The Daily Commoner du lieu suivant : Wichita, Kansas • 3

TJIE DAILY COMMONER, WICHITA, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1893. THU CITY MM.OKM. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. INVISIBLE INK. Twelve negroes arrived last night flora Memphis, Tenn.

Tiie Young leople8 society of the Central Christian church of this city will give a lawn social at Lakeside, the home of Miss Rhea Woodman, on Waco avenue, Wednesday evening. There will be an open ait entertainment consisting of beautiful tableaux and suitable refreshments will be on hand. All are invited. A rousing political meeting was held last night oil the west side, in the 1ml I at the corner of Maple ami Seneca, and notwithstanding the heat of the evening the linll was crowded to its utmost capacity. W.

J. Habh and Ed. O'Hrlen were the orators of the evening, and they succeeded arousing unbounded enthusiasm. Cut! Cut to fiffc per dozen for cabinet photos at Haldwin Son's, 118 East Douglas. ffifit hook hi'e for cabinets at HaldwinB 118 East Douglas, ffitit DURABLE WALLS.

P.rtck unit Atlnbu Combined to lAcolloiit AdvuiitHKG-To cheapen Ilia cost of buildings erected with brick walls, It has become ttic custom In Utah to build vdth brick und adobe combined. Tlio exterior is laid of brick In the usual wu.v, omitting the courses of howlers, which uro unnecessary, and tliis part of the wall Is UKiiully the thickness of a single brick, or about four inches. The brick Is hacked hy from onu to two layers of adobes, uncording to the strength of the walls desired. First, eight courses of brick ure laid, and these uro backed with six courses of udobes, the brick laying four courses to the foot und tlio miobos three, so that eight courses of brick und six of adobes come level Oil top. To tie these together, strips of thin strap-iron an inch wide and about one foot long, with the ends forun inch doubled flat to secure the hold are laid diagonally across tho wall, one piece to each brick, und more if considered necessary at tho corners.

Eight courses ('. r. llyde left this morning over the Roeg Island for St. lawl. The jury for the September term of court was drawn today.

Hill posters are busily engaged putting up the advertising paper for the reunion. Thomas G. Fitch and family are expected to arrive home from the east this evening. Theie will be a meeting of Sir Knights tonight to drill preparatory to participating in the Denver conclave. The Citizen's league will meet tonight in the old common pleas court room, corner Market and First street.

We have done it, Cut the price of cabinet photos to per dozen. Duld-win Son IIS East Douglas. g-fit Mrs. M. E.

ease has been engaged by the Feopia's party state central committee for one week's meetings in Nebraska in October. For thirty days cabinets at our gallery for tine per dozen Haldwin A Son, 1 IS East Douglas. 5Mt The Ladies German Aid society held a special meeting this afternoon at the residence of Mis- Hover, North Market street- $300 a Month This is wlmt wo are paying sumo of our agents. If you desire lucrative employment write or eu.l and see us and secure exclusive territory before it is all taken. L.

S. Carter 4u7 Douglas avenue, Wichita, Kan. judge II. C. Sluss arrived home yesterday from New Mexico where he lias been attending United states court.

Charles II. Smyth left last night for the summer resorts of Colorado. HARPOONING SWORDFISH. 1iof. Scott the newlyelected professor of mathematics of Garlield university is conducting the teachers institute in Giant county this month.

co.miii ATio.v nmcic and adore wall. The Wellington Cyclones and the Maroons of this city will cross hats here next Tlimday and Fiiday. Her little mujeMy of Hollund Is a merry, good-natured child, and 1ms already shown signs of a superior intellect, She looks forward eagerly to her visit In Berlin, as she will then have six little military princes to play with. It is likely tliut she will be betrothed to one of them during her stay. The tiles about the fireplace In the dining-room of Gov.

Russell's homo in Cambridge are each ornamented by a picture of one of the old liousch occupied by the ancestors of the governor and his wife. As Mrs. Russell is a descendant of Gov. John Hancock, the tile representing the noted Hancock house on Beacon street in Boston nut-urn lly has the pluee of honor. An Englishman stopping at a Boston hotel was kept awake hy a compound of disagreeable noises, and upon liis return to England lie told the story to Mr.

