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- I. VAN tLTKE. CdNar as* NMIifc*. MoHBHBT, ILLINOIS. VK' Ouvss DAISTMPU, the bonanza farmer of Dakota, will this spring put : in 32,000 acres of wheat. In his opinion Dakota will nest fall give to the world a balk of wheat that will surprise the wildest speculators. . ALEXANDER III. of Bnssia permits none of the familiarities from his . » courtiers which were tolerated by his (father. The murdered Czar was fre- ' qneotly kissed by an aide-de-camp from the wrist up to the Bhonlder in hnmble P - appreciation of i» kind sentence or two. HARRIET BEECHES STOWE has two s daughters, by no means youthful, who have never married. They are both exceedingly retiring in manner and are . seldom met in society. They arp sometimes seen «>n the streets of Hart- ford, eftoh leading a pet dog. Though scholarly and well read, they have pro- 5 duced nothing'in literature which has '•f attracted attention. S:v fe-; fa J • . hfir. QUEEN VICTORIA. has astonished the ; v English people by a bit of almost in- ; credible parsimony. In honor of her - jubilee the knights of the various | British orders have been, invited to a • series of State banquets at St. James' . Palace. A notification has now been ] issued to the effect that each knight ; will be expected to pay a certain sum • as the price of his seat at the royal din­ ner-table. THERE appears to be a fashion in ;f monstrosities exhibited in dime muse­ ums and in circus side-shows. A European manufacturer of two-headed ; infants and other curiosities says that what is needed nowadays is something of a quasi-scientific character, accom- .,>•< panied by a moderate amount of super- • ficial scientific information and puffing. ' He thinks that a carefully constructed missing link yrould be a great success. Y JAUES DOLIER, of Santa Fe, fell in love with a dark-eved Mexican girl and became engaged to her, but could not 'induce the young senorita to set a day •- for the wedding. One evening Bhe told ^ him that if he would call on the follow ; | ing afterpoon she would fix a time for a the happy event. In the morning, liow- r '-ever, he reoeived cards for her ap- ; proaching wedding with his father. A . few hours later the young • man was found dead in his room. He is sup posed to.have killed himself by taking poison. 1 ° WILLIAM SYKES, a Mississippi planter, went fishing near Leota landing one ; morning; and while he was trying to impale a minnow on his hook the <liminutive fish wriggled out of his "fingers into his mouth and slipped . •down his throat. He went home and - swallowed an emetic; but it had no ef­ fect, and although all this took place ? some time ago, the fish still remains in ;9us stomach. Sykes hasn't worried much about the matter and tells his friends that he feels no unpleasant -effects from his abdominal visitor. He •even says that he experiences a certain pleasure in feeling the fish grow. FOLLOWING are the verses with which the editor of the Evening Sun of New York was neatly fooled. The Evening < Sun is an offshoot of the Sun, of which paper Mr. Charles A. Dana is editor. • By reading the first letter of each line • the point of the verses will be seen: GOOD ADVICE TO ADVERTISERS. Delighted are they who at end of the day Are bleeaod with the Evening Sun, Son, Son ; Ko paper on earth can equal its worth. And yet it is only begun, gun, gun. It's noway and bright and able to fight. Bo that it will never get left, left, left; 'And every line will sparkle and shin* From pencils remarkably deft, deft, deft Bead always, you know, by a million or so, Advertisements in it will pay, pay, pay; Unrivaled by nil, it being so small. Distinctly each ad. will display, play, play. '• - I ~T ;-- ' A totnto farmer named Andrews of Halls County, Mo., while driving into town one morning saw an attractive young woman feeding the chickens in the barn-yard. She waved her hand at him and he bowed in return. A store­ keeper in town told him the maiden's name and rode back with him in the afternoon to effect an introduction. The ardent youog wooer stayed to supper, and before he left had popped the question and been accepted. All this took place* on Thursday, and on Saturday the couple were married. The storekeeper acted as best man, and was persuaded by the happy groom to accept a blooded cow as compensa­ tion for his skillful matrimonial ne­ gotiations. WHEN the late Paul Feval first ar­ rived in Paris, a boy of 20, he almost starved to death. The first piece of luck which he met with was to obtain a place as clerk at a very meager salary in a money-lender's office. The his­ tories of his master's clients were so astounding that, as he said himself, he bad only <to listen and give the rein to his pen to become a novelist. When at the usurer's a distressed proof-reader to whom he showed kindness obtained for him an engagement similar to his own on a new and struggling paper. This brought him the notice of some men of literary reputation who furnished wudevilles to certain theaters written as if by themselves, but in reality by needy authors. Paul Feval did job work for them, and was for some tirre a mere back writer. An original novel­ ette by him caught the public taste, and he was then engaged to write feuilletons for four different journals. For ten years he kept neck-and-neck in : sensational invention with Eugene Sue. COT- WK. R. MOKRISOX, of the Inter- ; Slate Railroad Commission, went into a railroad ticket-office, at Washington, aiyl found there a new clerk who did nofknow him. He asked for a ticket to St Louis, and put down $16.50, with r 57-7 7v,S. \ ' the remark: "I suppose the fare is the same as usual?" "Two dollars more," said the clerk. "Eighteen and a half to St. Louis?" "How's that ?" inquired Morrison. "Don't you folks haul peo pie as cheap as you used to ?" "No, replied the clerk; "all railroad fares are raised by the Inter-State Commerce bill. * "I don't understand you," said the Commissioner. "Is it true that the new law increases the rates of transportation ? I thought it was the other way.' My