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SThcr(Bntmt Democrat published every thursday Beaton, Hi. a. GOULD. TtEBorsnBamci: In Advance, $1.50 -JOB PRINTING of all eaoriptioas fanttabed to seder, anil guaranteed to (tot? satisfactory as L. G.

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iadithUThsnd oBeroient society no-ices toTtd free. Any adJitiona to obituary notices will be cbargiMvVa cent per Unai )' avors mint De name-i id aa eany as ineeasy morning to inurlnsTtim the seme week. hmhiiiikx i oa iijisu Sluijsew BWMW BANKING. FIRST UATIOrJAL Odd Fellows'. Casli Capital, do a general BtnkiDjf baihiess, is til ell, exchange, and make collections, home or JOSEPH A.

Du SANC Cashier. BANK OF EATON, its varied forms, receive deposits, boy and foreign, en reasonable ehsrgps. C. BROOKE, President. JEWELRY.

C. 6U SCIILENKER, s- DEALER GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES (KEY AND STEM Gold Chains, Gold Rings, Neck Chains and Charms Jewelry in all Styles; SILVER AND PLATED TABLEWARE, fOHEBETQUALITYi Table and Pocket Cutlery, jhli Gold, Silver and Steel Spectacles, JV And every other Article generally kept in a First-class-Jewelry Store. Goods Warranted and Sold at Bottom Prices- si i I KEEP 'A LAEGE STOCK OF FINE COLD WATCHES AND CHAINS; I will sell lower than ever offered before. Come and examine Ciooda and Trjces before purchasing elsewhere. Repairing Done Promptly, and Warranted to Give Satisfaction.

Commercial Block, Eaton, Ohio. Eaton. Jan. 30, 1879-1 -A- EDGAR HUBBARD, i Real Eststte, Loan and "Insurance Agent; jato OlllO, EEPEESESTS 1 Niagara Fire Insurance Company, or Xew York, Capital, $1,509,000 SchHMi Coiunierrial I'ire Iusarancc Cumpany, of Glasgow, Scotland, Cap ti, 6,250,000 People's fire Innranre Com pan), of Newark, New Jersey, Capital, 500,000 Phenix Mutual Fire lusui auco Company, of Cincinnati, Assets, 300,000 4es ia abOTd Cnapanles lv as lliosi o' mnj drat-clan Compinlei. Lone, honorably sod, iwedtly adjuvtei, aud all paj 1 ituiiig, wh-iUier Are euauea or oou Agent alio lor Union Central Lire Insurance of Cincinnati, Ohio, Capital $1,400,000, which Company mlkei laans oa arm prope if to pjROtu insuring with OFFICE, AT.

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BY ALFRED B. STREET. Long bad the barn, with dosky yawn, ita broad and rafted lof i displayed Which strewed like spots npon a fawn, Snowed frecfcUng specks of light and shade. Through knot-hotra, chinks, and clef ti made way Eye eta and streaka like tangled straws; Bare, on a wasp's nest knobbed in city, There, on a spider's bouw of gauze. One broad ray through the window shot, (, Mottled with siotes and richly toned; Dashing upon one.

dusty spot, Where the fierce, yellow hornet droned. Two diamond dots a rat's keen eyes, .1 Shone ia the shadow of a nook; And like a bell the btux of lies i. Game luillng as a murmuring But now witbont a rumbling rolll Up jolts a haycart from the craft, -t And soon from off the tawny knoll, ti Loads on bent pitchforks reach the Old Dobbin streaming o'er with hatr, Picks the loose hay, while nods his mk'e, 7 In little dotes, abd-with stare stamp, tbe pert eolt guards the gate. The red farm gate, with reaching swing, And sleek Tom purring on the post; Opening the lane where hoof and wing Make up the farmyard's liring host. In sweeps the hay, th haymow fill, The naycart lessens, muscles ply On till tbe sunshine scarcely drills Bays through the window's blinded eye.

And now the wasp's white knob la hid, The bo -net seeks in rain ita chink. And where the knot-holes showered amid The loft, rich rain, not eyen a blink. In the gray tangle strays the rat For mangled birds the scythe destroyed; And twilight wakes the bead-down bat That through the knot-hole skims the totS. A breathing silence, Rare the eourd Of insects trickling through the hay, i Swept up within the tawny mound And searching far the Tanished day, Its winter wealth the full mow yields Bel'iw to doling plow-worn gray RM Crumple finds the summer fields Kenewed in wreaths of juicy hay. And when spring comm.

dry seeda wlU tell Abore within the yawning lolt Whire the plump baTmow's downy swell Beared its full wealth and bosom soft. KcxYort Commercial Adnrtiitr. The Scissors Grinder. ''Is- he so handsome said Eleanor May, incredulously. "The handsomest man you ever saw in youriife!" cried Olive Batterly.

