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kvmmMa, jftfoHENEX, • A BICH speculator in Paris, of "shady" tepntation, being very anxious to poa- •MB some decoration, boldly asked the Bmperor Dom Pedro to bestow one ttpon him, as he had already done to M. lie Lesseps and others. "No," said the old monarch, "I can't do it People trould think me a foot Well, I could £d that But they would also think a knave, and I cannot have any iona of such a reputation II toy parts of decorative work. TBB ier.' T. BOBEBT GABBETT is about 27 years Old. He has no fondness for an executive position and cannot bear to be chained to a desk. He is devoted to the pleas­ ures of society and he likes to frequent Itlrawing-rooms, club, and ball-rooms. JSe is extremely attentive to his dress . 'fund is always attired in the height of fashion. He would still be worth many ! millions if he had never owned a dol- •- lar's worth of stock to the Baltimore " ̂ and Ohio road. .1 ! • HERE'S another thundering lightning atory. It comes from Lincoln, Neb., ; Vhere a young girl was dressing in her " toom during a thunder storm. Her ' |>ug dog ran in. She clasped it to her ,< bosom. A flash of lightning instantly killed it She was horrified to find ^ V,. that an image of her dog had been photographed on her bosom. There , poems to be no way of removing the pic- ture, which gives every shade, color, and wrinkle of the canine form. - FBW people nowadays, if asked who Nwas the first governor of Illinois, would answer Patrick Henry. Yet this is the £, case. An act was passed by the author­ ities of Virginia in October, 1778, cre­ ating the County of Illinois (in the State of Virginia), which etnbraced the territory now forming the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, making probably the larg­ est county ever organized, exceeding the whole of Great Britain and Ireland; and thus the great orator of the Amer­ ican Bevolution, Patrick Henry, then Governor of Virginia, beoame the first Governor of Illinois. GERMAN scientists have discovered a worm that devours steel rails. Bail- road accidents at Hagen led to an in' vestigation' of the rails. After six • months had elapsed the surface of the - rails appeared to be corroded, as if by acid, to the extent of 100 yards. The rail was taken up and broken, and it •was perceived that it was literally hol­ lowed out by a thin gray worm. It is two centimeters in length and of the prong of a silver fork in circumference. It is of light gray color and on the ' head carries two little glands filled with a corrosive secretion, which 'ejected every ten minutes upon the b ,»tiron. I ' IN an age when skepticism is under­ mining all the cherished beliefs of our childhood, and when the seven won­ ders of the world are becoming for most of us as dubious as the seven champions of Christendom, it is pleas­ ant to learn that the great wall of China at least stands solidly where it did. The Abbe Larrien, having published a pamphlet to prove it a fiction, has been met by the counter assertion of Mr. W. G. Howell in the London Standard, who has seen the wall,and of Mr. Will­ iam Simpson in the London Daily News, who has not only seen the wall, but has drawn, engraved, painted, and exhibited it A CLOCK recently patented in France is in imitation of a tambourine, on the parchment head of which is painted a circle of flowers, corresponding to the hour figures of ordinary dials. On ex­ amination two bees, one large and the other small, are discovered crawling among the flowers. The small bee runs , rapidly from one flower to another, completing the circle in an hour, while the large one takes twelve hours to complete the circle. The parchment is unbroken and the bees simply laid upon it, but two magnets connected with the clockwork inside the tambour­ ine move just under the membrane, and the insects, which are of iron, fol­ low them. AN experienced whisky taster, being interviewed, said, "I wont tell you j how much my pay amounts to, but I can say that I gave up the management i of a Louisville distillery, where I got $15,000 a yedk, to accept my present position." A good whisky taster never eats onions, cheese, or any spiced food; the diet is kept down to the plainest sort of food, because such rigid ad­ herence to regimen secures an infallible taste. The value of such a taste may be inferred from the fact that the whisky taster said, "I give orders some­ times for 1,000 barrels of whisky after | tasting one spoonful of the sample, and not wasting over five minutes in the act" It is fair to suppose the taster : in question receives as much as $25,000 a year for ta&ting whisky while in numerous cases tasters find the balance in the left-hand side of the ledger. IK the Cologne Cathedral there axe 7 niches for the reception of , statues at all the chief doors and at the side en­ trances. The height of the vestibule is 7 times 8 feet; 7 pediments for figures stand in the same; 7 chapels surround the choir, the width of which, like that of the inner area of the church is 7 times 23 feet; the height of the aisles are 7 times 10 feet, and twice 7 pillars adorn the choir. In the aisles are 7 time 8 pillars, and 4 times 7 shafts rise along the walls. The western portal is 7 times 33 feet wide, the length of the vast building is 7 times 76 feet, and the height to the summit of the prin­ cipal towers was also fixed at 7 times 76 feet The three transverse aisles are 7 times 15 feet wide. Not only does the number 7 enter w largely into the New York Central Beilway ia the law, which geea into effect next year, prohibiting the farther use of stoves in railway ears. It is •quipping it cars with a system of steam pipes, and by the time the cold weather sets in the stove will be com­ pletely banished from the road. The example of the Central is one which ought to be followed by