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An announcement Witness.

A lawyer sometimes picks up q witness
that he is quite willing to drop as soon
as possible, as witness the following: A
Mi. Lawrence was on the stand in Nil.
waukee during the trial of Russell
Wheeler for murder, and said that he
knew the prisoner well and knew him to
be a peaceable, law abiding citizen.
when cross . examined by the district
attorney, the following colloquy took
place.
District Attorney-You have testified,
Mr.. Lawrence, that you consider the
defendant q law-abiding citizen.
Mr.. Lawrence-I have, and I do 80
consider him.
D. A.-You know that he has been a
gambler?
Mr.. IL know he has.
D. ADO you consider it exactly
proper to call e professional gambler q
law-abiding citizen?
Mr.. L.-So long as the district attor-
ney allows gambling to be carried on in
the city without restraint of or punish
ment by law, I consider it perfectly
proper to describe a professional gam
bier as a law-abiding citizen.
When the laugh had subsidized the dis
trict attorney blushed cloudy" and
said to the witness "That is all."-
Chicago Tribune.
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Cost of instruction.

The average cost of supervision and
instruction for each pupil in some of the
large cities of the Union, varies to al
interesting degree. In New York and
New Orleans, for instance, it is nearly
the same, being $21. 80 and S21. 80. In
Boston and San Francisco it is the high.
est in q list OF seventeen cities, being
S25.9 "a and s24.61 Richmond pays
$13.7 II per pupil, while Philadelphia
pays $40. II, or the lowest sum in the
list. Incidental expenses for each pupil
vary in a similar ratio, as follows: New
Yerk, S. 68 and New Orleans, SIS. -;
Boston, $40. 81 and San Francisco. 50. 81;
Richmond, $2.61 and Philadelphia Gan
exception), 1926. In point OF salaries
paid Boston comes first in the table Of
average annual salaries to principals of
grammar schools, paying s.. 200 to male
teachers and $4,000 to female. San
Francisco pays 81, 466 to male and $4,000
to female. But in tie high schools
principals are paid 81, 900 in San Fran
cisco aud So, 7S0 in Boston. Primary
teachers are also best paid in San Fran
cisco, receiving an average salary OF
81, 500. Chicago ranks next, with 81, 080,
while Boston pays only $500, and New
York $500, with Cleveland last in the
list at S546. Teachers in music get
49, 800 in Boston, and those in drawing
the same, while at San Francisco $3.50
is paid the one and 50, 100 the other.
Cincinnati pays 81, 800 to both, and
ChicaoO the same. A female teacher OF
drawing was engaged at Milwaukee re-
Gently for $1,000. and II OF the COM
missioners explained that sit was i'm
possible to secure the services of q
gentleman"
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Same Accidental Jokes.

1t has often been seid that the best
Jokes are those which ere made by acct
dent, and this is certainly the case with
proper names. Few Intentional "bulls'
have ever been moro complete than tho
grave official entry in a list of Scottish
landed proprietors: John Elder, the
younger, in right of Mrs. Margaret Hus-
band, his wife" The worthy country
gentleman who eighty years ago, taunt-
ed the leader of the English opposition
with looking like "a fox that had fallen
into a pitt" was as much astounded as
any one at the roar of laughter which
greeted this unconscious pun upon the
names of MIR. Pitt and MI. Fox. The
three last governors of the Don Cossacks
have CHANGED to bear names which re-
spectively signify Fire, Flood and Fiend.
In the list of the English Navy for the
last century the readers eye is still
startled by the sight of the frigate Ven
geance, commanded By Capt Death,
with a first officer called William Devil,
and a surgeon bearing the pleasantly
suggestive name of John Ghost. But
of all the authentic cases of this kind,
the most singular is one which occurred
at a wayside tavern i'll the West of Eng
land not many years ago. Three com
mercial travellers meeting there II win
ter evening, had a hearty supper togeth-
or. Supper over, the three found some
difficulty in allotting their respective
shares'of the bill; but one of them 9
length cut short the dispute by propos
ing that whoever had the coolest name
among them shonld 60 scot free, the ex-
penses being halved by the other two.
This amendment being promptly accept
ed, No. l produced a card inscribed
Orchard Eve," which No. 2 trumped
with "Adam Brown." The No. 3, a
portly veteran with Il humorous gray
eye, laid down his card with the quiet
confidence Of a great general making a
decisive movement and remarked with a
thick chuckle: IT don't much think
you'll beat this 'un, gents" And he
was right, for the name was, "Mr. B.
Ginning"
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A Baetle for a Brea>tpin,

