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v \V i4" "' •W I. VAtttLYKB, EtbriKWir. ^-|fojHENKY, '4TS n.TiTNoia HENRY LABOUCHERE savs the essen­ tial difference between Toryism and ^Liberalism is that in the former the policy cf the leaders is that of the farty and is submissively accepted by file rank and file, while in the latter it fe the policy of the rank and file which fe accepted by the leaders if they wish to remain leaders. , SENATOR KKXXA relates am aeoident Which shows the voracity of the catfish, which came under his immediate ob­ servation. Accompanied by several other Senators--among them Mr. Vest --Sir. Henna was fishing in West Vir­ ginia. A sadden rain had muddled the Water and bass were not feeding. One of the party had caught three catfish, each a size larger than the other. He Strung them, putting the largest fish on the string and at the bottom, then the aext in size, and the smallest * on top, and then tied them in the water, in­ tending to take them in the boat on the return home. Several hours later, •jrlien the party returned, they found that while upon the string the second fish had attempted to swallow the small one, and succeeded in taking him in up to the fins, and the largest,at the bottom of the string, had endeavored to make a meal of his next neighbor. THIS is why girls in China are not al­ lowed to go to school with boys, accord­ ing to Chan Pond, a young Chinaman now in this country: They (women) would not have a drunkard for a hus­ band, but they would drink a glass of wine with a fast young man. They would not use profane language, yet they love the society of men who they know are profane out of their presence. They would not wish to be considered dishonest, but they use deceitful words and countenance the society of men "IK# to fee thought Irreligious, but they smile upon the most irreligious and even immoral men, and show that they love to be wooed by them. This is the virtue of too many women--a virtue scarcely worth the name--really no virtue at all, a hypocritical, hollow pretension to virtue, as unwomanly as it is disgrace­ ful. This is not tbii virtib true womanhood. k "STATO-UP." Taking » Collection for. tlie Benefit §f a California Orphan Asylum. [Chicago Time*.] In 1866, which was before the days of the first Pacific railroad, the writer of this was encamped on the Stanislaus joyful tears away Mid looked again to read. Horrors upon horrors, what does he see? "Dead Moses?" Ah, no! The fiendish hand of the intelligent com­ positor has done its cruel work, and there standing in hideous black letters, the sensitive youth found the words, HIXAN GREED. BY JOHN MGOVEBN. I#' ' COLORADO has 800 miles of first-class Irrigating canals, 3,500 miles of second­ ary canals, and 40,000 miles of similar ; ditches which have cost in the aggre­ gate about $11,000,000, and will irrigate 4,200,000 acres. The operation of this , great water system has developed con- ; dieting claims of various ditch com- . panies in regard to the use of the water, Which it is very difficult to settle. JAMES K. HILYABD is a colored man " „who is a credit to his race. Born under %very disadvantage, he ia now one of „ - the most prosperous and respected ," citizens of St. Paul, Minn. He is one :;/.l'«0f the few colored men of the world - who have succeeded in rising to the highest degree in Masonry, having at- . gained the thirty-third degree several , 'years ago. He is also a prominent ' *' member of the order of Good Templars, and is an honored member of the Epis- «opal Church. S -i-V A CERTAIN old lady in the rural dis- , tricts of New York has a "test" that she ^applies to the yonng men who solicit the honor of paying addresses to her granddaughters. She watches them -As they eat cake. If they partake . heartily, she favors their suit, but if j ' they do not she at once sets about dis- : tiouraging their advances. She argues that the young man who loves ginger- - bread cannot have a fondness for whisky. Limburger cheese is another ' .test. The young fellow who resorts to ' that appetizer to take the wire edge off . his breath may be safely set down as too far gone to be saved. U^ THE varieties of coffee chiefly distin- /'• ffuished in commerce are the Mocha, : > from Arabia, esteemed the best on ac- - oonnt of its being richest in caffein, the alkaloid to which coffee owes its popu­ larity. The Mocha grains are easily • recognized by their comparative small- Oess, gray, inclining to greenish color. The Java, or East India coffee, has large yellow beans. Jamaica coffee , " beans are of a greenish cast, smaller than the Java, but larger than the Mocha. Surinam has the largest-sized bean of all, while the Bourbon has inedium-sized, pale yellowish, inclined to whitish, beans. Liberia, Loguyra, and other kinds have no particular dis­ tinguishing features to entitle them to •apecial notice. ;;f: MB. STEELE MACKAYE, the play­ wright, holds rather remarkable . opinions concerning the training of Children. Like many other parents, he " disagrees with Solomon as to the wisdom Of using the rod on the child, but he i Keeps a rod in the house for another purpose. "When any of my boys are disobedient," says Mr. Mackaye, "I make them whip me. They feel that much more than if I punish them. This method of discipline may be very effective with the little