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Clients flainilealet I. VAN 8LYKE, Editor and Publisher. i l c H E N R Y , . . . I L L I N O I S . - .. ~r -- -~Ti-rT >rz >' J^NOLAHt eats An&tralias epgs ' -r- *--'• * ALASKA baa the largest quartz ra2L world is full of rascal* w1u> *(» ^ yelling "whip behind." ; ?:. ??To BEVEAL its complacence by gifts ia «Oe of the native dialects ol love. IIANT a Congressman jjenvies a mos- pito. His bill always goes through. WK may shut our ep to a painful truth; but we don't aha/our ears--if it's • about somebody else. % |;jMAN was made to mourn, but he has tBiied thing* so that hia wife has taken v '&e job off his hands. V, * CONSIDER the man who la always franctual--how much time he wastes waiting for other people. THE famous Mercer or Neshannock • potatoes are natives of the soil of Mer- - .1'County, Pa., and hence the name. THE rate of increase in population of Tacoma during the last ten years was 5,500 per cent. For rapidity of growth 0 this probably beats Anything hereto­ fore recorded. SfU • THE 'decrease of the shipbuilding of tbe United Kingdom during 1890 Amounts to 29,823 tons in the aggre­ gate, but the production of the Scottish yards has increased by 21,000 tons. IF the man who takes up a whole seat in a ear, while somebody else stands, will try the plan of sharing his seat with Borne one else, he will be sur­ prised to find how much more comfort­ able the seat will become. * - A FOREIGN physician has discovered goats are not subject to consump­ tion. The general belief has been that that they beat all known quadrupeds on -consumption, and took in everything from a circus poster to an oyster can. IiADY^Annie Brunt, granddaughter of Lord Byi'on, with her husband and lit­ tle daughter is located on the border of the Egyptian desert near Cairo. Her house is a tent, and she has adopted the •dress and customs of the Arab. "INNOCENT," who writes to know what a grand dutchess is, is informed that, as her title implies, she is a very grand personage who usually makes a stir in the world three times during her life-- when she is born, when she is married, and when she dies. THE locomotive telephone signal en­ ables two trains approaching each other to communicate by closing the circuit when two miles apart. The ringing of a gong warns the engineers, who can converse with each other over the tele­ phone. , A STEEL clip, to facilitate the pulling •0® or taking off of rubber overshoes, has been invented. It is inserted in the upp^r part of the heel, and opens or the shoe, as may be required. " A ring which is connected with the dip aervea to pull the shoes on or off. QUEBEC wants to find a purchaser for her Plains of Abraham, which are al- ways tumbling down about her ears and making trouble. They are wari anted to be ia fair condition, will stand in any climate, and the purchaser will be -required to take them away this year. THE depositors in a private institution in a Kansas town were getting ready to make a run, as the banker was reported short, but before they could do so he left by way of the back door and took all the cash in his carpet-bag. He rea­ soned that in his case it was better to run than be run on. r A eccentric old bachelor named Frank Ebeling died the other day at Atchison, Kan. He had been engaged in the grain business, and among his assets are 3,000 bushels of wheat which lie had in his warehouse five years. He leiuscd to sell them because the price never reached his mark of value. SOME ladies have been telling a con­ temporary how to train a husband. It seems to be taken for granted that man is an obstreperous animal that must be liaudled with care; and that is about the truth of the matter. Perhaps if he tried, he might be better, but he is so much of a child that he must be cod­ ded. IF there were laws under which the quail, partridges, turkeys, geese and other wild fowl and birds could be ab­ solutely protected for the space of twen­ ty-five years, the United States could gain $40,000,000 in the increase of crops. No such laws can be made, however. Humanity must have something to ahoot at, even if only a frog. erness in a little country village ol Russia, and she still possesses traces of beauty. Sho is a woman of iron will and stern resolution. At one time, finding it impossible to conquer her, the Russian Government is said to have offered her a bribe of 10,000,000 rubies to quit the cause of anarchy and leave the oountry. THE New Yprk Star tqUs of a man who, in coming from Odessa, brought with him a small quantity of the best Turkish tobacco. Before leaving the vessel he spread it ®ut and folded it in large silk handkerchiefs and placed it next the "kin under his vest. This in no degree gave him a buspicious full­ ness, but it was as much as he could do to walk ashore and tear this horrible poultice from him. Tobacco thus ap­ plied is one of the most powerful of emetics. WHEN Mr. and Mrs. Stanley reached Buffalo they were assigned the bridal chambers in the Niagara Hotel. Sev­ eral wealthy and fashionable ladies living in the house thought itv would be a delicate compliment to fix up the rooms with their own home belongings. They did &•>, thinking to reclaim them in a few hours. Mrs. Stanley, not knowing of the sacrifice, was so charmed with their apartments that she and her husband kept them