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- i AJS \$rt »i >,•'/- -V'T^ *> *£* ' : i|wii»w«i XSCBANICAL. HE WILL BE j. *wf>,yiit. rami IK riWHTrn MofljfcSM, ILLHTOI8 :' WB had in 1880 nearly 2,1-00,000 "common liborm,* The number of '""5dwrgymea in 1880 was Ci.QOO, against 43,000 in 1870; the number of lawyers 64,000 in 1880, 40,000 in 1870; the num­ ber of phyaieiana increased during the decade firdm 152,000 to 8$,000. In 18H0 ' there were 4,800 actora and 12,100 journalists in the country. •' THE Gauloia desoribes the nature of the revolver panic in the form of an an- eodote. At a dinner party a male ' gnest hesitates whether, to seat himaelf on the left or the right of a youthful ^beauty. "Pardon me, Mademoiselle," lie politely remarks, with an evident air of indecision, "but would you mind .telling me on which side you wear your revolver?" # F ' THE mother of a family consisting of two grown-up daughters, living in Goffstown, New Hampshire, recently died, and when the undertaker came to perform his duties the father was u*sked the name of his wife. His reply •"was: "Mother." No other name could he remember, and the daughters were equally ignorant, having never known their parent by any other name than ^Mother." < AM annoying epidemic, popularly known as "pink-eye," has made its ap­ pearance among the students at Yale College. There are twenty-five suffer- «rs from the malady. The disease ;makes its appearance suddenly. Swol­ len eyelids and an affection resembling catarrh 8re the first symptoms, Slid it usually disappears in the course of two lor three days. Other persone iauihe city are similarly affected. THE enormous wealth of the Orleans Princes is chiefly derived from Louis {Philippe's mother, who, in consequence of the death of her brother, the Prince de Lambelle, became sole heiress of her .father, the Duke of Penthievre, the : richest subject of France. The Duke died in 1793. His daughter had two days before his death been divorced from her worthless husband, who was thus debarred from touching her ap­ pointed property. * { . THE grand jury of Coweta County. Florida, is "mortified to find that the Sale of spirituous liquors in our county has been far in excess of the neces­ sary wants of the people for medical purposes," and it further asks the Leg­ islature to so amend the law that "each licensed druggist be require to adver­ tise once a month in a newspaper pub­ lished in that county the names of all persons who procure liquors during the previous month, and the quantity pur­ chased by each." Chief Justice Beasley, of New Jersey, is a keen sportsman. Desiring some t>irds for an invalid, out of season, he Invaded Pennsylvania, across the river from his home, and was having fair luck with the robins when his presence was discovered by the natives, and the pros­ pect at one time was that the chief justice might be arranged for violating Pennsylvania bird laws. He escaped, however. It was remarked that ignor­ ance of the law would not have been a safe plea in his case. CALIFORNIA redwood was introduced in England last year, the imports being 81,000 cubic feet. It is very suitable lor furniture, inside house finishing, and the best joiners' work, besides many other purposes. Bo far, two cargoes of this remarkable wood have been landed in Scotland, where it has met with ready sale and has been highly appreciated by contractors, builders, cabinet makers, and other consumers. The price realized was $51.66 per 1,000 feet, board measure, and. the cargoes were oarried a distance of about 15,000 miles. JUSTICE in France indulges in as l&any eccentricities as does the blind­ folded dame in this country. One Madame Fancy having shot and killed a man who had grossly insulted he . the jury, when the case came to trial, re­ turned a verdict of not proven as to jnurder, but condemning the lady to pay 8,000 francs damages. When the authorities fix a scale of values upon human life in its various phases, mur­ der in France will be placed upon a financial basis that will allow an assas­ sin to know exactly where he stands and what he may attempt \ ONE of the tricks of a French pres- tidigitateur is a surprising illusion. A wedding-ring borrowed from a lady is hammered into a bar by some volunteer Assistant among the audience. The conjuror borrowa a program, rolls it Into a cornucopia-shaped receptacle for the ring, and without the use of the left hand crumples the paper into a ball, which the volunteer holds-tight, 'full in view of the audience. When he is directed to open it he finds that the crumpled ball of paper consists of five Sealed envelopes, one witliin the other, and with the perfect wedding-ring in the smallest and innermost. «.• r SOME years ago there lived in Pol- hatan County, Virginia, a very worthy inan who enjoyed a local reputation for •power in prayer." It was his habit when praying in public to "run in," as |he printers say, passages of scripture and occasionally to add details of "lo­ cal color" to Bible narratives, a prac­ tice which was attended sometimes with ill effects. A distinguished wo­ man of letters assures us that she once personally heard the prayerster relate to the Lord the story of the prqdigal son with embellishments* ending as fol­ lows: "And. O Lord, Thou knowest that when he was yet $ great way off Lis father saw hWan£ had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed fcin> And; O Lord, Thou knowest that the fatfcersaid to his servants *Bmg forth the best robs and put ft oaHmn, and put a ring on his tulad and shoes on his feet, and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it,--and, O, Lord, it was the very best of veal.