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A P&TnrGE TO DE3E3JH.

' ?ro£rSo1>ert E. O d i u m .T«mpsi£235 P e e t : In to E a s t B i v a r F r o m Brooklyn rBridgo

tuta D i e s Soon After. ^ I Last Tuesday afternoon, the ISWrinat, a cab lef t the New York entrance <rf ;the Brooklyn bridge and was driven to the middle of the great span. Here the driver >puHed'Up, and

-. two men got out and began to climb the rail­ing.' Before they had reached the4cp> a bridge

• policeman came running toward vthem, brand­ishing his clnb, and ordered them to "get down

. out of that." While he was talking to the young men a covered wagon ceniaining Prof. Eobert E. Odium and a companion stooped 100 feet behind the cab. Quicfcly r.ivest-

. ing himself of the blue flannel suit, in . which he was dressed, Pref. .Odium clad

in a red shirt and trunks, jumped from the carriage and sprang lightly to the«railing. He quickly reached the top, and, pciaing himself a moment, he stood erect and glanced hurried-

• ly at the surface of the east isreer, far below •h im. The people on the bridge *ent up aery

. of horror, when they e aw the professor prepare to plunge off the bridge into the ;river, 185 feet

• beneath his feet. The policeman, whose atten­tion had now been directed fromitfa© first man, rushed toward the professor. iBefere he had

• ;gone a dozen feet, Prof. Odium, without a moment's hesitation, had leaped out from the railing into 4ho air. He held one hand above his head, ae a rudder,

<> to guide him in his descent Theriver below • was at the moment clear of shipping. A tug

and a schooner floated lazily in ;the. stream r several hundred yards below the 'bridge. The

tug,. was filled with reporters and club men. : Boyton stood near the prow anxiously watch-;:• lng.-the bridge. The moment Barof. Odium's • body was seen to leave the railing Harrv E. '. Di$ey, the actor, started a stop watch which he

held in his hand in order to timeitfee descent. •For nearly 100 fset the professer-oame down

; all right, feet foremost He shot-downward '. with the speed of a meteor, his red-euit mak-. ing him easily discernible for a leng distance.

When within thirty feet of the water his bodv began to turn. As if realizing Prof. Odium brought down his hand with a warlike motion

- to aid him in recovering his balance. The r .movement was, however, made too late. His :...*oody had now turned so far that it was impos­

sible . to change its course. Hall a f< second* later, with a mighty cpkah, that n threw up the water on all sides, as if , torn,.with a shell, Prof, Odium's body , struck^he water on one side and sank, out of , sight The tug hurriedly pushediUself for-i. ward, to the place where the body fell, and

Copt JBoynton, alter seeing that liJe-preserv-. «ra;bad been thrown out into the water, sprang

over .the side of the boat and waited for the body to come to the surface. Soon he saw the white, face of the professor rising (from the

•,.vi&tev., and a moment later he was by:his side. ; Seizing a life preserver mearly he placed it , beneath the body of the insensible professor. ; Blood, mingled with froth came from the • tacmtb. of the dying man. A row boat came to

the rescue and Professor Odium was taken • from the.water. A few moments later.he was

transferred to the tug and restoratives were . administered. After considerable rubbing the

eyes of the professor opened. "What kind . of ajump.didl make?" he whispered. ""First-slass .my boy," responded Boyton, Kyocu.>will be

: .allright in a little while." But he was insensible .again before the words had hardly left his lips The tug steamed hastily to his ship, and just as the shore was reached a shudder ipassed through.the frame of the professor, and then, after, breathing heavily once'or twice hia. heart stopped beating and he was pronounced dead.

'.The body was taken ashore and conveyed to th© undertakers. Prof. Robert E. Odium-was formerly the proprietor of a swimmiug bath imWasliington, but latterly has been a elerk in VYlllar,d's hotel. It has been his ambition to jump -fromithe Brooklyn bridge. He made tlae attempt ones before the bridge was com-

•pletedj.but was prevented from carryii g o a t his ischeme.by the police. He was '6% seconds in

j the air.before striking the water. He was un-.•m&rne&,:|53 .years of age and a man of <good &afcdts.

