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ft™ I Ijp ' ' v r V \ ' fflatndcaler f J. VAN SLYKE. Mth >r and Publisher. llcHENRY, ILLINOIS. FERDINAND FoNpA, JB., 16 years old, reached Albany, afiter walking fx-oin Ift,. Augustine, Fla.,' a distance of 1,300 miles. He-was accompanied only by a young bloodhound. They were on the Toad fifty-four days: took the railroad 1^.-- track the entire distance, and slept oat of doors every night. The dog -was <i>mpletely played opt when they ||ached Albany, and the boy was pretty Wed. _ , GsoltelB Rafet, of Schenectady, who Was just (had his hand crushed in a drill press, is not a fortnnate youth. When \ Tflery small he fell oft' a fence and broke Ms nose. Later he was nearly drowned; "thenhis toes were crushed by the cars; ; then he broke his ncse again; then his bead was crushed between the bump- , ers of railroad cars; and when tlieskat- . ittg-rink was opened he was the first • ;$p hurt himself, breaking his arm. S&. V : ; ' THERE appears to be a kind of fatality fibout the summer residences of the Emperor of China. In 1862, the South- ern Summer Palace was burned to the ' - ground by the allied French and English army, and the untold riches contained therein, were looted by the soldiers. Latest advices from China state that the Eastern Summer Palace, About forty miles distant from Pekin, and erectcd three centuries ago, at a *<p68t of about $10,000,000, has just been totally destroyed by fire. THE Chinese carpenters of San Fran­ cisco, fifteen in number, have formed a •anion, and now settle their own price on their labors. Up to a year and a half ago the rate was $2.50 a day, but flit that time they struck for $3 a day, and have maintained the latter price evor since. They only do light carpen­ ter work, and consequently do not in­ terfere much with white carpenters. They have abandoned their old-style tools, such as the two-handed plane and jtfce back-set SAW, and they now use ex­ clusively the American tools.0 THE young Duke of Orleans, son of the Comte de^Paris, and heir to the shadowy crown of. France, is 17 years of age. His face is bright and intelli­ gent, and he has a resolute and decided disposition. He is a tireless walker, an excellent faneer, swimmer, and rider, and a remarkable good shot. He speaks correctly and fluently four or live lan- , gnages. Alt'n?>ugli not a great enthu­ siast for literature, he has a liking'for Virgil and Horace, an*l its sufficiently at tome in French contemporary litera­ ture and history to take an intelligent .interest in conversation of the moat varied land. * • • : $ Y . J -- "SEVERAL months ago Atttiie Sheely, a young Irish lass, waiting at the table of her master. Mr. Carroll, of Ireland,was insulted by one of the guests who had been drinking too freely. John Car­ roll, a son of the family, knocked the insultcr down, and followed up this bit of gallantry by falling in love with the pretty Annie. He said he would marry the girl, and his father turned him out of the house. He came to America and dtig ditches for a living. This week Annie arrived at New York, and was scarcely ashore before her ditcli-dig- ging, disinherited lover spied her, and, taking her before Rev. Father John J. Biordan, married her on the spot. Miss NELLY BLY, a name famous in song, a correspondent from Mexico, has dispelled the sweet dream of St. Louis, relative to the Mexican "editors" that recently made a tour of this coun­ try, by saying that not more than two of the score were even remotely con­ nected with the press of that country. In fact, she intimates that the gang was not wholly respectable in all its fljake-up. This will make the people * 6f St. Louis very unhappy, when they reflect how they" gave up their l>est beds and slept on the attic floor to afford them accommodations in a style they deserved. In truth, "the unlaved ^ Mexican is not a poetic creature to con- £ template. |L A REMARKABLE case of fidelftff Jo a A dead friend has come to light in Ala- ••.vY" <upa. George Davis, of Seale, that JHv^tate, "• .urdered Archibald Beams, and <en asked why lie did so, there being japparent motive, he replied: "That my business and Reams's." It is a^p- jren 'Miat he was willing to give the [id . a fair show, and offered him ance to have the first word. A more singular fact in connection *tV)avis, who was hanged, was the he made on the scaffold, in , ii he warned all young men against rving, and not to tell a young lady loved her unless they really meant That is the only safe way to avoid |reach of promise suit, but what that to do with the killing of Archibald |ms is not apparent. IE case of Robert M. T. Hunter, ^rined recently to be Collector of 'ort of Tappahaimock, Va.--an forth only $'250 a year--is a curi- id suggestive illustration of the Itainties of political life and the [jtory nature of political reputation country. It is doubtful if one Lthousand of the readers of the papers recognized Mr. Hunter's is that of a man once everywhere nown as an active and potent jter in national politics. He was maous for forty years, and rose lively from one office to another he reached the Senate, from he was expelled in 1861, when came Secretary of State in Jeff Cabinet. He served the Con- lacy faithfully and ably until the »f the war, and was taken prisoner Davis and confined at Fort Mon- until Prerident Johnson released pardoned him. Few men ever had hnore successful career, as politicians estimate success; and yet, afte labor and all his experience, lx# finds himself compelled in Jus old agg to ask for an humble little office to sav« fiin from want. AN old stager who has shaken hands with many a lady of the White House, tells me he likes the way Mi s. Cleve-. land shakes hands better than ally President's lady of the past. Said he : "Mrs. Cleveland shakes