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I. VAHU.YKI. MbwHyHMin. McHENET, ILLINOIS IT is stated that mother effort to sell the Great Eastern at auction will be snade in May. 8he is now lying idle at JiMilford Haven, England, her owners •feeing unable to use her profitably or •ell her at any reasonable price. THE venerable Hannibal Hamlin iDomes out in favor of the use of mild <wines as more conducive to temperance 'than prohibition. It is doubtfnl if he Expressed that opinion during his long term of service as United States Sena­ tor from Maine. But since then he has keen Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, where he enjoyed plenary opportunities to observe the effect of wine-drinking. THE dangers of the European com­ partment cars have had a fresh illus­ tration in Germany. A couple were traveling near Berlin on their wedding tour. They and an Italian were the stole occupants of a section. On enter­ ing a tunnel the Italian presented a jpistol and demanded the German's money. There was a desperate strug­ gle, in which the German wrenched aaway the pistol but was cat five times with a stiletto. ' A STRANGER came into a saloon in Montague, Ga., and called for a drink, -which was handed him. He raised the g?lass to his lips, when a large dog took him by the collar and tried to pull him out of the door. A crowd collected around and attempted, to take the dog •off, supposing it would hurt him; but the stranger said: "Let him alone-- [he is my dog. 1 have been on a spree at Bowie, and the dog pulled me out of the saloon there and made me sober up." The stranger left without his •drink accompanied by his faithful dog. THERE was a new departure a few -mights since at McMinnville, Tenn., to araise money to buy a church organ. The plan devised was a sale, of the joung ladies to the highest bidder. The joung men were out en masse, and one 1>y one the fair ladies were knocked *down by the auctioneer to the highest bidder. Many of the belles brought fab­ ulous prices, one ecstatic bachelor "bidding "heaven and earth" for the girl of his choice. As barter was not taken, 'he was required to make his bid in dol­ lars and cents, which he did in a hand­ some price and got his prize. The sale resulted in plenty of money and lots of ifun. A GENTLEMAN at New Haven, who is interested in Irish matters, says: "I sever was more surprised than when I learned that James Carey had turned informer. Why, he it was that gave counsel to all the Nationalists in Dub­ lin. At his house all the leaders met ~ lor consultation with each other. He was partner, when I left Dublin, in one of the large dry-goods firms of the city, and lived in a magnificent house in the fashionable part of the city. Carey was a good-natured, tall, well-built man, and was a general favorite for his social as well as his mental qualities. His action, as I said before, is a great .surprise to all who knew him. Carey probably felt obliged to become an in­ former to escape becoming a suspect. It is only the informer who stands much chance to steer clear Of Mar wood nowa­ days." DOES association with the gas busi­ ness make people hard-hearted? A man was overturned from his boa* dur­ ing the flood at Cincinnati, and escaped only by clinging to a telegraph pole. A clerk in the gas works, out in a boat, rowed up and caught the overturned boat. Without paying the slightest at­ tention to the poor fellow clinging to the pole, he started to pull away. Pea. pie on the shore yelled to him to save the man. He would not do it, and said the boat belonged to him for he had caught it while adrift. A saloon-keeper with the crowd offered the clerk $2 to save the man, which he refused. He then ihallooed to him: "Go and get that man off the telegraph pole or I will shoot you." The clerk placed his hand on his hip pocket as if to draw a revolver, saying that they might all go to , that the boat belonged to him- An­ other skiff containing two or three men •came pn the scene, who took the boat away from the clerk by force and after­ ward rescued the poor fellow from his perilous position just as he was ex­ hausted. ACCORDING to the London Truth, the "best price received now for works of .fiction are small compared with those -of twenty years ago, which was the .harvest time of novel writers. Mr. Anthony Trollope received more than .£8,000 for two of his principal novels "written between 1860 and 1865. Mr. Wilkie Collins received five thousand guineas for "Armadale" before a line of the book was written. George Eliot made over £15,000 by one of her works, and there was not one by which she made less than £8,000. Miss Braddon received very high prices for several of Tier earlier works. At the present time Mr. Wilkie Collins probably makes the most money by his books, but then he •only writes, at the rate of one in two /years and a half. Novel writers who are dissatisfied with their returns may ^console themselves by remembering that £250 was the highest price ever re­ vived by Miss Edgeworth for a tale, . and that Sir Walter Scott only obtained £700 for "Waverlyfor the copyright •of "Evelina" Miss Burney was paid £20! An extraordinary lawsuit between a Bohemian nobleman and the Jewish •congregation of the town of Kuttenplan the Austrian Cabinet, after being obsti­ nately fought through all the lower courts. Oter fifty yea^s ago the Jews of kuttenplan were so few and poor thatfhey oould not bear the expense of maintaining a regular place of worship. The domain in which they lived being a part of the estate of the Counts of Berchem-Halmhausen, and the- repre­ sentative of the family then in posses­ sion of it being a liberal man, well dis­ posed toward the Jews, he entered into a compact with them by which he made the payment of a fixed annual contribu­ tion toward the expense of supporting a synagogue a charge upon his estate. This nobleman