* AN immense sale is predicted for the revised version of the Old Testament and the extent of its usefulness is likely to be greater than that of the New Tes­ tament revision. "So many people know Groek," says the Week, "that there has been an approximation of the English to the Greek significations of words. So few know Hebrew that much of the Old Testament has been dark, and some passages in the minor prophets are veritable puzzles to all save the learned. In fact, the majority of English speaking people will now read Job, Eccleaiastas, and the con­ cluding books of the Old Testament for the first time with any comprehen­ sion." IN his recent Lettsomian lectures on indigestion, Dr. Lauder Brunton de­ clares acid fruits to be indigestible and apt to causp intestinal irritation. He believes sour wines to be peculiarly liable to cause indigestion, and, when taken regularly, to cause gastric ca­ tarrh. The tannin in tea interferes very considerably with the digestion of fresh meat, though such is not the case with dried meat, such as ham or tongue. Tea at breakfast is not apt to produce gastrio disorders, hut afternoon teas sre pronounced bad. Infusions of tea should be "light draw" and drained from the leaves before serving, as by this means only a small portion of the tannin becomes dissolved in it. A CORRESPONDENT wants to know why people pledge each other before drink* ing. We are net sure, but we think this is the reason: In the good old days when oatthroats drink together socially, each one made the rest promise not to attack him, while he was drink­ ing. Otherwise, while the head was thrown back in the act of drinking some enterprising ruffin would be strongly tempted to draw his weapon on the ex­ posed and defenseless neck of the drinker. But even a pledge didn't al­ ways protect drinkers, and so the cus­ tom of clinking glasses, and drinking together was introduced, in order that all might be similarly engaged at the same time and unable to use their weapons. ; HEBE are figures showing what some rich men have done. Johns Hopkins gave $3,148,000 to the university which he founded. His gifts for benevolent purposes amounted to $8,090,000. Judge Packer gave $3,000,000 to Lehigh Uni­ versity. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave $1,000,000 to (he Vanderbilt University. Stephen Girard gave $8,000,000, to Girard College. John C. Green and his residuary legatees gave $1,500,000 to Princeton College. Ezra Cornell gave $1,000,000 to Cornell University. Isaac Bich bequeathed the greater part of his estate, which was appraised at $1,700,000, to Boston University; on ac­ count of the great fire and shrinkage in value, and other unfortunate circum- stances, the university will realize less than $700,000 frpm the magnificent be­ quest. Amasa Stone gave $600,000 to Adelbert College by derect gift and by bequest. W. W. Corcoran gave $170,000 to Columbian University in money and land. Benjaurn Bussy gave real estate worth $500,000 to Harvard University. Samuel Williston, William J. Walker, and Samuel A. Hitchcock gave between $100,0u0 and $200,000 each to Amhurst College. Whitmer Phoenix gave the bulk of his property, amounting to about $610,000, to Colum­ bia College. J. B. Trevor gave $179,- 000 to Rochester Theological Seminary. Matthew Vassar gave $800,000 to Vas- sar College. Gardner Colby gave $170,000 to Colby University and $100,- 000 to Newton Theological Seminary. J. B. Colgate gave $300,000 to Madison University. George I. Seney gave $450,000 to Westleyan University. The Crozer family gave $300,000 to Crozer Theological Seminary. Indifference. "I came down in a car one morning," writes J. B. R. in the New York World, "with a lady and her husband who were going to the theater. Another wife and husband sat just opposite us. How did I know it was another husband and wife? Easily enough. We all knew tliey were husband and wife. She was young and pretty, well-dressed and lonesome. Why lonesome ? Lonesome because her husband read the paper and never said a word to her. My friend s wife grew almost frantic at the sight of it 'For heaven's sake, George,' she said, 'never treat me that way.' "'How? Why, what do you mean?' said he. « " "Oh, don't you see ?' she exclaimed, as she hid her face in her hands and leaned up against the big sleeve of his overcoat, 'don't you See he don't say a word to her. I should feel miserable if you were to treat me that way. I should ac tually die of humiliation. What a brute of a man it is that can ride all the way down town with his wife and never betray the slightest evidence that he knows she is in existence. Talk to me George; do say something. I will jump out of the car if you don't talk to me. 1 would not look like that poor woman for anything in the world.' "No people on earth could be so mat­ ter of fact except married people. Per­ haps he was one of that class of men who believe that marriage is the end of all gallantry--whether to one woman or another. Thera fre men of that kind. In fact the world is full of them. My mend's wife took the silent bene­ diction on the other side to be one of that kind. If there is one thing in the world that angers a woman it is neg­ lect and indifference." THE use of arsenic is alarmingly on the increase. The researches of Dr. Draper and Profs. Wood and Austen show that it is extensively employed in wall papers, textile fabrics, writing and printing paper, candles, toys, confec­ tionery, play ng cards, theater tickets, rnbber balloons, and bails, sweat bands of hats, paper collars, and bed hang­ ings, and in amounts sufficient to cause sickness and even death. Prof. Austen recommends a law prohibiting its use ill TH« DepreJfttoiui of I4t*nu? Kolptom*. nltci. "That book will cost you $3, sir," said a clerk in a Market-street book­ store politely, but with an incisive tone that showed he was not to be trifled with, to a young man whom he sur­ prised recently in a remote corner, where fcehad been lingering long over a case of handsomely-bound volumes. The young man was wall dressed and of gentlemanly appearance, and was evidently near-sighted. He glanced up hurriedly, his face colored, and his eyes, in spite of the friendly mask of a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, betrayed oon- fusion and chagrin. Then he drew from the pocket of his satin-faced overcoat a handsome copy of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. With a face that would have afforded Burton an excellent study, he thumbed the volume a moment, mumbled that the binding didn't exactly suit him, and left the store with more speed than dignity. "1 had been watching him for twenty minutes," said