Browning, lie said that he endured the annoyances us long as possible, uud thcncallcdu servant to explain it, which lie did. "Oh, sail! that is the Browning club, just reading Browning, wild That is all, sail! It is stated that the allowance made to Cardinal Mdchcrs by lrince Bismarck will have to be paid him during his life, as it was on this understanding that he resigned the see of Cologne. In a number of other cases the recipients of pensions from the Guelph fund have acquired vested rights to them. These amounts will lie deducted from the money paid to the duke of Cumberland. The new American Society of Authors, which has been set up in this country, is organized upon the model of an English society of authors, which lias been doing service for some time past by promoting intercourse among book writers, and by giving them information concerning copyright laws, the ways of publishers and the means of securing popularity.

Few of the successful authors of this country have yet joined the American society. Howling Bear, an Indian prophet of evil, predicts that within two years the people of the whole country will be suffering for food, and there will be a general iamino over 1 he country, when all the people will lie without corn or wheat and the animals will die for want of grass. He says that lie has been told by the Great Spirit to prepare for the time when his people will he hungry, and he is now mlvbing them to lay up stores of corn in order to he ready when the famine comes. Gen. Custer believed in having martial music on all possible occasions, lie would have the band out at five oclock in the and the last thing in the evening.

hie day when a regiment had just come into camp Gen. Custer ordered the hand out. The men were tired and reported that they had lost the moot lipieece to their instruments. Very well. sail) the general, "you may take pickaxes and shovels and help repair the roads.

Yon may find the missing mouthpieces while you arc working. It is unnecessary to state that the hand played soon after. The famous novelist. William Black, is described as tightly-built, lithe of limb, strong in the ann, capable of great physical endurance, yet below the medium height. Short black hair, a thick brown mustache, a dark hazel eye, a firm mouth, a square forehead.

Black gives yon the idea of compact strength a small parcel, so to speak, well packed. Yon might sooner take him for an artillery officer who had seen service, a yachtsman, or a man who had spent most of his life yi outdoor sports and pastimes than set him down as an author, and particularly as a novelist. Ilow Ilf) IUiiiIm I'kciI In Secret Wrltlngil Are Miole, It is very easy to make tin Invisible Ink if you wish to Insure special secrecy for your correspondence," said a chemist to a writer lor the Star. You have only to do your writing with a solution of sugar of lead ill pure water, lidding to the mixture a small amount of gum urn die, so that it may flow will from the pen. The letters traced with this preparation are not.

visible when it has become dry, hut when the manuscript is held over a jet of sulphurated hydrogen gas thev me out intensely black. This gas is the same as that generated in bud eggs, so that one or two of those might serve to do the reading by. However, one may avoid the necessity of being tortured with unpleasant odors by selecting some other chemical for an ink. There is nothing better for the purpose than bromide of copper, which you can prepare for yourself by mixing one part of bromide of potash, one part of blue vitriol and eight parts water, adding little alcohol and gum arnbic. Writing done in this solution is absolutely invisible until exposed to lieut, when it immediately becomes legible.

Any dealer in chemical supplies will sell you chloride of cobalt, to which yon cun add gum arabic. It makes a pink script, which disappears when dry, becomes green when heated, disappears when cold and is pink again when damp. Writing done in rice water can not ho seen when it is dry, but turns blue when Iodine is applied to it. It wasinnch employed during the great mutiny in India. Invisible inks have been suggested for postal cauls.

Colored inks are made in all sorts of ways, out of aniline dyes, dye-woods and chemicals of various kinds. Ground Braz.il wood is used for red ink, cam-peachy wood for purple, logwood for violet, sulphate of indigo for blue, and veriligrisiind cream of tartar for green. Coal-tar colors may be employed in place of these. You can manufacture for yourself an excellent black writing ink by soaking a pound of bruised galls for twenty-four hours in boiling water, straining the liquid and adding five ounces of sulphate of iron, three ounces of gum arabic and a few drops of carbolic acid. The gall fiuid acts upon the sulphate of iron, making an intense black, and the carbolic acid is intended to keep the ink from becoming moldy.

