think it would be well for our "swells" in a higher grade of social lifo if they did not set tho example of ostentation in dress to their less favored brethren. Their imitation of English modes of dress often carries them beyond tho limits of good taste, and their extravagance, it is noteworthy, arises from the fact that they overdo this propensity. Thov put on in turn the largo plaid and check patterns for suits which the Englishman reserves for tho country, and thus call attention to their ignorance of tho proprieties of which they assume a knowledge. I am glad to see, however, that this ridiculous form of Anglomania is on the wano hero in Boston. Ronton Post.

Is wo were never tried our truo characters never would be known. A Lint of the County anil Dlntrlut Associa tion! with Dale. The following is the list of district and county agricultural societies and fair asso-oiations in Kansa, with name and jjostollico address of secretaries, and dates of fairs, as far as reported: Kansas btiitu I' air association, hlmwupe, Chester Thomas, Topcka, September 1M, 21, 22, 2.1. 24. estorn Tmtional I air association, Uous- Ihh, I.

N. Van llueseu, Lawrence, September 5, (J, 7, 111. Anderson uoumy air association, Ander son, J. uaroy, oaruett, August hep-tern her 1, 2. Barber Comity Agricultural Driving rark and Fair associutiuu, bourbon, 11.

Shel ley, New Kiowa. Brown County Exposition association, Brown, K. W. liulbert, Fort Scott, October 4, 5, 0 and 7. Chase county Agricultural society, cnuso, E.

A. Kiune, Cottonwood Fulls. Cherokee County Agricultural and Stock association, Cherokee, C. D. Nichols, Columbus.

Cheyenne County Agricultural association, Cheyoune, Charles F. Woodward, Wano, September 14, 15 and 111, Clay County Fair association, Clay. M. S. Tousen, Clay Center.

Republican Valley Agricultural Fair association, Cloud, Gus A. Beaucluimp, Concordia, August 31, September 1, 2 and 15. Coffee County Fair association, Coffee, J. E. Woodford, Burlington, September 12, 13, 14, 15 and 10.

Cowley County Fair and Driving Park association, Cowley, W. J. Wilson, Wintield, September 6, 7, and 'J. Crawford County Agricultural society, Crawford, Girard, October 4, 5, 7. Kansas Central Agricultural society, Davis, J.

F. Ayers, Junction City, September 27, 28, 21). Decatur County Exposition society, Decatur, George T.Hodge, Oberlin. Dickinson County Agricultural and Industrial association, Dickinson, James Culbert-son, Abilene. Doniphan County Fair association, Doniphan, Troy.

Edwards County Fair association, Edwards H. F. Best, Kinsley, September 27, 2'J, 30. Elk County Agricultural association, Elk. Thomas P.

Campbell, Howard, September 22, 35, 24. Southwest Kansas Exposition company, Finney, (). G. Coutant, Garden City. Ford County aud Kouthewestern Agricultural association, Ford, D.

M. Frost, Dodge City. Ellis County Agricultural society, Ellis, E. E. McLain, Hays City, September 20, 21, Franklin county Agricultural society, Franklin, William II.

Clark, Ottuwu, September 27, 2, 211, 30, October 1. Graham county Agricultural and Horticultural society, Graham, Randolph Burt, president. Gettysburg. Harper county Agricultural and Mechanical association, Harper, James M. Bent, Anthony.

Hurvey county Fair association, Harvey, II. A. Ensign, Newton, September 20, 27, 28. 29. Jefferson county Agricultural and Mechanical association, Jefferson, Edwin Snyder, Oskaloosa, September 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

Jewell county Agricultural nnd Industrial society, Jewell, John J. Daltou, Mankato, Senteuiber 27. .28. 21, 30. Johnson county Co-operative Fair association, Johnson, Dr.

