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P WSiJSr' 4 •" *,""" » % f» ' * **V ' * < < "'"»..'.'. _ .- ,T" < " • , y> • v- •'. •• mm-. |jjf cgwwg flaindeakt V ' lc^ J. MUM SLYKE, Editor and PaMlttor. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. obtain the degree of M.I)., six being spent in obtaining the ordinary education, three in a preliminary scientific coarse, and fire in purely medical studies. Now the students complain because the final examination is conducted in Greek. A PETROLECJC-MOIOB tricycle that will • frun forty miles jn one hour has been in- Tented, A COFFEE house with pretty wait­ resses, opened in Berlin, bears over its portal a sign consisting of Dr. K»>ch'a rx^ ^jx)rtrait, with the inscription, "The K.\v;..«Jolly Bacillus." THE "manna" which fell from the sky heard from, in Asia Minor last August, and was -Vf ' "baked into bread, has recently been ex- ^ i amined by men of ecieuce, and is identi­ fied as a lichen. THIS Government has either lied to the Indians or told the truth. It either j agreed to pay them e6 much money per year lor it didn't. It is either bound to take care of them or it isn't. The In­ dian has told bis side of the stoiy, and he puts Uncle Sam in a hole. If the Government is in fault the people won't stand another Indian war,without being ? ; .TOHN L. SULLIVAN say* he itfas not bounced from the Order of Elks, but |%v * that he bouuced the order. If there is P:., anybody "outside," it is not Sullivan. R! •" - THE Russian government has qrdered that all sardine boxes be opened by the fey* ".^customs officers because nihilist tracts ,,, were tent into the country paoked in ite.'. ^the.fish tin?. • ' ' ; I* ." I : *> Ik England the old four-posted1 bed- !>*. v stead is tho pride of the nation, but the f ̂ . 'aron or brass bedstead is fast Becoming "universal. The English beds are the ; largest beds in the world. THE FARM MORTGAGES. MANY OP THEM ARE AN INDI­ CATION OF PROSPERITY. TKE decrease goes gradually on -anion 3 the red race. The new Indian •census shows that tlie red men number •only 249,273. Ten years ago there were 250,127, and ten years earlier, 272,450. A BEAR which weighed 370 pounds was killed by Solomon F. Perry, of Konreverte. W. Ya., who had followed the animal back and forth for thirty- one days. The bear's hide showed twenty-seven bullet woume. A WOMAN living down in Cape Cod , - "" reckons in her life work as a house­ keeper the making of 4,000 loaves of bread and 14,000 doughnuts. She took care of a family of three, and. took in washing at the same-time. TEE digestibility of starch is greatly increased by prolonged cooking, says Dr. N. Butiagin, and since the ptyalin value of saliva is diminished by disease, starchy food for invalids should be well boiied, in his opinion, tliree or four times as long as ordinarily. A MAGAZINE editor once received a lone story, in which there was not a sin­ gle mark of punctuation, except an oc­ casional period. At the bottom of the last page tbe author had written: "Please put in the decimal points to «uit." A MICHIGAN girl took a heavy cold «nd lost her voice teveral years ago. The other night, while at spelling- school, a young man pinched her arm | op®ned. good and sharp, and tbe first thing she <lid was to cry out: '"You rascal--I'll tell m»l" No charge for the recipe. ~~h THE will of the late Vice President McCullough, of the Pennsylvania Hail- road, bequeaths the bulk Of his estate, valued at $10,000,000, to his two grand­ children, the and daughter of his •daughter, Mrs. Harry Darlington, of A1 legheny. A YOUNG rascal in Centerville, Mich., would kill a quantity of sparrows, and before taking them to the town clerk would salt them for a time. This operation caused them to roll up, and the head being split would appear like two heads. The clerk was deceived, and the lad realized on the birds twice tbe legal bounty. Tho boy has paid back $300. JOSEPH SAVORY, present Lord Mayor pf London, is said to be making some very bad breaks. His letter to the Czar in the interest of the Jews was returned unopened, and now he has the humilia­ tion, to say the least, of being caught in an aggravated case of plargiarism. He read a sermon to a body of young men, and afterward hall the chagrin of hav­ ing it revealed that he took it bodily from Spurgeon. -- > GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON has a record as a pall-bearer that is un­ paralleled. Besides acting at the funerals of a number of famous Con­ federate chieftains, he and Gen. Sher­ man rode side by side at the funeral of Gen. Grant. Gen. Johnston is now 82 years of age, and since the war probably no other Confederate General has en­ joyed the friendship and esteem of so many Union officers of rank. TEE bear* on tbe London stock mar­ ket are now attacking the credit of very large houses supposed to have business relations with Chili. One house has been heavily hit over the Argentines, but it is too 6tr6ng an establishment to be disturbed. The cruel reoklessness of these bear attacks is shown in the fact that one of the bouses assaulted has nearly £1,000,000 deposited in the Bank of England, and has just handed over £500,000 more to help a neighbor­ ing house. THE late Charles Spencer was pretty quick-witted at times in seeing a point for a client. On one occasion, in a trial for burglary, he cross-examined the po- liccmau who Had been stationed inside of the house to watch iu anticipation of a burglary, and the policeman admitted that when he heard the burglar fumb­ ling with the lock, he quietly adjusted the door so that it could be easily Quick as a flash. Spencer shouted: " Why, your honor, the po­ liceman is the real burglar, for he opened the door." The result was that the prisoner was convicted only of an attempt at burglary. TH£ gaudy lily bending over the strea^a .sees the crab sporting in the clear water below, and says; "Your life must be wearisome, always confined to tho water unable to inhale the fresh air or imbibe the renovating showers and A DOCTOR at Charlestawn, Mass., says j pp„rkling dew.