railroads every­ where, whether there is a law on the statute books requiring it or not It is astonishing how quickly after railroads take hold of anything in earnest, such as car-heating, which many of them have time and again declared imprac­ ticable without stoves, they find out that there are safe and easy methods. After a time they may find it profitable to build safe bridges of stone and iron, wherever such is required, though it is possible a good deal of legislative prod­ ding will be needed to bring them up to this point. The inability to do what a corporation does not want to do is not, however, confined to the railroads. The failure to' place telegraph and electric light wires under ground shows this. ' MB. STAGG, Yale's famous base-ball pitcher, entered Phillips Exeter academy some years ago a poor lad. For the first month he lived on 16 cents a day, his food being oatmeal and corn- meal, with meat--the toughest kind of beefsteak--as a rare treat once a week. The second month he succeeded in getting fairly good day board in return for the care of a horse. At the end of this month he was still better off, for he found board and lodging for caring for a horse and doing all the odd chores around the house, and thus he sup­ ported himself through Exeter. At Yale he earned his way by tutoring and writing for the papers. In the mean­ time he has found leisure to be one of the best amateur pitchers in the country, and to maintain a high schol­ arship. As for . his social standing, it is only necessary to say that he is a mem­ ber of the Skull and Bones society, the right to wear the badge of which is one of the most desired honors in college. He has a remarkable face, less hand­ some than strong, a highly interesting study to those who know the Tacts of his past life. The lines in his counten­ ance all denote endurance and deter­ mination, with keen perceptive powers. INDIA and China, as a San Francisco contemporary remarks, are the best customers for silver, of which they have been very large buyers for many years. At first thought one is apt to wonder what becomes of it all, as they seldom, or never, sell; but when viewed in the light of a dense population, the millions upon millons sent them are readily accounted for, taking into con­ sideration the natural shrinkage by wear and loss, and large amounts annually used up for manufacturing pur­ poses. China has a population of over 400,000,000, and India and the Straits over 200,000,000; nearly one-half of the inhabitants of the world. If the United States, with a population of about 60,- 000,000, and using paper, gold, and silver currency, absorbed $25,000,000 per annum in Bilver within the past nine years, it ought not to be a difficult mat­ ter for 600,000,000 people with no cur­ rency but silver to take more than double that quantity per annum. For the past twenty years the shipments of silver from Great Britain to China and India have varied from $3,200,000 in 1867 to $85,000,000 in 1879; but the past ten years the sum varied from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000. London and San Francisco are the real com­ petitors in the silver trade with these countries. Extraet fna the AMress ef Chair- nun Iisfciiw to the Iowa Bepablkaa Convention. II has been said that the Bepmbliean putjdid so little that the Dtmoontie putj was pot in power, and that the Democratic party, many now say, has done nothing. That the Democratic administration has failed to eeoom(riish anything. I take ex «RBv;; mmww , - -, to stay. In this dilemma they want the spoils for the balance of the term. They have sac- xiftoed two years and a half of pickings and patronage In favor at the mugwump alliance, and now that they find their allies are worse than incamheanoes they want the spoils for the balance of the time. That is all there is to the situation in Mas­ sachusetts, and if the President is eon- j vineed by this time that his ease is hope- Math. s*. mnMP> I frankly Dnbliean cl«rlr« an admit, thai not Blaine aai Logan had recetred the >h they wen elected. [Applause.] Banning Against an Elephant. I knew the country well for miles round--making a rush bj the only available path through the dense jungle, and coming suddenly upon the stern of an elephant taking his mid­ day siesta; at least I presumed, from his motionless attitude, that he was doz­ ing, and I was thankful for it He was standing in the uarrow path, and com­ pletely blocked it up. I was so near him that I could have pulled his tail had I felt inclined to be impertinent; as it was, the only course open to me was a strategic movement to the re ir. The jungle was so thick that it was im­ possible to turn him without attracting his attention, and, under the circum­ stances, it seemed a pity to disturb his noon-day dreams. As he was quite alone he was probably a "rogue" or "must" elephant, and in that case my chances of escape, should he happen to detect me, would have been small. I felt compelled even to deny myself the pleasure of trying to get a glimpse of his head and face. His huge hind­ quarters towered above me as fixed and motionless as though they had been carved in stone. After staring at them for a ruinate oi- two, and turning the situation over in my mind, I retired stealthily and on tip-toe.