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t ykN SLYgtE' E<tjtflr and Publisher. •itleHBNKY, - r - ILLINOI8. . hi1:' 8EVK»TEBK head of cattle, STANDING $-*, near a wire fence at Colltnsville, Tei., -• ' faring a rainstorm, -were killed by aa f] ' , -electric current a few days a^o. \ IT is said that for more FLTAU ftftjr , jrears £855, -which was originally in- tended to be applied to the education of fcv' «laves in Georgia, has been lyfiag i*tte I;,'" Bank of Scotland. \ IN China all the land belongs to the State, and a trifling stamper acre, never ^mltered through long centuries, is paid las rent; this is the only tax iu the coun­ try, and it amounts to .About 60 ,,$$&ts per head. , PEOPLE who ait at home in this country and are panic-stricken by the occasional appearance of a mad dog can hardly realize that in India last year <*' upward of 20,COO persons died from t : >eiiake bites alone. FOUR tame dueks have cost the Pl.,t.^nnty of Cascade, Mont, about $800 ^ owing to cross suits among neighbors for trespass, perjury and threats of ^bodily barm. One of the nwsu his been If' , ssent to the penitentiary. |gi A PEB80N born in hot weather stands -1 the heat a great deal better than one S&. * "born in the cold months of winter; of II;,. ̂ course the rule works vice versa. Those ' born in the spring are usually of a more |- - r robiiBt constitution than if born at any K t > -other time of the year. ' ^ . HE MOBT people know that letters to ^ ;1 "Canada need bear but 2 cents postage gp,"- - for each ounce or fraction thereof, but ||y,; at is less generally known that the same ^ "rate applies to letters to Mexico-- |^v which is too often regarded as a ., ""foreign country." i less snch 0,;. THE elephant is almost as amphibious -t.', v animal as the hippopotamus. They can stay under the water five minutes .at a time without any inconvenience " r-and they swim like ducks. Frequently ||v ; they are carried into a river or creek in |p~ \ the summer time to bathe, and like the §£:-*•, 'water so well that it's a hard matter to !<-•'.get them out of it. "HISTORY cannot be written in a r * Jhurry like a sermon," says a writer in (f=*---~-2'Ae Churchman. This -statement would have roused the righteous indig- ST nation of the late Canon Liddon, who , believed that the preparation ofaser- , ^", EIOD, liko matrimony, should not be jJ^eatered upon hurriedly, but with a sol- |"t v temn sense that it is the most important | . thing in life. QUEEN NAT A tie is engaged in writing ^Bwljlfcmemoirs, which are nearly com- K^e*s only years of age, , - ';ip.,'7?ii|Bftal experiences do not reach ^ '.Very farlS!^ ?°ost likely l>e found that h«s lhan a work direcfl^JLJjS^ .Jtfilan. She has got the betror^in 'itie ! ' contest with her husband in so far as t i,he is at Belgrade, and intends to re- inaiu there. • V *' THIRTEEN years ago a. Boston man gjr* lost a trunk on a railroad entering Chi- ^ -cago. The officials asked for a week to tf,:, limit it up, and then they wanted a rif; month and a year. The loser didn't j;,./" wan't to seem captious about it, and he u kept still and let the good work go on, H #nd the other day he received1* pair of «ocks, a'collar, and the lid of his long- F ••{' lost trunk, together with a note stating ihat there wore no charges for storage. ^ ̂» -- ^ IF, as has been estimated, the popu- te:%;3ation of the "United States is twelve gPfu; times as great as that of the dominion, it will be seen that the divorce ratio is rimmeneely greater here than there, due, if no doubt, to the difference in the sys- Ij'S;, tema of the two countries, and to the 5^ higher estimate placed by our Northern if ' , neighbors on the inviolability of the tie than we do, It is, indeed, startling to y realize that, while the populations of ' the two countries are 12 to 1, iftw. di- -vorcos are as 2,700 to 1. 1 AMONO smaller birds perhaps none 1^1,;'* wage war more desperately than the |J X, •£ng}j6|1 domesticated robin. A writer IfSfiJain Longman's Magazine says that an KVV* invalid friend of his was amused for six •tt> , consecutive days by the antic* of robins, which came regularly at 10:30 a. m. «nd fought a duel on the lawn outside Jiis window. The combat invariably £v*'.' lasted until one or two became too ex- hausted to recover his legs, whereupon r.the victor would seize him and triumph- 'Af»:.: Antly drag him round the inclosure. ^ , BY far the deepest lake known in tho world is Lake Baikal, in Siberia, which is every way Comparable t to the great , Canadian lakes as regards size; for, ^ ? while its area is over 9,000 square miles, making it about equal to Erie in super- >• licial extent, its enormous depth of be- ^ ^ • ^tween 4,000 and 4,500 feet makes the i? -volume of its waters almost equal to * that of Lake Superior. Although its [ A r Surface is 1,359 feet above the soa level, its bottom ia near 3,000 feet below it. The Caspian Lake, or tea, as it is ff f- usually called, has a depth in its south­ ern basin of over 3,000 feet. Lake Maggiore is 3,000 feet deep. Lake Dotno nearly 2,000 feet deep, and Lego- di-Garda, another Italian lake, has a <&;./ "depth in certain places of 1,900 feet $ C v #Lake Constance is over 1,000 feet deep, f ,\l and Huron and Michigan reach depths ff of 900 and 1,000 feet. ! '/[[" IT has evidently been a regretful task T f * for Stanley to make the revelations that p'? _ , appear in hia published interviews and SJ'J. over his own signature concerning the causes of Baxttelot's murder by an 4 '. . African savage, and other misdoiuga in ^ \ • his rear guard during his absence, but p/;' , he has been forced to the wall and most £ » ' of the truth is probably out. The