Sbe was sitting on the back door step, shelling peas, with a great cinnamon rose-bush showering its pink petals down on her brown braids of hair, and her hazel eyes sparkling beneath their long lashes, while Maude, the beauty of the family, lemed of the window, her pretty tresses screwed up in crimping papers, and a gingham wrapper buttoned -carelessly at the throat, with no ornamental accessories in tbe way of collars, frills, or ribbon bows: for Maude had been to a party thn night before, and bad slept late, scolded her raslber because the coffee was cold, and absolutely declined any interference with the household affairs that nomine. "Exacbly like a corsair!" said MAude, suppressing a yawn. "Tall, and dart, W'tu such a great diamond on his little finger, and eyes like sherry wine. And he was so surprised to think that I recognized him. through his disguiee!" costume did he assume?" asied Eleanor May, who.

not having received an invitation to the fancy-dress ball7 at Pipintrton's, was naturally on the subject. "A said Maude. "With black velvet cap, you know, and ncarlet sash, and a cutlass. And he declared he would disguise himself so completely the next time that I couldn't possibly identify him, and we wagered a box of kid gloves on the "I suppose he means at Lizzie Hooker's birthday party said Olive. Of course said Maude.

I wish I could go!" said Olive work ing diligently away at the peas, that dropped like emerald rain into the shining tin pan. '1 Well, you can repled Maude, shortly. "Mamma says she cannot afford two fancy dresses, and I'm the les, I know," said Olive And Mr. Medlicote danced 6nly once with you last night," added Maude, un able to repress her exultation, aud.be waltzed with me three times, beside the German!" Little Olive, looting shyly up at her sister, secretly wished Providence ha 1 seen nt to make her also a beauty. "I suppose," said Miss May, curio Jsly, "that he is very rich?" Uti, very nodded Maude.

And Olive's thoughts jumped at once to the idea of how beautiful her sister would look in the regulation orange blossoms asd white tulle. I wonder if I ever shall be married pondered Olive, shelling paas faster than ever. Who's that coming around the corner of' the bouse? cried Maude, with ome asperity. Une of those everlasting peddlers attain? Oh, it's only a scissors- grinder." And very lortunate, too, said Mrs. Satterly, a pale, over-worked little woman, with light hair and faded com plexion for my shears are so bad I can't cut with 'em.

there's the embroidery scissors, and the pair that belongs to the Blending basket, and" "How much do you ask a pair?" demanded "Maude, sailing out upon the garden path, with her pretty feet thrust into slipshod slippers, soiled wrapper torn down one side, and hfir hair yet in the tonne, tan eled curls, which had hune like coiled gold down her back the night before. The man swart-browed, stooping lor igner si ni wneel upon tbe grass, low, with, a smile which disclosed teeth, tilt'ttuiiijg" whitely through his thick, bushy held up six fingers, in pantomimic gesture. That's too ranch," said Maude. He can't understand von," said 1 fiteanor, laugning. Miss Satterly shook her head, stamped the little untidy foot, held up six pairs of sciswrs in various stages of dilapidation, and displayed a silver quarter of a dollar.

The 8cissor8-grindersmiled again, made an obeisance nearly to the ground, and assented to the bargain with numerous nods ana signs. Isn't he tunny?" said Eleanor. "Horrid velveteHa-coa ted fellow!" said Maude. To think that he belongs to the same humanity with my divine Algernon!" "He looks tired and thirsty," said gentle-hearted Olive. "I've a great mind to offer him a cool drink." You'll do no such th ing," said Maude, imperiously.

"I'll have no sister of mine running to wait on scissors-grinders! Mamma, is that chocolate ready yet?" repeated tr Mrs. Satterly, with a conscience-stricken air, I declare, Maude, I forgot all about it. But I'll run directly and set it boiling." Maude Satterly crimsoned to the very temples. Forgot!" repeated she. "You're always forgetting 1 1 1 never saw any one like you' in my life! No; I won have it now.

you can't prepare my chocolate when I want it, you shan't prepare it at all. I should think jyou1 might have thought of it. Olive." "I am very sofry, Maude," began Olive, apologetically; "for all that, I think you' ought not to speak so crossly to tj Hold your tongue said. Maude stamping her foot again. -Do you suppose I'm going to be tutored, by youf I shall speak as I please, and so I give you fair warning! Deaf me, how.

