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J. VAN SLYKE, Editor N* Publish*. KcHENBY, ILLINOIS. " THE Current: Because the world is fa a fighting humor, the pessimist de- dares war to be the safety-valve of so­ ciety. There is nothing of -wisdom in such sinister thoughts, for bloodshed is now less the safety-valve than ever be­ fore. All systems of associated life have been tried. None of them iris warless. CAPTAIX EPUKAIM D. ELLSWORTH and his wife, the parents of Colonel E. XL Ellsworth, who lost his life in that famous staircase at Alexandria, at the outbreak of the war,<- are living at Me- chanicsville/in a comfortable little cot­ tage adorned with numerous mementoes sacred to the memory of their gallant son, whose monument oan be seen from one of the windows. THE telegraph wire between Macon, -Georgia, and Chalen recently caased working, and a search was made for the cause. The cable passed through the Oellars of tlie excise office at Macon, Mid it was discovered that it lay over a rat hole and disturbed the rodent in its Movements. The little animal had gnawt d through the covering of the cable and bitten through the copper threads, thus breaking the connection. ^TRAVELERS in Dalmntia some years igo noticed large tracts of land covered "by a wild flower, near which not a sign of insect life was visible. The bloom was the pyrethrum, whose odor deals death to th^ lower forms ot life, and whose powdered leaves forms the,basis of "insect fowders." The feed of this flower has been distributed in the United States, and a Dalmatian has been growing it with great success in Stockton, California. ^GEORGE M. O. BRODERICK, of San Iptancisco, recently advertised for a wife and received a satisfactory answer from Miss Lizzie Jones, of Lockeford,in San Joaquin Couuty. A correspondence followed, and Miss Jones was sent $10 to come to San Francisco, where the amorous George wouid meet and wed her. Lizzie did not put in an appear­ ance, so George started for Lockeford only to find that his gold eagle had gone into the pocket of John Paul Jones, a rustic with six feet of brawn and a strong love of a practical joke.-- AMONG the numerous presents re­ ceived by the Emperor William on the occasion of his last birthday was a sim­ ple farthing of the year 1797, that being the year in which he was born. This curious present had been sent by a gamin living in ono of the villages round Brunswick, who also wrote*a letter congratulating the Emperor, in the best language he could command, on having reached so great an age. The other day, to his intense astonish­ ment, this lucky youth received an ac­ knowledgment from the Emperor in the shape of an autograph letter thank­ ing him for his present, and, what was probably more Valued, a twenty-franc ce, bearing the date of 1885. THERE is a page or two of United States history on which will always be recorded the uncouth name of Flipper. It was notorious and promxnent a few years since as, that of the first colored cadet to graduate from West Point. It is told by a gentleman who had a letter from him last week that he signs him­ self "Henry O. Flipper, Colonel, Mex­ ican Volunteers." His friend said: "Flipper is an exceptionally bright colored man. He is a voracious reader, and his letter to me was to ask about books. After his court-martial and discharge for irregularities he weutto Mexico, where color is not an obstacle id advancement, and now has a high position in the Mexican army, with a handsome salary. He must be 28 or 29 years of age. He wrote an auto­ biography in 1878, which is a valuable addition, though a somewhat crude one, to the history of the colored race." THE menacing position of Russia in Central Asia to the British possessions of that continent is due to the policy of the Western powers in preventing the natural expansion of Russia towards the southwest To properly develop the commerce and industry of Russia it ought to be put in possession of Con­ stantinople. That potential great me­ tropolis of the Eastern world is as es­ sential to the trade of Russia as is all our sea-board cities, including New York, Bosto^i, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orlean, and San Francisco united, to the proper development to the bus­ iness of our own country. Russia haB been driven back upon herself and one- . sixth of the human race exist in poverty because the Sultan and not the Czar holds Constantinople and the keys to the Dardanelles. The only outlet for the expanding energies of the F.ussian Empire is to acquire territory to the south and epst, hence of the conquest of Central Asia and the appearance of the menacing Muscovite armies on the borders of Afghanistan. Great Britain was one of the most important powers that prevented Russia from developing her commerce in the Mediterranean, ^ and her reward may in time be the loss of her possessions in Southern Asia. THE indignation of the medical world Over the jeers and jibs cast by an irrev­ erent press and public at Gen. Grant's doctors is something tromenduous, if the remarks of the professional jour­ nals indicate anything. The physicians themselves also profess great annoy­ ance at the enforced notoriety they are obtaining by the appearance of their names in the newspapers. It will bo remembered, however, by the observ­ ant and critical public, that these pro­ tests from the medical gentlemen did not come until after the oomments be­ came unfavorable. So long as the ver­ dict that Grant was at the point of dfth was accepted, and, in aooordance by the physicians to the wide publicity which was given to their names. Only when the refractory General proceeded to put their prophesies of immediate dissolution to naught, and the country to poke fun at them, did outraged dig­ nity and modesty manifest themselves. There, is no cause for fear, however, that distinguished invalids will lack medical attendance, owing to a dread of