« "Bless you," says the the plug hat is responsible for much of j crab> am happy here> and bave the the catarrah in the Northern States, j pDwer Gf locomotion to seek the daintiest Between ten men who wear plugs and ; gems of food| wJlilfi you are rooted fagt ten men who wear cadies, the latter I abd bave to awah nature.B law8 for have 50 per cent, less of the unpleasant 8Ustenancet and pleasures of travel affliction. Sit down on your plug. j are denied you » Everything ia FOUR fire escape inventors have been | surroundings. The lily and the killed while exhibiting their inventions ! cra^ occupy exactly their positions and and proving to the public how easily 1 equilibrium in relations is the natural and safely one could lower himself j ^aw Qniverse. from a third-story window if occasion! The disappearance of a well-known necessitated. When a man has a good I bankerf M. victor Mace, who had a pri­ cing the safest way is to let him be the j Tate bauk ^ the Rue Cad*t, Paris, has first experiment. j CBU8ed a sensation. He has been in the SOMETHING was said iu a Missouri j business about five years, and offered to weeklv paper about Shakespeare, and j pay high interest far deposits, this inter- •John Shakespeare, farmer called on the > est in many cases averaging 10 per cent. Political Donucogltm ia Illinois--Linen Mills in th* Northwest--How II*rices of Farm Product* Arm DatmnliMd--Politi- caltKote*, Ktc. . Farm Mortgages in tho South and West. The wildest statements have been made by the advocates of a free-trade tariff about the mortgage indebtedness of the agricultural States. Fearful pic­ tures of the miseries of the farming popu­ lation have been drawn, and elaborate demonstrations made of how fast the country has been rushing to the dem- nition bow-wows under protection. Re­ cent figures from tho Census Bureau on farm mortgages annihilate this mass of falsehoods, together with the arguments based upon them. From tho buiietin we get tho following facts: The total real estate mortgage debt in Alabama, in force January 1, 1890, was 830,027,983; in Iowa, in force January 1, 1890, $199,034,957. The average amount of debt to one of population in Alabama was, therefore, $20; in Iowa, SI04. In 1889 the nnmber of acres mortgaged in Alabama was 1,744,420; total number of acres in the State, 32,98.% 600; per cont. of acres mortgaged,J>.3; number of acres mortgaged in Iowa, 3,240,432; total num­ ber of acres in the State, 35,504,000; per cent, of acres mortgaged, 9.1. In Jefferson County, Alabama, it was found %y inquiry by special agents of the Census Bureau that tho motive for 95.84 per ceut. of the indebtedness was the purchase of the incumbered and other real estate, improvements and bus­ iness In Green County, Alabama, for the same purposes, (58.31 per cent; in Cass County, Iowa,'91.13 percent; in Crawford County, Iowa. 90.33 percent.; In Delaware County, Iowa, 88.80 per cents, and in Johnsou County, Iowa, 93.47 per cent. Thus, it is shown not only that the mortgage indebtedness is not nearly so great as the "reformers" have repre­ sented, but also that the greater part of the debt is not of_ long standing, and was incurred for legitimate purposes, so that tho mortgages are rather an indica­ tion of prosperity than otherwise. The Now IUlnoin Senator. John M. Palmer is the new Senator from Illinois. He was elected through the perfidy of Moore and Cockrell, two of the F. M. B. A. members, who de­ serted their own candidate and voted for Palmer. Could perfidy go further" Could men exhibit less regard for every principle of honesty than these two F. M. B. A. Representatives who deserted the regu­ lar nominee of their own caucus, simuly because they saw that a few more bal­ lots would elect him? If any new evidence were required of the loyalty of the Republican party to the interests of the Western farmers, that evidence was abundantly supplied in this contest. The Republicans were in every instance ready to assist the farmer members. They even went to the extent of sacrificing their own can­ didate in order that tho cause of the farmers might be promoted. They were voting for Lindley, President of the F. M. B. A. organization in Illinois, when the final ballot was taken. In marked contrast with this self-sac­ rifice was the political treason of Cock­ rell and Moore. What do the farmers think of thi'm? Do thoy want to elect any more such demagogues to positions of responsibility? The outcome of this struggle cannot fail to prove k blessing to the Republican party. It convinces the intelligent farm­ ers of the State that reliable Repub­ licans are in every instance preferable to demagogues fn the ranks of any third party. It satisfies them beyond doubt that the Republicans are their friends. It will insure the election of the Repub­ lican ticket iii 1892.--Champaign News. States like a fiscal system that thus puts a direct tax upon every newsyaper they read in addition to the publisher's price, and a tax on every telegram sent in ad­ dition to the cost of transmission, a sys­ tem which, in short, is so obnoxious that it irritates and annoys ypu in every action ©f life? It would ^het suit Americans.