Mackayes, but it is much to be feared that the average bad boy is not so tender­ hearted, and that his frequent oppor­ tunities of "laying it on" to the "old man" would interfere with business by the retirement of many eqtiin»)j]e citizens for repairs. JUDGE MCCUE, of CaHfoxn&»* '"Mta ' tells how he manages to live on 10 cents per day: "I usually turn out at about 11 o'clock and take breakfast. I go to the dairy around the corner and buy a cup of coffee for 5 cents, and with the other 5 cents I get five Maryland biscuits. My breakfast is eaten slowly and well digested. It generally lasts I me until about 4 o'clock in the after­ noon. I always go provided with sev­ eral pieces of alum. When I begin to get hungry I place one of these bits of , Alum in my mouth and' allow it to slowly dissolve. Tho effect is that it contracts the throat and the stomach, Tand the sensation of hunger disappears. I repeat this dose until bed-time, and I fall asleep like a child. Gentlemen, let me tell you that eating is nothing " but a habit after all." A SCOTTISH scientist has been work­ ing on the cause of the constant change in color of the Mediterranean and other waters, which he dealt with in a paper read at a recent meeting of the Koval Society of Edinburgh, and in the course of which ho explained a series of experi­ ments which he had made to find out the cause of the change. He remarked that the colors of the waters referred to were extremely beautiful, and that they changed from hour to hour and from day to day. The most brilliant effects were seen in the Mediterranean after high winds had been blowing toward the shore, and the tints were so varied that no artist's colors could pro­ duce them. Many theories had been propounded in order to explain the phenomena, and one of them was that they were caused by the marvelously blue sky being reflected from the sur­ face of the water. But that slieory did not explain any of its effects, because he had frequently seen tho Mediter­ ranean deeply and richly colored under white or cloudy sky. Some time ago a curious belt of whitish water was re­ ported off the coast of Maine. The white streak was about thirty miles in width, and from sixty-five to seventy miles in length. The line of demark- ation between the blue water and the white streak was plainly marked, and as regular as a wall. The -white water was semi-transparent, and the mackerel seen beneath the surface had a reddish appearance. Fishermen say that mackerel passing from blue to white water are peculiarly affected by the change, becoming wild and rushing madly to and fro. They do not come to the surface, but their movements can be plainly seen under water. No explanation has been gjven of the phe­ nomena. . Enough Is Never Attained. When Jeremiah P. Robinson died in Brooklyn he left an estate whose value is generally estimated at from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. Long years ago when Mr. Robinson was a young and driving business man he had an ambition and the ambition was to accumulate a for­ tune of $50,000. "When I get that much money," he said one day to one of his clerks, "then I'm going to quit business right slibrt off and enjoy the rest of my days in ease." And several years went by be­ fore anything akin to the figure he had fixed upon as satisfactory was ap­ proached ; but the closer ho got the less he had to say about "$50,000 being enough for any sensible man." One New-Year's Day he entertained his clerk. "Will," he said, "I've beon making an inventory of things this morning, and I find that I am worth something over $50,000." "Then you are going to go out of business, I suppose," the clerk re­ marked. .jj, "Go out of business! Why, man alive, what are you talking about ? - Go out of business! I have only begun; mv figure is $150,000; that's enough to sat­ isfy anyt man, and more would be a burden. But $50,000 don't begin to look so big when you get close to it. as it does when it's about $40,000 off." Neither did $150,000 when it came look a$ big as it did once, and its possession was but the incentive to more energy and bigger enterprise. It is the same old fever--enough is never what a mortal has.--New York Times. River, California, well up in the foot- "De?<l Hora^a-' With ,a 1'iteous moan hills of the Sierra Nevada. Six of us I e ~.un8 hated thing aside, and vrho were prospecting, hunting, and "1S heart against the Muse, ho 1. L. * AT •_ . > M * * I FFFLVA IM F/TPOVOI1 ON/1 FROM the creditable testimony of those who saw tho sea serpent thi* sea­ son off Gloucester, doubt no longer lingers in the minds of many of its ex­ istence. From a gentleman who be­ lieves he saw it in Boston Harbor in 1824 comes the following statement: The harbor at that time was full of codfish, bass, bluefish and other fish, which have now nearly, if not wholly, disappeared, and the edge of Noddles Island or East Boston was in a primi­ tive state. Where are now wharves and steamers, were little coves and gravelly shores. In a little inlet, near where is now located the North Ferry head house, the snake was first seen. A whale boat equipped with harpoon line, and manned by six men under Capt. Annable, then residing in Annable Alley, afterward Health Alley, put off from Battery wharf in an attempt to capture it. It seemed to be about sixty feet long, and was