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VOLUME IV.—NO. 41. NEW ULM, MINN., WEDNESDAY OCTO B E1I «, 1881. WHOLE NUMBER 195

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FUDLlSJiED KVEliY WEDNEBOAi BY

JOS, BOBLETEJEL

Otlioe over City Druff Store.

TERMS t One Dollar and a half per year in

advance. M u t e * o f ArtwrttMii i fr-

FITHNISHEDUPON APPLICATION. AitvortisomentR in double column, double the

shield column rates. Hiisiness Curds of Ave linos, onoyear $5.00, each

additional lino 75 eta. All truusieiit advertisement* to he puld for in

advance. Advertisements inserted in the local notice col.

ninns, ton cts a line for tlie first insertion and 6 nuts a lino for each subsequent insertion; but no otieo inserted for less than 50 cts Announcements of marriages and deaths insert.

od t'Me; but obituary notices, except in special eimes, will be charged at advertising rates.

Logal notices wilTbecharged 75 cts per folio for tho first insertion, and ^5 cts per folio for each subsequent inxurtion. Alt legal notices must be upon tho responsibility of the attorney oidering them published, and no allldavit of publication will be glvon until the publication fees are paid.

In connection with the paper, we have A splon-did assortment of jobbing material, and we arc prepared to execute all kinds of printing in a.style unsurpassed and at modorate rates-

J. R. FOSTER, D E N T I S T ,

NEWULM, MINN. A full set of teeth for ten dollars.

CJas administered l>y Dr. Berry, and tooth extracted without.pain

OMice over Beiusmann's hardware Store.

| \ R . C. BERRY,

PHYSICIAN & 8UUGRON.

OFFICE AT TUB Cirr Uvva STOUB.

MEW ULM, - - • MINNESOTA.

I^VK. A. MAKDEN,

RESIDENT DENTIST,

Office, comer Minn, and P i n t M. 8U.

SEW ULM, . - . MINNESOTA

ELI KU1ILMAN, PH. C. M. 1) PIIYKICIAPI cV C U E M I T .

Olttee and Drug Store next door to Slcandinavian House.

XEW ULM, - MINN.

DR. B. CARL,

Physician and Surgeon. M-:W ULM, MINN.

Office and residence on 3d North St.

DR. J . W . B W E L L C O M E ,

PHYSICIAN & BURGEON.

Sleepy Eyo, Minn.

D R . H. A . H I T C H C O C K ,

Physician «fc Surgeon,

VVrill attend to calls night or day. OFFICE AT

M. W . l l i l c l i c o c k ' s DniK tore. Springfield, Brown Co., Minn.

DR. O C WELLNER,

f)entd\ei< Si^t, Formals Atmen Arzt 7>ur "North

Star dispensary," Chicago, hat sich permanent in Burns niedergelassen und emptehlt sich h midet seinen Landslcuten.

B- F. WEBBER, Attorney and Counselor

AT LAW.

Is/Loxi&ytcD L o a n -Office over Citizen's Nat'l Hank.

NEWULM , - - MINN.

GEORGE KITHLMANN, ATTORNEY AT LAW Contested oases maden speciality. Will buy

notes and adranro money on lirst class paper 1 oft with nic for collection.

Office over Brown Co Bank.

XEWULM, - MINN

J J.RAY,

Notary Public, Conveyancer, and agent f01 St. Paul

FI11E & MARINE INSURANCE CO. Springfield, Brown Co., Minn.

DAKOTA HOUSE. Orr. TOST O F F I C E - N E W ULM, MINN.

A D O L P I I S E T T E R , Prop'r This house is tho most centrally lo­

cated house in the »-itj and af­fords good Sample Rooms.

TO THE Traveling Public.

The undersigned would respectfully announce that, although the division has been moved to Sleepy Eye, he will continue to make the

i M E R C H A N T ' S H O T E L •one of the most popular resorts in the Minnesota valley. He will give his especial attention to the toble, which will be first lass in all respects, and afford all the delicacies of the season, especially game. The rooms are all splendidly furnished with clean bedg, and the waiters are kind and obliging. Rates to suit the times. The Old and new friends of this hotel are cordially invited to give me a call when travel-.vng New Ulir.ward.

CHAS, BBUST.

CI H. Cuj?>r.ouHX, (J. H. Rot*,

J% Piesldivtt •Cuahtoi

BROWN CO. BANK, Cor. Minn, and Cfeotre Sfu'vt*

NEW ULM, . . MINNESOTA

JolU'vtions and aH business pertaining x> banking

PBOm-TLY ATlltmttm TO.

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILTII

$ 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 .

J. Pfenmngei. W.noescn. T*. Dcehne

Eagle Mill Co. NEW ULM, MINN

Manufacturers of

ROLLER FLOUR, BY THE

System.

John Bellm. H. A. Subilia.

N E W TXIL.M

CITY MILL, Centre Street. - New Ulm.

