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v ^ ̂ - * * t * s "• »«? j * • - * I. VMSLYK1. Id Raraaf PHMMMT. McHENBT, ILLXMOia CONGRESSMAN W. L. SCOTT, of New York, it reported to have bought large bituminous coul mines in Illinois and Iowa, ____ B. P. SHIIXABKB ("Mrs. Partington") is 73 years old, and despite his infirmi­ ties still keeps his pon busy and drives the wolf from the door by his industry. NOBTHEUK visitors have not despoiled Florida of all its alligators. An old " 'gator" recently killed measured nearly fourteen feet long, and had fore feet measuring each eleven inches in length and seven broad, with claws nearly two inohes long. THE catch of herring in Tautaton River, Massachusetts, was so great this season that prices are lower now than they have ever been in the history of the industry. Now the fish are barreled as soon as caught and shipped to Boston and other places to mackerel fishermen, who use them for bait. M«TOB HEWITT, of New York, re­ ceived his first money by reading to a rich man three or four hours a day for a year. He was then but 16 years of age. For his year's reading he received the munificent compensation of $15. Ten dollars of this sum was used to buy his student's gown, and the other $5 was kept by his mother for incidental ex- penses. J LAST February William Brown, of Somerset, N. Y., asked Eleanor Pieeco to marry him, and, when Bhe refused, shot her. "When the girl recovered from the wound she visited him in jail and offered .to be his wife as soon as he cortld be released. Recently she went into court and pleaded for his pardon. Luckily the" judge had not a tender heart and sentenced the man to the penitentiary. A CORRESPONDENT in Cuba has inves­ tigated the rumors of the plan to kid­ nap Senator Sherman while on a visit to that country, and pronounces them untrue. The banditti were led by Ma­ lagas, the most celebrated and boldest of the Cuban outlaws, and the project only failed because of the difference in time. The capture was to have taken place while Shermau was on a visit to the sugar plantation of Dom Pedro I^fflpibcrto Fernandez. VJL SOLID silver hatchet found recently %fjkmora will soon ail or n the museum of Princeton College. It weighs 100 Jtinces, or a little over eight pounds, jtnd as bullion is valned at $1 an ounce. It is four inches in length, is wedge- shaped, and was evidently hammered «jy some prehistoric people. It was brought to San Francisco, and was pur­ chased for $1.60 by Henry G. Mar- quand, who will present it to. his college. THE latest improvement in New York apartment houses is an arrangement which enables the tenants to mail let­ ters without leaving their rooms. A sluice is in every room, the missives are dropped in, and as fast as they ac­ cumulate they are deposited iii a post- office box. lb is further proposed to regulate all the clocks in the house by electricity, change a calendar in each /jfenit every morning, and show the direc­ tion of the wind by means of a dial. THE Vanderbitts have always paid taxes 'on less than $1,000,000 until this year, when they were assessed at $10,000,000. Then they threatened to remove their offices to a New Jersey mos­ quito swamp, and began looking over the poor house to see what its accommoda­ tions were. Finally they agreed to an assessment of $8,000,000, saying they had no idea there was so mnch of the stuff Almost any man, in the hurry and confusion of sitting around hotels with his feet on the window sill, is liable to overlook $7,000,000 or $8,000,- 000. It may be in his other vest at home. A PHILADELPHIA car-building com­ pany has nearly completed a contract for building 350 cars of various kinds for a railway company on the La Plata River region, in South America. The road is 200 miles long, traversing a level plateau similar to the western frontier.. Each car is drawn by three horses, which are changed at stations ten miles apart. The read is operated much cheaper by horse-power than by steam, as coal is $12 a ton and horses only $20 a head. Some of the cars are sleepers, with two tiers of berths, the upper one being closed np to the ceil­ ing in the daytime, and the lower trans­ formed into seats. THERE was a curious provision in the will of Joshua C. Laurence, who died recently in Philadelphia. Three thou­ sand dollars is bequeathed to the First City Troop, of which he was a member, and when Jby judicious investment, this sum shall fjjive reached $6,000, the in­ terest is to be applied forever to the pur­ chase and maintenance of a horse for the use of the organization. The animal* jn turn and their equipment are to be known l>y the name of "Second-Ser- geant Laurence," "Corporal Laurence," or "Josh Laurence"--the testator's de­ sire being that there shall always be a horse thoroughly equipped and ready for service, his name conspicuously painted on his stall and his equipments stamped with his name. ' I* .is finally settled that Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will soon take up her abode in Gotham- as teacher and lecturer in a private school. Not, how­ ever, merely under salary. She has arranged the terms of a partnership with Mrs. Sylvanus Read, who has con­ ducted one of the most* successful schools for girls in New York for sev­ eral yipars, and a fair shafre of the money made in the establishment will faMMNk One condition of the arrange- mentis that Miss Cleveland shall forego all literary work while it continues. She is not to do any writing for maga- aines or other publications, but give all her time and thought to her duties in the school. It looks rather odd that a lady who was mistress of the White House only a short time since should engage in school teaching in New York, while her brother is still President of the United States, but that's