the clerk. "Steal it? Of courso he intended to steal it. You have no idea of the number of books that are stolen by apparently respect­ able people from the sholves of atores and libraries." "1 suppose hundreds of books are stolen from us every year," said Mr. Stuart, manager of Leary's bookstore on Ninth street one day. "In many eases the thieves are never caught. Frequently when they are detected they are found to be people of such good social standing that we mercifully permit them to settle the affair without the mortification of a public prosecu­ tion. This fellow Matthews, who was held for trial only recently, had taxed my patience too far and I had him ar­ rested. I see that he claims to lie a dentist and says he had been on a spree and didn't know what he was doing. I am quite certain, ou the other hand, that he has been taking books from here fcr the last three weeks. "You will probably remember the case of the Rev. Mr. Meredith, who was convicted of stealing books from here about two years ago. He used to come down here to write his sermons. He sat up there in the gallery among tho theological works, to which he often referred during his writing. We noticed one day that the theological shelves were gradually thining out Such volumes as 'Schaff's Commen­ taries,' 'Cruden's Concordance,' 'Bax­ ter's Saints' Rest,' and 'The Godly Life' had mysteriously disappeared. We placed a watch upon the writer of sermons, and finally caught him in the act of takiug home several valuable ac­ cessions to his theological library. He was tried and convicted before Judge Yerkes, but sentence was suspended and never imposed. "The audacity of this bibliomaniao was unparalleled. He used to actually take books from here, use them a while, erase the blue mark and then, when he wanted money, bring them back to me and try and sell them for ca^h. He is the same gentleman who created a great sensation by preaching a sermon at Dr. Magoon'B church, which was afterwards alleged to be a piece of very precise plagiarism. "Quite recently I detected a case of systematic sneak-thieving, which had been going on for months. If I should give yon the name of the offender you would be astonished. He is one of Philadelphia's most respected citizens. He baffled us for a long time, simply because I thought him above suspioion. Finally a clerk hinted to me that this gentleman was responsible for the re­ cent disappearance of many valuable books. *1 miss a volume every time he leaves tl^e store,' said the clerk. 'Im­ possible,' said I. 'He cannot be the man.1 "I placed a watch upon his move­ ments, however, and detected him the very next time he came into the store, he settled the matter with us, and in con­ sideration 6f his high reputation in the community we did not prosecute him. We caught a fellow a month or two ago who was gradually accumulating a whole set of Washington Irving's works by carrying out one at a time, in the hope that it would not be missed. He had secured 'The Sketch Book' and the 'Alhambra,' but we dropped on him just as he was getting away with 'Knickerbocker's History.' He was taking them out by the common pro­ cess known as 'sub-coat-tailing.' Many people who would not take a penny belonging to another will steal books with apparent impunity. I know men to whom 1 would not hesitate to sell a bill of goods, men whom I would trust with my watch and my pocket-book, but I would not trust them five minutes behind the shelves of this store. "Experience tells me that a man whose tastes are literary and whose means are limited will always bear watching in a bookstore, especially if he is a frequent visitor. One of the most annoying experiences is to find that some literary sneak-thief has ta sen one of a set or series of some rare edition which is not easily replaced. In this way I have recently had costly sets of Shakspeare, Curleton, and Bus­ kin made wholly unsalable. "Books are frequently ruined in an­ other way. Some of tho;e kleptoma­ niacs have a penchant lor the handsome steel engravings and portraits that oftett adorn a frontispiece. They take a book from the shelf, insert a wet string between the front leaves and then quietly replace it In fifteen or twenty minutes the string has so mois­ tened the paste that the entire leaf can be removed without tearing it or mak­ ing the least noise."--Philadelphia Times. The Italian Peasant. Life beneath an Italian sky is popu­ larly imagined to be a pleasing form of existence. Such, however, does not appear to be invariably the case. Day laborers who possess nothing are the majority of the inhabitants; they amount in Piedmont to one-filth of the population. The landlords are habit­ ually absentees, taking no interest whatever in their tenants, in return for which they have excluded almost every man of means from the list of council­ ors at the communal elections. Tho townspeople deride and despise coun­ try folks, and are looked upon by them as proud and selfish. . In Novara the farm laborer is said "to contend with every species of privation from the cra­ dle to the grave." His infancy is passed in the care of strangers or rolling in the mud; at 7 years old he receives a few months per year of schooling, and passes the remainder in tending goats; at 10 he already gains some small wages; at 12 he sleeps away from home and is regularly employed, and at 15 he undertakes the hardest of farm work. The men rise in summer at 2 a. m., in winter at 4 a. m., awakened by beating a stick on an empty box; in tho former season they work from twelve to fifteen hours per day. When ill the hospital receives them; when old and unfit for work they are forsaken and oncared for. Yet the peasants seldom ^f Iflpfcosk11 Gkh" ta^c rfa fieldhlOfck afethe age of 14 or At night tbeyoatch trogs and fish in the marshes. At 80 they are mature women, old at 40, decrepit at 50, with bent backs and bronzed faces. Mary families lead a nomadic life. Every Michaelmas their household goods, worth perhaps a total of £6, are packed on a bullock cart, and a new home or situation is sought. In the hill regions many of the villages are notable for their excessive filth. Throughout the