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WESTON.

Mrs David Hull is better.-Mrs William
Bennett and daughter Alice of Platts-
vile spent Sunday at L. j. Benefits
Rev William Coggswell preached at Cen
ter street, sSunday, 5th.-Morris Perry
has bought horse.
D. L. Rowland and w. B. Smith have
returned from Bridgeport, where they
have been on jury duty since December
Mrs George B. Sturges spent last
week in Bethel.-Mrs G. A. Sturges has
returned from two-weeks' visit in New
Iork.-Peter Smith suffers from rheuma-
tism; is unable to leave his room.-Miss
Sadie Sturges was given a surprise by
young schoolmates, Saturday.-Isaac
Sterling and sister Alice have visited in
New Iork.-Mr and Mrs G. Il. Gregory
entertained friends from Wilton, Sunday.
Louis Treadwell of Wesleyan univer-
sity has been guest of w. p. Rowland
The family of Nelson Gorham of Chest
nut hill has suffered severely with grip.
Mrs Mary A. Perry visits in George
town.. j. Maloney, the young man
severely hurt at a Georgetown wire mill,
last week, is improving.-M t. Hamil-
ton returned, Saturday, from Norwalk.
Morris Perry has new horse.-A
pleasant surprise was given Mr. and Mrs
E. O. Shipman, Jr, of Chestnut hill, Fri
day evening. About so were present.
w. P. Lockwood has bought land from
the William O. Godfrey estate.-Hawley
Williams and daughter have visited in
Ridgefield.-Mrs S. M. Coley of Bridge
port has been guest of her son.-Miss
Maud Williams has visited in Norwalk.
Mrs A. Randle has visited her son in
Redding Fancher spent Sunday
in Stamford George Brown is able to
be out.-Mrs Charles Abbott lost 60
N..o1vO l. i
Jarvis Seeley has moved to Saugatuck,
where he is employed in a factory.-Mrs
Miller spent Sunday in Norwalk.-An or
ange and o supper will be given by the
ladies' aid society for repairing the
church, some time in April.
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STRATFIELD.

Rev Mr. Elmer preached in the Baptist
church Sunday as a candidate. His dis
course was considered eloquent.-Wil-
liam j. Wheeler on Toilsome hill has a
new barn in the place of that destroyed
by fire some time ago.-The large sugar
maple on Lyons hill, an old landmark,
has been cut down, as it encroached on
the proposed road Improvement Fred
Bennitt has enlarged his dooryard; a
great Improvement to his place.-The
farmers have nearly finished sowing
oats, but the cold weather has put stop
to planting garden.-Health Officer
Brothwell was on tour of inspection,
Tuesday, looking to the sanitary condi-
ton of the eastern portion of town.-Ho-
ratio Hoyt, new janitor of the Stratfield
church, does satisfactory work.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10

at F. L. Turney Slew Downs is paint
ing the new barn at the rectory.
Fred w. Toucey is second color bear
er of the Bridgeport wheel club-Preach-
ing in the M. E. church, next Sunday at
30, by the new pastor, Rev A. r. Ea-
gan.-C. e. Radcliffe has the largest Or
der he ever received; enough to carry
him into the Fall with a full force of
help.-Last week fire set by locomo-
tive burned over a number of acres for
Mrs Hubbell and F. S. Shelton.-Mr He
Der from Brooklyn has moved into the
place he bought of w. B. Coan; he ex-
poets to take city boarders.-Mr Hadley
is putting his house in shape to move in,
in May-One of Mrs Skeletons boarders
is at home in Newtown sick.-Irving
Coan has traded horses with Mr. Beck
with.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10
TRUMBULL.

Wolsey Sterling has bought fine
horse of Hanson Nichols, Bridgeport
Friends from Tashua and Long Hill
were guests of c. V. Geschke, Sunday
Frank Keller of Bridgeport spent Sun
day with his grandfather, George A.
Hall.
David Booth has moved into J "A. Hen
rietta's tenant house near his brother-in-
law, A. l.. Blood.-Lillie Brownson of
Huntington has visited Mrs Arthur Burr.
S. M. Brinsmade has fine litter of 16
Chester White pigs.-H. V. Hallock en-
tertained friends from Bridgeport, Sun
day.-Adolph Heinse has lost valuable
COW; Mrs Heinse's mother has been very
sick.
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ORONOQUE.

