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-#;v «,K"" ^ ; ̂ J :%T' t *v ^r •j' •¥M itlfe"'; C: .'• t-H:.; is c; ~'^r ^ J Bttatmt-- itr mmjiijiiiw tw >of tha i, bntastn at iii part |#» writer. WtAMlrMMrftesftl****. *• r careful, ia (Ml| MMai fat--, fe» ham I »nd figure* pltln and distinct. GEN. ROBT. E. LEK'S birthday, Jan- Oary 19th, is now & legal holiday in Virginia. IK Puis there are 56,000 gaslights, «o> that it is just 100 times better lighted thatit was a century ago. / Miss CHARLOTTE ORABTKMS (Lotta) is about to build a four-story bAck store building to cost $50,000. QEOBGK VAWDF.RBIIIT has already ex­ pended $400,000 on the foundation and first story of his North Carolina castle. LATELY an electrical apparatus has been introduced for stopping elevators, engines and other machines and motors instantaneously. TEE second son of Prino® AlWt of Prussia is destined to be the husband of little Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. He a lad of 15 years. a . T-"-- " .... i - i !• • THERE were over 8,000,000 kegs of anils produced last year in the United Slates, of which one-half were eat steel, less than one-fourth eat iron .aad more than one-fourth wire. T\ ' A SYNDICATE has offered the United States $14,000,000 for Alaska. The peninsula cost Uncle Sam $6,500,000, A property which is increasing in value at that rate is a good thing to hold. I RUSSELL SAGE,the financial magnate, is a tall-built, gaunt, keen-eyed, hay- seedrloofcing man, of nervous manner, with a long, clean-shaven face, fringed with a scraggy, iron-gray chin-beard. THE new American cruisers compare favorably in speed with the fastest war vessels afloat,' and the battle ships promise to be among the moat formid­ able and seaworthy of modern, floating batteries. "WILEY JONES, .colored, owns outright two street car lines, twelve miles in total length, in Pine Bluff, Ark. He was born there, and was a poor barber fifteen years ago. He is largely inter* ested in real estate. SOME years ago 'Lady Assington philanthropically sent twenty-four Bm- ish families to the cape to found an im­ proved colony. She bought land for them, but the result was failure. The men would not work. ' ' •• •: V\: :<.• v. : .Va,v ' A* <-:r~ iY#/ "• ^ ' . A FRENCH newspaper puMfshel the following extraordinary advertisement: "The owner of a lot of 3,000 dozen col­ lars and cuffs of fine linen, value<f at 13,000|jranc8, would exchange them for a eounwy house in the neighborhood of Paris." EIGHT pin manufactories in New En­ gland produce annually 2,000,000 packs of pins. Each pack contains 3,360 pizor, -wnltitl Makes a total yesrljr pro­ duction of 6,720,000,000 pins. These pinsare usually put up in large oases, each case containing 672,000 pins. 7.?,.% VICTOR EMANUEL, the heir-apparent tfrthe crown of Italy, assumed a ficti­ tious title while traveling in Russia and Germany not long ago. The title hap­ pened to belong by heredity to an im­ pecunious Italian, who has now sued the Prince for compensation for its use. \*Vy V 'sAv.fr Af! v *v: , v! \ t- ' 1 > y~ • \ \k •!> <a * f t ; »•- 5 fe* K * • > arf K »*& »r ONE of the most artistio and most valuable wedding presents which Prin­ cess Victoria of Prussia received was the gift of the King and Queen of Italy, which consisted of a cable chain brace-** let of old gold, with a huge emerald in the center, surrounded by diamonds, all picked stoftes. ONE day in Ootober, just when aNew Jersey fisherman had broken his last hook, a school of fish passed along which he«eatimated to be twenty miles long and two broad, and packed so closely that they crowded each other out of the water. Of course the hook was broken. THE most recent observations as to the amount of heat the earth receives from the sun show that in clear, pleas­ ant weather 63i per cent, of heat is ab­ sorbed by the atmosphere and only 36} per cent, reaches the soil. This figure rises in October to 41 per cent, and sinks to 28 per cent, in January,. tlNDER the laws of every Sta^i la this Union the man who shoots another man who may be stealing his fruit or robbing his hen-roost can be prosecuted for manslaughter. The idea is that you shall go out and argue with him, and if argument won't do whistle for an officer. • A BELGIAN gun manufacturer says it it * mystery to him what beoomes Of all the guns made. They are not perish­ able o? easily destroyed, yet year after year the great manufacturers have in­ creased their works while the number of guns and pistols that are made each - year is something enormous, and the trade instead of decreasing is constantly 'growing. CINCINNATI, besides making 200,000 sets of harness, turns out 60,000 saddles annually. The saddles are of rude manufacture, however, and do not com­ pare with the English article. The finest American saddle made does not sell for more than $30, while the Eng­ lish make are up as high as $250 apiece, and they are worth it, says a manufac­ turer. ' , LORD TOLLEMACHE, who has jnstdied In London, at the age of 22, was known •s the best landlord in Great Britain. Although the most uncompromising of Tories, he divided his vast estates into small holdings, allotted three acres to aaeh -laborer for garden, grazing and tillage; demanded that a cow and pig be kept; had his tenants taught butter and cheese making, and allowed them time to cultivate his liberal poliey f^J|ing in * licit* increase of the valthftioft of his property and the most prosperous and cxnteBted tenantry in the United King­ dom. THERE are