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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-04-11, Page 2;&urKuww p,p$,'-o . �tO -+ w site ltzptwurri- -i Popular Church ws- Dux Ire$ * Out _to be•a tiaarina curator.. MoI1tlll}►iFr. N J., despatch soya: One -1P914 ail%onnding stories of piety and me has bean brought to light here, sad excited wonder and surprise amongst of Montolair. One of the most aesp• ectatele and respeoted citizens of thin town bas been James Tathi 1, • boss mason. Be name here item Peri Jervis Ave years es Gongregatibnal Church, and won the re- . meat and esteem of their neighbors ai,:•ifs:. cat; 3ellow-townsmen. He joined Excelsior Bose Company No. 2 and several social d (Aube, rind every one who knew him liked 1tim.• He never drank nor swore, was ever it' ready to hep any one in need, and =" eeanted his friends by the score. Many ist the retjdents of Montclair are men of Wealth, doing bueineee in New York, Tuthill djd work for them all, was re- ceived on friendly terms in their homsn, end eeemed in a fair way of amaraing a Xee 1 -Vivra Wile MAD ltiONal . •... }.."- 4«Mises ek a Galas of Coin Counterfeiters at Be collo. . A. Belo despatch of last night pays : For several weeks past the police have been searching for a gang of counterfeiters who were known to be operating in this city. They were located this morning on a popu- lar West side street, in a hoose occupied by Edward Spaulding, who is alumber by trade. The boarders in the house were Wilhbm Slattery, a book agent, and Mary to have passed counterfeit money. Upon siearching the rooms several newly-ooined tee ;aro s.ieeee anal a not+iuuY' fir bogus silver dolltire, together, with remade, diem, metal, etc., were discovered and taken. Slattery threw it Large iron spoon and a qu xitity of metal ont of the window while the officers were searching the hoose. At police. beadgnartere the man admitted that he had mads` the money found, oleo that he bad been very successful- He alao elated that Spaulding had manuffaotnred' a large quantity of counterfeit money. A Govern- ment detective assisted in the %reat. ""` ' BiteBAND AND WIFE NOV PRISONERS. To -day ail this is changed. Tothill is "".Broo klyn oklyn ; his handuosoner in the meowife iond s looked Jail, i+a jail at Newark, and their names are execrated by the game people who only a week ago were proud to be seen- on the. streets Witt them. The eminently re• Mable 'Xi. Tuthill has been found out So be the . realms burglar who for the poet few ' years ilea been robbing the , homes of the wealthy in Montclair, Glen ._$idge,.Bloomfield,Orange.andanrrounding- . towns, and hie wife is suspected of being Ids s000mplioe. Shortly after Tothill came here to live several bold burglaries were committed in rapid auoeession. As the burglar was, always masked no one could ever give a description of him. •i:nthill started a .movement to bring Pinkerton detectives' • there to chase down the thief. Mr. Tut - bill's house was never entered,- and while be was lond'and devout+ in his thinks tie ,� �e Almihtg, who spared him such a iisitatton, hei was active in oouneellin those who had suffered by the depredation ' wt the midnight intruder. ' BOBBED FRIENDS AND'STBANOERS. A week ago last Monday night the real dance of George Booth, a Mason er/tonal friend of Tuthill; was. entered y ibn lone bored* be thinlng' uof. moving to Montolair, was Mr. Booth's guest %has night. • As the villag r . clean was tolling 12 he was roused by hi bedroom window being opened, and a • built man lightly ' jumped into the room from the veranda. .. • Mr. Roierseon watched him and saw him coolly strike a match on the wetland .loo about. Then he deftly. ,abetraoted Mr Bobertson'g gold watch from his, vest, an the match wens out. The.