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ij! fftaintlcalti I. VAN SLYKE. CdMr M ftiMisher. MoHENRY, ILLINOIS. •v», v* •CEKIY IEWS REVIEW. Tim leading clergymen of New York vrbo h*f had the opportunity to gather definite kMwMgt regarding ths revised New Tests- tppMr to be greatly in favor of the new m Tbo presence and spread of typhns in New York are viewed with much alarm W prominent physicians, especially M the Jmvets «f the city are in ao filthy a condition ^ eren ordinary diMMff, which generally yield to simple remedies, ate now aggravated and Faara of an epidemic are ex- WIMJAM A. PABKBB, the oldest printer la Boston, who serred in the War of 1S12, has gone to his reward Joseph E. Temple, of Philadelphia, heads with $25,000 a subscription to erect a monument to Geu. John F. Reynolds, who was killed at Gettysburg. A RIOT, GROWING out of last fall's elee- tian, occnmst in Troy, N. Y. Michael Quinn, John Mac&ey, and a man named Stapleton were fatally s'boi, and John Reynolds and one •r two other* dang^rcHisly wounded. Sons months since a monkey escaped from a mnseuui in New York and bit off part of the nose of a little girl. An action for $50,000 was brought br her guardian, and the Jsry a wanted £8.500. THK honor of his family, has been acquitted on ths ground of temporary insanity. FLAMES which broke ont in Fontenot's Hotel, in Now (Cleans, destroyed nearly every building on St. Denis street, causing a vesf heavy lass. CHARLES DOTTKT, ft traveling Rales- man for Enos Richardson A Co., dealers in jewelry in New York, was robbed in a Baltimore hotel of about f10,000 worth of gold chains. LUCINDA FOWUKES, a colored woman, was hanged at Meherren, Vs., for the murder of her husband Abram Martin, a negro, for killing his wife with an ax, was hanged at Abbe­ ville, 8. C. He left a family of fifteen children. ... .Fifteen men rode to Mr. McLauren's house in Ura'da, Texas, and murdered him, his wife, and a young man who lived with them. WASHIN6TOII, ltcTE, a Socialist leader of Chicago, has wiittsn an impertinent letter to President Garfield, in which he says the President is as •'much of a despot as the Czar of Russia;" that in all republics tho people are oppressed IJY the rulers, and this is particularly true of tJho United States. This Socialist concludes hi* letter with an opinion that President Gar­ ths latter could never hold proper ofBofal relations with liim; 1li»t next Deceml'cr there would be lK umisU'd for Sergeant-at-Anui a gallant Union soldier, who boars U»<> wounds received iu IckdmK troop* on the tttsid ol battie, au<l etery Democratic Senator will enpport him, and he believed the nom­ ination would be made* by * Republican Senator. Beck declared that IiidtUeberger wou.d never be elected Sergiaul-ai-Ariua. Senator Blair offered a resolution in the United State* Senate on Tueadar, April 19, which declares th«t the pnbllo interests require Ocmgress to be convened immediately. In rapport of the rseolution, Mr. Blair stated that a recent decision of ths United States Supreme Court meant the ruin of the hceiery Mid V nit-(foods industry of New England unless amendatory protective legislation oorsriac that point if adopted. He aJxo urged in favor of hia resolution the necessity of Congressional action in referenoc to the De Less BPS osnaJL The dead-lock continued throughout the day, with no prospect of a break. The President nominated Oen. James *«on>j- Street (now Minister to Turkey) to be United States Marshal of Georgia. and Philip H. Emerson to be As­ sociate Jnsttoe ol the Supreme Court of Utah. The time of the Senate was mainly occupied on Wednesday, April30, by a discussion between Messra. Dawea and Jonas as to whether Massachusetts or Louisiana was most free from crime; a speeoh from Senator Frye, In which ha arraigned the Democrats for knowingly acting contrary to the constitution • a brief butexclted discussion between Messrs. Butler S£3Si££L' "if %L5L& nitro-glyoerine. A Washington dispatch says " the President read the letter and was amused at its impertinence.".... It is cxw-ctod that several changes in the mili­ tary divisions of the Southwest will soon be an- cilettly, and emphatically stated that Butler's asser­ tion that there was a corrupt bargain between Malum# and the Republicans was false; and the usual spar­ ring between Brown and Hoar. The Senate adjourned without doing any business. President Garfield Oot HKKBT W. FARJIAR, tor many ywrrs, until recently, taurines* manager of the Chicago Evening Journal, died of apoplexy at 'Ms k»w in that city In a test case to de- ftfTx-ae the legality of the celebrated Anti- Trfas-ag law cf Wisconsin, it was found that tiff law was itsopt raUve, because of error in the cf it* supposed enactment. The bill as ds*wTi apeciSes'the repeal of an old lav that w*t dropped «b'u the State statutes underwent tb«r nee* revvnao. MR Msllory. of Mil- wu&wv held the law to be inoperative and •SKL JIM PrriNZ, an escaped convict from Cytfmaa ni lynched at Lai Vegas, N. ML, far aa attempt at murder The Cincinnati Ctttmber c& Consaaearc* ha# leased Pike's Opera i for thnw and wili remove m Jan- , .Tbf- Exodas Committee in Kansas has ibated 0T^ 100,000 &£)groes &»d turned U.000 into Other Statea A malms ast form of hootf disease has broken cut among the horses in Chicago.... The north wing of the Insane Asylum at Anna, HL, was burned, causing a loss of §200.000. One patent perished... .Mrs. Catherine Evans. nounced. Indian Territory is to be j nt back I sent the following nominations to the Senate: into the Department of the Missouri, and Ar- Richard A. Elmer, of New York, to be Sec- kansas into the Department of the Gulf. It is ] end Assistant Poatmaater General, vice Thomas « it u ^ ClUrtftoM w;JI iiA oirrati HaavI- j J. Bradiy. of Indl&niti resigned; W. A. M. G ier, of ^so thought tren. Schoheld will be given head I p,.IIIJS?lv(Uli0i Thir(1 Assistant Postmaster Oenerai, quarters at St. lx>uia. j ^ J) Hasien, appointed Assistant Attorney Oen- TKE table of receipts and expenditures ; erai of the PostoflicM DepBrtment, and George B. . , , . .. . ,_ i Sverett, Oollcotor of Internal Revenue of the Fifth of the Government for tho nine months ended ^ district of North Carolina, vice w. u. whcoier. March 31 compare very favorably with those of the corresponding nine months of the last fiscal vear. The total gain in receipts is about $22.