To make copying ink you have only to mix three pints of the black ink with one pint of glycerine. "The basis of India ink is lampblack, which is made in a furnace specially constructed for the purpose. Various kinds of oils and grease are burned to produce the lampblack, but the finest quality is obtained from pork fat. The lampblack is subjected to a sifting process through silk hags in order that it shall he rendered as tint! as possible. In the manufacture of the ink the first step is to melt in a pot a quantity of a particularly excellent glue from buffalo hides.

To this as much lampblack is added as wiil compose a soft paste, which is kneaded with the hand, a small quanity of pea oil being put in also. The mixture is made into fiat eakes and left to ripen for awhile, after which it is compressed in cylindrical molds. The cylinders, in which shape the product is sent to market, are dried and given a final polish on the outside by brushing them with a hard brush impregnated with the kind of white wax which is deposited on trees in China by insects. A little musk or Borneo camphor added to the paste while it is hot gives its pecular odor to the best kind of India ink. Washington Star.

MRS. SNAGGS UNDERSTOOD. Assistant lire chief Al Hrownwell, accompanied by lus wile, left lor the cast this morning on a pleasure tour. Joseph SanneramI wife of Kingfisher. are at the 1 acker house.

Mr. San-ner is in the city for the purpose of in-terveiwing contractors in reference to a large business block lie intends building at Kingfisher. It is reported that the roots of some ol the trees are thieatening destruction to the main brick sewer. An investigation has been ordered by the city council and if it is discovered to be a fact, all such trees will be destroyed. SoiiieClmiiKi' lio I.

rt-t Two Year llitvo Muilc-Ncw Tux bevy. Every member of the city council win present last night, and promptly at 8 oclock Mayor Careys gavel called the solous to order and Assistant City Clerk Koogle began reading the minutes of the preceding meeting. There was un air of dispatch and business about the whole affair that created i. most favorable impression in the uilud of the wrltei, particularly when lie contrasts it with the dilatory system often practiced by the old council. Speaking of the old council, by the way, calls to mind some lively scenes, particularly in the sewer and paving contract clays.

Hut the old council is gone, there being only two or three of them left. The writer for the llrst time In two years visited the council chamber last night and was impressed with the many changes. The beautiful council chamber, handsomely lluished In hard wood, with splendid ventilation and well lighted, was a great improvement over the old quarters in the Getto building. Then there were, new faces, strange ones lining the places in the semi-circle in front of the mayor's desk. I nstead of Mayor Clement, with his New England characteristics, there was Mayor John JJ.

Carey with just enough Celtic brogue to lqs voice to give it that soft, rich mellow that is so entrancing to the ear. Just to the left of the mayor sat City Clerk Schattner, who, with the exception of tiie one term occupied by W. I. McNair, lias discharged the duties of this office ever since 1874. Fred is a land mark.

A permanent fixture, as it were, who every day tor the past eighteen years (with tiie exception of the term above mentioned) hot or cold, rain or shine, has always been found at his desk in the oflice of the city clerk, always genial, always obliging. At the right of his honor sat the city attorney, Harry Gordon, occupying the position formeily occupied by Thomas Wilson. Directly in front of the mayor in the capacity of assistant city clerk, instead of Clarence Smith, sat .1. V. Koogle who has a voice on him like a foghorn and whose reading of tiie minutes can be plainly heard and understood in any portion of the council chamber.

Hut theie were other changes, and they were from the vaiious wards. lu the first ward, instead of Hob Car-son. who was always ready witli a motion for a nev sidewalk, J. M. bever-idge is tiie representative, and lie seems to be a conscientious, hard working representative, and together with Caswell will see that tiie interests of the first ward are not neglected.

In the second ward there is a complete change, and instead of great big, jolly Fritz Sclinitzler, who always wanted an nlick-trick light put somewhere and economical Uuckridge who was always clamoring for retrenchment, C. F. Horner and Geoi'ge Harris are the rep-presentatives, and are apparently hard workers. From the third ward the face of 15. Drown Is absent, but the flies play tag with each other over the bald pate of Hilly Johnson, who lias served the city longer in the capacity of councilman than any man in it.

