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Show AP a > eieeened THE AT “FORTY DO NOT iT THINK. MEANS YEAR,” FOR “OLD A: MOMENT, AGE.” The truth is, of course, that boys do not cease to be boys at forty. and now that this bubble is pricked, | have my doubts whether their boyish state ceases at fifty either, or at sixtyor seventy, for that matter. Nay, I met a man the other day who owned to sevenand-seventy years, and such was his coyishness that I was almost surprised into feeling old myself, in comparison with him. In short, my young friends, this whole affair of old age, about which you hear so much talk, is a canard and a humbug, which we who have existed a certain time impose upon you, ‘with a view to commanding your respect and services, ; Some well meaning — persons, possibly, being of a peculiarly credulous and impressionable cast, have been so far prepossessed by the insidious assurauces of their elders, that when they themselves arrived at forty year, they took it for granted that they must be old, and being themseives thus deceived, innocently carried on the deception. Others, ugain, may have been misled by certain syinpioms of infirmity occurring on the physical plane. The plausibility of the-e indications may be admitted; but they really amount to nothing, ‘the mind isthe man; the body is but an instrument. You w ould not cail a carpenter oid because his. turning lathe has begun to wear out. Besides, with proper attention, this bodily instrument can be maintained in an active condition long after forty year. Dr. Hammond, indeed, aiid several other tained the bodily powers, sages theory and of repute, that the death have decay itself, can main- of be the in- definitely postponed by a proper regimen. But leaving all extreme views aside, the man of 40 makes a great mistake if he allows ~ WESTERN |e rata regions of the Mediterranean, a very Paradise on Tuesday for the plaintiffs. inary is recommended for clean Company from and its directors building and certain officers, branch lines, show cause why it should not be continued until final judgment in ‘the action. The motion occupied arguing before Justice five days in Patterson ata Special Term of the Supreme Court in August and September last, and he has today handed down a decision granting the motion in its full scope, and enjoin- ing the defendants from proceeding with : the building of the lines above mentioned, or any other lines in Washington orIdaho Territories which would be in violation of the traffic contract men- How Old Think a moment. She tioned above. Was. Don’t you of Anarchists. The extensive preparations being made of Mrs. sons on her return to Lucy Chicago E. Parfrom her trip abroad are very likely to be knocked in the head by the police. The plan is ‘or an immense intend to meet pot, and escort accompanied by concourse of Mrs. Parsons her through a brass band parade old homein rests eal aera THE his g Bulletin, has views about it says, “and we appreciate the services which he has done for his party; but we do protest against any revival of that disease in the minds of a.good many Republicans which, for want of a better term, we must call Blainephobia. The chief symptom of this disorder is that the eyes of the victims can perceive only one manin the Republican party, and the outlines of hisnatural gure become Race in Russia. proceed. ‘I shall refuse to grant a permit for any such demonstration,” said Chief Hubbard last evening. “If Mrs. Parsons comes to Chicago and goes to her home in a quiet, unostentatious way, like any ordinary citizen, she will not be molested in any way. Butif she oranv its views a Colossus.” in this way: thing is certain, and that is that It ‘One the Re- House, but from some department. It is willing to do all that is fairto Mr. Blaine, hut it does not ask to have his image set up as an idol which every Republican must worship and bow his will to before entering the White House.” age een! cael oe 3 all his efforts, to steer clear of the many shorls.and quicksands that ire must have found in his way during his last interview wich \William IL. BG= Oregon Railway and and officers Navigation of Com- pany, to enjoin them from building branch lines in Washington and Idaho Territories,on the ground. that such building would be unprofitable and unwise, and would also bea violation of a traffic contract with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, entered into in 1880; and also in «violation of the so- world with oil. The constant drain on the petroleum wells of Ohio and Pennsylvania cannot last many years. The prospects, however, for Wyoming and Colorado are bright indeed. The fields already discovered denote that the sup- ply from them cannot beexhausted century to come. The possible ina oil de- posits are likewise found to be greater than first supposed. Nebraska and Kancalled joint lease claimed to have been sas will share in the full development of entered into in January, 1888, whereby the oil regions. With pipe lines to the the Northern Pacific Railroad Company ‘principal cities of these two States, manee of the the founders of that organization. died at his home in New York, from the effeets of wounds received during the war. reached Bonny from the Upper Niger that. Henry M. Stanley is proceeding at the back of the great oil rivers under the British flag, and that the natives are friendly. cipal, who was