Ml^ESOTAIEWStOADEMD.

; D e a t h of V ic tor H u g o .

¥i«t&rrHugo,. was dying in Paris at lasfead-ricos. vYictor Marie Hugo, the greatest French poetaudnoyelist of the present generation, *ras barnM Besancon Feb. 26,1802. Being the son of .an-'/jfneer. whose military duties called him oat .ckFrapce, h© was carried in childhood,to Elba,»Corsica, Switzerland and Italy, and in 1S0<) to. Paris. At the age of twenty he pub-lis&Q'iLiusiifirst volnmn of "Odes and Ballads;" wbieb. eveated a sensation. Two novels, "Han aTeteadB" ,(1838). and "Bug-Jargal" (1825), shewediiki3 .force and originality in prose, aJBo his prediloetipa f or the horrible and monstrous whwJajpeuneates his greater works.

Having. reached the highest distinction m. literature; in 1841, election to the French Acade­my, aa.«pite,of .the opposition of the old clas­sical eoncol, ;,he indulged in political aspira­tions wihiclvweie gratified by King Louis Phil­ippe in 1845,K^ho made him a peer of France. In 1836 ihe published "Les Contemplations;" in 1850, "JLa JUegende des Sieclee," and in 1862, "Les SEaej-ables,"/the latter simultaneously in nine languages, and eight cities. "Les Miser-ables" is ,uuQtuestionably his most popular if not strongest ropjance. Victor Hugo was an earnest SsiendwOf ;the laboring class, and on several occasions delivered fervid public ad­dresses off. (behalf., of workiEgmen. Further­more, in accordance, with his lifelong principles, he was os.e .of r-the.. strongest sympathizers whose inflaieii«0{:tho Irish people enjoyed in their late g&iruggle.-.against the landlords, and it w&s he wdiom J$ktr. Parneli most eagerly son ght for aSvice^nd-comfort vat the time of his yisit to Kftrisun J.-882, nor <fiid he seek in vahv

. ScneraUboffftsr^Sleeted Svnator .

;*Spri ttjgfield,EH,,,;dispatch:—In ^oint session cJi the lt^islatsi'e '.last ITuesday the 19th ins t , ; Gen. Jo tai A. LdfgaD.iTSte elected United States ,.sejjs,tor. . jFifty-«mesgenatprs were jjresent and 153 rep tttsentafc^es. "VThen the <yote was taken a . fead sBtenGe i.p«)vailed. Bgnnis re­fused to v ife. Tits senjitcrs all vote/., giving t.we,n^-six TE?tes. fttagoi^s-vote wa« iffeceived wi th .eheer . i When :Sifct^ was calksd, in a long,speech, axplafeing bis situation, he voted for Logan un'dior pi-auest. (The vote was ws,ceived ^withwild ch earing. T h i s ^ a v e a vote,of 103 for Logan. O n thee£U<af*alasenteesth«£)emo-,crats voted so l id ly 6>r.Jtud^eLambert'jTree. jAfter roll cal 1 Bafce^, . JfcNary, MeAliney, iCaldwell,tQoini't 4'nd Coofts changed theirtfgotes ito Charles B. E'arwdi (Bep.) B a n y (J^sn.) •changedhis vov<e to Jstm.A- .Logap aniii^h© iwildest confusio u prevailed. '^.Ins insured ibia' (election. I k e x.iS- call was jproceeded stjth ,atter a time. TL\e Democrats attempting 4 » ^lecjt Farwell, hop «Dg to ©ss* aej»e RepubBc/pi ^cotes, Barry vritho'rew his moterfcom Logan, ibnt stated he would no tallow a n o t h e r Republican tout Logan to i a ele efeed. Kb 3epublicq,n a«m-part\went to Fa?weL'? andSfetfkejsSaines final­ly announced the vore declaaoagsLegan elected. General Logan received coagrifttniations froca all parts of the ccuntiy. Ex-Secretary Blaine, who,wa3 one of the firai in Washington to re­ceive the gratifying intelligence, immediately sent ©en. Logan tfce fo\Uowing .congratulatory dispatchu "Acceptanynio«t corAiaJLceogratula-tions. The contestnyas unprecedCBted*ndyour victoxj iie jnemorable."

