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6KASTLT FUBllITtJBE. pr---̂ J. V.".*! 51YKS. r-r.d PubRshor. MoHENBY, ILLINOIS. ^ 1 In. ' ' 1 *< * MES. CAituCsuk, the wife of the '£• Speaker, recently asked a visitor of her |v aex: "How many children hare you?" "Only one," was the reply. There was a quizzical smile on Mrs. Carlisleli face, and a quick exclamation and inquiry: ; . "Only one I Is that all yon have done lor your country? Why, I have eight 1" '&• -- •-- SI SOME time ago a little 3-year-old, playing in the yard, came into the house and said to his mother: "Mother, I saw nothing with a tail to it." His mother, being nnable to understand him, followed the child into the yard, where the little fellow pointed to a •} make which was gliding away through the grass. THE late Mrs. Elizabeth Hudson, of London, once the wife of the millionaire * railroad king, George Hudson, M. P., long since deceased, was sort of Mrs. Malaprgp. Mr. Yates in his World re­ calls that she had a fine collection of articles of "bigotry and virtue," and would not admit the "canal" to her | splendid parlors. \ • I : . . • . -- -- , ; , . • V y " * » ' i ^4 • PROF. HITOO MAOWS" recently de­ livered in Berlin a lecture on "The Speech of the Eyes." He showed how various thoughts and emotions may find their expressions through the eyes, how rage, joy, Badness, sympathy, all may be indicated by one look, and how a question may be asked or be replied to •imply by one scarcely observable move­ ment of the eye. I THE cemeteries of San Francisco con- »• tain a large number of very costly monuments. In the Catholic cemetery are a tomb erected by Mrs. Theresa Fair at a cost of $15,000, the vault of W, S. O'Brien, which cost $75,000, the Donahue monument, which cost $50,- 000, and the Dunpliy monument, which cost $45,000. Senator Jones has a vault in the Laurel Hill cemetery for * which he paid $25,000, and the Latham monument in the same place cost $35,- 000. Miss NORA PERRY writes her pretty poems at the Tremont House, Boston. B Miss Kate Sanborn stays at the Ven- | dome, in the same city, and can afford | to do so, having come into possession of $50,000, left her by the man she was to have married, but who died the day be­ fore that set for the wedding. She Wfears the heaviest and most fashionable of crape for him. Blonde wonjen al- , ways look well in crape. Miss San­ born is a blonde of 40, and says wittier things every day of her lifa than she has put into her book, "Wit of Wo­ men." | M. LIEGEOLES, professor at the fac- I"- ®lty of law at Nancy, an enthusiastic ; experimentist, has just invented what he calls rhypnotisme teleplionique. He sends people to sleep several miles dis- . tant from him by transmitting to them bjHelephone the ordeT to go to sleep; he then, by telephone, suggests to them the acts he wishes them to commit, and his orders are faithfully obeyed. One young man was told to fire a revolver and steal a 5 franc piece; on waking up he committed both offenses. A young girl who was sent to sleep by the tele- phonic order was told to sneeze twice on waking up and to sing a song; she p did both. |. CONNECTICUT man is usually sharp at a bargain when he gives his mind to it. A Waterbury weekly newspaper made an invariable rule to charge $1 down for a year's subscription, and $1.25 when the subscriber was in ar­ rears. One subscriber was three weeks behind when he went to renew his sub­ scription the other day. He offered his dollar and was told $1.25 was the price. TO stop my paper," said the subscriber. "Here are the 12 cents I owe you for the tlp^fly papers." After the editor ' hrdh "plwScBtted the 12 cents the sub­ scriber handed out the same dollar and said he guessed he'd subscribe for a year. He saved just 13 cents by the operation. He is 75 vears old. . and forthe care wi|h whjî fc they have conducted an investigation which may lead to import- ant aciefttifle results. LORD SALISBURY is about a century behind the times in his habits and tastes. Dinner at the Hatfield House iaa dreadful ceremony. The gentle­ men are in full dress; the ladies in ball toilettes, with flowers and diamonds; the servants are in grand livery--blue breeches, silk flesh-colored stockings, buckled shoes, blue waistcoat, and black coat. The valet de chamber, major domo, and sub-major domo are also in full uniform. Lord and Lady Salisbury, facing one another, sit at the center of the table. The guests may take what places they choose, except at the right of Lord and Lady Salisbury, whioli are reserved for the persons of rank who may chance to be present. Dinner over, which is served a la Francaise, the la­ dies rise and leave the hall in order of precedence. PAIX MALL GAZETTE: The latest llteory--by no means a reassuring one-- •8 to the nature &nd origin of scarlet fever is that it may be had "direct from the cow," and is, in short, the form assumed in human beings by some orig­ inally vaccine disease. An epidemic, or rather several epidemics, of scarlet fever in Maryl^bone, Hampstead and other districts has been traced to cer­ tain milk. Every care has been taken to discover whether the milk could have been infected after leaving the cow, and on full investigation this theory has been excluded. One of the cows, "the ap­ pearance of which was least satisfac­ tory," has now been bought and con­ veyed to the Brown Institution, where experiments are being made with the milk and other secretions. The sani­ tary officers of the Maiylebone district certainly deserve credit for the prompt­ itude with which they seem to have sipped in the bud what might have h&" - JV? ' -. A WRITER in the hot climate of the Ea$t Indies calls attention to the possi­ bility of serious mistake through ac­ cepting as correct the school-book state­ ment that sound travels at the rate of 1,093 feet per second. That is its speed at the freezing point of water, or rather at the melting point of ice; but the ra­ pidity of transmission appears to in­ crease about one and three-quarters feet for each degree of temperature. That makes a difference of seventy-five and one-half feet at the temperature of 100 degrees which