understanding is that the bill provides that you shall treat everybody alike; that is, not to charge one passenger any more than another." And then the intelligent clerk treated the Colonel to a dose of political economy, explaining that un­ der the bill the roads were required not to charge people who had been paying more less, but to charge people who had been paying less more. Formerly the roads had sold limited/ tickets at a rate less than that charged for those that were good till used7 bnt the new law required that they should charge every one the highest rate. The Colonel looked at the youth with an amused smile, and remarked that he was much indebted to him for informa­ tion which iras of considerable interest to him. Tlten he asked for a section in the sleeping car. "What name?" in­ quired the clerk. "Mrs. William R. Morrison, my wife." The clerk turned white and then he turned green, and his hand shook so that he could soarcely make out the ticket. As the Colonel left the office the fresh young man looked around for something to club himself with. t • THE inner circles of what irtty be called the Presidential society, says Ben: Perley Poore, in the Omaha Re­ publican, have always been the sub­ ject of much comment and gossip among what may be termed the outer circles; thus, Mrs. Abigail Adams, wife of Vice President John Adams, wrote as follows of Mrs. Washington: "She endears herself to all, not by what she is so much as by what she is not, and makes up by cordiality the short­ comings of an early education." In turn Mrs. Adams, when her husband became President, was commented upon as follows in one of the private letters of the day: "She is prim, cold, and possesses too much mind for the very little heart that seems to beat un- her her talTeta gown." By the aristoc­ racy of Virginia Mrs. Madison was called the "quaker widow," and gentle­ men were "too fond of her society," in the common parlance of the day. The manners of Mrs. Monroe were "too much of the French school," and it was asserted that the mece of Gen. Jack­ son, who presided over his household, "had no maimers at all.? Mrs. Harri­ son left the White House before her manners were developed, and while the first wife of John Tyler was "too old," the second was "too young." Mrs. Polk wore "shawls and a turban," as well as paste jewelry. Mrs. Taylor "did not receive." Mrs. Fillmore "was deaf." Mrs. Pierce, sad and afflicted, "never laid off her mourning." Miss Lane was greatly admired by all here. Mrs. Lincoln's love for her husband covered a "Multitude of sins." But we are get­ ting down among persons living and must stop. Fifty years from now ex­ tracts from letters will be published giving a different view of Mrs. Cleve­ land from what is in the rose-colored sketches of the lady correspondents. The Stone Images of Easter Island. A strange memento of a unknown race is the gigantic stone image from Easter Island, now on the way to the Smith­ sonian Institution. This lonely isle of the Pacific is of the volcanic origin, and, from its solitary situation, is seldom visited. The natives, but few in num­ ber are of the Polynesian race, and were originally exceedingly hostile to the few whites who visited them. But within the last twenty years they have ^em­ braced Christianity under the influence of French missionaries. The island is owned by a Tahiti firm, who utilize its fertile valleys for cattle raising. The remarkable features wliieh distinguish it from other solitary island are tjbe huge stone statues to the number of several hundreds, which lie scattered about. They were chiseled with rude skill from the lava in the craters of ex­ tinct volcanoes and transported to all parts of the island, where they were set up, but most of them have since been overthrown by earthquake. shocks. Some of these statues are forty feet in height, and some still remain unfinished in their quaries. Nothing is known of their origin. The present inhabitants possess neither the skill nor the tools for the work, and have no appliances for transporting such immense masses of stone. Their traditions furnish no in­ formation, as they merely ascribe a supernatural origin. The statues are all grotesque effigies of human beings, and while they are low in the scale of art they are evidently the work of a race centuries in advance of the present inhabitants. A theory has been ad­ vanced that Easter Island is the rem­ nant of a submerged continent and that the statues were made by people who worshiped them as idols. But this is only theory, without a par­ ticle of evidence to sustain it. The statue for the Smithsonian institntion is now on board the United States steamer Mohican, which was at last ac- coants at Valparaiso. It. weighs be­ tween 12 and 15 tons and it was with great difficulty that it was placed on board the vessel, as the island has no good harbors, and although the image had to be transported overland about eight miles, there was not a tree to fur­ nish the material. The Mohican finally obtained a few logs at Samoa, with which the work was accomplished, 'yiiis is the second monster curiu which Iras been taken away from Easter Is­ land--a German Vessel having secured one about two years ago. When it finds a permanent place here our puz­ zled ethnologists may possibly be able to clear away the mystery of its origin by a careful study of its design and workmanship. i A COMMITTEE on lighting the Paris Exhibition of 1889 has reported favor ably on a plan for the use of everj known means of illumination. The total amount of light to be furnished is estimated at 2,850,000 standard candles, said to be "upwards of five times the intensity produced by the whole at the gas lamps of Paris." CHASED IT MEXICAK ROBBERS. Binding Befog* from Owriliai In thr.BMM of Th«ir ChleC "I obtained leave of absence «o visit some friends in Monterey," said Gen. Doubleday to a New York Mail and Ejrpres* reporter, telling of adventures in Mexico after the Mexican war. "When the visit ended I started back to Saltillo with a Mr. Miller, of New Or­ leans. It was dangerous traveling, and we were liable to be attacked by prowl­ ing bands of guerillas at any time, but my leave had expired and I could not wait any longer. 