J. E. Tucker, Edger- ton. Lincoln county Fair association, Lincoln, E. S.

Bower, Lincoln, September 21, 22, 23 and 24. Linn County Fair Association, Linn, John L. Grove, Jlounu City, September 1'J, 20, 21, 22 and 23. rieasantou Fair Association, Linn, J. W.

Latimer, rieasantou, September 13, 14, 1. und 10. La Cyguo District Fair Association, Linn O. D. Harmon, La Cygne, September 0, 7, 8 and Emporia Fair and Driving Association, Lyon, M.

S. Morehouse, Emporia. Marion County Agricultural society, Marion, J. J. Funk, Peabody, September 14, 15 and 10.

Mystic Driving Club, Marion, S. F. Carter, Marion. Marshall County Fair Association, B. Wilson, Maryyville.

Miami Comity Agricultural and Mechanical Association, Miami, J. Hayes, l'uolu. Cawker City District fair, Mitchell, Frank Goepel, Cawker City, September 0, 7, 8, Montgomery County Agricultural society, Montgomery, W. M. H.

Barues, Independence, September 0, 7, 8, 10. Morris County Exposition company, Morris, F. A. Moriarity, Council Grove, September 21, 22, 23, 2f. Morris County Agricultural society, Morris, C.

N. Hull, Parkersville. Sabetha District Fuir association, Nemaha, J. F. Clough, Sabetha, September 20, 21, 22, 23.

Nemaha Fair association, Nemaha, M. Matthews, Seneca, September (5, 7, 8, SI. Seventh Judicial Agricultural and Horticultural societv. Neosho. L.

L. Bailev. Cha- rmite. Norton County Agricultural association, Norton, E. J.

Jonet, Norton. Osage Comity Fair association, Osage, C. E. Filley, Burliiigame, September 27, 28, 30. Osborne County Fair association, Osborne, C.

W. Baldwin, Osborne, September 14, 15, 10. 17. Ottawa County Agricultural society, Ottawa, D. R.

Crosby; Minneapolis, August 30 and 31, and September 1 and 2. Pawnee County Trotting and Running association, Pawnee, F. D. Lowrcy, Lamed. Phillips County Agricultural and Mechnn-ical association, Phillips, J.

S. Barnes, Phil-lipsburg, September 27, 28, 20, 30. Kaw Valley Fair association, Pottawatomie, H. H. Hagan, St.

Marys. Pratt County Agricultural society, Pratt, J. D. Hawkins, Pratt. Rawlins County Agricultural society, Rawlins.

Albert Hemming, Atwood, Rice County Fair association, Rice, W. T. Nicholas, Lyons, October 4, fi, 6, 7. Blue aud Kansas Valley Agricultural society, Riley, Jahies R. Young, Manhattan, September 13, 14, 15, IS.

Plainville Agricultural society, Rooks, John Mullin, Plainville, September 27, 28, 20, 30. Rush County Industrial Fair association, Rush, A. C. Whiteman, La Crosse, Septem ber 13, 14, 15. Saline County Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical association, Saline, H.

B. Wallace, Salina, September 7, 8, Arkansas Valley Agricultural society, Sedgwick, D. A. Mitchell. Wichita, Septem ber 12, 13, 14, 15, 10.

Sheridan County Agricultural and Me chanical association, Sheridan, W. H. Ward, Hone. Smith County Agricultural society, Smith, F. J.

Puttee, Smith Center, September, 14, 15, 10, 17. Sumner County Agricultural and Mechan- ical association, Sumner, George T. Pitts, Wellington, August 31, September 1, 2. Washington County Live Stock, agricultural and Mechanical association, Washing ton, W. K.

McConnell, Greenlcaf, September 21. 22,23. Washington County Exposition association, Washington, C. F. Barrett, Washington.

September 12. 13, 14, 15, 10. Neosho Valley District Fair association, Woodson, W. W. bam, Neosho hulls.

thieves ia 17 years old and the doven of tho "corporation" is 78. Whole families live by the trade, and women and voung girls swell the curious gallery. Sinco the police havo been in possession of the albums it appears that horse-stealing has boon less frequent, the thieves having becomo more careful, since each of them may bo includ ed anions the portraits. Pall Mall I Gazette. The oat crop of McPheraon county is way above the average.