the way the "genius of our institutions" works, and it is a pretty good way, too. Miss Cleveland will not remove to New York till September next, when her work in the school will begin. Mrs. Read has known her several yean, and has a very high opinion of her moral and mental character. The girls in the school in Fifty-third street will probably have a good deal to say later on about having been taught by the sister of the Presi­ dent of the United States. CCMBEBSO MESA, seventy mifes west of Albuquerque, N. M., writes a cor­ respondent from that town, is a rugged upland occupied by countless flocks of sheep which are cared for by herders who follow their flocks day and night unseen by the owners for weeks at a time. Cuberto Gonzales, a largo sheep raiser, rode over the range to inspect his flocks on the afternoon of the recent earthquake. He climbed to the top of a high rock to scan the country in search of his herders. At that moment the sky became overcast, a low, rum­ bling sound seemed to approach from the southwest, and then a slight tremble shook the rock upon which he was perched, immediately followed by a loud report and a severe shock, which made the rock sway to and fro like a ship at sea. Gonzales was overcome by a deadly sickness which almost caused him to fall from the rock. Recovering, he started to desoend by the path he had climbed, • but found the rock had been rent in twain, leaving a fissure ten feet wide, which accounted for the report he had heard. He managed to regain Jevel ground, and, remounting his horse, rode rapidly in search of his herders. He found some sheep, scattered and bleating with fright, but no herders were in sight. A short dis­ tance farther he was horrified to find the body of one of the men stretched upon the ground, dead. Instituting a search for the other two, he found them a mile away, both dead. On the bodies were no mark of violence or in­ jury of any kind, and they were scaroely cold, the flexibility of the limbs indicating that death had over­ taken them within the, time that Gon­ zales had been in the mesa. The only plausible theory that Gonzales could form was that they died of extreme fright caused by the terrible convul­ sions of the elements which he himself had witnessed. The terrified expres­ sions of the dead men's features sus­ tained this theory. ' SON SINGULAR A HANDBILL put forth at Exgter was headed: "Wanted a few healthy mem­ bers to oomplete a sick society. IN the extreme West a shanty bears the sign: "Here's where you g<et a meal like your mother used to give you." A PICTURE dealer announced in an Irish journal that, among portraits, he had a representation of "Death as large as life." A COUNTRY paper in a notice of a lecture given by a phrenologist said: "Behind the platform is a large gal­ lery of life-size portraits twelve feet high." AN Irish provincial paper inserted the following notice: "Whereas, Pat­ rick O'Connor lately left his lodgings; this is to give notice that if he'does not return immediately and pay for the same he will be advertised." A COUNTRY sculptor was ordered to engrave on a tombstone the following words: "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband." The stone, howpver, being small, be engraved on it: "A virtuous woman is 5s. to her husband." A CURIOUS notice is said to be given by a minister in Salem County, New Jersey, namely, that he will perform the marriage ceremony on the most ac­ commodating terms. "Those who are not blessed with cadi can pay the foe in cord wood, bacon, or corn. IN a number of the London &faga- zinc of 1767 was this curious announce­ ment, addressed to 'all foreigners and others: "This is to give notice that the English vulgar tongue is taught at Billingsgate by a company of qualified fish-women, upon very reasonable terms." AT Dieppe, that famous bathing- place. there are police established, whose duty it is to rescue persons frccn danger. This notice is said to have been recently issued to them: "The bathing-police are requested, when a lady is in danger of drowning, to seize her by the dress and not by the hair, which oftentimes remains in their grasp." A LIVERPOOL furrier informs "those ladies who wish to have a really genuine article that he will be happy to make them muffs, boas, etc., 'of their own skins.'" This is matched by the pro­ prietor of a bone-mill, who announces that "Parties sending their own bones to be ground will find their orders at­ tended to with punctuality and dis­ patch." THERE are many curious signs and business announcements to be found in London, of which a few are: "Sick Dogs Medically Treated by the Week or Month. Birds to Board, ladies' and Gentlemen's Feet and Hands Pro­ fessionally Treated by the Job or Sea­ son. Round-Shouldered Persons Made Straight. Babies or Children Hired or Exchanged. False Noses as Good as New, and Warranted to Fit Black Eyes Painted Very Neatly." AN old farmer employed a son of Erin to work for him on his farm. Pat was constantly misplacing the end boards in the cart--the front board be­ hind and the tail board in front--which made the old gentleman very irritable. To prevent blunders he resolved to dis­ tinguish each board by some sign or notice thereon. Accordingly.he painted on both boards a large "B," then, call­ ing Pat to him and showing him the boards, he said: "Now, you block­ head, you need make no mistake, as they are both marked. This," point- ing to one board, "is 'B' for before, and that," indicating the tail board, "is 'B' for behind." Whereupon the old gen­ tleman marched oft with great dignity* IS FAB OFF LAKBg. Weaaoa la IMW-Woma la India--WMaoa Voder th« Cmifnt. First we were introduced to the Captain General of Coba. Then he brought in his daughter, a typical Spanish girl, and one of the most