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Dostoniang told that tho Negro Cau Never Control tlie South. S03II3 MISSING- LINKS. Peii'i'lfHm has been discovered In Queensland. A Wheeling inventor Is at work upon a watch which is expected to run a month without winding, Walter Scull's dairy of tho later years of lii.s life is soon to be printed by an Ivliiibiirgh publisher. The Russian minister of tho interior is preparing; a scheme to cheek the Increasing immigration into Russia, especially of Germans.

An official of the British navy, having seen our cruisers in Boston harbor, pronounced thorn to be tho most effective war vessels of their class in the world. An Ohio tramp stopped a runaway team, thus saving tho lives of a oman and her two daughters. The grateful owner of the rig presented the liititi a gold watch. TERRITORIAL TOPICS. Ciithrio has live hundred school children nt present.

Ten Oklahoma sweet potatoes will fill a bushel basket. Hennessey has thirty-live school children but no school. Both Guthrie and Oklahoma have Y. M. C.

A. organizations. Guthrio is discussing tho advisability of stock yards. It is a move In the right di-rection; The Kingfisher board of trade Is circulating 5,000 descriptive articles to boom tho town. J.

D. Miles, mayor of Lisbon, is a prominent candidate for governor of Oklahoma. Twenty thousand and two hundred of Oklahoma's people are distributed among twenty-eight towns. Oklahoma City is putting in Its best licks for Oklahoma City's welfare-Bridge are now on tapis. The marshal and constable get $2 for Fort Scott fines Its Jolnlsts $100 and costs.

Kansas City, Kansas, is to have its' first wholesale cigar house. Tho First National bank of Abilene, Kansas, has closed its doors. Henry Baithing, ex-mayor of Topeka, died in San Francisco last week. Tho Trego County Teachers' association wants women 011 every school board. A vote on high license or Prohibition in the Fort Scott Y.

M. C. A. resulted in a tie. Diphtheria has almost entirely disappeared at Eudora mid the city schools have been reopened.

"Thoso who have steers to shed prepare to shed them now," Is tlie way a Kansas exchange puts it. The New York Star says there is as much use for a national university as there Is for a national circus. Anthracite coal has been discovered at Alma, Vabaimse county, and that village is declaring for a boom. The joints are so very tight at Atchison that a man with a bad cold can go right by without suspecting tlie existence of one. An Atchison flouring mill has just closed a contract for thirty-six car loads of flour to bo delivered in Glasgow, Scot- lanu.

The new gas well in East Abilene has been sunk two hundred feet, and the prospects are good for its being sunk deeper. Wellington has a seven-year-old bootlegger. While his boots "are not big enough, ho can rustic a customer a bottle of beer in a jiffy. A colony composed of a number of Lawrence people js being made up and will start for tlie new state of Washington shortly after the holidays. Emporia Republican: The American people are always equal to great emergen, cies.

It didn't take Leavenworth long to restore the pontoon bridge. K. C. Star: The climate of the Atlantio seaboard does not agree with Cleopatra's Needle. It is believed that the only way to save it is to send it to Kansas.

The Salina News is authority for the statement that Kansas City has more joints than any other Kansas town and that George Martin is aware of Topeka Journal: The Cronln trial is nearly over. It has resulted chiefly in tho finding out where nearly everybody in Chicago was on the night of May 4. A band of burglars is said to exist In Southern Kansas with headquarters at Conway Springs. Some "leading citizens" are said to be connected with the concern. Arkalon News: John AVanamaker is looking so pale and haggard that Uncle Jerry Rusk inadvertently alluded to him as Waii Johnnymaker at the last cabinet meeting.

The defalcation of Treasurer Fortner.of Riley county, has had the effect of closing the schools In many districts in that county for the whiter for want of funds to pay tho teachers. The commissioners of Shawnee county refused to accept the bond offered by a colored man recently elected justice of the peace. The justice claims that tho refusal was based upon his color. General Thomas Ewing, tho first chief justice of the state has accepted an Invitation to deliver an address before the state bar association at its annual meeting to be held in Topfcka in January. 11' iiiiiiii 1111,11111111, 1 .11 mil ill nn1 vent the issuance of passes to ollicial per ponages, and several of tho "boys" who carry annuals in their morocco cases are wondering what plumb meaift.

General Smith, of the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, has posted orders that no more members will be received at the home until further notice. Tho place is crowded to its fullest capacity at present. If tho authorities do not discontinue tho practice of making wholesale arrests from Stevens county for murder, or the times get better, tho entire population of that section will either be in jail or the poor house. Four boys by the name of Matthews, In Smith county, oiler to bet $100 to $500 that they can husk and crib 500 bushels of Com a day. They have two sisters whom they oiler to bet can husk 200 bushels a day and put it in the crib.

