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fftaiudcal E Maraud PaMlshar. u J»- 'UM-11 W11'1 l,PPpnf»piiipP McHENBT, ILLINOIS. JESSIE BENTOS FREMONT has make a decided impression upon the social life of Washington during tlie past season. She retains that wonderful charm of conversation ^hieh has always made her famous, and wherever she is found is always surrounded by enthusiastic admirers. " . CORRESPONDENT CRAWFORD says of Senator Hawley: "His one weakness is his belief in his capacity to sing solo songs after dinner. There may be a man on earth who, an make a more frightful noise than the Senator when he thinks he is singing, but his address is not generally known." MR. JOHN W. MACKAY, according to the Paris journals, has fitted. up the smoking-room of his New York hotel in quite a unique manner. The walls are papered with bank-notes of all nations, artistica|ly arranged and running up 4o the ceiling, the whole representing $20,000 in visible cash. They always manage to lasso the news in Paris. JOHN BUSKIN has recently written his opinion concerning the Darwinian theory, and in the course of a char­ acteristic argument remarks: "When I see a girl dance I thank heaven that made her cheerful as well as graceful; and envy neither the science nor senti­ ment of my Darwinian friends, who sfee in her only a cross between a dodo and a daddy-long-legs." A CURIOUS Btory is current in diplo­ matic circles touching the resignation of Mr. F. S. Winston, United States Minister at Teheran, to the effect that lie indignantly resigned because the State Department at Washington re­ fused to order the American men-of- war in the Bosphorus to celebrate his then intended wedding, or to grant him an extended leave of absence for the purpose of getting married. t GENERAL PRENTISS, who was the "biggest and the hottest hornet in the hornets' nest at Shiloh, says that he intends to tell the story of the Sunday battle, and that in the telling he shall spare neither friend nor foe. He re­ grets that Gen. Don Carlos Buell held back until Grant was in his grave before coming out with the recent ac­ count of the part borne by the Army of the Ohio in the battle. , SEVERAL months ago a man at San Francisco was badly burned by an ex­ plosion. His limbs, face, and hands were covered with huge sores which re­ fused to heal. Skin grafting was re­ sorted to, and fully fifty pieces of flesh from relatives of the sufferer have been grafted. The flesh from the thigh of a live chicken was also grafted success­ fully. The case is one of the worst ever known in San Francisco, and the result is awaited with interest by physi-, clansT " . i AN old woman has just died in a St. Petersburg work-house at the age of 122, who had passed seventy years in the institution. Up to the day of her death her vision was unimpaired. An­ other woman in the same work-house is now 110 years of age, and does not ex­ hibit the slightest sign of senile weak­ ness. She says she is just as young as she Used to be, but intends to live to a good old age if they will give her enough to eat and plenty of whisky to drink. "WHEN do yon think Congress will adjourn?" Senator Hoar was asked. "I don't know now," he replied. "There were $40 sent into the conscience fund yesterday, and I suppose we will have to stay until Senator Blair gets up a bill to give the money away to somebody." "When do you think Congress will ad­ journ?" Senator Blair was asked. "Oli, it's impossible to tell now," he an­ swered. "I see that Senator Hoar has given notice of lxis intention to deliver a speech." DR. SMITH, "pastor of the Firiit Meth­ odist Church in St. Paul, found a gang of men paving the street in front of his church, the other Sunday morning. He aBked them to stop. They did not. Then he said that they must stop, and right off, too. If they did not he would jnake a complaint against each individ- _ ual workman, and see that he was ar­ rested and punished for breaking the Sabbath day. At this the pavers took up their tools and •qtlit work, and the energetic ppnior walked into the pulpit and preached with great fervor, saying, i in the course of the sermon, thathepro- "posed to have Sunday observed in front of hi3 church if not in any other part of St. Paul. A BANK president of Columbus, Ohio, hired a plasterer to do a job, stipulat­ ing that the man should forfeit $15 for each day which should elapse over the time in which the job was to be done. The work lacked half a day of being done when the plasterer, who is a National .Guardsman, was ordered to accompany his regiment to Cincinnati to aid in suit- pressing the threatened riots. He went, like a good soldier, and as soon as he got home finished the job; bat the banker lielll him to the bargain and de­ ducted $10 on account of the time lost in defense of la.w and order. The fact that the plasterer was a poor man and had been out of work all winter had no effect upon the bank president. . SOME solid men of Boston have been made sadder and wiser by an oily- ton gued gentleman who canvassed for a mythical directory of New York, Bos­ ton, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and other cities. „ He took advertisements for this woffcat a low figure, and the adver­ tisers signed an agreement, in a book of blank forms, to pay for the card. They were surprised later to find that they had signed agreements, to pay ts of money, their signatures n transferred from the sheet on which they wrote to another beneath, by means of a piece of <carl>on paper. The sec&nd agreement was filled up over the signature by the swindler him­ self, for any sum he thought proper. He is npw in jail, and meditating how hard it is for a rascal to make an honest living. i SOME Idea of the intensity of Mr. Gladstone whfen he is roused by the Tory carpers may