that scissors-grinder's buzzing makes my head ache!" Atad she swept into the house like a fair fury. i When Olive came 'in, a few minutes afterward, with- the six pairs of scissors all sharpened and burnished np to a scientific state of brilliancy, her sister was lying on the sofa' with her face turned toward the and heVtyes resolutely closed. Oh, dear me 1" thought Oliye, Tm afraid she's in for one of her regular sulking fits, that last twenty-four hours at a time." And she took advantage of circumstances to pour out a goblet of ice-water, and offered- it surreptitiously to the swarthy Italian, when she carried out the silver quarter that he had so hardly earned. He bowed low, once more after the oriental fashion, drank it eagerly, and astonished Olive very much by raising her hand to hie lips, as he uttered the words, "Buon giomo, signorina!" and departed. I suppose it's his foreign way," said Olive turning very rosy.

It' lucky for you that Maude didn't see him," laughed Eleanor May. "Oh, Eleanor, don't tell her!" said Olive, blushing deeper than ever. Of course I shan't," said "Well, what luck demanded Guy Mariner, aa he sat smoking at his window that evening, and hailed with acclamation the approach of Algernon Medlicote. "I've won my wager?" "No!" i But, by the shades of Mohammed, I have!" assented Medlicote, sitting down where the cool breeze of twilight could fan his bow. How did you manage "I disguised myself as scissors-grinder, and put the family shears in perfect order." Did they suspect the young ladies I mean." Not in the least." And how does the Fair One with the Golden Locks appear in the seclusion of her own home?" Medlicote made a slight grimace.

"Like a slovenly virago," said he. Had it been anything else than the testimony of my own eyes, I couldn't have believed it. But Olive little brown-eyed Olive she is a jewel of the rarest water." So you have transferred your allegiance from one sister to the other!" laughed Bnt isn't it rather hard for the divine Maude to lose both her wacer and her lover at the same It's a rosebud mouth," said Medlicote, gravely shaking his head; the sharp words spoiled its perfect Cupid's bow; the hair was, like spun gold, but crimping papers axe not becoming to the female face. And- upon the whole, Mariner, I think I have reason to be grateful forever and ever to the scissors grinding fraternity And beautiful Maude satterly could hot understand why it was that Algernon Medlicote' proposed to little brown-skinned Olive instead of her. Everybody thought he was devoted to me," said she, 1 Perhaps he changed his mind," said Eleanor.

Of course Mr. Medlicote confessed the episode of the scissors grinding to his blushing and happy little wife after their marriage well-regulatedhusbands ne.ver do keep anything from their wives but Maude never suspected. For what says the old adage Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wiie." A Blazing Meteor. Correspondence St. Paul Doubtless you have read telegraphic accounts of a meteor that passed over North-western Iowa last Saturday afternoon.

Many of our citizens saw the fiery ball in its aerial flight and plainly heard the explosion, the noise resembling the sound of a cannon far in the distance. To-night's mail from Estherville, Iowa, (thirty-two miles distant from this place,) brings news of the meteor having struck terra firma at a point three miles north of Estherville, and about four miles from the Minnesota line. It descended about three p. and was witnessed by hundreds of astonished citizens. Its first appearanee was that of a ball of fire about tbe size of a water- pail, passing at a fearful rate of speed, and leaving a loner trail of black smoke.

The citizens assembled at once at the place where the meteor fell, and disoov eredahole in the ground a blue clay sou fourteen feet across, while Uie dirt has been scattered in all directions for twenty rods around. A corps of shovelers was at once organized, and the meteor discovered fifteen feet below the surface of the ground. It was about the size of a bushel basket, and weighed five hundred and thirty pounds. A half-Dound specimen of the heavenly visitor is in the possession of the Sentinel of this place. It is a metallic substance, and ia invulnerable to the strongest acids.

It is a queer specimen, and is heavier than iron, or any other metal. Auditor Whitcomb got a small piece as a keepsake, which presents all the appearance of melted metal. A ring was beaten out of a small detached particle. It is reported that the parties having it in possession have refused an offer of 200 for it. How Washington Looked.

Count Axel de Fersen, aide-de-camp to Rochambeau, in a letter written to his father, in Sweden, dated Newport, Oo tober; 1780, now first published in the Magazine of American History, writes I was about fifteen days ago at Hart ford. I had time to see General Wash ington this man illustrious, if not unique, in our century. His handsome and majestic, while at the same time mild; and open 'countenance, perfectly reflects his moral qualities. He looks tbe hero; he is very cold; Bpeaks little, but is courteousand A shade of sadness overshadows his countenance, which is not unbecoming, and gives him an interesting air." There is an old proverb which runs. Tell everybody your business, and the devil will do it for vou." A Cold Reception.