consequent notoriety on the part of practioners. In spite of their shrink­ ing fear of free advertising, a stern sense of duty--to themselves--will for­ bid the regular disciples of the heal­ ing art to ignore a call from the Gen- etal of the army, or even the President himself. THE theory of the eminent German scientist, Dr. Koch, developed from a series of investigations into the chol­ era cases in Calcutta some two years, to the effect that cholera is an infection and, that preventive treatment is possi­ ble, seems to have been fully determined by Dr. Ferran, of Madrid, whose ex­ periments with cholera bacilli recently attracted so much attention. While in India Dr. Koch visited several plague- stricken districts, and by a close analy­ sis of cholera dejecta and a thorough examination of the stagnant pools to which the natives had common re­ course for bathing and even drinking purposes, he was unable to make the very important discovery that there ex­ isted in both the water and the dejecta a microbe, to which ho gave the de­ scriptive name bacillus. He also noted that as the apparent epidemic abated the water gradually cleared of this ani­ mal matter until, when it became com­ paratively clarifieJ, the disease disap­ peared. He then settled to his own satisfaction the long entertained t bough never-before-tested theory of a cholera germ, and also expressed the opinion that water is the most facile transmit­ ter of cholera, since the bacilli intro­ duced into it with refuse matter and excrements may be borne to great dis­ tances with deadly vitality. These con­ clusions were not altogether convinc­ ing. Indeed there was no little skep­ ticism that the real cholera germ bad been discovered, and even those who were willing to admit this possibility were unwilling to accept the further deduction of the distinguished German that inocculation could be effectively employed us a preventive measure. Since tftat time, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, very little seems to have been done toward verifying the opinions of Dr. Koch, and he himself apparently rested content with the discovery of the presumed cause of this mysterious dis­ ease. When, therefore, it was recently announced that a Spanish doctor, hith­ erto unknown, had so much faith in the matter that he began inoculating pa­ tients with cholera bacillus, there was a general disposition to ridioule and poke fun at the enthusiastic physician who so practically endorsed it. How­ ever, it soon became an established fact that Dr. Ferran was experimenting in that way, and now the dispatches triumphantly declare that he has been in the highest degree successful. Though the system is yet rather heroic in its effects, the operative power of the bacillus not having been reduced to its Safest minimum, the results are defi­ nite and apparently conclusive in support of the scientific theory. The effect of the virus at present is to produce tremors and pros­ tration that continue for Eeveral hours, not, howeverin a violent form, and at the end of forty-eight hours the patient is entirely recovered. The whole of Spain is greatly excited over the happy result of the experiments, and if they are properly authenticated the whole scientific world will be equal­ ly concerned. The Jews of New York, It was formerly said in New York that the Jews were a sort of vagrant race, and merely went into trade, and never bought real estate or connected themselves with any city or country where they lived. This wtis mere ignor­ ance in the statement, for the Jews are real estate owners in all our c ties. The deputy Register of New York City told me some years ago that the Jews a8*b class were the very largest prop­ erty holders in New York. He said he thought one-fifth of the real estate of New York was owned by the Jews. It was said that the Jews manufactured nothing except diamonds and jewelry. The average manufacturer finds them already in li s branch. In New York and Cincinnati they are manufacturers above everything. In all the manufac­ ture of clothing, which is perhaps the largest branch of manufacture, they are powerful. The banking house of Seligman began in a wholesale clothing establishment. The'Jews are especi­ ally strong in "men's furnishing goods, such as shirts, neckties, etc. They also enter into women's apparel. Some of the l iggest corset makers in this coun­ try are Hebrews. The head of the fur- seal partnership, Kohl, is a Hebrew. I met sometime ago a Hebrew from Cin­ cinnati, who was one of the largest stove founders there. The most prom­ inent architect. Eidlitz, is a Hebrew. This active race makes no discrimina­ tion when it sees a pecuniary chance. I said to my wife some time ago: "I see th&t you buy most of your meat from a Jew butcher. Why is it?" She said that the meat was better--better butchered--and that the man was ihe most accommodating butcher of any race she found in the market. The" Jews are strong in our politics. They fill places in the city and the National Governments here and abroad. We had at one time the singular instance of a Hebrew at the head of the French government-- Gambetta, and another Hebrew at the head of the British government--Dis­ raeli Gath, in the Minneapolis Trib- Lnminous Paint and Earthquakes. Luminous paint, so-called, continues to be imported in large quantities by regions where earthquakes are pre­ valent In the Philippine Islands small metallic plates, coated with the paint* are so disposed about the houses as to afford ready guidance at the first inti­ mation of an earthquake for the inmates to reach the street doors and make their escapes from the buildings in danger of beeoming ruins suddei^y. m Rapid Growth of the Early Christian Church. The number of disciples who assem­ bled in an upper room at Jerusalem af­ ter the ascension of Christ was only 120, but the miracles of the day of Pen­ tecost, and the sermon of St. Peter, added 