un- aroofs wiH b«i .own that ia "IMMtics the ex­ plorer was antagonized fcgr the jealousies of his officers. i, n ' i • . IN Nanking there is a royal castle of beggars. It was founded by Hung Wu, ftpst MDBlirch of the Ming dynasty. use having once been in line himself, he wished to oblige an old beggar chum. "I don't want anything from yonr ma]6sty,n said the latter, "except to have plenty to eat and wear and nothing to do." He couldn't have put it better. The beggar had 'his wink The caste of which he was the first chief, lives ia certain large "caves" in the wall of Nanking. The police appoints the head of the beggars. They are well oft They are a close corporation. All other beggars are "small potatoes" in comparison with the royal beggars. The royal beggars live out of curiosity. Their apartments are lofty and airy. They amoke opium --best brand--all day long; A SINGULA E runaway is reported frOm South Brooklyn, N. Y. A woman named Gildersleeve, who had lived with her husband for over thirty years and had borne him four sous, some of whom had attained manhood, has left her home because, as she state* in a letter, her husband had npi furnished her means to properly clothe herself and had refused to give her the money to have her teeth attended to. She therefore secured a place at $14 a month, and with her earnings for a year she said that she proposed to have her teeth properly cared for, and with the balance to buy clothes to last her during life. Then, if her husband would receive her, she intended to re­ turn to him, as she loved him. Mr, Gildersleeve has searched in vain for his wife; says he provided liberally for her and furnished her a horse, but not approve of her having false teeth." ^ A NEW organization has been ffrfrjiorl in the West which is having a rapid growth. It is called Equal Freedom, and F. Q. Stewart, of Chariton, Iowa, is the organizer. The organization de­ mands, among other things, the total repeal and abolition of all so-called titles to land other than the natural title of oocupancv and n«e; all statutes and so-called laws for the collection of debts; laws that interfere with free trade between individuals of the same country or of different countries; all charters, franchises and special priv­ ileges to corporations and companies; all forms of compulsory taxation; ail laws that discriminate against women voting. The organization also demands national, State, and municipal mainten­ ance and control of all public highways, railways, waterways, telegraphs, ga°, electric, and water plants, to be oper­ ated in the interest of the people at actual cost. Cured Him o( Sheep KHIlng. A lady had a valuable St. Bernard of excelleut pedigree, carefully trained and in all respects of well-nigh ideal *xcel3enca. save for one fault--he would kilf TSNfeH0 was beaten and im- prisoned.^BWe matters were in this state a triendrpyi*fmer. relates a writer in a Boston pap5^ho had «P°n some occasion got into n>S^JMflL»the fact that the dog's mistress was fond a#jl£6ts, sent her a cosset, gay with ribbons an?W rat­ ing as innocent as innoconco itseil jKJti lady was in despair. She expected tlia; her dog would fall upon the lamb; but having in the past had much experien Avith pets, she said that if this catastro­ phe was to happen *he did not propose to have It postponed until she had be­ come deeply attached to the newcomer, and so deliberately led the lamb up to the dog, said to him that it wae her lamb and told him to watch it. The dog looked at her rather wistfully, evidently requesting permission to tear the pretty innocent, but she sternly shook her head, and, departing, left the pair together on the lawn. She is wil­ ling to admit now that the trial proved successful--that she had no idea that it would, aed that she expected to find the lawn strewn with the dismembered fragments of the lamb. When a few hours later she returned, however, the dog was found to have taken the lamb into his especial favor and nndor his especial protection. Ke lay down with it, he followed it about and seemed to have become uncommonly fond of it in a way not at alMed to carnivorous in­ stincts. In short, the lamb and the dog became the closest friends, and as long as the two did live they continued to dwell together iu peace and affection. And the remarkable part of the tale is that from that day the dog no more mo­ lested any lambs whatsoever. I was a plain case of similia similibus curan- tur. The dog was at once and forever cured of his vice, and his fond mis­ tress relates this story to admiring friends with mingled pride and affec­ tion. Maniiern Two llundrctl Years Ago. We must be careful that our looks be full of sweetness, kindness and modesty, not affected and without grimaces; the carriage of the body decent, without extraordinary or apish gestures; in all our ordinary actions, be it in eating, drinking or the like, we must show modesty and follow that which is most received among those with whom we converse, for that courtier is but over- j punctual, who in a country gentleman's house will strictly practice all his forms of new breeding, and will not be con­ tent to express his thanks and esteem to others in the same manner and with the same ceremony that he receives the respect of others; his practice shows like a correction of the other, and oft puts tho modest company into a bash­ ful confusion, and constrained distrust­ ful behavior and conversation. It is necessary that a man who visits ladies wear always good clothes, even to magnificence, if he may do it with­ out impairing his fortuue; the Expense we make in habits bears us through all--as an ingenious man once said, it opens