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ft ^ -v r.: '• ^LAINDCALC* :t.«M «.«•«. Ukal ruUlatac. tcHENRY, ILLIN018 IT is claimed that the new artesian |*ell, to be sunk in Char lea ton, South §pDa«jJma,will be, whsan completed, the meet Important acd -valuable well of the kind in the world. Under the contract the well will be 2,000 feet deep and at least six inches in diameter at the bot­ tom. A reservoir will be constructed with a minimum capacity of 3,000,000 gallon*. : MRS. LKITER, wife of the Chicago millionaire who has taken the Blaine House for a term of years, is a tall, graceful, Juno-like woman, with a frank and cordial manner. She dress­ es with elegantlj quiet taste, takes her place in society/and is a devoted moth­ er to her children. Mr. and Mrs. Lei- ter are likely to take a prominent place in the new administration. AN interesting memento of Dr. Sam­ uel Johnson is still to be foand on the •pot that m as once the site of Mrs. Thrale's garden. It is an oak tree, dead, bnt "tremenduous still in death." Indeed, nothing remains but the hal­ low trunk, about ten feet in diameter, and within it a lusty young poplar tree is growing; but it was once, doubtless, a veritable forest king, dating its birth back almost to the Conquest, and with­ in its shade the great lexicographer often sat, and growled, and mortalized, and--drank tea. DB. OLIVEE WENDELL HOLMES feels, at 75, as much pleasure in composition as he did when he contributed, as an undergraduate, to the Collegian at Harvard. Writing has always been one of his greatest gratifications; with­ out it life would be incomplete and un­ satisfactory, but all the indications are that he will retain his happy gift while he retains anything. He ascribes much of his youth fulness of feeling, it is said, to his ease and abundance of expres­ sion, and the habit of indulging in both with tongue and pen. YANDERBILT possesses the only real memorials of the First Napoleon in Isew York--a set of solid gold spoons and forks that were secreted and'car­ ried away from the Taileries by Je­ rome Bonaparte. Their highest value, apart from their history, is found in the adornment which graces their handles. These are oval, and in the apoons each contains an exquisit minia­ ture of the Queens of France. The handles of the forks each display an •enameled miniature of the Kings of France of equal exquisit finish. They were made by the court jeweler for the Empress Josephine, and were only need on state occasions at Tuileries. THE religious movement started in Sweden and'Norway some forty years ago by Karl Olaf Rosennis was carried on after his death by Dr. Waldenstorm, a former Luthern pastor in Christian .Band, and during the past fall and win­ ter a great "awakening," as it is called, has taken plaee. These countries are aaid to be stirred from one end to the other, the points at issue being four in number, all bearing chiefly upon the question of "change of heart," and hav­ ing the missions on the one side and the Lutheran State church on the oth­ er. The former have now 400 houses of public worship, with a membership of 115,000. They ask the disestablish­ ment of the State church. TIMES have changed indeed in Merrie England. Away back in 1467, when •George Nevill was consecrated Arch­ bishop of York, his brother Richard, Earl of Warwick, gave a grand feast to the dwellers roundabout his castle, at which was consumed 104 oxen, 1,000 sheep, -500 stags, 2,000 swine, 2,000 chickens, G wild bulls, small game in enormous quantities, and, to wash it all down 300 tuns of ale, 100 tuns of wine, and 1 pipe of "the most goodlie and pleasant ipocrasse." A few days ago "the heir of Brancepeth came of age, and, within a stone's throw, almost, of the scene of the former great revel, Xiord Boyne gave a banquet, at which the cheer consisted of one single, soli­ tary roasted sheep. ON the day of the assembling of the 'Massachusetts Legislature, a rural gen­ tleman, carrying a large black glazed cloth valise of the style known as "Ken- nebeekers," on which was strapped a bed-quilt, appeared in the shoe-black's room, in the State-house basement Depcsiting his baggage by the side of the chair, he allowed his large boots to . be made presentable. Then he re­ quested tho boy to send his valise to khis room. "To your committee room ?" inquired the boy. "No, to my bed­ room, sonny." "Why," said the youth, "members don't sleep at the State- liouse." "Yes they do," said the new member, "and be sure to have my quilt laid on the bed." After repeated in­ quiries, tlie new member found as the fihoe-ehiner had said, that members did not lodge at the State-house, and he went out in quest of a cheap boarding-' iiouse. • . . THE meanest woman has been found In Atlanta, Georgia. Eight years ago she was mamed at T5 tica, New York, to W. E. Harris, and lived happily with - him until a child was torn, when she 'deserted him, taking the babe with her. VJ3he soon married a man named Riley ^Jkoss, and?:th?yiX9TOP?fid . tp Atlanta. jKeeectly 1 a strange nuttrnlpped at the • door of Riley Rose. : The rap was an- ewered by-Mrs. ^Rosa, Jwho tlirew her iiand to her forehead *an<iexclaimed "My Goa," as her eyes beheld her former husband. "I want to see my child," he said. "No, no," she ex­ claimed; "that cannot be; he thinks Mr. Ross is his father." "I have come y^OOO miles to see him, and I will," per* jristed Harris. Just then a passing po­ liceman came to the lady's aid end led lb* father away. The woman after­ wards offered the unhappy father the privilege of seeing his child for ten minutes, provided he did not reveal his identity, and provided, further thai he gave $100 for the chance. Popular Science News: Electric railways, which seem to be slow of in­ troduction on this side of the Atlantic, are multiplying in Europe, and thus far they bear the test of continued use remarkably well. English papers bring us reports of six months' opera­ tion of such a railway at Brighton. The mileage run by the cars amounted to 15,600 miles, and the number of pas­ sengers carried was about 200,000, or all that the car would accommodate for the greater part of