From the same ward is Whitney Tucker an energetic worker. The fourth ward lias made a complete change, and instead of Haze with his theories for selling bonds, llenry Seliad is the representative. Coffin is also gone, together with his perpetual motion to compromise the Yankee Miller affair, and his resolution against permitting smoking during the council sessions. Coffin was a good man, but his anti-smoking sentiments damaged him in the estimation of tiie reporters. Instead of Coffin, 11.

F. Goode is looking after the interests of that ward together with Mr. Seliad. The fifth ward lias also made a complete change, and instead of Hilly McKee. who always wanted the Wichita Western grade lowered, Charles Kenyon is the new representative.

I nstead of Councilman Williams, who kept hammering away at the street car line to come down on a grade with the streets on the west side, II. A. Jiill, together with Charley Kenyon, are seeing that the west side gets all that is due it. In the sixth ward there has been a change also. Tne chair that was once filled by Charley Mosbacher is now occupied by R.

F. Faries. who in conjunction with John Martin jealously guard the interests of the sixth. This was the council that assembled last night for the transaction of municipal business. Among the most important business transacted was the passage of an ordinance to make a tax lew for the current expenses of the ensuing year.

Tiie assessment is based on the rate of is. 3 mills, the assessment last year being 14.4 mills. At first this was objected to by some members of the council thinking it excessive, but when it was explained that the increase was to meet tiie depieciation in tiie assessed value, and that in reality the tax would not be as high as last year, the objection was withdrawn. Last night bids for the city printing were to have been opened, but the council. by unanimous consent, referred all bids back to tiie bidders and instructed the clerk to advertise again for bids.

This was done in order to permit parties to bid who had not the opportunity before. Upon motion of Councilman Caswell the street car company will be requested to place a car at the junction of Main and Douglas for the convenience of passengers waiting for transfers. It is claimed the car will prove quite convenient as a sort of waiting room, particularly in stormy weather. The Citizens league of the Sixth ward will hold an open air meeting at Hyde's park Friday evening, A brass band and able speakers have been secured for the occasion. Electric cars will also be on hand at the close of the meeting to carry persons.

Let there be a good turn out. Come and spend an evening in this beautiful park and learn something of the issues of the coming campagin. Till! Oi TIIACII OS TIM-: JLaN. AN OPTICAL ILLUSION. How the Trrrililn Ocean Monster Are Taken.

A swordfish, when swimming near the surface, usually allows its dorsal fin and a portion of its tail to project out of water, it is this habit which enables the fishermen to tell when the game is present. The creature moves slowly under ordinary conditions, and the fishing schooner with a light breeze finds no difficulty in rtuking it. When alarmed, however, it exhibits enormous strength and agility. Sometimes it seems to leap entirely out of water. Its long, lithe, muscular body, with fins snugly fitting into grooves, is admirably adapted for the most rapid movement through the water.

Frof. Richard Owen, testifying in an English court respecting its powers, said: The swordfish at full speed strikes with the accumulated force of fifteen hammers swung with both hands. Its velocity is equal to that of a swivel shot, and the shock is ns dangerous in its effects as that of a. heavy artillery projectile. The swordfish never comes to the surface except in moderate weather, according to Dr, G.

Brown Goode. A vessel pursuing them has always a man stationed at the masthead, where, with the kern eye which practice has given him, he can easily descry the tell-tale back fins at a distance of two or three miles. When the prey is sighted the watch gives a shout and the craft is steered in the direction indicated. The skipper takes his place in a sort of "pulpit, so-called, at the end of the bowsprit, armed with a lmrpoon which has a detachable head He holds a pole which forms the handle of the weapon with both hands, directing the man at the wheel hy voice and gesture how to steer. There is no difficulty in approaching the intended victims with a vessel of some size, although, curiously enough, they will not suffer a small boat to come near them.

Although there would be no difficulty in bringing the end of the bowsprit directly over the fish, a skillful liarpooner never waits for this. When the prey is from six to ten feet in front of the vessel it is struck. The harpoon is never thrown, the pole being long enough to enable the expert to punch the dart into the back of the animal close to the back fin, When the dart has thus been fastened to the fish, the line attached to it is allowed to run out, the rope being retained in the hand. As soon as the pole has run as far as the stricken creature will carry it, the line is passed into the small boat which is towing at the Stern. Two men jump into the boat and pull upon the line until the fish is brought alongside, when it is killed with the whale lance struck into the gills.