apparently lying upon the top of the water, but at the approach of the boat it dove under the water, and when again seen was in the channel near the Castle and heading for tho ocean. Fox's island is situated in a peculiar way, being partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia, yet is amenable to the laws of neither State. There is only one house on the island, which is owned by John B. Blizzard, and occu­ pied by him as a dwelling and a saloon. The island is not within the lines of any county of either State, and it is held that in tho absence of an authority to grant license, there can, of course, be no authority to prohibit him from selling without license, and not being within the jurisdiction of any county, he is not subject to the existing local option laws of the bordering counties. His bar-room, previous to the passage of local option laws in tho neighboring counties of Virginia, was located on the Virginia side of the line, but after their passage he has removed it a few feet aud over the line, and no\v conducts his business in Maryland. The island possesses the peculiar feature of beihg partly in Maryland, yet no part of any county of the State, and of being in sight of local option territory both in Maryland and Virginia, and yet having no such laws of its own, and of occupying such a position that the li­ cense laws of neither State can reach it. A LITTLE management may often evade resistance, which a vast force taking things pretty easy for July weather, occupied a large cabin which had been built and deserted some time before. From this central point small parties branched out and were gone for several days at a time, and it scarcely ever happened that the six of us were at home at the same time. We had no trouble with anything or any­ body until, after we had occupied the place seventeen or eighteen days, a bad spell of weather came on and drove the detached parties in for shelter; We were well heeled in the matter of firearms, and there was something like a thousand dollars in gold among the six. One morning, it being the third day of the bad weather, and the rain still falling, Joe, our cook, went down to the forks of the Stanislaus to meet a canoe which we expected up with pro­ visions. The door of the cabin was shut, and there was a bit of fire on the hearth, at which some of the men were moldiug bullets, and over which a kettle of pork and beans was boiling. Two of the gang were playing cards, and a third was reading, while I was examining some mineral specimens. In this state of affairs the door softly opened, and in walked a young man about 23 years of age. He was smooth­ faced, red-cheeked, and had such a smile on his phiz that the sight of him would have set any one to grinning. He looked from one to the other, as if to make sure that all were present, and then stepped back and opened the door and called: "Come li, Wflliaa, they are at home." A short, stont, uglv-faced man of 40 pushed his way in, shut the door, and stood with his back to it. That he was a hard pill no one could doubt after looking into his face; that lie meant business was apparent, from his having a revolver in either hand. Had some one yelled "Jtndians!" I think the six of us, each with a revolver ready to shoot, would have been outdoors in twenty seconds. Here we all sat, as dumb as oysters and as helpless as snails, for we realized that it was a "stand-up." "Now, gents," said the young man, showing his white teeth as he smiled, "I want to raise a few hundred dollars for an orphan asvlum at Stockton. I shall expect each one of you to con­ tribute. If any gentleman should so far forget himself as to pull hiq gun my friend William, who shoots both- handed, will promptly attend to his case." It was only after this little speech that we fully comprehended what was going on. William kept every man of us under his eye, with liis two pistols ready for service, and we were cowed. I know that the average man will feel contempt for us, and assert that he would have done this or that had he been one of the six, Iwt he is mistaken. Under like circumstances, unless he was a fool, he wonltl have tamely sub­ mitted. That red-cheeked boy, as we were not long in concluding, was a road agent named Col. Lee, and the man William had justly earned the name of "Bloody Bill." Only six months be­ fore they had held up the Mariposa stage, in which one of our number was a passenger. "Come, gents, time is money with us," said the Colonel, as we sat staring at him. "Here's my cap; who chips in the first hundred?" He held it toward me, and I dropped in four twenties, which was all I had. The next man came down with $200; the next with $150, and by the time the last had contributed the Colonel had $800 in his cap. In transferring it to his pockets he counted the money, and as ho put.liis cap on his head he said: "This will go a good way toward making the little orphans happy. I don't want anything else, gentlemen, and we will now take our leave. I would advise you not to follow, though, of course, you can act your own pleas­ ure. I wish you good morning." The two backed out aud shut the door, which swung out instead of in. Scarcely had it closed before we made a rush, but they were still too smart for us. They had braced a log against it, and there was only one wiudow in the