Kansas is famed and loved and respect-en the world over; in hovel and in castle. King Oscar, of Sweden, recently contributed 800 volumes to the Bethany college at Lindsborg, McPherson county, and tho books arc now on the shelves. A $100,000 mill for tlie manufacture of sugar, salt and paper is now being built The Sn jar Men Must the Front. Conic to Irrigation Impracticable. Another Kansas Water nnrbor.

iuneral News. Kansas Interested. Washington, 1). Dec. 16.

The re- porLof the Texas Deep-water Commission, it is understood, is now ready, will be submitted to the War Department for transmission to congress in a lew uays. Col. Roberts, Corps of Engineers, United ariuv, is the Chairman, and ho has notillctl the Secretary of War that the report may be expected before the holidays. It is not yet known whether the commission makes any recommendation as to a particular site, but it is rumored that Aransas Pass is the harbor selected. Whatever may be the report of the commission, Congress is expected to take definite action in tho matter Una session.

Speaker Heed has already been requested to appoint a special committee to consiuer the proposed legislation concerning a deep-water harbor, but he has expressed a disinclination to do so. His plan is to leave the subject to the standing committee on Kivers and Ilarbors, but tho Texas, Arkansas and rwinsas members will make an effort to have him name a select committee will offered in the House early this week. The Irrigation Problem. Toi'eka, Dec. 16.

Professor E. 51. Shelton, of the state agricultural college, was directed a few weeks ago by the regents of that institution to investigate the subject of irrigation in western Kansas. The professor spent sometime in that direction and reports as follows: "Except in the case of limited tracts of land flanking largo streams like tlie Ar kansas, no general system of irrigation is possible in western Kansas. Water for use for this purpose on an extended scale is wholly or in great part wanting.

Such streams as the Smoky Hill, the Cimarron, the Dearer, the Solomon and their larger atliiients might furnish water for irrigation upon a small scale but the quantity of water available for this purpose is sure to be small during the season when it is most needed. In the lower valleys where water may be had by digging shallow wells it would doubtless be possible to practice irrigation upon a considerable scale by means of powerful pumps of the Ilull'er pattern, but this is at present only a speculation." After the Figures. Toi'eka, Dec. 16. Secretary Mohler, of tho agricultural department, has demanded of the factories which are receiving bounty from the state under the law enacted bv the legislature for the en couragement of the industry, that they tell the people just what they are doing.

In an interview with a reporter Mr. Jlohler said: "In an alleged interview I have been made to say that the sugar factories of Kansas have had a successful season this year. That is a mistake. What I did say and still say is that the time has come when the people of Kansas demand that the true status of the sugar industry shall be made known. If the sugar "factories are making no money the people want to know the reason why.

If they are making money the people want to know how much. This information is expected and required of each factory which puts in a claim for state bounty this year." Another I'ool Gone. Hutchinson, Dec. 16. The news of Frank Hyde's attempt to kill 5Irs.

Ehler and his suicide at Kansas City was received in tho city soon after it happened, and while it created considerable stir, it may bo said with ease that it was not a complete surprise. The "surprise" feature was relieved by the fact that such an ending is common to a life conspicuous for association with wine and women. A few years ago, during the boom, the name of Frank Hyde was honored by almost everyone. He was known by a few intimate friends to be a little wild at times, but no one thought his fascination for staying up all night would get the controlling power. He had a most excellent wife, who is ever respected most highly for her many ladylike qualities.

Uncle Sam's Grist. Washington, Dee. 1G. Six fourth-class postmasters were appointed to vacancies in Kansas postollices, all in the south and west of the state, as folio wes: Argonia, Sumner county, C. B.

Athcrton, vice Geo. Burton, removed; Doster, Sumner county, S. Venard, vice A. N. Wilson, resigned; Kalvesta, Garfield county, G.

W. Palinet-ton, vice A. V. Kennedy, removed; Lake City, Barber county, G. Shigley, vice T.

C. Cuppy, resigned: Hinneola, Claric county, Anna Driskcll, vice S. W. Wright, resigned; South Hutchinson, Reno county, v. nay, vice (J.

I'acldock, removed As Reorganized. Boston, Dec. 16. A decisive majority of every issue of the thirty-six issues of bonds by the Atchison, Topcka oanta rail lias been deposited tin der the re-organization plan. The total amount deposited is $123,860,760, of which $30,313,700 were from European holders.

Directors have voted to preveut hardships to distant and absent holders who had not become acquainted with the plan, such holders have till December 31 to deposit bonds at the discretion of the chairman of the board. Evidently a Murder. 'Gitiirik, Dec. 1G. A post mortem examination on the body of Dr.

Cheney was held Saturday. He Is the homesteader who was found dead with a bullet hole in his head. It was supposed to have been a stray shot, but the examination to-day, changes the opinion, and it now looks as if it was murder, and arrests are looked for at any moment. Another Kansas Rank Clone. Riciifiki.d, Dec.