subjects about which peo­ ple think seriously every day. There is the subject of religion, the subject of health, the subject of human justice^ Every day people think deeply upon these and kindred themes until per­ plexed and bewildered, and finding themselves no nearer their explanation or solution, they lay them aside, and take up the immediate questions that concern their daily lives. THE COW tree, the sap of which closely resembles milk, is a native of South; and Central America. It is a species of evergreen and glows only in moun­ tainous regions. A hole bored in the wood, or even a wound made in the bark in this remarkable tree, is almost immediately filled with a lacteal-like "fluid. Alexander von Humboldt was the first traveler to describe this tree and bring if to the notice of Europeans. WHEN Lawyer Kimbrough attempted to go on the stand to testify in behalf of his client, at Memphis, Tenn., recently, Judge Du Bose ruled that he must first retire from the case. "The rule of this court is that no attorney in a, case can testify for a olient," said the Judge. "'Wharton on Evidence" takes strong grounds against such practioe, and I will not permit it." Kimbrough formally announced his retirement and then gave his testimony. THOUGH Mr. Spurgeon's sermons do not profess to be profound, and though tbeir freshness is in the illustration And the "setting," rather than in the thought, they are as compact and coherent as the most systematic mind could desire. The direct preparation only takes a few hours--although it must be remembered that in anothe Aense all the preacher's life has been a preparation--«hd noth­ ing is committed to paper beyond the "heads," which fill half a sheet of note- paper. JUDGE WHEELER of the United States" District Court held that the aot pro­ hibiting the mailing of envelopes hav­ ing on the outside words "calculated to reflect injuriously on the character* of the person addressed was violated by sending through the mails letters con­ tained in envelopes bearing the words "Excelsior Collection Agency "printed la large letters across the ppper half of the envelopes. The printed words were separate from direction to return if not called for, and the court held that they were obviously plaoed so as to attract attention and reflect delinquency In making payment upon the persons to whom the envelopes were sent. THE rapidity with which work on the Nicaragua Canal is being conducted, as shown by the report of the company engaged in the construction, will give pleasure to the country. This is an American enterprise to the extent that the corporation at the healjl of it has an American charter, receives Its chief sup> port from American capital, and when.' finished, will furnish important aid to American commerce. The original engineers'estimate of the cost of con­ struction was $64,000,000, and the time required to do the work was pnt at between five and six years. Experi­ ences with other enterprises of the kind suggests the likelihood that in neither particular will expectation be com­ pletely realized. But even with a moderate advance in each case, the canal must ultimately be a paying in­ vestment. THE EATSSAS SENATOR. MB TALKS OP POLITICS. MIL­ LIONAIRES AND SILVER. A 8pe«eh Widely Quoted ia the W«it- Mr. las*li« Emphatically Announces HJs Position on th* Silver Question. Mr. Ingalls let flow a volume of rhet­ oric in his recent speech in the Senate. He saW that there were two portentous evils which menaced the safety, if they did not endanger the existence, Of thev republic. The first was ignorant, de­ based, degraded, spuri­ ous suffrage -- suffrage contaminated "by the sewage of decayed na­ tions; suffrage intimi­ dated and suppressed in the South; suffrage im- .p u r e and corrupt, "THERE'S nothing new under the sun," said Leo Ehrlioh, the inventor, "nothing new. Take a recent invention --the telephone, for instance. We thought that was new, but it has ainoe been learned that in India the Brahmins used a telephone long before the birth of Christ. It was similar to the lovers' telephone, and consisted of two stretched sheepskin discs connected by a string, and the priests were able to talk over it a distance of six miles. Many of their miracles were accom­ plished by simply ueing the telephone. Take, again, the slot machines that are now all the rage. A similar device was in use by the French monks in the Mid­ dle Ages. They needed money and in­ geniously oonstructed a wooden contri­ vance whereby worshipers could secure a small amount of holy water by drop­ ping a coin in the slot. Another popular story is to the effect that the man who invented the returning ball made a fortune. AS a matter of fact he sold his invention for $5." Buns It to Salt MlmulC The oldest paper mill in this country, it is believed, is at Eoslyn, L. L, and in it the oldest, crudest*%iethods of manu­ facture are still in vogue. It is run by Meyer Valentine, who is the oldest manufacturer of paper in this country. The mill is supposed to be at least 150 years old, and it has never been used for any other purpose. The Inanufact- urer, who is 70 years of age, inherited the gray and wrinkled old building from his father, who made paper in it in the same old-fashioned way that his son still employs. During the Revolutionary war Gen. Washington stopped over night in Eoslyn, and the following morning walked down to the mill, where, it is alleged, he made a sheet of paper for Valentine's father by the old hand process. The small