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•4 > ^ i HjkpeMg fClamdicalcr ^ i, VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publish*. IcHXNRY, ILLINOIS. X * CHINA'S solitary railroad is eighty-one Utiles long, and coat $9,000 a mile. It American locomotives. • EIGHTEEN newspapers have been ilarted at San Diego, Cal., in the past three years, and all hare gone into the graveyard. \ - A LEARNED man has said that the Jiardest words to pronounce in the Bnglish language are "I made a mis­ take." When Frederick the Great ^Krrote to the Senate, MI have just lost a battle and it's my own fault," Goldsmith tt^id: "Bis confession shows more great- fpess than his victories." - Ax effort is being made to have plants registered, so as to a^oid confu- •$ion in names, and to give origiuators iM new varieties sole rights fgr a limited itfme to Bell the variety they register. tA circular upon this question has been <aent forth by the. California State J3oard of Horticulture. A MAN down East, a selectman of his town, by the way, bought a pound of nails which were wrapped up in a piece of brown paper, and placed them in a bright new tin pan which he left on the «eat of his wagon for a short time in the sun. When he came out of the store again he found his bundle of nails in flames, the rays of the sun having set the paper on fire. MB. MONCURE D. CONWAY, who is at work on a life of Hawthorne, says that Hawthorne originally heard the story of Evangeline related by an Arcadian <exile, and intended •to weave it into a romance. But he incautiously told the substance of it to one Conolly, who im­ parted it to Longfellow, with the inti­ mation that the material had come from Hawthorne as a gift. WARNING against undue physical ex­ ertion by those not accustomed to it is contained iu a remark of the Chief JSurgeon of the National Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Ohio. This physi­ cian said that of the 5,000 soldiers in . the Dayton Home "fully 80 per cent are suff ering from heart disease in some form or another, due to the forced phy­ sical exertion of their campaigns." Hoaug Ho and almost parallel with it. Dams are also to be built to hold back part of the water* at flood, and the stone walls will be rebuilt aloLg the banks to confine the stream. The in­ genuity of man has not yet devised ef­ fective protection against this most troublesome of rivers, and when the remedy is found it will probably cost a colossal sum of money to apply it. The Governor of Shantung reports that he needs in his province alone at least $5,- 000,000 to prevent the recurrence of the flOOdS. AN interesting operation1 of flesh grafting, which was one of the discov­ eries of M. Paul Bert, has just been performed at the great gun works in Paris by a surgeon named Dubousquet- Labordiere. A workman had his foot badly burned by molten iron, destroy­ ing the skin over a surface of about eight inches by four. The surgeon took four strips of flesh from the thigh of a young man and as many from dif­ ferent frogs, transferring them to the wounded man's foot. By great care the wound healed in eleven days. The cicatrace obtained from the frog's skin was soft, elastic and inodorous; that from the human flesh was much harder, producing irritation at many points. The result of the operation is of great importance, showing the superiority of frog skin and flesh for serious wound' where both skin and flesh have been torn or burned away. THE CALAMITY IDEA. NOT SO PREVALENT AS CROAK­ ERS WOULD HAVE US THINK. will be, but they are actively making Democrats at present Iowa takes % drink. The State has a dram in its head. The better judgment must be ap­ pealed to.--Iowa State Be jitter. 9AVINC MONEY ON $S A WEEK. ON THE counsel who defended the Rus­ sian nihilists recently sentenced in France, said: "People may call them madmen. Yes, perhaps they are; but it is fortunate for us that there were formerly similar madmen in France, for to such madmen we owe the liberty and justice that we enjoy in 1890. The present madmen dream of procuring the same blessings for their country." A LUMBERMAN of Gilmer County, W. Ya., recently sold a walnut log to an Eastern man. Before shipping it he stripped the tree of its bark and laid it aside. A few days later he cut down an oak tree of the same dimensions as the walnut and deftly tacked on the bark he had concealed. This tree he aold to a Cincinnati man for $106, who promptly detected the fraud. The lumberman will be prosecuted. IT is said that some years after Daniel Webster had reached his zenith he went early in the morning over his Marsh- field home and saw an old woman pick­ ing cranberries. "What are you about?" asked the great jurist. "Don't you know it's against the law to do what you are doing?" She turned round upon him, and, fixing her feeble old eyes upon him, said, Man makes laws, but I don't mind 'em; I pick cranberries wherever I find 'em. ILL-USED editors are asserting their wrongs. A goodly number of the hard-worked and misunderstood frater­ nity have mutyally agreed to return unread all manuscript contributions which are submitted to tliem in a roll. Some of the cyndicate refused even to return them, and announced an unalter­ able determination to deposit all such packages in the wastepaper basket un­ opened. We are of opinion that these strong measures are fully warranted. Let contributors take warning. DR. TALMAGE says thei's is not one man or woman in ten thousand who can afford to do Without seven or eight hours' sleep. All these stories written about great men and women #lio slept only three or four hours a night make very interesting reading;but I tell you, my readers, no man or woman ever yet kept healthy in body and