plains master and workman live to­ gether for years without the change of a syllable of good will In every hamlet class distinctions are complete down the entire gamut of the social scale. Educating Both Mind and Body. The education of the past devoted its attention exclusively to the mind; the education of the future is to include with mental training all the relations of the body, 'lhe old system forgot that faculties of mind are but functions of the body. The new must keep this constantly in remembrance. The sys­ tem of the future is not wholly of the future. It is already far advanced to its establishment. The time has gono past when we could say, as Herbert Spencer did twenty years ago, that men take an interest in the rearing of the offspring of all creatures except themselves, and that the feeding and training of animals are thought worthy of the considei ation of a gentleman, who would think it beneath him to bestow a thought on the feeding and training of human beings. The dependence of mind on body generally, aud the importance of pre­ serving health in the young, in order that they may beuefit by tuition, are now widely understood. It is admittod that teachers and parents ought to know something of the nature of hu­ man economy and the laws of health, and that schools should be conducted on hygenic principles. Vast improve­ ments have, indeed, beeu affected in diet, clothing and cleanliness of chil­ dren, whether in the nursery or school­ room, and the provisions made for healthful exercise in playgrounds, gym­ nasia. and swimming baths betoken an awakening to the truth that "to be a good animal" is tho first condition of success in life. But, notwithstanding this marked ad­ vance in educational policy, it must still be alleged that the relations of body and mind are very inadequately understood by educators. Their con­ version to mu*culiar Christianity has been affected more by the observation of cricketers and oarsmen than by a conviction of the iutiinaoy of the union of mind with brain; and, while believ­ ing that sound health is necessary to sound thinking, they have not "yet grasped the principle that the brain is the basis of the teacher's operations, that there is a constant parallelism be­ tween the development of the mental faculties and its growth, and that lungs, heart, liver, and kidneys--and indeed every organ and tissus in the body-- are in constant communication with it, reflect in it their good or evil fortune, and are in turn affected by its weal and woe.--Home Journal Interview with a Leading Railroad Alan. "You have no idea, my dear sir, how much ability is employed in the Ameri­ can railroad. It entirely outranks the ability we formerly possessed in oceau navigation. You see, we have piracies in our railroad system exceeding. in atrocity the old Barbary piracies on our ships. Every now and then some ex­ press cgent JS murdered, some conduc­ tor is assaulted, and the train hands hare to fight ior their lives as they race by night through the w Id forests of Arkansas or over the prairies of Texas and Missouri "These freshets which happen in the winters almost invariably strike the railroad lines, and it requires the finest capacity to put these great laden cats, a train, on the track, when tney have lost it. Indeed, if you pick out the railroad employes of the United States and separate them from the rest of the population you would want no better standing army. They are in perfect drill, understand the value of obedience, are fertile in resources, and during the re­ bellion no better soldiers were found on either side, nor no better generals, than the railroad men. "There is probably not a railroad lo­ comotive in the United Stites which was not built by American mechanics; the very large proportion of the iron, I should say five-sixth of it, in American railroads was constructed here. The rolling stock is all made in America. We have not found it advantageous to change the original formation of our trains and cars. We still adhere to the long saloon car in preference to the cramped European oar. The bridges on the American railroads aro the cheapest and best in the world. We are almost the only land which builds bridges by regu ar bridge corporations. You will notice that many of our rail­ roads have made its accessories perma­ nent, such, for instance, as the gutters along the side of the track. In former years the frosts broke them up at least once a year,; and they had to be all re­ made by labor. Now they are-, put down in hydraulic cement, so that they stand through all weathers "--Gath. The Methods of Pickpockets. Purses and watches are the almost exclusive haul of the pickpockets, and 90 per cent of these theits happen in crowds. Many of the quarrels to be heard in the streets of London are go: up entirely for the purpose of collect­ ing crowds for the pickpocket to work in. Some thieves operate simply with their hands, but others use a knife or razor, in order to cut through coats and dresses, and especially to get the purses from the ladies. The trousers- pocket of a man can easily be emptied in a crowd by slitting down the seam with a razor, hooking the instrument into the aperature, and sawing from within outward. A thief will often do his work with an overcoat on his arm to hide 'the movements of his hands, this especially in the omnibus or train. Newspapers and handkerchiefs are also used for this purpose, and with the help of the latter it is common lor scarf-pins to lie stolen. "Excuse me, sir, you have some dust on your neck," says the thief to the victim, and in pre­ tending to brush off the dust he re- mores the pin by grasping it through the handkerchief. When a watch is stolen , it is generally separated by grapinft the instrument itself in one hand, and the ring thereof between the thumb and finger of the other, and then giving a sharp twist, so that a tiny steel pin gives away and falls, the watch being taken and the chain left hanging. Inspector Shaw wears a watch that is fastened to its ring with" a tough gold screw, and secures it with an India-rubber circlet, and he tells the present writer that if these precau­ tions were generaly taken there would be few wateh robberies.