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V-:; • ' -'V* •V; 'lAHmfwlff j ItLYKC. WwKMMwf. ILLINOIS. FiErrptreet, London, may well be «blled jfewspaper street. Out of 200 houses k it, 1*25 are used as the offices A CRRMAN firm has Invented a steel- dad toilet with a slight alloy of anti­ mony in addition to increased powers of pffietration, giving a mnch flatter trajectory, and warranted to pass throigh a man's body without canning lessary discomfort. , . MORGAN DIX, the clitef pastor of itj Chnrcli corporation, the wealth- in America, receives $15,000 !y. Dr. William L. Taylor of the idway Tabernacle gets the same Lount He does literary work and ituring that brings his income up to \000. Jtn.iA MITCHELL, an old negro resi­ dent of Milledgeville, Ga,, is 120. years old and in apparent good health. She was one of Gov. Mitchell's slaves years ago and she says she remembers the Revolutionary ~%&c distinctly. She lias bean blind now for several years, but her memory of the long ago makes op an interesting conversation. . A CAT attacked a nest of quails at {Jhico, Cal., the other day, and seizing the mother was carrying her off, when the male bird bnt in an appearance and made such a sharp attack with his beak and wings upon the cat that she was obliged to drop her prey and scamper. The two birds got npon the fence and witnessed her flight with evident pleas- W' ' "?/THE Legislature of Texas has passed it wise law against the common prac­ tice of "going armed." It forbids the carrying about the person, upon his saddle-bags, any pistol, dirk, or other deadly weapon. Two-thirds - of the homicides occur because the actors carry weapons. It is a foolish custom, bad in every way, and good in none; and Texas has acted wisely and should enforce the law. IN the quarternary gravels of the liOire Valley, Franoe, there are numer­ ous specimens of stones, about 11 Inches in diameter, which are remark­ able for being hollow and inclosing liquid water and sometimes a loose stony nucleus. It is supposed that the water must have penetrated the peb­ bles through their minutest pores, for not a sign of a crack can be seen, even by the aid of a strong glass. A STROKE of lightning which entered if house at Bridgewater, X. J., after ttflasliing a window pane, ripped the matting from the floor, cut one of the casters from a bed-post, flew into the kitchen and threw a servant-girl to the floor and a cat into a water pail, passed into an adjoining room and tore the heel off the slipper of a lady, without harming her, burned the edges of a motto upon the wall, and then disap­ peared. JOHN WILLARD YOUNG is the young- •fft son of the late Brigham Young's first wife. He is about 43 years of age and has ten sons and ten daughters. He says his father lpft an estate worth about $2,500,000. He willed $22,000 to each one of his children. Brigham Young has as yet no monument. He lies buried near what was called "the Iron House," in Salt Lake City, and his family have not been able to decide on a fitting design to mark his grave. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, M. P., has sue-. * w 'Heeded in teaching a black poodle dog *a little light reading." He took pieces of cardboard and painted on them the words "food," "out," "bone," "tea," etc. Then by associating food in tlfe animal's mind with the card bearing the word "food" he succeeded in getting it to pick out the card bear­ ing that word. Again, when asked if he wanted to go out he flashed "out" the card bearing that word, and so forth. ______________ CHANDOS FULTON, one of the direc tors of the Lotos Club, New York, or­ dered and paid for his own coffin sev­ eral years ago and keeps it in his room, not as a memento mori, but as a closet lor choice liquors and cigars. Mr. Ful­ ton was once so very ill that the doc­ tors declared that he must die, and his coffin was made and sent to the house. When he recovered the undertaker ap­ pealed to him to pay the bill. Mr. Ful­ ton declared that if he must pay the bill he would keep the coffin, have hinges put to the lid, and use it as a wardrobe for his dress-suit. *" THE poet Tennvson did not marry 40. Lady Tennyson is neither intellectual nor esthetic, but is her hus band's very humble worshiper. She does not appreciate his work, but when •he becamo his wife he was the poet laureate, and sho counted the fact as more consequence than the late author­ ship of the "Idyls of the King." ' ] was very fond of reading his verses • chanting tone and grandiloquent manner; she invariably listens with rapt attention and explodes fax superla­ tives. Being indulged, flattered, and humored to the top of his bent, he domestic. THERE are a score of men in New York who are paid as much for their cervices each year as the President 0he United States. Forty thousand dollars a year is a very tidy salary. There are hundreds of men who get «25 ,000 a year salary, and the number of men who get from $10,000 to $20,000 an legion. Very ordinary men get from $5,000 to $8,000 a year, or as much as a Cabinet officer. Dr. Norvin Green, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, is paid $50,000. So is Chaunoey M. De- pew, President of the New York Cen- Railroad. Wphard jJA jPurdy, President of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, gets a like amount. John Hoey, President of the Adams Express Company, fares equally well. Presi­ dent Henry B. Hyde, of the Equitable Life Insuranoe Company, is also on the list. ^ M. PASTEUR recently wrote to a friend at Cambridge, Mass., from Ar- bois in the Jura, as follows, according to Science: "We have just purchased 11,000 square meters of land, and the subscription has reached the sum of nearly 2,000,000 francs; it is, however, very insufficient, for if we spend 1,200,- 000 on land and buildings the income from the remainder will be much too smalL Oh! if only some American millionaire were inspired with an en­ thusiasm for this work! I hope that when we are incorporated, and this will be soon, we shall be better en­ dowed. We shall then be able to re­ ceive legacies. To proceed suitably and with full independence we should have, according to my estimates, 3,- 500,000 franca. .1 am confident. The future is oars. The prophylactic treat­ ment of rabies continues to do well. Very, very rarely are there failures, and all in cases where exceptional cir­ cumstances appear. There has been but one failure since Jan. 1 and more than five or six hundred cases treated, a multitude having been most severely bitten. If we could only attack diph­ theria, phthisis, etc., with success. We are going to attempt it. It is at least a step toward discovery