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, B*a&. ot a Noted. aCinneaotlMU A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla., says that

Norman B. Harwood, c a s ifound dead *a bed at Datonia, (that state, fiuntUy the 17tb. He was a prominent and wwl thy citizen of ithe place. A svit involving tea property, woisth $150,000 WAS decided againet M m recently. U

is not known whether his dearth v a s caused ibgr grief at the loss .of his propertr ov was the ire*-

| | ~ suit of enieide. Jtx. Harwooa w.xs formerly ^ \ an extensive dry goods merchaid ofiMinneapoa-

lis, and likewise oaanufactured fonts, canvas goods and awnings. He did a large amount of business, but failed in November, 1880. Ha claimed over $900,000 assets, and made an as­signment Claims to the amount of ov er $800,-000 were filed. While the settlement was in progress Mr. Harwood disappeared, and it was finally learned that he bad invested in an orange plantation in Florida. He was in bus ­iness ift St Paul before removing to MinnciP-olid.

Th* American tract society published during the past year 213,115 tractsi; cards, jiackages, and

ra*TEcnxr«rpirB£xcrREAT&K.i

The law adopted byHhe last legislature in regard to boards of .health requires that a thorough sanitary inspection of towns, vil­lages, boroughs and cities shall be made in May of each year bj^the Health officer, and a written report thereof submitted at the next meeting of . t h e . board of health. Any person violating any order or regu­lation of the board ;of health is guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to a fine not exceed­ing $160, or imprisonment not exceeding three* months. The board;can. order the owner or occupant to remove, any nuisance, filth or cause of sickness found- on any private prop­erty, under penalty of $50 fine. VThe board al­so has full power to -assign certain places for the exercise of trades or employments which are nuisances, or deleterious to health or at­tended by noisome or injurious odors. The board also is given control of contagious or in­fectious diseases among cattle, horses and other domestic animals. For this purpose a sanitary survey.-of all Btables and sur­roundings is necessary. This inspection has already been i&egun .by. many health officers throughout the -'State. For their instruction, the state .board of health has just issued a circular setting forth the facts above stated, and quoting important ex­cerpts from the laws. A model diagram is given for use in making and recording a san­itary survey of a farm, lot or block. A per­manent record is to be kept as follows: The first page to containihe number of the plat and a brief description with the date and san­itary results of inspection; the Becond page to contain a diagram of the lot, block.or grounds, showing houses, with number of adults and children, wells, water or earth closets, privies, cisterns, cesspools and drains, garbage heaps, barns, with number o f horses,, sheds, with number of cattle, manure heaps, pig pens, plank walks, brick, stone or concrete walks, water mains, sewers, swamps or wet grounds, flowing and stagnant water, tiles and direction •f surface drainage.

THE UTH.ITT OF SANITABT PliATS.

These plats are to be filed for future use. In case of an outbreak of disease in any locali­ty, the health officer can at a glance note its sanitary condition, relation to other districts, population, character and other essential data, and can lay his plans for i ts control promptly and with confidence. It isi not essential that the whole of a village, town or city be platted at once, as advised, but unless, it is. done there will be no available record of sanitary needs and work convenient,: And there, will be in­creased liability to forget or neglect until too late to prevent disease—which is. the end of a local healih board. For knowledge of sanitary condition is the most important of the factors of disease prevention. The most important points to be looked after in the. sanitary survey are the following:

The number, construction, condition and location of all privies and cesspools; the loca­tion and character of all other collections of refuse, animal or vegetable matter, fluid or solid; the location and construction- of wells, cisterns and other sources of -water- supply for domestic use; the source o f the .water, and in case of disease or suspicion, of the quality of the water, its examination. All springs, wells and streams should be studied with reference to the first two points mentioned; the construc­tion and efficiency of all drains, sewers, or other apparatus or methods of • .disposing of slops ot all sorts; the condition of lots, streets and alleys as respects drainage andcloanliness; the localion of all trades or employments lia­ble to "be dangerous to the, public health, or a nuisance; or attended by noisome:or offen­sive odors, or otherwise injurious to the es­tates of the inhabitants;" the care of domestic animals, and of barns, sheds-or pens occupied by them, as affecting public health, or their own liability to infectious or contagious diseases; be particular as to inspection of stockyards; the public disposal of night soil, carbage, manure, offal or other refuse vegetable or animal mat­ter ; stagnant pools, swampy or marshy land adjacent to residences and liable ta effect, in­juriously the public health; the condition, quality and quantity, of pubhewater supplies; the condition and sufficiency of the public sew­er system; the sanitary condition of buildings used for public assemblies, particularly school houses and places of amusement; sanitary condition of hotels, common boarding bouses and tenement houses,ho9pitals and poorhauses, jails and lockups, railway station.houses,, liv­ery stables and stock yards.

