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Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09
Ceylon's Sacred Treasures.

At the side of the lake stands the fa- nous temple containing the so-called ''tooth of Buddha." It is curious build. ing, with circular raised library attach ed, from the columned gallery of which the kings of Randy were wont to exhibit themselves to the people. We attended an evening service in this edifice, and were conducted by the priest through some little frescoed halls to massive silver door. Flower sellers were offering for sale to the votaries, male and Female, as they entered, blossoms of the champak, the frangipanni and the iron-wood tree, which are laid upon silver table before the great shrine--the only offerings made. Every morning the priests clear away piles of these simple sacrifices, which arc constantly renewed, so that faint per. petual perfume of delicious fragrance for. ever fills the dark chambers. When the silver door was opened there was disclosed another silver table, and behind it barred receptacle containing the sacred relic, hidden under seven successive aagho6as of precious metal, adorned with the most costly jewels. The total value of these coverings must be something very great, for nowhere can you sec finer sapphircs, rubies, and specimens of the true oriental cat's-eye, than are encrusted into the gold and silver. In the outer | chambers are two raised seats, where the chef priests squat to preach Bana, or doctrine, and a band of native musicians on each occasion lead off the service with tom-tom, pipe and cymbals. The temple is ornamented with curious rescocs, an cient and modern, grotesque- ly representing the previous lives of Bud- aha and the sufferings of those who have been bad Buddhists, and in glass cases may be seen many seated figures of Bud- aha in marble, jasper, gold and jade, and one, which is especially notable, carved from block of rock crystal London zslsorapA
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09
MO-. 50.
A CifY of Pets.

The city of Singapore is the chief en- trepot of the Asiatic pet trade. All along the harbor the clamor of captive birds and monkcyes halls tho purchaser from hundreds of shops. Chinese train CTS, Parsec wholesale dealers and Malay pcddlcrs are ready to sell or buy my thing from paroquet to hunting leop- ard. Singapore is the Cape Town of the Asiatic Continent. Vessels of all nations call either for trading purposes or for supplies and repairs, for the harbor has the best dry-docks south of Canton, and the cheapest provision market of any Asiatic coast city. Splendid mangos- teens, combining the taste of banana and raspberry, can be bought for few pence bushcl; sago and yam-roots arc equally cheap, and, as the Malay trap pers work for shilling week, the men, at slight advance on the aggregate of his board bill. The forests of half a hundred islands and pcninsulas contrib. ute to their stock in trade. The Malacca junks bring Gibbon apes, restless climb CTS with enormous arms aud Sunny legs. Siam contributes lcmurs and hanumans Bornco an occasional orang; Java, par rots and wild peafowl; Papua, birds of paradise. Of the lemurs alone the local market terms distinguish some twenty different varieties including the long tailed Tarsius and the Chirmundi Billi- ''Bashful Billy"-a curious phlegmatic variety of tn, genus Loris. With its \ blinking gogglc eyes and awkward move- ments the little imp looks like cross between an owl and helpless puppy. The sailors on the wharf amuse them selves by tying the little sleepy-heads to string and watching their grotesque methods of catching insects. At sight of bluebottle Billy will slowly raise him,clf into standing position and up lift his arms, either for balancing pur- poses or to supplement his moderate length, and then drop on his prey by leaning forward and letting tho law of gravity attend to the rest.-Felir (. Os. l unld.
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09
Sing.Song.