--.Episodes in a Life of Adventure. Blessing C ittle in Bulgaria. In the Greek Church of Eastern Europe much of the religious work is done by the married parish clergy, who are popularly styled "Papas" or "Fathers. Bishops are not allowed to marry, bat the working clergy are not as a" rule ordained until they are married. They differ from the monastic clergh, from umong which the bishops are chosen, in other ways, but it is to them that the people look for pastoral work. They belong by birth to the people, and they usually live on terms of familiarity with the peasantry, and identify themselves with the ru-tic pop­ ulation, being not much distinguished from them in manners and habits of domestic life. Among the ecclesiastical customs of Bulgaria is that of the . priest visiting a farmyard, at stated intervals, to pronounce a religions I benediction upon th« increase of flocks ; and herds; the ox^n and cows, the j sheep, the goats, getting the benefit of i his blessing, which is read with solem­ nity from an authorized liturgy, ao- j companied with the gentle waving of a feathered fan, sprinkling a few drops of consecrate 1 water in the presence of the assembled rural household. | WHERE'S the impropriety in calling a! Boston boy a regular Httb-bttbP ̂ ® ' done if seats to whieh lhey~w< In the first place the Demoeratio "admin istratton stepped into power by two kinds of ftand. First, fraud upon the blade- men in tiepect to their exer­ cise of the rigltt of suffrage. Second, swindling the innocent mugwumps of the East. [Applause and laughter.! Neither of these things would have been done by a .Republican administration, f Ap- plansej It was my misfortune-to see Gen. Fits' Hugh "Lee at the inauguration of President Cleveland marching in the in­ augural procession in a gray suit with which many of us are fftmiliar, and I heard him cheered as ihe President was not. That would not have been done at the in­ auguration of a Republican President. [Applause.] On the night of the inaugur­ ation 1 was awakened by the sounds of music by the bauds that appeared at the National Capital to make cheerful the day. The tunes that were played that night (I heard them myself), were, "My Maryland," Bonny Blue Flag," and "Dixie." That would not have been done at the inaugura­ tion of Blaine and Logan. [Applause. ] A Union fl&g lowered on the Interior De­ partment by the command of an executive officer to the memory of that rebel fiend (I know the meaning of the word), old Thompson. That would not have been thought of by the Republican administra­ tion. [Applause.] The Democratic Pres­ ident calls forth all his powers of speech to pay tribute to the memory of John C. Calhoun, the father of secession; to the memory of Gen. Sidney Johnston, a brave fighter in the rebellion, on the occasion of the dedication of monuments to the mem­ ory of those two men. That would never have been done by a Republican President. [Applause.] Men who have been tried in the flames of war in their country's behalf recalled from posts of duty on foreign shores and from places of trust throughout the land, and menoon- Sicuous in the great struggle to destroy s Union put in their places. This would not have been done by Blaine and Logan. [Applause.] The private pension bills passed nnder the Constitution which clothed Congress with omnipotent power to do it, to help poor, trembling, crippled men and old fathers and mothers, helpless because they tried to help their country, have been vetoed from the White House. God knows it would never have been done by a Republican President. [Applause.] These same poor, helpless, crippled men are insulted from the great White House of the republic. Ah! we know again, and God knows, such a thing would never have been done by a Republican President. A Mexican pension bill which gave millions to the South and thousands to the North found swift approval from Mr. Cleveland. A bill almost identical in its provisions that gave millions to the Union soldiers of the North and thousands to the South is quiokly killed by Mr. Cleveland. These things would not have been done by a Re­ publican President. [Applause.] The nags that courage, devotion to country, and patriotism tore from the standard of treason and laid away are without author­ ity of law taken from the Government to send away. Such a thing, fellow-citizens, never would have been dreamed of by a Republican Executive. Even Decoration Day, when the nation North and South is in tears, is pnt to a new use by a Democratic President Fellow-oitiaens, a Republican President wonld be welcome at St. Louis where the old Union soldiers meet in an­ nual friendly greeting; yes, welcome there or anywhere else. It does not seem to be true in the case of the present Democratic •President, and the false", cowardly, cringing letter by which that visit was recalled (or its promise) never would have been penned by the hand of a Republican President. A Republican President would never have used all the powers of his high office as President Cleveland did, to destroy Ameri­ can industry and take away food from the American iaborer. A Republican Presi­ dent wonld not have vetoed the bill for the relief of the sufferers along the Des Moines River. A Republican House of Repre­ sentatives wonld never have given a pen­ sion to the widow of General Hancock and denied it to the noble and stricken widow of John A. Logan. [Applause.] I mention these few things that have been done that Republicanism could never have accomplished. So I say, and thus point the thought, that the Republican party stilt stands with its face to the east and with its hapd on the flag-staff of the nation to hold it Up. It still stands in the van of every great battle, whether it be to guard the happiness of our children, or whether it be to keep bock the anarchist when, un­ clothed with citizenship, he dares to take this Government in his bloody hand. ts tbe cry of the hungry regarded, and the Re- Kblican clerks and ex-Union soldiers will given their walking tickets. It is only in States when Cleveland has deemed it Krobable he might be successful that he as retained Republicans in office. In hopeless States, like Pennsylvania and Il­ linois, they were hustled out long ago. The proceedings of the State convention held recently show that an apparently successful effort was made to keep the work of the smelling committee out of sight, but the skeleton is there all the same in the Democratic closet.