several days. The kind-hearted decorators stood it as best they could. THE Emperor of Germany, while en­ tertaining much more freely than his grand father did, has a keen eye to economy. The imperial kitchen, par­ ticularly, is managed with an eye to business. In order to avoid' the im­ mense wastage which has occurred at the palace in former times, whenever a banquet is given, the Emperor has fixed the price, per person, at which his guests are to be served, and makes his cooks and servants answer, to a penny, for expenditures. DR. OSWALD says soothing syrups are nothing but treacle mixed with the most hellish poison known to crime and de­ pravity, that they exert a health-blight- ing influence to the end of the victim's life and are largely responsible for the sallow appearance of those children who have for years been fuddled with the infernal drug. He prefers the method of the Zanzibar slave dealer who quiets squalling brats by banging their wooly heads against a post until they are hushed, as he thinks the after effects are less disastrous. THE inhabitants of The Hague are delighted at once more having royalty in their midst, and the sight of the day is the little Queen taking her afternoon drive in a sleigh drawn by four ponies. Both the Queens lead the simplest of lives, and Queen "Wilhelmina has re­ turned to her books and masters just as if she was still at Het Loo., Her fa­ ther's old nurse (who had be£n present at his birth in Brussels) died two or three days since, at the age of 100, and was buried with great state in the Ca­ thedral of Breda, THE report of the Forests Commission to the New York Legislature on the proposed Adirondack State Park pro­ vides for a tract of 2,307,760 acres, of which the State at present owns about one qrfarter. This will certainly be one of the most magnificent parks in exist­ ence. There will be nearly GO,000 acres of water suitable for boating aud hunt­ ing excursions. The total value of the land within the proposed park is $651,- 000. It is thought that the Legislature may possibly push the western line of the park over the northern portion of the adjacent land and include 500,000 acres, which are now in danger of being taken up by timber speculators. "NOTHING wearies a railroad traveler more than a straight track," says an old r a i l r o a d m a n . " A n y r o a d w i t h f i f t y miles of straight track would Jbe shunned for oue with three or four curves in that distance. I know legions of people who put themselves out to go by reads which wind afid curve and give a new bit of scenery every few minutes." KRUPP, the German cannon-maker, figures up that he has been responsible for the death of 650,000 men on the bat­ tlefield. Then, he turns over the shin­ gle aud figures that these 650,000 men would have died from over-eating and over-drinking, aud he pushes the but­ ton and tells the foreman to turn out five ftore full butteries. VERA SASSCLITCH has been the cause of more alarm to the Czar than all the other Russian anarchists oombined. In har early years she waa a pretty gov- Hrftlsli Refrigerating- Wilps, Our food supply has been largely in­ creased by the application of apparatus for mechanical refrigeration to ships. Our frozen meat trade with New Zea­ land is of recent development, and it has already reached enormous propor­ tions. At present twenty-seven steam­ ers and ten sailing vessels, all fitted with mechanical refrigeration machin­ ery, are engaged in this trade. The aggregate tonnage of these twenty- seven steamers is 123,000 tons, or an average tonnage of about 4,500 tons, while that of the sailing ships is 10,000 tons, or an average of 1,000 tons each. It will thus be seen that thirty-seven vessels are engaged in this trade, of 133,000 tons total carrying capacity. The total frozen meat cargo which these vessels can carry in a single year amounts to the enormous number ot 2,- 250,000 carcasses, which certainly gives some idea of the great importance of this trade. It is estimated that not more than 1,500,000 will be available for the trade this year, 60 that the car­ rying capacity is more than sufficient for the present volumn of trade.-- Steamship. Why Peach Trees Die loung-. The cultivated peach is supposed to have descended from a small native tree of Persia, or at least South Central Asia, bearing an acrid, poisonous fruit, scarcely, if ever eatable. The almond is considered a selected off-shoot from the peach, and both bred from time im­ memorial, the peach in the line of its goodness of pulp, and the almond in the line of goodness of its kernel or seed, for food or luxuries for man. The peach has been selected from seedlings, since long before the dawn of man's history, in the line of its delicious pulp, or, as we call it, its fruit alone, without any reference whatever to the health, vigor or hardiness of the tree. This breeding constantly in one line alone has resulted in the whole race of stock becoming enfeebled and diseased. This feebleness and liability of tree, fol­ iage and tree to diseases, such as tho yellows, rot of the fruit, curl of the leaf and the inability to withstaud cold and climatic changes, seems to increase.ren- dering this, the easiest of all fruits for the pioneers of this country to grow, the hardest now to fruit successfully.