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«HJ J. "J!. '•« UWf I I. VM SLYm. BC RtrsMPsMsber. f̂oHEHST, ILLINOIS. ' • 1 V 1 1 R THB Toronto Glob* says that the (manufacturers of Canada have reached 1 the stage of over-production. They are already capable of producing more boots ;and shoes, woolens and cottons than can •be marketed in Canada. I TOE enterprising boy now slips : around on tip-toe, after the man of the house has gone out, and stuffs the latch ^keyhole full of putty. When the man -comes heme the putty is so hard that the key cannot be forced in, and trouble (follows. ______ CALIFORNIA agriculturists are agitat- *mg the establishment of domestic man­ ufactures to create a market for their products of the soiL Agriculture thrives best where the factory and the loom furnish remunerative demand for (food products. . , •THE Detroit Free Press tells ,«f a "Tennessee man who has bought 8,000 <wood-cuts, most of them engraved with ^an ex, and is going West to start a tom­ my weekly. He expects to secure 80,- . . 000 circulation in a year, m, ̂ he .. vii just aching for pictures. Gov. C&KVELAND, of New York, has •directed that publications of pardons granted by him shall be restricted as ifar as possible. He maintains that it is unfair to pardoned prisoners to have publicity given to their release from penal servitude. Information, there­ fore, must-come from other than official •'(sources. - .A FARMER named John Findleman, Hiving three-and a quarter miles north­ -west of Salem, in plowing for corn the "Other day came across a little black jug. Uncorking it he found it to contain ,forty-seven «nakes of different species, .^varying in length from four to seven inches.--Rolla (Mo.) Herald. He isn't tthe only man who ever found snakes in •» jog- . - THE cadets at West Point are taught •equestrianship to perfection. At the Hate commencement they gave a very :fine exhibition of their skill, throwing themselves on the ground, jumping •-over their horses, picking up their caps at full speed, riding bareback; indeed, . •'doing all the horsemanship of the mod­ ern circus. Wild Indians or Mexicans *can do no more than these West Point « %oys. • A BaxriMOBKAir has a cage of mon- Qceys. By way of variety he put a cat ' in with them, much to their delight. <On taking it out the other day there >was terrible howling on both sides. , .tThe cat refused to* eat, and the monkeys, lfcfcing the tears but of each other's •eyes for days. Finally the eat was put back, «nd then there was great joy. It licked all the little monkeys, and the ^ >big ones took turns in hugging ittiil its 'tongue stuck out. * JOHN BBIOHT'S vision was broad ••enough, twenty years ago, to see how ^be land lay in this country; and all tthat he sayB of his firm friendship then and all that he has done in his own ' ^country, as a statesman and humani­ tarian, commend him to the grateful interest of Americans. But he speaks -as an Englishman in discussing Ameri­ can finance, and that is the only differ- . <ence between his good words during ' -our war and his present advice. the maker and indorsers set up the plea that the Ordinary had no authority to take the note, and that the considera­ tion for the same was illegal. The Supreme Court of Georgia held that the consideration was not illegal, and that the Ordinary should have required the whole-sum in cash, it* being his duty to do so, yet the party applying; for the license had obtained and en­ joyed the satne and could not avoid the payment of his note « the ground urged by him. A BOSTON author published a novel of New England life in which she used the real naiues and the real experience of men and women, and the result was a commotion, a number of libel suits, and a suppression of the first edition of the book, which was afterward issued with altered nomenclature and consid­ erable modification. Then another writer published a story in whioh the Bev. Phillins Brooks was the Ufero, and many of the incidents are said to have been facts. Mr. Brooks is on a voyage aiound the world, and his sentiments as to the, free use of the love episode of his life are not known. A. third Boston novelist spent last winter in Washing­ ton as the guest of a Massachusetts member of Congress, and is said to have a story of life at the capital, in which the characters, the incidents and the dialogue are the results of . her personal observation. THE general appearance of cattle on the Wyoming ranges t'lis year is said to be far better than the average of pre­ vious years. In some districts in Cen­ tral Wyoming they are in superior con­ dition. The loss by death in the win­ ter was small, and the number of calves satisfactory. The experiment of feed­ ing hay in winter and shipping the cattle to market «arly in the spring has been tried, and - in numerous instances with great success, although some of the old stockmen object that it is too expensive, and that %lien hay is fed the cattle cease "rustling," and require constant attention during stormy weath­ er. There are about 55,600 head of cattle in the Big Horn basin, and the shipment of beef cattle from the basin this year will be 8,000 head, consider­ ably larger than last year. The cattle men this year will drive to Billings and ship over the Northern Pacific, instead of the usual route over the Union Pa- oific. 