%hie! Was intik lag another match, when -r. Roberiso jumped out of bed and grappled with him ""but the feilcw escaped. Mr. Roberseon awoke the household While he was telling his experience th — �areIs .seaa-lese than a k bloc"away gettin -r r9+, r 'i• ,. ;, ,- ri h arranging to go into thebusiness on a larger scale. Ten oent pieoea and dollars were the coins mostly teemed by the coun- terfeiters, and were of such excellent make. that it was with the utmost difficulty that they were detected, and a large amount of the spurious coin has been circulated in the city. Spedding and Mre. Slattery were arraigned before Commiesioner Fairchild this afternoon.. Spaulding pleaded guilty and was held in two thousand dollars' bonds Mre. Slattery's bonds were fixed at one ahougand..dollars..,.._Slattery .: will -be arraigned to -morrow morning. WRY POVERTY EXISTS. I have no doubt the tendency during the last thirty Sears in this country has been in tine direction. - A : Sym of Opinions of Yarionsly CE1sMUS. SUPT, PORTER. In my opinion the causes of poverty in ' went Mne• this country are to a very large extent - traueable to individuals themselves, I be- • �-`�-- lieve that much poverty and distress could to THE BLIGHT OF WANT• be prevented if parents- would -Mein that all their children, boys and girls alike, should be taught some useful and honor- able arcane o t earningtheir ruin living. There 1c-br".. ad-eaer G ta,t reteee:7eL'l eeea`v iii eeee e ours and eo, sparsely populated there atehould be any poverty that cannot be teaoocl io leek of thrift, or, in other words, to-oanses which no human law can prevent. Although my lite during the Iasi nine months has almost been made a Barden through the innumerable applications of all aorta and conditions of people for em- ploy ment, I am more strongly impreeeed than ever that the biting need to -day in this country is healthy, vigorous, strong and clear -minded men and women who are payable of doing something—who can, in other words, exercise alike the - gum. Bad Education and Lae.k --einisr''" iii'"='�r4 u sialisme, �,rtireai O-hee • _ O'ReWy and. M0Olena—Legislation i• anit. The New York World, interested in dis- covering why it is that there ia, every w inter, an army of 100,000 idle men in that pity alone, many of whose famtliee are charges on the city charities, has eubmitted to a number of divines and other promi- nent men the question : " What, in your opinion, is the chief cause of . poverty at the present time 2" Our rbadere may find a synopsis of the answers interesting : SHE WAS A SLATTERN, And •He Sharpened Bis Razor and Coolly, Cut Her Throat. • A Boston despatch of last night says Charles Kershaw, an Englishmen, aged 55 years, made desperate by jealousy, tonight murdered hie young wife in cold blood at their home, 27 Melrose street, in the south en .-.The.afl'eir :aadelil�ate-and-butches. gj like in. its ferocity. The couple Dame from m Yorkshire, England. three -years ago. They were poor but respectable. The husband, a morose, reserved man, was never pope: . lar, but his wife, 25 years younger, wee an ger/tonald , vivacious and liked company. Kershaw b disliked ibis, but was partionlarly jr-alone of one of the male boarders in the Marone_ lro� oust+, ..o -nig t t became home after htizwr. e ing a eoandal $bent his wife which - • dened him. He found her lying on the bed, slim- half dressed, reading, the day's waehing lying in the kitchen untouched and the house neglected: He ordered her to rise and Olean things np. She said she would k when ehe was ready. He turned away, say- . ing, • a 1 right, he would ehstre himself, and d got out his razor and mug. The former he sharpened, and, stepping•soNae she room, n soddenly pounced upon the ' prostrate woman, and forcing her head back, cut her ' throat clear to the spinal column. She did not scream, but in the struggle all her e clothing was torn off. • The murderer left t the room, and going to that of a fellow, boarder named Charles Levitt, coolly said be bad killed his wife:, Levitt, an ex_ policeman, carried. the assassin to the station.bone, , where he oonfeened the crime, said he wee glad, and gave the above detaile. Cm, "hat."—Ignorance and incapacity. " Why "—Voluntary idleness. OHAllNCEY M. DEPEW. - Lack of self-confidence is often the cess of failure. Many men seem to have no tattle in themselves, coaeequently no aesertivenees, no tedependenoeplea s ne pin and no plinth. They seem to be afraid to stand up and speak -Ott -for themselves a preter 16leanron others. Poverty in en oaaes is " inevitable. Lack of purpo, • vacillationwant of continuity in puree a: chosen-vocationand• the- • foolish • wish make a fortune in a day. - Ram ie t greatest came of poverty ; it is the oa of more poverty than all the other Daus put together. When a man drinks excites he lets go of 'everything. There a vast amount of poverty ceased by m who would rather loaf than work. Wh a man finds his mutaton in the world ehould remain constant to it, and n leave one trade or business to engage another for whioh he may be twfitte Poverty often results from Such ai 1 nese.