mind for a number of years with less than seven hours' sleep. Americans need more sleep than they are getting. This lack makes them so nervous and the insane asylums so populous. If- you can get to bed early, then rise early. If you cannot get to bed till late, then rise late. It may be as Christian for one man to rise at eight as it is for another to rise a4 five. I eounsel my readers to get up when they are rested. But let the rousing bell be rung at least thirty minutes before your public appearance. •Physicians say that a sudden jump out. of bed gives irregular motion to the pulse. It takes hours to get over a too sudden risinp. Give us time, after you call us, to roll over, gaze the world full in the face, and look before we leap. PROBABLY the most extraordinary surgical operation on record is reported from Paris. Dr. Lannelongue, an eminent specialist in the children's hos­ pital, has just succeeded iu the effort to gave intelligence to a poor little idiot. The child, a little ^irl 4 years old, had a deformed head, only about one-tliird the size of an ordinary little one of her age. She never smiled, never tcok notice of anything and she could neither walk nor stand. The Doctor became convinced that the condition of the little creature was due to the abnormal narrowness of the head, which hindered the natural growth of the brain. About the middle of May last he made a long and harrow incision in the left skull and cut a portion out of the left side of it, without injuring the dura mater. The result of this operation was something astounding. In less than a month the child began to walk. Now she smiles, interests herself in everything around her and plays with a doll. A tolerably bright little child has taken the place of the idiot. One of the first things which strikes an East*»n man who goes out on the Pacific slope as queer is the use of the word "rustler." The word has exactly the same signification there as the word •hustler" does here, and is invariably used by the Californians iu place of the latter \^ord. No one has yet explained the reason of the change in the initial letter. Another expression peculiar to Californians is, "He's a bird," corre­ sponding to the Eastern expression, "He's a daisy," and implying that the gentlemeu referred to has great faculties or powers in some one particular. SOMETHING decidedly original in the mortuary line is put on record by a Boston paper. After a long absence a man returned from the West, and de­ cided to visit his mother's grave in a cemetery near the metropolis of Massa­ chusetts. "I .couldn't find the lot," he said, in telling the story; "and when I got home I asked my sister about it, And who it was that had put up a big monument there, with the name 'Tbeo- dosia' on it. 'Why, that was the place,' said my sister. 'But who is Theodosia?' I asked. 'That is mother.' she said; 'I knew it wasn't her name, but it is a pretty one, and I thought she would like it. And, John, as I thought .mother looked lonesome in that big lot, I had a baby headstone set up near the -corner with "Jennie" cut on it. You •don't mind, do you ?'" CHINA IS spending this year about $5,000,000 in the effort to "regulate its iraywavd river, the Hoang Ho, which baa recently caused such terrible loss 9f life tnd property. A part of its waters are to be permanently diverted into the Tu-hai, • river north of. the Quick wit. Andrew Lang says of Americans that they are "almost too good company," and that their enlivening effect upon the "dejected Britons" with whom they are thrown, is often very startling. Eveu among our most animated cottn- trymeu, however, conversation is not made such a distinct art as it was with the English wits a century ago. Few people nowadays make them­ selves masters of repartee, and when a man doei practice turns and quips of speech, we are likely to listen to his utterances. One such professional talker was reproaching a young Jadv at a party, because, as he declared, she had promised to go out to supper with him rather than with the gentleman who was actually at her side. "Very well," Baid he, tragically, "I say no more now, but after supper Mr. A and I shall meet for mortal com­ bat." "Now you're silly," said the pouting beauty. "No, I'm not silly; I'm Scylla," was the quick reply. "And Mr. A is Charybdis. Take your choice!" On the same night, just as he was leaving the house, and preparing to step into his cab, another friend also emerged. "Hallo, J ," said the latter, "I didn't know you were round." "Yes," was the answer, "I'm round, and now I'm going to roll home." A Story of Goldsmith. Among the anecdotes told of Oliver Goldsmith while at college is one indi­ cative of the promut, but thoughtless and often whim&ical benevolence which, throughout his life, formed one of the most eccentric yet endearing points of his character. He was engaged to breakfast one day with a college chum* but failed to make his appearance. His friend repaired to his room, knocked at the door and was bidden to enter. To his surprise he found Goldsmith in his bed, immersed to his chin in feathers. A serio-comic story explained the circumstance. In the course of the preceding evening's stroll he had met with a woman with five children, who implored his charity. This was too much for the kind heart of Goldsmith. He was almost as poor as herself, it is true, and had no money in his pocket; but he brought her to the college gates, gave her the blankets from his bed to cover her little brood, and part of his clothes for her to sell and pu^-chase food; and, finding himself cold during the night, he cut open his bed and buried himsolf among the feathers. "PATIENCE strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, ex­ tinguishes envy, subdues pride; it bridles the tongue, restrains the hand, and tramples upon temptations. The Pr«»* of Tow* on the Agricultural Situation--Tho Fainer« Seem to Be Get­ ting Alonjc Nicely, anil Will Keep Out of the Poor HouiB lor a While Loiijfor. TFrom the Chicago Inter Oceaa.] AT.E FAKMKHS 1MPOVKUISUKIJ? We cqpy below the answers of a num­ ber of Io\va papers to the above question and similar testimony could doubtless be drawn from the press of other West­ ern States. It will be seen that the calamity" idea of the present agricul­ tural situation is not so prevalent as cer­ tain croakers would make us believe: Waterloo Rc\wrter: Within a few doors of each other on a certain block in this city live live farmers who have each earned a competence of this world's goods and retired from the farm to spend the rest of their days in taking the ~yoin- forts born of the fruits of their j. labor. On a corner in a neighboring block another farmer has purchased a nice lot and will shortly build a modern residence and also retire. This condition can not be equaled in this town by any other branch of business, and seems to be a pretty good answer to the croakers who have been bewailing the impoverished condition of the Western farmer. Farm­ ing, when rightly done, seems to pay pretty well in these parts. Indianola Herald: There is much said these days concerning the farmer. He is termed "the poor fanner." "the down­ trodden farmer," and various oth^r names, all of which is certainly very disgusting to the average intelligent, free American-born.farmer citizen. The Herald is not acguaihted wiih the condi­ tion of farmers in other parts of the State. They may be a lot of ignorant, downtrodden slaves, but we want to re­ sent with great vigor tho idea that any such condition of affairs exists among the farmers of Warren County. On the contrary, they as a class are the wealthi­ est, most independent of all others. They run the politics of the county, hold the offices, represent the county in tho Legislature, levy the taxes, and assess tho property. The two banks in Indian­ ola are owned, controlled, and managed by farmers. They are about the only set of gentlemen who, when they die and the debts are paid, have something to di­ vide among their children. Tho judges and clerks of court know this to be true Tho farmers of Warren County have to­ day deposited in tho banks of this city about $60,000, which is there for safe keeping. They do not get interest on it. Some of the farmers are scarce of money, and inanv of them are mortgaged, but as a classy they have plenty. The farm­ ers of Warren County disdain to bo called downtrodden. They are free men, and not slaves to any man or set of men. The Herald is of the opinion that the farmers of all Iowa are as independent and free a« those of this county. Grundy Center RepublU-an: There are a large number of farmers in this county who have retired from active business and are taking life easy. Many of them have moved to town, either bought or built nice residences, and are educating their children. In order to knock dema- gogism over the opprc:s:»d farmer in the head, it is only necessary to take a ride into tho country and one can notice prosperity on every hand among the farmers. Not ten days aa:o the writer was out in tho west part, of Paimero Township, and the only rickety houses and barns observable belonged to Iowa's Governor, Mr. liolse. The Governor is not a poor man by any moans, and wo suppose that if Gen. Weaver or some of his ilk were riding over this county with a stranger, these houses aud barns would bo pointed out to show how op­ pressed the poor farmer is, when, in fact, they belong to a gentleman who is plenty able to put up neat cottages and barns for all his renters. With tho Democracy It is anything to catch votes, no matter how they are secured. Cedar Rapids Time*: While we can­ not say the city is full of retired farmers, men who live at their ease iu a modest and sensible way, we can say there is a large number of them, more than any other cla>s of men in the city who have partially or entirely retired from the ac­ tive battles of life. And wo may add that not ajll the independent well-to-do farmers, farmers who do not owe a dollar and who have money at interest, who have good houses and barns, cattle and horses, and good comfortable carriages for their families, are in the city. There (ire scojes of them on their farms within but a short distance of the city, sitting .under their own vines and tig trees, spending the evening of thoir days in peaco and plenty. There have been more farmers, two to one, who com­ menced with but little or nothing since wc camo to Cedar Rapids and who have secured a competency than any other class of men in the city, or out of it. Atlantic Messenger: While the dema­ gogues are wailing over the oppressed condition of the farmer the farmer him­ self is building new residences, new barns, buying more stock, and laying by a balance in the bank. The best car­ riages seen on the streets of Atlanta are driven by farmers who a few years ago had nothing. Take it year in and year out there is no business man who does better on his investments, is so indepen­ dent and enjoys life morc#thau the farmer who really farms. If any one doubts that the good farmer has been prosperous let him count up the number in every Iowa county seat who have moved into town for the purpose of schooling their children and taking life easy. Atlantic is full of them, and so arc the others. PROTECTION, WAGES PRICES. A N D iSanator Jnattn S. Morrill, in the North Ameri­ can Review. ] Free trado does not even profess re- Foar Girla Who Hire Two Rooms and Lire M a Family. The question is asked over and over again, "How do girls who are employed in stores and shops at small salaries live? grandest sights I ever flaw, and I never expect to see its equal." -- Helena Journal. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS A Bruinm«r'i.KB»e. A drummer for a large wholesale clothing house in New York ha-t a trick which he says saves him a great deal of , money. He has to go around with re- It would be surprising to know the j tailera in small country towns a great number who manage to exist on $5a! deal jje fin(j9 that an ftm0unt of dis- wetk, and who have discoyeied the art i play and extravagance is necessary in based*wholly otf^the ^dea^o^suppljMng | ma,in8 8° ** far 543 would or- j order to convince them of the standing the demands of the eousumer at the low-| -La* w" and ffeneroua dealing of his house, est cost. How the armies which delve | have up money on aweeK. MU This u*ed to cost him a great deal of in mines and work in mills and factories are fed and housed, educated and paid, does not concern tho "dismal science" of free tradors--if only they can be cheaply paid. They start H tho race by chal­ lenging tlia competition of the lowest- paid laborers o2 all the world. That wages under froe trado, in such a race, can be equal to wages under protection is glaringly preposterous. Ono fresh illustration of the difference, however, may not be Inopportune. The late great wage-strike of tho Loudon dockmen was "made to ob'ain au Increase of one penny per hour--6d. (li cents) instead of 5d. (10 cents) j;er hour--and the increase of one penny per hour has been reckoned as a crowning victory. But the 'long­ shoremen, employed in the same kind of work on the docks of New York, are paid 30 cents an hour for day and 40 cents an hour for night work. Twelve cents an hour was stoutly resisted in free trade London, while 150 per cent, higher wages still prevail under protection in New York. , " Protectionists claim, as Bismarck claims, that protection puts the chief burden upon the foreigner, wlio is com- polled to pay tho duty or give an equiv­ alent by reducing the price of his prod­ ucts. They also claim that, in the long run, the consumers supply their wants at less cost than would bo possible with­ out protected homo competition. For examplo, years ago moquette carpets brought S5 to $6 per yard, but under protection, and owing to a loom invented by an American, thov are now sold at SI.50 per yard, aud sometimes for less. Bessemer steel rails in 1867 brought $166 per ton, but with a protective duty the price in 1885 .was only S28.50 per ton, and $29.83 in 1888. When tho American demand in 1872 exceeded the home sup­ ply the British price at once was ad­ vanced from 230 shillings per ton to 350 shillings, and again in 1890 the British price was for the sam3 Teason advanced from 170 shillings per ton to 200. This shows how merciless would be the greed of foreigners were our manufactures suspended for lack of protection. Home manufactures planted in every State alongside of the farmer large­ ly save In distribution the heavy cost and waste of long transportation. The immediate proximity to farmers of manufactures is an advantage so great that the holdings of farmers' in every locality of America whore such proximity exists can-readily be sold for more than fifty per cent, above the price of land where manufactures have not been es­ tablished, and annually yield a much larger incoino. some incredulous person. I money in traveling expenses. He was There are not many, it must be ad- ^ expected to bear a great part of the ex- mitted, but four poor girls, each one • pentes of entertaining the men to whom working from 8 o'clock iu the morning j he soi,j goods; he had to buy them until 6 at night, three as salesgirls and j and cigars and take them around, the other in a shop, have for two years i jn the course of this he had to drink a ITEMS GATHERED PROM VAIUFK. OUS SOURCES. What Oar Neighbors Are IMag-Mattan of General ami Local Interest -- ' rlages antl D.eathw-- Accident* and Crimff --Personal Pointers, i. --The following is acimparative state- ment of assessment b; local assessors for the years 1889 and 1890 in the several counties in the State: AMMnmnt Aiestmeot Iowa and tho Whisky Power. We may as well calculate the power of resurrected whisky this fall. The pow­ er has temporarily gained a new lease of life. Like the dead in the valley, they have comc together until there is a very great army. The original package sa­ loons are running in almost evei^ town in Iowa, and making money fast, that they will divide with the political party that stands with them. We will waste no time in guessing what party will get the benefit of that power. It requires not the aid of inspiration to tell before­ hand, now. The Democrats in every county count upon it; and for every package sold to minor, drunkard or tip­ pler the Democrats will get a royalty to help the party, and to continue the sa­ loon in some of its forms and features. This is a strong power. The package sa­ loon is the recruiting place of the Demo­ cratic party. I'lans will be laid there, inspirations will be gained there. The future weal or woe of the families of Iowa will be greatly influenced by these places. There are g< oil influences enough in the State to meet and defeat these saloons at the polls, but it will not be done by the third parties, nor by in­ difference, nor by sulking, nor by scratching, nor by staying from tho polls. Earnest work, school district work, must be done. It is interesting to study tho affiliations of this saloon pow­ er. Wherever Democratic majorities are heaviest, there the liquor power op- orates. In the towns and cities among ignorance and vice the