Then it is lifted upon the deck of the vessel with tackle, The pursuit of the sword-fish is much more exciting than ordinary fishing, resembling, as it does, the hunting of large animals upon Innd, and partaking more of the nature of the chase. There is no slow and careful baiting -and patient waiting in this pursuit. The game is seen and followed, outwitted by wary tactics and killed by skill and strength of arm. There Is always danger from so formidable an antagonist. Not only is the vessel more or less likely to be attacked by the infuriated animal, but there is some peril to the fishermen themselves.

Sometimes their boat is thrust through with the sword, which is a most tremendous weapon, and on occasions persons have been killed in the water by the angry prey. However, this only renders more interesting the sport, which is said to be one of the most fascinating in the world. Old fishermen engaged in it as a business have been known to fish for swordfish all night in their dreams, bruising their hands and skinning their knuckles against the top of their berths while spearing the imaginary monsters. Minneapolis Times. A Celebrdteil Case to Be Settled, New Orleans, July 24.

The Myra Clark Gaines case against the city of New Orleans will be definitely Battled 5 if cash it) fall hy the city and the jnes estate wound up. The case, was before the courts for forty iranded in a judgment more tfjn' leaV ago, the amount being reduced 3,000,000 to about TM jj offered the heirs bonds, but they used to accept 4 per cent bonds, i president of the board of liquida-i oi the city debt yesterday gave that the entire amount dub paid In cash on August 1, aj Men Idtfe to Eegoliaw iti more of brick, with bucking of six courses of adobes, arc laid on the wall and tied in tho same manner with strap-iron until the successive additions make tho wall of the height desired. Tiie usual size of a brick in this locality is eight and onc-hulf hy four inches und two and one-half inches thick. The size of tho largest adobes is eleven by five inches und three und one-half inches thick when dry, though many other dimensions tire in use. Farmers who cun make tlicir own adobes find the above combination cheaper than to construct their houses of lumber.

These houses will bo very durable even in moist climates, and possess one great advantage over solid brick walls, for udolio walls never sweat or show the least They are warm in winter und cool in summer. They may be laid with mortar composed wholly of clay and sand, and plastered with tho same where it is an object to save the cost of lime mortar. The illustration shows how a combined wallisput togcUicr, when the sixth course of adobes, laid as headers, is secured to the singlo thick brick facing by strap-iron. J. L.

Townsend, in American Agriculturist. FACTS FOR FARMERS. One of tho best evidences that a sheep is not well is when it goes off to some place as if disposed to be alone. If a lamb is to be brouglitupon cows milk, add a very little granulated sugar to it the first two or three weeks. Ewes milk is sweeter than cows milk.

A siAX with a hand-hoe or horse-ho will do double tho execution in dislodging weeds when frost is out of the ground than he can do six weeks later. There is a cheese school in Scotland, and in just three months the pupils made three tons of cheese, which! was sold at an average of fourteen cents per pound. To sow tease mako a funnel by folding stiff paper or a piece of pasteboard having an opening of half an inch at the small end. The flow of seed may he regulated with the thumb. If the wheat yield does not seejp uniform, or tho plants are not apply one hundred pounds of nitrate of soda per acre and a change for the better will he observed in a few days.

An Indiana farmer estimates the cost of cultivating an acre of cabbage $10.50 and the cost of liaulifig, at $7, total, $17.50. Tho average value is $37.50, leaving a net profit per acre of $20. There are four ways of handling manure piling it against the to rot and leach, scattering it over the barnyard to wash, drawing it into the field at once, and composting it as gardeners do. A pasture will accommodate only a certain number of animals. When too many animals are allowed on the pasture there will bo an insufficiency of green food, while tho pasture itself will be injured.

