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i. VAN SLYKE, -*p jr."* HoHxnar, muwoia A cmr man lost a twenty-dollar gold $ • i piece while on the way to his office, and fjjv, on his way home found the coin on the pavement, where it had lain unnoticed I;?'*' • all day. ^ ' J? m stree' accidents in Chicago / , caused by reckless driving the ioe |L V wagons are responsible for the greater |y> « share, while the batcher cart plays sec- FV 1 Ond to even the baker wagons. THEBE is a fear in England mwr that royalty begins to mate with its sub* jects that it may be anxious to wed <&\ - American brides. It would show the same good taste evinced by the En- §P " , glish peers. |» \ IN Warasdin, Croatia, a mother of 117 years gave away her maiden dangh- ' ter qf eighty-three to a tramway con- - • doctor of forty-six. The elder lady of f|*-- the two was in ecatacy of delight at hav- j|r ing lived to see her child married. M. CEAMPEL, one of DeBrazza'S as- f siatants in the French Congo territory, |f";", J has brought to Paris a young black wo- ' man, daughter of a chief of the M'fang tribe, who was^ presented to him as a ' wife on one of his exploring expedi- j*:5 ' tions. v • . , . • p.. THE United States, even when all the III"- vessels now provided for are constructed, p • will not have a large navy, but it will & j; , have a highly efficient one for its size. Ip ~ The country has been able to take ad- fy. <r' vantage of all the improvements and p. avoid all the errors made in war ships p ( abroad. . If . "NOTHING," writes Edmund Yates, V\ V * more charming than to see the Prince of Wales with Queen Victoria; his man Ip" V ner is so tender, deferential and affec- * - tionate, and he watches over her with P such care, attending her every want, £1- and suggesting anything which he ^ /; thinks will please her." % * - ---- |;V: BEFORE the Isthmus of Suez was . pierced by the canal there were almost i? * no sharks in the Mediterranean, the b"'. passage through the Straits of Gibraltar not being to their liking. Now, how- ; ever, they ooiue in by way of the canal, X ancl iQ sucli numbers that in more than p>- one watering-place, and especially on f v ij the Adriatic, the sign has gone up "Be- # * ware of Sharks." |room of a hotel in Scranton, Pa., one day, when thed#g strode in -and lay down on the earpet. WI won't mention his name or makeany motions," said the landlord to his boarder, referring to his dog, "but I'll say something'to you in an ordinary tone and see if he will notice it." Then the landlord added: "I think his place is behind the desk, in front of the safe, instead of in thi* room." The dog seemed to pay no at­ tention to what had been said, but he got up right away, walked slowly through the long pushed the gate open back of the desk, and lay down In front of the safe. IVTBBCSTnro ITEMS BATWWWh PM>* VAJEUOI/8 HOCSCXg. 1 WE read about 1,000.000 bushels of p| wheat, but few people realize what a $F vast amount it is. But if* 1,000,000 ^7" 'bushels of wheat were loaded on freight cars, 500 bushels in a car,' it would fill . ja train fifteen miles long. If transpor- jbf * ted by wagons the line of teams would K' \ be 142 miles long. And yet we oonsume and export more than 400,000,000 of ; ^ * bushels of wheat annually. . ... --* i THE celebrated Kong Mountains of "; Africa are about to follow the Mountains ' ;*>f the Moon, which have been expunged ' from the maps. These mountains w ere lAf supposed to be stretched across Africa PU1 for ten degrees of longitude about two ; hundred miles north of the Gulf of _ . Guinea. Captain Binger, who has now j^' ^returned from nearly two years' ex- |. u' plorations in the almost unknown region north of the Gulf of Guinea, says there is no such range as the Kong Mountains. & THE anti-Jew crusade at Berlin i>" passed its zenith and is slowly subsid- ing. quite to the advantage of civiliza­ tion and to the honor of the young Emperor. The court preacher, Stocker, who has been the soul and life of the movement, is ah arrant agitator, who has been rebuffed none too soon. No meaner, less excusable persecution dis­ graces the Dark Ages than the persecu­ tion of the Semitic stock in this close of the century of books, commerce cul­ ture. Of course, some hot-headed ex­ citement is to be always looked for in the centers of agitation, but to murder Jews is a sport of passion we may hope will not be indulged again so long as the world stands. To crucify the spirit of Jesus is worse than to crucify His body. THE Scientific Aftierifimi us that sugar, for centuries after its intro­ duction, was used only medicinally. Even in the tenth century it seems to have been unknown as an artiole of diet. But the same was true of ardent spirits. Alcohol in no form was used as a drink in the Middle Ages. Our foods and drinks of to-day are almost altogether recent inventions and discoveries. Our fruits are new, or so greatly improved as to be unrecognizable: and the same is true of our vegetables. Potatoes and tomatoes came into general use at a very recent date. The probabilities are that another century will place on our 'tables a great deal of food produced directly in the laboratory, as sugar is, and not a produot of natural growth. HUMAN life is estimated to have lengthened 25 per cent, during the last half century. "The average human life in Rome, under Ciesar, was eighteen years," says Dr. Todd, of Georgia; "now it is forty. The average in France fifty years ago was twenty-eight; the mean duration in 1887 was forty-five and one- half years. In Geneva during the thir­ teenth century a generation played its part upon the »tage and disappeared in fourteen years; now the drama requires forty years before the curtain falls. During the golden reign ctf good Queen Bess, in London and all the large cities of merry old England, fifty out of every 1,000 paid the last debt to nature yearly, which means, instead of three score and ten, they averaged but one score. Now, in the city of London, the average is forty-seven years." WW* Ow Neighbors Axw Doing--JI»tt«rs of Ooneral am! local tatMMt-Har- rt*K®s and I>««ths--Accidents and Crlmoa ~Fe:rsois»l Point®**. IlIlBote District and County Fairs. We are indebted to the jFbrrn, Field and Stockman, of Chicago, for the fol­ lowing list of Illinois District and County fairs for 1889; DISTRICT FA.IBS. : Nam*., Whore tMldt nafta.