prevails in India., A shrapnel shell intended to be thrown 1,000 yards, the distance being esti­ mated by sound, would fall seventy- five yards short of the mark aimed at and do no damage. In the shelling of intrenchments at a distance of 4,000 yards the error would amount to about 250 yards, and the result might be to render useless a whole battery of guns. M. FRANCISQUE SARCET relates the following story, which he had from the lips of M. Ferdinand de Lesseps: A number of diplomatists of* different nationalities were assembled in a Lon­ don drawing-room in the year 1872. A Russian politician of high rank having made, some remarks to a German per­ sonage respecting the five milliards which France had been compelled to pay, the latter, instead of replying, turned to' an English diplomatist who was present and said with a laugh: "It is you who will restore them to Franoe." "How?" exclaimed the Englishman. "What do you mean?" "I mean what I say. You will pay the money within fifty years." The Englishman looked up for some explanation and the Ger­ man diplomatist asked, "How many English ships pass every year through the Suez canal?" "And the German," adds M. Sarcey, 'Jspoke the truth; for since that date the French shareholders have already received more than 'a mil- Had, 80 per cent, of which has come out of English pockets." J " « LELAXD STANFORD, United States Senator from California, is reported by "Gath" as expressing the following views on the Mormon question: "The Mormons have served a useful purpose in this country, and they have their virtues. I had a talk with John Taylor, their President, and some of their lead­ ing men not long ago, and I told them that they would have to get rid of po­ lygamy, that it was against the prejudices of our people and their example, and that we were all persuaded that one wife was all that one man could afford to support; and that, while I sympa­ thized with them for their frugality and hardships, they must stop this practice lest some injury overtake them. The Edmunds bill bears hard upon families which have existed in the past. Here is a Mormon with two or three families, and he must go to jail if he lives in polygamy; whereas the public 'opinion of his own community considers him a coward if he abandons either of the families. I do not think they are mak­ ing polygamous marriages out there now, and there should have been con­ sideration made for the old families al­ ready established. But this matter lte- comes largest at a distance. In my opinion polygamy will die out left to natural causes." A NEW YORK paper recently pub­ lished a rumor to the effect that Gen. Sherman was not satsfied with his home in St. Louis and the treatment accorded him there, and that he had decided to take up his permanent residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. A St. Louis Republican reporter called upon Gen. Sherman and showed him the item. After reading it carefully he smiled and said: "Well, it is true that I have been talking about moving to New York, but I shall not go before next winter." " For the reasons stated ? " "No, sir; on the contrary, I have been very much pleased with my residence here and hftve no fault to find. But my son, who is attending the St. Louis University, will graduate next summer, and he wants to go to Yale. His mother, naturally, will want to be near him. Lieut. Fitch has already gone, you know, and my son's going to Yale would leave only two or three of us here. Besides, I find that it will be cheaper for us to board at the Fifth Avenue Hotel than to maintain this large house here. We have been talking over the matter among our­ selves, and have concluded that it will be the best to make the change." "When will you leave here?" "Not until next winter. I shall go to Cali­ fornia next summer and bring up in New York next fall." A Practical Man. During. services in an Arkansas church, two game roosters entered the house and began to fight. An old deacon was about to eject the chickens when the preacher, stepping down from the pulpit, said: . "Hold on a minute. Brother Matthews, I want to show this congregation the evils of cock fighting --show how barbarous--" "Bet ten dollars on the red one," some one exclaimed. "I go you," the preacher replied. "I am a new man in this community and I want to show this congregation that there's not a sinner in the neigh­ borhood that can bluff me." The red chicken was defeated. The preacher, putting the stakes into hie pocket, remarked:' "I've been needing a new saddle for some time and I am thankful to see that circumstances have favored me. Since chickens are de­ termined to fight and since sinners are determined to l>et, I think that it is the preacher's right to take advan­ tage of the situation."--Arkansaw Traveler. REV. T. M. GRIFFITH, a Methodist minister at Media, Pennsylvania, is afraid there is some latent Calvinism left in his brethren, and says "we are not all 'miserable sinners.'" THE United States Government is­ sues 4,000 different books a year. A TaW* of Flash, the l^orl* ot an> tXfctlbiv tfavnnt, Which Drove an Owiwrto iSuirkin. A table, the most terrible and ghastly piece of furniture ever conceived in the- mind of man, will be shown in neat year's exhibition of the Franklin In­ stitute, if Dr. Mark L. Nfcrdyz, of this city, is successful in obtaining the loan of it from Palazzo Pitti, Florence, for that purpose. The table is the work of Giuseppe Sagatti, who was several years in mak- ing it. The material was drawn from perhaps 100 human corpses. It consists of a circular top, resting upon a pedestal with four supports like claws. The face of the table is about three feet in diameter. To the uninitiated spectator it would appear a f&ntastic but artistic work in marble, for it is highly polished and looks like ston^; but when he is- told that the hearts, livers, muscles and intestines of the human body form the entire composition of the gruesome ob­ ject, the visitor shudders; but there is an attractiveness in its very ghastliness^ which leads him to examine it tthe more closely. The Pitti Palace contains, without exception, the finest collection