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JOHN MIIJIJUB, of Cleveland, lias heroically saved from drowning at different times nearly 100 persons, has been presented wiih a gold medal worth $150 by the Cleveland Board of Tr^de. ; Da TAHHIB, it is said, is now prepar­ ing to fast three months, and is drawing up a proposition to the medical profes­ sion of New York to that effect. He •Aid to a reporter that he can fast nine- ty-five days if fed on electricity, the air in his room to be charged with a strong current. This being positive, he can obtain a negative element from the dis­ integration of his tissue. He in now fattening for the fast, as plenty of adi­ pose is necessary. grain means a loss of 6,000,000 tons of freight to the railroads, for the deficien­ cy in produce is taken from the exports; the people of the Western producing States keep what they need for tbeir own consumption. * A reduction of 6,000,000 tons in railroad shipments inflicts a shrinkage of about $24,000,000 upon the railroad re­ ceipts. But this does not represent the total reduction in the carrying trade. If the producers of the West have 200,- 000,000 of grain less to sell, they will re­ strict their purchases in proportion, and the West-bound shipments will fall off according to the usual ratio of exchange. It will be safe, therefore, to count upon a deficiency of many millions in railroad earnings, including the shrinkage in shipments and the lower rates which a consequently spirited competition will surely bring about It will be impossi­ ble to curtail expenditures in anything like the same degree, and there will necessarily be a material loss in the net earnings of the roads. The interest on the bonds must be paid, and the losses will fall upon the stockholders. THK1 Santa Pe New Mexican gives the following particulars of the killing of the terrible outlaw William Bonny, known as " Billy the Kid," by Sheriff Pat Garrett, of Lincoln county, New Mexico: Garrett was informed of the Kid's whereabouts while in Lincoln county, and arrived at Sumner in search of the outlaw after nightfall. At about midnight he went to the house of Peet Maxwell, accompanied by two men named John W. Poe and T. M. McKinny, whom he had brought from home with him. The two men were told to stand on guard at the gate, while Garrett went on and entered the room of Mr. Maxwell. The latter was in bed at the time, and Garrett quickly informed him of the object of his visit. He had scarcely done so when in walked " Billy the Kid," armed with knife and revolver. Garrett dropped behind the head of the bed and remained there in a crouching position. Kid was in his stocking feet, and was apparently alarmed at having seen the two men outside, for he aaked hurriedly of Maxwell, " Who are they ? " and repeated the question quickly. Max­ well made no reply, and the Kid then caught sight of Garrett He did not ap­ parently recognize the man, but pointed his revolver at him and asked, " Who is it? Who is it?" Garrett had not had time to draw his revolver, and, finding it had reached a point at which caution or dqlay would prove fatal, reached round and got it Kid started back, but for some reason or other did not fire. Per- THE looomotive commenced running in haps this was because he had no ide tcuBious story comes from England e effect that the action of the Inter­ national Medical Congress, in refusing to acknowledge the right of women to practice medicine and surgery, was caused by the action of Queen Victoria, who, it is claimed, threatened, through Sir William Jenner, to withdraw her patronage from the congress if women practitioners were admitted. This is very unlike the Queen, who has always encouraged the advancement of woman in art and in science. THE great United States has 7,200 men and 1,898 officers in its navy. Only about one-fifth of these seamen are ever at sea. One reason is that we haven't ships enough in sailing condition to ac­ commodate over one-third of them, even if fully manned, and the other is that they are away on leaves of absence and shore duty--and don't care to ride the foamy billow. We suppose they are also in as bad a condition as Capt Corcoran's crejv, so far as the terpsichorean art is concerned, but Secretary Hunt might teach them a hornpipe during the dull supu*er days, when he has nothing else to do. 1825, and at the beginning of 1880 the railways of the world had reached the enormous aggregate of 219,804 miles, representing a capital investment esti­ mated at about $19,000,000,000 ! The 'estimate for each grand division of the globe at that date is as follows: Capital Mil**. iwiettti, Europe 102 692 $12,188,WKt,0i»0 North America JM.607 South America Auntra li Africa AaU Total......l!.... 7,260 4,3*8 82 5,333,000,000 465, 0 i,000 230,0(H),000 200,000,01)0 649,0110,000 . .219,804 $19,066,0,TO,00J The estimate, if brought down to the present time, would undoubtedly give the full round number of 240,000 miles, or ten times the circumference of the globe. IN Western India, although snakes are very numerous, the most experienced sportsmen see but little of them, and thqy may swarm in houses without the occupants even suspecting it. On one oooasion Col. Fraser, who has recently published a book on sport in that re­ gion, observed that his fowls were dis­ appearing mysteriously from his bunga­ low, when the sight of some very young cobras in his veranda suggested an ex­ planation. Accordingly, he questioned a native inspector of buildings on the subject The man told him that some years before, when he had demolished a few yards of his compound