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icutii UliumUaler •v 1. VAN SLYKt, ) itmjMv* r McHENRY, ILLINOIS 4 sOLDntfH in Ion# of th* £*>1* hos- •pita's, in the kiat stage of the cholera, "tried to raise himself to make the mili­ tary salute as the King came near, bnt Humbert gently replaced the man upon "his pillow* the soldier murmuring, •"Well, I can die content now." Lady Catherine Caskkll, in an En­ glish magazine, says the wives and daughters «f farmers should not be ed­ ucated. If kept in ignorance they would submit to many privations and would not grumble at humble fare, •coarse clothing, hard work, and long jbours. ANXHdk^ni)»d8al<»n|i*eeer|kt Adams, Massachusetts, upon being detected by -the officers emptied his stock of whisky into a sink. The invaders then plugged the vent to secure some of the fluid as •evidence. A hard fight to remove the stopper ensued, ln$t spofcge ' was finally saturated . with the shupected liquid and was carried off to beaqueezed and the liquor tested. "Pasteurized" beef now being -'Sold in Canadian cities. The process of pasteurization requires the heating of the liquid to a point sufficient to de­ stroy the vitality of the yeast cells and •other germs. This is accomplished by a temperature of 131 degrees Fahren­ heit, and the heat should be applied for a considerable time. If the proceed is imperfectly performed, the cells will develop as soon as the circumstances .are favorable. tainment of the nle-wivos down in the green-sea, thus appeared as she passed before the camera of the correspond* pot: - "She is a tall, willowy girl, very nervous--continually, as one would soy, 'on the jump,' with big black eves sparkling with fun, and with a quiok, ejaculatory manner of speech, which is another proof of her high-nervous temperament. The ring of laughter is in almost every sentence she utters. There is something almost nun-like in the simplicity of her dress. She will wear a cheap white gown in summer without a particle of jewelry." ^he rich John, her father, adores her. f. A funny incident recently occurred .-"3bl the New York opera-house after the -performance of the play "The Pulse of New York." The final curtain was rung down, but the audience sat com­ placently and made no ̂ movement to leave the house, being unaware that the play was ended. In this embarrass ing situation, nothing was left the manager but tounnounce that the play had come to an end. He might have re sited Thackeray's verses, beginning *'The play is done." Mn. Bltthk, of London, laav% jmw, plan for disposing of detcU It is -to abolish all permanent cemeteries, and allow each piece of agricultural land to take its tarn as a receptacle for the bodies of the dead. After five years -as a cemetery he would use the ground for agriculture, on the theory of a ro­ tation of crops. He remarked in his argument, that "Beneath the wav­ ing corn or the stately piaqs the re­ mains of the dead would be for ever free from desecration." Thk King of Siam has sent a very •..liandsome present to President Arthur, •consisting of a Malay kr.'ss of the finest tamper, with solid gold hilt, and in­ cased in a gold alloyed scabbard, and two spears of quaint Malay fashion, gold sheaths for the beautifully polished blades. They are reported to l>e of great beauty and are very valua­ ble. They are sent in acknowledgment •of gifts presented by the President to a Siamese llajah who tacpated with great I/- kindness s6me shipvfreeked Americans. Tht: statute of Admiral Dnpont which is to stand in Dupont circle, Washington, D. C., has been completed ifa Philadelphia. Mr. I^aunt Thomp­ son, the sculptocjp. fill? receive about $14,000 for his work. The Admiral is represented as standing on the deck of his vessel, uncovered, earnestly gazing, having first dropped his field-glasses, which he holds in both hands in front of liim. Tho statute is about ten feet high. The face is said to bear a strik­ ing resemblance to the famous officer. The pedestal, which is already ip* po­ sition, is of Richmond granite. , v Mb. P. Sexton, ofElmira, New York, -will soon have a new eyelid. Mr. Sexton was the engineer of the train that ran through a sea of burning oil near Brad­ ford, Pennsylvania, last January. He was severely burned. Parts of his nose and ears are gone, while both lower eyelids are burned away, leaving no - protection to the eyes. A prominent physician of Elmira volunteered to re­ pair the engineer's mutilated face, and recently performed a plastic operation {or the restoration of one of, the lids, -literally making a new eyelid. When - this heals, the same operation fril^ he ftmdc on the opposite side.' Irf' * One of the most interesting discov- • eries relating to our early colonial his­ tory has just been made by Henry F. Waters, the London agent of the New England Historic Genealogical society. It is a description of New England, written by Samuel Maverick about the year 1600. Maverick came to this country, according to his own account, in 1624, six years before the great emi­ gration under Gov. Winthrop, and he was one of the first permanent settlers on the shores of Massachusetts bay. His fortified house on Noddle island, n6w East Boston, was, he says, the . *%ntientest hoatib in fchp Masiachuaeiti government." ,* ^ & . ./JTherb is a curious breach of promise «we now awaiting trial in the West­ chester, New York, county courts. Samuel Howe wooed and won a Miss Johnson sauia tw» jca» agp, b$ft de- ferred the happy day until he had established a home in the West