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I. WN SUNK. MMWi ILLINOIS SciKJrrmc authorities now denounoe the system of water-tight bulkheads in slaps as useless £nd absurd with as much vehemence as they once urged them aft a necessity to safety England intends to appoint a royal Commission of inquiry into the construction of ocean ships. JL: :V"- db«ny he THE proprietor of one Albany hotel has placed in every room in hislhouse a knotted rope long enough to reach the ground, and fastened one end of it to a staple in the floor. Now if transient guests do not steal them for substitutes ior trunk straps, occupants of the rooms will have one means of reliance in case of suddenly-spreading fire. JCM. A. T. STEWART'S elegant new Ttttasion, which was erected at a Cost of $1,000,000, seems to be more of a "burden than a pleasure to its mistress. Living alone, in the midst of an army of servants, she is in constant dr§ad of being stolen by ruffians and held for ransom, and the threatening and beg­ ging letters which she receives do not make her existence more agreeable. THE practice among many German -peasants of making their property over -to their children is having a most dia­ bolical effect. In order to escape the care of their parents and to secure the property all to themselves, children en­ gage in the most unnatural crime of parricide. It has so increased of late that the Governors of some of the dis- -tricts in Germany have issued ad­ dresses advising the peasants to retain, their property till they are through -with it THE ages of the following Empresses arad Queens are interesting: The Em­ press Augusta, of Germany, is 71, the -Queen of Denmark 65, and Queen Vic­ toria, of England, 63. The Empress of Brazil and Queen Olga, of Wurtemburg, "have both reached 60, while the ex-Em- press Eugene, whose name is still re­ corded in the place of honor in the calen­ dar, is 56. The Queen of Saxony is 49, the Empress of Austria 45, the Queen of the Belgians 46, the Queen of Sweden 46, <2ueen Margaret, of Italy, is 52, the Em­ press of Bussia 35, ana the Queen of Portugal 35, while the three youngest Are the Queen of the Netherlands 24, -the Queen of Spain 24, and the Queen of Servia 23. THE impression prevails that Poland w a nation of down-trodden serfs, and -the last place to look for literary pro­ gress. This seems to be an erroneous •idea, as indicated from the fact that during the five years ending 1881 the -total number of belles-lettres published in the Polish language was 296. The •aggregate number of Polish-speaking people is 13,000,000, which gives one book to every 4,000. In Russia the proportion is one to 10,000; in Germany, <yie to 2,800; in Italy, one to 2,200; in Holland, Denmark and Norway, one to 1,900; in England, one to 1,800; in Trance, one to 1,600. This speaks well lot the literary attainments ofdown- ij^pdden Poland. T 1?HE statement has been widely cir­ culated that the oldest living United States Senator is Joseph Cilley, of New Hampshire, who was in the Senate for a short term, from 1846 to 1847. The Shreveport (La.) Standard calls atten­ tion to the fact that several ex-Senators are now living who antedate Mr. Cilley's term of service. The oldest of all is «x-Gov. Alexander Mouton, of Louisi­ ana, whose venerable figure is occa­ sionally seen on the streets of New Or­ leans, and who resides in the parish of St. Martin. Gov. Mouton served in the Senate for the full term from 1837 to 1843. Among others mentioned by the Standard are Gen. David B. At­ kinson, Henry A. Foster and Simon Cameron. Gen. Atkinson was long thte presiding officer of the Senate, which he entered in 1843, and is still enjoying a vigorous old age at his home in Mis­ souri. Henry A. Foster succeeded Si­ las Wright in 1844; and Simon Came­ roon became a Senator as early as 1845. " JOSHUA HUTCHINSON, of the widely- known musical family of that 'name, died recently at the age of 71 years. He was an elder brother and the teach­ er and the teacher of the family quar­ tette--Judson, John, Asa and Abby-- whose simple songs were the delight of the yommon people twenty-five years ago. He had a rich tenor voice, which needed nothing but scientific culture to make him famous in high musical cir­ cles. He was > a successful teacher of common church music, and, with the aid of his wife, who survives him, gave many musical entertainments in dif­ ferent parts of the country. He was a man of great simplicity of character, and of generous sympathies, and was widely beloved. Of the old quartette, so long known as the "Hutchinson Fam­ ily." whose music so often enlivened anti-slavery, temperance and other re­ form meetings, Judson is dead, while •John, Asa and Abby (Mrs. Ludlow Pat- ton) are still living. Of the whole fam- ily of brothers and sisters, sixteen in number, familiarly called the "Tribe of Jesse," after the father, these three are -the only survivors. ' A LITTLE old man wearing the postal uniform may be seen daily at the rail­ road station in Louisville, Ky., busily ^sorting the mail. His name is Charles <3. Green, and he has been in the postal • V>. 1824. His interest and share in the distribution of the mail began, however, in 1815, when he helped to deliver to his father's neigh­ bors printed slips announcing the bat­ tle of Hew Orleans. "We had all heard," he said the other day to a re­ porter, "that a battle had been fought, but had no particulars. On a certain bright, clear morning, when the -snow covered the ground as far as the eye could reach| we awaited the coming of the mail carrier with his pack horse. Before he came in sight the stillness of the air was broken by cries of ' Good news! Good news!