-' Basbnsll Dist Agl Fair ****: All's. Bnshnell Aug 25^23 Carbon dale Dist Fair Ass'n Oftrboudale...... Oct 1-4 Bastom 111 Fair Asg'n..Camarao.....8ept 16-20 BMonwto Pint Fair As'n.Eldoraao..... . Aug 13-16 Northern 111 Ag 1 Ass "n. l-'roej>ort Sept 10-18 Southern 111 Fair Ass'n. Anna Aug"7-30 111 Valley Fair AmTn.. .«viC«evilU....Autf Fa 16 £««"» 1 BWKity Sept 18-20 Union Ag 1 Society Albany........Aug 28-30 Homer Ag'l Fair Ass'n..Homer .Aug 'JO-23 Avon Dist Ag'l Board . .Avon.. ...„.,.6ept 17-20 Hoopeston,,, 1MBt, Ag'l Society;*^.... Hoopoatoa.. Aug 26-30 - C O U N T Y F A I R S . < Narad Where held. ; Date. Adaius .Camp Point .....Sept. 2-6 Boone. '.Belvitfere Sept! 10-13 Brown Ml. Sterling.... Aug.'26-90 Bureau ..Princeton Sept. 1<(-13 Carroll. Mt. Carroll ...Sept. 9-13 Champaign,... .Champaign ..Aug 27-31 Christian.......tana .Sept. 10.14 Chrj stian. Assumption Sept. 4.7 Coles .Charleston .Sept. 10-14 Crawford.......Robinson 8ept. 24-27 DeKalb. .Sycamore. .Sept. 17.20 DeWitt Farmer City... ..Aug. 13-16 DcWitt .Clinton.......;........Sept. 9-13 Dupage- WheatoBu*..........Sept. 10-12 Edgar .Paris ..S«jpt. 2-6 Edwards ..Albion...... ...8®pt. 17-20 Effingham......Watson;.;*..;** ..Sept. 24-27 Fayette Vandalia..... . ...........S«pt. 3-6 £frd ...Piper City...... .... ..iflept. 10-13 Franklin .Benton. ..8ex>t. 17-20 Fulton ..Canton............. ...Sept. 10-13 Gallatin Shawiiedtown.... t*.., .Aug- 27-31 Green Carrolllon .Oct. 22-25 Hamilton...... .Meljeansboro .Sept.. 10-13 Hancock Carthage .Kept. 9-13 Hancock (Hort).Warsaw ..Aug. 2H-30 Hardin Elizabethtown.........Aug. 13-16 Henderson Biggsvilie Sept. 3-6 Henry Camlm.ige .Aug. 26-30 Henry Kewauea Sept. 2-6 Iroquois........Milford i Aug. 20-23 Jasper Newton Sept. 10-18 Jefferson Mt. Vernon.. Sept. 10-21 Jersey Jersey villa Oct. 15-18 JoDaviesg.... ..Galena .Oct. 1-4 Kankakeo EaukaktM .Sept. 10-13 Kendall Yorkville. Sept. 3-6 Knox Knoxville. * ....Sept, 2-6 l*ke Wauke>:an Kept. 9 14 lake. Liberty vflla Sept. 11-14 L«.Salle ...Mendota ....Sept. 2-7 Livingston Fairbury Sept. 2-4 Logan Atlanta ............. ....Sep!. 3-6 Macoupin Carlin villa .... Sept. 3-6 Marion Salem.. ...'.Oct. 1-4 Marshall Wen on a Sept.. 16-20 McDonough... .Macomb Aug. 20-23 McHenry Marengo Sept. 17-20 McHenry Woodstock ...Sept. 3-6 McLean Bloomington Sept. 16-20 Menard Petersbu«g...v....i ....Sept. 3-6 Mercer Aledo Sept. 17-20 Montgomery Hillsboro. Sept. 17-20 Moultrie Sullivan....". Ogle Rochelle.. Ogle Oregon Peoria. .Dunlap Perry Pickneyvttto Piatt MonticoltO... Pike Barry. . ............ Pik» Pittsfield.,.. Pope. Golconda. Pulaski Villa Ridg Bichland Oluey. ...Sept, 2-6 Sept. 10-13 Sept. 17-20 .. .ISept. 4-6 ...Oct. 8-11 • Aug. 19-23 .Sept. 10-13 •Aug. 2C-2? Oct. 1-4 ..Aug. 14-1. Sept. 17-20 says: The trouble began about tli» of Jnly. when Mr. WtM( W«nt awuy on a vacation, and Mr. Hutekaptfr. of Kwokuk, Iowa, one of the prmoipai own«rs oi tb i paper, cum« on to look over tbo biisiB«s&. Mr. Huis- ku&p found some tbiaas ttat didn't suit him. and mado ae iti v«»ttg»tlo«. "The investigation proceeded and was a most, fruitlul one." said one of the investi­ gators. "Mismanafremont of the most glaring nature ia the course of which the hideous head ot blackmail hud frequently shown itself was discovered. Tie in­ stances of blackmail I cannot at present disclose. They will, however, como out later. The investigators claimed to have found that Mr. West had been obtaining large sums of money as an individual, givi ing the notes of the Times Company as security. Further, it looks as if lie had sold the Times Building for $360,000 and pocketed the proceeds. What he has done with them no one knows. It was thought he mijfht have speculated extensively, but there is nothing to show that he did. One thing we do know: he lived exceedingly high. With but himself and wife hie pur­ chased a large and handsome property in a fashionable quarter of Hyde Park, and sub­ sequently bought the adjoining grounds. Iht! house was magnificently iurnished, the stables torn down and others rebuilt, stone sidewalks laid and horses and carriages added to the establishment, which, at the very lowest, must have cost him $30,000 a year to maintain. "Mis manner of raising the money to sup­ ply his domestic tastes »nd needs is iuter- "s.ing. He started in by borrowing about •35,000 from George M. Bogue, giving a first mortgage on his home as security. He then borrowed about $22,000 from Lyman J. Gage, of the lirst National Bank, to whom he gave a second moi rgag®. He then, it is claimed, induced Mr. Gage as a personal favor not to put the second mortgage on record. West gave as a reason for the re­ quest a desire to keep his credit intaet. He then, it is said, borrowed & similar amount from Mr. John H. Irwin, of Keokuk, a big stockholder of the paper, giving him a third mortgace, but intimating that it was a second hen. That also was for a time kept off the records. When it is known that Irwin is the one who has befriended West from the beginning, and to whom he owes his position, the honor of the bor­ rower is rendered very conspicuous." "How did Mr. West get control of the Times?" "The