Give tiie onion rows clean and apply some kind of fertili along, the rows, so as to push rapidly, thus giving them an opportunity to start off well beforo the grass begins to interfere. Ilow to Clean Poultry Houses Farmers wives and daughters who generally have care of the poultry op. the farm, do not havo tho time to clean the poultry house as often as poultry breeders tell us must bo done to keep1 out disease and lice. The last three years I have used dry ashes in my coop any kind will do, coal is best toss them in with a firo shovel, making as much dust as possible. Close all doors and windows until it settles; usq at least a bushel at a time and twq pr three times a week.

Then, when tiie coop is cleaned, every two or three weeks dust in tho same way with fresh slacked lime. Throw uslies under the perches at the samo time. Tho ashes and limo keep it dry and I think is good for the scale disease on tho legs and feet of fowls, and they liko to pick put the grit and charcoals. Poultry News. Fat Not Desirable Fat is not desirable in any kind of stock intended for breeding.

A fat sow will either fail to produce pigs or will produoo them of delicate constitution, as well as small and weak at birth. The samo rulo applies to mares, coyys and ewes, liens that aro overfed und made very fat do not lay regularly, and eggs from such hens, when used pr hatching purposes, often fail to hatch! Tlu Talk of Ij'iiciiiDjj, Yank Ow (Miti Hhneffaiiyoii the Trail "They have been hanging and shooting niggers the south for ravishing white women, and for one, am ready to hang and slioot white men for ravishing coloied women the north, remarked a loud talking colored man who was tiie central figure of a group of colored men on north Main street yesterday evening. Jlis sentiments seemed to coincide with those around him and it is rumored that, a secret organization was loimed in this city last night for the purpose of meting out summary justice to the man who ravished a colored girl on an island the big river last Friday night, the circumstances being as follows: Friday evening a man named Marsh drove up to the house of a colored wo man named Mrs. Coffey, living in the north part of the city and told her lie wanted to hire a girl to do domestic work at his home a few miles the country. Mis.

Cofiey thinking this a good opportunity for Per sister, a youug girl about seventeen years old, sent for her and upon her arrival a bargain was soon enteied into and she got into the wagon with Marsh and started for his home. He drove soutli until he reached the island in the Aikansas river south of iheLawience avenue bridge. Driving on the island they arrived at a house, but not a Soul besides themselves was anywhere to be seen. In the meantime he had told the girl that he had a wife, consequently she was greatly surprised to find no one in the house but herself and Marsh, Sue went to work at once and soon had supper ready. Hy tins time it was midnight and upon preparing to letire for the night Marsh made indescent proposals to the girl.

She plead with him to spare her, but her tears were without avail and he succeeded in his infamous designs. Anxiously she watched for daylight and at the first signs of dawn crept stealthy from the house and started to wade the river. He lollowed her and attempted to induce her to lemaiu, but failing in this he took ins boat and rowed her across the river. Arriving ou the bank she hurried forward and soon met an old German to whom she told her story arid lie assisted her to reach the city. Tne above is the substance of the as told by the young woman.

She says she was outraged lepeatedlv during night, but the fact tiiat she waited until morning before making up mind to leave, recalls the story of the fall oi Saragossi when the storming party had overthrown the walls, midst the dust and confusion incident, the buxom dames were heard to cry above the dm: When, oh, when shall the ravishing begin! Of course Marsh's side of the case remains to be heard, and a warrant for his arrest has been issued from Justice Tuckers court and placed in the hands of officers who have been making strenuous efforts to capture him. It is said, however, that Marsh has skipped the country by going down the river in a boat, armed with a double barrelled shotgun. Searching parties have been organized, one of them being headed by Dave Leahy and Yank Owens. This party took up the trail of the flying or floating fugitive, and followed it with the tenacity of bloodhounds until Yank scented coon in the air and followed the wrong trail, while Dave strayd off on the trail of a Republican-Democrat. However, when these two Vidocques came together again they compared notes and arrived at the conclusion that the whole affair was a misinterpretation of the free wool plank in the tariff bill.

Her Husband Wuh Wrong IT He Thought She Didn't Know All About It. I wish you'd tell me all about the Behring sea difficulty the newspapers are talking of so much, said Mrs. Snaggs to her husband. I'm so igno-rantabout these things, and yet I think women ought to take just as much interest in them as their husbands, don't you? 1 do, indeed, replied Snaggs, and I'll take great pleasure in explaining it to you. In the first place, the dispute is between the United States and England, and it turns upon whether this country can prevent the catching of seals Oh, 1 see it exactly now, Mrs.

