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h â€"â€"“ I think I’ll cut across the fields.” said a. city belle, who was visiting her country Cousin â€"" the Wether permitting,” she added, as she observed a demonstrative sheep of the masculine persuasion. â€"They were on their wedd' * ‘ ‘ In" 101 IV ‘msfifa'i‘fibmwwnuy'mu yum ufiubsérfirerzd “ I saw you sweeping the library one day.” “ Then you chose me because I did not dis- dain the broom ‘2” “ No, but because you could not handle it well." â€"-Mrs. Swisahelm says that leng before the days of the mastodon the New-England woman was up making cake, and willcer- tainly be found at that business when the last trump shall sound. â€"A mi: in a trap does not believe in the . early closing movement. " â€"Where is the man who is going forty days Without a drink ‘2 â€"It is better to be a. righter of wrongs than "NP. writer about wrongs. â€"-“Frozen kindness” is the latest device for inveigling you into an ice cream saloon. â€"â€"The dancing master is always taking steps to improve his business. -â€"Wimt is the difference between the en- gine- drivel and the passengel who has lost the train? Will, you know one is right in front, while“ Re other is loft behind. â€"g.Judy â€"â€"Punch : Bishop (removing his delinquent page) ; " Wretched boy ! Who is it that sees and hears all we do and before whom even I am but. a. crushed worm ‘3" Page : “ The missus, my lord.” â€"â€"A Chicago paper has all at once disâ€" covered that the word “ butter ” cannot be found in the Bible. It will next marvel that the word “ saloon" is also missing. â€"Colonel Bob Ingersoll says that when a. man smokes or chews he should confess the fault to his intended wife, and if after that she accepts him, he “has the dead wood on her.” â€"Guelph is to have a steamer next year which will run to Paradise. The vessel ought to be extensively patronized, though it is doubtful whether the Royal City can furnish many passengers. â€"A man goes from home with glowing visions of the blueltalian sky and 10'1er landscape, so far above anything he ever saw. He comes back thinking very much ofIt-a-ly. â€"â€"-Baltimore ladies at the seaside eat four meals per day and a peek of fruit. and peanuts ever twelve hours, in addition. Cape May is the only resort where a 'girl can chew gum and not lose her social standing. â€"â€"â€"A Spanish tombstone reads: “ I was well, wanted tu he better, took physio, and here’l am.” The moral is respectfully dedi- sated to those who demand “ a. change." â€"It is consoling to know that the man who whistles at. his work frequently has to whistle for his pay. The world is compara- tively small, but it is full of compensations. â€"â€"A young lady of Chester 00., Pa., has agreed to marry a young men immediately after the election if Hancock is elected ; but if Garfield is elected they are to wait four years.â€" [Norristown Herald. How anxious some W0- men are to be married, arn’t they ‘2 â€"Th1‘ee Weeks of surf-bathing,r is said to grow an entixe new skin on the end of a woman’ s nose while its only effect on a man is to harden his corms. â€"The Chicago Journal figures that Secre- tary Evarts’ big words and long sentences do more to inJure the Atlantic cables than all the ing over the lines. â€"â€"-The wire of the Detroit Free Press tele- phone has got tangled up with that of a butcher shop, and every time the foreman of the composing room calls for copy lately he gets a Detroit beefstake. This accounts for some of the tough stories printed in that pawnâ€"Chicago Journal. â€"â€"It is a barefaced newspaper lieâ€"that fash~ ionable girls go to Niagara. to secure wealthy husbands. We have yet to learn of them capturing a hackman. ,' â€"â€"The Kansas ’City Times says : “ While bathmg in the surf at Coney Island the other day. Col. Joseph Pulitzer, of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, came very near being har- pooned.” This is not the first occasion on which a. St. Louis editor has been thought to be a shark. â€"An imbecile who" wished to make himself agreeable to Longfollow, said: “b‘ir, every night of my life I fall asleep over one of your works I" -â€"At a seiside hotelâ€"Guest to waiter-- “ Do you call that a clean plate ‘2” “ Yes, sir ; that speck is only a pit _of soag." , â€"Portex, pounding on the door-â€"‘ Get right ofi" I say, or you ’11 be too late. The train’ _s been gone this last half hour. ” â€"-At :1 church in Southwark there was a christening. After the ceremony, and while the minister was making out the certificate he happened to say. “Let me see, this is the 30th ?" "Thirtieth ?” exclaimed the indig- nant mother, "indeed it is only the thir- teenth i” â€"It is said that Ohlo wives do their own housework. Now that. is the kind of an no hire idea, that we like. 4Faith moves mountains, but it. takes a couple of express wagons to move a fashion;- ble woman’s baggage. â€"-A young man may be doing duty on the tented field and do nothing butdrive a circus wagon. â€"â€"Burg1ars never Wait for an opening in in their business. They go to work at once and make an opening. Necessity is the mother of invention. A correspondent at Chautauqua (whom we sus- pect of romancing) gives the following account of the manner in which the proprieties of the place were preserved by a couple who found themselves in an unpleasant situation 2 A young man and his girl arrived at Chautauqua at a late hour in the evening, and after care- ful and anxious search the only accommoda- tions to be secured were found to he one small room in a cottage. Then was presented a dilemma. To occupy that room together would be a manifest violation of the proprieties of life ; to return home was impossibleâ€"thelast boat had left. For either of them to sit up and pace the grounds the long night through, A1,A â€"â€"There have been twemy- six John Smiths in the Massachusetts State leson since its establishment m 1855. â€"“ None of your jaw," is what the bat-17:? said when the shark tried to scrape an ac‘ quaintance with him. â€"Of all similes, “A cloud no bigger than a man’s hand ” carries ofi the palm. â€"â€"Isn't it queer that contractors should be engaged to widen the streets? ““"‘ r ****** 0' , V ., 4 or to occupy the chilly canvas cot in the breezy amphitheatre was an alternative not to be thought of. Genius solvéd the problem. A minister was sought outâ€"a ,vory easy task at Fair Pointâ€"and in a few minutes a short ceremony was said; the twain were husband and wife ; John Backwoods and his bride oc- cupied the little room in the cottage together and the eternal properties were preserved in- tact. â€"Mosquitoes believe in vivisection. -â€"Tartans are coming into fashion again. â€"The Chinese plankâ€"nn' 1roning board â€"Neve1 count your cold chickeng before it is hushed. --Did the man who returned home after many days get. them ? â€"It’s hard to journey back to town, And end your short: “ vacate.