—Bit y men to always a poor man. PROF. SUMNER. O one thing well. PROF. ANDREWS. It is fir from clear that the deepest canoes thereof do not, in spite of all our pbtlanthropio wish to the contrary, lie in human nature itself. I, however, frankly avow my belief that a considerable partbf the at present existing poverty is eatable. nn -There are dreadful- inequalities• in the oh social system wbioh need not be there and 8e, ought not to be there. Many are very poor mg who deserve to be better off. The fortunes to. of'men;tare'not in -sword with the'ix ' eoono he mio deserts. I hope much from the new use thought now directing itself to this subject. es As the last century has been one of great to advance in the physical sciences, the next is is to be, I believe, one of equal or greater en advance in social science. tion bogies sod then poverty snakes ita sp.. . pearanoe. At first It iet physical faroe that makes one man:richer tette hia neighbor. Ho teak t whits he wont ti vi t:t ct'ru it, butt es he becomes mare refitted tall u -,es hia intel- lect to accomplish hib ot,j ct, and ekiil, tact, cunning, ki,owledk8 bring him to the front. ' Ad long se bowel men have more brains and more mtnote than other men, poverty was exist. To. get rid of it we should have to return to that period of the world's hietory when mite be -gen to emerge 1 BW1 EB CLEWH. I Drick ! In one word th.st tells the chief cense of poverty at the pi ear at time in thio country. Of course I rneau excessive drinbiug, the kind- that leads to habitual drunkenness, and by blow degrees paral- yzes a man mentally and phyeioally. In this country, with ite magnificent reeonrcea awaiting development and its abundant opportunities in every direction td develop ability end win eucoeae, tberie. ie no excuse for poverty. But for the drink evil there would be,no poverty to speak of. I think e . et .e en interfereneeasth the litter o -.re in, ivi naa a core 'a "Iii- - spirit of our republican institutions. Ex- cessive drinking ie the evil and I think it can be met by wise restriction and regulaL tion. STANDARD OIL TRUST HOCREFELLE When salted, " Whet iii tha'ohi>? 9aaae of poverty in,rhis country ?" the possessor of a 819;000,000iziootr,r dui f:feed oat`"cif"the public by the methods of the. gigantio Trust of whioh he is Chief Pirate, iuetautly called his stenographer and lkgau to dictate his. answer: " Intemperance: And there be stopped. "That is all,"he said, turning to the, reporter ; " that one word answers the question f ul!y. " Saying which he was immersed in multi- farious papers, on hie (leek, while his secre- tary wrote out and handed the reporter the epigrammetio auhwer. ST,CK SPECCLAT R RUSSELL SAGE. " That's too bit_; n qu scion for me to> answer. My viewe ? I haven't any ready on that subject. You'll Lave to let nit+ out; I'meteo-heey: -' _ ' When asked if he agreed with hfell ow millionaire, Mr. Rockefeller, the- apient Russell declared : , Rockefeller says it's drink does it, Well, Rockefeller has art oat head—be right in his tipper etory." 3rrL .toren RL PRATT, Cr, BRdc.1{LYN. By�ldY't'me largest, erase of poor an people wbioh we alwaee haven our 'sego eines are;hoee who have ouine to want through intemperance. Next to drink, the greatest cause of poverty ii the restless and aimless character of roost of the yoting. men whom our schools are now turning out. But, of ooureo, there ,s, distress, poverty, trouble aad eon ow.iu the home of many a good than .eho. is not to blame for it. Thousands coffer on eiecoent of a lack. of useful education or beeauee of a fake, ' ednoetion—that is, they are , rot educated to make' work a pleasure. They have been perversely brought up to I3ok upon wcrkas a penisbment or a curse. Ae for me, after • years of consideration, 1 raid I would try -to hhelp.work out -the problem at the start with the child. The Drily remedy that don be sucoesef.mly applied is,the substitution • of a true education ler, thflee. i Ome en BEV. DB. LITCH]tAN. he Unequal distribution of the products of el labor is the chief cause of poverty at pro- d, sent or any other time, and the ' reason m see• wby ' ie that when one man gets what he he' iaz --has-�not-earned- another-men—ie robbed: The factors in the problem are rum and usury. There can be a condition—God grant it may Boon come—when enterprise n and labor will be " identical by reason of e labor owning the machine of which it now et+ forms a part`. d Wnile usury crushes enterprise, rum robe r- falseThi .