The state boai-d of health expects local boards to carry out its ins tr notions * and is under the new law, after this May inspection is compl et-ed, the various cities and towns .of Minnesota will be prepared to meet and resist not only cholera, but all other infectious and epidemic

.diseases.

. .Minnesota Komoepath ic I n s t i t u t e .

!The nineteenth annual sessioc of .the. Minne­s o t a State Homcepathic institute -met in .the house of representatives at the capitol, St Paul. There were present O. H. Hall,.Zum-brota,. and A. A. Camp, Minneapolis, the presi­

dent and secretary of the association,.and a fair attendance of members. Papers were :readand discussions had upon a variety of :&ubjects. The president's annual;addre38 was a n essay on the subject of "Hereditary Influ-tences,1! in. which he took the ground tthat the parent's-nature greatly influenced the child, both physically and morally. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year and the institute adjourned:

.President; A. A. Camp; vice president, L. G. Milberton; - secretary, George F. Boberts; treasurer, W. E. Leonard; censoma, ~W. H. Leonard, H.:. Hutchinson, R. D. Matehen; pub­lication committee, W. E. Leonard, C. G. Hig-bee, O. H. Glidden; delegates to American institute, W., H. Cairne, Alex Donald, P. Jffelson; delegate;.to Western acadetty, C. W. Crory, W. E. Lundd; delegates to state ' institutes; Wisconsin,)J. [E. Sawyer; Michigan, W. H. Brazie; Illinois, O. Schmidt; Ohio, O. H. Hale; Pennsylvania, A. M Eastman; Massachusetts, G. H JHawes; New York, W. E. Leonard; JXew Jersey, • A. .Perjrins; Iowa, C. G. Higbae.

State.Auflit©r]Braden has returned fsmo. a tripthuQugh Southwestern Minnesota, where he consgileted; the sale of 50,000 acres of state lands. TTAwenty thousand acres were in Mur­ray couaBty.,.ahd.-the price at which the land sold wasUnusually good. ?'t;

*> Receiver Browne of the Northwestern Car company, tooncloded that he might as well file the claims made against the company with the clerk of the -couut. .They aggregate $1,928,024.

E; P. Ba«sford ;has been decided on for the position of a&perintendent of construction for the Minneapolis ipostoflice building. '

Margaret F«ldman,.a German girl of twenty-four years, &>r the .past two years has been

..employedin t&efamily.of RudolphjKnapheide, » farmer in Reserve :to$wship, some six miles

v*rom St. Paul, feanged herself because her lov-(er could not maaay .until next spricg, while :3f*rgaret was anxipns to .marry at oabe. It is .entirely probable <hat the girl, finding<fchat her advances were pert returned with sufficient warmth, and brooding over the delay .in her marriage, worked herself,up to a state of .mind bordering very closely upon insanity, which, in ;B .more than usual despondent fit, effaced the cthin thread of reason remaining, driving her ,to {insanity and aelf-destrucfcon

W, jH. Xdnderman of tiae town of Lynn, M«-LeodAQaxty, lost his bouse., barn and all out­buildings ;ty fire. Mr. Liaderman was badly I burned in itfving to save Ma property. Several | calves were Zrorned in ihe harn.' S o insur­ance.

A. Samson *ad wife, of Clinton Falls, cele­brated their gcJden wedding on the 141% hat

At the sale of state lands at Madelja 3,720 acres of lands w&e disposed of.