1 was riding a swift horse, was well armed, and so was my companion. Nothing occurred until one morning when we were several miles to the right of a small town, Santa Maria, forty miles from Saltillo. We were pushing forward at a moder­ ate gait and continually on the lookout for robbers. I had a large pair of field glasses, and frequently surveyed the surface of the surrounding country. I saw a body of Mexican lancers a mile or so distant. They were coming to­ ward us, and our only alternatives were to give fight or retreat. We chose the latter, as the lancers were considerable in numbers. I concluded to make a dash for Santa Maria. I happened to know the alcalde, and he had invited me several times to partake of his hos­ pitality. He was a dandified kind of a man, and put on a great deal of style. My hppo was to reach his house and claim his protection, and, if he refused to give it, to demand it 'with a pistol at his head. The lancers soon saw us and dashed forward at full speed. They were not near as far to the right of Santa Maria as Miller and I, so all they had to do was to cut us off, if possible. We made a bee line, riding at full speed. The robbers saw their chance of cutting us off and took advantage of it. Fortunately Miller 'and I rode swift horses and managed to reach the town just a few hundred yards ahead of our pursuers. We galloped right up to the alcalde's house, followed by the lancers. I rapped at the gateway in the wall where horses and riders pass through, and the gate opened. Miller Mid I rode in, leaving our would-be slayers some fifty yards from the house. Theyoame no farther. I told the al­ calde that I had come to pav him that visit, and would remain until 6 o'clock the next morning. I also took pains to inform him what route I intended to take for Saltillo. Well, I departed that afternoon at 4 o'clock, and by a differ­ ent route than the one I had given the alcalde. The strange part of the ad­ venture was explained some months afterward. The alcalde, although Gov­ ernor of the town, was the chief of a band of robbers, and that very band which chased Miller and myself* The robbers were delighted to pee us ride into Santa Maria, for they thought they had us then, sure. But when they saw us boldly ride to the house of their chief and be admitted they were struck with astonishment. They did not un­ derstand it, and imagined that we were in collusion or connected some way with the alcalde. The alcalde was arrested by United States troops soon afterward aud his connection with robbers thor- oug hly exposed." London Needlewomen. The women engaged in the shirt trade are to the full as ill off, as badly paid, and as much to be pitied as were their sisters in the days when Hood sang their sorrows and sufferings. The woman who is solely dependent upon shop shirtmaking starves rather than lives by it. She soon becomes in very deed* # The seamstress, lean and weary and wan, With only the ghosts of garments on,, , „ who, , » " In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Sews at onoe with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt. Happily, many of the shirt hands are not wholly dependent upon the earning of their needles. Numbers of the mar­ ried women of the poorer classes work at the shirt trade with a view to supple­ menting the scanty wages of their hus­ bands, and the additional income thus gained, though it may be but three or four shillings a week, sensibly increases the comfort of the household. Con­ sidering the wretched prices paid for the work, the surprising thing is that the women should earn even so much at it as some of them do. Take the buttonholing--the leading branch of the work i9 Tenement street. The holes are rough punched in the factories, the work of the outdoor hands being to stitch them round. This but­ tonholing is admittedly "niggling" work, and yet the rate at which it is paid for by the sweaters is a penny per dozen collars. As each collar has three holes, the hand, who finds her own needle and cotton, has to stitch thirty-six holes for a penny. Even so, some of the experts, by working long hours, by rising early on summer morning and sitting late on winter nights, by living on food that is "ready to be put in the mouth," chiefly bread and butter, and eating as they work; by acting on these lines some of the buttonholers will earn as much as eight or nine shillings per week. The prices paid by the manufacturers who give it out in the first instance are probably such as would enable a skilled and industrious hand to make a living wage, but as matters stand such men are almost compelled to employ nuddle- men, and the .tender mercies of the sweater are cruel.--All the Year Round. • : ( Hsw Animals Praclice Medldalw - Animals get rid of their parasites by using dust, mud, clay, etc. Those suf­ fering from fever restrict their diet, keep quiet, seek dark, airy places, drink wateiwand sometimes plunge into it. When a dog has lost its appetite it eats that species of grass known as dog-grass, which acts as an emetic and a purgative. Cats also eats grass. Sheep and cows when ill seek out cer­ tain herbs. An animal suffering from chronic rheumatism always keeps as much as possible in the sun. The warrior ants have regularly organized ambulances. Latreille cut the antennae of the ant, and other ants came and covered the wounded part with a trans- farent fluid secreted from their mouths, f a chimpanzee is wounded it stops the bleeding by placing its hands on the wound or dressing it with leaves and grass. When an animal has a wounded leg or arm hanging on it completes the amputation by means of its teeth. A dog, on l>eing bitten in the muzzle by a viper, was observed to plunge its head repeatedly for several days into run­ ning water. This animal eventually recovered. A sporting dog was run over by a carriage. During three weeks in winter it remained lying in a brook, where its food was taken