-- Farm and Fireside. IF you are run over by a hearse it is almost a sure sign that there will be a funeral in your family. SOME men must think that the lamp of life is a spirit-lamp, judging from the way they pour in the alcohol. RECIPROCITY TREATY. NSW RELATIONS WITH ;/ BRAZIL. r> < W® Have Keanon to Be Oratlfiecl by the Karly Accomplishment of tne Treaty-- Wh»t the Immediate Effect Will i'e. The President has reason to bo grat­ ified by tho early accomplishment of this important treaty and its cordial ap­ proval by the people of this country. Even a hostile press has not discovered grounds for assailing it, except by insin­ uations concerning the motives of both the parties to it, or by paltry lies about it The immediate effect of this treaty will be to give the United States an important advantage in the markets of Brazil, without, in turn, granting any advantage to Brazil, except such as may arise from the cheapening of cost and tho wider distribution of our staple products and of certain kinds of ma­ chinery among the Brazilian people. We do not open our ports more widely, or admit any articles from Brazil free which were not already free, or, in tho case of sugar, soon to be free to all other nations. It is, therefore, natural that speculations should be indulged in as to the motive which has persuaded the Brazilian Government to assent to this, at first sight, one-sided treaty. No doubt the course of eveuts will solve this puzzle It may be reason­ ably surmised that other countries from which we receive coffee, sugar, molasses and hides free will be warned that these articles will be put upon the dutiable list when coming from those countries, unless satisfactory reciprocal ari angements; can be made, involving liberal reductions of the tariff of those countries on „our staple productions. Should these countries respond satisfac­ torily Brazil would have no advantage over them. But should they fail to re- ducts, and giving freights to our own ships. President Harrison, by the negotiation of the reciprocity treaty with Brazil, has made a great stop toward the enlarge­ ment of our trade with foreign nations, • pairing ssy ot-1.tie defenses of our home industries. Will the national legislature sustain the President by pro­ viding those measures which are ponsab!c to its success? ^ FREE COINAGE. ^ An Explanation of What It Really Meau«- What does free coinage mean? Simply this, that the Government agrees to pay to the rich silver mino owners of tho world SI.29 for every SI.05 worth of sil­ ver that they mine. What reason is there that tho Government should pay a premium to silver men--many of whom are already millionaires? If the Govern­ ment pays'91.29 for $1.05 worth of silver, why should it not pay the farmer $1.29 for every $1.05 worth of wheat or corn that ho faises? Under the present coin­ age act this profit of about 20 cents on the dollar goes to the Government and is shared by all the people. If the far­ mers should favor full coinage--that is, that the Government buy all the Ameri­ can silver that is offered and coin it, and let the profits on such coinage go into tho National Treasury, their position, it seems to us, would be much wiser and much more defensible. Tho best theory of goverment is that special favors-shall be shown to none--especially not to sil­ ver men. The man who owns a silver mine should not have a Government guarantee of an undue advantage over the wheat grower, the cattle raiser, or the coal miner. The farmers who favor free coinage do so, no doubt, in the hope of securing a needed increase in currency. But there are other ways of increasing the currency--ways that are less expensive ana less hazardous. It is a costly busi- THE DUET OF THE SAINT AMD THE SINN**. MuchnoUe, but mighty little of that much-advertised Democratic harmony. Jt'xlgc. spond satisfactorily, and our duties on sugar, coffee, hides and molasses bo re imposed as to them, then, and only in such cases, would Brazil reap any advant age from tho treaty in a larger share of our trade. It is probable, therefore, that the present reciprocity treaty is only the lirst step toward opening the ports of many other tropical or semi-tropical countries to our agricultural and manu facturcd products. But there is another important consid eration. The advantages of this or any other similar treaty depend upon the special terms accorded to this country as to the rates of duty imposed on its pro ductions Whenever these or similar terms are accorded to other nations, our advantages cease. The question ift>w suggests itself: How long will the great trading and manufacturing nations of Europe quietly submit to the diversion of their Brazilian trade to the United States? t We do not attach special im p irtauce to the favored-nation clause. But it isclear that the Brazilian Govern­ ment must, uflrter all rules of intcrna- tion comity, show valid reasons for tho preference -given by this treaty to exports from the United States or grant the same privileges to all others. Here, then, is a puzzle for time to solve. We shall follow the de­ velopments under the new treaty with gr. at interest. The subject is worthy the brilliant statesman from whose fer tile brain the scheme of reciprocity pro­ ceeded, and who, we arc confident, will tind the way to remove every obstacle to its success. The importanco of our tradb with Brazil is admitted. In the year ending June 30, 1890, it amounted to $71,221,182, of .which $59,318,756 were exports to Brazil and 8111,902,420 were imports This exceeds the trade of Brazil with any other country, and was by far larger than the business of any pre­ ceding year. The largest trade in formei* 'years was in 1881, when it amounted to nearly $62,000,000, The trade with Great |fa-itain in 1881 amounted to $64,000,00jpf?