---ifeW Mall Gazette. - _ PLATE-GLASS was discovered in an ac­ cidental way, in 1683, by a man named Thevart It is attributed to the break­ ing of a vessel conti ring melted glass, a portion of which found its way wider a large flag stone, which, when subse­ quently removed, was found to cover a plate of glass. This suggested the idea of casting glass in plates. THE subjoined simple preparation will be found desirable for cleaning and polishing old furniture: Over a mod­ erate fire put a perfectly clean vessel; into this drop two ounces of white or yellow wax; when melted, add four ounces of pure turpentine, then stir un­ til cool, when it it ready for use. The mixture brings out the original color of the wcod, adding a lustre equal to that of varnish. By rubbing with a piece of fine cork it may, when it fades, be removed. ARTIFICIAL wood is the subject of a recent patent in Germany, the article being likely to prove of considerable service, it is thought, to manufacturers of fancy goods. Common cellulose in paper form is reduced to pulp in water, and after being strained, three parts by weight of starch, and two parts of wheat or maize meal are added Jto it. This compound is boiled over a water bath in thin metal tubes, which it leaves in the form of a liquid glue; sawdust is now added, and the whole is dried in a hot room and set to the con­ sistency of wood. jAny shapes can be made by the aid or moulds and great pressure, and there can also be impart­ ed any color, polish, or veneer. ARTICLES that come into the shop to be ropaired are often defaced with soft solder, which it becomes necessary to remove, a job puzzling to many. It will be found that nitric acid is the quickest solvent, and may be used safe­ ly for gold not lower than twelve carat The safest solvent suitable for all grades of gold and silver goods is recommended by a Europeap authority as follows: Reduce to fine powder two ounces of green copperas and one ounce of saltpetre; add ten ounces of water and boil for some time in a cast-iron saucepan. ̂ On cooling it becomes crys­ tallized, either wholly or in part Pour off any remaining uncrystallized li­ quor and boil it again, when it will all become crystallized on cooling. Dis­ solve the crystals by placing them in a jar, adding to one part of orystals eight parts of hydrochlorio acid. Pour on four parts of boiling water, keep the mixture hot, and immerse the work to be operated upon. In a short time the whoio of the solder will be removed without changing the oolor of the work: A VERY ingenious method has been devised by Dr. Hannerl for reducing the intensity of any light by purely me­ chanical means, cutting off one-half, three-fourths, or even nineteen-twen- tieths of the light, so that what re­ mains is easily measured. The plan consists in placing in the path of the rays that fall upon a screen a revolving metallic disk, from which are cut sec­ tors that allow a portion of the light to pass through but cuts off and absords the remainder. If the sum of tho an­ gles of all the seotors taken together equals 180 degrees, one-half of the light will be intercepted, while the oth­ er half passes through. Experiments show that three sectors will suffice to give a uniform illumination with amod- erate speed of revolution, the size of these sectors ^depending, of course, upon the amount of light to be cut off. When it is desired to reduce the light to one-third, each sector must have an angle of 40 degrees, and if each sector have an angle of 1'2 degree, the light will be reduoed one-tenth, and so on. Two disks, having three sectors of 60 degrees each, can be so arranged on the axis ss to give any desired result. Studying In Germany. * From observation I should say that the average age of Americans studying at the universities is 25. A graduate of one of our colleges or leading acade­ mies is ready to get aud appreciate the best that the universities offer, as well as to observe aud weigh the political and social elements in which he moves. His vacation travel is a delight and an education. Tho benefits of such study to men are so well understood that to point them out more in detail would be needless. But practical information as to the eonditions of study, as to courses and degrees, is so vague, and in news­ papers and magazines often so eron- eous, that some facts may be given here. The graduate of an American^ college may matriculate, in full standing, at a German university on the presentation of the diploma and a passport These take the place of the certificate oi maturity (MaturUaltizeugmas) from the gymnasium or real-school, which the German candidate must submit Men who have no college diploma may attend lectures and have access to ail privileges, but they may not become candidates for a degree. There is an impression that American students 'must encounter spocial d.faculties in seeking a degree, and that lew succeed in gaining it. This is an error. Many students do not choose to take the re­ quired subsidiary studies, lying per­ haps outside of their special field, and hence do not try to take the degre3. But it is a fact that fewer difficulties beset the American in this quest tliau the German himse,lf. The university is the regular and essential avenue to the professions and many civil caroers, and competition is very keen. But the faculties well know that the American does not seek promotion on German poil; they recognize the compliment of his long pilgrimage to their shrines, and they aro willing to encourage him, avoiding the appearance of anything like a protective tariff.--Foliar Science Monthly. - Women Who Take Lessons In TnTkfrtsf. Why, I have a large class of young society ladies, who come in the middle of the day to avoid being observed. They enter into the study with zeal. Teach me how to speai well," said one; "I do not care to express passion, hatred, scorn or anything of that kind, but I wish to converse fluently, to nar­ rate an incident with proper chic, to have the correct infection at the close of each sentence, and above all, to be possessed of sufficient verve to keep from growing insipid." Can I give a lady verve or chic? I simply teach them natural manners, and in a few weeks the most*awkward have attained a polish ,of manner and a fluency of speech that are truly surprising.