1 ' THE invasion of the country by the ^English sparrow has been .followed by can "influx" of the Scotch potato, and this is now being succeeded by a huge Importation of European eggs. The -coming fall, however, will beat all pre­ vious records in this direction, since we are promised eggs from China by the million. A company has taken up the matter, and declares the practicability of the scheme, so next winter the "works of the native hen will be at a dis­ count, and Chinese cheap labor will be brought in to compete With home in- • «dustry in a new field. fc; LANDLORDISM in Italy survived the ^ourbons and escaped the revolution­ ary tendencies of the Garibaldians. An Agitation for land reform has recently ssprung up in Italy, however, and the "Government is trying to suppress it, •Without success. The impoverished •tenants refuse to be suppressed. One •of the popular prints, the Popolo Jttliano, in a reeent issue, says : "The •carbineers, the police, the soldiers, maay suppress agitation, prevent its •ooming to a head, but, alast suppres­ sion is this case will do no good. Re­ forms quick and speedy are needed." The suppression measures will but •drive discontent below the surfaoe. .Who Tote in Great Britain. The "Commons of England' of the representatives of shires or coun­ ties, representatives of cities, and rep­ resentatives of boroughs. For repre­ sentatives of boroughs, every man is entitled to vote who is of full age and not subject to any legal incapacity, pro­ vided he is on the last day of July in any year, and has during the whole of the preceding twelve months, been an "inhabitant occupier," as the owner or tenant, of any dwelling-house within the borough; has during the time' of such occupation been rated (or taxed) "as an ordinary occupier in respect of the premises so occupied by him within the borough to all rates made for the relief of the poor in respect of such premises," and has paid the said rate; or has occupied as a lodger in the same borough separately, and as sole tenant for the time above designated, "a part of one and the same dwelling-house of a clear yearly value, if let unfurnished, of £10 or upwards." For representa­ tives of counties any man may be reg­ istered as a voter who is of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall be in possession at law or in equity of any lands or tenements, of copyhold, or any other tenure what­ ever, except freehold, for his own life­ time or for the life of another or for any larger estate of the clear yearly value of not less than £5 over and above all rents and charges, who is on the last day of July of any year (and has been during the preceding twelve months) the occupier as owner or tenant of lands or tenements witliin the county of the ratable value of £12 or upward, and has paid all poor rates rated to him. The qualifications of city electors are not materially different from those above given. Of the 487 members for En­ gland and Wales, 187 represent coun­ ties, 295 cities and boroughs, and five represent the three universities. The qualificications of electors in Scotland and Ireland are somewhat different. In .Scotland, the burgher franchise is given to every man of full age who has been for twelve months an occupier, as owner or tenant, of any dwelling, and has paid hip poor rates, and not been in receipt of parochial re­ lief during that time. The lodger fran­ chise consists in the permission of any lodger to vote who has occupied in the same burgh separately and as a sole tenant for twelve months, a lodging worth £10. In the counties the owner­ ship franchise requires the property to be worth an annual net rental of £5, and a residental qualification of six months. In Ireland the borough ^an- chise requires a lodging of the value of £4, where in England it must be at least £10, the other qualifications being nimilar to those required in Eng1«|^ r; Chicago Inter Ocean. •> * AN old medal was plowed UJJ in Law- "tfenee county, Ind., the other day which lielonged to the hard-cider era of 1840, "When Gen. William Henry Harrison Tras elected President. It bears on one aide a representation of a log cabin and 41 barrel of cider placed under an ad­ joining tree. On the reverse are the inscriptions: "The people's choice, the hero of Tippecanoe--Maj. Gen. W. U. Harrison, born Feb. 9, 1772." It ?arill be presented to the Hon. B. W. Thompson, ex-Secretary of the Navy, who is the sole survivor of the electoral Ijioket of that campaign. ̂ A LOO AL> liquor law required the sum of $1,000 to be paid for a license to re- "tail in a a county in Georgia. The Ordinary of the county granted a * - - license, receiving therefor $500 in cash «nd a note for $500. Suit being ptj* ibrought by the »cptinty «|>oii the mote The Chinese Army. The organization of the Chinese army is still based on that of the mili­ tia corps which were originally raised by the provinces which remained faith­ ful to the Mantchou dynasty. The ar­ my is divided into two parts, the largest of which, under Li Hung Chang, pro­ tects Pekin and the eastern coast of the empire. Jit consists of two army corps, one of which numbers 45,000 men, and the other 55,000. The infantry and ar­ tillery have been trained according to the Prussian regulations, and are armed with modern breech loaders. In 1881 taese 100,000 troops (85,000 infantry, 13,000 artillery and 2,000 cavalry) were stationed at the mouth of the Peiho and in the Tientsin district, where ex­ tensive works have been constructed and armed with Krupp and Armstrong guns of heavy caliber. The remaining portion of the army consists of 50,000 men, arjned with breech loaders and trained by European instructors; it is under the command Tso Tsung Fang, and is stationed in Mantchouria and Northwestern China. The artillery at­ tached to this force is provided with Krupp breech Loaders. . SILENCE is on© great art of oanverpa- tkrn--HazlitU ' HOW fcuy nirti emt-HajM tks Kickwr-- Cmilill toim-tiiimMa Arthur. {Washington Special to Chicago Mews.] It is not often the voice of the tailor is heard in the criticism of public men. An administration viewed from the stand-point of a tailor has the merit of novelty. A fashionable tailor estab­ lished himself here during Grant's term, and his experience dates from that time. "We have never began to sell as many clothes here since Grant went out of office," said he to-day. "I made all of Grant's clothes. He waa very liber­ al and