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, , „ " ' " * A \ ' * • - * *" .*' TO oomtmHiDiim mm 'mm. ' V . V m *"Hw *» tUa papar ahonid l» acooafc t br tb» aaaaa of tka aatbor ; not necmmriJjr fm $AbU0atfeo, botaau vridano* of food faith on the pari jtttmllai. WrtUonljoo oaaaldaaf tha papar. Ba VMtla«lari]roanM.ln •Mag ninm and date*, to km th>la**a«a and figmrai pUinand <H«Oact. ^HERE is a proposition on foot at Seat­ tle, Wash., to establish there » plantfor drying the codfish caught in Alaskan 'waters and making Seattle the great distributing point for fish on the Pacific ooast THE negroes of Terrell County, Ga., Are steadily increasing in prosperity and Acquiring real estate, for which they have an especial liking. They own some of the ^best farm lands in the •Monty. ^ * THE weather in Paris durftf& "waa so severe that the flower market was suspended. One florist lost 100,000 rose bushes, and the total loss to rose .growers is estimated at 7,000,000 francs. IN England, in the seventeenth cen- tnry, there was a renowned hangman, named Dei rick, who erected gibbets and attended executions by hanging. Hence a machine, with rpfes for howl­ ing, took his name. IT is said that the blackest man in Olynu County, Georgia, is named white, $fee whitest man is named Brown, the -tallest man is named Lowe and the largest man Small. AMONG the latest disinfectants is "ly- sol," which appears to be very much like carbolio acid. The emulsifying agent is resin or fat soap, tar acid being incorporated with the aoap>at the mo­ ment of saponification. SCARCELY a train passes through Ash­ land, Ore., for the North without hav­ ing from one to three carloads of fruit Attached to it. The fruit consists al­ most wholly of oranges and lemons at this time. AN Indiana farmer' walked twenty- two miles to find out what the word '"kennel" meant, and he was so dis­ gusted that he went home and smashed the dog-house with an ax. He said they'd be calling a barn-door an arch­ way next. No RUSSIAN city is allowed to have a city directory. The idea of the Czar is that if his police know a man's residence that is enough. If anyone else wants to know it let him go to the police. The Russian may'well doubt who owns his eoul. MRS. ROSE MCCORMICK, of Green- point, died on the 17th instant fully be­ lieving that she was 104 years old. On the 18th papers were discovered which proved her age to be only 91. This would have been a pad blow to her, and it was lucky she died when she did. IN Germany iodoform is being made by use of the electric current. An al­ coholic solution of iodide of potassium transversed by a current of carbonic acid is subjected to the electric current, and iodoform is produced in the shape of yellow capsujes. another contrivance strike the hours and quarters. THE estimate for the population of the United States for the year of 1900, by Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Superin­ tendent of the Department of Labor, gives as the approximate figures 76,- 639,854. This is the result of a careful oonsideratioa of the estimates made by several other reliable' individuals, the known rated of increase, and the> vari­ ous circuirstances that bear upon the growth of population. THE Bank of England is the custo­ dian of a large number of boxes de­ posited by customers for safety dnring the past 200 years, and in not a few in­ stances forgotten. Some years ago the cervants of the bank discovered in its vaults a chest which, on being moved, literally fell to piece'. On examining the contents a quantity of*massive plate of the period of Charles IL was dis­ covered, along with a bundle of love letters indited during the period of the restoration. - THE Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution has the hardihood t,o publish this item: "Capt. A. C. Bell, of Americus, says be lias a turnip in his garden measuring seven feet across and with a top BO high and strong that the small boys climb it. A pair of mules will have to be cued to pull it up." ( A RESIDENT of Middlefield, Conn., makers the strange boast that he has ekinned more skunks than any poli­ tician in the Nutmeg State. So far his record is forty-five skins. He states that the only drawback to the business is that he is compelled to live practi­ cally by himself. JUST name the date for your dress- buttons and the makers will rnn 'em back in books and pattern as far as the year 600, and the extra charge will be very light. You can also secure pic­ tures, statuary and draperies the same tray, and being "new spring stock" are to be relied on. THERE are no quieter, better tem­ pered, gentler or quicker-witted people in New York than the Japanese resi­ dents, who are about two hundred in number. Their language is soft and melodius, and their mode of personal address is pleasant to behold. They mingle freely with Americans and like the American garb. The few New Yorkers who have had the opportunity of enjoying a Japanese feast at the "Japanese Union" Club speak in pra>a of the daintiness of Japanese dishes, the delicacy of Japanese cookery, and the pleasing style of Japanese service. ONE peculiarity of the grip in Japan was its prevalence among the upper classes, whereas the cholera selected its victims among the poorer people. Some idea of the extent of the epidemic may be gathered from the fact that at Yoko­ hama the sufferers officially reported numbered over 50,000, and it is esti­ mated that the unreported cases through­ out the perfecture were nearly twice as great. Of the 130,000 inhabitants of Kobo 25,000 were attacked by the dis­ ease. In Tokio the