Aetee boring to a depth of 1,135 feet
at Lafayette, Indiana, for natural gas, a
strong vein of salt water was fonnd, and
the enterprise was abandoned.
The condition of the winter wheat in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kan
sas has improved daring the past week,
although in some sections the need of
rain is still urgent. Spring wheat looks
promising in lowa, Minnesota, and Ne
braska.
In producing the memoirs of General
Grant, there were used gold leaf of the
value of $21,63!). over 26 miles of cloth,
35,000 skins, and 006 tons of paper. The
commissions paid to agents exceeded
$1,000,000.
Mb. Nash, superintendent of the rail
way mail service, learned by his recent
trip the desirability of running the Lake
Shore fast mail cars into the Union
depot at Chicago, to avoid a transfer by
wagons nt midnight and lessen the
chances of missing connections to the
westward.
Charles Simmer's Kindness.
Boston Record.
"Do I remember Andrew J. Roberts?”
quoth an old state politician. "Y’es. He
had a checkered career, poor man. But
with all his shortcomings ho was bright—-
indeed a brilliant —man. He was a great
politician years ago, and not only took
extraordinary interest in the great quest
ions of the day, but knew intimately all
the public mon. He was well read, intelli
gent, and a good talker, but he had a
falling. He could not be depended upon’
and at times was helpless.