A new queen was installed at c..
II. Weiss, 18th; weight nine pounds
Napoleon j. Wilson and bride will COM
mence life together in the house of
George j. Beach.-George H. Tomlinson
has sold a horse to L. G.. Beard and one
to ). L. Palmer.-John Benson, arrested
by Deputy Warden Wakelee for fishing
in the Housatonic contrary to statute,
was acquitted by Justice Peck.-A part
of the meadows near the river overlooked
by the freshets are so thickly covered
with sand that the crop of hay will be
almost failure.-Mrs Arson II. Blake
man has visited in Shelton.
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DEERFIELD.

Mrs Hiram Wakeman of Ohio has Wis
tied relatives here.-Butchers are plenty.
Jennings of Bridgeport four days in the
week, besides Elwood of this place and
Hall of Easton.-Miss Harriet Wakeman
had always resided in this place and will
be much missed by neighbors and friends.
She was for many years Il member of the
Episcopal church and was a kind and
obliging neighbor. Miss Wakeman leaves
two sisters and brother.-Sunday night
Edward Brotherton, having spent the
evening with friend, found his horse
missing. 1t was valuable one.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10

ried life of 63 years without a death to
break their family circle. The closing
years of Mrs Banks's life were surround
ed by every possible attention, all things
being done for her comfort and happi-
ness. She leaves three children, a son,
Horace B. Banks and two daughters,
Mrs Moses B. Banks of this village and
Mrs George w. Banks OF Guilford. Rev
Mr. Plumley officiated at the funeral
NJ. B. Banks has suffered with a severe
attack of grip.-Mr Bronson is having
the west end of his former residence TAX
en- down as fast as possible and soon the
old Dwight mansion will be naught but
a memory
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10
PLATTSVILLE.

The social at the hall, Friday evening,
was enjoyed by about 50.-Mr and Mrs
E. E. Rice have visited her old home.
Mr. Rice and father have been for 16 years
connected with Glover Sanford & Sons
hat shop and, as that firm has suspended
business, they contemplate moving to
Dalton, Penn, to engage in the hardware
business.-L. Acker has an order from
Hoyt Bros, New Canaan, for several
thousand Cuthbert raspberry plants. He
will fill orders for trees received from
people about here.
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LYONS PLAIN.

Miss Hattie Patchen will make Lyons
Plain her permanent home.-Mrs Eli
Wakeman of Bridgeport was with her
mother, Mrs Charles johnson, last week.
MIR and Mrs Charles Candee of Easton
visited Louis Burr, last Week.-Annual
meeting of the Mrs Tomlinson" society
in the church parlors, I'd. Officers elect
ed:
President, Mrs Alex Hamilton; vice presi-
dent, Miss Hattie N. Adams; secretary, Mrs
G. A. Sherwood; assistant, Nellie Merwin !;
treasurer, Mrs Louisa Treadwell; collector,
Mrs z. A. Fanton; assistant, Bessie Hamilton.
Mrs Ii. HI. Nichols and Miss G. j..
Banks visited Mrs Albert Platt in South
Norwalk, last week.
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GEORGETOWN.

Miss Sadie Mcintyre spent Sunday with
her father; Mr. and Mrs Arthur Beers
with George Mills.-Mrs Sarah Bryant is
with her daughter.-Mrs Mary Thomp-
son and daughter Nellie have returned to
Danbury.-Mrs Kate Barr was home,
Sunday.-Y. P. S. S. with Mrs George
Godfrey, Wednesday afternoon.-Mi
Maggie Ganang of Danbury has visited
Miss Aggie Rady.-Miss Sarah Miller
was home, Sunday.-Mr and Mrs Gilbert
have returned from Hartford.
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CHESTNUT HILL.