--New Fork Press. I Tariff Pictures. No. 1. The with Brazil will mate this In­ crease even greater In five years from now. Our average exports of oils--crude, mineral and animal--for five years (1X85 to 188f». laotuslTe) were S6,717.718. In 1890 the; w ere S8.430.878. editor and pounded him almost to death, declaring that he hadn't much educa­ tion or wealth, but proposed that his name should go down to* posterity un­ tarnished. A DISTINGUISHED medical scientist has discovered it is Jime that eats us up and sends us to Charon, the ferryman. It's just the same way with political parlies as it is with humanity. For, frequent whitewashings canse tiie limo ia*e ° iD_6iesL to get into the organization, and-- there you are. monthy. Recently the depositors be­ came suspicious and Mace disappeared., He left a letter sajing that he intended to commit suicide and that he had left his creditors all the money that re­ mained to him, 1,000,000 francs, de­ posited in the Credit Lyonnais. A hasty examination of his accounts shows that he owes at least 20,000,000 francs to the deluded people who trusted to his high FOK a hundred years past, at least, 100 tribes in Africa have been at war with each other, and there is no pros­ pect of peace yet A battle can be had any day in the week by going out and uttering a whoop, and all prisoners are piomptly and satisfactorily roasted at the stake. AN octopus, which had been in a fight with, some other monster, lately •drifted a^ore on the Malay Peninsula, lie had feelers, or arms, which were from twelve to seventeen feet long, and weighed altogether 550 pounds. It was -calculated that he was big enough and etrong enough to drag a two-ton fishing boat under the surface by main strength. A GERMAN artist, in painting a pic­ ture of]a battle in the year 650, put in a battery of Krupp six-pounders on the left, and while Krupp felt somewhat complimented over it the public laughed iiutil the picture had to go to the garret. *Tho artist forgot that the cannofr did not begin to boom until slings had failed. MILNES asked Thackeray one day whether his audience with Goethe was very awful. "Yes," was /the answer; f like a visit to a dentist." Referring to the same subject later, Thackeray de­ clared that "if Goethe is a god, I'm sure I'd rather go to the other place." IN the University of Coimbra, Portu- fourteen years are now required to Abstract and Common Laws. During an etymology lesson a mis­ tress obtained an answer from a girl which may be characterized both as in­ genuous and ingeuious. The lady was dealing with the common nouns and their cognate abstract forms. In order to insure that the class should thor­ oughly apprehend the Bubject of her discourse she took care to put before them the very plainest examples, such as (common noun) judge, (abstract noun) justice, (common) coward, (ab­ stract) cowardice, etc. She then surmised that she might safely venture to elicit from the girls themselves a few examples of such cog­ nate forms. Accordingly toward the close of the lesson she made the request. After some time one child timidly raised her hand. "There's a good girl," said the teacher; "now, what is you example of these common and abstract forms?" "Please, ma'am," answered the girl, "(common) body; (abstract) bodice!" I need scarcely remark that the gov­ erness decided that her class required at least one additional lesson before bet­ ing subjected to a searching examination, says a writer in Chambers" JouituiI I'tilicult to 1'lease. Scheming Mother--What objection have you to that wealthy Mr. Xaght- pate? Beautiful Daughter--He never talk* anything but nonsense. He seems to think all women are fools. "You cannot find fault with' Mr. Greatmind." ^ "He's a perfect bore--always talking about things I don't understand."--New York Weeiily. A tAiLOR should boat in a squall. always take seat- No. 2. Who says that the cost of tlie brcuknwt table ia greater in this country than in free trade England? With free tea, free coffee and free sugar, all sifts of the Protection party, the export* of dairy products are increasing, showing conclusively that the cost must be leas here than abroad. Our exports of dairy products had an average value for Five years of •11,831.630. Average value 1890, $13,081,856. No. 3. Though our own cotton mills consume at least one-third of our cotton product, the vast fields of the South are equal to this demand ns well as to the demand of tlie markets of the world. The average annual value of our raw foftiiti exports for flrn years t'85-'89) was 8214,812,438. Our ey,p«rJs for 1890 were 8350,908,793. The fact that we lmve robbed England of 60,000,000 of customers for her cotton goods does not, apparently, aSect the de­ mand for our raw cotton.--New York Press. Linen Mills in the Northwest. The protection afforded by the McKin- ley bill has stimulated the interest felt in promoting the linen manufacturing in this country to a considerable extent. Tho interest in the matter is not confined to discussion and mere talk, but has as­ sumed tangible shape in the organiza­ tion, at Minneapolis, of a company backed by men of strong financial stand­ ing, and who are convinced of the prac­ ticability and money making capabilities of a linen mill which shall use the flax fiber grown in large quantities in the Northwest, and by far tbe greater part of which has hitherto bt en allowed to go to waste, the fiax seed being the only part of the crop harvested, the fiber being burned. That this flax fiber can bo utilized to advantage in linen manufacturing seems to be evident, for it is stated that Mr Livingston, a member of the Canadian Parliament from Baden, has raised and sold many tons of this