--ee1Jaee-ei-}.,frrll••3�6 18 ruin mankind. • When natural monopolieso- are owned by all the people, when the pro - Y' dncer and the consumer are brought nearer et together, when usury is eliminated' and she e rum fiend destroyed, only the man born r sired will suffer poverty. LABOR LEADER M'NEIL. In a sentence I would answer that pov- d erty is sanded by the unchristian and an- d eoientifio methods of the produotiou and n aiatribntion of wealth. Wealth is the health of • society ; it is that whioh is for n the good of man. Material wealth (son- g stets of all material things that tend to - materiel health. There are two grand. All our civilization has consisted in' a attempt to abolieh poverty, to pat th hti'man race in poeeeasion of snob resonrc of"existenoe that is may keep distreee an misery at ,arm's length, if , it will ene g&ifioa emir oy the means wit ft • i Teach. We have paupers among use -pee pte,.that is, who Cannot pay their wa cannot earn the minimum required to exi in our society. They fall a onrden on th rest. Such ogees are accounted for eithe by miefortaue, or folly, or vice. So lon as they exist want of material comforts, which •. can -only be won by industry, sem peranoe, prudence, self-oontrol an fiugaluy, wid. be enflbrect by some, an poverty will be a phenomenon of hunts society That ell shoals ever become riQh ca my be put forward as an interestin poonlation, never to a practical proposi ion for the „essential conditions would be -that persone who fell -below a standard of physical health should never marry at all ; that no one ehoula marry unless -healready poseessed income enough to maintain a family on the estebliehed standard of com fort; *fiat not only crime but oleo vice should be pitilessly punished and rooted out by the segregatl:•n or execution of she guilty, and.that all ohild;en should be eau - cased' with more than Spartan severity upon standards distinctly modern. • Like all other prescriptions for the same pur- pose, however, shut is • only proposing that the sooiesy shall lift itself by its boot straps: BIG-HEARTED MET O'REILLY. • into she 'redeenoe of John Manuel, an- other Mason, and .s warm. friend of the mod Mr. Tuthill. Manuel was aroused • before the burglar got into his .,room, ilbough, and gave him battle on the piazza. The thief's mask came off in the struggle, and Mr. Manuel could hardly believe his senses, for the face he reoognized was that of his friend, the village favorite, " Jim" Tuthill. The latter broke away and got • off safely for the time being. . - Finally Robertson and Manuel had is warrant issued to search Tuthill's house. In the cellar of the house they Lound a gold and diamond mine. Buried in the party- wall artywall and thrown in concealed crevices were - , , iflOnda, pocket -era -511s, money, .braoelets, breast -pine, ear -rings, watch chains and every kind of jewelry, representing many thousands of dollars, and some which were stolen years ago. a• ARRESTED AT GREENPOINT. Tuthill escaped 'during the excitement, but a constable traced him to New York, e to Brooklyn and finally to Greenpoint, where he arrested him. He was taken to Raymond Street Jail. Tuthill' strenuously denied .hie guilt, and claimed shat if he were reallyguilty he was. not responsible, as be had no recollection of ever robbing grey one. . While looking for Tothill, Allworth die- oovered that he had also ,robbed at least two houses in Greenpoint, one the residence off Robert Herr ing;lit No. 103 Greenpoint avenue. He entered the house by the second story window about. 