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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Seventy-six of the eighty-one Syra-
cuse University freshmen are women.
Boston has begun the agitation that
will place a flag on every grammar school
building in the near future.
The popular sentiment among the
students of the University of Pennsyl-
vania is strongly against co-education.
1t is proposed to establish a medical
college in connection with Cornell Uni
versity, to be located in the city of New
York
The Imperial University of Toxic
has 1SS professors and teachers, all but
sixteen being Japanese. This years
students number 7SS.
The Anglican Episcopal Church has
just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
OF the conservation of it's first Bishop in
Upper Canada. One feature of the cele-
bration was the laying of cornerstone
for new wing to Trinity College.
-Archdeacon Farrar's proposal for the
establishment of st. James monastic
institution in connection with the
Church of England has received the ap-
proval of the Archbishop of Canterbury
and other leading prelates of the Angli-
can Church.
There are said to be 1000 students
in German universities. This crowding
OF the learned professions is due to two
things: the desire to get 'genteel"
living lie, without manual toil), and
the cheapness of a higher education in
Germany. The latter is good thing;
ic f0
For many years the Wesleyans have
been endeavoring to purchase a site for
chapel at Hatfield, where Lord Sails
bury owns almost all the land. He
wouldn't sell to them for any price, but
at last they have been suited by pur-
chasing from another owner, and have
celebrated their victory by grand fair.
-Alcom College, Rodney, Miss, is
supported by the State for the higher
education of her colored youths. The
entire faculty is composed of colored in
structors. The college has improved
rapidly under the management of Prof.
J.1H. BprPus. All of the dormitories
are crowded, and still applications are
coming in from young men desiring ad-
mission, who must be turned away for
lack of room.
Princeton is popularity deemed
sasbyterian college, but nothing so
we'll illustrates it's non-sectarianism
and liberal views as glance at the
various religious beliefs of the students.
Quite large proportion of the students
are Presbyterians, but there are many
Episcopalians, some members of such
New York churches as st. Ignatius and
st. Mary the Virgin. There are eighty
Methodists, twelve Catholics and one
Hebrew, and many other denominations
are represented.
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A FEW COMPARISONS.
Geographical Facts Based Upon the Mo.
Reliable Measurements

Geographical Facts Based Upon the Most
Reliable Measurements.
When we learn from astronomers that
the sun is twice as large in circumfer-
ence as the circle made by the moon
in passing around the earth, we are
In pslined to draw long breath; yet we
have on dry land, and by actual
measurement, some comparisons of
sizes which are, to say the least, quite
interesting.
Asia is more than four times as large
as Europe, and considerably larger than
North and South America together The
United States and Europe are almost
equal in area; British India Is moro
than half as large as the United States,
and Canada is nearly equal in area, In
cluding Alaska Ireland and Indiana
are about the same size. England and
Michigan are about the same size. You
could take enough land from Texas to
make England, Ireland, Scotland, Bel
gium, the Netherlands, Switzerland
and Denmark, and still have enough
left to make Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire,
Vermont Delaware, New Jersey, Mary
land and Indiana. California is tho
second largest State. Nebraska Ii more
than twice tho size of Indiana. The
Island of Cuba and the State Of Tonnes
see are equal in area Brazil Is nearly
as large as the United States, but the
population Of the latter is seven
times that of the fermer. II all
the people Of the United States and
Canada were placed in the State of
Texas, the number of persons to the
square mile would be fewer than at
present in China. Colorado is as large
as Ney York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey together. 1t would take ten
States as large as Massachusetts to make
State as large as Kansas. There are
twenty-seven States or Territories each
larger than New York. Oregon is equal
In area to New York and Pennsyl-
vania. Massachusetts is smaller than
either New Hampshire or Vermont
Minnesota is twice the size Of Ohio. The
three States bordering on the Pacific
are larger than the thirteen States bor-
define on the Atlantic. Montana is
thirty times larger than Connecticut
Iowa is FIVE times as large as Belgium,
and four times as large as Denmark.
Maryland and Switzerland are about the
same size. London is as large as New
York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Baltimore and Cincinnati together.
There are twice as many people to the
square mile in England as in Rhode
Island, the most densely populated State
in The Union. Japan is equal in area to
Montana, and supports more than half
as many people as there are now in the
whole of the United States. Ireland
had double the population in 1s41 that
she has at present.-Self Help and Home
Study.
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IN AMSTERDAM.