#tK>.000. The surplus for the nine months is nearlv f30.(»0,000 more than that for the first three-quarters of tho last tisca! year. As the surplus for the current quarter can hardly fall short of $38,000,000. tho close of tho fiscal year is expected to show the vorv remarkable surplus of _ $100,000,000.... The Treasury Department has issued $10,000,000 of new bond's, bearing 3>s per cent. They dif­ fer only from the old ti's in having ti)e new conditions printed on the back. THE new Postmaster General promises to reform the system of letting mail contracts, and to make the department srlf-susUumng There was the usual waste of time in the Senate on the Slst inst, and more than the average number of petty wrangles. Messrs. Dawes and Cameron had a dispute about a question of adjourn­ ment; Davtt had a discussion with Call about the freedom of voters in Massachusetts; Dawes had a dispute with Sanlsbury on some trivial matter; and Wade Hampton and Jonas glorified their sections. Mo business of any kind was done. There was another day of heavy debate in the Senate on Friday, April 22, and at its close an adjournment was taken until Tuesday, partly to enable Senators who live near Washington to transact necessary business, partly to permit the Republicans to have a private conference, and nominally to give the Senate an opportunity to be present at the wiSn5£ny^er,'hl^^^ ! tb® °f nasouif,iuu »«jw, . the statue of the late Admir.il Farragut on Monday, an appointment as Minister to ISrazil.. ..I06i- present Garfield seot for some Republican Sen- master General Jamee decreea that postal caraa ( gtors to urge rn them to relieve bis administration are anniaihblc with anything on the address side Leside the direction. 6BNEUUU Tmt International Sanitary Confer­ ence, in session at Washington since January, has adjourned sine die, without accomplish­ ing anvthing definite in the line of the purpose „ „ . fOT which it met Want of harmony prevailed who died at Mendota. IM., is said to have been from tlie beginning, and the few rules agreed 111 years: of age. She was born in Philadel­ phia, and had seen Gen. Washington and other leading characters of the Revolution L. L. Gilbert, a Pittsburgh lawyer, lost in a Chicago hotel a mortgage for $20,000,000, on will not be ratified by all the Governments participating in the conference. Twenty- eight Governments were represented, and the truth is it came to naught, as all the nations wonld not agree to a general sanit-s ry policy.... from the embarrassment of having to many of his nominations unconfirmed BO long. He advised that the Republicans oonsent to go into executive session at an early day. Senators Sherman, Hnwley and Hale are said to be actively urging the President's views. which had been quietly executed by the Tenn- por ^ time in many years there is not a sylvania Railroad Company. A detective se­ cured the aid of an Italian rag-picker, and, ! after a tedions search, the precious document was found in a junk-shop. FLOODS in the rivers of Illinois and Wlaoomdn have caused great damage to prop­ erty and some Ion of life. A part of the Rock river dam at Beloit, Wis., waa carried away, and five men who attempted to cross the liver in e, row-boat were drowned. A bridge •panning Rock river, at Rock Island, Iu., w*ot down, cairring with it seven person?, two ®f whom were drowned. At Watertown, VTia., «ne bridge waa destroyed and two others in­ jured, The Chicago and Desdaine* rivers, at Chioagv, were higher than they have been in twenty year*. v THB Elkhart paper-mill, at Elkhart, IncL, has been partially destroyed by fire. OaoM of the fire, spontaneous? oombuatioa. Low estimated at fl6,000 ; fully insured. The mill was owned by the Hon. Rufus Beardsiey and the Hon. John Cook. The work of re­ pairing the building will begin at once, and the »iii wiil be ready again within a few weeks. Ax appalling accident occurred near Albany, EI, on the Rock Island division of the Chioago, Milwaukee and 8t Paul railway. An express train going south waa suddenly and without the slightest warning precipitated into Meiedosia river. As the engine struck the north end of the bridge it gavo way with a terrible crash, beard for miles around. The engine and lender, with the engineci and fire­ man, went down out of signt, and have not since been seen. The tram was composed of an engine and three cars, the forward car, with the I usual quantity of baggage, mail and express, i together with the passenger coach, going down t and floating off in the current of the streun. Dto paiibnger coach floated against and lodged at an iiand forty rods from the bcene of the war in the world, nor an immediate prospect of war Col. Frederick D. Grant has tendered his resignation as an officer of the United States army, having accepted a position in con­ nection with a Southern railroad. A NBW counterfeit $10 gold piece has appeared in San Francisco. It is made prin­ cipally of base metal, bnt is very heavily plated with gold. It resists the acid tests. It has to be cut pretty deep before the true nature of the coin is discovered. , THE exports of breadstuff's from the United States during the nine months ending March 31 were valued at $204,692,100... .Leon Ghotte&s, recently arrived in New York, an­ nounces that he has formed a company in Paris, with a capital of 20,000,000 francs, for the importation of American live stock.,, Au English steamship has been chartered, and an agent is already buying horses and cattle in the region of Chicago °aad St. Louis. Another of Chotte&tfs schemes is an organization to sup­ ply the French with all kinds of Amerioan pro- dnete, AH important redaction in canal tolls has been made by the Canadian Government. Vessels bound westward from Montreal are to pa.bR free through the Wetland canal after pay ing toils on the St Lawrence canal, and the same rule applies to east-bound craft paying tolls on the Wetland canal. On freight des­ tined for the west, duties have been reduced from 40 to 20 cento per ton .. Three children lost their lives by the burning of Mr. LeDac's house at Hull, Ont GEN. JOSEPH LAMB, who ran for Vice President on the ticket with Breckinridge, in 1860, died recently at his home in Oregon. He was born in North Carolina in 1801, emigrated to Indiana, and wa* for many years a member of the Indiana Legislature from