be had from the following incident: During a recent debate he was annoyed by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and Lord Randolph Churchill, who taunted him with abandoning some vital principle of the Home Rule Bill. He spoke in reply calmly at first, but as Lord Randolph Churchill kept interrupting him he be­ came indignant and passionate, so much so that the studs which fastened his shirt-front were torn from their posi­ tions. He was utterly unconscious of what had taken place, and as he re­ clined in his seat after the speech his appearance with his shirt-front gaping six inches excited considerable amuse­ ment among the young Tories. The lion had been aroused in the Grand Old Man. 3 .. __ - ' • "THE'defeat of all the attempts to divide Dakota," said Col. "Pat" Donanif" "is a triumph for me, as well as a reali* zation of the prophecies I have made for the last five years in regard to it. There never has been any good reason for the division of the Territory. It never will support the population of Ohio or Illinois, much less that of New York or Pennsylvania; and if will never have the wealth of Massachusetts or Connecticut. The attempt to give such a wilderness four United States Sena­ tors, balancing New York and Pennsyl­ vania, has been and is a piece of brazen impudence and ignorance that only a lot of Territorial bushwhackers could be guilty of. The only thing on God's earth to be accomplished by it is to give a few more offices to an additional gang of frontier bummers. United, Dakota will make a good State. Di­ vided, neither half would amount to anything. instead of dividing big Territories I think we ought to con­ solidate some of our little seven-by-nine States." THE Calumet and Hecla Company astonished the trade a few days ago, as well as part of the world outside, by selling a big lot of copper at 10 cents per pound, says the ChicagdTribune. The quantity sold is believed to have been not far from 4,000 tons. It had been lying on hand for several months, the company had been unable to pay a May dividend, there was no prospect of a speedy improvement in a very dull market, and the holders had tried for some time previously to obtain a better price, but without success. This being the case, and as the price named is a higher one than that at which the copper could have been sold for ex­ port, the sale was made, without refer­ ence to the effect it might have on the market for other producers and whether or not they would be forced into an­ other foreign pool. The price of cop­ per this year had not previously been less than 11 cents, and it is understood that the other companies were holding off for 11^. They are now on their beam-ends, to use a nautical phrase, but are nominally insisting on 10|. A PRETTY story, if one could believe it, is told by the Paris correspondent of a Vienna paper. A matinee musi- cale was given by the Duchess Lamotte, and among the guests was the charming bride-elect of President Cleveland, then in Paris completing her trousseau. The young lady was the object of many marks of distinction, the high aris­ tocracy surrounded her, and there was much talk of her position. One lady, the daughter-in-law of the Duchesse de Persignv, condoled with Miss Fol- som because she would have no title as the wife of a republican President. "All would l>e well, only you would have no title," said she; "you will only be called Mrs. Cleveland." "But that name is only for strangers," was the answer of the fair American; "the President has for intimacy conferred upon me a very particular title." Everybody looked up curiously, and, blushing deeply, Miss Folsom added: "He calls me---his darling. Can a wife have a better title?" The hostess em- bvfteed her amiable guest, remarking: "You are right, and you appear to me as if you would keep the title to the end of j^Bpr life." " ^ -- • - Arkansas Etiquette* A traveling man happened in an out of-the-way neighborhood in Arkanisas last winter, and being obliged by a swolled stream to remain a night or two at a country tavern, accepted an invita­ tion to attend a country dance or ball with the landlord, who was an original of the old-time "Arkansaw Traveler" school. i The ball-room was about twenty feet square, and the floor laid of punclfeons split from large trees, some of which were rough and others smoother. As the "ball" or "lioe-down" went on, the smoother puncheons were in de­ mand, and a stout, burly fellow, lead­ ing his inamorata out for a dance as the music began, said: "Now stick to your puncheon, Sid/* The traveler observing that owing, perhaps, to the scarcity of seats, each man when not dancing held one of the girls seated on his lap, and he also being desirous of dancing, asked his host, the tavern-keeper, for an intro- ductiori*to one of the girls. "Don't need any, stranger. Jist pick out ver gal, grab 'er by 'er hand, and go to dancin' with 'er," was the answer. Selecting one,'the traveler followed instructions, but was paralyzed when the burly Arkansan, on whose lap she had been sitting, drew a Colt's revolver, and, cocking it, aimed at the new­ comer, saying: "Sot 'er back thar, stranger, sot 'er back."