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?1 **• \ ' >• <? v; .• ;;- ^ .. a2iS 'i ' v i >/."• '0- <r *\ u - .• .m. fr..:... ^ v * i. 4il « £ ' WS^WWW-? * " 1 i»5^ ,-w "Is HJtfctitg f?lahtilcalfr I. VAN SLYKE, E«ltr m* PsMishar. MCHENRY, 4 ILLINOIS. ; THX Rhode Island Legislature has ap­ propriate i 310,000 for a statue of the late Gen. Burn Bide, in Pro*idenoe, when the popular subscription shall reach '$20,000. LAD; BBAHSBT is the owner CL the largest and most perfect moleskin sack #rer made. It contains over 1,000 skins, f»lnd the price of 200 guineas, or more •fimi $1,000, has been offered for it. Br a recent bulletin of the Census Office the statistics of live stock in each v4tf the States and Territories shows that Hiere were on farms in the United States June 1, .1880, 10,357,082 horses, 1.812,- fS9 mules, 993,970 oxen, 12,443,593 cows, 22,488,590 other cattle, 35,181,156 sheep and 41,683,851 swine. THB champion fat man has gone his way. His name was Joel Barry, and he erstwhile resided at MacLias, Me. In a State of health Mr. Barry weighed about -400 pounds, but sometimes worry and trouble and indisposition would run him down to 350. He lived long as well as round, for he was 60 years of age when he died. ROBK^T BTTRDETTB has retired from the lecture field, and is looking for a place of residenoe. In an interview re­ cently he said : " We are hunting a place to live. We are not hard to please. We want mountains where there are no frosts or fogs; a seashore where there is no east wind; fresh running water without malaria; summers without thunder-storms, and winters without thaws. And when we find that place we are going to camp down on it." • who would dare to take off his wheel. The threats from one party to the other were received with shouts of-derision or applause. At length a couple of police­ men appeared. One of them spoke quietly to the buggy man. He moved his vehicle as designated by the officer, who bent his shoulder to the wheels, the petroleum «nan passed on, and the track was cleared. The incident remind­ ed a gentlemaa who witnessed it of the two men who met that way on the road. One of them shouted that if the other fellow did not turn out he would serve him as he did another man the day be-, fore. The man thus threatened at once gave way, but, after he had got by, turned around and asked the other how he had "served the man yesterday." "I told him that if he not turn out I would, and he didn't." Coii. GEOBOB WASHINGTON JONES, Greenback member of "Congress from Texas, is the tallest man in the House of Bepresentatives. He wears blue-flannel or checked-gingham shirts, without col­ lar or cuffs, coarse boots and homespun clothes. He lives, in Washington, in a half-furnished, uncarpeted and unswept back-attic room, lighted only by a gas jet in the hall. While his colleagues feast daintily in the Capitol cafe,he takes his lunch of apples and gingerbread at his desk. But this crude, harsh life is WHEN Mr. Farney took charge of the High School at Buena Vista, Ohio, a bright and lovely pupil, Miss Woolftan, was one of those committed to his care. They fell immediately said simultane­ ously in love, and were engaged without delay. The parental Woolftans objected to this arrangement when Mr. Farney informed them of it and asked their blessing, and prevailed upon the dutiful girl to break the engagement. Then Mr. Farney resigned his place in the High School, and before he left the town called, with the Woolftanian ooa • sent, for the last interview with the beautiful brunette. At his request she sang the sadful song of Burns, "Had we never loved sae kindly, had we never loved saeblindly," they wouldn't have come to grief. Then Mr. Farney went away in the darkness and tears, and three days afterward his body was found in the Ohio river, six miles above Cin­ cinnati, and buried. The girl was incon­ solable, and dead to the pleasures of the world. Suitors innumerable offered to replace the dead lover, but all were re­ jected until, last June, she was married to a gentleman who consented to take her with the perfect understanding that she did not, could not, would not and should not love him. In December the husband was killed in a railroad accident on the Cincinnati Southern, near Lex­ ington. The widow withdrew entirely from society, but in March a gentleman presented himself for acceptance, and in a twinkling was accepted. It was Mr. Farney, who was not dead and never had been, the man drowned above Cincin- , * •!«_ .• j , , .. | nati being another party altogether, invested with pathos and nobility by the , •, ... .„ . . . . . . . . . ! w h o s e i d e n t i t y w i l l n e v e r b e k n o w n . fact that its sacrifices are made for the sake of needy and suffering relatives at home. HOLLAND, it seems, is about to en­ large its territory by means employed so successfully centuries ago. The Gov­ ernment has determined to pump out the Zuyder Zee, a gulf, or arm of the sea, about sixty miles wide and 200 miles long. Portions of it have already been rescued, and the present scheme pro­ poses to erect a great dyke twenty-five miles long across the gulf, and then pump out the inclosed sea by means of steam ' power. The work will occupy from seven to ten years, at an estimated oost of $46,000,000, but will make room for 200,000 inhabitants, and will add a new province containing 500,000 acres to the Netherlands. No undertaking of a similar magnitude has ever been en- tared upon. IF Mr. H. E. Wrigley is right in his paper lately read before the American Institute of Mining Engineers, most of the oil wells in New York and Pennsyl­ vania will give out within four years. His calculations are ingenious, but, we trust, not conclusive. He holds that there are now left of certainly available territory