the time. The dynamo i9 run by a gas engine, which bus consumed 300,000 cubic feet of gas. The total cost of traction--including interest and depreciation on engine, dy­ namo, and motor, oost of gas, oil, and attendance--has amounted to $3.85 per day, 100 mile run, or less than 4 cents a mile. The car service has been stopped for only one day, through the tires of the wheels giving out, owing to the heavy pressure of the holiday traffic; there being at the time no esec- ond car available. On the whole, thjs is a very satisfactory showing for s sys­ tem which is as yet only in its infancy. OF a country ruined, Cuba presents the most mournful picture that has been seen in modern times. A recent letter from a native and resident of that beautiful "Queen of the Antilles" sketches the existing situation in colors of the gloomiest hue. "This beautiful country, that but lately attracted the admiring gaze of the world, is decay­ ing, is sinking into death. The com­ merce, the wealth, the great prosperity and credit that its merchants and planters enjoyed from 1832 to 1876, all have terminated. During the year 1884 more than 1,700 business houses have fallen into bankruptcy. More than 5,000 vacant houses are to-day counted in Havana. Cuba has nevei before witnessed the frightful misery that to-day everywhere prevails. From this misery results an alarming increase of crime, of prostitution, with­ out example in the history of this peo­ ple, of a hopeless discouragement that threatens social annihilation. The har­ bors, once full, of ships, where could be seen the flags of all nations, are de­ serted; only the colors of Spain and occasionally those of America and oi England are now seen in our ports. Hope of the future has almost vanished, and about all that remains is a yearn­ ing to escape ruin by abandoning the island." PEBHAP$. as strange and serial phe­ nomenon as has ever been experienced by observers iu the Northwest, says the Bismarck Tribune, was that in the Missouri slope recently. At about midnight the entire heaVens were bril­ liantly illuminated with a bright, warm light. It was a partial repeti­ tion of the aurora borealis display of about a year ago, but much more won­ derful and unaccountable. The expe­ rience to the pedestrian was similar to that of a sudden lighting of a lamp in a darkened room. It reminded one of standing beneath an electric-light tower in the evening just as the lights first throw out their brilliant rays, and, gazing about, the first impulse was to look at his watch to soe if day had re­ ally dawned. But, no I 'Twas mid­ night and the heavens were ablaze with light, and beauty, and warmth. One solitary sword-like ray reached out from aurora's northern lighthouse, and, as if touching some magnet set ffrmly in the zenith or connecting with anoth­ er electrical current in the very center of the starry dome, a perftct ocean of flickering light was produced with a small circle of dazzling brilliancy in the center. Talk about the land of the mid­ night sun, but here is a midnight illumi­ nation which almost outrivaled the light of day. The phenomenon lasted about twenty minutes, during which time a newspaper could be read with perfect ease out of doors Or at a window in an unlighted room. Mormon Success* in tbe South. The "Saints" are among the most persuasive and seductive of missiona­ ries, and understand their audiences well. When on missonary work in the South, they are men of quiet and well- ordered demeauor, affecting great pie­ ty, preaching temperance, defending the teachings of the Old and New Tes­ taments, yet placing beside them the Book of Mormon as an equal authority, while of polygamy they say little. There are several special arguments they urge to the poor whites of the Southern States which are particular­ ly strong with them. Then, in the mountain districts of South Carolina, where the Saints are winning many converts, they preach the doctrine of the inequality of the negro, and declare that "God never makes revelations' to the negro, and he is not entitled to membership with the whites." Anoth­ er argument used by them with success is that the United States Government is persecuting them for their faith, and, remembering the days of reconstruc­ tion, and the Ku-Klux and other laws, the peopPe of the South Carolina moun­ tains are disposed to sympathize with the Mormons on account of the un­ friendly course of the Government. This sympathy and the apparently outward good conduct of the missiona­ ries create a prejudice in their favor. The elders go from house to house, wandering through the mountains, tak­ ing no money for their preaching. If lodging is given them free they accept it, but if a charge is' made they pay without complaint. Against such mis­ sionaries, working among a class of people almost totally uneducated and ignorant, there can be no (argument used but the l%w. The manner in which the people of Tennessee sought to suppress Mormonism in their midst, by killing the Elders, has had the con­ trary effect--has only strengthened the church--as is seen by the fact that there are now twenty-five Elders at work in that State, a larger number than ever before,--New Orleans Times- Democrat A PHILADELPHIA doctor' is treating thirteen cases of spinal disease, which CH1KACTBK 1H FEET. How Feoplf May Be Judged -fcy ̂ Their Pedal Kxtremlties. . "Did you ever notice that a great deal of character and disposition is told by ankles and feet ?" remarked an old friend to the Globe man as the two pulled their chairs up to the broad windows of the Plankington reading- room. The day was sloppy and nasty in tho extreme. The languid moisture hadn't energy enough to fall with a business-like air. Altogether it was a good day for the study of ankles and feet. Cozily ensconced in their easy chairs, the reporter and his friend ob­ served the ever-shifting panorama of feet and persons. The remark of the philosopher called attention particularly to the feet, and he opened somewhat in this wis$: "There's a woman of 40, anyway. See, she wears white stockings and don't care a snap if she does show more of them than is necessary. This