for his lady love. Having accomplished his mission, he returned for his bride last {ftppng, bat Father Time and the bleach­ ing proc ess had M-orked a change in the object of his affcwjtione, -She had dyed her hair a ligbft anbuvh and he refused to marry her. Her affections have been damaged, she alleges, to the extent of 15,000, though if he will but take her to his heart again, all will be well. Miss Eva Mackay, of whom the ca- Theodore Jo Jo, a boy of 16, well known among the curiosity folks as the human Sky terrier, arrived in New York by a recent steamer. His face is cov­ ered by a long wavy mass of silken hair, which in color is between light red and silver gray. It hangs upon his brow down to the eyes, parting in the center and waving off to either side like that Of a fancy terrier. It droops from his cheeks in long wavy locks, grows from the nostrils, and hangs from both ears. The length of this luxuriant growth of hair varies from two to fcur inches The eyes of this dog-faced boy also re semble very closely those of a terrier. They are slightly bluish in color, also perfectly round, and the whites are vis­ ible entirely around the pupils. His mouth is furnished with only the two canine teeth above and two incisors be­ low, and all four are thin and sharp, re­ sembling miniature tusks rather than human teeth. He spoaks Russian and German with tolerable fluency. y Gladstone generally drqases plainly, but, like the aloe- blooms once in a hundred years or so. When that event occurs the splendor of his blos­ soming calls for detailed record. On his first drive into Edinburg from Dalmeny--the morning was bright and sunny--rhe flashed upon the town like a ray of light, and sat among his som­ bre companions like a bird of paradise in a aviary of jackdaws, clothed, like A MODERN HIGHWAYMAN. With Incidental Remarks About jJpS#£iBg-Car Porter*. The raiUrO^ds are tlio great highways of tho present day. The highwayman, who has long left the slower thorough­ fares, now appears as the porter of pal- aca cars. As you pass the ticket gate and come alongside the long line of cars standing engineless, waiting for passeu- gers, you will notice the porter waiting at the steps of the Pullman or Wagner, and as the crowd passes him he reiter­ ates the word*: " Chicago sleeper, sir?" • '1 hese words are varied according to the train. It may be Rochester sleeper or Uuffato sleeper, or St. Louij sleeper. He never says " sleeping car." If you are tired and want to get to beck soon, you say to the highwayman: " I wish you would make up my berth as soon as possible." " Which is your berth, sir?" '• Lower three on the Venezuela. "Very sorry, sir; but three ladies, a sick gentleman and a couple of young men are ahead o( you, sir." As you turn away he says: " I'll see what I can do for you, sir. I'll do my best, s.ir." . Later he comes to you and says in a confidential manner--a sort df husky whisper: ' I've managed to, get your berth made up second, sir. Lower three, I think you said, sir. I always like to oblige an old patron of the road, sir" This latter phrase is a delicate i*t of flattery. He wants you to think that he recognizes you as an old ban I. When tho train starts it is a busy time for the porter, and he works in rather straight­ ened quarters very deftly. People pass and repass him in the narrow aisle, but his poJiteness never varies. A dozen are at him to get their berths made up, and with great tact he satisfies them all. His method of working is worth attention. He places the inevitable va­ lise under the seat and draws the seats over it, making a bed of the lower berth. Then he lets down the upper shelf and takes out the end boards and fits them into places, fastening down the tipper shelf so that by no possibility can the lower tenant push it up if he is the only occupant of the section. It would never do to let the lower tenant have so much space for his $2. He takes out a mat­ tress and spreads it over the lower seat. He goes to the cupboard with a mirror j i'or its door and takes some clean white oeeasionallj tattlea to fijjp enter- Tenneyson's party in the pool, "in | pillowslips and a couple of sheets there- white samite." or what might have been a coat of that material; his waistcoat was also white, his trousers a lovely lavender, his tie the hue of the palo primrose, while in his buttonhole he sported a rose larger than a cauliflower, but less in size than a drum-head cab­ bage. And to this a hat of veritable white, not the dubious drab which is the common wear, but . as white as whitewash, and you have the figure which showed in the Scotch capital as the sun in Turner's sea pieces shows from surrounding clouds. Thekk is a woman is Macon, Georgia, who asserts that she is an escaped Cn- ban slave. She is a dark brown skin and a peculiar dialect. Slie said in con­ versation; "My name is Mollie Young. I was stolen from my home in Louis­ ville, Kentucky, about twenty years ago by 'Dan' Bice's circus. I was taken to Cuba Qud sold to a wealthy Span­ iard, Jean do Lopez, of Havana. He owned over BOO slaves. While a slav'e I was subjected to cruel torture and in­ human punishment I was made to draw a plow like a horse, with a har­ ness on me, and was whipped three times a day, and rubbed with salt and pepper, My food was horrible. I was forced into n dungeon that was filled with rats. I have fought for my life in that subterranean tomb and had over me my cruel master laughing at my frantic efforts. I escaped by a ship going to England. I packed