2 o'clock in the 7r, • morning while the family were asleep. ,rt' He aroused Mr. Herring though, and the latter found Tuthill hiding •in the parlor iindsmaehed the lighted lamp on hieehead, vetting the scalp badly, but the burglar jumped from the window, and escaped The wife wee arrested yesterday morning at her home, and arraigned before Justioe Morns, who committed her to the jail at • Newark. It .is- said that she has made .a " full oonfeseion. Queen Vic. on a Tour. A Landon cable slays : Among the im- pediments. wish 'which the Queen started on her Continental tour on Monday may be mentioned three coachmen, nine groom°, light horses, one donkey, three carriages, seventy-two trunks, three special bede, a special cooking stove, wine, two dootore, one surgeon, one surgeon acooncher for the Prinoess Beatrice, three ledies.in-yvaiting, nine women servants,. one lord, two equerries and seven does. Her Majesty was in an nnusuelly gracious mood, and on the Dover train Sinned sweetly on Prinoe .attenberg, now completely teetered to Royal favor.- -- Indeed; thee eddielad him twice as " Lieber Heinrich" (Dear Henry) in such aloud tone of voice that the Qneen evidintly intended that those of her lieges 'Within earshot should hear. .,• George IYn Blearier, the famous cartoonist 9 London Put*ich, is writing a novel which lie will illustrate himself. 'The, new Gennep Chancellor, General •'te'vi, is an inveterate smoker and mod. inker. He manifests a marked or wine tater beer, 'which he $rely and sparingly. on rosemary," as the daughter in the early MORE BRITISH COLD . To be invested In Raying up Yankee Pape and Pulp Mills. A. -•Mess 'and don, Ens atertown," N. Y., despatch says : . Bertram, of Edinburgh, Scotland, egelin, March, and Young, of Lon- ngland, representatives of the great ieh paper, mill syndicate, are in Water awn makti g•an investigation of plant and business of the Remington Paper Co., which hag extensive paper and pulp mills in this city. A big deal seems about to be consnmmaoed. •If the report of the experts is fovorable this and other large plants will become the property of the syndicate within a few weeks. The concerns involved in she transaction are the Remington Paper Co of this city ; the Hodson River Pulp and Paper Co., of Palmer's Falls ; the Glens Falls Paper Manufacturing Co , and the Rochester Paper Co. The syndicate repre- sentatives have now visited all the Rochester mills, and when that plant has been in- spected they will make a'• report a8 to the entire prbperty. If their report is favor- able the trenefer will probably be made within a few weeks. The united mills will be managed upon a capitalization of about five million dollars. One-third of Oen stook. is to be held by the present owners, of. the plant. A Sugar Refinery Explosion, A Chicago despatch of last night says ; An explosion occurred here this evsnieg in the Chicago Sugar Refinery Company's plant. One man was fatally burs, and twenty others Beverley, burned. The 200 men in the -building, when • they heard the report of the ekploeion and flaw the glare of the flames, were panto-etricken, and rushed down the long, narrow stairway headlong, and•ont into the sir. It was some momenta before Ailey realized the position of those who were working on the floor' below where the explosion took -place. With the aid of eighteen fire•engine Crewe the big refinery was barely saved, and by lively work a score of braised and maimed victims were soon deposited on hastily improvised couches. • Be Shot s Priest. A Baltimore despatch Says: The town of Texas, thirteen miles from here, was thrown into great excitement to -day by en attempt _to aesaesinate .,Rey. Patrick B. Lenneghan, assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic church. The priest was to cffioiate at a funeral, and watt in the church reading his office, while waiting the arrival of the body. Richard McNichols, without a word of warning, fired at him five shots from a revolver, three of Which took effect. Father Linneghen now lies in a critical condition. McNichols has been sexton of the church six months. He,ia givers to drink. Dr. Brunk, en eminent Paris phyeicidn expresses the bel it! that cancer is a microbi disease: Mtn. 