/and in 1888 to $57,000,000. The chief articles of import and ex­ port for 1889 were a9 follows: Wheat, bushels Wheat flour, bbls Cottons, colored, yards.... Cottons, plain, yards Agricultural implements.! Scientific instruments,etc. Machinery, not specified.. tiro arms "... Kaws and tools Hewing machines Lard oil. gals liosin, bbls 1 Uuminatlng oils, gals.... Other oils, gals locomotives, ctc Bacon, lbs Pork, pickled, lbs Lard, lbs Manufactures of silk Spirits turpentine Leans and peas Board, deals and planks.. 8a wed timber The imports of leading articles for the same period follow: Quantity. Valne. Coffee, lbs .....310,005,021 .$43,864,127 Cocoa, etc., lfcs 2.125,611 192,803 Fruits . 0,..... 02,3^3 Goatskins *"• 1,783,030 All other skins...; 334,816 Eubber and gutta percha, crude, lbs 20.819,950 9,157,248 Sugar, lbs 73,80(1,970 1,659,251 Clothing wools <17,981 9,425 Carpet wools 175,G97 13,905 Quantity. Value. 1,768,234 81,616,158 68-7,341 3,304,9.0 4,671,002 383,503 5,821,715 396,478 49,500 85,453 120,180 30,254 161,717 60,558 KUOfi 39,601 50,'.U8 91,738 8,£9.3,205 876,641 1'28,301 49,031 392,000 4,971,4®) 387,038 927,490 69,835 17.920,500 1,509,255 17.920,500 22,111 58,287 43,189 380,250 36,769 The disavantage of the trade as it is now carried on between Brazil and the United States consists in tho fact that our excess of imports must be paid for by shipments of goods to Brazil from Europe, thus furnishing a market for European industries and freights for foreign ships. It is proposed under the new treaty to pay for our imports with our exports, making a market for our own products, instead of European pro- ness for tho Government to* pay 20 cents to the silver men for every dollar that is added to the circulating medium. Neither is it clear that free coinage will increase tho circulating medium. There is every reason to believe that the moment free coinage is a law there will begin a rapid retirement of gold. .Europe will ship its silver to this country the moment tho Government offers to pay 20 cents more than its market value American gold will cross the Atlantic in exchango. The retirement of gold means the withdrawal of £600,0;)0,000 from tin1 cir­ culating medium, a loss to thrt business of the country that will bo enormous. But free coinage, as Senator Sherman says, will mean more than driving gold iuto retirement. It will mean the sub­ stitution of the silver standard for tho gold standard. With .'S71 grains of silver substituted for the 25.8 grains of gold, the present standard, it means the de­ preciation of the whole circulating me­ dium, for the price of silver is not regu­ lated by the value that Congress places upon it, but what it brings in the markets of tho world, the same as tho price of wheat is fixed. It would seem that tho circulating medium could bo increased until it is ample for all business of the country without going to the hazardous experi­ ment of the Government paying tho sil­ ver speculators $J. 29 for $1.05 of silver. --Den Moines Register. Farmers and the Tar lit Facts go to show that protection has its warmest friends among the agricultu­ ral classes. The New England Home­ stead, of Springfield. Mass., and tho Farm mid Home, of Chicago, have made an extensive postal card canvass for tho purpose of obtaining the views of farm­ ers on the new tariff bill and on reciproc­ ity. There were 110,000 responses to the questions asked. They Lave been tabulated as follows: , Will the new Will Canadian tariff help reciprocity American farm- benefit farm­ er s as a whole ? era ? Yes. No. Yes. No. New England 2U.87J 7,408 8,825 20 9(58 Middle (States 18,4:17 12,551 8,128 Central StateB 10,812 Northwest.. 1.405 Western 3,773 Pacific.. 3o<> fcouth.. 1,59'i 22.245 9,2J3 9,106 10,472 901 1,241 824 3,533 3,842 3,333 116 78 247 3,241 1,082 2,146 Totals 57,258 39,133 32,902 60,237 Evidently the farmers do not feel that they are oppressed by the operation of the tariff. How Bismarck Heramo a Protectionist. On Friday week Prince Bismarck re­ ceived a deputation from the manufact­ uring tovirn of Dortmund, which came to present to the Prince tho freedom of thoir city. The ex-Chancellor thanked the deputation for the high honor they had done him, and, among other things, said: "Up to the seventies I was, by con­ viction, an adherent of free trade, and, so to speak, born and bred to it. Until tho year 1870 I was so much occupied by foreign affairs that I was not able to de­ vote myself with energy to economic questions. After 1870 foreign affairs became quieter, and when, in the course of time, I saw one blast furnace after another being put out and the national industry retrograding more and more, I became convinced that some change was necessary.--Edinburgh Weekly Stjotsmaiu THERE are over eight hundred thou­ sand more widows than widowers in England. The Westminster Review, in discussing the subject, attributes the disparity chiefly to the growing disposition of men to marry late in life, under which circumstances they generally ma*ry persons younger than themselves, which the Review con­ siders a serious evil in modern society. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. ITEMS GATHERED PROM VARI. OUS SOURCES." What Oar Neighbors \ro Daing-Mattert of General and Local Interest -- Mar­ riages and Deaths--Accidents and Crimea --Personal Pointer*. QVINCY was excited over the escape of tho condemned murderer, Dan Porter, from the county jail. Porter was to have been hanged March 20 for the mur­ der of E. D. Smith, but notwithstanding the fact that the death sentence had been pronounce:! the Sheriff had exercised no extra precautions for his safekeeping. Porter had by some means procured an impression of the locks of the jail doors, and with a knife, a brnom handle, and the metal of a mouth harmonica made duplicate keys. About 1 o'clock at night he openod his coll door, rasscd into the corridor, opened that door, and then into the jailer's room. There he secured a couple of revolvers, and then he wont i.ito the bath-room. There he met the Sheriff, who was taking a bath, and drove him out at the point of the pistol. Porter then bent down three of the light bars guarding the outside window, crawled through, and made Ms escape. Posses scoured the country all around Quincy, and thfl house of almost every colored person in town was searched, but not tho slightest clew to tho fugitive was discovered. He is said to be a native of the Sandwich Islands. Gov. Fifer has offered a reward of §200 for his arrest. THE Pullman Car Company his deter­ mined to have nothing more to do with the men who struck recently. They were informed that under no con^ideiation toould they tie permitted to return and that their places would bo tilled at once. A committee of the strikers waited upon Manager Tourtelot and asked that any vacancies that remained might be tilled by the old employes at the wages offered by the company. The committee was told that there Were no vacancies, suf­ ficient men having already been engaged to fill tho shops. The strikers will leave their homes at once, their leases expiring on March 15. WHEN Captain Ned Napier, of the tug Fasiiion, walked more than four miles on the ice between the cribs out in the lake, the other day, vesselmen said it was a feat uupti^llelcd in the log of the lakes. THE residence of ex-Governor Richard J. Oglesby, near Elkhart, burned." Th•! loss on building and contents is es­ timated at SS.'V.OOO. Mrs. Oglesby waa slightly burnod. Ar Chicago, Dora Goldman,-" yeart old, was run over'by a coal wagon and crushed to death CI.AV HAYES, of Illiopolis, two yeara old aud weighing only four pounds, died. He had not gained in weight from liia birth. Gov. FIFKR pardoned Edward Walker who was sent to tho Chester Penlten» tiary in 1 SS'l from Madison County on fr seventeen-year sentence for the murder of ono Robinson at a dance. IIKXIIV T\VE<I(IS was instantly killed at Springfield by the caving in of a sowef in which he was working. THE internal revenue collections for tho month of February for tho Peoria district show a considerable failing off, amounting to only $1,573,847. There were 1,739,700 tax-paid gallons and 27f« packages were shipped for export. THE body of C. M. Croswell was found lying in his bed at the Richmond Hotel in Chicago. Little was known of him beyond that ho was from Michigan. Ho WJJS about 35 years old, 5 foet 8 inches tall, and wore fairly good clothing. Nff poison was fount' to indicate that he committed suicido. AN epidemic of erysipelas is prevail­ ing in the neighborhood about, two miles southeast of Auburn. Two deaths hav« already occurred, aud a number of per­ sons are afllictod. The last victim was K. It. Crumpler. cashier of the Divernon Hank. W. E. WI.VFKEY, editor and publisher of the Eni-erfyrise^ at Wickilffe, Ky., was arrested by Cairo officers, charged with obtaining j?250 from tho Alexander Coun­ ty National Hank on a note to which ho had forged the names of .1. H. Brown and W. R. Turk, two well-known citi­ zens of Wickliffc: also J. McKay, of Ar­ lington, Ky. Mns. MATIM>A DRAPES, an aged lady of Vandaiia, slipped and fell upon the sidewalk, and sustained injuries that are likely to provo fatal. AT Rood City, Tim Stevenson stabbed Simmon Early to death Infuriated miners assembled with the intention of lynching the murderer, when the Sheriff appeared with a posse and succeeded in taking him to jail at Peoria. Coi.uxsviM.H and neighboring towns have for a long timo been suffering un der the depredations of a band of bur­ glars. The City Marshal of Colllnsville. with the aid of one of the "gang," ar­ rested six burglars while they were in tho act of robbing a store in that city. Three of those were the Redmond boys, who have heretofore borne an ex­ cellent reputation as honest, re­ spectable young farmers. The other three are Aleck Leslie, .John Walden, and Ed Nelson. The robber leader is said to bo one William Kincaid, of Casey- ville. An officer has been on his trail, but has not yet located his whereabouts. Two other citizens of Collinsville are be­ ing shadowed by detectives. Du E. P. Mt Koocii, of Chicago, is al­ leged to have prescribed an overdose of laudanum for Robert Walker'% baby, and it died. Mr. Walker sues for S3,000. DAN POUTER, who was confined