10. The Bank Richticld failed to open Saturday morning and made an assignment to King, of this place, for the benefit of creditors. The assets are $30,000. The failure was probably precipitated by the order of the county commissioners for the bank to give new bonds to secure the county funds deposited there. Friday was the bust day to furnish the bond and it was not put up.

This morning tiie bank failed to open its doors and the assignment was filed. The attorneys for the hank state that they exjicet to arrange with the creditors so as to resume in a short time. I'ractical Theology. The students' life-saving crew of tin Northwestern university at Evanston, 111., did noble work In saving the crew of the steamer Calumet that went ashore on Lake Michigan during the recent gale. The station at Evanston is no different from any other, save that members of lli crew are theological studcats.

When the station bell rings they leave their recitations or prayers and rush for the boat They are ixr fellows working for an education, and the government pavs them 50 a month during the season of "navigation. They have had several chances ta prove their bravery, and have proved 11 way that deserve; mention. as Tho Cherokee Commission JJe-tni iis to "Washington. Will Wed Again. "Doc." Cheney Killed Near Guthrie.

The Cronln Jury Out. l'ui'duncd by Gov. Humphrey. I.o as a Deliberate I.inr. 4 Taw.uquah, I.

Pec. 14. The commission has failed in its negotiations with the Clierokoes for the sale of the Cherokee outlet and will leave for Washington to-day. The commission will prepare its report during tho holidays und submit it to congress upon tho reassembling of that body. Tho committee appointed by the Cherokees met with tho commission hist Monday and asked that the latter request the government to permit them to treat with tlie Indians tinder that section of the law which allows them to offer more than $1.25 per acre for the land.

Several trivial questions were also asked. The lady stenographer of the commission reported the interview. When tho report was transcribed the commission replied that the questions were trivial and did not deserve answer. The Indians replied that the stenographer's report of tho interview was incorrect and had been falsified by the stenographer. The commission made answer that that charge was a deliberate falsehood and notified the Indians that all negotiations were at an end so far as the present commission was concerned.

A personal note was sent to each member of the Indian committee charging each with deliberate falsehood and informing each the allegation against tho lady stenographer wass as contemptible as it was false. This correspondence has caused excitement. A delegation of full bloods called on the commission this evening and informed them that the full bloods were unanimous to sell the outlet at $1.23 per acre. Will Marry Again. Paris, Dec.

14. During the recent term of the federal court Judge Boar-man decided that the marriage of non-citizens in tiie Indian territory were void. This has caused considerable commotion along the borders and is making elopements to that Gretna Green very rare. Last spring James Stump and Eliza Manning, of this county, went to tlie Choctaw nation and married. On rending Judge Boarnian's decision tliey concluded that it might preclude complications by marrying In this state.

So a license was obtained, and to-duy they were made man and wife according to the laws of Texas after living together as such for eight months under the Impression that they were lawfully married. Hundreds of others will follow this couple's example. Judge Boarnian's decision is generally indorsed, especially by fathers with daughters of a romantic turn in mind. Founcl Dead. GuTimin, Dec.

14. A man who has been identified as Dr. Cheiny was killed about miles southeast of the city last evening and brought into town about 7 p. m. lie had a bullet hole In his left temple and was warm when found, but no person or weapon were found near him.

When shot ho was sitting on a log at the edge of a wood and was probably mistaken for a deer, as several hunting parties were scouring the woods at that place. Cheney came here from Kingman, where lie formerly run a joint, anu lias been here since April 22. He lefta line claim, with no contest. In tlie Hands of the Jury. Ciiicaoo, Dec.

14. Owing to the oon. tinned illness of Luther Lallin Mills, who was to close for the Stale in tho Cronln case, the final address was made by Judge Loiigeneckcr yesterday. The case was given to the jury at 4:30 p. and at midnight there' was no indication of an agreement.

Immense crowds havo filled the streets around the court house and tho excitement is more intense than at tho time of the anarchist trials. The general opinion is that tlie defense has secured at least one juryman and that a disagreement will result. Shot in His Tracks. Oklahoma City, Dec, 14. Last night some one was heard prowling around tho house of Laura Walker.

John Mulliii, a visitor, started to investigate and immedi ately upon the opening of the door was confronted by three masked men, who ordered him to hold up his hands. Ho obeyed the command and at the same time received the charges of three Winchester rilles in the abdomen. He died in a short time. The motive for the crime is not known. Roger Q's.

Scheme. Washington, Dec. 14. Congressman Mills, of Texas, thinks the shrewdest move the Democrats can make is to raise the amount of Silcott's defalcation instead of attempting to have the sum drawn from the treasury again. He oilers to donate his November salary to that eiid.