to have confi­ dence and to hope in the result of ob­ stinate labor. ON the 13th day of July, 1787, the Congress of the United States organ­ ized its first territory and named it "The Territory Northwest of the Ohio "River." Mr. Wm. M. Noss has pub­ lished a little book, "The Story of a Hundred Years," tracing the territorial growth of this countiy from that date to the present time. The domain of the United States at that time embraced all the territory east of the Mississippi River, except Florida, and was 820,680 square miles in extent. In 1803 the United States Government, by the pay­ ment of $15,000,000, secured from France her province of Louisiana. This province included what is now Louis­ iana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minne­ sota, Dakota, the larger part of Mon­ tana, the larger part of Wyoming, part of Colorado, Nebraska, and the Indian Territory, and was 930,928 square miles in extent, or more than 100,000 square miles larger than the original domain of the country. In the year 1820 the government paid $5,000,000 to Spain for the Floridas, taking in a territory of 59,720 square miles in extent. In 1846 the territory of Oregon was added, taking in 220,425 square miles. In 1848 the government paid $15,000,000 for what is now the State of California, Nevada* Utah, Arizona, New Mexioo, Texas, and the western part of Colo­ rado. In 1853 an additional strip Of land was purchased for $10,000,000, these two purchases adding a territory of 934,260 square miles to the United States. In 1867 Alaska was purchased from Kussia for the sum of $7,200,000, this adding 577,390 square miles more. In a hundred years the territory of the United States has been increased by purchase and annexation by 2,752,723 square miles, at a cost, not counting the expense of war, of $52,200,000. IS THEIR CHOICE. He Senator Unequivocally In­ dorsed for the Presidency ljjf ^2 the Ohio Republican!, CURIOUS FACTS. A BALD-HEADED Italian and a red­ headed negro were among the curiosi­ ties in an Albany police court a few days ago. THE Indian River in Florida is called the straightest in the world. A straight line can be drawn through seventy-five miles of it without touching shore. A TURTLE caught in York River, Va., and taken to Baltimore, weighed 500 pounds. It measures nearly seven feet from the head to the tip of the tail. MEXICAN women shop in their car­ riages and make the clerks bring out to the curbstune the goods they want to see. Only servants and foreigners buy at the .counters. A BIRD'S nest found on a roof near the United States Mint in Washington was beautifully lined with gold. The parent bird had carried off gold dust in its feathers and shaken them out in its tiny home. A TALKING canary has been discovered at Lowestoft, England. It belongs to a lady who has taught it to repeat several words and phrases, and to imi­ tate successfully the notes of other caged birds. A REPORT comes from Dresden, Sax­ ony, of a steam omnibus, which it is in­ tended to run regularly over the country roads. It is managed by two men, and carries forty-six passengers, with considerable freight. THE Germans are training dogs to do out-post duty in the army and to per­ form all sorts of military services. In addition to the canine contingent the Prussians are mobilizing a lot of hawks for the capture of the French carrier pigeons. A FLOCK of will geese on the wing near Chico, Cal., were lately struck by lightning and six of them killed. The dead fowls were plump and fat, without a mark to show where the electric fluid had struck them. This is said to be the first instance on record of these birds being struck by lightning while flying. THE figures representing the mortal­ ity of a great &ty like London for a single week are appalling. During the week ending Jan. 1, 1887, there were registered in that city 1,899 deaths, of which 114 were from measles, 25 from scarlet fever, 27 from whooping-cough* and 17 from typhoid fever; 74 deaths were caused by violence, 66 being the result of negligence or accident, and 7 being suicides. IN Washington Territory the Indians have an ingenious scheme by which they kill a large number of deer with but very little trouble. Taking some old blankets, they fasten them at short in­ tervals upon the bushes, making a long line of bushes so covered. Then taking a large area of timber, they gradually close in on the frightened deer. When the animals have reached the line of blankets they travel round in a circle like a whirl-pool, refusing to pass the line of blankets. This enables the Indians to kill them as rapidly as they A Bound Platform Adopted, Tariff and Pension Hanks Being Given Places of ™™"~* Feraker Renominated with a Whoop --Bis Sharp Criticism of Cleveland. tttOhlo Bapnblisan Stste Convsnttan, Whioh WM held at Toledo July 27 and 28, vru a large, onthaai&atio and harmonious gathering. The Hern. Dan Ryan, of Scioto, was announced as temporary Chairman, and A. J. Donaldson as temporary Secretary. On taking the chair Mr. Ryan made a flfteen- minute speech. He reviewed State finances, to show Deiuoeratio mismanagement and Repub­ lican capability; recounted the circumstances of the alleged bribery in the election of Senator Payne by the last Democratic Legislature; re­ viewed in condemnatory terms the Democratic platform adopted last week at Cleveland, and fcloeed by a strong plea for union among Ohio Republicans in championing i-onator Sher­ man lor the Presidency next year. His references to Sbennan were received with loud cheers from the Sherman men. Hon. John Sherman was made Chairman of the convention. Upon his taking the chair he was greeted with immense applause, and, in his speech of acceptance, said. I thank you with ail my heart for the high compliment of nr. sid­ ing over this distinguished assemblage. I thin k the Republicans of Ohio in this respect have been partial to me, and I am called ou this occa­ sion to preside because-1 attended the first Re­ publican convention of Ohio, where the Repub­ lican party was born, and I have watched, and •wondered, and folio* od its splendid history and its magnificent progress from that day to this. And now, fellow-citizens, I congratulate you upon the fact that the great body of your w ork has already been done by the people of Ohio; all you have I to do is to "record and announce the results of their decisions. In every county in Ohio, in every township, in every section, and in every district a voice comes to us from the unanimous mouths of the Republicans of Ohio for the renomination of Governor Joseph B. Foraker. [Applause] No man was over presented as a candidate with more