only eleven square miles, and of possible, but still uncertain territory, 870 square miles. Fifty-four miles of actually working territory haj produced 108,000,000 barrels. Eleven miles, ac­ cording to this computation, will yield 22,000,000 barrels. From the uncertain area, judging from the varying results of working in similar soil, 74,000,000 barrels may be expected. Thus as the future yield will be 96,000,000 barrels, and about 25,000,000 barrels are used yearly, the main supply will give out in between three and four years. Should new wells not be discovered, or old ones fill up again, the price must rise as the period of exhaustion approaches. Another wedding speedily followed. A SXBXBS of coincidences observed in a Boston street-car is thus described in the Journal: "Seven young ladies were perceived in the car, of whom not one had both gloves on, and none were wholly bare-handed. Of these, four had gloves on their right hands and three on their left, and in every instance the un­ gloved hand lay in the lap above the other. All of the seven bare hands had diamond' rings upon them, and whenever any attentions were needed by the hair or ornaments of the ladies, in every in­ stance the ungloved hand was employed to bestow them, and in the necessary movements the stones flashed and glit­ tered very much. And when, as hap­ pened in process of time, the seven young ladies left the car, one after the other, four of them waved their left hands to the conductor ta stop, and the other three agitated their right hands, and again the rings sparkled quite copi­ ously. All of which was very curious and interesting to the scientific mind." A WELL-KNOWN St. Louis citizen was riding in his buggy, driving on the rails of the street-car track, when he met a double team with a load of petroleum, in barrels. Neither would budge from the track. Several street cars came up; drivers shouted out, "clear the track ;" police whistles were sounded, and 200 or 800 spectators took sides. The friends of petroleum threatened to unlimber the boggy and wrench off one of the wheels. The buggy man oAmd any man 985 Donglas in Chicago in 1854. In the account of the meeting in Oo- tober, 1854, in the North Market .Hall, one is quoted from who is styled "A Conservative Biographer of Senator Douglas" as to the character of the Bpeec-h there made by the Senator, and its reception. I was present at that meeting, and my recollections of the af­ fair differ considerably from the account of that biographer. Dr. Douglas had been the most pop­ ular man iu the State, but his course in Congress on the Kansas and Nebraska bill had alienated all anti-slavery men. In a speech delivered in 1854, or therea­ bouts, in Chicago, Mr. E. C. Lamed, then a young member of the Chicago bar, had exposed the plausible and dan­ gerous policy of Stephen A. Donglas. Theipeople of Illinois understood that, in older to gain favor in the South, their Senator was betraying the North, and when he addressed them at North Mar­ ket. Hall it was at once evident that his popularity was waning. They, however, listened quietly at first, but the tone of his speech soon became arrogant and of­ fensive, and when he brought forward his argument about the right of the Ter­ ritories to regulate their affairs in their own way, they showed their diapprpba- tion loudly. The real meaning of this policy was to throw Kansas into the hands of the slave power, and this the audience well understood. Mr. Doug­ las, unaccustomed to opposition, lost his temper and became insolent. This made matters worse, and, after a stormy half hour, he retired from the Btand, com­ pletely beaten; his friends took him away to his hotel, where, as the story went, he wept tears of mortification. I was near enough to the speaker to hear all that he said, and am confident that the triumphant closing speech to the Abolitionists of Chicago attributed to him by "A Member of the Western Bar " was like the speeches put by class­ ical historians into the mouths of tin ir heroes--an after thought. As to the time of adjourning being midnight, and the affair lasting four hours, my recollection is that Douglas began to speak about 8 o'olock and that he left the stand be­ fore 10. If the course of Douglas was at that time objectionable, it should be remem­ bered that when the coniUct came in 1861 his conduct was patriotic, and all his influence was for the Union.-- Georgia Correspondence Chicago In- ter-Ocean. Taking His Word for It. A saloon-keeper who had long been bothered by a dead-beat, tapped him on the shoulder and said: " My friend, I don't want you here any more." " Don't you? I can hardly believe it, but of course I shall take your word for it. I suppose you'll set out the drinks on this sad occasion?" " Oh, yes. Walk right up." The saloonist had taken some forty- rod and added a liberal supply of cayenne pepper, dashed in some vinegar and poured in enough molasses to make the drink slip down. The beat poured out a stiff dram and tossed it off without stop­ ping to breathe, and as he set down the glass and let the tears course down bin bronzed cheeks he asked: "Do I weep?" " I should rather think you do!" "Well, sir, I want you to distinctly understand that I'm not weeping on ac­ count of any trifle that has occurred here --not by a jugful! My emotion is oc­ casioned by hearing of the death of an aunt. Good day, sir." IklBtssoNBB's portrait of Mrs. J. W. Mackey represents that lady as daintily dressed, with a broad Directoire hat, and engaged in buttoning a glove of ex­ travagant length. Probably he had her use the glove to keep her occupied while he painted, and the picture shows that he got it done before she got the glove buttoned. Young men who have waited for a girl to get her glove buttoned will believe Vafm.