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MAKE IT RAIN WHEN you LIKE.
Artifci I Electricity Trained to Pro
ice Natural Showers.

TheTemarkable powers and adaptable
ity the electric current to the uses OF
society have been further demonstrated
by an invention which has at least the
charm of novelty. This is nothing more
nor less than n pate-,t to open the win
dows of heaven at tic will of man, and
Michael Cahill, M. D., of San Francisco
is the inventor.
81 expect to see the sage brush deserts
of Nebraska and Nevada under cultiva-
ton and affording pasturage for thous-
ands Of cattle in q few years." said the
doctor
"By what extraordinary means do
you intend to tap the clouds and inter
fere with the laws of nature 2" queried
the reporter.
Simply by condenser or captive
balloon and an electric cable placed
wherever the rain is required. / have
long believed that rain could be produc-
ed by artificial means, and have work
ell at this hobby of mine for several
years-ever since left college, in fact.
You see, first of all, vapor az it ascends,
receives heat from the solar rays, which
also impels it upward until restricted by
the cold. The vesicles or dewdrops,
being crowded together, become electri-
fed and float on the air at an altitude Of
from 5000 to 5000 feet, and all that is
required then to produce rain is to in
tercept the vesicles by artificial means.
What have invented is condenser OF
peculiar shape and construction and
connected with the earth by an electric
cable. Whenever the vesicle comes in
to contact with the condenser or cur
rent, they are broken up and the water
forced to the ground with great rapidity.
The rain will be produced by the law
that causes condensation on window
pane. The surface of the glass is COW
cred with microscopic points, and on
becoming chilled the layer of air next it
falls, allowing the vapor to flow on to
the points and thence to the ground"
''You will require gigantic balloon
for such purpose, was suggested.
Oh, no. A condenser of about two
hundred feet in diameter will bring down
something like 25,000,000 gallons day
and as much as would irrigate almost
half of this State. The volume of water
can be preserved or formed into rivers,
whichever may be desired. Fran.
cisco Chronicle.
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Cause OF Ex.president Crews Fall.

But the oldest detail of the late crisis
is the thing that actually brought it
about. tits hard to believe that it was
a fragment of the skin of the murderer
Pranzini that set in motion the wheels of
the whole complicated machine. Yet
such is the simple literal fact. A pocket
book, covered with a piece of the skin OF
the assassin, tanned and colorcd secundum
ar,en, was offered to M. Gragnon, and
the acceptance by that functionary OF
this peculiar present caused SO much talk
and created such sensation that, to
turn the attention of the Partisan press
and public to something else, he started
the prosecution of General Caffarel, never
dreaming of the train of consequences
that his action would draw after it. So
if Pranzini had never murdered Marie
Regnault and her two companions,
M. Grevy would still be President OF
France, and nobody would have had
word to say against his fon-in- law
Paris Letter.
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Equal to theHccasion.

A Washington lett says: A funny
retort was made fd days ago on the
floor of the House, wiz Hbeing directly
opposite my window, isit pretty
often. There are always thf \gs Of Wis
itors seeing the sights and N ling all
through the Capitol for "distiils ished
men," Last evening, after Coz greSl I'D
journcd, such hunting party was strd,
ing over its floor, where few members
fingered. Anxious, too anxious per
haps, to have curiosity gratifed, a young
man belonging to the group advanced
and spoke to Mr.. Springer of Illinois:
"Excuse me, sir, but this young lady
would like very much to know if you are
member"
The gallant gentleman from Illinois
turned upon the rosy damsel and with
his courtliest smile said:
81 do! / do indeed 1 remember
perfectly! never shall forget I"
The astonished maiden, turning from
rose to crimson, from crimson to yellow,
and from yellow to white, uttered q COM
prehensive screech and fed to the vesti-
bule, followed by her companions. to
whom, as soon as she recovered speech,
she said: "There. Come; guess we'd
better go home now"
The gale., 1888-02-25
Social Lines Among Thieves.