same way he got control of the Mail --infinite assurance, immense daring, and a suave address. By thoso qualities he got into the Mail management, and then an­ nounced himself ready to assume all the obligations of the paper. Well, he assumed them, but that's nil the good it did the cred­ itors. Tbo Mail was a trifle small for his restless ambition and his eye lit on the broad Held offered by the Times. His as­ surance, daring and address enabled him v THE American girls who marry lords p. , 4 lure commonly supposed to owe their t-j conquests to coin. Miss Caroline Fitz ' gerald, of New York, who is engaged to Lord Edward Fitzmaurice, has other '* ' claims to distinction. She is a classical |. scholar and a linguist, a student of San- :, akirt, a member of the Oriental Society, I ' and a poetess besides. Add to all this ( that she is only twenty-one and an heiress in her own right, and it is no pi i wonder that the yotmger brother of the p;, /, "Viceroy of India succumbed. A Br comparing modern skulls with IJ those of the same race in an old monas- •: tery in the Kedron valley. Dr. Dight, of the American College\>f Beirut, Syria, ,.. has shown that thirteen centuries hare • added two inches to the circumference ) and three and a half cubic inches to the Capacity of the Caucasian skull. The brain has developed in the parts presid­ io jfig over the moral and intellectual functions, growing higher and longer, ^ without increase of the lower portions, ' : *'hich give breadth to the head and in ( %hich the selfish propensities are een- f: tered. - It * MRS. ELIZABETH THE Puke of Portland, while he was merely Mr. Bentinck, incurred some debts of honor which he desired to pay. He went to a money-lender, but the Jew at first was not inclined to let him have the money on easy terms. "The Duke of Portland may live twenty years; you may die in the meantime," said the Hebrew. Mr. Bentinck could not deny this, and was ready to give liberal in­ terest. "I will tell you what I will do," said the Jew; "you will give me your word that when you become Duke of Portland you will pay me £10,000, and I will give you £1,000 now." The Duke closed with the offer, and a few weeks after the Duke of Portland died, the. new Duke remembered his bargain. He instructed his agent to pay £10,000 in spite of the remonstrances of his lawyer, who insisted that a promise so extravagant was not binding. (W/.: CADY STANTON re- •ftins a wonderful amount of vitality %fter a long life of activity as the lead­ ing champion of female suffrage in the TJnited States. Mrs. Stanton is in the •eventy-fourth year of her age, and it f;jfip just about half a century since she first became an advocate ot "woman's lights." She and Miss Suaan B. An. fhony have, worked together for the greater part of that time.Up to this period of life she keeps the countenance mat has become familiar to millions of . $eople all over the country; but she is ;j§ot now to be seen on the platform aa 40 former years. . CONCERNING the use of tobacco a French writer has thus gathered the . oipiuions of various of his literary coun- l Irymen. M. Dumas found that tobacco alter a while made giddy, the gid- ^roess disappearing six months after ceased smoking. Of it he says: •Tobacco, in my opinion, together with /• • alcohol, is the most formidable enemy of intelligence." Augier and Feuillet, Dumas declares, have almost died of «noking. Taine smokes cigarettes and aays it is a bad habit. Zola 'says he left off smoking some years ago on the advice of a physician, and adds: "Per­ fection is so dull a thing that I often re­ gret having cured myself of smoking." HERE is an illustration of the wonder- "f .̂'fcl intelligence of some dogs: The tog's owner and be were in the reading- , Prince Oeerge and the Yaekiet When the Queen is at Windsor visit­ ors are permitted to visit certain por­ tions of Buckingham Palace, but Marl­ borough House, the home of the Prince of Wales, is never opened to the pub­ lic, and both places are so carefully guarded that one is not often paid for loitering about. One young and ven­ turesome American from Connecticut was standing in front of Buckingham Palace on the evening of the recent state concert. He walked to within a few yards of the palace gate, and there met a sinewy young fellow with bright eyes' broad shoulders, and a keen air, who was swinging along leisurely, cane in hand. His cutaway coat was thrown open, his shoes were dust-covered, and he had the general appearance of a healthy man who had walked a dozen miles. "Queen lives here?" said the Ameri­ can, as the pedestrian slowed up. "Yes," was the reply. By this time the pair had reached the gate. The red-coated foot guard sa­ luted the tall young man as he opened the small gate. "Goin' in?" said the American. •Yes," was the reply, and the Yankee kept pace with him until one of the side doors of the palace was TffB.rhH " Know anybody here ?" "Yes." "Who'd yon know?" "The Queen." "O, rats! S'pose next yoall tell me she's your mother.7 "She's my grandmother M4 I nm Prince George of Wales!" Here a half dozen flunkies appeared, and after much bowing and spine curv­ ing the tall young man was ushered in and the Yankee was informed that only holders of tickets to the state concert were admitted to the palace that night. "Come on the next visiting day," said the prince, and turning to one of the flunkies he said: "Be sure and give the gentleman every facility when he calls again. The Americans are curious in more ways than one." It transpired later that.the soldiers at the gate supposed the American was one of the Prince's companions, and so allowed him to pass, and the American tell the story as a good joke 6n himself. --London letter. , Rtick Island....Port Byron btpt. 4 Saline Harnsburs. Bei;t. 3 Sangamon Springfield... Sept. 10- Schuyler Bushville....... Aug. 19-! Shelby Shelbyville Sept. 17-! Stark Toulon..... ...Sept. 10- Stark Wyoming.... i flfpt. 