An English weekly newspaper, nm
authority on matters of fashion, de-
scribes rs an "orn ament" actually worn
by the wife of a well-known Congress-
man OF the United States. The new
breastpin is Il living beetle, which is
attached to the wearer's dress by a
slight gold chain encircling the Insects
body. The beetle is clearly described
as being one and n half inches long,
'scumbrous," and not beautiful in its
markings. The brilliant wing cases of
tropical beetles, which are even yet worn
as iewelry, were beautiful in their colors
at least. The rarity of the insects en-
hances their value as hreastpins even
less than O faculty which awakens new
wonder at the adaptability of nature.
OF course, lewelry which dies if it is not
fed would be troublesome; but these
bugs have developed the power Of sup"
pressing hunger, or Of not feeling it,
except when it is convenient to satisfy
their appetites. The specimen here
described had been in it's owners pos
session for "six weeks only" and it GER
tainly had not had anything to eat dur
ing that time, nor for an indefinitely
long previous period. It further ap-
pears that the animals are worn only
partly rs ornaments, and also "partly as
pets" for their mistresses are accus-
toned, it seems, to harness them by
slender chains to other articles Of jewel
nv and then to watch them, and doubt
less to lay wagers on their speed or
strength, rs they drag their precious
burdens over the dinner-tablc, for in
atnnca.
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Imprisoned in His Own Tomb.

About fifteen years ago (says q New
York paper the late William Niblo, OF
Niblo's Garden, built o handsome tomb
in Greenwood Cemetery. He expend.
ed a great deal Of money upon it, and it
naturally became one Of the attractions
of that pensive resort. Among the &C.
centricities of the veteran manager was
that of visiting this tomb on sultry
Sunday afternoons, and sitting there,
novel in hand, until the shadowing of
the grand path before the door showed
him that evening vas near. One day
MI. Niblo passed through the lodge
gate as usual, saluted the attendant in
his customary courtly style, and wander
ed away.
That night Mr.. Niblo did not return
to his home in this city. Nothing was
thought of it az he had such q number
of friends whom he might visit and re-
main until late, but when the morning
showed the room unoccupied and che
bed undisturbed, then alarm seized the
household. Search was made ; the
clubs, the places of public resort, the
theaters-all were visited. BE had not
been there the night previous. Then
one remembered the visits to the Green
wood tomb.
When those who were searching for
William Niblo reached the gate of the
cemetery they we're met by the man in
charge. he remembered that Mr..
Niblo had been there 80 many days be-
fore that it had become O custom.
What was the matter? MIR. Niblo
lost ? "Come to think Of it, I didn't
see him go out Of here when I locked
up. He must be in the tomb"
The tomb has an ornamental door let
into the solid rock surroundings. It is
massive, thick, uninviting-and seems
Just the aperture for a perpetual home
for the dead. Beyond it is an airy
apartment, in which the sunlight filters.
When Mr.. William Niblo entered his
favorite resting-place that summer after
noon so long ago, he sat in his accustom-
ed seat, opened his book and fell to
reading. The wind rose, the vault was
Glled with air until n p%ropulsive force
was generated, and then, suddenly,
there came O short, sharp click, with
~semi-darkness after it. MIR. Niblo was
shut in. The vault door had sprung
to.
He was found sitting composed in the
tomb, and by no Meals SO much agi-
tated as was any n of those who were
looking for him. He explained the &C.
cident, his shrieks for assistance and
then his relapse into q calm and philo-
sophicsl consideration Of the circum-
stances. He knew that nc one could
hear him call, but lie felt that the
active brains of his friends would seek
him out, and that sooner or later he
would ha liberated.
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Anecdotes OF Bismarck.

