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' " . - * A • : - ' - - «- • -. t !; -; J.*l*»LYKt, MoHENBY, ILLINOIS. SECRETARY Wamnty is the only cab­ inet official who keeps his own carriage, horses, and coachman. His footman and driver are Englishmen. They wear * handsome dark-green lively and (loves of a bright tan color. SHARK Island is used as a quarantine for dogs at Sydney, N. S. W. All dogs brought to the colony are placed in this quarantine at the expense of the owner for a period of six months, the charges being 6 pence (12 cents) pier diem and veterinary inspection fee^ IT is an accepted superstition with the girls of Geneseo, I1L, that any girl who walks nine rails on the railroad . track without falling off, the next man she speaks to will be her future husband. Beal smart girls take the right fellow along and holler at him as aoon as the ordeal is past, j NEAR Alderson, W. YA., workmen discovered the opening to a cave, which has been explored for a mile. It con­ tains all the characteristics of a well- regulated cave--a stream of clear run­ ning water, stalactites, stalagmites, and large chambers, and bids fair to rival the beet-known caves in the oonntry. BUCK TAILOB, the cow-boy, whose daring performances with the "Buffalo Bill Wild West Show" recently resulted in a dislocated thigh, is having a high old time during his convalescence. He is the London lion just now, and is get­ ting all sorts of good things to eat and drink sent to him by his British admir­ ers. * A MUX in Salt Lake City took some clothes that had been used about a pa­ tient afflicted with diphtheria and threw them over a chicken-coop to air. When the family came to look into the coop the next morning all of its inmates 'were found dead. The dead fowls had black marks on their throats in each instance. And a whole brood of young chicks perished in the same way. PRINCE NAPOLEON'S son Louis is now serving in the Italian army as an officer of the Third regiment of cavalry. The joung Prinoe, who has assumed the name of Count Louigi Moncalieri, is with his regiment in garrison at Ver­ ona, where he has a modest suite of rooms in the Palais Marchi, which is the property of his uncle, the Duo d'Aosta, who was for a short time King of Spain. • MB. Bvsicpr desires to contradict the "partly idle, partly malicious" rumors which have lately got abroad concern­ ing his health. "Whenever," he says, "I write a word that my friends don't like they say I am crazy; and never con­ sider what a cruel and wicked foia of • libel they provoke against the work of an old age in all its convictions antago­ nistic to the changes of the times and in all its comfort oppressed by them." Two ENTKRPBISIXA squaws have opened a glove factory at Spokane Falls and are now running quite a force of hands. Through the kindness of some one, one of the members of the firm has been taught to run a sewing- machine wi,th remarkable skill. Seem­ ingly the only stumbling block in the road to success of the new firm is the lack of shape of the gloves made. They look as if they had been cut out by a circular otdeath and his worldly career as an army came to a sudden and mysteri­ ous dose. The present sickness of the Crown Prince is .believed to be more serious than is oflScially admitted. GEN. GROBOE A. SHERIDAX relates this story, which Ije picked up in New Orleans: A delegation of citizens of that place visited President Linooln to beg him to remove Gen. Butler from command there. The President listened while they presented their thousand and one grievances, and then said: "Well, gentlemen, much a) you dislike Gen. Butler, at least he has done one gQod thing for you, for by his wise san­ itary regulations he has kept the yellow fever out.'* One of the delegates, a creole, skipped before the President and replied excitedly: "Pardon, Mist oh President, pardon; it was not Butler vat keep ze fevaire avay from ze city; it was God. He still have a little mercy for oar poor people. He do not send Ben Butler and ze yellow fevaire ze same season; no, sare." The President laughed heartily, but all the same Gen. Butler was kept in command. A NEW discovery is announced by Prof. Elisha Gray which premises won­ derful results in telegraphic communi­ cations. It is claimed that it will be possible, by this new process, to write upon a sheet of paper and have repro­ duced an autographic fac simile of the writing 300 miles away, and perhaps even at a greater distance. Suc­ cessful experiments, it is claimed, have already been made at this dis­ tance, and it is thought that the same results can be reached at a much greater distance. The inventor ex­ presses great confidence that the new invention will rival the telephone in practical and useful results. SOMETHING new and novel in the way of a cure for consumption is de­ scribed by the New York Sun: "Waiter, bring me a piece of round steak warmed on one side and raw on the other, some boiled potatoes with the skins removed out up in hot milk and butter, a jfcate of radishes, green peaB stewed in catsup, a plate of toasted brown bread, and a milk punch. Be sure and have the steak raw on one side, and chop it a little with the raw aide up." This astounding order came from a tall lady with a deter­ mined look and two beautiful catchers in front of her car. "She always eats that same dinner," said the waiter to the reporter. "She's got something the matter with her lungs, and thinks •he's struck a cure for consumption. She sings in a choir np-town