--Chicago Tribune. BOB BURDETTK ON THE FLAG. * Masters Convinced Thai the laterals ef the Central Fatilc Needed Ifcetr Attention*" 4 est and Thrifty Into the Company at the 8tart . "*5,. Jtatoit Sow a 8«ev The This Ymc. Club Seeaiwi and Promising Teai| .. - flteken • If *i ft New The Massachusetts Spoils Democracy. The spoils Democracy of Massachusetts may at least claim to be philosophical. If they cannot have the wnole loaf they are willing in this case to take what would be equivalent to a little more than a quarter. The postoffice and custom house of Bos­ ton, as well those of some of the other large cities of that State, are models of ex­ cellent bnsiness management; indeed, their reputation in this regard is so well known that there has long been a suspicion that the working force could not have been re­ cruited from Democratic ranks. The minor also grew that a great number of the clerkships were held by ex-Union Boldiers, reinstated by Gen. Corse and Mr. Salton- stall. This of itself was another indica­ tion that Democrats had been disregarded. At last the State Central Committee appointed a sub-committee to in­ vestigate the matter. The sub­ committee did not have a very pleas­ ant time of it. They were rather peremp­ torily told by Corse and Saltonstall to mina their own business. When com­ plaints were made they were referred to the President. When they requested the Post­ master and Collector to dismiss Repub­ licans they were met with an emphatic re­ fusal. Notwithstanding the obstacles thrown in their way they managed to find that oat of the 4,614 employes of the Gov­ ernment department 2,828 are Republicans, or 63 per cent., drawing $5,000,000 in sal­ aries which otherwise would have gone into Democratic pockets. Such a disproportion in the number of employes and in the amount of wages, not to speak of patron­ age, was like a red rag to the Democratic bull. The spoilsmen have taken this np in earnest They are furious in their denun­ ciation of the Government officials as ene­ mies of the Democratic party and demand their removal. The Postmaster and Collector naturally enough fell bade upon the President as the responsible party. Mr. Cleveland has always cherished the conviction that Mas-* sachusetts is a debatable State, and he has made his appointments there with the view of switching it off into the Democratic ranks with mugwump help. For this rea­ son he selected Endicott for Secretary of War--a thoroughly respectable and thor­ oughly incompetent old gentleman for the plaoe. He filled the Federal offices with mugwumps, and made a flamboyant exhi­ bition of enforoin? the civil-service law. Pat Collins, tbe spoils leader, was thrown to the whales. The spoilsmen were put on the back seats and the mugwumps came clear np to the front singing hallelujahs for Cleveland and reform, and promising to rescue the State from the clutches of the Republicans. They have made one or two attempts since with lamentable results. They still cherish the hope that if they can retain the offices they will carry Mas­ sachusetts. ThespoUsmen, howsver,rec- egnixe the gravity of the situation, twj Why tlM Veterani Dislike the Combina­ tion of Cleveland and the Stan and Stripe*. It seems to me that the hostility which the old soldiers exhibit toward the com­ bination of President Cleveland and the United States flag is easily explained. It is simply an emanation qf the soldier spirit; it is the soul of a soraier's life and habit--obedience to orders. Along some time "endnrin' the war" the mob of camp-followers and speculators who followed the Union army for gain and plunder got to using the United States flag as an advertisement. It floated over and in front of every shoddy store in Cairo and Memphis, and painted across the Stars and Stripes was the name of the firm that was making $2 on every bill of 50 cents it sold. The flag was dishonored by greedy robbers, who loved the soldier only for what they could take out of him, and waved the flag over his head while they went through his pockets. I think it was Grant--a soldier naturally thinkB that every good thing that was done during the war was done by Grant --possibly while he was commanding the military division of the Mississippi; at any rate, it was some Union General who is­ sued an order forbidding this desecration of the flag. It was a symbol of honor; the emblem of our noble and glorious cause; every star was sacred to the soldier; that banner was his hourly inspiration; daily he braved death under its folds, and he prayed that it might be his winding-sheet when he died. To daub upon its azure field the fat face of some civilian who never spoke a warm-hearted word for the Union until he found there was some profit to be made out of its defenders; to scrawl across its silken folds the name of some trader whose greedy hand was plunged into the soldier's pocket; to use the flag as an advertising sheet for a pack of camp-followers--was a disgrace, an outrage, a shameful dishonor. And so the General commanding ordered that all such signs should be taken down by the provost guard, and that no man should ever again dare use the flag of our country to advertise himself and his shoddy wares, while daily it was made more sacred than ever, baptised in the fire of battle and the life-blood of brave men. The thought, the feeling that inspired the order was born in the heart of a soldier, and the army ap­ plauded it. Well, now, the old soldiers have not for­ gotten that order, and to this day the Grand Army hates to see the flag used as an advertisement for dry goods, for salt fish, for tar, for gimlets, for treacle, taffy, popularity, votes, or anything else. No man's portrait has any right on the United States flag--the President's or the post sutler's, or even P. T. Bamum's. The