^-Bo*ton Pott. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. GOOD ooral is worth five times its weight in gold, and the finest pink ooral is worth $600 an ounce. SKTH GRKKN says fish never sleep or close their eyes, and that the1 natural age of a trout is about 15 years. THK lengest span of wire in the world is used for a telegraph in India, over the River Kistnah, between Bezorah and Sectanagrum. It is more than 6,000 feet long, and is stretched between two hills, each of which is 1,200 feet high. AT an Eastern mill is a square block of compressed paper fastened on a turn­ ing lathe, and so hard that if a fine steel chisel is held against it when it is moving, instead of cutting the paper it will break the chisel into a hundred pieces. The strength is astonishing. THEKK is residing near Schraalenburg, N. J., a man named Peter Dime, who was born without hands or arms, and yet can write remarkably well, chiefly by using his lips. His ambition, backetTEy a persevering industry, has enabled him to overcome difficulties that seemed in­ surmountable, and he therefore qualified himself for an active business man. He is now neatly 30 years of age, and is a subject of absorbing interest to all who come in contact with him. SIR HENRY BESSEMER says that last year 154,184,300 tons of coal were mined in England. This is sufficient to make a wall 200 miles long, 100 feet high and forty-two feet thick--a mass which ex­ ceeds that of the celebrated Chinese wall by sufficient to add 346 miles to its length. It would construct fifty-five pyramids as large as the great pyramid of Egypt, or more than one every week. It will be curious to know how long the energy born of the combustion of this mass annually will require to exhaust itself. A NUMBER of English coal mines are being worked under the ocean. In Northumberland the net available quan­ tity of coal under the sea is estimated at 403,000,000 tons, and on the Durham coast, under the sea, including a breadth of three and one-half miles, with an area of seventy one square miles, 734,500,000 tons. The latter mine is in a vein of an aggregate thickness of thirty feet, dis­ tributed in six seams. Engineers are considering, how it can be successfully worked in the future. ALL have seen the immense bowlders called "lost rock," in some sections, scattered over the northern part of the United States, which have little or no resemblance to any mass of rocks any­ where in the vicinity, and have perhaps asked the question: Where did they come from ? Also the heaps of sand, gravel and cobble-stones of various sizes, which form many of our ridges, knolls and hills, and which are totally unlike any fixed rock near them. All these phenomena are attributed to a single cause, and that is the great sheet of ice which nature stored up ages ago without the necessity of protecting it in an ice-house. According to Agassiz, the sheet of ice extended m this oountry as far south ss South Carolina, or Ala­ bama, and was thick enough to cover all the mountains of the eastern part of North America, with the exception of Mt. Washington. This peak projected, a lone sentinel on that vast waste of ice, two or three hundred feet. In the lati­ tude of Northern Massachusetts, he con­ ceives the ice to have been two or three miles thick. The bowlders were^all torn off by the advancing ice sheet, from the projecting rocks over which it moved, and carried or pushed as " bottom drift, scratching and plowing the surface over which they passed, and being scratched and polished themselves in return, till they were finally brought to rest by the melting of the ice. They were not car­ ried so far south as the ice sheets ex­ tended, seldom beyond the parallel of 40 degrees north. The native copper of Lake Superior was drifted four or five hundred miles south ; and the puddling stones of Roxbury, Mass., were carried as far south as island of Penikesa.-- Scientific American. Balzac as a Urocer. No man had a more implicit confi­ dence in his own lucky star than Balzao, or indulged in more sanguine anticipa­ tions, respecting the future; far from being discouraged by repeated failures and disappointments, his active brain was incessantly Latching some new pro­ ject which, until superseded by another even more absurdly impracticable, he regarded as an infallible stepping-Btone to fortune. Meeting Henri Monnier one day on the .Boulevard he confided to that genial humorist his latest scheme for becoming a millionaire. "Listen at­ tentively," he said, "and you will un­ derstand that this time I have hit upon an idea worth cultivating. Nothing ran be more simple. I shall first take a shop on the Boulevard des Italiens." "Very good; and then?" "Then I shall "have painted over the door in let­ ters of gold, ' Honore de B.ilzac, grocer.' That alone is a master stroke, for every one will be eager to see me serving the customers and wearing the traditional apron ; it will be 500,000f. in my pocket without the shadow of a doubt. Follow my calculation: supposing that each- person who enters my shop, and no one will be able to resist the temptation, spends only a sou, as I shall gain half on what I sell, that will make so much a day; and by the end of the year the profits will be fabulous, positively fabu­ lous !" " Very likely," gravely replied Monnier. " Meanwhile lend me 5f. oa the chance?"--All the Year Round. Vnvliah Unmnr. The London Spectator says that " the humor of the United States, if closely examined, will be found to depend in a great measure on the ascendancy which the principle of utility has gained over the imaginations of a rather imaginative people." The humor of England, if closely examined, will be found just about ready to drop over the picket fence into the arena, but never quite makiug connections. If we scan the English literary horizon we will find the humorist up a tall tree depending from a sharp knot thereof by the slack of his overalls. He is just out of sight at the time you look in that direction. He al­ ways "lias a man working in his place, however. The man who works iu his place is just paring down the half solp- and newly pegging a joke that lias^e- cently been sent in by the foreman for repairs.