to it. This animal recovered. A terrier hurt its right eye. It remained under a counter, avoiding light and heat, al­ though it habitually kept close to the fire. It adopted, bv way of general treatment, • rest and* abstinence from food. The local treatment consisted in firing the upper surface of the paw. / which it applied to the wounded eye; again licking thejpaw when it became dry. Animals suffering from traumatic fever treat themselves by the continued application of cold water, which M. Delaunay considers to be more certain than any of the other methods. In view of these interesting facts we are, we think, forced to admit that hygiene and therapeutic as practiced by ani­ mals may, in the interest of psychology, be studied with advantage. From a Mew dictionary. Anger--The reaction of others' faults upon ourselves. Army--A body of men kept one thousand days to be used on one. Bachelor--A wild goose that taine geese envy. Benevolence--A service that the re­ ceiver should remember and the be- stower forget. Child--The future in the present. Coquet--A mirror that receives all images, but preserves none. Consistency--A church without a mortgage on it. Conversation--The idle man's busi­ ness and the business man's recrea­ tion. Crying--A woman's weakness and a child's strength. Death--The dealer that sweeps in the bone chips. Debt--The example set by a Govern­ ment to its people. Family--Matrimony doing penance. Fashion--A decree that enhances beauty, but makes homaMnesa the itttm conspicuous. Heart--The abyss of reason. r'.\? Heiress--A capital wife. j Hope--The bridge between our long­ ings and fruition, beneath which flow the waters of disappointment. Inconsistency--A woman's preroga­ tive ; for which we never blan^e |ier un­ less we are its victims. f ?*!- Ink--The black seflf upon which thought rides an anchor. Jealousy--The homage paid by in­ feriority to merit. Justice--Truth in action. Law--A trap baited with promise of profit or revenge. Lawyers--The heirs of intestates. Love--A frozen deep; before you venture, see if it will bear. Lovers--The miss-guided. Luxury--The labor of the wealthy. Mankind--Pieces in a game of chess, played by destiny. # Marriage--The only lottery not put down. Mirror--A shrine, before which the functions of worshiper, priest, and di­ vinity are all enacted by the same party. Miser--One who mikes bricks that his heirs may build houses. Money--To the wise a convenience, to the fool a necessity. Old Maid--A woman who has missed the opportunity of making a man happy. Pawnbroker--The man who holds your coat while you fight. Poet--One who may bestow immor­ tality upon others, yet finds it difficult himself even to live. Poetry--Thought in blossom. Prison--An oven, into which society puts newly-made crime to harden. Revenge--The only debt which it is wrong to pay. River--A moving road, at onoe the highway and the conveyance. Space--The statue of divinity. Spoon--A hand without fingers. Stars--Jeweled heads in the rosaries of heaven. Success--A yeneorigyi that can hide all baseneto.' ' ' " " * Taxes--Periodical bleeding as pre­ scribed by Governments Temptation--The test of soul. Tenderness--Passion in repose. Theater--Nature in the House Of Correction. Time--To the aged am atom; to the young a world. Tongue--the boneless that can break bones. Ugliness--The privilege in man; the unpardonable in woman. The Earthquakes of 1811 and 188«. The shocks of 1811-18 are, by their violence and continuity, to be ranked among the first score of recorded earth­ quakes. Save perhaps that which in 1819, disturbed the delta of the Indus, in Western Hindostan, the Mississippi earthquake of 1811 directly produced more extensive and permanent local geographical changes than any other of which we have an account; so violent and continuous were the shakings that the alluvial land in the neighborhood of New Madrid was lowered below its pre­ vious level, and into the depressed region, the stream of the Mississippi poured in such violence that for a time its lower waters, for a considerable part of tbeir course, turned backward toward their source. Although the colonizing of the district had just begun, the area of country already cleared by settlers which was converted into morassas by the shock was so great that the Government was compelled to furuish some hundreds of thousand acres of new lands on higher ground to those whose dwelling-places had been made uninhabitable. It seems likely that an area of not less than 5,000 square miles was, on the average, though irregularly, lowered to the depth of ten feet below its original level. The energy of these shocks was so great that the low, strongly built cabins of frontiermen were wrecked, the forest trees were beaten against each other, and their brances interlocked as they swung to and fro. The irregular move­ ments Of the ground led to the forma­ tion of numerous great crevices, from which turbid waters were thrown up to a considerable height. To protect themselves from being engulfed in these fissures, the people felled trees so that they lay on the ground at right angles to the general trend of the fissures, and built places of refuge on the broad foundations which they thus secured. There can be no question that a dis­ turbance of this' magnitude would, in the present condition of the region wh'ire it occurred, cause greater de­ struction than did that which recently occurred at Charleston, S. C. These two series of shocks, that of 1811 and 1886, have a close general re­ lation to each other, so alike aro they, indeed, as to suggest that the great series of repeated shocks gradually diminishing in intensity, may be the type of disturbance characteristic of the low-land districts of the southern part of this continent. The new Madrid earthquake of 1811 wa?, however, by far the more extended phenomenon; the shocks were more frequent and of much greater violence, and the period during which they recurred was far longer that in the Carolinian disturb­ ances.