Mr. Candee is selling milk to Burton
Wade.-Mrs Houston Cochrane has visit
ed Mrs Myron Patchen.-A. Brakeman
from Stratford boards with Myron Patch
en.-Mrs Agur S. Beach has been quite
sick in Brooklyn with grip.
Miss Pauline Hall is with Mrs Charles
Sherwood in Bridgeport.-At the auction
on the Lorenzo Hall place, Elliott M /.
Beardsley bought nine cows at from So
to $1S.-Mr and Mrs George French,
who have been quite sick, are able to be
out once more.
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SPORT HILL.

Rev d. j. Ogden preached at Lees
chapel, Sunday morning, from MY
times are in Thy hands. The Indies of
Lees chapel have bought about so yards
of new carpet and are arranging the par
sonage for the new minister.-Mr and
Mrs Henry Beers spent Sunday it'll his
father Mrs B. I. Beers entertained Mrs
j. !. Foster and Miss Allie Foster lis
SEES Addie Godfrey and Edith Sherwood
have returned from Brook n.--Will Dis
brow has bought an addition to his milk
route. Young peoples prayer meeting.
Friday evening, led by Edgar Jennings.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10
MONROE.

Miss Gertrude Buckley of Westport,
who has been with Mrs Henrietta Burr,
lies very ill, unconscious and in a critical
state DR. Stevens attends. Her mother
and sister are ill.-Misses Della Curtiss
and Elma Stevens have gone to Hart
ford.-Mrs William Gilfillan of New Brit
ain spent last week with her sister, Mrs
A. w. Human in Elm street.
Fl. E. Hurd has painted his store.
The residence of Mrs Ida NJ. Hubbell is not
for sale, as reported, but the property oppo-
site, consisting of the house, store, barn and
three acres of land belonging to the estate of
the late Francis B. Hubbell. For informal
ton enquire OF Mrs Ida M. HubbeH.
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ASPETUCK.

Mrs Charles Wakeman has rented Mrs
D. O. Banks's place.-Jerome Abbott has
to following the sea.-George
Ferris has moved to the old Eli Sherwood
place.-Mrs Lester Fanton is sick.-Jere
miah Grammar, injured about the head,
is getting better; is boarding with w.
Sturges.-Eli Wakeman is having his
house and barn repaired Charles
Winton is sick.-Joseph Hill has returned
from Long Hill to his place.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10

stables of j. E. Allen, the Bassett house
livery. He is on salary, instead of a
partner.-Jo ohm Morrow has begun the
coalng season, with Harry Pixley as
G. E. Cassidy boards in
East eport.-Ernest Stowe has
moved into the Hubbell place.-Willie
Dikeman has been with Albert Stevens,
while Mrs Stevens visited her parents.
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commencing january Is CHUNG ApIll ~.
Standing of three not absent for day,
with their markings:
Studies Department Attendance
Peter Peterson 1872 1888 100
Geo. Peterson, 9l.5 1913 100
VIM. Jennings 92.9 S5.3 100
One hundred is the highest possible
marking in anything. Names on March
roll of honor:
Florence Wakeman, Ora Flint, Peter Peter
son, Willie Jennings, Louise Burr George
Peterson, Chrissie Wyrtzen, Annie Schwarz,
Mollie Mccartney, Lena Schwarz Carrie Flint,
Harry Flint, Josie Flint, George Wharton,
BERTHE Wright, Livingstone Morehouse, Eta
Seward, Mamie Price, Hattie Wright.
Judge w. B. Glover has been elected a
grand trustee of the O. Z. F.
George Bunnell of Orange has moved
into one of G. S. French's houses. He
has taken the contract to cart stone from
the Redfield quarry to the Congregation
al church at Fairfield. -George More
house is confined 30 his bed with heart
trouble.-Mrs Elihu Taylor of Easton
and sister have visited in town.-A $3.50
horse of j. Thorne, Black Rock, broke
away from its driver, jumped off 20
foot sea wall and was instantly killed.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10
HOYDEN,S Hill,

Mrs W.H.Lockwood rode out, Sunday,
the first time since her illness.-Mrs Ma
ry Richards has visited in Fairfield
Woods.-W. F. Jennings sold a fat cow
to Hezekiah Elwood, Jr.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10
FAIRFIELD WOODS.