very angry. He carried|’ a walking stick, and at.once began to lay it on the back and shoulders of the Seal girl. Her clothing wasa poor protection against the blows of the enraged teacher who it is alleged: broke the cane to pieces on her shoulders. After the beating she crawled away to a friend’s house where she passed the night, whence she was later taken home and has been confined to her bed since. The girl is in a criti- Maruadvices received of Africa THE Ministry Germany Bible say: has from “A of Public decided study as a public-school distinct has Worship to courses. the west rumor in discontinue branch in the Pupils will still be required to learn the names of the Biblical books in their order, but will not be called upon to commit to memory the character of their contents. cal condition. Her body is a mass of sores. Her friends are very indignant Ana reement was reached in the Senate that the Union Pacific Funding Bill be called up on Dec. 12, at’ two p.m. The inference from that order is that the Re- and propose to bring the case before authorities. publicans expect to pass their tariff bill . through the Senate in one week’s time the and do nothing else meanwhile. ‘The World Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is seeking a marriage alliance with the Russian Over. branch THe Idaho Legislature convened Dec. of the Oldenburg family. is Atv. Eckerly, Indiana, nine men have been arrested charged with being engaged in a White Cap raid. THe Russian Gazette announces Hawkins was hanged at Riverhead, L. I.,on Tuesday, for the murder of his mother last October. man Noah Taylor by name was lynched near Harrisonburg murder a few days ago. La., for At the second test of the Bessemer cast-steel gun at the proving-grounds at the Naval ierday the pieces, mah was run over gun The gun made T. Brock place. pounds. Two appointed bunco men in Detroit in his tried. their game on a steamboat <aptain last Saturday without success. They were arrested and one of them gave his name as Henry Rice from Salt Lake. Tse dwelling of John E. King, in Cookville Tex. was burned together with King his wife and six children. It is presumed that the family were murdered and the house set on oe to conceal the crime, Bureuars tortured Uniontown. Penn., an for old the lady at purpose of securing money she was supposed to have in the house. They bound her and applied lighted candles to her feet, and bruised her shockingly with clubs. Av Ellicottville, N. Y. on Saturday, during a family quarrel, Farmer Clement. Hahn seems was beaten to death. There to be a doubt as to whether he was killed by his wife or his son, both of whom are in custody. BrakeMan J. Costello fell from a box car at Almy on the 7th. The wheels passed over him, severing both legs. His left arm was also badly bruised. He was taken to the hospital at Ogden weit Erickson, a pretty nurse-girl from Chicago, suicided in Pomona the 8th, by taking “rough on rats.” had been. seduced under promise on She of marriage by James E. Kendall, a Chicago stock shame, broker, and fled to escape heavy timbered inch in length was and sixteen feet one weighed 10,000 DurinG a debate on the Irish estimates in the Houseof Commons, Mr. Gladstone twitted Mr. Balfour and other Conservatives with having sought an alliance with the Parnellites before the last election. He denied that the Liber- als had soughta party advantage in an alliance which arose from a concurrence of opinion with the Nationalists upon the great lines of their policy towards Ireland. THE members of the New York Academy of Science, at a meetirg in Hamilton Hall, Columbia College, dis- cussed forest culture in connection with the question as to what the State of New York should do with its woodlands, and listened to remarks on the subject by Prof. E. E. Southwick, Dr. H. Nicho- las Jarchow, Prof. Hubbard, Daniel S. Martin, the Rev. Dr. J. C. Suenos and Cornelius Van. Brunt. Tue North German Gazette denies that German officers are acting as spies in France. The paper mentions thirteen French officers who were staying in Ger- many on the pretence of studying the language, and who were expelled between September: 22 and November I7, it having been discovered that their real all possible haste. Susan the numberless by the Pittsburgh Steel Casting Company been into platform it was on into fragments. The first charge was thirty-six pounds, the second forty-eight, the regulation charge. © A. Fosrrer postmaster of Bellevue, Idaho is behind $227,in his accounts. L. has burst breaking yes- Annapolis at Academy and unknown means for the protection of fish against infection, and for the treatment of people suffering from the consumption of poisonous fish. killed by an engine, eight miles west of An that the Committee of the Caspian Fisheries has deposited in the Astrakhan branch of the Imperial State Bank the sum of 5,000 rubles (about $500) as.a prize to be awarded for the discovery of Francis Asbury A. COLORED He hopes to solidify his position by marrying an orthodox Russian related to the Czar. Tue Emperor William, at Berlin, confined with an ear complaint. publican party does not want any oneman Administration. That is to say, it does not want an Administration which will be inspired, not from the White up like Minnes, here. Two weeks ago Lizzie Seal, with a couple of girl companions, after the school hour visited some friends who lived near the school. On their return to the school they were met’ by the prin- Milwaukee sums them Samuel coast A new gold find is reported near Lake City,Colorado which is causing considerable excitement i in that vicinity. before Briac.