Vanderburgh county. He was Brigadier General in the Mex­ ican war, and commanded the left wing of Gen. Taylor's army at the famous battle of Buena Vista. He was appointed Governor of Oregon Territory in 1848, ant! was subsequently elected Delegate in Congress, in whicu capacity he served until the State was admitted into the Union, when he was chosen United States Sen­ ator. NLITICA1. ^ GREAT interest was excited at Bloom- ington, I1L, by the municipal election. John W. Trotter, Democrat, was chosen Mayor The election of officers by the Tammany Socie­ ty resulted in a victory for John Kelly. THE Hon. Daniel F. Beatty has been re-elected Mayor of Washington, N. J. This will be bis third term. rOREIQH, ADVICES from Bagdad state that the ravages of the plague are terrible, though not extending beyond the sanitary cordon. Four thousand inhabitants havu quitted Nedjed, and encamped in salubrious localities. Ned- iea and Djuhara were burnt. The disease became virulent the afflicted dying in ten hours after being attacked.... It is stated positively that Adalina Patti has signed an engagement for America with Bil- ve&u, and that the diva and the new impresario will sail in October... .In the southern half of the island of Bcio are eno&mpod 50,000 people, with nothing but their tattered clothing. The relief organization is being systematized The engineer, William West, and fire . nNme unknown, residing at Freeport,were drowned, together with six passengers, making the loss of life eight. Conductor Thomas Ful­ ler climbed out of a window and escaped over the top of the brakes in a miraculous manner. as did braksman Henry Meyers, baggageman Sam Hanagai), and messenger Dan Eiuthorpe, who were rescued, the three latter in an iajuied condition. The sleeping-car was left hanging over the brink at an angle of forty- five degrees, half out of water. It had three occupants beside the porter. All climbed out of the rear end. A woman and two children were in the forward coach, and one child was drowned, the other two being saved. Eleven passengers were in the coach. Among the •Hswing are three men who were in the coach. They got out on top as it floated by the approach to the wagon bridge, which had been wa-hed out, and tried to jump off, two suc­ ceeding, one failing back into the river and sinking out of sight. A boy, who was travel­ ing with his brother-in-law" from Pine river, Wis., to Omaha, n as also rescued from the roof of the coach after it had stopped at the island. A woman and child were alno taken from the top of the coach at that point. As soon as pos­ sible help was procured from Albany, whither the wounded train-men and some of the rescued pssseugers were removed. As Omaha telegram of April 23 states that the flood in the Missouri had severed railway connections between that city and way point. Several dwelling-houses floated past that city that day, and half a mile of rail­ road track was washed awav. All important industries wet* drowned out. At Sionx City ,v , both rail and telegraph communication with ! No Ru«slan* between the ages of 10 and the North and West was cut off. Four hun­ dred houses were either submerged or sur­ rounded by water, and communication with their occupants was had only by rafts. At Bockford the Wilson ioe-house, containing about 1,000 tons of ice, sunk into the ltoofc river. Miv . / * > A TBBBIBIJI storm swept the northern fait of Drew county, Ark., leveling houses, tress, and destroying human and »nim.i ^ Jewett, a Kentucky colt, with a record ont- staipping anything of his age in the United States, has been sold to Peter Schata. of Pitts­ burgh, for $15,000. THE Texaas are wild with enthusiasm •*« the advent of a party of Chicago capital­ ists, representing $50,000,000, who have broken pound at Dallas for the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central railroad Mrs. Nutt, living njar Camden, Ark., while in a fit of insanity, allied five of her children by throwing them, iato a well. The elder was 12 years and ths 1 joangest 11 months. ' ADDITION AX. particulars respecting the fcQKng of her five children by Mrs. Nutt, »y»ar Qunden, Ark., mentioned heretofore, are, **»«t tke frenzied woman called her eldest child, a from a field where he was gofving, knocked him on the head, and threw bun into the well, where she had previously thrown her four other children. Finding that one of the children was not drowned, but waa to "ide of the well, she de- < h » ^ W1 and 1016 awav grasp aaJ thrnut it down into the water Urns completing her diabolical work ' At Uvalde, lex., a shooting afW occuirod between Gen. Joun It. Bavlor and m>n on one •Hie, and Mr. G.lJhurst and twosonx on the other Baylor escaped unhurt, but hi* tson was wounded! GiUuurst was killed ; one .sou was fatally wound­ ed and another well filled with buckshot. An incendiary fire at Meridian. Ui*?., destroyed • Mock of business houses valued at •POOOOQ. ....Thomas De Jaruetta, who killed his sister Ma brothel at DaaviUe, Va., to protect the 18 will be allowed to go abroad without permis­ sion of the Government. LOBD BEAOOXSFTBLD'B transition from sleep to death was so quiet and peaceful as to be almost imperceptible to those around him. He fully expected to die, though his friends were hopeful. A cast of his face was succeH»- fu'.lv taken The International Monetary Conference began its session in Paris on the 19th of April. Fifteen nations are represented. THE National Convention of the Iridh Land League assembled in Dublin, Parnell pre­ siding. Resolutions declaring that Davitt should be released, and thanking Irishmen in Amer.ca for their tnpport, were adopted. The opinion-? expressed by the delegates were strongly averse to tho Land bill, but it was generally held that the measure should not be rejected unless efforts to amend it fail Derviseh Pasha, with 10,000 troops, Attacked and defeated the Albanians near Usknp.... The powers of Europe have receivod a c.rcular note from Russia, proposing a conference for the purpose of adopting common measures against anarchists. AN Athens correspondent says the Greek situation was never more serious... .Tho Porte has prohibited the importation of Ameri­ can pork into Turkey. A committee of Ameri­ cans will apprais-f the stock already arrived, after which it will be destroyed... iThe Ger­ man Government has accepted the condi ions for