George Jennings has left the employ
of Horace Smith and has moved to the
Nichols place.-Miss Oracle Platt OF
Bridgeport has been with her grand
mother George Jennings has bought a
horse of William Meeker.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10
SOUTHPORT.

Rev Barlow Burr preached acceptably
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10
EAST VILLAGE.

j.. w. Waterbury has charge Of the
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10
FAIRFIELD.

Middle district school, Winter term,
commencing January 5, ending April 10.
Standing of three not absent for day,
with their markings:
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
Celestial Advertising.

The heather Chinee sometimes ad-
vertises in a way as peculiar as every
thing else he does. Here is a transla-
ton OF q Chinese ink-maker's
BILL
sat the shop Tae-shing prosperous
in the extreme)-very good ink; fine!
fine! ancient shom great grandfather.
grandfather, fathe%, and self made
this ink; fine and hard, very hard;
picked with care, selected with at
tention. This ink is heavy, so is
gold. The eye of the dragon glitters
and dazels; SO does this ink. No one
make like it. Others who make ink
make it for the sake OF accommodating
base coin and cheat while | make it
only for the name. Plenty OF A
know my
ink-my family never cheated-they
have always borne q good name. 1
make my ink for the Son of Heaven
and all the m%andarins in the empire.
AS the roar OF the tiger extends to
every place, so does the fame Of the
dragons jewell"
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
An EntIcIne Cordial,

A New Yorker who came down from
Oswego to Syracuse recently was &C.
costed by a man on the train, who
said he had toothache, and asked if
the other had anything about him
which might act as Il remedy, writes
M. Quad in the New York World.
~ always carrya little cordial with
me forfear ofsudden sickness, replied
the New Yorker, as he produced a
flask.
The patient took q large swallow to
hold in his mouth and resumed his
seat, but in the course OF five minutes
he returned to say:
"The ache is purity ear gone, and I
think one more dose will finish It,"
He got another swallow and went
away and the second time he returned
he SAID:
"Just growls q leetle now, and if
you don't mind I'll make q complete
cure"
"Oh! certainly-take some more"
1t was about ten minutes this time
before the patient returned. He was
looking pretty chirp, but he put q
finger in his mouth and said:
"Jest gives a leetle jerk now and
then and if it wouldn't be askin' too
much Td-"
"Help yourself, sir; take right hold"
When he came back for the fourth
and last time he seemed to be top
heavy and had a very wise look on
his face.
"Well, how's the tooth?" asked the
New Yorker.
"Tlooth all right-all right sir, but
want to ask you a qushun,"
"Drive ahead"
"Would er same thing be good FIR
headache too?"
"But there is none left. You have
taken it ALL"
"Have |? All right! Then I don't
have er headache-not unless l can
find anozzer man wiz shame sort of
remedy"
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Grant as a Phrase Maker.

Through the verses of great poets
runs q familiar strain, through the
works ofgreatcomposer an oft repeat.
ed tune, and through the speeches of
great orators n recurring and charact-
eristic thought. These are the germs
which exhibit the moving forces OF
their minds. During the war, 81 pro-
pose to move Immediately upon your
works." unconditional surrender"
81 shall take no backward STEP" ~
propose to fight it out on this line if
it takes all summer are beacon lights
OF the plans and strategy of Grant
the soldier. At Appomattox, "the
warts over" "the rebels are our coun-
trymen again;" at the threshold of the
presidency, 'let us have peace;;" on his
bed OF agony and death at Mount
McGregor, when his power OF speech
was gone, writing to q Confederate
general by his bedside, "much as Isuf-
fer do it with pleasure, If by that
suffering can be accomplished the
union OF my country" are the induces
OF the labors, the aspirations and the
prayer OF Grant, the statesman and
the patriot.-Chauncey nj. Depew at
Galena;
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Joe Jefferson Finds a cyolops.