frame, covered with wire netting, which Washington is said to have used to pick up the pulp with, is on exhibition in the mill. Valentine runs the mill with the aid of several assistants. He runs it to suit himself, too. There are no regular hours for labor. Some days he starts up the noisy wheel at 7 o'clock and on some others at 10. He stops the ma­ chinery from rumbling sometimes at 6 p. m. and other times at noon. He con­ sults his own feelings and does just as he pleased. Feed tlie Tramps Well. A Sacramento, Cal., woman onoe fed a tramp, who has just died at Port­ land, Ore., and bequeathed her $15,- 000. Charitable people all over the country will now drop cold bits into the mouth of the tramp and sit down SENATORINGALLS apathetic and Indifferent in the great cities of the North; so that it was doubt­ ful to his mind whether for half a cen­ tury there had been a Presidential elec­ tion in this country that expressed the deliberate and intelligent judgment of the whole body of the American people. He then referred to the newspaper in­ terview with him several months ago, in which he had said that the golden rulo and the decalogue had no place in an American campaign. It seemed super­ fluous to explain that in that utterance he was not inculcating a doctrine, but describing a condition. His statement was a statement of fact; not an an­ nouncement of faith. But many rev­ erend and eminent divines; many disin­ terested editors; many ingenious orators perverted this utterance into a personal advocacy of impurity in politics. Ho did not complain. It was, as the world went, legitimate political warfare; but it was au Illustration of the truth tlmt the go'den rule and the decalogue ought to have a place in political campaigns. "If the enemy smite thee on one cheek, turn the other," was a good precept to follow. But he would observe that until that precept was more generally ob­ served than it had been, or was likely to be, If his political ' enemy smote him on one cheek, instead of turning to him the other, lie would smite him under the butt end of his left ear if he could. {Laughter. ] If that be political immo­ rality, he must be included among the un regenerate. The elections bill was intended to deal with one part of the great evil to which he had alluded, but it was an imperfect, a partial and an incomplete remedy. Violence was bad. but fraud was no bet­ ter, and it was more dangerous because it w&s niore insidious. Burke had said in one of his immortal orations, which emptied the House t>f Commons, but which would be read as long as the English tongue could endure, that when the Jaws of Great Britain were not strong enough to protect the youngest Hindoo on the hank of the Ganges a nobleman was not safe in his castle on the banks of the Thames. The lofty sentiment was pregnant with admonition to us. Thero could be no safety and no stable and permanent peace in this country and un­ der this government until it was just as safe for the black Republican to vote in Mississippi as iii Kansas. The second evil to which he had ad­ verted was the tyranny of combined, concentrated, centralized, conscienceless and incorporated capital, and the people were considering that great problem now. The conscience of the nation was shocked at the injustice of modern soci­ ety. The moral sentiment of mankind had been aroused at the unequal distri­ bution of wealth and at the unequal diffusion of the burdens, benefits and privileges of society. * Speculators, If not millionaires, are nearly the same, for the millionaires are not the producers and laborers of the country. They are arrayed like "Solo­ mon in all his ijlory," but "they toil not, neither do they spte." Yes, they do spin. These gigantic accumulations have not been the result of industry and economy. There would be no protest against them if they were. The people had suddenly awoke to the conception of the fact that' the great bulk of the prop­ erty of the country was passing into the hands of those whom the Senator from Ohio called, by euphemism, the specula­ tors of the country. They were not of this country alone. » They infested the financial and social system of every country. They were men of no politics, of all nationalities, and of no national­ ity. They had no politics but plunder and no principle but * the spoliation of the human race. One man in this country--the Midas of the century--at whose touch everything turned to gold, had in a lifetime ac­ quired, out of the aggregate of the na­ tion's wealth, earned by the labor of all, a sum that exceeded the assessed value of four of the smaller States, and which was many times more than the entire wealth of tho Kepublic when founded. This was the most terrible commentary ever recorded in the book of time. And Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The means by which these fortunes were ac­ quired were euphemistically denominated book-keeping, financial speculation. This process was going on with constant­ ly and frightfully accelerating rapidity, by means of combinations. We were ac­ customed to speak of this as the land of the free and home of tho brave; and it would soon be the home of the rich and the land of the slave. It was no wonder that the laboring and agricultural masses of this country had at last awakened, and the speculators must take warning. Referring to the late election, he said it was neither a Republican defeat nor a Democratic victory. It was a great uprising, independent of, and superior