waa the father of the present Count. The latter, after his father's death, determined to repudiate the promise that had been made; but its validity and binding effect have been maintained after litigation. It is per­ haps needless to say that the Count John Ernst has become a violent anti- Semitic agitator. ON the morning of the day before his death, it is said, the late Marshall Jew­ ell awoke from a sound sleep, and at once asked what was the matter at the home of William E. Dodge. A tele­ gram had just been received by Mr. Jeweirs family, announcing the death of Mr. Dodge, but it was not thought best to let Mr. Jewell know it, so he was told that all was well there. He would not believe them. Something had happened, he said; some great affliction had overtaken the family. In­ sisting upon this, and refusing to ac­ cept his family's denials, he at length induced them to telegraph to New York to see what was the matter. But Mrs. Jewell so worded the telegram as to instruct those who received it to an­ swer that everything was all right. When that answer came they told Mr. Jewell, who refused to believe it, and asked to see the message itself. This request being granted, and liavfng the ocular proof before his eyes, in the shape of an unmistakable telegraph message, he dubiously remarked: " Well, it does seem to be so; but it is very strange; I know there is some­ thing the matter, that something seri­ ous has happened in Mr. Dodge's house in New York." And that impression he retained, until soon afterward, he* too, ended his earthly life. A Bit of Fine Slang. '""*** French "chic." has been displaced by "pschutt." The fact is worth noticing, because the term chic has barely en­ tered the language of England and the United States when the Parisians dis­ card it as one throws away an old hat or the daily paper of yesterday even­ ing. The Imperial Dictionary men­ tions chic, for which it asks the sound of sheek. Fine people use pschutt to denote ease, grace, taste in talk, dress or manners -- that element which marks the people of the world. One may be very correct, or even elegant, and yet lack pschutt. A lady may have grace and winning manners without possessing pschutt. To Have pschutt, dress and manners must be in perfect harmony with the person; they must show agreeable in dividuality, and they must be success­ ful. Pschutt is usually born with peo­ ple, but can be improved by experience and skill. It is impossible to have pschutt, save among pleasant people, just as one cannot chat pleasantly with a boor or a dogmatic professor. The Paris artists applied the term pschutt at one time to overdone limbs, then to young men whose coats were stuffed to improve the figure. Such persons are now called boudines. All men who wear corsets are called botidines in Paris. But men who attend to their dress just as the best artists like it are now called pschutteux. Chic is dead, at least in Paris; but pschutt is the forrect thing to have.--Boston Adver­ser, The Insurance Man's Average. Even the ancient life insurance man is around. Only a fortnight ago, when stopping for supper at a station in the Los Angeles valley, one of these men saw that I had a court-plastered face, and proposed to insure my life for a few days. The following conversation substantially passed between us: "Why should I insure!" "Season enough. You have a band­ aged face. You have had a misfortune, and may meet with another, pretty soon," quoth he of the ornamental blank form, awaiting only my name and the fee. "I cannot see it just as you do," I answered. "Six weeks ago I had a runaway accident up in the Yellow­ stone Park and yesterday in Los An­ geles I came in contact with a piece of red-wood lumber, which was either in the wrong place or I was, and I am to be home in two weeks more. Don't yon think now, as an experienced in­ surance man, that I shall get along safely the rest of the way ? Haven't I had my average, considering time?" He dropped into a profound medita- tioji, and for a moment was lost in the ecstasy of his profession. Then, look­ ing up in a way truly merciful and en­ couraging, he replied: "You are right. I think you have run your risks." Then he released me, and 1 thanked him for his so iditude. If I ever do insure against accidents, that is the man who should, if I only knew his name, have the business.--Bishop Hurst of Iowa, in th§ Independent. Curing the Cramps. Col. Percy Yerger was suddenly seized in the midst of his family with a very violent attack of the cramps. "For heaven's sake, gimme a swallow of brandy." he said to his wife, as he twisted himself in agony on the sofa. "I haven't got any in the house," re­ plied his wife with appalling indiffer­ ence. "You must get some, and keep it at the house so as to prevent these at­ tacks," howled Yerker, kicking like a mule. "If I were to keep it in the house, old man, you would be having these attacks all day long. The proper way to cure you of these bad spells is not to keep any liquor of any kind in the house."