•The reason for Architect Bassford's appeint-mert as superintendent of construction for the Minneapolis postoffice is said to be that the president behoves m lnyving outsiders for sueh Wiork. »

At Dover Lake fire destroyed property to th amount of #2,000, owned by A. N. Roach sod Dover & French.

it is believeSrby-Budden.changesctf ^westherin \ March last .•'. • ',. -_-.'*, s • i : V ^ ^ t - t ^ !

C. E. Gamer, head cook, indEmma D.;Swan-son, pastry cook, at the Grand Central hotel, S t Cloud, eloped -recently. Garner is a mar­ried man,' whose wife left S t Cloud two weeks ago for Minneapolis to visit some friends. Emma is unmarried.

Francis S. Wetherbee, a general merchant at Marshall, has made an assignment Banker Dibble of Marshall is the largest creditor— $15,000—all of which id. amply secured. The other secured claims are all of a Winona firm, $600; Lyon County bank, $200, and a Chicago firm $200, making the secured indebtedness $2,500, or a total indebtedness of some $8,000. To meet the unsecured indebtedness of $5,500, there are assets of nearly $6,000.

The Winona & S t Peter Railroad company is to erect a grain elevator of 250,000 to 300,000 bushels capaeity at Winona on-the river bank nearly in front of the passenger depot Bids for the foundations are being received, and it is expected that work upon the structure will be begun at.cnce.

Senator Sabin has filed claims against the Northwestern Car company aggregating over $800,000, and Receiver O'Gorman, of Seymour, Sabin & Co., wants over $1,000,000.

At Duluth, John Waiseman was -sentenced to be hanged.

George C. Drowley, sheriff of Houston coun­ty, accompanied by John Hohl and Clement Hindt, guards, delivered to Warden Reed, at Stillwater, James Smith, convicted of larceny and sentenced to- eighteen months' imprison­ment, and Stewart G. Pierce, sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.

Samuel MayalL a prominent resident of fit Paul, is lying at the point of death at Gray, Maine, where he has been spending the winter.

The Austin Canning company has just re­ceived a car load of tin from which 150,000 cans will be manufactured for use this season.

The Anoka Fressed brick and Term Catta company expect new machinery by the use of which they will be able to manufac­ture 100,000 bricks per day.

The two-and a-half-year-old daughter of Sutherland McLean of Worthington, fell into a tub of hot water and was scalded to death.

The Le Sueur Sentinel claims the discovery near that village of fins brick and fireproof mineral paint.

Mrs. Fitzpatrick of Wheatland Rice county, dropped dead recently as she was walking home.

Charles Smedburg and Charles Runwall, liv­ing near Gotha, Carver county, were coming home from hunting, when Runwall ordered Smedburg to stop or he would shoot him, and the latter not obeying, Runwall fired, the charge of shot entering Smedburg's body, and it is feared he will die. Both were about fourteen years of age.

In Waconia, two young men named Kray and another lad, while fishing on Burand's lake, threatened the owner of the lake, who desired them to desist using spears, whereupon Bu-rand threw a stone, which struck one of the Kray boys on the head and fractured his skull. Burand was arrested, and the boy is likely to die.

The Perham Bulletin chronicles the arrest of the Fitch brothers, one of whom has been engaged as a minister of the gospel the past winter, on a charge of stealing $400 worth of tools and fixtures from the Weber mill, and the sale of mortgaged cattle. The two brothers lived about two miles apart, and each was well guarded with weapons of defense. Stolen tools of different descriptions were found in their possession. They were bound over to court in $800 each.

The track of the Minnesota & Northwestern was completed to the river at St. Paul, and the construction force, with the exception of a small gang, which remains behind to put on the finishing touches, has been sent back over the road to begin construction between Cas­cade and Mona. The total length back from St Paul to Mona will be 1 1 0 ^ miles.

The residence of Henry Luerson, near Pratt postoffice, was destroyed by fire and th five children of Mr. Luerson perished in the flames. Mrs. Luerson was seriously if not fatally burned.

A little son of Martin Micholowski of Winoaa -was scalded to death in a tub of hot soap.

. At Hawley, two hundred cords of wood piled . along the Northern Pacific track burned. All freights and the evening passengers are de­layed. The fire would not allow the trains to pass. \'. ,.