“ ‘ When you were growing nicely brown, Contented, strong, elate. But here the pang comes fair and squareâ€"â€" Learning, while you were gone, How well, although you were nob there, Your world kept moving on. WHY 'l‘liEY {MARRIED CODIIC BUDGET. An. unfavorable. showing for Dr. Cream, who is now awaiting an examination by the grand Jury on the charge of committing an abortion, was made to a reporter of the Chic. ago Tunes, by ers. Goodwin, a former land- lady‘of his. This lady lives at No. 798 West l Madison street, and occupies a second floor of the block at that number. She aid that Dr. Cream came to engage rooms of her in September last, and two front rooms were leased to him. One of these was used by him as as oftice, and the other as a bed-room: He took his meals at another place. He 500,1 made it known in various ways that PTOdu- cing abortions was the best part of his busi- ness. and he seemed to be not desirous in the least of concealingthat fact. He said that the minority of his patients, too, were married WOm‘m- ,dfl1999fi.fisked.Mls-.Goodwin if she 3011121? who, he said,might come from Can. adrifhis to men» location. to he treated for chi-on» ic diseases. Some of his friends and acquaint- ances had written hiin asking that privilege. Mrs. Goodwin says she suspected he wanted patients there for another purpose, and she refused to rent him the room. Most of the doctor’s patients were women, and they came frequently to his office. It was generally understood in the neighborhood that the doctor was doing an illegitimate business, and he was driven from one suite of rooms to another by people who refused to harbor him when they learned his true character. Mrs. Goodwin gave the details of her experience with the fellow in a business way, which ap- parently showed him to be possessed of an utterly depraved nature. He hoarded with a family on Warren avenue for a time, with whom Mrs. Goodwin, a dressmaker, had some words. He managed to involve them in trouble, and, when caught, actually caught Mrs. Goodwin by the throat and choked her and otherwise abused her until assistance ar- rived. She set him down as untruthful as l well as unscrupulous. an abortionist. In 1874 he mur-fr‘red a bean- tiful young girl named Rosella Juckaon, from Mauston, Wis., by the same means. He served a year in the penitentiary for that, and was afterwards prosecuted for procuring an abortion on Mary Morgan, but. escaped punishment. ' A Free Circus Perlormnnne by Native Animus. ‘ {Battleford Hemld‘) During the week'beforc last one of the greatest of the Indian festivals was cele- brated here. with a degree of vigor and ear» nestness that proved that the stoicism and powers of endurance of the untamed Indian Wu 1 1.4__n ._~ Ln Cchaeo, August 25.~â€"The body of the girl who died of an abortion at Dr. Earle’s oilice has been identitiedtas that of Neltie A. Carroll, of 682 West Lake street, where she lived with her mother and an invalid brother. She left home last evening ostensibly to visit friends on Madison street. Not returning during the evening her mother became alarmed, and this morning set out to search for her. Seeing a crowd in front of Earle’s oilice she enquired what was the matter, and being told there was a dead girl inside went in, and seeing her daughter's bonnet, went into hysterics. A past mortem showed that an abortion had been committed. Miss Carroll was an attrae. tive girl of 19 years. It appears she had clan- destine meetings with some young man whose identity seems to be unknown to her mother or the police. This young man gave her a gold Watch, necklace and rings, and succeeded in ruining her. She visited Dr. Earle, and he demanded $25 for producing the abortion. She gave him the watch as security. and the operation resulted in her death. Dr. Earl:- it is supposed, intended to dispose of the body in some secret manner last night, but becomingy frightened, and supposing he was discovered, . he dragged the body out of his office to the door of a neighboring physician in the same house to divert suspicion. The body was there found by the police. The doctor tried to throw the blame entirely on the girl, and afleeted to believe that her death was caused by heart disease, but the doctors who made the postmortem testified at the inquest that the heart and 1" eggs were in good condition, and that death was apparently caused by peritonitis. M“: .1lting from attempted abor- tion. The coroner’s jury held Dr. Earle for the crime without bail,to go before the Grand Jury. His son was discharged. The police' are trying to find the young man ho was the indirect cause of the girl‘s deatn. The remains will probably be interred at the expense of the Grand Army of the Republic, as Miss Carroll’s father was a member of that order. Her family came from Vfirtconsin. Dr. Earle has an unenvlable imatation as r- , are not so mythical as some would have us to believe. Preparations were in progress for some days, and the preliminary arrangements having been satisfactorily completed, the more serious part of the proceedings were heâ€" gun on Thursday week. The acts to be per- formed were partly of a. penitential and partly of a propitiatory character. and every one was marked by a. high degree of solemnity. The place selected was a beautiful spot on the bank of the Battle River. commanding a fine View of the Saskatchewan and of a Wide ex- tent of its fertle valley. The temple was circular in form, fifty feet in diameter, with Walls six feet high, the roof springing from 1 plates laid on posts planted in the ground at ‘ equal distances, and meeting on a. pole about thirty feet high; the roof and sides being covered withileather tents. The first duty was to procure a centre pole. Between thirty and forty warriors, each on horseback with his squaw behind him, set out for the woods in search of one, preceded by the medicine men and chiefs “making medicine” (hideous noises) to drive away the evil spirits. When a suitable tree was found it was approached with much fir- ing of guns and “medicine” and cut down. The horsemen then ranged themselves along