beau­ tiful women 1 have ever seen. She was about twenty years of age, had a rich, fair complexion, and her very motion was grace. She was quite accomplished, and spoke French fluently and En­ glish fairly Well. Mrs. Gen. McCook, one of the French scholars of the party, carried on quite a conversation with her, and shortly after this the young lady brought in her baby, a little coffee- colored tot of 5 months, whose bright black eyes looked soberly from one Senator to another, and, finally, seemed most pleased with Senator Palmer. Palmer took it from its mother during the visit, and jumped it up and down with all the skill of a grandmother nurse. The baby laughed at him. and it did not cry during our whole visit. It was a rather smart baby of its age, and the ladies remarked that it was wearing short clothes at five months-- rather sooner than among the Ameri­ cans. Its feet were dressed in little white kid shoes of the finest texture, and out of the tops of these, showing against its fat olive-brown little legs, peeped silk stockings of a pale-blue. The short dress was of white cambric, and the mother herself wore a lawn such as any American girl would think fit for everyday working wear. The grandfather, the Captain General, was evidently highly pleased with the at­ tention it received, and he is, I doubt not, as doting as most grandfathers.-- Havana letter, in Cleveland Leader. HOME NOT MUCH OF A HEAVEN. Now for an idea of a Hindoo woman's home life. She lives in a small room almost destitute. The floor and walls are of clay, with no ornamentation of any sort, and the least furniture pos­ sible. Every morning she has to pray, not for herself--as she is taught she has no soul--but for fcer husband, for rain, and for general blessings. Then she spends two or three hours prepar­ ing the breakfast. She doesn't eat with her husband, but, ̂ perhaps, fans him at his repast. During the daytime she either sleeps, gossips with the other women, or sometimes a reader reads to them from the lives of the gods. At night they prepare their husband's meal' in the same manner. They are not protected against the weather and dampuess, nor are they properly fed and clothed. The rich live the same as the poor. If sick they are deemed cursed by the gods, and are taken to the stable and left alone. The only food they can get is left by stealth. Thousands die of neglect. The first day that a Hindoo boy abuses his mother is a festive oocasion with his father, who boasts of it to his friends. To be a widow is the sum of unhappiness. She is especially cursed by the gods. As the husband dies half a dozen barbers' wives rush upon her and tear the jewelry from her ears and nose. Behind the funeral cortege she follows, surrounded by these fiends, who throw her in the water. If she drowns they aay she was'a good wife after all.--A traveler, in Macon (0a.) Telegraph. LOVE UNDER THE CRESCENT. ; Turkish girls are promised usually when they are verv young, even at a tender age, when tiiey are only 2 or 3 years old. If the young bride should happen to die before her marriage, or be required for the Sultan's harem--for it may be premised that this is a case that breaks all engagements, and is esteemed as a great honor by parents the intended husband is not expected to weep over what he loses, for he has never seen it. When the young girl readies her 12th or 13th year, or some what later, her 14th year, she receives the nnptial blessing, and the husband cannot see the face of his wife until after that ceremony. No woman, not even the wife, takes part in the solemnity of marriage, whioh is effected by proxy, delegated to an uncle or to .and elder brother, often with a full beard, who plays the role of the bride. The parents of the oouple sign the contract before the Imaum of their quarter, in the presence of a few friends, who act as witnesses. The nuptials are then celebrated by the families with a calmness and gravity that would be as suitable for a funeral as for a wedding.--Cosmopolitan. A JAPANESE JAB NOT OFTEN HEARD OF. Generally speaking the Japanese men make kind and affectionate husbands, and the women make virtuous and ex- empla^p wives and mothers; and the children are certainly the happiest little imps in the world; their parents fondle and spoil them most effectually, and at the same time never losing their control over them. The husband has absolute control over the person of his wife; at the same time, one never sees a man strike a woman in Japan; yet there is considerable pinching and slapping done on occasions when those strange and ungovernable spells of ex­ asperating ugliness known as tantrums settle down upon their matrimonial horizon. On these occasions there if considerable free hitting, biting, and scratching indulged in on both sides of the house; but the greater strength of the husband invariably leaves him master of the situation, and the bellig­ erent household speedily resnmes its serene and happy course.