Snaggs interrupted gleefully. Queen Victoria is afraid she wont get enough sealskins for English women to wear if Mr. Blaine doesn't let Englishmen go fishing for them. Yes, her husband resumed; you are getting to understand the question. Now, last season there was a modus Oh, I know! Modus is the Latin word for mode, isnt it? The mode last season was a quite long sealskin.

It was real becoming, too, but if you remember you wouldnt let me buy one. You said we couldnt afford Why couldnt we afford it, dear? Id look so well in a sealskin, if I do say it myself. As 1 was saying, Snaggs resumed, hut ignoring his wifes question; as I was saying, England refuses to renew the modus vivendi under which last season's catch was regulated, and, It does really seem a pity to kill the innocent seals to get their skins, doesnt it? Mrs. Snaggs interrupted again. They do look so cunning in the water.

I saw some of them in the zoological gardens at Philadelphia when I was there at the Centennial. Their coats were so glossy and shiny when they came out of the water and climbed up on the bank. ou saw them, too, didnt you? Yes, I saw them. Im so glad you understand the Behring sea question so thoroughly, Snaggs added, as he put on his hat to go down the street. I was afraid you wouldnt.

Oh, you men think women cant grasp these public questions, replied his wife, proudly; "but they can when they put their minds to it. And Mrs. Snaggs resumed her labor of working a yellow dog on a red sofa tidy. Pittsburgh Chronicle. The Peculiar Device of an Kntei'prtaing Mendicant He attracted considerable attention even in Chicago, where deformities and beggars are at every turn, for the terrible character of his injury.

Both legs had been taken off at the thigh, leaving hardly a trace of even a stump, lie was planted on the sidewalk of one of the busy west side streets a few days ago, leaning back against a pile of lumber that lay at the edge of the walk. Without this support he must have lost his balance, for he used no crutches, and it appeared that his hands were the only propeling power he could use. The poor wretchs overcoat was longer than he was, and the skirts of it were spread out around him on the walk, while before him lay his hat, upturned for alms. He needed the aid of no verbal appeal. Everyone noticed him, and almost all gave of their substance.

A gambler dropped in a dollar and felt that he had earned luck for a week. Pretty girls and their attentive companions reduced their pocket money. Even an Italian fruit vender passing dropped a dime in the hat vtha thought that this was his Easter offering, if a little late. Contributions were rapidly transferred to the substantial leather pocket of the ragged overcoat. The man seemed to be getting uneasy.

At last the hnt was emptied and returned to its other post of service on his head. Two men came hurriedly out of, the store in front of which the beggar had been transacting business and walked over to the pile of lumber. "Get out of there, said one to the cripple. We want to hustle this lumber down into the basement. And the deformed wretch placed his hands on the pavement, gave a hitch and a scramble, and drew out of a coal hole a pair of excellent legs, terminated by equally serviceable feet, which had been resting on the pile of coal under the sidewalk.

Several dollars worth of the coin of the republic jingled in his pockets as he entered the double-hinged, hack-action doors of the nearest institution for the amelioration of arid suffering. And two men began to poke lumber down that coal hole, which caused several near-by contributors who had seen the exit of the objcct'of their sympathy to feel that if there i were a saw-mill bandy their heads Slight be made in exceiieat Chicago Times. 1)1 Eli. Coach Murdock, the fat canine of Hon. M.

M. Murdock, departed this life from tiie eff ects of a policemans bullet. Tiie colonels late defeat is nothing as compared to grief as manifested by a half column in this mornings Eagle. Alas! Poor Coach, Let us not reproach, For in this case tact lacks; liell sleep no more On our sanctum floor, lie died from lack of tax. Two drunks were disposed of in the police court this morning, The other case on the docket was that of a man charged with beating his wife last night but when the wife caught sight of him this morning as he was marched from the prison cell to the dock, she, woman-1 ike, relented and withdrew the charge.

Mrs. Charles A. Goodyear, accompanied by her two children left yesterday fer a vacation among the Rocky Mountains of Colorado..