flag was never made for the purpose; it wasn't intended, when it was designed, to be a national picture gallery. And no man who loves it, as do the men who marched, and fought, and suffered under it, likes to see it disfigured. They remember the flag very distinctly as it was when they carried it into battle, and President Cleveland's pic­ ture wasn't painted on it then; why wen should it be there now? It is soldierlv in the men of the Grand Army to obey orders. "Forever float that standard sheet," bat down with the advertisements. ROBERT J. BPRPETTE. Mrs. Cleveland and Governor Foraker. In an interview with a representative of the Associated Press, General A. S. Bush- nell, a member of Governor Foraker's staff, authorized the following statement concerning Mrs. Cleveland's reception of Governor and Mrs. Foraker at the Academy, in Philadelphia. "Preceded by Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania and his staff. Governor and Mrs. Foraker and our party advancod to be received. Governor Beaver and party were warmly greeted by both the Presi dent and Mrs. Cleveland, who shook hands with them cordially. President Cleveland then shook hands with Governor Foraker, but his face was as expressionless as that of a sphinx. The Governor presented Mrs. Foraker and the President shook hands with her. Governor Foraker was then intro­ duced to Mrs. Cleveland and extended his hand to her. She paid no attention to his proffered hand, but, taking half a step backward and folding her hands, stared straight at him without a sign of recognition. Apparently giving no heed to this direct out, the Governor presented Mrs. Foraker. Mrs. Cleveland still stood with folded hands, declining Mrs. Foraker's extended hand, and ac­ knowledging her presence only by a freez­ ing inclination of her head. Gen. Axline and his wife were presented to the Presi­ dent and Mrs. Cleveland, and both shook hands with them, and immediately after­ ward Mrs. Bushnell and myself were in­ troduced, and were received in the same cordial manner. The out of Governor and Mrs. Foraker was made more direct by our reception than it would have been had Mrs. Cleveland not shaken hands with the remainder of the Ohio party. It has been stated that Mrs. Cleveland was not shaking hands with any of her guests, but that is a great mistake, for she received both those who preceded and those who followed Gov­ ernor and Mrs. Foraker very cordially. "Regret was expressed on all sides that the incident should have oocurred, for everybody felt that Mrs. Cleveland, as the first lady of the land, could not afford to snub the chief magistrate of the third State in the Union, to say nothing of the affront to a lady of Mrs. Foraker's beauti- ; IWiW Yc*k tel«cra*i*1 P. O. Huntington appeared as a witness before the Pacific Railroad Commission "on Friday, and the examiuation into the dif­ ferent letters sent to Mr. Col ton was en­ tered upon. The first was in relation to having convinced a certain Senator from Florida of the advantages of the Southern Pacific Road to the Gulf States. The witness did not know whether it was Sen­ ator Jones or Senator Coaover he referred to. He knew both gentlemen personally. The next was relative to having a Cali­ fornia Senator friendly to the road. Noth­ ing could be extracted from Mr. Hunting­ ton on this head, except that Mr. A. A Sargent, whose name Mr. Anderson mentioned, would have beenfi a most admir­ able man for the position. He was well and able, and above suspicion. Following this came a letter commenting upon the advisability of purchasing Senator Jones' (of Nevada) road, the Los Angeles and In­ dependence, so as to induce him to favor the Union Paciflc and Northern Pacifto Kaihoads' sinking fund bill. He bought the road, which cost $718,000, for $201),- 000. Jones was hard up, and witness knew it would make Jones take a greater inter­ est in the Pacific roads if he took the other one off his hands, so he took it. Another letter brought in Mr. Hunting­ ton's opinion of socialism and the Con­ gress of 1X78. "This Congress is an agratiau camp. It is composed of the worst body of men that ever got together in the country." "Do you recognize your sentiments in that passage?" asked Mr. Anderson. "Well, of late years I have remarked that there has been a considerable inflax of these anarchists and socialists into pub­ lic places. They can not make money themselves honestly, but I have remarked that $5,000 iB a great deal to them, and they will do a lot for less." Mr. Hantington then entered into an­ other explanation of how money could be legitimately spent in influencing Congress. Air. Huntington knew nothing about the books of the Contract and Finance Com­ pany. He knew that after budding the Central Pacitic the company's debts were big and its assets nothing but Central Pa­ cific stock of less value than the amount of its debts. "I never kept the books of the company, and carry most of mv own business memo­ randa under my hat," said he, "and they verv seldom mislead me." The witness went into the methods and men employed in starting the Central Pa­ cific. Every one went in at his personal solicitation. Only good, honest, thrifty men were taken in, like Gov. Stanford and • Mr. Crocker. "The Government took away our power of repaying them quiokly when it subsidized parallel lines. That was not our fault. We have fulfilled every obligation to the Government. It is they who have broken the contract. The ex­ penses at one time were enormous. Freight, insurance, provisions, everything, was high during the war. Materials had to be shipped around Onpe Horn a year in advance, and thus interest was lost At present the Government owes the Central $2,000,000, which it will not pay, and it won't pay interest on anything it once has in its grasp. The most expensive part of the road was over