to, both political parties. It was a crisis that might become a catastrophe. It was a peaceful revolution. , Mr. Ingalls attributed the depression of the country in a great measure to the demonetization act of 1873. He did not claim that Set had been passed fraudu­ lently. His only explanation of its passage was that both houses of Con­ gress and the President had been hypno­ tized by the money power. He had not the slightest doubt that a great majority of the people, irrespective of party, were in favor of the free coinage of silver, and had been for the p&st fifteen years. They had been paltered with in a double sense, and their will had been thwarted, defied, and contumellously trodden under foot Warnings and admonitions had been plenty in this debate, but he would say to those who were arraying themselves against the deliberately expressed judg­ ment of the American people--he would say to the Senate, to the House and to the Executive--that there would come a time when the people wouldt not be trifled with on this subject. Some time the people would elect a House of Rep­ resentatives, a Senate and a President who would carry out party pledges and execute the popular wHI. The political power of the nation had been trans­ ferred from the circumference to the center, and the people of that center were unanimously demanding free coin­ age of silver. It was for that reason that he should cordially support the amendment of the Senator from Nevada. In doing so he would not only follow the dictates of his own judgment, but would carry out the wishes of the great majority of his constituents, irrespective of party or political affiliations. Shameless Violation of Law. When the Democrats in the Senate un- »rn and seated J. F, McHugh they showed an utter disregard for the provisions of the Australian ballot law. In common phrase, they smashed it into smithereens »nd jumped onto it with both feet. Their action shows that they have no mor» regard for this sacred raw that they have been prating about than they have for other election laws, and that they will violate it without compunction whenever it suits their purpose.--IndiaiHxpolig Jour­ nal, ' The Field li»r Reciprocal Trade. The annual report of the Bureau of Statistics shows that of a total of $845,- 290,000 of domestic exports during the last fiscal year $677,280,(K© went to Europe and $168,010,000 went direct to other parts of the world. It further shows that of $789,310,000 of imports of foreign merchandise, $449,990,000 came from Europe, leaving $33^,320,000 to come from other countries. Taking from the exports and imports to other countries outside of Europe those of Canada, which are nearly equal, the im­ ports from the rest of the world were $299,920,000, and the exports to them $129,470,000. In other words, the United States buys of countries outside of Eu­ rope and Canada $170,450,000 more than it sells them, and we have been doinu this thing for years, which goes to show tho falUcy of the theory that one nation goes to disprove it But those who tn seeking information and who are inclined to take the view that the duty is added to the foreign price, should "turn this fact of the reduction of wages in the English velvet-mills over in their minds until they realize the truth which it conveys. The wages are reduced to enable the British manufacturers to make the goods at a lower cost, so that they can compete with tho American maker who has the ^vantage of the higher duty, or, ia iacv, of the law which has put an end to undervalu­ ation. It is evident, therefore, that the Ameriean consumer will not pay the in­ creased duty, but ths British manufac­ turer. He does not propose to pay the increased duty himself, so he takes it out of the wages of his employes, or proposes to do so. But the point is that the producer who wants to sell his goods in this country, and not the consumer here, pays the increased duty. There is another lesson in the British occurrence. When the price of goods is to be reduced by competition, the wages paid employes is the first item of cost to be reduced. Therefore, if the tariff should be made so low that foreigners could drive to the wall the American producer, the latter, wl\o is paying more than 75 per cent, iiiore wages than his foreign competitors, would, in order1 to reduce the cost of pro­ duction, be compelled to cut wagea. of people will not buy of another unless When the protectee feature of the tariff the one buys nearly a like value of the 4 is removed then the wages of the Ahierl- More of our AFFAIRS n ILLINOIS. ftLINOIS LA1 ITEMS GATHERED PROM VARI­ OUS SOURCES. products of the others. products reach the other countries, but they do so through European countries, particularly Great Britain, acting as middlemen. Nearly all of the people of whom we purchase merchandise largely in excess of what we sell them proauce articles which we cannot or do not pro- can workman will fall nearly to the level of his foreign competitor. This is what Mr. Mills means by putting the Ameri­ can laborer on the. same. plane. that the foreign laborer occupies/ Fare iKn Combine* and Prices. Free traders tell people that protea- « TifA&E They are pretty to look at to the light of the Presidential Election of 1892, bn* they can't last.