--Prof. N. S. i> holer, in Scrib- net's Magazine. "BETTER late than never" will do very well when applied to a legacy left by some sturdy old uncle whom you had expected to outlive you, but "Better never than late" should be your motto in catching a railway train. £k. A Prettjr Story ftramm Away off in the Greece, a long, long lived a little maiden, the da' king. Her name was Go very pretty neme, per are used to calling little gicls "Maud ' and "Ethel" and "Helea,*|rat a strong name, and therefore quite appropriate to the little maid who bore it--as you shall see. In those old times there used to be many wars, and the country of Sparta, the part of Greece where Gorgo lived, was famous for its brave warriors, who never thought for a mo­ ment of their own safety when their country was in danger. Sometimes these were not good wars, but wars for spite and revenge instead of for free­ dom and for loyalty to beautiful Greece. Some wicked man would wish to avenge an injury he had reoeived, and in order to do this he would go about among the different kingdoms and per­ suade the rulers to join with him and try to overcome his enemy; and then there would be terrible bloodshed in order to satisfy one wicked man's re­ venge. Aristagoras was such a man as this. He was dissatisfied with his King, and wished to become the King himself instead. One day he came to Sparta On this evil errand, and tried to persuade King Cleomenes, the father of little Gorgo, to help his base project. He talked with the King a long time. He promised him power, and honor, and mote if he would do as he wished; m<&e and more money, aud, as the King refused, still more and nxqa^ mofley he offered, and at last the King almost consented. But'it* happened when Aristagoras had come into the presence of the King the King's little daughter was standing by his side with her hand in his. .Aris­ tagoras wanted to send her away tor he knew very well that it was much harder to induce a man to do something wrong when there is a dear little child at his side. But the King had said, "No, say what you have to say in her presence, too." And so little Gorgo had sat at her father's feet, looking up into his face with her innocent eyes and listening intently to all that was said. She felt that something was wrong, and when she saw her father look troubled and hesitate, and cast down his eyes, she knew the strange visitor was trying to make him do something he did not quite want to do. She stole her little hand softly into her father's and said: "Papa, come away, * come, or this strange man will make you do wrong." This made the King feel strong again, and clasping the little maid's hand tightly in his own, he rose and left the tempter, and went away with his child who had saved him and bis country from dishonor. Gorgo was only 10 years old then, but she was worthy to be a King's daughter because, being good and true herself, sha helped her father to be good and true also. When she grew up to be a woman she became the wife of a King, and then showed herself as noble a Queen as BIIO had been a Princess. Her husband was that King Leonidas who stood in the narrow pass of Thermopylae, with his small army and fought back the great hosts of the Persians, until he and all his heroic band were killed. But be­ fore this happened there was a time when the Grecians did not know that the great Persian army was coming,to try and destroy them, and a friend of theirs who was a prisoner in the coun­ try where the great Xerxes lived, wishing to warn the Spartans of the coming of the Persians, so they might prepare, sent a messenger to King Leonidas. But when the messenger arrived all he had to show for his mes­ sage was a bare, white, waxen tablet The King-and all the lords puzzled over tlus strange tablet a long time, but could make nothing out of it. At last they began to think it was done for a jest and did not mean anything. But just then the young Queen Gorgo said: "Let me take it," and after looking it all over she exclaimed: "There must be some writing under the wax!" They scraped away the wax from the tablet, and there, sure enough, written on the wood beneath, was the message of the Grecian prisoner and his warn­ ing to King Leonidas. Thus Gorgo helped lier country a sec­ ond time, for if the Spartans had not known that the army was coming they could not have warned the other king­ doms and perhaps the Persians would not have been conquered. But, as it was, Leonidas and the other Kings called their armies together and when the Persian host came sweeping over the plains the Greeks were ready to meet them and to fight and die for their beautiful country. So this one little maid pf hundreds of years ago, Princess and Queen, helped to save her father from disgrace and her country from ruin. And we may feel sure that she was strong and true to the last, even when her brave hus­ band, Leonidas, lay dead in the fearless pass of Thermopylse, and she was left to mourn in the royal palace of Sparta. Dry Feet and Better Complexions. Madam, allow me to prescribe for you. I have had a long experienoe in in the management of delicate women and believe I can give you some im­ portant advice. For the present I pre­ scribe only for your feet. First, pro­ cure a quantity of woolen stockings not such as yon buy at the store under the name of lamb's wool that you can read a newspaper through, but the kind that your aunt Jerusha' in the country knits for you, that will keep your feet dry and warm, in spite of wind and weather; second, if you want to be thorough, change them every morning, hanging the fresh ones by the fire during the night; third, pro­ cure thick calfskin boots, double up­ pers and triple soles, and wear them from the 1st of October to the 1st of May; make frequent applications of som§ good oil blacking; fourth, avoid rubber boots, which may be worn for a little time through the snowdrifts or a flood of water; fifth, hold the bottoms of your feet in cold water a quarter of an inch deep just before going to bed two or three minutes, and then rub them hard with rough towels and your naked hands; sixth, now, madam, go out freely in all weathers, and, believe me, not only will your feet enjoy a good circulation, but as the conse­ quences of the good circulation in the lower extremities your head will be re­ lieved of all its fullness and your heart of all its palpitations. Your com­ plexion will be greatly improved and your health made better in every rs- speot.