Catching Suckers. Kansas City, Dec. 14. Mexican Consul Ucneral Rahdcn lias discovered that a large number of people In Missouri and Kansas have been victimized by the purchase of fraudulent Mexican bonds. In some instances, lie says, they have been taken as collateral for bank loans.

Executive Clemency. Toi'eka, Dee. 14. Gov. Humphrey has pardoned Daniel Klee and F.

1. Justice, the former convicted of burglary nnd the latter for attempted rape. Doth were sentenced hi Crawford comity. By the Shot-Gun Route. CoxcoiiDiA, Dec.

14. Mrs. Mary J. Fanclier, who lived with her husband and son in Oakland committed suicide while alone in tho house by blowing her head oil with shot-gun. The Two Sluggers.

Boston, Dec. 14. It is now apparently settled that Sullivan will meet Peter Jackson before tho California Athletic club for a purse of $15,000, the fight to take place in live months. Instantly Killed. Vamky Falls, Dec.

11. Rev. Liberty l'rcutis, uu old and well known Methoilist preacher, was killed by a runaway horse. lias an Opinion. Wichita Baffle: J.

Bunkum Weaver got In his work in great shape in the construction of the Farmers' "platform." Pro nouncing in lavor ot greenbacks just now, when the popular sentiments is over whelmingly in favor of retiring: that cur. rency in lavor or one based on a tangible nd substantial foundation, is simply the freak of a crank on that subject, the initial of whose name begins this paragraph. langeroof. Do not make puns if yon care for your reputation. Shakespeare was a victim of tlie habit, and now people are trying to prove that be didn't write his own work.

4 9 be 3 to St HAMILTON, KANSAS, "Shall wo stick to the fanny asks this editor of the Modern Farmer in ft stirring editorial. If he'll try to go "cross lots" on a rainy day, he'll never have any doubts about it. A Minnesota school ma'am, reported devoured by wolves, comes up smiling a week after her bones were picked mid explains that she simply took a week's vacation to get married in. It's a shame to disappoint the public in this fashion. A German professor of languages at Dresden, in speaking before a class the other day, said that the next hundred years would witness the total extinction of the German language, and that English alone would be spoken on the habitable globe.

Several American citizens are just now advocating a tax on vehicles to make a fund for keeping pavements in repair. As it Is the vehicles which wear out the pavements it seems only just that tlnf snould pay for it, though this idea has al ,1... III ways been vigorously opposed. "If any tree would bark the dogwood," observes the Pittsburg Chronicle. Not a doubt of it, sir, and if any tree would read the redwood.

You can continue this sort of business right down until the sap is entirely exhausted. Then you'd have to root for something else. An Illinois woman who broke her wrist while trying to raise a window in a railroad car has just received damages, and a Wisconsin man who broke his thumb in the same endeavor is suing for $3,000, damages. The car-window is the leading nuisance of America. The present style has got to go.

Although the finders of horseshoes are breaking their arms and legs every day In the year, and many of them are turning up in states prison on ten-year sentences, the man who would go out and argue that the horseshoe does not bring the greatest kind of good luck would be considered an enemy to society. A New York lawyer estimates that one witness out of every fifteen put on the stand commits perjury, and that the number of perjurers average fifty per day in the United States. It is rare, indeed, that any one is tried for the crime, and this makes it not only an easy matter, but a safe one. It is safcr'than lying to a hack-man. Prof.

Graham, another Canadian who is ambitious to be known as a weather prophet, predicts that more people will have chilblained feet this winter than for the' past twenty-five years. There is room for yet another. Let lain predict that there will be more cold noses than there has been known since Columbus discovered America. The Pekin Gazette celebrated its one thousandth birthday last month, and called particular attention to the fact that it had not made a single improvement of any sort in tho last COO years. It didn't even mention the discovery of America until ninety-four years after it happened, being afraid to weary Its readers with something new.

The wife of a Brooklyn insurance agent visited his office during Ids absence, carried tho contents of his waste-basket away with her, and after two weeks of hard work she patched several love letters together and made application for divorce. Why will men continue to be so forgetful of the peril which has always hung over tho waste-basket? A Boston paper says that had 1,000 steamers been at work, each throwing two streams of water, they could not have put out the fire in any one of the big buildings after it got fairly started. When it is understood that the flame from a barrel filled with shavings will neutralize four barrels of water it seems ridiculous to boast of an invincible fire department. Jons Forth, a Minnesota man, was digging a well, when it caved In on him. Two men offered to fill up the well for $8, and the widow sat down and ligured the funeral expenses at $14.

She told them to go ahead, as it would save her $8, and they were at work when her neighbors interfered and compelled her to the extravagauoe of exhuming the body. Holland has taken a step backward. By a vote of the chamber the government will now grant aid to the denominational eejjools, and free schools, except for paupers, have been abolished. The next thing Holland knows the Flying Dutchman will swoop down on her with all sails set and carry off the whole country to some outlandish place where bigotry and ignorance will not be noticed. When Dom Pedro was unceremoniously shipped out of Brazil the revolutionists declared that lie had submitted, gracefully to the new order of things and a littlo later sent out the report that he had secretly favored the revolution.