house. Before any one had volun­ teered to crawl out of that the two fellows had made good their escape. In going away they met our cook on his way back, and the Colonel handed him a flask of whisky and asked him to present it to us with his compli­ ments. We took the trail and pursued it for several hours, but we had seen the last of them. known as deceivers. They would not might vainly strive to overcome. i,/- - . • ' i1 Mr. Springer's "Dead Roses." The Hon. William M. Springer, of Illinois, always wears in his buttonhole a beautiful rose. Sometimes it is but a bud, again it is the full-bloom flower, as if the man marked the anticipations of to-day, or the fruitions of yesterday, by this voiceless but speaking symbol. Yet few know the cause of this man's faithfulness to the queen of flowers. Listen, then. Many, many years ago, when Mr. Springer was only "a college freshman, whose eyes were filled with the beauty of the world but whose soul was saddened by the knowledge that all life was fleeting and man was born only to die, he w rote a poem in a minor key whose music was as tears falling upon tender hearty-strings, and this poem he called "£>ead Roses." The editor of the village paper knew Mr. Springer's family,aud, pleased with the young student's effort to crown himself with bays and laurels, he accepted the poem, and the lad went to his room thinking of the glorious golden future whose doors were opening before him on noiseless hinges. He had never written for the press before, and in his youthful innocence he trusted all to the editor and waited with poetic longing for the paper" to appear which would introduce him to fame and teach the world in its age what he had learned so young. It was on Wednes­ day, a beautiful day in June, when the sun kissed the flowers in field . and in fen, that the young poet went to the office for the paper. It was there, cold and still, and expressionless, but preg­ nant with thought and feeling when the creative spirit should touch it into be­ ing. With a throbbing heart he took the lifeless sheet in his trembling hands and eagerly he scanned its pages, seek­ ing the most remote positions first, that he might enjoy to tiie full the search for his treasure. At last he found it--on the first page, standing forth bold as a beacon light, and as the tears streamed from his eyes he bowed his head and kissed his offspring sleeping there in its ' V V -M.V-yr Cf ;T^ lwuahed the gave up p^osy forever and went into politics. But tho "Dead Roses" are not forgotten, and in remembrance of them Mr. Springer each day wears a rose in his buttonhole.-- Washington Critic. Litt.e Uauze Wings. who does not think of them as only tormenting little creatures, al­ ways buzzing about in the most annoy­ ing sort of way, and often tantalizing to the last degree, for as certainly as ono may brush the insect away, just as surely will it return to tho very same place, with such persistence that one feels in frantic despair at ever getting rid of it. At such a time one can scarcely give a thought as to whether it has the slightest beauty, and is a daintily-formed little creature, this common house-fly, with which every one is familiar. It is a wonderfully beautiful subject to examine through the microscope; the legs and feet so slight that it seems as if a touch must surely break such frail things, and stall there is wonderful power in these same small feet, for the fly can as easily walk on the ceiling over our heads as he can walk on the table before us, and this power lie derives from the suckers with which his feet are provided, and at the same time a fluid exudes from the suckers, which causes such great ad­ hesion that even on the most highly- i polished surface the fly can remain in a reversed position for a long time. The hard covering of the body of this insect consists of throe layers, and the mem­ brane of the wings is a filmy expansion of the outer ono or epidermis. The ribs or veins of tho wings are tubes through which air is conveyed. The wings are thinner in appearance than gauze, and the fine, delicate veins or libers seem scarcely covered, except when the light falls upon them and causes them to flash with brilliant pris­ matic colors, green, crimson, and pur­ ple, till they seem like beautiful gems. The head of the insect is large, and of the softest jet black, and iu the ftvouth is a wonderfully-constructed little tongue, somewhat like that of the butterfly. Flies are very particular about keeping their coats carefully pol­ ished till they are of dazzling bright­ ness, and many a time they may be seen busily and briskly rubbing " with their feet, as these serve the purpose of a brush, first one and then another part of their small bodies, which they thus put in order. Flies are fond of sweets, as every one knows, and are thereby attracted from every direction. Quassia is very fatal to them, and is safer to use for their destruction than almost anything else. . Flies exist in all parts of the world, anu there are many species, some of which servo for medical purposes, such as cantliarides, or Spanish fly. and there are many which are only destructive and tormenting. Perhaps, since we have stopped for a moment to think of the beauties of these small creatures, and consider liow exquisite and wonder­ ful is the mechanism of each minute part which has beon formed by the Cre­ ator of the universe, we shall not look so slightingly upon these insects, and it may help us to feel less impatient with their teasing ways.