fiber to be used by Eastern manufacturers, and also a considerable quantity was sold for ship­ ment abroad. On'e important feature of the prepara­ tion of this flax tow, or liber, is the degumming, and the treatment, we im­ agine, is somewhat similar to that which the decorticated ramie fiber must under­ go before it is in proper state for manu­ facturers' use. If thOx Minneapolis Linen Company demonstrates by its success that this flax tow can be manufactured into salable goods at a profit (and wo see no reason why it cannot do so) a new field of man­ ufacturing industry has opened up for tkat section of the country, and not only will manufacturers profit by it, but the farmer* throughout all Minnesota and Dakotasi whero it is said that six times the total fl*x acreage of Ireland is laid down, will he direct gainers from the profitable sale of that portion of the product which has-bitherto been an ex­ pense rather than a source of income.-- Textile Manufacturing Wvrld. Direct Taxation Is a Tax. "The tariff is a tax." This is a famil­ iar free-trade cry. Few stop to think how the revenue* of a country must bo raised if tho tariff is reduced or abol­ ished. The on y way possible is by di­ rect taxation. In European countries, where the tariff is not so high as In the United States, every species of direct taxation has to be resorted to ia order to raise the necessary revenuo for the enor­ mous expenditures to sustain royalty and standing armies. A reader of the Press recently returned from Austria i comes back with a tale of woe about taxation. This gentleman, by tho way, went abroad thoroughly tinctured with free trade, but he comes back with a deliberate request that the Press expose tbe infamous system of direct taxation /n vogue in Austria. "Go into a telegraph office," he says, "and you,see tho cost of telegraphing is so much per word. You writo out your dispatch carefullyv count the wards and hand over the amouqt. The clerk looks it over and says liaif or a third more. '.What for?' exclaims tKq traveler. 'Im­ perial tax stamp.' Nearly everything is taxed. Every copy of k pewspaper is obliged to have an imperial staind up­ on it" But this is not the worst of it. While in Vienna the gentleman had ths Press sent to him, and was astonished tbat in addition to the regular postage, which, of courset was prepaid at the New York office, he was compelled to pay a small sum--a cent, or possibly less--on every copy that cached him. Hov woiid the people of the United The Brazilian Treaty in Force. The President of the Republic of Bra­ zil has published a decree opening the ports of that country to the importation of the United States goods, according to tho terms and provisions of tho treaty of reciprocity. This confutes tho rumors from British sources of a Brazilian dis­ sent from its validity. It would be premature to estimate the effects of the treaty upon American ex­ ports, but. a few facts point to obvious conclusions; the Brazilian duty on wheat is 5 percent., with, apparently, an ad­ ditional 5 per cent, for port and pro­ vincial charges; the tariff 5 per cent ceases by terms of the treaty, so that our wheat can be imported at half the rates paid upon that of other nations. Brazil has not beon a great purchaser of wheat, but we have supplied only a fourth of its demand: some $500,000 a year ought to be added to our trade in this article. The duty on fiour has been 15 per cent.; this will remain as to other nations, but will be repealed as to our exports; last year Brazil paid nearly S3,000,000 for United States flour and about $1,000,000 to other nations. Corn pays a 15 per cent. duty, which is abol­ ished by tho treaty; last year we sold less than $22,000 in value of this grain to Brazil, its total purchases nearly be­ ing of the value of $1,000,000. Wo sold to Brazil less than $23,000 worth of fish, her whole purchases being to tho valuo of $1,(553,800. The duty on this article is from 28 to 48 per cfent, which will be retained as to other countries and abol­ ished as to our own. We sold Brazil less than $500 worth of beans amf peas, the total purchases of these articles be­ ing more than $1,000,000; the duty was 20 per cent, henceforth American beans and peas will be free. We sold no coal to Brazil, though her total purchases amounted to more than $6,000,000; now that all other countries will (fay duty on this minoral while ours is made free, it is to be expected that our trade will in­ crease. We sold no rye or buckwheat to our sister republic; now thatour grain is free of duty while that of other coun­ tries is subject to a 15 per cent, tariff, we may look for an enlarged market for these products. In manufactured products our sales to Brazil have been correspondingly limited, our "trade in cotton goods being but $665,000, out of a total of $26,600,000, imported mostly from Europe. Of leather and its manufactures, exclusive of boots and shoes, wo sold barely £20,000 worth out of a total of more than $6,000,000. We supplied loss than a third of the lumber and manufactures of wood, in­ cluding furniture, imported by Brazil, and less than one third of its importa­ tions of manufactured rubber. Npne of these articles are made free by the\er; of the treaty, but they are admittecPat a reduction of 25 per cent, from old rates. With a regular line of steamships plying between tho ports of the two republics a considerable increase of trade will be created, but its extent, as we have said, can not as yet be guessed at--Inter Ocean. How Prices Are Determined. - The size of the crop is the thing that determines the size of the prices. There is a demand for a certain amount