all doors to ns and always pro­ cures us an obliging reception, and as the exterior part, striking first the sight, is that which males the fifst im­ pression on our spirits, doubtless we ought to take some care to render' that impression favorable. AN Optical Advantage -- "And so Jimpson read his poetry to you yester­ day? how did you endure itf"- "3 just fixed my g>ass eye on him and TALK OF A DEM AGOGUE UNWORTHY AN £X-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Cleveland's Speeeh at tlte Thai-man Ban­ quet, IH-Mlnrfe»l, Demagogta «»M Abas* Remsnns Like a Child «r m' Omm- l l d e a o e M a i i -- S h y s t e r T r i c b i a w * * . f ; ' [New York Press.] Those, who have heretofore regarded ex-President Grover Cleveland as a sol­ emn, dull wittcd. honest sort of a person of great self conceit, very much disposed to take himself seriously as the prophet destined to save a "deluded** people from themselves and to lead them away from the noisy paths of demagogy into the green pastures of truth, must bo heartily ashamed of that person after acquaint­ ing themselves with his ill timed dema­ gogic, and abusive utterance at the Thnrman banquet. Not only was it wholly unworthy of an cx-president of the United States. Not only did It dis­ grace a presumed and #elf assumed leader of a party. Not only was it entirelyoutof place on an occasion suggested by the personal regard in which people of all parties hold the venerable statesman in whose honor the day was celebrated. Not only was it all this; but it was an almost painful exposure of tho incom­ petency, the inadequacy, tho shyster triokiness, tho intellectual shallowness and tho moral recklessness of Mr. Cleve­ land himself, so great a fall was it from the standard of the more or less popular Cleveland myth. This "typical Ameri­ can," this "second Jackson," this alleged "man of the people," this "consecrated apostle of democracy" succceded in ex­ posing himself to view as bearing the same relation to just and intelligent statesmanship as is borne to legitimate and upright mercantile methods by a curbstone fakir. Not one argument from what pro­ tective laws have done; nothing but a childish, petulant catching at some words that protectionists havo said. If this is not tho intelligence of an idiot; if we are to presume that Mr. Cleveland knows better, then it is the fairness of the veriest five-dollar shyster who ever bullied a witness in the Tombs police court, and made words appear of more importance than deeds or things, for the sake of success at the expense of justice. Several republican orators had outraged tho democratic spirit of fakirism by inti­ mating that there is a cheapness that is costly. What they meant was clear enough to every candid mind. Every intelligent buyer kuows that it is better econ­ omy, to get a good thing that costs more than to get a flimsy thing that costs less. Every wOrkingman who is not superficial knows that the real ques­ tion of cheapness to him is what he can buy with one day's work rather than what he can buy with mouey of a given face value. And every man acquainted with American history knows that home production, stimulated by protective duties, has vastly cut down the cost of almost everything that tho American citizen eats, wears or uses. That it has increased the opportunities of labor for employment by the thousand. Every well informed man knows that- the Mc- Kinley bill, hardly affecting the grades of goods used by the great mass of peo­ ple at all, tho manufacture of which J'as built up by the old tariff, raises uties on and promotes the manufacture of better grades, with tho certain result of cheapening them to the masses in .the same way, and thus raising the American standard of living and tho wages of American labor. But Mr. Cleveland reasons either like a child or like a confidence man. Like a child ho remembers nothing past and sees nothing of the future. Like a child, he cries out against causes without the slightest recognition of their inevitable effects. But it is unconceivable that, ig­ norant as he w»s when he became presi­ dent, nearly six years ago, he should not know better by this time. His factional friends can no longer turn up their noses at the sugary flattery of tho dear people, and the assumed championship of their down trodden cause, by his ,wi and hated rival, Gov. Hill; for inself never fawned on the people t them as a hysterical woman and whimpering b»by, in a iulting to their manliness [JJgence, than that now iuraph over the result by lies and other tricir^^^^^^^B^totion, was perverted intx^^^^^^^^Hfeteapproval of a great code on^^^^^^^Hbg laws, which, if undisturbc^i^^^^^^Be us to employ American lapj^HHPais that we now import to the am^^xf $200,- 000,000 a year, sounds like the\harsh sqeak of Nero's fiddle while Rome was burning. - Tho McKinley bill, undis­ turbed, as we believe the sober second thought of the American people will let it be, will cause at least half of this §200,- 000,000, or $100,000,000 a year, to be manufactured in this country, employing 175,000 workers and $50,000,000 of capital; creating mar­ kets for millions of Amerieau raw ma­ terials and food products. Its apparent discouragement by the elections will probably prevent fully half of this cap­ ital from being invested, fully half of this labor from finding new employment, and postpone indefinitely no small part of the increased production of fine goods that would be cheaper to the people. If Grover Cleveland nominates himself as tho leader of a raid, not only on our newly protected industries that will em­ ploy the unemployed, but our old ones that so largely employ the employed, we