--New York Ptess. duce in any considerable quantities, and purchase of us and Europe the articles of which wo have or can have a surplus for other markets. Here are a few of them, with the respective exports and imports for the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1890: Unites States United States CoHiitrlfW, West Indies. I Mexico Central America South America Asia and Ooeenioa.. Africa sports, imports. aa, 180,000 W.ooe.ooo 12,070,C03 B.690,000 «, 450,000 8.340,000 87,750,000 90,000,000 36,92O,OJ0 86,860,000 4,590.000 8,320,00? ; The above are the countries which iur- nish us sugar, coifee, tea, and raw mate riv­ als, the greater part of which we do noj. produce. Most of them, excepting sugar,' have been on the free list for some time! Sugar has now been put on the free list, o that nearly all the merchandise tha(t our people purchase of the groups o: countries above named are admitted fre of duty. From Brazil wa purchased las year $47,346,542; from tho West Indiedl $44,807,019; from th$ British East In|- dies, $16,148,340; from Mexico, $0,405 628; from Japan, $15,870,681 more tha these respective peoples bought of us These are the larger trade balances whic the United States pays to other coure­ tries, and there are many smuiio.l' ones. Brazil and the West Indies, well as others, require onr agricultur products and manufactures. They tak the former in considerable quantities; and would do so to a much greater ex­ tent if we had the means of direct com­ munication and trade arrangements which our Government, in view of the market we open to them for their products, is warranted in asking of them. The present administration, under t"1 new tariff law, is vigorously pushin negotiations to that end with encourag­ ing prospects. But the fact which these figures emnhasize is that a wide field is open to this country for greatly increas­ ing orr trade by judicious treaties of reciprocity. They show that the theory of the administration is not a visionary expedient of a party platform. Oar Tariff History. , . "It was not until some time after tiw colonies became independent that there were duties placed upon imports. From 1784 to 1790, inclusive, the imports from England exceeded the exports from America to the sum of $52,372,875, and a clamor arose for protection. uThe first tariff law passed was ap­ proved by the President July 4, 1789. Its preamble recited:, 'Whereas, It is necessary for the support of the Govern­ ment, the discharge of the debts of thn United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures thftt duties be laid on goods, wares and mer­ chandise imported.' "From the year 1796, when the pro­ tective tariff was in full operation, to 1801, a period of seven years, the ex­ port^ of this country exceeded the im­ ports by $89,374,316, leaving England in debt to America. In 1824, although tho revenue was sufficient, a new tariff was adopted with higher duties in order to extend the benefits of protection. This measure had the active support of Presi­ dents Monroe, Jackson, and John Quincy Adams. "In 1833, owing to the demands of South Carolina, then in almost open re­ bellion, a revised tariff law was passed, lowering the duties to about 20 per cent. "By 1840 this 'tariff revision' had so diminished the revenue, and manufac­ tures were so prostrate that the Gov­ ernment and the people were almost in bankruptcy. This caused a raising of customs duties to the protective point in 1842, under which trade revived and the Government's crediS was preserved. "In 1846 a reduction was made in tariff rates, and during the next eleven years, while these reduced rates were in force, the revenues fell short of the expenditures by $21,790,805. In I960 the Government had to borrow $20,000,000 to maintain its credit. "The duties weie increased in March. 1861, and since then, while the war tariff has been reduced to natural proportions, the manufactures of America v have flourished as never before." An Important Fact. r The newspaper reader will observe that there are strikes by the employes of the British factories making velvets because the proprietors have declared a reduction of wages in order to enable them to enter the American market un­ der the present duties, which are said to be higher on certain grades of these goods. Particular attention is called to this. The American free-trader will not see It. If he did he would ignore the fact and its obvious lesson. He has taken in the assumption that the con­ sumer pays the duty, and it fills him so full tnat he has no room for a fact which tion fosters combinations. This position is wholly false, for as soon as the tariff makes any certain line of manufactures profitable there will be a number of fac­ tories to start up, and the competition between them forces down the prices to jB> living basis. This is the Inevitable result of a well-regulated tariff. Free trade, on the other hand, puts the buyer at the mercy of the foreign manufac­ turers and dealers, who control the sup* ply and therefore fix the prices. The tin-plate industry, over which so many Democrats have worried themselves al­ most into the insane asylum, is a good illustration of this principle. Under the McKinley law the tariff on tin-plate goes into effect next July. After that America will manufacture its own tin. But up to the present time England, or rather Wales, has had a monopoly in this in­ dustry. How it tises this monopoly to control prices Is shown by the following extracts from the English Ironmonger'* Journal: "A resolution was unanimously passed to the effect 'That all the works in the district should bo closed at 10 o'clock on the Wednesday morning preceding- Christmas Day, and remain closed until the