the admission of Hamburg into the Zoll- verein. That city is to pay 15.000,000 marks to th; imperial treasury annually for six years to came. CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. Beth parties in the Senate appeared deter­ mined to continue the dead-lock indefinitely, on re­ assembling after the race**, oa Monday, April 18, and talk and dilatory motions consumed the entire cession. Mr. Beck declared U the pw$oae of ths Democrats to eoaUnne the opposition to Rlddleber- ••r fiea after aee* Deeember. He said Blddisbergsr was efcaasloa* to ths Dwaocratlo Re&ators, sad OBITUARY. Ksord Beocontfield. The Earl of Beaaonsfield, England's most brilliant statesman and diplomat, expired at his home in London on the morning of Tues­ day, April 19, after a long and painful illness. Benjamin Disraeli was the son of Isaac Disraeli, an English author, a descendant of a iamily of Spanish Jews. He (Benjamin) was bora at Islington, London, in 1805. After an education at a private school, he was placed in an attorney's offioe, where he con­ tinued' for some time as a preparation to au appointment in a Government oftioe, which, however, he did not obtain. In 1826 he became a contributor to a paper started in the Tory interests, and called the lieprescntative. This paper lived only five month*, but it seemed to have had some effect upon the mind of Mr. Disraeli, in so far as to give it a political biaq. In 1828 appeared his novel of " Vivian Gray," which wonat various times succeeded by '• Con- tarini Fleming," "The Young Duke," "The Woudroas Talc ol Alroy," "The Rise of Iskan- der," "Henrietta Temple," '• Venetia," 'Con- ingsby," "The Sibvl,' and "Taucred." Be­ side these, he produced, iu 1834, a quarto poem e n t i t l e d " T h e R e v o l u t i o n a r y E p i c a n d , i n 1839, " Alarooa, a Tragedy. While thus ao- tively engaged in tho world of letters, he waa continually before the public as a politician. In 1S87, after many defeats, he was returned member from Maidstone,, His first speeoh in the House was like his first attempts ai polit.cftl representation--a complete fail­ ure. His speech was laughed at throughout, and he was compelled to tut down before it was finished. This, however, 1# did aos. do until he had said, " I have begun several things many times, and often have succeeded at last. I shall sit down now, but the tune will come when you will hear me," Those words proved prophetic. The timo did come when he was listened to with anxious eagerness. By hii marriage with the wealthy widow of Mr. Lewis, who had been his colleague in the representation from Maidstone, he became independent in position, and by 1841 he was recognized as the leader of the " Young England " party. Between that year and 1846 Ins attacks upon Sir Robert Peel were as frequent as they were often briiliant and severe. He was then member from Shrewsbury, and in 1847 was elected member from Buckingh im- shire. In 1848 his friend Lord Georgu Ben- tinck died, when he became leader of the oid Tory or Protectionist party in the Jiouoe of Commons. In 1-852 he became Chan­ cellor of tho Exchequer, under Lord Derby, but in the same year that ad­ ministrator fell uponhi« own budget In 1858 Lord Derby again came into power, and Mr. Disraeli was again appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in 1«59 introduced a meas­ ure of Parliamentary reform, the rejection of which led to the resignation of the Miuistrv. On the return of the Karl of Derby to power in 1866, Mr. Disraeli resumed his position as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and carried the Re­ form act of 1867. The Earl's health failing, he retired in February, 1868, and Mr. Disraeli succeeded him as Pretn er, and his wife was created a Peeress as Viscountess Beaconafield. The Ministry resigned the following December, but Mr. Disraeli returned to power in 1874. In 1876 be was raised to the Peerage as Earl of Beaconstieid. His party having suffered de­ feat by the general election ol 1880, he re­ signed office. Sensations of Freezing to Death. A Western woman, recently restored to consciousness, describes the sensa­ tions attending freezing tp death, aa fol­ lows: '• Thousands of colored lights danced before her eyes; the roar of a thousand cannons was resounding in her ears, and her feet tingled as if a million needle points were sticking into them as she walked. Then a feeling of drowsiness came over her. A delightful feeling of lassitude ensued--a freedom from all earthly care and woe. Her babe was warm and light as a feather in her arms. The air was redolent with the breath of spring. A delightful melody resounded iu her ears. £lhe Bank to rest on downj pillows, with the many Gold red lights dancing before her in resplendent beauty, and knew nothing mor« until sh@ waa btouglit to her senses." We have accounts of how it feels to b« drowned and hanged, but to freeze we think is preferable. Those who contem­ plate suicide might do well to pay some attention to the freezing method. Bankrupts In Sweden. According to the Swedish law, "Any bankrupt who is guilty of fraud in re­ spect of his creditors, to-wit, who has purchased goods under a borrowed name, and has not stated them in his assets, or under pretext of purchaso, or other agreement, has withdrawn prop­ erty fr®m the bankrupt estate, or in any other way has spent, disposed of or re­ moved any part of his property, or in collusion with a feigned creditor has stated a false debt, is punishable with imprisonment with hard labor for a term not less than two, and not more than six years, and is declared unworthy to euter the public service, or of exercising the privileges of an elector, or of be­ coming a candidate in any election in which the exercise of such privileges may be regarded as a proof of enjoying the confidence of his fellow-citizens. THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN. COUGH DROPS.--Linseed oil, half cup; olive oil, half cup ; molasses or honey, half pint; bahuon of tir, half ounce; ex­ tract of Uoorioe, one-fourth ounce ; mix, simmer, and take from ten to twenty drops three times a day. A CORRESPONDENT of _ the Michigan Medical Nctv* cites two instances which tend to show that door and window screens protect the inmates of houses provided with them from malaria. It is certainly a precaution worth trying by those compelled to live in malarial dis­ tricts.