--In­ terview with an Elocutionist, New York Mail. FAILURE. Reasons Why President Cleveland's AA-s ministration Will Be a Great Failure. PUtter in Cleveland Herald.] A Senator of the United State*, whose name I can not give because our conversa­ tion was a private one, said to me last night: _ "If I am not greatly mistaken, this administration ^ill ba tha greatest failure in onr history." "Why?" "I will tell you why. Became it 1MM of Itself no cohesive elements, and because, founded by a great party, it is disregarding the party, calling to its support unknown and inefficient men, and because all its views on public question are taken through the wrong end of the opera glass. There will always be two great parties in the United.States, and one or the other of these is bound to rule from time to time. When a President elected tnrns out to be a trim­ mer and attempts to hoe a middle row be. tween the two greit party lines, he is ante to foil. "He loses the support of his own party, and the other party, while pretending to ad­ mire him, laughs in its sleeve and stabs him in the back. Cleveland so far has totally dis­ regarded the Democratic party. The boys of the party, the great masses, the men who cany the banners, who influence the immense vote of the lower classes, are get­ ting nothing, and they will surely knife Cleveland as soon as they get a chance. They will do it in New York this fall. Mark my words! The State will go Re­ publican by more than 40,000, and there will be the same result everywhere an elec­ tion is held. Grover Cleveland is cutting the heart out of the Democratic party, and if he goes on, and he probably will, the party will be nearly ruined by 1888. The Bepub« licans are laughing at his administration now, and the Democrats themselves will laugh between their intervals of cursing before two years have passed. Look at this Ada Sweet matter. Ada Sweet had been in office for more than a decade at a good salary. She expected to go out, and the Republicans expected her to go. Cleveland allows Black to write her a letter that puts his administration in the hole of going contrary to its principles, and says in black and white that there is no cause for her removal. Then, again, that postmaster at Rome. The postmaster was guilty of a misdemeanor, and the President should have turned him out on that ground without a word. Instead, he puts out a let­ ter of half a column to the country apologiz­ ing. The early rising and the carriage business is another farce. Lamar, for in­ stance, the most arrant demagogue south of Mason and Dixon's line, mokes a grand parade about selling $700 worth of car­ riages, and on the next day spent more than that amount in fixing up a private bath­ room in his department for himself which would hare been an extravagance in the days of Caligula, the Roman Emperor, who fed his horses in marble troughs and shod them with shoes of gold. Even had this horse-selling reform been a good stroke, it fails because only one or two of the Cabinet engage in it. Vilas, the youngest man In the Cabinet, holds on to his horses, as do the others, with the exception of Garland and Lamar. The people of the country are not fools. Cleveland must do something if he would have their approval. So far his administration has been one series of mis­ takes, and it has failed utterly to show any signs of the reform it has promised." It has not turned the rascals out," said I. "No," replied the Senatorial friend. "It has not, and neither the President, his Cabinet, nor the people are aware where the rascality exists in the departments. There is no doubt but that there is corrup­ tion, bnt this corruption does not exist with the heads of bureaus or the high-priced clerks. It is the middle men, and the fel­ lows who get low salaries that do the steal­ ing. These men hoodwink their chiefs and play into the hands of the jobbers. Cleve­ land is keeping these men in office, and is putting new men over them. Men, too, in most cases, whom it is far easier to deceive than the ones he has turned out. They are men who are new to Washington, and are totally innocent of the ins and outs of the departments and the capital. They go into the departments dependent upon the clerks under them for their knowledge of the de' partmentB, and the result will be that what­ ever rottenness there is will be covered, and that it .will increase. This is but the history of the past. The President and Secretaries could not discover the rascality of Howgate, of the Signal Service, and of Carrigan, of the Navy Department, until hundreds of thousands of dollars had been squandered. When their atteution was called to the matter they did not give heed to it because some of the confederates of the thieves in office were busy shielding the culprits. There are many Howgates and Carrigans in office to-day. The removal of the Chief Signal Officer alono would have given Howgate a broader field on which to operate under a new chief, more ignorant than the one displaced. The removal of Surgeon General Wales would not have stopped Carrigan's operations. During the campaign the Democrats claimed that the departments were rotten with corruption. Hendricks the Vice President, said on the stump that one-third of the clerks could be dispensed with without trouble. Now nearly two months have passed, and the de­ partments remain as they were, and the clerks who have been cut off can be num­ bered on your fingers and toes. "Cleveland's biggest mistake," the Sena­ tor went on, "lies in his Cabinet. He is a gooa executive officer himself, but he should be aware that this country is too big, and it has too many ramifications for him to persona'ly supervise the whole of it. He should have the best executive officers in the country to help him, and should not rely on a set of dreamers, theorists, and impractical men who know little of busi­ ness and less of the ins and outs of Wash­ ington departments and Washington