--Nge's Boomerang. ' How the Queen Dines. When the members of the royal fam­ ily are present at dinner they sit on either side of the Queen, except when foreign royalty of higher rank is present. When the lady-in-waiting or one of the maids of honor dines with the Queen it is by special command ; a message is sent on the morning of the day desiring her to do so. She does not use the gold plate at Christmas, as is popularly sup­ posed--indeed, it is only used when state dinners are given in the Waterloo gallery at Windsor, of which there have been but few during the last twenty years. A portion of it is also used at state balls and concert suppers at Buck­ ingham palaoe, On New Year's day the Queen gives prisents to the members of I her family and all under her roof; her gifts include works of art, statuettes, . books, china, and other rare ami valua- ! ble things, in 'addition to useful gifts. The presents are laid out in a room and her Majesty is present when they are distributed, while many she presents herself.--London Telegraph. Americans In Europe. London Truth has the insight to puno- tnre many shams. It tells the truth as follows, about our people who go to Europe : "But after all it is the Amer­ icans who form the most numerous con­ tingent among oar social swallows. Each spring they come in greater num­ bers than the one before it, and this year they promise to be more numerous and less select than ever. To a well-to- do American a visit to 'Yurrup' is pretty much what the grand tour was in the days of our grandfathers. It is a part of his education, a social topping-off essential to every person who at home affects to drive a trotting horse, live in a 'brown- stone house with a high stoop,'and sleep in Beeclier's tabermicle on a Sundav. Yet to most Americans, London is only an incident of their travels. Paris is their real headquarters. There life is more cosmopolitan than here,and money commands the entree to a kind of world which in London would be unapproach­ able to the Nevada silver miner or the Cincinnati pork butcher. It must also be remembered that, glibly as We prate about the Anglo-Saxon race, only a cer­ tain section of Americans are of English origin. Millions of thorn are Germans, Scandinavians and French, to whom England is accordingly only one of the 'effete European despotisms.' The best of the New World stock is, however, British, and among these worthy peo­ ple it is a perfect craze to unravel their ancestry. Half their holiday is spent searching, like Japhet, for their fathers, in visiting the homes of their ancestors or in perusing the apocrypha which in­ genious genealogist compile for their gratification. To the inn-keepers these American swallows are a horde of wealth. They travel in style and eat of the best. They buy freely and are easy victims of the picture dealer and of the manufac­ turer of modern antiques. Yet apart from the commercial aspect of the American immigration, itisof inestimable political advantage. The visitors return wiser and more tolerant than they came. They see the kernel of the Irish question a great deal better than some of those who chatter over it; and in their language, in the arrangement of their houses, in their modes of thought, pas­ times, feasts and fashions the traveled Yankee returns so impressed with the stamp of Europe as to form a favorite butt for the anathemas of the monkeys who have not been among meb. It is indeed questionable whether, socially, at least, Europe is not affecting America in a more remarkable manner than, de­ spite all the talk to the contrary, Amer­ ica ia influencing the old Continent." Why Americans Die. "When we learn that in the year 1880 the death rate in New York was 26.48 to 1,000 inhabitants, that in the year 1881 the rate was 31.08 per 1,000, while in London for the same period the average death rate was 22.14, and that forty- eight cities in the United States during the same time exceeded the death rate of New York, it becomes us to ask, 'Why are Americaus dying out?' In 1881, in this citv, there were 12,494 more deaths than births, and in the months of January and Februray, 1£82, the deaths exceeded the births b«&446. Iu Lon­ don. dnttng ' ylW^flWO, there "were 81.128 deaths and 132,128 births, or 51,- 047 more births than deaths. I have considered these facts worthy of close attention. One reason why Americans are dying out is because they eat too much and too fast. A person studying closely the habits of Americans would think that their object in life was to eat. Americans can't converse five minutes without something to eat. Another rea­ son why Americans are dying out is be­ cause they drink too much. The curse of our nation is intemperance. A third reason why Americans are dying out is because they gamble too fast. We are becoming a nation of gamblers. This spirit of gambling is undermining all honest industries. Another reason is disappointed ambition. We are a nation of rivals. Each niau desires to.lead his fellows. A Republic has many bless­ ings, but it possesses one disadvantage-- the failure to satisfy the grasping ambi­ tion of its teeming millions. The last reason for Americans dying out is their false standard of success, money. If a man in Europe fails in business, or loses his money by some unexpected calamity, his friends will still remain true to him, as a rule. But in this country let a man lose his fortune by adversity, and he is quickly forgotten. We should not gauge, the amenities and duties of life upon a person's bank book, for ia doing so we introduce those causes of discouragement, inaction and national death which will not only make Americans die out, but every nation under the sun."