myself in a box of fruit and was days without daring to let people know me. I nearly perished with thirst, and but for banana juice I should have died." Corneille did not even speak cor­ rectly tho language of which he was such a master, and it was when remon­ strated with at refusing to be bound by the limits of grammar in conversation "that ho made the pompous Answer: *'I am not the less Pierre Corneille!" Addison was proverbially dull in con­ versation, and probably of the many who knew "Mr. Spectator" few knew anything at all of the Bt. Hon. Joseph Addison, one of the Lords Commis­ sioners of Trade and Secretary of State to his Majesty King (George I. The Countes3 of Pembroke used to rally Chaucer by saying that his silence was more agreeable to her than his conversation. La Fontaine, who, when he wrote, was the model of poetry, could not speak or describe what he had just seen; and Isocrates, who ex­ celled all in writing speeehes, was so 'shy and nervous that he never had the courage to get on his legs to speak in public. He compares himself to the whetstone, which will not cut, bat ena­ bles other things to do to. > ' r The Cingalese in Bangles. All the people in Ceylon, from babies just "feeling their feet" to old men and women, their steps tottering on the brink of the grave, wear gold and silver ordaments. They even invent new place j for carrying them, and it is no uncommon thing to see a Cingalese belle with the top of her ears covered wi£h gold plate or wire, a large pair of rmjgs pendant from the lobes of the ear, a gold or silver circlet round her hair, her nose adorned with rings, and silver plates on her toes. This is the perfec­ tion of adornment; bnt in one or other of the fashions, or in several of them, the Cingalese woman, of whatever sta­ tion in life, is set forth. I saw running out of a house a sturdy little boy 2 years of age who had nothing on but a sliver key fastened round his waist by a girdle of silver wire. The men take their pleasure less expensively. They delight in gold earrings and rings, bnt beyond this they are content to trust the recommendation of their personal appearance to a fine tortoise shell comb of circular shape, set on the crown of their heads, with the ends toward the -foffehead.--Good Word*. A German biologist divides kind into two classes, the intellectual and the animalistic. He puts the Ger­ mans at the head of the former, and the English nest. There are no limits to the figuring skill of * German scien­ tist. from, and holding the slip in his teeth slips the pillow inside. The manner in which he spreads sheets and quilts on the bed is most admirable. The space is very limited and he, with a peculiar and indescribable jerk, lands the sheet just where it belongs. He then turns down the sheet and coverlet in a kind of triangular mauner, pulls down the window blinds, fliags the hooks long curtains over the bras § red at the top, tnc'ts the corners in and then: "Lower three is reidv, f-ir." The quickness with which a car full of berths is made up by a porter who understands his business is something marvelous. In the dim watches of the nig it as you sleeplessly toss on the liar.l mattress, while the snore of the fat man rises sonorously from lower four, when the jerk of the train's stoppage at some midnight stations wakens you from the half rumbling semi-conscious state into which you have fallen you hear at the end of the car a steady "swish, swish." This is the lonely porter's midnight solo on your shoes, the one tangible hook on which he bases his claim for robbing you in the morn­ ing. To try to escape the porter's levy of 25 cents is a practical impossibility. Men have boasted that they had the courage to do so, but no properly au­ thenticated case has ever came to light. It requires an amount of bravery ttiat the average American is not possessed of, let him boast as ho may. The high­ wayman's weapon is not a sword or a pistol, but a little apparently innocu­ ous broom--a clothes broom. He calls you up to the captain's office to settle in the following manner: "Brush you off, sir ?" "Thank you, I brushed myself off a moment ago." "There's a lot of dust on the back of your coat yet, sir." . If you still demur he takes your hat and gives it a most vigorous dusting off, gradually leading you off into the dread ante chamber. Then he lays on Mac­ duff. He dusts you off with energy and precision. He puffs and pants over it and exerts himself very visibly. Then he stands expectant and draws his hand across his heated brow as if he rarely encountered so rough a job. It's sel­ dom that a man is so hardened a? to pass that stage without his hand auto­ matically seeking the quarter that lies dormant in his pants pocket; but grant for the sake of argument that there is a man who could calmly say, "Thank you," and take his crimson seat in the car again. The next stage is after this fashion: The porter walks up and down the aisle and stops before you, saying: "Dil I brush you off, sir?" "You did." "Ahem. I hope you're satisfied, sir." "Perfectly satisfied." Apau.se. "I'm glad you're satisfied, sir."' Another pause, during which you feol that the eves of all the passengers are on you and that you are becoming unpleasantly conspicuous. , t . "Were your boots blacked 4© fait you, sir?" . "They were well blacked." "You see, some like one kind of blacking, and some another. I gener­ ally give satisfaction, sir; least ^never see no gentleman complain." If you make no move at this, the final catastrophe