wall, a co­ bra appeared from every square foot of A CoiiOBADO editor, who has visited Salt Lake City, says : ** Mormonism is growing, and the wealth of the church is rapidly increasing. There is money in it, and money hires brains. Some of the wealthy Mormon merchants aposta­ tized because of an unwillingness to buy titbings. The women are not inclined to rebel against polygamy. In addition to Utah, the Mormons have capture.! Idaho, and expect to have a majority of the voters of Arizona. They are coming to Colorado in considerable numbers, and <pdculate to secure toleration there by folding the balance of power between <rar two parties. They are industrious and thrifty, and the corner-stone of their church is not polygamy but super­ man-" ^ IT is entirely withm bounds to esti­ mate from the -crop reports which have been received from all parts of the coun­ try that there will be shortage compared with last year of at least 200,000,000 bushels of wheat and corn in the new 4*op of the great grain-producing States of the West, Northwest and Southwest Some effects of a short grain crop, says the Chicago Tribune, are already ap­ parent The most significant of these is the late shrinkage in railroad stocks in spite of all efforts to hold them up. The " bulls " have been talking as con­ fidently as ever, but there is reason to believe the more far-seeing ones have been quietly unloading during the past fortnight There may be a spasmodic recovery, but a short grain crop almost certainly foreshadows » depreciation in railroad stocks. At that Garrett was in that part of the country, and suspected no harm. What­ ever his reason was, his delay proved fatal. With his desperate enemy's weapon aimed full at his breast at a dis­ tance of a few feet, Pat Garrett, with the quickness and precision for-which he is famed, pulled down on the Kid and fired That Bhot was the last the Kid was to hear on this earth. Ho fell back on Ihe floor pierced through the heart, and in a moment was as dead as any of the men whom he had served in the same way, with less justice, and sim­ ply to wreak a petty spite or satisfy his thirst for blood. Garrett and Maxwell jumped into the middle of the room, which was lighted only by the beams of the moon, and Garrett had the satisfac­ tion of knowing that he had fulfilled a duty from which most men would have shrunk in terror, and accomplished the fau>k which had occupied his thoughts and energies for months. A Clergyman's Night Dance. "I have had," said a well known clergyman, "some very droll experi­ ences. Among the most exciting was the one that I will now relate. A weU known merchant was very sick--some thought nigh unto death. He would see no pastor, nor allow any one to speak to him on the subject of religion. One day he mentioned my name, though he was no acquaintance of mine. He named me two or three times. At length his wife asked him if he wanted me to call. He hesitated for some time, and then asked his family to send for me. He added: "Tell nim to come right away." I obeyed the summons, was ushered into the sick chamber, and at once recognized the gentleman as one who had been an occasional hearer in my church. He greeted me with great cordiality, and asked that all should leave the room. He wanted to speak to me privately. His wife left with evi­ dent reluctance. The man was so weak that he could with difficulty turn in bed. As soon as the door was closed the pa­ tient sprung from his bed, turned the key in the lock, seized upon me with the 6treugth of a giant, and said : _ * Now we will have a nice dance,' clasping me about the body, and he, in his night shirt, commenced to caper and prance about the room, humming in a low voice : ' 1 and my Father are one, equal in power and glory.' He kept his pace for an hour, until I was nearly dead from exhaustion and fright He was a wild maniac. Once I attempted to scream. He seized me by the throat, His eyes flushed fire. He said he would brain me if I was not quiet. Round and round he turned, keeping up the refrain, •1 and my Father are one, equal in power and glory.' Pretending to be pleased, I suggested that he call in some of the family to join us. He caught at the idea. He opened the door to call the household up, and I instantly flew down stairs pursued by the madman. He was ai rested, taken to the mad­ house, and in twenty-four hours died a raving maniac. I have never since heard these words repeated without being thrown into a cold sweat I had dance enough that night to last me the balance of my life." THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN. THE crude ideas many foreigners have of American geography is well illus­ trated bv the case of a Swedish girl who arrived at New York to join her father in the new world. After prolonged ques­ tioning it was found that her father's , place of residence was in a remote set- the present time such an assurance is j tlement in Washington Territory. Sup- jptrengthened by the circumstance that' posing, evidently, that W^Wugton Ter^ *hese stocks have been advanced to the I ^ftbiS of wTsort, she had come highest notch by speculative processes. I over with only money enough to pay her A shortage of 20 J,000,000 bushels of i steamship passage. To RKMOVK DANDRUFF. --This is a natural secretion, but becomes a cutane­ ous complaint by neglect Take an ounce of powdered borax, a piece of unslacked lime the size of a onestnnt, and a table-spoonful of spirits of am­ monia ; put them in a quart bottle, and fill it up with boiled or pump water. After twelve hours apply this wash to the scalp. Ladies can apply it best