* People were waiting all along the road for the ap­ proach of the bearer of the news. There had been printed at the office of the old Lexington Gazette a number of slips of paper containing the details of the battle, and the mail carrier was dis­ tributing these broadcast. I was com­ missioned by my father to carry a num­ ber of these to the neighbors living around. I had never worn a pair of shoes then, and I tramped around the neighborhood that day in the snow, my trousers rolled up to the ki^p, with never a thought of discomfort,* - AMONG the rights guaranteed to an Alabama man for His deed to a right of way for a railroad was an annual pass for "himself and family." His pass read, accordingly, "himself, wife and children." But the mAn had a mother- in-law, and in defiance of all tradition and general custom, he pretended to think more of her than he did of any other member of his family. So he wrote to the railroad President com­ plaining that the pass did not fulfill the contract; that his mother was a member of his family and had been for twelve yeard--lived with him under his man­ agement and control, and entirely de­ pendent on him for her maintenance and support. But he overdid the busi­ ness. It was impossible to believe that any man had his mother-in-law "under management and control." The suspi­ cion which his exoessive zeal for a pass excited in the breasts of the officials led to an investigation, when it was proved, as might have been expected, that she had him under her management and control, that she had plenty of means, part of which went to the support of her son-in-law, and that he had applied under her orders to have her included in the scope of the pass. This should teach people to be moderate in their untruths, and they will be more likely, to make something by lying. But when they lie so that no man can pos­ sibly believe them, they defeat their own ends. The Shoemakers' Patron Saints* Crispin and Crispinian are the patrftn saints of the shoemakers, who have been accustomed to celebarate their martyr­ dom on its anniversary, October 25 (the eighth of the kalends of November). The occasions have taken mostly the form of processions, followed by feast* ing, which element flourished more in our own country than on the Continent. It will be seen that although their origin is common, there is an essential differ­ ence between the English and Contin­ ental shoemaker saints. They were natives of ancient Rome, and it is supposed they were of noble birth. Embracing Christianity they journeyed into Gaul, and settled at Soissons, where they preached their faith, sustaining themselves by shoe- making. They put into practice the Christian ideal of charity, and gained much honor with the Bagundre amongst whom they dwelt. When Maximums Herculeus, in the course of his expedi­ tion against the Bagundoe, in 284 A. D., came to Soissons, he was inflamed by findng followers of Christ in that com­ paratively remote province, and the fame of Crispin and Crispinian led to their being seized and handed over to Rictiovarus, prefect of the Gauls, to be tried and punished. Mr. Baring-Gould writes: "At Soissons is shown now the place where they are traditionally said to have been imprisoned. An abbey, called St. Crepin en Chaie, was built on the spot." The brothers were ordered by Rictiovarus to be executed by the sword,and their bodies cast into the com­ mon sewers. When we come to England we find the historical fact of the martyrdom clothed in a legend, consisting of two distinct stories, into which the incidents of the lives and deaths of the martyr brothers are split up--altered, indeed, in the process, but still recognizable. It is interesting to observe how the na­ tional character constructs for itself an ideal out of foreign elements. The per­ sonality of the martyr is lost. The mar­ tyrdom itself becomes only the denoue­ ment of a romance known as that of St. Hugh and the fair Winnifred. The apotheosis of the craft is derived, not, as on the Continent, from the holy mar­ tyrs having gained their livelihood by shoemaking; but from its adoption by two youths who are princes in disguise, and one of whom secretly and in very questionable circumstances, marries the daughter of the Emperor Maximian, from whom they are hiding. This is Crispin, who in name answers to the chief of the martyrs. The other, Cris­ pinian, unlike the martyr so-called who has no existence apart from his brother, is a very active personage; he is "prest to the wars," and gains the Emperor's favor bv his prowess and valor, and so brings about the reconciliation which is the end of the story. The festival in England, therefore, is stripped of its religious character; it becomes a feast, and latterly a revel.--The Antiquary. CLABA had been practicing one piece for at least a month, until mamma de­ clared she was perfect. When she was asked to play for the company, soon after, she had to be pressed a little be­ fore going to the piano, and of course after playing her piece she had to ex­ cuse herself, because she didn't read music very fast and she had never tried it before; but she wasn't a bit pleased when Professor Fugue remarked in a sympathetic way: "So I perceive." Learning Language at Tale College. The two-hour session in German op­ tional produces the following:--with the exercise of a little patience: "Zwanziglieb-krank Maedchen wir, Lieb-krsnk alle ganz ungern, Zwanxiz Yahre, warden wtr ̂Zwuudp Ueb-krank M*dchen ado.* Q*rtkmld?m AMM to T«m| Mmm In 1870. Don't vote with the Democratic party. It is a graveyard of dead issues, not a camp for the living. Look at it. It is billowed all over with the graves of dead issues, of buried opinions, of exploded theories, of disgraoed doctrines. You cannot live in comfort in such a place. Why, look here. Here is a little double mound. I look down on it and I read, "Sacred to the Memory of Squatter Sovereignty and theDred Scott Decision." A coil lion and a half of Democrats voted for that, but it has been dead fifteen years--died by the hand ot Abraham Lincoln, and here it lies. ToUng man, that is not the place for you. But look a little further. Here is another monument, a black tomb, and beside it there towers to the sky a monument of 4,000,000 pairs of human fetters taken from the arms of slaves, and I read on its little headstone this: "Sacred to the Memory of Human Slavery." For forty years of infamous