17- xazoweil MacKinaMr. Aug. 27-30 Tazewell Delavan 8ept. Union JonesbonK. Sept. 10- Venniilion. Bauvii!<-. ;. .gopt. : Vermillion, Catlin ......' .Sept. 10- Wabash Mt. Carmel. Sept. 3 Warren Monmouth. S«M>t. 1C-] White Carnil .v. .Sept. 3- Whiteside Moriisou Sept. 3 < Williamson Marion Sept. 24-27 Wiiiiifbauo Rocklord.. ...1... feept. 2-6 Woodford El Paso Sept. 9-13 Randolph. Chester Oct. 22-25 --According to the Springfield cor respondent of the Chicago Tribune, the grossest carelessness has been shown in the printing of the laws of the last Legis lature, the mistakes being so nnmerous as to render the compilation useless A carcful revision of the official edition of the laws tts published under the authority of the Secretary of Stale shows such a vast number of mis lakes that the volume is rendered almost totally useless, and an attempt to enforce tha laws as they now appear therein would impose an unwarranted hardship upon the people of the State and would probably create an unlim­ ited amount of litigation, which could only be settled by the Supreme Court after a tedious fight of years. It seems that the trouble is en­ tirely chargeable to the State Printer expert, Don K. Fiazier, or his assistants in carelessly reading the proofs ot the volume for the Public Printer. In a great many of the acts impor tant and material sentences of four to six •words are omitted, leaving the sec tionB com­ paratively meaningless, and in others the omis sion of a word conveys a meauiug entirely op posite that intended by the Legislature, while Several of the titles are incomplete because of the omiBsion of sections therein, which would render the entire act unconstitutional should occasion arise to have a court pass upon that, point unless the error could be shown by access to the original act. In connection with these mistakes a vast number of typographical mis­ takes are apparent, and while these are not so Important the volume as it standi! in practically worthless, as there are onlytwenty-flveor thirty of the acts out of the 159 that do not contain some serious error. WE sometimes say "Out of sight oat of mind," but we do not necessarily im- ply that a blind man is ipsjtne. --One of the rackets that the genteel and impecunious Chicagoan plays to get a "square meal" for live cents is thus de­ scribed by a local print: A fine-looking man, with a long, Kray beard and curling white hair, and nea ly, though cheaply, dressed, took a seat next to a reporter for the Herald in a fairly good down-town restaurant. "Waiter," he said, "bring me a cup of coffee." His coffee was brought., and the waiter placed on the table a check for five cents. Then the man helped himself to a plate of bread and rollB, which seemingly belonged to nobody, took a generous allowance of butter, and pitched in. He ate, by actual count, four slices of bread and nine rolls, drank his coffee, paid his nickAl at the cashier's desk, grabbed a handful of toothpicks and another °! .patches, and sauntered leisurely out of the door. He had made a square meal. "Do you have many such customers was asked of the cashier. "Oh, yes," he replied, "lots of them. Jfivery day. They don't always work it the same *ay. Sometimes they order coffee li^e this one, and then again they have a plate ot soup. They ljr°au and butter they can carry, with a dozen or so of cucumber pickles and some jelly, and this lasts them until the next night. WnatclasB are they? Well, they mostly seem to be good people, who are down on their luck. The 'bums' don't work the racket, be­ cause they know we'd throw them out. The genteel appearance of these fellows protects tnem. And then we don't like to have a scene. It hurts our reputation.!"- --Galena has a "Jack the Grabbe*" who rashes out in the dark and hugs ladies he encounters. --Another Chioigo building loan association---the Britjsh-American--has collapsed. ~ ° --The Pullman Palace Car Company has filed a bill in the United States Cir cuit Court at Chicago against the Wagner Palace Car Company and its President, W. S. Webb, and the Michigan Central Bailroad Company. The bill is for in­ fringement of George M. Pullman's pat­ ent of May 14, 1889, No. 403137, for a solid vestibule Connection between rail­ road cars. -- By the explosion of a boiler in a Chi­ cago lumber mill three men were instant­ ly killed and several severely injured. --The State Auditor has been served with a writ of injunction issued by the Circuit Court of Gallatin County re­ straining him from making further levies to pay interest on $25,000 of registered bonds of the city of Shawneetown issued in aid of the St. Louis and Southeastern Bailroad Company Jan. 1, 1872. --"Midsummer dullness desoribes the present condition of the Chicago horse market," says the Herald, "yet there is a much better demand for good animals than there was a year ago at thiB time. Then is a good demand foraarriage of a showy character." to form the syndicate and to impress upon the members his ability to assume all obli­ gations. And as he professed to have $180,000 in available securities his talk was swallowed. In reality he didn't have 180,000 cents. "His first movo after gsttlng possession was to displace Storey's name from the head of the editorial column and put his own there instead. He had no more right than you have to do it. but he did it with­ out consulting any one. After the substi­ tution was made, however, more harm than" good would have followed its displacement, so it was allowed to re main. This promi­ nence gave him great influence, and finan­ cial men, naturally