'Stephen Collins, of Suspension or Bridge, committed anion Monday at di Lockport, N. Y., by ou t,g her throat, ie a i",e r., � r ' ''-her-marses-ar'e-poor, rgnoran an re- organized, not knowing, the rights of man. kind on she earth', and never know ing that the world be:ongs to its living population, because a smelt class in every country hue taken possession of property and govern. ment, and makes laws for its own safety and the security of its plunder, educating the masses, generation after generation, into the belief that this' oonditwn is' the nasurel oreer and the law cf God. By long training and submission the people every- where have tome to regardtheeetesumption of their, rules and owners os the law of right and common i:ene%,.,. tad their own . blind instincts, which tell`theni that all men odght to haven. plenteous living on ;hie rich pianist, as the * rnpungs of evil end disorder, r he qualisies, we naturally dialike ;and fear In a man are those which insure snpoees under our present social oraer, namely ehre'wdneea, hardness, adroissnees, Relfishnoes, the mind to take advantage of necessity, the will to trample ou the weak in , the canting name of " progress" and " civilization." The finalities we love inn man bene hiin to the pporhouee�generoe- ily, truth, trnetfnlnese, frienahness, nneel'- flehoeee, the desire to help, the heart to pity, the mind to refuse profit from a neighbor's lose or weakness, she defence of the weak. Oar present civilization is organized. in - .justice and 'intellectual berbariem. • Oer progress Is a match 10 a precipice. 'lbe Sermon on the Mount and natural justice oan rule the world, or theyµoannot. If they can our present ruling is the inven- tion of she devil ;• if they cannot she devil bee a right td rule—if the people let' him— but he ' ought not to call hie rule " Chris- tian civilization." • • , • PROF. ADAMS. I think we shell'aU be obliged to admit" that poverty is one of the necessary con- tingencies' of .eiAlization., In a country where liberty pre oils the diligent and, capable have the opportunity of rising' above the indolent and incapable. Where there is perfect liberty 021 the parv�oo! indi- vidual men, Borne will rise and others will fell. This is the result partly of superior intelligence, tartly' of inability and,partly bf error, bat there can be no possibility of removing poverty, excepting by a course of legislation which will takeaway opportnni• ties. Hence it will probably always be found that where there is thelargesthberty of individis;al motion there will be thelargeet int gnadities among men. Another cense of poverty ie no doubt in the netnre of much of our lrgistation. It bas tended, I think, in many ways to in - ease the.cppartnnitiee of the rroh and to minieh the opportunities of the, poor. ' It not easy to point th:eee out in detail, but F divisions-unprodnced- and p reduced wea7ti The metbod'by which wealth is controlled, value added and distribution effected is unchristian because' it is unjust and inequithie, unscientific because is is ei wasteful of)iumen life and material: IGNATIUS DONNELLY. " There ie more productive power, and therefote.mcre property to -day than ever before. Therefore poverty is not due to a -decrease in the quantity of property. The cause of poverty is the unequal and un- fair distribution., of property, whereby those wto create it obtain little of it and those who handle it become possessed of moat of it. What is the reme_y? Governmental_ in ervention, . in the intereet of " the general: welfare," to increase the rewards Of labor and decrease the aconnrnla1Ions of cunning. in other' words, to increase the incomes of the millions and decrease the wealth of the ihcneande. Vast fortunes are a source of danger to the nations and a threat • to • republican inetitusione. Any superfluity of wealth above a sufficiency to purchase the comforts and luxtuies of life is a master of useless vanity and a etepping- sltone, through destructive corruption of the poor, to undue power in the Government, wielded always to procure farther accumn- lesions of wealth. . , REV. DR. teertTnrR. ' Whatever may be the cause of poverty, we ought to give, and give wisely and liber• ally, to the poor. Tnere'ie no duty urged with greater frequency end greater em- phasis in .the Oid 'testament, or the New. REV. DR. BIICHLEY. Forty years ago"there was no need for real poverty in the United States, except in very few cases. taut with the advance of civilization we have developed new wants. Most of the things needful for the poor have se be obtained by money. In the country you oan get whatever you need by barter, but in the city you cannot. This shows that poverty is caused by lack of