John Brinkley is an old skinflint merchant in a village not far from the city. He had a clerk whom he persuaded to sleep in the store at night, thus saving the expend of hiring a Watchman. Now, Dave Osborne, the clerk, was very fond of cards, was in the habit, of indulging in a four-hand game of euchre, inviting three of lib friends to come to the store for that purpose and stay until it was closed. They often played until midnight: One night one of them was detected in cheating; he was charged with it and denied it. Then ensned a fierce quarrel, and the fellow was uncer emoniously put out and told that his company, in the future was to.

be dispensed with. The cheat turned informer, and Dave was severely reprimanded, and commanded to discontinue the vicious practice on pain of being discharged. Dave promised to but dM not mean to keep his promise. He selected a man i- nlace off the in former, arid marxtged to have his games in 'spite of the old merchant. They piayea as quietly as though they were all mutes.

i Now. to make sure that his clerk obeyed his commands, the boss crept up to the store one cold night, after ten o'clock, and lightly rapped at the back door. The boys were in the midst of the game, nut Uave winked and motioned them to be quiet He waited awhile; there came another rap louder than the first r- "Who's there asked he. with a well-feigned yawn. "Let us in, Dave," said a disguised voice, which the clerk at once recbg- nizea as tnat oi nis employer.

What do you want to get in fort" demanded he, sleepily. want a social game of cards. Na. i.v it virtuously indignant tone, "don't you know that Brinkley has forbidden it? The old fellow chuckled approvingly and remained silent awhile, then he spoke in his natural voioe: Dave, I'm Mr. Brinkley, so just let me in I want, my umbrella, it is rain- iug.

t- Your voice sounds a little like his voice, but you can't come in on that so be off." But the old fellow insisted, and Dave went up stairs- with a bucket of water, opened tne winonw and doused it over his head, drenching him completely. The next morning, with a perfectly sober face, he informed his enmlover how a fellow came and coaxed him to let him in. But I told him what your orders were," added he; then he tried to make me believe It was you, Mr. Brindley you yourself, sir. But I think I drowned that notion out of him, for I emptied a bucket of water on him and went to bed again." The old man tried to laugh at the joke, but it gave him a chill, so he smiled approvingly, and said Dave was a faithful fellow.

He went no more on an investigating tour. Disappearance of Indiana Forests. Cincinnati During the oast thirtv vears the for ests of Northern countries have been rapidly disappearing. They were settled late, but by an active, progressive people who have not been content to till a few acres, i-arly and late in summer and winter the ring of the ax has been heard in the woods, and every year the increasing yield ot wheat and corn has proclaimed the disappearance of primitive forests." As a natural consequence, we must expect surprising and frequent changes. Dr.

Bushnell, in a sermon on the power of an endless life, says that not all the winds, and storms, and earth, lakes, and seas, and seasons of the world nave done so much to revolutionize the earth as man has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it." And to this may be copied the statement of George P. Marsh, that the felling of the woods has been attended with momentous con sequences to the drainage of the soil, to tae jexternal configuration of its surface, and probably, also to local climate; and the importance of human life as a transforming power is, nerhaps, more clearly demonstrable in the influence man has thus ex erted upon superficial geography than in any other result of his material ef fort When the forest is gone the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mold is evaporated, and returns only in deludes of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mold has been converted. It appears that the overflow of river banks was much less frequent and de structive than at the present day, or at least that rivers rose and fell less suddenly before man had removed the natural checks to the too rapid drainage of the basin in which their originate. We have now felled forest enough, in many districts tar too much. Science and the Eye.

Andrews, a Philadelphia merchant, lost the sight of his eye twenty years ago, and physioians told him that therewas no cure. The useless member gave him no trouble until 1877, but thereafter it was occasionally so painful that he writhed on the floor until the attack was over. Many of the best oculists made careful examinations and were unable to ascertain the nature of the disease. Lately he put himself into tbe hands of a Philadelphia physician, of whoe investigation he says: "He blistered me around the eye' to draw out the inflammation, and at last he said 'I know what it is not it is not inflammation, and that is one point He drew out a diseased tooth and cut out a piece of the jaw bone and did some probing; finally he said: 'It does not come from a tooth nerve, and that is another point He dosed me with quinine until he was satisfied and then he said: 'It Is not miasma, and that is another point Last Thursday he put me into a darkened room, and, throwing an indescribably bright light into my eye, looked into my eye" for two mortal hours. At last he exclaimed I have the secret' Looking in through the pupil of the eye he could see a living or embryo tape worm." This was the first case of the kind in America, and was exhibited to most of the physicians Philadelphia.

