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in 4 i V'? 4 i Havana Cigars. INDIANA STATE NEWS. SegmourUJctltlg Stmts. Subject him to Hosts that freezethth cars of brass monkey Incase him la the heart of an iceberg; Let old Boreas caress him with Chicago winds, or fondle him in hi try embrace, the little martyr calmly folds up his arms, draws up his aether limb and aiteth; Waiteth for the next sunrise; when he cometh forth to breakfast gay as a school- girl and with an appetite that is always a positive luxury. Vim Mat kill 1 You cant kill him." ftnwr Ifmca.

mankind, kaows no greater happiness than being thoroughly drunk, and Is as a rale if sucks thug bn possible-more hopelessly lazy and idle han the boyar. He does little or no work that he can possibly avoid, ami were It not for his plum-trees would probably starve. The plum-trees require no particular cultivation, and when their boughs are bending under the splendid purple burden of tlieir fruit a little shaking Is alone aeo-exsary to secure the prize. When enough kis been sold to supply him with food and clothing for months there Is still enough left to make the brandy required for many glorious carouses; and ou these occasions he is for the in a state of supreme bliss. For the rest, his tune is chiefly spent ill lying around under the plum-trees, or anywhere in the dirt and Sunshine oc- I Ndtctekx lawyers constitute the of Knox County.

bar Accwduw to the report of the Treasurer of Indianapolis, the expenses of that city during the past fiscal year were Anwdnysago, at Mayville, suburb of Terre naute, a party of roughs, headed by ooe Berber, kicked and beat a physician named Mercer so severely that he died three days after. Mb. Voil, a wealthy fanner of Wayne bounty, living near Walnut Level Station, and his wife were recently poisoned with some substance placed in their coffee. They were lying in critical situation at set accounts. Jobs Giiuicm crawled under a Height-car at Logaasport to get out of the rain and fell asleep.

The moving of the train broke his rest, his left arm and his right leg, making amputation of the two latter necessary and leaving him in a fh-tally damaged condition. Tax hows' of Thomas W. Leach, in Howard County, was lately entered by masked robbers sad 105 In money taken. The rid man, who was seventy-five yean old, kept them at bay for two hours, re-fusing to tell where the money was concealed, but the old lady became frightened and revealed the place of its concealment. Mb.

Ouvub F. Brass, river editor of the Yecay Bnuseruf. was married to Mbs Lillie D. Minor, of Boyle County, a few days ago. The couple ran away for the old cause, parental opposition, and had a very romantic and rough time of it.

The affair ha been on hand two or three rears and one unsuccessful elopement attempted before. Now their trouble are all over, or else Just begun. Tax New Castle CWricr says of young men of this county, with the mania for speculating; invested la Chicago wheat some time ago, when it begun to go down on their hands. Telegrams came asking them to put up the margins. They did this as long as their money lasted, but the price continued to 4 drap, when they were arid out sad lost 300 for their experience.

A blacksmith named Gil. Justice, living at Broad Ripple, recently bought a house at a Sheriff's sale. Mrs. Inman, a turbulent colored woman, has for months past occupied the front room of the building ss a restaurant, and she still held possession of the building, taking the ground that she had a year to redeem the property, and therefore had a right to occupy the house. A few days ago she went to Indianapolis, and while absent Mr.

Justice set her goods out into the street. On returning, she and her husband prepared to burst the door open and place the things back. Mrs. Inman, armed with a club, went up to the door and attempted to break it in. At this juncture Mr.

Justice appeared with a shot-gun, and began a fhri-lade, firing two heavy loads of buckshot into the woman, the shot lodging in her fare, breast sad stomach. He then tamed to his house, leaving the woman lying upon the ground screaming for help. A couple of gentlemen who were fishing ar by assisted in removing her to a boose in that vicinity, when physician is called in. Oa examination ha pronounced hevwouads very severe and probably fatal. Mr.