whisky power finds follow feeling. Tho godlike in­ fluences of the State must awake and come to tho rescue. The country home is all right. All the votes must be polled. The villages are all right. They generally turn out. The cities are not all Democratic. They must be thorough­ ly awakened, else whisky takes control of Iowa. These nests of every unclean baleful kind must be scattered and Points for the Farmers. The Sentinel has commented on tho wonderful growth of the cities of this Stato during tho past ten years. Tho population of the cities containing 3,000 or inoro ton years ago lias increased about 225,000. In 1880 there were, but twenty-four of our cities with a popula­ tion of 4,000 or moro; now there are thirty-four such cities in the Stato. Tho marked disparity in tho rate of increase of tho city as comnared with tho rural population is duo to tho devel­ opment of manufacturing enterprises, which in turn is largely the result of the policy of protection. Each ono of those cities forms a mar­ ket for the agricultural produce of tho adjacont country. The growth of oach contributes't.o benefit the farmer, by en­ larging the number of those who con­ sume his products. They furnish the most important market, tho home mar­ ket. They take from tho farmers in large quantities articles which will not boar transportation to a distant market, and thus tend to diversify the staples cultivated by the farmers, while enhanc­ ing their price. Tho Democratic party, which is now professedly feeling a very deep concern for the farmers, would change all this. They propose a policy which would close up many of our manufacturing indus­ tries, and depress most of them, driving thoso to whom they now give employ­ ment upon the laud to become the pro­ ducers of grain and other farm staples instead of consumers. We believe that the farmers of Wis­ consin, when they reflect on this subject, will prove too intelligent to bo led into the support of a policy so clearly opposed to their own interest. Senator Brown, of Georgia: Not only that but the prico of laud Is greatly in­ creased by their proximity to and dimin­ ished by thcu: remoteness from manu­ facturing centers. You may find land selling at $50 an acre within a few miles of a manufacturing town, and you may buy tho Fame quality of land at 85 an acre 50 or 100 miles from manufacturing centers. And why so? Because not only the good housewife has a market for her butter and chickens and eggs and cheese, and everything of that character that is produced upon the farm, but the farmer himself has a market for every bushel of corn, wheat, rye, etc., and for every apple, peach, pear, melon, and every­ thing of that character that ho makes upon the farm when located near a man- been trying the plan of co-operative housekeeping, which promises to be- I come a perfect system for working j women who cannot afford to board at' the place they prefer, or become dis­ satisfied wheu they undertake to try cheaper places. When the store where three of the friends work has closed for the day they proceed to the nearest cor­ ner, where they are met 4>y the other member of the family, and the fom walk home together. Having heard of the pleasant times which these girls have at their apart­ ments, and being desirous of seeing for herself how the plans are carried out, the writer, by special invitation, re­ cently took an evening meal with them. The house is on a side street within easy walking distance of down town and the room up two flights. The latter is a large apartment and has three win­ dows, which are prettily draped with dotted muslin tied back with yellow ribbons. The walls are tinted with a pale cream color and the whole interior bhowed the good taste of the occupants. A foldine-bed of cabinet shape, in tho front of which is a long mirror, and a broad couch which is also a bed, two easy chairs, one rocker, and several other chairs are all the larger pieces of furniture. In front of the door leading to the side room, which is used as a kitchen, is a large screen, evidently of home­ made manufacture, but decidedly or­ namental. Two sets of shelves adorn the spaces between the windows, and these are filled with books. There are also a few good pictures hung about, and on the mantelpiece are little Ornaments and pretty things, watched over by a small bust of Dickens ou a bracket. While the writer was admiring the neatness of the room and praising the general appearance, one of the girls hail set the table. There was no array of silver, but the dishes were dainty, although there wt-re not many of. them, ami the food was not spoiled by apologies, and everything passed off smoothly, for we were hungry. After awhile the cost of the meal was considered, and found to be just 48 cents. That did not include sugar, butter, or coffee, the former costing the girls 20 cents a week, the butter about 50 cents, and the coffee the same. Two cans of condensed milk at 13 cents each, brings total up to $1.46. At the end of the week the girls make up their cash accounts, and expenses for the family amount to about $4.80 on an average. They hire the room un­ furnished, with the exception of the good deal himself. He noticed that it was not so much the amount of money that he spent, but the show that he made with it which impressed them, and that it was more important to seem careless aud generous than really to spend a great deal of money. One night while drinking he took out a dollar bill and with it lighted hir cigf-~, replacing the unburned portior. in his pocket. The next day when sobered he foend the mutilated bill and on returning to New York had a new bill given him in the Sub-Treasury. Afterward when out with his customers he jfollowed