--Brooklyn Magazine. How Omaha Was Named. , There are several legends as to how this city was given the name of "Omaha." By some of the old-timers it is claimed that the name was sug­ gested by Jesse Lowe. "Omaha" was the name of a tribe of Indians in the immediate vicinity. The meaning of the name, it is claimed, is "above tbe water." The tradition is that two tribes of Indians had, a great many years ago, met on the Missouri River, and had engaged in a hostile encounter, in which all on one side were killed but one, who had been thrown into the river. Rising suddenly from what was thought to be a watery grave, he lifted his head above the surface, and pro­ nounced the word "Omaha" which had never been heard before. Those who heard it adopted it as the name of their tribe.' Another story is that the town was named after a white man who was an Indian doctor, and who took the name of Omaha from the tribe of In­ dians of that name, Mr. James C. Savery, who in early days was a promi­ nent "citizen of Iowa, and built, the Savery House at Des Moines, tells an interesting story in connection with the naming of this cily. Mr. Savery, who is now a resident of Montana, while on his way East recently, said to a mem­ ber of the Bee staff: "Col. James Red- field, of Albany, was reallv the projec­ tor of Omaha. He and eleven others went into the Council Bluffs and Omaha Ferry Company, each putting ai WO& eoL Bedfiaid borrowed his $400 and got me to Indorse for him. The company then plotted the town. When Redfiekfs now came due he couldnt pay it, and he then offered me his share of the town site, but I de­ clined to accept it. There was a white crank, with long hair, who claimed to be an Indian doctor, and went by the name of Omaha. One night at the Pacific House, in Council Bluffs, while the town-site men were on a drunk, it was agreed to call the new town Omaha after this crank Indian dootor. That's how Omaha got her name. In due time Col. Redfleld sold his interest at cost He was a Colonel in the Union army of the war of the rebellion and was killed on the field of battljfcf -- Omaha Bee. 1 Nye's Dilemma. A number of years ago Major James Haggerty, of New York, accompanied by Senator Nye, of Nevada, was en­ gaged in stumping Connecticut One Saturday evening they found them­ selves in a quiet little village. That night they were to address the assem­ bled suffragists on the political issues of the dav. There being no public hall it was ar­ ranged that the speaking should take place in the village church. The audience was comprsed principally of the people who filled the sacred edi­ fice on Sundays--plain, honest, reli­ gious country people, peculiar to the land of steady habits. Senator Nye was the first to speak. He was a large, fine-looking man, and he spoke with a great deal of elo­ quence. He "orated" for several hours, and so effectively and exhaustively that, owing to the lateness of the hour, Major Haggerty concluded to make only a few brief remarks. In closing his speech Senator Nye regretted that he could not spend the Sabbath in the quiet little village, as he was compelled to go on to New York that night He was very much distressed that circumstances compelled him to forego the privilege of spending the Sabbath in that typical New England village. In expressing his regret he used the following Ian- guage: "I wish that I could remain with you over the Sabbath, my dear friends. I wish I could see your old men and maidens, your young men and your toddling children, your husbands and wives, repair to the house of God on the morrow. I wish I could join you in praise and prayer to the Most High. Such sacred scenes would recall the happy days of my innocent childhood. They would remind me of my--my-- sainted mother, on whose grave the grass has been growing for the past twenty years"--and the speaker buried his face in his handkerchief, while his whole frame shook with emotion. Sobs were heard in different parts of the house, and several hard-faced old codgers passed the backs of their horny hands across their eyes. The speech made a profound im­ pression, more particularly on the re­ ception committee, who were all mem­ bers of the church, and who crowded around and pressed tbe eloquent speaker's hand. The committee accompanied the gifted orator and Major Haggerty to their hotel. On reaching the hotel Senator Nye said: "Landlord, when does the next train leave for New York?" Before the landlord could rGply, one of the deacons, a venerable old man, folded his hands, and said solemnly: "I am happy to inform you, Senator, that no more trains pass through -this town to-night. The next train leaves Monday morning at 8 a. m." "W-h-a-t!" gasped Nye, "'have I got to stay here over Sunday? Why the thought is maddening. It would kill me. Haggerty, you have got to go to New York to-night, haven't you ?" he added, turning to Haggerty, who, with uplifted eyes, and an expression that can only be seen on the faces of the saints painted by the old masters, re­ plied : "O, no, Senator Nye; I could not think of traveling on Sunday, as my early training would prevent me from thus desecrating the Sabbath. < I de­ sire to visit the sanctuary to see the old men and maidens flock to the house of God." "O, you d 4 hypocrite!" hissed Nye in a stage whisper. There is reason to believe that the good effect of Nve's speech was entirely nullified by his indiscreet expressions when he discovered that his expressed yearaing to spend the Sabbath in the village was likely to be realized.-- Texas Sifting & " A Few Quotation* ' If there is a modern dranfa in exist­ ence in which none of the following sentences is found, we would be glad to know its name: * Unhand me, villain! ; Not another word. •• I am lost! All is lost! Back again to the old homestead. To-morrow all the world will know that D'Arcy O'Brien is a bankrupt! You have pronounced your own doom. =y Fly, ere it is too late! .'v. Curses on ye all! Is it thus that we meet after all these years ? No resource is left me but death. Mandeville Snooks, you are in my power! Man, man, have you no pity ? Would you know my story? Listen! Reginald! Reginald! Great heavens, he is gone! Aha! you tremble! Tbis, then, is the end of all. Would that I were dead! Hector Reilley, you-see before you a desperate man. If you have no pity for the, at least consider her. And this is the man I called my friend! You have sent for me--I am here. Oh, Percy, how I have longed for this meeting! Can he suspect? Villain, you have betrayed me! Have you no mercy? She must, she shall be inine! So, so! all my schemes prosper. The priceless heritage of an untar­ nished name. You cast me off--so be it. For years I have waited for this hour. Wretch 11would you strike a won&n ? Who win save me ?