Justice was arrested and put under (500 bail, and the woman taken to the Surgical Institute, suffering intense pain. ef Fallarew Let man fail In business, what an effect it has on hit former creditors 1 Men who have taken him by the ana, lunched and chatted with him tj the hoar, urine their shoulder and pass on with a com How do yon dot" Every trifle of a bill is hunted up and presented that would not have seen the light for noaths to come but for the mis. fortunes of the If it is paid, well and good; if not. the scowl of the Sheriff; perhaps, meets him at the comer. A mi that has never failed knows hut little of human nature.

In prosperity he arils along, gently wafted by favoring smiles sad kind words from everybody. He prides himself on kis name sad spotless character, sad nukes his boast that he has not i enemy in the world. Alas! the change. He looks st the world in a different light when reverses come upon He reads suspicion on every brow. He hardly knows how to more or do this thing or the other; there are spies shout him; writ is ready for hu luck.

To know what kind of stuff the world is made of a person must be unfortunate and stop paying once in his life-time. If he has kind friends then they are nude manifest. A failure is a moral scire it brings out the wheat sad shows the A man thus learns that words and pretended good will are aot sad do not constitute real friendship. Freda Junwl Reckstlt a cat played the following prank a poo a Syracuse gentleman: The person had retired to bed and had lain there some time, when his wife, in the next room, heard a singular noise. She Inferred from the sound that her husband was sleeping soundly; bat the noise grew more intense, and ska concluded to find out what it might be.

She went into the steeping Apartment, sad found the family cat with its nose thrust into her husband's mouth, and its paws tightly clasped about his throat, it required considerable exertion to remove the animal, as It dung tightly to its position. The gentleman was nearly suflocsted. ana bat for the timely interference of Ms wife would have been killed. Tkb original name for a cigar was te-Imi; sad ths original inventor of modem cigars were the red aborigines of Cuba. The native appellation for tbe plant out of which cigars are made was coJtibo.

The suspicion that suck Is the esse most have sprang up in the minds of all iatelUgeat persons who, on examining a box of Havana cigars, discovered', on ths outside of It tbe fact that tbe cigars were made in a fabric is which as everybody knows or does not know means a manufactory of cigars, sad, of course; act tnaufictay ef tobacco, The finest cigars that can baked are the Yiguersa, which are made of the finest leave, right On the spot la thq, hjm, sad which are rather expensive, -sad even for soy amoustqf money some-' what difficult to procure. The ordinary price fora Yiguena Regalia Imperial a seven-lack rtgap ranges between (900 and (300 per thousand not in New York, but in Cuba. Many smokers, fad even cigar-dealer. In New England are somewhat confused in regard to the proper interpretation ef some of tk names they see branded into ths cedar boxes, People often fori quite confident that they buy or sell a particu- lar quality of tobacco in tbe cigars when they give them the name of Regalia ImperuL Benlia Londres. Damn.

Entrioperas, or say other of this class. The fact, however, is that these names designate only the -sixes ot the cigars. A Regalia Imperial measures seven laches, a Regalia Britan mm is a little -smaller, Londres is of tha medium else; the Dames or Xntrriperas are quite thin sad small, fit to be smoked la ths pauses between the acts, at the doorsteps or in tbe smoking-room of a theater. Tbe quality of the tobacos is iadicatod by tha wonls sapsQtM, seprefluv tom Tha odor sad strength of cigars is stamped on the box with asfos for the strongest, secure for the next in strength, sabred for those of medium, strength, and store for the light one. The intermediate shades of tbe cigars are indicated by combining two of these terms; thus, ssfeiwite wafer si reifies that tha cigar is a little darker and that it is a little lighter than a should be.