occurs. The highwayman drops all politeness as thrown away on such a boor, thrusts his hanif before yoii< while he holds the whisp under kis left arm, and demands: "Porter, please." Then he gets his quarter--Detroit Free Pre*s. : * ' The Lotus C ub Cat. Whether it was the fault of his aftadio training, or of his later experience in a club composed exclusively of E*en, I cannot spy, but it soon became evident that he end not like the society of ladies. It is the admirable custom of the Lotus Club at intervals to throw open their house, for an afternoon reception to ladies, who go to see the pictures and listen to the music performed for their benefit. On such occasions, Pick, as he was familiarly called, was greatly dis­ quieted. He detected the preperations going on, and, having learned by expe­ rience what was about to happen, he fled to the garret, or to some other friendly shelter, and there remained hidden until the last of the (to him) objectionable visitors ha^r gone. At that time, my private lodgings were in tho c ub house, and Bichard o.ten se­ cured an en'ranee into .my rooms be­ fore the company arrived, nor went out until t:ie last silken rustle tf femi­ nine ga:n«ent had ceased. To test his powers of ol once took him out into the n\_ _ of the h use, near t .e clos d of titt reception. Released from my Dick canstiously stole to the peered down the stair-way, sniffing the odor of fried oysters and other good things, and then, as if his kcon senses noted a sound or smell, which my dul­ ler perceptions did not, he dashed back into the room, imploring me with his large and expressive eyes to close the door and keep him safe. Bnt Kiohard's attractiveness arose from his strongly individual character. His master taught him to bo neat, pa­ tient, and obedient, and Bichard also learned several diverting tricks. He would lie down, at word of command, flat on the floor, stretched at fnll length, with his head thrown limply back, as if ho were dead, and would jump up again lithely, when permission was given, and not before; or, when placed behind the clasped bands of a person bending over him, he would leap over them, or would leap when shown a stick held horizontally, and not too high. Sun­ dry other amusing antics did this learned cat perform.--Noah Brooks, in SL Nicholas. The Deacon's Sew flat. Deacon Bodkin is an old-fashioned man and clings tenaciously to oHMash- ioned head covering. His daughters have frequently urged him to prooure a modern silk hat and to lay aside the old style, bell-crowned beaver, but to no avail. "Gals," he would say, whenever the subject was brought up, "that 'ere is my wedding hat. Your mother picked it out herself, an' I couldn't tlunk o' going back on her, yon know. Now, you mustn't think that you know more than your ma what is fashionable." A few Sundays ago the deacon went to charch as usual. In the evening he attended a conference meeting and sat in his usual place, depositing his treas­ ured hat carefully on the floor in the aisle. A short praise service opened the exercises, and the deacon was lustily singing, On Jordan's stormy banks I stand. And cast a wist I ul eye, with his head thrown back on his shoulders, his eyes closed and his hands clasped over his capacious abdomen. At that moment a ruBtle of a silk skirt was heard and a fashionably attired lady swept up the aisle. The deacon opened the corner of his "wistful eye" in order to take in the situation. The silk skirt was provided with a voluminous train, and, as its occupant swept past, the deacon, with the open corner of his eye, beheld his cherished hat rolling up the aisle in the wake of the dress and its occupant. The deacon had just recehed the line of the hymn, Where my possessions lie, when he broke off abruptly, and made an energetic plunge to recover his hat. He alighted upon all fours in the cen­ ter of the aisle, but just as he thought the hat was in his grasp, the silken train gave an additional switch, and ihe hat followed with an additional roll. The deacon followed the hat, still upon all fours, but again it eluded him, and yet aga n and again. So intent was the deacon upon recovering his "posses­ ions" that he was not in the least aware that the attention of the entire con(ft*e- gation was attracted to the sight of the dignified deacon following upon all- fours a richly dressed lady up the aisle, ever and anon endeavoring to grasp an antique hat, which as often eluded him. A church- meeting was called the next week, at which the chargo was brought against the deacon of drawing the attention of the young people from the solemnities of worslup upon the Lord's day. The deaqon jEpl^ned the matterliVbest lie could, and the church by vote decided that he should bo-re­ leased without reprimand, but lycom- mendod that inasmuch assjiis npculiar hat would now attract niore"~5ttention than ever he should compromise the matter by procuring a new one. The next Sunday the deacon's new hat and its probable cost was the 4alk of the town.