with a small sponge. Rinse with tepid water. After a few applications the scales will disappear, the hair becomes soft and brilliant, and the young hair will be seen to start out Dandruff should be cured gradually, so as not to produce sick headache or dizziness by its sudden suppression. THE excessive mortality of infants within the first year has been lately dis cussed among medical men in Paris. M. Bonchardat contends that the great mass of the milk sold in Paris does not fulfill the conditions indispensable to alimenta­ tion of infants; that it does not digest like mother's milk, but produces diitr-' rhea, which is the chief cause of the ex­ cessive mortality. Hfe considers that ef­ fort should be made to secure materia*1 suckling (except in very rare cases). M, Jules Guerin, while agreeing as to the prevalence of infantile diarrhea, con­ siders that more attention should be paid to adaptation of cow's milk, and, in arti­ ficial lactation, to the digestive powers of the child. He had often observed that infants fed with good cow's milk had diarrhea, because tne milk was too strong or given in too great quantity. BATHING CHILDREN.--Some mothers think when their children get beyond two or three years of ag© the frequent entire bath can be dispensed with. If some of the main facts of physiology were well known and understood every one would perceive that cleanliness of the skin is one of the conditions of good health. It happens when bathing is dis­ regarded that the lung*; kidneys or bow­ els have more than their own apportion­ ment of work. If they are strong and healthy they may bear the tax without apparent ill, but, in most cases, a lower­ ing of the vitality and tone of the sys­ tem ensues. Large bath tubs are con­ venient and pleasant, but not indispens­ able for proper cleaning of the skin. A speedy sponging of the body in pure water, followed by friction in pure air, is all that is necessary. When disin­ clined to use water a thorough applica­ tion of the flesh brush to the whole per­ son is an excellent substitute; especially on retiring, it relieves nervousness, equalizes the circulation, and induces quiet sleep. Mothers, above all, should see that their children are well bathed. If their skins are kept active and healthy there wilt not be half the danger from fever, colds and eruptions. If your little one is cross and troublesome, and finds no occupation that pleases him, try the effects of a bath; sometimes it is magi­ cal, and if tired he will go to sleep and awake bright, cheerful and happy. Do not, as some people do, plunge a child in cold water when he screams and shrinks from it, thinking you are doing a good deed. Nature must be the fni^e. It your child has a nervous constitution a shock of this kind is only exhausting and injurious. ^ Caressing a Serpent. Mr. H. T. Poole, well known as one of Polk County's trustworthy citizens, has a little boy near the age of three years, that has been unusually backward about learning to talk, but has acquired the art of endeavoriug to be understood by means of signs, such as poiuting his fin­ ger at such objects as happen to gain his attention. Not long since, while a lady friend was cabling upon Mrs. Poole, the child's peculiar actions led his mother to bt-lieve that something unusual was re­ ceiving his attention, and as soon as her company disappeared she was led to make an investigation. Following the child in the yard and to the corner of the house, she waiched the little one stoop low and crawl under the floor, where his attention was soon seemingly drawn to some object well back in the corner of the brick underpinning. Led now by a deep curiosity, the mother herself crawled beneath the floor sufficiently to acquaint herself with the situation, and the sight that met her gaze almost froze her blood. In a per­ fect coil, as though prepared to combat some formidable foe, with head erect, lay a huge serpent, with the little child rubbing its hands gently over its body. The serpent, as though apprised of the child's ignorance of fear, and intending no harm, would gently move its head aside when the hand of the child passed near it Mrs. Poole as quick as possible after realizing this awful situation, drew the child away, and directed some negro women to drag the serpent out and kill it With a hoe they soon brought it out, but it quickly began to show fight, once jumping its full length at those seeking to siay it It was dispatched, however, and proved to be of that dangerous spec­ imen known as the highland moccabin. It was more than half as large as a man's wrist, and measured nearly three feet in length. It is supposed that the child had been fondling the snake for some while, and who, possessing a knowledge of the rep- til's dangerous character, will attempt an answer to the query: Why was he spared the poisonous fangs ?