side of it, each attaching his lariat to it, and dragged it to the place it was to be set up. The raising of the pole, as every other not connected with it, was accompanied by low incuntations and much noiseâ€"invoking bless- ings and driving away evil spirits. The tent erected, four little peWs, with walls about four feet high, were built with green houghsâ€"two to be devoted to the men and two to the wo- men dancers. These were mostly young peo- ple who had, when in imminent danger of their lives, vowed to perform this service out ‘ of gratitude, and to invoke the blessings of long life and prosperity upon themselves or theirfriends. As is usualwith the Indian, every ceremony takes the form of adanceâ€"a motion which with him Is simply a jerk of the body Without any motion of the feet. The pecu- liarity of the present ceremonial is, that the dancers must neither eat. drink, or sleep until it is overâ€"a length oftinie varying from two to four days. On this occasion it was to be only two days. Everything being in readi- ness the dancers to the number of about twenty of each sex, took their places in their respective pews. The bucks were gorgeous in paint, which had to do duty for clothing ; and some of them were got up with an ingenuity of ugliness tnat would Nellie Carroll’s Sad Demh~A Mother‘s S'I‘errible Discovery â€"’I‘wo Scoundrels: Who Mer ii [In ngiug. put a THE CHICAGO ABORTION. VOL XXIII. IIKH'I‘" DANCE. THE “'1‘ Vfiiézlern movuntebank to the L" V 15 from the skin of an American lion w . ':h_he wore gracefully over his shoulders , wire eight laria.ts,each representing ten 1161‘ 5 see that he had captured. He trod with it ' {flap of a kins 3““ "mm W°_ tummâ€" ’ f" Jaémfjmwrm*qder of mem. “011 Settmdlfy afternoon one Of the dancers “made medi- cine” for rain. A couple of hours afterwards the clouds gathered and a regular all day rain set in. This permitted the dance to be brought to a close without discreditâ€"the Great Spirit had accepted their services. Speaking of the incident afterwards the young man said he had made the medicine too strong â€"it brought too much water. The dance orer, feasting began; and here the curtain drops. ' ‘ .3“, was kept up, with but an occasional momen- tary rest, at the will of the drummers. These gentry, however, had an easier time of it, for there were several relays of themI and they could go in and out at pleasure. Having got the dancers fairly started we will take a peep at some of the side shows. The scene was varied a little from time to time as the sing- ing 'was stopped long enough to let some wise man cxhort the neophytes to practice [Indian] virtue, or for a warrier to recite his deeds of valor and bid his hearers emulate him. There were also some acts of heavy tragedy performed. One man had, a couple of wooden skewers thrust through the flesh on the shoulders. To these were attached the lines of a horse which the victim had to lead around the camp until the flesh gave way. But the surgical operator miscalculated either the toughness of the Indian flesh or the strength of the horse, for it would not break. After the victim had led his horse around the camp for a couple of hours the managers concluded to let him go and unâ€" ioosed the horse. At another time a young buck went in to “in his spurs. A piece of wood was thrust through the flesh of each breast and by these he was fastened to a couple of lax-inns suspended from the roof-pole. He then began to dance around the tentyas far as the lines would allow him, often throwing his whole weight on the line in his endeavors to break loose. But he was too tough, and had to be released after several hours’ exer- cise. Anothr 1‘ here had four page put into himâ€"two on his back and two in the back part of his armsâ€"on which four guns were suspended. Jluving remained “under arms” for the greater part of the afternoon he, too, was released. Many aluablo offerings were made to propitiate die gods. Children for whom the blessings were desired were brought into the lodge to receive them ; and as this is a religion from which they expect nothing for nothing, they brought in horses and other valuable presents, many giving all that they had. Grown people, too, aside from the dancers, gave freely of blankets and dress pieces to secure a share of the good things they desired. In their liberality and zeal they set an example worthy of imitation by many professing Christians. The public was also favored by a party of Assiniboine war- riors With a pantomimie illustration, or rather a sham fight, showing how they had attacked and killed three of the enemy. From the careless way in which they handled their weapons it looked as if they might at any time have a fresh corpse. One .fine looking young buck attracted a good deal of attention. Soon after dinner yesterday seven or eight politicians were smoking and chatting under the Woodward avenue portico of the City hall, when they were joined by a longâ€"haired, mil-irlooking, longâ€"waisted stranger who seemed just dead .with consumption. He leaned against one of the stone columns, and listened to the talk for a few minutes, and exhibited no great interest until one of the potty asserted his belief that Garfield would carry Ohio. .._- .... “ H-how much d-d-do you want to b-bet that h-he will ?” inquired the stranger, as he straightened up. “Oh, I wouldn’t mind a. bet of ten dollars.” “1’11 b-bet you one t-thousand d-dollars against two h-hundred ‘2" continued the sgmnger, as he went, down into his coat-tail p‘bcket and fished up an enormous wad of oumey. _ . . 1 Thé, bolitiéian crawfished on the grounds that he never bet, and the stranger looked around and asked :â€"â€" ”-fixéfeflxivreierno takers. Then he waved his wad of bills on high and saigl i M‘TI’Vli hallmark}: thue s-same b~bet that Gar- field will be defeated !” across the street, each man as dumb as a clam. The silence lasted for a minute and then one of the group remarked : “Well, it will probably be a close struggle.” “RVâ€"will it ? 1’11 b-bet you 8. t-thousand to five h-hundred that it wont b-be l" promptly replied the stranger. .. .... 1 ,1 “1...