3,000 new believers, and before very long, according to the testimony of the second chapter of Acts, their number was 5,000. We are next told that "the work of God increased, and the number of disciples multiplied in Jerusalen greatly." For some years after the crucifixion the Gospel was preached at Jerusalem only; but t lie first great persecution there, in which St. Stephen was stoned to death, in the year 37, scattered the disciples, and they preached the new faith in Ju- dea, Samaria, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Syriik. In Tyre and Sidon there were bands of converts, and the number of believers at Antioch soon formed a strong organization, and it was in the last-hamed city that the followers of the new faith first received their dis­ tinctive name of Christians. The mis sion of the Ai ostle Paul to the Gen­ tiles bagan about the year 44. The re­ sult of his iirst journey with Barnabas into Asia was the establishment of churches in Pamphyha. Pisidia, Lyca- onia, and Cilicia, in the southern part of Asia Minor. His next circuit ex­ tended the church into Plirygia, Gala- tia. Troas, Macedonia, tfhd Greece. In another journey the Qftureh of Ephesus was formed, over which Paul preached for many years. Carried to Rome in the year 5M, Paul found the church had already gained a fo ithold in Italy, and he largely augmented the number of believers in tlie Eternal City bv his preachiug and died by martyrdom there in C8. The other apostles also preached at different plnors. St. Peter visited the northern provinces of Asia Minor and Chaldea: St. Thomas taught at Odessa and in Mesapotamia, and is thought to have extended his journeys to India; St. Mark iounded the church at Alexandria in Egypt, and tuere a^e traditions that Persia, Arabia, and Ethiopia were visited by others of the apostles. Thus the little grain of mustard seen was growing into a large tree. The historian Tacitus, in describing the persecutions in the time of Nero, from the years G4 to (>8, speaks of the Christians as having become a vast multitude. Pliny, the Roman Governor of Pontus and Bithynia, writing in the year 107, said that Chris­ tianity had caused the worship of the gods in his provinces to be almost en­ tirely given up. After tlie death of the apostles we have little record of the work of the church for some years. But Justin Martyr wrote about the year 150, as follows: "There is no race of men, whether barbarians or Greek, or by whatever other name they may be designated, among whom pray­ ers and thanksgivings are not offeied to the Father and Xheator of all in the name of the crucified Jesus." Iren:eus, Bishop of Lyons, writing about the year 178, said that the Gospel had been received in Germany, France, Spain, and Libya ; and Tertullian, in the year 198, declares that Parthia, Media, Ar­ menia, Gaul, Brita n, "and other na­ tions and island innumerable" had all received the light of the Gospel, and had added large numbers to tho ranks of Christian believers. In the year 214 Origen conducted a mission among the Arabs and converted many. Missiona­ ries during that century taught throughout Gaul, and founded several churches in Germany. Early in the tiiird century, during the persecutions, Tertullian said that if tho Christians were all lorced to emigrate, the Roman Empire would become a desert. These persecutions only' served to stimulate the spread of the church, and in the year 303 these cruelties came to an end. The year 324 was an important one for the church, for in that year the Emperor Constautine joined the Chris­ tians, and the hitherto persecuted church was lifted to place and power. In. that century, however, the rapid growth of Christianity was checked by tlie appearance of the first heresy, tho Arian, and in the early part of the fifth century the incursions of the barba­ rian tribes and the overthrow of the Roman Empire were even a more seri- ious hindrance to its prosperous growth. But by this time it had nearly 700 bish­ ops, several thousand priests, and dea­ cons, and adherents without number in Southern Europe, in Asia, and in Egypt. In fine, it had utterly over­ thrown, before that date, all the heathen religions, though it had made little im­ pression upon the Jews, and was des­ tined in two more centuries to be whol­ ly driven from the Oriental countries by the rise and spread of anism.--Inter-Ocean. Rules of Conduct. A rule of conduct is very often sim­ ply a prejudice. A coachman threw up an advantageous position, hoping to better his circumstances by a change. Alter the lapse of a month, however, lie discovered that he had made a great mistake, and, as soon as he heard that his successor on the box had turned out an unreliable fellow, he hastened to pll'er his services again to his former employer. Rut his offer was declined, "l'or it is my principle to never take back a servant who once has left my household," said the employer, but he would have said: "For it is a prejudice with me," if his vanity had allowed liim to .sea the truth. Still oftener a rule of conduct is nothing but a crutch by which a moral invalid helps himself along. Total ab­ stinence is such a crutch. The Amer­ icans excel in artificial limbs, and of all ti.eir inventions in that line the tem­ perance .pledge seems to me to be the most precious one. But it should never be forgotten that the pledge is an arti­ ficial 1 mb, and, when exhibited as an ornament, very unbecoming. The sound man who has no preju­ dices bccause his development is so steady and uninterrupted that they have no time to form, and who uses no crutches Vecnuse he is neither lame nor maimed--tlie sound man has no princi­ ples. When he acts, he acts so as to remain in or enter into perfect harmo­ ny with himself, but with respect to the external consistency of his several actions he is utterly indifferent. His nature is his law.