1 There are two -words which must find a place in the tobacconists glossary namely, the words which stare at you In every street of every town in the world of more than 500 inhabitants ergo and Fori laAfopa. The mystery ing hut the fact that it is the Cuban i for a tobacco plantation, and Ynelta Ab- -Jo in the district in which most of the 1 plantations are found. Voelta Abejo ia alow region of Western Cabs, south of ths Cusmguanice Mountains, which run Horn Marielbai to the Bay of Guadiana. Tha best vegan lie on the bank off the River Gayaquatd; ou a piece of land about thirty miles long by seven deep. As rule, tobacco plantation contains only one which is equal to about thirty-three acres.

Half of it is stocked with various plants to shelter the tobacco, and, nevertheless, a muffin's produces as muck ss 9,000 pounds, averaging about (100 per 100 pounds. As the tobacco crop is to the Cabans matter of not less than (30,000,000 year, all the people are willing to pray for a rich harvest. When the insects peculiar to the tobacco plant Hem to be a kttle thick, at once regular days of prayer are Martin, the saint said in. appointed, and ths holy il ol tobacconists, has 10,000 his honor, to mike him bless the cron pick' off the insects. AppUtmn suraoL A Frefeesleaal Steepie-Climben Tkstxxhat: assisted by Mr.

difficult and perilous undertaking of flinging oar national flag to the breeao from tha top of the eroae surmounting the spire of Holy Trinity Church, on Fifth street, near timith. Mr. W.H. Andrews, who on the evening previous undertook the task, was not able to get -above the large ball, just under the cross; where he fixed the flag sad came down. Mr.

Weston went up yesterday morning before breakfast ana planted the colon oa the pinnacle. 284 feet above the ground. He la man of nerve. Reaching a print under the rig globe ho, dexterously threw tops around the foot of the cross above; and. twisting tha two ends of the rope into oae, scaled Iris insecure ladder, over and upon the hall, whence be mounted to the top of the cross sad fastened the staff and Bag.

Then he commenced and finished ia safety ths dangerous descent. If pcrmSskm can he had from the proper authorities Mb Weston proposes to place a flag on tbe tip ri the forefinger of the hand on the tallest spire in the city, that of the First Presbyterian Church, oa Fourth street, near Main. He Is a professional steeple-climber, having placed lightaing-rods on the I to the height or 225 feet; on the First Presbyterian Church. 285 feet: on tha Second Presbjteriaa Church, Eighth and Elm streets, -205 feet; George Church. Vine Street Hill (two spires), about 200 feet, and on some twenty-five other spires.

He new appears to be ready to decorate them with flags. Cing ttostf CssMwswriaf. Ifgg 11 A few days- since a 'very absent, minded man got Into a horse-car at Portland. for Deering; Me. He had a basket vita him and.

to stake sure that he would not forget it when he got ouLhs placed it securely between his feet. During ths ride he engaged very earnestly in con- -venation wits another gentleman, and when the car arrived at the piece where he wished to alicht he hastily arose sad amt orally kicked over the basket. He picked himself up and exclaimed: What fool left that basket there for people to stumble over and got out of the car. leaving the basket where he had kicked it. Mrs.

Sherman, tha Connecticut Lucre tis Borgia, who gave Just thimbleful to her relatives saa Mends, is most exemplary inmate of the State. She says if It hadnt been for anemia there wouldnt have been any troubia. X05XQE, Il, Hidtlf. SEYMOUR, INDIANA. 1 he Gruikipptr.

ABOCKT MOCSTACS FAVXOSAL BMC. The lie cometh; lie eumeth numerously; lie briopth bis family; Also hie relative; Awl hi friend; Like vise hi mother-in-law; And her friend; -A well a nil that hat her. And they are legions; The wisdom of man compntcth them not; -They spread over the land. And there i no where they are OL They nip the springing grass; They devour the fragrant onion sprout And the savory celery. The wheat field i left desolate.

And no green thing remained where the hopper haih been. II is pathway is the abomination of desolation. The ranchman monrneth for his green fields that were, but are not ayhap he sweareth. What careth the hopper-grass? It txenbkth him not. Ask the prophets of Kansas; Ask the wise men of Nebraska; And they will answer likewise; Bat the relief-committee agent lifleth up hi voice and railed the hopper Blessed.

