for hours without stirring. The Commission 
~ 1 1 ‘ ere have so far sho wn a great capacity for 
Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, is a hard work and do nof ' over details. 
total abstainer from intoxicating drinks and 
also from tobacco. 
Prof. C. V. Riley, of Washington, is on 
the Pacific Coast investigatiug some insect 
pests of orange trees. 
Senator Don Cameron is said to be mak¬ 
ing *100,000 a year by bis operations in Wash¬ 
ington City real estate. 
The Logan Memorial Fund, for the benefit 
of Mrs. Logan, has closed after reaching $62,- 
984. Tt was proposed to raise *100,IKK). 
The Beecher family are preparing to leave 
the house in Hicks and Clark Streets, Brook¬ 
lyn, where Mr. Beecher died. Col. Beecher 
has rented a house in Tarrytown. 
The Emperor of Germany has had his for¬ 
tune told twice, the first time by a gypsy, the 
second by a woman reputed skillful in palmis¬ 
try. Both times it was announced that he 
would live 90 years. 
The President and Mrs. Cleveland still 
spend much time at Oak View, the President's 
country house. Mr. Cleveland drives to the 
White House, every morning, returning for 
diuner. 
Among the Pope’s Easter gifts was an egg 
carved from a blockof the finest ivory, lined 
with quilted satin, and inclosing a ruby and 
several diamonds. The gems were worth 
$10,000. 
Mr. Blaine, who has returned East, looked 
pale and tired as he took lunch at the Albany 
Depot Restaurant Wednesday. The traces of 
his recent illness were plainly discernible in 
his face. 
The President has appointed Edward F. 
Bingham, of Ohio, to be Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, 
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 
Chief Justice Cartter. 
President Hyde, of Dartmouth College, 
believes in base-ball. He thinks that if in 
that game the students work off some of then- 
superfluous activity they will be less inclined 
to mischief. The president is a base-ball ex¬ 
pert himself. 
Kansas City is having an enormous 
“boom.” Mr. Jay Gould, when there last 
week, went into a bookstore to get a map of 
the place. The proprietor had only one, and 
it, he deprocatingly admitted, was eight days 
old, aud, therefore ..quite obsolete. 
Col. Winchester, of West Virginia, has 
given au additional 40,000 acres for hunting 
purposes to the Cheat Mountain Sportsmen’s 
Association. The entire preserve now includes 
95,000 acres, and is the finest and most exten¬ 
sive huntiug park east of tho Rockies. * 
Citizen George Francis Train says that 
when ho stopped eatiug meat, 13 years ago, 
and began living on fruit and graiu, he 
weighed 210 pounds. He now weighs 180, aud 
as he is six feet in bight, he thinks he lias the 
correct proportion, nc has not been ill an 
hour since he began fastiug. 
Col. Wesley Merritt, conunaudant at 
West Point, who bus been appointed Briga¬ 
dier-General to succeed General Wilcox, re¬ 
tired on reaching 04 years of age, is to remain 
in charge of the West Point military acade¬ 
my until after the June examinations. Will 
probably be succeeded by Gen. J. G. Parke, 
of the engineer corps. 
A Washington correspondent delicately 
says: “There is a suspicious air about the 
White House lately, which some people main¬ 
tain grows out of the fact that Mrs. Cleveland 
is not much given to" social matters just uow. 
Tho President wears a perpetual smile ou his 
face and occasionally whistles softly to him¬ 
self as he looks out over the broad Potomac. 
The knowing ones are certain that 1887 will 
be the proudest ouo of Grover Cleveland’s 
life.” 
Two of the guests at Mr. Andrew Carne¬ 
gie’s weddiug, last Friday night, were tele¬ 
graph boys in Pittsburgh with him 40 years 
ago. They were Robert Pitcairn, the super¬ 
intendent of the Pennsylvania’s western divi¬ 
sion, aud a man of wealth, aud David 
McCargo, who is now tho general manager of 
the Allegheny Valley Railroad. All three 
served in tho old Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph 
office lu Pittsburgh—the flret over established 
there—and did the entire messenger work of 
the place. 