We are running day and night, and can supply any quantity of best

brands of Flour at regular rates on short notice.

Flour exchanged for wheat on very liberal terms.

N E W U L M C I T Y M I L L CO.

Frank Burg, Manufacturer of and Dealer in

CIGARS; TOBACCOS, &

PIPES. Minnesota street, next floor to C.

Sommer,s Store.

N E W U L M , - . M I N N -

C E N T R E S T R E E T

SiMFLEfBOOM,& BILLIARD HALL,

IN BASEMENT OF ICies ix igr 'e S l o c l s .

The best of Wines. Liqours and Cigars constantly kept ou hand.

~ Louis Felkel, Prop'r,

Meat Market. CHAS. STIPE, Prop'r.

A large supply of fresh meats, sau­sage, hams, lard, etc., constantly on handt All orders from the country promptly attended to.

CASH PAID FOR HIDES. Minn- Str., - New Ulm. Minn.

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Meat Market, M. KI'I'IJC, 1'Bofa

A l«»rif«; supply •( fresh III«*T», saunsge, Uiuii8, luru, ett* etc., c«»imtMiilly on

bund. All orocrt from tltr couu. try promptly attended to

OABIf PAID FOIl IIIDKS

VINN. 8TJIBCT. . NEWULM. U1N>

CASH PURCHASES AND CHEAP SALES !

JOHN NEUMANN Dealer in

TD-&1T G O O D S , Hats, Caps, Notion*,

Groceries Provisions, Crockery and Glassware, Green, dried and Canned

Fruits, etc., etc. Minnesota Street) - • Now Ulm, Minn.

I will always take farm prodnco in exchange for goods, and pay the highest market price for all kinds of paper rags.

In connection with my store I have a first-class saloon furnished with a splendid billiard table, and my enstomers will always find good liquors and cigars, and every forenoon a splendid lunch.

All goods purchased of mo will be delivered in any part of tho city free of cost.

C7F. HELD, Undertaker and Dealer in

i l l KINDS OF FORSITIIBE Proprietor and Manufacturer of

THE FARMERS FRIEND F a n n i n g : M i l l .

The bes« tanning mill in the market. Store and Factory on Centre Street near the City Mill NEW ULM. -MINN.

Lake F o r e s t University. LADIKS' SEMINARY—unsurpassed. ACADR.

MY—thorough. COLLEGE—(bar eouraw. Year begin* Sept. 7th. Examine for yonrselTea. Cata­logues sent by the President, D. 8. GBMoar.D.D., OctS-gfc Lake Forest. IU.

Hiss T. WestpM, Keeps on hand a huge and well

asortea stock of MILLINERY, FANCY GOODS and ZEPHR WOOL, opposite the Union Hotel, between second and Third North streets. NEWULM, - - -MINN.

TS/LILLI2ST H! = R , Y — A N D —

DRESS MAKING

Mrs. Anton Olding, NEXT DOOR TO

SOMMER'S STORE, NEW ULM Mas on hand a good stock of Millnery Goods con.

slating in part of Hats, Bonnets, Velvets, Silks Hiliboiis, Feather, Human Hair, Flowers. &c.

Also Patterns for stamping monograms. 8tamp. ing ol nil kinds, embroidery Work and Fashion­able Dress making done to order.

Farm Produce taken iu exchange for goods.

HAIR WORK. Ornamental hair jewelry, such as

charms, chains, pins, ear-rings, bi acelets, rings and all kinds of sol­id work promptly made to order. Combings 50 cents an ounce.

M R S . K . P I C K E R .

Centre Sjr», New Ulm, Minn.

Talbot & Pertrand, Dealers in

D R Y GOODS, G R O C E R I E S , R E A D Y

M A D E C L O T H I N G , H A T S , C A P S , B O O T S & S H O E S ,

L A D I E S ' A N D G E N T S ' U N D E R W A R E ,

N O T I O N S , &c, &c, &c.

Highest market price paid for farm produce.

Sleepy Eye, Minn.

J. FEUITEEES, Manufacturing

CONFECTIONER and dealer in

N U T S , G R E E N F R U I T S , etc . , e tc . , etc.

351 &353 East Water Str. Milwaukee

P GOEXZ. ADOLFH MEINEKB. • C. PENZHORN.

MEINECKE & CO. Importer* and Jobbers of

Toys, FaacyGoods.Yankee Notions WILLOW WARE * CHILDREN'S CARRIAGE*. No. W HURON ST. . MILWAUKEE, WIS.

HARNESS SHOP. S. S . ISeu&taikiW & 0o-

(Corner Minn. & 1st North strs., NEW ULM. MINN.

This business is established and will be conduct* ed as heretofore in the rear end of Mr. II. Beuss manna hardware store. It shall be our r m to constantly keep on hand a well assorted ' <ckof Harnese, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blank u,etc. which well be sold at bottom pricos, Uplu.ttery and all kinds of custom work promptly a (Sa­tisfactorily attended to.