easy to please. The public men of his time were great buyers of clothes. It waa a common thing for a Senator or Member to buy a dozen suits a year. Grant's Cabinet people were very dressy." "How was it under Hayes?" "We nevot did but one job for Hayes. That knocked him cold. He came down one hot summer day during his first year in office, and ordered us to make him a thin sack coat out of the very best gros grain silk. The material was expensive. It cost us exactly $23 to get up that coat. We had heard that he was close, and as we wanted to catch his trade, we put the price at $25. That paralyzed him. Oh, how he did kick! But he paid the bill. This was the last order we got from him. He had the rest of his clothes chopped ont for him by his old tailor in Fremont. He sent his boys to us for ready-made suits, but we never made any money out of the White House under him. We had some of his Cabinet on onr books, but there was very little drossing under Hayes. The purchase of clothes by public men fell off 50 per cent. I never expect again to see so much spent in my shop as when Grant was President." "How was Garfield ?" "He was a very careless dresser. He did not have much taste. He was rather slow pay when he was in Con­ gress, but when he went into the White House he. began to buy a much better grade of clothes and to pay greater at­ tention to his dress. The day he was shot he had on a very handsome suit we made for him, price $60. Haves would have died before he would Lave paid that money for a suit of clothes." "Do you do much for President Arthur?" "Not a dollar's worth. He does busi­ ness with his old tailor in New York-- the man who inakes the suits for the members of the Coaching Club. He is a very high-priced man. He does not make the plainest business suit under $70. He was over here the otber day to take an order for the President. He said he did not care anything for the President's trade; he was eo hard to suit. He took up twenty pairs of trousers the other day, made to the President's tiieasnre, and spent an hour with him'trying them on before he could find a pair to suit. He says the only way he can get along with the President is to be right up and down with him. One day Arthur spoke to him very sharply about the fit of a coat and the tailor turned his back on him. At least, he said he did.- Then the President said: "Oh, come, now, don't take any offense; I can't afford to quarrel with you." "You see, a first-class tailor is a pretty independent man; but, while he is particular with the President, he is very careless with the work for the President's servants. We used to fur­ nish the White-House liveries, but the job goes to the New York man noW. The new livery-coats of the President's coachman and footman, made of cream- colored hammer-cloth, cost$125 apiece; but, God bless vou S they are the worst- fitting things I ever saw, except the clothes the Fremont tailor used to chop out for Hayes. Protect or Predww Metals. The subjoined statement will exhibit the production of the production of the precious metals throughout the world in 1882, carefully compiled from the most authentic sources: Countries. | AMERICA. Gold. I Silver. Total. Alaska British Col... United States. Mexco Ooatem-ila.... Honduias Ham Salvador. Nicaragua Co*-t» Rica.... Columbia..... Venezuela.... Guiana Brazil Bolivia Chili Argentine Rep Patagonia Oth. countries Totals.... $100,000 3,000,000 33,400,000 •00,000 600,000 300,000 900,000 auo.ooo 1150,000 800,000 225,000 175,000 860,000 100,000 '600,000 600,000 100,000 100,000 $50,000 100,000 46,950,000 24,000,000 410 ODO 150,010 300,000 1T5,000 100,000 300,000 125.000 1110,100 450.UUO 780.1 400,000 30,000 50,000 $190,000 3 100,000 79,350.000 24,600,000 1,000,000 350,000 600,000 ST.'I.OOO 250,000 1,000,000 350,000 '275,COO 1,300,000 8,100,000 1,380,000 000.000 120,000 150,000 $41,000,0001 $82.250,000 $123,250,000 EUROPE. Rn»«!a Austria Prussia France Spain Oth. countries Totals.... tso,000,000, $500,000 1,500,000 225,000 1,000,000 275,000 175.000 400,000 2SB,OOOj 2JWO,OOS 100.0001 400,000 $30,500,000 1,T25,000 1.375,000 575,000 2,325,000 500,000 Rn»«!a Austria Prussia France Spain Oth. countries Totals.... $33,000,0001 $3,800,000 $36,000,000 ASIA. Japan. Borneo China. ,.f Ardilpeltgo... Totata Australia New Zealand. Africa Oceanic# Gran 1 totals 1600,000 800,000 700,000 9(10,000 $2,000,000 525,000 475,000 3,000,(XW $2,600,000 1,335,000 1,175,000 3,900.000 Japan. Borneo China. ,.f Ardilpeltgo... Totata Australia New Zealand. Africa Oceanic# Gran 1 totals $3,000,000 $32,000,000 6,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000 $6,000,000 $525,000 475,000 500,000 450,000 $'.1,00*1,000 $32,525,000 6,475,000 5,500,000 1,450,000 Japan. Borneo China. ,.f Ardilpeltgo... Totata Australia New Zealand. Africa Oceanic# Gran 1 totals 000,000 $94,000,000 $312,000,000 The annual product of the precious metals attained its acme in 1853, since which date the annual product of gold has decreased one-half, while that of silver has doubled. - - .in. -- ... i -i^ii A Dull Pawnbroker. $ A Detroit pawnbroker received a call from a young man with the tan and freckles of the country on his face and nose, and an old-fashioned bull's-eye watch in his hand which he desired to pawn. "Vhereyou lif?" asked the broker. "Oh, out here a few miles!