of paintings in Italy, including some- of the best works of Raphael, Mich®?! Angelo, Murrillo, Corregio, and others. Its art treasures comprise only a small portion of its riches, but it must be con­ fessed that no Chamber of Horrors contains anything approaching Sagatti's table in its capacity to> make flesh creep. The weird craftsman is dead these many years. The table, by which he will always be remembered, was com­ pleted half a century ago, and after passing through the hands of three individual owners, the last of whom committed suicide over it, it was se­ cured for the Palazao. Sagatti spent several years in per­ fecting a system of petrifaction, and succeeded in discovering a process whereby the natural animal reaction in a corpse after death could be changed to mineral reaction by first securing im­ munity from decay by a well-known embalming process, and afterward im­ mersing the body in a bath where it absorbed silici particles. For the pur­ pose of a practical illustration of the metHod and its results he set about making the table. The corpses neces­ sary for the purpose were obtained from one of the hospitals. The intes­ tines were used in the construction of the ornamental pedestal, and having been pressed into shape M'ere petrified. The claws of the table were formed from the hearts, livers and lungs, which still retain the appearance of live flesli. The leaf of the table was composed of the larger muscles of the body, artisti­ cally arranged fogether to form the de­ sired effect. The table was intended to be highly ornamental, and, though nothing was to be used in its construc­ tion but parts of the human body, the mind that first conceived it was not at a loss to find means of ornamentation. A hundred pair of eyes or more, and as many pairs of ears, were petrified and artistically arranged around the edges. The effect was the most blood-curdling that could be imagined. The process | succeeded in preserving the eye-balls in i their natural state, so that after polish- | ing they retained their color and general I ante-mortem appearance with an intensi- I fied brilliance. This completed thp task of the savant. He was proud Of the result of his labors. The test of his process of petrifaction was emi­ nently successful. He communicated his method to the medical world, but, naturally, it never became generally adopted, though it was well understood by surgeons and physicians.--Philadel­ phia Special in Pittsburgh Dispatch. The Gypsies. The gypsies are a vagabond people found in nearly all parts of the world. They are themselves ignorant of their origin, and no historical record exists of their earlier migrations. So there are different theories about them among writers. Some consider that they came originally from Egypt--the name gypsy is simply a corruption of Egyptian-- others that they came from Persia, Arabia, or India. The weight of evi­ dence in the language, physiognomy, and habits of this vagrant people is in favor of their Indian origin. There is to-day a wandering tribe in Upper India known as the Zingarro, and the name of the gypsies in the first European coun­ try which they visited was the Zingari. It is impossible that this similarity of names should be a chance coincidence. Further, the first appearance of the gypsies in Europe occurred when the Mongol conqueror, Timour, was laying waste the fruitful countries of Southern Asia, and marking the trail over which his army passed with rivers of human blood. Over 90,000 men, women, and .children were slaughtered in the province Bagdad; 100,000 between the Indus and Delhi. The Zingarro, the tramps of Oriental society, the poorer classes, who had no possessions to ex­ cite the cupidity of the invaders, fled in bands to the westward, while the conquering party marched toward the east. The first bands of these people came to Italy in the first decade of the fifteenth century. In 1422 there were about 14,000 of them in that country. They made their first appearance in the provinces of Danube in 1417. August 17, 1427, a band of them came to Paris. They had caught enough of European speech to make themselves understood, and claimed to be Christians who had been driven from Egypt bv the invasion of the Saracens. The Parisians were disposed to receive them hospit&bly, but as they proved to be great thieves they were soon after expelled from the city. They continued, however,to wander in in France, and other bands joined them. They appeared in England about 1506, «nd in Sweden in 1514. Wherever they went they pretended to the arts of palmistry and fortune-telling to get better opportunity to carry on their thieving practices. Spain banished them in 1492, and a century later re­ newed the decree strenuously. In England they were exiled by special proclamation by Henry VIII., and also by Elizabeth. Italy, Denmark, Sweden, and Holland also took measures against them. In Scotland they were treated kindly, and pfforts were made to civilize them, though without much success. Germany also mode like efforts, and so | did Austria, but these have only proved successful since Joseph II. of the latter country, in 1782, made and enforced severe laws against vagrants. There are about 700,000 gypsies in Europe, the most of them being in Southern Russia, the Danubian provinces, Austro- Hungary, and Spain. The severe laws against them have generally been re­ pealed. The gypsies have intermarried but little with other races, and the proximity of civilixed races for four centuries aud more has made but little impression on their original barbarity. The language of the gypsies, though everywhere preserving forms of an un­ mistakably Indian origin, differs greatly ia different countries,. people •*» vejy much inoiined io incorporate ?