--Dr. Foote'» Health Monthly. CCRK FOB HICOUQH.--A medical jour­ nal gives the following safe and simple means of relieving this troublesome dis­ order : "Inflate the lungs as fully as possible, and thus press firmly on the agitated diaphragm. In a few seconds the spasmodic action of the muscle will cease." This may be true of ordinary hicoough; but this symptom occurring in advanced cases of disease, accompa­ nied with great prostration, is almost in­ variably an indication that death is very near. SASTITART ERRORS. ---1. To believe that the more hours children are at their studies the faster they learn. 2. To be­ lieve that the more a person eats the stronger and fatter he wiil beoome. 3. To believe that if exercise is good for one it should be taken at all hours and seasons, the more violent the better the result. 4. To imagine that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in. 5. To eat without appetite. 6. To eat a hearty supper the last thing lit night. » LEMON WATER.--A substitute for plain water, where doubts are entertained as to the purity of the water supply, or where wine disagrees : Peel the rind of one lemon very thin, the same as for jelly, put it into a jug with one lump of sugar, pour over it one quart and a half of boiling water, let it stand till cold, strain, and it is ready for use. More lemon peel may be used. It is a good plan to make it over night, and let it stand till morning. Great eare should be used in peeling the rind. How TO MANAGE A COUGH.--Dr. Thompson, a distinguished English phy­ sician, in a little work on colds and coughs, says: "If we would know how to manage a cough, we must learn how not to cough. The inclination to cough should at any rate be suppressed until the secretion, the existence of which sets up the cough, is within reach ; a full in­ spiration should now be taken and the accumulated phlegm is then removed at a single effort; thus the mucus suriaees are not causelessly irritated, and a severe bronchial attack passes easily through its stages : whereas, if the membrane is irritated by violent and useless fits of coughing, it gets sore and relaxed. Again, by inhaling steam or sucking an ipecacu­ anha lozenge on first awakening, the dried secretion may be loosened or easily expelled and the usual painful fit of morning coughing prevented. WARM SLEEPING BOOMS.--It is im­ possible to have too much pure air, but it is possible to have the air colder than feeble persons can breathe with comfort or with safety. For hardy persons there is no danger in cold air, provided they have plenty of bed covering and they keep their mouths closed. It is un­ wholesome for any oue to sleep cold. One of the hardest things for feeble peo­ ple to endure is getting into a cold bed to sleep. M draws so much on the al­ ready low vitality that before the bed is warmed its occupant is so thoroughly chilled that it is almost impossible to get warm again. In this way the system is unnecessarily taxed, and the general health reduced. When one must sleep iq a cold rofcfBt it would „be better to wear flannel clothes (warmed before putting them on, and perhaps with woolen stock­ ings for night use in exchange for the stockings worn all day), or to have the bed warmed before entering it. TliiB can be done with a warming pan or by rolling a jug of hot water about between the sheets. Children rest more quietly in rooms well ventilated, though the air is qufte cold during the night, than when they sleep in warmer and closer rooms, and I think it well to accustom their lungs to cold in this way. It is very un­ desirable to make hot-house plants of our children. They should be dressed so warmly, both by night and bv day, that that they can be comfortable in rooms moderately cool. Jilyln? Fish. I have watched flying fish repeatedly, and have invariably seen them fly, oi rather glide, oVer the surface of the sea, and from one to two feet above it, rising gently to the swell when there was no wind, and occasionally turning to the right or left without touching the water. I do not say that when there is a breese the tail of the fish may not touch it, but I think that, with the foam and spray of the broken water, it would be very difficult to be sure of it, and, moreover, if the tail was used the motion would be vated tendencies. He cannot go hunt­ ing and fishing without abandoning his beloved hat, but in the modern enjoy­ ment of croquet and lawn tennis.he may sport his beaver with v impunity. In other words, tho constant use of a ping hat makes a man composed in manner, quiet and gentlemanly in conduct, and the companion of the ladies. The inev­ itable result is prosperity, marriage and church membership. A Plucky Daughter. A queer case comes from Steubenville, Ohio. A pretty damsel is the heroine. The parties concerned all belong to the aristocracy and are well known in Steu­ ben ville. The tale runs thus: Some gentlemen of familes were accustomed to spending their evenings in the rear of a first-class saloon, and to make the time pass more pleasantly they introduced the exciting game of "poker," which they occasionally enlivened by the aid of a social glass. In this manner they passed their evenings till the small horns, when they wended their way homeward to their families, some richer and some .depressed in spirits. To make the place more attractive, pretty waiter girls, who do not mind a kiss from a man of a fam­ ily, were in attendance on these gentle­ men of the upper circles. Things went on smoothly for a while, but presently notes began to arrive at their residences, addressed to their wives, detailing the state of affairs. The notes came quite frequently, and were quickly burned. It was on one Sunday. The good people were all at church, and the three gentle­ men were at their favorite haunt. A daughter of one of the misguided men, ascertaing the whereabouts of her parent, resolved that she would find him and bring him home. On reaching the tab­ ernacle of sin and three aces she sent word up to the private apartment that she desired to see her father and wanted him to come down. The message fell like a tliunderbolt upon the men, but father refused to answer the summons. Pushing the messenger boy roughly aside, she bounded up ths stairway, and opening the door of the room, boldly confronted the guilty trio. The knights of the pasteboard trembled in their shoes. Had a bombshell exploded it could have had a better effect. On the table was a large pile of money. Snatch­ ing up the money, the almost infuriated girl accused the others of robbing her father, whom they at first usually made drunk. All three men were more or less under the influence of liquor, and for a time some very high words were in­ dulged in, but the plucky girl came ofl first best. She pocketed the money and inarched her disgraoed parent ofl home. ! . 