hands as though she meant it. She looks you in the eye and tries to catch jour good-will before she puts out lifer blind. She grasps it firmly and gives it a per­ ceptible shake. She uses the whole arm, and does not shake only from the wrist or the elbow. Mrs. McElroy was too stiff and stick-like, Miss Cleveland turned her face away from you when she shook hands with you, and she did not appear to be at home. Mrs. Cleve­ land feels that she is doing the honors of the White House, and that she has a right to. She acts as a lady would act who was pi esiding over her own home, and she is apparently as cordial, in her gestures." > A VERY interesting experiment was recently performed by Prof. Dewar at the Royal Institution in London, En­ gland. It was the solidification of oxygen. The gas was first reduced to a liquid under intense pressure, and then allowed to expand rapidly in a partial vacuum. The enormous absorp­ tion of heat that accompanied this ex­ pansion left the oxygen a snow-like mass, with a temperature of some 200 degrees centigrade below the normal freezing point. This is equal to 350 degrees of the Fahrenheit scale, or about 380 degrees below the zero of the thermometer.* mostly used in the United States. That is not far from three- quarters of the way down toward the absolute zero of heat, which has been determined by calculation, but never yet reached experimentally, and proba­ bly not to be met with in the regions of space if we could extend our research to the outer parts of the solar system. This is claimed to be the first success­ ful attempt to solidify oxygen, though the French chemists have succeeded by similar means in reducing some of the other gases to the solid form. Of course the condition lasts but for a few mo­ ments, as it is impossible long to main­ tain such a low temperature with ter- restial surroundings. THERE are some famous oaks in En­ gland which even Mr. ; Gladstone's re­ doubtable ax would be entreated* to spare. The first of these, singularly enough, is the Parliamentary Oak in Clipstone Park, which is reported by the anient chroniclers to be 1,500 years old. Thus park, ^ays a writer in the Nottingham Guardian, existed before the Conquest, and belongs to the Duke of Portland. The tallest cak was the same nobleman's property. It was called the "Duke's Walking Stick," and was higher than Westmins­ ter Abbey. The largest in England is theCalthorpe, Yorkshire; it measures seventy-eight feet in circumstance at the ground. The Throe Shire Oak, near Workshop, is called so from the trunk forming parts of the counties of Nottingham, Derby, and York. The most productive oak was that of Gele- mos, in Monmouthshire, felled in 1810; its bark brought £200 and its timber £670. In the mansion of Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire, there is said to be a room forty-two feet long and twenty-seven feet broad, the floor and wainscot of which are the production of a single tree, an cak grown on the es­ tate. ALKING ABOUT GASH. lively Debate in the House OIL Xr. Morrison's Surplus Money » Basolution. With a Scotch Accent. I heard a good story on a Southern Senator--one that he wouldn't have told for all the tine horses in Kentucky. One night he was just going out to the theater with his wife when the door­ bell rang and he answered** the sum­ mons himself. A modest-looking gen­ tleman stood in the vestibule and offered his card. The Senator took it rather impatiently, and without examining the name it bore, said: "Walk in, sir, and take a seat. I'm just goiflg out to the theater with my wife, but slie is not quite ready, and 1 can see you for a moment," and he motioned the caller to a chair in the hall. The stranger looked a little confused and uncomfortable, which the Senator attributed to the. diffidence of a man who has a favor to ask, and supposing he wanted a place in one of the depart­ ments thought he would make the job as easy as possible for him. so he said in a pieasant, patronizing, way: "Now, my good man, what can I do for you; what do you want?" The answer came like the sentence of doom, and the distinguished Sena­ tor, who had been through many a con­ troversy and political struggle without turning a hair, almost collapsed when the stranger replied: "I. am the Rev. Dr. Butler, sir, the Chaplain of the Senate, and just called to pay my respects, but as you say you are going out I won't detain you." Before the Senator recovered from the shock the good doctor had left the house and closed the door behind him. When his wife came down stairs a few minutes after she passed a distinguished statesman pacing up and down the floor in a condition of profound mental agi­ tation, and blessing himself in rather vigorous terms with a very strong Scotch accent.-- Washington Capital. THERE are some people alwayslook­ ing out for slights. They cannot pay a visit, they cannot receive a friend, they cannot carry on the daily intercourse with the family, without suspecting that Borne offense is designed. They are as touchy as hair-triggers. If they meet an acquaintance in the street who happens to be preoccupied with busi­ ness, they attribute hio abstraction to some motive personal to themselves, and take umbrage accordingly. They lay on others the fault of their own irri­ tability. A fit of indigestion makes them see impertinence in everybody they come in contact with. Innocent persons, who never dreamed of giving offense, are astonished to find some un­ fortunate word or some momentary taciturnity mistaken for an insult. A CORRESPONDENT asked if the brow of a hill ever became wrinkled. The editor replied: "The only information we can give on that point is that we have often seen it furrowed." Tfee financial Becord of the Ffosmt Ad­ ministration Shown Up by . Mr. McKinley. ̂ [Congressional proc