--Cedar- ville (Oa.) Advertiser. A t'uiioas Instance. A few days ago a most singular ease was heard iu one of the Paris law courts. A stone mason, named Jean Jeanzac, 30 years of age, was charged with trying to make a prostitute of a young girl, Paul­ ine Yilette, born in 1865. The girl, it seems, had run away from home and went to live with Jeauzac, but when they were arrested both declared that she was as pure as when she was born. In court the girl made a statement which created the greatest seusation. She said it was a voluntary act on her part, going away from home to live with Jean. They had great affection for each other, for he was kind to her when her mother's husband, who was uot her father, abused her. They had slept together for weeks, but never had Jean attempted to dishonor her person, and she was still a virgiu. In proof of what she said she demanded that medical experts should be sent for and au examination held. The judge sent for two prominent doctors, who pronounced her worthy of the Montyon prize--a reward given yearly by the French academy to the most virtuous girl in Frauce. Of course Jean was acquitted. --Paris Cor. Kansas City Times. An Old Church. The Gloria Dei, or Old Swedes' Church, in Philadelphia, is one of the most interesting of the few pre-Revo­ lutionary structures that have not suc­ cumbed to the iconoclastic spirit of modern enterprise. It was dedicated July 2, 1700, and was then regarded as a masterpiece of architecture. Alter­ ations since made have not materially altered its original design. It is cruci­ form, with a shelving, peaked roof, in which is perched a quaint little belfry. There is a nave, chancel and transepts, and beneath the chancel floor are several A Republican House Sleeted. An examination of the list of members elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, as prepared for and published in the Congressional Directory, shows that all calculations that place the Republicans in a minority are erroneous. The elec­ tion returns show that there were elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as dis­ tinctive Republicans 151 members, Dem­ ocrats 131, Greenbackers 9 and Read­ justee 2. Since the election the Repub­ licans have lost five members, namely: Conger of Michigan, Frye of Maine, and Morton, Miller and Lapham of New York, and gained one in the election of John T. Rich as successor to Mr. Con­ ger, thus leaving the Republican net loss four. This would leave the present Republican membership 147, or the ex­ act number necessary to constitute a quorum of a full House of 293 members. Since the election the Democrats have lost two members by death, Wood, of New York, and O'Connor, of South Car­ olina. O'Connor's election is disputed by his Republican competitor, E. W. M. Mackey, and all the testimony iu the contest was completed before O'Con­ nor's death. The Democrats held ah election recently to fill the so-called va­ cancy, but the man chosen at this elec­ tion, in which the Republicans took no tombstones, bearing dates from 1708 to 1774. The front is of black marble, and was made in Sweden in 1700, as were also the two oarved wooden cherubs, with fat, red cheeks, that adorn the front of the choir gallery. HJLIHOI8 HBW$> THB school census of Peoria shows 14,389 children, an increase over lust year of 655. ^ C. G. CUSHIWO, of Princeton, had a $600 house destroyed by fire. Insured for $100. DURING the month of July 1,991 coast­ wise vessels, with a total tonnage of 683,668, arrived in the port of Chicago. THK mortality in Chicago for the montn of July aggregates upwards of 1,700--the largest number ever known in that city. MA J. MCFARIIAND has secured from the State, for the grand soldiers' re­ union at Bioomington, 1,500 muskets, 30 > tents, 250 frying-pans and 300 camp kettles. CHARLES, a 15 year-old son of the Rev. O. A. Williams, pastor of the First Bap­ tist Church of Galesburg, was drowned while bathing in the rauiroad reservoir east of that city. AT a militia reunion at Pekin. Capt W. A. Tinney, a veteran of the Mexican , exhibited the wooden leg belong- j part, will not be admitted to*the roUT ing to Santa Anna, which was captured i Deducting these two vacancies--Wood ! and O'Connor--from the Democratic members leaves their number 129. The nine members classified as Green- backers are Murch and Ladd, of Maine, Hazeltine, Rice, Burrows and Ford, of Missouri, Hyatt Smith, of New York, Brumm, of Pennsylvania, and Jones, of Texas. Of these, Messrs. Hazeltine. Rice, Burrows and Brumm were elected as Greenback Republicans, each of them defeating the regular Democratic candi­ dates. Messrs. Ladd, Murch, Ford and Jones were members of the last Con­ gress, and may be regarded as distinctive Greenbackers with Democratic jmclina- tions. Mr. Smith was chosen as a Dem­ ocratic Greenbacker, but cannot with any degree of accuracy be classified as between the two great parties. The two Read j usters are also uncertain as to political identity, but it is very probable that they will not be induced to act with the Democrats. From this review of the membership of the next House, it will be seen that the political divisions stand as follows : Republicans, 147; Democrats, 129; Greenbackers, 9; Readjuaters, 2 ; va­ cancies, 6; total, 293. Deducting the six vacancies leaves the membership now elected 287, of which 144 is a clear majority. , The constitution of the United States prescribes that £'a majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business." It has been held that under this clause a quorum consists of a ma­ jority of the actual membership; and in this view the Republicans will have a clear majority of four, should the six vacancies not be filled until after the organization ; but in any event the Re­ publicans have 147 meml>ers, who were distinctly elected as Republicans, which will give them a majority of the full membership, and enable them to eleot a Speaker and other officers without aid from Greenbackers or Read]usters.