-- Texas Siftings. $ . . THE young man who went to the butcher's shop for a liver-pad was a brother of the fellow who went to the grain elevator to have his eorns re­ moved. ' V ' " V LUD MCMOK. The American Farmer advises every farmer to keep a rod measure-- a light, stiff pole just sixteen and a half feet long--for measuring land. By a little practice he can learn to step a rod at five paces, which will answer very well for ordinary farm work. Ascertaining the number of rods in width and length of the lot you wish to measure, multi­ ply one by the other, and divide by 160, and you have the number of acres, as 160 square rods make a square acre. If you wish to lay off one aero measure thirteen rods each way. This lacks only a rod of full measure. A four-rod tape- line is better when you have a boy to carry one end. It is very important that every farmer should know the acre­ age and yield ofhis own crops. Aban­ don guess work, and begin measure­ ment at once. Lift on the Farm. As le' its drudgery, whatever 'has been the case in the past, where there were stumps to be pulled and mort­ gages to be lifted from almost every field; when it was a long way to mar­ ket, and the buyer paid for produce in "trade;" when almost all implements were laboriously hewn out at home or clumsily hammered out by the village blacksmith -- there is, happily, less drudgery on the farm now, and less need of it every year. Taking the year through, the working hours of a man on a farm are no longer than those of a section hand on the railway or an arti­ san in the shop, who has his own gar­ den to hoe before breakfast or after sup­ per. The busy lawyer and the doctor in average practice work longer and harder than the farmer. The grocer and the editor and the book-keeper see less of their children in their waking, hours than the farmer who sometimes envies them their "easy life." It must be conceded, of course, that the profits of farming are not so large on the aver­ age as those which are realized by men who are successful in mercantile life. But, such as they are, they are surer-- twenty-fold surer at least. Large prof­ its are always contingent on large risks. Rotation In Crops. We wish we could call the attention of every intelligent farmer to one im­ portant fact, that, except in case of certain overflowed lands or nicely- eituated valleys, all soils, whether black or brown, are exhaustive, and the sooner we make up our minds to that fict the better for all concerned. Continuous cropping of the same land with the same kind of grain or cereal, without manures or fertilizers of some kind, will sooner or later destroy, or, at least, in­ jure the future usefulness of that soil; and, while We may congratulate our­ selves on the ease and quickness with which we acquire wealth, at the same time we are leaving but a very ghostly inheritance for our children and those who come after. Land may do well enough for a few years with a continua­ tion of crops or a destruction of all the straw, cornstalks and other fertilizing materials that remain above the dollars and cents, and allow us to cart our manure into ditches and hollows. But the experience of the best farmers of either East or West is that it will do better with it, even while the land is new. Although it may not be advisable to scatter manure or fertilizers all over a new or partially new piece of land, yet to our mind there is always a piece «jf jtMtnrt or _ other portions pf a farm where such things can be used to an advantage. If you deem it otherwise, then store it up in some out-of-the-way place for future use. In other words, never waste or destroy the manure or other fertilizing material of the form. Drying Up Cow*. i»;i, . Should dairy cows be dried off, or should they be milked up to oilving time, if they are disposed to yield milk up to that time? To answer this ques­ tion pat, yes or no, would only betray the ignorance of the speaker on the subject Of dairymen's practices and prejudices. We know of no subject that needs intelligent airing at the meetings of our dairymen's associations this winter so much as this. It is well known by all that, no matter how great may be the flow of a cow's milk when she first calves, if she goes dry too soon she will not prove a profitable milker. Indeed, most dairymen would take a large-sized surprise party if they would only test the question as to the yearly yield of the two cows that gave the most and least at the time of calving. This could be approximated by keeping the dates of dropping calves and going dry of the different cows in the herd with their various yields weighed and recorded. What we started out to sav was that the strange part of this subject relates to the practices and prejudices of dairy­ men. In the country we find farmers almost universally drying up their cows with the fear of hurting them if milked up to calving time. Near the cities, where milk is sold to consumers, no at­ tention whatever is paid to the time a cow is due to calve. She is simply milked as long as she will give it, and sold if she goes dry too long before oalving. Breeders of dairy cattle, who handle high-priced eows, are in grave doubt on the subject of drying off. They all know it is a dangerous practice, if not done with care and diligence. If the cow is neglected, and forms milk in her udder that is not drawn off, she is sure to suffer from the neglect, while good milkerB are almost certain to give milk np to the day of calving, with a pretty general opinion that it injures the calf, and creates too heavy a drain on the cow. Can our dairy expounders at the conventions lay down a safe rule to pursue in this matter ? Let them try it by all means.--American Dairy­ man. fcply HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. SOFT ginger-bread, if eaten while fresh and trarm, may well take the place of more expensive cake. One egg, one cup of molasses, one-third of a cup of melted butter, one-half cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of ginger, two and a half cups of flour and a little salt; dis­ solve the soda in a very little hot water. Bake in a buttered tin. HAND-BAGS are made of coarse linen twine crocheted in imitation of macrame lace; the crochet is four inches deep, and each side is five inches long; they are much prettier if made in one piece. Finish the top edge with a small scallop and the bottom with small points and a scant fringe; the lining is of satin and a satin bow is placed on the crochet; the top of the bag is drawn together with narrow satin ribbon. ODDLY-SHAPED tables are much in demand. Some of them are round and just low enough to reach a lady's el- .. ... xtaught at the back, and- aretapMrted upon half