H . H . B E U S g M A N N

JUEKZMA3K,

MANuvAcrnitaR iNDDAALsm rm

ElarnessoK. C o l l a r s ,

Saddles, Wnipe

Sa^ldl^ry, Blankats

e t c , *»tc. eto !rnl>'>} itviT; and *ll i nutoiii wora ^ruduln;

« m> lM4ri6i>..' |>i..nif.tlv atl.\n«l«il u> *"••> ii\., S-Jt\ LiuJi l o / i W « SMHIOII,

NKW ULM

H. H. Beussmann, Dealer in

Shelf iHeavy Hardware, Iron Steel, Carpenters and Farming Tools,

FARMING MACHINERY, &c. Cor, Minn. & 1st N. Strs.,

NEW ULM, - MINN.

:LST:E"W WABON AND MITH M l

The undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he has opened a wacon and Smith shop on State Street, and is prepared to do any and nil work in his lino promptly and at living rates. All work warranted. Now wagons will always kept on hand. A kind patronage}s respectfully soli* cited.

John Lauterbnch.

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> generally.

CATARRH CUBED BT THE

JLERIAR gYSTEM PLAINtT TBIATXO

A Practical treatise. Mailed Free. ADDRESS CATARRH INSTITUTE, DBAWKB 808, Sept. 38—81. • • » 1 > Davenport, Iowa.

*•• The Sentry. While gnzitiK on tbo c loomy hoav'its nbove,

Alone nnd in the still wntoh of the nijrnt, I stand and dream of her. my distant love,

She who ia true, who la my heart's delight.

When wnr obliged me from my 1 >ve to pnrt, She daintily my bat with ribbons decked,

And prosscd ma to her true nnd tender h«art. While from her eyes the tears would flow

unchecked. She loves me faithfully, she loves me still.

And therefore am I well oontontod and gny; My heart beats warm, although the night la

ohilL Wbilo thinking of my loved one far away.

Now In her chamber, lighted by her lamp, She mnkoshor ovonin.' prayer to God above

For one who in in danger in the camp,. And prays God's blessing for her absent

love. Ah, when tbo voioo with tone of anguish rings

For perils I may moot by land or flood. Bo tranquil—I am 'neath tb' Almighty's

wings; He loves and honors a true soldier's blood I

THOMPSON'S LAST JOKE.

Thompson was a happy man, but Mrs. Thompson was not—that is, not a happy wo-raan—and her unhappiness was both a source of satisfaction and amusement to her husband.

They were well-to-do in this world ; for, as Thompson was a very success­ful speculator in grain at the Corn Ex­change, Mrs. Thompson was seldom without change, ana with their two selves only in the family, they managed to eat, live, and dress well.

Thompson loved a Joke, and if a practical one, so much the better ; but his wife never saw one, and was too practical to enjoy the witticism that veiled either a vulgarism or a satire. And, of course, her facetious spouse took exceptional care to make-her the victim of his one failing whenever the spirit prompted.

In consequence of which little Mrs. Thompson was in a constant state of uncertainty whether to laugh or cry.

For instance, on the last morning of the old year, as her husband was leav­ing tho pretty villa at Clapham, to go down to business, he turned at the door to say, solemnly—

"Good-bye, Puss! We've eaten our last meal together this year !"

She startea up in alarm and rushed after him to the door, from which he was slowly emerging, with a broad grin on his face.

"But, Tody," she gasped, shivering on the threshold, as the keen air struck her.

"Theodore, madam!" sternly re­torted Thompson, looking at her with a fixed eye, "or Dore, ifyou like—but not Tody. Ugh!"

"Theodore, then," pleadingly cried the poor little woman, "wha—wha-at do you mean? Are you angry? Did I —I do anything wrong?"

"I leave you, madam, to find out I shall not see you again this vear." And, with a wave of his hand, Thomp­son, walked off, the grin reappearing as his wife's horrified countenance came into his. mind. "She'll find out that it's the last day of the year," he soliloquized, as he mounted the omni­bus that every morning carried him to Graceohurch-street; "and remember that I'm going to supper with Jones to-night, and of coarse will not see her until the New Year is in." , But Mrs. Thompson did not see the

point of the joke until Theodore ex­plained it, at two o'clock next morning, and passed a miserable day according­ly, brooding over his parting words and their hidden meaning. , Amid a shower of tears and a nanno-nade of sobs, Thompson vowed he would never—no, never—again make her the subject of a joke, which he was only too glad to promise as tho price of

Eeace; for the last bottle of champagne ad just touched the spot which variab­

ly ached with double horse-power, and he fell off asleep with a splitting head­ache, murmuring mysteriously:

"Mumm's the word." Which the subdued and penitent wife

understood to be a request that she would not again refer to this incident, to which sho eloquently replied, as she sank into slumber:

"I'll forget it all, Tody—Dore— Theodore r

Thus the fact is evident that the oare-less, fnn-loving Thompson found life more desirable than his earnest, loving little wife, to whom the days were long and empty until he should return, ana the nights weird and ghost-haunted until his latch-key startled the lonely spectres back to thoir lurking-places.