the same practice, taking cate not to destroy the redeeming qual­ ities of the bills he used as cigar light­ ers. He always took pains to impress upon his hearers extravagant stories of the percentages his house was paying him, how cheaply it was selling and I what liberal concessions he was making to get lid of the stock which his house | had on hand. He found the trick | worked excelleutly and that his custom- | ers were even anxious to deal with him. He has gained the reputation of being one of the most careless and ex­ travagant men on the road, without its costing him as much for expenses with his customer as it costs other salesmen who do not burn up their money. How Rlnckburn l'alked Out a Duel. Ex-Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson tells this story of Senator Blackburn. They were among guests at a dinner party not long ago, wheu Mr. Stevenson, looking across the table said: "Senator, do you remember that day when we were seconds in a duel ?" Mr. Blackburu promptly expressed his recollection of the "pleasant event," and the other guests called for the particulars of a duet which had left in the minds of the seconds such cheerful memories. "Well," began Mr. Stevenson, "Mr. Blackburn drove me out to the ground. It was before sunrise, but we were the seconds, aud, of course, were first on tho ground. But the principals soon arrived. Now, I was very ignorant about duels. The principals knew very little, too. But Mr. Blackburn was well informed, and in order that everything shou'd be clearly understood and satisfactory he said he would ex­ plain tie c^de. So be took the floor, or rather the ground, and began to talk. It was very interesting, for, as you all know, the gentleman from Kentucky is an orator." Just then there was an interruption Counties. Adaui.-t 3 Alexander. Bond Boone.... Brown.. Korean Calhoun Carrol! Can a Champaign Christian. Clark Clay Clinton................ Coles.... Cook Crawford Cuinbei land... De Kalb De\rict Douglas l)u Inge Edgar Kdwarxls............... Efltavham.. Fayt-t.e. Ford.... FnvnkUn............... Fulton U&ll&tfn Greene. i J . . . (irututy.. v............. Hamilton .......... Hancock. Hardin .......... Hciuivrson............. Henry Iroquois. .............. Jack son.... 4 . . . Jfts\>er. Jefferson... Jersey Jo Daviess Johnson Kane... Kankakee Kendall Kno* Ijike. LftS'alle Lawrence Le« Livingston Logan tliieon Macoupin Madison Marion.. Marshall Mason Maniac MoDonough McHenry McLean Menard Merco^. M< nrje Montgomery Morgan Moultrie Ogle Peoria Ferry 1'iatt. l'ike Tope Pulaski Putnam Faudolj h. Richland. F.ock lalan Saline... Sangamon §:Ch'vylcr. Shel by. Stark St. Clair... Stephenson Ta'.owell Union Vermilion Wabash. Wurren Washington Wayne White Wliitehido. Will Williamson... by the bread plate, and Mr. Stevenson ^ paused to help himself to bread. But beds, and consequently are able to hire the pause continued, and Mr. Stevenson at the low price of $12 a month. In the side room which has been mentioned is running water, and many shelves have been "built in" to make things more convenient for the house­ keepers. The gas-stove, bought at a bargain, is set on a little raised platform in the corner, which is covered with a neat oilcloth. Tinware is hung up all about, and everything looks as orderly as possible. They do not find time far mauv fancy dishes, but they have plenty of whole- somo food and appear to enjoy thor­ oughly their manner of living. Occasionally they are invited out to spend Sunday or to tea during trfie week, but they feel very much at home in their cosy room which they have oc­ cupied together so long, and think their fiiends who have such doleful experi­ ences in hunting up boarding places and trying to live on small salaries would be much more contented if they tried co-operative housekeeping. ton Globe, Indians Celebrate the Fourth In a Re­ alistic Manner. "I saw one of the grandest sights 1 ever saw in my life on the Fourth,"said Gen. Brisbin, as he was seated upon a veranda of the Broadwater Hotel. "The Crow Indians celebrated tho Fourth and it is impossible to describe the scenes enacted. They went v. ilu with delight and entered into the sport iu earnest. "There were 250 of the Crows alto­ gether. In the first place they made lalse faces of blue clay" and pieces of canvas, rendering their appearance perfectly frightful. It is truly wonder­ ful the way they got up the faces. Some had long noses; others long chins;some had horns upon their neads, and, in fact, they vere made up in every con- Winnebago... Woodfor LKO„-.......... d. (or 1H83. 13,49 j,U4 ^.4X1,701 3,637,534 3,430,310 1,908,«43 l'J,140,230 1,191,430 <•,114,5-n S,»163.tW7 ia,i«i,r>43 G.1/T3.937 1,791,317 l,57fi.tjHi 2,813,478 S,5.»H.5»4 138,637, aw 1,6*2,'.m 1,15(5,504 8,182 '2'H 4,09s,2J0 *,888,413 .5,516,311 5.7dl,.Vi> l,«4o.'J78 2.2a:;,S12 S 7J9,5t>0 . 3.890,784 l,00t>,4S4 8,672.193 1,243.623 4,»J0 671 ' 4,179,40a 1,158 312 *i»17.825 65iMVl!» 3,870,0 i:i 10,545,762 9,137,995 51.155,977 -1,511,480 1,575,091 M95.710 4.C/21.-220 677,491 13.601.019 '4,Im3.249 9.!£!3 "268 5,6^4.515 17,83«,t>27 I,812,804 7,525,916 9,952,6.% T,fX)3,l*; 9,476,455 ft.740.7S7 II, '177,047 »,415,420 4.2?5,719 . 3,496,2f0 1,467,193 6,500,238 " 7,133,275 15,«»>. 172 4,623.05 ( ft,6.M,«7 8,477,530 6,183,283 U, 114,731 8.5 >5,62S 5,Nt5,27S 15,S 14,035 • 1,921,:GJ 4,C>6S.a>4 6,<j95,023 994,777 >*44,543 1 447.082 MOT .305 I.713,094 7,0'H,S22 " /1V2.7IU 1J,403,<W T3U.364 S,651.:w> 6 , S U 7 II,844, <HH 1#,915,337 fc,560,218 T.358,718 I,703,770 *I.5J4.!