epidemic raged with great virulence, and similar re­ ports come from some of the Chinese cities. A TRAIN in Georgia was lately held up by a lone woman. It bad got about two hundred yards from a station whea a negro woman was seen runuing fran­ tically after it. The conductor saw her, pulled the bell, and the train came to a stop. A colored brakeman stood on the steps and reached out his hand to help the woman on. But t>he ran on by, and a negro boy hung himself out of the window and kissed her. The conductor was naturally a little wrathy and told her so. She told him that her boy was going off and they didn't give her time to tell him good-bye, and she had to do it if she would have to follow the train ten miles. FROM the report of the British Com­ missioners of Inland Revenue we Jearn that the gross assessment of land for in­ come tax for 1888-9 was £58,775,134, as compared with £69,548,796 for 1879-80, when the assessment was at its highest. To the difference between theee two amounts the Commissioners ad<] £604, - 800, the capital value of income tax re­ mitted in 1888-9 on account of agricul­ tural distress, making the reduction in the gross rental of land in nine years £11,398,462. Large as this sum is it does not express the whole of the loss ex­ perienced, for it is well known that rents have been nominally kept up in thous­ ands cf instances in which they have not been paid in ftll, without any remission of income tax being claimed. Such* is farming in Britain. SOME time ago a woman of Brooklyn, Ind., before selling a few eggs wrote her name and address oa one of them. She has received a letter from a young lady liviog in Massachusetts, saying she purchased the eggs and was in the act of making a lemon pudding when she discovered the name and address. THE Woman's Christian Temperance Union has waged a vigorous campaign in Chicago for five years, yet' the con­ sumption of alcoholic beverages has in­ creased 23 per cent, in that time. Ohio has satisfactorily demonstrated that the ealoon never gives way but to the law, &nd only then where lawyers are scarce. THE gross valuation of the County of London will be found to have passed the enormous figure of £40,000,000, «ven if all the county council appeals were to be dismissed. The actual figure stated in the return is £39.837,147, but this is subject to additions in respecfof the seperate assesments of tbe hamlet of Penge, apd to other additions con­ cerning the government property. THE Washington correspondent who «aid that "Mrs. Morton often receives over 8,000 calls in a day" had probably thrown his arithmetic at a dog. Calls are made from 1 to 10 p. m.--nine hours--540 minutes. No parson could •ascend the steps, bow and descend with­ out taking thirty seconds. If she re­ ceived 250 calls in nine hours she was rushing business. THE chronologe of the Rev. Canon "Cinquemani is an ingenious clock, and consists of a single-toothed escape wheel, which propels a pair of pallets and the pendulum. In addition to thi.« there is a chain of lead balls, -one of which is discharged over a revolving •drum every quarter of an hour. These keep the escape wheel going and bj A PRACTICAL joker seeretly introduced a phonograph in the kitchen of the house where he boarded, and it recorded j the orders of tbe landlady to her cook, j Tbe following Sunday he placed the I machine on the dining-table in the J presence of the guests assembled at din- ' ner, told the lady that it was a new- fangled music-box, and asked her to 1 turn the crapk. She innocently did so, ; and thi* is the sj.eech that came from | the phonograph: "Mary, you don't : want to pay over eight cents a pound j for meat, anyhow; it-is good enough for j them, you can get it on Mulberry street for thai You are giving too big pieces of steak, I notice, too. Let 'em eat more vegetables. Yesterday you bougrit fresh |,ie How often have I told you to save five cent9 on 'em by getting them stale and warmiog them' up. Here on this bill is twenty-five cents a pound for coffee; fifteen cents will do hereafter. I've got enough trouble without feeding three men at f 5 a week on porterhouse steak." The boarders appreciated the joke more than the landlady, and after j hearing the first few sentences she in- i dignantly bounced out of the dining- A man of the period. THE PKICi;, OF WHEAT. NEW MARKETS MUST BE BUILT . ,, , UP. ... Ba T*rUb Baotptr a Coontty'* ItyMb?- l'rte*» and the Farmers--Exchange Po­ litical Comment--Tariff Pictures. Etc. It hats been claimed that American wheat-growers were being drivm out of foreign markets by the increasing sup­ plies from other countries, and, there­ fore, must build up new markets by means of reciprocity treaties. Mr. C. W. Davis, in a recent article in the American Economist, snows that this is not true as to Russia. It appears that the world's exportable surplus of wheat is diminishing, and that the consumption of wheat all over the world is increasing more rapidly than producflon. Some of the factors which determine the price of wheat are, therefore, now favorable to the producer.. The wheat production of the world, so far as known, has not increased in re­ cent years. It is given in the reports of the Bureau of Statistics at 2,031,322,- 285 bushels in 1886, and at 3,041,075,627 bushels in 1889. The quantity exported (including flour) from the principal wheat producing countries was 239,000,000 bushels in 1880, 243,000,000 in 1S85, and 279,000,000 in 1888. Of these exports Groat Britain received 68,01)0,000 cwts. in 1880, 81,000,- 000 cwts. In 1885 and 78,000,000 ciyts. in 1888. Great Britain