-- Yick'x Magazine. Potatoes, 'if * There is a frequently qnofed but most fallacious rumor floating around that bread is the staff of life. Believe me, it is all veritable nonsense; simply another concoction of the wheat specu­ lator. To be sure, if yoti use the term in its broadest meaning, to include crackers, sweet-cakes, and slap-jacks, as well as the commodity that is sliced off the loaf, there is probably more bread used than any other item in the world's bill of fare; but for good sustaining assist­ ance there is no better prop on which limping humanity can lean than the in­ vigorating potato. It is most palatable, capable of in­ finite variety in its preparation, and ex­ hilarates but never inebriates, pos­ sessing none of the qualities of a "sour- masli" even when served in the form in which it usually accompanies roast beef. ' The nature of the potato is most un- obstrusive, there is nothing in the wide world so immensely serviceable that has received so little commendation: however, its modesty bespeaks its merit. We must acknowledge the potato is not a pretty thing to look upon. Its form is not comely, its color not ••esthetic, and its skin is rough and lumpy; wash it clean of the dirt of its native home and it does not gain much; Some things, like certain varieties of wild flowers, arfi not pretty as a single specimen, yet when you get a number of them together they are quite hand­ some, but the potato has not even this advantage, for a heap of a'thousand potatoes i3 no more beautiful than a lone solitary tuber. But take them when they are. pre­ pared for our use, when we find them on the table cracking open, white as snow, full of steaming nourishment, they are lovely to the eye and savory to the palate. Only give the potaito a little season­ ing, a little luxurious cream, and a good stirring up, and the richness, the pleasure it can confer is unrivaled. The potato is the symbol of plain, substantial, useful, but homely, people. Their unobstrusiveness may teach you more fortunate ones how your homely brothers and sisters feel. You may learn from the potato that there are thousands of men and women, unattractive in appearance, uncouth in speech, and awkward in manner, whose hearts are rich in goodness and whose lives are a perpetual unfolding l>ene- faction to those around them. They only need a little stirring up, a little developing, a little investigation, and their repaying qualities are found to be unequaled.--Chicago ̂ Ledger. Why He Hated Hiiu. "O, Charles, let us turn and go off some other way; there is that bad man following us." "Who is the fellow, my deali?" "Why, that is the nlan who was so near marrying me before I met JVU. I just hate him." "By Jove, so do L" "You?" . v' "Yaas." "You don't know him, hate him?" "He didn't marry you, don't yer knaw, my love."--Texas 8 if tings. MUCH misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others, rather than what he ought to expect from The philosophy of Human Greed-- and we think this a stronger term than inhuman greed--may thus be stated: If Rothschild have all he can eat, and wear, and spend; and all that his family and relatives cai\ eat and Wear--then, if Rothschild still grasp for more of this world's goods to keep, lie can have no other purpose save to withhold blessings from his fellows! His 'own happiness is enhanced by the privations of his fellow-creatures! Thus, if a rich landlord have a thousand Irish tenants, and exact the legal rent, in present cir­ cumstances, he cannot even plead that he desires to erect a library, for the duty which lies upon him is that he shall carry mercy and aid to those poor tenants from whom his income is de­ rived. The exacting landlord simply increases the distance between himself and the poor by making them unhappy, not by making himself more happy. He rises above the multitude by kicking others down instead of climbing upward himself. "Ambition," said Swift, "often puts men upon, doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with crawling." "Re­ markable places," said the lion-hunting Madam Necker, "are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles can only get there." We doubt the accuracy of this figure, but nevertheless it has a pleasing sound, and carries its illustra­ tion. The timo has arrived in Ameri­ can society when the rich man--the billionaire--must analyze the cause of his wealth and the natural laws of its increase. From out that increase ho must eliminate whatever of human greed lxe can find. Three carpenters pass by a clotliing-store; in front are piled a dozen children's sleds, such as would have cost, in 1865, not less than $3 each. They are labeled "37 cents." Tho poor Uarpenters gaze on each other in dismay. Now undoubtedly this is the result of an accumulation of wealth somewhere, and, without question, that accumulation was secured through all the artifices and "No!"