Among thieves there is as sharp So
cial line as there i drawn in the best
society. A bank-breakcr of the old time
would no more have been seen talking
with an ordinary sneak thief than he
would have attempted to swallow his
own "jimmy" or hydraulic pump. The
class lines among criminals were more
sharply drawn formerly than to day, for
now the bank breaker has been driven
out of business by Tie ingenuity of the
safe maker, while the lower grade thief
has some opportunity of stealing dollar
and escaping, provided he does his work
outside of the city of New York. Here
his detection and conviction by Inspec-
tor Byrnes is almost foregone conclu-
sion.
In times past some of the higher order
thieves were very successful, but very
few CT them have any money at this day.
Many of the most successful old time
American thieves are now in London and
40 one of them has any money except
Adam Worth, who possesses an elegant
house and all that one can wish, includ-
ing fine steam yacht.
Worth is probably the most success
full American thief, and were it not for
the old Boy]ston Bank robbery in Bos.
ton years ago, he would, perhaps, return
to America. His house in London is the
for American criminals,
whom he assists with money and advice
and pockets his share of the proceeds of
their Continental crimes, which amount
to no insignificant figure. He has been
connected with some of the cleyerest
robberies committed on the Continent
Tor the past fifteen years. --Neo York
World.
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"Don.t Marry Himiv

HE is such a tickle, inconstant fellow. you
will never be happy with him." said Esthsr'a
friends when they learned Of her engagement
to young man who bore the reputation Of DO
Ing q firt. Esther, however, knew that hel
to take the risk. In nine cases out of ten 4
would have proved mistake; but Esther wa
an uncommon girl and to every one's surpris,
Fred made model husband. How was IT
Well, Esther had cheerful, sunny temper ant
q great deal of tact. Then she enjoyed perfect
health and was always SO sweet, neat anc
wholesome that Fred found his own home
BILE than any other being. AS the year passed
and he saw other women of Esther's age grow
sickly, faded and querulous. he realized more
Good health was half the secret Of Esther's
success. She retained her vitality and good
looks, because she warded of feminine weak
nesses and ailments by the use Of DR.. Piercef
Favorite Prescription.
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Farm and Garden Notes.

A little fresh meat will now helm the
poultry.
A tight roof on the shed, clean fleece
on the sheep
The most valuable man on the dairy
farm is the good mixer.
To protect trees from mice tie lathes
or slaves around the trunks.
1t is sad that sweet potatoes should
not be fed to laying hens, but are excel
tent ior poultry intended for market.
There should BIO enough bedding ma
ter'ai IN the stables to render it comfort
liquid. 80 'A1o
Young turkeys must be allowed to run
only in fields where the grass i crit
short, as wet plumage seems to be fatal
to them.
Sheep kept well fed during winter
should not be turned out too early in TIM
spring. Better fatten and sell them in
the fall.
How many farmers come in from work
at night, unharness their horses, and
pick up milk pail without first washing
their hands2
Some writer's advise sprinkling dry
slakcd lime among the potatoes when
they arc put in the cellar. 1t may be a
good thing.
Kerosene oil has been used successfully
in the killing of burdocks. 1t was
poured into the stalk after cutting it off
near the ground.
Ergot and smut on grass o. corn stalks
produces abortion in breeding animals
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The Old silver Spoon.

The Old silver Sp00ns
How fresh in my mind are the days Of nay
sickness,
When tossed me in pain, all fevered and
sore;
The burning, the nausea,the sinking and weak
ness, . -,
bore. :,
The old silver spoon, the family spoon,
The sick-chamber spoon that my medic ne
bore.
How 10th were my fevcr-parchcd lips to re-
ceive it,
How nauseous the stuff that 1t bore to my
tongue, -,
And the pain at my inwards, oh, naught could
relieve 1t,
The old Silver spoon, the medicine spoon,
How awful the stuff that 1t left on my
tongue.
Such is the effect of rauseous, gripping medi.
fcines which make the sick-room a memory of
horror. DR.. Piercs's Pheasant Purgative Pc :
let's on the contrary, are small, sugar-coated.
easy to take purely vegetable and perfectly
effective. % cents q vial.
The gale., 1888-02-25

To the Editor:-Please inform your readers
that have a positive remedy for the above
named disease. BY its timely use thousands Of
hopeless cases have been permanently cured. l
shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy
FREE to any of your readers who have con-
sumption if they will send me their Express
and p. O. address. Respectfully,
I. A. SLOCUM, NJ. c., ISL Pearl St., N. Y.
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LET HER GO.