"The patriotic grasshopper cometh from the mythical western lead, where the glorious orb of day sinks in roseate splendor to his evening couch; 1 The realm of Brigham; The land of Mormons; Whence cometh many bad things and some that are good The hopper is one of them; Several of them But he is not good. He cometh in tbe latter summer days, In sun-darkrning myriads: As the winds come when forests are ended. As the waves cotar when navies are stranded. lie alighted on the potato-vine; And on the fragrant tomato-tree And the succuk-nt roasting-ear. whilst it is yet in the milk and toothsome; And upon ail other fruits of the field that cometh late into market; And they nil- disappear and are seen after that evil day no more forever.

And the lady grasshopper maketh straightway her nest down in the And In the wheat stubble; And upen the hillside; And nil over the sandy And everywhere else under the sun. And the fil'eth the nest with eggs every day, nntil the winter day cometh and the groun i fieezeth hard, when no grasshopper can make nests. And the eggs, are they not ranch eggs? With double yolks And warranted to hatch? Yen, verily, and the warranty is good. And the indy grasshopper mate, what of him? crily, I say unto you, he sttteth upon the sweet-potato vine and siageth nil the -gin dwmt summer day He climbeth up the conaetalk and lop-, peth off its verdant branches; He taketh no heed for the morrow; Nor of the groans and corses of the irate And in tbe hottest nntatna days he lsadeth the fisherman beside the babbling waters; And np the steep mountain aide; And over prickly pears; And through soap-weeds; And among thorny boshes; And when at Inst the fisherman falls his knees and pats his hands upon Mr. Hopper, where Cs he? Alas! he in not there; But he sonreth aloft; And cracketh his heels tbgether And laagheth out of his left at the fisherman, who is seated on the hill side.

Digging cactus thorns from his and knees. And framing com And he will never kneel nay more. And whan in the fullness time the wintry dnvs have come; And stilled his voice in death; With Frost icy mantle about -him, he gbeth hence to his fathers. Content with the fitting dose to wellspent life. And happy in the reflection that he will live again in his children.

When gentle spring shall come again. And again, And again, forever, la the returning cycle of retaining years. .) Tis spring; I Winter hath loosed his icy fetters; Robin Redbreasts enrol in the cotton-woods; beechertilton trial is well on; Jenkins bnsyeth himself writing pardons. And genial sunshine again bathe the earth. i Are those eggs spoiled? -Not by japftiL In the earliest warm sonny days; Forth come few millions of the Ju entle hoppers; Tiny, miley, midgeto; The pickets, the scout, the avant couriers of ooualfem boats that soon will Ye honest ranchman langheth in his sleeve, and sayeth: The hopper are hatching, spring frost sad.

snows will fix them." Alas! tbe fallacy of man's faith; -The Htrte hopper relies on Providence And hfs reliance is sublime; -It- puttetkthe shoddy religion el man to ttutow. Drown him in the Heads that wool, have appalled Noah; Bury him in- Arctic nows; Wallaehla and Its Inhabitants. Wuuthu is one of the most remark-able but also one of the least known of the countries in Europe, and its vast internal resources, not less than its important position from a political point of view, entitle it to more thorough attention than has heretofore been generally accorded to it. The country seems to have been set apart by nature from tbe surrounding provinces. The great Crapak or Carpathian Mountains, impassable except in a few spots, separata It from Transylvania and Hungary on the north, and the wide, yellow flood of the Danube, bending so as to form three rides of square, cuts it off from Servi and Bulgaria on the west, sooth and cast.

Even Horn Holds ia, to which it is so closely hound by political and ethnological ties, and which adjoins It on the northeast, it Is divided by a considerable branch of the Danube, the river Screth. The district included within these limits ln one vast plain, sloping gradually downward Horn the height of the Carpathians to the lanubes tide. Throughout its whole extent there are no forests, and few woodland trees. The mountains rise up, bare and wild, with nothing to brook ths toonoUmy of their ashy-gray sides. The immense, prairie-like heaths stretch away fro many miles, affording an unbroken vista except where the figures of cattle, horses and sheep, with slew attendants, meet the eye.