subst^ftient Monday morning, and urging upon the trade generally to follow the same example.' The idea is not so much to provide a holiday during Christ­ mas week to the men, but with a view of reducing the output of plates before the 1st of noxt July, when it is probable that the American tariff will come into op­ eration." What do the free-traders think of this bold attempt to restrict production and force up prices? It is time that a Mc­ Kinley law was giving an opportunity for the development of American tin plate manufactories so that the people of the United States can cut loose from the con­ trol of foreign extortioners who regulate the supply to suit themselves and regu­ late prices to fill their own coffers. Ac­ cording to the London Guardian the tin plate exports of Great Britain to the United States amount to $22,500,000 an­ nually, and to that extent, therefore, tho American people have been a prey to for­ eign restricters of production. -- Da Moines Register. 0 A Tariff Picture. Numbtfr of (neat meals which the! Workman bas in on* week: Irtish Number of meat meals which the Ameri­ can workman has In one week: 21 --New York Press. Suwanee Fitted the Line. "Did you ever hear how 'Suwanee River' was written V "Don't think I ever did." "Well, Steph Foster--Stephen C. Foster was his full name--was in the zenith of his popularity when he wrote the words," said my friend to me. "He had written the song in the frame house on Sandusky street, in Alle­ gheny, but he couldn't find the name of a river that suited him. Finally, he went over to the office of his brother, Morrison Foster, sat down on his desk and said: 'Morrison. I've got a new darky song here, and it's complete ex­ cept the name of the river. I want a Southern river, with only two or three syllables. Give me one, won't you V "Morrison suggested several, but they didn't suit. Then he took down an atlas, ran his eye over the Southern States for a few' minutes and finally said: 'Here's a river down in Florida by the name of Suwanee, how will that do?' " 'That's it, that's it,' exclaimed tho song writer, jumping down from the desk. 'It's just what I want,' and pick­ ing up a pen he inserted the name of the river that has since become the title of one of the sweetest and most pathetic of melodies. I believe that Stephen C. Foster never thought very much of the piece himself until after it had taken its place among the popular songs of the century."--Philadelphia Press. RIDER HAGGAED has gone to Mexico to get materials for a new novel. Since the appearance of Stanley's last novel, the scenes of which are laid in' Africa, Mexico ia about the only *e-> maining country left to lie abont. ' -A , . v * . b ' F-i ' : LO.THF. poor Indian, with aotstond mind His hair unkempt and trousers oat behlm Streaks (be broad prairie like a shooting I With !«li intent and devil bent for ha'r. What Onr Neighbors Are Doiag of General ,aa<t l>ocai Interest -- Mar> riages anil Dcatln AcvldenU and Crimea --Pemonal Pointers. GKOKOE IIAKRIS. of Newbera, who, demented by illness.: is suiciding by starvation, is still alive, and the thirty- first day of his abstinence closed with no marked change in his condition. Thinking to deceive him, his attendant gave him so i 1 extract of beef in water. He took two sjyjo ! *ula ^ ifore discover­ ing the deception, when he spurned it and has taken nothing since. The nourishment in his sfomaCh produced the most acute pain, which threw him into convulsions, but he finally passed into a restless sleep. His friends have given up hope, and are preparing for what they know mn^t soon come. The man's body now is Httle more than a skeleton, and every bone protrudes with ghastly prominence. The feet are be­ ginning to chill, and undeniable signs of death are plainly visible. THE bondsmen of J. J. Fields, Treas­ urer of Morgan County, who was found short about $12,700, appointed agents to sell his personal property and land enough to cover the entire deficiency. Wim.K a Grand Trunk train was run­ ning fifty miles per hour, near Hamilton, Ont., it jumped the track, Stephen E. Young of Chicago was one of the injured, and sued for Si5,000. The courts have just awarded him $7,000. The ease is a most important one, as it is the first of a long series against the company growing put of the same accident. MRS. WILSON, a colored woman of Chicago, fell dead 09 the street. Heart disease. ) PASTOR WILLIAMS and his congrega­ tion at Englewood are having trouble, "tie is requested to resign. | PATTL MARTIN, an old soldier, who was thirteen months a prisoner in Anderson- Ville, was put off a train at Chicago last Saturday, after having been robbed of his railroad ticket and purse. His home Is at Montreal, and the police helped him forward. HKKMANX SMITT and Chas. Henricks Suicided at Chicago by hanging, the first through melancholia and the other be­ cause of business troubles. THE new Masonic Temple in Winches­ ter has been dedicated. Grand Master |J. M. Pierson of Illinois and about sev- iijenty-five Masons, with their families, tarere present. GEN. MILKS has retnrned from Pine Bidge with forty-four of the leaders of the Indian uprising. Thirty of his chargos ave at Fort Howard, while the rest have gone to Washington. ^ MRS. ALRKKT HUKT, Frogtown, dis­ appeared suddenly. She drove to Car- lyle, left her horse hitched to the rack at the public square, and has not been seen or heard from since. AT Chicago. John Hansborough, the captain of the Leland Hotel bell boys, discharged