Dom Pedro was on the high seas and this report could not be contradicted. Its effect was to induce the colonies which had been loyal to the dethroned monarch to Hibinit to the provisional government. JJut Pom Pinlro has -bed a telegraph station and he now declares that he did not submit and that Brazil Is not ready for a Republican form of government, which proves that some liwllians arc as much liars as all men arc declared to be. I'unally has Ionic Effect. What's the matter, old nun Fin fwliiiir very well.

"Your wiled away, isn't (die? "Yea." "Swiiis to n-e vnn ought to feci well, then." JowH f'itiwru Mutual. "Do you know Smifkjns?" relied the Juiing woman to wlom the qiifslion waa addressed; "I bare met him." "He claims to Iiw.k down wwii-ty." "Doe lie? Well, I re observed that toeietr does as much for him. Merchant Traveler. of In Ben. Bntterworth after the Forgers.

Dcra-oorau Don't like Col. Dudley. Death of liobert Drowning. At the Hub. Boston, Deo.

13. Ex-President Cleveland and a number of other distinguished guests from abroad participated in the banquet of the Boston Merchants' associa. tion last night. Mr. Cleveland spoko of personal political selfishness as a means of corrupting the suffrage, and also of means to be employed to purify the bal-lot.

Henry W. Grady, of Georgia, ad. dressed himself, to tho race problem. Among other tilings he declared tlnrt "it would bo well if the northern partisan would understand that ho negro vote can never again control the south. Tho north may surrender its liberties to a federal election law, but never again will a single state, north or south, be delivered to the control of an ignorant and inferior race." Democrats Weakening.

Helena, Dec. 13 The senate convinced at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The lieutenant governor inquired of tlie scrgant-at-arms if he had found the absent senators. He replied that he had but they refused to obey his summons. Tlie door-keeper then announced that five Democratic senators were in tlie ante- room and desiredto have an informal talk with tlie Republican members.

Recess was then taken for an hour and the informal caucus then began with closed doors. The correspondent is informed that at the Democratic senatorial caucus this afternoon five Democratic senators announced their determination to present themselves tho senate chamber not later than next Monday morning or resign their seats. The Failure at Abilene. Abilene, Dec. 13.

Bank Examiner J. Grillith took charge of the suspended First National bank this morning. Owing to the extensive business carried on it will be several days before his report to the comptroller of the currency can be made. Ho authorizes the statement that the assets will pay depositors in full. The stockholders will stiller owing to the impossibility of realizing cash upon much of tlie paper held.

The best estimate made of liabilities is of nominal assets Business firms of the city are unaffected by tlie failure as it was not unexpected, their interests in the bank were reduced to a small figure. Chicago's Important Election. Chicago, Dec. 13. Tho most important local election probably ever held in Chicago took place yesterday.

It was to decide the control of the newly created board of nine waterway commissioners, the members of which are to have the raising and dlsbursmeat of the funds, es-timated from fifteen to thirty million dollars, und the employment for an Indefinite period of 15,000 men. At midnight returns indicated the election of tlireo straight Democrats, three Independent Democrats and three independent Republicans. One of the candidates on the citizen's ticket was the only Socialist in tho Held, lie is counted politically as one of tlie Independent Democrats. After the "Jointists." Leavenworth, Dec. 13.

The police searched the grocery of Chris. Staiber, on North Third street, for liquors, and seized two 2-gallon jugs of whisky, a dozen bottles of beer. The intoxicants were taken to police headquarters and stored away. Marshal Doano has notified all parties known to have in their po-eessioir intoxicants, for "joint purposes," to get it out of town or take the chances of having it emptied into the gutter by the police. Acting on this hint one proprietor removed fifty barrels this afternoon over the pontoon bridge to Stirliugsville, Mo.

A Storm in Hoogierdom, Cambridge Citv, Dec. 131 A rain storm with vivid lightening and tornado accompanying, visited this vicinity yesterday. No special damage was donO here but about four miles west of here tho destruction was great. An area of one-half by four miles were covered. The storm traveled southwest to northeast.

Two houses and barns were unroofed and a two story building, barn and out buildings were completely demolished. Cyrus Collin was hi an out "house which was carried some distance. He extricated himself and saved his life by clinging to a tree. They Want Col. YV.

W. Dudloy. IxDiAXAroLis, Dec. 13. Col.

W. Dudley arrived here yesterday for tho purpose of attending the reunion of his old regiment, the lUtu Indiana, at Win Chester to-day. An old affidavit with re-gard to tlie famous "blocks of five" letter was revived by some leading Democrats, but the U. S. attorney said he would dis miss all charges if any arrest was made.as they had been fully investigated by two tcderai grand juries, under the direction of Democratic district attorneys, and found to be insufficient to base an indict ment upon.