recumbent figure*. /Tables of every shape are to be had fordecoration at home, and are covered with jute plush embroidered in raised figures or finished off by deep fringe. A PLAIN tapioca, suitable for delicate stomachs, is made by boiling half a tea- cupful of tapioca in half a pint of water; when the tapioca is entirely dissolved or melted, add gradually half a pint of milk; just before taking from the fire (and, bv the way, this should not be done till the milk is' thickened with the tapioca) add a well-beaten egg, and sugar and flavoring to suit your taste. This is nice, either warm or cold. A PRETTY scent sachelis of satin eight inches square; the top is of white with the initials of tile owner worked in blue; the bottom is of blue satin, on which a small bunch of daisies is em­ broidered. There needs to be one thick­ ness of cotton between the top and bot­ tom, on which the perfume powder is scattered. The edge is trimmed with lace two inches wide, very full at the corners, and the lace has for a heading blue satin ribbons plaited in shells. To HAKE a sucoess of frying oysters, the cook ought not to be hurried; in fact, the cdtok who wishes or who hopes to excel must cultivate a calm, almost judicial mind. The oysters should be as large as you can conveniently pro­ cure. Drain them from the liquor, and lay them on a napkin to dry, Beat the yelks of only the requisite number of eggs, and add to them a little melted butter, which you have clarified, or a little salad oil; season with a small pinch of cayenne pepper, and salt to your taste. Dip the oysters in this, then in the finest of cracker crumbs, and then in the butter again; if enough of the crumbs have not adhered to the oyster, dip it in them again; then fry in very hot fat; have enough fat in the pan to cover the oysters, then there will be no need to turn them. A COTTAGE pudding is an inexpensive dish, and if these directions are followed in making it, the pudding will be light and inviting: Beat two eggs very light, and half a cup of sweet milk, one table- spoonful of butter, one cup of sugar, one table-spoonful of baking powder, and one pint of flour; flavor with spice or with lemon; bake for half an hour. Serve with a sauce made thus: Let the yellow peel of a lemon boil for fifteen minutes in a half a goblet of water; when cool, thicken this with a table- spoonful of cornstarch or arrowroot, which you have first rubbed smooth in a cup of sweet milk; then put it back on the stove, add a lump of butter; do not let the sauce boil, but let it heat gradually to the boiling point; just be­ fore serving add any flavoring you choose; a little wine is a pleasing addi­ tion. Hospitable. Two Americans traveling in Spain, last summer, sent home a ludicrous ac­ count of their first introduction to An- dalusian hospitality. A party of workmen entered the little stifling roadside station, where people were waiting for a railway train, and sat down to wait also. The day was sultry, and the men, in their velvet jackets, fringed with silver bells, were perspiring and dirty. Each of them had arounH his neck a loaf of bread shaped like a ring.' When noon came they pulled out of their pockets packages of cheese and a kind of garlic sausage satunrttodlrith oil. Breaking off a piece o* bread, ihey smeared it first with the cheese and then with the sausage, and doubled it up to make a sandwich. The American ladies had watched the operation with amusement, but with certain qualms of of stomach, when, to their dismay, the men approached, and with profound bows presented the unsavory morsels. "I was about to refuse," said one, "but their looks warned me that by so doing I should give mortal offense. To refuse to eat with a Spaniard when in­ vited to do so is regarded as a personal insult. We were obliged/to taste each of the nauseous messes. Yet, disgust­ ed as I was, I could not but feel that this was the truest hospitality I had ever known." The proffer of food has been from the earliest time the symbol of hospitality, but the symbol is sometimes mistaken for the reality. Both Englishmen and Americans are too apt to think when they have given their guests something to eat thev have fulfilled their duty to them. The guest is not made welcome to his host's reserves of good wijl; to those finer thoughts or feelings which are kept for his intimates. In short, the stomach only has been entertained, not the guest's head or his heart. The Parisian, with her weak lemon­ ade and little gateaux, and all the wit, fancy, art and music, which make a visit to her salon a memory for life, better understands the meaning of hos­ pitality. A son of the most eminent of Ameri­ can clergymen said, lately, "I remem­ ber when my father was so poor that our dinners consisted of only a dish of potatoes and a pitcher of milk, that a cover was always laid for the chance visitor. And the most cordial welcome awaited him. "I have seen the foremost men in the country gathered about the table dis­ cussing our frugal fare, and so fine was the courtesy and so noble the thought, that it seemed as if we had partaken of a royal banquet." The atmosphere of the house in which true hospitality is practiced is a liberal education for children quite as much to be held in respect as our text books. Any family left too much alone together is apt to grow stiff, and nar­ row, and selfish, from the want of fric­ tion with the rest of the world. Hence the man who bars his door against guests, too often, also, shuts out liber­ ality, courtesy, and that light-hearted temper and courage which belong to children used to open, healthy, hos­ pitable l)pme-life.