-- Scandinavia. PugJi and Lo:ran. Senator Pugh, ot Alabama, writes a Washington correspondent, served in the tame Congress with Senator Logan just prior to tho outbreak of the rebell­ ion. They were then members of the same political party, and were personal friends. Near the close of the war, torhetf tne Union soldiers went through Alabama, a detachment of Wilson's cavalry approached the residence of Senator Pugh, in Eufaula. When they saw the troops approaching, Mr. Pugh, who had been in the Confederate army and in the Confederate Congress, after hoykig served in the Congress of the United States, expected to be roughly handled, lie walked out to the frosty yatd writ „ . to his^ate Kerow ""tcPBem." "There's the house, go in and tflb possession." The officer in comma nuinq ui r ed: "Is your name James L Pugh?" "That is my name, s r," responded the Senator, supposing that the Unionists merely wanted to identify him in order to make him suffer the mores. "Here are my orders respecting you, sir," said the of­ ficer, extending a paper. Mr. Pugh unfolded tho paper, oxpreting to read an order for his immediate arrest and transportation to prison. Instead of that he read about as follows: To----, officer c rnmanciin?, etc: You ara lie:*by ordered to Trac ked to tho residence of Hun. Jam 8 L. Pugh. at Euf mla, and t> sta­ tion a guard around iha premises. See that neither Mr. Pus;h nor anything belonging to h M la ihokBted. JOHN A. LOGAN, M Jor General Cominunjing. Nations' Names. These are derived principally from some peculiar causes or object. For instance. Ireland--which Julius Cxsar first called Hibernia--is a kind of mod­ ification of Erin, or the country of the west. Scotland, from Scotia, a tribe which originally came from Ireland. It vai anciently called Caledonia, which means a mountainous country--fores s and lands. Portugal, the ancient Lnsitania, was named Jrom a town on tho River Douro called Cale, opposite to which tho in­ habitants built a city called Porto or Oporto. Ar.d when tho country was recovered from the Moors the inhabi­ tants combined the Words and called it the kingnom of Portucale--hence, Portugal. . Spain, the ancient Iberia, from the river Iberius or Hispanin, from tho Pliuniciam tSpaniga, which siguifios abounding with rabbits, which animals aro very numerous in that country-- hence, Spain. France, from tho Franks, a people of Germany, who conquered that country. Its ancient name was Celta, Gaul or Gulia, Barechatta, the latter signifying striped breeches, which wero wcrn by the natives. Switzerland, the ancient Halvetia, was so yarned by the Austrians, who called the inhabitants of these moun­ tainous countries Schweitzer?. Italy received its present nnme from a renowned prince named 3 talus. It was called Hesperia, from its western locality. Holland, the ancient Ratavia, a war­ like people, was so named from the Germnn word kohl, the Engl sh of which is "hollow." implying a very low country. The inhabitants aro colled Dutch, from the German deutsch or icutsch. Sweden and Norway were anciently called Scandinavia, which the modern antiqarians think means a country and woods, which have been burned or de- strove;!. Tho appellation Sweden is derived from Smtuna or Svitheod, the native term Norway, or the north­ ern way, exjdaining itself. Prussia, from l'euznl, a Sciavonic race; but some writers suppose it took its name from Russia and the Sclavon­ ic syllable po, which means adjacent or near. Denmark means the marches, terri­ tories or boundaries if the Danes. Russia is the ancient Sarmntia, which has been subsequently named Muscovy, It derives its present name from Russi, a Sclavonic tribe who founded the Rus­ sian monarchy. The original savage inhabitants used to paint their bodies in order to appear more terrible in bat­ tle. They generally lived in the moun- ta ns, and their chariots were their on­ ly habitations. Turkey took its name from the Turks or Turcomans, which signifies wander­ ers, and originally belonged to tho Scythians or Tartars. It is sometimes called the Ottoman empire, from Oth- man, one of their principal leaders.-- Galignani's Messenger. How Mniibrnu Drank Porter* Apropos of Dr. Lennox Browne's re­ cent lec ture on singers and stimulants, the following story of Milibran is in­ teresting : On tho occasion of tlie first performance of the "iMaid of Artois,-' Mali bran played the first two acts in such a lie od of triumph that she was determined, by almost superhuman ef­ fort, to continue its glory to the final fall of the curtain. "I went," says Bunn, "into her dressing-room previous to the commencement of the third act to ask her how she felt, and she re­ plied : 'Very tired, but'--and her eye suddenly lighted up--'you angry devil, if you will contrive to give me a pint of porter into the desert scene, you shall have an encore to your finale.' Had I been dealing with any other per- lormer, I should perhaps have hesi­ tated in complying with the request that might have been dangerous in its application at the moment, but to check Malibrau's powers was to annihilate them. "I therefore arranged that behind the pillar of drifted sand on which she falls in a state of exhaustion toward the close ot the dfesert scene, a small aperture should be made in the stage. Through the aperture a pewter pint of porter was conveyed to the parched lips of this rare child of song, which so revived her after the terrible exertion the scene led to that she electrified the audience, and had strength to repeat the charm with the finale tp the "Maid of Artois." The novelty of the circum­ stances so tickled her fancy, and the draught itself was eo extremely re­ freshing, that it was arranged, during the subsequent run of the opera, for the negro slave at the head of the proces­ sion to have in the gourd suspended at his neck the same quantity of the samo beverage, to be applied to her lips on his first beholding the apparently-dy- ing Isoline."