--Detroit Free Press. IT is better to love a person you ejur not marry, than to marry a person you cannot love. This is ft f^pi text foe a long sermofL V LOGAN TO THE SoyilERS. He Denounces the Policy of the Gor- neat in Neglecting , mm ' State's Defenders. v 1 - The Patriot la Treated with Ingrati­ tude, While an Arch-Traitor Is • SewartelL At Ottawa, Kas., on the 3d of July the Western Chautauqua Assembly cele­ brated Grand Army day. Gen. John A. Logan was the orator of the occasion, and in the course of his address he took occa­ sion to criticise Cleveland's vetoes of pen­ sion bills. On this subject he said: So, then, my comrades and fiieuds, the war is at last ended, peace has spread her white wings over this great country, and it is now for us, as patriots, as soldiers, and citizens, to live and develop with the. growth of the United States of America in intelli­ gence and morals and in everything that makes a people great and good. And to you, niv old comrades, let me say one word. I dislike very much to have to say it, but after what the government has done necessity has been laid upon me to say it. You have in your ranks men who are unfor­ tunate. They are cripples, blind, and poor, and totter on the streets objects of charity; you, my comrades, know the wants of these once stalwart fellows, who gave the best days of their lives to save the Union. You must see that posts are or­ ganized all over this great country so that every disabled soldier, every poor comrade, may be taken care of; and if, perchance, he may not be able to show the exact spot where he got his wound, he could show whether it was from a friend or from an enemy. You know that his government owes him ear.1, being unfortunate, poor, and unable to help himself. But wiih such or­ ganizations as I have referred to you will yourselves be prepared to tike care of your comrade whfn some misguided President shall veto his bill. It has been said of me all over this coun­ try: "Logan's business is to look after the soldier." I do pay attention to other matters of national importance, but, so help me God, if I can only say that I have been faithful and true enough to watch over the interests of the patriot who saved this country, so that it became my house and your house--if I have taken care of that poor man and helped him in his suffering and distress--I am satisfied God will take care of me. There is a great deal said, my comrades, about the frauds perpetrated by unjustifia­ ble claims made iu order to secure pensions. One word in reference to them. I do not make the sweeping assertion that all pen­ sions that have been granted have been right, for 1 do. not know; but I do know, for a certainty, that there is not a man who served through the war, who had slept amid snow and ice, wind and rnin, by suu- light and starlight, in dampness and dark­ ness, that came out of that service with his life prolonged. I do not believe that there is a man who went through the service, no matter what some people say, who was, after it, as physically competent as he would have been had he not seen the service. I know hundreds of men who ought to have pensions who have not got them be­ cause of their pride, and who now cry out fraud against the Government;but.my coun­ try men, I would rather have a few frauds so-called--although they amount to little-- than to have hundreds denied pensions who are justly entitled to them. I would take the chances of making a slight mis­ take iu that respect. I would a thousand times rather that any soldier who had a bill for a pension of S'.Hi a year, who had served bis country, whether he could prove it ex­ actly or not, should have it signed by the President than that an arrant knave and arch traitor should have $4,(100 a year. My fellow-citizens when I get to talking to my old comrades, and there are many of you here who served under me and under my command while we were in that service--and I claim nothing for myself-- the men who carried the muskets were the men who fought the battles; but while you were tramping day and night around Yicks- burg and Shilo, and freezing in the storms around Donelson, and marching at the word of command from one end of the country to the other, young and strong, you did not believe then that the time would ever come that any man, no matter what his political affilations were, would ever complain of a little pension granted to a soldier: and there is not a man within sound of my voice in this vast audience who was in the army himself hut who knows and must confess that during the war. wften it was doubtful as to which would be successful, when these boys returned home they would not want for gratitude. Why should rich men who fattened on the blood of 300,000 men now complain if men are pensioned because of their ser­ vices? May God forgive me if I ever for­ get there is one thing we can say to the Government--practice what injustice toward the old soldiers, faithful servants of the Union, you may--the time will not be long until they are past your reach. A few more years and there will be no Grand Army of the Republic. In a few more years we will have to go to the cemeteries, the hillsides, the brooks, the marshes, and rivers, to as­ certain the history or wants of the soldier. The evidence of decay is upon us to-day. If I have shown weakness in your presence to-day I hope that, in the light of our past struggles, vou will forgive me. While I may have other state matters that require a fhare of my attention, your c«iise and just rights will n: ver be forgotten. The battle for justice may be a hard one, but it cannot now be a long one, and after we have finished our labors here we shall join the great . silent army who shall not muster again until the last roll-call shall have been sounded. A Democratic Outrage. The Democratic party cannot escape the responsibility for the defeat of the Des Moines River land bill. This just measure was disapproved by the Democratic Presi­ dent, passed over his objections by the Re­ publican Senate, and the veto sustained by the Democratic House, the Republicans in both branches being practically solid in support of the bill. The Republican party can well afford to accept and defend its share of the record thus made. The action of the President is naturally provoking great indignation in Iowa, where all the facts pertaining to the Des Moines River land matter are well understood. Thirty