--Youth's Compan­ ion. ' The. extent of the benefit the Ameri­ can people--that is, the consuming masses--shall derive from the new tariff law can only be determined by future experience under its operation. But it may be predicted with safety that this law provides the only relief from the extortions and oppressions of the old war tariff that may be counted on .for several years to come. Tn anv case it is almost certain that no future steps will be taken in the direction of revenue reform until another Repub­ lican Congress Bhall be chosen by the people. All the proceedings in the late Congress which led up to the adop­ tion of the new law warrant this as­ sumption. In the preparation of the Tariff act the Democrats offered no aid to the Republicans, but they sought at various stages and in many particulars to re­ tard and embarrass the passage of all legislation on the subject. Many of the Democratic leaders pretended that their opposition to the measures pro­ posed was based on the insufficiency of the contemplated reduction of * the tariff taxes. But there are two cir­ cumstances which show that their pre­ tense was utterly insincere. In the first place, some of the most iniquitous feat­ ures of the new bill, such as the re­ tention of the lumber tax, received Democratic support, without which they could not have been incorporated in the law. In the next place, the Demo­ crats had it in their power to defeat the special rule adopted by the House providing for non-concurrence in the Senate bill and the appointment of a conference. Had the Democrats refused to acquiesce in this monstrous departure from all rules and practices no bill would have l»een passed. They were willing to filibuster against the seating of the Republican negro, Lee, from South Carolina, in order to de­ prive him of his pay, but they Would not obstruct the adoptiou of a rule which was a disgraceful repudiation of all parliamentary law. This fact fur­ nishes complete evidence that the Dem­ ocrats were not set upon defeating the Tariff act because it was inadequate to the public demand for tax reduction: on the contrary, there is abundant tes­ timony that any number of Democratic votes would have been forthcoming in both the Senate and the House which had been found necessary to secure the passage of the law. The reason for all this was that the Democrats feared the duty of revising the tariff would fall to them in the new Congress, and thev did not dare to assume the responsi­ bility. These conditions certainly imply that the Democrats will avoid tariff legisla­ tion next winter, I'hey will bluster about it, and may introduce a bill in the House, but they will do nothing toward passing it. Their party platforms will contain the usual platitudes about rev­ enue reform, but no action will be ta­ ken. The Democrats have a majority of seventy votes in the new House of Representatives; they may be sure of the co-operation of Van Vfyck, Ingalls and probably two or three other Re­ publicans in the Senate in any reasona­ ble measure looking to a further reduc­ tion of the unreformed portions of the tariff; and they may be assured of the President's approval of any proper leg­ islation, as the law just passed does not go as far as he was willing to go. There is no doubt that the Democrats will have the power to carry forward the work of tariff reduction if they shall be so disposed: but thev will not venture to pass any bills in the House. The first ses­ sion of the new Congress will begin next December, and will probably last up to the time for holding the conventions for the nomination of Presidential can­ didates. The Democrats will not dare to pass any additional tariff legislation in the face of a Presidential campaign. They will evade the whole question practically; but in the meantime they will have elected an apostle of protec­ tion (Randall) as Speaker, and will otherwise have exposed their subserv­ iency to Pennsylvania protection influ­ ences. It will be to the practical advantage of the Republican party that the people shall be under obligation to it for the only measure of tariff reform which has been vouchsafed them for all these years; and the more or less gratitude of the public will be supplemented by the conviction that no further relief will be provided until the control of Congress shall be restored to the Republicans.-- Chicago Wribune. . hat he w>iUi Ma mouth, while BandaB strikes from the shoulder. If th* HepubHcfcns Were to select 'the composition of their op ponents they would rather fight a thousand Wattersons than a hundred Rapdalls. --Inter Ocean. EIGHT years ago Hugh J. Jewett con­ tracted to serve the Erie Railroad Com­ pany for ten years in the capacity of President at a salary of $40,000 per annum. The poor man has tried to struggle along on these wages, and has succeeded in doing so, making at the same time, in what Col. Sellers calls "side speculations," seven or eight mill­ ion dollars. His time will be np in 1884, and it is said by those who know him well that he could be induced to accept the position of President of the United States, the salary being an ad­ vance of $10,000 a year over what he is now getting. EX-SENATOR HENDRICKS, of Indiana, who has been laid up with a sore foot several months, has started on a South­ ern tour, ostensibly for the benefit of his toe, but really in the interest of his Presidential boom. The Indiana papers and the ex-Senator's friends do not try to conceal the fact that he is a wide­ awake, get-it-if-I-can aspirant for the Democratic Presidential nomination, and is straining every energy to secure a perfect organization in every locality where he h<»s friends. Ex-Senator Mo- Donald, who is also a candidate, re­ gards the matter complacent! v, and is nursing a boom of his own that bids fair to outstrip Hendricks.