At Duluth, in the trial of Waiseman for the murder of Farley, the committee retired a few minutes before noon and returned in less than

.fifteen minutes and the verdict was, "Guilty - of murder in the first degree." The jury took two ballots, the first being eleven guilty and one for acquittal. The prisoner received the verdict without any outward demonstrations, and seemingly in composed mind, and was quietly taken back to ja i l Sentence was pro­nounced.

Articles of incorporation of the Minnesota Im­proved Telephone company was filed with the secretary of state. The capital is $500,000, divided into 10,000 shares of the par value of $50 each. Reuben Warner, Albert H L'indeke, W. J.;Cahoone, W. P. Warner and H P. Hall are theiincorporators. This company uses the Randall & Macentire receivers, by means of which, it is claimed, the voice is transmitted much more distinctly than by the telephone now in .use.

The railroad and grain commissioners held open session in the senate chamber of the capr itol recently, and the whole question of grad­ing wheat\was discussed in all its bearings by representatives from the St Paul and Duluth boards ©f itrade, Minneapolis chamber of com­merce, and various farmers, millers, elevator and commission men from all sections of the state. Chairman J. H. Baker presided, com­missioners Murdock and Becker occupying seats by his side. No decision was made.

At St. PaaiL Fxank Landers charged with ut­tering, on six S t Paul firms, forged orders or notes to the extent of $2,700 was sentenced to 24 jearB in the State Prison.

The council of (the First Baptist church of St. Paul,metfor^theinve§tigationof the charges

.against Dr. RiddeJl, and adjourned till May 2U.

The Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph thus re­fers to an old-time S t Paul journalist: Mr. Jamas Mills, of the Post, and one of the oldest newspaper men in Pittsburg, lectured before Union Lodge, A. O. U. W.., on the subject of "Newspapers and Newsgatherers." The lec­ture was one of the most complete efforts of the kind that have ever been heard here, and deservedly won the attention and hearty ap­plause of the audience.

Thedejails of a singular shooting casein Leaf Lake Otter Tail county, have come to l ight On i h e 20th of April Aleck Cairncross, P. F. Dibb, £ohn L. Taylor and Mortimer Tay­lor were spearing fish. They were suddenly, and without warning, fired upon with rifles by parties from (the shore five times. The as­saulted party threw themselves flat upon the h«sat and thus escaped being sliot After the fixing ceased thejr a wore out a warrant against their assailants, «od succeeded in arresting Jaeeb H. Johnson, Andrew A. Anderson, An­drew Anderson, Henry Eerier and Andrew Mike, all Fins, from the vicinity of New York Mills, They were h*Jd or appearance before the grand jury.

One of the burglars who robbed Page k, Stor'ys store at Glyndon, recently, of about $100 dollars in goods, was arrested at Haverley on suspicion by A. Whaley, Jr,« the village marsh­al. The burglar js about seventeen years old, hails from Jamestown, Dak., and was former­ly of Chicago- fl# gives the name of John Lind.

$«tfi#£;s.PASSlXtt .EVESTS. if.?at I

Silver ore has been discovered near. Aibilene, Tex- TQ^ , . $ , ' • '- _•.

American spruce makes the baskets for the market gardeners in London.

Codfish is 40 cents per pound in Guatemala, a i d is considered a great delicacy.:: •* 5 - - •;'• - *. "• :^ *•:•

Cornell university claims the best-arranged collection of shells in the world. I t has cost $16,000.

There are now but 5,400 residents in the Virginia county where stood •Jamestown of early settlement fame.

A short time ago a miner in Tuo­lumne county, California, took ten pounds of gold from a mine in that lo­cality.

An Indian doctor in Utah was stoned to death recently by his tribe for hav­ing failed to cure a patient placed under his charge.

Mr. George Riddle, of Carroll coun­ty, Maryland, has under the same roof with him no fewer than twenty-two unmarried daughters.

Electricity is now employed in ex­tracting teeth, a recently invented machine pulling, in an actual test, seven teeth in five seconds.

A recent invention is a pocket for coats which can be readily detached and used as a cap. I t is expeeted to prove very convenient for traveling men.