--Rev. George IF. Galloper, of New York. A Real Cinderella. A Paris journal has discovered a real Cinderella in the person of the wife of an English millionaire, whose name he with­ holds, from delicacy or other causes. About fifteen years ago the painter He- bert was executing his fine portrait of the Duchess of Noailles. He was work­ ing at the time upon an exquisite genre picture, in whose progress the Duchess took a great interest. It represented a young Italian girl of extraordinary loveliness. One day the Duchess said to the artist: " It is impossible that such a face should be a mere painter's ideal. The original must sometimes come into your studio. I should like to see her." The lady was so charmed with the girl that she said to the painter: "If the rich give so much money to hang up a copy upon^ their walls, what an ornament the origijnal would be for any salon." The thought which she had thus struck out seems to have fasciuated her, and when the picture of the beautiful Italian girl had found its way into Baron Roths­ child's collection atFerrieres, tlieDuche.-s took the girl herself, adopted her, and -gave her the best education. Her parents were respectable, but poor, and gladly yielded up their daughter to the splendid social future which the amiable Duchess engaged to provide for her. Hebert's picture perished in the flames during the fire at the Chateau of Ferrieres, in 1873, but the original had developed into a woman of wonderful beauty. Her guardian kept a jealous eye upon her numerous admirer?, determining that if her Cinderella did not become a Princess she should marry into a family of high social distinction. Meanwhile an Englishman of very great wealth, who was visiting the House of Noailles, not only fell deeplyfm love with the beautiful wan*-ApPgained her heart. Although "Bt a noble, he was a milliri ,'t * VL.Sj^Btuehess consented at la8Voi,fa be E»gbBh »%r ihv* Italian Cinderella taet'wiUi Hi cluUa cUrm». Fraud by Cancan Edict. The Democratic party is seized with a fresh attack of Bourbenism. It learns nothing and forgets nothing; It cannot forget that its conspiracy to rob the Republican party of the electoral vote of the State of New York in 1868 was successful. It cannot forget that the South was made "solid" after the re­ construction era by intimidation, ------ sinstion and fraud. It cannot forget that lying and forgery came within an ace of winning the game in 1880. Not­ withstanding the sneak-thief is repeat­ edly caught and jugged he never learns to stop stealing. Let him out of the penitentiary and he will step up briskly behind the old gentl?man in the next street and filch his pocket-handkerchief just in the way of practice to ttoe if his hand retains its cunning. The Democratic party is practicing just now in Congress. At the opening it stole some seats in that body. The Elections Committee, having investi­ gated the subject, report that they find the seats to have been stolen, and recom­ mend that the individual Democrats jn whose behalf the seats Were stolen by the Democratic party be asked to vacate them. Bat the Democratic party is not disposed to surrender the stolen prop­ erty. In fact, it meets in caucus and discusses the subject of the theft, and resolves finally that it will neither drive the thieves out nor let the Republicans drive them out. No; it will keep what it's got. and catch what it can. The honest Democrat is astonished at such an act of baseness. He denies that his party can have been guilty of such a piece of villainy. But it is a fact. All the Democrats in the lower House of Congress sat in their places like rows of empty bottles, and maintained absolute silence when asked whether they were opposed to stealing seats in that body. They said in effect by this silence: " We know that several of our fellow- Democrats are occupying stolen seats here, misrepresenting Congressional dis­ tricts, but we don't care for that; we have kept them here drawing pay for months, and we propose to keep them months longer by preventing a quorum. We give notice to Republicans that if they want to transact any public busi­ ness they must do it not only with us, but with the members that came here by fraud and remain here by fraud." The Democratic party learns nothing. It does not realize that the Southern people are almost tired of fraudulent elections. The Democratic party South ia in the throes of dissolution, while the national Democratic party in Congress is engaged in a fruitless effort to deify fraud in the presence of the country ! The Democratic party in half a dozen States is in imminent danger of going to pieces, chiefly because of the frauds which have shamed and disgraced its campaigns, and the Democratic man­ agers at Washington actually hold up fraud as a cardinal tenet of the party faith, to be defended, resolved for in eaucus, and prayed for in the political revival meeting 1 Nothing more monstrous ever oc­ curred in the history of consoienoel'wa politics. If it were not so extremely wicked it would be laughable. That a great political party should solemnly re­ solve in caucus to break a quorum to hold men in seats to which they were never chosen is equivalent to commit­ ting the Democratic party to the propo­ sition that it would be justifiable for the party in power--having the Clerk of the House--to make up a bogus roll con­ sisting entirely of defeated candidates, and farce such constitution of the House Upon the country. It