hearty, generous, and frank indorsement than he ; end he deserved it, because lie has fairly earned this nomination at your hands. He bus been patriotic, able, brave, and diligent. He has been watchful of the interests of the people of Ohio in all the important dutieB intrusted to that office. In all the social duties which belong to the Governor of Ohio, he has been most oourteous and kind. More than that, he has prevented a Demo­ cratic President of the United States from sur­ rendering to the Confederates the flags and banners which they lost in the rebellion. !Tre- metidous cheers. | In this he has touobed the Satriotio heart not only of the people of Ohio, ut of the whole country, and therefore we, the Republicans of Ohio, take pride in this indorse­ ment of him by our unanimous renomination. In respect to the rest of the ticket the only trouble is that you have got so many good men to oboose from that it is hard to make a choice. Cortain it is, that whenever your choice is made they will acquiesce as good Republicans and true friends to the cause. I wish also to pronounce with all my heart the deserved thanks that the people of Ohio owe to the recent (or present) Legislature, the Seventy- seventh General Assembly of the State of Ohio. I Cheers. J I believe, on the whole, that it was the ablest and most patriotic and useful body that has made laws for the people of Ohio since the State was born. [Cheers.] Called to other duties, I have recently examined the proceed­ ings of the last Legislature, and I have been amazed at the amount, volume, and value of the work that they did. The Union soldier is on almost every page of that volume ; the record of the faithfulness due to him ana of the gratitude and obligations of a patriotic people for his sacrifices and his services. They were also watchful of the rights of labor and of the laboring man, w ho, after all, Is the foundation of our structure, aud whose reasonable demands ought always to be heed­ ed. |Applause.j It did its duty, and I am glad to pay my commiments to this Legislature now about to pass out of power, and appeal to you as Republicans how important it is that the next Legislature should be equal to the last, and I trust you will remember that that election is of even more importance than the election of the State ticket. You tried a Democratic Legislature ouly a little while ago, and I hope God will keep you from ever trying it again. (Cheers.] It was a Legislature tainted with fraud ; it was blackened by elec­ tion crimes. They left the State in debt, with its ordinary expenses unprovided for, and now, when the people of Ohio are about to choose between a Democratic and a Republican Legis­ lature, all I ask is that you go back and inves­ tigate and examine the specimens which have been otl'ered in the last four years by the Dem­ ocrats of Ohio, and then make the contrast for yourselves. It ought to be exercised t6 pro­ mote harmony, good-will and fellowship among Republicans. Now, my countrymen, again thanking you for this expression, I tell you with all frankness that I think more of your unanimous praise this day uttered than I do of the high ortioe of President of the United States. [Prolonged cheers.] I would rather feel, my countrymen, that I stood before you now, at this period of my life --man and boy living always in Ohio--that at this lute period of it, the Republicans of Ohio, for whose welfare I have devoted so much of my life, are willing to say this much for me. [Tremendous applause.} PerhapB the most enthusiastic hour of the convention was the renomination of Gov. For­ aker by ucclamation. As he appeared soon after he was greeted witn an ovation seldom accorded to a gubernatorial candidate, and never surpassed by any other. The Governor was in tine form, and, after thanking the con­ vention, he at once proceeded to reply to the resolutions adopted by the Cleveland conven­ tion in regard to "the" mismanagement in the affairs of the State." He reviewed in a scatch- ing manner the financial record of the Hoadly administration, and made it very inter­ esting for a number of Democratic states­ men present. The Governor then launched off, and declared the intention of the convention to criticise National affairs, an i paying his com­ pliments to Mr. Powell, the Democratic can­ didate for Governor. That the Governor handled the subject without gloves will be seen by the following extract: "The Democrats all seem to be very greatly troubled because Cleveland was not allowed to have his own way in returning rebel battle flags. Had l'owell been executive he would have assisted in that pleasant duty. Now, Inasmuch as he did not say so ex­ plicitly, I put it to him in the name of the veteran Democratic heroes of Ohio. I want him, when he makes bis next speech, to tell whether he approves or disap­ proves what Orover Cleveland says in that. Tom PoweU, would you have done that, or would yon have allowed them to stay where they arc ? And when you have answered that question, no matter which way you answer, I want to ask you another. And now, gentlemen of the convention, after we have heard from the General I will have something more to say, but for the present I want to content myself with say.ng that I am just as polite as be is. After he had said to me everything that he wished to say he proceeded to compliment and congratulate. I want to congratulate him and compliment him on the prudence he has mani­ fested. I want to say to Gen. Powell that when we are done with him in this campaign I shall gladly assist to dig him out from the avalanche of ballots. He tells us that Grovcr Cleveland is more consistent and courageous than any President since Jackson. I do not know very well about his conscience. I supposed, of course, he had one, but I have never seen any­ thing that indicated it. I do know something about his courage. We all know that he had that kind of courage that enabled him to stay at hoiui" from the war when the country needed him. He had enough of that kind of" courage when he was Governor of New York to veto a bill whioh was intended to prevent the wearing of the glorious old badge of the G. A. R. by those who had 110 right to wear it. and veto almost any kind of a pension bill which Congress might send to him. We know be had enough of that kind of cour­ age to go a-flshing on Decoration Dav--to go fishing instead of joining with the lovul mill­ ions of the land in paying tribute to the deal heroes. But we know also that he had the kind of courage that quailed like a whipped spauiel before the storm of protest that bore down upon him from every source. We know he was so lacking