Riley Rutfin, a negro, 21 years old, from Omaha, and was- fatally slashed wkh a razor. ABRAHAM JOFFK, a Chicago grocer, was fatally hurt by a grip car. AN unknown man at Cliicago, took two ounces of laudanum, turned the gas 011 full head, laid down with a loaded revolver in his grasp, and peacefully died. THK Auditorium, at Chicago, held thousands of people at the celebration of Burns' birthday. JOHN BELCKR was killed at Corwith by a Santa Fe train. FIRE in the lumber yard of Moller & Vandenboom, at Quincy, burned about one-third of their lumber. Loss, $8,000; partially insured. "OH, my God, I thank you," cried Mrs. Celestine M&rtei in Jud^e Tuthill'a court, at Chicago, as she fell on her knees in front of the jury that had just returned a verdict of "not guilty" in her trial for the murder of Patrick Brenan. AT Clinton Mrs. Speedy A. Richards, who is an a -tive temperance and church worker, is insane on these subjects, and was taken to Kankakee. AT Auburn T. S. Parks, president of the Auburn Bank, was caught by an •ngine and instantly killed. AT Chicago Frank Morrison, an ad- 7ertising solicitor for a Toronto publica­ tion, fell down stairs and broke his neck. AT Litchfield the drought is so serious that coal mines, mills and machine shops have depended upon water shipped in oil tanks. AT Clinton Mrs. 8. A. Richards was ad­ judged insane. , MRS. CATHERINE BURLING, aged 60, was run over by a buggy in Chicago and fatally hurt. MRS. HENRIETTA OTTO, of Chicago, was fatally burned by the explosion of a gasoline stove. WITHIN thirty minutes, at Chicago, two men got into a quarrel with Boss Bricklayer Cummings, brutally beat him, were arrested and fined S:?5 and costs. C. O'BRIEN, of Detroit, was killed by an Illinois Central train at Chicago. THE Erring Woman's Refuge, in Chicago, saves hundreds of young girls and women yearly. A MAN in Chicago overheard a post- office clerk tell a Northwestern National Bank messenger that the bank's mail would be ready^n fifteen minutes, and asked for it Jiirnself. He got it. but it contained no negotiable papers. No ar­ rests. Wsi. CONNORS, of Quincy, will serve four years for stealiug a cloak from the Mayor's wife. IN Chicago, J. M. Norris, a wealthy young Englishman, was fatally slashed with a razor by a negro. THE Hibernian Rifles of Chicago want to be admitted to the National Guard, but Gov. Fifer objects on the ground of cconomy. Gus METER, a Quincy pain|QT, fell seventy-five feet and was killed* W. J. MCHPHY, of Chicago, a year ago eloped with a yotfng girl, and has since shamefully abused her, because she didn't support him. While he was beat­ ing her she hit him over the head with a brick, and he had her arrested. Tho court found out the facts, and he will probably go to prison. GEORGE HARRIS, of Newburn. becom­ ing disgusted with being an invalid, an­ nounced on Dec. 28 that he would never eat another mouthful of food, and has so far kept his word CARRIE NASSAU, a Chicago domestic, suicided in tho presence of her lover. THE Auditor of the State has issued a permit to Elmore A. Kimball, Albert H. TyrreL and William H. Pope to organ­ ize the Nickel Savings Bank at Chicago, with a capital stock of $500,000. MIXNIK DEEHIXG died in Chicago un­ der suspicious circumstances. Joseph Hoffmau, who claimed to be her husband, administed au overdose of carbolic acid. MRS. FRIESE suicided at a Chicago hotel by taking laudanum. She was a victim of melancholia, induced by her husband's death two years ago. A SNUFF factory burned in Chicago, entailing a loss of $9,000: insured. A CHARITY ball for the benefit of tha ON the 23d, the leaders of decided to hold their forces in until the Senatorial content fai furloughs will be issued member* to the city. Kisrht more ballots were but 110 change developed. Neither did any business of importance la session. The three F. M. B. A. nounce that they will stick to StMMftimv a*# that In case of absentees in either other two parties they will refrain voting if they can thus prevent a qnSjMitfe*!' They do not propose, they say, either party an advantage over then>se)viM» and will use all means to protect their writ, candidate. In the House a lively iHim stem , arose over the action of Alabama. Legislature in declining to take step® tor that State's representation at the Wt.rld's* t Fair until the force blil Is dispoaett of in ; Congress. A resolution to Instruct the Illi- nois delegation tn Congress to oppose the force bill was undisposed of when adjourn­ ment was bad. Is the ballot for Senator, on the Xfth, IM, M. B. A. member Taubeneck created a naoa> f profound sensation by voting for -Johlt Palmer. Democrats were elated. Republi­ cans apprehensive, and everybody CM ttlHk; tip-toe of expection until Mr. name was called, when he shoot*# Streetcr." The count of the 1* no change from former ones. , and Kowand bad agreed to exchange " plinients and surprise their colleague*, iiM^r they did. In the Senate the day was paiMril In the introduction of bills and receivllgPi reports from the Governor. In the ' Feb. § was. set apart to receive sugftcenma ' from th% State Association, County Supse* : visors and County Boards relative needed legislation. A bill was Intw4iwl providing for the care and custody of the Lincoln monument at Springfield, and to prohibit any association from charging an admission fee to sec it. Ox the morning of the 27th a vast crowd of spectators assembled to hear the Sena- * toriai balloting, but the thirty-seventh bal­ lot developed no