MeyneeF Hans Won der Bloom has got
A majazin in Kalverstraat,
Where one may buy for sordid gold
Wares quaint and curious new and old.
Here are antiquities galore
The jewels which Dutch monarchs wore,
Swords, teacups, helmets, platters, clocks,
Bright Dresden Jars, dull Holland crooks
And all those joys might rehearse
That please the eye or wreck the purse.
most admired an ancient bed
With ornate carvings at it's head
A massive frame of dingy oak
Whose curious size and mold bespoke
Prodigious age. "How much?" cried
!" Elm tousand gildens," Hans replied,
And then the honest Dutchman said
A King once owned that glorious bed
King Fritz der foorst (of blessed famed
Had owned and slept within the sameI
Then longI stood and mutely gazed
By reminiscent splendors dazed;
And had bought IL right away
Had the wherewithal to pay;
But lacking OF the needed pelf
thus discoursed within myself:
IS o happy Holland where's the bliss
That can approximate to this
Possession Of the rare antique
Which maniacS banker for and seek3
ny native land is full OF stun
That's good but is not old enoughl
Alas it has no oaken beds
Wherein have slumbered royal heads
No relic on whose face we see
The proof Of grand antiquityr'
Thus reasoned a goodly spell,
Until, perchance, my vision fell
Upon trademark at the head
OF Fritz der foorst's old oaken bed
A rampant wolverine, and round
This strange device these words found:
Patent Antique-Birkey & Gay
Grand Rapids, Michigan U. S. A"
At present I'm not saying much
About the simple, guileless Dutch;
And as it were loathsome spot
keep away from Kalverstraat,
Determined, when 1 want bed
In which hath slept royal head,
I'll patroniZe no middleman
But deal direct with Michigan.
Eugene Field, in Chicago News
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DEAF DEACON JONES.
He Wakes Up the Prayer-MeetIng with q
Semi-Humorous story.

He Wakes Up the Prayer-MeetIng with \
Semi-Humorous Story.
Out in one OF the Worcester County
hili villages there used-to live, and for
ell the Listener of thu Boston Transcript
knows lives still, locally prominent
man and pillar of the church who was
very deaf. He was also a very COM
placent man. One night this man
Deacon Jones we may call him-came
into the prayer-meeting and sat about
gossiping little, all on his own ac-
count, while he was waiting for the
meeting to begin. At last the meeting
was opened by one of the brethren, who
knelt and began prayer, but Deacon
X. did not hear word
well" said he, presently, breaking
with loud voice i1eo tho others
prayer. 81 guess we're goin' to have
quite good meetin' after all, spite o.
the rain."
The brother went on with his prayer
as soon as the interruption was over, b
Deacon X. was memorable. After w
ing few moments longer he turnes.
way round and said:
''Well, brethren and sisters, we m
as well begin.
The praying brother saw it was
use and brought his prayer to cltrWt Q
with hasty amen Meantime Deaqrect
x. went on:
Brethren and sisters" said he.
got somethin' dreadful to tel ye.v =, @ III
The congregation was ON the qui v kan
'Yes," said he. Il want to ask ~ kssc1 sio :,
prayers of this ere meet1n' for mys STU
ter out ia York State She is in cansa:
sfEiction. Her husband has been ascls s.s
sinated."
A thrill OF horror went over the / nor1i s6ra'
assembly as they waited for him to 81 nd IN
more definitely. ecf:9 [s,
''Yes, brethren, he said, preserl sist
s'he's hung hisself in his barnlp in In
1t was horrible, but the extraordge, Kar
nature of the assassination ting,pvs
2gneem2 &c = i lisias si.l
ne q HirtinG 20 long Is live,
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CATCHING EossIERs.
Tho Leading Industry of a Little Town in
DOrs0tshiro. Eng.