js thus the chief market for the surplus wheat of the world. It is worth notins i hat the im­ portation of wheat and wheat flour into the United Kingdom ha* incieased from about 5,000,000 cwts. in 1845, when the protection for the British farmer .was abolished in the interest of Manchester cotton manufacturers,to 81,< 00,000in 1885 --or sixteen-fold in forty years. The share of the United States in these imports into Great Britain has varied with great Irregularity. It was 35 per cent, in 1871, 37 per cent in 1877, 38 per cent, in 1889. It was 25 per cent, in 1874,56 per cont. in 1878, and 53 per cent in 1884. I# was over 60 per cont. in 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1887. The share of other countries in the supply of Great Britain has also va­ ried with great irregularity. Russia furnished 35 per cent in 1871, less than 5 per cent in 1880, and 28 per cent, in 1889. Tttfc supply from India has in­ creased with considerable regularity, frotn less than 1 per cent, in 1871 to 12 per cent, in 1880. In the irregularities of American ex­ ports of wheat it is impossible to dis­ cover any relation to the volume of all American imports. There Is clearly no ground for the free trade assertion that the foreign demand for our farm prod­ ucts depends upon tho American de­ mand for foreign products. Nor Is there anything in the fluctuations of the ex­ port prices of American wheat to indi­ cate that they dej,end upon the foreign demand or upon the quantity exported. Referring to tho wars above mentioned, for which we give the proportion of British wheat imports supplied from tho United States, the fluctuations of prices per bushel were as follows: 1871, 81.32; 1874, SI. 43; 1877, $1.17; 1878, $1.34; 1879, 81.07; 1880, 81.25; 1881, 81.11; 1884, 81.07; 1887, 89 cts: 1889, 90 cts. The irregularities of supply and de­ mand, as well as of price, are beyond the control of any human power. They are determined by climatic conditions, which affect production. Consumption proceeds with uniformity, steadily in­ creasing per capita- with the improving condition of civilized nations. But pro­ duction, or the supply .contributed an­ nually by the wheat exporting countries, depends upon rainfall, sunshine, and temperature which no human foresight can predict and no human care or inge­ nuity control. Farmers who engage 1 largely in wheat raising are, therefore, playing a game of hazard, in which just now the chances generally seem to be in their favor, growing out of a steady increase of consumption with no increase . of production. But a hapuy combination of the elements which determine production in either of the great exporting countries, or the groat importing country, Groat Britain, may at any time so increase production or diminish the demand that the price would fall even lower than ever before. In this industry ettort or skill counts but little. It is a gamo af chance, in which the farmer is playing against Nature. If he stakes his year s toil upon it, and sometimes loses, as in 1888 and 1889, it may be humau but it is certainly unreas­ onable and unjust to cast the blame upon legislation, which has had nothing to do with it except to defend his homo mar­ ket, or upon his follow countrymen in other occupations, who furnish him with the only c onstant and sure market that he can possibly have. Prices of Necessaries In » Free-Trade A-'artoL The folly of any country placing itself at the mercy of foreign producers for its supplies in the hope that "by buying where it can buy the cheapest" the cost of living will bo lowered, is forcibly illustrated in the case of the free-trade colony of New South Wales. With free access to the cheapest markets In tho world, it has to pay for its manu­ factured iron nearly twice as much as the prices paid for the same grades of iron in England. New South Wales has almost no domestic manufacturing es­ tablishments to check the rapacity of the foreign mill owner, and its experi­ ence is exactly what ours has been when­ ever we have been forced to depend j mainly on foreigners for our supplies. I It may be po icy for foreigners to offer ! their wares at a very low price while i domestic competitors are in the field, I but so soon as these have been; driven out, -prices go up sufficiently j to recoup any losses incurred. Even j now we are paying for a severe lesson > on this very subject. A few months ago j the Economist called its readers' atten- i tion to the action of the .Welsh tin-plat^ manufacturers, when they met in secret conclave and determined to "make a box of plates rather a costly commodity" foi* [ Americans. So they did. Prices of: plates have been arbitrarily put up, al- ' though there has been as yet no change j whatever in the rate of duty on them, i and we have been forced to pay the ad- j vance simply because, like New South Wales in the case of iron, we had no do­ mestic mills to curb the arrogance of our insolent foreign tin-plate masters. The experience #f New South Wales in this matter is further indicated in a recent report by United States Consul Griflin frqm Sidney. He says: *4It is the experience of American work­ men in Sydney that the cost of living, in spite of its being a free port, is ful^ 30 per cent, higher than in the United States. House rent is 20 per cent moro than it is in nearly all the cities of about the same population in America. Wheaten bread is one-half dearer than in San Francisco. Fruit is in the same proportion; indeed, the cost of fruit is so great, even when in season, that there is a brisk demand for American tinned iruits. Tins which retail