In the southern rt vast swamps begin to appear, rivet ng ln size but not is flora those of our Gulf State. Everything seems here to be in extremes. The summer Is almost ns hot ns that of ths tropics; but, whsa has gone, severs cold sets la almost immediately, sad the ground covered with snow for four months. The heaths afford pasturage for countless herds of domestic animals. The wild-fowl that frequent the swamps are numerous enough to shut out ths daylight when they rise.

The soil la the great tivervslle) and other arable districts is one of the richest lathe world; but the droughts are terribly severe, sad the swarms of locusts that descend on the growing crops would astonish svea a Kansas farmer. Gold, silver, copper and alt abound in extensive mines, the supply of salt, especially, seeming to be almost inexhaustible; but the ignorant, degraded and thoroughly lazy people of the country have made tew efforts of any importance to avail themselves of these stores of wealth. Everywhere the results of their idle and shiftless habits of life make themselves visible. The mud-built huts of the peasantry look as if they would tumble down in the first Strong gale; and are full of holes and cracks, which no one seems to think of mending. Even in Bucharest, the only city of any importance, a large proportion of the houses are built of mud, and are hardly less shabby and comfortless than those of the villages.

The population of 11 all ac bis consists, i the main, of two great classes, the foyers, or nobles, sad the peasants. Ths only other class large enough to mention is that of the merchants and tradesmen, and this has only originated within the last half-century. Ths boyars are almost Invariably distinguished by a thorough imitation of Parisian manners and dress. Their booses and furniture are modeled upon those of the French metropolis, and in their conversation they attempt to follow the style prevalent the fashionable safes of that city. Bat under this thin veneering of Purls manners there is always, more or less of the true Wallachian characteristics, and in particular of an apparently unconquerable distaste for any regular work.

The great occupation ct life with them boyars is gambling, and this is usually the nearest approach they make to anything like an occnpar tionof nay sort. When a boyar finds his' puree becoming very ligat his only resource is the gaming-table; and, should he be fortunate enough to win a large sum there, his grins nr considered perfectly legitimate. Instead of being regarded with any less respect on that account, he is looked upon ns one who has been very successful ns a financier, and is admired and envied by all who hear of his success. Besides being lazy and ah inveterate gambler the boyar is vain, narrow-minded and; with regard to those he considers his Inferiors in rank, inclined to be unjust and tyrannicaL It is not strange, therefore, that little or nothing has been done for the country by its highest class- Yet many of this class possess capabilities which, under other influences and with carefnl training, might make them asefol sad honorable members of society. The men are often brave and generous, sad the women! who are said to resemble Polish ladies in appearance, are not Infrequently refined in feeling aod manner.

It is very unlike-! ly, however, that any direct innovations upon the old ideas arid habits will ever be made among this class nntil some strong ufinul laflui ence shall have weakened and partly broken down the results of centuries bad train tag and exaggerated bless of their own importance. A comparative familiarity with the rest of the world will not do it. They accept the various states things existing in other conn-tries as Guile proper sad natural for foreigners- but they, the great boyars of Wsllaehis. are a law unto themselves. So they take a little Paris gilding for the general style of their life and manners, but in all else they are jnst such Wsi-lachs ns their ancestors have been for some centuries.

The Wallachian peasant is absolutely free from nay foreign influence, and is in everyjrespect an extraordinary character. He is on of the very dirtiest of his dormant energies for the purpose ol administering a sound tkraaktwg to his wife. The latter, who usually does little work is performed by cither, takes there little attentions quite as a matter of course. Bhe would, according to a welUnfcrmed German writer, soon be-esuia disgusted with husband who should omit this part of his coqjugsl duties, and would leave his bed and board on the ground that ha was not a person of sufficient apiril to entitle him to possess such a treasure ss herself. In the same way it Is declared that the husband would not be fimg la severing the bond which bound him to wife who did not get drunk at least once a week.