the Sierra Neva- das. It cost Mr. Crocker more than the contracts came anywhere near paying him. At one time it looked like a losing enter­ prise. The risk was enormous, ana it was not until long afterward that the profits showed themselves." Mr. Huntington asserted thst the Gov­ ernment paid the Central Paoifio less for carrying tne mails over the Sierra Nevadas than it paid the level Eastern roads. To which statement Mr. Littler sea ponded that he would like to have the official data of that assertion, as if it was true it was a very grievous charge to prefer against the Government. The wituess promised to send in the full particulars. The League championship race for Ihe of 1887 is now about over, and that Detroit will take this year's pennant is now no longer doubted by any lover of base­ ball. True, there is still considerable hope left in the camps of the New York and Philadelphia Clubs that seoond place is still to be fought for, and Manager James Mutrie, of the Giants, is as confident that his team will step over the heads of ihe White Stockings into second place as the veteran Harry Wright iB that the Phillies will finish' next to Detroit. Anson and President Spalding only smile, when asked if they can hold their present position, in a manner which indi­ cates that thev have absolutely no fear of their team's ability to do so. From pres­ ent indications, the Detroits will win the pennant of 1887, but by a smaller percen­ tage of games won than that trophy has been secured by for four years. The De­ troits will probably finish the season with a percentage of about .0(5(5, which is much better from a good sporting point of view tban the large winning percentages of the last three years. The Chicagos have made the best record of games won, as will be seen by the following record of champion­ ship winners since the formation of the League: PROF. tiOODE. i'WKs.Knr Commissioner of Mehertes* Prof. G. Brown Goode, who has lately reoeived from the President the appoint­ ment of Commissioner of Fish ana Fish­ eries, has been for a number of years As­ sistant Secretary of the Smithsonian In­ stitution. Prof. Goode is about thirty-six Kara old, having been born in New Al-ny, Ind., in 1851. He received his early academic and scientific training at the Wes- As Seen Through Oregonian Specta­ cles. The Steadily growing impression made by Cleveland is that he was, before a happy accident made him the compromise candi­ date of a discordant Democracy for the Governorship of New York, nothing more than a healthy, athletic, mediocre man; a respectable lawyer, somewhat notorious as a cold-blooded, selfish creature, a bachelor who preferred the animal pleasures of this world unmixed by any association with the moral responsibilites and anxieties of pure domestic life. Beyond a considerable ca­ pacity for ox-like drudgery that is common to all industrious office lawyers, and the limited political astuteness acquired as a ward politician in Buffalo, Mr. Cleveland does not seem to have any ability in partic­ ular; be is not a schol.tr, not a diplomatist, not a jurist, not an orator, not a refined gentleman, not a man of business knowl­ edge and versatile aptitude. In abort, Cleveland is a commonplace, cheap, utterly uninteresting person in the estimation of the American people, and it is this measure of him, rather than his specific blunders, that is at the bottom of the steadily growing dissatisfaction and disgust for the adminis­ tration. "You make me tired" fairly express­ es the feeling of the business public for Cleveland. In the absence of his wife from the White House he has had no public or pri­ vate cares, unless we assume thst the recent death of Mrs. Cleveland's pet monkey was -» private oi«f fee* leyan University, at Middletowa, Conn. After taking his degree he became at* tached to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, directing his attention more particularly to ichthyology. When the Ber­ lin Exhibition of Fish and Fisheries was held, Prof. Goode hbd the American de­ partment under his charge; he acquitted himself so well as to receive the highest ful character.Springfield (O.) dispatch. J. praise from Germany. At the London Exhibition of Fisheries in 1883, he repre­ sented the United States as Commissioner there. He will now carry out successfully tbe work originated b> his distinguished pgedaeaaBor, Spencer Fullerton Bawl. Joseph Jeffbrsen. The next atfrnctioa to be presented (6 the patrons of McVicker's Theater, immedi­ ately following Lotta's engagement, will be the annually recurring visit of the comedian, Joseph Jefferson, commencing Monday, Oct. 3d, and will be marked as being the twentieth year since his fir*t appearance at this theater in his now famous character of Rip Van Winkle. Few living actors have succeeded in holding the attention of the public as has Mr. Jefferson, and he stands to-day the acknowledged gnat comedian of the world. A thorough artist in all he undertakes, Mr. Jefferson most fitly deserves the tribute paid him by the able critio, Mr. William Winter, who, speaking of his impersona­ tions, said: "Mr. Jefferson's acting, while imparting pleasure to the auditor, cannot fail to teach the noble and salutary lesson of what thor­ oughness and sincerity can accomplish in the ministry of art: Never to slight any­ thing we do, but to go to the depth and height of the subject, and bring out all its meaning and all its beauty. The wild flower that grows by the wayside, if you but nurture it right, will reward vour care a hundred-fold in loveliness ana bloom."-- Per oent .787 .643 .083 .705 .731 2U f^.> , Won. Lost. lfl7S..„..^Cliioa«0...i. 52 14 1877........Boston,...........31 17 1878... Boston 41 19 187# Providence.. 65 93 188 0 Chicago, «7 W 188 1 Chicago. 56 88 .666 1*83 Chicago S3 99 .654 1833 Boston C3 85 ..643 18S4 Providenoe 84 96 .753 1885 Chicago. ST S9 .776 1686 Chicago. 