Oakuloosa Independent: Borne of tha wheut in these parts turns out a very fair yield much better than was indicated enilier. Chas. Buck cut 30 aorea which he thinks is as good a crop as he ever raised. The National Agricultural Department report mukes the decrease in the hog supply 1,500,000 from last year, and the hog cholera still devastating the herds in some parts of the country. This points to good prices a year at least.

Do not let the strawberries mat too thickly in the rows. It is better to have the space between the rows cultivated, and mature worked in, so as to benefit the crop for next season. Cut away the runners if they become too numerous. Osborne Journal: G. M.

Clark, living three miles northwest of town, Bhowed ns a cunoeiiy last week which sonsista of an egg within ai egg. The outer egg is 7 inches one way and 8 the other, and the inside one is of the usual size. The time for plowing varies to meet the requirements of different soils and localities. And as the time and manner of plowing advances no definite rales con be laid down by which to govern the operation, but every piece of land must be considered by itself. To have a fine turf the grass should be sufficiently vigorous to require mowing at least once a week.

To mow often and leave the clippings is better than to let grass get so large that it must be raked up and removed. Remove all perennial weeds by the roots. Garden City Stntinel: There is no doubt whatever but that our soil is adapted to the growth of the mulberry, and our climate to the healthy development of the silk worm, and with the thousand of Memonites to start the business it ought to prove a success. Osborne Co. Farmer: The flock of W.

A. Neiswanger yielded a clip of 13,740 pounds, making' an average of 6 pounds, 13 ounces. The ram flock gave an average of 23 pounds. The llock will move back to Wolf creek this week. Well-conducted experiments at the Massachusetts Agricultural Station show medium sized whole potatoes obtained from tubers of a corresponding size.

In the above trials sulphate of potash produced better results than the muriate of potash. Give to tne cows none but the best and purest food. With no other stock is this so essential, for the reason that it has been fully demonstrated by competent authorities that the milk is a very prolific source of transmitting disease germs from impure food, and eapecially from impure water. Dragging a harrow over the plowed ground is one of the hardest tasks that horses have to do in farm work, and teams are often imposed upon while doing it. The walking is hard for both driver and horses, and the former is often tempted to ride either on the harrow or one of the horses, not thinking or caring what the consequences really are.

Chetopa Advance: We doubt if another farmer in Labette county will be as successful this year os uncle John McCaw. He has 150 acres of corn and the same number of acres of wheat, and he reports a splendid crop of wheat and flattering prospects for corn. He fin-ifihed harvesting last week and on Friday five self-binders and twenty seven head of horses were req aired to finish up. This is farming on a grand szale and we are glad to know such success is to attend his labors. South Kansas Tribune: The wheat harvest in Montgomery county is now over, and this week the stacking will be finished and threshing begin.

The acreage is near 15,000, but the quality and yield is the best for many years, and it has been saved in fine condition. Hundreds of fields will yield 40 bushels per acre, nnd the general overage will be about 30 bushels over the oounty. Very mony of the farmers will thresh from the shock, and the weather is very favorable for the work. Oar people will have 400,000 bushels of the best quality of grain to be milled or shipped. The annual consumption of feathers in America for bedding purposes amounts to 3,000,000 pounds, or 375 car-loads.

To furnish this 3,000,000 healthy geese must give np their feathers in a year. The geese furnishing these downy pillows and beds of eate are to be found mainly in southern Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The climate is oold enough to cause tha feathers to be fine and soft, and not too cold to make their care a matter of un profitable labor to the farmers. Below tins territory the feathers are quilly and free from down. Above, the oold winters make geeee farming unprofitable, for when the goose can't find food for herself because of frozen land and water she has to be fed, and she'll eat as much corn as a sheep.

