The Dickinson press., 1884-03-22
Miscellany.

Its no use, mamma. He won't do it.
I've, asked him a heap o times"
Miscellany.
Col. Gabe Wharton, of Kentucky,
who has made a thorough inspection Of
Mexico recently, is not favorably i'm
pressed with the land Of the Aztecs.
In the hotels of the City of Mexico he
found it impossible to obtain anything
to eat before the middle of the day ex-
cept bread and coffee. Everybody
CANDLES and nobody cares to work.
Mr.. Wharton says he saw no Israelites
in Mexico, and he felt that it was o
poor country for business or trade. He
pointedly puts the question: What
are you to sell to a nation with five
millions of people within its borders
who never wore o suit of clothes? ?"
Naturally we ought to expect to sell
them some clothing.
An important precedent relating to
street fights has been established in Lon
don. Two boys were detected in such
IN encounter by a policeman, and mi
of them, who summarily Judged to be
the o guilty, was taken before amag-
istrate. The culprit explained that he
was not the aggressor. The other boy,
he said, had been Converted, and struck
him because he would not "turn relig-
ious" too. His mother, moreover,
confirmed her sons good opinion of
himself, but the judge decided that the
converted" boy was probably the bet
ter behaved of the two, and fined the
unconverted half q crown.
A gum importer of Gotham tells a
reporter: Gel Mahdi might sink all the
gum arabic in Africa into the Nile and
he wouldn't affect the trade in American
gumdrops. AS a matter of fact, the
dandy trade would not suffer appre-
ciably. There is not an ounce of gum
arabic in q million pounds of the ordin-
airy gumdrops like those which you see
sold from stands in the streets. They
are made from the glucose of the starch
factories, which is generally used, ex-
cept in the manufacture of some of the
finer grades Of confectionery, in place
Of gum arabic. OF course, the candy
suffers; but there is nc limit to adulter-
alton in the confectionery business"
A new and dangerous development of
mesmerism was displayed the other day
at Paris to an admiring and sympathiz-
ing public by a well-known mesmerist.
who at the same time is alion-tamerin q
certain menagerie. A beautiful young
girl, on whom the spiritualist generally
practices, was brought into a cage of Ii
ons, and after being thrown intoa cat
aleptic sleep, was submitted to the most
frightful ordeals. In one Of these the
head and arms of the girl were put into
the mouth Of the lion, which had previ-
ously been Infatuated by lashes from it's
masters whip. But the apparently
dead body did not excite the animals
appetite. At the end of the scene
the girl was released and went
smiling away, while the mesmerist
earned rich laurels. Bnt suppose the
lion had eaten the maiden-what then !:
The suit of Prof. Fiske against Cor.
nell University is again before the courts.
A correspondent of the New York Post
says evidence taken some time since al
Eau Claire, Wis, in regard to the value
of the western lands owned by the uni.
versity, tends strongly to show that the
university, at the time of Mrs. Fishes
death, possessed the So, 900 900 allowed
it by its charter. It looks at present
very much as though the university will
be unable to retain the fortune of near.
ly S 2 1000, 900 which was %bequeathed il
by Mrs. McGraw Fiske, the daughter
Of one of it's earliest benefactors. The
Fiske-McGraw mansion still stands
empty, and nearly all the rich tapestry
and works of art we're some time age
taken to Italy by Professor Fiske. Ow'
ing to the present litigation nothing has
been done toward erecting the hospita.
or the large library building which were
contemplated.
The Rev. DIR. J. Parker, of London,
declares himself out of sympathy with
some Of the common talk about the so.
called out-cast poor of London. He
says that many of the families which
are pitied for having to live in one
filthy, unventilated room, neither ask Of
deserve pity. In fact they prefer to live
in that way, and would do SO ifthey haG
all heaven at their disposal. "Dirt,'
he says, 'shas its warm friends, ever
amongst people not numbered amongst
the outcast poor. I say this to guard
benevolent persons against the notion
that dirt and poverty are synonymous
terms. am given to understand thai
even some Christians have a wonderful.
likeness for anything slovenly and slip
shod; at least I have heard womer
screaming to other people to hold the
fort and ring the bells of Heaven whose
stockings would have been the better
for a days darning."
Chicago Times: The February earnings o
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st Paul and the Chi
cago Il Northwestern were greater than las
year, the former gaining 2111z per cent, and tn
lstter15h per cent But compa-sd with 1888
the Norfhwestern's increase was only 3 pc
cent, while the St Paul shows a decrease Of
per cent These and most other western road
had exceptionally large earnings in March las
year. Thus tho St Paul earned 60 per cent.
the Ncrthws ftern 50 per cent, the Omaha s
per cent. Huntington 46 per cent the Hi
nois Cep'' pper cent, the Missouri Pacif,
80 per hd the Wabash 80 per cent. NOR
lju Mar IN February, and there was q de
@,1lrch to April on all these roads