--Inter Ocean, As CONGRESS has adjourned the con­ test for the next Speakership will begin in earnest. There is a long scrimmage l»efore the Democracy, but it will keep the attention of the party engaged and may prevent other unwelcome matters from coming to the front. It has been noticed during the last few weeks that Congressman Hammond, of Georgia, has made himself prominent in the discus­ sions in the House, and the conclusion is drawn that he proposes to enter the Speakership field and make a vigorous fight for the position. He M ould doubt­ less prove a formidable candidate, and has some elements of success not pos­ sessed by any of his rivals.--Chicago Tribune. THE Maryland Democracy has suf­ fered from boss rule so long that it has got into a bad state of demoralization. The corruptions that have marked its control of State, county and municipal affairs have disgusted a large faction of the party, and bolters have become nu­ merous. The election last November gave an inkling of what the machine would have to expect in the future, but the Maryland bosses show no sign of profiting by the lesson. Like some of their prototypes elsewhere, they are talking about ostracizing those who dared last fall to defeat the regular ticket. A healthful Republican organi­ zation in the State would have an excel­ lent chance to carry the election this fall CONGRESSMAN HOLMAH, known as the Great Objector, is said to be anxious for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Indiana next year. Ex- Senator McDonald is believed to favor his aspirations, expecting, doubtless, to strengthen his Presidential boom by allying himself with such an advocate of economv and opponent of corrupt jobs as liolman pretends to be. If Mr. Holman really desires a guberna­ torial nomination he can probably have it, and he will be aided by every one who has been compelled to submit to his mulish obstinancy in Congress. They would enjoy seeing him in the Executive chair of Indiana, objecting to the partisan legislation passed by a Democratic Legislature.-ChicagoTrifr- une. , IMgotry in England. A tenant on one of the largest estates in Devonshire, England, was recently desirous of holding some "mission ser-- " t ,ii 150--of which the larger part, $295,- pose. TTiis is for the purpose of let- 9,639, was appropriated at the first or ting the people know wliwre the public monies come from and where they go. Political Notes. DEMOCRATS in Indiana threaten Lieut. Gov. Hanna with .impeach­ ment. Hanna says they can'p attempt it too soon to please him. THE Democrats of Rhode Island are of the opinion that this year they will take nothing but unadulterated Democ­ racy in their political pie. It will be a dainty dish to set before the people, and will probably be as well cooked as usual in the Republican oven. MR. RANDALL'S opponents in the Democratic party are quietly chuckling over the poor figure he has cut in the tar­ iff debate. They feel confident that he has ruined whatever prospects he had of being elected Speaker of the next House. His frequent dodging of votes, and his refusal to serve on the confer­ ence committee are contrasted unfavor­ ably with Mr. Carlisle's courageous course. Mr. Randall' senemies are congratulating themselves prematurely. They will discover before the Speaker­ ship contest is over that they have a more adroit and skillful an opponent to deal with than they imagine. THE roll of the Senate of the United States is not quite complete, nor will it be until the election of a successor to Senator Rollins, of New Hampshire, which will occur in June next. He will probably be his own suocessor, his most formidable rival, W. E. Chandler, be­ ing willing, it is supposed, to wait for the shoes of Senator Blair, whose term will expire the same day that Mr. Chandler's will as Secretary of the Navy. THE Forty-seventh Congress appro­ priated the gross amount of $524,837, We srrfuiuler obligations to.flom C. II. Tryon, for valuable documents from Springfield, mest interesting of which to the physician are the Disease Circulars" Nos. 1. 2,3 ami 4, on Small Pox. Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, and Typhoid Fever. These circulars a r e t h e w o r k o f t h e h t a t e B o a r d o f c Health, and their contents ought tn bciture, ong" session, and $229,327,511 during e session just now closed. It should i borne in mind, however, that the indsome amount of $18,738,875 for rer and harbor purposes was included last year's appropriations, and that a '"TT+mlar bill, designed to draw $8,047,000 reven able Qm treagury> failed this year. . Lr,k, republished lu every newspaper in th< land. Much disease is the result of i neglect of easily adopted sanitary pre cautious, and the better the public ar informed as to what those precaution are, tho better it ought to be-for th _ . • « THE Hon. Henry Watterson, of the ouisville Courier-Journal, has read Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of the se of Representatives past and out of the Democratic party. hat is good news. Rqndall is one of ie ablest men the Democrats have, id one of the hardest fighters. Wat- srson is an able man, and a fighter Only Three Times a Week. A bold, bad man entered the editor's room with a base-ball club in his hand, and asked for the boss. "I'm your man," said the editor, twisting uneasily about in his chair. "Well, I'm here to see about what you had in about me last week, and nave an explanation or a fight." "All right; I'll explain, because if there is anything I can do better than another it is to explain. What's wrong ?" "Why, yon said I whipped my wife every day in the week,* ana it ain't so." "But didn't you whip her?" "Of course I did, but dion't I do it only three times a week, and I don't in­ tend to have my reputation ruined by any scurrillous notices in the news* papers, and you can bet your blood on it. A man's family is something sacred to him, and when newspapers invade the domestic circle as yon have done mineB and convey a wrong impression of me, I'm going to settle with somebody, and make it lively. You change that notice, now, to read three times a week, or you'll have a spell of sick­ ness," and shaking his club he de­ parted, leaving the editor to make the correction.