in the Quincy jail under sentenco of death, for the murder of Edwin D. Smith, knocked the Sheriff down, took his arms, and es­ caped. ISABELLA BKUNSON, an 8-year-old col­ ored girl of Chicago, was fatally burned by a red-hot stove. IN Chicago, while being examined for shooting at L. ft Otterhurg, O. I). Em­ mons, a gambler, lost his temper in court. He was profusely profano and tho Judge profusely liberal with fines, and the blackguard paid S55 in install­ ments of $5 for contempt of court. Ax unknown man was killcd-4n Chi­ cago by a Northwestern train. *He woro good clothes, and had over forty cigar stumps in his iwNiet. JOHN COBII arid Sam Dandy were killed by a boiler explosion at Cairo, and two others were fatally injured. CHICAGO police caught "Billy" Hill, a, one-legged burglar, in the act of break­ ing into a store. JOHN OLSON, of Chicago, in celebrat­ ing the birth of his first-born, got drunk, abused his wife, and paid S100 fine. The Judge expressed his regret that ho couldn't mako tho fine bigger. MAGGIE SAWYER, wife of a Chicago policeman, while embracing her husband, took his revolver from his pocket and killed herself. She had been in poor health for a longtime. MICHAEL FITZGERALD'S wife, in Chi­ cago. spent a few pennies for food, and her husband, a drunken wretch, fatally beat her. WHILE in a bath tub A. J. Hovey fatally slashed himself with a razor. He was transfer agent at Chicago for the C., R. I. &. P. Railway. DURING domestic trouble which has not been explained, Thos. Ilanley, of Chicago, killed his sister Mary with a knife. A Coroner's jury exonerated him. A GLASS-EATING DOG. Hunches Lamp Cliimae?* and dow iilasa with ttreat Gusto. Dogs eat glass? you say. It i* rather startling, but I am going to tell you whtii I kau w it be irae, for I saw it myself, says a writer in the Phila­ delphia Time#. Not long ago I visited a gentleman living in western Alabama* About the yard and the house I noticed a remarkably fine, largo, pointej^og, Carlo by name. Carlo showed so much intelligence in understanding what was said to him and in performing various tricks that it was difficult to believe he could not reason. One day when I was admiring and petting him after some smart perform­ ance ou his part one of the children of the family said to me: . "Wouldn't yon like to Me Carlo eat glass?" "Oh, no!" I replied; "that would kill him." "You are mistaken," Bhe said; "he loves glass," w Thinking it all a joke, I pioked up an empty ink bottle on the table near me and threw it to Carlo. ' "There," I said, "let ua aee hi~aeat that." Carlo, as I expected, d#l not notice the bottle, and the child said arravelv, half offened: "But Carlo doesn't like bottles. He likes lamp chimneys andwindow-Rlass." My curiosiiy was greatly aroused when I had her go to a shelf near by upon which lay quite a pile of broken lamp chimneys, and, picking up & hand­ ful of the fragments, she put them in front of the dog, remarking as she did BO; "We 6ave all the broken lamp chimneys for Carlo." Carlo immediately began picking up the bits of galss, crushiug {them in his mouth and swallowing them. This he continued to do until all the glass had disappeared. I confess I was alarmed,, but the child was fearless about it and said every oue that came to the town had tc pee Cario eat glass. Later I asked the gentleman that owned the dog what ex­ planation he gave of his queer tasta He said tho dog began his glass-eating about two years previously. He could give no reason for it, except that the dog, being quite old, was perhaps un­ able from lack of teeth to chew his food sufficiently for ready digestion and had takeu to swallowing the glass aa fowls swallow sand and pebbles to aid in di­ gesting tho food. I thought, though, that the same teeth that crushed the glass might also chew the food. It will be remembered that Sir Thomas Brown, in his "Popular Errors," says that ho tested the popular idea that ground glass taken into the stomach is poisonous by administering some to a dop, and that it produced no bad effect. As a queer little ending to this tale of a dog, let me tell you about a small blaok-and-tan terrier belonging to the same household. Whenever this little fellow came into the house he made di­ rectly for a chair that had rounds en­ circling the j legs, and gravely seated himself upon the lowest round, his lit­ tle fragment of a tail, cot more than aa inch long, hanging over on the other side. His appearance, when |SO Beated. was intensely amusing to me and my little girl friend, who thought Carlo found something peculiarly palatable, told me how he came to do it. She said some bad boys got hold of the little terrier and cut his beautiful long tail off. While itwas sore it hurt him to sit upon the hard floor, and he found that by sitting on the t chair round and letting his tail hang down he could be comfortable. He either formed the habit of so sitting or else had never realized that his old and natural position would no longer be painful, for he had continued to sit in this way whenever he came into the house. Again I appealed to the gentleman of the house for explanation, when he confirmed all that the child had told me. Managed Her Own Itaneh. What society young ladies can do sometimes is illustrated by the career of a Washington young lady. She has lived iu Washington for a number of