years ago, when most of the settlers made their entries, it was generally con­ ceded that the land above the forks of the river was open to pre-emption. The settlers bought the 1 md, paid for it, and the Gov­ ernment now holds over $70,000 so obtained from the farmers. In many cases patents were issued to the men Cleveland now pro­ poses to evict. A few years after the first entries were made the Supreme Court of the United Stales took the same view as the Government officers and the settlers, and declared that the laud above the forks did not belong to the navigation company, but a singular resolution was subsequently passed through Concress extending the grant. As Senators 'Allison and Wilson construe this resolution it would have no application as against the pre-emption settlers, but if it will bear the construction put on itby Cleve- land and Evarts it is an outrageous piece of legislation, and Congress should feel bound to rectify the injustice perpetrated under its terms. v The settlers who claim their farms be­ cause they bought, them from the Govern­ ment at a time when, according to the de­ cision of the Snpreme Court, they were part of the public domain, and open to en- 1 ny, are opposed by the New York laud- sharks, who assert title on the basis of a tricky retroactive act which was either smuggled through Congress with corrupt intent, or has been falsely construed since. In either event Cou^--ess was bound to cor- , reet the monstrous injustice done the set- | tiers. The navigation company expended ! only $330,000 in improving the river, and received over $500,(Krf, so that it might well have been content with?' out seeking to extend itSgrant, evict settlers, and grab the hula the Gov. eminent has sold to the lKrmers. Yet the Democratic President ana the Demo­ cratic House will not allow the Government to bring suit in its name to protect the rights of the settlers who purchased from it in good faith. Cleveland's message vetoing the Des Moines River land bill displays either a fat-witted incapacity to understand the facts of tLe matter or a fixed determina­ tion to give New York land sharks the preference over Western settlers. In the debate in the Senate the Iowa Seua ovs fairly picked the bones of the veto message and left the attorneys for the land-shark company without a peg on which to hang their arguments, but still there were enough Democratic votes in the House to sustain the Wall-street administration and defeat the bill for the relief of the Iowa settlers.-- Chicago Tribune. ffR. REED AS A LEADER. JEs • Man of Great Boldness, Resources, and Grit. {Letter to Cincinnati Enqnirer.] While Blaine was Speaker and Senator there appeared upon the scene a Congress­ man by the name of Reed. He was a large, boyish-natured man, and his reputation slowly spread, and became first observable when he had a celebrated campaign to make for re-election, when he bravely got through. He remained over in the House after Blaine, Frve, and Hale had le!t it to go to the Senate. It was soon seen that he was going to keep up the reputation of his State in Congress. At the present time he probably holds as high a position as Mr. Blaine ever held on the floor, and a higher one than either Frye or Hale ever had. At the same time the combination of qualities in him which have attracted attention is entirely different from any of the others. He is neither witty, like Blaine, nor assumptive, like Hale, nor military and stiff, like Frye. He is genuine and hearty, always taking joy in encounter, striking hard, strong blows, yet entertaining no malice. He can rise and make a speech after some one has spoken on a topic not previously discussed, and follow that op- j ponent in a general impeachment with bold- ] ness, resources, and wit, all expended to­ gether in a sort of massive charge, wherein the man seems to take a stature above that which he holds in the general concern and intercourse of things. It is said that he is really a poor politician at Home, does not comprehend numbers and forces, as Blaine does, and trusts to general behavior and principles for his success. Nature has done a good deal for him, giv­ ing him a large, wholesome, powerful body, with voice and health to match, and if he came from any large city of the West or the Middle States, or the South, he would probably attract more attention than he does. The leadership of the House has gone into his hands, and you seldom find him abashed or overthrown. I heard Mr. Dorslieimer say when he was in Congress that on one occasion the Speaker had called him to the chair, and Abiam Hewitt of New York made a speech on the whisky question full of strange and original affirmations. They were so novel that Mr. Dorslieimer, with the gavel in his hand, sat wondering whether they could all be o\erihrown. Then, he said, Reed got up, who had already attracted the attention of some distinguished English visitor tor his bearing some remarkable resemblance to William Shakspeare. lteed made a formidable attack upon Hewitt's position, bold and trenchant, with meat in every sen­ tence. Dorsheinier sat and looked at him with a mixture of wonder and admiration. In short Mr. Reed, being relieved from a multitude of sharp colleagues iu Congress, had now set up for himself. He seems to be a man of natural powers, only requiring opportunity to get ease, and to develop to the fullest force. DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY. Senator Allison on the Retrenchment Claims of Democratic Congressmen. In discussing smendmeiikrW the legis­ lative appropriation bill increasing the sal­ aries of the assistant treasured at Balti­ more and Boston beyond the amounts in the House bill to-day, Senator Allison, Chair­ man of the Committee on Appropriations, contradicted and repudiated