-Gen. Grand Army of the Republic, and one of the teachers in one of the government schools at White Earth has just reached Reno, on the evening of the 8th. will refuse to allow the demonstration to of the present directors A TERRIBLE story of the brutal treatment of a crippled Indian girl by one of up as Slavonic in so enlarged in their vision that he looms his bodily health cud strength to. deteriorate under the impression that they have seen their best days. On the contrary, the perfection of physical well being .may be and ought to be enjoyed between the 40th.and d0ih year. When we were boys in college we o* her friends think they can parade the Surr has been instituted at El Paso by exercised at the gymnasium and on the river streets of Chicago behind a brass band. gainst the United and the ball. ground. For ten years after as they did in London, they will find William F. Dreisman States Government for $293 for aiding in graduating we kept up our practive more or themselves greatly mistaken. There has less—we did not altogether lose the custom of the capture of Jefferson Davis, President it. From 50 to 40 the business of making a been enough of this foolishness in times. of the Confederacy at the close of the - living became so absorbing that we suffered nast, and anarchy will never be allowed late war. Dreisman says that he was a gymnastics to fall into a desnetude, which, if to parade the streets of this city again not absolutely innocuous, probably had no member of the cavalry forcesent in puras long as I am Chief of Police.” Very serious consequences, But at 40 or suit of President Davis and relates the thereabouts a certain .indolence _begims to: well-known story of the capture. When supervene, we tell ourselves that we have The Alaska Scandals. the captors were voted a reward by Condone chough and deserve a littie rest, and if we listen to this self indulgent whisper it is Mr. Daws introduced inthe Senate a eress, Dreisman received his draft, b«.t| apt. to be the worse icr us. | mislaid it, and never got it cashed. He Do not Listen to it, ic..ow travelers of forty resolution calling upon the Secretary of year! Take up once more that old habit of the Interior for information as to the applied to the Treasury Department for information, and received in reply a exercise that has tallen into abeyance, and sharges which have recently been made you will find your account init. Not that letter stating that a duplicate draft had that Indian women in Alaska are shameyou are to carry anything to extremes—to It is been issued to the administration of his labor two hours daily ina gyi: iasium, or to fully treated by U.S. soldiers. (Dreisman’s) estate in Suffolk County train for a race. You did that w hen you understood that the Interior DepartDreisman were in your teens, and once is enough. What ment has no information as to the mat- Mass., which was duly paid. is necessary is easily done. When you are in accounts for this state of affairs by sayter, except such as is contained in the the open air—and be in it as much as possireport of an Indian agent. The charges ing that he has been in California fora ble, either on foot or on horse vack—breathe deeply and regularly, and breathe through appear to be the result of a contest be- number of years, and that his relatives your nose. Eat no trash, and eat too little He insists, however, tween an agent of the Interior Depart- thought him dead. rather than too much of anything. In sumthat the amount is still due him, and mer, play lawn tennis, or row a boat. In men and an agent of the Treasury Deconsequently entered suit. autumn and winter, walk at a round pace partment. for at least one continuous houra day. By one meas or another, contrive to get intoa Cotorapo bids fair to vie with Wyomvisible perspiration once every twenty-four THe motion for a permanent injunchours, and rub dry with a towel afterward. ing for the distinction of becominga tion on the action brought by Brayton So will your wrinkles disappear, and your In the valley of the Ives and others, individual stockholders great oil State. gait lose its heaviness. And afier all, a body Arkansas, near Pueblo, a number of is but a body, and even if it be paralyzed, or of the Oregon Railway and Navigation disabled by a railroad accident, you must -Company, and by the Oregon and Trans- wolls have been bored, and the yield of not let it bully you into fancying that forty continental Company, which owns sub- petroleum is estimated at 1,000 barrels a year spells old age.—Julian Hawthorne in The dayis not far distant when ctantially one-half of the stock of the day. Once a Weelz. — first named company against a majority the Rocky Mountain beit will supply the The Slavonic race is a factor in the Renee of Euronve. A portion of the same, the smallest in point of numbers, is at the mercy of Germany; another, and more important one, is at the mercy of Austria: the third and largest portion submits to Russia. Russia maintains that her rivals belong to the Germanic, wi... she is of the Slavonic vace, and, therefo., « .:t she has a better right to the direction utd guidance of the peoples havin the same blood with herself. It cannot Lave been alight task for Alexanier III, hand “reds,” who at the dethe streets and a big Avenue. The police, however, are determined to frustrate these designs, and seein go 10 at Boise City. Renee very. loyal Republican paper, the Philadelphia ufacturine enterprises will hand with their agricultural interests.