>38 1.733,085 M >2.152 !i,-22.t,S29 1,"IS,121 1,644,309 .V ,896.904 II,758.033 I,635,9.11 II.',029,577 15,504,613 for 1800. » 13.544.81S 2.263,909 2,71 ,̂05® 3 2 2,017.655 10,981,807 1,218,513 4,622,858 3,668,04ft 10,041,347 7,034,0)2 1,780,783 1.776,303 3,817,609 5,601,MS 188,172,55a 1,684,740 1.173,979 7.950,435 4,078,909 3,771.944 5,629,043 5,648.461 1,643,434 2.343,536 *2,5(0,831 3,429,993 1,007,485 8.978.8M 1,167,745 4,905,976 4,118,777 1,153,726 7,508,343 650,418 2,515 835 9.774,005 9,036,54 ̂ 2,134,966 1,421.533 1,627,437 3,155,737 4,336,575 I,013.116 13,841,143 4iT>,977 S,717,4*t 9,383,483 5.751.075 17,396,191 1,395.819 7,4(77,934 9,830,905 7.643.076 9,561,757 7,119,160 II,136,973 3,436,800 4,195,138 3,401.976 1.458,533 6,638,700 7,111,734 15,574,383 4,513,368 5,639,047 3,454,435 •\965,C2i 10,950,608 8,587,433 8,160,U12 16,149.790 1,954,703 4,45,1,808 5,849,872 B80.1J7 851,163 1.437.43T 3,476,361 l.CC'J.COJ 7.016,317 1,854.44*) 17.15J.353 3.352.316 8,625.971 0,049,009 3,808,541 14,834,950 8,513, nr. 7,183,218 1,635,821 10,311,470 I,743,106 6,501,174 8,(176,415 1,694,001 1,491,908 7,787,020 II.574,771 1,160,035 1&588.711 6,545,388 •' 'iMj 1 -i ' v A '» ceivabie*shape. t^.Uo .Wrated their persons iu every imaginable style. price for his corn necessary articles produced upon the farm. So. in every view of it, no class of people in this country are more bene­ fited by the increase of manufactures and the diversity of labor, thus putting down the price of manufactured articles and putting up the price of labor and tiie farm products, than the farmers themselves. --Mi'waukec Sentinel. How the Democra t* Steal Scats. Tho speech of Congressman Mason, of this city, in favor of the passage of the national election bill, contains some in­ teresting extracts from the testimony, as yet unpublished, taken in some of tho contested election eases in Southern dis­ tricts, which will give an idea of the evils which the so-called "force" bill is intended to do away with. The evidence in the case of the Second Mississippi District, where General Chal­ mers contested the seat of Mr. Morgan, made this" showing of facts: The constitution of partisan election boards having no members other than Dem­ ocrats. Tho appointment in nlany cases of parties on such boards to represent the Republicans who. by reason of ignorance and illiteracy, wore not -competent and suitable men." The unlawful removal of ballot-boxes from the pollins? places and from the view of the United States supervisors. The illegal erasure from the registration list of duly qualified,and registered voters, and the refusal to permit them to vote. The stealing of baliot-bo.xes. It showed also that at one precinct twenty or thirty shots were fired into tho colored voters.--Chicigo Tribune. WITHIN the last three years fifty firms which were engaged in manufac­ turing and selling roller skates have gone out of the business. This ought to decrease the number of divorce suits, but it doesn't seem to do /o. THE French are ma with copper faoes. >g wooden type was apparently going on with his din­ ner. " Well, bu.t the duel. You haven't told us how the duel ended," said several guests, eagerly, and speakiug at once." "Oh, it didn't end. It didn't begin," said -Mr. Stevenson, solemnly. "You see, Blackburn began to talk before sunrise, and he never stopped till after sundown, and then it was too dafk for the duel." lilnt» lor Trav.-ler*. Talse one-fourth more money than your estimated expenses when going on a journey. Acquaint yourself with the geography of the route and region of travel. Have a good supply of small change, and no bill or piece higher than ten dollars, that you may not take counter­ feit change. So arrange as to have but a single article of baggage to look ftfter, if poa- sibVt Dress substantially. Better1 be hoi for two or three hours at noon than to be cool for the remainder of the twenty- four. Arrange, under all circumstances, to be at the place ot starting fifteen or twenly minutes before the time, thus allowing fcf unavoidable or unantici­ pated detention on the way. Do not begin a dav'a travel before breakfast, even if it has to be eaten at daylight. Dinner or supper, or both, can be more heartily dispensed with than a good warm breakfast. Put your purse and watch in your vest pocket, and all uuder your pillow, and you will not be likely to leave either. The best if not entirely secure fasten­ ings of your chamber door is a bolt on the inside; if there is none on, lock the door, turn the key so that it cau be drawn partly out, and put the wash­ basin under it; thus any attempt to use a chimmey or anothey key will push it out, and cause a racket among the crockery which will be pretty sure to rouse the sleeper and rout the robber. A Boy's Strange Altltction. Does a diumembered limb retain sen­ sitiveness? Many persons hold firmly at their request, aud a continual roar i that it does. Their belief is apparently was kept up all day. | sustained by those strange and vivid They performed in a large circle, imaginings of persons who have lost a The ponies were covered with canvas gorgeously decorated with everything they could get hold of. The agent had arranged for tlieir amusement upon that occasion, but the details were left for them to fill up. I sent a battery over and their chief delight was in shant bat­ tles. The scenes were so realistic that it was difficult to realize that they were not iu earnest. They dashed about the ring upon their ponies, fighting with wooden lance*. Some of the Indians hand or foot, and declare positively that they have feelings in the fingers or toes of the lost member. The phenomenon, however, has been explained in a scien­ tific way. Such ca«es are frequent, and Edgar i3ergo!i, a 12-year-old boy who would pretend that they were killed or lives at 240 West Michigan street, is an wounded, when ihey wonid be carried i example. Yesterdav