** "Vhere you got dot vliatch ?" , "It used to be dad's, but he gave it to me." # The broker looked him all over with suspicious glance, and asked and're­ ceived his name and then added: "Yhy you vhants to pawn dot vhatch, eh?" "Well. I needed a little money." "Dot looks suspicious to me, und I guess I call der boleece." "Suspicions! Police!" repeated the young man "Say, mister, if you don't know the difference between a thief sel­ ling his plunder and a young man in town with his gal, and that gal wanting peanuts and candy and sody-water and streetcar rides until she's cleaned him out to his last cent, you'd better go and start a sheep ranche." "Oh, dot vhas it, eh? Vliell, I gif vou $3. Dot make it all ash blain as der face on my nose, und I hope you haf some goot times. Here--two und o n e m a k e s t r e e . -- F r e e P r e s s , ' • / A Valuable Product. The American Farmer urges farm­ ers on account of the scarcity and high price of black walnut timber to cul­ tivate this valuable tree. In a few year* after planting it will be fit for market. Young men, especially should pay at­ tention to the culture of black walnut. There are always places on the farm where they can be grown, which are not occupied by other products. They would, of course, not be an immediate source of revenue, but in a few years they would grow into a considerable sum of money, without any expense to the producer. . Oddities of Selfishness. Mote amusing are the strange fancies that some persons have as to what over­ worked men may be asked to do for them. In the very thick of the Ameri­ can war, there came to President Lin­ coln an Illinois farmei in a great state of excitement about a pair of horses that one of Lincoln's Generals had re­ quisitioned for the war. The owner was of course entitled to compensation, but somehow it had'not come. Going to the President he told lp.ni his story, and was rather chagrined to be told that it did not lie with him td pay the money. Then, says the farmer, will you undertake to vri^ to the General and see that the matter is settled properly? Poor Lincoln, who never wanted a story to help him in an emergency, was ready for his visitor. "When I was a rail-3plitter," he said, "there lived near us a smart young fel­ low, the Cap to in of a Mississippi boat, who could steer a vessel over t lie rapids with wonderful skill, as hardly any one else could. One day, when he was grasping the wheel with his utmost strength, at the most critical point of the rapids, a little boy came running up to him in great excitement and said, 'Cap'n, stop your ship, my apple has fallen overboard!' " In the "Life of Sir' James Simpson," there are some curious notices of the extraordinary things that patients in the country would sometimes ask him to do. Once a gentleman wrote to him asking him to send a copy of the pre­ scription which he had given him some years before, when the doctor could hardly rccall the man, much less the prescription. Others would ask him to go to Duncan & Flockhart's and get them some particular medicine. A very busy clergyman of our ac­ quaintance, when over head and ears with many things, once got a letter from a stranger in the United States, explaining that more than a century ago, some one of the pame of G -- owned a property near Edinburgh which Was believed to have been des­ tined by will in a particular way, so that the relatives in Amlrica thought they had some claim to it He was re­ quested to inquire into the matter, find out about the will, communicate with the present owners of the property, and put everything in train for a just settle­ ment of the claim. It would have been reasonable for the writer to inclose a bill for $500, but that, unfortunately, he omitted to do.--Macn&llan's Maga­ zine. Her Wit Saved Her. The advice usually given, "Keep cool in danger! Don't let your wits desert you!" is good as far as it goes. But more effective, perhaps, will be an illustration of how a woman once saved her life by her cool courage, which al­ lowed her wits to devise the plan that thwarted a madman: • A ladv was sitting in her parlor in Paris at dusk one eveniitt,' when a man entered, and without ctwajtaDny seated himself. He had prcftitfafy obtained entrance to the house as a patient, for the lady's husband was a doctor. She was astonished at his boldness, but still more at his personal appearance. His face was haggard, his eyes wild and his dress disordered. After he had gazed at her for a few moments, she Baid, "If you wish to see • the doctor" "I sm a doctor," he interrupted, with a wave of his hand. "I have heard that fou are a great sufferer from headaches. have come to cure you!" The lady became now really terrified, for she suspected the true character of her visitor. Her husband was out. There were no servants on her floor, and she could not call any, for the man had seated himself near the bell-cord. Without betraying her fear, however, she replied: "It is true that I am sub­ ject to headaches, but how can you cure them?" * ~ "It is simply done," sSid he, glaring at her. "I propose to cut off your head, examine your brains and turn them over. Then I shall replace them and put your head back upon your should­ ers. The lady turned deadly pale. Alone with a madman, and threatened with a horrible death! The maniac detected the change. "You need not fear," said he; "my remedy is painless. But come, we must be quick!" So Saying, he rose and moved toward her. She rose, too, and with a calm­ ness, assumed by a tremendous effort of will, said, "But, sir, blood will flow and my dress may be spoiled; permit me to bring a towel from the next room." The lunatic made a gesture of assent, and she retired to an adjoining apart­ ment. From this she reached the stairs and informed the police, Who came and secured the maniac. Of Interest to (jsm-Chewera. "How many really different kinds of gum have you 1" "There are only three or four differ- eht bases from which gum is made. Tolu, spruce and paraffine are the prin­ cipal ones." Which of them is the most popu­ lar. " 'Tolu in the West and spruoe in the East. Paraffine is a very cheap gum, and is used as a giveaway a great deal." "What about the materials of which the different kinds are made?" Well, tolu is the gum of the balsam tree of South America, and paraffine is a product of petrolenm. It is made in immense quantities at the oil refineries in Pennsylvania and the East. Spruce gum is