life the Democratic partv taught that it was divine--God's insti­ tution. They defended it, they stood around it, they followed it to its grave as a mourner. But here it lies, dead by the hand of Abraham Lincoln; dead by the power of the Republican party; dead by the justice of Almighty God. Don't camp there, young man. But here is another. A little brim­ stone tomb, and I read across its yellow face in lurid, bloody lines these words: "Sacred to the Memory of State Sover­ eignty and Secession." Twelve mill­ ions of Democrats mustered around it in arms to keep it alive; but here it lies, shot to death by the million guns of the republic. Here it lies, its shrine burned to ashes under the blazing raf­ ters of the Southern Confederacy. It is dead. I would not have you stay in there a minute. But just before I leave it I discover a new-made grave, a little mound--short. The grass has hardly sprouted over it, and all around it I see torn pieces of paper, with the word "fiat" on them, and I look down in curi­ osity, wondering what the grave is, and I read on it: "Sacred to the Memory of the Rag Baby, nursed in the brain of all the fanaticism in the world, rocked by Thomas Ewing, George H. Pendle­ ton, Samuel Cary and a few others throughout the land." But it died on the 1st of January, 1879, and the $140,- 000,000 of gold that God made and not fiat power fie upon its little carcass to keep it down forever. Young man, come out of that graveyard--come into the camp of the living, of glory and liberty. That is no place in which to put your young life. Come out, come over into this camp of liberty, of order, of law, of justice, of freedom, of all that is glorious under these night stars. Is there any death here in our camp? Yes! Yes! Three hundred and fifty thousand soldiers, the noblest band that ever trod the earth, died to make this camp a camp of glory forever. But there are no dead issues here. Twenty-five years ago the Republi­ can party was married to liberty, and this is our silver wedding. , A worthily married pair love each other better on the day of their silver wedding than on the day of their first espousals; and we (are truer to liberty to-day than we were when we spoke our first word of liberty. Read away up under the sky across our starry banner that first word we uttered twenty-five years ago. What was it ? "Slavery shall never extend over another foot of the Territories of the i "West " Is - that dccul or alive? Ulive, thank G&d, forevermore! And truer to-night than the hour it was written. Then it was a hope, a prom­ ise, a purpose. To-night it is equal with the stars--immortal history and immortal truth. Every great record we have made we have vindicated with our blood and with our truth. Throw out our banner! It sweeps the ground and it touches the stars. Come, and put in your young life where all is living, and where nothing is dead but the heroes that defended it. REPUBLICANISM AND DEMOCRACY. The Republican Party Always Able to Find Its Real Enemy--What la to Be Opposed Now. Senator Hale, of Maine, at Philadel­ phia: The Republican party has al­ ways been remarkable in knowing where its enemy lay and what its enemy was. It has never been diverted in any im­ portant campaign into side issues or side traps, but has always discussed the one leading question that had to be settled by the American people. To­ day the Republican party sees that the one danger that lies before the American people is the old dangerous Democratic party that wo've been whipping for twenty-five years. Beaten, annihilated,- digraced and honor lost, why is the Democratic party able to recruit its ranks and make a desper­ ate light, as it is making this year? The great danger is this: No matter w hat the Democratic party believes in, .whenever any form of attractive sophis­ try, or or evil, or danger comes to the surface, if it promises immediate sup­ port the Democratic party allies itself with it, and so is able from year to year to make a desperate fight against the Republican party. It joins hands with the red shirts in South Carolina, who break up Republican meetings; and in 'Michigan it allies itself with the Green- backers; in Ohio it joins with a band of men who are united in a traffic that de­ stroys soul and body, and it favors free trade in any section of the country where it dares. In what way is it dan­ gerous to-day? Because, if I am right in my theory that we are lighting the Demooratic partv, I ought to be able to show where­ in it is false to the people and their best interests. Take this great question of labor--the alliance with the protection of labor to which the Republi­ can party is committed, not only by dog­ ma and resolution but by legislation. It believes in elevating and dignifying la­ bor, because it has its foundation upon labor and draws its sustenance from la­ bor. The Democratic party did not be­ lieve in labor; it was dominated bv its Southern end, and so we heard of the ' mudsills of the North.' We believe in labor being well paid, well fed, well clothed, well housed, well educated, in the possession not only of the necessa­ ries but of the luxuries, as American la­ bor is. We cannot stand the competi­ tion opened by free trade, and the Re­ publican party recognizes the duty of protecting our labor by laying a tax on all articles made abroad by pauper la­ bor." Not on Speaking Terms. *• Garrett Boice is thinking of going to Mexico, so he asked a gentleman just returned from that country about the bad feeling existing between the Amer­ icans and natives. "How do the Americans and Mexi­ cans come on over .in Mexico? Do ktn mmk iitliiiiW'W" wlHi aadx other? Do they •gree?" asked Gar­ rett. "They dont agree at all They scarcely ever speak to each other. They are not on apenyng terms." "Is the feeling between them eo bitter?" "O, not at all. The reason they don't speak to each other is because the Americans can't speak Spanish, and the Mexicans can't speak English, so their conversation is naturally limits * ' "OV--^Texas Si/tings. T* Political Notes. -.4: f THE Territory of Dakota is large enough and it has population enough, but the trouble seems to be that it has not enough Democrats to suit that party in Congress. MR. JEWELL'S death deprives the National Republican Committee of its Chairman, but the vacancy will prob­ ably not be filled until the usual meet­ ing of the committee a few days previ­ ous to the next National Convention. THE tariff question,- which as the Democratic candidate for the Presi­ dency in 1880 historically remarks, "once came up in Pennsylvania," will be verv likely to come up again here­ after, Jlf through Democratic tactics tariff legislation is prevented at the present session.