the claim made in the House that that body had saved $800,000 in cutting down appropriations in this bill. He showed that $100,000 of the reduction claimed applied to the expenses of the two houses, which are always that much less in the short session than in the long session; that $217,000 of it was fiom a reduction of the Tension Office specifically ordered in the bill of last Con­ gress: that $200,000 of it wafc in the ex­ penses connected with the Internal Revenue Bureau, and that the reductions of appro­ priations for that bureau would be in the interest of moonshiners and illicit distil­ lers; that $77,000 came from an omission to appropriate that sum for the mint at San Francisco (which would have to be taken out oi the permanent appropriation under the sdver act of 187N), and the rest of the reduction claimed in the House came from cutting down and scaling the salaries of officers here and there, as in the eases un • der consideration. After amendments had been adopted in­ creasing the compensation of the Com­ missioner of Pensions and the Commis­ sioner of Patents from $4,000 to $5,000 the bUl was passed.-- Washington telegram. The Coal-Oil Senatorial Booiller. The protest sent to the Senate Com­ mittee on Privileges and Elections bv the Republican members of the Ohio delega­ tion in the House is a serious sequel to the refusal of that committee to order an in­ vestigation into the charges of bribery against Senator Payne. The action of the committee was the more reprehensible iu view of the excep­ tionally disgraceful and abandoned charac­ ter of the Democratic party in Ohio, a* shown in the late State election. That the Senate could not afford to dis­ regard the presumptive evidence against Payne is sufficiently clear from the popu­ lar indignation aroused by its acticn. The Republican members say in their communication to the committee: "There is a feeling in Ohio that the State has been deeply wronged by your supposed action. The undersigned are convinced that the facts and records, or some of them, laid before your honorable committee by our colleagues, Messrs. Little and Butter- worth, have iu the press of your other duties failed to receive that consideration and weight which they merit and should have at your hands. We are informed that there is additional testimony in the hands of Mes-rs. Little and Butterworth which they ask an opportunity to present to you. As an indication of the character of the "additional evidence" the letter from those gentlemen to Senator Hoar, Chairman of the committee, is interesting. They claim that iu one case of the alleged transfer of a vote from Pendleton to Payne "the ques- ! tion was squarely and seriously addiessed j to witness, "How much money does he (the Representative) want?' " This, together with the other evidence which they state or intimate that they will present and the gen­ eral popular demand for a reopening of the case, is more than enough to warrant a re-examination by the committee. Indeed, it is not clear how its members can refuse a rehearing upon any other hypothesis than that they take ground that the members of the body to which they belong are above judicial procedure.--Chicago Tribune. WHiLEfMr. Cleveland was vetoing why didn't he veto the bill granting a pension of I $2,000 a year to the widow of General j Hancock? * It would have been an act of ' injustice, it is true; but not more so than 1 his refusal to sign the bill conferring $000 ' a ar upon the widow of General David Hunter, a regular army officer who served i his country well. There is such a tning as j consistency of action, but the President is ' apparently unacquainted ft.--Indian­ apolis Journal. | * . ; • MAKING MAPLE SUGAR. ̂ Facts of Interest About the MannHwflir# of a Popular Sweetmeat. Ordinarily it takes sixteen quarts of sap to make a pound of sugar. The first run of sap is considered the best. The tendency now-a-davs is to bore smaller holes than formerly; hardly ever moife than half an inch in diame­ ter, and.sometimes not more than a quarter of an inch, and penetrating not more than two inches and a half. It has been found that second-growth trees produce more and sweeter sap than the trees of the primeval forest; and the feasibility of setting out maple orchards in selected localities is being strongly advocated in the farmers' meeting. In fifteen years they would be fit for tapping. The best sj outs are metallic pipes; the best pails of tin and furnished with covers; the best holders and vats of wood, covered and tin-lined. The covering prevents the ingress of drippings, dust, and bark from the trees duriug rain-storms, which discolor the sugar and the syrup. The best sugar is a light-brown, and the best syrup an amber color. Great improvements in the manufact­ ure of maple sugar have taken place within the last fifteen years. Forty years ago the boiling of sap in iron pot­ ash kettles hung between logs was still common,and in a few Iwmighted localities the trees were tapped with an ax. Pans set over an arch of brick, in which the fire burned, succeeded th<Niettles; and to-day, in most of the best-managed Orchards, evaporators (originally in­ vented for the manufacture of sorghum) have replaced the pans. The ideal sugar place is one of vigorous trees, situated upon the side of a liill, with a southern exposure, a brook running at the foot of the hill. The advantages of such a situation are (1) that the sap can be easily carried by means of spouts running jroin holders scattered through the orchard, into which the baskets are emptied, to the main reservoir; (2) that the sap begins to flow earlier than in "northern exposure; (3) that the water enables the buckets and apparatus to be easily cleansed, an indispensable aid to the production of good sugar and syrup. In such