here at 30 cents each can be purchased in the United States out of season for 12 cents each. Tea and coffee are 20 per cent, cheaper in nearly all the larger cities in America than in Sydney. Meat appears to be the only article of food supply which is lower in price than in America; but even the retail price of that is out of all proportion to the actual cost of production. Mr. Coghlan (Government Statist of New South Wales) gives the retail price of beef at 9 cents per pound. Pork and sausage? seem to be dearer < ken than anywhere else. It is seldom that a fair article of sausages can be ebtajned for less than 20 cents per | pound, but they are nothing like as good, as the imported ones in tins." j Such are the prices of "necessaries of j life" which are not tariff "taxed." The j lesson to be drawn from this extract is that the only sure way to insure to any j people ample supplies at fair prices of i the things they have to buy, ig to make | them for themselves. They can then 1 snap their fingers at any secret meeting ' of foreign extortionists, as our people j very soon can do at the tin plate lords of Wales. ®o Tariff* Hamper a Country'* Export* f * The neatest demonstration wo have lately seen of the absurdity of the idea that a country's high tariffs prevent it from exporting is furnished by a table in a late number of the London Statist The amounts of the purchases of the United Kingdom from each of the nations from which the British Jmport trade has in­ creased in recent years are given for 1886 and 1889, together with the increase for the three years included. We have selected the ten countries whoso sales to the United Kingdom show the largest increase, and give them below: VALUK OF IMPOBTB OF FOBKIGN PRODUCE INTO OHKAT BRITAIN BI COUNTRIES IS 1880 AND 1886. Import! from 1888. 188R'. Increase. Tjnltad State* *96.461,475 <81,600,197 dl3.MBl.-278 France........ 45,780,277 i8,599,450 9,180,827 British India. 16,193,204 31,130,807 i,Ood,m Russia 17,154,490 13,571,786 13,582,704 Germany 87,104,83-.} 81,4.>2,34a 5,lW2,480 Australia 86,rtiW,.WSI 90,954.440 5,S5;),15a Belgium....... 17,671,877 14,248,151 3,4-J8,7aB 8wedeu and Norway..... 12,704.580 10,227,401 2,477,159 Spain... 11.558,857 9,112,045 2.446,812 Denmark 7,845,677 4, *86,992 2,y06,885 Did any one over see so striking a>' contrast between fact arid theory? "Pro­ tection hampers a country's exports," the theorist ^^ys. "The most effectively protected countries in the world are ex­ actly tho ones from whom the greatest of purchasers buys most largely," say the facts. Russia and tho United States have tariffs framed especially against British goods, yet Britain's purchases of those two countries grow more rapidly than her purchases from any of the oth­ ers. Bather a bad showing for the the­ orist • • Tariff. Picture*. Xo. 1. The average price ot our imports of tin In 1888 was 38 costs a pound. Harrison waa elected, tho development of American tin resource* assured and^ the aver­ age import prloe lor 1800 was 90 oents a poundi Ma 2. "If we do not buy we cannot soli," myn the free-trader. Well, there'* England. We sold in the last fiscal year the United Llngdom of Great Britain aad Ireland goods worth 8444,450,009, while we bought of her only H 86,488,936. No. 3. "Yes, flax is a good crop, but why bother with it? We can't raise flax, hemp and jute in com- petion with the cooly labor of India," But we do raise it and export it. Our exports of flax, hemp and jute for five years (1885-89) were SI,430,613. We exported in 18>3 S2,0»4,80F. --Xtw York IVess. Magnitude of Truck Farming. The following facts are gleaned from a recent bulletin from the Census Office relative to an industry whoso existence is almost entirely due to protection: Truck farming is distinct from market gardening. It is carried on at a distance from market, water and rail transporta tion beinsr necessary. Upward of $100,000,COO is invested in this industry, tho psot^ts peaching a Value of 976,507,155 <m farms after pay­ ing freights and commissions, and real feed upon 534,440 at ros of land.. There are employed in this industry 21fi,7»>5 men, !t,254 women, and 14,874 children, aided by 75,86(5 hoises and mules and 88,971,206.70 worth of implements. The Norfolk district, embiacing 45,375 acres, shipped products valued at §7,692,859; South Atlantic district, 111,741 acres, products $13,183,516; Mississippi Valley, 36,180 acres, products $4,979,783. Nearly 75 per cent, of tho truck pro­ duced in the United States comes from a belt of country along the Atlantic- coast lying east of a lino drawn from Augusta, Me , to Macon, Ua ; from Southern Georgia, Alabama, and Flori­ da: along tho north and south lines of railroad in the Mississippi Valley from the Gnlf to Chicago. St. Louis and Kan­ sas City, and from the celery districts of Michigan and Ohio. More or less of the truck, however, is produced in all the States. The following figures show the total acreage of the leading vegetables grown, upon truck farms of the United States: Asparagus, 37,979; beans (string or snap), 12,607; cabbage, 77,094: kale, 2,962; spinach, 20,195; Irish potatoes, 28,046; beets, 2,420; celery, 15,381; cu­ cumbers, 4,721; watermelons, 114.381; other melons, 2P,477: peas, 56,162; sweet potatoes 28,621; tomatoes, 22,802; .mis­ cellaneous vegetables, 82,601. Revenue Tarlft and ProtMtirs TarlfE Every once in a while some free-tAda ass gets up on his hind legs and brays like this: "The Leader has frequent rejoicings over the fact that sugar will be cheaper, because the tariff on it has been taken off. As that paper has always