Here are two characteristic anecdotes
OF Bismarck: The other evening, as he
and his wife were walking out at Kissen-
gen, they saw a family evidently anxious
to get Il good view of the chancellor, who
was just about to turn down O private
path which he would reach before his
admirers met him. The youngest daugh-
ter started forward, leaving the rest be-
hind. The princess noticed the girls
timid boldness and whispered to her
husband, who ct once turned aside and
sat down OF a rustic bench by the road
way till the girl had passed them, when,
rising, he bowed his stateliest bow to
her, and with a friendly Good evening,
miss" turned down the secluded path,
leaving his girlish admirer in raptures.
At Berlin, during the conferences of
1876 between the three c%hancellors,
Prince Gortschakof made a particularly
able, not to say tedious, exposition OF
Russia's position and policy, to which
Bismarck listeued intently; indeed, at
last, he was seen to take up a pencil and
take copious notes of the speech, a fact
which surprised Count Andrassy. After
the conference was over, Prince Bis
marck showed him his notes. Page
after page Of paper was covered thus,
pom
pou-pompous- pompous -pompo-
pomp-pompo-P, and 80 on ad in
jfnitun,
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soon penetrate even to the most distant place
of refuge and render breathing impossible.
According to the latest advices the pit
is still burning, and the managers are discus
sing the propriety Of flooding It, as it seems
certain all the men are either burned to death
or suffocated The flooding will be briefly de-
layed until the last hope that any are alive is
eitineuished. The number of the dead is esti-
mated at two hundred and eighty. Two Of the
rescued have since died from their burns.
| Others are in q precarious condition. There
is not the slightest hope of rescuing any more
alive, as the workings are very intricate and
extend over three miles. So far only about
seven corpses have been recovered. The e4-
plosion occurred soon after noon. Those on
the bank knew it by q rumbling noise and the
ascent Of q dense volume Of smoke. All the
in conformation"
OF the Sc, 900 Russians who occupied Turkey
$1,000 have gone home.
The French troops in New Caledonia have
completely defeated the insurgent natives, who
lost 1870 killed and wounded, including three
chiefs killed.
The managing editor Of the Paris Bonapart-
ist journal, LIE Pays, has been sentenced to q
fine Of $500 and three months imprisonment
for insulting President MacMahon.
Forty-si1 Bosnians and Servisns and upwards
OF 200 Mussulmans have been executed in
Bosnia by the Austrians.
A Berlin dispatch says it is rumored that q
new plot against the life Of the Emperor Will
liam has been discovered and that several ar
rests have been made.
A flood lasting three days has done great
damage in the vicinity Of Newmarket, Ontario:
Buildings were floated of. mill dams carried
away, an iron bridge on the Northern railroad
seriously damaged and thirteen other bridges
destroyed. -Four persons we're drowned.
A recent steamer from Liverpool for the
United States had as passengers 600 Mormons
from Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain.
According to a Paris dispatch the superior OF
the Trappists at Sept-Fonds, in the depart
ment of Alicr, has purchased land in Pennsyl.
vania for 200 monks from Sept-Fonds, Mount
Military (Ircland) and Mariastein. The monks
will themselves erect q monastery and other
hnildinOa
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Fashionable Hair.

Many ornaments are used for the hair,
writes a correspondent. Silver flagree
combs are very fashionable, rs are pins
OF red or pale yellow gold. The shell
comb is seen in O variety of shapes.
Dyed hair has had its day. So many
persons are suffering from the effects of
the various dyes that physicians are pro-
hibiting the use of the different kinds OF
coloring matter. The French govern
ment makes a study of the preservation
of life. When dyed hair became the
fashion the government ordered q board
of scientific men to analyze blondine and
othor kinds of dye. The result was o
report that the use of these dyes i'm
paired the eycsight and the complexion,
and a perseverance, in the use produced
i'll health and shortened life. The French
government then prohibited, by a legis-
lative act, the use of hair dyes. The
American women are the most profitable
customers which tie French chemists
have. A weak-minded young lady for a
series of years changed her dark hair to
blonde. She was forced to discontinue
it's use, and now appears with dead gray
hair and blue goggles. She has utterly
ruined her eyes, complexion, hair and
health. Her handsome young husband
carries around a wreck of the beauty he
married six years ago.
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SMALLEST MAN IN NEW YORK.
Little John Boilan, the Broadway Street.
sweeper.