--National Republi­ can. CONGRESSMAN REED, of Maine, made a neat retort on Bill Springer the other day. Bill has been constantly on his feet while the Tariff bill has been un­ der discussion, and has been recognized by the Speaker about 200 times in a week. In reply to the vqry natural re­ quest of one of his colleagues to sit down, Bill declined, and said he would "rather be right than than be Presi­ dent." "You will never be either," quickly retorted Rped, and the House roared- --^ THE Democratic party in the South has recently presented to the country two specimen defaulters in the persons of Polk, State Treasurer of Tennessee, and Vincent, State Treasurer of Ala­ bama. The other Democratic States of the "solid South" are yet to be heard from, and it is possible that some of these will come to the front in the same way and show a misappropriation of the public funds to an equal amount. Polk's defalcation, in round numbers, amounts to $400,000, and Vincent will probably not be far behind when his books are thoroughly investigated. Now, when anything of this sort hap­ pens in the Republican party, which is very seldom, as all the world knows, all the Democratic organs make haste to turn it to partisan account, and would make their readers l>elieve that dishonesty, peculation and fraud are the natural outgrowth of Republican teaching and policy. Are they willing now to take their own medicine? Did Polk and Vincent default and cheat their respect­ ive States out of large sums of money because they had been trained in the Democratic school of politics? Are those two gentlemen to be held up as specimens of Democratic integrity and houesty? We pause for a reply.-- Chicago Journal. Bananas and Plantains. A pound of bananas contains more nutriment than three pounds of meat or many pounds of potatoes, while as a food it is in every sense of the word far superior to the best wheaten J>read. Although it grows spontaneously throughout the tropics* when cultivated its yield is prodigiwjfr for an acre oi ground planted with bananas will re­ turn, according to Humboldt, as much food material as thirty-three acres of wheat or over 100 acres of potatoes. The banana, then, is the bread of mill­ ions who could not subsist without it. In Brazil it is the principal food of the laboring classes, while it is no less prized in the island of Cuba. Indeed, in the latter country the sugar planters grow orchards of it expressly for the consumption of their slaves. Every day each hand receives his ration of salt fish or dried beef, as the case may be, and four bananas and two plantains. The banana--it should be called plan­ tain, for until lately there was no such word as banana--is divided into several varieties, all of which are used for food. The platino muzanito is a small, delicate fruit, neither longer nor stouter than a lady's forefinger. It is the most delicious and prized of all the varieties of the plantain. El platino guieno, called by us the banana, is probably more in demand that any other kind. It is subdivided into different varieties, the principal of which are the yellow and purple bananas we see for sale in our market; but the latter is so little esteemed by the natives of the tropics that it is seldom eaten by them. El platino grande--knoyn to us as simply the plantain--is alsp subdivided into varieties which are ; known by their savor and their siz^. The kind that reaches our market il almost ten inches long, yet on the isthtous of Darien there are plantains that grow from eighteen to twenty-two inchest They are never eaten raw, but are either boiled or roasted, or prepared as preserves--In­ dianapolis Stock Rtvieto. Barbarous Geijnan Barbers. The torture commences the moment the barber places y<ju in the chair. You I never realize until then how much you threw away when fyou deserted your native country. Yqu never realize until then how much tty early martyrs suf­ fered, and what godlike heroism they j must have been injured with to have suffered at all. As the process of pre- j paring your face fol the dreadful ordeal, goes on you doubt {whether any of the j early martyrs c^uld have borne j anything like tliisj without coming to any terms which Ithe torturers were prepared to offer. <: In the first place | you cannot dispose bf your feet. There j is no footstool across which you can i throw your legs, am if the calves itch, j as calves sometime^ will, you will have : to scratch them o<e at a time, as best you can, with the tde of your shoe. The seat of the chair is polished by long and constant usage ijntil it is as smooth as a newsboy's coat slefeve, and if you cross your legs you do i| at the risk of slid­ ing off the chair and decapitating your­ self bn your way dpwn, for the barber may be filing the lair off your Adam's apple just al>out tlfct very time.