Slng.Song. Sing of tho bobolink hid in the clovor; Sing of the summer winds lost out to sea; Sing of blue skies and the clouds that float over, The old days and golden that once used to be. Sing and be glad, clasp hands and sing on Of the days of your youth and the years that are gone. Sing of the old fashioned lullabies, \ Crooned by your mother above her first born; Never again will such sweet melodies Greet hfe's weary pilgrim, bent, gray and forlorn; There's rest in the region where the roses once grew; There's peace in the thought as 1t drifts back to you. Sing of the land where the wheat fields are glowing; Sing of the green n-bannered corn and the breeze; Sing of bronzed workers who sing at their moving; Sing of the birds and sing of the trees, Sing of hfe's morn and its glorifed Mays While your heart travels back over old-fash toned ways. song or sigh may make you touch fin gers
 With the youth that is gone, and let you clasp hands With ths maiden long dead, whose memory fingers Like q perfume blown back from hfes fairy lands Sing and be glad, clasp hands and sing on Of the days of your youth and the years that are gone.
 -Indidndpolts Jourudl
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09
HUMOROUS.

All played out--Open-a concerts.
 How to make both ends meet-don't buy any bone.
 The girl with the sweet tooth becomes the woman with the false one.
 ''spring lamb, eighteen cents per pound," is sign of tough weather.
 ''I am generally up to my neck in busi- ness," said the teacher of swimming.
 Why is gcod square meal to hungry man like Q bucket2 It goes down well.
 There is time for all things. The time to leave is when young lady asks you how the walking is.
 A fashion writer says all the fashions are for slender women. They are cer. tainly not designed for slender purses.
 "Abovc all, Arthur dear, mind you buy me a thick engagement ring; tho thin ones can't be seen under the glove." Don't judge Q mule by his guileless look,
 A treacherous critter he;
 His dearest friend he'd gladly kick
 Into eternity.
 Fish are SO plenty in some parts of Canada that in order to Il first-class lie the sportsman has to swear he didn't catch any.
 It may be supposed that the man who has been sent to House of Correction twenty three times, is not ashamed of his convictions.
 ''For young woman to begin to begin to pick lint off young mans coat" is said to be the first symptom that the young man is, in peril. Uncle George-And so you go to school now, Johnnyf What part of the exercises do you like best9 Johnny The exercise we get at rec ss.
 "I wish I were as tall as you," re. marked Binks to links. "Oh, Pm not always as tall as seem," "No3" '.'No' Sometimes Pm very short. Can you lend me five2"
 ''The Boston base ball club has four pitchers" If it patronizes correspond ing number of tumblers, we predict that it will not win the championship. But perhaps the pitchers are not often full.
 "How is your son getting along, Charleya" "Oh, pretty well; only that he is little puffed up with his own i'm. portance. Knows more than his father, l you know" "Ah! then the boy is not quite an ldiot!"
 "Are you trying to think of something funny, my dear2" asked the paragrapher's wife. II am," he said, as he hove Q deep sigh and ran his fingers through his long hair "Then suppose you think that you are going to buy me new bonnet, my dear; that will be something funny for you to do." l THE WILLY MAIDEN. No lover at all had the maiden gay,
 She wore no engagement ring,
 Butshe bought a fiddle and learned to play, l And thus had a bow on the string.
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09
The True Significance.

Angelina-'M Mamma, dear, do you understand anything about the language of fowers2"
 Mamma-''No, love; whya"
 Angelina-"Why, MT. Snoopkins has just sent me lovely bunch of Jacquc- minots, three dozen, at least; and l wanted to see what the significance of it is."
 Unfecling brothcr-'T can tell you, sis; it means that Snoopkins is around to-day trying to borrow from the other fellows. -RamMer."
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09

The American hen is not doing her duty. There arc 1e, 900, 900 dozens o' foreign hens eggs brought into this country every year free of duty. The American hens must scratch around, says a New England paper, if they are to avoid the reproach of allowing the egg industry to be crushed by the competi. tion of the cheap pauper fowls ofthe effete monarchies of the Old World. With incubators to help them the Ameri- can hens ought to make a better record.
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09
- Now.