display is not one fathered by vanity. Life has proved a serious thing to her, no doubt, and she is trying to Bave her skirts from becoming muddy. Her ankles are thick and she wears a No. 5 shoe. This indicates good nature and a motherly, loving heart. She's a com­ fort to her family, bat, withal, when she says "no" they all know what it means. "Notice that pair of twinkling feet; they belong to a girl not over 18 years old. She has left the counter and is going to dinner, with just an hour in which to walk eight blocks, feat her dinner, and get back to work. As she brushes past that old gentleman you see her feet and a little above the shoe- top. Tho.se stoekings are fine, and of a reddish body-color, and fit to tbe queen's taste. That dainty shoe is not larger than No. li, and as neat as wax. The ankle is small and well turned. Her disposition is a fairly good one. She is quick, talks quick, thinks quick. Her eyes are dark, and she's a brunette sure. She takes of­ fense easily, and when she is provoked, resentment takes full possession of her. If she marries a man she loves before she's 25 she'll bloom into one of the sweetest of women. If she's crossed in love or does not marry before the age noted she will be an old maid for all she's worth; a regular old tartar. "There's her opposite. That girl couldn't hurry if she tried. How leisure • ly she picks her way along the walk. There, did you see that ankle? The stocking must fit it. It was stocky and J at. Her limbs and arms are large and fat. She is well developed, and you may bet she has brown hair, blue eyes, and the most charming of complexions. Her shoe is a three, and you'll find at least two buttons on it unfastened. One or two stray locks will escape from the back hair, and in a measure she will give you the impression that her clothes were fired at her from a shot­ gun, and haved stayed where they fell. At 25 she will become coarse and prob­ able gross, but nothing on earth will ever materially disturb the calm sereni­ ty of her disposition. Let's diop her and glance at the next pair of shoes. These are clad in warm overshoes. The feet are covered with soft woolen stockings of a sub­ dued color. If it weren't for the win­ dow you'd bear the soft rustle of a silk or satin dress, and without a glance at the face you Mould recognize the hale, hearty grandmamma of half a dozen pretty cherubs up town. Yon would know her hair was white and wavy, and that her eyes were bright, and of that indescribable color so near of kin to the more beautiful grays and blues. Her character is a combination of all that is lovely. The gold of it has been tried as by fire, and the dross of pride, hate, and envy has all vanished. May­ be the feet don't tell us that, but they suggest it. ' "Here we get another pair of feet tliat puzzles us. They ate planted firmly and dignifiedly on the walk. The ankles are round nearly, and their dressing is faultless. Through the ugly gossamer you fancy you can most see the lithe, willowy form of a society girl. She must be about 22, and her hair and eyes are certainly dark. Her head will be well poised on graceful shoulders, and she is certainly accomplished. She sings, plays, and paints. Her complexion will puzzle her best friends, and she is good to her friends, too, letting them see as much of her nature as she ever shows. She is secretive and generally quiet in her demeanor. She will marry some day, and the chances are more than ever that her husband will be well off, or lie will not be her husband. She will give parties and attend receptions, be a society woman und be content with life, all the time stifling a desire that almost chokes her sometimes to be and do something better. "There's another, an old maid, cer­ tainly. You just catch a quick glance at her trim boot-tops. She's a blonde with blue eyes, but the ankle is firm and full, indicating that her chin is square, denoting termination. Her nose is highly arched, and when she as­ serts a thing positively you are con­ vinced that she is dead sure of it Public opinion doesn't turn her. She thinks and works. Exercise keeps her in perfect tone, physically, and you are • ertaia she works both for the money and mental employment she gets. In­ dependent, true, and a worker, she does not seem as old as she is, nor will she ever look h< r aje. When she grows old she will do to most gracefully, and will be the rarest of all women--|a charming old maid who makes every man so fortunate as to meet her won­ der why she never married."--Milwau­ kee Globe. A Wife Auction. The Annual Register for lS32 gave an account of a singular wife sale. Jo­ seph Thompson. a farmer, after a brief married life of three years, finding that the union was irksome, agreed with his wife to be separate. Acting upon the prevalent notion that by putting his spouse up to auction, and so parting her, the marriage bonds were legally mi loosed, he came to Carlisle with her, and by the bell-man announced the sale. At noon the auction commenced in the presence of a Mrge number of persons; tbe wife, a spruce, lively dam­ sel of about 22 . years of age, being placed on a large oak chair, with a baler of 'straw around her neck. Thompson then spoke as follows: "Genilemen, I have to offer to your notice my wife, Mary Anne Thompson, otherwise Williams, whom I mean to sell to the highest and fairest bidder. Gentlemen, it is her wish, as well as mine, to part forever. She lias be-n to me only a born serpent. I took tier for my comfort the good of my home, but she became my tormentor, a do­ mestic curse, a night invasion and a daily devil. Gentlemen, I speak truth from my heart when I aay may God de­ liver us from troublesome wives and frolicsome women! Avoid them as you would a mad dog, a roaung lion, a loaded pistol, cholei a morbus, Mount Etna, or any other pestilential thing in nature. Now, I have shown you the dark side of my wife, and told yon of her faults and failings; I will introduce the bright and snnby side of her and explain her qualifications and good­ ness. She can read novels and milk cows; she can laugh and weep with the same ease that you oould take a