But Theodore never thought of this. He was the ringleader of a few Mark Lane habitues, and did more bonneting, grain-pelting, and other sportive jests than the whole band of convivil spiirts together; and, besides, sang the best songs told.tho best stories, and played the sharpest tricks. And so imbued had he become with this spirit that his better, soberer nature was becoming completely eclipsed, when at last a-pull-back arrested him in his "mad career," and the tables were turned on Theodore Thompson, Esquire.

Mrs. Thompson, like the generality of the feminine readers of newspapers, found her greatest enjoyment of the daily paper in the list of deaths and marriages, lost and found and the agony column.

For this latter she had a rare fascina­tion, and many times and oft would break in upon Theodore's study of the grain quotations in the "Mark Lane Express," with wondering demands for an explanation of this strange or that singular request from so-and-so, and thus and so, in the second column of the "Times."

One fatal day, following upon a series of suppers and excursions to which Theodore had lent the lustre of his wit, leaving her to her lonely evenings and disconsolate days, without the aid of a female friend to beguile the time with aesthetic art discussions, she fell upon a remarkable advertisemeut, and Ne­mesis followed fast upon Thompson's heels.

"Tody, isn't this strange? Just lis­ten," said Mrs. T„ with big open eyes, staring at her paper uneasily.

Tody had heard the like before, and was besides very intent on calculating the margin the sudden rise would allow him in his next offers, and therefore simply grunted out, "Yes, very." And went on comparing the closing prices of last year with the present one.

Mrs. Thompson had grown very agitated, and was peering intently at her husband from behind her paper.

"You must listen, Theodore," she said, decidedly, with a shake of the news-sheet

"All right, I'm listening. Wheat, 129$, a fall of three-eights since yester­day," murmured Thompson, abstract­edly, figuring away.

"Theodore Thompson, what does this mean?" demanded the small wo­man, with hysterical majesty, looking very stern, bat trembling very womanly.

This was the advertisement, which she proceeded to read aloud with the sonorous importance of an mngry swal­low. ---'-

Theodore looked at her grimly. "He saw fun at once. The wheat market

•tell

faded into oblivion, and tho spirit of mischief filled his mind with other quo­tations.

"Read it slowly, dear," he said, serenely.

The small woman quivered. "Theodore, you love another?" she

gurgled, and wildly waved the paper. "Another?" cried Thompson, with

melo-drama in tone and attitude* "A dozen of them. I dote on anothers. But who—who has betrayed me?"

He seized the paper from his agita­ted wife, and spread it wide open bo-fore bim; then, running his hands through his hair with a wild air, he read out, with stern emphasis:

"T. T.—Ifyou love me, meet me at the same place. I must see you.

L. Z." Thompson looked under his eyelids

at his wife. She was following every word with earnest face and grief-stricken eyes, and a grin peered round the corner of his lips as he thought of how he would cure her foolish fanoy for the agony column thenceforth.

'•So," l ie said, gravely, "you know all?"

"All, Theodore !" wailed poor Mrs. T. "Is this thing true?"

"That thing is tine," assented Tody, sadly; "but I throw myself on your mercy, and beg, for the sake of the—of the Corn Exchan ;o that yon will do nothing rash! Think not of yourself alone in this sad affair, but of your country—"

"My country!" sobbed Mrs. T., fall­ing back limp and aghast

"Yes. I am an ornament, as well as a useful member, of that great and glorious food menagerie—"

"Menagerie !" wailed Mrs. T., wring­ing her hands.

"Yes. The bulls and bears are the source of our income. Expose me, and you ruin me. ' Be patient, and all will be right once more."

Thompson shook with inward glee, as his rapid imagination wove the in­cident into a goodyarn for the boys at the next supper, excluding the true names o tdramatis persona.

Mrs. Thompson listened with pale face and a piteous look, that might have checked her husband in his joko ; but with a quiet pride that was new to her, and seemed born of this terrible emergency, she hid her pain from him and forced herself to speak calmly.

"Theodore," she said, slowly, "< me. if you please, all about this."

She touched the paper lightly. Thompson turned on his heel to stare

at her, but she was busy putting tiie breakfast things together, and he could not see her face.

"Gad!" he muttered to himself, "but she takes it coolly. I wonder if she cares!"