Stage robberies have become some­what numerous on the Pacific coast, one stage alone having been pillaged no less than four times within six months.

The cost of maintaining the New York schools is rapidly increasing. Twenty years ago it was $1,817,814, ten years ago $3,753,000, aud now it is $4,616,841.

Some of the southern cities have very capacious and comfortable club­houses. One of the newest is the Cap­ital City club-house at Atlanta, which is worth $50,000.

The current of Lake Erie has an ef­fect upon the adjacent shores sufficient to make the spring season from two to four weeks earlier in and around To­ledo than at Buffalo.

France and Greece have one hun­dred holidays annually; Russia, sixty-six; Belgium, sixty-five; England, eighty-four; and the United States, 3ixty. These include Sundays.

A large and valuable mineral deposit has been discovered close to Bent moun­tain, near Roanoke, Va. An analysis ot the ore shows 50 per cent, zinc, $25 to $30 per ton silver, and $4 per ton s>;old.

Liquor-sellers are said to do a good business upon the grounds of the United States at the Soldiers' home in Togus, Me. They claim that the state has no jurisdiction over land ceded to the United States.

The operations of. the mechanical appliances in a watch factory have be­come so rapid and systematic that it is possible to take the raw materials from stock in the morning and have a watch running from them by noon.

It is reckoned that the marble busi­ness of Rutland, Vt., has trebled in the last ten years in production and in wages paid. The total amount of sales in 1884 approximated $2,000,000, and this year it is likely to exceed that.

A farmer near Macon, Ga., has 400,-300 willows growing on his place. He has set out 80,000 this season, and will set his entire levee with them. A ton to the acre is the average yield, and when dried they are worth $200 per ton.

I t is told on the authority of the sup-arintendent of an ecclesiastical depart­ment in a jewelry establishment, where the work was done, that a New York gentlemen has a baptismal font made for each child born to him, the number at the present date having reached five.

Camphor gum is obtained by chop­ping the wood and roots fine, and boil­ing them until the camphor begins to stick to the tool used for stirring the mixture. The liquor is strained, and the camphor crystallizes from it when it is left standing. Crude camphor re­sembles moist unrefined sugar.

A champion eater signalized his ar­rival at Hollister, Cal., by eating twenty-seven raw eggs at one • sitting! After his repast, he offered to wager that he could eat three of the largest cans of oysters in town and seven dozen eggs. Those who were present thought he could, and his offer was re­fused.

In a Washington street (Boston) window are five pairs of shoes which look as if they had been made for as many giants. They are thirteen inch­es long by five inches wide, and are manufactured of stout pebble-grain leather. The order for 'them came from Nashville, Tenn., and they are said to be intended for a mother and four daughters. They would be in keeping with the Tennessee moun­tains, and a^lsfrge romance could be constructed around them by p, genius like Charles Egbert Craddock. ,

A resident of Silver City, New Mexico, has a curious relic of the days of the Montezumas. I t is made from what is called serpentine stone, and is in the shape of a turtle with a frog on its back, and was worne as a charm, suspended by a string around the neck. This is the kind of stone from which the Montezumas manufactured their gods. It is very rare, and susceptible of very high polish. The stone con­tains three different shades of green.

Fred Estes, a farmer of Watervale, Onondaga county, N. Y., advertised recently in a paper that his wife had left his bed and board, and gave the usual notice against trusting her on his account. Thereupon the injured wife sent the following letter.for pub­lication: " I see in your issue of the 24th inst., under the head of business notices, a statement by Fred D. Estes that Nellie B., his wife, has left his bed and board without just cause, and that he warns all persons against trust­ing her on his account. I t seems to me that he has gone to a needless ex­pense, for I was refused credit on his account while I lived with him, and as regards ajs bed, he never had any. I had to work for my board the geater part of the time after I married him I have not left anything but the man, and J have no regrets for him."