— ee Bee. decision contract, instead of which latter instruhave been so com- | delivered as tohave upon the parties to Mr. Blaine’s entering the Cabinet. “We have a high admiration for Mr. Blaine,” The World's News Repression He _ largely on this traffic upon the joint lease, mentis held not to pletely executed and been legally binding its present state. remembei one morning, just fifteen years ago, you told it to me in a moment of_confidence?— Washington Critic. . to her been granted by which had been begun, from Riparia to Hooper, and from Farmington and Endicott to Spokane Falls, and to the Coeur d’Alene mining region, with an order to Old Friend (to old maid)—Didn’t | understand you to say you were 28 years old? , Old Maid (indignantly)—No, sir; you did ‘not. I never said it. Old Friend—Never! Old Maid—No, sir; never? Old Friend (persistently disagreeable)— ‘or the reception had A prelim- Judge Van Brunt exparte on the 27th of July last, restraining the defendants, the Oregon Railway and Navigation sc tES: fre vared chals Saale Weel ee injunction yong “ pheno, WEEKLY. became entitled to a half interest in the A colossal empli'e th.s of HKussia,a confed- |existing leasé of the property of the eration of races bound together by thesword, Oregon Railway and Navigation Comand like to those armed tribes that overran Oregon Short Line and Europe in the Fourth and Fifth centuries, pany to the leaving the desolate steppes for the mild Union Pacitic Companies, was decided in the eyes of those born and bred in the midst of suowsof hyperborean climes, An The Body Can Be Maintained Long After ‘enmity of race to race, dating long ages back, pervades this vast military nation, whose Two Score Is Reached—Julian Hawdomains extend from north to south, and thorne’s Bit of Timely Advice—No Need whose people, like the Goths and Mongols of of Growing Old. old, wander from place to placeas if they bad no country of their own, sighing for The refrain of Thackeray’s song used to awaken solemn speculations in my soul “when Jerusalem, Cachemire and Constantinople, 1 was a boy ‘Forty year” meant, not as if they cespised the territory that has fallen to their lot. Powerfully built, after niiddle life simply, but old age—the period the fushion of savage races, robust, tall, red when freshness and buoyancy vanished, haired und pale eyed, you might take them when the apogee of existence was over, and for one of the people described in the early what remained of the terrestrial journey went down hill. 1 thought that a certain chronicles of modera history and sent by divine wrath to punish us for our sins. Russomber dignity and weight of staid experience might invest this remote epoch of life; sia Ceclares herself to be the defender of her Oppressed races, as these tribes claim to be but it did not occur to me that one’s career, the avengers of those captives that accom‘beyond that point, could offer anything penied the Roman victor in the Via Sacra better than reminiscences and makeshifts. S of those athietes that were hun:ed down And my chief consolation was that ‘‘forty i.: tac forests and otrered up as holocausts to year” was so incalculably far off, that, like a dranien ones in the circuses and naval the deluge, one might indefinitely postpone Colts, -Lun.» Castelar in Philadelphia any serious consider::tion of it. The dreaded date came, however, and is now passed, to gether with one or two of its immediate kindred, and the world and I still go on, as we have done alter the various dates specified by the Millerites for the destraction of the world. Thackeray’s warning was evidently one of his practical jokes upon the boys. He was pleased to dress up a bugaboo to scare the younger generation withal, a her |. Tur Cincinnati Freie Presse, (German Rep.) says of the re-election by the Georgia Legislature of Senator Colquit, who believes in prohibition: “This is significant, and shows the influence exercised by Prohibitionists in the Dep: cratic party.” FIveE colored men hace been elected to the Texas Legislature,and the Austin Statesman, (Dem.) thinks that this “ought to be an emphatic denial of the infamous charges made during the recent canvass that Texans were not in favor of a free ballot and an honest count.” object. was to gain information concern- ing German military affairs. The French Government, the Gazette declares, had been officially notified that the presence of French officers in Germany desired, and the journal was not expresses the hope that in the future there will be a better compliance with the notification. Tuer British steamer which was re- cently sent to Bagomayo, returned with several Indian traders and their families on board. They report that the town is wrecked. There was severe fighting on Thursday and Friday and the rebel loss was heavy. and two native Bushiri subsequently retired five miles inland. dependents A German were wounded. Bushiri captured two ivory trains in the interior and killed a number of porters who refused to rebel loss was 100 killed. join him. The IO Berges i a TS Ngan tint A sete ene |