An operation with knife removed the creature. "Sek the moon," said a lady to her nephew, a bright little boy of 5, as they sat looking out the window the other day. "The moon!" said the little man. "You can't see the moon in the daytime." "Yes, you can," continued his aunt "there it is over the trees." The little fellow had to admit that he saw it but added, Tain't lighted, anyway." Boston Transcript PERSONAL TOPICS. Kit Cabsou, eon of the'famons scout, and a very witty and intelligent person, it is reported, is making temperance speeches.

Garibaldi who was dying in A red shirt to slow music a few weeks has decided to remain permanently in Bomet Baltimore Gazette. AlfeedTes kybon'b brother Charles. recently died in England. Poor fellow! He would never have been heard of if it hadn't been for Alfred I -f I Senator Matt. Carpenteb, of.

Wis consin, fortyfive years ago, was a bojf doing chores for his board in 'the house of Governor Dillingham, of Vermont 1 Thb grave of Gen. Walker, the fili buster, ia on the beach at Truxillo, where he was shot" Visitors, says th New Orleans Picayune; leave' a "suck in the sand near his grave as a mark of re- -l, I Mas. Sab ah J. Hale wrote Marv had a Little Lamb" for the amusement of her children, and when she found it was to survive all her more ambitious efforts, and was to constitute her sole title to enduring fame, she was very much disgusted. One of the West End tailors was de ploring with a friend the depression of trade, uepend upon it, he said, "when eminent "bankers in Lombard- street come to me to have their trowsers reseated, there must be something very wrong with the money Truth.

i As regularly as new moons come. Northern papers state regularly that Paul Morphy. is reported insane. Mr. Morphy is a quiet little gentleman, en-.

gaged in minding his own business, which fact ib perhaps sufficient reason for meddling correspondents to call hun crazy. -a. U. Picayune. i Oh I this wicked, wicked world The other day we lifted a couple of Bridge-, porters into fame by noting the fact that they went to Stepney and caught sixteen fine, trout Now we learn that they met a Monroe man on the stream and bought all but two of the lot Are our dolls stuffed with sawdust Bridgeport Standard.

Da. BnssBLL, who, at the opening of the war of the this country as correspondent of the London Txmex, and is popularly known here as Bull Bun Russell." is to be knighted and to receive a valuable appointment This has been effected through the influence of the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sutherland, who are attached friends of Dr. Kussell. A showman in New England idver-tisea his evening performances by es caping from tbe village jail every afternoon. He permits a committee to tie him firmly with ropes, handcuff him, and lock him in a cell, only stipulating that the lock shall be within his Teach.

Usually he emerges in ten minutes, but sometimes is at work an hour, and once was unable to get out at alt President HayeS received a very remarkable card from a caller at the White House the other day. It ran thus: Bev. James Patterson, from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Bussia, European and Asiatic Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Arabia, Egypt, Persia India, Cashmere, Burmab, China, Japan, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and Canada." 1 1 The ice mountain below the American fall at -Niagara has been' lessened but little by the hot weather, and still looms up some seventy feet in the air-It is yet quite an effort to climb to the summit, and a few weeks ago too foolhardy young ladies, fearing to trust their shoes on the ice, deliberately took off their shoes and stockings and scaled the mountain in their bare feet TruthUUer. Many anecdotes are told of the eccentric Prindle whose advent in Dan-bury we recently recorded. One time he got into a neighbor's pantry ad helped himself freely to what, he believed were some new kind of cookies, but which proved to be yeast-cakeevof a very successful variety at that He heaved and foamed to such a degree that for some time his native village thought it was a seaside town.

ifantmry JSewt. The death is announced by the foreign mails, of Mr. Robert Thompson Craw-shay, of Cyfarthfa Castle, the Iron King Of Wales," in his sixty-third year. When the last great strike occurred among bis men he argued the matter with them and showed them that unless they met him with a reduction of wages he would be unable to conduct business save at a loss. They refused to make any concessions, and he closed his works and never reopened them.