--T'td Bits. Not Yet. "Does this road desire to be exenapt from the long-and-short-haul provisions of the Interstate Bill K asked the re­ porter as he entered\ the President's office. "Well, not quite •vet. ' We are now engaged in stealing three miles ot street, and four acres of ground of the city, and have fiity-two suits for injuries to passengers to defend, and we are not exactly prepared to meet the Commis­ sioners tiireei Aeivs. HAPFT tWMM, mmm who MnfaotlMfar mmr *a tfco Wert*. "Get thee tb a nunnery!" was the ad­ vice the gloomy aad cynical Dane launched at the fair Ophelia when he was moved to go back on his vows of devotion to her. And, indeed, in those days, when marriage was considered the chief end of woman, 'here seemed no resource for disappointed love or ambition save seclusion or death. But the whirligig of time has wrought won­ ders since then. The Ophelia of to­ day turns her blighted hopes to the pursuit of some art or profession, or to business of one sort or another. She chooses a "career," and generally suc­ ceeds when she goes about it in earn­ est ^ The hard work and self-denial requisite to the fulfillment of her am­ bition are a panacea for woe, and save her from heart-break. She may come, after a while, to find a melancholy sat­ isfaction in the belief that the psrt that was forced upon her was after all the better part. She will hug herself a little when she reflects that the chances of the realization of her ideal life were very meagre/ She will be content, and not at all unhappy. WORK AND ITS BLESSINGS. Reasonable women will find it easy to believe that the matter of being inter­ ested and happy in whatever the hands find to do is largely a matter of habit. And that the busy woman is happier than the idle woman, goes without say­ ing. This is especially true after she shall have passed her youth and can no longer enjoy the diversions and interests of girlhood If unmarried, the occupa­ tions of wives and mothers have no charm for her. She is in a measure debarred from full sympathy with either the unmarried young or married middle-aged, and stands a thing apart -- alone. There are, to be sure, il­ lustrious examples of single women who by their sweetness of temper and un­ selfishness in their ministrations to others find sufficient joy to fill their lives; but the chances are that tho wo­ man who has nothing in particular to db will after the freshness of youth shall have departed find herself prone to look on the shady side of life--her heart filled with vain regrets. Thus it is that the women who are forcod, by either will or circumstanoes, to think of and do for others are happiest. But to return to our subject DAINTY WORK FOR DAINTY HANDS. Some representative women have achieved distinction in the field of liter­ ature, the arts, the profession, but it in no wise follows that every woman may do Jthe same. Brains, no more than bodies, are fashioned after the Bamo model. Nevertheless every woman can find profitable and, if she will, con­ genial employment. New ideas are continually cropping out with work for willing hands. Many of these have been lately suggested for women who perhaps finding marriage "all worse and no better," must work in their own homes. One of the most promising of these is the making of French candv, and which seems a work eminently suited to dainty hands. Akin to it is the demand recently created for dried fruits, to take the place of the canned and preserved fruit has so long held popular favor. The proper method of drying fruit has well nigh become a lost art (thanks to the invention of (he self-sealing can), but now that the popular caprice has set in in its favor it must be revived. Good dried fruit is infinitely better than the factory-made preserves, and it undoubtedly fell into disuse from the careless and slovenly manner in which it wart prepared. A PROMISING BUSINESS. Home-made preserves, pickjps, jel­ lies, etc., have always found ready sale at good prices. Why should not home- dried fr.ut rank with them ? It seems to me that here is a promising opening for energetic, capable women. But the work must be properly done. Good, ripe fruit must be always used, and'it must be dried quickly lest it be tough and dark-colored. Some fruits are im­ proved by boiling for a few minutes in a rich sirup; others are best when dried simply in their own jtiices. Fancy fruits for desserts are in high faVor, and are especially welcome when fresh fnjit is not to be obtained. They should be packed in small boxes, with thin paper between the layers and on the top, thus tickling the eye as well as the palate. Private customers should be ' mnd in every neighborhood to con­ sume nearly all of such fruit that one woman could furnish, and there is. small doubt that after her reputation shall have been established and her trade-mark become known she would find her hands full to supply the de­ mand. At all events it is worth a trial. FAIR WOMAN'S SUCCESSES. Mankind is so constituted that it must eat and eat it will. It is a curious fact that in every instance where women have turned their attention to catering to the inner-man they have made a pecuniary success'of their undertaking. One woman has made, an independent fortune in the manufacture of catchup. She began by supplying private custo­ mers; now she has a large factory, and her catchup commands the highest price in the market. Scores of similar instauces might be cited where women by their own hands and in thejr own kitchens have laid the foundations of their independence. They have worked out their own salvation, as it were, by these humble