from the spruce tree, and until recently it was made almost exclusively at Portland, Me." What other kinds of gum have you ?" The rubber or snapping gum, which is a product of a tree in Mexico. The bases of some of these different kinds are sometimes mixed, making other varieties. In the manufacture of all these varieties, sugar and some other ingredients are used." "Is there much gum sold?" "Tons of it. There are twenty-five or thirty factories in the United States in the exclusive manufacture, and it is quite probable that their sales do not fall short of $2,000,000 per annum, perhaps more. W e sell from 5,000 to 10,000 boxes a month." THE poet Gay has a word for sham and pretence which is not entirely out of place in our own society: By outward show let's not be cheafeft Air ass should like ass be taeatei^ ; THE FAULT PHTSICIAX. . ^ XMak of Children. , ^ IFron Caraell's MscsiiMI . Permitting children to sit at table with their elders is the cause of a good de*l of mischief and injury to their youthful digestions. A variety of dishes should never be permitted, and any at­ tempt at wastefulness should be checked at once. Economy and self-denial can be taught at the children's table Jar more easily than at school. The diet of children can hardly bo too plain. If they require to be en­ couraged to eat by the administration t f dainties, there must be something radically wrong somewhere. It is un­ likely that that something is constitu­ tional, more probably insufficient exer­ cise is taken, or taken at wrong times, or the nursery is stuffy, or the bedroom badly ventilated, or the parents have forgotten that sunshine and fresh air are as necessary to the healthy life of a child as wholesome food itself is, The want of cleanliness, or frequent use of the bath, is many times the cause of indifferent appetite in children. Without cleanliness of clothes and cleanliness of person, you can not have healthy children. Without this the voung blood seems poisoned, the child nas neither buoyancy nor heart, appe­ tite is depraved ctr absent, and he grows up as pale and poor as a sickly plant. Injudicious clothing is another cause of dyspepsia. It is l>ad enough to en­ case the body which has attained its full development in a tight dress, but it is ruinous for a child to be clothed in tightly-fitting garment^. Every organ of a child's body requires room to grow and expand. If it 1>© in any way com­ pressed the circulation through it be­ comes lessened, and it is therefore sick­ lied and rendered weak. Tightness, therefore, of any portion of a child's clothing ruins not only the organ directly uuderneath the constric­ tion, but indirectly those at a distance from it, for no damming up of the cir­ culation can be tolerated by nature. Tightness round the waist in children and young people is the cause of many cases of dyspepsia, and in a lesser de­ gree so is tightness of the neckerchief, by retaining the blood in the brain. Have your children's clothing loose, then, if yon would see them healthy land happy. See, too, that at night they sleep not on feather beds, and that though warmly they are not heavily clothed. Children should be fed with great regularity day by day. The parents having chosen the hours for dinner, breakfast and tea, ought to see that the times are strictly adhered to. Irregularity in meal hours, and times of getting up in the morning and retir­ ing to bed at night, is not only preju­ dicial to the present health of the child, but it teaches him habits which are greatly against his chances of suocess in after-life I need hardly speak here about the quality of the food that is placed before a child; against indigestible og too-rich food, against sauces' and spices of all kinds, including curries; against heavy foods of the pancake, dough and dump­ ling kind, against unripe fruits, against too hot soup, against strong tea and ooffee, or beer, or against over-much butcher's meat. Pray, mothers, do not forget that an interval of rest should ensue between the meals you give your children, and do not injure their young digestions by cramming them with cake, or buns, or sweets of any kind. To do so is worse than cruel, it is a sin, and a sin which you are but little likely to commit if you truly love them and really wish to see them generate into strong and healthy men and women. Tarts and sweets and confectionery would be bad enough in all conscience for children, even if thev were always pure and un­ adulterated. But they are too often positively poisonous. Feed on plain and wholesome food regularly from day to day, permitting no stuffing be­ tween meals, and not forgetting the benefits that accrue from frequent changes of diet, more especially as re­ gards dinner.. Do this, and your children will live to bless you; do otherwise, and expect to see them sick­ ly, with veins and arteries possessing no resiliency, with mucous membranes pale and flabby, pipes of lungs that the accident of a slight cold is sufficient to close, muscles of limbs so weak that exercise is a penance instead of a pleas­ ure, and flesh so unwholesome that pin's prick may cause a fester, and all this because the blood is impoverished through errors in diet. Malarious Italy. . Italy is the most malarious country in the civilized world. Of the sixty- nine provinces of the kingdom only six are nominally free from what is known as miasmatic or Roman fever, and in twenty-one the scourge assumes really serious proportions. Every year no fewer than 40,000 men in the army are attacked by the disease, and it is calculated that the prevalence of ma­ laria necessitates the annual expendi­ ture by the Government of something like 10,000,000 lire for the maintenance of special hospitals for public servants. It has been found that the extension of the railway system throughout the peninsula has increased the evil. The turning up of fresh damp earth, and the unavoidable formation of new banks, deep cuttings, and exca­ vations which speedily fill _ with water, breed the disease in its worst forms. On one of the railway lines which runs through much marsh land the annual rate of mortality among the employes is 36 per 1,000. Story of a Red-Headed Preacher. A siory is told about the ordination of a young English clergyman, whose name was Salter. Nature had gifted him with hair which was the reddest of the red. Feeling that in the solemn ceremonies of his ordination this red hair might be the cause of i.