coding*] • - Mr.AMc1?iuley, of Ohio, said: '"fnls res­ olution, coming as it did from the Demo­ cratic majority in one branch of the Gov­ ernment addressed to a Democratic Execu­ tive in control of another branch, was, to say the least, exceptional and remarkable. It was a proposition coming from the ma­ jority of the Committee on Ways and Means which was in political accord with ^ the President of the United States, and un­ doubtedly would receive the approval of the majority on the other side of the cham­ ber. It was a proposition to compel the President of the United States and the Sec­ retary of the Treasury to do that which they had always had the power to do; to do that which they now had authority to do under Section 2 of the act of March 3, 1881. Yet in sixteen month* of Democratic adminis­ tration that administration had called but $58,000,000 of Government bonds for re­ demption. It leaves outstanding $140,000- 000 of the 5 per cents extended, now known as the 3 per cents, which are redeemable at the pleasure of the Government. In view of the record of the Democratic party. in view of its declarations in platforms and on the public rostrum in favor of the distribution of the surplus in the payment of Govern­ ment bonds, in view of its frequent charac­ terization of the Republican party as dis­ honest for keeping a surplus in llie treasury, in view of the record made bv its own ad­ ministration, it was not surprising that majority of the Committee on Ways and Means, under the leadership of one wing of the Democratic party, should insist that the President of the Uuited States and the Secretary of the Treasury should keep pledges which had been made to the p <rty. This action was more suggestive when gentlemen took into consideration the rec­ ord which the Republican party had made on this question. Since tl e conclusion of the war the Republican administration had paid off $1,20",00;),OtiO of public indebted­ ness It was not surprising that, looking at the record of the Republican party and looking at the record of the first sixteen month* of the Democratic administration, the two wings of the Democratic party should flap together and demand that the President shall pay out some of the surplus on the Ixinds of the country. | Laughter. | In 18H1, w ith a surplus of $ld0,i!00,000, a Republican Secretary of the Treasury had called in $1*21,000,000 in Government bonds. In 1882. with a surplus of $1(>'5.- 000,000, a Republican Secretary had called in $173,000,000 of bonds. In 1881, with a surplus of $134.01 !0,'l 00. a Republican Sec­ retary had called in $8»'i.0iiti,000; and in la84, $70,<100,ooo. The Republican party has averaged in the last four years $153,- OUM.o^O every sixteen months. While in the1 past sixteen months the Democratic parly has made a record of bat $38,!)0 >,00i). why did not the administration of Grover Cleveland pay out the balance in the treas­ ury on the public debt? Som» gentleman on the other side, in the confidence of the administration, ought to explain why the Secret iry did not exercise the discretion given him by law. He (Mr. McKinley) be­ lieved it to be a wise discretion to permit the officer charged with the administration of the fiscal affairs of the Government to call bonds or withhold a call of bonds when the condition of the public treasury permitted or demanded the one or the other. Therefore, unless the amendment he had offered was adopted, he would leel constrained to cast a negative vote upon the resolution. Of course, Republicans could not prevent the Democratic paity from voting a want of confidence in its own -administration. 1 hey could could not prevent it from voting a vote of condemnation upon the President and his Secretary. That was what the resolution meant. Think of it. A Republican Sec­ retary of the Treasury presided over the fiscal affairs of the Government froin 187".) to 188.1. During that time the Democratic pai\y controlled the House for four years. The Republican Secretary of the Treasury, exercised his discretion, and a Ho us > with a larger Democratic majority than the present one never thought of taking that discretion away from him. Mr. Moirison--The gentleman is mis­ taken. Mr. McKinlev--Did you ever pass a reso­ lution compelling the Secretary, of the Treasury to pay out the surplus'!* Mr. Morrison--I introduced a joint reso­ lution, and sent it to the Committee on Ways and Means, and it never got out of the committee. Mr. McKiuley--Exactly. [Laughter.] Mr. Morrison--And I offered it in the House, and had the support of the gentle­ man from Pennsylvania < Mr. Randall),and we were kept from passing it by a point of order from that side of the House. [Ap­ plause from the Democratic side.] Mr. McKinley--But you never passed it. You had control of the Committee on Rules.' You could have fixed a time for considera­ tion, as you did now. You had a larger majority than you have now. Whatever you may have done in committee, or at­ tempted to do on the floor of the House, one thing is certain, you never drd adopt a resolution taking that discretion from a Re­ publican President and Secretary. Mr. Morrison--I was prevented by the co- opeiation of Democrats with that side of the House. Mr. McKiuley--That is, the two wings of the Democratic party were not in harinony at that time |laughter], and one wing, with the aid of Republicans, prevented you from taking the statutoiy discretion away from the Secretary. But now wh- n von have a President and the Secretary of the Treasury, both wings of the Democratic party unite in denouncing them for not calling in the bonds and absorbing the surplus. | Laugh­ ter.] It is not to be wondered at. The campaign of 1884 w as waged and won on the howl all over the country that the Re­ publican party had $1500,000,OOOof idle sur­ plus in the Treasury, and would not pay their honest debts. Governor Hendricks xtated that all over the West. I have no doubt that my Greenback friend from Iowa (Weaver) said it all over his Stite. I know- that the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania (ltandall), in his famous speech at Nashville, when he was making his tiiuuiph.d tariff march through the South from Atlanta to the sea jlaughter', carrying the banner of protection--I know that he said there was $ 500,000,000 of sur­ plus in the public treasury, and that the administration of Grover Cleveland would take it out and pay the Government debts with it. . ' t Mr. Randall--I am beginning in that di­ rection now. [Applause on the Democratic side.] Mr. McKinley--Yes: you are beginning, but it is sixteen months after your adminis­ tration has failed to do it. | Laughter.; Yon have not got very fa^along yet. Suppose this resolution passes the House. Suppose it passes the Senate. To give it any sort of force it must have the appioval of the Presi­ dent of the Unit d States. I Laughter.] You are asking, by this resolution, that the President shall do what for sixteen months he has refused to do. He will lay down the pen. which to Mm has been mightier than the sword (laughter], and he will u:se that pen for another purpose. He will veto your bill, and the surplus will yet remain in the Treasury. If this is mere play of politics, a mere play for position, you are welcome to it, when your own Secretary of the Treasury solemnly tells the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means that if this resolution passes it will impair the public credit, shake public confidence, and destroy the good financial name we have enjoyed so long. And he says another thing--that this resolution means a trenching upon the $100,000,000 which is kept as a redemption fund fer-Hw **eqfcac** rtf Wittrj, Hot to do it, and yet you ess seems to be given to lo President does not want i is anything on which the "louse and the President would like to know it. ! which a Republican 6ug- were in accord on pension •sin nud hi do it. doing j done. If majority are in [Laugh^fer; gested that vetoes.] In his anniud message the President asked you to three things. He asked .you to reti e the greenbacks; he asked you to suspend silver coinage: • nd finally he asked ymi to revise the tariff. What have you done? You have not retired the green­ backs, you have not suspended the' silver coinage, yon have not revised the tariff-- at least you have not revised it under the leadership of Col. Morrison. I don't know what vou may do under the leadership of Col. Rundall. What a delightful situation it is. i lieuewed laughter.] The gentleman from Pennsylvania about three or four weeks ago showed his contempt for the tariff bill of the Chaiiman of th > Commit­ tee on Ways and Means, and o dy the other day the distinguished Chairman of the Committee ou Ways and Means showed his positive contempt for the attempt of the gen­ tleman from Pennsylvania to make a tariff bill. (Laughter.] And so it goes. There is npt a single thing upon which this Democrat tie party agrees and is in positive accord,ex­ cept getting the offices--not one. (Laugh­ ter. | " Mr. Morrison--And we are getting along only middling at that. [Renewed laugh- ter.t Mr. McKinley--Yes; and you are getting them very slowiy. But the gentlemen from Pennsylvania and Indiana < Messrs'. Ran­ dall and Holman) undertook to break down the civil-service law by a rider upon an appropriation bill. The gentleman from Pennsylvania and his wing are for the spoils. I was glad to find my honest friend from Illinois standing against that covert attempt. Mr. McKinley then quoted from the let­ ter written by Secretary Manning to the President on May '20. last, tendering the resignation of his office, and from the President's reply thereto. From ihe latter letter he quoted the following sentence: "I had Lope that the day was at hand when the party to which we belong, influ­ enced largely by faith and confidence in you, and in the wisdom of your views, would be quickened in the sense of the re­ sponsibility, and led to a more harmonious action on the important questions with which you have had to deal." That, said Mr. McKiuley, was the way the President felt on May '28. How would he feel alter this resolution of censure, this resolution of condemnation, this resolution of disapproval, this resolu­ tion of a want of confidence. He can not resign and go to the country, said Mr. McKinley, but each one of you will go to the country, and each one of us will go to the country, and the issue will be made up. Cleveland will veto your resolutions, and we will all go to the country on that, and leave the $400,000,000 Heud;icks said was in the Treasury and the $300,000,0(H) the gentleman from Penn­ sylvania s lid was in the Treasury still. I only want to say in conclusion that I hope the amendment I offered will be adopted. It seems to me absolutely demanded if this resolution should pass. Let us save that $100,000,000 reserved from encroachment; Jet us say that the $34ii,000.000 of the promis s of the National Government shall be kept secure, and if we do that and adopt the amendment, giving to the Secretary of the Treasury a fair working balance which any business man or corporation wofuld keep, then your resolution will be harmless and it will bs spared the veto of the,Presi­ dent of the United States. (Applause.] Mr. Reed, of Maine, saw* in the resolu­ tion a mere political game. Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, favored the resolution because it enforced a Republican proposition. Now that the Democratic party had determined that the pension bills should not be passed, he was* in favor of paying out the surplus on the public debt. THE PRESIDENT'S .POWEB. Extract* from a S|»«**><•!» <>f Abraham Lin­ coln In. tile HOIIKV of RepraspnUtlvrs, Quoting General Taylor's.opinion of the exercise of the veto power by the President, Mr. Lincoln said in a speech in the House of Representatives, July '27, 1818: "The power given by the veto is a high, conservative power, but, in my opinion, should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution or manifest haste and want of consideration by Congress." And quoting from Thomas Jefferson's letter to President Washington. February 15, 1701, in regard to tue United States Bank, he continued: "it must be admitted, however, that unless the President's mind, on a view of every­ thing which is urged for and against this bill, is tolerably ciear that it is unauthorized by the Constitution; if the pro and con hang so ei en as to balance his judgment, a just ie»pect for the wisdom of the Legisla­ ture would naturally decide the balance in favor of their opinion; it is chiefly for cases whire they are clearly misled by error, ambitii n, or interest, that the Constitution lias placed a check in the negative of the President. "it JB her.» sefen," said Mr. Lincoln, "that in Mr. Jefferson's opinion, if 011 the con­ stitutionality- of any bill the President doubts, he is not to velo it, #s the gentle­ man from Kentucky would have him do, but is to defer to Congress and appiove it. And it' we compaie the opinions of Jeffer­ son and Taylor, as expressed in these t*vo paragraphs, we shill liud them more exact­ ly alik ' th; n we cfiu i f.en find auy two ex­ pressions having any literal diffeience. * * * General Taylor, "in his Allison letter, says: 'Upon the subject of the t iriff, the currency, the improvement of our great highways, rivers, lakes, and har­ bors, the will of the people, as expressed through their representatives in Congress, ought to be respected aud carried out by the Executive.' "In a certain sense, and to a certain ex­ tent, he is a representative of the people. He is ele> ted by them as well as Congress. But can he, in the nature of things, know the wants of the people as well as 300 other men coming from ail the various localities of the nation? If i-o, where is the propriety of having a Com. ress? That the constitu­ tion givts the President a negative 011 leg­ islation. all know; but that his negative should be so combined with platforms aud other appliances as to enable him. and, in fact, almost compel him, to take the w hole of legislation into his own hands, is what w e object to--is what General Taylor, objects to--and is what constitutes the broad distinction between yon and us. To thus transfer legisl.it on is clevl.v to take it from these who understand with minute­ ness the interests ot the people, and give it to one who dees not, and cannot, so well understand it." « THE Democratic House of Representa­ tives has passed one of the vetoed pension bills over the President's head. In this Mr. Cleveland rouudlv lectured Congress tor its carelessness in investigating pension claims, saying that the claimant under the bill had never applied for a pei sion to the department. The next day a Republican Congressman exhibited to the House the papers in the case, taken from the files in tl]e Pension Bureau, enveloped in their official jacket. In this instance Mr. Cleve­ land was a nice person to lecture Congress about carelessness. But he got a chance to indulge in a sneer against a Union sol­ dier.--IwUunapoliH Journal. GAKLAND and Payne are par nobile fra- truni. One sits, in the Cabinet and the other in the Senate, apparently uncon­ cerned, while the country is vocal with the story of the scandals attached to them. DEMOCRATIC organs are frantically call­ ing upon old. soldiers to notice that the President did not veto all the pension bills. Perhaps he was too tired. 4AKiiAJTD and Payne wo; combination lor PLATING A TRICK ON A SQUIRREL. Jolianjr Schult/.o and a Playmate Tgaf It with Remarkable Contteijuencea. Little .Tohnny Schultze and a play­ mate were out in the woods along Schultze's run, in Pennsylvania, gath­ ering wild flowers. A pretty red squirrel ran across the road ahead of the boys, whisked up a big tree, and disappeared with a sancy chatter in a hollow place in the trunk. Little Johnny discovered another hollow place in the tree trunk, near the ground, and much larger than the one that the red squirrel had disappeared in. Little- Johnny argued that the trunk must be hollow all the way up, and that conse­ quently it would "be a great lark to build a fire in the hollow near the ground and force the red squirrel out at the top with the smoke it would make. * So Jolinny and his playmate gathered a lot of dry sticks and leaves and placed them in the hollow trunk near the ground. Then they struck a match, set fire to the mass, and waited for the smoke to roll upward. Little Johnny and his jlaymate glued their eyes on the opening toward the top, expecting momentarily to see the red squirrel rush out in a great state of alarm. It seemed to take a good while for the smoke to disturb the squirrel, for itt did not appear as expected, and little Johnny was about to remark to his playmate that things were hot al­ ways what they seem, when he saw his playmate's eyes bulge out like a pair of white seed onions, and his hair rise up like a scare wig at a minstrel show. Then little Johnny's playmate gave a howl that made the woods ring, and away he went across the" country like a startled deer. Little Johnny mechanically let his eyes rest where his playmate's had rested when they began to bulge, and then Johnny's began to bulge. A head which Johnny recognized as that of a very big bear, and another head that any one would have known was that of a smaller bear, had appeared at the hole in the trunk where the smoke had been