in courage as to be the first Executive--and we pray God he may be the last -to be afraid of joining in honoring the dead." The ticket was completed as follows: l ieu­ tenant Governor, Capt. W. C. Lyon; Supreme Judge (long term), Win. T. Spear; Supreme Judge (short term), F. J. Dickman ; Mate Aud­ itor. E. \V. Poe; State. Treasurer, J. C. Brown; Attorney General. D. K. Watson; member of Board Public Works, C. A. Flickinger. Ex-Gov. Foster, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, read the platform, as follows : The Republican parly, in convention assem­ bled, submits to the people of Ohio the follow­ ing declaration of principles: 1. We are in favor of a protective tariff to se­ cure to American citizens the privilege of sup­ plying every article which can be produced as well in the United States as in other countries, and sufficiently to supply American wants. Such a tariff makes a demand for and gives employment to the labor of American citizens, and thereby aids in securing just compensation for labor. We denounce the Ohio Democratic platfcrip of a tariff for revenue only, and which demands an indiscriminate reduction in all duties on imported articles, the effect of which would b.- to encourage importations, thus giv­ ing American patronage to foreign producers and foreign labor rather than to our own. 2. While we adhere to the public policy un­ der which our country has received from Europe great bodies of honest, industrious citi­ zens, who have added to the wealth, progress, and power of our country, and while we wel­ come to our she res On wall-di (posed and ln- d«WM emigrant, who eoatributet by his eneivy end iatelligenoe to ike cause of free government, we view with alarm unrestricted immigratios from foreign lands as dangerous to the peaoeand good order of the country and the integrity and character of its eiti unship. We urge Congress to pass such laws and establish such regulations as shall protect us from the inroads or the an archie^ die eommunist, the polygamist, fugitives from justice, the insane, the dependent paupers, the vicious and criminal classes, contract labor in every forui, under any name or guise, and all others who seek our shores not to become a part of our civilization and citUenshlp. who acknowledge no allegiance to our laws, no sympathy with o*u aims and institutions, but who come among ttft to make war upon society, to diminish the dignity and rewards of American workingmen and degrade our labor to their level. Against all these our gates should be closed. Put whila favoring every honorable and practicable measure to protect American labor against the evil effects of foreign Immigration and compe­ tition, we recognize also the dangers which menace it at home, and condemn as hostile to its cause and as subversive ol its dignity and power the bold and persistent usurpation In many of the States of its political rights and privileges. The condi­ tion of the men who labor in the North cannot be maintained or improved so long as the men wl»o labor in the South are wrongfully deprived of the rights and powers of American citizen­ ship. Their labor meets in close and immedi­ ate competition, and neither can be degraded without striking at the prosperity and inde­ pendence of the other. Recognizing these plain truths, we demand a free ballot and a fair count in all sections of our country. We de­ mand it, and will ever demand it as the only source of justice to the real producers of pros­ perity and wealth and the sole security of the Republic and its free institutions. m. Wo deprecate national strife and divisions. We have placed the war, with its hates and re­ venges, behind us; but the settlements of the war must stand irrevocable, respected, honored and observed in everv part of the Republic. Mere we have never demanded ; less we will not have. Congress should exercise its consti­ tutional authority, and take control and super­ vision of elections of Representatives to Con­ gress. 4. We demand such duties on wool and manufactures thereof as will secure the American market to the American producer. W e denounce the demand made under President Cleveland a administration by the Secretary of the Treasury in his annuat report, Dec. 6, 1886, for the "immediate passage of an act placing raw wool upon the free list,' and we denounce the Democratic State platform, which "pro­ claims its hearty and unqualified indorsement" of said administration, and demands a "reduc­ tion of the present" duties on wool and on woolen and worsted goods. Such reduction will destroy the wool-growing and woolen manufacturing industries, will invite large imports, will break down American competi­ tion, and give the control of our market to foreign producers, who would ultimately de­ mand exorbitant prices. We earnestly protest against the decisions ot the Secretary of the Treasury in the customs cases in the interest of the foreign producer and foreign labor, as in op­ position to tne letter and spirit of the tariff 1 aws. 5. We favor liberal pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the Union, adequate appropria­ tions for the improvement of our national waterways, and national aid to education. If too much revenue be collected to meet these aud other public needs, we demand that the first step in the reduction thereof shall be the abolition of the internal tax upon American- grown tobacco. 6. The public lands of the United States should be sacredly held for the use and benefit of actual settlers alone ; and the laws prevent­ ing the ownership of these lands by corpora­ tions and non-resident aliens should be rigidly enforced. 7. While we condemn the false pretenses of President Cleveland's administration of the civil-service law, we advocate the maintenance and open enforcement of said law, and demand such additional legislation as will remove ap­ pointments from partisan influence. w. The Republican party has ever been the friend of oppressed nationalities ; and we extend our hearty sympathy to Gladstone, Parnell, and their associates in their efforts to secure home rule for Ireland. •J. We condemn the action of Mr. Cleveland in vetoing pension bills, and especially we de­ nounce the spirit manifested toward the maimed and disabled soldiers of the country in the language in which certain of his vetoes are couched, and we condemn as unjust and unmerited his veto of the dependent pension bill, and declare that it was in plain violation of the nation's pledges to its defender*, ar.d of the oft-repeated promises of the Democratic party of the North, made during political cam­ paigns, to secure votes. We demand of Con­ gress that it pass, and of the President that he approve, liberal enactments pensioning the soldiers of the country; that the helpless widows of dead soldiers, regardless of the cause of death, dependent parents and dis­ abled soldiers, shall receive the bounty of the nation they fought to save, and which they richly deserve. it). While favoring all proper legislation to secure patentees in their just rights to their inventions, we ask suoh legislation by Con­ gress as will provide that the holder of a patent shall have no right of action for its in­ fringement when, knowing that persons are innocently aud in good faith using it without knowledge of the existence ot the patent, he fails to give notice of his claim. 