90 84 .796 The poorest record made by any club in the history of the League was by the Cin- cinnatis in 187(5, when they succeeded in winning but nine games during the whole season, losing 56. The Philadelphias did nearly as baa in 1883, when they won 19 and lost 81. PITTSlttrBO IS RRSPONSIBliB. Big Jim McCormick and Captain Abnsr Dalrymple, who played with Chicago last season, are now, as is well known, playing with the Pittsburg League team, and as the end of the season approaches both of these players indulge in grins of quiet satisfac­ tion as they look over the record of games won and lost this season. Why? Because, had it not been for Pittsburg's work against Chicago, the White Stockings might now be on fighting terms with Detroit for the pennant. It is a singular fact that one of the two new clubs in the League beat Chicago out of the championship of 1887. So far as played, Chicago has won its series with every club in the League, excepting only the new chaps from Pittsburg, who aresixtn in the race. Anson's men have beaten the coming champions 10 out of 18 games, the Phillies 12 out of 18, the Giants 11 out of 17, Kelly's men 7 out of 13, the Senators 8 out of 15, and the Hoosiers 10 out of 12. Doubtless the champions of the glorious years of *85 and 'Mil will finish the season winner of a majority of the games played witli each of the other clubs, excepting only those dreadful puddlers and glasst blowers from the Smoky City. Just think of it--ten games from Detroit, eleven from New York, twelve from Philadel­ phia, and only three from Pittsburg. Six times have Anson's men gone down in miserable defeat before these hoodoo sons of Yulcan. Had Chicago been able to do as well against the Pittsburgs as the De­ troits have done, Captain Anson would now be ordering the painter to daub "1887" on that big flag at the White Stocking Park. Had the Chicagos done as well with the Smoked Glass men as Philadelphia has done,' even, or Boston, or Washington, Chicago and Detroit would now be bat­ tling for the flag. But the fates have willed otherwise. Pittsburg can lay the flattering unction to her cold-chilled soul that even if she hasn't been able to win better than sixth place her debut in the League has been signalized by the most Sronounced case of hoodoo in League his->ry. This is why Dalxymple and Mo- Cormick smile. CHICAGO SIGNS A NEW ONE. , Captain Anson has signed a new pitcher, Who, judging from the single game he has pitched thus far for the champions, is a valuable acquisition to the Chicago Club. His name is C. W. Sprague and he comes from Vermont. He is twenty-one years old, weighs 154 pounds, and is five feet nine inches tall. He is a left-handed pitcher, and has a record of eighteen games won out of a possible twenty. While playing an infield position for the Lynn (Mass.) team ne aooepted .fifty-eight fielding chances out of a possi­ ble sixty. The young man thought him- self a good deal of a pitcher, and so he came to Chicago for a job. He reached here last Friday, and, after putting the young man through the paces on the morning of his arrival, Cap­ tain Anson thought so much of him that he decided to put him in the box against New York the following day. The result was an excellent showing for the Vermont boy, the game standing a tie of 5 to 5 at the end of the ninth inning, at which time it was too dark to play off the tie. Sprague looks something like Ward, of tbe New Yorks. He is clean shaven, some­ what hollow-chested, and when he runs he resembles a windmill in action. But he is a pitcher and no mistake. His delivery, although left-handed, is not altogether dissimilar to Clarkson's. He has two Eiwerful curves, which straighten out near e plate, and a paralyzing underhand "riser." While in the box Sprague exhibits muoh deliberation. He doesn't wipe his chest like Van Haltren or Baldwin, nor does he scrape the bosom of his pants like Lany Corcoran. All his fondling is con­ fined to the ball, which he often holds in the elbow of bis right arm. His speed is greater than anything Van Haltren has yet shown, and his command of the ball is far better than that of either of the junior pitchers of the team. Considering the tact that it was the youngster's first appearance in a League game, and that his work was being watched by 6,000 persons, his record, made against one of the heaviest batting clubs in the League, is really meritorious. DETROIT WANTS ANSON. The sensation of* the week in League base-ball affairs was the offer of the De­ troit Club to purchase the release of Cap­ tain Anson from the Chicago Club. Presi- , dent Spalding on Friday received the fol« lowing letter from President F. K. Steams, of the Detroit Club; "FIFTH AVENUE Horn*, Sept 14. "A. G. Spalding, Chicago: "DEAR SIB--I have recently noticed se­ vere, and what seemed to me unjust, criti­ cisms on Anson. The papers seem to de­ sire a change of management. Recognizing the ability of Anson, both as a ball-player and manager, I would ask, as a special personal favor, that if any change is con­ templated you will notify me immediately. I am not only willing but anxious to nay more for his release than any other club would. With Anson in charge, the present Detroit Club would hold the pennant for years to come. Kindly wire me on receipt of this what my chances are for securing him. Fraternally yours, "F. K. STEARNS. "P. S.