started. The bears were the ten­ ants of that hollow trunk, and they had como down to see what was'going on at the entrance. Little Johnny Scliultze yelled. Then he turned and fled down the creek. He reached the old saw­ mill, nearly a mile from the bears, be­ fore he ventured to look back. There were 110 bears in sight. Little Jolinnv made up his mind that he would rest awhile in the old mill before he went the other mile he had to go before reaching home. He sat down on a log and was just beginning to get his breath back, when his heart almost quit beat­ ing. Looking up the creek, not ten rods away, lie saw two bears coming toward the mill at a lively rate. Little Johnny Scliultze felt that he could never get away from those bears by running, so he dashed into the mill, and, shinning up the tottering saw-frame, perched on a rafter. He saw nothing more of t-lie* bears, but for fear that they were lurk­ ing about waiting for him to come down, he remained where he was and used his strencrth in howling. He had clung to the rafter and howled for an hour before he discovered the clouds of smoke that were rising in the woods up the creek. Johnny then knew that there was a tire raging in the dry brush, and that it had more than likely been started by the efforts of himself and playmate to astonish the pretty red squirrel in the hollow of the tree. The wind was blowing strong in the direc­ tion of the mill, and little Johnny knew that unless "some one came to his rescue before night he would be compelled to run the gantlet of the bears 01* stand a good chanoe. of being burned in the mill. Bv tfie way the tire spread little Johnny was certain that it had reached t-lie big ranks of tan-bark that were piled all around that part of the woods, and which were like so much tinder to the flame. Hut for the fire in the woods Johnny might have remained howling in the mill for many hours before lie would have been called for, but the clouds of smoke warned the tannery men that there was danger in the woods, and a dozen or more of them hurried up the creek to fight it. They had to pass the mill, and little Jolinnv hurried out to join them. They had 110 time to listen to anything about bears, and it was long past midnight when tliey got the fire under control, and not until more than 300 cords of valuable and scarce bark was burned up, besides many thousand feet of logs. Narrow Escape from a Shark. "I've known good luck to be brought by a shark," said an old salt. "When I •was an ordinary seaman, lying in a har­ bor down Porto Rico way, the chief mate, who was a bully, told me one day I shouldn't go ashore. Out of spite aiid being a passionate rascal, hated by all hands, he hung about to see that I didn't give him the slip. I was determined to go ashore, and so threw off my shoes and jacket and took a header off the fo'c's'le rail and struck out. ^ The mate outs with a revolver and lets fly at me. There was a moon and the water was full of fire, and he could see me jdain enough. Finding he'd missed, and I was still swimming, whips off his clothes, as I was after­ ward told, and jumped in after me. I allow his notion was to have drowned me could he have come up with me. Some of the hauds looked on, and they told me what happened. "I hadn't heard the mate jump, and didn't, therefore, know he was follow­ ing me; but I thought lie might lower a boat and I swam hard to get ashore first, reviving to desert that vessel, if so be rcould get foot upon dry land. Well, it wasn't two minutes after the mate had made his plunge when I heard a frightful scream behind me. All it did was to frighten me, though the sound of it nearly froze my blood, and I went on sawing through it, arm over arm, till the water was in a blaze all about me. I got ashore and stood looking toward the vessel, and seeing that no chase was being made, I went leisurely into the town and had a night of it. "Next morning a man asked me if I was the young cliap that had jumped overboard to swim ashore. I said 'Yes.' 'Well, then,' says he, 'the mate followed ye and saved your life.' 'How d'ye mean?' says I. 'Why,' he says, 'a minute after you were "in the water a shark rose to you. The men on the forecastle saw his figure plain. Before they could sing out the mate jumped. The splash he made seemed to frighten the shark for a second, for the fiery line or him vanished. The mate swam right for him; some of your chaps roared out. I suppose the poor devil thought they was deriding him. The ne$t thing seen.was his body hove up to the waist out of the water, and a lashing of white, shining water about him; then he just gave one shriek.' 'Ha!' said I, shudderin', 'I heard s J M i l f c l y o u M e , a t e , M « a i d V5 " X ?„ .iJV speaker, addressing me, "that sharks can bring luck to a vessel." But what sort of luok does your story illustrate ?" said I, staring at him. "Why," he answered, wasn't it a first- class stroke of luck for a crew to get rid of a bullyin' mate, without having to lift a finger against him ? If it hadn't been for that there shark I should have lost my chest and elothes, fori didn't mean to return, and, of course, they would have been sacrificed. 'Stead of which, when I heard that the mate was dead, I returned to the ves­ sel, and the Captain was too glad to get tne again to say a word to me about what I'd done."