-reverent mirth, especially as the ritual pre­ scribes that the Bishop should touch it, he determined to dye it black for the occasion, which he did. The Bishop afterward expostulated with the hap­ less Salter, and alleged against him the authority of the rubric in the prayer book, which says: "The Psalter must be read in the churches." A ST. Lo||is juror was taken sick in the court-mom, but was not' excused. It was mentioned by an attorney, who said that he had tried the remedy, that peppermint and whisky was good, and this was ordered by tne bailiff. The juror refused to take the prescription, saying he had little faith in doctors, and none in lawyers. THB first week the Bropklyn bridge was finished and opened, the sum of $10,000 was taken in tolls, the second week $5,000, and the third a little less than $4,000. JUDGE FOLK, of Brownsville, Tenn., has invented a spiral windmill, will ran street and railway oars. A 8UFFEBIM COT. LonAon, Ont./Damaged by Storm * and Flood to a Frightfal Extent. ---- TWrty Parsons Drowned and Vnmenma Houses and Bridges Wrecked. [Telegram fra^ London, OBterio.] A tornado, aecompufod by heavy ratns, broke over the western part of tbe city •hflrtly before delight The river was soon beyond its bank* The flood swept over tbe whole of the lowland*. 1B lees than an boor the entire western suburb* were under water. Large haUdlnga and mills were car (led away as thodgh they were straws. The population of tbe suburbs, some 3,000 in awaber, were driven from their homes in their night-clothes. The villagers were sleeping when the storm burst upon tbsm. and aweke only to tod their dwelling* floating away in the staeam. Some houses were overturned and their oooupanta drowned in their beds. One building caught fixe while going down stream, and lit up the awful soene, showlng some persons running wildly about oa the roofs of the floating houses, ami others at windows screaming. Parties went to the present riee$' the rescue of the occupants, but before they reached the building It was overturned and the Inmates lost to nsht. The scene was direful in the extreme. Mother* were wailing for lost children, and Infants crying for mothers Many of those in the floating houses would have been com­ paratively secure had they remained in door* Many of them in their terror rushed wildly out into the water and wore swept away. One frame house floated down with tights burning, and a young lady inside, named Miss Wright, was reseued afteramiie run on the crest of the wave, but With her i from Souikh Carolina*to Texas reason lost. The poor girl haa torn her hair and raved piceously all day A, young married woman was rescued with a new­ born infant in her arms. A child of Mr. Orr, an elderly lady named Hopkins, and a boy floated over the dam and were ingulfed in the waters below. Some forty persons are missing. All the bridges across the river were destroyed, and communication with the west side is cut. off. Railways were also flooded and traffic stopped The loss of life is between thirty aud forty. The property loss is estimat ed at #5,000.000. Early in the morning Mrs. Oliver, wife of the caretaker at Spring-bank reservoir, was horrified at seeing a little boy being swept down the current toward the dam, scream­ ing at the top of his voice and waving his arms as he disappeared over the brink. An effort was made to safe him, but he was be­ yond human aid. Among the rescued in London West waa an old colored man named Scott, who lived alone on Thames street. Mr. W. J. Mcintosh endeavored to reach the houBe in a boat, and, failing to force in the door, drove his boat full tilt through the window, taking the whole sash with him. When he got inside at first he failed to see any­ body till he heard the wordB: "Bre'ss deLo'd! I was jess pravin' to' deLo'd to send His angel to deliber me." Mr. Mcin­ tosh found the old man standing on the cook-stove, holding on to tbe stove-pipe, and the water almost up to his chin. Scott when he appeared on the street had nothing but a shirt and a coat An infant and an aged widow woman named Qarretty, now in her "iOth i ear. lived alone in a small frame shanty on Thames street. The neighbors from adjoining houses had all tied in alarm to high ground. She bad been warned, but, owing either to infirmity or the surrounding confusion, f-he became paralysed with fear. Rescuer* tried in vain to rouse the old lady by pounding on the door, but to no purpose. At length they burst in a window aud ran in a couple of planks They found Mrs Qarretty kneeling on the bed, holding on to one of the posts, with the water up to her neck. Mrs. Ann Beeves performed a deed that any stout man might have been proud of. When the water rose In her little home she placed one ohild, a girl, under one arm and another girl under the other arm; a third, a boy, she Instructed to sit astraddle on her neck, and the fourth, shother boy, she got to hang on to her dress behind In this state she started for the shore, the water beinj^as she assured the reporter, up to her "How did vou ever manage to get ashore with such a load?" was asked. "The Lord gave me strength," wot there- ply. "I was sure of the three youngest, but l was afraid of little Jaekie, lest he should let go his hold behind, but he hung on bravely, although his head waa half the time underwater." | y