/ords of ether tcsgpsea meir owo. --Inter l>eenn. Mental PmcieMr. • there wdk a had a T*O« - Attnae dislike to cats, so much s<N £hat,^re#e then- one in the room when sh*» ehtered. khe would be oKfiged to leave immediately, such an effect had it upon her nervous systeliju On? one oedMion she was invited to dine with the narrator's family'in the coun­ try, but she declined lwuanso she knew there were cats on the premises; but on the promise that the- cits should be strictly incarcerated she consented to come, and the three cats belonging to the house were duly shut up. During the dinner she was seen, to be very un­ comfortable, and to look very pale," and, on being asked the matter, she said that she was sure there was. a cat in the room. Assurances that this could not possibly be the case were of no avail, and. on search being made, a cat was found actually sitting: under her chair. She rose immediately, and left the table; and passing dbwn th# timing- room toward the door she also passed across a small cupboard door opening in the wall, through which the dinner was served directly from; the kitchen. As she passed this the second cat of the establishment jumped through it into the dining-room.. A. scream of horror burst from the poor lady, and she was led away fainting in the drqwing-room. The time of year was such that the window of the din wing-room was open, an4 it was so Made that it reached nearly down to the floor, and not much above the lawn outside the house. While the poor lady wdi being at­ tended to by aid of scent-bottles and feuch like restoratives, the third of the cat establishment jumped in at the win­ dow ! This was too much to be borne by such a peculiarly constituted nerv­ ous system, and she begged to leacre the house immediately. In 1851. as I was walking down the center of the Great Exhibition, care­ lessly looking about me, I was struck •with a sudden thought as to whether I should meet a clergyman there with whom I had lived some ten years before, and had not seen for many years and, so far as I remember, had hardly thought of since. Pondering on so strange a turn to my thoughts, I sud­ denly turned round and retraced my steps; and before I had gone thirty yards I met face to face the very geutle- man whom I had but just contemplated the possibility of meeting. Another and a different scat of mental prescience occurred a few years since. I was dressing one morning, when I suddenly thought: What became of my brother's old signet-ring that I used to wear ? (This brother had died some thirty years before). I began to think over it; but found I had lost all recol­ lection of its fate, and it passed from mv mind. About five or six days after­ ward my niece came to stay with me. She had come from my old home, some twenty miles distant, where I had been born, and she said she liart brought over a ring for me, as my sisters thought it must belong to me, and that it had been found by one of the gardeners in the mould in the garden. And, by in­ quiry, I found that it had been picked up on the very morning that I had thought of it when I was dressing. Here, then, was the long-lost ring and these various circumstances connecting themselves together; and I then re­ membered that I had lolit the ring in that very spot in the garden belonging to my old home where it had been found; and being' a signet^hg. and useful for sealing letters with, I had bought another to supply its place. On referring to my old accounts, I further found that this newer- signet-ring had been purchased nearly twenty years be­ fore, so that the lost ring had been lying in the garden mould some twenty years before it was recovered in the vicinitv of the spot where I had lost it. • : r Slewing Up a fttanip. When Abraham Jewptt of Mitchell County, Indiana, was called before the Coroner's jury, he removed his cap, made an awkward scrape of his foot, and began: "Well, me'u Bill took a job of blowin' up seventy-six stumps for Squar' Davis, and we was to get 40 cents a stump. We was to get half cash and half store- pay out o' John Sloan's grocery. Do von foller?" "Go ahead, Abe," said the Coroner. "I was for burnin' them stumps up, but Bill wanted to show off and be a big toad in the puddle, and so he says we've got to use powder cartridges. They lias 'em on ̂ purpose to blow up stumps, you know. When Bill got his eyes sot in a sartin direction a yoke 'o oxen couldn't move 'em, and I bad to give in on the catriclges. I reckon you foller?" "Go on, Abe." "Well, we got the eatridges. There was printed directions to be read, but Bill throwed 'em away and went ahead on his own hook- He said if he didn't know 'nuff to blow up a stump he wanted to die and be an angel right off. If lie's up thar now, tootin away On his little harp, I donno. Reckon vou fol­ ler?" "O, yes." "We got an orger and bored a hole in a stump, and. Bill bossed around with his hat on his ear and his stomach puffed out. You'd a-thought lie owned the hull country. He sent me after a mal­ let, and, I might have gone twenty rods when I heard an explosion. Are ve^el- lerin' me?" "Goon." "I looked oroijnd and I saw Bill goin' head over heels'in the air. He wentup about thirty feet, pawed around for a spell, and then came down like a load o' brick. 1 run fur him, but he was no more on this earth. That is, he was on this earth fast 'nuff, but his speerit had got up and humped itself • fur 'tother world. Do ye foller?" "We do." "That 'ere explosliun exploded afore he got ready, I reckon. He was a sad objeck to behold. I borrowed a chew oft' his plug tobacco, and then went to his house and broke the sad news to his widder. I am bound to say she askr 1 me to have a glass of cider and treated in1 like a lady, and that her grief would have melted a heart of stone. I am 45 years old, live in this county and State, and in the midst of life we aire in death. Thafs all I know about how Bill Rockwood come to git exploded up by powder while blowin' up stumps at 40 cents apiece, and may we meet beyond the skies. Who follers me out after a drink?"--New York Sun. ; THE first patient admitted to the new Northern Hospital for the Insane, in Michigan, was a man who assisted in its erection. 