welcome the issue. And we want no better in&n to thrash out of his boots as the leader of that raid than this preten­ tious demagogue and econofnic bunco steerer who sets himself up as the oraclo of a party that has no policy except that of opposition, and no principles excep| "to the victor belong tho spoils." FREE TRADE DELUSION^. [Salt Lake Tribune.] The other morning a dispatch made mention of a remarkable speech deliv­ ered at Leeds, Eng., by Sir Lyon Play- fair, which was hailed by all tho free traders in this country as an absolute annihilation of the protection theory and an unanswerable argument in favor of free trade. The eastern press obtained fuller dispatches than we did, and gave more of Sir Lyon Playfair's argument. In the course of it there was a remarka­ ble assertion, as follows: "In less than twenty years tho United States will have no food to export. Therefore it is England's policy to de­ velop the farming resources of Canada." Is it coming to that? Is it true that in two decades of years more the United States will have no breadstuffs to ex­ port? And what is going to bring about this great change? Can it be anything else except that tho manufactures of tho United States will be so extensive that the employes of those factories will con­ sume all that our country raises? Is that what is going to result from such bills as tho McKinley bill? If that is true, or if it approximates to the truth, is it possible that the protective system is altogether wrong? In that sentence it seems to us that Sir Lyon gave his catfse dead away. It certainly looks to the ordinary understanding as though it would be better to havo the iron ore turned to machinery in our country and give so many hands employment in run­ ning that machinery that they would consume all the bread of this continent tlfiani In cfnti Illtfkintto an/8 V/* r V £ if * * ^ of this country a HI Ireland, d is a country Wftese free trade lisgdone its perfect woitsK-iAnd some­ how there is a disposition on the part of a great many Irishmen to get out from under the blessings which have been brought by free trade to them, and to come and fact! the hardships which are inflicted on the poor by protection in tho United States. That is not all. After they have tried it a few years they seem to like it. We all of us have known a good many Irishmen in this country. There is not one of them that is not ready to fight and die in a moment for tho Green Islo. But has any one ever heard of all the millions who havo come hero, spent a few years and made comfortable homes for themselves as a whole, while a great many of them have made enormous for­ tunes, has any one ever heard of any one of these going back to his nat ive country which is basking under all the delicious enjoyment which free trade stives to a country, to make his home? It may be said that Ireland is very poor, that it has a surplus of population now. Admit that; but if the rule which governs there is so much better than the rule which governs here certainly when an Irishman in this country obtains a great fortune and is axious, as all business men are, to increase that fortune, why should ho not go to a country around which the paternal government has thrown so strong a protecting arm, and upon which it has lavished so many blessings?* DISHONESTY FOUND OUT. [Boston JouraaL] Some copies of the McKinley bill havo lately made their way abroad, and our European friends are discovering to their surprise and intense gratification that the new law as it was described to them and the now law as it actually stands are two very different measures. Europe accepted the statements of the foreign importers in this country and their or­ gans, and gathered the impression that the new taritf, as such papers as the Boston Herald put it, enormous)v-in­ creased duties all along the line. Trans­ atlantic merchants who were assured that the act was prohibitive, and that it would paralyze commerco between the old world and the new, arc now delighted to lind that they were hum­ bugged, and that the effects of the law ave. been grossly and inexcusably ex­ aggerated. They havo had their eyes opened to the unscrupulousness of iho "tariff reform" press and politicians as never before. The conservative Finan- cUtl Times of London voices tho now European sentiment when it says that the "excessive popularity" of tho law abroad "was largely duo to tho exag­ geration on the part of the American democrats, who have spared no expense or misrepresentation in raising opposi­ tion to the scheme." This policy of wholesale misrepresentation has douo its work, but it ought to sting tho demo­ cratic leaders not a little, in the very flush of their triumph, to reflect that the disreputable measures by which it was achieved have won for the democracy the contempt of honest men on both sides of the ocean. * ^ THE ipMOCnATiC TAG. / GAME OF fChicago Inter Ocean.] A pretty game of tag is going on among the democratic congressmen who are anxious to improve upon thccxample of Speaker Reed. So many of these es­ timable gentlemen have watering mouths agape for the speakership sugar plum that it is mournful to consider how many of them will have to gulp down the honey of expectation into which has been poured the gall of disappointment But the amusing thing about this eager contest is the studious silence of tho con testants. They go hustling around with finger on lips like «. Ran dom^- tbougti t ecf!men Wrapped in tlie cloudy mantle of their dreams. The trouble with them Is the rivalry between Cleveland and Hill. It has got into tho convictions of democrats by some occult process that tho settlement of the