believing him to be the main owner of the pMper. l atened to him with favorable ears. The stock lie owned w»vs represented by the Mail, which he turned over to the Times Company." --Five-day notices are being served on the Spring Valley minets, and about one hundred and fifty families will be forced to vacate their homes, as they are unable to pay rent, and having no money to pay railroad fare, they may resist eviction. --Peoria sports are disconsolate. A heavy rain storm last week flooded and destroyed the race track, while a wind­ storm unroofed the grand-stand and de­ molished the base-ball club house. --The bungling work of experts in the getting out of the published editions of the laws make many aots of the last Illi­ nois Legislature inoperative. --J. P. Sussmilch and wife, aa aged couple of Bockford, drowned themselves because each feared the other might die, and the survivor be left alone. --The Trustees of Montioello Seminary, at Godfrey, have let the contract for the oarpenter work of the new building to E. F. Gelhlan of Springfield for $65,083. --James W. Sykes, a Chicago grain merchant and warehouseman, goes to the penitentiary for two years for issuing fraudulent warehouse reoeipts. Chicago has sent fifty tons of provis­ ion* to suffering miners at Braid wood, Braceville, and Coal City. --The State Commissioners of Chari­ ties, at their quarterly meeting in Spring­ field, elected Bev. Charles G. Trusdell, of Chicago. President of the Board for the ensuing two years. Mr. Wines was re-elected Secretary for the same period. Madison County,formerly in the Anna dis­ trict,is transferred to the Jacksonville dis- ••w He SnfefoiHleil a *an ia TronW© and WLWT Can* of it. , Christopher L. MaGee, the well- oi th J paper, eam« I known Republican leader in Pittsburgh "*• """ and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is in the city and will start for a four or five months' trip to Europe in a few days. The late Simon Cameron was fond of Mr. Magee, and the latter often visited him at Harrisburg. A Mail and Express reporter heard Mr. Magee relate some incidents in the life of the ex-Secretary of War that point a strong moral. *Qne of them was as follows: "Whenthe Ex-Senator was a banker years ago there came a very severe winter. Rivers were frozen up and lumbermen who depended upon rafting their timber were tied up by the ice. A man from Bradford County had started to market with lumber, and had got as far as Middletown with it. He could not sell his lumber for anything like he expected, and he was literally tied up. All of his calculations for the future were upset. He had bought land in Bradfoad Countv, and the sales of the lumber was to make the first payments. Ruin stared him in the face. Every day he would wan­ der down to the river and look at his raft in silent dejection. One day Simon Cameron happened long, got into con­ versation with the man and heard his story. It impressed him, as well as the sincerity of the man. "Don't be down- : maybe we can arrange it so you can make your payments promptly," cheerily spoke Mr. Cameron. The stranger did not know him, and replied that he had tried every way to meet his first payments. Nobody would advance him money on his timber, and altogether the outlook was gloomy. " 'Well, I'll trust you,'said the ex- Senator, and invited hinj to go to his bank, where he gave him the money. The man was astonished and gratified, and finally said: 'Mr. Cameron, I have no security to give you.' 'Oh, that does not matter; your' timber maybe worth something alter awhile, mavbe,' was the reply. The man returned to Bradford, paid his debts, and prospered. Some years afterward the citizens of Bradford county met in convention and among other things had to indorse a candidate for the United States Sena- torship. The county was strongly anti- Cameron, and had been for a long time. A set of resolutions were offered in the convention, declaring against Cam­ eron and instructed the delegates when chosen to vote against him first, last, and all the time. The resolutions were about to be put and carried unani­ mously, when a fine-looking man, evi­ dently a man of means and importance, arose. He said that he knew the con­ vention was in favor of the resolutions and that doubtless they would be car­ ried without any opposition, but that he felt it his duty to protest against the adoption of the resolution. The con­ vention was hushed with astonishment to hear that one man could be found in Bradford County to support Si­ mon Cameron for the Senate. In a simple, unaffected way the protestor related the story of the man whom Cameron befriended in time of need, and closed by saying that he was the man. One delegate g >t up and said: 'Why don't you offer a substitute amendment inserting the name of Simon Cameron to be voted for instead of against?' The substitute amend­ ment was offered and the entire conven­ tion voted for it. From that time Bradford County has been strong for Cameron." To illustrate the affection that the ex-Senator had for his son, Senator Don Cameron. Mr. Magee said the old gentleman a year or so ago fell and hurt himself so that he was confined to bed for several days. He wished the fact of his being hurt kept a secret from his son, because the latter, who was then in Washington, had had some kind of an operation performed, and he thought the news might retard his recovery.