glass of ale when thirsty. She can make butter and scold the maid; she can sing Moore's melodies and plait her frills and caps; she can not make ram, gin or whisky, but she is a good judge of the quality from long experience in tasting them. I therefore offer her With all her perfections and imperfec­ tions for the small sum of 50s." This man must have been a humorist, and if he had turned his attention to the pro­ fession of auctioneer would have run the famous George Robins pretty hard. The sequel of the story is that after waiting about an hour Thompson knocked down the "lot" to one Henry Mears for 20s. and a Newfoundland dog, and the parties separated, being mutually pleased with their bargain. Up is a Ba sen. All who have made anything like high ascents have exhausted tropes and figures in attempting to describe their emotions in the presence of what they beheld. To my thinking it is too much like attempting to describe jnn- sic--when all is said, the emotion is not produced, or but very faintly. Still we have at least to deal with visual objects and scenic effects. The horror and mystery of suddenly coming to a black cloud 8,000 feet thick--so thick that the baloon ceases to be visible from the car--this can be realized. It was Glaisher's experience in Cox- well's big baloon. A snow storm at high altitudes is very impressive and lonesome. About 10,000 feet above Camberwell; in tho middle of a hot June, Mr. Lithgoe told me he was re­ freshed with one and came down with his biloon in midsummer still covered with snow. I have noticed the strange­ ly solid fixed, and often motionless ap­ pearance of the white billowy clouds, treacherous pillows inviting one to step out and recline upon them without a hint of instability. Presently, smit­ ten with a crimson cloud, their edges break into flame, and as one looks, a silent rilt is made, and through them is seen a distant wilderness of the fir- mamental blue. Let us ascend soon after sunset in imagination. Nothing can exceed the weired solemnity of night in a baloon. To float above London and see the whole city like one vast flame-map at one's feet. Twelve miles square of irradiated street, with the winding river picked out by the electric light and as one rises, the whole shrunk to about the size of a chess-board. Tail vision in a moment reduces the mightiest city in the world to th proportion of a toy. The earth itself, us we ascend higher and higher, loses importance in the "clear obscure" above us, to which we seem hurrying space. Only the heavens are now wor­ thy of contemplation, but the stars are changed; they hang more golden and globular, as in the tropics, or in the po­ et's vision: The olevir galaxy Shorn of Its ho»ry lustre won'erful Dlflln t an t vivid with £harp poi its of light. As a cloud rolls away from the "opal widths" of the moon, the stars grow faint. She is light, but hangs in the blue blackness, and seems to give no light, so greatly attenuated is the light bearing ether in which we now swim. Perhaps the physical emotions confuse or intensify the power of the eye. This singing in my ears is op­ pressive ; this constant oozing of blood in my mouth is, to say the least, trying. I am also very cold; the thermome­ ter many degrees below zero; but the cold is dry and bearable, and there is little wind; but a black veil hangs be­ neath, just edged here and there with silver and shot with moon-flakes. My head begins to swim. Pnll the valve. Let us descend. Down through the night into the moon-flaked cloud; t s 500 feet thick and seems to have formed in a moment. It hangs above us now-. Still down, down, thousands of feet The lights of earth gleam feebly be­ neath me like tiny sparks. The great city has vanished. I have had no sense of traveling, bet I have floated clear over London. The rapidity of our de­ scent has Seen terrific. In another moment I smell the hay. 'Tis mid­ night; the still summer fields are be­ neath us. The moonlight is now dif­ fused and soft; and the air is warm and seen led; the oar drops silently like a feather we alight on the new- mown hay.--Longman's Magazine. Better than a Dagger. They sat on opposite sides of the street car, and he settled himself back for a long stare at her. He began at the feather in her hat, and had got as far down as her throat when she could stand it no longer. She didn't ring the bell and leave the car in a huff; neither did she change her seat to avoid his imprudent gaze. She had already paid her fare, but she felt for her purse, took from it a silver dollar, and ex­ tending it to the fellow she sweetly asked: "Will you please pay my fare?" "Aw--oh--certainly--with pleasure," he replied, and he shoved the dollar to the driver. Driver shook his head. "Change!" shouted the man. "No good--that's a counterfeit!" The man turned red and green and blue and vrushed strawbery. He in­ spected the dollar and saw that the driver was right. After a painful mo­ ment he slipped it into his vest pocket, fished out a dollar bill, and when the change had been given him lie handed the lady ninety-five cents and retreated Mo the back platform to swear. "I will send it to some charity," whispered the lady to her left-hand neighbor. "The object was to get rid of his impudent presence. It is an ex­ periment that never fails.--Detroit Free Press. Sacrifices to Beauty. The ladfes of Marie Antoinette's time made the Sacrifice to their beauty of sleeping it! a sitting posture, with their backs propped up with pillows. The dresses of Marie Antoinette were often freshened up and turned, her ribbons dyed .and her kerchief and gloves cleaned. The last two bills run up at a Paris furbisher's for such purposes were never paid. A glover's establish­ ment in the Rue Rivoli credited a glove cleaning bill of the Queen's "by death," and Marie Antoinette's last sumptuary account was with an obscure shopkeep­ er for two bazm dresses, a skirt and >aeant body of striped cotton, two jnuslin '=i|,l,je fichus and white cotton to darn stock- fvveet ings.