-- New YorkrTinua. at Cerro Gordo in 1847. MAJ. JAB. ANDERSON, who served throughout the Rebellion in the Tenth Illinois infantry, and was State's Attor­ ney for Pulaski county, died recently at Mound City of apoplexy. THB Illinois Central Railroad Com­ pany has concluded to remove its gen­ eral office from Centralia to Cairo. It has purchased a bui ding suitable for the purpose, and will commence making the change soon. A BET was recently made in Truro township, Knox county, between D. B. Coykendall and John Norris in regard to whether pine timber ever grew in that county. The money was put up and Norris lost it THE tax-levy of Peoria for the current year is $215,000. It is divided as follows : School purposes, $45,000 ; general cor­ porate purposes, $108,000 ; sewerage fund, $7,000; interest on bonds, $48,000; public library, $7,000. DURING a thunder-storm last Satur­ day, Mrs. S. S. Taylor, of Antioch, Lake county, lost twenty-one sheep. The lightning struck a wire fenoe, and ran along the wires into the midst of the sheep, killing them instantly. STATISTICS show tfiat Illinois is one of the most extensive strawberry-raising States in the Union. It is estimated that during the past season 3,845,000 quarts of strawberries were raised and shipped from Southern Illinois. AT some places along the Jacksonville branch of the Chicago and Alton rail­ road the weeds have grown so rank and tall that persons with teams approaching on roads crossing the railroad can not see the trains coming. NEARLY 6,000 veteran soldiers attend­ ed the reunion of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois infantry and Tenth cavalry at Petersburg Menard county, recently. Gen. C. E. Lippiucott, Judge James Matheny and Chaplain Springer spoke. FROM thirty to forty ear-loads of earth are being brought into the city of Cairo every dtty by the Illinois Central railroad, and is being used-in widening Ohio levee between the tW**«lev»tors. It is expected that this work will continue for about two months. AN Illinois Judge has decided that a merchant's "warrant" is worthless. U he warrants goods to wash and wear, "customers must accept such state­ ments as part of his stock in trade." In other words, he is expected to lie, and they are expected to know he is lying. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY men have been added to the working force of the Joliet steel mills recently. The company are building a large addition to their blast furnace. This great institution now dis­ tributes upward of $115,000 every month in wages to workiugmen. The steel works have become to Joliet what the watchmaking works are to Elgin, or the paper mills to Batavia. THE following information relative to life insurance in Illinois is gleaned from the annual insurance report of the Auditor of Public Accounts : " Thirty life companies and one life and accident company have ^otnpli^d with the in­ surance laws of the Statc, and have been authorized to transact business in Illi­ nois during the current year. The States represented by the life companies are as follows: California. . . 1 New Jersey.... 1 Connecticut . . 6 Ohio. 1 District of Columbia. .. 1 Pennsylvania.. 1 ftfcssschucatts .. 6 VelmuuL...... . . . . . . . a Maine . . 1 Wiaoonaia 1 Mew York. . 4 1 Total. 90 Following is a statement of the business done by the thirty straight life insurance companies during 1880: Number of policies issued, 5,976; amount, $13,858,- 081.46 ; average amount of each policy, $2,318.96; number of agents, 460; aver­ age amount for each agent, $30,126.26 ; premiums received, $2,022,329.45; losses paid, $1,454,823.93 ; per cent, of losses paid to premiums received, 71ft4 ; per cent of losses paid to policies in force, 1.68 ; number of policies in force in Illi­ nois, 40,988; amount, $86,784,457. The grand aggregates of life business done in Illinois in the years 1879 and 1880 show an increase of 1,202 in the number of policies issued in 1880, and an in­ crease of $3,772,780 in their amount, while there was a decrease of $234,530 in 1880 in the total amount of premiums paid, but an increase of $267,260 in the amount of losses paid." MRS. LINCOLN, who has been fre­ quently reported as dangerously ill at her sister's house in Springfield, is now represented as suffering from a mental disorder chiefly, which, it will be re­ membered, she exhibited before her de­ parture from Chicago. She dislikes to leave her room, and indulges in most melancholy foreluxlings. She sighs and broods over Robert's appointment as Secretary of War, and seems to regard it as sure to result in trouble. She often sits and repeats, "Secretary of War? Secretary of War? Then he'll be shot, sure. That's always the way in war." W.jen told of the shooting of the Presi­ dent she manifested no surprise, but calmly remarked : " I told you so ; good men have to be shot sometimes; don't you know how the Jews killed Christ? Bourbon Fustian. The Virginia Bourbons have held their convention and nominated their man, and made a platform, and taken high ground, so far as words go, con­ cerning State-debt paying. In view of their position as debt-payers, their glit­ tering announcement is comical. Here is the resolution, under which Artemus Ward would have written, " Tfris is sar- kastik:" That the maintenance of the public credit of Virginia is the essential moaiu to tbe promo­ tion of her prosperity ; that we condemn re­ pudiation in every shape and form at* a blot upon her honor, a blow at her permanent welfare, and an otmtacle to her progress in wealth, influence and power; that we will make every effort to secure a settlement of the public debt, with the couxent of her creditors, which in conmwt«nt with her honor and dictated,by justice and Kound public policy; that it w eminently desiruble and prouer that Ihe several clauses of the debt uow existing should be unitied, so that equality, which is equity, may control in the anuual pavment of the interest and tbe ultimate