NOWs Love me now! Lovehas uch little minute, Day crowds on day with swift and noise less tread, Llfs's end comes ere fairly we begin it, Pain jostles joy, and hope gives place to dread.
 Love me now! It will be too late when we are dead! Love me now While we still are young together, While glad and brave the sun shines over head Hand locked in hand, in blue, smiling weather, Signing were sin, and variance ill bestead, It will be too late when you are dead! Love me now! Shadows hover in the dis tance; Cold winds are coming; green leaves must turn red, Frownest thou, my Love- at this sad in Even this moment may the dart be spedl Love me now: It will be too late when I am dead!
 -SusdnCoolidge.
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09

The most extensive tunnel and river mining enterprise carried on in Califor' nia for many years, is that of the Big Bend Tunnel Co.,, in Butte county, by which some IA miles of the bed of Feather river will be drained so that gold mining operations may go on. To make the bed of the river accessible, it was necessary to run tunnel 12, 900 feet long, which would carry the water of the river at its low stages Et
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09
Mnch TAn AR,hle.

Mrs. Percent. Major Sinker was in, dear, while you were out, and he was quite affable."
 Mir. Percent. "Affable was he eh Y'
 Mrs. P.-"Yes, dear, he kissed the baby and made himself quite interest ing"
 MT. P.-"Did eh 2 I suspected he wasn't able to pay his note, now know he's going to ask me to renew it," HifSin0s.
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09
Business COmpiications.

A Dakotian met an old friend while on an Eastern trip.
 'I hear that Bill Applejack who went out to your country has failed in business"
 'Yes."
 'sHard tlmes2"
 "No."
 "Too much competition7' ''No, think not"
 ''Too little attention to busincss" "Oh, no, he worked hard" 'I don't see why he failed, then" ''Well, you see, few determined gentlemen on the board of trade got new inch rope around his neck and forced him to make an assign ment."
 "Horses.
 "Horses. ."-Estelline Bell.
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09
A Good Schem

Cash-"Say, Hardup, when are you going to pay mo that $10 you owe mel" Hardup-"Just as soon as l can."
 Cash--"Well, if that is not pretty quick I will have to sue you"
 Hardup (carelessly)-"What good will that do ycu2"
 Cash-''It will give me the money"
 Hardup (confdentially)-"say, you just sue for $2o, won't you, and then give mo tho other 410i"-Frss Prss.
Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09
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Connecticut western news., 1886-06-09

Bulldogs are an accepted type of courage, but we have known the low.y and defrised kitten come up to the scratch.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24

by way of parenthesis," Mr.. George continued.
that from the first secret session / attended
have been ready and willing, and am now ready
and willing to vote to consider all executive BUSH
ness n open session. except in cases where the
President in relation to foreign affairs. shall re-
quest, for the public interest, secret session.
The position of the majority here, in proposing
that the Senate should refuse TO consider nomi-
nations, was extraordinary not to say revolu-
tsonary. The country would readily understand
that Senators were not seeking evidence on
which to perform their legal duty, but it was as
serting usurped supremacy over the functions
of the President" The tenure-of-ofice law Mr..
George characterized as political bastard. He
read from the speeches of Messrs. Logan, Hoar
and Allison, among others, in the debate on the
attempted repeal of the act, to show the want OF
sympathy of Senators then with the act of 1867.
He inquired whether Senators were willing now,
when Grover Cleveland was President, to stand
where they stood in 1869, when General Grant
was President; or would they, under the lead of
the Senator from Vermont, under the pretense of
giving aid to the ''calm and orderly administra-
ton of government go back on their own hon
orable record, reverse their former action. repu-
date their sound opinions and utterances, and
censure Democratic President for doing exactly
what, in 1869, they thought he ought to do.
Mr. Morgan obtained the floor, and the Senate
then adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24
Horse-Thieves Captured by COWBOYS.