-- New York Mail and Express. peculiar as it fi I tree-glonrth.' The yew j stem almost enoirplea one of these bfanohes, and. is completely amalgama­ ted with it, "the barks being level and as if inarched it Hie point of junction." Such a twin growth would be remark­ able in any trees of different species, but is doubly striking when one is a de­ ciduous and the other a coniferous tree, and we can well understand that "when viewed from the public path, which is only eleven yards distant, these com­ bined trees present a most curious and unusual appearance, particularlv when the oak is destitute of leaves, as" the co- mingled, deciduous and evergreeft branches are then most noticeable -- Garden and Forest. The Decline of the Pistol. ' ' There are no first-class pistol Ishote in Louisville, says the Post; there are few east of the Mississippi; indeed, they are not plentiful anywhere in the country nowadays. In ante-bellum days, when the code duello was m vogue in the South, there were a great many famous shots with the pistol. We often read how such and such a celebrated duelist cut strings and weeds in two with bullets as he rode to the fighting ground. But when the code was abolished good revolver shoot­ ing in the South died out with it, or rather drifted out into the wild western country, which was then being opened up to settlement. There never were finer pistol shots in the world than many of the noted desperadoes and criminals who have figured in the ro­ mantic criminal annals of the West. There is scarcely a story about Wild Billrs proficiency with his pistol that is not trite. He was the quickest, surest shot ever in the West. He had killed nearly forty men in his time, "not count­ ing Indians and greasers," as the bad men used pleasantly to say. It was the rarest thing that he shot his viotim more than once. His favorite spot in which to plant his deadly bullet was between the eyes. He occasionally shot his man through the heart by way of variation. It is said that he could throw an oyster can into the air and put twelve bullets into it from his own navies before it reached the ground. He could also send six bullets through the hole made by the first ball in a target seventy yards away. While shooting he never ap­ peared to take aim, but sent his laden messengers flying on their mission in seemingly the most careless and off- hand way imaginable. All the killers with big records and private graveyards shot in much the same manner. Billy the Kid, Clay Allison, Bat Masterson, Sam Holliday, the Earp brothers, "Com*, anche" Jack Stillwell and other worth­ ies of the frontier all shot with no apparent aim. All of them were pro­ fessional killers, and in their later days, when abundance of practice had made them dexterous in the art of murder, most of them shot their victims always between the eyes in imitation of Wild Bill. To show how quick these men were. Capt. Harry Horn, of the Okla­ homa show, tells a story of Wild Bill. Capt. Hom was a deputy sheriff -under Bill, and was in the saloon in Deadwood with him when he was killed. Bill was playing poker, and was skinning out a hand when his murderer stepped behind him, deliberately put a revolver back of his head and blew his brains out. Bill was killed almost instantly, but before he toppled from his chair dead he man­ aged to throw his cards down, get botb his pistols out and oock them. Such marvelous, quick action almost passes belief. ho "foj orwho ooniralt the , fashion periodicals poured ott | press every month and everj yi any idea of the extreme sis the patterns of female attire were in vogue fifty and even forty I ago. It is sufficient to say thl bodice and the skirt of the dress generally in one piece; that the i fastened by hooks and eyes bell that the skirts were never and that their .sole ornamei nothing but flounces. The only practical way in which * lady could show that she was in fell dress was to show a low-necked dimr and to bare her arms. Moreover bodices were, when made low, univexa- ally cut horizontally instead of oti * bias, and the female novelists of tk» last generation foiEuil unfailing material- - . of fun in depicting the tormcatft «|f 'H growing girls at evening parties in endeavors to prevent their low-n« frocks from slipping off their -1---lifaff When a lady went to court she glotf^ $ " herself with a train, a tall "panache* *# Si plumes, and as many diamonds as for- tune had favored her with; otherwise 1^ the cut of her gown did not materially differ from that of the school-girl's low- % necked muslin frock.--ionrfon Stan- ^ dard. .. gg Henry Ward Beedier In Team. ; ^ The interesting fact is just disclosed ^ that of all the stories which Henry i | J' Beecher read during his lifetime, ; »r. Thomas iSelson Page's beautiful. tale of Marse Chan" was his specMj^ favorite. The story was first brought > to Mr. Beecher's attention from a tea#- i ing of it by a rich Southern lady, who ;:f% subsequently moved to London. When T the great preacher was on his laSt visit ^ to London he made it a special request I that the reading should be repeated to ^ 1 him by the same lady; and he had ® actually, amid all his engagements, not ^ forgotton to bring over a copy of "Marse ?| Chun, so that he might not be disap- Wl; pointed. An evening was fixed at l>r. 1 Joseph Parker's house, at which Mr. f | Beecher stayed during his visit to Lon­ don. The scene which followed the Ij reading was one never to be forgotten by those present. Mr. Beecher had be­ gun by the statement that he intended to have "a good cry," and before the story was half through he had realized the expectation, for great tears were falling down the Plymouth pastor*# cheeks, and every lady in the room, in­ cluding the reader, was sobbing alottd. --Washington Press. -.^K-• '« \ L. . Jast toe Late. ^Doctor, just an instant; pleig^*' claimed a caller at the office of a man of physic as he caught sight of the phy­ sician disappearing into his private of­ fice. 'Ill see you shortly, air* was the curt reply. 