-.. ~_, 7 No one spéké ajgain for thirty seconds, and then the remark was made that both parties were prepariljngm: a strpgglg. .. V‘HStLru gle b be darned! I’ 11 b- bet you five 11- hundred to three h- hundred that there wan ’t be any struggle V" ~ 1 One or two men shoved their hands into their pockets and jingled their keys, but it ended right there. When the silence had grown painful the consumptive asked : “Do any of you g»gentlemen.notice any im- impediment in my s-speech ?" “Yes,” they all replied together. “P-put up your m-moneyâ€"one t-thoueend to two h-hundred that I don’t s-s-stutter any more than any of y-you I" exclaimed the me as he began to untie the string around his r0 1 of hills. . HIsthere 2111.3 7body 11- hele who \v- wants to 1) bet hat Hancock Ywill be 1’;lected I 11 b- bet him at thousand to five h- hundred l” Not a, hand moved, and after a minute the stranger yvgwed his money and said : blush. The squaws. on the other hand. were dressed with more than ordinary taste. At ten o’clock on Thursday night the ball opened. Music was furnished by an orches- tra. of half-aâ€"dozen drums played upon by chiefs. chief musicians, and headmen, accompanied by a wild song, bearable only for the admirable time that marked it. The dancers began with vigor, apparently careless of the fact that they had more than “an all- day’s job" before them. To add to the wierd- ness of the scene. each dancer was provided with a whistle made from the wing bone of a goose, ornamented with feathers and pigments of all colors. With every movement of the body the dancers piped a note, makinganoise like a lake full of beavers or apond full of toads. Hour after hour the monotonous movement “O‘r, 1’11 b»bet you five ~h-bundred even up that I d-do s-s-sâ€"stutter like b-b-blazes l” One backed softly into the hall. followed by a second and a third, and in a minute the stranger was left alone. Then he untied the string, peeled two one dollar bills off the roll and put them in his pocket, and throw away the “core,” which was simply a wad of blank paper. He had bluffed the crowd over and over again on exactly two dollars.â€"â€"â€"Detroit Free Press. â€"Not\vithsianding the fresh move taken by the Board of Police Commissioners there are still very many citizens who believe the position of Chief ought to be given to some member of the force. â€"An old woman described her happy cir- cumstances thus: “ I’ve enice little cot;- tage, a chest. of drawers and apianny, a. lovely garden and some flowers in my window, and (waxing warm) my husband’s dead, and the very sunshine of ’eav‘n seems to fall BLUFFING A CROWD RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1880. This feat was repeated several times. andthe lady then fired at a stationary ball. But here a certain unsteadiness of the hand was ob- served, and she was less successful, although her shooting in this way was. on the whole, good. She said she had been practicing in the sunshine all the morning,and heat and fatigue had unstrung her nerves. Laying aside the pistol, she took up thelight rifle, and with this she shattered ten out of fifteen glass balls thrown into the air by a man standing about fifteen yards from her. The balls were ntit thrown well, some of them descending in such‘ , a way that had she hit them, the glass must ‘ have fallen upon her face. Several times she lowered her rifle without firing, and requested the thrower to be more careful. She fired at stationary bails, holding the pistol with the look toward the ground, and closed the first portion of her share of the exhibition by shattering several balls in succession with a bullet from the small rifle,while she stood with her back to the mark and took aim with the aid of is looking glass, which she held on her . arm. When she missed, her husband has- tened to explain how it had happened, and on the much more frequent occasions of her bul- let striking the balls he took no pains to con- ceal his pleasure. He said she could use the large Winchester rifle better than the smaller one, but that it was a long range weapon, and he feared that fired at point blank range,it might send a bullet through the wooden fence four hundred yards away.and# flanger the lives of ,qersons passing along tl- . When ' s. in / laid aside the ri ' e_ as ,.. I. . A . skill. “evellinLQEAe pistol at, a tatio , ball, he held the weapon so steadily that me keenest eye failed to note a Vibration: and so surely as a bullet sped, Just so surely was a. glass hall shattered and the feathers scattered into the air. Then the attendant held a ball between his thumb and initial finger. and the 'Doctor pierced it so accurately in the centre that it fell to the ground Without any scatter- ing of the broken glass. This feat he per- formed several times, and then he took the short rifle. A ball was thrown into the air, and after it had left the attendant’s hand the Doctor whirled his weapon around behind his back, recovered it, brought it with Wonderful precision and quickness to his shoulder, and broke the ball before it reached the earth. He performed the same feat after turning com- pletely around while the ball was in the air ; but in shooting the flying balls with thepistol he was less successful, breaking only four out of thirteen. Then the Doctor took up the Winchester rifle and began to load it. He is very cautious in handling this weapon, and at all times, when not in the act of taking aim, holds his rifle with the muzzle elevated. This precaution probably saved the attendant from getting into his head the bullet intended for another mark, for the hammer slipped from Dr. Ruth’s fin- gers, and, exploding the cartrldge, sent the bullet whistling not a great many feet above the thrower’s hat. “I never hurt anybody.” said the marks- man coolly as be replaced the cartridge that had been discharged. “Accidents 01 this kind will occur occasionally; but, holding my rifle as I do, no harm can come.ofthem,” A remarkable exhibition of quickness of shooting and of manipulating the repeating rifle was then given. A glass ball was placed on the ground, and Dr. Ruth fired a bullet into the earth a few inches from it. Thecon- cussion sent the ball about eighteen inches into the air. and before it again touchedjhe grass the marksman had removed the ex- ploded shell, allowed a full one to be pressed into the space thus made vacant, and broken the ball. This feat he uccomplishedtwice out of four attempts, and earned arourd of hearty applause. 6.. . ., -. . 