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Preventi&ff Kiatakes la Marriage Cere" atonies and Receptions. -

Rev. Mr. Sneath, pastor of the Salem United Brethern, Baltimore, gave an association connected with his society an object lesson the other evening, in -troducing it by an address, in which he said it was not intended to make fun of such a sacred thing as marriage, but simply to give the young people some useful points about how to proceed at the ceremony. He said there were so many blunders made by persons who were embarrassed and ignorant of how to act that he thought the lesson a good one. At the meeting last week, two persons had been selected as bride and groom, so as to make the necessary preparations. Mr. Sneath chose about a dozen ladies and gentlemen as friends of the bride, and these re­tired to the ante-room to march in ahead of the pair. Four young ushers, in ordinary visiting suits, had been ap­pointed. They wore little bunches ol evergreen in the coat buttonholes. One young man acted as minister, and took his place at the pulpit rail. The bride's mother was a pretty young blonde, but the one acting as father a fre3h-lobking, healthy youth. The min­ister said none of the party had ever had any experience in marriage, and it iwas readily believed. All being in Readiness, the organist began the wed­ding march from Lohengrin, and the pair, preceded by two ushers and the company of friends entered and moved up to the young minister, where the bridal couple halted. No marriage ceremony was performed, but Mr. Smith explained in a simple, effective way everything in reference to the ceremony. "In my experience as a clergyman," he said, "it has often hap­pened that the groom does not wait for the clergyman to finish his question before he blurts out with the ' I will. "

"That's because he is so anxious to have her for his wife," said a young man under his breath.

After the lesson, the pair marched down the right aisle and up the left, with two ushers in advance, and took seats in a corner of the room, where a "reception" was held. The bride—a dazzlingly beautiful brunette—wore a pure white dres3, en train, but there was no veil and no orange blossoms. In her march down the aisle, she passed so close to the American's bach­elor reporter that he fancied he felt the glow from her cheek. When she accidentally turned her dark eye a lit­tle, his heart gave a great throb, and he was instantly carried back to other days. The groom was a fine looking blonde, and bore himself like a man. A yonng man said to the bride, as she passed him: "Don't you wish it were real?"

As her lips were parted, a little dim­ple was rounded up in her cheek, her eyes sparkled and turned toward him, and the young man knew witheut a syllable what the answer would have been in words. The bride's mother kissed her, and the groom very sweet­ly, but, although the reception was a general one, the young men holdback for a while, till a sensible young man of 30, with a blonde mustache, stepped forward and kissed the young lady in earnest. He enjoyed it, and said so. The little smacks were extremely mu­sical. The polite usher was rewarded also.

"It sometimes happens," said the minister, "as in this case, that the couple are in such a hurry to get away that the minister does not have time to salute the bride." A laugh followed, but he did not get his kiss till later. I t was a beautiful, simple harmless and useful lesson, is the American's com­ment. ..

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All intelligent farmers know some­thing of the importance of planting good seed in raising the various crops usually grown on the farm. One of the first requisites in the production of a good crop of almost any kind is to use good seed. The corn crop in the United States is of such vast importance that the seed used in planting can hardly be selected with too much care. Corn may be vastly improved by mixing different kinds together, and all that is necessary to do this is to select any two kinds that may be desired and *plant the different kinds in alternate rows, and at tasseling time watch closely and cut out all the tassels as soon as they are properly »ut in all the ro ws you wish improved. The ears on the mutilated stocks are then necessarily fertilized by pollen from the stalks in rows containing the other va­riety, hence the mutilated stalks yield the improved corn. This in turn may be mixed in a similar manner the next year, with any other variety, or any other variety mixed with it that may ba desired. Thus, by a careful and judicious selection of va­rieties best suited to climate and soil, any planter may obtain the healthiest, the most prolific, and in every way the best variety, perhaps, it is possible for him to get. As a matter of course, this whole process for improvement should be conducted on a plat of land separat­ed from where any other corn is grown, sufficiently far as to insure an admixture with it. I adopted the above plan sometime ago, with a view to obtain an improved variety, and I am free to con­fess that the result is somewhat sur­prising. I am unable to state with ac­curacy the advantage the improved va­riety has over the unimrjroved, but it certainly is very considerable. Some of my neighbors have obtained seed from me, and are pleased with it. Try my plan brother farmers, and 1 have no doubt it will pay you largely. * p - ' M - : i • •* • — v v ^ ' :

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