beginnings. Industry has brought to them the reward of happi­ ness in doing what their hands have found to do, and who shall say that the world is not lietter for their having lived ? They have used their talents to the best of their abilities. What man or woman can do more. totthM ""•flTIUTIOII IN MWTUCKr. w KcpublisMf CnMpIr it tbe Coming State Esctio# ' He Neglected His Opportunities. ' * Ethel--Don't you like Mr. Fitz- Jones? Mabel--No, I don't I dispise hid. Ethel--Why? Mabel--Well, he was calling on me last night, and I undertook , to show him how well I could whistle. Ethel--Well, What of that f Mabel--A great deal of thai I just puckered my lips up as sweet and prettv as I could, and then Ethel--Well, what then ? Mabel--He just let me go- ON ^ND whistle. Ethel--pow mean\--Tid BUf. r ; A Lockout. ' "Is that you, Mr. Brown?" called ont Mrs. Brown from the window above as Brown fumbled with his latch-key at the door. , , "Yesh-^liic*-my dear, IVe been^hic --to a meeting--hie--labor--hio--club, and- • • "Well, I've declared .ai. lockout;" snapped Mrs. Brown, as she. slammed dowo the window.*--Neiv York Sun. • 1 OWN that there is A haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will £ause innumerable broils, place men in lOrringtan (Ky.) There is actual danger tpat the ergtie party will lose ktimcb tUa yoar. The condition ot affairs in tl&ffitata war­ rants the conclusion ttet the Bmrablioans h^ve a fair chanoa of a&eceas. Kerer be­ fore have the Democrat**b«en fat demoralized conditio*!. Wfte* fit* Petto- orsts assumed controi of th4 t#«fcfr yews ago Kentaelnr was f«te ft^jn ' dAt, with a balance of $4,000,000. At me pres­ ent time the rarplua has not only been ex­ hausted, but the people are facing a deficit of $1,500,000, and there is no satisfactory explanaton of how the money has *been expended. Tin policy pu sued by the party in power has retarded the material progress of the state, and eren the Demo­ crats acknowledge that' tbe Kej uUicans have a strong aifeumenjt against them in contrasting the Condition of Ken­ tucky with other States.' A iargv element in the northeastern put 6f tM State is opposed to Cleveland's administration. They are led by Congressman Taulbee, who represents one of the mountain dis­ tricts. In the Democratic- convention which aiomiuated Buckner for Govottor Taulbee had a large following in refusing to indorse Cleveland. The great obstacle in the way of the th^nbons is tha growing strength of the Prohibition and Labor par- tics. If ia concede} by all well-posted politicians that the temperance pfeopls will cast from 20,000 to 60,000 votes in the Ad- gust election. . At least 75 per cent, of this will be drawn from the Democrats, as the Prohibition element is most numerous in the rural districts, which have always given overwhelming Democratic majorities. It is becoming more and more apparent daily that it was a mistake to nominate Buckner. The Union wing of the Democratic party in Kentucky have no use for a man whose stook in trade Is his Confederate war record and ths resolutions of '98. A leading Union Democrat from Lexington said: "We ate in a bad predicament in Kentucky. The Treasury m emDty. thsre is no effort to improve or develop the re­ sources of the State, and we have.the Pro­ hibition and Labor vote to contend against. General Buckner can not command ths fall party strength by several thousand and the Republicans have, in nominating General W. O. Bradley for Governor, selected the strongest man they have. Beck and Car­ lisle, realising the serious danger, are com­ ing home to stump tbe State. Every Ken- tucky Democrat approached on the subject of the election concedes lhat it will be the closest fight they have ever had. Ksindn aad Campbell Counties, in which Getting- ton and Newport are situated, and the home of Speaker Carlisle, will both.-.he camad by the Union Labor party. Tha work- ingmen have thorough organisations in Louisville, Lexington. Somerset, end other Democratic strongholds. They will hold their State convention in a few days and nominate a full ticket, which will in all probability be headed by George H. Thobe, who came so near defeating Speaker Carlisle. The Republicans are splendidly equipped for the contest. It is a significant faot that there was a spirited contest for the nomination for every State office, and some of the most brilliant and influential men in the State gladly accepted pMpes on the ticket, tien. Bradley, who hasten in the forlorn hope for years, is confident of election. The Republicans have a strong weapon in their opposition to ths present iniquitous system or contract prison labor, ana-their approval of the Blair educational bill. They will also aapture thousands of votes in Southern Kentucky by their plank in the platform dendnncing the Green^River mon­ opoly and' other monopolies" wbich the Democrats foisted upon the State. The selection of Buckner will drive HMMft VotM to Bradley, aptd four-tfifths <jf .*U th« out- Bide party votes will .be taken from the Democrats. Senator BfR|k rwjjl make an active canvass for Buckner, as he wants to be retumed.agaia. The .friends q£ Carlisle will attempt to interfere with Beck's ftp rangement, while Dr. 8tuddiford, a Louis­ ville man with plenty of money, also wants the Senatorship. It is useless to disguise the faot that John G. Carlisle has many bitter enemies in his own party, particular­ ly in his own district. The unpopularity of the Federal appointments in Covington and Newport has driven many of the best workers into open revolt agai&st him.. „ Premature Cleveland Boomers. Ths Democratic politicians,-partioUlsirly those who do not want Mr.