speakership contest is going to have bearing upon the presidential ques­ tion. Recognizing the fact that Cleve­ land is well to the fore in democratic dreams it seems necessary to the contest­ ants to favor that massive pilot of the breaker-daring craft, and we have the interesting but astonishingly inconsist­ ent spectacle of Free-trader Mills labor­ iously tossing up his hat fojr Tariff- reformer Cleveland, to tho sarcastic salaams of David Hill. Mills, of course, believes that he has what is called, in the picturesque vernacular of his own country, a "cinch" on the speakership, and bases his claim not alone on his peculiar services in the past, but upon the assumed right of the south to dictate who shall fill the coveted position. While the latter assumption may be tr«. e, it seems going rather far In the matter of state supremacy to cram the question of southern privilege fiisido the boundaries of Texas, and there are some very energetic people who have a notion that Georgia is not altogether without this sunshi&o of preferment. There is yet another taction of the democracy, possibly deserving the term conservative, t hat thinks the south is disposed to reach for the lion's share of the spoils, and holds to the not unreasonable idea that the northern democrats are also in this little game of tag. There is a strong though not openly avowed hankering after the place by men who account themselves some pumpkins in the west­ ern camp of the democracy. Among them all, therefore, there is a very lively and amusing little game that republicans are watching with smiling interest, waiting to see whether or not Fine-worker Hill will not contrive to get a turn on Cleveland after all. It is likely enough, from tho present status of the ease, that Mills will be the man touched by policy in this hoity-toity scramble. If so, despite his very ardent expressions of devotion to Cleveland, it may bo calcu­ lated with mathematical nicety that the strongest factor working the combina­ tions in congress will be rather more friendly to the nomination of Hill in '92 than to that of Cleveland. Success has rattled the democrats, as it always does, and it is ten to one they will make a press of their party interest through the selfish anxieties of chief and petty lead­ ers. Let the game go on. M A K I N G DEMOCRATS FAMOUS. [Des Moines Capital.] Republicans have many sins to answer for, but none greater than the starting of Grover Cleveland on tho road to so- called greatness and fame. The repub­ licans of the state of New York elected Cleveland governor of that state over as good a man as the state ever produced, Secn tary Folger, who had served long and acceptably as a supreme judge. The ro was no real excuse for such re­ publican conduct, and the only pretended one was that Folger was an "adminis­ tration man and the administration xnust be "rebuked." In "rcbuk- jng" the Arthur administration Grover Cleveland got 102,000 majority, and every democrat was driven to lunacy in admiration of the "reform" mayor of Buffalo. Subsequent events cot him even with tuose republicans by making Grover Cleveland president. At the re­ cent election republicans again helped tc create a great democrat in the person of ex-Goy." Pattison, of Pennsylvania, vho will probably ornament the second place on the national democratic ticket ticket 4|p|||H$ttiabiii narm, not orjiy te#* the lmi||j«ptb time,, but for the future. Grover Cbrittland would not to-day fig­ ure either in politics nor the encyclo­ pedia, except for the action of repub­ licans. FOURTEEN TIMES TAXES. AS HIGH fCMcago inter Ocean.] The Sheffield {England) Telegraph has been Interviewing some citizens and manufacturers of that great center of the British iron and steel trade who ac­ companied the members of the Iron and Steel Institute on their visit to the United States. It is with great pleasure that we transcribe certaiu passages of these interviews. f : Mr. George Senior was asked by the reporter: "Can you give me any idea as to tho cost of living in America?" Mn Senior responded quickly* «*In Chicago I saw meat ticketed at from 4 to 12 cents per pound, and this was about the New York rate. I might say that in Chicago I saw 400 or 500 line cattle sold at 3% cents per pound, taken alive. Bread and meat are much cheaper than in England." "What is your^ppinlon of the condi­ tion of the workmen ia the United States." "Men work in our own trade (iron and steel); much harder and steadier than in England. Tho Workingmen earn bigger wages and the artisan proper is much hotter off than his brethren in England." . Mr. Senior employs a great number of workmen in Sheffield; his testimony, therefore, is unimpeachable. Moreover, he is a free trader. The reporter asked him this question; we beg the reader's attention to it and to the answer: "Do you think the prosperity of the American workman is caused by the operation of the protective, system?" "I have given the most careful con­ sideration to this matter," said Mr. Senior, "and I have found that people of means who are not engaged in trade are free traders." We beg a consideration of this testi­ mony, tho "people of means who are not engaged in trade are-free traders." That is to say, the rich who consume but do not produce. The gamblers, whether in stocks or cards, the rich and idle, who wish to hire cheap servants and to pur­ chase cheap luxuries. The monoy sharks of Wall street. Tho moneyed nabobs. But the men who pay or receive tfages are not frco traders. As to why so many farmers are pro­ tectionists Mr. Scnoir says: "They argue that it is better to bo saddled with a little more expense for clothes than to be called upon