--London Telegraph. Rascality and Matrimony. One day I was sitting in the Chan-* cerv, when an aged Englishman entered. "I want'" he said, "you to marry my daughter." At first I understood that he wished me to be the bridegroom, but he explained that I was only to be the celebrant, and that she 'was to marry a Frenchman. "He is a scoundrel," he observed. "Then why," I asked, "let him marry your daughter t" "He has, alas!" he replied, "gained her affections, and if he does not marry her he will run away .with her." "Isuppose that you are rich?" I said. "I am more tliansyicli," he replied. "I have an in­ fallible system at roulette. This is my daughter's dowry; and it is to learn the system that the Frenchman marries her," "Well," I said, "come with the pair to-morrow morning and we will marry them." The next day they ap­ peared and Were married. The girl was a pretty blonde, but the man was not precisely an individual to whom a wise father would either have entrusted his ducats or his daughter. After the ceremony the happy pair went to Weis- daden, and the Frenchman--now the possessor of a bride and a system-- commenced to play the latter. It was an absurd one--a sort of progression on certain numbers on the roulette board; but the curious thing about it was that he always won, and actually made several hundred francs by it. A few days after I was explaining all this to a French Secretary of Legation. He startled me by the observation that, whilst the English girl was the wife of the Frenchman, the Frenchman was not the husband of the Englishwoman. If we told him this I was afraid that he would leave the bride, who would re­ main in the singular position of being a wife without a husband. So we agreed that the French Secretary should sentl for the bridegroom and practise a pious fraud. He explained • to him that, whilst he was really married, he had violated the law by getting married be­ fore fulfilling the legal obligations, and that for this he was liable to punish­ ment. The only way, he added to get out of the mess was for him to be married again at the French Legation. Luckily the man knew nothing about law, so the knot was at last effectually tied round his neck."--London Truth. The Music of the Spheres. The spectrum is the eye what the gamut is to the ear; each color repre­ sents a note, and the different colors represents notes of different pitch. The vibrations which produce the impres­ sion of red are slower, and the waves which they produce are longer, than those to which we owe the sensation of violet; while the vibrations which excite the other colors are intermediate between the two extremes. This, then, is the second grand analogy between light and sound: color answers to pitch. There is, therefore, truth in the figure, when we say that the gentian of the Alps sings a shriller note than the wild rhododendron; and that the red glow of the mountain at sunset is of * lower pitch than the blue of the firmament at noon. The ancients h^d their shperal melodies; but have we net ours, which only want a sense sufficiently refined to hear them? Immensity is filled with this music; whether a star sheds its light its notes are heard. Our sun, for example, thrills concentric waves through space, and every luminous point that gems our skies is surrounded by a similar system. I have spoken of the rising, climbing, and crossing of the tiny ripples of a calm tide upon a smooth stand; but what are they to those intersecting ripples of the uncon­ tented deep by which infinity is engine- turned. Crossing solar and stellar dis­ tances, they bring us the light of the sun ' aud stars, thrilled back from our atmosphere, they give us the blue radiance of the sky; rounding liquid spherules, they clash at the otlier side, aud the survivors of the tumult bear to our vision the Wondrous cloud-dves of Monte Rosa. Don't Neglect the Children. Scarlet fever and diphtheria are about as deadly to child life as pleuro-pneu- nionia to cattle. Tell the State that the latter disease exists in a single spot and instantly the whole power of the State hedges it in and crushes it out forthwith. Publish the statement that scarlet fever prevails in auv community and no one gives it ^ passing thought. Are cattle worth more than children? Shall their young lives be snuffed out and no one notice the gathering dark­ ness? According to established usage, each human life is worth So,000 in money; how many times that the child may prove in affection and stimulation no one can tell. Yet the two diseases before mentioned and another seorge almost as deadly, measles, are allowed to operate while the public stands with folded hands, as though powerless. How long shall this apathy continue ? Will it be until the heritage passes from us to a people that shall care for the little ones, as did the nations of 8ld? The power of the future rests iy the children. Care for them is the duty of the * present. Let it not bo said that this nation buried its children through neglect while giving all its fostering care to cattle and swine.--Lelioy F. Griffin, in Vhimgn Current.' Notes 011 Language. The expression "in good form" or "good form" is taken bodily from French law (see Littre's Dietionnaire), and means that- all technicalities have been duly observed. The opposite is expressed by the English phrase "'bad form," which has degenerated into a cant term and is applied rather indis­ criminately. The question why t is silent in often, hasten, volten, castle, and kindred words, has been explained by Johns Hopkins investigators on the ground of physiology and environment. This ex­ planation is entirely correct, the t in the words named being placed between consonants which are pronounced more easily than the hard and sharp t is. As a matter of., convenience or laziness, therefore, the t was dropped, and tho less pedantic pronunciation has become the standard. THERE is a family in Glascock County, Ga., consisting of a man, his wife, and three children, whose aggregate weight aajess than pounds,, ̂ " • 1$!