--I'o.ston Globis. fimious INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS. Accordino to the observations of an Havana doctoiyreported in th8 annals of th« Royal Academy of Science :n that, c.tv, mosquitoes may be agents for t it* transfer of the germs of yellow fever, and of the parasites which produce ele­ phantiasis. So VALUABLE have been tho services rendered by soience to agriculture in Sweden that the Swedish Governmeut has provided funds for the establishing of five more so-called "chemical sta­ tions," the objcct of which is to furnish the farmers with scientific advice con­ cerning crops, their diseases, etc. Thk temperatures at which the com* mon gasses become liquefied are given as follows by Prof. Dewar, the numbers expressing degrees below zero F.: Car­ bonic acid, 112 degrees; nitrous oxide, 130; ethylene, the chief illuminating constituent of common coal gas, 154|; oxygen, 299; nitrogen, 320; air, 314; carbonic oxide, 215A. The preatest cold yet produced by man, 328 degrees below zero, was obtained by two Rus­ sian physicists by the use of liquid ox­ ygen. In a communication to the Physio­ logical Society of Berlin, Dr. Falk stated, as a result of his researches on drowning, that when rabbits are sud­ denly plunged into water having a tem­ perature of 40 or 45 degrees F., cramp of the expiratory muscles occurs, and respiration ceases. The methods of re­ storing the apparently dead have no relation to the effect of cutaneous stim­ ulation upon respiration. Cold water dashed upon the chest acts upon the heart alone; on the nape of the neck it acts upon the lower brain. Ground air, says Mr. G. H. Rohe, is simply the atmospheric air whicn had penetrated into the interstices of the soil and taken part in the various de­ compositions going on there. In con­ sequence of tlieso chemical actions the relative proportions of the oxygen and carbonic acid in the air are changed, oxygen disappearing and giving place to carbonic acid. The researches of Fador have demonstrated that the pro­ portion of carbonic acid in the ground air may be taken as an approximate measure of the impurity of the soil whence the air is taken. A most extraordinary disinfecting compound for purifying the atmosphere of the sick room has been presented to the Berlin Medical Society. Oils of rosemary, lavender, and thyme in the proportions of ten, 2|, and 2£ parts, re­ spectively, are mixed with water and nitric acid in the proportion of thirty to H. The bottle should be shaken before using, and sponge saturated in the compound and left to diffuse by evaporation. Simple as it is, the vapor of this compound is said to possess ex­ traordinary properties in controlling the odors and etHuvia of offensive and infectious disorders. 11m Agricultural Department's vember Crop BuitotaiL Ko4j Camping Out. The typical camp is pretty familiar to the general reader. It consists mainly of a tent, a couple of blankets, a ho e in the ground and a dog. The tent is used to swelter in until it rains, and then it is the best place on the prom­ ises for anybody who wants to get wet. The blankets are intended for slumber­ ing purposes; but after the first right they are generally required to keep the rain out of the meal and the bugs out of the sugar. The hole in the ground is the kitch­ en. The cooking is done there. The cooking is a goed deal like the hole. No particular use has been discovered for the dog. But he is always there. He makes himself useful, mainly, in eating up the lard and tipping over the milk-pail. These are the only refresh­ ments that he has. His favorite occu­ pation in the night is to sit close by the tent-door, with his mouth open, and keep the noon off. We forgot to mention tho campers. These are usually male and female-- either or both. They wear blue flan­ nel day and night, and have sunburned noses." They are generally better fed than the dogs, and not quite so lean. They live on whatever the cook gets up for tbem. Sometimes he only gets up ear)/ in the morning. Then the camp­ ers are very indignant because he d d not let them know that the provisions were out. The best fun is boating without fish­ ing, and bathing. Most campers' boats famish bathing and boating facilities at the same time. This is very con­ venient for those who are too lazy to undress. Most campers are desperate­ ly laey. The r food has something to do with it. Where there are males and females, the bathing has tffbe done in bathing-suits. This is very amusing, because you can never tell whether a camper is going a-bathing or going ont under the trees to write poetry. The bathing suit and the camping suit are just alike. As a rule, nobody ever falls in love while out camping. This is what makes mixed parties so safe. It looks awfnl dangerous in theory, but when it comes to practice, there isn't anvthing dan­ gerous about it. A creature who is perfectly levely in a ball dress can't smite worth a cent in a bine flannel blouse, with a mau's Ing straw hat tied down over her ears and the skih peel­ ing off the end of her nose. Camps are great places to cure love, too. If the young man who goes away to a foreign land with a broken heart, trying to forget her--trying in vain, while his hear .