of farm products from year to year, and the prices rise or fall as the supply sinks be low or goes beyond this demand. The theorists may talk as muoh as they please about other influences, but the question is at last only one of quantity. The world must have so many bushels of grain per year, and it will pay there­ for simply so much as it is obliged to, considering the available surplus. There is no process of legislation by which additional sales can be forced when the demand has once been sup­ plied; it is not in the power of Congress to compel purchasers to take more than thoy want, or to give more than they are willing to pay. The fact that the crop of a given year is in excess of tho measure of consumption cannot be concealed. It is known every­ where, and prices are adjusted accord­ ingly. When tho crop is short, the sane rule applies, and the markets are corres­ pondingly affected. If the farmers could manage to produce only enough each year to meet the known demand, they would always obtain fair and just prices. It is overproduction, in other words, that puts prices down for them, and they cannot expect to have prices put up for them under such circum­ stances by any sort of artificial force.-- St. Louis Olobe-Democrat. i Exchange Comment. MR? CLEVELAND seems to be in as hard luck as a lawyer as he is as a poli­ tician. Having had his opinion as a referee overruled by the New York courts, he has now lost a case In the United States Supreme Court WE are sorry to learn that the Mc- Kinley tariff law is causing distress among Austrian pearl button makers. But the United States must, at any sacrifice among strangers, look after the industries of its own people a little.-- Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. . ALL tho Democratic noise about the loss of the surplus is without reason so long as the revenues of the Government are sufficient to pay running expenses and redeem the $55,000,000 of per cent, bonds which fall due this year.-- Indianapolis Journal. ENGLAND, with the markets of the whole world open to her, is forced to shut down several of her iron and steel works. The United States, which de­ pends largely on the home market, is constantly increasing her iron plants and heT output of that product--San Fran­ cisco Chronicle. A COTTAGE HOME. SpeclAc Plans and Specifications Dm Its Erection. We present with this issue, says the National Builder of Chicago/ scale drawings of a story and a half cottage of seven rooms, suitable for any expos­ ure. The frame of the bouse will set on 8x8 sills, properly framed and sup­ ported by eight inch cedar posts, set in the ground on blocks, and braced be­ tween with 2x4 scantling. The stud­ ding for the outside walls will be 2x4, sit sixteen inches from centers, double nt corners. These studs will be sixteen feet long, with a ribbon joined in to support seoond-story joist, and a double plate at top to carry rafters, size 4x4. The rafters will be 2x4, twelve feet long, framed as shown by the elevation. Floor joist shonld be $xl0, and 2x8,and the ceiling joist 2x4, all placed sixteen inch centers. Roof boards and outside sheathing to be six inch straight, edged fencing. Shingles, either cypress, red- • ; wood, or piue. The diagonal work shown on the elevation indicates 1x3 matched and bedded pine; all doors to be live paneled P. G., li; inches thick, hung with 4:ax44 japanned butts; lockp, four-inch mortise; knobs, jet or porce­ lain. AH window frames to be boxed for weights, and sash to be If thick lip sash. All of the oasings, jambs, sash, aud interior finishing lumber through­ out is estimated to be best quality, clear seasoned pine. The stairs to be of pine, but the handrail and balusters of oak, either white or red, quarter- sawed. The floors of each story are es­ timated to be lxG, 2d quality of pine, free from loose or large knots, and all well laid and smoothed off. The out­ side woodwork and shingles, also all of 'AITAJES IN ILLINOIS. ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI­ OUS SOURCES. the interior finishing lumber and the kitchen floor, should be painted with three coats, colors, in two shades, as the builder may select. The glass is to be double strength for all large, single and for all small windows. The outside covering of this building is to be six inch olear siding of pine. Before laying the siding a thickness of good felt paper should be well lapped and nailed on top of the sheathing; <*11 of the work of the eornice, gables, and ornamental work of roof, should be made of good white pine, nearly clear. The plastering is to be two-coat wcik. This admirable substitute for lath, giv ing a hard and lasting job of plaster­ ing. The chimneys for the house, as indicated by tbe plans, should be built of good hard brick, laid in lime inortar. ESTIMATE. 133 lineal feet 8x8 Bills, 605 feet, framed..$ 20 00 5) 8-inch cudar posts, net in ground 60 00 ]">') 2\i ntudn, 16 feet long, l.CoO feet,. CT. fruined $Z3 4t 25 18') 2x4 Htuds, 12 feet long, framed, &25 3t> <0 lf» 2x4 miters, 12 feet long, framed, $25... 19 (K) CO '-'xlO joist, '34 feet long, framed, . 60 (H) 13 2x8 joist. 12 feet long, framed, 625...,. 52 00 ;;2 2x4 cciiiug joist 24 feet long, fram*d, $15. 12 80 13 2x4 ceiling joist, 12 feet long, iramed, #5 2 GO 2,030 feet roof boards, laid !>J 00 2,: ti'i feet sheathing board, laid, $22 51 02 7U) feet beaded aud matched, 1x0, $32 '21 40 18,0'XJ A shingles, latd. 103 00 2,N'J0 feet of 0-inch siding, 4=35 SW 00 Id windows, frame, sash, casing, and hard ware 180 00 17 doors, frames, jambs, casing, nnd hard­ ware 170 00 One flight stairs, S-OO. Front poreli, $70.. 