Leap till the last armed male expires;
Leap for your husbands and for sires;
II W for chance to build the fires,
r'-;- ones throughout the land!
oil City Buzz d.
The gale., 1888-02-25

Prudent people promptly procure positively
permanent relief from oaiarrh by using Tay-
lor's Hospital ure. Free pamphlet sent. Adj
". ri
The gale., 1888-02-25

Thomas Becket's bones have been found In
q stone coffin under Canterbury Cathedral.
The gale., 1888-02-25

Don't hawk, hawk, and blow, blow, disgust
ing everybody, but use DR.. Sage's Ca,arrh
Remedy.
The gale., 1888-02-25

Newcastle, Cal, has fig tree IA feet in
circumference, covering 1900 feet of surface.
The gale., 1888-02-25

The ice bridge below the Horseshoe Falls at
Niagara continues to attract many sight-seers.
The gale., 1888-02-25

If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp
sons Eyc,water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
The gale., 1888-02-25

The best cough medicine Ia Piso's Cure fer
Sold everywhere. 25c.
The gale., 1888-02-25
An Avaricious Man.

Why is an avaricious man like one with a
short memory? He is always forgetting, but
the wise parent never forgets Taylor's Chero-
kee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen, the
Group preventive, and cough and consumption
n
The gale., 1888-02-25
Consumption surely. Cured.

Nice, Italy, is suffering from the effects OF the
earthquake. Few visitors are going there.
The gale., 1888-02-25
For The Nervous
The Debilitated
The Aged.

Medical and scientific skill hes at last solved tho
problem Of the long needed medicine for the per-
vons. debihtated, and the aged. by combining tho
best tonics. Celery and Coca with other eec-
tive remedies. which. acting gently but efficiently
on the kidneys liver and bowels, remove disease,
restore strength aud renew Vitality This medcineis
The gale., 1888-02-25
Dyspepsia

Makes many lives miserable and often leads to self
destruction Distress after eating, sick headache.
heartburn. sour stomach. mental depression, ETC..
caused by this very common and increasing dis
ease. Hoods sarsaparilla tones the stomach,
and cures the most obstinate cases OF dyspepsia.
Feeling languM Ind dizzy, having no appetite
and ambition 10 work, l took Hoods Sarsaparila;
with the best results. As health invigorator and
medicine for general debility think 1t superior to
anything else"-A. A. RIKER, Albany St.. Utfca, n \.
Hoods SarsapariIla
Sold by all druggists si six for .. Prepared only
by c. l. HOOD CO.. Apothecaries Lowell MasA
100 Doses One Dollar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IT is no longer considered 'bad form" to
carry bundle on the street.
PRINCE Bismarck received 1o1 plovers' eggs
on his birthday He ate most Of them raw.
"MR Barnes of New York. has been drama
tized in London under the name Of ITO the
Death"
SoMERvILLE Journal The man who never
made . mistake in his life is deaf, dumb blind
and still unmarried.
TESNYsoN, we read, never smokes the same
pipe twice. His invariable custom is to break
each pipe after he has smoked it out.
GENERAL BouLANGER is fifty one years Of
aee older than most men who have aimed at
self-aegrandizing revolutions in France.
The Prince Of Wales, IL 10 said. has been max
ing heavy bets for years past that be will not
ouslive his mother, the money, if hs wins, to be
divided between his two sons
A WOMAN with twenty -four sons 10 smierating
to the West And now the citizens Of .Minns-
apolis say that il that one horse city Of ST. Paul
captures her there will be bloody war.
Mr. GEORGE H STUART, the well known
phlanthropiss and Christian. worker. has as-
count Of failing health retired from the presi-
dency OF the Merchants National Bank, At
PhiladslphiA
WILLIAM E. BARRETT the newly elected
president of the Advertiser Newspaper Com
pany Of Boston. Mass, Is only twenty-sight
years of age He 10 . member OF tho Massa-
chusetts Leeislature.
Miss Lillian LELAND. who Is . regular con-
tributor to the New York Star. has travelled
further and seen more countries than any other
woman alive. She has made . journey around
tn world; visiting japan, China, Java. Ceylon,
India, Egypt, the Holy Land, Turkey. Greece.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-07
POLITICAL NOTES.