--Music and Drama. Hurdle Racing. In England, the regular hurdle race, 120 yards, with ten hurdles, three feet six inches high, has been run by two amateurs in sixteen seconds. The fastest amateur record for running 120 yards without the hurdles is 11 4-5 sec­ onds, and neither of the two hurdle companions ever did, or ever could do better than twelve seconds. In other words a good hurdler can spring from the ground, clear a three-foot six-inch hurdle, alight, and get into his greatest running speed again, with a loss of only one-fifths of a second in time from that in which he could have run the .same distance without the hurdles. So in America, our fastest performance for the regulation hurdle race is 16 4-5 seconds, and the maker of this record could not run 120 yard on the flat fas­ ter than 2'2 4-5 seconds, so that in America, as in England, the delay at each hurdle is only two-fifths of a sec­ ond. The difference between the de­ lays caused by jumping a three-foot six-inc^i hurdle and a two-foot six-inch hurdle has not been so definitely deter­ mined, but is certainly not more than one-third of a second, probably not more than one-twelfth of a second, in the case of a good hurdler. To K&couBA»Ji talent is to ereateii. ffrtttOBMb Keep your oil-stone clean. . Many users of oil stones keep them full of oil all the time, all covered with dirt and gm!geon grease, and when they want to use them, must scrape a place with a chip before thay can make the tool "take hold." Wipe the stone dean after using. Do it every time, too, not once in a while. Get into the habit of it, and it will come natural. Don't let a stone get gummed up. If you have been guilty of keeping such a one, just take a new deal and "try out" your stone. Put it in a kettle with water and potash--some soapine will do first rate (and soapine should be kept on the sink of every shop in the land)--and set it over a fire, or stick a steam pipe into it. Boil for an hour or two, then soak and wash well in clean water. You will then be kble to see what your oil-stone looks like, it will "take hold" like a new broom. Some men place their oil stones in the sun and let the oil try out. But the potash is the best; it "kills" the grease on the spot. An oil-stone needs "turning up" very often; I remember, when a boy, of turning a stone. Our worthy father set us at the job of rubbing the stone on a board covered with sand. How slow it did cut! It generally took two or three hours to do the job. Every three or four rubs I would have to ex­ amine to see if it was most done; and then before I got to work again, Tim Blodget. would come along and try to argue me into "goia' fishing," and then how 1 hated that, oil-stone. ' Don't let a stone cet too hollowing. Use long strokes in rubbing a tool upon it. If it gets a little worn in the cen­ tre, take it to the grind-tone or a big emery whoel. Hold it against the siiie of the wheel, not on the face. It will take but a very few minutes to grind the oil-stone true and smooth. I never yet saw a foafer iiang around a shop half an hour without getting out his jack-knife and "going for it" upon tho middle of an oil-stone. I< I have a knife to sharpen, I do it near the end -ot the stone. Tho ends don't wear down; it is tho middle that gets most of the work. Some journeymen put a wire across the middle of their oil stones. They have to work each side of it, but the loafers have to, too. If you break a stone, don't throw it away. If thick, or nearly new, boil the grease out of it, and glue it together with common glue. It will hold if you get all the grease boiled out before you put on the glue. If the stono has be­ come worn pretty thin, you had better grind it down into slips. It will make some nice ones of the yery best quality. Don't put the stone into a block of wood. It makes a nasty thing to keep clean; go to the hardware store and buy a nice oil stono holder. You can put it on in two minutes, and take it off in no time, and wipe the stoue clean as often ' as you wi^h. A hard; flossy oil-stone is not worth buying. A stone which looks like a piece of marble is good for nothing. A stone with a Bandstone complexion i9 too soft, and will work bad. The "muddy" stone is another to bo avoided. Somewhere I have soen a receipt as fol­ lows: "Draw your thumb nail along the stone; the taster it cuts away the nail the better * the stone." It looks reasonable, but I have never tried it. Petrified wood makes the best oil­ stone. I have a Scotch stone which cuts very fast, yet will set an edge to cut a hair. Some years ago a firm started to manufacture silex stones for oil and water, both hand and power. The silex stone was ground fine, mixed, with some secret uniting compound, and moulded under hydraulic pressure. The stones thus produced were pretty good, bt|t were apt to glaze, and then neither oil nor water seemed to have any effect in removing it Whether or not they are made now, I do not know. There is a knack in using oil-stones well. Don't rock your hand and make six or eight bevels on the work, or else make a curve in place of a flat bevel. Keep your wits upon tho top of tho tool, and see that it travels no fast as the bottom edge does. The tendency, when pushing from you, is two lower tlie top of the tool, but a little atten­ tion to this point will enable a man to do a job right, and get a better edge in th# very shortest time.