/ . -r-- ---J riflkft'Artfrh •* ' -J "ILLINOIS STATE 5 "«*-^ohn A. Logan, Jr., has partner in a loan and real Washington. --Philip Armour, of Chiefs tively* speaks of himself as t pig-killer in the world." --A vfeln of coal two feet has been reached at Philo, live mil of Tolono, at a depth of 181 feet. --A decided sensation has been cf at Hillsboro by the report that a hoi the sooth part of the city is haunted --John Handley, an insane committed suicide in the Richlam jail at Olney by hanging with a bed --Creorge Simmons, of Wes'fiel County, mistook his mother-in-la Melton, for a burglar, and shot he --Sewell Clay, a Warren County p aged 80, was killed in a runaway near Galesburg. His wife was bi --The principal business of ban rectors" appears to be to direct what be done after the cashier has gone to ada with all the funds.--Chicago Jon --Mrs. Todd, wife of Rev. H. W. T< pastor of the Presbyterian Church of dalia, died suddenly of apoplexy, fifty-two years. --There were 294 deaths in Chicagi week, a decrease of about 100 from week previous. One hundred and sevi seven were of children under five yeafc% age. --It has been deciaed to have the unveillfc ing of the Pierre Menard statue, which basil been erected in the State House yard, dur*® ing the early part of the session of t' next General Assembly. --It is said that Marshall Field, the Ch cago merchant, pays to the United States Government over $1,000,000 every year in revenue duties on imported goods.--Nettb York Graphic. -- The new syndicate controlling the mines in the St. Louis district, and having a capital of $5,000,000, met at Berkner Station and elected directors and officer. Charles Ridgely being chosen President. --No native Illinois man is doing 6ervi on the anarchist jury at Chicago, but thi entire dozen wete bom in pretty fait locali­ ties. Three were born in New York, th: in Ohio, aud one each in Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, Indiana, and Nova Scotia. J# --Governor Oglesby recently commuted | to imprisonment for life the sentence of £ George Paxton, who killed William Smith, *#L at Elgin. The Sheriff at Belvidere, fear- ing that his prisoner would be lynched, quietly placed him in the Joliet peniten- tiary ten days before--a &ct whieh has just become known. --At a picnic held a few miles south of Grand Tower, Jackson County, Henry Brown, Thomas Heckam, Nat Rhodes, ftnd Robert Knox had several quarrels, bat were each time separated. After the picnic a farmer found Brown, Knox, and Rhodes lying within a few feet of each other,-all mortally wounded. No trace of Heckam can be found. --The trustees of the Newberry library fund, of Chicago, report that .they are look­ ing for an avaik&le North Side location for the great institution. An entire city block will be necessary for the proposed building. It will not be a circulating li­ brary, but will be a treasury of learning aud literature for reference, and for refer­ ence only. Some difficulty is being ex­ perienced in the real estate negotiations, as enormous prices are charged by the owners of desirable property. * - . --An interesting case bearing liability of employes was decided in the Appellate Court at Chicago last week. In Match, 1884, a package containing $*23,830 disappeared from the Chicago, Burlington and Qnincy Railroad Company's safe, and has never been heard of from that date to this. The theft occurred while Charles S. , Bartlett, the paymaster of the road, was j temporarily absent from the office, at Innch, and the railroad company, claiming that Bartlett did not lock the safe, sued him and his bondsmen to recover the lost fluids. He was charged with negligence, and the company claimed that his bond made him liable whether he were negligent or not. The Appellate Court Judge said he did not think the evidence showed that Bartlett was negligent, and that therefore, bein^ya private individn.il aud not a frablio serfar^ he was not responsible. ^ • . --If the anarchists on trial before Sit* Gary hoped that the prosecution was to*®"1®* * a farce their minds were sharply cKsabuj^j of any such impression by the Judge's ' ooaflltf, ing on the scope the evidence for the S)|« pled might take. In the sentence, "If there ttbwM# a combination and agreement to kill police in their attempts to keep the per if there was such an agreement to kill!! police upoii some occasion that might cur in the future, whether. the proper Pj gr | had occurred being left to their judgmejOfltt? then if that violence was used and resu ~ in the death of the police, those who we party to the conspiracy are guilty of der," the public is assured of a thorl investigation of the anarchist couspi and the anarchist of being held to a ^ accountability before the law. Fndei ruling conspiracy to commit mtirdet comes liable to the penalty for m when the occasion contemplated a-d vided for by the conspirators results death.--Chicago News. --The Commissioned cf the Joliet >Pi itentiary have decided to again offer t services of part of the surplus convicts nn in prison to the highest bidder. One huS^r* dred and fifty able-bodied convicts, fit fi5a* any kind of labor, w ill be disposed of bidders on August 21, bnt not more tha^*** seventy-five men will be let for any ot#** line of manufacturing. * The idea of tt, commissioners, in making the rule of no.. * letting more than seventy-five convicts any one branch of manufacturing, js to gitf ,.Y small manufacturers an opportunity to bi| i for the labor of convicts, and in this wgv ^ neutralize the effect of couvict labor agaim^ | free labor. The commissioners think thMF = j by distributing labor iu this manner small lots, it will result in the least injure to free labor. Of the 1.500 convicts nw on hand at the pKuon, 1,154 are contrac: for, and are now wbrkiug for contracto: leaving 43G convicts that are not employed except upon State account. This surplus labor was offered to let several months ago, bnt on account of the agit tion of the cou­ vict labor question not a single bid was of- fsradforthm^ -va J COT ft