contend­ ed that the tariff is not a tax, no diagram of its self-inflicted joke seems neces­ sary. " The Leader, like every other protec­ tionist. has uniforiply maintained that the tariff on sugar, or any other article we do not adequately produce, is a tax; as much a tax as the internal revenuo tax on tobacco. A protective tariff-- that is to say, a tariff which creates and maintains the production of any article in this country in amount approximating the domestic demand--is not a tax in any true sense as we have a thousand times explained. The tariff on sugar was not a protective tariff. It was a tariff for re\enue only, and that is why the free­ traders insisted upon preserving it. A tariff for revenue only is aimittedly a tax. Everybody agrees to that A pro­ tective tariff is not a tax. The man who cannot see any difference between the two things is just what we have charac­ terized him in the opening sentence of these few remarks.--Cleveland Leader. the present rato of exchange of about l#d. -- 1 mtlreis, American goods will have the following advantages over ours: On printed cottons, 10s and over per jump of 125 yards; on Oxfords, ginghams, ;fegettas, Ac., la. per yard and over; on bleached cottons, is. 9d and over per piece of 40 yards. Every fall of the ex­ change will increase this advantage. That our industry cannot possibly com­ pete against such odds is clear, and oui exports to Brazil, amounting now toovei £7,700,000 per annum, will soon show different figures." The stupid Britisher is continuall] spoiling tin; efforts of his friends' worl on this side of the Atlantic. WHAT "DEMYCRAT8" FORGET An Obtoct LMMD In Klnmnoe. with Figure* that Speak for 1 hemselves. What's the matter? Why this clatter. And this bleatin', snlffin' chatter 'Bout the surplus, Jeremier? Seems to me some people's nlgher Tellln' 1 es than truth revealln'; Got their fingers pinched, and squealln', Mebbc, Jerry, that's the matter, * Causin' all this bleat and chatter. Hes our party been a-takln' Money from the Guv'ment, makln* No account In' fur it. sneak In' Olf with bags of Rold and wreakta' Ruin on the Yankee nation. Through our Ben's administration? Tell me, and don't keep me watkin'* •», Well, I'll tell you, Uncle Peyton; Demycrats is cu'rous creeters-- ... Almost tell *em by their feetarsf Brazilian Reciprocity an Onr Rivals See It. The American Cobdeuite seems to stand alone in his opinion that our Bra­ zilian reciprocity treaty can bring no tangible benefits to our manufacturers. Now here is what the English Cobdenite --i. e., the Manchester Guardian--thinks of our Brazilian reciprocity arrange­ ments: "By th'is treaty American cotton goods are admitted into Brazil at a reduction of 25 per cent on the duties paid on the same goods imported from other coun­ tries. As the duties levied by Brazil amount on an average to fully 100 per cent on their original Manchester value when the exchange is at par, their payment in gold at present means nearly another 50 per cent. = 150 per cent, on the first cost It follows that the 25 per cent: is practically 37>£ per cent, on flfst cost in favof of American goods. By a further fall of the exchange this might easily be raised to AO per cent., and such a fall is by no means improb­ able "The Lancashire people should under­ stand what this means to their trade. /1 1 "I'LL TEL.L YOU, CS(LH PKTTOJF." H*- When our party holds the ribbons All look like old Billy ^kibblns; SSour as a knerly apple. And like Phtladelfy scrapple; < Fat and lean,* and more myster'ous Than a keg of lager beer is! Well, as I was Jest a sayin', Demycrats don' do ihueh prayln®-- That's to Ray, the boys and fellers That does jobs In mills and cellar^ And them edlturs, whose wrltln' 'S always barkln' more than bttin'; Them's the fellers. Uncle Peyton, Who's been lay In' round and waitln* Fur a chance to do some lyin'-- So our t hancey says--and trylu' To make peeple b'leeve we're stealln' From the guv'ment, and concea}lu' Facts about it from the nation When we make a 'propriatlou. But the truth Is, Ur.cle Peyton-- T shan't keep you long a-waitln'-- These 'ero Demycratlc liars Ain't the Pcrlpt'ral Jeremiers If they allers is lamentiu'; Ain't no more like old Tom Benton, Or Tom Jefferson, or Jackson, Than a Turk's a Anglo-Saxon. Some o' them is friends of Groves-- Free-trade pigs In English clover; Them's the sort that say we're usln* Up the surplus and abusin' People who we asked to trust us Only for a chance to bust us. But I'll tell you, Uncle Peyton-- Be ye gittln' tired o' waitln'? So's them Demycrats who's tryin' To git in aftln by lyin'! They're for office mostly yearnln'; Burbins, 'cause they don't take learnln', Most o' people rightly names 'em, • 'Cause ibey think, I spose, it shames 'em! Well, these friends of Stephen Grover, Sayin' our party's slopped way over; Spent the surplu* most amazln' Fast and loo-e, they fall to pralsln' Grover's late administration, 'S if he'd gifno and saved the nation! SMWfWIUNALDEBT CLEVELAND. FIRST TWW®. $ 14133 HARRISON, -- ' RTBTTYTFYEWJS IXfAVIB THINK OS THIS. Here's some Aggers, Uncle Peyton- Glad you ain't got tired of waitln'-- That the Demycrats ain't collared (Leastways, not before they hollered); In two years of easy workln', While the Demycrats was smlrkin', Benjy's paid, by calkelation, Of tho nation's oblegation. Nearly twice as much as Grover. Look at this, and think it over, And digest It, Uncle Peyton-- 'Course you're glad I kept you waltin' --W. S. Snyder, in N. Y. Prats. Exchange Comment. .BETWEEN* the seals on one side of the sea and lobsters on the other, John Bull is in hot water.