1 Imitation Precious Stones. The really beautiful imitation stones made in Paris consists of a very pure, transparent, and lustrous glass, called Strass, after its inventor, which is fre­ quently colored with the same metallio oxides as real precious stones. Thus the color of the topaz is obtained from anti­ mony and gold; that of the ruby from purple of Cassius (a stannate of tin with stannate or oxide of gold), or from a so­ lution of gold in aqua regis (nitro- muriatio acid). The well-known Bo­ hemian ruby glass is produced by cop­ per, and a commoner kind by iron. Some of the finest yellow glass is colored with silver. The first precious stone to be successfully produced by artificial means was the lapis lazuli, the saphire of classi­ cal times, but by no means to be con­ founded with the saphire of the modern jeweler, though closely related to it Lapis lazuli is an opaque stone ol an ex­ quisite corn-flower blue, and was highly prized by the ancienMndians, Assyrians, Persians, Jews, Egyptians and Greeks. Freed from itnpurties and rubbed dowa, it giveg the ultramarine used by mediae­ val artists for the robes of the Madonnas; and in their day it was worth its weight in gold, the purchaser of a picture hav­ ing always to pay extra for its use. Its rarity and the cost of preparation make the true ultramarine still worth from ten shillings to fifty shillings the ounce. a jerking one. Mr. Wallace speaks of their "rising and falling in the most graceful manner," which, although I would not be less than three miles. SOME curious astronomical calculations have been presented by Mr. C. B. War­ ring before the Poughiceepsie Society of Natural Science, a few of which possess general interest. If we suppose the dis­ tance between the earth and the sun (about ninety-two and one-third millions of miles) to be reduced to a dozen rods or more, the size of the two globes to be re­ duced in the same proportion, the dis­ tance from the earth to the nearest fixed star would still be, on the same scale, about two thousand miles, and to the more distant ones it would be not less than eighteen millions of miles. From those more distant stars the light must travel for sixty centuries before it reaches us, and yet light travels so fast that it would circle round the earth more than seven times in a single second of time. If the sun could be reduced, in imagina­ tion, to 1-100 of an inch in diameter, the earth would then be of microscopic size, about 1-10,000 of an inch, but the dis­ tance between it and the nearest star If THE city government serves the city much as the shrewd old shoemaker did his impatient customer. "Derpoots ish not quide done, but der beel ish out."--Providence Journal. he is referring to another species, applies i the sun were a hollow sphere and the also to the North Atlantic form (Exocoetut1 earth were placed at its center, with the evolans). Mr. Bennett ("Gathering's," I moon revolving around it in its estab- etc., page 14) says that they "spring : lished orbit, there would still be a dis- from the sea tb a great elevation." This i tance of 200,000 miles from the lunar or­ is probably in reference to their coming j bit to the surface of the solar sphere. If on board ship at night, attracted it is | these relations of size and distance are supposed, by the lights. I believe the | inconceivable, the forces which compel pectoral fans are kept well extended with- the planets to move in their elliptical or- out any motion, except, perhaps, as Mr. bits are quite as much beyond our com- Whitman, a recent observer, says, just i prehension. A bar of steel three inches when they rise from the sea. He gives : square will sustain a weight of 540 tons, 800 to 1,200 feet as the greatest distance > but a bar having a section of 144 square he has seen them fly, and about forty j inches would sustain 8,640 tons, which, seconds as the longest time out of the i upon a railroad, would require 864cars to water. By what mechanical means they support it, and 23 locomotives to trans- move when out of the water is still to me | port it. To deflect the moon from a a mysteigr. I have known the flying-fish j straight course into its present orbit, or, to be pursued by other fish, nor ever what is the same thing, to retain it in its seen any bird near them; indeed few ; present course, would require the united birds are ever seen far from the land strength of not less than eight steel bars, •1°« P* southern tropic, where fly- j each oue hundred miles square, or, more ing-fish are most abundant. The dolphin ' accurately, a single bar whose section is (Coryphcena) is supposed to be their ] 87,500 square miles--more than large greatest enemy. I had once an oppor- ' enough to cover tho States of New York tumty of seeing one opened--in the West' and Ohio together. If this force were Indies. Its stomach was quite full of Orthagori8cu8 mola, very young, being not quite an inch long.