11 i- ,i n, ? . A Lo3Doif bookbinder has bound Hans Halbein's "Dance of Death" in human skin* SITlPi HOSPITALITY- The Opro-Handrd * \T«lcomn Which llii Kxlcndtwi to a PriwiHH^tor. 4. The man waiting' id the yard was. "the man of the house-'*' He had been brought forthiby the barking of the dogs and the- wild-eved reports of his children. It was with great surprise that he saw the apparition of the pros­ ector afid his donkey descending the lope of the mountain. The mani who hus stood forth, wore* a pair of baggy mtternut pantaloons, lieM up by a single' knit woolen suspender, & blue woolen shirt, aud a tattered straw- hat. His butternut-colored hair- reached almost down to his shoulders, but his face was clean shtwed. He was a man 45 or 50 years old; but still solid and sound as a nut. From the moment when he liad first seen the miner- and donkey descending the side of the mountain this pioneer ranchman had watched every step and movement with interest. When the miner finallv arrived at the bars, tied up his donkev, let down a bar, entered the inclosure, and approached the house, the ranch­ man--with extended hand and a face that showed a smile in. everv square inch of it--advanced to meet lnm Then his cheery voice rang out: "Stranger, howdy! Glad to see ver! Cnmftir? So fur as that, liev? T^all, wall--blast me, stranger, howdy! Wall, wall--glad ter see yer, by jingo! Kin yer git to stay all night--blast nie! yer jist kin! liyar, John Thomas--John Thomas! John Thomas, my boy, let down the front bars and lead ui the gentleman's jackass. Take him round to the east o' the pig-pen, wh&r the mornin* sun'll strike him, and throw an armful o* fodder over the fence. Yas, stranger, you kin git to stay all night. John Thomas--ho, John Thomas ! John Thomas, my son, give the stranger's jack­ ass a bucket ©' water. Looks to me, stranger, like you're one o*" them pros- pectin' pilgrims. Yas? Wall, I thought so blast nie, I thought so! As fur as ever I see'd you up the hill I thought so. Blast me, vast I sed to myself that you was one- o' them prospectin' pil­ grims. Sairy Jane, wife! I say, Sairy Jane, in the house thar! You kin cut the crook-necked squash--the stranger '11 stay. John Thomas--John Thomas, boy; don't yer hear yer daddy call ? Yas? Wall, then, attend to business. Give the stranger's jackass a bite o' bairley. Julia Ann, my girl, don't stand starin'; run and pull a mess o' turnips. "Blast me, stranger, if I hain't glad to see this section a gittin' so populous! Come, we'll walk inter the house. But fufet--John Thomas, boy! JohnThomas, bring in all the stranger's things oflTn bis jackass. Walk in--walk in. Take a seat in that big split bottom cheer what stands by the corner of the hath. It's the easiest cheer in the house, 'eep- tin' that one with rockers onto it, that you see my ole mammy a settin' in. Mammy, tliis is a prospectin' person-- an'lie 11 stay all night! She's a leetle bit deaf, stranger. I had her brought out this summer. She cum all the way from ole Missourv. Blast me, stranger, she jist sits in the chimney corner as happy as a kitten all day long. Does a feller good to look at her, don't it? How old? Wall, stranger, her age hain't alius been kept as reg'ler as it ouglit'r bin, but I reckon she's nigh on to 00. "I say! Sairy Jane, are you out tliar in the kitchen ? Yer are ? Wall, I'm goin' out to cut the head off'n a yellow- legged hen, so put on the pot and have some scaldin' water ready. Git to stay all night? Wall, stranger, yer couldn't git to do nothin' elst if yer tried! Su­ sie, «hild, -get yer daddy his coat; then jist take the stranger's carpet-sack an' put it under the bed out in the best room. Yas, yas, Susie child--I know that! But your gran'mammy kin sleep in the trundle bed 'long with jfou and Julia Ann and Aniandv Ellen: yer mammy an' me kin take lit-tie Jimmy and Mary Louisa inter bed 'long with us, and George Alexander is big enru^h to go up inter the loft 'long o' the boys. But afore yer go, child, jist git a coal o' fire off'n the hath fur yer gran'mammy's pipe; don't yer see slip's a waitin' ? "What, stranger! Yer kin spread yer blankets an' sleep on the floor ? No, stranger, yer jist can't spread yer blankets an'sleep on the floor! Wall, blast me!- Spread his blankets and sleep on the floor? Wall, by jingo! Stranger, there hain't another house in thirty mile; an' what does the Bible say liout entertainin' a stranger una­ wares? Git to stay all night ? Wants to spread his blankets! Bless my soul, by jingo ! Sairy Jane, wife, be par- tick'ler an' peel a few pertaters to put in 'long with the chicken. Mammy'll talk to yer, stranger, while I go fur the hen. You'll find her right peart vit, but yer got to talk loud like. Yer kin jist move ver cheer back from the hath if yer too warm. We've got ter keep a bit o' fire a goin' to take the chill off'n her, an' light her pipe. Mammy, the stranger 11 talk ter yer; he'll stay all night. Yer might hev to yell a leetle bit louder'n that, stranger; yer see she's used to my voice. "John Thomas, my boy, run out now an' ketch up Bull, Watch, Tige, and old Bose an' tie 'em up; they might take to worry'n the stranger's jackass durin' the night, but you kin let the four pups run loose. What! old Bose under the bed? Git the broom and poke him out. He's the consarnedest dog fur sleepin' under l>eds that I ever see! Amandv Ellen, girl, pick up a basket o' chips and help your mammy while I go for that hen. Sairv Jane, yer might dasli a few dough dumplin's inter the chicken among the pertaters ef the stranger likes 'em. Asked if he could git to stay ? Blast me! Sairy Jane, wife! Better bake a short-cake for supper!" '--Nevada Letter. The Eyes of Watchmakers. Some time ago the Breslau (Tculist, Dr. H. Cohn, on examining the eyes of seventv-five watchmakers, found that scarcely five per cent/ ' of the number were affected with short-sightedness, which result seemed to justify the be­ lief that the use of the loupe was an ex­ cellent protection against myopia. Quite recently the same oculist ex­ amined the eyes of fifty watchmakers in a Freiburg watch factory, who had for years, without using a loupe, worked the fine }>arts of watches, and of whom, nevertheless, only two were slightly short-sighted. From this Dr. Cohn concludes that watchmaking is an in­ dustry not injurious to the eye, while, considering the fact that his extensive examinations among students had estab­ lished an average of fifty-six per cent., among compositors of fifty-one per cent., and of lithographers of thirty-seven per cent, afflicted with myopia, he comes to the conclusion that reading, writing, composing and drawing are more in­ jurious to the " eyes than the constant exercise of the visnal organ in connec­ tion with fine stationary objects.