to bear the heavy taxation imposed in England. The average taxation of America docs not exceed six pence (twelve cents? per acre." The average taxation per acre in Great Britain is just fourteen time& as much as in America, being (see Mnlhall's Dic­ tionary of Statistics, page 8,) seven English shillings of tweuty-four cents each per acre. Mr. Senoir is a free trader, and Mr. Mulhall is a free trader, and both of them aro Englishmen. We submit their conclusive testimony to the consideration of American free traders who tell the American farmer that he is "taxed by the tariff," and wo ask them: Is there one article for which the American farmer pays fourteen times the price paid by the British farmer? We havo shown that the British farmer pays fourteen times^is much tax on each acre of ground as is paid in America. "WORKING" THE WORKERS. Burlington Hawkeye. The democratic papcts aro now ad' vancing a new argument in favor of free trade. It is based upon the superiority of the American artisan. They claim and with much showing of truth, that tho skilled workingman in America more intelligent, more expert, quicker in his movements and has readier adapt ability than the corresponding European worker. He takes more readily to ma chincry and labor-saving inventions and is quicker to see and suggest improve ments. Therefore, his services aro worth more to the employer; he is a bet­ ter producer than tho workman in Euro­ pean factories. Now this predicate, from the republi­ can standpoint, is a reason why the American workingman ought to have better pay than the wage-earner in Europe. But that is not "the democratic free trade predicate. Their proposition is tlris: "American manufacturers do not need protection. Their workmen will earn more for themjn a day's work than will tho workmen in European factories. Therefore abolish tho tariff; the Ameri­ can workman, by his superior intelli­ gence, skill, expertness and industry can compete with the workmen in the old world." In other words, the democratic propo­ sition is to impose a penalty upon Ameri­ can workmen because they have devel­ oped themselves into a superior handi­ craft! Bo diligent, work faster, work harder, mix brains with your work, pour out in generous libations upon your work bench all there is in you and wo will re­ ward you by putting you upon a level with your poorer paid brother in the old world. For that would be the outcome in the end. This, O, workingmen of America, is the feast to which the democratic party invites you and to which, in the late election it tried to scare you by a false cry of "high prices." POLITICAL. NOTES. . !V/ODDS AND ENDS. .hi (i 'mi. U 18% - l.-J^ r.a"1' THE difference between Mr. Mills and the other democratic leaders is that ho frankly declares himself a free trader, while they think as be docs, but arc not honest enough,to say so. THE democratic papers are criticising Senator Carlisle because he failed to at­ tend the\Thurman banquet; and yet Col. Bill Springer made one of the worst mis­ takes of his life by not doing likewise. IF the democratic senators are per­ mitted to have their way Mr. Cleveland will not be the next candidate of their party for president. However, most of them were against him in I8SS, and still he snatched the prize in spite of them* SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina, is not likely to be re-elected, it appears. He made the mistake of^. antagonizing the farmers before the election, and now they refuse to grant him tho privilege of readjusting his views to suit the re­ turns. THE total vote cast in Mississippi for congressmen was about 31,000, tho num­ ber of congressmen elected being seven. That is to say, a congressman from that state represents less than 9000 votes, by reason mainly of the suppression of suf­ frage in the interest of the democratic party. IT is said that Mr. Carlisle protested against Mr. Cleveland's celebrated free trade message and urged that it be not sent to congress. This is another proof of the fact that the republicans always benefited when Mr. Carlisle's advice is not taken. THE Arkansas clergyman who says that he is unpopular with the democratic leaders of that state "for righteousness' sake only" may readily be believed. A righteous man is the pet aversion of men who carry elections by stuffing ballot boxes and assassinating opposition can­ didates. • # 'i '• Tmr history • -.of'tfee 'Cutfird line of steamships is Fettta*|able; it began to operate in IMOjfu ite half century of business, not a single passenger of the million* who hay# cltNMed the Atlantic In the Cunarderahai'lMMm lost. IT was a custom among the Romans that a bride should be brought to her hnsband with a covering or veil cast over her head, and hence the ceremony was called nuptial; from, nubo, to veil. THE hands of the wealthy classes in Annam, China, are almost useless, be­ cause for "adornment" they permit their finger-nails to grow as long as pos­ sible. There are many ladies who have finger-nails from four to six inches long. WE lose two pounds of water every twenty-four hours by perspforfioo, and the more we perspire the cooler we be­ come ; there are 27,000,000 pores on the surface of our bodies, which, if placed in & line, would extend twenty-eight miles in length. THE United States Government Com­ missioner of Patents estimates that from six to seven-eights of the entire manufacturing capital of the United States, or six thousand millions of dol­ lars, is directly or indirectly based upon patents. THE largest and heaviest building stone ever quarried in England was taken from 1'lankington quarry, near Norwich, in February," 1889; it was in one