--Would an offer of $10,000 be entertained?" The following reply was at onoe wired to Mr. Stearns: "CHICAGO, Sept 16. •F. K. Btoirni, Pnsideut Detroit Ball Club, Detroit, Mich.: "Aside from a few newspaper critics Anson is fully appreciated here. No offer that you can make will be entertained. ' • --k Bunker --A Hshm at Pontiac. * --Stock wells are going dty la the vfafct* % of Ashmore, Coles County. f \ --The postoffice at Meetsr, Bmlii County, has been discontinued* --An automatic watsriag r̂oogh flsr j cattle, hogs and hones has been invsotsd by a resident of Pontiac. --The Blaine family, to fte naaib# iff" ever eighty, held a retmkm at OQMfed f Lake Park, Urbana, last week. --The largest strawstack In the BlaU tr that owned by Hugh Hynemaa, searLawa ̂ dale. It is one hundred steps loofe eight wide, and fifteen high, and contains the straw gathered from 150 acres of land. < ' --After a sharply contested eleetaasat As ' |g United Brethren annual conference at Ar- | genta, the Bev. L. Field was chosen Pre­ siding Elder of the Decstar District, M place of the Bev. H. W. Trneblood, who \ was sent to the Lexington District --The Board of Supervisors of Clitiieli ordered that the question of building * new court house be submitted to avote ef : the people, the building now used having been condemned by the Grand Jury last month. It is highly probable that a new building will be erected at a ooet of $75,. 000. . N --Joseph Losssn, a fermer living in Gsfc. lin Township, Vermilion County, mid his hand, W illiam Sandusky, quarreled over a settlement recently. Sandusky struck Les­ sen over the head with a corn knife, inflict- ing fatal injuries. Sandusky, who is oady , 20 years old. recently came from Kentucky. He gave himself up. --City Collector Onahan, of Chicago, received a Btrange request from Anna wan, this State. Alonzo Bockufier, of that place, evidently thinks that Mr. Onahan ia deputized by the city of Chicago to coBest * all bad debts, and accordingly the requsst was made that a bill for $30 against a eee>; .tain druggist be looked after. --An inquest was held at Decatur on the body of Dr. John C. Capps, a graduate of ~ Bush Medical College, who died from i dental poisoning in a drug store. He < rushing into the store from his offioe suf­ fering terribly, and died within a few mo­ ments, it is supposed from a nareotio poi­ son taken by mistake. There is a? motive known for suicide. --Near Sherman, in Sangamon County, lately,"on the Chicago and Alton Boad, a freight train became separated. The en­ gineer started back for the rear pottiosi ef. the train, when his engine beoame unman­ ageable, rushing into the detached portkm of the train, demolishing the bridge gang's • sleeping car, which was in the train, tele­ scoping a freight car and the tender, and crippling the engine. --John S. Busey, who went- with his father to Urbane in 1836, a leading Demo­ eratio politician, and one of the best-known men in his part of the State, died Tfinswt ly, aged 60 years. He was a msmber ef the Illinois Legislature in 1863 when G«r. Yates prorogued that body. He had se- . oently resided with his family at Medicine Lodge, Kan. He leaves a wife and sevscal grown children. --The case of David B. Staplss, with attempting to murder Charles A. Win- ship, has been continued at Freepoit nntS next term upon his showing that he in­ tends to prove insanity and requlns the testimony of his family doctor and < expert testimony from Stillwater and souri. Staples' bail has been fixed at $8,000, and he expecth his millionaire rela­ tives to furnish it now that he has seemed a continuance. --In spite of the few showers since the middle of August the worst features of the great drouth continue and a water famine is imminent in the section surrounding Tolono. The most distressing come from - Philo, Sadorus, and towns, as well as from the Farmers who have large herds of eattie am kept busy hauling water for them. About all the wells, except the deep-base* tubular wells, are practically dry. --Tbe morning of Apt 15,1886, daring the great Southwest strike, a diabolical attempt was made to wreck a pasasagsr train on the Blinois & St Lonis a mile west of Bellvilie. Twenty-eight spikes were withdrawn aild two rails dis­ placed and turned at right-angles with fte track. Suspecting that the strikers wosld do something desperate, the railroad com­ pany had their tracks near town patrolled, and the work was discovered just ten minutes before the passenger train waa due. Detectives have been at work on the case ever since, and they arrested Joseph Frantz and August Gahr and claim to have sufficient evidence to convict them. Frants confessed to a man named Ward. Both were employes of the road. ̂ --Fully 5,000 people attended the Wood- worth faith-cure camp-meeting at Oak­ land Park, Woodstock, recently, people coming in from half-a-dozen States, fkeaa neighboring and distant cities, and fton various parts of the country to hear the sermons. The city is filling up with siek folks, there being six st the St Nicholas, coming from Carbondale, Murphysboso ̂ Hannibal, Mo., Hot Springs, Ark., KSttriMi City, Clinton, 111., and other points. The altar service is wildly exciting, end May, during the opening prayer, an intelHgenl looking woman teU in a trance in the aadt- enoe, remaining in that condition for ha minutes, her husband and sistsca cited beyond expression. The a Wabash engineer, who was to fa eat em his run at 12 o'clock, fell in a tranee at (ha altar, and had to be taken home in a car­ riage in that state, fie is yst in that con­ dition, with no immediate pfospsnts ut is covering his senses. Ollie Da«ett.oae«« Mrs. Wood worth's assiatanta, also fell into a trance, and stretched herself out on the altar. She succumbed while praying for the conversion of a supplicant P. , a deaf mute from Hot 8priags, was con­ verted at the meeting He can t*1>r and says he can hear the ramble of a passfan train. He is one of the most earnest work­ ers of the oonverts. H. 8. Busey. the beaker from Urbane, converted at the meeting there, addressed the mirtlag lfrse* day. Mrs. Wood worth dsolarad thm'tha- end of the world Is near at hand, aadthnb. she expected to hear the soand ef tiehsiehs trumpet. She based this eiaieamntam the 1 h. :• • * . .