1 Then Mrs. Ruth stepped forward again, and levelled the rifle at a piece of glass about an inch and a half square, which her husband, standing about twenty yards away, held in his fiingers at arms length. The rifle cracked and the piece of glass, shivered into a small fragment. flew from the Doctor’s hand. Then he held between his teeth a piece of paste- board not much larger than the glassthat had just been broken, and turning with his side toward his wife, allowed her to see,perhaps, an inch of it protruding from his mouth. Mrs. Ruth raised the rifle, and then, lowering it slightly, said: Mrs. Ruth toek the pistol as soon as her husband had stopped speaking and levelled it at a. glass ball atufied with feathers,tha.t hung from a crossbar by a. piece of string, some twenty yards from her. The attendant had set the ball in motion, and as it swung to and fro the weapon in Mrs. Ruth’s hand vibrated correspondingly for a few seconds. Then the report rang out, the broken glass flew from the string. and a. cloud of feathers fluttered into the air. “M051; of you have seen Dr. Carver and ad~ mired his shooting; well, I propose to see if! and my wife together cannot equal him. Heia~ a good shot but he Went to Europe becausehzzr‘ knew he had no equal there; but here he feared he might meet his match. I am better» supported than he waswhen he shot here,aud although he has been married since then, his wife can’t shoot at all." "â€"'O"- .1 “I wiéh you could manage to hold the card pointing down a. little more. Your nose getsin the wqy."_ _ wDr. Ruth hastily lowered the pasteboard as directed, and his wife cut a small piece out of it with a. rifle bullet. “How careful she is,” said the Doctor, ad- miringly, as he held up the card, “She hitthe pazj fugthgat from my {1089}: i The feet was repeated twice. and then any one who desired to do so was invited to fire at glass balls hurled into the air. A few of the spectators, including Chas. A. Wingste, availed themselves of this permission with indifi‘erent success; and then Capt. Bruce, the famous marksman who upheld thehonor ofthe Ameri- can rifle team at Creedmoor, took the weapon to fire at the flying balls. He shot ten times and made the following remarkable score : O 0000 0000 Oâ€"Totalo. On Saturday afternoon twenty or thirty gentlemen and a few ladies were assembled ‘ around an oddly attired, sallow-faced man in the Brooklyn Driving Park. They listened to him as he described the mysteries of rifle and pistol shooting, of which he was about to give an exhibition. He was Dr. John Ruth, the] marksman, and on a small dealtablenearhim lay the two rifles and the long pistol with which most of his shooting was done on Pacific slope. Dr. Ruth. in his genera pearance, is not unlike Dr. Carver, and seems to be as accurate a shot. His f wears a resolute expression, and though 11 a Californian, his tawnymoustachean 10 make him looklikea NewEnglander. He :1 black velvet jacket, and on his breast h a. number of trophies won with his firearms. ‘ His wife stood beside him, and he told the 1 spectators that she would assist him in the I exhibition he was about to give. He said she was nearly as accurate 3. shot with rifle and pistol as himself, and added: An exchange has tthollowing,whioh ought to be read carefully by certain pafties : Time and again are reporters of town papers bull-dazed to suppress the names of Police Court delinquents. These men seem to think the favors they ask are but small, and they can be accomplished without any difficulty. The Exhibition Given by Dr..lohu Ruth and his “itsâ€"Marksman Bruce’s Score. DIDN’T PUBLISH MY NAfllE. WoNDERFUL Ellflo'l‘lNG. One morning about four weeks ago she saw an advertleement in a newspaper saying that .L'HLO one had a child for adoption. The idea occurred to her to take the baby and let hexi‘husband think it was her own. Upon the 1_ Aim M16 tuldlfiathaniel that she believed a thug-:5 gore} fbe gratified in a: short 0' ENS a. te L girl. Its mother \vdmiggégail‘fiflg’i‘flfllfi Wilmington family, and its father a. serving man. The young mother had come to this city to get some one to care for the babe. Mrs. Grubb seized the opportunity offered 1 and hastened home with the little girl while ‘ her husband was at Work. Upon his return Nathaniel Grubb was met half way by a neighbor with her finger on herlips. After the honeymoon had passed away a little/domestic bickering would sometimes occur, and to both it became evident that. they were drifting away from each other. To his mother the young man often ex- greased the belief that if he were a father e 0011ch be happier. This talk did not fail to mask the ears of young Mrs. Grubb, and she, 3Q), was more than once heard to com- ment/upon what the pleasures of a mother must be. He was told in a whisper that it was a girl. and that Maggie “was doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances.” Na- thaniel was overjoyed at the news and for a. time matters went on apparently well. Mrs. Grubb grew convalescent from a sickness she had not suffered, and the unsuspecting hus- band paid her and the little one every atten- tion. Clothing and a baby carriage were bought, and the ohildwas christened with due ceremony, Maud May Grubb. Last Tuesday evening a circumstance oc- curred in this little drama in real life, which brought to a sudden stop the happiness of the young couple. Grubb came home and was told that his wife had gone to B'airmount Park with the baby. Thinking to walk home with her, he strolled toward the Park. Upon arriv- ing at the entrance near Green street, he espied his little daughter in the arms of a strange woman, and the mother was nowhere to be seen. he accosted the woman and learned from her that his wife had offered to let her stay at their houseâ€"as she was without friendsâ€"until she could get something to do. and that Mrs. Grubb had asked her to “mind the baby” while she had a conversation with an acquaintance of her’s. At this juncture the wife was seen approaching in company with a. man whom Grubb did not know. He began asking questions, grey angry, and then followed a “scene." The result of the quar- rel was that Mrs. Grubb refused to go back home with her husband, and so he went, tak- ing the baby with him. Pmmdnnrms, Aug. 28.