--Ger­ man Letter to Chicago News. THE use of artificial leather is now suggested for buagy tops, and for up­ holstering purposfi where leather is now used. The niw material has the alleged advantagefof being much more impervious to wafer than the genuine or natural article) while it is found to wear longer and lcf>ks better. mflWBtBHgtMTOl. Tnc original Railroad Ooatintttee--oonrist- tng of Messrs. Tanner, Condaa, Maaoar, Adams, nte, Born* Horn, Sua* Wfetttae, Wsllwr, WM, IHihrtiiil, KaQay, Bfcumwayt and Ctoonaa--«aa idnalalu* by the Bwate on the Mil, by avoteof a to 1*. Mr. Walker's Com- nulaory Bdmtfon bill was read a aeoond time, dlacoseed, amended, and ordered, to a third reading. Mr. Hunt moved to ieoouite the vote by which the mottoa to estobliah a new railroad committee on the wrecks of the old one was loot, and moved to make It the special order for th^ i-ith Carried. Mr. Hereley Introduced a bill to regulate the charges of palace and sleeping cars. It forbids, under heavy penalties, charges exceeding the following: For a lower berth, $l.5*i; tor upper, $1; for ebair, SI; for a flection, $2.50; for a state-room, 16. Referred to the Committee on Municipalities. In the House, Mr. Harper presented a petition, signed by 13,563 citizens of Chicago, asking that a high-license law be paaaed. Mr. Monteon, from the Judicia­ ry Committee, reported adversely on several bills, and favorably on the bill extending the jurisdiction of County Courts, with a slight amendment. Mr. Parker, from the Committee on License, submitted a majority and a minor­ ity report on Mr. Fuller's bill for placing the license for aelling liquors at $500. Mr. McCartney's resolution to memorialize Congress to pass a pension law for the Mexican war veterans--excepting Jefferson Davis--came up in the Hous£ Mr. Quinn moved to strike out the words excepttog Jefferson Davis. Mr. Cowperthwait wanted the exception to stand. Mr. Haines wanted to add the names of Mosby and Longstreet to the exceptional clause. Mr. Copperthwalt asked him "If they had shown any signs of repentance.* Mr. Haines replied: "Yes, they have joined the Republican party. The motion to strike oat troe ex­ ception ot Jeff Davis wae lost, and the resolution was adopted. The following bills were introduced: To utilixe consecutive numbers in the description of real estate: to enable cHiea and corporated villages in this State to establish and maintain parks within their limits; to amend the law in regard to divorce; to amend the law in regard to elections, declaring that where the name of any candidate is pasted on the ballot, such part of the tlckot shall not be counted for either or any of the candidates. Mr. Craft's bill, making the State election day in November a legal holiday, was ordered engrossed, and went to a third reading. TBKBK was no session of the Senate on the loth Inst. In the House a Quorum failed to show up, and the session was of brief duration. Mr. Fuller presented a bill requiring road commis­ sioners to turn over to the au­ thorities of towns and villages the proportion of road tax collected within the limits of said town or village. Mr. Fuller also offered a bill rcqnirinir insurance comj>anies doing business In the State to execute and file bonds. Mr. Littler presented a bill providing for the revision of the law governing the letting and execution of contracts for the State printing and binding. MR. EDWABDS offered a resolution In th« Senate on Feb. 12, calling on the Attorney Gen­ eral for his opinion as to the constitutionality of section 1, article 10, of the military code, which provides for the levy of l-ioth of a mill on the dollar on all taxable property for a military fund. The resolution was made the special order for the 14th. Mr. lloiran introduced a bill appropriating $1,IKK),000 for distribution among the different counties of Illinois for constructing and main­ taining public highways. The amount referred to in this bill provides that it shall be paid out of an unexpended surplus now lying in ths State treasury. It also pio\ ides ti.at Hoards of County Supervisors and Commissioners shall make provisions for the construction of roads and shall levy a local tax for that purimse of 40 per cent, of the cost of the construction of the roads to be built before they will be allowed to draw from the $1.0(X>,000 fund. It further pro­ vides that the 7-per-cent. fund of the Illinois Central railroad shall be applied toward the maintenance of the roads for the next ten years. The session of the House was merely nominal, no quorum being present. An amendment to Rule 17 of the House was offered by Mr. McFie, setting apart Monday as bill day here­ after and limiting the introduction of bills to three for each member. It was referred. Mr. Fuller, of JSoone, instructed so to do by the convention which nominated him, of­ fered a joint resolution submitting to the people a prohibitory amendment to the constitution. It is the first of the session, and its appearance would have created some surprise but for Mr. Fuller's explanation that he was instructed to vote for such an amendment, and couldn't well do ao without getting it before the House. It was made a special order for Feb. 14. THE militia question was the subject of a spirited debate in the Senate on Feb. 13. The matter came up in the form of Mr. Morris* motion to substitute the minority for the majority rejiort on the bill to repeal the law for the military organization of the State. After a protracted discussion the motion was lost. Hills were introduced: To require County Surveyors to keep a record of their doings; to prevent and punish conspira­ cies to prevent competition; to authorize the building of gravel or Macadam roads; to reduce " iue oa)At;uic Court tuiRirmrs to mittee to report a MB Ucenrtng the hwitoww. Mr. Huro tried to get it referred toOwXAmwe Cm&mitteê MMl amendments came tfckik sad fast. Mr. Yancey moved to mate the matter a special order, to oome np at the MOM hoar for which the Mgh-Uoena* Mil was aet The high-Heense men rallied about this time, however, and se- cared an adjournment. vue oaiiai ic-a i IT is notable children never who have befrien middle age, and thoughtful find young. ^ hat many adopted pt as parents those d them. People in ,vhen old, are more eneroua than the Mantagtw Men and women, aaya Theodore Parker, and especially young people, do not know that it takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most loving and well-sorted. But nature al­ lows no sudden change. We slope very gradually from the cradle to the sum­ mit of life. Marriage is gradual, a