-savings of the "thrifty man." Those cheap sleds, al­ though a scourge of carpenters, are a blessing to men. The patient greed of some accumulator has borne this remote fruit. But soon, it may be hoped, the needs of capital will have been sup­ plied. There will have been enough exacted from dead generations to set up the "plant" of the living populace. Will it not then be proper for tho avaricious man to pause--at the behest of his more lovely fellow-creatures, if any there be ? Are we to forever, all of us, worship the fetich of wealth? Now it is a necessary religion. Every public monument is a widow's tears, a tliree-mile business stroet is an infinity of agonies and self-abnegations; a pub­ lic park is a thousand intellects diverted from an educated existence. Mr. Vanderbilt's two hundred millions may have been a necessary nucleus of our national prosperity, but can any one deny that the mother who went to her son's funeral, or the kinsman who paid his sick brother's fare homeward, did not also need the amount represented in the profit ? We, here in America, are all so-avaricious, that we must soon reach a conclusion. The miser thinks he has a great secret. If only his com­ rades knew the value of a dollar, they would all shout "No!" to every appeal. A fellow is dead; will not tho miser give a part of the price of burial? "No!" he shouts to himself, and in the very charity of his mates he sees the dual increase of his power. He is $2 richer than his open-handed acquaint­ ance. Is not that sum already enacted into a never-ending tax of from 6 to 50 cents a year on tho human-kind? So ruminates the man who has said "No!" But, as we are all misers, will we not soon discover our friend's game? When tho foreigner comes here, he can see little differentiation in us. We are all one species--dollar-getters. John Stuart Mill's cold definition of the American aim in life, as Ave remember it, ran to the effect that the men spend their days getting dollars, and the females in breeding dollar-getters. This is faulty, like Madam Neckcr'a mot, for it slights the female progeny, but we imagine Mill's idea of that brood to have been equally unflattering. Now, when we dollar-getters shall have analyzed the causes of wealth, we shall thereafter set ourselves to the ntilitu of wealth, as well. Wealth must stand that test. It must benefit mankind more than its possessor, or tho possessor will bo ex­ propriated, for wo cannot imagine that a nation of misers would stand long on fine-spun ideas, of the saeredness of es­ tablished things. It is, therefore, tho need of tho times t<» evangelize the rich with the doctrine of public service. Let tho wealthy man give himself to tlie task of separating groed froiu his plans. --The Current. Didn't Like to Disturb (lift Hiranf. Tlie stories of tho drinking of old are something we cannot equal now. In tho old days the JudgeH in Scotland never thought of going to bed. On the circuit they dranlc all night, or as long as they could sit up. and tlien they fell.under the table. Yet they gave wise decisions, aud many of these same men have laid down the law iu abstruse cases that holds to-day beyond disputed I think it is Dean Ramsey who tells the story of a big drinking party at which it was noticed that one man was very quiet. "Kilscadden, you're no drinkin'." There was no answer, but the man on the right of him looked up and said, quietly: "It's nae use ca'in on Kilsc&dned. He's dead. He passed awa' about twa oors sin, but I didna like tae disturb the harmony o' the oo- caaion."--San Francisco Chronicle. Are Yon Superstitions? A portly and jolly Government official came out of his office without his cane. "Oh!" said he, "I must go back. That is bad luck." So to avert the threatened evil he marched back into the office, sat down, took a half dollar out of his pocket, laid it upon his desk, turned it over, and then re­ placed it in his pocket. He then took his cano and marched out with a cheer­ ful heart. Of course, he did not be­ lieve in this hocus-pocus business, but then 'lie had heard the omen all his life, and it could do no harm to go through the rigmarole, so he went through it;--Portland Oregonia^ y Irresistible. ' "What a popular girl Miss Harvey is," said one young man to another, of a young lady whom he had been watching for some time as she sat on a hotel piazza. "She has a crowd of admirers around her all tho time." "Yes," said his companion. "I've been watching her, too. Even the mosqui­ toes seem to be mashed on her."-- Somerville Journal. LEARNING, says a Yankee, is well enough; but it hardly pays to give a five thousand dollar education to a five- dollar bor. 6EK. ARTHUR BURIED/ • • Yast MaltitRdcs of Sjmpathetie Spec­ tators Witness the Solemn r -1 . Procession. <, f Th# Bofty Borne to Albany inl fe* terred ia the Rural Gem- * :: *ery. , % The beside Alan United York telegram,!