After the Forgers. Washington. Dec. 13. In the house.

Congressman Ben. Bntterworth, of Cincinnati, introduced a series of resolutions for the appointment of a special commit tee to investigate the ballot-box contract case, which excited so much interest in Ohio last fall. The document, which is pronounced a forarery, implicates senator Sherman Campbell, Butter. worth, Brcckenridge and others in a corrupt scheme to defraud the government in the adoption and sale of a certain patent ballot-box. Bonnd Over for Harder.

GtTTnRiR, Dec. 13. K. Campbell was bouiMl over for manslaughter in preliminary hearing to-day for tlie murder hero ten days ago of Jim Wright, a prominent merchant of Dodge City. No malice could be shown, but on conflicting testimony Judge Robertson bound tho prisoner over.

A Dead Poet. London, Dec. 13. A dispatch just received states that Robert Browning, the poet, died at 10 to-night without any suffering. During the day lie expressed him self as satisfied with the success of his new volume of poems.

The Invention af the Thimble. There is a rich family of the name ol Lofting in England whose fortune waj founded by the thimble. The first ever seen In England was made in London lesi than 500 years ago by a metal workct named John Lofting. Its usefulness commended it at once to all who used th needle, and Lofting acquired a large fortune. It was then called the thum-bell, being worn on the thumb when in use, and 1U shape suggesting the rest of th name.

This clumsy mode of utilizing ii was soon changed, however, but the name, toiteued into "thimble," remains. is tlis A misguided robin began building a nest, in an elm tree near Purkersburg, in November. The late cold snap forced her to suspend operations and seek a sunnier cllmc. Klmira Gazette: With Leland Stanford, the owner of Palo Alto, in the senate, and Thomas S. Flood, the owner of Mamie Woods, in the houso, neither body will bo without horse sense.

Hancock (Pa.) Herald: It ls reported that at a Susquehanna prayer-nicctlng tho other niglit a young man arose ami said "Brethren, 1 am a great sinner, and 1 am determined to hold out to tho end." Accidents are becoming very common to trains on the great bridge between New York and Brooklyn. As yet no loss of life lias resulted, but there is an uneasy feeling that a terrible sacrifice is not far off. The pressure of travel on the bridge is very groat. The French papers of Montreal attack the Jesuits. Le Canadien all tlie politico-religious quarrels in Canada to tlicin, subsequent to the Kiel agitation and now the Jesuits' estate act warns them not to go too far, as even catholics are be coming tired.

A Jlcadville, young lady has a peculiar craving for matches, which she nib bles Willi as much gusto as some girls dis play in masticating caramels. Saturday stie masticated several red-hcaded Inciters, and, very naturally, was taken violently in, out recovered. When the visiting Amesbury military company marched to tlie liiddetord, depot the other day, an old lady leaned out ot a window the "Blarney Block" and called out, "Good-by, boys, God bless you all, ana don't come back again till you free Ireland." A Japanese paper reports a battle of butterflies which took place on the 20th and 21st of August near Nojima. It took place above a narrow road and was witnessed by many of tlie villagers. The light was finished before noon on the 2 1st and the adjoining fields were covered by tlie bodies of the slain.

Dr. Lewis Melsbcrger, of Buffalo, successful physician, died in that citv. and in his will left a codicil devoting $500 for aiunerai least lor ins iriemis. Ghain pague and oysters were tlie leading cour ses ot tlie entertainment, and over two hundred people took part in tlie banquet, A free concert was also provided in tlie programme. Cincinnati Times-Star: It used to be said that tlie French converted the Indians with their cooking.

A story is told of one Indian who when dying seemed to care little about what was told him of Heaven. "Arc yon sure I will find ns good pastry there as you cooks have made for me?" lie asked the priest, and when he was assured that the things of heaven were far superior to those of earth he closed his eyes and died content. There are thirteen opium refining factories at present in operation in Victoria, B. C. The quantity of crude opium Imported last year would produce 50,000 pounds of the refined article.

Five thousand pounds, says a Canadian cratoms olliccr, would supply all demands for homo consumption, and the remainder would have to bo disposed of in the United States, into which country, of course, it comes without going through the custom house. Few gooil wives, says the New York Sun, will object to their husbands going to the Audubon Club of Detroit. Whoever smokes in that club must bring his own cigar to the club house, and whoever wants a drink there must have brought it along with him a dreadful condition that has not yet been known to tho club. The aim of tlie club is to provide rooms for reiuling and ctrd playing, but no playing lor money la permitted, and at 10 o'clock every night the club-rooms are closed. Adam P.