--Medical World. OBANOE-PEEL and apple-akin are equally dangerous. The least bit of either often brings on utter physical prostration. THE most precious' oanine is ft dia­ mond setter. Another Hew It WM Mr. Ondyof Atlania who enjoyed a emporaxy boom of personal popularity by airing his eloqueaoe at the leesaft Mew England dinner, pkstaring the magnanimity of the New South toward the oolored race, extolling its fervid devotion to the laws of the country, and appealing to the North to reoognize the patriotism of that section and emulate it. Mr. Grady w*s particularly enthusiastic in His description of thaNew South, and pictured the roseate existence of the negro under the new order of things in vivid colon. Mr. Grady thereby built a very large boom lor himself, and achieved 'such a sudden popularity that his name was even mentioned in connection with the national ticket of his party. There were many peo­ ple in the North who took a great deal of stock in his New South, but somehow or other the market has turned against them and steadily declined until New South is no longer quoted. Scarcely a day passes that something does not turn up showing that it is the same Old South after all. One of these incidents happened the other day. A middle-aged colored man, respect­ able in dress and behtvior, purchased a first-class ticket from Chattanooga to At­ lanta, and took his seat iu.|he car. What resultedis told in the dispatch ss follows: "Conductor Ferguson at once approached him and ordered him to go into the oolored car. 'I will not do it,' replied the negro; 'I have a first-class ticket to Atlanta, and will not submit to discrimination.' The conversation was listened to by the other passengers, and as soon as the conductor stepped out three young men approached the negro, saying: 'Here, coon, get oat of this car.' One of the men grabbed the ne­ gro's cane and dealt him a heavy blow on the head. In an instant the negro, who had wonderful strength, was rolling over the thr&e young men on the floor of the coach. The conductor endeavored to save the objectionable passenger from the in­ dignity to which he was being subjected, but the train slowing up at Dal ton the negro was shoved oat in the dark and left standing in a ditch." This little affair occurred in the most in­ telligent portion of Mr. Grady's New South, not in the Old South of Misdssippi or Ala­ bama, where a similar defense of his rights would have resulted in something worse then being pounded by three ruffians and thrown into a ditch. It was in that sec­ tion where, according to Mr. Grady, there are the kindest feelings toward colored men; where no color line is drawn; where the two races get along together harmoni­ ously and even affectionately; and where the laws of the country are re­ spected. Prejudiced Northern men, how­ ever, will fail to see any radical difference between the New South and the Old South, or discriminate between their methods of treating the negro. It may be that the New South is boiling over with affection for him, but it has a strange way of showing it. If this were a single in­ stance it might be regarded as exceptional, but unfortunately episodes of this kind are common--so common, indeed, that Mr. Grady's New South boom is in danger of utter collapse. It is some compensation that the colored man has hi* remedy. Civil-rights legisla­ tion cannot help him, because civil rights are not recognised in the New South; but he will sue the road for damages under the interstate commerce law, which expressly provides that there shall be no disonnnna- tion against any person. The New Sooth may deny that this colored man is a first- class passenger--though he is first chum by a large majority in comparison with some of the whites who travel in that sec­ tion--but it can hardly deny that he is a person and maintain it before a oourt, even in the New South. Mr. Grady says there is a great deal of justice there, and, of ooorse, the negro will get the damages from the road which he deserves, but this does not effect the humbug about the New South which Grady so eloquently snouted amid the fizzing of champagne and the ap­ plause of his auditors.--Chicago Tribune. tfad "JiSfcn M. Owen & Son's. A BW. prohibiting the leaving at lafaatabO- dren <M dooritepa and other plaeee, wtth tie intent** of damrttog ttx^a. w-- talwXn--dte the Senate on the 9U Jnat by Senior Beaitt. It pwpoMi to mate the •tumliinaiK «M» dranafoiony. The Henae Mil flalac tfteaasef consent in girl* at 14 yeata and oi oflmae In hoys at 16 years was ordered to t&M remding in the Senate. Ciabtne's nue bill yu favorably reported tnm oommittee. A motion for a eootaeiwe com­ mittee was defeated. The H " ~ reeentatives p&tised a Mil which _ police of any city or incorporated Into the territory embraced within o( adjoining oitiea and towna for ftbfc ponwae «f suppressing riot and protecting life MdjMp. erty. The Honae penned mmiiifMiMiy ^ ifli to quiet real estate title* when the taenia bave been lost or destroyed. Tba WlM ̂ forth by the Wet-- Van Zandt episode, and which pmhfhtts sane persons, pnupers, «od '-nrftt*n at nrlSMS •* from marrying, was also passed. The imfesr- locking bill, permitting the nae of r ~ ~ ~ signals by the railroads of the f third reading. It was followed quiring railroad companies to en. vices in lighting and heating passeSger, < ing, baagage, express, and mail can as aay meet the approval of the commiaaioaan' of railroads and warehouses. The Bevenne CMS- » ' mittee of the House reported the revised eodtk %• J which retains the County-Assessor tyrtsm. Imi - ,/•) ,1 does away with the plan of divorcement eft."