some­ where." "UNSEB FRITZ" is superstitious. The idea constantly haunts him that he will never be Emperor. A premature and sudden end, he thinks, is in store for him. Not long ago the young princesses . were taken down with the measles. The precautions resorted to to prevent the sickness from reaching their father are said to have been almost absurd. Everybody had to be fumigated or had to subject himself to a sort of quarantine before he could hope to be admitted to the royal presence. Even the husband and wife did not see Awch other while the sickness lasted, the crown Princess preferring to stay in the sick room, in a secluded part of the palace, rather than add to her husband's feeling of alarm by sharing his com­ pany. An unfortunate and indiscreet army chaplain to whom "Unser Fritz" was induced just about this time to Goon for Gen. Francis A. Walker! In Boston recently he stood up and at­ tacked the modem method of teaching arithmetic in the public schools in a way to do our heart good. He says the "old-fashioned facility and accuracy in ciphering have been largely sacrificed to the numerous technical applications and difficult logical puzzles that hare been introduced into the study of arith­ metic." Children, he says, leave the schools ill-prepared to foot up columns of figures, though able to work out use­ less puzzles. He condemns all this un­ qualifiedly and holds up the modern arithmetic as "a bastard arithmetic, which fails to perform the true func­ tions of that study in our public schools, namely, to produce accuracy and a rea­ sonable degree of facility in numerical operations, while wasting the time of the pupils, perplexing their minds, worrying their tempers, rasping their nerves, and, in case of total or partial failure, unnecessarily and unrighteously shocking and impairing their self-re­ spect and scholarly ambition." Gen. Walker will please accept thanks all around. Think of arithmetics with im­ possible problems in them, which keep the children awake half the night be­ cause they can't work them out! THE United States Geological Sur­ vey has collected the following statis­ tics of the production of coal: The to­ tal production of all kind's of coal in 1886, exclusive of that consumed at the mines known as colliery consumption, was 107,682,309 short tons, valued at $147,112,755 at the mines. The total production and the spot value in each State and Territory, exclusive of col­ liery consumption, are shown in the following table: Quantity Short Ton$. . 96,696,475 .. 36.160,735 States and Territories. Penna.--Anthracite.. Bituminous Illinois 9,246,433 Ohio...............4..... 6,485.311 Iowa 4,312,921 West Virginia:..... 4,005,796 Indiana 3,000,000 Maryland a,517,£77 Missouri JW.. 1,800,000 Alabama F... 1,800,000 Tennessee 1,714,290 Kentucky. 1,550,000 Kansas 1,400,000 Colorado. 1,368,338 Wyoming 899,355 Virginia 084,951 Indian Territory 634,580 Washington Territory.. 423,525 New Mexico 171,985 Georgia. M8.000 Utah 300,000 Arkansas 135.000 California 100,000 Texas 60,434 Michigan 40,846 Montana 40,846 Oregon 46,000 Dakota.. 35,955 Idaho. ..a,............. 1,500 Valve at Mines. $71,558,138 21 016,236 10,363,543 8,018,450 5,391,151 3,805,506 3,450,000 2,391,098 3,340,000 2,574,000 1,971,434 1,782,500 1,680,000 9,315,591 2,488,0ft: 084,951 055,326 0K,g:u 813,855 Wi.fiOt 430,000 900,000 mo.ooo 185,000 0 ,fW)l 17-1,46) 113,500 41,277 » 6,800 Totals, «....• 107,083,300 *147,113.755 Solomon's Judgment la China. Two women came before a mandarin in China, runs an ancient Chinese chronicle, each of them protesting that she was the mother of a little child they had brought with them. They were so eager and so positive that the mandarin was sorely puzzled. He retired to con­ sult with his wife, who was a wise and clever woman, whose opipion was held in great repute in the neighborhood. She requested five minutes in which to deliberate. At the end of that time she spoke: "Let the servants catch me a large fish in the fiver, and let it be brought me here alive." This was done. "Bring me now the Infant," she said, "but leave the women in the other chamber." This was done too. Then the man­ darin's wife caused the baby to be un­ dressed, and its clothes put on the large fish. "Carry the creature outside now, and throw it into the river in the sight of the two women." The servant obeyed her orders, fling­ ing the fish into the water, where it rolled about and struggled, disguised, no doubt, by the wrapping in which it was swaddled. Without a moment's pause, one of the mothers threw herself into the river with a shriek. She must save her drowning child. "Without doubt, she is the true mother," she declared; and the man­ darin's wife) commanded that she should be rescued and the child given to her. "Without a doubt, she is the true mother," she declared, and the man­ darin nodded his head, and thought his wife the wisest woman in the Flowery Kingdom. Meantime, the false mother crept away. She was found out in her imposture; and the mandarin's wife for- got all about her in the occupation of dressing the little baby in the best silk she could find in her wardrobe.