BISMARCK, D. IT,. March %. A party of cow
boys came upon number of horse thieves in
the timber of the Missouri river bank, 100 miles
north, Saturday, and after an exchange of sew
eral volleys from revolvers and rifles the thieves
gave up the fight and attempted to escape. Two
of them were killed The cowboys followed
close upon the heels of the remainder, but a
narrow strip of heavy timber prevented any eff
fective shooting After chase of mile the
horse thieves. four in number, found themselves
in a clearing, and turned to the river, with the
about forty rods on the honey -combed ice when
two of the animals broke through, and, as the
cowboys continued shooting, no attempt was
made by the horse-thieves to save their strug-
Cling companions, who were carried beneath the
ice on their horses. The remaining outlaws re-
turred to the shore, and, throwing up their
hands, surrendered to the cowboys, who, after
tying their hands, fastened them upon the backs
Of ponies, and took them away to parts unknown,
but it is supposed to their camp for ON old
fashioned cowboy trial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24
The Murder of watson b. Smith.

OMAHA, Neb. March 90. Last November the
confession of a convict in the Nebraska peni-
Tertiary was made public, which implicated a
fellow convict named Pierson. He charged the
latter with the murder of Watson B. Smith,
former clerk of the United States Court. It
was one of the most noted tragedies that ever
occurred anywhere in this country, and was the
result of a contest between the temperance peo-
pie and the saloon-keepers. Persons term of
Imprisonment expired to-day, and he will be i'm
mediately arrested, charged with the murder of
Smith The United States officials with the
proper legal papers. left last night for Lincoln
for the purpose of making the arrest. Jack
Nugent, whom Pierson says gave the money to
secure Smiths murder. is not now in Omaha,
and is believed to have fed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24
MISS CLEvELAND's LETTER.

sEhe Presidents Sister Reaffirms Her Senti-
ments Upon Decollete Dresses.
Washington Special.
Miss Cleveland, in conversation to-day told q
personal friend the facts with regard to the
authorship of the letter on dress recently i'm
puted to her-a letter whose sentiments, by the
way. meet with hearty commentator in the
best circles of the capital It was written by
her substantially as it appears in print as pri-
vate letter, between two and three weeks ago
The letter of Mrs. Cady Stanton had never been
seen by Miss Cleveland until it appeared in the
World of Friday last Mrs Stanton is not per-
sonally known to her, although she entertains
high estimate of her character.
Miss Cleveland's letter was called out by a
series of earnest appeals to her in private let
ters, founded on newspaper statements, of her
conformity to fashionable standards in dress,
notably one from a venerable Clergyman, writ
ten in paternal and devout spirit Whatever
in it conveys an impression that it was written
for publication has evidently been added since
1t left her hand. Miss Cleveland does not refer
with annoyance to its publication, but treats the
matter philosophically, and says her sentiments
on the dress question have been the growth of
years, and that she is willing to be judged by
them in all candid minds
Miss Cleveland's example in Washington has
been consistent from the first in this matter.
The dress worn by he at the inaugural ball,
which she has also worn several times this win
ter, was modestly and moderately decollete, as
has been all those she has worn on full-dress oc-
casions. Neither is it true that evening dress
during the past winter has been more exception
ally immodest than during the last winter of
Mr.. Arthur's administration, and two years ago
one well-known lady, whose husband had recent
1y held diplomatic position from our govern
Eent in Europe, appeared in Washington society
and in the White House circles in dresses whose
suit surpassed any exposures that have been in
sulged in since her day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24
Mooney for Che Nlilitta.

WASHINGTON March %. -Representative For
nsy, of Alabama, has been directed by the House
committee on militia to report favorably the
Senate bill increasing the annual appropriation
for the militia, but the committee has reduced
the amount to 100000 per annum. Several
members of the committee, while favoring the
report, will, when the bill is reached in the
House, endeavor to have the amount restored to
100000, as provided in the Senate bill
The committee also directed Mr.. Forney to re-
port favorably the bill introduced by Represent
alive Cox, of North Carolina. authorizing the
Secretary of War, upon application of Governors
Of States, to detail army officers to instruct the
militia in military tactics, etc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24
THU CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Great Reduction an Price!