Joseph Jefferson, the actor, has
made an astonishing find ON the sum-
me place which he has purchased at
Buzzard's Bay, near that of ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland, says the New Bedford
Standard. In laying out the grounds
found the skeleton OF aman howmust
have been at least 6 feet 5 or 6 inches
in height. The skull vas like ordinary
skulls, only larger, except that it had,
so far as could be seen, no place where
the eyes had been. There was one
hole in the center OF the forehead that
might have once served for one eye.
This led Mr.. Jefferson to believe that
he had, perhaps, discovered the skele-
ton of a cyclops. All the scientific gen.
tleman in the neighborhood have been
unable to give an explanation OF the
aknll
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
A Family Shave.

A Maine family consists fisk broth
ers so exactly alike that no one but
their closest friends a tell which is
which. One day they happened to be
in a strange town and all wanted a
shave. One OF them went into q
barber shop, was shaved and paid
the customary 10 cents. Five
minutes later apparently the same
man came back into the shop, very
wrathy, his beard bristling with a
three days growth. He swore that he
had not been half shaved and de.
manded that the work be done over.
The astonished barber apologized
and complied, but judge Of his horror
when not ten minutes later his
customer came back madden than
ever, his beard still showing on his
face, and demanded another shave.
Again the barber, after some protest,
complied; but when his man returned
for the fourth time it was too much.
"See here!!" he cried, "if you're try
ing to sell me some patent hair-raiser
I'll take your whole stock, but if you
are an escaped museum freak, either
you've got to get out OF here or I'll
have to close this shop!"
The fifth and sixth brothers had to
say for their shaves.
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
LITTLE PLEASANTLY
INCIDENTS AND
HUMOROUS SAYINGS.
A Sharp Bargain--An EntlcIng Corr
dial--A Family Shave--He Asked
No More--l'm Crazy, Amt
You?"--Didn't Need
1t.
A Sharp Bargain.

A Sharp Bargain.
Ashrewd oldWindom county Yankee
vent into q grocery store at Norwich
and asked the price OF h%errings.
"Three cents a piece" answered the
grocer.
"Ah," said smarty, briskly, "Ill
take one!!" and the grocer rolled up
his herring. AS he took the parcel a
new thought struck him.
"Keep beer?" he shouted, explosive
ly.
eyes" said the grocer, assoon as he
recovered from the shock OF his Gus
toner's abruptness.
"How much a glass?"
"Three CENTS"
ooh, ah," said the customer,
thoughtfully, and then with great rap
idity; "well, won't take the herring
I'll take beer-there's the herring"
and he passed over the herring, drank
the beer, and started to go.
"See here" interrupted the grocer,
"you haven't paid for the beer"
"Paid for it, OF course ! haven't; l
gave you the herring for it; both the
same price you said"
"Y-e-s-I know" said the grocer,
who was getting confused, but you
didn't pay for the herring.
"Pay for it'll" Numbered Smarty; "of
course didn't, why should |? Ididn't
take it dld II"
And then the grocer said meekly:
ooh we'll, | presume it's all right-only
| don't-but OF course you're correct
only. II you'd just as leave, | wish
you'd trade somewhere else"
The customer retired, and t%hegrocer
fell into a brown study, from whichhe
at length emerged, with the remark,
"Well, that's a darned smart fellow,
anyhow"
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
TELL-TALE r
They Gave Away His Calling to His
Best Girl.