'But a seoond is ali i want," pemsted the caller. Til see you directly, air* with stern- ms An Innoeeut Thief. In 1865, when the telegraph was com­ paratively a new thing ?n Southern California, the operator of the Los An­ geles circuit found their communication suddenly cut off. Linemen were sent out to discover the break and effect re­ pairs, but they returned with the sur­ prising intelligence that the break was a serious one and called for a lot of sup­ plies. About a mile of wire and poles had disappeared as completely as if the earth had opened and swallowed them up. Further search showed no trace qf . - . fry... r. i n the missing materials, and at considera-trict. The counties of Clark, Coles, Craw-|ble expen.^ new ones were turnished ford, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Ef­ fingham, Jasper, Moultrie, and Shelby, formerly in the Anna district, are trans­ ferred to the Kankakee district. The counties of Bureau, DeWitt, Macon, Marshall, McLean, Putnam, and Wood­ ford, formerly in the Jacksonville dis­ trict. are transferred to the Kankakee district. The counties of Henry and Bock Island, formerly in the Jacksonville dis­ trict, are transferred to the Elgin district. The county of LaSalle, formerly in the Elgin district, is transferred tq the Kan­ kakee. The insane of Cook County will hereafter be sent to Kankakee. The Board fixed the quotas of the counties at the rate of twelve patients to every 10,000 of the population. They assigned to the counties 3,690 beds, of which Elgin has 619; Kankakee, 1,606; Jacksonville, 921; and Anna, 642. --A Chicago* paper reports that the Wagner Car Works are to be located near that city, with a view to establish a model city, something after the fashion of Pull-, man. . --There is an unusually bountiful sup­ ply of fruit in Chicago, and the prices are very reasonable. Fruit of all kinds comes bowling into Chicago in train- loads every day, from every dixeotion'and from all distances. aithe line was reconstructed. Then a detective was employed to in­ vestigate the mystery. The country was nothing but a desert, and the de­ tective worked for three weeks without success. At the end of that time, how­ ever, he stumbled upon a small ranch, at which he put up for the night. He found the ground enclosed with a neat wire fence, and in the morning taxed the ranchman with having stolen the telegraph. The man admitted the fact at once. "Oh, yes," he said, "I've been living here nigh onto three year, and have watched that old telegraph wire all that time. I never see nothing go over it, and reckoned it wasn't used." There seemed no reason to question the man's sincerity, and the detective contented himself with giving him a lecture on the invisibility of the electric current. The case was reported to headquarters, of course, but no prosecu­ tion followed.--Francisco Exam iner. A Carious I>enble Tree. The park of Hoiwood House, which lies about fourteen miles from London, on the road to Uckfield, and was for­ merly the home of William Pitt, is famous for its magnificent trees of many kinda But there can be none among them more interesting than a double tree recently described in the Garden. . „ . . ... It is formed of an oak and a vew which A Chicago shoe dealer sells shoes f wcve originally planted close to one another, and the young stems of which made of human skin, which is the most durable of any leather. It never cracks, stretches well, is comfortable to the foot, and will wear for years. The skins are obtained from students in the colleges of Chicago. In the United States Court at Spring­ field, William Wiggins, of Jefferson County, was fined $200 for charging an illegal fee for securing a pension. --W hen Chicago was a precinct of Pe­ oria County, in 1825, its undefined area must have been considerably greater than that of the new Chicago of 1889, as shown in the map, but its valuation by the Assessor of Peoria County that year was scarcely more than $4,000, Mid its poll list had but thirty-five names. --At Bockford Dr. Lorin S. Allan Mid wife celebrated the 69th anniversary of their wedding. ; . ' I I were, perhaps, bound together. A ! "natural gralt" was thus produced; the : two trunks united and, though a clear line marks the junction of their differ- I ent barks, there is now but a single j trunk of perfectly normal outline, which j at three feet above the ground girths i nearly twelve feet. The height of the ! oak portion is thirty-five feet, and its branches spread thirty-four feet, while [ the yew portion is fifteen feet in height, < with a spread of thirty-six feet. Up to ! about five feet from the ground, where the oak sends out two great branches, the yew seems to absorb nearly one- third of the diameter of the trunk, al- , though it is impossible, of course, to , tell how far inward its wood extends. I Each of the main branches of the oak girths more than four and one-half feet, and "as they grow in opposite directions • * and in bow-shape have an, Looking Over the Footlights* Francis Wilson was asked the other day whether he could distinguish many faces in the main body of the theater while he was playing his part. "Yes," he replied. "I can generally find my friends, if there happen to be any in the house. I have fallen into the habit of watching the front of the house very closely for familiar faces, and after my first scene is over I usually know where they are sittiug. I used to think it eminently proper to try and not ob­ serve faces in the house, but experience has taught me that a comedian playing the kind of characters I am acting should keep a very close watch on the countenances of the people he is trying to amuse. I have often singled out some very sober-looking old fellow in the audience for comedy practice and tried in various ways to excite a smile from him. It may be a long time coming, yet some