In an outof-the-way town in New Hampshire lives an eccentric old farmer named Greeley an own cousin of the lamented Horace, by the way who found his cellar stairs hard to climb on account of the height of the steps. After careful consideration, he hit upon the device of nailing a piece of two inch plank on each, in order, as he said, to "bring 'em nearer together," and contended that he noticed a leetle tetch of improvement" Botton Advertiter. Irish is a young lady only twenty years old, who has been employed as Assistant Librarian in the Department of tha Interior, and has been doing the foreign correspondence in that department She knows German, Spanish and Italian, and is credited with uncommon tact and discretion in conducting the correspondence. When her father now Chief of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving was connected with a legation abroad, Miss Irish, then a child, was much petted by Auerbach, the novelist, and, since she has grown up, she has made a translation of one of his novels, which leased him bo greatly that he wished er to translate all his later works. Juvenile Sport.

of a We hear of a novel scrape which occurred recently-in Nemaha county. Some boys who attend one of the district schools organized a mock court and tried two of their schoolmates for horse stealing. The court found the prisoners guilty, and they were sentenced to be hung. It would be supposed that here the play ended, and, in fact, it did, for the two boys were actually swung up. Outside parties, interfering, rescued the boys just in time to save their lives.

The parents of the injured youths were naturally very indignant, and procured the arrest of the offenders. They were tried On charge of assault and battery, and heavy fines were assessed. Lawrence (Kansas) Journal. The net profits divided by the eight partners in Bass Ca's brewery, at Burton-on-Trent, England, last year, amounted to $2,100,000. The Price of Corn.

The from the Burlington Hawk-Eye, conveys a sound moral in a merry way, and after being laughed at may well be soberly pondered by; farmers and others who are- slow to see that the laws of trade "work both 1 t'1 i "No," tha honest farmer remarked, in tones of the deepest dejection, "the big crops don't do us a bit of good. What's the use Corifonly 30 cental Everybody and everything's dead set agin the Only 30 cents for corn. Why, it won't pay our taxes, let alone bay us clothes. It won't buy us enough salt to put up a barrel of Corn only 80 cental By it's a livin', coldr blooded swindle on 'the farmer, that's whatit Is. It ain't "worth raisin' corn for such a price as that It's a mean, low robbery." Within the next ten days that man had sold so much more of his eorir than he ItaqY intended' that he had to buy jBorn Jo feed through the winter with.

price nearly knocked him down. "What!" he yelled, "80 cents for corn Land alive 30 cental What are you givin' us? Why, I don't want to buy your farm, I only want some corn! Thirty cents for corn! Why; I believe there's nobody left in this world but a set of graspin', blood-suckin old misers. Why, good land, you don't want to be able to buy a national bank one corn crop! Thirty cents for corn! WelL, lTl let my carriage-horses run On corn-stalks all winter before TH pay such an unheard-of, outrageous price for corn as that the country's flooded with corn, and 30 cents a bushel is a blamed and I don't see how any man, looking at the crop we've had, can have the face to ask such a price." i Matrimonial Mishaps. The dying wish of Matthew Crooks, a Sari Francisco millionaire, was to witness the marriage of his daughter, and the ceremony was performed at his bedside, several weeks before the time that had been appointed. The deathbed desire of Mr.

Hayden, of the same city, was to break the engagement of his daughter, and he made her promiae 6n her kneea to discard her lover. Detroit has had a variation of the common foreign Count matrimonial episode the husband running away with the bride's money and jewelry, but. after all, to be a real Count A young woman engaged a section in a sleeping ear at Pittsburgh, blushmgly; explaining that she would be joined by a husband at When the train arrived at Harrisburg'a young man got aboard with a clergyman, who married him to the purchaser of the section, and the honeymoon -tour was at 'once commenced; A rustio couple dashed into a Washington oyster saloon, and implored the proprietor to get them married as soon as possible. They had eloped, and parents were on their track. The oyster man not only summoned a Justice of the Peace to tie the but provided stews for.

the party, after the oereraony. Miss Locke mar4 ried Mr. in on his assurance that he was, as she phrases it "a wealthy Christian gentleman but within four days she learned that he was a professional horse thief, and parted from him. Miss Ruggan'a wedding day was appointed in Cleburne, Texas, and she made herself ready; but in the morning she received a note from her faithless lover inviting her to come and see his marriage to another girl. She committed suicide; I Women Physicians Abroad.

The Journal de Geneve lately announced that among the 361 students, in the University of Berne there are twenty women pursuing the regular course for the degree oi uoctor oi Medicine. This university has' just conferred the degree of Ph. D. npon Mile. Lina Bereer, of the- Grand Duohy of Baden, who passed.

an exceedingly brilliant Two other laV A dies, one an American tne oroez an Austrian, took the -degree of M. D.i at the same time. But even in places where we least expect it are the women slowly gaining in honor and power. The University or Helsmgford, in in land, for example, has conferred the degree of after a very rigid examination," upon Mile. HeykeL This is the first Finland' woman so honored, and the occasion was duly noted.