HARTFORD Post: Massachusetts, Republicans
are decidedly Blaineish. but that doesn't make
them any the worse Republican,
PHILADELPHIA Press: TIE grip Of the
Gresham boom on Illinois is largely by permits
sion Of Senator Cullom. 1t is purely subsidi-
ary affair.
DETROIT Tribune: Pension Commissioner
Black has been in Illinois OF late looking after
his vice presidential boom. Public Office 10 .
public trust
KANSAS City Star DENY The national
Democratic convention will scarcely nominate
for Vice president an Indiana pigmy named
Gray, when an Indiana giant named Mcdonald
protests.
- THE Philadelphia Telegraph thinks Mr.. Blaine
could not carry Indiana or New York. and says
he came nearer to doing 1T in 1884 than he would
again were he . hundred times the presidential
candidate.
DETROIT Tribune: Chicago poets are turning
themselves loose on Judge Gresham's presiden-
tial boom. 1t is probable that they are sud-
sidized by the men who are afraid Gresham will
be nominated.
Mr.. JOHN V. FARwELL the Chicago ner-
chant says that he earnestly desired Mr..
Blaine's nomination in 1884 but that he thinks
he is PLAYED out as a candidate now. He has
been trying IL too long"
MINNEAPOLIS Tribune: With voorhees's po-
litical biography as given by Mr.. Ingalls,, and
Uncle Joe McDonads vigorous kick, the Demo
cratic party down in Indiana promises to have
hard row to travel this year of oNe Lord.
MILWAUKEE Sentinel: Governor Gray. Of In
DIANA and General Black. of Illinois, are both
candidates for the Democratic nomination for
Vice-president. Gray has the best prospect OF
hat n
South
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer: Illinois indorses
Gresham This Is q good helper for the Gresham
BOOM It will bring his name before the con-
vention, and, once there. all things are possible.
Nevertheless no other States seem In any hurry
to train alongside OF Illinois.
MINNEAPoLIs Journal: Il is said that Govern
or Gray. of Indiana. left the Republican party
because be failed to get the eubernatorial nomi-
nation some years ago. If Mr.. Gray 10 not
nominated for Vice-president by the Democrats
this year he will doubtless turn Prohibitionist
KANSAS CITY Star: Should Chauncey NJ De-
pew be nominated for Governor Of New Yo.k.
or for the presidency, he can count on the solid
Irish vote. His reply to Prof. Goodwin Smith
in defense Of home rule for Ireland has made
him solid with the Irish and Americans have
warmed to him because he was not afraid OF the
learned and gifted Britisher.
GENERAL WAsHBURN, Of Minnesota, who is
talked of as a Chicago delegate, said. the other
day, after trip to the East: Sherman will
have the largest vote in the con vention for he
will draw somewhat from the South, but still
think that Blaine 10 the man. There is no con-
of sentiment in any other dir cotton. Gresham
does not stand ghost Of . show. A mao that
cannot carry his own State is Of no value in the
convention. There is no doubt of his weakness.
Harrison Is the Indiana man. No. indeed, there
is no chance of there being any combination or
scheme in this matter. Gresham 10 not the
man, and that is settled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-07
GERMAN IN TIE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Mr.. Greenstreet's motion to discontinue the
teaching Of German in the public schools
brings the subject before the board in form
that must challenge attention. The reasons
assigned for the motion are that the seating
capacity of the present school buildings is
inadequate by three to five hundred seats to
accommodate the applicants for admission to
the schools; that the board is carrying q
heavy debt, on which it is paying annually
about SIS, 900 interest, making the policy Of
creating further debt for any purpose ques-
tionable; and that there are now twenty
rooms, with seating capacity Of five hundred
to six hundred, set aside for German recita-
tions, to the exclusion of the study of En-
elish, which, If German were discontinued.
could be utilized for English branches. If
these statements are correct they furnish not
only an unanswerable argument, but an i'm
perative reason for the discontinuapce Of
German. And we do not Gee how the cor
rectness of the statements can be disputed.
The heavy Indebtedness and large interest
account of the board are matters Of public
knowledge. The inadequacy Of the present
school buildings and the enforced exclusion
of large number Of children from school
privileges on that account are established by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-07