The Inter-State Commerce Commission is 
an interesting body. Little Judge Cooley sits 
at tho hood of th#table and presides with 
calm dignity. He is a small man physically, 
with gray hair and beard, und wears gold- 
rimmed spectacles. Morrison and Walker 
cannot sit still for any great length of time. 
They are the humorists of tho body. They 
have struck up a great friendship. Bragg 
aud Schoon maker are solenm aud stately and 
ejvnuin quietly seated opposite J udge Cooley 
LITERARY NOTES. 
Julia Ward Howe, iu the Forum, writes 
of “Dress aud Undress.” She calls the dresses 
worn by the fashionable women, immodest, 
uuhealthful, and uncomfortable. It is a bet¬ 
ter discussion of the subject than we are usu¬ 
ally treated to. Too many people attempt to 
talk about the proper clothes for women with¬ 
out knowing what they are talking about. If 
one-half of what these critics have told us 
were true, very few women would be alive 
to-day. 
The story of the deaf mute, in Harper’s, is 
one of the best of the recent short stories. 
The letters which passed between the mute 
lovers are curious enough. It appears that 
one must bear a language in order to write 
it correctly. These deaf mutes were taught 
hy careful teachers arid carefully practiced 
upon the rules of grammar, aud yet they made 
absurd mistakes in writing. Few people un¬ 
derstand what the world must seem to a deaf 
mute or to one who is simply deaf. Some one 
has said that the only way to fill the world with 
true charity would be to make every person 
go through certaiu portions of life, lame, 
blind, deaf and bitterly poor. It would be 
rough treatment, but the world would be bet¬ 
ter for it. 
We are permitted to look upou the faces of 
some well known Southern authors in the May 
Harper's. The/aces are mostly disappointing. 
Those who have read the sayings of "Uncle 
Remus” will hardly find their ideal in the face 
of Joel Chandler Harris. “Charles Egbert 
Craddock” aud Miss McClellan are the least 
disappointing. The short stories of the for¬ 
mer are strong and effective. It is hard to 
realize iu reading them for the first time that 
the author is a woman. Miss McClellan’s 
story. “Oblivion,” has been compared with 
“Called Back.” 
“Asbeautiful Kitty oue movuing was trip¬ 
ping." Every old reading book contains this 
old poem. Who has not not read it? Who 
will not read it again as it is printed iu Har¬ 
per’s. It is all “pictured out,” as the school 
boys say. Nobody can blame the milk-maids 
for breaking their pitchers after seeing what 
befell the original pitcher-breaker. 
Who have read Walt Whitman’s poetry? 
There is much poetry but very little rhyme 
iu “Leaves of Grass.” A poet could become 
famous by writing out Whitman's thoughts 
and dressing them up in rhyme. There is but 
one poem iu the book that makes any preten¬ 
tions to rhyme, aud that is ouo of the finest 
bits of poetry iu the English Lauguage it 
was inspired by the death of President Lin¬ 
coln. _ 
In tbe|Popular Science Monthly,W.C.Gouin- 
lock shows that baldness is largely due to the 
kind of hat that is worn Any hat that con¬ 
stricts the blood vessels that nourish the hair- 
bulbs will injure the hail - . The common high 
hat aud hard felt hat have ruined many a good 
growth of hair anti left many a head bald and 
shining. We have Ioug believed that this is 
true. There is no excuse for the modern stiff 
hat. If its use is eoutiuued we shall be a hair¬ 
less race. 
Natural Law in the Business World, 
by Henry Wood (Lee & Shepard, Boston), is 
the best book on the labor question that we 
have received. It is evidently the plain com- 
mon-seuse statement of a practical man. It 
will correct much of the windy eloquence con¬ 
tained in “Progress and Poverty.” Many 
workingmen are inclined to accept the theo¬ 
ries of Henry George without examining the 
other side. Reading such a book as this would 
cause them to know more aud say leas. The 
following passage is a fair sample of the argu¬ 
ments used. Good common sense it is too: 
“The young American wage-worker who 
puts forth hts best efforts ami who practices 
economy, or the limiting of bis expenses to 
less than his income, has as good grouud 
for expecting to become a capitalist as has 
the gardener to expect a crop from good seed 
deposited in a rich and fertile soil. It is no 
less t rue that be who does as little as will pos¬ 
sibly keen him in his position.und who has lit 
tie regard for the interests of his employer, 
has the elements iu him that make It almost 
certain that he will always be a member of 
tho dependent class.” 