men." Cleveland's Blunder. C/leveland's attempt to revoke the order of President Arthur in regard to the Crow Creek settlement in Dakota amounts to much more thin a gross lack of courtesy toward his predecessor. It is denounced by some of the best lawyers in Washington as absolutely without authority and certain to be set aside by the Supreme Court' if ever taken before that tribunal. If one President can set aside the final de­ cisions made by another tbere would be an end of all law and regularity in the admin- istrat on of the Government, and every­ thing would depend on the whims and ca­ prices of the man who happened cto be in power for the time being. Cleveland seems to imagine that his authority as President did not begin the 4th of March last, but that he can go back nnd review and reverse the acts of any of his predecessors. He has just as much authority to reverse decisions madeiin Washington's time as in that of Arthur. It would only be going a step fnriher for him to project his authority in advance of his term and undertake to de­ cide matters that will properly belong to the next President At this rate it will soon be necessary for the Supreme Court to interfere and teach Cleveland to confine himself to the duties of hie own term.-- Chicago Tribune. nxixois OUMDEBIBU time was i ato,en tbelTtfainst̂ tal *n4tmrof i ~ newly tee and in no em more than 'STtm an? saluoa cr TOwtiag-aifciy;. rtsn'.l *cof aood character sad write, ana speak Eaidn, cd at least one na? In that one copy ®f the i sent to the Bemtai j or State, while a fled copy shall ba filed with the CA and another retained by the Town oonstnistian ef aeme portion isf objected to by meet of the Denoenm* the mearantetbo main susiai d to unanimous uprovil of tbe Senate. roll wascalledontbeptssajssof the Hit; defeated on acoornt of tola til *' motion of Mr. Arnsworth the vote _ bill was defeated was reeoaatdered. again placed on the order of thtra ... the fntnre consideration of the Senate. angry d.'bate Senator Setter's X* withdraw the bill establishing Inspection at East St Lents from the Warehouse Committee and the measure was referred to 1 on Judicial Department A reaohittes to | an equitable valuation of taxable next fou«ht over, the Senate adjoin out taking action. In the House put iishing an annotated edition Of entailing an expense to the State eft tabled. A measure authorizing the < tion of railways was sent to a third I _ was decided to further reduce tbe I employes, and a committee w»s i lect the victims. The report canal claims waa gent to tbe i Committee, and is expected n_ light again, in the joint session _ ans voted tor Gen. I osan for United I ator. Sittig kept silence and Bucer wa The Democrats retrained from voting. So FAR as leidslation was i mum sill, very tie was accomplished by either booae on i 18. In the Senate the "truck" bill was by Senator Rinehart end sent to the < Committee on order of second reading, TM ercises ot the day in tUe House commenced i the introduction of petitions. Possibly ha hundred of these documents were seat to Clerk's desk, on the questions of r"~ ter," "soldiers' home," "hedge fences,* "woman suffrage." All . were i ' to the appropriate committees. Mr. lau introduced a bill for tbe at meat by county boards of tax-: MR West introduced a resolation ; the Investigation of tbe pay-nils of tbe offices, A motion was made to add the a of Mr. Goodnow to the committee. M gentleman declined, savins promoter of investigations this escaped being beomirohed. Desals OoasMfa* said the investigations started by Mr. West had cost the State sas,ooo in all They w*r» introduced by men who wanted the iwititlia of being reformers. No charges of awM- ness were preferred in the imwlnttfa In fact, the investigations cost more tnan the abases which they woe intended to tiUtiXit. Mr. Headen. of Moultrie, offered an •«•*"* ment requiring the committee to aseMNMh by mathematical calculation the amount pn diem wasted in discussing alleged r etc. The whole mstter went to the wdl oa t viva voce vote, Mr. West alone self in the negative. Mr. Quinn offered a i tion providing for the investigation ot thoBCSM Board of hqu ili/ation. Quite a lags number Ot bills were introduced, nearly alt efwhtoh were of minor imuortance. Mr. McNsUy seat la CM requiring the stamping of all goods, merchandise made in penal institutk Senatorial session resulted in nothing; i NOTHING of importance was done in either branch ot the Legislature on April 20. In the Senate a communication was received from the Governor announcing the nomination of the following Canal Commissioners: George F. Brown, of Grundy County, as hi» own suoeeseor; l?aac Taylor, of I'eoria County, to succeed D. J. Callitran, and A. Lleberhncnht, of Henry County, to succeed Charles E. Itent Tho proceedings in the House were very tamer and lliil- less. A joint resolution was tntrodaesd by Mr. Ruby providing for the appointment ot a joint committee consisting of live members of the House and four members of the Senate to consider and em bod v in one meascqp ail Mile pending in both houses on the subject of drain­ age. Forty-seven members of the Joint assem­ bly convened at noon to ballot for a United States Senator. BenatorR Cantwell, Dsrnnll. Mad Oi gau voted for R. W. TowntiheDd, Senator Bed for A. M. Craig, lteoresentatlve Considine let JT. C. Black, Representative Sundelius for ITwliif S. Boutell. ten It publicans for John A. Logan, and c^hteen Democrats for William R. Mag* rlson. THE Senate started in on the order of third reading and passed seversl bills on the USS. The most important of these were Besggtaa'a bill to permit sheriffs to take bail in bsjUgMa ft' fonses in the interim between terms Of oonrt; ' Mr. Evans' bill authorizing the Governor to appoint a State i gent to prosecute thin* against the United States, and to ueWMe compensation the efor: Mr. Merritt's Mil, denning the citizenship of oerpemtf doing business in Illinois, which r'-- that all corporations doing I in Illinois shall also dmare to citizens thereof; Mr. Hereley'a bill, te the law providing for training schools for beara. The bill provides that no boy shall be commit­ t e d w h