A grand ovation was given to the graduate by her fellow-students, who at the same time opened a subscription among the people of Helsingford for a fund to establish a scholarship in the university for young Finnish women who desire to become physicians or surgeons. The Rosine Heykel Fund," thus far, is in a flonrishins- condition. Thrift of the French Working Classes. The most striking fact with regard to the French working classes is that near ly' all are possessed of However little they earn they save something. Thrift is their great characteristic; in' fact it is said of the French operatives that they spend lees in pro portion to their means than any in the world.

Many keep their accumulations in an old stocking secreted in their houses; '-others a daily increasing number invest in various securities, the most popular investment being the purchase of land. Every Frenchman, when be can, becomes tne owner oi tne house in which he lives. Of course he is greatly aided in this by the French Land laws and laws of inheritance, which cut the whole country up into smali holdings. Savings banks with Government security, building clubs, sick clubs and friendly societies are also in favor; but no money is tied up in trade unions. Jersey Mosquitoes.

Was ye iver in Jersey in the sum mer sason?" said: an Irishman to a friend Ton me souL I was onct an' I thought I wud be davoured. Jt was a hot night an' I raised me winder to catch a whiff of braze, an', instead, I was attacked by a million of murderin' divils wid prongs in em. It was a slap here an' a kick there an' a scratch i' When complately exhausted wid 'em, I giv up me body for to feast the cannibals, whin, bad luck to thiml the murderin' imps commenced singing in me ear, We won't go home till An' well they kept their word, bad luck fo thiml' sex I to me-sel', as I carried me skeleton out the house in the mornin 1 The French peasantry are not 'yet tired of shuffling about in wooden shoes, and France produces about pairs yearly. They are very economical and keep the feet dry. The best are made of maple, and, in pro vincial towns, ladies often wear them.

OHIO LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. At AT bills''' Jrere read the second time, eQl referrroVto tbe committees. Mr. T. rl iittrt'tdnceil Senate BUI $98, to ami irrv r-u t'r.

tha Commissioners of ilnilt.in. Cuuot to maintain sad Keep repair, protect preaerre and defend Mitchell 'arenna tunnel, ana for that jorpose to appropriate money from tha couniv hri'ire- fond. Mr. Lord introduced Senate Bill No. 380, to authorise tbe rtsicMat of the Cincinnati Board of Aldetmen to appoint to fill vacancies in- the '--Board1 of Fire Commif nrg.u..ITou4ek few local bills were, introduced in "tbe morning.

Ia the afternoon, an hour was spent in getting a quorum, and men wnen tne eatenaar ot reacting was resumed, onlv bills of no consequents eoold be acted updm Hotrt bill, by' Mr. jLiunper, to increase tbe pay ot Assessors and assistant! in Hamilton. read the third time tpd referred to Mr. Khmper for amendment: -House bill, by Mr. Sextro, to provide that, in Cincinnati, the appointment Of Fire Commissioners to fill vacancies shall be rested in tbe frobate Judge ot the county came np on third reading, and referred to' a select committee of one.

House bill, by MrDodds. to authorise tbe eity of Cincinnati to issue bondi to purchase avenges, being for third reading, was simi larly disposed of and referred to Dodde. MAT 271 Stoale Rephbllesa Seaator were ir ranted leave of shaenee to attend the convention at Cincinnati. Remonstrance of nine hundred and fifty-three citicens of the Slate against the Bwaim Anti Scalping mil were presented, ana a numoer ot aim- portant local bills The Governor sent ia the name- of Jaseph' M-'Briggg of Franklin. County to be trustee of Miami-University, vice Richard Smith not c.on-firraedand the Senate then adjourned till Thursday.

Bout The codified bill relating to county officers passed, and the balance ef tbe session was spent in considera tion of the uon Terence uommittee reports. Mat 28. fibtae Mr. Foster' offered a resolution that the Governor be authorized and requested to appoint nine attorney! weiiea jiuxa la tbe power. Duties ana practice of the several Courts in the State, wno sca'i constitute a commission to in quire into and investigate as to what changes, if any, are needed in the judicial -system of tha State, to- cheapen and facilitate the administration of jastioe, and re port their conclusions to the next Ueneral Assembly by bill or otherwise.

That such attorneys so appointed shall serve without compensation, but tnat tueir neoeaaary expenses in making such inquiry and report ball be paid by tbe Slat Treasurer from the Legislative Contingent Fund-, Oa-iftw--" tion of Mr. Foster, the resolution wit ray ferred -to oomaiirtie Foster, Wright, of Dvfi nee, and Marsh. Mr. Petf offered a resolution that the House adlonrn on Fridar at nooa to enable members to participate in tne ceremonies attenaing tne decoration ot soldiers graves in Green Lawn Cemetery. sir.