--Bon- ton Herald. A New Reporter. A new reporter has joined the staff He was writing up his first assignment, which was the resuscitation of a half- drowned woman. The city editor looked over the scribler'a shoulder, and this is what he read: - "The fair form lay on the dock, and her short pants--" "Tut, tut, young man," said the city editor, "none* of your Zola realism; not on this great religous daily; drop that pants business." The new reporter smiled softly and wrote on: "And her short pants for breath showed that consciousness was return- 4T WILL NOT WORK' of tke President's letter in Re- tmtimg to ®e to St. Louis--A Deep Laid 8dwm to Create Dissension In the Banks of the Grand Array. IWashiagton Cor. Inter Ocean.] Persons who claim to have good sources of information say that they know that the letter of the President, in which he declined to go to *8t Louis has a significance that does not appear upon the surface. "The President," said a gentleman prominently connect­ ed with Grand Army matters, "has been told by some one that he can help to create a dissension in the Grand Army, and force the Democratic sol­ diers out of it, and cripple that organi­ sation for the Presidential campaign. He seems to think that the Grand Ar­ my is composed of two radically hos­ tile camps--the Democratic and the Republican soldiers -- and that the Democrats are much more Democrats than they are Grand Army men. In this he is greatly mistaken, for some of the posts which were the most earn­ est in their denunciation of the admin­ istration with respect to the fiags were Democrats throughout the war. There is no difference in the Grand Army on the issues which grew out of the war, and the fact that the administration is engaged in a crusade of this sort shows that they do not understand the temper of the Grand Army any better" than they do the general spirit of the Amer­ ican people." One of the most prominent and popu­ lar of the Grand Army leaders here says: "There is no strife in the ranks of the Grand Army. Our organization has never been a political one, and never will be. It would never lend it­ self to a warfare against any political candidate for an office unless that man should be disloyal or an avowed enemy of the soldiers of the Union. Our Democratic comrades know that, and for that reason I do not think that any scheme to divide the Grand Army can succeed. So far as Pres dent Cleve­ land is concerned I can only say that he had many friends as well as enemies in the Grand Army before the flag epi­ sode took place. That was condemned by all Grand Army men, Republicans and Democrats and Bourbons, You know that Tnttle's evaporations were not indorsed by the body of our organ­ isation, and if the Prosident had gone to St. Louis he would not have been insulted. The trouble with Mr. Cleve­ land and the Grand Army is simply this and this only: He has never said yet that the war for the Union was right. He has never yet shown honest sympathy for the Union veteranp. On the other hand, he has repeatedly ex­ tolled the bravery of the ex-Confed­ erates, assured them of his esteem, and has even commended the secession teachings of Calhoun as worthy of the study of every American citizen. Let him say once that we fought for a good and righteous cause, and all will be well." Bob Bardette ea the Battle Flint. The longer I live--and I seem to. be liv­ ing a little longer every day of my life, observes Bob Burdette, in the Philadelphia Press, and the more I observe the actions of learned, prominent, and presumably wise men, the more firmly am I convinced that the highest type of wisdom ever mas­ querades in the motley of folly, and that the best writers on mental science and political economy are Charles Godfrey Leland and "Josh Billings." President Cleveland never read "Josh Billings." Had he done so he would have grappled to his memory with hooks of steel this bit of homely, priceless wisdom: "The time tu set a hen is when the hen is reddy tu set." The President, in the matter of return­ ing the captured battle-flags, has been guilty of the useless folly of trying to compel a hen to "set" when her mind is far away on the pansy bed and cool, forbidden scratching places in the kitchen garden, while Bhe regards the nest with only for­ getful indifference. Unless some foolish mortal attempts to drive her upon it, when her indifference develops successfully into hesitation, reluctance, protestation, aver- sibn, peremptory refusal and riotous oat- breaking and obstinate rebellion. Nobody was saying anything about these battle-flags. Now and then a company of Union veterans, making a reunion pilgrim­ age to some old battle-field, carried with them, in a glow of good-fellowship and fraternal feeling, a flag captured by them long ago from their friends the enemy, and now being hospitably entertained, by him, crowned the reunion of old-time friends and foes by returning the flag to the hands that had flist unfurled and then •so bravely defended it. If the veterans wish to do this no man shall say them nay. In fact, it was rather a pleasant thing for the boys to do when their hearts prompted them to do it. They captured the flags; it is their right to do with them as they will. But here comes a man who never captur­ ed a flag, who never saw a rebel flag until long after it had been captured; who abode nigh unto the Canada border when he had every opportunity to go a-gunning after battle-flags; he hears the contented mono­ logue of a hen who is foraging through the strawberry bed and occasionally dividing the spoil with the weak, though much oft- ener with the strone, and mistakes it for the restless "cluck" of a hen moved by promptings of the maternal instinct to brood over a whole nestful of the unsearch­ able possibilities of eggs whose fruitful harvest may, good wot, dominate the elect­ oral