little trick may tickle his fancy, and once the laugh does come he is sure to follow it up with others, often excited by trivial things which never could have provoked that first chuokle had they preceded the joke that caught him. I don't feel embarrassed when I see the faces of intimate friends before me, although they are often more diffi­ cult to amuse thau strangers, probably "because one's methods are more familiar to them. 4 "I remember once when I was play­ ing in St. Louis in 'Nadjy' I saw an old fellow asleep in the third row of the orchestra. Oh, how he was enjoying that snooze! I walked as close to the footlights as possible, and turning to whoever'was on the stage with me, yelled out my line in a shrill treble voice which might have cracked the tympanun of his ear. It accomplished my purpose nicely, for he jumped as if he had sat upon an upturned pin, and kept awake for the rest of the evening. We see some very amusing things hi the front of a house." The French Realistic School. The great Balzac was the real pioneer of the French realistic school. Onstave Flaubert led the way and made the in­ tense realistic novel a possibility. He was the dawn of an era whose fullest and ultra development is Emile Zola. Balzac is the immortal mind, Flaubert and Zola the mediocre talent Flaubert is Zola in a purer, more decent (less in­ decent, some may say) degree. He pauses before he has reached the abso­ lute end, while Zola plunges onward to the filthy climax, dirt, beastiality and all--poor, weak, contemptible human nature in its worst moods. There is in Flaubert an undercurrent which draws upon the imagination to the fullest extent. This is well ex­ emplified in his "Salambo," which was j the result of a visit in 1858 to the classic ' ruins of Carthage, and which as" an ; historical production, is with the excep- The visitor took a seat In the general reception-room, read the afternoon pa­ per through, looked at the pictorea, played with the dog and took a n After thirty minutes or more had r the medicine-m'an came out of hia and with an air of condescension aaidlp the visitor: "Now, my man, I am at your aerrie* lour turn has oome. What can I do for you?" "Oh, nothing in particular," waa the reply. "I just dropped in to tell yon that your neighlmr's three cows have escaped from the barn and are having a picnic in your garden and flower-bed*.^ v--: --Peck's Sim. How te Manage a Van. A man never stoops to the means em­ ployed by women; he is broader, more ^ liberal, he applies himself to the things which belong to the day, the hour and the object for which we live. Whoever heard of a man losing his temper be­ cause his suit would not match his com- , plexion, or fume because six-button gloves had been sent when he had or­ dered seven? What man would faint s' on Broadway because the clasp that held his hosiery gave way and wriggled OH the sidewalk? None! Yet I saw happen to a woman to-day. Yet men are very much like children. Humor them, and they will do yoar bidding. Make them believe they ana always having their own way; don't let them see the silken net you nave woven about them, and they will blandly obey your will; but once let them believe they are captive, and no puny woman's power will avail against their superior strength.--AfarieJansen, tnNew York World. The Position of Etiqaette. The Samoans sleep on cocoa mafav with a bundle of bamboo sticks asa pa- iow. The mats are hung about the beams of the hut during the day. la rainy or windy weather cocoa-mat cur­ tains are let down around the sides of the hut, which in shape is something like a large field tent, but made of a thatched roof, supported by bamboo sticks; no flooring save the spreading out of mats as occasion may require. The jiosition of etiquette in the house it a squatting one, legs drawn underr-eath. This is a national one, considering no chairs are used, but it is expected of the white visitor. Fashion is as strong an autocrat in the South seas aa in Paris, and when you are in Samoa, yo« must do as Samoans do. They are cleanly of their bodies, washing oftaK and using soap, if they have it, ofteaar a bark similar to our soap-bark. A Queer Spanish Funeral. Pne of the mast striking recently seen in Madrid was tl of the mother of the celebrated bnll fighter Frascuelo. It appears that aha was a timid woman, and lived in con­ stant alarm during his encounters. H--• death took place during his last fight, when he killed six bulls. cuelo showed his love for his mother I giving her a princely burial, which fSt The coffin, which was in lead and gold, was carried from the house to theheana bv six banderilleros, and was drawn by eight horses to the churchyard, accom­ panied by over 160 carriages. Without any want of sympathy for the son's grief one cannot help reflecting that aa tio7of"a few dateT very "accurate.- j espada who buries his telativee in thla Alexander X De Menil in St. Louis j ?&le m.u?t ***» makin*a Magazine. thing of it. jmr On a Grave Subject* Jonea--How much did you aty bill was, Mr. Sereweuidown ? | Undertaker -Itjs $200. | "It's lucky for you that you were not ( out in Pennsylvania after the flood." • "How so?" j "Because they hung people out there | for robbing the dead." f WHEX a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to me like balaao* ing a bubble agaia.it a wedge of gold. • Capital Punishment. Teacher, describing experieneaa ai the day to a friend: "In order to punish Johnny Hanson I caused him to sit beside Miss Fresh, the prettiest girl in the school," ~ Friend--And how did it work?" Teacher--Judge for yourself. girl did not seem a whit discou and smiled so sweetly upon Johnny he lost his head completely, -til Friend--Why, that was capital fN0p* k'?meut.--Phibxdelpkia Prtis.