hintini of a Crop «f ; BUshela of Wtater lSS>tOO,- > 000 of Spring WMfc Large Increa» is tfca ' v": Corn--A Total *08,000,09* - r~ j ^ . , t v.. IU€ JLIIY Y6PO®6 QK |M meat of Agricaltars iadteates vfty g--snjfc. improvement in the eoaiiMs ̂of Sottaa Bates were general ay te dbe iqih s* Safe** Jone, and loeal chowsn hstvO tans JraqMat siaoe. There has been apt ettessof mc^st- ure, interfering with the oatttrattM! promoting the growth of gi asa aMA fields are found only in favored districtsaad on lands with prompt and V-itors. Since June 30 the growth rapid In grainy districts the p soil (mill hot heakby, and progreA with recent cultivation. complaint of drought comes AW and Sou hwestern Texas, ftom the fotor*6»i to the Gaudalupe. A isar countiei in Baulk Carolina and Georgia report a ̂ "**1 of rain. There ia promise of improvement July. A gain of 10 potnts has been a the Northern Zone, North Carolina sad Test- nessee, 7 in Georgia, 6 ia Sooth Caroliaa, 4 in Texas, 8 in Mississippi, 2 in ~ ' 1 in Florida Alabama and * as in June. The July 8tate _ follows: Virginia, (H; North Carolina, 91; South Carolina, ttl; Georgia, 4S-. Florid*,r Alabama. 87; MifsindppL tftl; Louisiana, Texas, 93; Arkansas, H4; Tea&fssee, Worms have wrought but little Injury H] The caterpillar haa appeared at a fewj " from South Carolina to Texas In. in Alabama, the second brood of appeared June 21 The b>U-vrorhn i* ak work in Denton county, Texas. Picking will commence in Southwestern Texas abous the iOth of July. WHEAT. - There has been some improvement ia winter wheat In Connecticut, Hew York, . Virginia South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Mich" igan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas aad> California whioh advances the general aver­ age condition from 75 to 79. The spring wheat average has advanced from8 to 10a, The indications for July point to a winter wheat crop of fully 5JOO.CBO.OOO bushel?, an# a product of about 125,OOU,OOJ bushel* >o( spring wheat coas. * The area of the com crop has been ta»> creased about 2,500,000 i res, making an aggregate of £*,000,010 acres. There has been some extension of the area in nearly every State. The proportion of increase is large in the Northwest and in the SputhwMfe. On the coast, from Virginia to Mississippi,' the advance has been smaU. In some places the reduction of price from the enlarge­ ment of the supply last year had a «ns4 couraging effect. There has been too much rain in the great Western maize districts, and the failure of stands from plunting poor seed, making the crop late and the growth small, but the Improvement has of late been rapid. Taking all the States together, the average for com is £8, against 85 last July, 90 in itftil, and 100 in 188ft The averages of the principal States are as follows: New York, 8*; Pennsylvania,. 89; Ohio, 88; Michigan, 78; Indiana, DO; Illi­ nois, 82; Iowa, 80; Missouri, 83; Kansas, 98; Nebraska. S7; Dakota, 7& In the South thft averages range from 90 In Tennessee to 108 in Louisiana ^ OTHKB PSODUCTS. The prospect for oats is nearly as good as in July of last year, the average being!# against 103. , The condition of barley is represented by 97. Last July It was W. The average • New York ia 108; Pennsylvania, tfl;WuMS> sin, 102; California, VOL There has been an increase of shout 5 per cent in the area planted in Northern toea They axe reported in high averaging 101. The average of tobacco appears to ha#H been diminished 7 per cent In condition. IN MALE ATTIRE. r . V • ' J V M J A Chisago Girt Whe Soeeeasftenr Vevsea- ated the Jolly Tar. • young woman with a history was locked up at a Chicago police station the other night She was dressed In men's olothing, and her disguise was the most deceiving the police ever met with She was arrested on the docks, where she mingled as a sailor without her sex being discovered by even her nesrest assoolsta For three years she has acted as oook's mate aboard various lake vessels, always passing for a boy and mingling with the sailors as one of them. She could give no other name than Frank Chambers, Insisting that her real name was too sacred to divulge in apolioe station She said shewssbornInNewark,Ohio, seventeen years ago, and donned male attire the better to get along. There was not one chance in twenty of getting employment as a woman where she could succeed as a man, and, as the latter had the better of »through life, she concluded to disguise her identity ana engsge in labor performed by the other sex. She liked the change. She liked the sea, and took to it to the manner born. Though mix­ ing constantly with the very roughest of the Bea-fariug element few ever discovered her secret She drank with the rough Bail­ ors, but was wise enough not to take too much, and she never became intoxicated She aocompaniei them in their roistering tours when in port, but always had a ready excuse to offer when any frolic was proposed that might disclose her sex. She believed in woman's rights and smoked and chewed with the ease of an old tar. All her movements were muscullne and her conversation was plenti­ fully interlayed with expressions character­ istic of the sterner sex When proffered a cigar, she lit the match on her trousers, and •when it went out, her disgust was expressed in terms more emphatic than elegant She seemed to be a lad of eighteen, and though her features were regular and pleasing, there was nothing effeminate in her look. Her hair was cut close to the scalp, as if by a machine, and she wore a frock coat and black trousers, a cheviot shirt and a nobby derby. e "Some one gave me away," was the reply sh« made when asked how she came to be arrested "I have only been in the town a few days, and behaved myself the best I could No one would suspect who I am, aSd I was never found out until I got in a row with a fellow onoe. I got a black eye, but then there is