--The Drummer. A Man ef Pewen Man^yfears ago, the great astronomer, Francois Arago, gained among his simple country neighbors an almost uncanny reputation by his ac­ curate prediction of a total eclipse. Not long afterward he was a candi­ date for election to the National As­ sembly, and was elected by an almost unanimous vote of his constituents. The wealth and Government influence of the rival candidate created no im­ pression upon the voters. "No, no," they cried, "we must vote for Arago; for if we don't he may get mad and hurl another eclipse at us! THE eagle feels best at a height of 12,000 feet above the earth, while the minute you get a man on the roof of a horse-block his knees begin to weaken, and he can't remember a word beyond "Feller citizens."--Detroit Free Frets. Tan little business of 1 ttinnttedby the Pgr. Hamilton senttoft* l~ tioas for trusteeship off " Each nominee to to be Ida --n mremi Tli i era! committee reports were notvdidtte balance of the session derated tothe adUBHerm- •tton of the Appropriation bill. it S n many of the Senators bad left for the train bomebensd that boalnee? could aat pre- eeed, and the Senate adjourned. In th* House, a resolution butrncttng TFAS GOTOOI to open oomwpondenoe wtth_ Bobart *.lKS>h» Pfcwed, ding are concerned, leaving notfete* tmt •eoond and third wrttng, aad tte Mti being decidedly Against havlaf tlM jMonut relative to the purchaae of the Unoola Hosnê stead by the Stale waa adopted. A large Bom­ ber of bills were reported from rnmmUlnn. the Judiciary Committee verifying lis xccord a* a mortuary by recommending the ace of three Mile an* the tabUas ef «i The Bore (Mare AppropriatfcNi biil with the emergency diim. A tea or w new bills were introduced aad referred, together w 1th a raft of petMons favoring ike passage of the High Uoenae law. The calendar at bUs on the seoond and third reading waa rm through, several UUa being poetoaaed tar Wat of a mfll- cient namber present to paac Kency clause, among t Appropriation bill. It was iwogvN to stmt the seMfons of Satontay and Monday to the first reading of Seoateaad Hooaefailla. OKLT five Senators and tbixty-bAd Bepre- sentatiTee reported for dntv oo Satafday, the loth last. The Senate was called to eeder br Senator Hunt, and formally notified that the Roeeolare $6,000 Belief bfll had been VM*nty engrossed and sent to the Goveraof for Ms ap­ proval. aad then adjourned until Monday mora­ ine. The House received a similar noMBusiloa. and the bill has since received the Executivesir- natnrei The remainder of the mini la wa House was occupied in the, pnrete fsnaal business of reading House fafib aBrst ttaha and advancing them to seeoad seadtag. ftrtaa forty measures were thus shoved akmg. Bav- lng cleared np the calendar, so far as MBsea Arut reading are bills on necessary to consider theinuiy*ttme)£ad* ̂ the Hoose, on motion of Speaker fVsTian. wbo had temporarily vacated the chair, adjoitraed until Tuesday morning. OWING to the absence of many members of the Legislature at St. Louis, as the guests of the Merchants'Exchange, but few members were present on the 12th inst. The Senate brief session in the morning. Only live were present. Senator Bant prerfded. Mr. Merritt presented a petition asking tor the abol­ ishment of the act providing for the establish­ ment of industrial schqols for girls. The Boose joint resolution providing for the publica­ tion, daily, of the House and Senate journals came up. The resolution, not withstanding the slim attendance, was taken up and passed. OH the opening of the Senate on March 18, a few petitions for high license were prescntedjtf* ter which bills were introduced to amend the law in regard to drainage; In the matter of right of way and the assessment of )>enefits; to prevent forestalling the market by means of refusing quotations of prices by boards and grain dealers ; to change the law in regard to publlcktion of notice of attachment; that cattle speared tn the slaughter house-.! shall immediately be Med and not be permitted to remain tn such condition more • than Ave minutes; so amending the law by which railroads are re­ quired to pay damages for injury or death of parties that the plaintiff shall not be required to set up the carelessness of defendant, but it shall be left with defendant to prove that It waa not carelessness. Bills were lost on third read­ ing to uunish Assessors who fail to administer the oath to persons making return of personal property, and to increase the salaries of the Committee of Appeals from $t ,000 to £3,fl00. The bill to appropriate >10,000to provide cases ter the flags of the State was debatfed and laid over. In the Hoose, the bill giv­ ing $50,000 for the relief of the Shawneetewn suf­ ferers was passed, and a resolution thanking the Board of Trade of Shawneetown for Hi* ebarity shown the people of Shawneetown, andteitrnot- ing the Secretary of State to communicate the same to the President of the Board. Mr. Quinn's bill to punish wife-beaten wtth the lash was put on its passage, and, altar con­ siderable talk, received 77 votes, to M in opposi­ tion. As is usual nowadays, at the opening of the Senate a number of petitions for high were received. A few unimportant were introduced. Sometime was then spent up­ on ' " " * on a bill tomaka jurors judges of the net only, second rearing, and it was postponed. A bill to permit the City Council of Chicago to by tax for libraries the amount now permitted by law passed, 35 to 4, with the emergency ctaMNk The special order reached was Merrttt's hdl to THAT inexhaustible good nature which is the most precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.