fraction of us at a time. A happy wedlock is a long falling in love. 1 know young persons think love belongs only to brown hair and plump, round, crimson cheeks. So it does for its beginning, just as Mount Washing­ ton begins at Boston Bay. But the golden marriage is a part of love which the bridal day knows knothing of. Yoxith is the tassel and silken flower of love, age is the full corn, ripe and solid in the ear. Beautiful is the morn­ ing of love with its prophetic crimson, violet, purple and gold, with its hopes of days that are to come. Beautiful also is the evening of love, with its glad remembrances, and its rainbow side turned toward heaven as well as earth. Young people marry their opposites in temper and general character, and such a marriage is generally a good one. They do it instinctively. The young man does not say, "My black eyes require to be wed to blue, and my over- vehemence requires to be a little modi­ fied with somewhat of lullness and re­ serve." When these opposites come together to be wed, they do not know it, but each thinks the other just like himself. Old people never marry their oppo­ sites, they marry their similars, and from calculation. Each of these two arrange­ ments is very proper. In their long journey these opposites will fall out of the way a great many times, and both will charm the other back again, and by and by they will be agreed as to the place they will go to, and the road they will go by, and become reconciled. The man will be nobler and larger for being associated with so much humanity un­ like himself, and she will be a nobler woman for having manhood beside her, that seeks to correct her deficiencies and supply her with what she lacks, if the diversity be not too, great, and there be real piety and love in their hearts to begin with. The old bridegroom, having a much shorter journey to make, must associate himself with one like himself. A per­ fect and complete marriage is, perhaps, the most perfect personal beauty. Men and women are married fraction­ ally--now a small fraction; then a large fraction. Very few are married totally, and they only, I think, after some forty or fifty years of gradual spproach and ex­ citement. Such a large and sweet fruit is a complete marriage that it needs a winter to mellow and season. But a real happy marriage of love and judg­ ment between a man and woman is one of the things so very handsome that if the sun were, as the Greek poets fabled; a God, he might stop the world in order to feast his eyes with such a spectacle. $3,000. The Mil tonermit game to be sold in this State after the tlme^kfrnflgsttcfegamew*adis­ cussed and killed. The bill to license corpora­ tions, companies, or individuals operating tele­ graph lines was amended by striking from its title the word "taxing," and ordered to a third reading. In the House, Mr. Hari>cr, of Cook, presented a petition in favor of a #l,(K)o license, and also resolutions of the Chicago Board of Trade in favor of $500 licenses throughout the State. Mr. Cleveland presented similar i>etitions. Mr. Messick presented j»etitions of citizens t>f St. Clair county relative to proj>osed legislation on mines and mining. The bill to fix the com]>ensation of members of the General Assembly and to prevent ab­ sence without leave were referred to the Com- mitteaon Fees and Salaries. Hills were intro­ duced: To promote the science of medicine and surgery; to amend the law relating to bastardy; to make an appropriation for the asylum at Elgin. The resolution to allow the use of the Hall of Representatives for a lecture on the tariff by Gen. John A. McCleroand was revived, discussed at length and finally passed. MB. SUNDERLAND'S bill providing for there,- peal of the act to require officers having In their custody public funds to prei»re an annual state­ ment of the receipts and disbursements of such funds, came up for a second reading in the Sen­ ate on Feb. 14, and after considerable discussion was recommitted. The Committee on Military re|>orteil adversely to Mr. Edwards' bill to repeal the organization of the Illinois National Guard. Mr. Kdwards presented a minority report, in which is recited the enormous and useless ex­ pense of the system, and the growing objection thereto among the people, who reap no benefits therefrom. The majority report was adopted. Mr. Torrence presented a petition asking repeal of the act establishing industrial schools for girls. Mr. Hunt, from the Committee on Judici­ ary, reported favorably nimn Mr. Merritt's bill to amend the act to establish Appellate Courts. Mr. Kvans, frrtni the Committee on Insurance, reported favorably on Sunderland's bill to revise the law in relation to township insurance com­ panies. A similar report was made on Mr. Bell's bill to compel insurance companies of otber States to comply with the general laws. In the House, a perfect flood of petitions was presented from citizens of Chicago, asking for high liquor li­ cense legislntion. They were all referred. A number of bills were introduced, including the following: By Mr. Clinton, amendingt he Gar­ nishment law by providing an exemption of $35, excepting in such cases where the judgment is rended for fuel or provisions, when no exemp­ tion is allowed. By Mr. Billings, giving Publla Administrators control of all estates left by non­ residents where property belonging to the de­ cedent is within the jurisdiction of the court, or in cases where creditors re­ fuse to take out letters of administration. By Mr. Fuller, amending the criminal code rela­ tive to the plea of insanity in criminal cases. By Mr. Fuller, providing for appeals ou the part of the people on questions'of law in all criminal cases for the purpose of settling the law and not putting the defendant again in jeopardy. By Mr. Klupp, requiring all brokers, commission merchants and dealers engaged in the buying and selling of stocks, bonds or personal prop­ erty of anv kind for future delivery to pay a license fee of $I.IHJO. By Mr. Rowland, to en­ courage the manufacture of sugar