Hopkins, of West Bridgewater, lias filed a caveat upon an "improvement" in tho form of posts and railroad tie3 made of burnt lire clay. The posts will bo burnt very hard and will have the railing secured by means of nails driven into holes made tn the posts when soft, at an angle that will bring the heads together mid hold the railing firmly in place. Holes through the ties upon cithersideof the rail will admit bolts, tho tipper ends ot wincii will nave washers and nuts hear- ing upon tlie rail and holding it firmly in position. The latest version of "The Girl I Left Behind Me" comes from California. In this case the young man did not seem to realize the girl's attractions until ho got across tlie continent anu men, alter a year or two of hard work In California and with the prospect of wealth before him, he bethought himself of a young lady who used to bo a schoolmate of his in Maine.

He wrote to her to see if she had forgotten him. She hadn't, and cordially answered the letter. The return mail brought a proposal of marriage, which was accepted. A ticket lor California came next, and though her friends did not quite npprovo of the journey, the young lady started. Unlike some who have made similar trips, she liked both the farm awaiting her and its possessor even better than she thought she did before she saw them.

The wedding came next, and everybody was happy at last accounts. The Alsatian municipalities ordered to furnish temporary barracks for the new German cavalry sent Into the country have peremptorily refused. A Baltimore justice, before whom a policeman was brought on the charge of profane swearing on the public street, dismissed the case, as the officer had only said "damn." ati'lie justice explained that the mere use or that word was not more signilicaut than the word "durn." Damn. delined by Webster and Worcester and the encyclopedia, when used by itself, Is not profane language. If, lie said, the prisoner had used it hi connection with the name of God, then I should have found him guilty and punished him severe.

'J. Two Itirths on the Same Day. An enthusiastic youns horse owner in Maine has several crack colts, also a line family of boys, of whom he is Justly proud, but like many other fathers lie is bothered to remember their aires. Tim other day lie surprised his wife by giving the exact age of one of the babies to a day. 'Why how came you to remember that?" she asked.

"lou't yon remember" replied the fond father, "he was born on the same day as our 2-year-old colt." Sometime. Revenge is sweet, but sometimes It ha flavor which is hardly airreeable as von every arrest ana conviction of any misdemeanor against the city of West Guthrie. What with prairie fires, highwaymen and bad marksmen, it is not the safest thing to stroll over tho prairies of Okla-noma. Hundreds of soldiers will avail them selves of the right to make linal proof at the expiration of one year's residence on their claims. The chances of a creation of the office of justice oMhc supreme court with a salary of $3,000, threatens Oklahoma with a fresh influx of lawyers.

Kingfisher's dramatic company is soon to produce "My Partner." Amateur shows are said to bo just ns bad in Oklahoma as anywhere else on the globe. Frisco Herald: How the mouths of about seven of eight hundred Kansas editors must water when they read about their editorial brethren in Oklahoma indulging in venison, wild turkey, coon and possum! Oklahoma City Journal: Tho demand for lumber has been so great for the past month that the yards can scarcely keep in stock. The demand at present Is more than double what the lumbermen had estimated when ordering supplies for tlie winter. Reno Eagle: Grading on the Bock Island is about completed as far south ns Caddo Springs, and tho track is laid to within six miles of this city. But a few days will be required to linish the work at tlie Springs and then all aboard for points north, east and west.

Tho El Reno Herald advertises that it will in its first issue in January commence a series of articles on the history, traditions, life, habits, of the Cheyenne Indians, by Captain Ben. Clark, the Cheyenne interpreter at Fort Reno. They will be edited by AV. G. McDonald and will doubtless bo very interesting.

It is said that ono fruit tree and nursery company lost $9,000 in Oklahoma the past season, viz: Tlie Lee Summit company. They shipped into different parts of the territory over $10,000 worth of slock, with-out taking orders for more than hull' of it, and sold but $4,000 worth. The country was too new to try an experiment, of that kind. John Stewart, who was a couple of years ago sentenced at Wichita tinder tho prohibitory law of that state to nineteen years and six months imprisonment for selling liquor, and pardoned by Governor Martin with an agreement that he would not continue in the state, was arrested at Guthrie on Sunday for the same crime-only this time he has the United States to deal with. Kingfisher Post No.

4-17, G. A. department of Kansas, hold its annual clec tion of officers for tho ensuing year Thursday night. This Is the first post chartered in Oklahoma, and Hon. J.

V. Admire, commander; D. F. Wyatt, senior vice-commander; Samuel Scott, chaplain; George Q. Hubbard, quartermaster; A.

E. Miller, ollleor of the day, and Samuel Gillespie, olliccr of tho guard. Colonel G. A. Colton was elected representative to the department encampment and J.