S"cCpoEs
Persons passing through Broadway
late at night may have often seer 9
diminutive figure, with o broom a yard
taller than himself, engaged with the
night gang in cleaning the street: The
little sweeper's name is John Bollan,
and he lives at number 538 East Elev.
enth street. Next to "Tom Thumb"
or Commodore Mutt, "Little johnny
as he is called, is perhaps the smallest
man in this country. he lives in o
small, dark, rear OF a big tene-
ment house. An old woman who occu-
pies an adjoining room was asked II she
knew him.
"Know JOHNNY" was the reply;
"bless mel I have known Johnny Tor
thirty year. Why, Johnny is next to
Tom Tum :; you've heard tell of Tom
TumP" The old woman went on to re-
late numerous anecdotes about the small
est man in New York, when he appeared
in person. He came up the steps n
walked briskly into the room. be ls
not more than three feet tall, but very
broad for his size. His head and neck
are out of proportion to the rest OF ms
body, being as large as those OF full
grown man. He was reticent at first,
but gradually became more communl-
cative. He said he was forty-si1 years
old, and was born at Ballyhochle,
County Cavan, Ireland. There he lived
until he wa twenty.one years OLD: In
the old country Johnny had a small noe
and o spade made for him, and content
eddy raised potatoes until his parents
died and hisbrothers and sisters came to
America.
Deserted by all his relatives, Johnny
felt lonesome, and when the ship which
took them away returned, he went to the
captain and told him he was going to
America also. The captain advised him
O stay in County Cavan, but his reso'
luton was taken, and he came to New
York. His small stature was a sore trial
to him at first. He was sensitive on the
subject, and when he ventured into the
streets o large crowd would follow him,
and their curiosity so annoyed him that
in sheer desperation he at last made his
way to his friend the captain and toldhlm
be wanted to 20 back to Ireland. The
captain soothed his wounded feelings
and told him that when once he became
known persons would stop annoying
him. So he went back and stolidly took
no notice of the attention he attracted.
He has lived in New York nearly twenty
five years, and for eight years has boon
employed on the street-cleaning force at
full pay. IT can sweep two piles to any
of the others one," he said sturdily,
strengthening his little shoulders. Gen
tlemcn sometimes offer him money, but
he refuses all aims. P. T. Barnum once
offered him a large sum to exhibit him,
but the proposal was refused. New
York Tribune.
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Sci at0r Blaine on Farmers Influence.

The farmers of the republic will con-
troll its destiny. Agriculture, commerce
and manufactures are the three pursuits
that enrich 4 nation-bnt the greatest of
these is agriculture, for without lis pro-
ducts the spindle cannot turn and the
ship will not call. Agriculture furnishes
the conservative element in society, and
in the end is the guiding, restraining,
controlling force in government.
Against storms OF popular fury; against
frepzied madness that seeks collision
with established order; against theories
OF administration that have drcnched
other lands in blood; against the spirit
of anarchy that would sweep away the
landmarks and safeguards Of Christian
society and republican government, the
farmers of the United States will stand
as the shield and the bulwark-them'
selves the willing subjects of law, and
therefore it's safest and strongest admin
istrators. From Speech at Mime
apolis.
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Entitled to Thirty.seyen Million Dollars.

The heir to IN estate of $37, 800, 900
died in Philadelphia on a recent Sunday.
In the year 176S Sir Andrew Chadwick,
an English baronet, died in London,
leaving q very rich estate curtailed upon
his SOD. After this son died, the prop
erty fell into the hands of the heirs.at.
law, who enjoyed it until it finally be-
came q subject of litigation, and was
thrown into the chanccry courts, where
possession was contested for many years.
The true heirs became scattered and
lost, and in 1874 the English courts
advertised for Thomas Chadwick, the
direct descendant of Sir Thomas Chad
wick, the seventh generation removed.
The man in question was living in q
suburb of Philadelphia. He was then
sixty-seven years old, and had been in
business as a miller, but had retired on
account of his age and feeble health.
Proceedings were taken to recover his
share in the state, and q New York
lawyer was sent over in the interest OF
Mr.. Chadwick, Samuel Booth, of Provi-
dence, r. l.. and the two sons of Samuel
Chadwick, Thomas Chadwick's brother.
These were the only heirs, and all were
living in this country. As mentioned
above. Thomas Chadwick died suddenly
of heart disease, and his two sons,
Cornelius and Ferdinand, now succeed
to his interest in the English estate.
The property is valued at the enor-
nous sum of s37, 500, 600, not including
interest on some items now held in trust
by the Bank of England. The property
consists of real and personal estate,
mostly in London, the most valuable
being 1.009 housesi in the British metrop-
olis. Both the New York lawyer, who
is looking after the legal interests OF the
heirs, and the firm of English solicitors,
unite in pronouncing the claims OF the
American claimants as in~disputable.
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Prompt Reform of Bodily Evils.