DOrsetshire, Eng.
The little town of s., on the coast Of
Dorsetshire, is celebrated for its Holsters,
says the st. James Gazette. Not that it
has not other attractions, ANIMAL physiolog-
ical and artistic; but this is recognized by
all intelligent and thoughtful visitors as its
crowning merit. The fishing in general is
poor; mackerel and whiting are only taken
now and then; but the pursuit of Holsters
Is followed with more success. Parts Of
the bay, indeed, and of the deep sea beyond,
iudciously selected by the combined in
stiEct and experience of the native, are
dotted with small clusters OF cork buoys
marking the site Of the lobster pot below.
The lobster pot as most readers will be
aware, is piece of wire or wicker basket
work, square or round in shape, with q
small entrance at the top, weighted below,
and having bait in the form of Q dead fish
attached to the top by hook, after the
manner of the toasted cheese in the COM
mon mouse trap. The apparatus is
weighted below and attached to stout
cable above, to which in turn is fastened
the line of lighter material which carries
the cork buoys.
To observe the sport of lobster-catching ii
Is necessary 70 go forth. as 1 did, in the yes
sci for that purpose equipped. This is an
open boat, substantially built, Of great
breadth of beam, capable of holding SONG
ten or twelve people. 1t is constructed es-
sentialIy for use, not of ornament Though
OF apparently clumsy shape leach end seems
at first sight little short of semicirclel,
these boats, which are yawl-rigged as a
rule, travel at great rate, and beng we'll
ballasted with iron keels of about foot in
depth, and weighing some four or i've hun
dred weight. and ton of the same metal
under the flooring, can carry deaf of sail.
; With fair wind, under mainsail, gan top
sail, and large jib to forward fhavine
eHrefHliy learned these terms it would be q
.'e1 e the Isle Of Wight the coast OF
gtss cleaFep every minute.
xhe pots &c ont some elx or seven m;le1
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Edward Bellamy, it is said, is the
closest student of Dickens in this coun-
try
Sir Julian Pauncefote is devoting q
good deal of time to the study of Amer
lean literature. He says that he had no
realization of the richness and variety Of
the work of our men of letters.
Emile Augier, the recently deceased
French writer, once replied to an inter.
viewer: 81 was born in 1920, and since
then nothing extraordinary has hap
pened to me. That is all have to tell
YOU"
-Burdette, the humorist began his
career as a journalist in 1869, at Peoria,
ILL.,, where he founded the Peoria Even
ing News, from which, he says, the
sheriff made more in fifteen minutes than
he did in a year.
The New York booksellers report
that of the expensive books having the
largest sales Burke's ''Peerage" almost
heads the list. Nearly every fashionable
family in that city has one copy of it,
Notwithstanding it costs about SIS.
Queen Victoria, it is said, has a
number of unpublished manuscripts in
her possession which may see print after
her death. Their nature is not known,
but it is understood that poems and
short stories form the bulk of the collec-
tion.
Miss Florence Marryat, the novel;
ist, is described as a woman of light and
leading in Spiritualistic circles. She
believes profoundly in Spiritualism, and
her house is quite rallying- place for
persons who claim to have intimate re-
lations with the unseen world.
-Wilkie Collins, by his will, directed
that he be buried in Kensal Green Gem
etery, at a cost not exceeding 1925. that
no scarfs or hatbands should be used.
and that plain stone cross, placed over
his grave, should bear only the inscrip-
ton which he had prepared
Robert Louis Stevenson a few years
ago found it very difficult to get any of
his stories accepted by the magazines.
Now he can not write them fast enough.
Ills health is delicate, but his imagina-
tion vivid and romantic, and all his
stories have wierd and ghostly back
ground.
-Tolstoiis writing is illegibIe to most
readers. and his wife rewritea his manu-.
scripts again and again, until they quit
his fastidious taste. In this way she
copied '.War and Peace from end to
end six times, and his last work. Life, =
she rewrpte sixteen times, besides trans
lating it into French
AN autograph lately sold in London
was note frcm Tennyson, reading
thus. Il have many thousands OF these
Applications and "a Ter ,s.ats a a poipt OF
negleetins then. Ter alsy sbould Hat
ter tue nad1ess q the people2 Never
Hess, as the request comes aom an
ola fElens ee..eil a. 81 aztssfsf..e
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novelist, Is one of the few living writer's
who knew Edgar A. Poe personally.
When the poet was residing at Ford
ham, in 1S4s, she was a frequent visitor
at the house of a relative whose home
was there. Here Miss Douglas, who
was a girl at the time, met Poe, and his
large, dark eyes, broad, white forehead
and lofty courtesy made an indelible inn
preston upon the youthful Amanda.
The poets voice was low, but exquisite
ly modulated. He never laughed, and
seldom smiled. His smile was sweet,
but melancholy. Miss Douglas is now
nearly sixty years old butt is still active
lY engaged in literary pursuits.
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CHURCHES.