seems to have been foreordained from the foundation of the Democratic party that in every emergenoy of its his- tory it should take the wrong course. With the serious divisions in the Re­ publican party, there seemed a fair Srospect of Democratic gains in the bngressional elections this fall. But gains are not to be made by adopting and sanctifying fraud as part and parcel of the Democratic creed. A great many people familiar with Democratic cam­ paign methods know that they are dis­ tinguished by every kind of crookedness. But the general public is now, for the first time, authoritatively informed by the uuited action of the entire party in the lower House of Congress that it is part of the Democratic party creed to hold for the party interest stolen seats, and to hold them at the cost of every method of obstruction known to the most strained exposition of parliamen­ tary law. The Republican party need not fear to go to the country on this issue-- namely : Shall fraud, fraud unblu*hiner. fraud boldly advertised, be sanctioned as a rule of political action ?--Chicago Tribune. Admirable Thought of Mr. Barrows. In the election contest of Lowe against Wheeler, the Hon. J. C. Burrows, of Michigan, described the thought and de­ sire of the Republican party with ad­ mirable cleverness and unsurpassable force. He said: " We waat an honest ballot and a fair count. The republio could withstand the shock of revolution. It could over­ come the invasion of foreign foes. It could endure the murder of its execu­ tive head, but it could not long sur­ vive assassination of its sovereign will at the ballot box. Against this high crime, aimed at a nation's life, I enter a nation's eternal protest." Nothing can be truer than this. Men may say, oh, what is the difference ? the traud has mode but one vote more on one side and one vote less on the other. There have been frauds, and frauds, and the sun has not stood still in the hea­ vens. That is all so. But there may be frauds that will drench the land with blood. And it is against this the country shonld be guarded before the climacteric evil shall be done. Any fraud of the ballot-box is a wrong of itself; and the wrong becomes more malignant in proportion as it is over­ looked or defended. When the people become indifferent on the subject the decay of the republic has set in. The people will no longer rule, even in appearance. The govern­ ing will be done by those who can con­ trive and execute the boldest and most successful frauds upon the ballot-box. What will follow when fraud is thus triumphant, and fastened upon the Government as a controlling power, can easily be imagined. That it will be tamely submitted to is not to be be­ lieved. Regarding the consequence of suc­ cessful frauds in this light, there is but one thing for the good citizen to do-- and that is to set his faec sternly against every individual and every parity which oonnives at or seeks benefit from elec­ tion frauds. No wrong of this character can be too trivial for attention, and none should be permitted tp succeed because either of its boldness or its cunning. They are most dangerous in the be­ ginning, and the pmlm« or party which exposes and eon^pota ttpi baa per­ former! a gmat public service. In the language of Mr. Burrows, election frauds are " a high crime aimed at the nation's life," and no party can perform a higher aervioe to the stafo than to lash the criminals or strangle the su "cess of the crime. This is a service which the Re­ publican party has performed. --Detroit Pott. Ohio Republican Platform. The Republicans of Ohio, in State Convention at Columbus, adopted the following resolutions: In the untimely death of onr 1st© beloved .Prwiident, James A. Garfield, we recognize a great national calamity, and we rejoice that bin administration, during its brief existence, gtkve assurance of ita success. We tender to Presi­ dent Cheater A. Arthur onr assurance of confi­ dence in his administration and onr approval of the moderate and patriotic course pursued bv him amid the embarrassing circnmstanceB una­ voidably attending such a national crisis. Resolved, That we fully indorse the adminis­ tration of Gov. Charles Foster, and the State administration of the Republican party during the last two years, under which the expendit­ ures of the State were reduced over one-half a million dollars below the expenditures of the Democratic administration of the two preceding years, and the public debt of the State reduced nearly a million and a quarter of dollars, and the remainder of the debt redeemable ihe 90th Of Juno. 1881, refunded at a rate of interest below 3}^ per cent, per annum. Resolved, That we" condemn the terrible out­ rages and persecutionsXinflicted noon the Jews of Russia and other sections of Europe, and, while we heartilv approve the action of the Government in it* effort# to ameliorate the con­ dition of these unfortunate people, we earnestly solicit a continuance of its moat energetic ef­ forts to that end. Resolved, That we indorse and affirm the principle of protection to American industrv as adopted at the last National Republican Con­ vention. Hesolvfd, That the tax-paying people of the Btate demand that by specific taxation the traffic in intoxicating liquors shall be made to bear its share of the publio burdens, and that the constitution--in so far ai it may be an ob­ stacle in the way of the exercise by the people, through their representatives, of practical con­ trol over the 1 quor traffic, to the end that the evils resulting therefrom may be rffectually provided against--shonld be amended at the earliest, date allowed by law. Resolved, That all laws upon the statute books must be respected and enforoed until re­ pealed by legislation or abrogated by legal authority. Resolved, That |n preserving the life of the nation, in giving freedom, civil rights and suffrage to the slave, in the reconstruction of the Union, in upholding the national honor and credit unimpaired, in the rapid payment of the public debt, and in the adoption of a series of wi«e publio measures, which have given to the country unexampled prosperity, the Republican party has a record which gives assurance of what it will do for the country in the future. Proud of this record, the Re­ publicans of Ohio affirm it to be their purpose to continue their warfare upon dishonesty and fraud at the ballot-box, until a free ballot and fair count is firmly secured to sverv locality and to every citizen.