redemption of the principal; that with the view of securing such equality we pledge our parly to me alt lawful authority to neeure a settlement of the State delit; that we will use all the lawful and con­ stitutional means in our power to secure a set­ tlement on the basis of a 3 per cent, bond, and that tbe Conservative Democratic party pledge* itself as part of its policy not to in­ crease the present rate of taxation. This solemn and high-sounding fus­ tian from a party which has never paid the interest on the debt, which has evaded it by every conceivable kind of shuffle, and which does not intend to pay it, and whose only idea of a debt is always to owe it, is almost too ridicu­ lous for comment. The payment of a debt in a manner consistent with the honor of a Virginia Bourbon smacks so much of the manner in which they have honorably fulfilled their political and other obligations that their creditors, whose idea of an honorable settlement is 100 cents on the dollar, will be apt to look with dismay upon this new propo­ sition. more especially as th^se debt- evaders announce that they intend to accomplish it without increasing taxa­ tion, which means clearly enough that they propose to pay it without its cost- ing anytliing, or, in other words, not at all, as the only means of accomplishing that remarkable feat would be, like Mi- cawber, to issue new notes and pay them with others when they came due. This only involves the cost of ink and paper and will not increase taxation.--Chicago Tribune. The Supreme Bench. The Democrats, with their natural in­ stinct for office, look upon the vacancy on the Supreme bench, occasioned by the death of Judge Clifford, as an op­ portunity which should be extended to their party. The only reason they ad­ vance why a State-supremacy, anti- national Democratic lawyer should be appointed to this vacancy is that only one Judge on that l>ench (Justice Field) has a decided Democratic leaning (he holds the State above the nati.tn), and that the parties ought to be more evenly represented. As a matter of fact, there ought to be no politics at ull on Supreme >>ench. But experience the . . . It will be remembered that Mrs. Lin- has proved that men retain their predi­ lections and politics even after they are coin's extravagant purchases in Chicago lirst excited the suspicion of her friends that her brain was affected. She seemed, and still seems, to have an extraordinary desire to lay up a supply of wearing ap­ parel against a day of possible want, and her rooms at Springtield contain many large trunks, in which she has stored an enormous quantity of clothing. She fre­ quently takes it out and repacks it, but seldom exhibits a desire to array herself in any finery. She has plenty of money, is tenderly cared for, and gives promise of living many years. clothed in ermine, and it is precisely for this reason that no man recognized as a stanch Democrat ought to be «p pointed to the highest judicial tribunal in the nation. A Dem­ ocrat of the old school, like Judge Thurman, would continue to construe the constitution " as it was,"' an<|»ot the constitution "as it is." He would lose no opportunity to discuss and affirm the doctrine of State sovereignty. Justice Field lugs it in at every turn. The country does not want any of these ali­ unde dissertations on an obsolete politi­ cal heresy. State sovereignty may be­ come a reminiscence after a time if it ia allowed to sleep undisturbed. But the Democrats will cling to it as an issue in some form or other as long as they are encouraged to believe it still has a bear­ ing on the politics of the country. It is bad enough to have " State-sovereignty" State Judges, but it is too much afflic­ tion to endure Judges on the Supreme bench who wage war on the sovereignty of the General Government and ci>]) nun® & « Before the Dictionaries.' Time was in literature when there were no dictionaries. Of course, letters had their small diffusion, viva voce. The few Sauls, for all the generations, could ask the fewer Gamaliels, on the quick moment, for the short interpreta­ tion that should make passages in their ornamented or antiquated disquisitions clear, and there was no need for more. By the lip could be solved the mystery coming from the lip, for within the por­ tico, in the cloister, under the shade there on the hill, the master sat in the midst of his pupils, and the lip was near. It ended, this. Pupils, when knowl­ edge was called for in distant parts, had to ba dispersed. Each stood solitary then, or nearly solitary, separated from the schools whence scholarly help could be drawn. Yet each stood facing a crowd grouped round him to be taught, and each, at some word, at some clause, at some peroration, at some pregnant cor­ ner-stone of an argument he was burn­ ing to launch straight home, found the text of his parchment a pit, or a stum­ bling block hindering him. The treas­ ured manuscript, was of his own copying, nearly for a eerlainty. That did not affect the case. As lie read from it-- spread on his knee, perhaps, a scroll; laid open on a desk, leaved and labori­ ously and delicately margined, and stitched and covered and classed into the form of a goodly book--he had to expound its learned method so that it should touch the simple; or, bewilder­ ing him sadly, he had to turn its words from the Greek, from the Hebrew, from any master-tongue, into the language, even the dialect, familiar to his audience --a language often harshly unfamiliar to himself--and the right way to do this would again and again refuse to come to him, and his message failed. There was