an orchard the sugar-house is placed at the foot of the hill beside the brook. They are one-storied wooden buildings containing sufficient room, for the evaporator and "sugaring-off" pan, for the packing of the products, and for the storage of the "tools" after the expiration of the season. An evap­ orator is a long shallow pan of Itussian iron, divided into several departments, connected with each other by holes in alternate ends of the transverse par­ titions, so that the boiling sap takes a zig-zag course as it flows through. The evaporator is placed on the top of a brick arch, twenty-nine inches high, which occupies all the space under­ neath and which contains the fires. The sap, having l>een strained two or three times, flows slowly from the res­ ervoir to which it has been carried from the trees into the first compartment of the evaporator, and tuinultuously boil­ ing proceeds slowlv on its "winding way" through tfie compartments. With good luck it has flowed in the last compartment in twenty minutes from its entrance into the first and has become svrup weighing eleven pounds to the gallon, the standard density. The heat all this time has been great. Saj) boils at 215 degrees, bt|t 325 de- agrees is maintained by the best makers in order that no "nitre" or "malate of lime," the sugarmaker's dread, the gritty substance found in poor sugar, may be developed. Once it was sup­ posed that the formation of this sub­ stance was a disagreeable necessity, and great pains were taken to remove it by straining and precipitation. But it was found that the "malate" was the main source of the delicate aroma and flavor of the maple products, and that its removal was an injury. By repeated experiments it was ascertained that if the temperature was never allowed to go bvlow 300 degrees the malate did did not coalesce with the lime and the nuisance could be avoided. In the evaporators the syrup alone is made. It is drawn oft frOm the last compart­ ment through a strainer; and, if the manufacture is to end there, is set aside to cool and then put up, gener­ ally in gallon cans. If it is to be made into sugar it should be transferred boiling hot into a "sugaring-oft" pan, in which a heat of nearly 400 degrees is maintained, and will soon be trans­ formed into saccharine crystals. The greatest care is taken to prevent scorch­ ing. The sugar is mnde into cakes or packed in tin eans, each holding about fifty pounds.--Pittsburg Commercial- Gazette. The Scene of Robinson Crusoe. Two little boys on board the ship, who were returning to their home in Trinidad, happened to have a copy of "Robinson Crusoe" with them, ami, as we were steaming past, the island of Tobago, I borrowed it and went to the Captain's room. Capt. Fi-aser brought out his charts, and together we went carefully over the passage from "Robin­ son Crusoe" describing his voyage and shipwreck, following the course of Crusoe's ship On the chart. It was the plainest thing imaginable that she could have struck no other land than the island of Tobago, and it is beyond all doubt, in my mind, that Defoe had this island in view when he wrote the story. It is said by some of his biog­ raphers that he made a geographical blunder in locating his island; but there is no blunder there; everything is as correct and clear as possible. And Tobago corresponds in every particular with the description of Robinson Crusoe's island. There is no other island near but Trinidad, and if he had been wrecked there it would have taken him a long time to discover that he was not on the mainland, Trinidad is so large. Anybody who will take the trouble to look at even an ordinary map, and follow closely the thread of the story, will see that Tobago Wras the island on which the ship struck. So, having shown, as I think, that this is really the island on which the imagi­ nary Robinson Crusoe lived, I shall in­ vite you to take a look at it. Tobago is a small island, 32 miles long and 12 miles broad, lying in lati­ tude 11 deg. 15 min. north, longitude GO deg. 30 min. west It is 16 miles northwest of Trinidad, and 82 miles southwest of Grenada. On clear days Trinidad may easily be seen from any high hill, and so may the eastern spur of the Andes, on the mainland of South America, and it was no doubt these mountains that Crusoe saw when he wrote "I now resolved to travel quite across the seashore on that side; so, taking my gun, a hatchet, and my dog a larger quantity of powder and shot than usual, with two biscuit cakes and a great bunch of raisins in my pouch for my store, I began my journey. When I had passed the vale where my bower stood, as above, I came within view of the sea to the west, and, it being a very clear day, I fairly descried land, whether an island or continent I could not tell; but it lay very high, extended from the west to west-southwest at a very great distance; by my guess it could not be less than 15 or 20 leagues off." This is another illustration of Defoe's wonderful facility of giving ac­ curate' descriptions of places he had never seen; for he never visited the New World, and yet he could not have described f he view from Tobago more accurately if he had. been sitting on one of bet lulls when he wrote. We must not ex pod to find Tobago the wild place it was in Crusoe's time. It has since been settled by the English, and has towns, plantations, roads, forts and a military establishment. There are nearly a hundred estates, through which tw elve rivers flow;and[this latter fact Defoe must have been acquainted with, for he could not safely have jumped at the conclusion that thero were rivers in Tobago, as very few of these Carribbean islands have any rivers at all.