from sorghum. Br Mr. l'urnell, a bill intended to prevent rail­ roads ia Illinois from pooling their earnings. Arrsa a long debate and the peremptory rejection of several amendments designed to de­ stroy the usefulness of the measure, the Hlinoii Senate on the 15th ordered Senator Morris' bil allowing State's Attorneys to amend technical errors in indictments to a third reading, the final vote being 26 to 14. The Revenue Committee reported favorably on Whiting's bill taxing ex­ press companies 1 per cent, of their receipts, and on Needles' bill to enforce liens for taxes on realty by foreclosures. Favorable reports were also presented by Senate committees on Condee's and Hereley's bills for the suppression of pool-selling, on Hereley's Gambling bill and Cloonan's bill fixing the price of gus. Gov. Hamilton sent to the Senate the following list of appointments of Penitentiary and Insane Asy­ lum Commissioners: For Commissioner of the Joliet Penitentiary, John E. Pollock, of McLean county, to succeed Robert L. Dulaney, whose term of office has expired. For Commissioner of the Chester Penitentiary, Joseph 1'. Robarts, of Pulaski county, to succeed Col. James T. Cooper, of Alton, whose term has expired. For Trustees of the Southern Hospital for the Insane, at Anna, James Bottom, of Randolph county, as his own successor, and John C. Baker, of Pope county, to succeed James A. Viall, re­ moved on account of physical incapacity from illness. For member of the State Board of Phar­ macy, John E. Espy, of McLean county, to be his own successor. In the House, the high- license question came up as a special order, large delegations of opponents and friends of the measure being present, from Chicago es­ pecially. Dilatory motions were made on the motion to take up the special order, and much time was consumed, the outcome being the laying over of the matter by a vote of 73 to 67--which is not considered a test vote. The House proceedings wound up with the passage of four bills, the only one of any special importance being the Chicago Public Library MIL Mr. Klupp introduced a resolution de­ nouncing dealing In futures aa gambling and wholly immoral, and asking the License Com- , Bearfitiying Our Home% ; During the last ten years there lias been reform in the matter of household decoration. The heavy furniture, high­ ly-colored carpets, heavy tapestries, and the emap peri^ ^ave giv^p place to household furnishing which is artistic and harmonious. This reform in the popular taste has affected both palace and cottage, and there is an eager desire in every quarter to con­ form to the best canons of taste in the adornment of our parlors, dining- rooms, and bed-chambers. One of the best features of this reform is its rela­ tive inexpensiveness. Of course, it costs a great deal to fit out a modern house in such a way as to please a cul­ tivated taste. But on a whole, artistic furniture and ornamentation is cheaper that! was the sombre and inelegant furniture of the past. For this reform we are, in a large measure, indebted to mstheticism, which has presistently taught the doctrine that the ordinary things used by mankind may as well be handsome as ugly. A picture or a cup, or any table utensil, costs no more if wrought artictically, than if made by the most clumsy workmanship. Of course there are some extravagances connected with «)sthetic reformation, but these only help to attract attention to the general subject of art and in con­ nection with the decoration of our households. The aesthetic are now criticising the dress of man with a view to its reform. They say the "stovepipe" hat is an abomination; that the "swol- low-tail" coat is a reminiscence of the Darwinian theory of the origin of man.;„ that trousers should give way to Knickerbockers, and that the male leg should not disdain the light of open day. It is a notable circumstance, that in out-door sport, such as lawn-tennis, foot and base-ball playing, bicycling, and so forth, the young men are adopt­ ing the suggestions of the {esthetic school.--Demorext's Monthly. Theaghts About Pottery. Pottery is the oldest industry in the world. Adam was made of clay. But he acted as though he was only half baked. His son Cain did the first kiln in the country. The potter works in the mud, hence we admire his work. His life is one long act of mudder, but he is never hanged for it, though sometimes he is broken at the wheel. All his work, however good, goes to the fire. What he bakes you cannot eat, although you eat what the other baker sets on it. The potter is en aristocrat by nature, and always belongs to a set; to several sets, in fact. He is independent, and urns his own living. He is a . base-ball star, and makes a better piteher than the "onlv Nolan." He is no deacon, but he passes the plate regularly. A rigid temperance man, he is fond of his bowl. And he always makes it go round, too. There never was but one fluid potter, and he did not stay fluid long, for he made a cup and saw, sir. He is always hopeful, for it is his nat­ ure to look cup. He is a generous fellow, and what is his is ewers. He believes in human equality, and thinks the law should make daymen the equals of the clergy. "Who breaks, pays," must have been originated by the potter. Although in these perilous times it is moi'e likely to read, "Who pays, breaks." "Boss" SHEPHERD, who ia at Chihua­ hua, Mexiso, la said to be worth $10,- 000,009. The North may boast of M* the West of Ha enlei--~ v South is quite proud Ilk ! ̂ ̂ the primitive rntin^ house * a piatu llMll ' the hungry tourist visit* but OMtot aiHl then has a lingering rem* till he dies. The gav traveler ^ Northland often believes that tackle anything, but the moment hirgiWi^ dallying with the e?