11. We heartily indorse the administration of Gov. Foraker as wise, prudent, firm and eco­ nomical ; and we do especially indorse and ap­ prove bis patriotic declaration that no rebel nags shall be surrendered while he is Governor; and wo further indorse and approve his prompt action in instituting restraining measures to ftrevent the unlawful order of President Cleve­land from being executed. 12. The frauds and crimes committed by the Democratic party in Ohio in the election for State officers and liiemh ra of the General As­ sembly in 18-15 deserve the condemnation and execration of all honorible men, and we hereby commend and we indorse I the action of the Sixty-seventh General Assembly in preventing the consummation of these crimes, and in enact­ ing registration laws applicable to the great oitiea of the State whereby their repetition has been rendered impossible. We further indorse and commend the action of the late Republican Legislature in the provisions made by it for the establishment of a home for disabled soldiers and sailors, and for the levying of taxes by the commissioners of the several counties for the support and maintenance of indigent soldiers sud sailors, and their widows and children. 13. We point with just pride to the enactment of the Dow law in full of the promises of the Republican party ; and wo pledge ourselves to such further legislation as may be necessary to keep abreast of enlightened public sentiment on this question, to the end that the evils re­ sulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors be restrained to the utmost possible extent in all parts of the State. It. We favor such legislation as will secure to the agricultural, commercial, and industrial interests of the State,Jeijuallv, without dis­ crimination in favor of any citizen or corpora­ tion, the benefits of transportation by all at the lowest rates consistent with justice, and that the waterways of the £ttte should be main­ tained and improved so as to secure to the peo­ ple the full benefits thereof. * l->. Reoognizing. as the 1'epublicans of Ohio always have; the gifted and tried statesmen of the KepubNesn party of the other States, loyal and unfattorinf in their devotion to the success of the organisation in 1886, under whatever standard-bearer the Republican National Con­ vention may select, they bave Just pride in the record* and career of John Sherman as a mem­ ber of the Republican party and as a statesman of fidelity, large experience, and great ability. His career ae a statesman began with the birth of the Bepnblican party; he has grown and devel­ oped with the. growth of that organization ; his genius and patriotism are stamped upon the records of too party and the statutes and Con­ stitution of the country; and. helie\ingthat bis nomination for the office of President would be wise and judicioun, we respectfully present his name to the people of the United "States as a candidate, and announce our hearty and cordial support of him for that office. A motion was made to adopt the whole plat­ form by acclamation. It was done without a dissenting vote. The Candidate*. With the nominations as made only satisfac­ tion was expressed after the convention ad­ journed. It was generally admitted that a stronger ticket as a whole could not have been nominated. What sort of campaign is likely to be t arried on this fall and what shape the State will be in for the campaign for the Presidential year !«av be judged from the following brief biographies: .loseph Benson Foraker was born July 5, 1846. in Highland County, Ohio. At the age of If. he enlisted in the Eighty-ninth Ohio Infantry, eerving until June, 1865, and taking part in ni&nv engagements. He was rapidly promoted, was bievt tt *d Captain for bravery ou the field, and when mustered out wa-i serving as aid-de- oiiinp on Gen. Slocum's staff. After the war he entered Cornell University, graduating in 18t>9. Subsequently he studied law, was ad­ mitted to the bar in Cincinnati, and in 1373 was elected a Judge of the Superior Court. In 1883 he was nominated for Governor on the Republican ticket, but was de­ feated by Judge Hoadly. In 1885 he was again nominated, this time boing elected by a hand­ some majority. His administration has been marked by an admirable financial manage­ ment, while his personal popularity has be­ come nomethiug exceptional. William Cotter Lyon, nominee for Lieutenant Governor, was born in Mcdiua County in 1811* In 1H61 he entered tho Twenty-third Ohio Regi­ ment and served throughout the war, leaving the service with tho rank of Captain. He was captured and confined in Libby and other pris­ ons for thirteen months. He returned after the war to his trade of a shoemaker, was appointed postmaster of Newark in 1877, and retained the pluco until removed by a Democratic admin­ istration. He is a fine speaker and writer. William Thomas Spear, the nominee for Su­ preme Court Judge, was born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1H31. When a young man he engaged in journalism and served for a timo cn the New York Hera Id and other Eastern news­ papers. He subsequently returned to Ohio, engaged in the practice of law, after a course at tho Harvard l.aw School, and was very suc­ cessful . He served in the army and made a food record. He has had a Common Pleas udgeship and other positions of trust. Franklin J. Dickman, nominated to All a va­ cancy on the Supreme Court bench, was born at Petersburg, Va. He moved North after leav­ ing college, and in 1857 was the Democrat <o candidate for Attorney General of Rhode He joined the Republican party at the Of the war and has held many offloes of importance. He was appointed by Governor Foraker to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Bsncto and now occupies that position. E. W. Poe, the candidate tot Auditor of State, j? *l yesxs of i|e and a native of Hanoock County. He worked on a farm in his youth, and later