-springs ache and his ap­ petite dwindles down to a fine point-- if this poor love-sick young aMUi:.eoald only camp out for a week with he would come home with aft enormons hankering for roast beef and ab% com­ fortable patch of contentment (^ Khis broken heart. Lot3 of married people have come mighty near curing their love in camp. It's a risky ex and" all true lovers will fight Bhy of it--Puck. ky experiment be advised to The Grip Cars* If Chicago ever loses its "grip" one of the sights of the city will have de­ parted. The grip cars are an institu­ tion peculiar to Chicago. Only a city with a large population could stand the grip cars, for they are very fond of kill­ ing their man. They feel as if they have not done their duty towards the cemeteries if they do not lay out some­ body every day. As a person crosses certain Chicago streets lie notices in the center of the car track a thin slit, and from the depths there comes out a low and continual rumble. Tho chances are that if he stops to investi­ gate, the cars will be upon him, and he will add another to the numerous vic­ tims of the grip. The trouble with the grip cars is tlm+, as the eountryman said of the elephant, you can't tell which end is front. A person has be­ come so accustomed to seeing either horses, or an engine of some sort, be­ fore the cars that he does not recognizo the silent "grips" as they come tearing along the street. However, they have a peculiarity penetrating l>ell sound that is calculated to strike terror in the stranger's heart. The sharp, metallic, alarming "clang, clang" has become one of the most noticeable of Chicago's noises. A seat on the very front of one of the grip cars is an enviable position. It is bettor than any other situation for seeing the city, for you have nothing in front of you but the dash board. The cars start off with a rush that is positive­ ly exhilirating. There is a sort of sweep about the commencing motion that thrills a person like the first launching out on a swing. They start off with a great rush, but sober down to a steady, though very quick speed. A man stands in the center of the first car with a lever that extends through the bottom of the car into the slit in the street. There are generally three cars together, all open in good weather. There are notices up not to speak to the man dt the lever. He is apparently not there because of his charms as a conversationalist. He gazes intently ahead, his only amusement being an oc­ casional "clang, clang," at the sonorous gong over his head. He throws the lever one way and applies the brake. The cars stop. He flings it the other way and they seem to instantly "catch on" and shoot forward. A cable down below tho htreet is the motive power and that in turn is worked by^m engine somewhere in Chicago that mnst be a: powerful one.--Detroit Free Press. Beer iu Paris. There are 25,000 beer shops in Paris at the present time, and the monev spent daily for that beverage alone is $150,000. The importation of Bava­ rian beer into Paris has increased to such large proportions this season that the Eastern railways has been obliged to provide special faculties for its trans­ portation between Munich and Paris, running what are called special beer trains. These trains, which at first only run once a week, now run daily, except Sunday, covering the trip from Strasburg to Paris in nineteen hours. Each train carries on an average 53,000 gallons of beer, which are promptly delivered to the importers, and by them distributed among their customers, the restaurants and beer saloons.--San FrancUco Chronicle. A Court Crier. "v ' A lawyer living on Walnut Hills has a son about 7 years old and daughter about three times that age. The boy haa been around the court-rooms a good deal, and the girl has a solid bean. The other evening the gentleman passed the house and the young lady wanted to see him. "Johnny," said she to the kid, "won't yon please oall Mr. Mann?" Johnny knew the state of affairs, and, with a ready "Of course," he flew to the front door and called out in the usual loud monotone of a crier "John Henry Mann, John Mann, John Henry Mann-, come into oeurt" Mr. came in, and Johnny with­ drew to a safe place.- -Merchant Trav­ eler. Centagloug Cattle Diseases^nw Jtaf- T *ess "• 1 Cotton _ The November returns of cotton to the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, relate to the yield per acre, and shdw the effects of the long-continued drought in re­ ducing production. The lateness of killing frosts has less effect than usual in curtail­ ing the yield, as the vitality of plant s was too nearly exhausted to produce a top crop. The drought had not been broken at some points on the Gulf coast at the date of re­ turns. The indicated yield per acre is lower in nearly every State than in the census year, which was one of average production. The low­ est yields are now, as then, in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. The reduc­ tion this year is very marked iu Louisiana and Arkansas, in the region of tho most productive cotton lands.. Returns by States indicate the yield per acre as follows, the figures being subj. ct to modification by full­ er returns: Virginia, 180 pounds; North Carolina, 175; South Carolina, 152; Geor­ gia, 135; Florida, 105; Alabama, 130; Mis­ sissippi, 175; Louisiana, 190; Texas, 143; Arkansas, 200; Tennessee, 160. The indi­ cations point to a crop somewhat larger than in 1883, gathered in unusually fine condition, of good color, unstained by storms, and free irom trash and dirt. A Gre«t Corn Crop. The November returns to the Depart­ ment Agriculture, of the rule of yield of corn indicate a product somewhat in excess of 1,800,000.000 bushels, on an average rate a small fraction above twenty-six bush­ els per acre. The best yields are, as in 1883, iu what has been designated the great American desert. The "arid regions^' in the vicinity of the 100th meridian have pro­ duced heavy crops of maize of high quality. That line of longitude has ceased to be au absolute barrier to corn production or gen­ eral farming. The quality of corn is better than iu 1883 nearly everywhere, and in the Northern belt it is worth 25 to 75 per cent more. The potato crop is nearly an average yield, or ninety bushels per acre, and ex­ ceeds 190,000,000 bushels. Contagions Cattle Dlwaiies~l)r. Salmon's Report. Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, has submitted to the Commissioner of Agriculture a voluminous report upon the contagions diseases of ani­ mals, the report being the result of experi­ ments and investigations made by tho veter- inai-y division. Considerable space is given to the detailed history of the recent out­ break among cattle in Kansas, and to description of its symptoms. Dr. Salmon reaches the conclusion that the disease was ergotism, due to eating the fungus known as ej-got. Upon the treat­ ment and prevention of this disorder he says: When the first signs of this disorder appear the most important point to be at­ tended to is to make a complete change of food and to see that it is of good quality, nutritions, and free from ergot. It would Also be proper to give a dose of physic, in order to remove as much as possible the poison still contained in the digestive organs, and to follow this with soft food. In the most severe cases--those in which part of the limb is already lifeless--treat ment will avail but little. The greater number of cases, however, have not advanced to this stage when lameness is first noticed, and these will be greatly ben­ efited by removing the cause and placing the animal under conditions favorable for resisting poison. Another condition be­ lieved by some to have much influence on the development of ergotism is the water supply. With plenty of water always at hand it is believed larger quantities of ergot m\v be taken for a longer time than when the water supply is deficient. y ' "Tho Vo*» for qyurael? *&e following table pfaows fltft itfir.l at the late election for all the ^ Governor, Cook and Will partly estimated from the unofficial 2 jr ?! 1 . GSoatfas*' 1 I 1 i 1 ! p 11 Adams Alexander... Bond Boone. Brown Bureau Calhoun Carroll ...... Cass Champaign.. Chr.atian Clarlc. Clay.. Clinton...... Colea Cook j Crawiorcl j Cumberland. I l)e Kalb: ! De Witt LKuglas D11 l'axe. Kdgar Edwardp.... KttinKham... Fayette Fard 1- ranklm Fulton. Oaltatin. Greene Grundy Hamilton Hancock..... Harilin Henderson... Henry Ircquotf* Jackson. Jasper Jeflerson..... Jersey Jo Davk'ss... Johnson. Kane Kankakee Kendall.. Knox Lake La Salle. ... Lawrence.... Lee Livingston... Logan Macon Maconpin Madison Marion....... Marshall Mason Mnssac Mcl'onouirh.. McHenry .... McLean Menard Mercer Monroe Montgomery. Moruan, Moultrie Ode Peoria. l'erry Piatt I ike Pope I'uiaaki Putnam Randolph*.. . Kichland Hock Island.. Suline Sangamon.... Hcliiiyler Scott Shelby Stark St. Clair...,. Stephenson.. Tazewell Union Vermilion.... Wabash Warren Washington.. Wayne White Whiteside.... Will Williamson.. Winnebago.. Woodford.... 1.4X9] 1,1111 |1| 2,411 3,:44| •••"V'l j ftrtjs.-.'. :-nt. 5.1,89:* 65.3B2 6-\<>70t. Don't Get Left. To Show hew rapidly this veloping in resources and wealth, as'well as iu the ability to consume products, a con­ temporary adduces the following figures: In 1873 onr population was about 40,000,000; now it is 57,000,000. In 1873 we rais d 281,000,- 000 bushels of wheat--the largest crop the country had produced up to that time This year the wheat crop will be over 500,000,000. In 1878 onr corn crop was 932,000,000 bushels; this year it will be 2,000,0!<0,000--more than one-half greater than it was eleven years ago. In 187H the oat crop amounted to 2H0,(kki,0i 0 bushels; this year it will aesrorate foo,000,000 bu-liels. This vase increase of production has been made in a little more than a decade, de­ spite five or six years of depression during that period. All our material resources have kept a pace of development commensurate with our progress in soil production. Comment is un­ necessary to show that it is useless for the peo­ ple of this country to think that because there has been a panic in the stock market and gen­ eral decline of prices there is to be a long halt in the race of progress. The man who now sits down, and resolves to wait a lew years be­ fore he undertakes a new enterprise, will get left behind. The train will start and be out of sight while he is musing. Cheer Dp ami Draco Up. [From the New York Sun.] Now that the Presidential election is over, and all the rest of mankind at peace, why should not everybody return to his regular pursuits, and do what he can toward mak­ ing everybody as happy as he can? We have a boundless expanse of fertile soil, an abundance of food and clothing, a great number of factories, with almost un­ limited capacity for production, and the most extended system of cheap transporta­ tion in the world; and yet business is eveiy- where stagnant. Under the stimulation of the lowest prices known these twenty years, it is only reasonable that affairs should be­ gin to revive, and they doubtless will, bnt the business men of the country can help it along by calmly considering the situation, oiul seeing how good it is after all. .Tho Business Ovtloolc. A well-informed business man from New York, in speaking of the prospects for business during the remainder of the year, said that the merchants of New York, who can disentangle their thoughts from the po­ litical excitement, are calculating the chances for some improvement in the mer­ cantile business during the remainder of the year. WASHINGTON MONUMENT. 1.UU 1,3#> 4,101 2.010 1.91S 2,WJi 2,830i 1,176' 1,347 2,132i l,792j 1,963! *.127) 1,052 1,871! 2.0W; 979! 482i l,26rt] 4.100! 4,103' 2,906, 1,105) 1,703; l,S27j 2,975| Mis Mil 8,194 l,936l «.746i 0.844 6,750 1.4S8! 