THE st. Louis Post Dispatch, one of the
papers belonging to the syndicate of two
cities that has undertaken the work of telling
the Republicans of Indiana what choice they
shall have for President, rises to remark as
follows, touching the result CT the State con-
vention last Thursday:
1.-THE Indiana instruction for Harrison was
the first triumphant development of the
Blaine programme. Blaine thinks that he
carried Indiana for the Republicans in 1880
by nominating General Garfield, and that il. he
had had General Harrison, a member of Gar
fields church, for running mate in 1884 he
would have carried that State and been
elected. So the Harrison movement is a
Blaine movement, and it will be seen that if
Blaine is nominated Harrison will be on the
ticket with him."
1t is probably not ,essary to comment
upon such delightful ignorance as this, which
is equaled only by its assumption. 1t will be
in the nature of news hereabouts to know
that General Harrison is member of General
Garield's church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-07

A RECENT occurrence in Louisiana surned
out so differently from most incidents of the
kind as to call for special mention. A party
of white men on a night ride visited the cabin
of negro for the avowed purpose of punish
ing him for some alleged misdeed-perhaps
his color or his politics. After surrounding
the premises demand was made on the oc-
cupant of the cabin to open the door, to
which he responded by discharging shot
gun through hole in the wall into the midst
of his assailants, killing the leader and spokes-
man Of the gang The rest were so demoral-
lied by this hot reception that they incontinent-
ly decamped- The plucky negro who thus made
bis cabin his castle set an example worthy of
imitation by others of his race. An occasion
al incident of the kind would serve to remind
the night riders that bulldozing has its draw
hacks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-07

official testimony. Hundreds Of children of
school age are now running the streets for the
lack of school accommodations, and yet we
are told that twenty rooms, with seating
capacity of fve hundred to six
hundred, are now set aside for
German recitations, to the. exclusion of
English On this state of facts there can be
no doubt as to the proper course to pursue.
German should be dispensed with. The first
and paramount duty of the board is to make
adequate provision for the instruction of all
children of school age in the primary English
branches. and no foreign language or orna-
mental branch should be allowed to interfere
for moment with the performance of this
duty. 1t would be most deplorable state of
things, under any circumstances, even en-
tirely beyond the control of the board, to have
hundreds of children debarred from school
privileges by the lack of accommodations; but
when this is done in Difference tc senti-
mental and demagogic demand for instruction
in foreign language, it assumes almost the
proportions of q crime. That the attempt to
teach German in the public schools has been
a costly failure. interfering materially with
the efficiency of English education is demon
strated by years of experience. This alone is
reason enough why it should be abolished.
But a new and, If possible, stronger reason is
found in the fact that hundreds Of children
are wholly deprived of English schooling
to accommodate few classes in German.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-07

SMITH NJ. WEED, of New York, has been
sent to California to set things up for Mr..
Cleveland. on the Pacific coast Weed was
Samuel J. Tilden's confidential agent in the
negotiations of 1876, by which the sage of
Gramercy Park and GreystOne sought to pur-
chase his election, and who is known as one
of the shrewdest political agents in the coun-
try. One part ct the present scheme is to
carry Oregon, which holds an election for
members of the Legislature on June 5. The
Republicans of the Pacific coast win hardly
be caught mapping.