--Boston Journal. happy ° -- -- |uore. THERE are 623 newspapers and peri­ odicals published in foreign languages in this country. Of these 483 are in German. THE probabil ties of the impossible are only exceeded by the of the improbable. TUB CAUSE OF DIPHTHERIA. The Dbme Spread by Direct Contagion and Not by Defective Sanitation. In a paper read before the medieal society of the county of New York, Dr. A. Jacobi, who is high authority on this subject, speaks as follows of the origin of diphtheria: "No permanent spontaneous genera­ tion is claimed, or has been proved, for cholera, scarlatina, or variola. Nobody looks for their primary cause in moist walls of houses, dry dust of streets, in the prevalence of previous house endemics of typhoid fever, measles, or other eruptive diseases, in bad ventila­ tion, in the odors of hospital wards, in putrefying kitohen re­ fuse, or in the exhalation of sewers. But both medical men and laymen are found to be inexhaustible in accusing and condemning all those detrimental influences, not as being predisposing elements, not because of their injuri­ ous influences on health in general and on the condition of mucous membranes in particular, but as the main and fre­ quently sole causes of diphtheria. In the minds of many physi­ cians diphtheria is intimately linked with sewerage; with them the trap of the water closet and the plumbing of the cellar are the first objects of atten­ tion, the patients' and their families' fauces and nares coming in for a rela­ tively smaller part of their care. If they would pay moro attention to the direct souroes of contagion, which is something understood and definite, than to the indefinite and unproved presumption of specific poisons in the outlets of the house or the inlets from the sewers, their etiology would be something more positive in a great many cases. I do not mean to say that the house hygiene ought not to be looked after by the physician in every case of sickness, but the more I have seen the more it has occurred to me that we may live to reach the convic­ tion that there is but one predisposing element--viz., a sore mucous mem­ brane--and but one cause of an indi­ vidual attack of diphtheria, via., direct contagion. # * * * * * "In many cases the source of the af­ fection cannot be traced at alL The symptoms are often but few. A little muscular pain and difficult deglutition are, perhaps, all that is complained of. Women will quietly bear it; men go about their business An unmarried shopkeeper called on mo several times in the course of a few weeks for a tri­ fling complaint Of his throat- he did noc speak at all, but I discovered a few patches, first on the left, afterward on the right tonsil. My warning not to go to his store lest lie might get seri­ ously ill or infect others was not heeded. He attended to his business, coming in contact with a hundred women and children daily for weeks, until he was laid up for a week, to return to his dan­ gerous and nefarious occupation as soon as he felt a little better. A school mistress I have know to teach all day, for ten days, with diphtheritic patches in her throat. I could not prevail on her to retire for a week from work only by-threatening that I would communi­ cate with the parents of some of her pupils about the danger the children wero running. Two families of my ac­ quaintance had the same experienoe, with their large houses full of children. TMiey had never had diphtheria until they employed a seamstress, who came daily from ller residence in another part of the city. Attacks of diphtheria fol­ lowed each other in quick succession. The houses were examined from attic to cellar, the sewer was disturbed, the traps were changed. The health of the people did not change with the plumb­ ing. At last the suspicion of contagion was aroused. The seamstress came from a neighborhood and a family where diphtheria was endemic. From that time the woman was dispensed with, and no diphtheria has made its ap|>ear- auco in those families these six and three years. • * • * <• • "What I have said may be very trite and trival. But it so happens that i have seen a good deal of diphtheria these twentv-fivo years and have tried to study and know it. I have, like others, sudied the etiology of the disease, and looked after the source of every indi­ vidual case; have examined numberless traps and sewers, accused all sorts of causes, and have been impressed, like most others, with the idea diphtheria might, after all, prove indigenous in houses and districts from local causes. The only thing I have not done in this direction is to discover a third or fourth variety of bacterium, and to proclaim it as the sole cause and infallible source of the evil. But the more I found that the sewerage end told and other influences were but the sugges­ tions of presumption and fear, and that I could not find a clue to a single case in external circumstances and in­ fluences, the more did I look for direct contagion in each case. It has taken me a long tfme to become convinced that it will be better, both theoretically and practically, to take nothing for granted, and to look for such facts as I can prove. As I said before, neither for variola nor scarlatina do we look in moist walls or sewers, but trace a case back to whosoever may have communi­ cated it. It has dawned upon me too late that it is just so with diphtheria, and that preventive measures will be more effective when we look for the cause of every case of diphtheria in the nares or throats of the living persons. There is as much diphtheria out of bed as in bed; nearly as much out of doors as indoors. Many a mild case is walk­ ing the streets for weeks without car­ ing or thinking that some of his vic­ tims have been wept over before he was quite well himself. niMMwr ASfrmtfeiK. History of" the Editor's Grtenam Afdail _ the Kx-Senator. The ordering of a court-martial to try flenernl Hazen recalls incideois relating to the great fight between John B. McLean, editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and Sen­ ator George H. Pendleton. The Quarrel be­ tween Editor McLean and Senator Pendle­ ton-arose over General Hazen. In an in­ terview with Senator Pendleton during the heated contest of 1884, which resulted in the