â€"â€"A story strangely suggesting the case recently before the Eng- lish courts of a woman of nobility who se- cretly procured an infant which she falsely represented to her husband as being their child and heir, is told in the Times as fol~ lows: About eighteenfmonths ago Nathaniel Grubb, then n‘handsome youth of 19 years, wooed a young woman named Maggie Mackral, his senior by a year and a. half. Young Grubb was the only son of a devoted father and 1 mother, whose chief thought appeared to be his happiness. They consented to his mar- riage, and also made preparations for him to bring his wife home. Nathaniel was a sturdy drover, "gal every morning would see him going any to his work on the banks of the Schuylkill. He was tall, with dark hair and smeoth face, and as his firm feet trod the dusty road, with his breaches stuck in high reaching boots. he looked the gallant yeoman that he was. His intended wife was a good- looking girl, with bright black eyes. Court- ship did not last long. Grubb wooed and ‘ Won, and Squire Clark of Lancaster avenue ‘e the pair man and wife. For some they lived in apparent happiness at t some of the parental Grubbs. They then cozr‘édded to go housekeeping, and accor- dingly procured a neat little frame house Upon his arrival the neighbors, who had learned the particulars, told him of the decep- tion his wife had played upon him. He was furious with rage. At another interview with his wife he angrily demanded that the baby be returned to its mother, saying he would not keep it. The ohild was taken back to the southern part of the city, but its mother had returned to her home in Wilmington. Mrs. Grubb then gave Maud May to 4m aunt of hers, with the promise that she would try and find her a home. Grubb’s wife, who admits the truth of the whole story, has been forgiven and taken back by her hus- band. ’l‘ryinl to Save 11 Link: Girl’s Life by Trans- planting a Piece of Lambskin on He:- Thigh. CHICAGO, Aug. 25.â€"The interesting surgi- cal experiment of transplanting a piece of the skin of a lamb to the thigh of a little girl named Agnes Sheehan, who was severely burnt in a prairie fire, has just been made in the county hospital. The burn would not heal, and the little girl has lain at the point of death for seventeen months. Almost every expedient knows to surgical science has been resorted to save her life. A piece of skin from her brother was at one time grafted on the sore, but did not grow. In this last in- ‘ stance sufficient cuticle was raised from the side of a healthy lamb four months old to cover the wound on the girl’s thigh, which is twelve inches long and four inches wide. The skin was carefully sewed on and left attached by one end to the lamb. Both the lamb and the child are securely fastened in a frame or box, so that they cannot move. They are carefully fed and watched, and in ten days it is expected that, if the operation is a success, the lamb’s skin will have grown fast to the little girl. A “'omnn’a Unlucky Ruse to Win Back ller nut-band’s Love. aimed for the express purpose of mak- ithful and correct reports of events com- nder their notice, and that the suppres- n or changing a. name would involve a. v. lotion of truth and duty. They cannot see it ; so the John Smith nuisance and annoy- ance goes bravely on, and will exist so long as the Police Court exists, and police intelli- gence finds a place in the local columns of the newspaper. The reasons advanced by the of- fenders for the withholding their names from the public could be classified in the language of Mr. Venus as “ warious." {EA IALENG ANOTHER’S CHILD HER (IWN. A N INTERESTING EXPEBH‘IENT They simply request that their names be kept out of the paper, or, failing in this, have Smith changed to Jones. No one will be the wiser for the fraud, and it would save the gen- teel oflenders untold misery and prevent their unhappy families from seeking watery graves, or making their exit from this troublesome world in some other such abrupt fashion. “ten, with ’tears (of the crocodile quality) ,etanding in their eyes, they plead their cause, relating in pathetic terms to the not over hard-hearted chroniclers of all the miseries that will befal them on the publication of air names. It is extremely diificult to make anions understand that the reporters â€"Boat race in future will be spelled bought .niua, on Thirty-fourth streeétgxrléréi . In“) 5 01111116112111 0:1) sea 9d unfail l .nghsh rivals. The establishments, chea continuil ' es, “ Off "‘ , nd than the clashing of swat _ a. dull thump is heard and the men or? “Halt l” This: = for; more than half an hour. I can only see the fac; 01’ the {heir 1m ye HALLE, July 25.â€"â€"To~day I have seen vivi- section but it was voluntary vivisectionâ€"I mean some German students fighting and making butchers’ meat out of each other’s faces. We went into a beer garden, in which was a shed (used for music). Groups of stud- ents and other men and boys were sitting about under trees at tables ; the students of the fighting corps, known by their little col: ored caps, were in the house or saunterini.y about. for there had been one duel and the faces were being sewn up. Presently a crowd walked out of the house, and everyone ran to the shed and looked in. The combatants were not corps students, and therefore not such practiced hands. They came forward, bandaged up, with great ugly shields over their body, spectacles over their eyes, and the right arm twice the natural size by reason of the wrappings. They looked extremely un- comfortable, pale, and trembling. The student hold up their right arm before starting, for they may neverlower them below the shoulders. Everything is now ready. A couple of se- conds stand behind and hold their swords. “0n guard i” “Let loose !" They begin to slash. They fight very badly, slashing at one another as hard as they can ; the swords are old, hacked, soft iron things. After some four strokes “Halt" is cried. Blood is drawn ; then they go at it again, after every four or five hits fresh blood being drawn and the swords being straightened afresh. So they go on, and the spectacle gets more and more horrible. The blood at first comes trickling down the face on to the collar, 9. great hairy thing which soon becomes sopping, then it falls on to the shirt, the breast of which be comes also sopping. 0n and on they go, getting very nervously excited, so that one man can scarcely gulp in the water which they give him wherewith to wash his mouth. There are a hundred or more spectators, among whom are two or three women and a little girl and boys. A lot of corps students stand round with ugly, seamed faces. One tall. small-headed fellow, with face covered , with scars, keeps the time. At last it is de- cided that they have fought enough, and they go out; but there are five more to follow, so we stop for another bout. This time they are two corps students, practised fightersâ€"one with a red, the other with a green cap. They have never known one another, but they soon get worked up into frenzy. This duel is even more horrible than the last. One of the combatants is a big vulgar-looking fellow, his face already nastily scarred. The other, a little lame man with a fair-sized mustache. These Slash away some dozen times before they hit. It is announced that the duel is t) Mt thlrty min- utes, unless a had hit is wade. Again a. few small cuts come first. 