--Albany Argus. As TF.T no Temocrat has been heard of who has refined to purchase sugar at the Mc'Kinley prices.--Indianapolis Jour­ nal. THE question of the Western Demo­ crat is: "How can we fit our principles to Grover Cleveland?"--Indianapolis Journal. INGALLS says that reciprocity is a "trick." He is rigli^ and Mr. Blaine played tho trump that took it.--Phila­ delphia Presn. IT is safe to predict that the next Presidential ticket will not read Hill of New York and Davis of Rhode Island.-- Washington Post THE report that this country will re­ taliate if Germany continues its inter­ dict against American pork will be re­ ceived with satisfaction by the people.-- St. Lvuis Globe-Democrat. THE reciprocity legislation placed in the Mcivin:ey tariff on the representa­ tions of Secretary Blaine has set in mo­ tion a movement for reciprocity in all the English colonies in this hemisphere. --Philadelphia Press. WHO says the Republicans OF^ the Northwest are going astray?' The declaration by the Republican League of Minnesota, in favor of protective tariff and reciprocity does not look like it.-- Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. "How Tom Reed would enjoy being in the Italian Chambet of Deputies," says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. And how glad the Plain Dealer and the other Democrats would be to have him there I --Columbus Dispatch. Air-ma i N injyors: •,tew Onr "Neighbors Are Dolne-Natter* of General and Local Interest -- Mar- rla|e*»Bd Death*-Accld«nti and Crime* --Personal Pointers. 5 JOHN TROM, a Chicago clerk, jostled an unknown man on the street, was fa­ tally stabbed by him, and the murderer escaped. F. C. CLARK, an Edwardsville grocery- man, was awakened by a burglar and went gunning for him. Mrs. Clark went to her husband's assistance and was killed by a bullet from the bnrglar's gun. The thief escaped. CHAP. SNELL, a Chicago business man, was killed by a train. MRS. E. ABBOTT, of Kalamazoo, Mich., expired at the Palmer House restaurant, Chicago, while at dinner. AT Latham fire destroyed all but three business houses, inflicting a loss of 85,000. ARTHUR R.. VOKES, a Chicago physi­ cian, crazed by disappointment at failing to find a cure for Bright's disease, un­ successfully attempted suicide. AT.BKUT RAY, was found dead beside the railroad track at Drake. He was struck by the cars. THE late Mrs. Arthur Campbell, of Sbringfield, loft $5,000 *o >>t Paul's Church there, and the balance. 895,000, to relatives. Mrs. John M. Palmer gets a share. Wixnow OT.IA.SS manufacturers from all over the country met in Chicago, and formed au association to boost prices 10 per cent. CHAUI.ES SVET.I , a Chicago switchman, was held by a frog and run down by a train. A I,AUOK crowd attended memorial services at Lincoln monument, Spring­ field. on the twenty-sixth anniversary of Lincoln's death. BI;KK STAN-I.KV and son, Edward, of near Vienna, aro arrested charged with murdering J. H. Arnott. Tho latter was filled with buckshot. Ax old cab horse knocked over by a manhole explosion at Chicago is dy­ ing of fright. Not a bruise or a scar can le found on the animal. JACOB I)K 1?AER, a Holland emigrant, bound for Kensington, died at the New York barge office, after lauding from the steerage of the vessel. THE Illinois Association of Mexican War Veterans ask the Legislature for a' monument to their dead comrades. WILLIAM MENARD, a liorse-thief con­ vict from Clay County, shammed blind­ ness until he was put in a dark dungeon for twenty days. He had fooled the prison surgeon for months. s THE 4klt°h Presbytery held a success­ ful meeting at Hillsboro. SANGAMON COI-NTY F. M. B. A. lodges number 1,800 members, In thirty-two lodges. Brur.LARs "busted" Bolt's saloon at Ramsey, bowled up on "budge," and bolted with their boodle. THE publisher of the Vnlks-Zeituny at Rock Island is in troublo for publishing an advertisement of the Louisiana Lot­ tery. A. FRIENDLY, Chicago traveling man, took an overdose of medicine to alleviate the pain of la grippe, and died. JOHN NEAT., janitor of tho Chicago Medical College, and John Mdolenburg, a student, were arrested for throwing parts of a human body into the street The pieces of flesh wore from the college dissecting-room. HENRY ScimtKfrelfc, a printer, 63 years old, who has a sou, Clement Hohraeder, living at Racine, Wis., committed sui­ cide at Chicago with morphine. THE Department of Illinois. G. A. R., in session at Decatur, electod Horace Clark, of Mattoon, Commander. The other officers chosen were as follows: I. H. Pike, of Bloomington, senior vice com­ mander; S. G. Burdick, of Centralia, jun­ ior vice^commandot*: P. L. McKinney, of Moline," Medical Director; W. J. Knt- ledge, of Petersburg, chaplain. The next encampment will be held at Springfield. It was represented*that the widow and daughters of the late Maj. B. F. Steph­ enson, founder of the G. A. R., were liv­ ing in reduced circumstances at Peters­ burg, and a movement is on foot to pur­ chase and present to them a home. Tho following resolutions were adopted: WHKKKAS, It Is now a matter of history that at the city of Decatur, State of Illinois, was organized the iirst post of the Grand Army of the Itcpubllc: WHKKE4S, In rticosrnttinn of this fact, the Twenty-fourth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, assembled at Boston, Ma.