Garden City Sentinel: A correspond ent of the Wichita Eaqle, writing from Rocky Ford, Colorado, some 150 miles west of Garden City on the same river and railroad, says the farmers in that vicinity ore all hard at work cutting and curing their alfalfa crop, which is unus ually large. lie says the country around that village is one vast alfalfa fie1' and estimates the area at 6,300 acres. Garden City ought not to allow any other place in the Arkansas valley to stand ahead of her in this crop. In this vicinity the second cutting will soon begin and the Sentinel reporter yesterday saw some hay of the first cutting in stack, thot was just the ideal cf perfect fodder. It was as green as before it was cut with all the leaves on in perfect 6hape, and reminds our reporter of green tea.

It was in a large stack which was covered with a cloth or canvas to prevent damage by rain. ness College. A 96-pound cutflsh was caught near Oketa last week. The Graham County Normal Institute begins August 8. The richest val'ey in Cloud county is named Poverty Flut.

A creamery company has been organized at Coffeyville. There are 82,099 acres of land under cultivation in Norton county. Hiawatha has a young lady who watches over 15,000 silk worms. Large fish have been caught in the Solomon near Portis this summer. At Peabody a hotel three stories high and with a frontage of 150 feet' is to be built.

A thiiteen inch vein of coal has been discovered twelve miles northeast of Emporia. From present appearances Republio county will raise 6,000,000 bushels of corn this year. Nathan Davis, probate judge of Elk county, is charged forgeries to the extent of $3,000. The Independence canning factory is now running full handed, ana gives employment to forty or fifty people. The Osage Free Press advises Kansas farmers to quit sowing oats.

Oats, it says, and chinch bugs go together. Crops along the line of the Southern Kansas railroad were never looking bet ter, and the farmers wear a broad smile accordingly. Pratt, Kansas, is getting to be an im portant city. Sixteen brick stores are now going up there, nine of which are three stories high. The council of Lawrence has granted a ninety-nine years' lease on a portion of the city park to the "Art League" for the purpose of building an art hall.

Winfield is troubled over the sole of a liquid labeled "Malt." It is sold openly and seems to irake people drunk who drink it. The Visitor thinks it a very poor quality of beer. The Missouri Pacific has announced that it will ship wheat to mills along its line for one-half tariff rates, provided it receives seventy.five per cent of the re-shipment of the product of these mills. The Wellington Qind Nunc charges that intoxicating liquors are being sold in violation of law in that town, and demands that the proper officers take steps toward wiping out the illegal business. ElDorado Republican, 18th: Town ship Trustee McCraner, of Milton, and D.

L. Hersy, of the same neighborhood, were in town yepterday and in conversation with them we learn that they had a few days before measured a hill of corn and 24Vhouis afterward measured it again and in the time it had grown exactly six inches. KANSAS G. A. R.

The G. A. R. Poet of Glen Elder has suspended. The ladies of Arconia have organized a reiiet crops to the li.

a. a. rost with Mrs. H. H.

Strickland as president; Mrs. J. E. Carr, secretary and Miss Rose Yeager, Chatnjplain. The council of Administration of Jefferson County G.

A. R. will meet at tne Couit House in Oskaloosa, on Wednesday, July 13, at 2 o'clock, p. for the purpose of deciding when and where to hold the county Reunion. Hutchison Astra; At an enthusiastic meeting Joe Hooker Post Friday night it was determined to leave no stone unturned that might addl to the complete success of the re-union to be held in this city on the 7th and 8th of July next.

Among the articles of incorporation field on Saturday were those of "The G. A. R. Building and Loan Association," of JetTiore, Hodgeman. Term, ten years.

Capital stook, 810,000. Directors: D. W. Lamed, L. r.

Mock, James Gillrrd, J. H. McHugh W. A. Agee.

Ford Countv Republican The G. A. Post of this city has organized a drum corps, consisting of four fifes, four eight snare tenor drums and one bass drum. The drums arrived a few days since, and the Grand Army boys will soon be in a condition to furnish onr citizens some excellent music. KANSAS CHURCHES.