years. She has had independent means and has lived under the care of relatives and friends, having no immediate family. She was well known in Wash­ ington society. No one ever would have thought her capable of running a West ern ranch. To jump from the gayeties of Washington to the back of a horse in Texas was a long leap, and yet thia is what this young lady has done. When forced by circumstances to go to Texas to look after her own affairs she invested a part of her fortune in a Texas eattle ranch at that time when such investments were all the rage. She found some time ago that her in­ vestment in this direction was bringing her nothing, and probably would be a loss. As she was a fine horsewoman she made up her mind to utilize the practical part of her education, and she left Washington to take charge of her ranch. She has just returned, after having made a successful trip, and de­ monstrated, after a year of trial, her capacity to run successfully a Texas cattle ranch. She spent hours out of doors every day on horseback, and for her pluck and courage has had the hearty support of the neighborhood for miles around her ranch. It is a novel experience for her, but, as it has taught her the most interesting lesson of in­ dependence, her story Bhould make a good subject for a play. • -New Orleans Picayune. It Didn't Take long, A big man who looked as if he might be a Senator or a rich merchant, a re­ tired banker or something of that sort, walked down the street a few evenings ago, and, stopping under a lamp post, looked intently upward. A policeman saw him and stepped over to that side of the walk to see what it meant. The next man who happened along alsp stopped, and after catching what he thought was the proper range, began to look. Another man, came up and did the same thing. Pretty soon a young fellow and his girl caught sight of the starers and they began to see what there was to be seen. Psesently some one in the rapidly increasing party spoke up: "What does all this mean?" he asked the policeman. Git along wid yez," responded that important official. Just then the big man turned around. "My goodness!" he exclaimed. "What on earth is this crowd here for?" "What are you looking at?" asked ono of the bystanders. "Looking at?" echoed the gentleman; "why, bless me, I WAS only Absorbed in figures.^ "Abet® what?" "I was wondering how long it would take me to block the sidewalk by say­ ing nothing." ILLINOIS LAW- INTEKSK interest was manifested Jn the proceedings of the joint assembly on the 3d. Every Republican member of both i;c pres.*;,** Democrats were disconcerted, when i o'clock arrived, to discover that Represent­ ative Kowand, of Vermillion, was absent The Republicans guyed the Democrats fcjr shouting: "Call the roll; get a new clerk; let's have the j absentee; Kowand will rorat on the next train," and other remark*. Just at this time, however, the Republi­ cans suddenly discovered that one of their men, Moyers, of Franklin, was also ; absent, and the jeers abruptly ceased. T1*® train supposed lo bear Row and finally ar* rived at 12:15, but the Vermillion County man was not aboard. In the meantime * ? message had been received from-Rowan* stating that he had missed the train at De» catur, but would arrive at Springfield at 12:40. Pending the transmission of this message, however, the train lost an hour, and another inessrpge came saying the •' freight train would not be In until 1:40. Moyers had telegraphed that his train had met with an accident and he would be late. At 12:35 the clerk finallv finished the roll-call and 202 members were announced present, Moyers and Rowand being the absentees., This made one absentee from each side. Oil , the 134th ballot the result was: Palmer 106* !Streeter 86, Oglesby 10, Wulff 3. Lindley S, Grosham 1. H. Tatge. attorney of the Chica­ go Lutheran societies, and Ziegler changed from Oglesby to Streeter. The 133th ballot # gave no Important change, and in the ab­ sence ot Representative Moyers the F. If. B. A. members consented to an adjurnme^, IN the House, on the 4th, bills were Intro­ duced as follows: Exempting pharmacists from jury duty; to prevent the manufactu*- ins anU sale of adulterated vinegar; to re­ quire railroad companies to stop at least one passenger train dally each way at all stations of over 700 population; to requiifc milk; dealers to give bonds and make reports of business: making a deficiency appropria* >:i tion of $400 for the office of State Superin­ tendent of Public Instruction: to regulate the sale of railroad tickets and protect- pur­ chasers. It is intended to suppress ticket brokers and scalpers. In the Senate, bills were introduced as follows: Making an appropriation tor a live stock exhibition at the World's Fair; amending"the pv.-seat law In relation to recovery for sheep killed l>y dogs, by allowing the owner of sheep, killed or Injured, to go direet to the County Treasurer and tile his affidavit, the T re as- ,/ urer to enter judgment fcr the sheep killed a- three times their assessed value; pro- , viding for the erection of additional build- Ing-i at Normal to bo used for a training • and practice school, and appropriating $25,- . 