piece, without crack or flaw, and weighed over thirty-five tons. It was 15 feet long, 6 feet high, and 5 feet wide. " THE amount of water the sun raises from the earth is estimated at the enor­ mous weight of 37,000,000,000 tons a minute; the quantity of coal required to produce a heat in any way equivalent to the sun's is calculated to*be, 12,000,- 000,000,000,000 tons, or 8,000,000 cubie miles, a second. IN 1804 there were thirty-flve trans­ lations of the Scriptures in existence; since the formation of the British and Foreign Bible Society in that year, ten miilious of money have benu expended in the work of circulating the Bible, and there are now nearly three hundred translations of the Scriptures. THE Dahl process of sterilizing milk has recently been introduced into Lon­ don ; fresh milk is placed in cans which are hermetically sealed, then heated and cooled alternately until the germs are destroyed; the milk can then be kept for years without losing its fresh­ ness or failing to yield cream and but­ ter. To GIVE vividness to the expression "1,000,000years," Darwin, in "Origin of Species," gives this: "Take a nar­ row strip of paper, eighty-three feet four inches in length, and Btretch it along the wall of a large hall; then mark off at one end the tenth of an inch; this tenth of an inch will repre­ sent one hundred years, and the entire strip a million years. THE Mikado of Japan is the first sovereign whom his subjects have been allowed to behold In person, Japanese etiquette having for ages required the strictest seclusion for sacred majesty. Unfortunately, perhaps, for the pre­ servation of that divinity which doth hedge a king, he is an ugly little man with thick lips, low forhead, dull eyes aud scanty beard. But his bearing, like Queen Victoria's, is full of dig­ nity, his manners ore perfect, he is both intelligent and accomplished, and his ideal of sovereignty is the welfare of his people. AN Egyptian scythe recently un­ earthed is exhibited among the antiqui­ ties in the private museum of Flinders Petrie in London. The shaft of the in strument is wood, supportng a row of flint saws, which are securely cemented into it.. This discovery will set at rest the speculations which have been made as to how the crops of the land were gathered in the flint and early copper ages. It has long been suspected that such an instrument as Mr. Petrie has brought to light was used, but ^therg was so direct evidence. - * 7 , l.lttlo Thin** CoMfc >. One story of the eccentric Stephen Girard says that he once tested the quality of a boy who applied for a situa­ tion by giving him a match loaded at both ends and ordering him to light it; The boy struck the match, and after it had burned half its length threw it away. Girard dismissed him, because he did not save the other end for future use. The boy's failure to notice that the match was a double-ended one was natural enough, considering how matches are generally made; but haste and heedlessness (a habit of careless observation) are responsible for a greater part of the waste of property iu the world. Said one of the most successful mer­ chants of Cleveland, Ohio, to a lad who yyoH opening a parcel: "Young man, untie the strings. Do not cnt them." It was the first remark that he had made to » new employe. It was the first lesson the lad had to learn, and it involved the principles of success or failure in his business career. Pointing to a well-dressed man behind the counter, he said: "There is a man who always whips out his scissors and outs the strings of the packages in three or four places. He is a good salesman, but he will never be anything more. I presume he lives from hand to month, and is more or less in debt. The trouble with him is that he was never taught to save. I told the boy just now to untie the strings, not so much for the value of the string as to teach him that every­ thing is to be saved and nothing Vasted." .Amateur follilclmna. Reformers are always sneered at by the professional politicians and their friends (and sometimes by people who wonld not like to be classed among the "friends" of the boys) as nothing but amateurs," somewhat as if an honest citizen called upon to defend his house against a burglar should be gibed at by the burglar as nothiug but an amateur," who ought to be sleeping quietly in his bed, and not thus clumsily interfering with the accomplished in­ dustry of "professionals." It may be suspected that neither tho ridicule nor the mirth of the profes­ sional politician and of his journalistic business or social partner is quite as seif-comforting and hilarious as it seems; for though the cynic is always underestimating the virtue inherent in the individual and in the community he yet occasionally has an unexpected les­ son as to the weight of the kick of that mysterious beast Public Opinion, and thus a thread of anxiety is often woven in the warp of his happy humor.-- Century. AFFAIRS IH ILLINO] ITEMS GATHERED FROM VAf»~i OUS SOURCES. * m»at Our neighbors IMt-Witlmi \ • T ( i m n t m l » n d L o c a l l a h l i i t -- I liar*" "Ml De»thi-Ac«M«t» nd CMteas | --Personal Pointers. THE Census Office at Washlagtoo issued a bulletin giving the* final statistics of counties I the en nmerators The following Lw „. are gleaned of the complete statistics off counties in Illinois: riasT msTBxcr. County. MOO. Cook........ ....•.»•»•»•»*•• •. J,l89,5tS| Du Ftga. 22,549 I«ak» 34,121 Total. County. 1800. ism. OOM.... 13,184 11,588 Cacroll ... 18,212 16,978 DaKalb . 27,050 *5,768 .1.995,929 »scoin» mwraicr. County. McHenry. Ogle ..... Btoph'son. SR.east Whiteside Wa'bago. 3>;885 JoDarie s i'V.OlB Kan® 64,m «.