Hon. Henry B. Payne being selected to go to the deuate. Senator Pendleton gave the following explanation of why the En­ quirer soaght his downfall: "A short time before General Hazen had been appointed to be the chief officer of the signal sernce, Mr. McLean called upon me at my residence in Cincinnati, and slated that inasmuch as General Hazen was his brother-in-law he was very anxious to bave him piomoted to the head of the signal service. He said that as the matter would soon be sprung he wanted all the indorsement he conld get for Gen. Hazen, and desired me to write a letter sustaining the General for the posi­ tion. I told Mr. McLean that I should be only too glad to do him any service con­ sistent with the responsibilities of my posi­ tion; that I regretted it exceedingly, bnt conld not write a letter indorsing Gen. Hazen for the position, as I considered him in no manner capable of Oiling the same. Mr. McLean got very angry and threaten­ ing, and I politely showed him the door. He said that he would come the next day for that letter. I informed him that it would be no use whatever, and dosed the door. The next morning he called fat the letter, and I told him I had written no letter and would not. From that moment dates the fight which Mr. McLean has made npon me. He has used the civil-service bill as a club, bnt he will find that it will yet be a boomerang." . . Force of Democratic Habit. During the four-and-twenty years the Democratic party was out of power i£ de­ veloped a habit of angry and persistent fault-finding. Its part in the affairs of the times was to Stand at one side, complain bitterly over everything that was done, and enact the role of a Jeremiah in making evil prophecies of the future. Perhaps there never was a political organization that be­ came so completely and exclusively a party of opposition for the sake of opposition. It could be counted on to oppose even the policies it claimed to be essentially Dcmo- ciatic, and whenever anything like a change or improvement in the existing order of things became necessary the Democratic party was found ready for a stubborn balk. After cultivating this spirit for many years the Democratic party returns to power with the instinct of (position developed into a ruling passion stronger than any principle of the partv. It remains to be seen with what success such a party can carry on the affairs of gov­ ernment Opposition is a different matter from actual administration. The spirit of angry complaint and stubborn resistance developed during the yearn the Democratic party was out of power may prove an ill training in the way of fitting it for the work of practical administration. Even now the ruling passion is strong in the hour of vic­ tory. Threats against the new President and murmurs of opposition to his policy were heard on the day set apart for general rejoicing. No sooner was the President's letter favoring a suspension of the silver coinage made public than a strong section of the Democratic party arrayed itself in opposition to his views. There is ah angry dispute now over tho publication of the let­ ter, and a Washington telegram states that "Congressman Warner says that his refusal to publish the letter, notwithstanding Cleveland's permission to do so, was prompted only by the desire to save the new President from ridicule and criticism on the part of the strongest supporters of the party." It is not an encouraging omen for the future that "ridicule and criticism on the part of the strongest supporters of the par­ ty" should set in before the new P. evident was fairly in his seat and before there was the slightest cause of dissatisfaction in re­ gard to the distribution of the offices. Cer­ tainly there is every reason why at this time Democrats of every stripe should unite to smooth over difficulties and preserve the Utmost harmony between the President and all sections of his party. The failure to do so indicates that many Democrats already suspect that, instead of drawing a prise in the lottery of politics, they have in reality only caught a tartar. The Democratic party ought to make haste to get lid of its habit of chronic grumbling. It is charged with the respon­ sibility for the affairs of the Government, and must act as wisely and discreetly as it can. Mr. Cleveland, too, must act and can no longer shelter himself behind common­ place declarations of opinion. The Dem­ ocratic party is no longer a looker-on, but is in full charge of affairs, and is to be tried by the record it makes.--Chicago Tribune. • The " Reform" Secretary of the Treas­ ury. Boss Tweed beautifully defined the rela­ tions of the ring which he used and the press as follows: "How about the public press; were they with you or against you?" "They were generally against us in public and with us in private." "What do you mean?" "I mean that we had to subsidize them. I mean the press of Albany." That is the old story of the rings in the State capitals. The common trick is to get hold of the organs of both parties. The Argus was Democratic, and Tweed was Democratic, and he said: "I never gave money to the Argus, but we used to help them in every way by in­ serting items to pay bills for work done in the deficiency biils»and the tax levy." "Were those bills right?" "We didn't inquire. They were brought to us, and we had to put in the items pro­ viding for them. I supposed its bills had some little foundation." The Argus virtuously denied that it had been subsidized, and Mr. Tweed produced this check: NEW YOKK, Jan. 10,187L Tentn National Bank: . Pay to the order of the National Com­ mercial Bank of Albany $4,000. WM. M. TWKED. Indorsed: WM. CASSIDT, President. DANIEL W. MANNING, Attorney. The Argus got $384,500 within twe years. Now, as a matter of reform, Mr. Manning is Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. , Senate ta*wK4 no baaMi JT ft*£i EtadOttthoiethtMt.. out at aae» neettbsHewain fsteta " teca^Ejaaji|^lairia^ii^j^^lhaj^aty-- east tot - JSosrtaaaa. tin lew -: »Tnft34r«b^St&U tbe William J. Httnois Ms tade ef the 8eoead 1 at Gaard,lMkt waOmt iiHom, cwnftikdtt4 tof the the ortm of " " ~ at S IMWKRf