\tir>fT-lir>Tu»o qu thtjt < -1 Southern railroads he feels his insigdtftf ^ cance, and wishes to call out the mili» tia. ' ' • When the train stops at a station an^f^ the cry, "Fifteen minutes for supper,'**^ signalizes the charge, the hungry travt,-# . eler places himself at the head of huLw. comrades and storms the citadel of , grub. He knows not what he is doing* ® poor, foolish mortal, and, even whil#1^* his eyes gleam with the true spirit ofrfc.;, chivalry, he is suddenly struck ia abdomen with a deadly corned-l>eef sandwich of last year's growth. Brav# man, then he realizes his fate, an<y..f' amid the roar of the battle around hipt^ he summons enough strength to cry, "Steady, men! JLet us remember5"' Bunker Hill, Mid die with o&r kneai*1' under our chin." > >. The principal feature about the coone) mon run of eating-houses south of th^v* Ohio river is the plain, unassumingly*, tie apple pie which they set forth. Toif 5 can buy the little pie for only 10 cents? * but it is seldom that the passenger eati^d f iore than one in a lifetime. After yo* ave eaten it and drank ono etf "6*# glasses of water the pie gets soeiaibtoil*j» and gradually impresses upon your^ mind the fact that you will not feeL v lonesome as long as it travels With youi * The strangest thing is, you nievsr del1* About fifteen minutes after you have** made its acquaintance THE waistband OCMJ your pants cannot meet its npte and deyT mands an extension. r <*?>'• A half-hour later, when you retire to your berth in the sleeping-car and fall?* into a troubled slumber, the pie, tool** being at all sleepy, concludes tc^haww** • some fun. The first thing you see in your dreams is your own body ly swelling in the shape of a baUe^a*^ ! The balloon gets larger and largej i til it pushes the upper berth to tne v t of the car, and then you hear the sfnotW ered cries for help*of the maSa Hfcdft-^* tains. * The swelling increases, and yw|*jnRf J? agine that you float upward and, •gainst the roof of the car like a toyj loon which has escaped from the g of a child. This feeling lasts fdr 1 time, but suddenly yoti swell untf! •W*' fill the interior of tlie oar and «toffec«t»ti tlio passengers, when yon explode aodb< the train is wrecked. The 10-cent pie is proud of the 4 that it has taken hold of a strong mail* who has been shot through and never murmured about it,and doubled him4l|l until his spine cracked, hnrled &alv): from one side of his berth to th* tthfjff and made him bellow for paregoric _ , a child. This is the style o| pie_Me- . ' pared by eating-houses in the SoUtft fo 1̂"'" the benefit of travelers. It weigra fotft*®1 ounces, contains three dozen cramps, and can always be pitrchawilf for the small sum of 10 qeate^Nevfe , Orleqns Times-Democrat. Tfce Dangers of a RaMMt InfaslMiu '"•* Of all animals the timid rabbil teem to be the last that wouM wage a war of extermination sg*tafc6i man; and yet that is precisely what ibt is doing in Australia. One ooioMjT jiaa. < already lost two milliona of ahaaa bir . them; |)te plague is apt "" " ward arthe rate of 100 miies pr: year; a that fn,e rabbit invasion great industry of the colony tvfth 'ihtfiE 1 "The impossibility of feeding hfrgvil flocks of sheep and innumerable faWrifr at the same time on the same of pasturage, is just as. great as woulft ,- be that of growing wheat and bay oi ; the same soil. There is only one alter­ native in this case: Either the ih*lP owners must expel the rabbits, or thw> rabbits will expel the flock owners.!^ The conviction is that the evil has aW*, tained a magnitude which puts it bft-, yond the hope of control by loeal ef­ forts, or even by any one colony. ThtfS movement for the extirmination df th<M rabbits must be simultaneous and imir«» versal to be of any avail. <&* "The flock owners over the entire are^» of the continent," says the Australians ^ "must make common cause in th$ deavor to exterminate the pbgi+Wtif':. to that end must aid their respective governments by every means in tll̂ r power. War to the knife must be de«ik clared by every individual interested law station property in Australia against •<! pestilence which positively threaten)!'; nothing less than the gradual destrub* ̂ tion of the wealthiest interest that ha£** yet grown into a flourishing existence iiS3 this part of the world." Having declared general wpr the rabbits, the great question wou*^ jappear to be the devising modes of ata^ tack that will be at once efficient au«| economical. One flock owner is men- , tioned as having trapped 5,000 of th® * little pests in a space of four months#* others have tried general poisoning, aTM§k« yet no perceptible check has been pui<| upon the rapid multiplication of th%j grolitic and all-devouring vermin^ hooting the rabbits is out of the ques­ tion, there are so many of them, theii** wariness and burrowing habits addinjtjff to the hopelessness of meeting tlie invallt sion by individual destruction. They,! . must be killed by the million, and at i* cost that will not exceed the value uf the land reclaimed from their ravages^ -ifafctUir American. ^ *• i Hi .M "J ' .^uestioiis for H ^ fiow many husbands remember, eating their orange or banana, the lira#* of the season, that these are ehoieqi* dainties in the estimation of their wives How many husbands, forgo their. cua|^ their julep, their costy luxuries, th^%* their wives may have the little pleas­ ures that mean so much to them ? MeuP complain of the toil that wears downj* upon them, because of the mouths t)urit« have to be fed. Who has the greatest toil in caring for thp food, the clothes,^ the wants beyond number, that are re»^ peated each day, and of which a man knows comparatively nothing? The?4 truth of the matter is, that the mother14 does nine-tenths of the toil that coto>** cerns a child ; that is, most mothers'do^ --Will Fuentres in Indianapolis ald- ." z "GOVERNOR."--Young men who calf;# their fathers "Governor" without inteu** tional disrespect will be surprised tc learn from the Rev. Dr. Ireuauis Prim« that they are guilty of bad manners* * He says that they illustrate the iu%f creased irreverence for age, and a markf® ed decline in respect for the ^ged^' "There is no use in telling mV Wn -sav#k in the Observer, "that patents, 4e«n** era and officers command as Wloi. rewto pect aa they ever did, and just as araote* as they deserve. I know better.** #