*«>• Keadin... Use* 1S,0»2 Lee... 21,082 *,491; Total.342,283 316.491 mSD niSTBlCT. ' Baroan... Ujm »,mjFcorta. .. 7Q.1M 66f». 41,340^Putnam.. 4,10ft 35,3371R. Island. 4M 10,7»8ebayl* r. IU !W,aWl8tark S.9S8 fijir 38.344 Warren .. 31.973 22,933 27,9701 19,303! Total.401,34V 893,484 > rociixa oisTBier. .. 20,976 irt.TSai Marsh all. 13,089 25.C47 M»««tt. .. M.QM 7<f,4(k>jTas««reU . 38,4.WWfU. «t,Mi 35,472 S »,037| Woodford. 21.382 21,6 ,100j Fulton ... 43,m Hancock.. 3),841 Handera n 9,883 Henry 33.953 Knox 38.581 Me.Bono h 2?,4RTJ Mercwr. .. 18.:«0 Grundy Kanfca&ee 28.751 ::3# La Salle.. 80,073 Livingst a 33,-UO i-iogau .... 35,472 McLean .. 62,987 Total... FIFTH DISTaiCT. Ch mp'gn. 43,103 40,fi68ilroqooia. < lark sil,872 2l,8MlMaw>n... Coles 30,080 399,810 371,714; C'mb'rl'd. 15,41:7 DeWitt... 16,91(5 I>onglas .. 17,t»29 Edgar.... 2*1,758 Ford 16,964 Adams Brown.... 11,936 Calnonn.. 7,t'.4'J C'rsk 15,«.K>7 Christian. f0,4i)3 Greene.... 33,787 Jersey 14,791 Macoupin 40.3.V2 mjw «M§tt 14.4SC' niisr 2~;o42.Monltiie . &5S* 13,153! Piatt SLIM SgnK 17,010 Shelbv. .. SSP 1.5 853| Vennlll'n. 5B.0SS «*«»! 23 499i . f. ••• *: 1 iiiosw; Total. 37J4» SfcMBMf' SIXTH mSTMCT. C1.856 39,135]Menard... 13,119 13,034» 13,* 41 jMoutg'ry. V\<m 38.074 7,487(Morgan .. 32,553 U 514 14,4!W!Pika 30,953 33i751 J8.227|Bang,to'n. 61,042 52.SM a3,01«;Scott. 10,296 10,741 37»«Kij Total.384.654 368,60» 8KVKNTH DISTRICT. 14,515 14,96ti Miulison.. 51,371 10,192 Mat-ion ... 24,333 18,714|Monroe... 19.947 30,197Jiiohland. 16.0IT 18,820jSt. Clair.. tHjm 23,241 Wash'gt'n 10,303 14,515 13,0631 Total .330,670 833.3SS • Bond.. Clay 10,719 Clint on... 17,407 Crawford. 17,237 EiiitiKham 19,352 "tyette .. 23,322 •laaper.... 17,890 Lawrence. 14 727 KTQHTH DISTRICT. Alexander 1C.22G 14,808iPope. *dwfwda . 9.P9S Franklin.. 17,067 Gallatin.. 14,93-2 Hamilton. 17,763 Hardin ... 7,!£J3 Jackson.. 27,772 Jefferson . '.£2,510 Johnson.. 14,8'JO Massac... 11.287 Perry 17,514 -:s:4 13,368' w§!i ».aw 14,004 8,587 Pnlaskt.. llje» 16.139 Randolph. 34,9ife 12,a61|8aHne.... 19,338 16,713:Unio».... 21JNB 6.HU VTabash... 11,9GS 22.5501 Wayne.... 95,711 30,6811 White.... 34,945 WiU'mson B,1M 10.443, .. ; ' --; 16,0071 Total. 350,311 313,993 SrrKRixTKNDEXT PORT?!*, of the Cen- sus Bureau, has issued a bulletin treat­ ing of the debt, resources and annual in­ terest charges of 858 municipalities throughout tho United States. The. finances of Illinois municipalities for 1890 are shown in detail as follows: Alton--Bonded and total debt, 96MM;> interest charge, 83.400. Aurora--Bonded and total debt, Si 38.0.10; available re­ sources, 520,984; interest charge, 9S.900. UlAlt JVV f UU«I v" ing debt, 8880: total debt. $111,986; avail- , able resources. S3,252; interest charge. ?",658. Belvidere -- Available resources, $2,720. BSooniington--Bonded debt, 9112,-1 500; floating debt, $58,575; totaldeM»fl71,-' 073; available resources, $201,618; Interest charge, til,050. Canton--Bonded debt, 838,800; floating debt, SW.OOO: total debt, 847,800; available resources, $4,0M; fater- est charge. $2,570. Car]invi!l» -- Bonded> debt. f3.300; floating debt, 13.000; total debt, $6,>0; available resources, $9,113. ' The following table tells the financial • story of a number of other ettles: *** JfflifIMP '• i JESS; gg: * f ^ « -v:_. tV.'.fc* SSrSSKSS iililii II A BBSPKCXABMS man magr threadbare ooat, but if he does so ha will find very few people who Will be­ lieve in his respectability. THE State Board of Health held Its regular annual meeting in Chicago last week. Dr. Rauch presented his annual report, showing the general health of the State to be very good. No disease has been remarkably prevalent, although there have been small outbreaks of diphtheria, scarlet and typhoid fevers. In almost every case these were caused by direct violations of the sanitary pro­ visions of the Board of Health. Dr. Rauch suggested the advisability of a seaboard system of quarantine against diphtheria. Nothing yet has been done by sanitarians in this regard, but. owing to the prevalence of that disease ia this country, it is especially desirable that the local authorities take up the question. The report also discussed the cholera epidemic at some length. Dr. Rauch recommended that the board at once take measures taward putting the State in the best possible condition to withstand the plague. THE Western Association of Fairs has fixed the date for the next State fair Is Illinois as Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, inclusive. QUIT* a sensation has been created at Peoria by the wife of W. P. Butts, « romit.ent business man, bringing suit for divorce. Butts is a Spiritualist, and the wife sets up in her p'ea that the spirits and mediums have made life a burden to her to snch an extent that she has been compelled to. confine herself to her own kitchen. Atnone those who |W represesented on a circular inviting pe«i* pie to attend the seances is the name ot his dead daughter. Bv the burning of the Illinois Glass Works at Alton a loss of is en­ tailed aud 700 workmen are deprived of employment. Tun trustees of the Odd Feliows*. Orphan Home held a meeting at Spring­ field last week for the purpose of organ­ izing, fifteen of the seventeen trustees being present. The boa d elected offi­ cers as follows: President, Mrs. Liuie Morrison. Chicago; Vice President, Jits.r William Funk, Blooming con: Secvatary* Mrs. C. Cunningham, Blooalagtoa; Treasurer, Mrs. Jennie Tick nor, Kock- ford. The trustees decided tocomasnce the erection of the home earty next spring. OLTBSDOKW BROS.* general store at Bartlett, Cook Conntf, was baiatalxsA the other night One thousand; •attirs' worth of clothing anti ymi