the pity of it; there was the grief. It oould not be allowed to abide. And at last there occurred to him the remedy,' In his quiet hours, his flock away, he would pore over his manuscript afresh. It might be missal, it might be com­ mentary, treatise, diatribe, epic poem, homily, holy writ--the same plan would ba efficacious for each one. After beat­ ing out the meaning of the crabbed, the Oriental, characters--of the painstaking, level, faultless Gothic letter--he would write this meaning, this exposition, this gloss, above each word, each phrasing, that had given him trouble, and then, henceforth and forever, such gloss would be there to see and to use, and every difficulty would have been mado magically to disappear. Good. The goodness must be manifest at once. Only there is a fact remaining requiring acute indication. At the very first word the very first oi these conscientious Old World scholars thus glossed or ex­ plained, the seed was sown of the New World dictionaries, and there has been Ho Btop to the growth of this seed till the tree from it has spread its thick and wide branches as far as they have spread, and are still spreading, in this very to-day.--Cornhill Magazine. Fire Department In Fraaet. While Paris is far ahead of cities in the United States in regard to some of her municipal arrangements, in others she is quite deficient Her streets are cleaned when necessary, as if by magic. Let there be a snowfall, and thousands of men will be out armed with shovels, •fee., and in a twinkling the thorough­ fares are as free from the unwelcome visitant as if it had never come. But the fire service is simply execra­ ble. Haud pumps are used, and they will not throw the water with sufficient force to reach the upper stories of the immense buildings there. Some steam pumps are employed but they are never ready and it takes so loug before they can be upon the scene of action as to be often of really little service. When the Maguzin du Friiitemps burned it was between two and three hours after the fire broke out before the steam pumps arrived, and then the stream could only be sent iuto the third story. It would make the Pat isians open their eyes somewhat could they see the celer­ ity with which the firemen in our large cities move. Everything is so perfectly adjusted that, almost before the echo of the bell which calls them has died away, the engines, hose carts and ladders are in rapid motion, and unless the fire had got under strong headway before discov­ ered it perishes almost in an instant. The people on both sides of the water could learn something from each other in regard to living. A Bostonian Mistake. . At a late Boston party the host said to a guest: " I beg you to entertain Mr. Blank a little; he looks utterly forlorn and bored to death. I will introduce him and you must interest him. By the way, his strong point is butter, on which he has written a book." The lady guest graciously undertook the task of entertaining the man, inwardly wondering that he should be so much interested in butter (of which she knew very little), when his face indicated a mind given to much profound thinking. However, with butter in view, she began on the weather, gradually got to the country, then onto a farm, from that to cows and at last to butter. The man looked more bored than ever, the magic word producing not the slightest effect, and he somewhat abruptly left her, and soon withdrew from the house. " I did my best," she explained to the hostess ; " I went through agonies to prove that I was deeply interested in butter, but it was all in vain." " Buttej;!" exclaimed the hostess, "what possessed you to talk to that man of all men on butter t I told you he had just written a book on Buddha, and I knew how deeply you, too, were interested in the same sub­ ject." And they said in chorus, "Gra­ cious !"--Boston Transcript. Finding the Day of the Week. Divide the year by four, reject the remainder, if any; add the quotient to the year, and to this sum add tbe number of days fr m January 1 of that year to date, excepting l ap year, when add one kss that number of days from January 1 to date, counting twenty-nine days for February in leap years; divide the sum by seven, and if the remainder be one the day is Suuday ; if twu, Mon­ day ; three, Tuesday; four, Wednesday ; five, Thursday ; six, Friday; 0, Satur­ day. Tuis rule appliue to any date from 1800 to 1899, N. S., Lt the remainder one be Mondav: t«o, Tues'av, etc. For dates from 1900 to 2099. let. the re­ mainder one, Saturdav; two, Sunday; three, Monday, etc. Dates from 2100 to2199, remainder one, Friday; two, Saturday; three, Sunday, eta J. RIRA ASP mart, A BUM band that ia aUfneao ptoaj i A dog's collar. J ONES calls hi* wife's half ilnww fcg switch-tender. A NOBLKSTAT that ought to be able to give a good blow-out--the Earl of fife, 1 IT is a mistake to assume that &"I by any other name would wheat A uah by the name of Hash has bees sent as a missionary to the under the belief that the fatives will not eat him. GIRLS, don't think s fellow is a gen­ tleman because he gives yon a polite bow. Bowers are always knaves, so a eucher player informs us. A CANADA farmer discovered a piteo*- taining 500 skulls Must have been tha site of some ancient theater to have sa many dead heads in the pit " You seem sad and dejected to-night * Claude, dear." "Yes, darling; men of * my emotional nature are easily nffAffafl by the smiles or frowns of fortnne." W% washerwoman had discharged him, HE promised to cleave to her,, and when they went to the theater and he came back between the acts with