entered the army. After the war he be­ came a commercial traveler. He was elected Auditor of Wood County in 1881 and again in 188 i. He is a^ active, practical worker, and especially strong in the northwestern part of the State. John C. Brown, nominee for State Treasurer, is the present incumbent of thatofflee. He was born in Jefferson County in 1839; worked on the farm when a boy, and enlisted in the Fifty- second Regiment, serving with it through the war. At tne battle of l'eacb Tree Creek, near Atlanta, Ga., he lost a leg. Before his return home he was elected Treasurer of Jefferson County, and held the office for years. In 1803 be was elected Treasurer by over 20,000 ma­ jority. David K. Wateon, the nominee for Attorney General, was born in Madison County in 1849. He has been active in politics for some time, serving three years as a member of the Repub­ lican State Executive Committee, and was for four years Assistant United States District At­ torney under President Atthnr. He came within a few votes of being the Republican candidate for the Attorney Generalship two years ago. Charles A. flickinger, nominee for member of the Board of l'nblic Works, was born in Rhenish Bavaria in 183T>. He came to this oountry and to Ohio when a small boy. He was an ardent opponent of slavery, and has always been a Republican. He now occupies the place for which he is again a candidate, having been elected to it two years ago, when he ran ahead of his ticket some 4,<M0 votes. He is a leading manufacturer of Defiance. Catechism for Yonng Mugwumps. Q. Who is President Cleveland ? A. He is a great and good patriot, Q. Who are the members of the Grand Army of the Republic? A. They are bummers, blatherskites, and unpatriotic persons. Q. Who vent to the front to fight the battles of the Union in 1861? A. The members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Q. Did President Cleveland also go to the front at that time? A. He did not. Q. Who, then, is apt to be tho better judge of patriotism and its better ex­ ponent--President Cleveland or tho Grand Army^of the Republic? • • A. President Cleveland. « Q. Why? A. Because mugwumps toted for him. Q. What did President Cleveland do in vetoing the bills providing pensions for soldiers? A. He exercised one of his constitu­ tional rights. Q. What did the members of the Grand Army of the Kepublic do in criticising his veto ? Did not they, too, exercise one of their constitutional rights--the right of free speech ? A. They trafficked in aectional hate. Q. It makes a difference, then, whose ox is gored, does it not ? A. It does, by a large majority. Q- Was not the rebel flag order not only illegal, but calculated to open the bloody chasm? A. It was. Q. Why, then, do not the mugwumps condemn President Cleveland for issu­ ing that order ? A. Because they voted for Cleveland, y. Why do the mugwumps excoriate the members of the (iraiid Army of the Republic for sharply condemning the order? A. Because their condemnation is a reflection on the man for whom the mugwumps voted. Q. All the world loves a brave man, does it not? A. It does. Q. Why, then, do not the mugwumps oondemn President Cleveland's cow­ ardly St. Louis letter ? A. Because the man that wrote it is the man they voted for. i). What do the mugwumps lots to call themselves and be called? A. In-de-pend-ents. <v>. Independence is thus seen to bs a sweet and winning thing, ia it not ? A. It is seen to be a sweet and win­ ning thing--too sweet and winning for anything.--New York Tribune. The Real Reconciliation. [Decoration Day address of Oliver P. Morton in 1877.1 "We will let by-gones be by-gones. We can not forget the past: we ought not to forget it. (iod has planted memory in our minds and we can not blot it out. But while we can not for­ get we can forgive, and we will forgive all who accept the great doctrines of equal liberty and of equal rights to all, and equal protection to all, and will be reconciled to them. And while we can not forget the past, we will treat them as if the past had never occurred, and that is all that can be asked; and that is true and perfect reconciliation. True reconciliation does not require us to forget these dead; does not require us to forget the living soldier and to cease to do him justice. We must remember that there is an eternal difference be­ tween right and wrong; and that we were on the right side, and that they were on the wrong side; and all we ask of them is that hereafter they shall be on the right side. We should forever remember that we were in the right. We want to transmit that as a sacred inheritance to our remotest posterity. We know that in that great struggle we were in the right. We were grandly in the right, and they were terribly in the'wrong. The whole civilized world has now said that we were in the right, and we know that if there is such a thing as right and wrong, we were in the right and they were in the wrong. We want that great distinction to pass down through all time--but that is consistent with reconciliation. We say to those who wer6 on the other side of that great contest that cost us so dearly in blood and treasure^--that cost us so much suffering and sacrifice--that while we shall forever cherish the lessons that were taught us by that struggle, and while we shall forever stand by the principles that we main­ tained in that contest, all wo ask of them is that they shall hereafter stand npon those principles, and let us go forward hand in hand, and as Amer­ icans and as brethren, through all the future pages of our country's history. Tact and Fighting Sense. Toledo special to Chicago Tribune.] The degree of tact and fighting sense which, in an emergency and under its pres­ ent leaders, can be manifested by the Re­ publican party of Ohio was evident at a glance when the State Convention reas­ sembled this morning. It was understood at an early hour that a compromise between the Bluiue and Sherman men had been agreed upon, and, though there were ru­ mors that Judge West, the blind orator who supported Blaine in the Chicago conven­ tion of 1884, would oppose the Sherman resolution, they were soon set at rest. As a sort of offset to the feeling of antago­ nism which had existed for some time, a reaction of goodrellowship set in with the rank and file, and the better nature devel­ oped into such enthusiasm that the party has rarely entered upon a campaign in this State with more promise of vigorous or united work. The Sniveling Hypocrites. Denver Republican: Will the mug­ wumps continue their hypocritical sup­ port of Cleve'and in face of his spoils policy ? Probably. Mugwump politi­ cians are even