^Excl^i^6. A Royal Physician, v , In the summer of 17G8 a poor woman lay moaning on her bed in the attic of a dingy house in one of the poor quar­ ters of Vienna. The house and its sur­ roundings gave evidence of the poverty of the inhabitants of that part of the gay capital. A glance at the interior showed the tenants to be busily en­ gaged in their various occupations. Kind-hearted though these peoplo were, yet their daily struggle in the battle of life left them but little time to give aid and comfort to their suffer­ ing neighbor. Too poor to pay for doctor or nurse, Fran Waldorf was de­ pendent on her only child, a lad of 12 years, who dearly loved his mother. His heart would almost break when he thought how little he could do for her, and saw that she grew worse from day to day. One day she said: "Franz, I can bear this pain no longer. See if you cannot induce some doctor to call here and prescribe for mo." With a sad heart and with but slight hopes of suc­ cess, Franz obeyed. He called on sev­ eral physicians and begged them to visit his mother, but in vain. They all declined because he was unable to pay their fee, which in those days was a florin for each visit. In despair, and not knowing what to do next, he stood at a corner dreading to go home. Just then a private carriage came slowly by, in which sat a distinguished looking man. This was no other than tho Emperor Joseph II., a most kind-hearted ruler, who was always accessible to the most humble of his subjects, and was dearly beloved by them. He frequently min­ gled with the people, delighting to walk and ride about among them. On such occasions he was always plainly dressed, so that no one suspected that ho was the Emper A. Franz stepped to the carriage door, and taking off his cap, said,, humbly: "Kind sii, will you have the goodness to give me a florin ?" "Would not a smaller sum do, my little man ?" "No, sir," replied Franz; and em­ boldened by the gentleman's kind tone, he narrated to him for what purpose he required a florin. The Emperor listened attentively, and then handed him the money. He also inquired of him where his mother lived, aud questioned him about her circumstances. Pleased with Franz's replies, he then dismissed him, and bade his coachman drive to the given address. On his arrival he wrapped himself well up in his cloak to avoid any chance of recognition. Then he ascended the stairs and entered the sick woman's room. She, supposing him to be a physician whom her son had wBtfi told him of lterillnMS poverty and struggles. "My good woman," said fhe Emper­ or, when she had finished. "I under­ stand your case perfectly. I will now write you a prescription, which I am sure will do you good." He sat down at the table, and after writing a few moments, folded up the paper. "When your Bon comes homfi he can attend to this." He had hardly left the houso when the door was again opened, and the doctor, followed by Franz, entered the room. Fran Waldorf was surprised at this second call, and explained to the new­ comer that a physician had just visited her and had left a prescription on yon­ der table. The doctor took up the pa­ per to see who had been there and what had been prescribed. He had, however, hardly glanced at it when ho uttered an exclamation of surprise, and said: "Madam, do you know into whose hands you have fallen ? This paper is an order on the treasury for 50 florins, and is signed, 'Joseph.'" "The Emperor!" shouted Franz, with delight, while his mother invoked blessings on him who had befriended her in her greated need. But the Emperor did not stop here. He caused inquiries to be made about Ft au Waldorf and her family, aud was informed that her husband had been an otlicer in his. father's army, and had served with distinction throughout the Seven Years' War. In ono of the last engagements lio had fallen on the field of battle while gallantly charging a bat­ tery. On learning this the Emperor at once gave directions that her wants should bo thereafter provided for, and that Franz's further education shonld be at his expense.--Harper's ixnmg People. . ; An Arkansas Funeral. The following account of an incident at an Arkansas funeral, where the nn- dertaker was tho "softest, glidingist, steultliiest man" Hnck ever saw, with "no more smile to him than there is to a ham," is from Mark Twain's "Huckelberry Finn:" "They had borrowed a melodeum-- --a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set down i nd worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and cclicky, and everybody joined in and Fung. Then the Rev. Hobson opened up, slow and solemn, aud begun to talk: and straight off the most„out- rageous row busted out in the cellar a body ever heard; it was only one dog, but he made a most powerful racket, and lie kept it up right along; the par­ son ho had to stand there over the cof­ fin an' wait--you couldn't hear yourself think. "It was right down awkwar.l, and no­ body didn't teem to know what to do. But pretty soon they seo that h ng-1 eg­ ged undertaker make a sign to the preacher, as much as to say, 'Don't you worry--just depend on me.' Then he stooped down aud began to glide along the wall, just his shoulders showing above the people's heads. So he glided along, and the pow-wow and racket getting more and more outrageous all tho time, and, at last, when he had gone around two sides of the room, he dis­ appears down cellar. Then in about two seconds wo heard a whack, and the dog he finished up with a most amaz­ ing howl or two, and then everything was dead still, and the parson begun his solemn talk where he left off. In a minute or two here comes this under­ taker's back and shoulders gliding along the wall again, and so he glided, and glided, around three sides of the room, and then rose up, aud shaded his moutii •jvith his hands, and stretched his neck out toward the preacher, over the peo­ ple's heads, and says, in a kind of a course whisper, 'He had a rat (' Then he dropped down and glided along the wall again to his place. "You could see it was a great satis­ faction to the people, because naturally they wanted to know. A little thing like that don't cost nothing and it's just little tilings that makes a man to be looked up to and liked. There warn't no more popular man in town thSn what that undertaker was." r Fingal's Cave. Fingal's Cave is a remarkable grotto on the southwest coast of the island of Staffa, about seven miles off the west toast