--Nature. Power of the Plug Hat. The plug hat is virtually a sort of social guarantee for the preservation of peace and order. He who puts one on has given a hostage to the community for his good behavior. The wearer of a plug hat must move with a certain se- dateness and propriety. He cannot run, or jump, or romp, car get into a fight, except at the peril of his head-gear. All the hidden influences of the beaver tend toward resjx'ctability. He who wears one is obliged to keep the rest of his body in decent trim, that there may be no incongruity between head and body. He is apt to become thoughtful through the necessity of watching the sky when­ ever he goes out. The chances are that he will buy an umbrella, which is an- o'her guarantee for good behavior, and the care of hat and umbrella--perpetual and exacting as it must ever be--adds to the sweetness of his character. The man who wears a plug hat naturally takes to the society of women, and all its ele- represented by a web of steel wires, each one-quarter of an inch in diameter, stretched from the earth to the moon, they would be distributed over our earth on the moon side only six inches apart; and if a similar web were stretched from the earth to the sun, the force exerted be­ tween these two bodies would require the wires to cover one side of the earth as close together as blades of grass upon a lawn. " HENRY is so practical!" said Mrs. Youngwife. "When mother went into the country last year he sent All het things after her the very next day; he said she might want some of them, you know. And it's kind o' funny," she went on, "mother did want them, for she has never come back to live with iu since. Wasn't it queer ? "--Graphic. TL, ABsmxo from Naples, is ques­ tioned by a friend: "Had you a© adven­ tures in Italy?" "No." "No brigands?" "I turned them all to flight," "How so?" if I saw an iUdooking in­ dividual I want and b«ggM charity of him." TORTURING BY ELECTRICITY. The Agmny Which the Killer* sf tbe Csear Wore Compelled to Undergo. Russakoff and Jaliboff, the killers of the Czar of Russia, were jnercilessly put to torture. Russakoff was electricized by powerful batteries, and forced by the intolerable agony he suffered U> answer the questions put to him. Park Benjamin, the scientific expert, said to a New York reporter: "The idea of torturing criminals by electricity is not original with the Russians. It is a British invention, and was first sug­ gested about five years ago by an English mechanical journal, in commenting up­ on the execution of criminals by electric shock instead of by hanging. The En­ glish writer wanted to do away with the cat-o'-nine-tails, which is administered in England to garroters and other crim­ inals of certain classes, and use the elec­ tric battery, as he somewhat grimly ex­ pressed it, so. as to produce absolutely indescribable torture, unaccompanied by wounds or even braises, thrilling through every fiber of Buch miscreants. There was an American inventor who had a design for inflicting this species of punishment. He fitted brackets of iron on the arms and thighs of the criminal, and placed in them wet sponges. When connected with a current Of electricity, the shock would by this system pass through the legs and shoulders, and avoid the vital parts of the body. " The torture inflicted by electricity is of two kinds--by contraction of the muscles at rapidly-recurring intervals and by burning with sparks. The tort­ ures of old clays, when not done by fire or compression, were the straining and tearing asunder of the muscles. Of this kind were the rack, scavenger's daugh­ ter and the cages of Louis XIV., in whioh a man could not stand up or lie down. The electric shock exactly re­ verses these conditions. It produces an enormously-rapid contraction in the body of the muscles at very short inter­ vals. The degree of pain produced is about the same. The force of the elec­ tricity has to be nicely graded, as a too- powerful shock would numb or kill a man. " The other method is by condensing a number of intermittent sparks on the flesh. This burns the skin, and at the same time produces contractions of the muscles. If put to the side of the jaw it would make every tooth ache." A distinguished surgeon, of whom questions were asked concerning the machine, said: "The best way to ex­ plain it is to give you actual experi­ ence : then you will know exactly how it feels. Here is a Faradic induction coil. I pull out this tube a little way. Now, let me place this electrode in your hand. There." " Oh !" exclaimed the inquirer, as a tingling, thrilling sensation ran through every finger, and his hand closed in an involuntary grasp. " Does it hurt ? " asked the doctor. "A little." "Well, well try again. Now, you see, I pull this tube further out I again touch it to your hand and--" "Whoop {"shouted the victim; " take it away!" The" feeling was as if the hand was crushed in a vise. Every nerve ached •sid trembled with pain. "That hurt, did it? Why, that's nothing. Here's something of a vary different sort" He fastened to one wire a small wet sponge, and to the other wire something like a paint-brush, with the brush part made of fine wire. He put the sponge in the visitor's hand and then touched the back of the hand with the wire brush. The pain was unbearable. The surface of the skin was scorched and the mus­ cles of the hand were contracted in a violent manner. " That is called the electric scourge," said the doctor. "If it were dark you could see sparks fly from each wire. Imagine the effect if the electricity were ten times more powerful." " Could any man bear that torture ?" " I think not; any man would confess under it, but it is a question what con­ fidence could be placed in such a con­ fession. A man would confess anything to escape the agony." "What could you compare the pain to?" " It would be the same as burning alive." " Would it injure the man ?" " No; not unless the pain drove him insane. If the battery was too power­ ful it would ' kill at once. Applied to some parts of the body the scourge hurts more than on other parts." Color-Blindness. There is no human infirmity more cu­ rious than is color-blindness; and scarce­ ly any other, about which so little is known. The oddest thing about it, per­ haps, is that it is not certain, or even likely, that the person who is afflicted with this color-blindness is aware of the defect. Color-blindness is an inability to dis­ tinguish colors. Those who are wholly color-blind can see no more than the forms of thiugs, but oases of total ab­ sence of the power to perceive color are very rare. In most persons who are lacking in this respect, the infirmity ex­ tends only to certain colors. One man oannot perceive -a red color; another green; another blue, and so on. This partial color-blindness is not un­ common. Examinations by experts seem to show that about one in every twenty men is defective in the perception of color; and it is asserted that the defect is not so common in women as in men. Probably not many readers of this pa­ per are conscious that they are color­ blind. Yet, if occulists are correct, and four or five in every one hundred per­ sons are deficient in this respect, the de­ fects assume proportions that command attention, for the reason that there