--Xeic York Times. Old Laws Reset. "The Life and Let ters of Thomas Gold Appleton," recently published, contain many interesting anecdotes and bright sayings of this brilliant raconteur. It w as he who spoke of our "Boston national,air, the east wind," in connec­ tion with "striking his light catarrh. Becoming a little deaf, some one sug­ gested it might be- caused by wax. "More likely it is the wane,6 he re­ plied. Referring to one of his kin, who was interested in cremation, he exclaimed: "Why, lie's too green to burn." His remarks about cremation recalls the reply of a well-known clergyman who is said to have replied to tlie question whether he believed in it: "Why anticipate?" There were many bright and witty Bostonians jn the days of long ago. ft was one who, on a breezy day coming around Park street corner, said that there should be a lamb placed on the spot, as "the, Lord tempered the wind to the sliorp/lamb." Thoma/B. Curtis, an old-time mer­ chant, and for many years agent for the banking house of Brown Bros. & Co., on being informed that his wife had presented him with . twin sons, made this rejoinder: "It's rather queer. I am interested in Brown Brothers & Co., and mv wife in Baring Brothers." vAnotlier member of this family, mak­ ing his first trip abroad, experiencing much rough weather, quoted to the Captain: That Mersey you to others show, That Merbey show to me. Something like another voyager looking upon the same muddy river at Liverpool and saying, "The quality of Mersey is not strained." It was a Boston gentleman in Paris, attending the reception given by our Minister on Washington's birthday. Upon being asked in regard to tho re­ ception, he said, "There was a thick undercrust, a thin uppercrust, and plenty of jam, in fact, a sort of Wash­ ington pie." Coming over on one of the steamers last summer an Englishman and a professor were discussing meteoric showers. The passenger was informed that there were millions of them shoot­ ing through the upper atmosphere. He inquired if any struck the earth, and was astonished that they did and no­ body was injured by them. In utter amazement he ejaculated, "Well, the Almighty is a wise and just being, but he is awfully careless."--Boston Trav­ eler. Carl Dander's Roy Jake. "Is it something more about Jake?" asked the Sargeant at the Wotxlbridge Street Station, as Mr. Dumler softly entered. " Yes. it vhas aboudt Shake. I pelief dot pov prings oop in Shtate Prison pootyqueek." "What's up now?" "Vhell, I liaf a friendt who vhas a poor man und haf a liardt time to get along. A few days ago I tells him dot he should puy a lottery ticket, und maybe he hits a big "prize. He puvs one right off, und I doan' see him again till last night. Den he comes in my place und vhas wildt. He kick some chairs oafer, bang der tables, und cries oudt: " 'Look at dis telegram! I vhas noti­ fied dot I draws $10,000! Eafervpody come oop und drink mit me! Hurrah! but I vhas der happiest Dutclimans in Detroit!' "Vhell, eafervpody vlias rejoiced, yon see, und dot lucky man tells me to set 'em oop for der crowd. More ash 100 men uml poys drink my peer und schmoke my cigars, and der goose vhas high vlien my wife calls me oudt und says: „ " 'I don't know vhas ails our Shake. He goes to l>edt half au hour ago, und I hears- him laugh like he was grazy, Maype liis blood vhas out of order.' "I goes up slitairs, und Shake laughs und rolls aroundt until he vhas plack in der face. Dot makes me suspicious, und I goes down to look at dot tele­ gram some more. Sargeant, dot vhas all a put up sliob by Shake." "Just like him." "Vliell, dot makes me oafer |t20 oudt of pocket, und dot lucky man vhas so oxeited dot he does me ten dollar (lam- age und vhas locked oop py der police. 1 goes oop slitairs to find Shake, but he vhas gone. He leafs me a note dot he haf an important engagement to keep. Sergeant!" "Well?" "If you see Shake tell him to keep avliay from me for two weeks! If I lay my hands on him now he goes to kind­ ling-wood so queek as lightning. Shake vhas my only schild, und he vhas der pet of der family, und it vhas petter he doan' come home until I vhas recov­ ered. "--Detroit Free I'reus. The Horseback Cure. There is a saying among the Russians that a man who is fond of his horse will not grow old early. The Arab and the Cossack are examples of the truth of the proverb. They generally live long, enjoy robust health, and have no use for liver pads and blue pills. That vig­ orous octogenarian, David Dudley Field, tells us that he attributes his re­ markable vitality to the habit of horse­ back riding, and, if the truth were known, it would doubtless appear that our sturdiest old men are those who have been fond of the saddle. The taste for equestrian sports and exercise which has lately made such progress in Brooklyn is. therefore, a hopeful and healthful sign. It is not a mere freak of fashion, but a development in the direction of rational enjoyment .and an assurance that the rising generation will be less of an indoor and more of an outdoor people. It means less head­ ache hereafter, better appetites, stronger lungs, rosier cheeks, brighter eyes, sounder sleep, happier spirits, and a total oblivion of that organ which, according to Sidney Smith, keeps men a good deal lower than the angels--the liver, ILLINOIS 'STATE NEWS. ^ --Miss Lnlo Greenbank, aged 20 ' drowned herself at Elgin. < - --John C. Ware, aged 70, fatally shot frijl wife at Jonesboro, and then suicided. --Mrs. Fish, wife of the Superintend^ of the Feeble-minded Asylttm at "Lincoln, is dead. --A man named Hughes killed his brottt- er-in-law,n1amed Templey, with a club, dv. • ing a family quarrel at Westfield. --The flouring mill of Eckhart & Sw«%- ' at Nos. CG to 72 Canal street, Chicago, badly damaged by fire. The loss is esti­ mated at $71,000. --August Schiffer, the Monee grain mer- dbiant who defaulted and fled to Santa Croz, Cal., leaving $20,000 indebtedness, waa brought bnek to Monee and lodged in jail. --The Northwestern College of Dental Surgeryjias applied to the courts to com­ pel the issue of a license to one of it* gradnafcs by the Illinois Board of DenlMi E\an»ii«#i's. --A general order has been issned v Gov. Oglesbv thanking Brigadier General Reece and the officers and men of the Sec­ ond Illinois Brigade for their suppres&tliift : of disorders at East St. Louis. --At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of BOwdoin College the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon Elihu B. Washburne, of Chicago, and Congressman W W. Rice* class of '46, of Worcester, Mass. ' i : --The Treasurer of the Northwestern University, at the annual meeting at Evan- ston, reported the ownership of real estate valued at $1,720,80*2, and liabilities of oidy* $135,400. The students number 943. --Captain W. H. Wilcox, the newly ap- . pointed Postmaster at Elgin, is the young­ est of four brothers who have held thai office in the same town. He was a Captain in the Fifty-second Illinois Volunteers. --Miss Rose Cleveland, when she becomes editor of the Chicago magazine, Literary Life, will have to be on the watch for Chi­ cago feet in the poetry offered--Omaha Herald. ^ Our poets long to meter.---/u/er Ocean. --While two hnndred childrefeu df Rk Joseph's Orphan Asylum, in Chicago, were wandering through tho shaded grounds they were suddenly attacked by a dog in the most violent stage of hydrophobia, which tore the clothing nearly off of several of them. Henry K. Coale, residiug opposite the asylum, leaped the high fence and killed the cur at the second shot. --As Chicago has been lavish of ft* money and its praise, because of the high conduct of its police, so should it be criti­ cal when a single officer becomes derelict as official or man. Police-officers need not le Chesterfields in deportment, but we ex­ pect them to have the instincts of gentle­ men, even to the tips of their chtb*. "Gracious in manner, dauntless in deed." This is the motto.--Inter Ocean. --Joseph Barth of Pierron hid $355 fill gold in his oat-bin last fall. Recently £e hauled his oats to market, forgetting bis gold, and they were dumped into a car to be shipped in bulk. Then he thought of the money, and began a search in the oats. They were shovedBHMMi||^u|enhotirs, and then Mr. I'.aii the laborers ronewi the first stroke cloth iu which were foul mer's dollars. / W i - V : --In 1875 Miss Emma Williamson, <Jr Rosebud, Pope County, was united in mar- ltage to Edward Hemphill, who was her second cousin on her mother's side. After a happy married life of two years, during which two children were born to them, Ed­ ward died. Two. years later, in 1882, she ventured again on the matrimonial stream, this time taking to herself Oliver Hemphill, another second cousin, who was also a cousin-german to her first husband, Ed­ ward. To this union one child was born, and in 1884 Oliver died. A few days ago she .married another cousin, and now the township is wild trying to figure out the lationship among the children. --I had a pleasant chat to-day with1#"' professional cook of one of the finest res­ taurants iu the city, says the Chicago Jour- naF* "Man About Town," and I asked him to deliver a two-minute lecture on coffee. "The great failing in the coffee of the present day," he said, "is that it is not served fresh. Why is this? On account of its marvelous power of absorption. The most absorbent substance of odors > and tlavors iu the universe is butts*. Clarified butter is used in the manufacture of handkerchief extracts by placing it near any desired flower until it ba3 ab­ sorbed its odor. That is the reason that butter is so easily spoiled by being set near turpentine, kerosene, or any strong- smelling substance. Milk partakes vary largely of the nature of butter, and there­ fore all tho dairymen will tell you that the less milk is handled the better it is. Lard is somewhat like milk and butter in this re­ spect, but coffee is very much so. It lb- sorbs in a very few moments every odor, good and bad, that exists in the air around it. This quality makes it very purifying to the stomach after it is swallowed; but it also makes it very easily spoiled before it is drank. Indeed, I do not khow anything that spoils so qnickly. In most restau­ rants an urnful of it is made at a time and kept all day. By that time it becomes like a dish-rag which has been rublwd against nearly everything in the kitchen. If yen had ever tasted a really fresh cup of coffee and had noticed the difference, you never could be satisfied with stale coffee agpou.* One Happy Day for Convicts. iSlS® Independence Day was celebrated at the Penitentiary with the usual observances of the occasion. At o'clock the convicts as­ sembled iu the east yard, where they were allowed to break ranks and amuse them* reives in any way they chose until dinner. The 1,(500 men then engaged in a celebra­ tion which it would be impossible to de­ scribe. singing, dancing, screaming, making speet hes, and racing about, much to the astonishment of two Indian convicts from Washington Territory. No one of the crowd seemed to enjov the brief season of freedom from restraint more than Joe Mackin, who moved cheerfully about, greeting and shaking hands with those of his fellow prisoners whom he knew. At the sound of the prison diuner bell prUon discipline was resumed, and the men marched b$ek to the cells. In the prepara­ tion of the extra dinner which followed there were consumed: Sixteen hu; died pounds light biscuit, 1,000 pounds mashed potatoes, 1.0(10 pounds onion stew, I.tifi® pounds roast beef. 4(!0 gallons coffee, forte gallons milk, 2,400 pounds gingerbread, 400 gallons lemonade, and 4,000 cigars. " SlSS IK,' A ' . r - i ' K S --A .*1 * -