Sha would, in kis opinion, be antirely too eccentric and high-flown for the com- Saniouahip of ordinary humanity; and would probably regard her wary much ss the far-Westcra hotel-waiter is said to do thoss pertifUr kind fellers from the East who actually rsirs objections to having the dinner-knives cleaned, for dessert. By being robbed ou the waiter's boot-legt 5 But, in spite of there drawbacks, the Wallachiaa peasants are not without good qualities asd are certainly susceptible of mental and moral elevation. They Are, In the main, good-hearted and even affectionate, though wife-beating is, an-questionably, not the best proof of the existence of those qualities. They are not apt to be very revengeful, even after flagrant injustice. Their passion for music is most surprising in such an apparently degraded race.

They will listen silently and in a tremor cf delight to any kind of melody, nd will even make a certain amount of kysicnl exertion to obtain sock a pleasure. Any music, they seem to think. Is worth hearing, and they will often go out' of their wny to listen to the very wild and primitive musical performances Of the wandering repries. It would be hard to find one ol them who does not possess a rude sort of flute which he has unde for himself out of a reed Horn the aarshes: and on these homemade instruments they quickly teach themselves to play a number of sad-toued hut by no means unpleasant Wallaehian sire. But the best proof that these peasants are capable of better things lies in the fret that from among them has arisen that new middle class which alone has ns yet given any promise of redemption lor Wrilachia.

1 1 Before 1848 there was positively no middle class of native Wal inch Ians. Today that class numbers mors than 50,000 and Includes, many families of wealth, atelligence and a fair degree of culture. In Bucharest and the other larger towns ikeir houses are among the most comfortable sad handsome that are to be seen, and there is every reason to believs that, as they Increase in numbers and wealth, tbefe dull, straggling, ugly towns will become really worthy the asms of cities. The principle of wri has thus been established and the aid-time traditions. With their attendant misery and degradation, mast eventually go down before lit Ths boyars will, of conns, riot the innovations; hut the present Hospodar of ths Ron manias principalities (Wallachis sad Moldavia) Is an ivllighteaed German prince who has already acquired great, popularity, and will, atTeast.

place no obstructions in the Way of the revolution, It can hardly be dcubted. then, that ths salvation of that great country, full of magnificent opportunities of various kinds, is now close at hand, and that. In a few decades of years, Wild Wallar chin will bav become a thing of the past. F. W.

Cross; is JopfeMi JmmaL A New Med ef TeaUtetlen. The London Timet recently gave an account of a mods of ventilation adopted by Mr. Tobin, a retired merchant of Leeds, and which rests on the principle that a narrow stream of air can be sent ip through lighter air the Jetofa fountain through the ordinary atmosphere by atmospheric pressure from outside, end that when it reaches the ceiling will be reflected off in all directions, Jnst as the water falls hack in a umber of Infinitesimal rills, and so melt away very gradually into tbe less pure sir of the room before reaching the persons who need t. The modus operand! to introduce vertical tubes communicating with the outer, air in parts of forge room or public building where people ere not likely to sit or stand, tabes rising say four or five feet above the floor. Directly the air In the room begins to be rented the pressure of the air outride wads streams of air np these tubes, which continue to rise la narrow streams just like lets of water, and with-mt dispersing till they reack the ceiling; where they are reflected beck in spray, es it were, of pare sir, spray which mixes very gradually indeed and so as to avoid aU draft with the rarefied air of the room, and gradually expels all the had air by way of the chimney.

The system seems to have worked almost miraculously in the Leeds Borough Belies Court and also in tbe Liverpool Police Court, whose Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. Raffiea, has bens the meat grateful testimony to the results of the experiment, and Mr. Tobin is now engaged in introducing it into London. Tkx hoppers are beginning to crowd ths people of ColoradoL iS-.