- Qletelaad re­ nominated, are indulging in a good deal of absurd gossip over the question whither he did or ha didn't say that te would be a candidate for a second term. The story seems to have been started at a dinner of Western Democrats in the midst of char­ acteristic Democratic hilarity. Then came Senator Vest and stated in an interview that he knew the President would not be a cand date from sundry remarks he had made in a conversation. Then came Sen­ ator Gorman with the statement that the President had frequently expressed him­ self against a second term twice'as strong­ ly an he iB represented to have donS by tbe press. Then came Mr. Dorsheimerwith his story that the President Wrote a letter for publication, refusing to accept a'ie- nomination, which he induced him to sup­ press. Then came h'mith M. Weed, who, like all tbe others, is ot course oa intimate terms with the President, and says that Mr. Cleveland told him he didn t want to run again. And FO the gossip ronB. Meanwhile those who don't want him re­ nominated fall back on his own'statement in his letter of acceptaace: "No means tending to the full realization of a form of government by the people would be more effective than an amend­ ment to the Constitution disqualifying the President for re-election. We recognize, in the eligibility of the President for le- election a most serious danger to that calm, deliberate, and intelligent political action which muBt characterise a government by the people." Meanwhile the President himself is as mute about the matter as Pharaoh's mum­ my. Hia friends try in vain to draw him out. The correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal probably gets pretty near the truth of the matter when he says that the President is in bad humor at this con­ stant nagging by his own patty papers and will not talk to anybody, and, moreover, that be gets into such tits of irritation that now and then he declares he doesn't care a snap for re-election. While the managers of tbe Hill and Carlisle booms are thus trying to force him out, the mugwumps loyally come forward and t, notify the office-brokers that it is of no use for them to begin at this early period lay­ ing any wires lor the nominating conven­ tion. Tbe Boston Herald plumply says: "The talk that the Presidency is a burden to Mr. Cleveland is all nonsense. He likes the office; be would enjoy it a second term for its own sake." The New York Evening Post says that Mr. Cleveland s renomina- tion is a foregone conclusion, for two rea­ sons, first, because the arguments against renominating Liui cannot be revealed; and, serond, bocause he is the only candidate the party has »ot and the only one it can elect; though in this connection it hedges in the following significant manner. Unquestionably the mugwumps are in the right about the matter. Whether all this Democratic gossip has any foundation or is a mere blind makes little difference. When it comes to the pinch the Democrats had rather be beaten with Cleveland than w:th any other candidate. He will be re­ nominated after more or less chatter from the malcontents, and be will gladly take the nomination. It will not have to ba carried to him on a silver platter either. Meanwhile the most significant feature of all this party gossip is tbe positive refusal of the country to get excited over it. If it were intended to launch another Cleveland boom it has sign illy failed. The people have sized up the President and are not disposed to go into politics for some time to come. The manipulators had better house their boom. It is premature.--Chi­ cago Tribune. time to Us revenue MH, which wmi Hdkd leading. Mr. Day a fctP m§ Qtdta a number ot HOOM Mis worn L third reading, tb« mod toportaat ketaf e*e the nblwt of contributory ngimmii ~ drawn by Vr. Smith, of jjoreaJ. lfSf»e« who nrovoke bmcbei ot tbe JM and »ad language. The Senate 1 nieipalitiea liable Cor damaeaa moba and riow waa, on motion of Ilk; MeMM*; third reading the SenateTTiil makingllietkef. teee of the Illinois Industrial UnimSlT e(Mt» ive instead of appointive. A camber tf untafe portent measures were sent to tliird raadtag. The discussion of an amendment to ttw ilrap shop act eame very near breaking ap the nete ef the Hosse for the <fav. naidbina, ootasarvaton. etc., in Ths quorum broke on the propoeit ont the enacting words of tbe bill. THKBE was a thin attendance ia the Senate' on the 23d. Several House and Hwnate bills of mipor importance were taken np and advance* on the calendar. Senator Borke hadtJieMi providing for the appointment of a IUMUSK Lincoln monument read a second time and i to a third reatiin.'. Senator Poaraon ] resolutions of sympathy and Senator Berggren in the loee ef hia son, who was killed at Gateabmg bar being ran over by the can, aad great in* him indefinite leave of abeenc*. The reap lubons were adopted by a rising vote, aad Hamate adjourned. In the Hooee of r tives a great many bills were nt_ vanced, among the number being tbe bOl «C Mr. MaoMillanrequiringrailioadoo weigh grain in balk and without identity of lota, which waa read tleie. Mid ordered to a third reading. The b ot Mr. Allen, of Vermilion, making It > _ misdemeanor to collect more than tbe lawful rate of interest, was read t aeeond time, amended by making it also a mtademtiansr. ti change mare than l pet cent, for eoileetlnf a --*- negotiating a loan, or foreeloeing a ntrt> and then ordered fe gage, an in words. to a third readtac. ' oat the ta have an inefleotnal motion to strike ont the An attempt waa made ta have limiting the time to whieh rsilfeed men down tar a apecial anter ior the entered, and the yeas and naya wasei a roll-call showing no quorum voting. I** bill requiring the Raitrand and Warn. Coaamlaaton to inveetigatetlM i railroad aocldents when attended by lecaof 1 or injury to peraona. paaaed the 8r The Honae bill "to prevent the ] femalee" waa advanced to \ Htoaee "age at coaeent" as was tho 8ei aa appropriation of Soldiers' Orphana' Borne at Orphans' following 8enate bills making Wanalaopaaaed: Korimprovementsi Asylum, aS Kankakee. >lt,o00; for Wh tral Hospital for Insane, at Jaekaanvllle, Ml*. 