Kanopolis is to have a Presbyterian church building, to cost $1,700. The Catholios at Kingman Bre build ing a church. The cost is estimated at three thousand dollars. Concordia is the Bishops diocese, and work has already begun on the buildings the society demands at such places. According to announcement a large number of citizens, ladies and gentlemen, faced the hot sun on Monday forenoon to witness the laying of the corner stone of the new Methodist Episcopal church in Meade Center.

Wellington Quid-Kunc: A company of ministers belonging to the English Lutheran denomination are in the city and are prospecting on the advisability of erecting a church for that denomination. This church now meets in a neat room on the second floor of the new State National Bank. Wiohita Eagle: Sunday was the for mal opening of the auditorium of the new Catholic church in this city. This mairnifioent structure which was com menced over a rear ago is bow almost entirely completed. It is a building cf architectural beouty within and without costing already about $25,000 and rank ing among the very finest churches in the state.

Garnet is to huve street railways. ElDorado is to have a telephone. Downs is making an excellent finality of brick. MePherson county is suffering with mad dogs. The Blue Rapids woolen mill is again running.

New potatoes are selling at Oberlin for $3.00 per bushel. Garden City is now putting np 85 brick and stone buildings. A farmer near Parsons, while digging a well, discovered a vein of lead ore. Ten new oolleges are in process of erection in Kansas at the present time. The editor of the Wiob.it a Journal was held up and robbed of $13 Friday night.

Hutchinson is to have an ice man ufacturing company with a capital of $35,000. Haddam Clipper: The timber Bbounds in mulberries this summer, the crop being one of the best for years. Barber county has on assessed valua tion of three and one-half million dollars, a gain of one million during the past year. Greensburg the county seat of Kiowa county claims a population of 2,200. It has five banks having a total capital of 8300,000.

There promises to be trouble in set- ling the Leavenworth fire losses. The insurance men claim that the conditions of the police were violated. Charley Haesard came in this morning with 700 head of beeves from Texas. The number of cattle and stockmen in Caldwell is increasing daily. Work began on the First National bunk building at Kingman, to be three stories high with basement.

There are now in process of erection twenty-two brick business houses in the town. Mr. C. C. Coutant, who has been doing the editorial work on the Garden City Sentinel for the last three years, has laid down the tuber for the present and will go in search of health the present summer.

The president and secretary of the Kansas State Temperance Union have prepared a statement regarding prohibition in Kansas, which is issued more especially to be used in the campaign for prohibition in Texas. The statement declares prohibition to a success. Jewell County Republican: An unusual accident befell J. H. Meitzler of Brown's Creek township.

While walking behind a self binding harvester he stumbled and fell." To save himself he threw his hand forward and the big binding needle was driven through it. It made a very bad wound. Newton Republican: G. Murphy, living in Barton county was instantly killed by lightning about a week ago. J.

W. Henry of this city had sold a piece of land to Mr. Murphy. The papers had been made out, the money placed in a third paity's hands for payment, but Murphy was killed before he had affixed his signature to the papers. The bitter county seat fight in Garfield county has biought to light the fact that the county is not legally constituted.

The constitution of the state provides that the lines of any county shall not be changed so as to include an area of less than 432 square miles. Through a legislative blunder Garfield only includes 430 square miles. A party of colored persons were bath ing near Arkansas City, and were diving from a spring-board on the banks into tha river. When one of them named Williams made his dive it is supposed he took the cramp and was unable to swim. He came up twice.

The third time he went down aud that was the last seen of him. Although the river is being dragged to recover the body it has not been found. The Win field pacers tell of a man by the name of James Leak, who committed suicide by deliberately walking into the river near there and drowning himself. From a scrawl of writing in the pocket of his clothes, which he had taken off and left on the bank, it was learned that he had twice dreamed he was to lose a law suit in whioh he was engaged, and this so preyed upon his mind that he concluded to end his career. Quenemo Republican: Charley Wor-ley met with a very painful accident last Monday.