barnyard. He said: " I will go into this obliteration and reconciliation business as a jobber; 1 will take up that I laid not down. I will gather where I have not strewed and reap where I did not sow. I will weather these flag returners and cross the line ahead of the whole fleet by a clean majority." Alas for the man who would set a non- "setting" hen, or, finding a willing one, setteth her upon dragon's teeth! That hen wasn't ready to set, and the mistaken President has crumpled his linen, overheated himself, impaired his dignity, filled the air with dust and feathers, and set the whole national barnyard into wild commotion, and the hen which he sought to "set" is perched high on the reel of the old Grant reaper^ which has been under the shed since 1865, where she makes the form ring with defiant protests. Even if that hen was half ready to set, President Cleveland isn't the man to set her. He hasn't been with fcer enough. Somehow she seems to roost high every time he comes around the barnyard. If she had seen more of him now. say when she was about twenty-five years yonnger, it might hsve been different. Any man old enough to be President onght to be able to see when a ben wants to set. A hen is such a fool fche reminds me of men, And even a President is but a man. See, now; I have a ?uarrel with my brother, with whom have lived pleasantly enough ever since our father di d, away back in 177t>. We fight a long lime, bnt at la-t I "lick" him, take away hi-* marbles, and make him comc back into the house and behave himself; I give him the best place at the table, and by and by acquiesce when he says it is his turn to ran the 1 ouse. In a moment of good feeling and fra'ernal love I begin to give back the marbles I took from him. He doesn't ask for them, but I give them to him. I want to do this; it pleases him, and makes me feel better. While I am doing this along comes my step-father, who hid him-elf under the bed all the time we were fighting, and only sent the hired man to represent him--he comes along now and says: "Here, Jefferson, I'm poing to give you back all the marbles that Abraham took chalk; «m ay step-father fast. Bjhis ill-timed, med- dlesome interference in a matter that didn't eonoam hist he has retarded what he sought to promote. And, finally, brethren, when the hen is ready to set dw "sets."1 All the Presidents from Washington to Mexico can't stop her. If yon destroy her nest and lock her out of the hennery, she will set with perfect faith and tireless patience under the bobs of an old wood-shed on a bottle-neck and a bureau-knob. She may e veu be reduced to the necessity of setting standing up, but she will set. When it comes time to return the battle-Hags the men who captured them will restore them, and no man who stayed in Buffalo all through the battle-flag season need feel called npon to tell them when that time arrives. The hen will be apt to know it herself. A man who would tell a hen when it is time for her to "6et" would have "gall" enough to tell a man on ship­ board that he would come around and tell him when it was tinw to get sea sick. "The time tu set a hen is when the hen is teddy tu set." Cut that out and pasts it in your hat, Mr. President; it may save your second term. Setting Up the Pins fer Cleveland. Some little importance attaches to the mere mechanism and petty details of party organization, but when it comes to the chotoe of a leader for a great party in a National campaign the great thing is to obey the commands of public sentiment, If G rover Cleve­ land wants to be renominated he must make himself the actual choice of that great non-office-seeking mass of his party which must be deferred to or de­ feat at the polls would be a foregone conclusion. If he should win the prize by the cunning manipulation of hench­ men it would be only the stepping- stone to disaster. The only possible chance for him to be elected would be to so conduct himself as to achieve some genuine popularity. Thus far he has inade little if any headway in cap­ turing the popular heart. He has about one more year in which to make up for lost time. No political party can afford to ignore the importance of personal popularity. Twice only did the Whigs carry the country, and in both cases it was be­ cause the candidate was stronger than the party which nominated him. Gens. Harrison and Taylor had records which more than made up for any defi­ ciencies in their individual power to awaken enthusiasm, and each was pitted against a politican of cold and seltish temperament. In 1876 the Republi­ cans, with all their strength, came very near defeat beoause they made the mis­ take of nominating 'a man singularly deficient in magnetic power. Four yean later they had a leader who needed only to be "lifted up" to draw men to him. Mr. Tildcn did not need a mugwump defection or a Burchard bigotry to insure New York. He car­ ried it by a large majority, and that be­ cause he had personal popularity and Mr. Hayes had not. The New York delegation in the Republican Conven­ tion, controlled by Mr. Conkling, dictated the nomination of Hayes, and their own party in the State adminis­ tered a stinging rebuke at the first op­ portunity. FOOT years later that dele­ gation, under the same malign influ­ ence, was unable to influence the nom­ ination, and New York came out strong at the polls, the Republican victory be­ ing by a large majority, and all this because one candidate had the power to call out the latent vote and the other had not