The prompt relief of those bodily evils,
enfeebled digestion, incomplete assimilation,
inactivity Of the liver, kidneys and bladder, as
well as Of the nervous symptoms which these
ailments are especially prone to beget, Is al
ways accomplished by the use OF Hostetter's
Stomach Bittsrs, q medicine accredited by
physicians, pronounced pure by analysts, and
emlnently wholesome and agreeable. surely
such q restorative is preferable to unpalatable
and indigestible mineral drugs and INSANE
toned nostrums. The nation at large assur-
eddy thinks so, judging by the unprecedented
demand for the article from Maine to the Pa
oifo, q demand now supplemented by immense
orders for it received from tropical America,
Mexico, tho British and Spanish Colonial pos
sessions and elsewhere. Both at home and
abroad it is recognized as a standard remedy
and preventive, the decisiveness Of its effects
recommending it everywhere.
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Detected By . Dog.

The judges who preside at the Courts
of Correctional Police, in Paris, would
be almost justified in claiming an in
crease of pay this year, go large are the
additions made to their duties by the
influx of visitors, fashionable and I'M
fashionable, and by the consequent M
crease Of petty offences. Pocket pick
ing and all sorts of stealing and cheating
have become unusually prevalent within
the past few months, and the ingenuity
of the knights of industry has developed
itself to On extent which could hardly
have been expected by the bitterest
cynic.
Another most elaborate device for
abstracting articles from the shop coun-
ter has just been divuIged in the police
court, and deserves to be ranked among
the brightest inventions of the EXPOSE
ton era. The actress in the perform
ance-for this time it was not a
"knight," but q "lady" of industry
made use of q small child as q sort of
stalking horse to cover her maneu-
vres, and by this means contrived to
carry off q considerable booty before
she was detected. On coming into a
shop, the child vas set down upon the
counter, in a sitting posture, close to
some pieces Of lace or other coveted
articles, while the supposed mother
asked to be shown something else.
Very soon afterwards she managed to
administer to the i'll. fated infant q severe
pinch, which naturally caused it to how
aloud, and upon this the lady would
hurriedly snatch up her pretended of
spring, and with many apologies for its
m~isbehavior, carry it of, together with
the object which it was desired to appro
pirate.
This trick, simple as it was, seems to
have had q great success, owing M
doubt to that feeling of sympathy with
maternal love with which the French
nation is 80 amply gifted. AS long as
tho objects stolen were only OF moderate
dimensions, everything went well. Thu
affectionate mother was easily able tx
hurry away into q cab before the search
after her began. But from n species
OF theft she unluckily proceeded to an
other, and at length conceived the mis-
taken idea of carrying off q huge piec,
of pork. The usual proceeding hat
been adopted and safely carried out ul
to the time of exit into the street. But
the booty had hardly been taken out o.
the shop when some voracious dog wan
derine in that vicinity was lucky enough
to catch scent of it, aud made an attach
upon the party, in which several othel
ours O Joined. The establishment o.
the bystanders was followed by in
q~uiries, explanations, and at last tn,
appearance on the scene of the porl
butcher, who succeeded this time in re
covering his property, and bringing The
too audacious thief to justice.
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Not the Dress.

Who shall judge man by his manners?
Who shall know him by his dress
Paupers may be at for princes,
Princes fit for something less ;
Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket,
May beclothe the ~golden..ore
OF the deepest thought ard feelings
That to honor upward sosr.
There are springs Of crystal nectar
Ever yelling out Of stone;
There are purple buds and golden
Hidden, crushed, and overgrown,
God, who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me.
While He values thrones the highest
But as pebbles OF the sea.
Observer.
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The destructive progress Of that insidious
foe to life and health, Scrofula, may be ar
rested by the aid Of Scovills Blood and Liver
Syrup, q botanic depurent which rids the sys-
tenn Of every trace Of scrofulous or syphilitic
poison and cures eruptive and other diseases
Indicative Of q tainted condition OF the blood.
Among the maladies which it remedies are
white swelling, salt rheum,, carbuncles, bilious,
ness, the diseases incident to women, govt and
rheumatigm.