A sudden pang seized him; a fierce look drove the grin from its hiding-

Elace, and he punched in the crown of is hat vindictively. "I'll draw it strong," he decided,

"and see if she don't come down." Aloud, and with mock humility. "It all grew out of the last LordMay-

or's Show. - I was appointed by tho Ward to superintend tho tableaux that were to take part in the procession, and it was decided to have one tableau in

Sarticular to represent Ceres, the god-ess of plenty. It was that goddess of

plenty, my dear, that made me re­creant to my connubial vows, and bound me in the toils of the siren."

Thompson paused, with a dramatic quaver, but looking curiously at the quiet face bending over the silver spoons.

"Well?" said the steady voice. Thompson began twisting his hat

round and round in a startled quandary. What did it mean? She was as indif­ferent as if he was telling of some other fellow, and not himself—her own dear Tody! She was losing her interest in him ; she didn't care for this escapade! Could it be possible? Theodore felt himself growing pale. And how pretty she looked!

"Well, Theodore?" said the small woman, giving a lump of sugar to her canary.

"Well, I got entangled, as one does, in those kind of affairs," stuttered Thompson, failing in his composition, and wishing he had never begun it, but urged on now to a grand denounce­ment, in the hope of breaking up the chill indifference of his wife's manner, and of hearing Once more her loving little laugh and "Good-bye, Tody!,?

"Tody" was beginning to be one of the sweetest sounds he had ever heard. "And it's gone on and on until the present time."

He paused, ignominiously. Now she would faint She did not She took up the silver tea-pot and examined it carefully.

"What strange fancies men have !" she said, quietly. "It never occurs to a woman to make such a fool of her­self! Where does your goddess of plenty—plenty of what Theodore?— live, may I ask?

Thompson sought a view of her face: it was pale and set and the eyes looked sleepless and heavy.

"She's hard hit, after all!" exulted the selfish dog. "Now I'll make her admit i t "

And he forthwith gave her an ad­dress in a low tone, with humble con­trition in his manner, watching fever­ishly; the while for the stagger and catch of the breath which should be­tray his victory. •

Mrs. Thompson turned to him very quietly, and gave him instead a long look.

"And I beneved you to be a gentle­man !" she simply said, and walked past him out of the room.

Thompson was in no enviable mood that day, and hats and handkerchiefs for once were safe in their owners' pos­session, for he no longer disported himself, with cowJike gambols, on the floor, nor blandly smothered timid bid­ders with their own coat-tails.

On the oontrary, he made his offers with the air of a Nihilist conspirator, and often stood staring down at his feet with a fierce frown.

"Something's gone wrong with Thompson," said his friends, nudging each other, and looking paralyzed; as they were about to pelt him with a handful of grain, and. he suddenly raised his gloomy eyes on them.

"Confound you, let me alone!" he

Sowled; and they walked away as if e biggest tiger had broken away

from the Zoo. Later in the day came a terrible

shock to Thompson. He had decided to write to his wife, and "make it up" with her, when in walked his best friend and fellow-joker, Tony Town-send.

"Hilloa!" shouted Tody, feebly, half sorry to see him.

Townsend grasped him wildly by the hand.

"Noble friend, you've saved me," he cried. , ; . ̂ ;

Thompson gasped. "' K & ' _ ^ "Saved you?" • • . * ' . / "Yes, *T. T.'—you know,** explained

Townsend, advancing to shake him

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again by tho hand. Thompson fell back in his chair. "Keep off—I'm dangerous!" he

yelled. "What do you mean?" Townsend was again about to rush

forward, when Thompson put out both feet nnd stopped hiiu.

"Your wife—" began Townsend. Tliompsou sat upright and glared

like Othello. "Came into our office this morn­

i n g - " Thompson reached for a sharp pa­

per-cutter. "And interrupted the governor lec­

turing me generally, iucluding this ad­vertisement Mrs. Thompson seemed very unhappy, and undeterred by the governor's presence, stated that she

esired my influence to assist her in saving you from a terrible mishap and restoring you to your sound sonses. Jn brief, old boy, she spoke of your adver­tisement in to-day's paper, and of tho bold, bad woman that Was ruining you "

Townsend looked as if he would ohoke, and Thompson felt the edge of the paper-cutter carefully.

"The governor sprang up," contin­ued Townsend, holding on to his sides, "grasped me by the hands, called me his 'pure-hearted, noble boy,' and told your wife of all your—my— flirtations, consoled, then blessed her, and rushed out Mrs. Thompson behaved like a trump, and left your reformation in my hands as she went from my office."

Thompson rose slowly. "You—you—" he spluttered, flour­

ishing the paper-cutter. "Of course I am!" roared Townsend,

backing to the door. "But what did you play snch a joke on that dear little woman for? She ought never to for­give you!"

The door opened suddenly f behind Townsend, and in came a young fellow with a savage look and a quick step. The latter carried him straight up to Thompson, and the former looked turn over from head to heels.

"How dare you, sir, tell your wife that the woman I am to marry rode on a car, dressed as the goddess Ceres, in Lord Mayor's Show?'^

Thompson fell back in his chair in a state of collapse, while Townsend skir­mished near the door, waiting for an explanation.