While he was ripping a board on the machine he has for that purpose nd which has a circular saw, the board he was ripping slipped and palled his hand under the saw which ran under the heel of his thumb in the plam of his hand cutting it almost off and drawing the lender out into the palm of his hand. It bled profusely and is a very ugly wound. Cherokee Sentinel: It will be remembered that two weeks ago we gave an account of a mad dog passing throngh town and biting a number of dogs, besides two fat hogs for Mr. Woodbury. The dogs were killed and the hogs fastened np to see what the resnlt would be.

Wednesday evening the hogs that was know to have been bitten began acting curiously, and yesterday morning showed unmistkabble sings of hydrophobia A large number of people went to gaze on it, and after experimenting with it awhile both were killed and buried. Walnut Journal: Alvin Doon, aged 8 years, the son of Mrs. Doon a widow lady, who lives six miles northwest of Walnut, was instantly killed by light ning while standing in the stable near the house. Jason Gravbill, a hired hand, stood near the boy who was killed and was severely shocked but not seriously injured. Alvin was hit on the hoad by the fluid and his hair singed off and the charge passea down his body ana into the ground.

abiding love for striped and very tight trousers and hats with overpowering brims. And we all know how the gen eral effect of tho hat, tho trousers, and tho man strikes tho eye of everybody but the thin man. All tall men wear pea jackets and short onea frock coats, and fair men red neckties aud dark ones blue and green shaded ones. This incongruity puts more color and humor into one's look at the throng, I'll admit, but it isn't healthy and ought to bo banished. Clcvela nd I'la indcaler.

Live Jewels. All tho old families in Cartagena, writes a correspondent from Now Grenada, South America, have more or loss servants, their former slaves or their descendants, to whom wages are paid, who live in tho lowest story of the house and provide for themselves in some mysterious way. Tho young ladies make up dulcea and sweetmeats, which aro taken out on traya by the servants and sold. The money obtained in this way is faithfully handed to the sonorita of tho house, who pur chases the delicate fabric and pretty ribbons for tho new dress, as she dare not make her appearance in the ono previously worn. How lovely these dresses are ornamented at night with the caculloa (koo-koo-yos), the large and brilliant firefly of tho jungles of the interior! When tho cacullo is lively it is tho most beautiful of jewels in effect.

A coal of fire is waved at the edge of the jungle where tho coeullo lives. The beetles llock to the light and are knocked down easily iuto the grass, whence thoy are picked up and put into a joint of sugar-cane, where they get fat and lively and are ready for use when wanted. The effect produced by trimming a mull dress with cacullos, which emit a strong and uniform light, of an incandescent greenish character, is very striking. Young ladies attach two or more cacullos to tho hair at the back of the head. After tho ball these jewels are reimprisoned in tho sugar-cane until wanted again.

At the commencement of the dessert the ladies rise and retire, but just bo-foro doing so a coal of fire ia placed on the table and tho young lady opposite the malo guest deftly rolls up a cigarette aud lights it, gives two or three whiffs, ond then with grace removes it from her lips to those of her male vis-a-vis. I attended many balls without introduction, and approached any lady who struck my fancy, and solicited her hand for a waltz. They seemed to think it all right. It gave them a chance to flirt. One can say a great many flattering things without offending.

Warmth of expression is looked upon as a compliment to tho beauty of your partner, who is never displeased- at least she never shows it. Singular to say, tho same young lady may be met, ball after bJl, and receive your advances with approval, but she will not recognizo you on tho street. I never could induce any ono of the ladies of tho house where I lodged to walk out on tho walls (the promenade). I was told it was contrary to the custom of tho country, and would compromise tho lady, and yet I felt sure the girl would have given tho world to marrv an American Ocr own heart is a school in whict wo study the hearts of others..