are many occupations in which a quick and accurate perception of color is necessary. The kick of it may render success impos­ sible. There are many ways of testing the eye, to find out if it is oolor-blind. The best is to put into the hands of a person worsted of various colors, and ask him to separate the pieces into red, blue, green and other colors; and then to shade them from light to dark. A man who is color­ blind will usually make a mistake in as­ sorting the colors, in the first four or five pieces given him for examination. Another test is to see if a person can read red letters printed on a black ground. A third is to cover a blue sheet, printed with black letters, with thin white tissue paper. To the perfect vision, the letters will appear a yellowish brown. If they are black letters printed on a red sheet, thef will appear green under the paper. MexicanPolice. The City of Mexico is well guarded by police--four to every block--that is to say, cne on every corner. They are dressed in blue, with caps covered with white covering, which comes down over the shoulders. In addition to their baton, thev are armed with a revolver, and at nigfit they carry a lantern, which they set down in the middle of the streets to show that they are on their posts. At night, looking up the street,, with the houses glistening in the moon­ light, the long line of lanterns in the center presents the appearance of the footlights of the stage of some immense-, theater. A Two»Sldfd Hwlndto. One day Mr. William E. Dodgs Sat. down in his private office, at No. 13 Cliff street, and began to peruse his private mail. Among the first letters he opened was one which would have attracted more than ordinary attention on account of the graceful penmanship and the re­ markable neatness of epistle, even if it had not set forth some very important facts besides. It told in a manly, straightforward way the story of the. writer, who was, so he explained, a min­ ister of the gospel, suffering from an ill­ ness of his vocal organs, so that he could no longer exercise his priestly functions. He had been afflicted so long that he had' been forced, because of poverty, to seek treatment and a temporary home in the City Hospital. He felt that he ought to - be afoot on God's work, but he was un­ able to carry ont that wish and desire,, and until recently he had no hope of be­ ing able to ever again labor in the vine­ yard. But he had just been assured by some excellent physicians (naming them)' that if he would go South he would cer­ tainly recover the use of his voice, and it was in the hope that Mr. Dodge would assist him with the loan, say of $50, that this letter was written. In conclusion the THriter mentioned, as though casually,, that he knew very well certain clergy­ men whom he named. Mr. Dodge knew the clergymen and entertained the request so favorably that it was only necessary to read an inclos- ure that came with the letter signed by a physician to cause him to draw out his check book, write in $50 and send it to the applicant The doctor's letter writ­ ten in a sharp, professional hand, set- forth that the clergyman was really in need of the money, and the object wae so deserving that the kindaessof Mr. Dodge's consideration would be well placed, etc. Presently Mr. Dodge heard something that led him to believe that he had been victimized and thus he tells the story r. "I had no sooner sent the check than I began to fear I had made a mistake and I instituted an inquiry. I discovered that the preacher was a fraud and the doctor was an inmate of the hospital be­ cause of alcoholism. I supposed he was one of the physicians of the institution. It seems that the preacher didn't know enough about business to get the check cashed, and so he turned it over to the doctor, who brought it to my office and got the money. Then he slipped away- and made no division with his confeder­ ate. So, you see, the preacher became, like myself, the victim oi the swindle.-- New York Hera'd. Rodent "Bummers." • Patrick Lynch is an Erie flagman at> a street crossing in a city on the line of ' the road, and he is the authority for a- queer story about some rats that he saw near his flaghouse a short time ago. A tramp had left the remnants of his dinner on the side of the bank and some whisky had been spilled on the food. There are lots of rats around there thai come from the slaughter-houses and. travel about the whole neighborhood in flocks in broad daylight. Six of these rats, on an excursion of this character, came across the remains of the tramp's, and immediately proceeded to hold a banquet. They ate to their surfeit of everything. Pretty soon they began to get drunk. They danced around and rolled each other over, hugged one an­ other in maudlin delirium, and acted for all the world as a lot of drunken men might do under the same circumstances. Finally one after another keeled over dead drunk, and then lay helpless, while Mr. Lynch, who had been watching the whole proceeding, stepped out and killed them. They make a feeble effort to get away when Mr. Lynch appeared with a club, but were to drunk to run.-- Elmira Free Press. Learning Babies to Walk. An old woman, "Aunt Mary," resid­ ing near Selma, Alabama, who-is mother of nine children, says all her children walked before they were nine months old. The following is the process by which she attains ths desired end, as told in her own language: "I takes 'em to ihe door for nine per- cession days, and sweeps ther foot out This helps 'em a powerful sight, and then I takes 'em to the grin' stone, and grins' the foots for to make the cliil' shore-footed and swift; then I walks backward nine steps with my eyes shut, and turns 'round and puts the cliil* on the floo, says a vest of po'try and goes to my washin; and 'fore you knows it that- baby iswalkin' everywhere." "Yes," said the school girl who had risen from the lowest to the highest position in her class, "I. shall have a horseshoe for my symbol, as it denote* having come from the foot!" THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BKKVKS HOUR COTVOV FLOCH--Superflue WHEAT--No. 2 Spring No. 2 Winter 1 27 @l» CoftM--Ungraded 67 (9- W OATS--Mixed Western.............. 45 @ IF POM--Mass .. .1« 25 §18 00 LABD.: LLTF® 11* CHICAGO. BEKVES--Choice Graded Steers... 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