The irate visitor flourished a light cane omniously near5 to Tody's right shoulder. 't§

"The goddess Ceres t" murmured Thompson.

"Yes, sir!" roared the outraged lover, beginning to take his steps with very little regard for time. "This moraine*, sir. Mrs. Thompson called on the young lady and had an inter­view, in which she accused her of hav­ing won your affections from her, and of being a circus rider, engaged to personate Ceres in the Lord Mayor's Show—stating that you had given her the address. Now, sir, what does this mean?"

"That I have played one joke too many, sir!" said Theodore, gravely, rising from his chair with a respectful bow; "and am ready to make any apo­logy you may demand to your fiancee, to whom I am innocent of any discour­tesy, except through an idle jest to my wife. Pray go with me to the lady's house, and. humiliating as it is, I will make a full explanation."

This was done to the lady's and the lover's satisfaction, and then, with a grave face. Thompson turned his steps

omeward. How would his wife receive him? His

cheek burned at the mortifying blow he had received; and yet he was proud of one thing—despite the ridicule her action had brought upon him. it had

Eroved that she did care for him, and ad even left herself out of the question,

when pleading with Townsend and the mistaken Cores to save him for himself alone, for the sake of his honor and future.

He found her with bowed head and had clasped as he silently entered, and heard her pray:

"Oh, Father, help me to keep my dear husband's life pure; strengthen me, that I may be able to guide him, for his soul's sake!"

A big sob choked Thompson, as he said:

"Puss!" And when she was in his arms, cling­

ing close to him in fervent thanksgiving that it was "all a joke," he then and there made a vow never to perpetrate another joke, and he kept i t

"But little woman," he said, "don't ever put on your dignity with me again, for it has taught me to be jealous of your love."

Hands of American Women, The American women have the

smallest hands in the world. Gloves made in France for the American mar­ket are smaller and narrower than for any others in the world, and the fingers are made more slender, as any Ameri­can woman will discover who has to bny a pair of gloves in any provincial city in Europe. Probably ho American With a smallish hand which excites no remark here has traveled long abroad without discovering that it is only large shops in big cities which keep gloves small enough for her, and a lady with a hand just below the Americans aver­age, four, living in one of the largest cities in Eastern Europe, recently found herself forced to sena to New York reg­ularly for her gloves. It it idle­ness that makes the hands small, work that enlarges them. Perhaps the foregoing is equivalent to saying that American women are the laziest in the world.

. * — I S * M01d Folks at Home."

"Old Folks at Home" was written by Stephen C. Foster thirty years ago, who sold it to Christy, of minstrel fame, for $5, and received a bonus of 96* more for the privilege of having his (Chris­ty's) name on the title-page as author, and after that piece had made bim rich he generously gave Foster $50 more, which was all he ever received for the song. Bat it served to make the author famous and to sell all bis other songs, yet he died a poor man. For a while the piece waned in public favor, until it was sung by MUe. Nilsson at her concerts, when it took a new start, and at this present time it is one of the best selling songs in the market The numerous transcriptions from its melo­dy by upwards of twenty different com­posers serve to keep it popular. It is really a worthy companion piece to "Sweet Home," and will probably be •ung for a hundred years or more.

An inventive genius of Paris, Ont, having been pestered with visits from his neighbors' hogs, fastened a very sharp scythe blade-to the bottom of hu front gate. Next morning there were several snouts underneath the gate whose owners had been trying to effect an entrance. 1, i*

Indian Mound-Bnildem We are not moreover, without testi­

mony to the fact that the present In­dian tribes did build mounds. Lewis and Clark mention the custom among the Oma'ias, saying that "one of their great chiefs was buried on a hill, and a mound twelve feet in diameter and six feet in height erected over him." Ber­tram states that the Clioctaws covered the pyramid of coffins taken from the bone-house with earth, thus raising a conical hill or mound. Tomochicbi pointed out to General Oglethorpe a large conical mound near Savannah, in which he said the Yatnacraw chief was interred, who had, many years before, entertained a great white man with a red beard, who entered the Savannah river in a largo vessel, and in his barge came up to the Yamacraw bluff. Feath-erotonhaugh,- in his "Travels," speaks of the custom among the Osages, re­ferring to a mound built over the body of a chief, called Jean DeFoe by the French, who unexpectedly died while his warriors were absent on a hunting expedition. Upon their return they heaped a mound over his remains, en­larging it at intervals for a long period, until it reached its present height Bradford says that many of the tumuli formed of earth, and occasionally of stones, are of Indian origin. They are generally sepulchral mounds—either

te general cemetery of a village or tribe, funeral monuments over the graves of illustrious chiefs, or upon a