he "was taking a from the battle-field ami attended by ricJe on the cars iu the Big Four yards those selected for that purpose. The scalping scene was the great feature of the occasion. They had taken pieces of flannel and fastened them on the heads of those who were to be pretended victims, and when this was removed with the scalping knives the face was when he slipped. He was dragged some distance, but could not maintain a safe position, and his left foot was out of!' above the ankle, remaiuing in the shoe. Tho boy was taken home, and the leg wa< amputated just below the , knee. The foot was taken to Crown besmeared with red ink to give the ap-; Hill and buried in a lot near his pearance of bleeding wounds. It was | mother's grave. The little fellow bore a most hideous spectacle, and the ladies j i]jg pains bravely and never lost con- j DeWitt who had gone down to witness the event j scionsness, but he complains frequently ' i<j8ar were compelled to leave, it was so i that the toes of his dismembered foot shockingly terrible. The Indians, h^w- are cramped, and the foot still seems tc ever, eujoyed the sport hugely, and at, be iu position. Tiie foot was placed in night had a big war dance. | a crammed position in the box in which "It was impossible to get them to re- j it was buried, and a member of the tnru home to their farms for three days, j household declares that this accounts The agent says this will be tho last one, i for the boy's sensatioUs, uud recalls as it excites the young bucks too much cases which she thinks coufirms this and recalls old times to the warriors, view. There is some thought of ex­ huming the foot and reburying it with the toes straight.--Indianapolis Newd. attracting them from their civilized pur­ suits. It seems remarkable that none of the redskins were injured. Their horsemanship is superb, and it is worth A LKARN'E© writer declares that but Totals ..*711.515,026 f797,532,495 Cook County has increased its a-ssuis- raont $21,474,6(55, the greatest gain of any county; Fulton, 8306,102; Kano, #240,124: Lake, $126,530; Macoupin, $378,373: Peoria, $315,755; Winnebago, $559,134. The largest decreases are found in Henry County, 8771,777; Liv­ ingston, $731,791; Ogle. $685,266; St. Clair, $680,387, while De Kalb, Hancock, <v Jo Daviess, Montgomery, Piatt, Pike, Sangamon, and Vermilion show a do- crease of over 8200,000, ^ Ii.i.ixois is now the third &tate In the x Union in population. Its population, as fixed by the rough count made in the Census Office at Washington, is 3,801,- 285. In 1880 the population of Illinois was 3,077,871, so that in ten years tho increase has been 723,414. It is doubtful • if any State east of the Mississippi cau show so large a per cent, of increase. When the race for supremacy betweon • Ohio and Illinois began, a generation ago, the Buekcye State was ahead by 650,000. In 18/0 they h»d coQi'i oioSer^ together, urd Illinois could show 2,539,-' 891, as against Ohio's 2.665,060. In 1880 they were stilt fVwer. IU'noiS' popula-1 tion being 3,0as agstihst sin Ohio showing of 3,109<O63. But at the rate tho two States were Jogging along to­ gether no one suppose! that Illinois In tho ensuing ten years would be able to leave Ohio 300,000 paces behind. * Tins official rough count of the First Supervisor's District of Illinois, as an­ nounced by the Census Bureau, shows a imputation of 1.235.923, as follows: Cook County, 1,189,259: DuPage County, 22,- 542; Lake County, 25.122. The district iu 1880 had a population of 649,981, of which Cook County had 607,524, Du Page County 19,161, and Lake County, 21,296. Gov. AND MRS. FIFEIS left last week for Virginia, where they will spend ten days at the Governor's old home in the Shenandoah Valley. --There will be a bigshortage in the Illi­ nois potato crop. The Illinois Board of Agriculture says there may possibly be a half crop. It is more likely, it is thought, that it will prove only a third. In the central division Clarlc and Jersey Coun­ ties only report 25 per cent, of a yield. Scott and Edgar give 55, which is tho highest return. In the northern division Grundy County returns no yield; Rock Island, 63 per cent,; De Kalb, 55 per cent.; Livingston. 19 per cent. In tho southern division Hardin County has a total failure, Monroe reports 15 per cent, yield; Randolph, 18: Lawrence, 55; and Wayne County 90 per cent. This is the way the report runs all through the State. They are deficient iir size, too, hickory nuts being the size for comparison. --The census in the Sixth Congres­ sional District, recently completed, gives the following results by counties: Counties. Stephenson -- Ogle Winnebago Jo Daviess ; Carroll Following is the list of couutiosaud population of the tifth District: pnifla ^0 - Ford ..............1^,110 Cumberland l' 1>J, "r-"??! (.i_rk . .'il.-JX) Macon JT.IJO Champaivui .••".!*> Moultrie Dottflaa I7.:;t\t Piatt io,: 0 > Shelby 30.900 Vtnuiliou 49.0U0 --The Supervisor of the Census for the-Third District made public the fol- 1 owinj^TinoHieial announcement of popu­ lation by counties in his district, show­ ing increases over 1SS0 and 1810: Counties. 3i.v3ao 31.963 ..2J.937 SIS .690 33.660 ....30,505 37.338 35.0*) lS.Sk» 17,376 going thousands of miles to see the ex- j ter was unknown to the ancients. This hibitions of horsemanship given by that makes it harder than ever to account tribo. Altogether it was one of the for the flavor of some we have tasted, j Bureau Fulton Hancock Heiidrtsou Henry Knox MoDcnough Mercer Peoria P u t e a n i . . . liock Island. bchuyler Stark Wairan. Total* 33.178 41.340 3S,33a S5.33CT 81,873 10.** S3.1 lt» 9S.344 88.7S4 87.970 27.3S* 19,503 1S,B» 83.355 70,355 5.554 41.586 117 « 1UOT 31.4S7 sajLiii a?5.«ra i§>