Boh I gave notice ot intention to discuss the resolution, and it was laid on the tab1 under -the rules. Mr, Bloom introduced House Bill No. 1065, to reaaee the of Railroad Commissioner and Superinten dent of Insurance to two thousand dollars a year. Bead twice and referred to the Com mittee on insurance. A number of bills were read the second time, and referred to committees.

Among the bills, so disposed of was Mr. Klimper'a bill to repeal the act creating a Board of City Commissioners for Cincinnati, ana to create a Hoard of reblio works lor said city, it was referred to a select committee eooeiitiD the Representatives from Hamilton Mat 29. fenoi Remonstrance from citizen of Plh and Itoss Connties against the abandonment of the Hocking and Ohio Canals, were read, and other against the passage of Rsilr Ticket Bill 1,003. Mr. Curtis introduced a bill to, regulate tbe taking of trout and salmon in the State of Elliott introduced a bill to attach a penalty to tearing down handbill.

Substitute for by Mr. Wright, providing that the polling places for State elections shall be at least two distant from those for national elections, was passed. 1 Petitions -were" pre sented from twenty-three hundred oitizens for the passage of the Railroad Ticket Scalpers' Bill, and from, foar -thousand oiliieng against asid bill. Houk was confirmed as Trustee of Dayton' Asvlnm." Tbe morning waa spent discussing sir. Manb Contraot BillIt ws finally.

laid on "he Uiiwe Mr. Danford's Sunday Bill was piwponed until m'xt' Monday afternoon. The Cdd'fied Bill, wtioh eon tains a elause. relative to the use of illuminating waa paseedv A-Iong fight' haa-'been made between the two braocbe, the. House insisting oh 'doing away with the penalty lor using rue Benste opposing this Tbe Senate finally triumphed, and it ir said the House agreed to backwater limply to advance the codification, and that an independent bill to allow the nse 1 of -uninspected oil' will be Senate Codified Bill relating to benevolent institutions was taken Mr Hitchcock offered an amendmaot which prowdea-tliat benevolent institutions shall be -managed by aboard of five Trustees, two.

to. be from each of the leading politicial 'parties; and tbe uovernor to be a member of each board, and to vote ia case of a tie. Mr. Sturgeon opposed the' bill, i claiming it waa a combination of Democrat and, to shut the 'National Mr. Hitchcock made a speech declaring that the benevolent institution should he removed as far a possible from party politics, and held that this amendment would prevent the usual disgrace! al political scramble for plaees about these institution.

The amendment wa agreed to and the bill set for third readingto-morrow. Mat SO. Senate A lively tilt oecarred between Senator Lord and Forrest. The resolution offered by Forrest some days since, in relation to adjournment, had been reported back from the Committee to which, it had been referred, and the time for adjournment fixed' for-'June 10. tj Opposition to -n thai adoption ot the resolution waa ottered.

by seaator Owen, on the ground that it adoption would not facilitate the transaction of bust it was not yet known whe her the work could be completed by that time. J. H. Wade of Cleveland, to be a Trustee of the Cleveland Asylum for tbe Insane, to super sede J. W.

whose term expiies; Joseph Fenlkenbach. of Franklin County, renominated tor a ot tne institution for the Education of the Jacob Rohsheimer, of Cleveland, renominated to be a Trustee of the Institution for the Education of -th Deaf and Dumb. The nomination-v were to the Committee on Benevolent Institutions. Mr. Benson presented a remonstrance from one hundred citizen of FranklinrConnty, remonstrating against tbe passage of the Honae Bill to auppress ticket scalper.

The nomination of Joseph Briggi, of Franklin County, to be a Trustee of Miami University (vice Richard Smith, nominated March 1, 1879 and nomination not confirmed) wa reported back by the Committee, ou Benevolent Institution, and confirmed Houte A to reoonsider the Scalper's Bill was lost for want of a lu: Tolling the Bell. The custom oi tolling the chnrch bell on the death of a person is followed in -Brockton, as in ye olden' time. Few towns now observe this ancient usage. It is nearly hall a century since the practice was discontinued in Plymouth. The habit was, as soon as a person was known to be dead, to toll the bell for a then, after a.

pause, two. strokes were made for a male, or three for a female; next the age of the deceased was This waa the "passing originally rung that all people might pray for the departing soul. A.SPKECH from the thrown "Blame that mule!".