8,354 3,7*1; 2,718 3,8/il j S.171' 2,027, 1,<hi7* 1,609 1,4S2, 8,006' 8,607, 7,319' 9&>! 2,2951 1,179! tgSUI •3,178 ' -1,217 4,030 S,0>0 1,725 i 1,8571 2,93fi! *,560! 1.K4 705 3,689! 1.628 i 3,887] • mm; S,4Mi 1,517 1,031; 2,009, 1,878! #,s7o; 8,56ft 2,901! 1.141 4,974' 937 5,83:i 2,362 2,048! 1,811] 3,880; 5.490 l,845i 4,512 1,961 1.619' 1,433 4.153, 1,979! l,9t»' 2,225i 2,(f.l8; 1,360' 1,357 2,2«.»: l.SKiSi l,43l! 4,4.14 1,164 2,032i 2,105 1,322- 3,265! 510 1,250; 4,153i H,S35 2,565; I,428| i,s6i; 1,304> 2,783j 1,032 7,3431 3,044, 1,894' & 6,84>i J,.V'4 3,2*1' 8,!>17! 2,613' 3.871 3,993' 5.101 2,214; 1,72'i 1.479! 1,430; 3.103; 3,7181 7,425; 1,160' 2,301] l,i;r>' 2.7211 3,277'- 1,298| 3,985; 6,<tfl7; l,r60 2,05'lj 2,920] 1,642 1,410' W'5 2,165! 1.532 3,850 l,828i 6,H95j 1,336 1,044! 2,187 1,884| 5,312; 3,441] 5,651 1,248: 5,fi04 1,083, 2,7'V: 2,059; 2,2S8| 1,930 :<,7'->7 8,003 2,259 4,962 1,791 1,s7.h 1.777 1.74 V 2,<»U 1,711' 1,5M 3,224 9WJI 2,12* 3.11 2,409 2,1'17 2,44 » 2.034 - 2,480 84: :.0I3 1,981 # 7f!l70 1,560 2,461 3.488 2.S8' 4,608 3,548 2.810 1,181 2.035 803 3,121 2,088 5,658 1.697 1,6:10 1,832'. 3.513 3,703! 1,72» 2,291 6,824 1,671 1,790 3,904 S10 748 516 2,687 l,(8t 2.S5I 1,68* 7,022 1,967 1.336 3,719 796 7,003 3,208 3,422 2,255 4,120 1,234 2,068 1,886 2,610 2,728 2,286 3,040 1.991 1,8101 2,434 43| «M 4 J 9 318| < Totals .... 314,865 334,338 i319,389| 8,171! 10,0 Tho Vote for PresKloat. The following official vote of allthe eew44 V ties of Illinois except Cook and Will, whieh >, are closely estimated, is compiled by thef. Chicago Tribune: . , •y • • It Haa Mow Beached,* Height Beyond That of Any Other Structure in the World. {Washington telegram.] The Washington Monument to-day reached a greater height than that of any other structure in the world, being 520 feet and 10 inches above the floor of the monu­ ment. The next highest structure is the spire of the Cologne Cq^hedral, which towers 515 feet above the floor of the building. It will take twenty-five days to complete the monument The cope- stone has been completed several days. The top is cut off to let in a copper socket to which the lightning rod will be attached. Scores of people go daily and mount this Istone in order to say they stood on the cap of the monument. The work, as it approaches completion. increases in interest and difficulty, and the . ^ workmen on the dizzy height are the ob-1 jects of much curious observation. The usual number of cranks who wish a little notoriety by ascending to the topmost notch, and there carve out their names ou Ufee stones, are there, and create considefuble un­ easiness on the part of the watchmen. One enterprising fame-seeker from New York, who wrote his name ou thi> register as Dougherty, recently eluded the vigilance of the officers, and. climbing to the top of the mast, which projects several feet above the height of the capstone, and, with his legs twined around the mast, cut his name at the top. With the exception of the work­ men, he is the only matt Who has reached go high a point on the monument. Counties. Adams Alexander. . Bond Boone Brown Bureau Calhoun Carroll....... Cass Champaign.. Christian... Clark Clay... Clinton Coles Cook..., Crawford.... Cumberland.. l>e Kall»... l)e Witt.... Douglas.. Dn l age...... Kdpar Etlwards.. . Kflintrhatn.;. Fayette ford Franklin.... Fulton tial latin Greent" Grundy Hamilton.... Hancock.... lltrdfn Henderson- Henry Iroquois Jackson Jaspeit Jeflerson.... Jersey Jo Daviess... Johnson Kane Kankakee.... Kendall Knox. Lake La Salle Lawaence... Lee Livingston... Losran Macon Macoupin.. Madison Marion. Marshall Mason Massac McPonough.. McHenry.. McLean.... Menard-- Mercer Monroe..... Montgomery. 4.987 1,579 1,711 4.038 1,008 •,0.19 r>03 a,«96 1,262 4,720 2,687 1,999 1.65': 1,578. 2,991 6,954 1, 1,390 443 1,651 2,754 957 1.134 2,09# 3,^®1 3,193 it,508 i,ta»! 2,416 3.234 4,988 l,f53 1,656 2,000 963! 3,7»3 524 j 1,495 4.854 2,546 2,2141 l,707i 1,35'i 3.133! 54,816 69,289! 60,369, 1,641 1,608! 1,872 ' 1.4K6 1,756 4,116 1,749 1.9K7 1,981, 1,924! 1,704 2,2451 1,5(56 2,912) 3,196 1,256|' 648 1,8571 2,63» 2,265! 2,7<« 1,943! 1,009 1,4 il. 1,720 4,508] 4,928 1,1651 1.58Q 2,010: 3,205 2.166; 1,-19 1,3161 1,940 3,272| 3,875 Chikf JUHTICB Waits haa ctvtir a session of mis court Morgan... Moultrie Oule Peoria. Perry...,-- Piatt......... Pike Pope Pulaekl. Putnam Randolph.. Richland..... Rock IstandL. Saline Sangamon... Schuyler..... Scott Shelby Stark St. Cl.ir. Stephenson.. I Tazewell I I'nion Vermilion.... \\>b •« ngton.. •\Vaync Wlnta Whiteside.... Will Williamson.. Viuuebigo. Woodforu 1,365 4.121 2,<mi 1,9181 2;827; SJS34i 1,177, 1,3611 2,l36j 1,'857; W 1,050 1.865 2,087 1,002 9,610 < *84 1,279 4,469 4,128 8,152 1,194 l,7iN> 1,848 2^J4 1,521 6,180 3,201 1,954 4,863 2,884 6,941 1,492 3,859 8,771 2.729 3,417 3,904 4,024; 2,060 1,684 1,616 1.484 3.014 8,516 7,317 •94| 2,348 1.TT1 2.702 *199 !»• 3,203 3.830 2,606 3,851 3,962 B.069 2,253 1,708 1,4S5 1,430 3,079 3,697 7,437 1,13«| 2,273 i,m 8.J20 3,2* l.WSf -MM 3,929 6,031 1.66S -,048 2.901 l.fttS 1,4* ' 597 2.4M I. **:• w • 155 f •ff'f -C s„' - 190 •" 'm 4,054 9,195 2,9 1.13 V U39 9,8.11 SJ2S9 ' ?,«»• >3i ' S>,928: P,776 1^*< 4.C17 *WI7! :JP il* 1,81 W; 2,4*'9, | Tot-sK... 3iH,oi;at7.4?6»*2. *3 I'VWl II.4M The tofeii vota ftw Wemr *n It&O •:0,')5S. The Prohibition rct' / Greenb**l2!S & 'fow ^ hibition g»:i 277.321 vole-iia t f c i n C t o v e ' j u ^ - i : J ^ - ZAO fruuia X , - .*.5 if**. , • : , : * •••-•k i V-' ; '.#SS1 ituMssi ' -i- ;':V - -q J - .1, t £ *• ; i< drcbd to Co Uisuic.. • >. •"0-i -