* ' '• A < S t a t e f r o m l o c a l t a x a t i o n . T h e f e a t u r e o f t a x * . • * ing railroads was also changed. Thera waa m "'• ¥: ? minority report. , ;$• THKBK was no session of the Senate an > . ,5^ ^ 23. In the House, Mr. Wilson, of Maeoopte ';3 County, called np his bill appropriating WO tot • ) the relief of J. C. Lamay. stale harass Seeaji'̂ S^S slaughtered while suffering with gtai a third reading. it was ordered to a third reading. Mr. i back's bill providing that employer* and en»- ployes shall have equal notice before their I*- lations are severed was read a aeeaad time and advanced. The Judiciary Com­ mittee's bill reducing the H™ in wblalt writs of error can be taken out tram fire three years was aleo advanced frowa a seaoaA to a third reading. The bUl appropriating tUl- (Xkf for ths benefit of Phinees wTlUnor, ot- Sangamon County, on an old war waS-J called np, but action upon it waa postponed, The claim grows out of the fact that a number of troops camped in Taintor's brick-yard doting the war. ' •! THK following bills were introduced In the Senate on the 35th ot April: By Senator Bute, to enable the town of I.ftwville to deed Its pnb- lie square over to the school distriot; by Senator Belnhardt, providing for an iasjacttasr of the Illinois juid Uesplainea rivers to etoteial data for drainage purposes / by Senator Bacon, of Will, changing the time for the meotfgoC the Board of Supervisors from July to April. 1 Several House Mils of a minor character wen read a first time and advanced. In House of Representatives the bill of Mr. I*- mont to prevent the circulation of any paaae < containing stories of bloodshed, lust and dime Vickers introduced a bill apvropriaiias tULOOl for printing, and stated that ftokker A uTtai not refused to do the printing, aa was jenaianj understood by the members, but the fisa«s*lsrv- of State had refused to order mom for the reason that the purpose was exhausted, and he had iiii aallsallji to order work done when there waa ne money to pay for the same. Ike M) > .j waa read a first time and advanusd . without reference to a committee. 1 V The House then proceeded to hills on sasnn< • ̂ reading, and no opposition was encountered to ? the measurea taken up until Mr. flj ii--da' MB. giving the County Surveyor a salary at H08 naf . % •• annum, and requiring the county to fttiniShtMM ̂ . "S of f le ia l wi th ins truments , e tc . , waa roashad. Mr. • ^ 4 *' Miller of Stark offered numerous striking out entire sections and ae the bHI that, with the oonsentoC the Symonds withdrew it from further tion. The House adopted the Senate joint lase olution tendering the use of the hall tor tts next aessionof the AmerioanFoteshryOonmsa. The biU of Mr. Decker, providing that h. M cast shall application for a change ot vane en allowed after the third day of the tm at wMatt- the case is set for trial, waa read a sannml tima, Oppoeition was raiaed to the bOl byMeeaa% - Johnson and Smith. Mr. Johnson intradneed an amendment equivalent to striking eat -fee enacting words, which was adopta<\ and Mr. Pecker gave notice of a motion to rannwiMat -•: Tm State Fair bill came up on ing In the Senate, on April 96, and the apeoial order for Thursday, May & bill of Senator Darnell, changing the wSWitoî a bushel of sweet potatoes own fifty-five to ̂ « fifty pounds, waa read a third time and pasaedL, > ', as was also the blU to enable parkMU^P ? , sionem to make streets taken for benlevaess . • of uniform width. In the Beam ot Bo reeentatives the bill oompeUing the redisMsU 'ft ing of Chicago, and providing her with . eight Aldermen, was passed without < The Pierce bill, forbidding lam eluding the payment Ot texea _ farms, and which is aimed at the nntnrtwra lend "ord Scully, waa advanced to "he printing deflciencv bUl' Building paper cheap at H. Engeln,* Jars and Jugs 9 cents, per gallon M. Engelo. (hat license aa pharmacists'ahsil not -------- o any but those who have Mae When in search of a good Hat of an] rhanamiata - - Mr. Vickers' bill allowing witneaaee in civil and riminal cases mileage at the rate of S cents er mile went through, as did a Mil drawn by Keystone Pulverizers, 16 inch, at E. M. Owen & Son's, for 928. Road Cart with a twenty-four spring at £. M. Owen <SB Son's. > a fhlfd reading. Mr. Bral > the law of jnafieoa of the t declarea that appeal bonda ahaO lanae abrogating the same if the suit J kind, go to AlthoQ Bros. The fknOSt 60 cent tea itf the market ir. Hamilton, of Iroquois, jrovidî fwtheeate It Althoff Bros, f county cemeteries. Mr Waitpushed throng* louse bill reimbursing Lake County in the sum f J8.7J6 for expenses incurred in the trial on hange of venue ot the convict Mooney, who nurdered hi* ceil-mate in the Joliet Pen I ten- iiary. The Houae bill appropriating Ma,000 far repairing the State House waa alao pasaed. The pSnate bill providing a new road and brttse law for counties not under township "Tganiia lion waa read a third time and passed, aha 5 bottle sliver plated castor, 78 oent mb*tantiai copy of the law on the aame Best Lumber Wagon la tows M, Owea A Sen's. MjfBeiKE3mgjMlTtiiatthe chances are that it wiM grow for some time, and will present a ticket at the nest Presidential campaign unless the Democrats present a dapdidate sstinfactory to the men who voted for Mr. George in New York, for Stevenson in Cincinnati, and Nelson in Chiosgo. Who can that man be? Will Mr. Cleve­ land be satisfactory to the voters who ral­ lied again 81 Mayor Hewitt?--Boston Jbumal. Quite a Difference Is Latitats. It seems to make a good deal of differ­ ence with Mr. Cleveland in accepting invi­ tations to public exercises whether they come from the North or the South. He has been invited to attend the dedication of a soldiers' monument at New Haven, Conn., June 17. He replies that he can't tell for some weeks yet whether he will be able to accept the invitation or not, which is his way of declining at altogether. He is invited to attend a Southern fair at At­ lanta next October and he accepts at once and says he will be there. He seems to have no difficulty in determining what his engagements will be six months hence, but he can't tell for weeks whether he will be able to spend a day at New Haven two months hence. There is probably no one who will re­ gret very much this disposition he makes of his time. His invitation to the dedica­ tion of the soldiers' monument was un­ doubtedly more formal and complimentary to the office of President than to the man who fills it. We don't wonder that he is not disposed to attend the New Haven cel­ ebration, for what would Grover Cleveland do at the dedication of a monument to the Union soldiers whose memory he has so brutally assailed? He will feel much more at home in Atlanta, and the Solid South will welcome its friend with unfeigned de­ light.