-a., August i:(, provided ways and means for the erection oT a national memorial hall at Decatur, 111., In honor of our beloved order, liesofred. That/this encampment, rejoicing in. the honor, believes it should be the first to contribute its share for this memorial hall, and calls upon Its comrades t<> respond promptly to tho appeal for the raising of the necessary funds and remit, the same promptly to the department officers-elect. Resolved. That the assistant adjutant general of tho department send a copy of these resolutions to each post in the de-, partment. ONE of tlio most destructive fires in the history of Chicago destroyed John M. Smyth's mammoth furniture estab­ lishment--the largest retail furniture store In the world--Kohl «fc Middleton's West Side Dime Museum, and a number of other buildings. Tho elegant Hay- market Theater narrowly escaped. The total loss is upward of a million, with insurance of about £400,000. No one was buried in the ruins, but one spec­ tator was fatally injured and several badly hurt b>' the collapse of a side­ walk. While the iire was at its fiercest it invaded a room occupied by Mrs. Sarah Macks, who was in confinement, attended only by Dr. J. 55. Bergeron. The Doctor by superhuman effort car­ ried his patient, wrapped in blankets, down throo flights of stairs and fifteen minutes afterward a healthy girl baby was ushered into the world. Dr. Ber­ geron lost his instruments, overcoat and hat. THOMAS CASEY was fatally stabbed by Morris Kennedy, a boarder at Casey's boarding house in Chicago. The tragedy was the outgrowth of aiu assertion by Mr. Kennedy that the wife of Mr. Casey had red hair. W. T. BAKER, President of the Chi­ cago ' Board of Trade, has been elected President of tho World's Fair. James Scott refused to serve. TIIE Turners of Central Illinois intend to be strongly represented at the Na­ tional Turnfest at Indianapolis in June. A meeting of delegates at Springfield has settled the preliminaries. JOHN FLKO, a Chicago gripman, made three attempt- to hang himself while suffering from delirium tremens. A CnicAtJO sneak-thief in the Palmer House stole a £-'<'0 watch and an 880 overcoat from Secretary Dickinson, of the World's Fair. FOR the first time in its history the public schools of Ramsey has held com­ mencement exercises A class of thir­ teen received diplomas. JOHN ERNST, of Chicago, becoming in­ sane, tried to kill his wife. She escaped arid he blew his brains out. THE body of Mrs. Bertha Stearns was found in a lake in Union Park, C hicago. She sui'dded, leaving three childreh. ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERS ̂ WRKir the Senate convened oo the 13«!i, at 5 o'clock, the tranquillity was inters ' rupted by a serious jar between Senator^ Hunt and Crawford, of Rock Island. GcodL, Old-fashioned cuss words content thlp ' simple-minded farmer on ordinary ocea*$': / aiona, but Chairman Hunt, of tbe Senator Agricultural Committee, had no use to# ,; them. There were only a baker's doiei of Senators present, and the most as> t tlve anticipat on could not hare fore>» seen any such disturbance as sudden I# agitated tbe vicinity of Crawford and Hun% ~* Mr. Crawford arose and presented a resolution which was a rather sever® , censure upon the Agricultural Con*» mlttee for not having reported back ft 7"v stock yards bill. Senater Hunt looked ifc / astonishment at Senator Crawford. The*' he cried; "What are you driving at?" Seitj* j® ator Crawford smiled. When the Senate act* journed Senator Crawford came over to irate Chairman and asked him the cause of his apparent anger. '-You will first tell to* . what is the t* tuse of your resolution," e»»; / . Claimed Senator Hunt. "I placed your bill with the other two before tbifc' committee in the hands of a sob^ committee at your request anA > made you the chairman of it. Th# bills have never been heard from since. You have those bills in your own hands and I am waiting for your report, and what t% the . world do you mean by this public ae*' cusation of me?" Senator Crawford said M. did not know that he waschairman. "Didnffc I appoint you first.V shouted Senator Hunt. 44Yes--does that make me chairman?" Pre*- _ ide,nt Kay was called and explained to Sen* ator Crawford that he was chairman of th* sub-committee. The vehement eloquent* of Senator Hunt convinced Senator Craw* ford that the resolution wtfs"no joke and b* promised to withdraw it jfa the morning. THE bill to establish the validity of slave marriages came up on third reading in tk# House on the 14th. and after a brief speech, by Mr. Morris, tlfctSS^olored member from fcCook, it was passed by the unanimous vote of tlie House. The measure is as follows: All marriage* that have been contracted wherein one or both of the parties were slaves at the time shall btf considered' equally valid and binding as though the parties thereto were free, and the chill, or children, of such marriagos shall b ' deemed legitimate and placed upon exactly the same footing (as t> the right to inherit property as well from their brothers, sla­ ters. and other relations, as from their parents) as any child, or children, born ot parents who were lawfully wedded and noi slaves. The provisions of this act shall extend to all marriages entered into between such slaves. whether contracted and entered into within OP without the State, so far as the right to in­ herit property within fhis State is con­ cerned. Bills were introduced as follows In the Senate: By Mr. Merry, amending tbe compulsory school law by allowing children residing in one district to attend private or parochial school in another district, pro­ vided common branches in such school be taught In English; by Mr. Btnck^compelling Insurance companies to pay tuW amount Ot policies on which premiums have been ac­ cepted in case of loss of any part of the In­ sured