Beginning Monday, March %, the Chicago Tribune
announces great reduction in the price of its week.
day issues from to 8 cents for single copies The
regular price at all news-stands. by newsboys and
railroad trains, will be three cents per copy.
The terms to mail subscribers win be reduced from
$40 to $S per year. The price hereafter viii be: One
year, $s; six months for ST. three months for So.
and six weeks for ST..
The wholesale rate to country dealers and news
agents is reduced from the former price of So per
hundred copies to 1925 per one hundred copies.
postage prepaid by The Tribune Company.
(The price of the big trplesheet Sunday issue rel
mains unchangedl
This great reduction in the price of The Tribuna
will not alter its character complete newspaper In
every respect will continue to print all the news
and publish the best daily paper in the United States.
On the basis of quality and quantity Of reading mat
ter, it is the cheapest journal in the entire West
Sef-interest should prompt every reader to buy It,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24
Miscellaneous Notes.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 23-Judgs A B. Carle-
ton, of Terre Haute is at the Harris House.
Frederick r. Gobbel has been commissioned
postmaster at Grantsburg Ind, and John S.
Parrish at Falmouth
Senator Sswell, from the committee on pen
sions. to-day reported bill to increase 20 Sd per
month the pensions of minor children and wild
ows having minor children, and to extend the
period of minority to eighteen years.
The supervising architect of the Treasury rec
ommends additional appropriations for the fol-
lowing public buildings Frankfort. KY, $l5 600;
Jackson, Tenn, $1,000; Oxford, Miss, $l2 900;
Terre Haute, Ind, $4,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24
SCR0FUL0US
Sores and Glandular Swell
ings Cured by Cuticura.

TSMMA BOYNTON S57 Washington street, Boston.
Ia says: II have been afflicted for year and nine
months with what the doctors call rupia was taken
with dreadful pains in the head and body my feet be-
came swollen that / perfectly helpless,
broke out my body and face, my appetite left
could not sleep nights, lost flesh and soon became
wretched that longed to die Physicians failed TO
help me. My disease daily grew worse my suffer
ings became teble The eruption increased to great
burrowing fouLsmelling sores, from which reddish
matter constantly poured, forming crusts of great
thickness. Other appeared on various parts OF
my body, and became weak that could not leave
my bed. In this condition, and by advice OF we'll
known physician, began to use the Cuticura Rene
dies and in twelve weeks was perfectly cured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24

List of Patents Issued to Indiana Inventors
Yesterday.
Especial to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Patents were is
sued to Indianians to-day, as follows:
James r. Allgire, indianapolis, barrel head;
James +. Bigger, Rushville, school desk George
B. Casady, Hudson, plow jointer; Oliver II.
Castle Indianapolis, ice machine; John B.
Cleveland indianapolis, wire stretcher; Francis
Culmer. Spencer, combination lock; David Nj.
Harms, Bluffton, paper-bag holder; Thomas E.
Macy, Berne, churn; Olaf r. Olsen, Indianapo-
lis (assignor to American Screw Company,
Providence. r. l. J, machine for fastening barbs
on wire; Perley B. Raymond Indianapolis, lum
her drier; John W. Renshaw and S. H. Perrin,
Jeffersonvie. machine for grinding sad-irons;
George w. Smith (assgnor of one-haf to j. j.
Downing, III. and G. W. Reitenourl Union
City, post-hole anger
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24
The Cause of Delay.

WASHINGTON. March 23-Referring to SEN
ator Ingalls's resolution, passed by the Senate
about three weeks ago, calling upon the Post
master general to furnish the number Of fourth
class postmasters who had been removed by the
present administration, and to the resolution of
fered by Senator ingalls, in the Senate yester-
day, asking the Postmaster-genera why the for
mer request has not been complied with, First
Assistant Postmaster general Stephenson said,
this morning, that it was owing solely to the
great labor involved in looking I'D the records
and selecting from the long lists of changes only
those who have been removed