attle-field, commemorating the event and entombing the fallen, or the result of a custom, prevalent among some of the tribes, of collecting at stated inter­vals the bones of the dead, and inter­ring them in a common repository. A mound of the latter description was formerly situated on the low grounds of the Bivanna river, in Virginia, op­posite the site of an old Indian village (Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia," pp. 100, 103). It was forty feet in diame­ter and twelve feet in height of a spheroidal form, and surrounded by a trench, whence the earth employed in its construction had been excavated. The circumstances attending the cus­tom alluded to were, the great number of skeletons, their confused position, their situation indistinct strata, exhib­iting different stages of decomposition, and the appearance of bones of infants. A mound of similar character, and con­structed in layers of strata at succes­sive periods, existed near the south branch of the Shenandoah, in the same state. A tumulus of stones in New York State is said to have marked the

grave of a distinguished warrior (Mo-auley's "History of New York," voL

ii., p. 239). "Beck's Gazetteer" (p. 308) states that a mound of the largest dimensions has been thrown up within a few years in Illinois, over the re­mains of an eminent chief.**—Popular /Science Monthly.

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The late Duke of Alba, brother-in-law of the ex-Empress Eugenie, was one of the most persistent gamblers of the time. He once gambled away the sum of 5,000,000 francs in a single night's play. After squandering the immense fortune which he inherited, he received a pension of 60,000 francs a year. He was paid monthly, but by the fifteenth day of every month not a franc was left of his 5,000 francs, and he used to borrow 5 or 6 louis d'or in the club. At last however, a turn of fortune came. All his debts were paid, and the Duke of Berwick and Alba pur-chased one of the most splendid pala­ces in Madrid, where he lived in prince­ly style, keeping 100 horses in his sta­bles and open table every evening for forty guests. During the latter part of his life he only played for very small sums, having a wholesome dread of again risking his fortune and position.

m s m "Wanted—A compositor; one who

uses neither tobacco nor rum." Thus reads an advertisement, and we'll bet our boots to a leaden greenback that the man's place was crowded with ap­plicants, and that the passers-by thought there was a funeral there. The idea of a compositor drinking or chewing! Pretty soon they'll accuse editors and reporters of staying away from church.

One of the Things Newspaper Beparten Have to Do to Keep Up.

One of the most brilliant feats of French reporting is the following: It happened at the time when the great Troppmann murder case was agitating Paris and France, and everybody was eager for details. A reporter who had the matter in hand left Paris for Cer-nay, where the father of Troppmann resided. He arrived, called upon the justiceof the peace and the oommis-sairede police, invited them to follow

-him to the Mairie, took bis seat in the judge's chair, and there, with unpar­alleled audacity, ordered the garde champetre to go and bring before him the assassin's father. The officers did not say a word; the reporter had con­quered them by his air and demeanor. When the father of Troppmann was brought before him, he interrogat­ed him as though officially commis­sioned to do so. The result of the cross-questioning was that the son Bad writ­ten to the father on the eve andon the day of the crime. "Monsieur le Com­missionaire,'* said the reporter, "please go to the witness* house and seize these letters.**

The functionary obeyed; the letters were brought the reporter read them, found them full of evidence of Tropp-mann's guilt, copied them (jarefully and with a solemn air. Then, with re­spect he handed over the originals to the justice of the peace, asked bim to seal them carefully and keep them for thejfuture use of the court The re­porter pat the copies into his pocket, saluted the gentlemen and left It was 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and the train that was to bear his letter to Paris would not leave before evening. If he sent his precious report by that train it would be too late for the morning edi­tion of bis paper. Besides, he met two other Paris reporters, who had just ar­rived, and who would soon learn the news at Cernay and send it on to Paris at the same time he did bis report. What does he do? He goes to bis brother reporters and says: "I am dy­ing' of hunger, my friends. Let at breakfast together. You go to the tav­ern there and order a good dejeuner. with plenty of wine, yon know, and r 11 oome presently." The two reporters did as he bade them, while our friend jumped into a wagon, and had himself driven to the station; after hard beg­ging, and giving money, he was al­lowed to leave on a luggage train then about to start, caught a passenger train for Paris ata junotioh farther on, and arrived at .the offioe of his paper late at night He oommanieated U s informa-Jkpu and the first sage* which was al­ready "closed op,41 was completely re­set The next morning eighty thoa-sendoopiesof the paper were sold.— The Parisian.

ALL80ETB. . The Detroit Free Press tells of a.

young lady who could not make her bangs stay, bung, and who said she was having a toft time of i t

Queen Victoria does not approve of carpets, and has Indian matting placed on the floors of nearly all her private apartments.

The Bev. William Marshall, colored, of Clark county, Ky., announces that be will pray for any desired object on receipt of 75 cents.

So rapid has been the destruction by hunters of prairie chickens that the Omaha Bee suggests the passage of a law prohibiting their killing for the next ten years.

Mrs. Burdette the invalid wife Of the Burlington Bawkeye humorist has fal­len heir to $10,000, bequeathed by her grandfather, the late Capt 'Hall, of Peoria, 111.