--Iowa State Register. ^ * For Cleveland in 1888. Ex-Governor D. H. Chamberlain, one of the chief mugwumps of 1884, is frank enough to say that he will Bupport Cleve­ land again in 1888--or rather that he will still be for a free-trade candidate--which was what the mugwumps left the Repub­ lican party for. In a late iuterview he says: MI have no hesitation in saying that I am still a strong Cleveland man. I'll go even further, and sty that I am stronger for Cleveland than I was when I voted for him, and I think that that is the general feeling among the Republicans who supported him in 1884. If tuere is any discontent I think it is chiefly among certain Bourbon Demo­ crats. The mugwumps seem to me to be better satisfied with Mr. Cleveland's admin­ istration than his own party." So with all the others, they left the Re­ publican party for free-trade reasons. They will atav out or it for the same reasons. On this point they are more Democratic than the average modern Democrat.--De* Jfomes Register. • * governing counties under the control of c _ >f Supervisors. A bill prohibiting the playing . i» >f base-ball on Sunday was defeated. • THE bill providing tor the election ot eight trustees of the University ot Illinois, to he Toted : for at the next general State election, waapaaaaA* by the Senate on the 97th ult. Tlnlilll nalilsi I? vV« FIBST Director--"I AM afraid we have to pass a dividend again." ttecond Director--"We can't do it." "Can't do it?" "No. The interstate oornmmm law doesn't allow us to pass anything." ing the rights of aliens to acquire sad MM tsel and personal property waa passed M to 1 The bill to prevent book-making and_ was advanced to second read Senator Stephenson, requiring that every _ gagee at real or personal property ahau a recced ot aatisfaotion of the same under a properly. acknowledged upon the faee at the original mortgage, waa read a third time aaA passed. Senator Shutt introduced a bill to enable trustees of momumenta to appctafc and tlx the pav of custodians. The bill "*thi amendments to the present medical praoNoer act waa read a second time and advanced to third reading. The House of liepreccntaMvcc killed the bill providing for a Mate agent at Washington to attend to the busineaa of I and aailors. The bill of Mr. Jones, at man. regulating stock yards and lowering 1 was passed---85 to 9. The farmer members plauded the passage of the act. Mr. well's bill. exempting macists from jury duty, Mr. mau'B bill prohibiting from admission to the Quincy Soldiers' Home all but those Hhl» have been residents of the State for two years, Mr. McLaughl n's bill requiring the eemi- monthly payment of wages by employers to employes, a House bill permitting railroad cotn- panies to extend their lines without reincorpo­ ration, tho hill to the sub-contractor a lian for material and labor, and Dr. Converae's antl- Canada thistle, cockle-burr, catnip, and jt weed bill, were passed by the Honae. THE bill entitling honorably discharged I dlers and sailors who are inmatee ot i homes to vote was passed by the Senate on tha | 28th ult. The Senate alao pasaed tha following "f . bills: Idealizing the barb-wire fence; pre-' hibiting Sunday base-ball playing; enabling inmates of soldiers'bomae to vote at alacUoM. The bill of Senator Bacon, of Edgar, to regulate the price of tel< ' ~ reading, and met It was made the special Senator Cochran introduced resolution requiring all the telephone ( in the State to report to the General , the amount of their cartel atopk. _ , , shares, and, in fact, unbdeooi their business hi all its details, for the obtaining of liifuiinatiiai - ?! 1 to determine whether an annual rental of SSB "y- waa excessive or inanfficient, and requiring '* y| aueh Btitntica to be forthcoming within aixty «i days after the passage of the reaolutfoo. Oi V S# ; account ot the absence of a quorum the ree- oluMon went over. The Senate poetponcd for two weeks the consideration of a me- <• ' f tion to adjourn sine die May 12. In the - '-$s* House of Representatives David T. Littler an- -5 nounced his resignation as a member of that . ' body, aud a joint resolution congratulating hbn , *"•% fj| on his appointment to the Pacific Kailwaor Com- - mission was passed Tha vote by which Kr. Vickers' bill prohibiting the playing at tm • : ball on Sunday had previously failed topeee. /' was reconsidered, and the bill again put oa its passage. It received 86 affirmative votes end O) in the negative. Mr. Miller entered • motion 3A to reoonaider. The Speaker held th« motion oat f v, of order, a similar one having been made and de- cided.The Home also pasaed the following billa: > Permitting the issuing of executions In term -' : times; Mr. Pomeroy's bill regulating the charges for feed, etc., in stock-yards; allowing appeals : . from the County to the Supreme Coart in other vs: than probate business. bill empowering the Governor to appoint a State agent at Wash­ ington to collect from the General Go the amount due the Ktate for moneys the suppression of the rebellion was < •«, came np on second eeiel order fffTiSra: •dnced and had read a DB. JOHN S. PKTKBS advocate* tha nse of salt on snowy streets, in whiek opinion he is in accord with many doc­ tors of standing. He claims that the salt is not injurious to horaM'foet, as is popu'arly supposed, bnt thai it. ami scratches ana sore heels. Moreover, ft is one of the best disinfectants lamia, and will prevent the fonaatioaof aawgr !«> - J. :• ':v