a piece of cork in his whiskers she knew from the fragrance he exhaled that he had clove. AN editor in Georgia says ; " Gold is found in thirty-six eonnties m this State, silver in three, copper in thirteen, iron in forty-three, diamonds in twenty-six and whisky in all of them; and the H gets away with all the rest" . THK professor who recently said, in warmly recommending a certain book, "If you can't carry it in your head yon can in your pocket," echoed the senti­ ments of many men in the school who have "cribbed" through examin­ ations. A BOY came home from school mueli exoited, and told his father that he Re­ lieved all human beings were descended from apes, which made the old man so mad that he replied, angrily: "That may be the case with you, but it ain't with me, I can tell you that, now." • ' H'# 8AIX> Thomas Jonea, In gleeful tonea, Unto Jiis p»n and heir: " Your noop'n cxaot Like mine--a fact, My son, I do doclars! " " Not quite so red," YOUDK hopeful said (At dsddjr'» nose he aqnlSM|t " Some folks prefer : .. High color#, sir, * But 1 lite sober tint*!" , *>3 \ "I,.1 u v- «i- ,«a( j litis j PAPA--" That picture shows the story af Prometheus and the vulture that fed . .. on his liver. Every day the vulture de- '* < voured it and every night it grew for bin* : to eat again." Sympathetic child-- "Poor, dear old vulture! How sick he , , 'I must have been of liver every day." >:\'f "Hi! where did you get them trus- ers? " asked an Irishman of a man who happened to be passing with a remark- • ably short pair of trousers. "I got thqm where they grew," was the indig- i f"* aant reply. " Then, by my oonscienoe," >x/.- said Pat, " you've pulled them a year , ^ " • too soon !" " Vj A STRANGBB took his watch to the ; watchmaker to have it repaired. After a ' few minutes' work the watchmaker handed it back with the remak that the 'i i# < '< damages were 02. " What was the mat- ^ ter with it?" asked the stranger. •, "There was a hair in it" " Was that < -•• all ? You might have found a hair mat- .. trees in it for 82." * • A PHILADELPHIA lady is so opposed to ^ ^ anything suggestive of eara-playin^ that she will not have even a d^al-table ,, in her kitchen. And she wants to be * translated, like Elijah, so that she may . . . escape "shuffling off" this mortal coiL ' , And she can't bear to hear any allusion ! to Gabriel's "last trump," ami waaV' have a "tray" in the house, f '? «*»< v u si UMH AMD PAIK. ' e, % r?' Ife! , .^3 t <\ , " " l . : f , " I love yon. little sweetheart," He In tenner accents MHI. "And I love you, too," «ho ana A* rtip bent her pretty head. And the Htara looked down from On the cbaruiing tfte-a-tete, Aa the pair of youthful lovers Geutiy Hwung upon the gate. " Yea I love you," ehe softly mi Looking up at him again. " Holy mackerel I Gee Moms I * Answered ho, in direst pain. For, •lax: we never know tbe Ingenuity of fate, And love that betray* ua often To a mashed thumb in the t VS» " -Bolton Globe. j " WISCONSIN GINII"--Your poem oofla» mencing-- iifyg. Canst thou Nmambw, my darllnir, • j A time when yon thought of but me, ' • • When our joys aud hope» were recountat To each 'u< uth the o.d trys.tin«-tree?--• has been received, but we shall decline to answer until after looking up the laws of Wisconsin concerning breach of prom* -fit ise. In regard to the last stanza-- . Should you o'er the Stygiait river Firat rest 'ueatli the Life-ghiug Tree,!! i •<:-»; > \ ; Will you pause iu iu ahatlow, my darling v And wait iu tbe si euce for ME ?-- we can only say that if in case you are a trip or two behind on ihe ferry it will bo a pleasure to sit on the bank till you ar^ . rive. Anything that we can do to please poets--outside of printing their efforts- will be cheerfully attended tf. fWgg go Tribune, i* r 1 i Why American tioods Are Preferred. The growing reputation of American manufactures in the markets of the ' world has alarmed competitors abroad. Whatever Americans undertake, whether. it be machine tools, cutlery, silks., flour, cotton cloth, or any other meichandise, they make, their brands the leading ones, selling for the most money, and universally sought after. The reasons for this are plain. It is not on account of the better and more direct processes » employed ; it is not by discarding work­ shop traditions and old time methods; it is not by such adventatious aids that we have achieved so great au eminence that our trade marks are counterfeited and foreign goods are represented as oi American make. It is because oui manufactures liave found that mercan­ tile honesty is the only pol cy, aud that * when they attempt to adulterate or lower the standard the criticism of competitors exposes them at once. 4 American machine tools of first class makers are not cut in weight at in work­ manship. It is a race to see who shall ^ discovers weak part that can be made 4^ stronger, or a detail exposed to wear that can be made more durable. The . MTTIP is true of cotton goods and SUKS. The senseless weighting of both with adulterants of one kind or another is not practiced here, for experience It teaches our people that the best is the & cheapest --Mechanical Engineer. " How did you like the lecture f* " Oh, it was beautiful." " What did he say ?" "Ob, he said so many beautiful things." "Tell me some." "Oh, he said--ha said--but I eanl tell it to you as he said them." :i "Tell them as you understood them.'* "Well, he said--he said--oh can't ." " Tell us one thing he said." "Well, he said that the --thetinsof existence enabled ns to--to--oh, lean t." ^ "Tell us what yon thiuk he meant.** ^lim yourseHT*^ ~ I hear