change. Mr. Streeter was not in the city, and the announcement by the F. M B. A. members that J hey would continue to support him until he arrived Ml to the belief that some Important change Is intended soon. The House passed a res­ olution condemning the election Mil hi Congress. The Senate had adopted rule* practically the same as last Session. A bill war; Introduced providing for the enlarge­ ment at the insane hospitals of the! and the placing of one lady physician each hospital board. The farmer mt in the House attacked the Railroad Warehetise Commissions. IN the 9«pate, on the 28th, bills were in­ troduced to place municipal funds at inter­ est, the income to go to the cities; to allow compromise by litigants before verdlet fa given; to allow seine drawing in navlgahl# streams and tributaries; to reimburse hette of Alexander Bruce for work on Coppnaa Creek dam; fixing legal rate of Interact aft 5 per cent- and limiting it to 7; IncreasteK Justices' jurisdiction to cases involi $1,000; providing 8200 penalty for abase < children; prohibiting docking of talis; to suppress shooting pigeons at 1 aments. In joint session the forty-l ballot for Senator resulted in no change, is rumored that the F. M. B. A. will desert Streeter and support Moore. EVERT member of the joint assembly wa»: present on the 20th, and four ballots--tb«r. ; forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, * ' v seventh--were taken with no chan| move," said Mr. VanPraagof the cratic side, "that after the next ballet two candidates receiving the lowest »iw , ber of votes be dropped from the OQlites>»,*'-^;jji [Applause and laughter on the Demoantila side.] "While the Chair would like torafta that the gentleman's motion ia kt Otto,* said the Speaker, "yet he is compelled . der the circumstances to exclude tfc* [Laughter.] In the House, Messrs. mm." and Kirby protested against the aetkMief the House in instructing Illinois Congress­ men to oppose the election bill. The F. WL ' B, A. resolution denouncing the pc«asa$ Railroad and Warehouse Corumissien, declaring such Commissioners should ' elected by vote of the people aad with the control of stockyards dhafgeSb ^^f ,W 4is, referred to the Committee on Elections. ballot reform league bill was taftra^Maf.lia^wi both houses, and explained by Judge"Tuley» It is a modification of the Australian sys­ tem of voting. ^ H The World's PopwJatloa. Here are some interesting fact the people who compawthe poptj of the v'fcrld. Therf are It064 languages world, Mul. its fnttaintwsta prole than 1,00(1 religions. The number of men is about eqnal fc> the number of women. The avmgt of life is about 33 years. One qntttMT die f revious to the age of 17. To ev--y. 1,000 persons only one reaches ICQ years of life. To every 100 only tit reach the age of 65, and not am# than one in 500 lives to 80 years ot Age* fj There are on the earth 1,000,000,000 inhabitants; of these 93,033,038 dia i'; every year, 91,824 every day. 3,790 every hour and 60 every minuto or 1 every second. l*he married are longer lived than % fj tho single, aai above s!I those who ob- '^1 serve a sober and industrious oondsot. Tall men live longer than short OMfc * >>• Women have more chances of life itt. thefe favor previous to 50 years ol 'C terwara. ***.£ than men have, but fewer aft The number of marriages is in * portion of 75 to every 1,000 individuals. # Marriages are more frequent altar' > equinoxes--that is, during the months of June and December. r .; ;i Those born in spring are generally of a more robust constitution uian oth­ ers. Births are more frequent by night than by day; also deaths. . The number of men eapable of boar- ing arms is calculated at one-fourth of the population. Troubles of the Bleb. -It's a little difficult for a mil maa to afford all the pleasure to the poor that he would like," said a millionaire the other day. "Now I have an un­ usually fine collection of orchids and chrysanthemums in my hot-honse% ^ and wishing to do some good with thest I threw them open one day in thow«ffc^ to the inspection of the publio; the many expressions of envy and d||i* satisfaction the sight of them erokal from many of those who came t*> Sfltt v the flowers, which expressions X and ; my gardeners could not fail to over-. hear, made me doubtful if I had not inspired thoughts by the sight of Bijv floral treasures and the inferences that were drawn from them of my wealth that would better have lain dormant. Bo I set a day on which I would chugs an admission fee to my hot-houses, and > I gave the proceeds to charity. Not r long afterward, while passing a grosp> of loungers on a corner, I heard one m them say: 'There goes the millionaire that gets a big name for generosity Iff charging his neighbors 50 cents aadk to see his flowers, and then gives the money irwliis own name to charity.' I sometimes feel that a rich man has as • good an excuse as the poor one far ̂ being stingy. His motive in giving much or little is generally impugned. --New York Tribune. t Awthors of Familiar QuotnUo®#- ̂ DRAX SWIFT is credited with "Bread TIL $ the staff of life." IT was Keats said: -A thin* of beauty Is a joy forever. * "MAS proposes, but God i marked Thomas a Kempis. FKAXKI.I V is authority for "Sod helps those who help themselves. * "Ai.i. cry and no wool!* is an txprse- sion found in Butler's "Hudawraa." WE are indebted to T'olley Cibher. not to Sbakspeare, for "Kichani is himaelf again." IT was an observation of HMMMMV ' go»t heme that "Pity's akin to tort.1* "M