--Paris Register. AT present M. Pasteur is the sole manufacturer of the virus of rabies. EDMUNDS IN WA&-PAINT. Laportanee of the Contromraf Betwaam tin President and the Senate » . Plainly Stated. L Democratic Precedent Brought Forward' | (Showing Beason for the BejrabH* ̂ oan. Attitude.. [Washington special.] Under the head of unfinished business* Hie- Senate took up the resolutions reported by Mr. Edmunds from the Judiciary Committee.- These resolutions, among other things, con­ demn the Attorney General lor refusing to' transmit to the Senate papers called for by the Senate, and ileclare that refusal to be a viola­ tion by the Attorney General of his official duty, and subversive of the fundamental prin­ ciples of government and good administration^ Tho resolutions also condemn the discharge team the Government service of ex^Union sol­ diers. As the resolutions Were read by the Chief Clerk, the most absolute silence" pre­ vailed on the floor and in the galleries. Tho gallorios were crowded to apparent discomfort,, many persons being compelled to stand This was notably true of the reserved galleries, to which admission is only permitted by cards from Senators, many gentlemen and not a few ladios, though early in attendance,.failing to- find vacant Boats,. Senator Edmunds rose and prefaced his speech with the remark that the calm or order­ ly administration of constitutional government is a subject in which the people, the President, and representatives of the people were equally interested and equally responsible^, It was in support of such orderly government, that he addressed the Senate. Entering upon tho subject of the suspension of Mr. Duslun from the office of attorney for Southern Alabama and the appointment of Mr. Burnett to sui'ceed him, Senator "Edmunds con­ tended that tho act of the President did not remove Mr. Duskin, but simply withheld from him the duties and emoluments of the office pending a decision of the matter by the Senate. When the nomination of Mr. Burnett was sent to the Sonate Mr. Duskin was- tho- United States Attor­ ney for Southern Alabama, and the proposition now made to the Senate was that he should 1)9 removed. In spite of sundry misstatemonts made in the case by the public Sresav tho President, and the minority of the udieiary Committee, he said, the case as itt stood was that the President had asked the Senate to consent too the removal of Duskin and the appointment of I5urao;t It was not for the President to determine what papers were relevant; that was discrehon- with, the Semite. The papers called for in this case were papers filed in tho department, and the law uaue the Attorney General auu the President tho custodians of thoso {tapers, and required them to preserve them. Every pa­ per addressed to the ofneer exercising the official function of suspension, upon that topic, must be an official paper, no matter how vile or false it might he. The papers were refused because they would enable the Senate to un­ derstand the reasons which prompted the sus­ pension. Therefore the proposition was that the Sonate, being called on in the exercise of its jurisdiction to judge of the-official conduct of Duskin, could not have the papers, because if it did they would disclose tiie grounds on which tho President acted. "If that," said Mr. Edmunds, 'is not a proposition whirl) would stagger the credulity and amaze the under­ standing of any intelligent man in a govern^ ment of law, or in a government of reason^ t am unable to comprehend,what would be." The jurisdiction of Congress was infinitely broadol- than that of the President. His was executive nower. Congress made the laws, and when uie Constitution commands him to give Congress information on "tho state of the r-nioir it says he "shall" do it There was no. one tiling, no one subject, that represented thw "state of the Uiion." It was the condition of the Government and every part of it, not ouly its legislative parts--about which the President could communicate no information without impertinence, for the Constitution had declared that the two houses were to regulate them­ selves--but ho was to give to Congress, and was positively commanded to do so, from time to time, information on tho state of the Union, and that was why Congress was entitled to have it every time it eallel for it. And he violated a positive command of the Constitution when, on a constitutional call in the regular way, ho omitted to do it It was becaiw tho l'ros deut was unilor this constitutional obligation that Congress in its requests for information often left it to the dis­ cretion of the Executive to decido whether or not the mloi'mation should be sent when thero might be a question as to the propriety of dis­ closing some confidential matters. Mr. Ed­ munds continued: I will state the cxtremeet case possible--that of either house calling on the President or the Secretary of State for information as to the disburse'ment of the contingent fund for the payment of the expenses of foreign iutareourse, which is ordinarily called a secret service fund. There the money of the people is appropriated under the law which says that a voucher of the President of the United States shall be evidence to the accounting officers of the Treasury that the money has been appropriately expended, while in the Stato Department the real vouchers remain which snow for what the money has been expended. Now, then, suppose some President two or throe years ago, when we appropriated $100,000 or $^00,000 for the contingent expenses of the department just preceding an election, should have turned into the Treasury a lump vouchor for that whole amount Suppose that at the next meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives they should be of opinion that for the security of good government and as a guard against any cor­ ruption or improper use of tliat money it was necessary that they should know what became of it. Would it bo within the powe* of tho Sec- rotary of State or tho President of tha Unitod States to say no? If so, we had better be ^ex­ tremely careful hereafter as to how much money we put iuto the contingent fund for for­ eign intercourse. When this resolution^was sent to tho Attorney General there was pend­ ing in another branch of Congress a bill provid­ ing for a deficiency of about $186,000 in the Department of Justice for fees of jurors and witnesses, and there was there, without doubt, a letter -of the Attor­ ney General stating that there must be added for this current fiscal year end­ ing on tho 30th of June next, a year covering twelve months of purely Democratic control, a deficiency of $185,000. "if the case of Duskin is fairly Illustrative of the circumstances of all the District Attorneys and Mai-shals of the United Statos, then we have drawn in the ques­ tion: What has become of tho money that was appropriated at tho regular session to carry on the administration of justice through the De­ partment of Justice in the United States? Dus­ kin was one of the persons who were to draw upon that fund. In that district he was tho very person whose agency, more than that of any other man, would go to an economical or an extravagant--nav, just or unjust--ex­ pend, ture of tho public money. Can we not know anything about it? Take tho other sixty or seventy districts in the United States. If it is denied to us as to Duskin, it must be denied as to Dorslieimer, aud as to Henry, the Marshal of Vermont, and every other Marshal and every other District Attorney. ' What, then, are we to do? If we had passed this resolution while we were acting in a legis­ lative way (as if there were any difference in the powers of the Senate whether sitting with open or with closed doors); if we had Bent pre­ cisely this resolution and applied it to all the districts in tho United States; if the Attorney General and the 1'residont, are right now they would be right then in saying: "No; wo can givo you no information, because if we do you may be able to know the reasons why so many of these Marshals and District Attorneys have been suspended, and that is purely with­ in the province of the President of the Unitod States. That is the logic of our good friends, the minority of the committee, and their good friend and "ally, the President of the United States, who, with a courage e rtamly unique, has interjected his supplementary report to the report of the minority committee Defore the Senate has even considered it Senator Edmunds quoted the.-** words from a speech made by Senator Hayne of South Caro­ lina fiftv vears" ago in the discussion of a reso­ lution demanding facts relating to a congress of South American aud Central American States and tho United States, which resolution was opposed by the friends of the President: "However gentlemen may lie enamored of this new doctrine of confidence m rulers, it is not the ground, I apprehend, ou which t ;e Senate ought to act in luLfillmg its constitutional dnty of giving advice to the President If we arc to act by laitli and not by knowledge we have no business to l>e here." Senator Edmunds thought with Senator Hayne that if the Sonate was expected to act on * 050 removals and appointments by faith and not by knowledge thon the Senators had no business to l>e there. Senator Edmunds cited the refusal of President Jackson in IS: to send to tho Senate information concerning the removal of a Surveyor General named Wirtz, and the appointment in his place of a man named Williamson, saying that that was one of the numerous calls raid.' o:\ him by the Senate which he had hitherto complied witU, nKMga iii. whittle PftwidtoBfcMid ll rmtfj Wdlnimson wm oueof^th^Ew^raalifiedi Md most valuable f-irmnnpiirtw hail sin tiinwi That was the end off the affate MmM f)Mt> dent Jackson and the Senate«B:th*-sTibiect of papers about appointments. *' • Tto President, m his supplementary miaotitrra. port to the deliberations of the Staate, has stated, with a fullness of rhetoric which was •s charming as it ™ uniqû that thess stat- }utes of the United States and the vractfoe £der them had now for many years fallen into a state-of 'innocuous-desuetude." If that ia hue it ought to be one of the missions of the PMT. dent, in discharging the dutv that the Consti­ tution imputes to him* to take that ststnte oat of disuse, if I may-use a shorter aiuL humbler phrase, and, as he was sworn to db, pat itiqt» faithful execution. But is the statute in disue? Let us ssat On the 4th of March, 1879,.the Democrats had a majority of this body. Their Committee oat the Judiciary was Mr. Thnrman (Chairmsnk Mr. McDonald.of Indiana, and Mr. Bayardlof Delaware (the- present Secretary of State), Garland,, of Arkansas- (the present Attorney General), Mr. Lamar of Mississippi (the pres­ ent Secretary of the Interior), Judge Davis of Illinois, and Edmunds, Conkling, and Car­ penter. [Senator Edmunds here read a covjr of a letter from ex-Senator Thnrman, as Chair­ man of the committee, to the Attorney General, dated March ".'4. 1S79. calling for ->uch infor­ mation as may be in the possession of your de­ partment concerning the following nomination, together wi® any suggestion you may be pleased to note."] On the 7th. of April thsro camo a horse-of a different color--the same kind, of an animal that wo- have hero now. [Laughter.], Accordingly on that day this letter was-written to the Attorney Goneral: SIR: Under the direction of the Judiciaay Committee of the Sonate, I have the honor request that you will communicate to tho coos- mittee any ,papers or information in your pos- session touching the question of the propriety of the removal [pmohasis by Mr. Bdmondsjof Michael Shaffer^4jjief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah; and the ap­ pointment of David T. Corbin to the offispb Very respMttblly your obedient servant,. Aiitm.G. THUBMAN, Chairman* Alas for theD emocracy of those dtnat - [Laughter.] Think, Mr. President, of tho m- finito»idiocy, the unpatriotism, the