DAPTISr.-Prcaching each sunday at IL n.
DIN. and at Z 80 p. m, at the courthouse. sun
day school at 10 O'Clock, n IN. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of zach week. Rev. w.
Cain Pastor. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave.
and Cherry Streets.
GHRISTIAN.-Preach every Sunday at
- IL o'clock, a. M, and 80 p. IN, by Elder
David Nation. Prayer meeting every We'd
nesday night Sunday school at 10 clock II. m.
every Sunday.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Serviccse every
4N4 Sunday at II 100 n. III. and Z 30 p. IN. sun
day school every Sunday at 10 II. III. Prayer
meetins every Wednesday evening at 1880.
Strangers invited. II. SANDERsON, Pastor.
DRESBYTERIAN.-Ser every sunday mt
4 IL a. IN. and 80 p. IN. Sunday School at
10 O. III. J b. NORTH, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH Services on 2nd
Sunday of every month at Sherlock's hall, at
300 n. III. Rev. BITTER Pastor.
GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-Hold reg
" uiar services at Mngona, Barber county,
the second and fourth Sundays in each month.
At Forrest school house ON the second Sunday 4;
Cedar Greek school house ON the third sunday.
by Elders Shamberger, Smith and Neher.
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sand l was entirely wrong when l
sent Lucy away; and you were quite
right when you discharged Miles.
Henceforward, my dear, well try to
mlngle little common sense with our
housekeeping. Eh-shall we?"
And Mrs. Cavendish smiled as she as
sented.-Helen Forest Graves, in Phils-
delphia Saturday Night.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-01-01

Prof. Richard S. Rosenthal, who de-
vised the Meisterschaft system ofslearn-
ing languages, and who speaks fourteen
tongues fiuently, has become natural
ized American citizan
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BILLY GOATS FUNERAL.
A MOrtuafy Proceeding Which Was q
Novel As LII Was Pathatic

A MOrtuafy Proceeding Which Was a.
Novel as 1t Was Pathetic.
There is but one step from the sublime to
the ridiculous, and an equal distance from
the absurd to the pathetic. Children have
little perception of the incon gruities of life
and are not debarred from indulging in
sentiment by any. fear of appearing rfdicu-
lous TO older eyes. A Hartford gentleman
relates, in Golden Days, an incident in
which this trait is strikingly illustrated.
He says:
81 met upon hillside highway, aday or
two since, a funeral procession. 1t was q
strange funeral, too, and the corpse was
quite as strange as the funeral team that
drew the improvised hearse. Six little boys
and three girls drew the hearse, and the
corpse in the vehicle was that of billy
goat. 1asked the largest boy, the leader, II
he was the foreman Of the fire company,
and he answered:
No, sir; we're funeral
''The strange answer induced me to look
into the wagon, and its contents revealed to
my sight the first dead goat that had ever
seen. The little undertaken, who had
owned Billy, enlightened me when be said:
"'Billy was a good goat, and me and
Billy used to have lots OF fun In old times
"a goats funeral was so novel mortuary
proceeding that accepted the invitation to
become one Of the mourners and follow the
little wagon drawn by the children up the
hillside, through the winding lane over the
common to the grave appointed for the last
resting place Of all that was mortal Of Door
Billy.
81 have seldam seen more decorous OBJ
serVance by grown people at the grave
side, when the clods hid from sight all
that was material, than was observed by
these children In the burial of their dead
friend, who, doubtless, had often drawn
them all in jolly good-fellowship around
and about the highways and hillsIdes in
the same wagon which had carried Billy to
his last resting place. His grave was not
long nor was it deep, but it was deem
enough TO cover hlm well, and in il he was
gently placed and few spadesful of dirt
carefully deposited upon Billy's inanimate
form.
"A little more ceremony and the grave
was covered, each cLild, as the procession
moved away, turning TO say: Goodbye,
biilyP | stopped and picked daisy from
among us kitn and KIN, which whitened the
nelo all around and about, and laid it on
the grave as my onering-not to o dead
goat, but to the good friend of a little bow
who loved him well enough TO give h,m a
decent burial, and bore testimony tn hi.
good traits in the simple tribute: Billy
was good goat
"As walked away a little song sparrow.
or perhaps 1t was wren, which had been
neryously hopping about on the bush-tops
1ew yards away, few down upon the new
made grave and burst out with a rapturous
song, and flooded the air with melody. An.
well, 1 thought, as / wandered down the
hillside, there isn't any use for goat
heaven when the grave Of gray old Billy
Is watered by the tears OF children, and
the funeralceremonye ends with the anthem
OF such q chorister''
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The GambIsr'. Last Bee.