--Was h ing ton Irv ing. INSTEAD of looking at the dress of a Siamese to estimate his rank, it is neces­ sary to cast the eye upon the servant following him, who bears upon a tray the badge which designates his master's rank. "INQUIBEB"--The Tongue river in Montana is so named because it is al­ ways rapid, running and babbling.-- Sornerville Journal. DOB A WHEELEB, the artist, is de­ scribed as a tall, willowy girl with dark hair and eyes and a face full of anima­ tion. • , . WE should believe only in works; words are sold for nothing everywhere. --Rqjas. require insurance companies to pur what they agree in their policies to pay on real estate only in ease of 'total loss, and it waa issed. The bill to compel fire iasun Miles to return a portion of the premi policy is canceled was passed. The ! »wn Relief bill waa read aad the c town amendments concurred in reducing the I to and it wasordered toa third. yaaiUMU UITTTTTHWU %UU Cuuuwrittw **2* MMV- " priating 112,000, was read a third _ m* and passed with the emergency ' rlaaa*; Senator Shaw's bill to make the terms of ottos of the Railroad and Warehouse l six years, and one to go out of office 1 and that they be elected by the people at the general elections, next came up, and waa vigor­ ously advocated and strenuously opposed. The bill was voted down, but, on trying to oMMh the matter, the Democrats broke a quorum, and the deadlock continued for sev­ enteen calls, when the Senate adjourned. In the House, Mr. Crofts, by special leave, intro­ duced a bill to fix the salary of the State'a Attor­ ney, appointing Assistant State's Attorney, and requiring them to make semi-annual Mpogfe, and to pay all flues, fees, forfeitures and Other emoluments of t heir office in excess of their salary into the county treasury in oonntlapof the third class. A bill defining the liability ' for corporations and common cantaa for damages to freight in traasif was passed after considerable talk. Mr. Craft's bill to make the State election day a legal holiday was passed. Mr. Abrahams seat up a resolution for an amendment to the eonsti- tution. He desires to submit to the vote at the people the proposition thai all Justicea at the Peaee in this State shall be elected and they shall serve for four years. Several new bills were introduced, two of which were to prevent extortion by railroads in freight traffic. One' was sent in by Mr. Baker and the other by Mr. Morrison. Mr. McFie oame to the front with several bills. The first was an original bill for the dissolution of municipal incorporations upon a petition of a portion of the inhabitants thereof. Another was to prohibit the sale of intoxicants within two miles of the boundary of cities, towns and vil­ lages. Another was to amend the Practice act. THE special order in the Senate on the morning of Thursday, March 15, was considera­ tion of the long Road and Bridge law. After considering about eight sections of the bill, by general consent the motion to reconsider Mr. Merrttt's Insurance bill waa taken up and made a special order for next Tuesday morning. Mr. Tanner called up the House Shawneetown Belief bill. The bill appropriating $30,000, with an emergency clause, was passed. The following new bills were then introduced: By Mr. McKary, to punish those who sell their votes at elections; by Mr. dough, three bills- one to compel owners of tax deeds to commence suit within three yeare; oa* to permit enlist­ ments in the National Ouard for three years, and one to fix the limit for which the i5 per day Commissioners of Cook county shall he paid at $1,000 per year; by Mr. Tubbe, a bill to provide that the President of the County Board, Master in Chancery and County Judge Bhall be constituted a commission to select jury lists, fixing the age for jury service at from 25 to f.o years; by Mr. Fifer, to repeal the law establishing a Claims Commission; by Mr. Shumway, to require the proper feeding of stock int'tock yards; by Mr. Hogan. to appropriate |2'2.*i00 to build a wing at the Anua Insane Hospi­ tal for the accommodation of incurable insane. Billtt were introduced in the House giving the Commissioners of Parks the power to maintain or license carriages for the transportation of passengers through the public parks of this State; requiring tel­ egraph companies to deliver messages to any person or corporation cont rolling a newspaper from any place outside the State to points with­ in this State, without discrimination, upon be­ ing paid therefor the lowest sum charged or received bv said person or corporation oarrying on a telegraph business for the transportation of messages to anv other person or corporation; punishing the officers of boards of trade or aa- sociations who withhold from the public quota­ tions of stocks or grain for the purpose of caas» ing fluctuations in the market; punishing those who bilk a hotel or lunch-car; changing the term of enlistment in the Illinois National Guard from five years to three, and appropriat­ ing $100,000 per annum for the support of the guard. The Committee on Public Charities re­ ported unfavorably on Quinn's bill providing for the appointment of a Catholic priest to visit the penal, reformatory and charitable Institu­ tions of the State. This precipitated a dahMS that lasted till adjournment. Capital Punishment iu Maine. The action taken by the Maine Hon of Representatives, restoring under tain conditions the gallows in State, though it may result in few hangings, so hedged about is it with re­ strictions, is nevertheless significant It is an admission that crimes of vio­ lence have, in the belief of the repre­ sentatives of the people of Maine, been more frequent since uapital punishment was abolished than before, and that consequently society is not as safe as H was before * the murderer exchanged the prospects of a violent death for, at the worst, a comfortable living for lile. Deeds of shocking brutality have enrred in Maine during vears.--Boston Font. r ? t"r";