The admonition of ex­ perience is equally applicable to both parties. In 1884 Mr. Cleveland had the ad­ vantage of being so little known that his party could rally about an ideal, much as the Republicans in 1656 ral­ lied with enthusiasm about John C. Fremont. The public had had in neither case an opportunity to take the man's measure. But the President cannot enjoy that advantage a second time. The black horse is bleaching out, and will be at least a light gray by 188H. If he runs at all it must be upon his actual popularity and not upon the strength of an ideal fancy. Artificial attempts to get up a renomi- nation boom will be sheer waste of time and effort The needs of the country require genuine statesmanship in dealing with the more pressing questions of the day, and Mr. Cleve­ land has thus far shown no appreciation whatever of them--not so much as a faint conception of what is really going on in the country. The little world of office seeking and dispensing, together with official routine, bears about the same relation to the great interests of the nation that the .District of Colum­ bia does to the United States. The narrowest provincialism on this conti- tinent is to be found within the boun­ daries of the District, and Mr. Cleve­ land cannot afford to restrict his range of vision to those more immediate sur­ roundings. AVith the enterprise of the country paralyzed by labor difficulties and every avenue of industry fast fill­ ing with the dregs of Central Europe, there is something more important for this administration to do than setting up pins for itself, and Mr. Cleveland would do well to remember that the boys at the lower end of die alley are not the bowlers in the game.--Chi ago Tribune. Rascality ia Office. The Democrats had much to sav about Republican dishonesty in office about the time of the. discovery of the Bacon defalcation. They have less to say since the discovery of the forgeries of the defaulter Harvey in the Treas­ ury. The study of comparative ras­ cality in office is'not pleasant, but it is sometimes instructive. An analysis *f the records of several administrations shows that the losses under Republi­ can administrations have been much less than the precentage Under Democratic administrations of the Federal Gov­ ernment. Without going into the domain of State politics the Democrats far exceed their i epublican opponents in the percentage of public peculation. The percentage of loss p.er each $1,000 collected by the Fed- eral Government from the ad- m'nistration of Wash ngton to that of Garfield is as follows: Washington, 2.22; Adams»./ 2.59; Jefferson, 2.75; Madison, 4.15; Monroe, H.58; Adams, 4.39; Jackson, the idolized p'rototyye of Cleveland, 7.52; Van Buren, a New York President, 11.71; Harrison and Tyler, <:.40; Polk, 4.0J; Taylor and 1 lllmore, 4.19; Pierce, ?.56; Buchan­ an, 3.-1; Lincoln, in ull the vast ex­ penditures of the war, 75; Johnson, 57; Grant, 24 cents; and Hayes, whom the Democrats affect to despise as a man and as rn administrator, e'glit- tenths of 1 mill per $1,000. Looking at the State and municipal administra- t on, it will be shown th.t the state­ ment of Taintor, the expert em­ ployed in the suits against Tweed-- suits which did not have their origin in Democratic zeal -- that the proved amount stolen from the city of New York under the rule of Tweed was mmm ! FLJFLGEBRSG SEA-FOWL H«»w' M» ItMciaN in shannon 'Gleam m fee Harvcbt from Itocky Islands. During the last eighteen or twenty years some of the fishermen of this city have been in the habit of going to the Farallones during the laying*sefcson for the purpose of gathering eggs, says the Sin Francisco Call. It is a busi­ ness by no means unattended with danger. It is extremely difficult to scale the sides of the rocky islets and to gather the eggs, as the gatherer must often go in almost inaccessible places. He must often be lowered down over cliffs and frightful chaSnos by means of a rope, and if the rope were to be broken by the friction against some jagged side his life would pay the forfeit. Then, again, he is often attacked by the birds that he despoilB of their eggs, and when they attack him in numbers he frequently has a hard time of it They strike him with their wings, but usually cannot harm him seriously, though their an­ noyance shakes the nerves. The mnrre or auk, which is a large but cowardly bird, when despoiled of its eggs will fly screaming away, and will make no attempt to wreak ven­ geance npon the despoiler. Not so the Suit This oleaginous lover of the riny deep will attack the gatherer and fly at and*strike him with its wings. Only the eggs of the gull and murre are gathered, us they are the only kind that are in the least edible. The murre is a bird of the great auk family, and in more northern latitudes is known as the penguin and puffin. It is of about the size of s goose and has a long, curved bill. Its eye has a stupid look, like that of the goose, and its plumage is of a dark-brown color. It is quite numerous in these waters. Its egg is larger than that of a turkey, and by some people it is con­ sidered a great delicacy. The egg is oval in shape, of various colors, and has longitudinal black stripes. One lady informed the writer tnat murre eggs fried and washed down with whisky made a delicious dish. "They are a little strong," the lady said, "bnt the whisky will take away the strong taste." Doubtless that lady was blessed with an oetrich-liko stomach. The eggs are mostly used by the bakers in the composition of their bread, pies, and pastry. As they are much cheaper than domestic fowl eggs it can readily be perceived why they are used. The eggs of the gull are somewhat larger than a duck egg, and are of a brownish hue, spotted, and oval in shape. They also are a trifle strong. When the gatherer goes oat on. a gathering expedition he puts on gum boots so as to orevent idmself from -- itr Tcaciie rs Tnjfraaeu tnd district schools is well known to til. Any one wishing to attend a |ood school will do well to coins to Isbron* ALGONQUIN. [NOTICE.