Nobody but gambler would think of
betting On his own life, says the Cincinnati
Tines-Star. Bony Nash, q well-known
character of the gambling fraternity, died
about fifteen years ago of dropsical afiec
ton. While he was in decline his COM
panions subscribed TO send him to LOUIS
vile. Billy Lewis was appealed to for s.
Five dollars y exclaimed the cid man. "I'n
give g. Wen send him TO New osIeans
ana ne can't get back" pony, however,
went to the Falls taty. and in few days
returned looking much improved Jim Ruf-
nm was then chief of police Hello,
Bony, y exclaimed the chiefcn meeting Nash
one day. You are looking much better:
you u i've ten years longer y This occurred
Tuesday I'll bet IS I'll be dead before
Saturday" said Bony. .ss9,ll tskseif. g...s.s !
the chlef, and the ~ ss<-..ft co
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-01-01

DELPHIA LODGE, No. I40, K. of p, meets on
Monday evening of each week. ut the k OF r.
hall. Visiting knights in good standing inVi-
ted to attend. SCOTT RUBBRr Z. Z.
II. Il. BROWN. K. of Il. & >.
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Barber County omcers.
S0CIETIT8.

q A. r. & a. NJ, Delta Lodge NO. g
IA Regular communications, FIRST ana
" ~ third Saturday evenings in ench
w month. FRASK BEEEs, ". NJ.
IL. NJ. INGRAHAM, Secretary.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. G3, r. A. NJ, meets
I'm Masonic Hall every 2d and 4th Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited
p. A. SIMMONS, II. p.
n. SANDErSoS, SccV.
n II q LORRASNE CHAPTER, No. 30.
" liz D. RcgulfS Communications, first
and third Monday evenings in each mouth.
Mrs. EVA l.. MERRELL, W. NJ.
NANSIE V. o. BRYAN, Sec.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16
Words THAT Deserve Attention,

The following letter written by Hon. E.
Cheney, editor of the Granite State Free
Press, and one of the best posted Republi-
cans Of New Hampshire, who has resided
for several months each year for some ten
years past in Florida, contains so much
information on 1.-THE race question" the one
political issue of today, outside the tariff
question, that at the expense of space much
desired for the consideration of other ques-
tons of political moment we reprint and
commend the thoughtful attention of every
reader of THE TINES:
HOTEL RosELAND,
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Apr, Is
"But what about the race problem? Does
it near a solution?" So some one asks
Answer: Leaving God out, the progress
seems slow. Counting Him factor, re-
memberiDg that He has all time for His
work, drawing such lessons as we may from
the past, the outlook seems to me more than
hopeful. You cannot hurry God. The at
tempt to do so has been the bane Of all re-
forms. think it is the one weak point in
this. have lived to see greater progress
toward justice to the colored man than
ever dreamed to see. 1t is a tremendous
step for one generation to have made his
personal liberty secure. If, now, it should
take another generation to make his right to
vote equally secure, need we be surprised?
1t will come. 1t can be hindered by un-
wise and precipitate, though well intended
action but it cannot be permanently defeat
ed. The negrO-hater can do much to delay
it; his friends-real friends t0o-can, and
fear will, do more. Time. education, re-
lgion-time to remove old prejudices, edu-
cation to qualify the mind, and religion to
fit the heart-these mainly must do the work.
swell, but give us some facts" Here
they are: . s
4. When the colored people were eman-
cipated only two per cent of them could read
and write; today 80 per cent of them can do
so.
2. A million and quarter Of col0red
children are now i'm public schools voluntari-
ly supported by taxation.
9. The negro owns today, saved from
his small earnings, with all the lucrative
occupations closed against him, $3.50, 900, 600
Of taxable property.
4. The teachers in the c0lored public
schools are now almost wholly c0lOred, the
fitting schools having already raised up an
ample supply of efficient and capable color
ed teachers. of both sexes. These teachers
generally have had the best Of training for
their work.
8. There is a growing feeling of kindli-
ness and responsibility on the part OF the
white christians of the south. Two facts
coming under my personal knowledge, illus
tratcs this general truth. recently listen
ed TO sermon in one of the churches OF
jacksonville, to congregation containing a
large proportion of southern people--a SER
mon devoted exclusively to the race problem
LIN which the pastor, with great earnest
ness, zeal and eloquence urged the duty
upon his people to interest themselves in
the welfare of the colored race. The pastor
had been advised not TO preach 1t, but he
did preach It; and not man kicked. 1t
was revelation to me. A South Carolinean
cx-slaveholder and ex-confederate--a physi-
clan came to me TO interest me in project