* ILLINOIS JEWS* THB Chester penitentiary oontains 484 prisoners. MARBHAMJ county will build a new Court House. IT is said that Galesburg never was ID a more prosperous condition than now. MCLEAN boasts of Siamese pigs, which, as a curiosity, are said to dis­ count all the double-tibaded roosters ever produced. A KNOX county farmer sheared his sheep three weeks ago. The weather turned so cold and wet that 115 of them died in a few days. HON. GREEN B. RAUX, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has acoepted an in­ vitation to deliver the Fourth of July oration at Sterling. 'Tis only a few years since one of Eureka's, fairest maids was taken away by a Hawk; a little later, and one was carried off by a Crow, and recently a Wolfe from Missouri succeeded in cap­ turing Miss Jennie States. A PELICAN of unusual size was killed at Cairo, the other day. The bird's wings, when spread, measured eight feet six inches from tip to tip. His grnb- poUch was large enough to hold a fish weighing twelve or fifteen pounds. WHILE an express train on the Hlinois Central road was coming down Dongola hill, in Union county, at a speed of about thirty miies an hour, Miss Kate Donovan jumped from a car, alighting on her face and shoulder, from the effects of which she died. She was thought to have been insane. CHA«LES BRATTON and Alfred Bridges, two young men of Vienna, Johnson county, went to Stonefort, Saline county, and got drunk. In the afternoon they boarded the south-bound freight on the Wabash and were put off soon after. An engine came along and ran over both of them. Bratton was instantly killed and Bridges badly mutilated, but will re- cover. A SAD case of accidental shooting oc­ curred at Clinton, DeWitfc county. The 16-year-old daughter of Mr. Lewis Will­ iams vas sitting in the front yard, when a young man named Charley Hammond came along and in a jovial manner took his revolver and pointed it at her to scare her, when it exploded, wounding the girl fatally. The ball took effect in her forehead. The young man was horrified at the fearful result of his joke. He supposed the revolver was unloaded. ELI HARROLD, a prominent citizen of De Witt county, committed suicide by hanging himself in a blacksmith shop in Wapella. Mr. Harrold had been suffer­ ing from insanity, which was brought about by sunstroke. He belongs to the wealthy firm of Harrold Bros., who run a large cattle ranch in Texas. Deceased was widely known in Central Illinois. Tub Illinois Sheriffs' was organized recently at Springfield. Its object is to adopt such measures as shall tend to make the services of its mem­ bers most efficient, and to recommend from time to time such changes in ex­ isting laws relative to Sheriffs and their duties as may be deemed necessary. Officers were elected as follows : President, O. L. Mann, of Cook; Vice Presidents, H. H. Fox. of Jackson, and J. Atter. of McLean ; Recording Secre­ tary, W. H. Hejidrickson. of Morgan; Corresponding Secretary, J. J. Richie, of Richland ; Treasurer, H. Gibson, of Sangamon. The first annual meeting will be held Nov. 21 next, at Spring­ field. Fatal miaing Accident at Catena. A terrible accident occurred at the Peru zinc mines, near Galena. George Young had been engaged in sinking a shaft on the ground of the Peru Mining Company, and had reached a depth of about eighty feet. He was being hoisted out of the shaft by means of a rope, having quit work for the afternoon, and when nearly to the surface he was over­ come by faintness and suddenly relaxed his hold of the rope, when liis foot slipped out of the loop and he was precipi­ tated to the bottom of the shaft, striking upon his head and shoulders. His neck was broken by the fall and his body ter­ ribly bruised. Death was instantane­ ous. Life IMUUM la IlilMia The Hon. Charles P. Swigert, Auditor of Public Accounts, has issue J his four­ teenth annual repeat in relation to the businessollifeand accidentinaoranoein State of minora for the year en Dec. 31, 1881. Thirty life Mid one and accident insurance companies have complied with the life insurance 1 iws ff this State, and have lieen authorized to transact their appropriate business m Illinois for the current year. The year*a business of these thirty-one compaoiee last year is shown in the following state­ ment: The thirty-one eomp«nie« leported hfrein held admitted aaseta «n the £ . . 