money. Yet only those who do not work lack money. • Paupers may be divided into three classes. Those who will not work, these who cannot work and those who would work it they could get •it. ' Those who will not or cannot work must beg, steal or die. As for those who want work and can's get it, from my soul I pity them. The -reason of their failure ie goner. ally that they can do only one, thing and that nobody wants done.'Ake •' REV. DR, M'GLYNN. The lieu. Dr. Edward iecGlynn says : " Poverty is chiefly canoed• by •injustice, and the grease et 'injustice of our time is the denialtomen-of•thetr God-given birth. netts of accese to the land and its natural opportunities. There would be little or no poverty anywhere if the monopolization of the land by a favored few was prevented, by the legal'recoe,nrsion of the truth enun- ciated by Jefferson, that ' the land belongs in usufruct to the living.' The remedy for poverty, the one thing shat would elevate the masses of men, is not charity but jnetioe. I do not believe that God gave the earth to any set of . men, who thereby ,were to be able to 'become rich by taking pretty much all therodnote of labor." p D 1. IIA M3tOND. In my opinion the ah ief comic of poverty eh ?- 'e all Swift -Flying 13-0e1cte. It -hue been computed that the common house fly in 'ordinary Ei.:ht makes 'G00 - strokes per second, and aovot.c s 25 feet, but that rate of speed, if the insect be 'alarmed, may be increasers six or seven; fold, so that under c'rtabn circumstances it oan outstrip the i3•.rteet !fief. twee. It is no uncommon thing to See 'a flea or weep endeavoring to get in at the window of. a railway train in foil speed, &Lint it is.,ealosi- rated that, 1f a shall insect can fly faster than a race horse can- ran, an insect as large as a horse w, uld be able to travel as fast as a cannon ball. Leunweholk- relates an ea, icing chess which he beheld in a mr-nek,erie abont•100 feet long, betweeo a swallow aid a dragon fly, among the swiftest of ur.eots. The insect flew with 1. creci',h, speed, and wheeled wish stub rapidity that the swal- low, in Spitelhof its uteD,,rt efforts, com- pletely failed t'd overtake -anti capture it. A pigeon fancier of Hammel Germany, recently made a- wager that a dozen bees liberated three mil's froze their hive would reach is in' better time that, a dozen,pigeons would reach their cote frorn tris same -dis- tance- The competitors were given wing at Ree bete, a village dearly a league, from Homme, and the first bee reached home a quarter of a minute iu advaoce f the first pigeon - Three other bees reached th cal before.. the second pigeon, the main b dy of both detachments finiehiug almost simultane- ously an instant or Iwo later. The bees, it may be mentioned, had hien h'ndicapped in the raoe, having been rolled in flour be- fore starting, for the.porpose Of identificee tion. Aecurding•to Chabrier, the male of the silk worm moth travels upward of 100 miles in one day ; and there are • many Britieh moths, as entomoloeieta well know, which can cover long distences in an in- credibly short space of tittle.—St. Janus' Gazette. A Slander Punished. Rev. J. H. Rylance,rector of St. Merk'a Episoopel Church, 'New Yo k, has just peen awarded 810,000 damages from'Lew- yer Nicholas Quaokt-nboe, on is vestry- men, who, with others, accused him of undue attentions to ladle of his flook. When first accused, the reolor, to prevent scandal, Offered bis resignation, but when he saw that did not stop talkhe withdrew it and brought suit for scandal with the result noted. It is coneidered atrocious taste to wear a ring on the first finger. Chicago hese GOO women's societied, in- cluding 30,000 women. Bismarck is Raid to have a wonderful capacity for tobecoo. He has been palled a ketter•raucher, or " chain smoker," that is, a smoker who unites dinner to breakfast with an endless chain• of otgare, ligbting a fresh one as soon as the one before it has burned to,a stump. • "Humph," said Mrs. De Porgte all she laid dowp her book, "this writer says tho dodo is eittinot." " Well, mermma en -at the present time le civil.zation. Poverty pose it does?" "Why'", anybody of moll - never exists among utter berbarisne. Bat' nary intelligence knows that. They• os y. With refinement and education differentia.' ditto mark° rowed $ s " •