There is a very pretty question brought out 
in the last chapters of Seth's Brother’s Wife iu 
Scribner’s. How honest should an editor be? 
The ideal editor exposes all frauds, admits uo 
dubious advertising, pays no compliments, 
uuless deserved, cares not a cent for popular¬ 
ity or profit, strikes at all wrong, exposes his 
brother or sister as quickly as he would an 
enemy, etc., etc. This appears to be Seth’s 
idea of an editor’s duty. He does not seem to 
know who is to pay tho editor for such service. 
Certain it is that the public do not seem in¬ 
clined to do so. Albert’s opinion is that the 
lawyer who will be absolutely honest, the doc¬ 
tor who will always tell the truth, and the 
editor who does not appreciate the gold of 
silence, will starve to death and be branded by 
the public as fools. 
2U*I GBsiiate. 
PtereUanfottjg tiding. 
If you intend to buy a 
hay car (of which we make 
three (3) styles) a grappling 
Fork or a Sulky Plow. 
Send for prices, etc., to 
Fowler & Farrington, 
Taugiinnnock Palls, N. Y 
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which a hay knife Is used. Seud for circular. 
at, or for any other work for 
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Makes the most Butter, Raiees all the Cream 
without ice. We furnish Churns. Butter 
Workers, and all kind, of Dairy and 
Creamery CooiIm. First arris* a ( whole 
sale. Agents warned Send for circulars. 
. WM. E. LINCOLN CO., 
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Quantity IVfREASED. Qnality IMPROVER. 
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Capital Paid-up. #1.000,000 
Debentures secured by first mortgages ou improved 
real estate held by the Mercantile Trust Co., New York. 
Call at oltlcc or write for particulars. 
ROLAND R. CONKLIN. 
Equitable Building, New York City. 
FOR SALE.— Established FLORIST Business, 
paying from the start. In a Orst-chGs business town. 
Greenhouses new, heated hy hot writer; corner lot 
■.k'Xliirj feet: city water; electric light; telephone: two 
railroads: population 13,000, and an.OOO more iu a radius 
of iu miles doing their trading here. Business can be 
rapidly increased. No greenhouse within 25 miles, 
owner lias a large vvhoh sale business which requires 
his whole Lime. Only those meaning business, ad¬ 
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STOCK FARM FOR SALE. 
The Best Stock Range on the Georgia Coast. Good 
Gunning, Fishing, and unlimited supply of Oysters. 
Ezra Coe icare of Graham & Hubbell). Savannah. Ga 
Struggle against barrenness and poor soil In New 
England, 
W H JS 1ST 
IN FERTILE MINNESOTA, 
The richest and best farm In that State may be had 
$35 000 
All in one piece. 
Good house cost $3,800. 
Splendid barn cost $1,000. 
Finest timber; 160 acres worth 
$100 an acre. 
Clear and beautiful Lake. 
School house close handy. 
760 ACRES 
2}i MILES FROM DEPOT. 
FINE ROADS. 
WELL IMPROVED. 
NO WASTE. 
ALL READY TO SEED. 
15 HORSES. FARM IMPLEMENTS. 
35 CATTLE. IN PERFECT ORDER. 
Paid last year above expenses 
S4.T50. 
To lovers of hunting this location Is 
PAR4DISE. 
For full particulars apply to 
A. H. HORNSBY-, Real Estate Broker 
ST. PAUL, MINN. 
Also for particulars as to St. Paul. 
Jarvis-Conklin 
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Capital Paid-up... SI,OOO.OOO 
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Improved farms In KANSAS and MISSOURI. 
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Equitable Building. New York. 
Messrs Morgan & Brenuan, Providence, R.I.,or 
J ohn M. Shrlgley, 111 Walnut St., PhUa., Pa. 
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