o s e a s r e f h a l l b e o v e r 1 7 y e a r s , a n d H i " " the following section to the present law: court committing any bay to a training i under the provisions of this act shall have I . er at any tnne after making such commitment, upon proper showing, to order the discharge ox the boy or his restoration to his parents, and shall also have power generally to make all or» ders relative to boys committed by aneb court. In order to apply the benefits of this act to such boys and for the purpose of reclaim­ ing such boys the court mav send Its writ to any county in this State. Appeals ae in other cases shall be allowed from aU final orders made by such court tinder this act A number of bllla were ad valued to second reading, and after the Joint session the Senate adjourned. The House received an invitation from the Illinois Central Railroad to visit New Orleans without money and without price. After a rather pointed de> bate tbe matter was disposed ot by a motion of Mr. Henry, who introduced a resolution de­ clining the Invitation with thanks, because at tbe great Importance of the business of the see- slon. No vote was cast for United States Sena­ tor in the Joint convention. THE bill prohibiting bankers and others hold­ ing trust funds from dealing in options or spee- ulating was ordered to second reading in the Senate on the 33d of April. Over an hoar was consumed In the discussion of Senator McXary's revenue bill Sedator Clo«ah% bill amending the election law by pre­ venting the voting of all persons not regis­ tered was ordered to a third reading. Tha bUl for the equalization of taxes was made the special order for Wednesday, the nth. Xp Committee on the Soldiers' Orphans' Home re­ ported negligence in the management of the in­ stitution; and the measure providing for abol­ ishing prison contract labor by a gradual process was sent to third reading. The House passed the bill increasing the punishment of burglars found with weapons or drags In their possession. An appropriation of $10,000 for the Woman's Hospital in Chicaso waa Introduced. It was awed to hold afternoon see- Bio ns hereafter, and the bill to protect tbe pub­ lic from imposition in relation to canned ST preserved food was sent to tbe Senate. Tha measure cutting down the jurisdiction of ae- psllite courts waa rejected, and the House ad­ journed because of the great noise and confu­ sion prevailing. Forty-three Senators and 1*1 nssm- members of the House constituted the assembly, which convened at noon." sentative Shepler was the only person _ _ and he cast his ballot for an unknown--L. Logan, of Toledo, 11L SENATOR CLOUQH'S bill revising the electi <ag laws of the State passed the Senate April 3% Senator Curtlss* amendment to the election laws, limiting each election district to taiHutf embracing 40j or less voters, and prohibiting tbe holding of elections in saloons, also paaeeS the Senate. The House Mil giving It MI*ht be Worse. "My, my, how that chimney smokes," complained a wife to her hnsband. "It might do worse, my dear," ha re­ plied consolingly. "I'd like to know how." , s "Why, you see it might chow." A fall of soot atopped tho flow ot sonvcrsation.--Merchant Traveler* No Wonder They Are Kicking. Ont of seventy-four first-class appoint­ ments made by the President the Nor.h has thirty-nine and the South thirty-five. Of tbe Northe n appointments New York takes nine, Illinois and Pennsylvania five each, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and Connecticut three each, New Jersey two, Massachusetts, Michigan, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Nevadi one each. Of the Southern ap­ pointments Georgia has four, Mississippi. Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, Texas, and Louisiana three each, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina two each, and Delaware, West Virginia, South Caro­ lina, and F orida one each. The noticeable feature of these appointments is that while every Southern S-tate exespt Alabama has been recognized, the Democrats of nine Northern States'--California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Oregon--have not yet bad a bite of anything fit toeat, -.lip-pon­ der that they are kicking. >wwa- people equal rights in restaurants, eta, thdr white brethren. VTM read a aeoond time aud ordered to a third reading by a vote of yeaa 27 to nays 2G. Senator Kinehart moved a ie> consideration and offered an amendment la­ th.' bill as follows:. "Provided that whsg* hotels are crowded and patrons are compelled to sleep two in a bed, any person found raisins an objection shall be fined $800." In support et bis motion Rinehart Said that there waaleM bun­ co in be in his amendment than in the bill ittsIT If the friends of the measure wanted to do the fair tiling by their colored brethren, they agree to sleep with them whatever hotels weci crowded and beds scaice. The motion tei _ elder was t ibled by a vote ot yeas St to nays 1 A proposition to give appropriation bUa ceaence was defeated, as was to reduce the license. A ported unfavorably Itsiti a home tor soldiers House the bill relating to the nimsnHdsfi-- of railroad corporations was rushed the previous question being ordered before the mat i ter had been thoroughly discussed. The! expressed was that the Illinois Central merge itself in a new line, drop Its and so creep out of its obligation of of 7 per cent, of its grefle eaitolnge to _ every year. The measure was hurriedly taken to the Senate, and cannot be recalled by the House without the consent ot the teas bjxtjr. In the joint sees on two ballots were ftifc. Each resulted iu luo votes being e gan for I nited States Senator. The did not vote. en the project to eetafeh Idlers and sa lors. - Inlhl "i A THK higher the order of intellect witl| J'^ which one is brought in contact, tb+ ^ less one has to fear; true goodness is all charity, and tnte genius is the least ^3 | presumptuous. * WHITE shelled eggs are the moat del* w ;t,1 icate. Some producers scour (lip with sapolio before bringing tkNS 'lit fastidious customers. THERE are at least 50,000,000 _ consumed daijy in the United SthtssL * <- ,» ! "1 j -•"s ' S-ilSSSii