311‘? @1611 more and more. The big mar has his hp out again and again. and his forlhead and check; the little man is even worse Soon after each round the doctor has 1;, sop up their faces with a sponge. The bkod pnurs down; some stu- dents standing. bf; drink: beer and vat bread and sausages. may get so trust that after each round they Mm down or sink into chairs, their righ ' ' us still hold out: The. r "" "ha‘ theirisw ‘ we? . “mm 43*? I... a; 1‘“ continu lvvrieszfiaflmardl “,, ., ad) :_- r. “ Off !" nd than the clashing of swat ,notll‘ y a dull 'thump is heard and the men or? it “Halt!” This on. = for more than half ii an hour. I can only see the face of the 0] big man; its ugliness surpasses anything 1‘ e have ever seen ; his big lips open, the 0 lower one purple, very bloated, and 1! hanging; the nose swollen and bloated; 1"; the face a dull red color, save whereit was ‘51 streaked with the dark red blood. His eyes 17 were goggly, staring and bloodshot and his ‘2 hair had been brought over the forehead to 1 stick together the gushes" With such a face. 1 he stood limp against a chair, With drooping l shoulders, slouching figure, and blood dli'op- t ping all about him, from his matted hair to a the blood-dripping nose, the streaming mouth 'J c l ( i i x f t % Ilmmmmv- .werx and the red shirt. At last the little man gave the other what they call a deep cut on the forehead, and the end is announced ; the small fellow was beaten, for he was too weak to go on. 1 now for the first time see his face; I never saw anything so dreadful. Supâ€" ported by some students, he hobbled oh”, more than half his face literally one sheet of blood; the moustache crims0n,the black hair rinsed, the collar and breastplate covered With wet and half-congealed blood, and underneath the remains of former contests. As he walked ( off I felt such disgust as I never remember ( 1 feeling before. There were two more to come, ‘ ‘ but I could stand it no longer, and came ] away. But I am glad to have seen this duel- l ling. No doubt it requires a consxderable ‘ amount of pluck; but anything so utterly ] and unspeakably hideous I have never before I seen. And this is manly and chivalrous, ( they say I The unpleasant accompaniments ‘ of chivalry intensified, and Without a spark 1 of its beauty. .(London Society.) How long \v111 1t be before the nation awakes to the fact that the cure of intemperance is in the hands of Time and the people 9 Sir Wil- frid the Dauntless and those who think with him may indulge the hope that Parliament will sooner or later provide a specific and it would certainly be both unfair and unwise to assert that an appeal to legislation is ab- solutely useless, but it would be equally un- wise to deny that legislation per se is totally inadequate to cope with the Hydra-headed evil which is peemed, not without reason, the national curse. A nation looking to legis- lation, whether it take the form of “Local Option” or simply deals with such broad 1 features of the question as the curtailment or extension of the hours of sale, as a specific for intemperance, presents much the same ridiculous spectacle as would be exhibited by a private individual who called in a doctor and said to him. “I suffer abominably from nightmare, what can you do for me ?’ Dr. Licensing Magistrate knowing that his patient habitually leads a life of feverish excitement, keeps late hours in a vitiated atmosphere, and indulges freely in unwhole- some feed, tells him that he shall lead this life for eleven hours a day instead of twelve, and he will soon be better. The patient does as he is told but shows no sign of improve- ment, so he calls in Dr. Local Option, who gives very good advice, but leaves the fulfill ment of it to the discretion of the patient’ 5 friends. Many of these. with natu1al pa1~ tiality, do not like to force him to swallow the doctor’ 9 nauseous drugs against his will, and so through good nature the p1es01iptions are never made up. In plain words, neither the curtailment of the hours of sale nor the adop- tion of a system of local option can ever prove and effective antidote to the disease of intern- perance. The reformers of. bibulous Britain must dig deep below the surface and grub up the very roots of the evil. and when this is done the ground must be speedily planted with wholesome seed, or intemperance will only be replaced by some other weed as vile Duelling is now practiced among the Ger- man students to a greater extent than ever known before. The following description, written by a scholar of Cambridge, and pub- lished in the London Times, gives a graphic account of a recent encounter : And their Modes of Uni-Vin: and [lacking Each Other. WHOLE NO. 1,51 8.~NO 15 M '2 e'efy BIBULOUS BRITAIN. GE RLVJAN l) UELISTS 34/ WWI/P These matters of detail in the great tem- perance question may appear at first flight somewhat trivial, but life is an aggregate of trifles, and a wider appreciation of the importance of little every-day points such as these may do more to reform bibul- 0115 Britain than thelogislative efforts of a. generation. ‘1’)» V‘ V ' 'EHULI rt ..., Oanadian sauna“ 0:1) sed tld unfair competition .nghsh rivals. The latter, with their large establishments, cheap. fuel and cheap labor, can turn out salt at a minimum of cost. They are able to put it on the foreign market at'a very low rate, owing to the fact that outward-bound ships carry large quanti- ties of it in ballast when return cargoes are not to be had. It hence comes to pass that freight on Liverpool salt to Halifax, Quebec or Montreal costs almost nothing. Furthermore, Canadian railway companies play in to the hands of the English manufac- turers. For example, the Grand Trunk Coin- pany will take a car of salt from Montreal to Toronto for $11, while from Seaforth to Toronto, or about half the distance, the company charge $21 or $22 per car. That 1 is to say, the Grand Trunk tariff for hauling Canadian salt east is four times as much as for hauling English salt west. This, it seems to us, is a manifest injustice, for which the Government ought to be able to find a remedy. The Grand Trunk ought not to be allowed to discriminate against Canadian products in such a fashion. 