usurpation of that number of live Senators of the United States of the Democratic party assailing a Bo- ?ul»Iican Attorney Goneral and a Republican 'resident with the insulting and impertinent inquiry as to papers and information touching a suspended officer whose successor wasnoint nated to accomplish his removal And yak those men were, in their day--in those tune**-- among: the headlights of the Democratic loos- motivo. [JLalighter; ]; Thece was Thurman-- his light was out [renewed laughter]--tha greatest Democrat in the United States [ap­ plause in the galleries], aud the best one and the noblest one, and the bra-rest one--for ha had the courage not long ago in your Stata^ sir, to denounce the Democratic frauds at the ballot There was Thurman and thero waa "Joe" McDonald--a name familiar in the West as m the East, the embodiment of upright Democratic pluck and onutitational law; and there wa£ Gartand, whom we all know h -re, the leader on the Democratieskle of the Senate, full and running over with constitutional and statute and re-port'd law--knowing his rights as a Senator and as a member of the committes and knowing his dnties; and Lamar; and--aud then all the- rest of us on this side, joining in what tho present President of tho United States calls an impertinent innovation of his rights in ask­ ing for papers. Mr. President, if I were going to be rhetorical I should sav just there: "Qh, shame, where is thy blush?* But that was not the only instance, Senator Edmunds said. The same Chairman on many occasions had called for that same class of in­ formation arnUgot it. It did not seem to tho speaker that ©^Sonate could fail t» get the papers on the TEfiround that the statute on the subject had become ohsolote--or gone into Ik state of "innocuous desuetude." smi f# V *•! si '• is S The Typ'cal Kentnckian. The typical Kentuekiati regards him­ self an American of the Americans, and thinks as little of being like the En­ glish as he would of imitating the Jutes. In nothing is he more like hia transatlantic ancestry than in strong self-content. He sits on his farm aa though it were the pole of the heavena --a manly man with a heart in him. Usually of the blonde type, robust^ well formed, with clear, fair complex­ ion, that grows ruddier with age and stomachic development, full neck, and an open, kind, untroubled countenance. He is frank, but not familiar; talkative* but not garrulous; full of the genial humor of local hits and illusions, bat without a subtle nimbleness of wit; in­ dulgent toward all purely masculine vices, but intolerant of petty crimes; no reader of books nor master in relig­ ious debate, faith coming to him as naturally as his appetite, and growing with what it is fed upon; loving roast pig, but not caring particularly for Lamb's eulogy; loving his grass like • Greek, sot because it is beautiful, but because it is fresh and gretn; a peaceful man with strong pas­ sions, and so to be heartily loved and respected or heartily hated and respected, but never despised or trifled with. An occasional barbecue in the woods, where the saddles of Southdown mutton are roasted oa spits over the coals of the mightj t.eneli, and the steaming kettles of burgoo lend their savor to the noBe of the hungry political orator, so that ho becomes all the more impetuous in his invectives; the gre .t agricultural fairs; the"^race-courses; the monthly County Court day, when he meets his neighbors on the public square of the nearest town; the quiet Sunday mornings, when he meets them again for rather more clandestine talks at the front door of the neighborhood church-- these and his own fireside are his characteristic and ample pleasures. You will never be under his roof without being touched by the mellowest of a'l the virtues of his race--simple, unsparing human kindness and hospitality. Tbe women of Kentucky have long had a reputation for beauty. An aver- age type is a renuemenkon the English blonde--greater delicacy of form, fea­ ture, and color. A beautiful Kentucky- women U apt to be exceedingly beauti­ ful. Her voice is almost uniformly low and soft; her hands and feet deli­ cately formed; her skin quite pure and beautiful in tint and shading; her eyes blue or brown, and hair nut brown or golden bown; to all of which is added a certain unapproachable refinement. It must not for a moment be supposed, however, that there are not many gen­ uinely ugly women here, as elsewhera. --James Lane Allen, in Harper's Magazine. "•Innocuous Desuetude." The expression "innocuous desuetude," that appeared in President Cleveland's message to the Senate regarding removals from office, has become a popular phrase here. In a dry and dusty argument before tha Supreme Court yesterday, a lawyer was ail­ ing a lot of unthcrities, when the opposing lawyer kindly suggested another, which, he said; mi'jht not be accepted because it had fallen into "innocuous desuetude." The solemn Justices laughed until the folds Of their gowns shook. Iu the Senate to-day Mr. Plumb wa* try­ ing to brat the Blair bill b» showing th;ita United States school history he held in his hand was written for Southern children from a Coufoder.it ' point of view. The book was published fifteen years ago, and he hud no evidence that it was now in us*. "Oh," said Mr. Edmunds dtyly. "probably it is in "innocuous desuetude."*--W'aA Cor. X. Y. Sun. ./ Vi fli m %»; •""12s Cleveland's Success. , "One Year of Success" is the title of tlM Po.il'ti leading editorial, devoted to the gib- ries of Mr. Cleveland's iiduiinistr.iikm. The article is timely and all thut, but ih^ in r ither more con-idea of it wa< piven - --, densed shape bv the small boy »t tue b:ook> but he was going to stop now--tiiat he ha 1 re-| gill, xvheu a p,isser-bv asked how mscy moved Mr. TVirt/. as he had a right to do, aud he had cuflKht; "Well-cr-wken Iv* the reason was none of the Senate's business. Senator Edmunds continued: The Seaato next day, without a division, re­ jected Mr. Williamson, although in the very tish he had caught: "Well--er--wtarn got the one I'm after now aud--and--1«* more, I shall haTe three."--llosto* A-Jrffv f«wr. • . f ;; v 4