Show WHAT IT COSTS UNCLE SAM TO KEEP HOUSE the appropriations voted by the second session of the congress to pay for the current expenses of the government during the coming year and to supply the deficiencies of the last fiscal period amount to the pretty little sum of 61 the ariley army takes the navy mr nir seward receives two allowances 0 of f 30 each for his atlantic cable bills and the postmaster general gets worth of twine the military academy at west point is very liberally provided for at an expense of of which that eminently useless body oay the board of visitors consumes and another 5 gogo ogo is applied to an enlargement of the cadets cabets laundry which we should think ought to be big enough now to keep that dapper little company of soldiers as clean as a row of new pins the printing of our government money costs tho the management of loans and notes cannot be effected for less than and for the detection of counterfeiters counterfeit ers we have a bill of our expensive old friend pub doc doe dances into in to the tune of 9 which surely ought to make congress ashamed of itself the charge under which it strikes us that we get the poorest equivalent len ien t for our money is that of for the department of agriculture the purchase and distribution of seeds which wants coas costs and the botanical garden where mr commissioner newton raises hot house flowers for members of Cop congress gress is supported at an outlay of c 1075 ten thousand dollars for bouquets but after all that is not worse than the I 1 legislative I 1 appropriation of for horses and carriages a little bit of luxury in which we mistakenly su supposed 0 sed the common council of new york tp were unrivalled the most moat bewildering thing of all is the list of appropriations for keeping our public officers warm here for example we have for heating beating the supreme courtroom court room boom for fon heating the tiie cadets cabets mess room at west point for heating and ventilating apparatus for the public buildings 1000 korthof worth of ditto for the library of congress worth of fuel for the white house worth of fuel and lights for congress for beating the capitol 2000 for fuel again at the white house and capitol how in the world it is possible in a single winter to consume such enormous quantities of coal is a problem quite beyond our comprehension there is an item of 55 for lighting the capitol and emte white house besides which the illumination of the wot Vot rotunda rotunda unda by electricity involves an annual a expense of and the government has to pay an electrician 1200 a year to attend to it V x Y tribune INSPIRED ELOQUENCE mm in ln one of the most populous of the western towns of massachusetts resided two orthodox deacons one deacon biddell a wealthy resident of the principal the other deacon crawfoot a plain farmer and living in the outskirts upon the mountain side during a protracted meeting held in the village deacon crawfoot came in to attend it and received and excepted an invitation to dine with his brother deacon the latter it was a good many years ago had champagne on his table and asked deacon crawfoot to take a glass of wine no said deacon C 1 I never take wine but I 1 I 1 urged his his entertainer this is as s gardess harmless as cider and no more intoxicating well replied the farmer if that be the case I 1 will drink of it and he did drink and drank freely the dinner ended the brethren returned to the meeting which was a conference very soon after entering deacon crawfoot who evidently felt the inspiration jofh of his is generous onerous dinner started to tonis his feet and ayat alft addressed essed his brethren as follows it seems tome brethren that I 1 never had bad such spiritual views and emotions as I 1 experience now and I 1 thought it best to enquire wether these are confined to myself or whether this may not indeed be a pentecostal penta panta costal season why brethren I 1 never had such spiritual views and emotions it seems as though 1 I was sitting astride the roof of this our consecrated temple the organ swelling I 1 beneath me the bells pealing above me and every shingle on the meet mee inglus playing on alews harp |