--Persons in Algonquin anil victn- y, knowing themaelvoi inuebted for the |i.AiNDKxi,Ki{ can learn of the amount by •lltng on John llclm, wuo is authorized to eeive money ami recmpi for tnc same, in r name. Those wishing to subscribe can ve their niunes at his btoro. Call on ihirn t get tt samplo c<j |>y.| EDITOR PJUAINUKAI .KTT.-j--A fanrtAAn wroken. He then returns for more. After a sufficient quantity has been gathered the eggs are put in baskets and carried on board the boat When the boat arrives in the city the eggs are placed in large boxes and are thus sold to the wholesale produoe merchants, who in turn sell them to the retail dealers and bakers. The eggs usually bring from 15 to 20 cents a dozen. Several thousand dozens of these eggs aro usually brought to the market ia one boatload. }, the history of half the wai§" has seen? The Governors quarreled, and the people made to believe the quarrel w*s' their own; and is there not the strongest reason for supposing that as education spreads, as Governments become more truly representative of the people jrh99i they govern, and as the people com«fc> understand more truly tfreir re%l M- terests, wars of this kind at least, mto which kings lead their subjects blind-l' folded, will no more be heard of.- - Home Journal. • <•/, ^ ^ The BOTII-Worshipers. £ ̂ Not far from Mosul in Mesopotamia there are a few Kurdish villages where one finds neither mosque Ad? minaret, synagog nor medrash, church nor meet­ ing house. Moslema--saving an occas­ ional Government official--are rarely seen there, travelers not at alL Ofr dinarily, says a writer in SL Jamerf Gazette, there is nothing in the appear-- ance of these places or the people to attract the attention of wayfarers, apart from the white dresses of the women and the vests of the men. Btft one day in the year the village assumes quite a holiday aspect in preparation for a strange ceremony annually enacted there. The houses are plentifully decked with garlands of yellow flowers, and the people take up positions out­ side--the women in spotless gowns, the men with a t ested black cord around their necks. Then a procession of some thirty persons emerges from the residence of the "pir" or priest and begins slowly to perambulate the vil­ lage. In front march half a dozen weird-looking personages in long black robes and strange black headgear; then comes half a score of "kawals," in yel­ low mantles and white turbans, chanting religious hymns in. an outlandish tongue, and behind them as many more playing an accompaniment to the singers on reedy flutes and tambourines. Fol­ lowing these is the white-robed priest, bearing upon his shoulders a kind of epaulet, and holding aloft the bronze figure of a bird, guarded on either side by a fierce-looking Kurd, with a perfect arsenal of small arms about his person. In the rear rides the white turbaned sheik of the district, with a second batch of "black heads" to wind up the procession. The party makes the round of the village, the people raising their hands toward the brazen bird as it passes, and then halts in front of the priest's house. Here a sheep is in readiness: it is cut open and the heart is torn from it and thrown down at the feet of the biack- Tobed figures. The procession then re­ enters the dwelling, while the sheep is made readv for the pot; and in honor of | the day tiie residents afterward dine together as soon as their "stew" is tijready. These Kurdish villagers are cdthe "Yezidis," or "devil-worshipers" of btMesopotamia, and their annual proces- ujjsion--known as the "showing of the toiking bird," the melik taons or "peacock feiking"--is the only oeremonial of their g»|nystic cult The devil-worshipers ac­ cept, no proselytes. "A Yesidi," they ia tav, "must be born a Yezidi; he cannet aiMbe made." They have no ceremonial vveiblutions or attach no importance to latlhem, and are allowed to use nothing 0 Colored blue. They will not sit down on a sofa having a blue tassel or enter a room containing an article of furni­ ture covered with blue cloth. Their religion prohibits them from serving as soldiers, though there appears to be nothing to prevent them from outting throats on their own account. They baptize boys and girls, and when old enough every member has to make choice of a sister or brother who is to be his or her companion for eternity. THSP«RI, hem *»ntal The Cowhide* J, The whipping post was abotislio^* 6n the ground that it was a relic of bar barism which should not be tolerated in an enlightened age. And yet, after all, there has been no substitute found equal to it as a corrector of public morals. As an effective instrument of punishment the horsewhip has never had an equal. It is something to make the stoutest heart quail. Reckless criminals who could step upon the gal lows without the sign of fear have been known to tremble as the aspen leaf when made to face the whipping post Notwithstanding the whipping |>ost has been abolished, it is some gratification to know that the horsewhip con­ tinues to exert a healthy influence over the morals of the community. Since men in their cowardice have foresworn the cowhide, it is to the credit of wo­ men that they have taken up the* work where the men laid it down. A horse* whip in the hands of an outraged wo­ man is the most effeotive, as it is the most appropriate, form of punishment that could lie devised for certain grades of crime. It is also gratifying to ol>- serve that as a rule the women exer­ cise rare discretion and judgment in the matter of its application. It wouldn't do to supply every virago with a cowhide and grant her the privilege to whale it into the people promiscuously every time she got out of temper. But when a woman is in' suited by a stranger or mistreated by her husband then the cowhide comes into proper play. There can be no sublimer exhibition of moral heroism than when a nervy little woman takes upon herself the task of avenging some helpless sister's maltreatment by hunt­ ing up the brutal tyrant of a hus­ band and warning his jacket for him. The man who mistreats a woman, and especially if that woman is his wife, de­ serves to have his back scarified. And as long as the men refuse to do justice in this matter the women are perfectly right in undertaking it themselves. It would be a good idea to organize S woman's horsewhiping society in every community. It would have a wonder­ ful effect in regulating society, and par­ ticularly in securing the most happy domestic relations. Women have a great deal more use for the cowhide than they have for the ballot--SL Faul Globe. . A Ludlcrons Pletnre. Carlyle draws a picture at once ludi* crous and sad, of a body of peaceful English peasants who are disciplined and drilled and dressed in red and sent away to Spain, and there placed op­ posite to an equal number of French peasants, also in uniform and with guns in their hands. At the word of com­ mand, both parties fire, and thirty men on either side fall dead; and in the place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart, were the en- tirest strangers; nay, in so wide a uni­ verse there was even unconciously by commerce some mutual helpfulness be­ tween them. How then ? Simpleton 1 Their Governors had fallen out; and instead of shooting one another, had Advice for the Minister. A young man who recently graduated from an Eastern theological school went out to Murray, in the Coeur d' Alene country, to take charge of a church. The largest gambling hall in the town was cleared for his accommo­ dation the first Sunday, one table on which Spanish monte was usually dealt being left for him to stand behind. • A large stock register book was laid on, this, which was supposed to represent a Bible. The whole town turned out and the young divine preached a pow­ erful sermon. In it he strongly denounced gambling, horse-racing, drinking and profanity. -That after­ noon he was called on by a committee of leading citizens, one of whom said: "Pardner, taar'a a little matter we'd like to talk over with ye. I reckon it's all O. K. that yon an' me should speak o' some matters as we're a good deal in the same line o'work, as I might say--, both o' us trying to better the com­ munity. " ^ "Indeed, do I see a minister of the gospel before me ?" "I reckon not, oapt'n, less, there's one uv 'em sneakin' up behind ' me-- which aint prob'ble as I may say. Wot I meant was thet I am the chairman uv the vigilance committee." "Is it possible?" ^ "Mighty poss'ble, capt'n, the cussed- est poss'ble thing ye ever seed. Wot we come here to say is that we don't approve o' yer preclun'. I am very sorry that such Is the case, but I can't see how I can change it" 4'Can't, hey ? Well, I reckon yell hev to. Ye've got 'er let up on hollerin' agin gamblin' an* hoss-racin', an'swearin', an' licker. Them things air all 'lowable here, an' air highly recommendedby the leadin' citizens, an' the olergy has gofer fall inter line. As a committee we moseyed up here to warn ye, an' 'taint our style to warn more'n once." "But my dear sir, what can I preach against--I must denounce something?" "What can ye preach agin ? Well, I swar! Haint there wickedness 'nough in this country 'thout goin' outer yer way ter jump ontersich things? Preach agin hoss-stealin an' jumpin' mineral claims, uv course. Rip 'em up the back an* tramp on 'em! Then there's original sin--tech that up once in a while. Jes' confine yerself to these things an' the boys will jes' crowd in to eheer ye every time ye make a good p'iut"-- Dakota Bell. A Sand Clond. A resident of Americus, Ga./ «wi: '"9he other evening I saw a curiosity in the shape of a sand cloud. It appeared to be about 500 feet high, and lookod like an inverted funneL The base seemed to be about forty or fifty yards wide, and its apex extended to a point some 500 feet high. It was whirling with frightful rapidity, and went straight up out of sight It roared like a train of cars, which I thought it was until I saw the cloud. It was about two miles and a half nortiiwest of Americus.