When Bev. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, stepped off the steamship on his return from Europe, he immediately tele­graphed his venerable mother at Sara­toga as follows : "Psalms xivili; 14."

Robert Purvis of Philadelphia, - says that he went to Europe with the first passport ever given to a colored man by the United States government It was issuedjbyorder of President Jackson.

Some philosopher not of the Concord school has said: "Many a man thinks it is principle that keeps him from, turning rascal, when it is only a full stomach." Be grateful, and do not mistake potatoes for principle.

Mr. Satterthwaite. of the Forest and Stream, is a great grandson of Benja­min Franklin. Mr. Duane, grandson of the secretary of the treasury of that name under Jackson, of the firm of Schuyler A Duane, is another.

Mme. Marie Blanc, late proprietress of the gambling hell at Monaco, has left her property, worth $20,000,000, to her three children, who will keep up the establishment and run roulette ana "trente et quaranto" as usual, for aH comers.

It seems that even in Canada all is not merry so far as the Indians are con­cerned. A correspondent of theTo-i ronto Globe fears that the frauds of certain Canadian Indian agents will bring on war in the northwest before lone.

The memoir of Bryant upon which Mr. Parke Godwin is engaged, will contain several poems that nave-never appeared in print The work will not be very lengthy, as there were bat few incidents in Bryant's life that are worth relating.

Midhat Pasha's place of banishment, it is said, is considered by the Arabs as the most ancient place in the world. They say it is the place to which Adam, and Eve fled after their expulsion from paradise, and Eve's tomb is shown to pilgrims.

The only thing that the Duchess of Edinburg really studied before her marriage was music. Every whim of hers was indulged by the czar, who adored her; and, when the temperature was at 20 degress centigrade below freezing point flowers were forced to bloom for her delight

Alexander H. Stephens is writing a book about the rebellion, taking issue with Jefferson Davis. He keeps two stenographic amanuenses at work con­stantly. Gen. Beauregard also has a book nearly ready, which is described as one of the most readable of all the war records.

Olive Logan says that English doo-tors are so scrupulous about "profes­sional ethics" that he heard consider­able comment in London recently be­cause Dr. Austin Flint's baggage was marked conspicuously with nis name and address, his English professional brethren deeming it an indued adver­tisement

Reporter Murphy of the United States senate, relates of Daniel Webster that one day when he was to debate with .Silas Wright a loquacious friend went over and said : "Mr. Webster, you will have an easy victory to day; Mr. Wright is drunk.* "I would have yon know, youngman," said Mr. Web­ster, "that Silas Wright either drunk or sober, is a very hard man to encoun­ter."

— s m Qotint Phrasal of the Parifio Ooast -

The great west has become noted for quaint and expressive phrases ooined by the rough element of the coast. The miner and prospector, as he wandered through the bills and followed the cir­cuitous valleys and narrow passes, pre­fixed names to these* places, as Mgulch-es," and "canyons," until almost every canyon and gulch has been dubbed with some old name which forever af­terward will designate the locality.— The mountaineer, after years of west­ern life, finds himself lost in an eastern metropolis and fails to meet his en­gagement on prompt time, but is not at a loss to give a decided reason for his delay, because of "getting lost among the box canyons.** Terse and pointed remarks like that of the man who said: "I did not fight him, but had he oome a stop further the doctors would have thought when they dissected him that they bad struck a new lead mine," are quite oommon among miners. How expressive are the sayings, "He is a gashed vein and has pinched;** "He shows well on the surface bnt there is nothing in his lower levels;'* or "he didn't assay worth anything.** He who lacks courage is in Western par­lance devoid of "grit** and has no "sandy" Men who roughed in the early days on the Pacific coast are called "oldtimers," and when they die it is not uncommon for their associates to speak of their taking-off as their "having passed in their checks.** Those who have toiled through the snows and braved the dangers of crossing great mountain ridges have coined a style of expression upon the death of an old friend which to them is fuller of mean­ing than the plainsman can realize— "he has gone over the range.** Each state and territory on the Pacific slope has its peculiar phrases, and there are many common to all.—Ogber, in Oma­ha Bee.

There are now 10,000 Protestant Christiana in Mexico. The Presbyte­rian Church began its work here in 1872; and now claims 4,000 members. The Methodist Episcopal Church sent missionaries in 1678, and has now 337 members in toll oonS»otion and 878 on probation. The Protestant Episcopal Church has 8,600 members. The first introduction of the Bible into the coun­try was by the soldiers and cbaplaine of the United States army, in 1847.

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A bear in Colorado got hold of Jo­seph Brooks and sailed in to eat him, bnt began on one of bis legs and it happened to be wooden. Joe laid still ana l e t the bear chew. He says it was the most disgnsted-looking near he

.ever saw—when the "sell" broke over •Ma oowitehanoe.

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