S A A A A wm o* hie emu aS [ tbe trad-aDtke of the -- » of the m Tke Safe Sid*. A policeman discovered a colored man hiding in a door-way on Oris wold street, and thought fit to ask him what he was doing in that locality. . "Waitin'," was the reply. . «A "Wl.atfnrV" ' 5 -What, for ? Ii, of Suti- isota, iealy. rtune one some But the i f f, and was cago. New York Spring Elections. The spring elections in New York tell a significant story when compared with Cleve­ land's trifling plurality of last fall. They have been held in forty-six of the sixty counties of the State, and the Albany Even­ ing Journal presents a table of the results in detail. In the forty-six counties the Re­ publicans elect 574 Supervisors and the Democrats 401, which is a net Republican Take me Back to honieain of forty-three. In 1884 the-XKMBO- ^"tnts controlled sixteen County Boards; and Solo ai:<l Chorus- Mother _ Misses Kittle Gillespie, Grace Grey, Mei!y° T "*7ir "whileBeDaUicfm George Alf, Hert Gibbs. f" eleven ims year, wnue nspapnean Duet-Pell?ami'Betsy -..coPards have increased from twenty-nine tn Miss Nettie Downing/Mr. Henry Fa 1x^84 to thirty-four in 1885. The^Republi- Solo-l'he Last Hymn Mr*. J. YV. Haythorne. Chorus -Laughing Song INTERMIS8ION. Chorns--The Sailors Return.....'.^ Male Quartet'o. ns gain Broome, Dutchess, Herkimer, ings, Lewis, Seneca, Steuben, and Sulh- n Counties. Commenting upon the re­ lit the Journal says: The loss of the State of New York by a Messrs. George Alf. Bnl'ert Bennett, IsSurality of barely 1,100 Votes has 'had"a (itlibs, \v. K Cole. jonderful effect * upon the Republican °Ajar 19 l,e Hol(,s t,l<s l>cai'ly (^jty. Defeat has not discouraged, hut has Misses May Bcniu-tt, MyVtVe"' Mea.'l',' GeWde . the party conscious of the folly of Alf, Kobert Bennett. ictional differences. It has inspire J the 8°J°--The Old Maul of 62 ...One of the Mb]ief that united and aggressive the Repub- Solo--Binia in Dream Laml sleep if ,7^ Q,„t. nr„ ' „ Mi»9 Nettie Downing. "ban party can carry the State. Were the Quartette-- "O P R A" section of last November to be repeated Misses Kittie Gillespie. Nellie Wrigi|-dav we have no doubt that the Repnbli- 8weepthe Stote fBlly ̂ 00° "As it is, they have made up their minds 1 redeem New York at the first oppor­ tunity. Never were they more in earnest or mere aggressive. All the old divisions are forgotten in the intense desire to right a wrong and to blot out th# 4*UM« weaknesses of the past." Vand Republican Caucus ^^vny--er--against" "ni.y mured "the girl, who had been to a pic­ nic with Charley. Lut the old man never tumbled---&<m Francisco Post. of erinw. i oi ni--rnr n»imm,|iiiiiiiii1 forth# :°l££av£Siai'̂ 2STi Further eonatderaOoa of the Mllw«s CnHom. National Guard, at 7. isu. darin* a don by » bone riddm by without My negliyMwe ot the persona in to control tta • wiii--ta. sad In fn»<amnnibs grin ryi over tbe aaid Balpb. bceajdag mm*. ' bis riba and otherwise seventy bnriatnj peraunencty tajnziag hte, tbe aaid BUffc then on duty aader orders of his ew offioera; tberefem. Be it enacted, etc. tbe sum of &fi00 be Mmiiktad to Ralph, etc." Another bm seeks t» ̂ *5.000 to one William J. H1H, what s* a soldiers' minted at BeBrrfll*. It, 'e* Sept. i, 1879, im hie right m. mmd tfc» aiRht of his right eye by matare diecbane of a cannon bde State. One George XcKe* ef Company B-Fteat Artillery, Illinois National Gnacd, while ttbg ft aatate on tbe occasion «( the Mtrial of VMtfiap Gaifield. was also lnjsred by a ptooe afar*' nance belomttn* to the State, left hand. Foe theee injuries the tee on Apuropriatkma ke appropriated fer AnothwbOl an anprojwiattan ot far the relief of Manael Boals, who waa one of the ooatoractot* for tbe erection e< a State Aqrlaaa ak Jacksonville, and claims to have beeadmtvsf of $3,000 or w.ooo for extra work done fit and aronnd the bxdldinr aforesaid. Several as# bills, of minor importance, were introduced. «. A COMMUNICATION was received from tbe 8e*» Mtary ot State by the Senate ,̂ en th* mfc In reference to the leeotaMaa of Mam: ater Whiting, containing a list ot the wholfc number of corporations of tbe State. togetlMit" with certain statistics regarding tbe Muae. Four bills were introdaced by Senator Lemaa. Tk|h first re atea to evidence and depositions,asd ttap other three amend the insurance law, with i view to securing further protection to the anred. Senator Whiting ianoduwl two bills, the first amending the assessment law and the see* ond adding a new minor provision to the mining law. A blu waa preeented by Senator Hhunwaf appropriating 15,000 for the completion of the artesian well at the JoMet penitentiary. Sen­ ator Foreman introduced a bUl .tacWtatiag the routine of annexing territory tewteaaut towna. A bill was preeented by Senates T " inatbe ttee, place, and nia»a>r United Statea Bw--tor. HsaUB trod need a bill whtoh the time of a half dosen the cast few weeka, i tlonof criminals and tbe Sanareasfon of arime. The bill ot Senator Whiting, providing for the taxation of and the length. _ _ finally made a special order fer Wednesday. March 25. Senator Snyder'a bUl to aasend the law in regard to the salsrtee at the Com­ mittee on Appeala in tbe Chieage Onto Inspection Department "earns m> en a second reading, and waa aiao aid* * special order for fatam qwrtisslha In the House a petition asking far ,tto election of John Pope Hodnfett to the United States Senate was referred to tbe Committee on Fish and Game. A bill was introduced impoa- ing a fine of $100 on street car corporations who shall colleet farea from persons who are eom- pelled to stand up in tbe'.r cars. On tbe call of the roll in tho joint conventtsa forty-three Senators and l'Jl Repieeentativee re­ sponded to their names, making a total of only I6t members nreaent. Little interest waa man­ ifested in the ballot, as it was evident the result could be of no import, i-'enator Streeter, who had been in the habit of voting for Gen. B!aok, caat his ballot for A E. Stevenson, of Bloom- ington. and was tbe only member of the Joint assembly who deemed it worth while to vote. IN the Senate, a communication was received from the Governor, on