1f the Grand Trunk would haul Canadian salt east as cheap as it hauls the English salt west which comes into competition with it, English salt would not penetrate beyond the Maritime Provinces to any great extent,and the demand for Canadian salt in Ontario and Quebec would be greatly increased. If a reasonable protection were granted to Canadian salt manufacturers, it would increase the salt pro- duction of \Vestern Ontario ten fold,‘ and in- crease in the séfme ratio the number of men and the amount of capital employed in it. It would greatly benefit the Ontario farmers, who would be able to get the refuse salt cheap for fertilizing purposes. It would tend to increase the trade between Ontario and the Maritime Provinces, for the cars and boats which bring down salt and flour could bring back coal. It would increase the intercolonial trade and give employment to our own people. We would earnestly recommend the matter to the favorable consideration of the Govern- mentâ€"Seqibrth Sun. fucturer‘g i from thc ‘ In‘thc advocacy of total abstinence prin- ciples, as in many like matters, the line of demarcation between enthusiasm and fanaticism is faint, and easily over- stepped. ' Charles Dickens, although he has been liberally abused for it. hit the right nail on the head in his sketch of the Brieklmm Branch of the Ebenezer Grand Junction Temperance Association, and it is a fact which may better be acknowledged than ‘ suppressed, that the element of absurdity which he here holds up to Wellâ€"merited ridi- cule, and which teetotullers wilfully introduce, is a powerful deterrent with many decent peo- ple who would otherwise openly avow their sympathy with a movement which in its main bearing is, in their opinion, wholly worthy of admiration and support. A third mistake, into which earnest advo- ‘cates of total abstinence are prone to fall, is an undue and altogether an absurdly exagger ated estimate of the evils of intemperence the blessings of total abstinence, and the danger of moderation. Not long ago a tee- toteller, a very estimable man, but positively rabid upon this peculiar question, deliberately gave us his opinion that every consumer of a, ‘ single glass of wine or beer was, not a pos- sible, but a probable, nay, almost an inevit- able drunkerd. New whet can excuse the arrant folly of such an assertion? It would be equally just and reasonable to say that every one who can write must necessarily develop into a. forger; that every one who marries must inevitably become an adulterer ; and so on through the gamut of our manifold sins and wickednesses. Surely the unquestioned and unquestionable evils. of, intemporance are terrible enough, without such gratuitous, unreasonable, and ill-advised exaggeration as this ! 'l‘wo ()nuaufinns Propose to Shoot the \Vlnirlpool Rapids. The idea of successfully making a trip from Niagara Falls through the terrific rapids and whirlpool, where but one boat, the Maid of the Mist, was ever known to miraculously pass, is now taking a. tangible shape. Saul Davis, owner of most of the great Falls on the Canadian side, says it can- not be successfully done. A gentlemen, of Clifton, accompanied by airiend, both ex- periencod sportsmen, makes the following proposition: That 1f Mr. Davis will deposit $1,000, to be paid to them for a success- ful trip in an open boat from Niagara Falls to the mouth of the Niagara. River, they will undertake to perform it. And if Mr. Davis will deposit another 01,000 they will agree to return by the same route, With- out taking their boat out of the water. The gentlemen making this proposal are L. H. Scholield, late an ensign of the Fourth Mid- dlesex London, Ont. third son of Major Ira Schofield, of Liindy‘ sLane reputation who escorted p1isoners f101n that battle field to ‘Kingston; and Col R. E. Perry, late of the thirty- fouith rcrviment eldest son of Hon i Peter Perry. They pu1pose using a Hudson Bay canoe, 23 feet long, in which they have 1 made many a perilons voyage. The money will not he claimed unless they successfully perform the undertakingâ€"Suspension. Bridge i Journal. â€"Not a Gumâ€"A little boy being told by his mother, to take a powder she had prepar'f ed for him, “Powder, powder,” sald he, puts ting on a roguish smile, “mother, 1 ain’t ' gun.” V___., w... ”you“ a leisure hour with profit or with pleasure. Philanthropists. it is true, are trying to remedy this state of things, and their efforts are worth all praise ; but no great result can be expected from isolated experiments in the solution of so grave aproblein, and moreover, there are two yawning pitfalls into which most of the wellâ€"meaning people whose hearts and souls are in the cause fall headlong. These are a “ goody-goody ” tone of treating those whom they would influence, and an air of patronage, probably unintentional, certainly insufferable, and apparently inevitable. Men and women will not sink their manhood and their woman- hood to the bun-and-milk level of Sunday school children at the bidding of temperance advocates, and it will be well to keep this in mind if any real good is to be effected. We refer more particularly to the ease of the working classes, not because we think intern- perance more rife, proportionately, amongst them, but because it is to them that the gos- pel of abstinence is most persistently, we had almost said persecutingly preached. that misery is an equally fertile source of in- tempemnce. What we want is “ more light,” ‘ so that trouble may be combntted instead of drowned in beer, and pleasure sought and found in something: purer and nobler than the gratification of the senses ; andthis can be brought about by the spread of education, consequent elevation of the public taste, and an increase of facilities for rational and pure recreation. At present the working classes are almost drlven to the public-house from sheer lack of any place where they can spend n 1‘: l as, or viIer than itself. It is hardly necessary to point out that a love of drink for its own sake is a comparatively unimportant factor in the question, and that the seeds of intemper- anee are to be sought. more surely in the myriad forms of mental and physical misery which are among the unfathomable enigmas of life, 'and in a perverted craving for recreation (save the mark ! ) . The fact that intemper- anee is a fertile source of misery is too fre- quently permitted to eclipse the other fact UANAIJIAN 'SA L'l‘. A lVIAI) FREAIC .wd W10 Develop nu .. Hagan-x. . ‘ 2’ {J’éfi‘ Véflm leeaeni '1' Ba ‘Wq‘mx