130 00 front gable, dormers, $10. Outside steps, $12.. . . . ! 28 00 2 chimneys, foundations, and materials.. 18) BO •;8:) feet of base and mold 48 00 1J."> feet of outside cornice 145 00 135 feet water table aud belt course ; 40 50 C closets, shelves, and hooks 30 on L'.OIHI feet lxli-inch flooring, laid 04 00 Woinseoating, bath-rooms, put up 12 00 GIUKS, glazing, and painting 185 00 • 2b yards 2-coat plastering, 30 cents...... .• 188 00 fancy shingles cresting and fintuls 42 9J 23 squareH of sheathing paper 23 <K) Flutes, bridging, blocks, etc., put np„^i. 27 00 Hardware, nulls, etc 87 20 Total cost. 2C5 77 Put an End to the Farewell Busl- / ness. J A story comes from Chicago of a man who hjyi a poor, sickly, cranky bit of a wlTe7 who regularly every week got up in the ni^ht and invited the family to see her die. She gave away her things, spoke her last words, made her peace with heaven and then, about 8 o'clock in the morning, got up in the usual way and disappointed everybody by going to her household duties as if nothing had happened. The man be­ came sick of it fiinally and went put and purchased a coffin, a real nice cash­ mere shroud and a wreath of immor­ telles with "Farewell, Mary Ann," worked in and a handful of silver-plated screws. Laying the screw-driver be­ side the screws he liwciJgcLher to holler die once more. "Do it," said he "and in you go and this farewell business is over." Mary Ann is at this moment making bread for a large and admiring family, while they keep their dried apples in tbe coffin up in the garret. "AND you call that young Cello a musician ?" "So he is, and a good one." "Well, for a musician he keeps shock­ ingly bad time. He didn't cone in this morning until nearly 4 o'clock.* *rt«t Oar Neighbors Are itotng--Hatters •f General and Local Interest -- Wat* riage* and DeatHs--AocWente and Crimes --Personal Pointers. TVKATHER crop buiietin of the Illinois weather service, co-operating with the United States Signal Service: Bond County--Wheat looking fine; weather conditions favorable; rainfall, .49 of an inch. Do tiffins--Wheat Is looking well. Franklin--Weather warm; wbeat looking fine; fruit buds are putting out; a large acreage of oats will be sown. Madlso.n--Weather has been very favora­ ble for farmers; a good many potatoes were ' planted the 17th and 18th; rainfall, .66. Marion--Wheat In splemlid condition; no Insects reported; nieadows good; no plow­ ing done yet for spring crops; rainfall, 47. Pope--Six inches of snow fell and was a protection to the wheat; conditions favora­ ble: rainfall. .65. Randolph --Tlie snow that fell last week kept the wheat covered for three days; the wheat is still looking well; oat sowing has begun, but the ground is a little wet; rain­ fall, .11. Richland--Tho wheat crop is looking •well; no complaint from farmers; stock lb good condition; rainfall, :40. ! Schuyler--No weather yet sufficently se­ vere to do much injury to wheat or fruit; rainfall, .87. Scott--Iflght rain and snow the 19th; con­ ditions favorable. * Pangamop--Wheat In excellent condition; rainfall. .26. j St. Clair--Wheat Is In fine condition; acreage up, to an average; the indications are that there will be an abundance of fruit. SENATOR BOOARDUS introduced in the Senate a bill of general interest to every swine raiser in the State. It provides that it shall be the duty of the State Hoard of Livo Stock Commissioners to cause to be investigated by State veterin­ arians all outbreaks coming to their knowledge of contagious diseases among swino in tho State. When any conta- Rious or infectious disease is found to exist among swine tho State Veterinarian or his assistants shall cause the healthy hogs to be removed from the diseased hogs, and shall establish such quaran­ tine of the" premises as he or, they may deem necessary to prevent the further spread of tho disease. Post­ mortem and microscopic examinations shall be made and powers given to slaughter diseased animals. It shall be tho duty of any person having swine which he suspects to bo infected with any contagious disease immediately to notify said board, and to remove the healthy hogs from the diseased and cause the carcasses of all hogs that die from such diseases to be burned or buried within twenty-four hours after death. It also provides that it shall be unlawful to dispose of the carcasses of such dead hogs or to ship or to remove them. "UNCI.E JOE" MINOT.E, colored, died in Chicago, aged 108. When alive ho dis­ claimed any knowledge of George Wash­ ington, and never acted as his servant. A MAN supposed to be E. S. Stephen- Son, a farmer of Calhoun County, Michi­ gan, died in a Chicago patrol wagon, while being taken to tho County Hospi­ tal. He applied at the Warren Avenue Police Station for a night's lodging. He was given a place to sleep. At midnight the lockup-keeper noticed that some­ thing was wrong with his lodger and had the man placed in the patrol wagon to be taken to the hospital. On arriving there the man was found to be dead A UTTLE over a year ago Dr. Byron D. Palmer went to Belvidere and opened a dental office. He wore the finest of clothes. Business blossomed out in great style. The other day he was ar-, rested for receiving coal stolen by a well-known vagabond, a bucketful at a time, from the various dealers. This thieving has been going on for a long time. The Doctor said he did not know where the coal came from. The case was not pressed and he was discharged. Tlie Doctor says he will leave town. The town will survive. GBEAN BEAR, a young Sioi^T Indian, was fined $5 and costs at Chicago for carrying concealed weapons. JOHN MCCARTY, yard foreman of the Big Four, was