E. Burnes alternate. Oklahoma Chief: Mistletoe hunters are rambling through tho woods around Oklahoma City, and many of our homes are being decorated tastefully inside with that English emblem of holiday good cheer the mistletoe bough. What visions of English song and story float before our eyes nt the sight of theso pretty green branches loaded down with glistening white berries. They suggest the blazing yule log, the mistletoe decorated rafters, the plum pudding and tempting meats the notes of the fiddler's, tho tread of the dancers, the voices of happy children and care-free men.

The mistletoe is a freak of nature scientists arc at a loss to account for. It is a parasite which grows on the grceful elm, its wood being foreign to any other variety, and its leaves similar to winter-green leaves. It is more beautiful than pine for holiday decorations and retains its freshness much longer. Mistletoe is found quite plentiful in tlie North Can. ndian woods, and will bo largely used in Oklahoma City's holiday decorations.

Paris Exhibition Profits. The total number of paying visitors to the exhibition was 23,000,000, as compared with 12.000,000 in 1878, and 8,000,000 in 1807. Of the 30,000,000 tickets issued, 28,000,00 have been utilized. Tho theater receipts during the exhibition have been the largest on record, ana tne rail ways have also profited. The receipts of the Northern Company from January 2 to October 21 show an increase oi 5,000,000, and those of the Lyons Company an In crease of $3,000,000, while tho Western Orleans and Southern lines have each had an increase of about 9 per cent.

This in crease will really benefit the state rather than the shareholders, Who are guaranteed per cent, by tho government. 1 ho Eiffel Tower receipts have been $1,300,000, and the octroi duties have yielded the Paris municipality a largo increase. As to the large number of persons employed In the exhibition and in selling tickets outside, the gains of the cabmen, the sales made in the exhibition, tne receipts 01 tne restaurants, panoramas, and tho profits of tho Faris hotels and shops, as well as the country people supplying Paris with provisions, all this evidently amounts to a very large sum. According to the calculations of the police, 5,000,000 provincials awl 1,500,000 foreigners have visited the exhibition. The foreigners included English, Belgians, 100,000 German.

Spaniards, 52,000 Swiss, Italians, 32,000 7,000 Russians, 5,000 Greeks. Turks and Roumanians, Portuguese. 2,500 Scandinavians, 8 Asiatics. 12,000 Algerians and other Africans. SVt.OOO North Aircricans, and South Americans.

Whotagfmifl Advice. Judge: Some one had given a beggar contJ. i'elisarius weighs them in nil hand, and then turn iih'H his benefactor and in tones of ill-concealed contempt asks: 'Well, giiv'ncr, and what may yer 'spectju' that Is agoin fcr ter do wid cents':" "I'd advise you to give them tho first poor person you meet who really needs them." Tli Coal Question. Texas Siftings:" A I see that bacteri have been discovered In coal. J3 You don't say sol Well, now, aea the coal dealers dont make that an use for running tip the price.

it in Arkalon, Kansas, or three months it will make sugar, then work up the cane chips into paper, and the rest of the time will turn oui bushels and bushels of salt. An El Dorado man keeps a live snake on his office table. It is not altogether a pleasant plan but it obviates the calls of the fellow who comes in, sings a maudlin song or two, upsets the ink, and then falls asleep, and whom all strangers happening along take for your brother. In the cases of cruelty in Kansas for the last twenty years, the wives were guilty 1008 times ami the husbands 1,105. The difference of 07 in favor of the husbands in point of numbers looks very much like the men of this state were in the habit of getting in the last word, occasionally.

The safety of tho Crawford opera house at Topeka is again under discussion. The peoplo have never forgotten thef qu-- which occurred there one night a comml fellow came in and whispered he lived thl among tho adienoe that a restauraiJenit-' the block below had tapped a keg A farmers' alliance at Patterson, has adopted the following, which is logio as is logic: "Be it resolved, that owing to the excessive rates of freight charged by railroads on corn and coal, that we believe it cheaper to burn corn than coal. And we recommend to our members that they burn corn instead of coal and thereby save freight both ways." lieitucetl Kates Ta Farmers. All the railroads entering Wichita havo made a round trip rato of ono and one-third fare to the delegates and farmers attending tlie meeting of the Southern Kansas Farmers' association at Wichita on December 17th, lSlh and 19th. Parties attending this meeting will pur chase a regular full fare ticket to Wichita and be particular to take a receipt from the ageut selling the ticket These receipts will be countersigned by the secretary 01 the meeting, and then be good to purchase return ticket at one-third fare.

Jous Kklly, fcccrctary. Probably the longest word in the German language Ls in the last edition of tho official journal of commissions Here it HUOVV. IKON WOKKS, Wichita, K.in:is. Ucs.lnnarteri for all of MwhirierjfJt Southwest; nmnuf.fc-turors of Kiinlits Pattnt Engine; 'f, of Boiler. Tank md Sheet-Iron Wotk, ruilcyi, Hansen.

W. Sup S. W. N.t'u, Vtkhila, Kan. get down toward the buti end.

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