the 18th, announcing the appointment of Homer Judd. of Madison Conn> ty. as a member of the State Board of Dental Examiners: Lemuel Milk, of Kankakee County, aa a Trustee of tbe Illinois Eastern Hospital far the Insane; and E. H. Finck.of Union County, aa a Trustee of tbe IlMnoia Southern Hospital fer the Insane. Bills were preeented: To gradnally abolish the convict labor system; to ainend the assessment law; to amend the law In aaiatloa ts criminal jurisprudence; to smend tbe law In re­ lation to fencing atad operating railroads. The bill introduced by Senator Bay, amending tbe mining law, was read a third time Sad passad Itprovideaf every c a suiti bottom and top,, and shall also peer means of hoisting and lowering toeniL, . cage coveted with balier-tesn, ae aatelnep sals, as far aa pbaeible peteona deeeendtngtateaad ascending oat ot such abaft; that auofa cage 2M21 tunushed with gqidea to cgadaa It oa sides through suoh shaft, with a saBSacaSnHBS on every drum to prevent accident the giving out or breakina of the 1 _. and snail be furnished with spring catches. In­ tended and provided, aa far as pcasiblel4o pre­ vent the cunsequenoes of the cable breaking or tbe loosening or disconnection of the machta- ery; that no props or fails shall be lowered te the cage while men are descending Into or aa* cending out of said mine; provided, bOwover. that in coal-ehafts of le*s than sixty feet In depth, when coal is raised by horse-power, and when a sccond opening is maintained and duly furnished with ladders or stairs through which all em [ loyes may enter and return from aa î filial ts, cages may be dispensed with. The rais­ ing of coal therefrom may be done in any man­ ner that doea not endanger the life and limb e( such employes. No person under the age eC 11 years, or females of any age, ahall be permitted to enter any mine to work therein. The House adopted resolutions of respect to the memory of Hon. Thomas K. Bnndy, who wap a member of the Thirty-first and of the Thirty- second General Assembly. Mr. elch, of Ken­ dall, at the request of the Secretary of the State Board of Health, introduced a bill amending tbe ac t creating that body. The objects sought to be attained are. first, to secure the promnt report et epidemic contagious diseases, and the official co­ operation of the local authorities of various claae- es. In the second place, the amendments seek te relieve the physicians who treat cases of cholera, small-pox, etc., of part of the laber of ma Iff returns to the Bureau of Vital Statistics. ng law, was ma a una urn aa pasaeo. ovidea that the owner, agent, or opergtoref r coal-mine operated by shaft ehau provide itable means of slngnatlng between tbe maktijg atlas. II todies of requires undertakers who bury tbe bodies those who die from contagious epidemics to far- nish statements of the deaths, in addition to the usual reports of physician, eta A boat twenty bills were presented, none of them, with tbe exception above noted, being worthy off mention. Mr. Streeter was the only voter aft ihe joint session, and cast his ballot foe Gegk, Blacfc 4 SEWATOE MASON presented in the Senate .tip, House joint resolution providing for a commla-. sion to revise the criminal code, on the 19th inst. A bill was introduced by Senator Orendorf In relation to the keening orien of toH-brtdaes tor public use, and providing a penalty for omis­ sion. Senator Thompson presented a bill te suppress and prevent the spread of contagions plenro-pneumonia among cattle by providing that the State be divided into two districts, and the Governor be authorized to appoint two veterinary surgeons instead of one. as the law now provides. A bill was Introduced by Sena­ tor Tubbs for an act in regard to attachment la courts of record, and Senator Ham I. ton closed tiie list by presenting a bill making a aalnsg amendment to the revenue law of the 8(Ate. Senator Shumway's bill providing that the ex- : penses of criminal prosecution for crimes com­ mitted by inmates of the Joliet Penitentiary he borne by the State instead of by Will County was considered, and, after the adoption of one or two minor amendments, ordered to a third read* iner. One or two other billa were also dlacnasaA and advanced on the calendar. In the Houses the Committ ee < n Hules reported an amende ment to the rules of the House imecribtaa&a regular order of business, as follows: and Saturday, petitions, resolut ons, and on first reading; Tuesday and Friday, reports at committees and billa on sscond reartia#; Wedneadav and Thursday, unfinished bmlsasa and bills on third reading. The amea -naeafc was adopted. Mr. Morgan's anti-track Mil was reported iromthe commitke, with amenummti, and sent to second reading. Tbe tnrathourat tbe afternoon session was consumed in the transac­ tion of routine business and the wi'iiwitlia of committee reports. Speaker HSfase "1jjp- nouneed as the committee to investigate the State Grain Inspection Department at Chicago:. Iteprcsentat ve McN'aHy. Co Kimbrongh, Considine. Volhsarn, Welch, Trexler, Taylor of Cook, and -L. Resolutions of respect to the mem* ry i ert E. Logan were presen e:l bv the "* tee, and Mr. Johnson spoke a few miqata tt eulogy of Mr Logan, siviag a bripf aQQOPat r~ his public life and servicea. . alto delivered on the resolution by! Una, H Ion A I'arker, Fuller, aud i After adopt n? the resolution by a rising vote the House adiourned T^*tlKy-fOar Senators and sevemy-alx Representative ajfcr swered to their names at the joint s**SlolLlroa» of tbe Kepubltc insi save Senator WUtMfian- twered. On a call of the roll for a rote teem was no response, and the announcement Wife made: "JKone having voted, no one ts elected." ' Arizona Business Pash. *We have the durndest loi i goods ever seen in this divide, and Wf can bust any snoozer who tries to 4*** pute it. Hitch up the old come and see us. The best satoona town are within a stone's throw ot oqt establishment. We have ratis»oke<Itl(! . world to got the. fines* are bound to please," is the way a Tsar derloot City, A. 1-, merchant advev* tises. ' ' CrsTOM may lead a man into mai|£ errors, hut it justifies noajK -̂, 0U ' *