killed at Springfield. IN the Legislature Representative Watson facetiously presented the follow­ ing bill, which was referred to the Com­ mittee on Railroads: "That, in addition to the officers and employes of all rail­ roads incorporated under thq laws of the State of Illinois, there shall be employed by each railroad company in this Stato a man who shall weigh not less than 300 pounds, who shall be known and deslg-J nated as the 'hog killer,' whose duty it shall be to have an elm club to kill all hogs on the train who occupy two seats when they only pay for one. In case of death there shall be no coroner's jury to investigate the cause thereof. This act to take effect immediately upon its passage." CHARI.ES FORD, sentenced to death on the gallows at Ottawa for the murder T. B. Scott, was granted a respite by Gevernor Fifer until the^Qth of May to give his counsel time to prepare a record of the trial for presentation to the Su­ preme Court in support of au applica­ tion for a supersedeas. AN infau't child of Morris Walch, of. Chicago, had been ill for several days, and medicine was administered which contained poison by mistake with fatal' results. 0. MARY PREMO, of Chicago, was given 8200 damages fn an action against Kelly; Bros, for the death of her child. In 1887 it was scalded by steam from a pipe at the defendant's planing-mill. AN unknown man about 35 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches in height, was found dead by the side of a ditch at Seventy- eighth and Halsted streets, Chicago. WIIXIAM DEAN, of Chicago, was sen­ tenced to a year in Joliet on a plea of guilty of forgery. -^Nkar Peoria Charles Kreiger, a farmer 70 years of age, was killed on the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway. IN Chicago H. Hawle, a Norwegian, about 40 years of age, was found dead on the floor of his room. t AT Lincoln court and business circles are exercised over the flight of Charles West, a Constable of East Lincoln, who, it is alleged, has applied from $1,000 to $2,000 of other people's money to his own use. His bondsmen aro said to be lia­ ble. His wife and child arc ignorant of his whereabouts. FREI> BEAN, a German 62 years old, was found dead in the street in Chicago. No cause of the death is known. CUAS. MOKRIS and Jos. Wrin9 were sentenced by Judge Shepard, iu Chicago, to five years in the penitentiary for burglary of a house in the night-time. GUSTAVUS PEARSON, a Chicago ma­ chinist, was fatally injured iu an ele­ vator shaft. He was repairing the ele­ vator, when the rope broke, precipitat­ ing him a distance of fifty feet. CLARA CARLSON, of Chicago, was bit­ ten by William Heilman's dog in 1888. Her father sued for damages and.recov­ ered 8700. CYRENVS SICKMAN, a farmer, while walking on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy track hear Cameron, was struck by a passenger train and killed. TWENTY-NINE waiters at aristocratic Hyde Park Hotel struck just at the din­ ner hour, and several hundred gues£s had to hustle for themselves. ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERS] BEKATOB Hour, of De Kalb, presided K> the Senate at the evening session of th* 23d inst., Senators Karraker. Caldwell ami JSewell beinj? the only other Kieatciy prw-; ent. A message was received from the House announcing the passage of the joist resolution that there be purchased 1,000 outline maps of Cook County for the iise of the apportionment committees. In the House Representative Merritt, of Sangamon, presided. Mr. Green presented a petition from his constituents for the pass­ age of the co-employe bill making railroads liable for injury to employes received through the fault or negligence of co~en~ ployes. Representative Hunter, of Winne­ bago. c&lle^Jup the Senate bill for the pro- teetlon of trade marks and labels of work- ingmen's unions, which was read a first ITMMI and referred. Representative Den ham In­ troduced a bill for the repeal of a portion of the act to prevent fraudulent and cor­ rupt practices in making official appoint­ ments and contracts by public officers. Is the Senate, on the 24th, the special order was the further consideration of Senator O'Conor's bill to compel the weekly payment of wages by all except railroad corporations. The bill was passed. Maay new bills wero introduced. Senator Evans* two bills--one providing the manner of levying assessments when a town lies in more than one county, and the other pro­ viding the manner in which snlts for tbe collection of taxes in such towns shall'too brought--were read a third time and passed. The bill cedinjr certain lands in Rock Island to the United States Government was passed. Senator Ferguson's bill, providimc that when a note is given for a lightning rod or a patent right.it shall have stamped across its face in legible characters the purpose for which it was given, was amended by the insertion of an enacting clause, and or­ dered to third reading. In the Honae, a. message was received from the Governor notifying the General Assembly that $974.