000 for that purpose; Sheridan's amendr nient to the game law to extend the time oil shooting of quail front Dec. 1 to Dec. 15 was adopted. In joint session several ballots for Senator were taken, but without result. THE joint session, on the 5th, was intense* ../ ly exciting. On the 141st ballot the vote for Senator stood: rainier, 101; Streeter, !*8; Oglesby, 5. For three successive bal­ lots the result was unchanged, and ad­ journment was had after the 144th. In tb« Senate. Senator Bogardus introduced a bill. which provides for a State food Inspector, wh >se duty will be to look after venders of : * impure milk and grocers who sell sugar mixed with marble dust, bad butter aafc nn>al. An apprt>prlationM>ill for the State Penitentiary at» Jollet whs introduced by Senator Arnold. Tho amount called for to < $3Y,000. Two years ago a committee. co»< > < nosed ot Messrs. Cochrane. Merritt , MeDofi ' i , T.ld and Sheets, was appointed to investl- * gate the charitable institutions of other States. Seuat.or Socrest introduced a bill appropriating for their expenses on this trip $20 e:ich to W. G. Cochrane. Tom Merritt and Ed McDonald. 8233 to B. F. Sheets, and the same amount to the estate of J. H, Miliar, yhe Senate Judiciary Committee decided that Justices may be appointed for towns of Lake, Hyde Park. Lake View, Jefferson and a part of Calumet. Senator Humphrey's blil to this effect was reeom- : mended for passage, ' A ON the 6th. the 150th ballot for ^enatW 1 ' was reached with no material change. In the Senate Senator O'Conor's biil to com- s pel the payment of all» wages in money at least once a week was taken up as a special order. It was amended so that it shall not apply to railroad corporations, and was then ordered to a third read-, ing. Bills were Introduced as fol- j lowsi Providing for county uniformity tar school text books; grading the salaries of county clerks, sheriffs and ir^usurerau and circuit clerks (outside of Cook County), ? according to the population of the count lest allowing auctioneers of administrators* > sales 1^ per cent, of the proceeds of such e sales as their compensation; reducing tbe salaries of Circuit Judges outside of Cook County from fl!,500 to 82,500 per annum; restricting tho powerof non-resident aliens In requiring and holding real and personal property in this State. In the House Jlr.^ Caldwell's interest bill came up for ornsld- e r a t l o n . O n m o t i o n o f M r . S p r i n g e r t h a t • , be ordered to second reading, Mr. Eddy objected and thought it should lie referred to a committee. He characterized It as complex in its character. It was proba.« bie that in its present shape it wouj^d not give the relief desired by the people. He objected to the hasty advancement of tbi 5 bill without due consideration, and moved • that it be referred tothe Conuuitteeoufiet^ enue. Pending discussion on the bill, the ; ;; hour of the joint assembly arrlv\«d. Brave ffvmaa. ri' Hie time has oome when the thought- ful man is constrained to worship those women who, with unflinching courage- in the face oljpol) insult and bigoted opposition, strive with voice or pen tp ameliorate the conditions of life. Th* thoughtless of this generation may ca$$ mud at them, its select society may close its doors, but the next age wul call them by the name of prophetesau It is to cultured women that men are now turning for helpmates and com­ panions, while the intellectual cow­ ards lie hopeless, calling upon their false god Propriety to save them. Dora Copperfields have had their day. "Women incompetent in all else save' looking soft and pretty must inevita­ bly give place to the modern Agrippiutw Breadth and boldness in handliuj moral and social affairs characterize the man of to-day, and woman is fo|> lowing slowly in bis wake. She has already invaded man's territory. ot?i rather that which has hitherto been considered his; she bears honors from the university; she writes novels an<| brilliant essays, but without the paraS> mount principle of breadth her sue* cess is incomplete. She must reject' what is womanish, not for that which is mannish, or the exchange will be 4„". questionable one, but for all thai, which is pure, "womanly," true, awl- brave.--Arkansaw Traveler. t • ' v The Absurdity of Mourning Per .'odd. It is seldom that any one who ha* had a large circle of acquaintances die® V,, that there is not considerable., and by, . t4 no means charitable, criticism of th# i actions of his surviving relatives. Thejf.f'^Jf are incessantly watched that they ^ make no departure from the forms sup- posed to be proper under the circum* . stances, and the dopth of the mourn' ing of the ladies is minutely noted. lit is known to the day when the iirsit ^ speck of white or color appears u|xin. 'igj their dresses, and the lirst evening tha piano is .opened the w hole set of their ,; friends raise their hands in horror. « The first night they go to the opera or i theater they do so trembling. Nor do *. thev escape censure if they dare too': 5 early to take an airing in the park.;'^ The front w indows of the house must •f be Kept tightly closed, or boxved witb-^..f|| ribbons of black. The very expressions, of their faces are taken account of : a % smile declares their heartlessness. The wives, and the mothers, and the ! daughters, and the sisters, must never ' - < atir out of the door without the long. heavy crape veils hanging down over " ^ *f their" faces, and beneath which -Ol van scarcely breathe. --iVo? ws. '-"foil