* i 7 • last night of the loving watch the bier of Gen. Chester Arthur, ex-President of the States, his passed. President Cleveland, and Postmaster General Vilas arrived in a carriage direct from the train at 8:20 a. m., and entered the house of mourning. Many people uncovered their, heads when the President stepped out of his carriage. Shortly after, Gov. Hill and Judge William Mailer arrived and entered the house. They were followed by the Senate committee. By this time there was a mighty throng of people on the avenue, and tho windows of every house were tilled witb. sad faces. Ti;ere were no services nt the house. At 8:oU the black casket, covered with palmetto leaves, sprays of violets, and a wreath of white roses, was lifted by the undertaker's assistants and borne irom the room. The sileni fcrm of Chester A. Arthur passed through the door of his earthly tenement for the last time, and was reverently placed in the funeral-draped hearse. As the casket came in view of the people in the street every head was bowed reverently, and many eyes tilled with tears in the throng thus hushed in the presence of death. There was no display of pomp or cere­ mony, no military music or procession, bat the mighty throng of sorrowing people bore witness to their love and respect for the de­ ceased stntesmnn. Next enme out of the residence Chester Alan Arthur, Jr., the son of tbe ex-Presi­ dent. Leaning on his arm, clad in gar­ ments of mourning, was his sister, Miss Nellie Arthur. They passed quietly to their carriage, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. McElroy. Then came Mrs. Caws, Mrs. Hayneworth, and Miss Arthur, the sister of the ex-President; Postmaster Masten and his wife, of Cohoes, N. Y., with their son and daughter; President Cleveland, Post­ master-General Vilas, Gen. Martin T. McMahon, John H. Draper, Secretaries Bavard, 'Whitney, aud Lamar; the pall­ bearers, consisting of ex-Postmaster Gen­ eral Gresham, ex-Secretaries Lincoln and Chandler, ex-Assistant Postmaster Gen­ eral Hatton, ex-Attorney General Brewster, Lieutenant General Sheridan. Dr. Corne­ lius li. Agnew, Cornelius N. Bliss, Robert G. Dun, Gen. George H. Sharpe, Charles L. Tiffany, and Cornelius Vanderbilt; Chief Justice Waite and Justices Harlan and Blatchl'ord, Senators Edmunds, Slier- man, Logan, Evarts, Hawlev, Morrill, Vest, and Gorman, Gen. Stone, and Gov. Hill. The mourners filled twenty-five car­ riages, but over one hundred carriages filled with friends, who had been unable to gain admission to the house, followed the procession to the church. All along the line were immense throngs of people who waited in respectful silence while the funeral, train passed. At the portals of the church the casket was met by the surpliced choir, followed by the clergy, wearing their collegiate hoods. As the casket was borne into the church the choir formed in two tiles and the cler­ gymen passed between them heading the profession intoning the opening lines of the beautiful Episcopal burial service; the casket was borne up the aisle on the shoul­ ders of tbo four undertakers' assistants, followed by the pall-bearers, the family, and the immediate friends. After the services the undertakers' as­ sistants lifted the casket oir their shoul­ ders and proceeded slowly out of the church, followed by the pall-bearers, mem­ bers of the family, President and his Cabi­ net, Gov. Hill and his staff, and the repre­ sentatives of the army and navy. Among the hundreds ot distinguished gentlemen present at tho church were the Hon. James G. Blaine, the Hon. John A. Logan, Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, the ltev. H eury Ward Beecher, the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Senator Evarts. John Jacob Astor, Gen. Schotield and staff, Senator John Sherman, and ex-President R. B. Hayes. The remains were placed on a train for Albany, where Bishop Doane recited the committal service at the grave. Earth was thrown in the grave and pressed down, and when the dusk of evening began to settle on forest and hill, deft hands covered the newly made mound with sheets of sod. GENERAL KAULBARS.' A Soldier and Diplomat of nifttinattm. General Kaulbars, the Russian who for the last few weeks has been the subject of a large share of attention throughout the civilized world, on account of his close connection with the Bulgarian imbroglio, is less than fifty years of age. He is an able soldier, and a statesman aud diplomat as well, having devoted years of close •tudy to the politics of Europs and K the East. As the agent of the Caar ip Bulgaria he seems to have performed his work well. Gen. Kaulbars was re­ cently recalled by the Czar. Before leav­ ing Sofia he asked the German Consul to protect Russian subjects. The Consul, after consulting his Government, replied that he was willing to protect genuine Russians, but not Montenegrins or Bulga­ rians. This implies Germany's censure of Russia's protec ion of the Zankott' and other conspirators. The Czar instructed Gen. Kaulbars to confide Russian subjects to the care of France. „ coxncT emmmti T&0 Popular Amrndtnent At Cook County's vote oa ffcp. the amendment to^the SSmi prohibiting the letting of etfltt^Ot , coLit act saved the Ths law requires that" nil" affirSutir for the amendment must be eqttftl't jority of the votes cast flit |hs; W" ticket. Outside of Cook Cona^p vote was 477,339; for the amend 057; against it, 1(50,693. The was short 24,613 votes of a maj votes cast. Cook County gave ti9,l for the amendment out of a total of --a majority of 41,122. This gtY?|f| amendment a majority of 19.o(hi iifT State. Tae total vote m the Stata is 102; for the amendment, an it. 1&K327. Below is the vote by < for tbe amendment, against it, and tha i vote cast: JU*EJiD'TTO CONST Adam*) Alexander. Bond. DS,. .. };r</wn. Bureau Calhouu i....... Carroll Cass................. Champaign...,.'.. C h r i s t i a n . . , Clark Clay................. Clinton.... Coles. Cook. Crawford...... ...... Cumberland......... DeKalb DeWitt., M.i„ Douglaft Dutage L....;i..J Edgar lid wards Efiiiigliaru......'