more dishonest than those of the two (great parties whom they sffeot to despise. OLD MISSISSIPPI STORIES. Tales of Duels, Flood*, and Steamboats-- Dikes and L*v«« Nesr St. Louis. The first steamboat that arrived in St. Louis was the Zebulon M. Pike in 1817, says a St. Louis correspondent of tho Nashville Times- Union. In 1848 the river trade had grown to such huge proportions that 3,468 boats arrived in the haVbor. In 1859 more boats ar­ rived in St. Lonis than in New Orleans, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh oombined. The Missouri River trade was then an item of vast importance, and there were half a dozen well-equipped lines oh the river. To-day there is one line. Rail­ roads killed the river business, and by building up the western cities almost throttled the trade of St. Louis. The Missouri bank of the Mississippi, almost the entire length of the State, is one chain of bluffs. The Illinois side, from Alton to Cairo, is fiat and low, and between these two towns lies the famous American bottom. The bot­ toms vary from three to six miles in width, from the lower bank of the river to the eastern bluffs, and are 200 miles long containing IB,000,000 acres of the most fertile soil in the world. The river, especially in the vicinity of St Lonis, is inclined to sweep over these acres, and to protect them great dikes and levees have been constructed on the eastern bank. Directly in front of this city was once a famous island, called "Bloody Island" on account of the many fatal duels fought thera It was there Sena­ tor Thomas H. Benton killed Charles D. Lucas, and ex-Governor Thomas Reynolds shot B. Gratz Brown. Tliis island was in the center of the river, and as the current flowed toward the Illinois side the people of the city arose One morning in 1837 and found a sand-lmr extending from the Missouri side to the island, and almost the whole volume of water flowing between "Bloody Island" and Illinois. The Government was appealed to and Lieutenant Robert E. Lee was sent out in charge of the works. He constructed dikes on the Illinois shore and at the head of "Bloody Island," and gradually turned the water back toward the St. Louis side until the sand-bar was washed away, and after­ ward the entire river was thrown over against the city. "Bloody Island" is now a portion of the mainland and the greatest portion of East St. Louis is now located on it Balked at this point the river cut into Illinois below the city. In 175(5 Fort Cliartres was one mile and a quarter directly east from the river bank. To-day the river runs over the spot where the old fort stood. The largest dike in this vicinity ia the Madison County (Illinois) dike, whioh extends from a point opposite the mouth of the Missouri to East St. Lotus. This varies from twenty to thirty feet i'n height and about the same in width, t protects the lands from any ordinary rise in the river, but there is nothing that can protect them from any extra­ ordinary rise. The Madison County dike broke in 1882, and in one night an avalanche of water ten feet in height Bwept over the American bottom for 100 miles destroying stock, crops, and human life. The earliest authentic ac­ count of a flood is found in an old doc­ ument in Kaskaskia, the oldest settle­ ment in the State, and situated oh the "bottoms." This flood occurred in 1724, and the water extended to the bluffs. In 1785 a terrible flood occurred, and the mighty stream spread over a wilderness pix miles wide and tenanted only by wild beasts and a few Indiana and sot- tiers. Destruction of Babylon. The following is taken from the American Cyclopedia: The last suc­ cessor of Nebuchadnezzar, Nabonadius, joined the league formed to check the threatening power of Persia. This brought upon him the invasion of Cyrus. Having associated with himself in the Government his son Belshazzar, Na­ bonadius, leaving him in command of Babylon, advanced to meet Cyrus. Be­ ing defeated in the field, he threw him­ self into Borsippa, while Gyrus ad­ vanced to the siege of Babylon. The city was provisioned for a long siege, and the strength of its walls defied direct assault It was taken only by the strategem of diverting the river from its course, and marching in through its dry bed. Heredotus relates that Cyrus turned the Euphrates into the great reservoir excavated by Nitoc- ris. This appears incredible, for even assuming the exiBtenoe of this reser­ voir, its waters must have been on a ievel with those of the river, and ho butting could have laid bare the river bed. Xenophon, a much better au­ thority in this matter, says that Cyrus drained the bed by means of two cut­ tings of his own, from a point above the city to another below it. If we suppose that the river was not the Euphrates itself, but a bayou or side branch, shallower than the river, the whole operation becomes perfectly comprehensible. He had only to dam up the mouth of the bayou above the city, and deepen the channel below by which it re-entered the Euphrates. In an hour after cutting away the bulk­ head below, the channel would be dry. This was done in the dead of night. It was a complete surprise. So confident were the besieged in the impregnibility of their outer defenses that they neg­ lected to close the water-gates which fronted the river at the foot of each street, and Belshazzar and his court passed the night in revelry. When morning dam ned the inner defenses had all fallen into the hands of the besiegers (538). Cyrus, having dismantled Babylon, moved npon Boasippa, still held' by Nabonadius, who surrendered and received kind treatment Cyrna assign'ed him a residence and estate in Caramania, where the last king of Babylon ended his days in peace. For a time Babylon was a royal residence of the Persian kings. Two attempts were made to revolt, and each time Babylon stood a siege and was fnrther dismantled. It ceased to be a royal city; its brick walls and palaces fell into decay; and when Alexander the Great took possession of it it was com­ paratively a ruin. He intended to re­ store the city and make it his Asiatic Capital, but his death prevented the execution of his scheme. Coal Products. There seems to be no end to the variety of new products from coal. It is but a short time since the discovery of a new saccharine substance was an­ nounced, excelling all others in the in­ tensity of its sweetness, and now still another substance, which will be known as "pyrofuxin," which it is claimed may be economically used for tanning leather fuxin to the litre is announced. In its purified form it is a fine, uon-triturable substance, without taste or smell, non- poisonous, and in appearance