always a black eye aboard a ship; if the Captain hasn't got It, some of the crew hava" LAND SHARK& of Kaormon* Fnwb lata* WW-- of Entering Government l*n4*. [Washington Telegram.] " Over 000 reports have boot received the Commissioner of the General Land OfBOS from thirty special agents engaged in the in­ vestigation of fraudulent land entries up to July 1. In many of these oases supplement­ al reports have been called for, covering points which are not sufltetsntly specific to warrant official action. About 8&i reports have shown sufficient evidence of fraud to justify the Land Office in summarily cancel­ ing the entries The records show without exception that the fraudulent sntriea, whether homestead or pre-emption, the full area of land allowed bylaw-- lv, 100 acres, The land already restored to the public domain upon the reports of theaa agents aggregates about 96,000 um A great deal is located in rich valleys, and is held by. the Government at double the minimum per acre The to the GovernmenS~' already by the secret-service division of the General Land Office is estimated St #125,000, had It Is maintained that these figures will bedeubled when action Is reached upon reports yet un­ examined The presence of these special agents has had the effect of cheokiaff mangr fraudulent schemes not yet consummati ens uomnanit ss nimum price--#2.90 approximate saving nt already effected OUT OF THE USUAL ORDER. two beaus adjuring them by "her iove thefti to take care of her body. Of course enterprising street-car Una,in, run between Billings sadCftte' QUEER STORIES. Ah Auburn (N. Y.) hen with a literary turn of mind has laid an egg with "honey" print­ ed on it A WOMAN in Milan, Tenn., died In s few moments after having beat stung in the nose by a bee. AN Englishman bequeathed his two daughters their weight in ill banknotes One of the girls received £34,200, and the other £59,344. THE reason given by a Camden, Oneida county, man, for not marrying again is that his lot in the cemetery is now full, he having recently buried his sixth wife there THE wife of J. W. Wise, of Spurlington, Ky., is a grandmother at 31 years of age She was married at the age of 14, and her daughter was married at the same age A BOY in Wilmington, N. C., was b^ten in one of his fingers by s rattlesnale. .He seized a hatchet and cut off his finger before the poison had time to spread through his system. A LIVE mule was blown twenty yards bv a ooiler explosion near Clarendon, & C. The brute lit on its feet and took a kicking posi­ tion, prepared to resent any further dis­ turbance. A ctJcuMsaa five feet long and large A proportion is on exhibition at New Orleau% ̂ ^A GIRL took potoon after writing letters for theta to take cure she lived in Brooklyn. Tns most the world is son, Montana, the fare being 25 cents, wMeh includes two glasses of beer at Coulaon. NINE girls in St Louis organiaed-a base­ ball club. While playing s practice gam the miss at the bat refused to play beosssa the pitoher wouldn't throw taaball "rest hard" ̂ A TOOKO woman, aged 18 years, who ltvsa In Lapeer, Minn., has now been thrice mar­ ried and thrloe a widow. All the eligible bachelors and widowers of that town am fleeing for their lives IN the Gulf Hammock. Florida a hs» hatched a brood of chickens in a nest on the dmb of s tree twenty-four feet from thn ground. Hens down there early learn the necessity of roosting high. A BOY in Wilmington, N. C., was bitten by a rattlesnake a few days ago, the fang of tM serpent entering the end of his fingeara,wltsn he seized a hatchet which happened to be near at hand and oat off hia linger beftaa the poison had time to spread through his system. SOL BUBOK8S, of Newbern, N. C., went oat in a ekitf to have a picnic by himself. While paddling along the shore he caught a little alligator, which be a an to whistle. In a short 1 ime the lagoon was tilled with its kindre&i Sol counted 401, big and little, and then scudded for home. The whole drove fol­ io wed him to the wharf. A TRAVELER, while walking among thl» ruins of Caracalla's baths in Rome, eanpa near being killed by a stone dropped from ft considerable height by a crow. He haf ventured too near their nests, and they picked up stones in their talons, «>ared to a height of nearly 100 feet, and let them drop. Some of the stones weighed a pound THE Lower Alloways Creek correspondent of the Salem (N. J.} Standard adds to his list of tough stories from that section this: A cow belonging to James f no progeny cf her own, i of pigs. The pigs are four when hungry they give notice to their fi :'3| >8taekhoose, having- , has adopted a litter our In number, and m •s.fe mother bv rubbing against her legs, and at the same time give vent to the well-known vocal sound of young swine Their guardian at once lies down in such s manner that the maternal fount is readily accessible, and then each pig proceeds to gain a livelihood by seizing on a teat ~ AMONG the sights which were witnessed dn the dock yesterday, the most noticeable W^F a man having a fiddle made of a cigar boat, and having for a handle an old broom-stftafc. There was only one string on the instm-> inont, but he rendered the most dtlBenlh operatic selections with the greatest of ease. The music was very fine. He ale# gave imitations of various annuals, and aktt different instruments. A larjje crowd lis*- postoffice in* 18t»> have just come to light j ened to the music. The musician him.-elf Thev were discovered in tearing down the was a thorough artist, having been ea»~ building. They had been lost through ads* i nected with vario-- IhmtiMta . d/ianf:; feet in the slide. • ' ifWa-JTsiriMofhr. • • • • " IN a replevin suit at Stevensville, Montana, relating to a pair of reins bought at auction for 50 cent% the unsuccessful litigant p-iid in more than $500. Over 100 witnesses were examined. LETTERS deposited in the Ottumwa (Iowa) *2