..... Fayette Ford Franklin Fulton. Gallatin Greene Grundy Hamilton............ Hancock............. Hardin Henderson .......... Henry Irotjsioia Jackson Jasper Jett orson Jersey Jo Daviess Johnson..... Kane Kankakee........... Kendall Knox Lake LatSalle Lawrence............ Lee Livingston ;.. Logan Macon ........... Macoupin Madison Marion Marshall Mason M as sac............... McMonough....., McHenry v.., McLean.......... Menard Mercer. ...... Monroe. Montgomery.... Morgan Moultrie .s... Oglo Peoria Ferry Piatt.. Pike. ...4 Pope Pulaski Putnam Handolph Hichland Kozk Island..... Saline Sangamon Schayler Scott. Shelby Stark (it. Cliar Stephenson...... Ta>.ewall Union Vermilion. , Wabasn Wurren Washing ton.... ̂ ,,4. Wayne White Whiteside Will Williamson,.^,...., Winnebago. Woodrord. 1.496 3,030 1,800 S.618) 1.6ft! 1,173 2,311 80,304 1,228 1,138 1.157 1.175 1,0»1 1.111i 8,230? ... 4ial 1.m 8,1.05 632 1,118! 7,724 • 844 2.V95 1,420 943 1,858 SSJ 996 1.0M SK.100 1.19 J 2,217 M65| SM3SI 995 4,620 1,063 569 9,454 667 8,616 I,441 630 1,068 5,416 3,106 5.633 S.'SB 1,233 V»1 «66 1,897 1,965 8,651 1,927 1,476 LU64 ^044 3,834 1,210 734* II,259 1,876 ,1.704 1,916 225 S49 n* 1,463 6,515 *.743 6,484 1,188 1.297 3,071 674 7,063 1.135 S^Oi 891 5,826 1,505 3,4 <4 1.594 2,307 1.730 4,687 1,406 3,106 816 iss* ,wr 9,10s 2,831 4,245 3,811 3,179 ,96i 1.234 &.047 5,451 5,751 4.93J 3.0J5 3,772 3,158 4.663 2.439 8,331 4.197 1.9ft. 7^84 5,Ufc) 13,430 5,408 7,161 7.830 9,762 4,845 3,229 3.330 2,146 5,878 4.304 9.980 2,902 3v7;i3 2,870 5,fcJ5 6,891 2,661 5,110 m Facetiae. _ 04$^ PClOi of "chic"--An egg. | A 8HABP trade--The barber's. THE vanishing lady--Our cook. A GENUINE humbug--The locust. ....;„ ARISTOCRATIC horse play --Polo. ~.. . J A SOUND sleeper--One who snores. -. - ^ A FITTING occasion--Trying 'em oai", ? AN amorous bird--The "spoon"-bil^ SELDOM on time--Trains of thougkt. ? MOVES in the highest circles--Saturn. A "SMALL tea parly"--A Chinese baby. A USEFUL duel garment--A bullet-proof shirt. NOT early marriages --The afternoon o n e s . , • . ' » • , MEN of QMUQT voa^s -- Webster nt Walker. . Totals....... . J. ."0.1,561 169, 37i 574,101 I From the Chicago Morning Xews.f An attempt has been male to ere lie the impression that the language of the reso­ lution is fatally defective; tliat tbe amend­ ment, not being to some existing clause of the organic law of the' State, would be null suid void, even if adopted by the papular vote; and vaghc talk has been indulged ia of appealing to the Supreme Court. There is no foundation for any Buch appeal. The Supreme Court has no authority in the matter except to decide whether the people of the State, by a constitutional majority, ' have decided to incorporate into tlie organic law a clause making it "un­ lawful for the commissioners of any peuitcntiarv, or other reformatory institu­ tion in the State ot' Illinois, to let by con­ tract to any per-on, or persons, or corpotm- tion the labor of auy convict coulined with­ in said institution." The supreme power of the State resides with the people, and they can amend the Constitution any way they choose, if legally submitted to them, and no power iu the State can stt it aside. They can amend it bv the incorporation of a new arti le or the modilication of an ex­ isting ono, if they desire, and the Supreme Court is powerless to make it void. Not can the Supreme Court d > more than decide as .tg t^e question tf udept ou. , Minor State Topics. ' WJadge Gary has signed a bill of £»»$»* • tions in the case of the Chicago anarchist*. Application for a supersedeas has been made to the Supreme Court. --The directors of the Chicago Exposi­ tion have declared a dividend of 5 per cent, for the year. The receipts for the sale of tickets this season were $07,520. --"As to the influence of a prison chap­ lain on the morals of convicts, I cant aagr that I've ever noticed any great benefit*," says the Warden of the Joliet prison. t --The free-delivery system will go ia£o effect in Joliet as soon as Postmaster All^n receives his commission. Bock Island will probably be the next Illinois town to re­ ceive the beneSt of the system. --Chicago will soon have another tail, way connection with the Northwest. The Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad, connecting Chicago and St. Paul,* will he completed and ready for business shortly, --A bill has bten filed in the Cinn# Court at Springfield praying for an injunc­ tion to restrain the canvassing of the vote of Illinois on the convict-labor question, to prohibit the Governor from issning * proclamation declaring the saina to have become part of the Constitution. The plea is made that there is nothing in the Constitution referring to penal or reforma­ tory institutions, and that, even if there is, the ballots worn defective, and therefore void. --Is an era of darkness at hand? In Ktv York harbor the torch of Liberty has al­ ready been extinguished, end now the managers of the Chicago Board of Trade announce that the electric lights that en­ circle the dizzy spire of their edifice, illn- ruinating the region round about, will be extinguished at the close of the year. It Is the first time in its brilliant history that the Chica go Board ot Trade has acknowledged its preference ol darkness to light.-- tim JoiomI ' -vv