like catechu. Some Russian coals contain IB per cent, pyrofuxin. "BERTY" wants to know honr lA ean retain the love of his sweetheart, Eliza­ beth. Eternal viligance is the price of HEW ABB HOW YOU CALL Hi The Sad Kxpcrlmtee of. a Man Swi IsdUns. Forty-seven years ago there mnch talk of log cabins, hard cider, f and coons. Gen. Harrison waa running for the Presidency against Tan Bnren. The Democrats sneered at the Whig leader and hia qualification, and said , he would be hest employed a&tingin log cabin guzzling hard cider and skhlr ning .coons. The nickname for thi Whigs was coons, and the chorus of one of the Van Bnren aongs ran: "Kig, £g. jig, well tear tha bosky But the Whigs did not get They tobk up the log cabin,_ tht cider, and the coon, and ; war cries of a triumphant < Since then there has been no use of "coon as a nickname until of late yearv., when it has been applied contempt»- ously by some people to American cifr zens of color, having driven out "moke,* which was used for quite a time. Hot this use of "coon" started is Whether it was based on the I affection of the colored man for that animal or has some other origin is a§ this moment veiled in darknaaa. But» whencesoever it comes, those to wfeon it is applied do not take as kindly to ftp word as the Wliigs in 1840 <fid. ft fe ' indeed a fighting word, and it is wall that people should learn the dangeas or using it. Only a few days ago an Illi­ nois editor was sued for fibel for speak­ ing of colored men as "coons." Tho case has not yet come to trial, and thd ~ Judge has not decided what •M the word was meant to convey, and con­ sequently whether it waa libelous. there will be no information from Ou* quarter for some time, But without waiting for a decision others have take* the law into their own hands and hav* pounded those whom they believe top' have insulted them. One striking instance oomea froril Indiana. The colored porter of a chair* car on one of the railroads was rather curt in his answers to a man who on the train. A little later the condn©- tor passed through the car. The said to him, "Why would not your < answer my civil question ?" Thereupon the colored man, who was standing nei* by, fell upon the questioner. This i• what he did to him, according to methodical statement of the victim, wh# - appears to be of a legal turn of mind: ^ • : "Said assault was in manner andfiottifr: as follows--viz: . • . * "One blow from said asaaihnt̂ on my lip. ' , . i "One on my nose. * . "One under my right eye, whioh IMMKV 4hows bad discoloration and swelling, -n "Also one or more kicks in th»* abdomen. ;;; "Also a tirade of insults and abuad unmentionable. • k "All this while I waa down at foB length on a reclining-ohair on abovw train in the County and State afor# said." ' So it will be well for people to take care of their tongues, and not let slip words which may lead them into scrape like that of the gentleman ffeoaft Indiana. Diamond Mines. How did the South African diamonds ever get there? How much deeper an we going down?1 Are diamonds going to be found in as large quanties as present? There are various theories as to how these mines have been formed, but all agree in attributing them to volcanic action. They are funnel-shaped, the /sides of the funnel being oomposed of m dense igneous rook, known in miners' parlance as "rees." It is of a soapy nature, easily acted npon by the atmo* phere, consequently most dangerous, aa large pieces, in some instances weigh­ ing hundreds of tons, yet detached. There are no means of shoring it upt and without warning these enorxnoaa slices will slide off into the working portion of the mine, burying the claims and sometimes killing the employes. The whole of this funnel is filled with this "blue" ground, the reef sloping at various angles, bnt on an average of one in fifteen. The theory is, tiiat in time the sides of the reef will meet 4 some great depth, supposed by aome to be 1,000 feet, by others more; and thai then we shall arrive at the aperture forming the bottom of the funnel. Whether that hole will again expand into a further cavity, is, of course, mat­ ter of speculation. It should be re­ membered that the diamonds were nut formed where they are now found. , The hot liquid containing the di£» monds was forced by some great cat** clvsm of nature through the solid earth, the bulging in of the sides of the mines , being very soft and shaly, showing where the rock was not sufficiently hard to resist the enormous pressure. Now it has been observed that in Kimberley there must have been ten distinct up­ heavals ; in Dutoitspan, twenty-five; m Bnltfontein, three or five; and in Do Beers, three; and this has been proved ' r,' by the varying nature of the ground. } : If one upheaval only had taken place the oenter of the funnel would have contained only one particular kind of z -'i soil. As the miners go deeper a great alternation is noticed in the character of Iff! the soil. They have actually found pieces of the top reef at the depth of 400 feet This shows that in the sno- ceeding upheavals vacuums were, formed, and the whole funnel beoame in a state of tumult, the upper layers of . oxidized earth returning to their ancient depths to give place to the -;'t other carbonaceous matter which, by $ successive exposure to the atmosphere^ 10 became oxidized and assumed the yel- low color seen so frequently in tha ^ heaps and embankments of rejected ^ debris.--New York MaiL •' Telling Thieves by Mew* ; % A new method of identifying crinir & inals has been adopted in the prisons of France, Russia, and Japan. It eon- » ; sists in taking the exact measurement of the person npon his coming to the :k\. jail. *) * His waist the length and width ol the head, the left middle finger, the left foot, the outstretched arms, the three other fin7ers of the left hand, tlue left arm from the elbow to the wris^ and the length and width of the ear ar% measured, and the color of tho eyeg and any peculiarities are noted down. V A photograph is also immediately taken, and by these means the many mistakes which have been made bp trusting to a photographer only arf avoided. ". It is stated that habitual criminal^ ; particularly English pickpockets, are so convinced of the infallibility of thf method that they will on no acooui*/^ submit to the measurement and offer :. violent resistance whenever tho attempt is made to measure them.- Companion. * *• ( J , • - 't'St ; A SYSTEM of weather observation oak, &" n a small scale has been established Brazil, records from fifteen stationf^'1 now being regularly oommonicated t<|' ' '0 * now being regularly oommani •Ka •>-># HIA I' 1 •At.'<'