of Mull, Scotland. It was proba­ bly called after Fingal, the legendary hero of Gaelic poetry. The cave is 227 feet deep, is 42 feet wide at the en­ trance and 22 feet wide at the inner end. It is 00 feet high at the opening, and is flanked on both sides by basaltic pillars, above which the walls meet in a beautiful arch. The sea is the floor of the cavern, and at low tide the water is 20 feet deep. The cavern can be readily entered, excepting at extreme high tide, by small boats. On the east Bide of the entrance the columns are much broken. Between the pillars of dark-gray basalt are many stalactites o| various beautiful tints. A Keen Observer. "I told Jones what I thought of him the other day and I could see that he didn't like it. He couldn't conceal his feelings from me. I saw he was mad right off," said Brown. "It doesn't take yon long to see through a man," observed Smithadmir- incrly. "What did he do?" "He kicked me down stairs."--JSew York Graphic. He Dropped the Bees. A stubborn case of rheumatism, which rendered a Michigan man help­ less for many months, has been cured in a somewhat miraculous manner. His hired man was carrying a hive of bees through his room and dropped it. The patient is now an active mem­ ber of society, and says he is "thankful to an inscrutable Providence,"--Chi­ cago Herald. AN old lady from New Bedford visit­ ed Boston recently for the first time, and while viewing the attractions of the public garden was pointed out the bronze statue of Charles Sumner. "Well, I declare," the old lady re­ marked, "I never knew Sumner was a colored man before." PEOLPE may argue against it as they will, but the instinctive leaning of in­ experienced human nature is to trust beauty. Angels are painted fair. No one imagines a squat Venus, a scraggy Eve, or a beetle-browed Apollo. ADA, aged 4, who was doing some* thing, was told to desist by lier mother. Mother: "Ada, am I to speak to you again?" Ada: "Yes, 'm% you may if you like." A PAWNBROKER having joined a tem­ perance society, it was remarked that there need be no fear whatever of his not keeping the pledge. BIRTHPLACE is not comparable to itt- tiinsic worth. Flowers bloom as glori­ ously in an old can as in the richest end rarest Etruscian vase. . >'v, .. MR. MCNABT'B bUl, far the bodies ot the friendless poor to the IS apiece, paaeect the Senate m OW White's bSL cbsajdnit th» ttXMtar fapctfmr Court Clerk la Cook Btneter's trill, tat tuMtrnctlnf-pa rattle OTOMinas on nrilwBTB. mlno Kevebne Coiamittee'B report. in ml--luutor the nvfarion of the twrenMM zs adeptsd. Tha " co: . - „ ler ___. purchase of Hames' Digest of Tows-- ship Laws." to be distributed to **ch towmfetir la tho State, was adopted. Senator Htniut(M* notice that lie should move to reconaidc-XUiSVaCB by -which this resolution was adopted!^ The session of the Senate wa» somewhat Of a tnrbn- lent character, bat it was tame compared with the cvclone going on in the House. There com­ motion reisaed all day. the storm beiuc herald­ ed by a report from the special Committee Ml Equalization recommending the lim*ll|i«llwi Vt the State Board by a select committee. The matter was referred, however, to the Rerenns Committee. Thea the Speaker sprang the low- license bill, but the mem tiers objected: and In the iiftemoon, when appropriation trills from the Senats were presented, contrary to the wishes of the majority, exciting scenes were enacted, some of tho membera destrhkg at cue time to eject fie clerk from th" bDlldtng and oust the Speaker, who had read pertain bilk by titles and ordered them placed in order 0t first and second reading. Finally, on an ap­ peal from a decision no qnornm vot:d and ad­ journment was taken, both houses deciding not to meet until the evening of June 1. THE House bill amending the law of County Surveyors was passed by the Senate on the 3d inst. The bill provides thVit County Surveyors shall be furnished a book in which they shall carefully record every survey made by The following appropriation bills were passed by the Senate: To appropriate $31,442.58 tor the benefit ot Alexander Bruce for the construction of the Copperas Creek Dam; $22,200 for the two years support of t he Mate Laboratory of National History and the htate Etymologist's office: $,">,000 for the preparation and publication of volume H of the geological survey of Illinois; $2,000 for refurnishing, carpeting, and refitting the State I .aw Library at the Capitol; $«7,oow for the ordinary expenses, repairs, and improve­ ments for the next two years; $l.%009 for additional protection against tiro at the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville; $4,9(30 for the purchase of books for the State Law Li­ brary at the Capitol; SS\00>J for rebuilding and refurnishing and tor tire-prcof floors and fire- escapes at the Kankakee Insane Asylum; $174,- 885 lor the ordinary expenses for two years from June ;>0, and for contingent expenses and for the purchase of machinery and furniture for the Chester Penitentiary; $4i',0J0 for the neces­ sary repairs and running expenses of the Michigan Canal. The proposed appropriation of $5,000 to survey the Kaskaskia Liver and im­ prove its crooked channel was defeated. The bill to appropriate fio.w o to en.o::rage silk cult­ ure was sent to third reading. The Senate re­ fused to reconsider the vote by which the bill 'm rebuild the Southern Normal School passed. Mr. Hamilton introduced a bill providing that school boards be authorized to Feleet the text­ books for public schools, and that changes be not made oftener than once in tiva years. Mr. Tubbs c died up his bill to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors within two mUet ot any incorporated town < r village, the object be­ ing to prevent liquor traffic on fairgrounds. The bill was defeated, the position being +»lr«ni that the present law was strong enongh to meet all such cases. Very little work was accom­ plished in the Honse. After an animated debate that body ordered erased the journal ro -ord at Friday, May 2i>. Senate appropriation bills were then read, and the Hou^e adjourned with White's bill for taxing telephone companies pending. THE Senate adopted a resolution, at its session on the 3d inst., appropriating $15,000 for the republication of tne reports of the Adjutant General of the S*ate from the year 1SC3 to date, including the war record of the Illinois volun­ teers. Tho House bill abolishing tt:e truck sys­ tem was taken from the table and sent to a sec­ ond reading. The bill appropriating ?1<\- Oou for the payment of claims for dam­ ages arising from the slaughter of animals which were supposed to have been infected with pleuro-pneuinonia and killed by the Sta e Vet­ erinarian was sent to thiid readmtr. The meas­ ure appropriating Stoo.uoo to establish an in­ dustrial M'hool tor the blind in Chicago was ordered to third reading. The joint resolution for adjournment sine dio June 10 was amended by the Houso to read June 2C>, and then adopted. Mr. Cratts created a sensation bv stating that the Legis ature was the most odious of anv that ever ass»m)>'ed in the State. The bill for grain inspection at East St. Louis and Peoria was pa*!-ed, and the ap­ propriation for the State Normal School waa tabled. The appropriation for the FeehanvQIe School was ordered to third reading; and a rul­ ing that the election bills be next considered, to be followed by appropriation measures, was sustained. At an evening session the drainage bills were sent to second reading. THE civil rights bill, which had previously passed the House, went through the Senate, on the 4th inst., by a vote of 3G yeas to 6 nays. The measure provides that all persons in the State shall be entitled to the lull and eoual enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, eating- houses, barber-shops, public convejraiNNS on land find water, theaters, and all other pliwn of public accommodation and amusement, sub­ ject only to the conditions and limitations es­ tablished by law, and applicable alike to all citizens. It further provides that any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the law shall for every such offense forfeit and pay a sum not less than $2 > nor more tban $500 to the person aggrieved thereby, to be re­ covered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such otlense was commit­ ted, and shall also lor every such offense bo deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be lined not to exceed $500, or shall be imprisoned not more than one year, or both. The renate concurred in the res­ olution for adjournment .June and adopted a measure that after J8s\» members of the Legis­ lature shall be paid $1,200, with 10 cents mileage, and for an extra session S~> per day for the first thirty days, and # > per day thereafter. Any member absent shall forteit $10 per day. The railroad-crossing bill was gent to third reading. In the House, the reading of the jonrnal caused excitement and contusion, the record of the evening session being displeasing to a majority of the members. After a long wrangle that section restorb^C thai, Normal School appropriation to third reeding was rescinded, ana the journal then approval The measure providing that all tine* collected in Chicago on account of cruelty to animals bo paid to the Humane Society of Chicago was passed, as was tho bill appropriating $10,000 for the Woman's Hospital in that city. A re­ port giving appropriation, election, and drainage bills preferance on the calendar w-as adopted, notice of a mo­ tion to reconsider being given. The Senate bill to tax the gross receipts of telegraph com­ panies was ordered read a first time--no to 12; and after a period of great excitement was or­ dered to second reading, tlie Speaker, who took the floor, endeavoring to speak against the bill, although the previous nuestiou had been de­ manded. A resolution declaring the chair va­ cant was then offered, but a motion to suspend the rules failed--55 to 6'J. Mr. Haines made an explanation of his position, and the House ad­ journed. f , ; \,4 -• „ ,1S? 'i - < • fl *81 Bill Arp on Bonds. Tbere is another bond that is strong­ er still, for it began in our youth when, the sunshine of life was upon us, and we saw no clouds of sorrow or* trouble in the dim horizon of the future. Our playmates and schoolmates and college- mates aro not all dead, but they are scattered, widely scattered; and it is a surprise wbeu an old man comes up to me, and, taking me by the hand, looks earnestly into my face, and says: "Will­ iam, do you know me ?" Sometimes I do, but oftener I don't, and perhaps he will say: "I used to go in a-washing with you in old Billy Montgomery's mill pond," or perhaps "I was in your class at Athens in 1845." Forty years ago! Just think of it! And then he begins to inquire where is Briscoe, and Bev­ erly Thornton, and Cody, and Mclves, and so on, and I have to say of most every one, dead, dead. How fast the world dies. Most everybody is dead, and there is a new set now. Joseph is dead, and there is another Pharaoh who knew not Joseph. There are new ways and new methods, and new morals.-- Atlanta Constitution. ^1- ' • ̂ : •i i3. £0$$ 'ill -"if 1 * & <€ • "WHICH is the more delicate sense* feeling or sight?" asked a professor. "Feeling," responded a student. "Give a proof of it, with an example," said the professor. "Well, my chum can feel his mustache, but nobody else can see it," responded the student. =3 rmti • • . If', Z A DOGMATICAL spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbon. Every one of his opinions appears to bim written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light--\Dr. £ Watts. . TAKEN together, all the beauties of at and nature do not interest the inquisi­ tive female so much as the view she gets through the key hole. BASE natures joy to see hard fottOMI