They Gave Away His Calling to His
I'll never saw such funny writing as
Georges is" said the beautiful young
girl as she held an envelope up for the
inspection OF a married friend.
ut is rather illesible," was the reply.
20, l don't mean that" was the
quick response. "He puts such funny
marks in it. You know he's ONLY
written me three or four letters since
we've been engaged because he's been
in the city all the time, but when he
does write one it looks so funny. It's
all filled with marks like this-%'-and
then he makes character 'ands' like
this-'&'-and puts q ring around
them. And at the end ofhis sentences
he puts a o like this-'x.' Then,
when he makes Il figure he puts a ring
around it and always draws two
lines under his signature. And some
times he draws a line down through
capital letters, and once he crossed a
word out and thendrewa ring around
it and marked it 'stet.' It's awfully
funny. can't make anything out Of
it."
"My DEAR" said the married woman,
as quickly as her excitement would
allow, "have you no susplcions?"
"Suspicions.!" exclaimed the beauti-
full yound girl in alarm. "No, no! OF
WHAT"
elias he confessed" persisted
the married woman, with Spartan
tirmness.
George confess!" cried the fair maid
EN-. Martha, you alarm me-. Are
they counterfeiter's marks?'
"Worse," was the solemn answer.
"Ethel, your husband will be out
nights. He will come home in all
hours. Most of his work will be done
undercover OF darkness. lie will miss
his dinner, and beconstantly changing
the hours. lie cannot he depended on
to be at home at any certain time or
to leave at any certain time. Ethel,
the man you are engaged to is u news
paper man."
"No, no; it cannot be-" cried the
dark-eyed beauty. 81 will not believe
it,"
Ethel" She was impressive. "Did
he ever draw u straight line through
all the pages of a letter."
eyes, and it was one OF the best he
ever wrote"
calais, Ethel, 1t is too true. He is a
newspaper man and he has absent
mindedly put in the marks for the
printer. Poor girl. Try as he might
he couldn't conceal his identity"
Then the young girl cried "Horri-
ble!" and burst into tears and refused
to be comforted.-Chicago Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
there was q man at a case setting

there was q man at q case setting
type, and he was a real handsome
young Teller, too" -.r
"Hello," I says.
"Hello," says he, and then I stood
and looked at him q while.
"Im a printer myself" 1 says, after
a little.
~ don't believe it," says he.
"Get down off that stool, and I'll
show YOU" | says, and l climbed up
and took a stick.
Pretty soon, he says, you're dead
right, and if l wasn'tcrazy Tdaskyou
out to have q drink"
care you crazy?" / says.
"Yes," says he; "ain't your"
And says "No," and walked on
Evening Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
"l'm Crazy, Amt Your"

~ mind" said the man with the
muddy Congress boots and the sea
bean on his watch chain, as he bit off
the end of a long, light-colored cigar,
II mind one time going through the
insane asylum out in my native State
OF South Dakota, and l was going
along a passageway when Icame to a
little kind OF u niche in the wall, and
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
THE ONLY ONE EVER PRINTED
Can You Find tn. word7

There Is as inch display advertisement,
In this paper, this week. which has no two
words ALIKE except n word. The same IL
non The d.. Harter Medicine Co. This
Aeuss Pieces . "Crsscsnt" on everything
Asy 1ake and publish. Look for T. send
(ho3 tAo OaAs Of the word and they will
SseaR1 pa eeeE, saAurlsuL LzanssAASEses
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
Didn't Need 1t.

Bobbie, to a young man who has
come to see his sister: "Did you
want the screwdriver Mr.. Binks?"
Mr.. Binks: "Screwdriver! What
ever should 1 want with that, Bob
bie?"
Bobbie: "Oh, l heard ma say yester-
day she thought you had a screw
loose somewhere.
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
NO China lnOurs.

In various dispatches that have
been sent from Shanghai to the Eu-
ropean press within thepast few weeks
it has been asserted that American
men-of-war would take part in the
joint naval demonstrations against
the Chinese port at the opening Of hos
t%ilities. We need not say that this
assertion is untrue or that the Secre-
tary OF the Navy has instructed the
commander of our Artistic squadron
to r%efrainfrom even the slightest show
of interference in the event of an out
break of hostilities. The policy of our
government in this case is strict neu-
trality. We do not propose that the
United States shall be brought into
trouble with China or involved in any
foreign complication. New York
Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1891-09-26
A Good Answer.

Teacher-"You may answer, Tom
my Jones. Why do birds fy?" Tom
my Jones-"Cause they amt such
fools as ter walk when they don't hev
.ter."-Judge.