600; for Southern Illinois Insane AmptmmL alt Anna, $*18,977; for relief of Mm. tCXT3*Swk i> whose husband waa U1M in aikt»WM»|i' Buffalo Book in 18SS, t*,5U0; for Via. K. r*fif bnrn,whoee aondied tmm expoeure at tlw athsl ' yards strike in Chicago, TSLAJUT la tbe BMSHI Representatives considerable ttaae was devote* ta priaoQ matters. Tha Bourn, MCM MI mittee, waa addressed by WaidenT of Joliet, Dr. Wines of the Charities, and Penitentiary Jones and Wright. These gentlemen, iWiHe exception, advocated the project of a ntaaaaî ry fer "flrst-teraera." The finding Mlhfc anas* syg: ona, and the other provtdea for the areeWhaf a reformatory to cost tUO.ODO, ware mate me special order for Jane 8, when the Mil tot the Chester Penitentiary Into a samm will alsn ha mnsHrron Ttis ftanate llill ( apart *40,000 for npttMng Michigan Canal in eaaeeft ̂ The bill drawa by the epe.lal m consider the Governor's it gtveetl give* the militia J disturbances, etc. The 1 port ot the Inaane Aaylam at taken im. Xtapgaoprtataa a nm ^MkMteonimuye^anaaaBBd i Manrittmade a apeaah againstthe •deavered io secure a redaction I Honae refused to adopt the aaaai ml mmst|£jpm enothef, 1 item qHPg.CW) for hKehdn farnltom* ? sitlon was tact, ..and Mr. H reeolutton recommitting all < instructions to reporta new hip giving toi ieitttatton the amounts specified m tile nf of the State Board of Pablie Ch* resolution was promptly tabled, went to third re edingwttl " THE report of the minority of the MMaty Committee, recommending the paamgs. of HI* ao^alled 'rest of titles bill," was adopted by the Benata May 35. The anti-pool aettingud making bill passed the Senate. Tito Bonsa alien bill came up aa the apeeiai and, after some discoastoik wis ' the Judiciary Committee. The Sena the Honse bUl appropriating «MN tete*ae> lief of James Lillie, the contractor far hnlhlleg the Insane Asylum ait Kankakee, who" claimed to have been damaged to that Jonct Penitentiary. $49,000, aad $8,0JS tor tie purchase of additional land:torn eetl lanse and sewer at Cheater, fTOJNg. aad fMMQO. far the purchase ot e shoe plant at tkaJNims Reform School. In a measage to the l~ the Governor nominated Dr. J. L I. worth. «f Madison County, to anecead W. Grbnsbew as a member of the State of T Pablie Charitiea. He waa pse caafinaedt " Senator Pearson tailed e» the i ate bill to secure just oomgenaatton to mlnata,' which waa read a third ... . General and the Kailsoad --•* ~------ Commission to proceed and Mississippi Kailroed fee _ . to comply with the couatitutkm ot thai The kill providing that aH rerweila. ahanmaas, and otter books kept in theafltee of aumeaa*- er, and all instruments filed for reoordtherein. Shall, during office hours, be open fer petbiie In­ spection and examination, pnesed t" ~ A Senate bill appropriating ti&UUQfT tenanoe of the tttate Univeraity at went to third reading. It waa fallow ad by a measure appropriating f S7,UM to the Eye an* Ear Infirmary at Chicago. Ike bill .tor tha maintenance and support ot tbe Elgin Aaftagft went to third reading. It aggregates Tl|e bill appropriating $165,000 far the Chi tag Penitentiary waa read a aeeand tun* Tbe Honse passed the tollowiag Wis: Imad ing the law of liens--it oampels the filing ef a notice by the creditor with tne.jCoanty Clerk at Circuit Courts, and ia intended to prateet ohasera and owners of real aetata fkem m liens; Lamont'a bill for the anppient-- of Mia circulation and aale of immoral newepapera: Senate bill for the ineorporattan of oo- operative asaoeiatiena tor pecuniary vntt; a bill punishing thoae who fraudulently ' from botel-keepers board or lodging < strength of stulfed valises or trunks; bill making appropriation for the t'oMtetaf Home at Quinoy--it amonnta to $977,500 far nrnp building aad the maintenance of the inatltu» tiohl THK Senate reveaue bill, the general appro* prlation bill, and a measure intended topno vent tbe ambandonment of cbildren passed tha liaveattg*' Balua Peadio atttto 1 Senate May 2(i. Both houses ordered i tipna into tbe death of Anna Insane Asylum, of whioh fee was an inmate. Tbe Honse of Bepsaeaartatti Bepsaa pasaed Eastmans bill requiring the advaoot* ment of the cost of feeding and eariag for lire, stock in case of seizure by Sheriffs under a*« tacbment The House also pasaed a Mil sag* geated by the developments in tbe printing t» vestigation. authorizing the Commisaioaeca < ~ contracts to annul contracts obtained by In collusion, or combination, aad reducing maximum rates on prmtin-4 aooat Si par The Senate alien land bill with the aa meats proposed by Mr. Decker we-* aaat to* thini reading. The jury cotntniaeton MU wa» defeated, 57 to i:t. Mr. Becker gave notice that be would move for a reconsideralfcm. Tae House concurred in the Senate amend* merits to the "pool-selling bill," ana it was aaat to tbe Governor lur bi s approval. -- •:' Cocosnut ml Pineapples. Tlie latter require very They beg n to hea* age and pro- hundred aad Cocoanut rais ug ;s a groi dustry in Southern Florida. Pine­ apples and eocoanuts pay very welL Ten thousand p ueappleaoan be ra»«d» it is said, to an acre, and ths aama amount of space w 11 support fifty ©<•• ooanut trees. Tl " , ---- little cult.vation. at from 9 to 12 years of due© from eighty to one fifty nuts to tae tree. Tfasy hr.ag about five cents apiece to the grower. Many groves have keen planted w th a a few years. One New Jersey genU«~ man has HHO.Otxi trees. IN the days of Home's greatest] polity--that is, during the r Augustus--the cireumferenoe oitv inclosed by walls was about1 miles.