31std»yof December last uaowt- to $4S8,1M,°2M« Th«;r liabi'itiea are 386l81*,«5aJl <of which *179,3H,061.38 i» for re- "^rve ou outstanding policies, valued according to the standard of firia State). T * -/! Their ourplxw over liabilitieo, not tak- ing capital stock and tontine KOS- mulatimiB into acconnt, is The total income received by then during 1881 amounts to 81,998,143^ (of which s '3,071,264.21 wm derived frum i;\t»rost, dividends and rentp, being a little oyer 5 per oent. of the gross admitted The expenditure* amount to TT <111 tit Jii ; ($S3,'.iSi>,0&;i93 of this amount was ' V M T paid to policy-holders for IOMCA, ' dividends and l»i>*ed, parchasedaad ;* "» surrendered policies). , J>Lfj The surplus of income over expendi - • . t«rest» 14,539,S30L«i They received 857.952,105.11 far premiums, and paid $31,879,036.72 for losses and natured endowments. Not including accident policies in these fig­ ures, we find that during the year 109L- 539 policies were issued and restored, and §226,341,606.51 of new insuranea effected thereby. The policies terrain- ted during the same period are 79,8521 amount, 8158,312,167.43. The whole number of policies in forea in these companies Dec. 31, 1881, ia 674,402, representing $1,549,588,9(»4.33 of insurance. To protect these obliga­ tions the companies hold $428,109,7301* 66 of ret aasets, being 27.63 per cent. 4a the whole amount at risk. In this State, during the year 1881, 7,877 policies were issued, covering S2C|i 484,295 37 of insurance. This is lljr larger number of policies than has been written during any year sines 1875, when forty-one companies wrote 9,087; and a larger amount of insurance than has been effected during any year sinee 1874, when forty-seven companies wrote $23,265,606 of insurance. DHjring same period the citizens of this""! paid $2,970,679.76 for premiums on poli­ cies, and received $1,723,353.64 in pay­ ment of losses. Acomparison of the grand aggregate* of life insurance dona ia Illinois in 1880 and 1881 is made in the following table: Xumner of policies issued in 1880........ S,9TC Number of policies issued in 1881........ T^MT v i • •. a ;• 4 Difference Amount issued in 1880 Amount issued in 1881 Difference Premiums received in 1880. Premiums received in 1881. Difference losses paid in 1880 Losses paid in 1881 Difference IMl ..fl3.5>58,im ........... 20,<KX»,8ia C>,142,53T iOiAMO »,Sll,1» ........... 889,SIT 1.454,8H .......... l,71?,att ...» %2,41t 1 Table Manners. • A writer in Harper's Bamr sHi§fc tention to the want of good table .tusaa- ners which marks so many American families, and which foreigners notice as one of our defects. The writer says: ^ We do not, as a nation, oomport oufa selves well at the table. In the iirlt place, we eat too fast, and are apt to make a noise over our soup. Well-bred people put their soup into their moutha without a sound, lifting up their spoon slowly, thinking about it, and managing to swallow it noiselessly. In the second plaoe, we are accused of chewing our food with the mouth open, and of putting too much in the mouth at once. Again, we are accused, particularly at railway stations and at hotels, of putting our headaioour and of eating with the (Inife instead with the fork. V""A--N « Some people eat instinctively with great elegance; some never achieve ele* ~ gance in these minor matters, but aS • should strive for it There is UQL. nuMSi ^ repulsive object than a person who eatl noisily, grossly, inelegantly. Dr. Johnson is remembered for hia brutal way of eating almost as much wl for his great learning and genius. With him it was selfish preoccupation. V Fish and fruit are eaten with silver knives and forks; or, if silver fisli-knivegl are not provided, a piece of bread oan hi held in the left hand. Fish corrodea a steel knife. -A," Never tilt a soup plate for the last v drop, or scrape your plate clean. Leava something for "manners"--a good old ' rule. A part of table manners should be the oonversation. By mutual oonsent, every one should bring only the best that it ' in him to the table. There should bf the greatest care taken in the famil* circle to talk of only agreeable topiee afe 'Mi meals. • The mutual forbearance whioh prompts the neat dress, the respectful bearing^ J the delicate habit of eating, the attend V tion to table etiquette, should also makit lis the mind put on its best dress, and tha effort of any one at a meal should be t4 make himself or herself as agreeable possible, '£* No one should show any haste in being > helped, any displeasure at being left un­ til the last. It is always proper at aa informal meal to ask for a second cut, to say that rare or underdone beef ia more to your taste than the more cooked portions. But one never asks twice for soup or fish; one is rarely helped twice at dessert. These dishes, also salad, are supposed ta admit of but one helping. Where There are Saaaeta. The following |§ rV>r>trro««mBTi description of a scene at the North Cape: "Here in the uppermost point in Europe and at this midsummer season .. •; there is no sunset! Bring burial weedA A, aud sable plume, for there is no sunset J *- if Lift the funeral song of woe and tell ^ ' through the land that sunset is no more, and yet I live! And must I now be disenchanted ? Do I live, and is suns@| no more? Do I see a country wherq;| the sun is going down, amid a mim at f scene equal, if not superior, to thaag|| Ohio evening years ago, which I trieqt '<" to portray with my poor pen, and yet if does not go down ? Was it not enough! that for ten long days there was nq night for us, and that the sun by gliding and glowing in the north without any respite had disturbed our customary experiences ? The reaction might bo too sudden. The failure of the old orb to Bet might--well, there is no telling the cateleptic and other dire conse­ quences. But here was the patent fact ; here were clouds aud lights ; all tha hues of the prism in splendid display an<l yet no sunset after all! Midnight, ana yet light all aglow ! No gas, no candles, no stars, no moon--only the fiery orb and his traveling clouds of glory. "But is not the sm all-inffieient wi out other fires? If he stays up and sets not, what more can the human heart, desire? \Vhat wonder that mind clothed tae sun with the m of divinity, and that the Magi his coining with worship, as tha of life ? What wonder that " ~" evoked music from Memnoa t the creator of health, and tb§--,S;;. efactor? Aud we have IURK •f Mtt* whanheviliM* net " jp OmieJik 'It:, .•ill