property; by Mr. Wells, establishing a State asylum for the care of the incur­ ably insane. Mr. Fuller's bill, giving rail­ road and warehouse commissioners power, in their judgment, to compel railroads to put In interlocking switches at crossings was read a third time and passed. ON the 15th, in the House, the Committee on Rules reported on the resolution of Mr. Allen, of Vermilion, and lecommended the adoption of the rule prohibiting the intro­ duction of bills after April lt>. The feature of the day was the warm discussion over Van Praag's bill amending the dram-shop act s > as to require the public prosecutor to prove that dram->hop keepers "knowingly* sell or give intoxicating liquors to minors before they can be made subject to penalty of present law on this subject. Mr. Park- hurst moved ti strike out the enacting clause of the bill, and the yeas and nays were demanded. By a vote of 9K yeas to 20 nays the enacting clause was stricken out and the bill killed. In the Senate, Bassett'S bill providing that the mortgage law shall not apply to mortgages given to secure pur­ chase money was tabled. Mr. Knott's Mil' providing that in prosecuting for illegal liq­ uor selling it must be shown the dram-shop keeper was personally aware o? the illegal sale, was tabled, the bill having been re­ ported by the License Committee with­ out recommendation. Two appropriation bills, one making a general appro-' priation for the State Board of Agriculture, and the other appropriating $132,500 for the maintenance of State militia and purchase of a new rifle range, were passed. Mr. O'Conor's bill providing for punishment for fraudulent entries in horse races was read a second time and referred to a third reading. A message from the Governor was received. It announced the appointment of Robert T. Evans, of McLean County; E.«C. Iiossiter, Henry County; W. 11. Green, Alexander County; E. A. Gast- mau. Macon County; and W. R. Sandham, Stark County, as State Board of Education to succeed themse.ves, also several fteh wardens and public administrators. Ox the 16th the old Lake Front contro­ versy was revived In the General Assembly in the shape of a bill introduced by Mr. May, of Cook, providing for a compromise and settlement of all disputes according to tho scheme proposed by Telford Burn bam. of Chicago. The bill is entitled "An act to provide for a compn mise and settlement of the matters in controveisy between the State of Illinois, the city of Chicago, aad the Illinois Central Railroad Company, in relation to certain lands lying on or adja­ cent to the shore of Lake Michigan, in the city of Chicago, and certain submerged lands in front of the said city be­ tween Twenty-second street extended and Chicago River, and an extension thereof due east from It* mouth." By the provisions of this bill the Illinois Central Railroad is to abandou the water front, and thus give Chicago a beach of about one mile. In the Senate bills were introduced; By Mr. Thomas, providing for settlement of the controversy between Chicago and the State and the Illinois Central Railroad Company as to Lake Front matters (the bill Is accom­ panied bjr petition for its passage signed by many prominent Chicago citizens): by Mr. Farmer, providing that whei\ t^is^ are ap-. pealed from courts of record to Appellate or Supreme Courts, the original record shall be filed by the clerks; by Mr. Bacon, allow­ ing railroad companies to own stock in con­ necting lines in adjoining States; by Mr. Bass, taxing defeated parties In cases tried by jury 10 per cent, of tho costs; by Mr. O'Conor, allowing general pool-selling is the State. MOST of the' time of the House, on the 17th, was consumed in clearing the calen­ dar of House bills on first reading. Prom­ inent among bills which were read a first time and ordered to second reading were the following: To establish an Illinott State dairymen's association; to prevent animals from running at large within the corporate limits of cities, villages and,* towns; to require all canned goods to bear upon tho can tbe year in which they were canned; requiring mine operators to pay miners on the basis ot th* gross weight of all coal mined; making an appropriation for the State Board of Agriculture and the varioee county fairs; making appropriation in aid of the Illinois Horticultural Society; regt*- lating the manufacture and sale of vinegar?,- to prevent the shooting of pigeons, dove«* etc . for sport. In the Senate a bill w«a introduced for the promotion of the estat>» 1 lishmcnt of free libraries by providing thtfct when property is bequeathed for the estatt» ; lishment of libraries the trustee* may iil» corporate for that purpose. Both Senat# and House adjourned until the 20th. Held by Ktlquetta. A good stery is related by the Wash­ ington Anthropo 'otjint. It seems that at official and diplomatic dinners therft is sometimes difficulty in determining j*/, whose duty it is to rise and break up th* ., j- entertainment. & "When Dom Pedro, 1 he Emperor of Brazil, was entertained at the White - < House, he had been told by a confusetl -•..*• Senator that it would be expected tha<|^AS he. the Emperor, should be the last ot ! the guests to depart. fl The President's wife, however, io+ .* formed her other guests that they woul<|f ^ ,, f be expected to follow, not precede, th$ 1 royal party in leaving the house. ^ ^ The result was that no one dared to,,, s't go for fear of a breach of etiquette. l>u*- - , v »• at 3 o'clock in the morning a tired w©4- a man pretended illness, and the deadlock ̂ was broken. Great is etiauette. but b sometimes allowable.