- 668 had accrued to the State of Illinois under the provisions of the Federal direct tax law, and recommending the adoption of a resolution accepting it. Representative O'Donnell's bill providing that punishment for harboring females under 18 years of age for immoral purposes 1 e changed to eigh­ teen months' imprisonment in the conntx jail Instead of two years In the penitentiary,* was favorably reported by the committee and read a first time. This is the bill recommended by the Woman's Protective Association. The association had found It impossible to aeenre convictions under the law imposing the penitentiary sentence. THK House got down to work at 0 o'clock on the 25th, and adjourned after less than an hour's devotion to duty. The Senate sat but fifteen minutes. Gus Nohe introduced a bill iu the House to repeal the drainage law. Tbe bill appeared to find approbation in certain quarters, but, as a matter of couree, it never can go through the ?louse and Senate. So much has been done under the existing law that its repeal would cause a very bad muddle indeed. Mr. Hambaugh introduced a bill to appropriate $5,000 for an exhibit of bees and honey at the World'a Columbian Exposition. The House ad­ vanced a number of bills and added a score to its list. In the Senate the special order after the reading of the journal was Sena­ tor Humphrey's bill relative to justices of the peace In Chicago on second reading* Without debate the bill was ordered to third reading. Senator Caldwell introduced m bill to amend tbe game laws. The bill waa forwarded to him by the Chicago Game As­ sociation. ON the 26th. in the Senate, hills were is-- troduced as follows: Authorizing boarda of education or trustees of schools to adopt a uniform system of text books, and pro­ cure the same at first cost; providing that before an engineer shall be allowed to take charge of a locomotive he shall be required to pass an examination as to his qualifica­ tions, and to have bad a certain amount of experience: amending the fish and gamel laws by providing that sheriffs and con-' stables shall be ex officio game and fish ward­ ens. Senator Wells' bill, making Labor DaK the first Monday in September, and Lincoln's birthday legal holidays. Senator Fuller's- bill, allowing cemetery associations to pro-' cure free from taxation additional ground*' not exceeding twenty acres, for burial pur-! poses on ly , was passed . There was an ex-) citing scene in the House when Mr. Merritt^ of Sangamon, presented a resolution tO> place Illinois' various exhibits at thai Wordld's Fair under the direction of a com­ mission consi ting of one member from each Congressional district. This resolu­ tion was construed as an attack on J. Irving; Pearce, of the Sherman House, of Chicago;' Lafayette Funk, a Bloom ing ton banker;) John Bunn, a Springfield banker; and other non-agricultural members of the Stato Board of Agriculture, who have assumed to exercise all authority in regard to the Illfc nois exhibit. IN the Senate, the 27th, several commit­ tees presented reports, which were adopted. Senator Novell's bill to facilitate the set­ tlement of suits at law iu certain cases by a tender of Judgment was passed. Senator Leeper's bill reducing tho legal weight of a; bushel of sweet potatoes fr:>«n fifty-five to fifty pounds was passed. Senator Sheets'* bill for the prevention of unjust discrimi-; nation by life Insurance companies waa passed. As soon as its passage was an^ nounced Senator Crawford, of Cook, gave notice that ho would hereafter make a m(F tion ttf copsl^gr the vote by which the bill' passed. In the Hou-e many bills w?re in-: troduced, but none disposed of. The Speak- eK&ppointed the following additional mem-! bers to the cou.inittees of the House: Labor and Industrial Affairs, Lense and Lyman,' of Cook; Revenue, O'Donnell and Cherry Appropriations, Craig and Tlce; Mines and Mining, Ericksou. The Speaker announced the following as delegates to attend th^ Commercial Congress of Western States, to be held at Kansas City April 14: Ramsay,' of Clinton; Jones, of Sangamon; Q'Tlnnniul,' Callahan, and Kir by. | A Lively Gun*. ) This is a capital round game, and will tat the memory and gravity of the youngsters. The company beinaj seated, the fugleman says: "One old ox opening oysters," which each re-j peats in perfect gravity. Any one who* indulges in the slightest giggle ia mulcted of a forfeit forthwith. When the first round is finished the fugleman begins again: "Two toads, totally; tired, trying to trot to Troy;" and the others repeat in turn, each separately ? "One old ox opening oysters; two toads,* totally tired, etc. The third round is "Three tawny tigers tickling trout,"! and the round recommences: "OxMt old ox, etc.; two toads, totally, etc. j three tawny tigers," etc. The fourth: round, and up to the twelfth and last,! given out by the fugleman sdceessiv®-' ly, and repeated by the other players*! are as follows r "Four fat friars fan-, ning a fainting AT : five fair flirts fly^ ing to France for fashion; six Scotch salmon selling six sacks of sauerkraut; seven small soldiers successively shoot­ ing snipe; eight elegant elephants ent-; barking for Europe; nine nimble nth - blemen nibbling nonpareils; ten tipij tailors teasing a tiny titmouse; eleven earlv earwigs eagerly eating eggs; and twelve twittering tomtits on the top of a tall, tottering tree." Any mistake in repeating this legend, or" any de­ parture from the gravity suitable tof the occasion, ia to be punished by the infliction of a forfeit; and the game has been seldom known to fail in pro-; ducing a rich harvest of these little pledges. Of course a great deal de-. peuds on the serio-oomic gravity of the fugleman. Some SspariatiTW. 1; THE longest railroad is the Canadian Pacific. • *K THK height of the highest pyramid lit 486 feet MAMMOTH cave in Kentucky is the^ largest cavern. FABMJOUNT PAKK, Philadelphia, ia thei largest park in the world. THE deepest coal mine in the world !>£ near Tourney, Belgium; It la 3,543 Igt, iepth. TUB largest library is the Imperial «KI Paris, which contains over t#o million' volumes. I THK Eiffel tower In Paris is the higb-4 sst structure in tho world, nearly l.OQOj leethigh. .. as vjl* : i "it#! - , *> ! . . •' ."4 -A ikiste -a