--Chicago Titn&Q^ ' IT has l>een observed* in Ot&Wa, Canada, that the introduction of the electric light in street illumination has facilitated the collection of entomologi­ cal specimens, particularly of rare species, as insects of all kinds are at- TH* Vsw Zeolsad ear it®! uskeis W! gleamia* geysers, mud, nnl result of add 300 feet to the ' Height Tarawera. PROF. A.LAKDXAKX, chief direeiajri the Norwegian fisheries, mm under favorable conditions a may sometimes jump sixtet& J Kidicularly, and that when fl p is a foot or two short of the ! of a waterfall it often succeeds fe pleting the ascent by a dexterous Of the tail. M. GAYOL has sacertained absorption of atmospheric < coal dust usually produces tin' the temperature to which span combustion is due. Lignite St at the low temperature of 900 t anthracite at 575 degrees and other ; varieties of coal in a powdered state, *i§® intermediate temperatures. A SERIES of charts, showing*tltos face temperatures of the Atlantis COM! waters, from Main to Florida, is "tmdl(^| preparation by the United States Commissioner, assisted by the I house Board and Signal Servioe. servatkms, covering five years in have thus far been made at tweni„ lighthouse stations. The tempesatassa at the several stations are -shown DMtV, , ...., each year by ten-day means, and *tl a manner as to give the isothermal lations of the stations. | PROF. SARGENT, director of tha , Arnold Arboretum, of Harvard lege, estimates that five foralga^trees are planted in New Englsnd to ona;tI native. Yet, of all foreign trees Mro* n°> duced into America, the willow aleM*;. he thinks, has qualities not' posMiMPp; in a greater degree by saaoe nstim The European oak and the Austrian and Corsican pines sH die ' about the time when thsyslto^]Mjg| their prime, and the Norway ; a corresponding age, is dc unsightly. ; IT is said, on the authority of *s»| American railway engineer^* thai low! | temperatures do not decwasa ; strength of rails, as is oomaMmij posed, although it is true dents are more likely to pemir; broken rails in cold weather. because, when the ground is hard, it loses its elastioitv. less, something must yield when:! train runs Over the roM; it is ground that yields in unfrontt w« but during a freeze the ground wffl ' yield, and the rail, as being the wssWIjff^ part of the structure, has to suffsf' consequences, '\-Miill Jefferson en Beasparte. *T sihccrely rejoice that the caireer Bonaparte is at length arrested, S that Europe is likely to be restated its ancient divisions sod governments, for bad as they were, they weke lMMMf than the military despotfepns of Bona, parte, these 'great designs oi his epft» ceived and executed for the pimMMgr and happiness of tile world.' The only thing to be lamented is the tyrant of the ocean is not allo mounted. Peace, I suppose, have, but on the condition of ing under her license; and, all believe we have greatly ov< ourselves, I should prefer war 'ad ternecionem,' to a peace on that eoadi> tion. It will very possibly end in tha total suppression of our navigation IMM| commerce, and leave us to be S by ourselves. My whole confidence SS to tliQ salvation of commeroe is in Alexander, that he will not yield to the subjugation of the ocean." The following extraot is from a let- M ter dated August 20, 1814, written from Monticello: "I think the downfall of ITiina|iait> t great blessing for Europe, which iMtfili f could have had peace while he vas ifKfi power. Every national society y also, will be restored to their Sliiiiiiiili ' limits, and to the kind of government* good or bad, as they choose. I beli--a 'M the restoration of the Bourbon is only point on which France rallied, and that their re-estat is better for that coontry thai wars, whether they should be a _ able nation under a military despot of genius. To us alone this brings mis­ fortune. It rids of all other enemies a tyrannical nation, fully armed and deeply embittered by the wrongs th«gr have done us. They may greatly dis­ tress individuals in their circumstances, bnt the soil and the men will MMIB unconquerable by them, and drinkibig vp deeper daily a more deadly, unquancb- * able, and everlasting hatred to **»»-», ** How much less money would it oost • them and pain to us to nourish mwtwft* affections and mutual interests and ^ happiness! But the destructive pas*- ' ^ sions seem to have been implanted i&# - '$i man as one of the obstacles to histoa V; , % great multiplication. While we are thnsx ^ fij gnawed, however, by natural hatred^ ' we retire with delight into the boeom ^ j of our individual friendships, in the full • feeling of which I salute you affection- V -"5: ately." Overcoming Ber Pr^jadice. '.'J She's 9 years old, and she still i signs of ingenuousness, perhaps i sciousness, but awfully natural has had to go to a new school. first day she found that contrary to > t. her experience, boys and girls were to- v^ gether in this school. Thst offended her, and when she went home she com- plained. "Mamma, that's not a good school $ r don't think 111 like to stay there.* ... "Why?" ' "There are boys and girls all \ there. It isnt pleasant* "Well, my dear, try it a little, any­ way." The next day she came home U |ti| better humor. ^ ft- "Do you like the new school aagr better?" "Oh, yes, mamma The teaoher has . put the loveliest little b<nr next to He's a lovely little boy. I think I shall like the school." j The third day she came home in tha wildest of spirits, beaming all over. "Oh, mamma, I know «ul the bojf the school now." Flaeaess ef Platinum Wtfc It has been demonstrated that plati­ num wire may be drawn so fine as to INS invisible to the naked eye, although it* presence upon a perfectly white card can be detected by the touch, and can be seen by the aid of a small magnify­ ing glass when the card is held in sack a position that the wire casts a shadow, -- Rnalnm. Htjuiaet. 4 v"1:'" >' ~ r\ ^ v§