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TO COBBESPOSSZM ... TAB xmwwilnaMmn for thi» paper nhould ba MMB> ^•Wfcr tb* BUM of th« Muboc; n«t n*caaarOr fei ;iwMl««t1fn, bni u an nrjOmae* of gMdiaitfcontfa«p«t Writ* only on on* sida of the papor. I« wfal, la «lTint nam-- and daUa. to km* pnllHiriandflrn-- phln «ad dteUnot. every occupant of tho Papal chair ha* r ARGER been an Italian. A MAINE woman who visited Portland waa afraid Blie d lose her watch. She therefore wired it to her leg with picture frame wire, bat drew the wires so tight that she fainted away on the street and had to be carried into a drag store. • SOUTH CABOLIXA fox made a ran •of forty-two miles before lie yielded np his life, but the sixteen men and twenty- two dogs stuck right to him and ran him down and got a pelt worth a. little •over a dollar. FIVE or nix years ago, when the Ital­ ian brigands captured an English naval •officer and held him for $8,000 ransom, what did the Italian Government do? It looked on and smiled while the Eng­ lish paid over the money. IN Williamstown, Ky., ewryisfhgle inhabitant--721 in all--had the grip at the same time, and a patent medicine man who stopped to sell a sure cure for consumption became so disheartened that he hired a mule to take him oat of town, • _ rAT»ER that is absolutely water-proof just been invented by a Parisian •chemist. The process can be carried •oat either after the paper is made, or •daring the operation of making it. Pa­ per thus made will be very valuable for packing. ANORY disputes about the use of flowers at funerals have aroused the en­ mity of the clergymen and the florists of Wiesbaden. The former think that too much money is spent for floral dis­ plays, on mortuary occasions, and often by people who have not enough left to buy food. A SYNDICATE which bought 23,000 aeres of coal laad in Tennessee had to buy out about seventy farmers, and it cost nearly $8,000 to get the kinks and flaws and twists out of their titles. Not o^i piece of land had been accurately described, or one deed accurately re­ corded. TRICKERY comes natural to the China­ men. A Chinese physician in Phila­ delphia has been doing a rushing busi­ ness--all office practice. In every case he prescribed opium. The authorities have just "tumbled" to hift trick, fie was running an opium joint. A FARMER of Carrollton, Ga., while cutting wood the other day, found some­ thing unexpected in a perfectly Bound piece of wood. He was cutting when three live frogs jumped out. He pro­ ceeded to examine the wood, but found no decay place, no knot near the resi­ dence of the frogs. THE stiffest whisky toddy ever made was given the other night in Cincinnati to a^ elephant which had caught a se­ vere oold. It consisted of three gal­ lons of whisky, five gallons of molasses, a barrel of hot water, and a gallon of lemon juica Every man in the circus insisted in testing the toddy before it was administered to the four-footed in­ valid, and they all pronounced it first- rate. __________ IN MANY parts of Europe it IS con­ sidered very important that an infant should "go up" before it goes down in the world. Thus, if a child is bom in the lower story of the house, it is im­ mediately carried up-stairs, and if tj»e event happens in, the upper story, 6ome woman takes the child in her arms and clambers upon the top of a table, or chest of drawers, or even a chair.' THAN EVER. FOREIGN TRADE CREATJ|JS THAN EVER BEFORC. • - THE largest and heaviest building Atone every quarried in England was taken from the Plankington quarry, near Norwich, in February, 1889. It was one piece, without craok or flaw, and weighed over thirty-five tons; it was fifteen feet long, six feet high and five feet wide. SHOULD the Jews crowd to Palestine in any considerable number they could neither make a living at any business nor find food enongh to support them, the country being miserably poor as to agricultural products. The idea is full of sentiment, but no one can thrive on that. THE Hindoos are about to adopt a modern notion in forming a "Hindoo tourists' party" for visiting Europe, America, China, Japan and the States. The "Hindoo noblemen and gentlemen"' who are invited to join the party are as sured that they will be able to travel without violation of caste rules. IT took James L. Babcock, of Ann Arbor, Mich., almost three years to make up his mind to accept an estate valued at $500,000. His uncle left it to him in 1888, with the proviso that he must get married within five years, or lose the property. He has just popped the question, and the lucky lady is Miss James, of Waukesha, Wis. A FEW years ago some one started the •cry that a horse's lungs I ought to be protected by a pad, in the winter, and thousands of them have been sold every year since. A veterinary surgeon now calls attention to the fact that nature so protected that part of a horse that any extra covering is more calculated to annoy than to benefit him. FARMER Little, of Ohio, began (sneez­ ing the other day and couldn't stopAnor could tHe doctors do anything for Mm The hired man hauled off and hit^him on the proboscis and the sneezing dis­ appeared as the blood came. The sneezer was grateful, of course, but he's going to lick the man some day this spring. . " FLOUNDERS replenish the ocean at a •very rapid rate. In a season one floun­ der produces many millions of eggs, scattering them broadcast through the water. The sole produces 1,000,000 eggs, a plaice not less than 2,000,000, while a large turbot has been credited with the deposition of 11,000,000 or 12,- 000,000 of eggs. THE Earl of Derby had enough dig­ nity but not enough money to sit down and live on his title. As money was what he was after, he fitted up seventy- three saloons and leased them out .to the highest bidder, and his cash comes rolling in every week by the keg-full. The nobility sneer at his way of finan­ ciering, but not at his horses and dia­ monds. ACCORDING to the list usually given by the Roman Catholic authorities, Leo XIII. is the two hupdrejd and sixty- third on the roll of Popes. ' For many cen Vurios past the Italian* have fur­ nished nearly all the Popes. Ever , since the death in 1553 of Adrian VL, who was a native of the Netherlands, SOME writers in one or two ©f the English papers have been again point­ ing out the fallacy of the very common idea that melted snow is an ideally pure water. The reverse of this is true. So far from being pure, snow is, prac­ tically, a great purifier of the atmos­ phere from floating particles and noxious gases. These the flakes of snow im­ prison or absorb a* they fall, and, as a matter of course, when the snow melts it is loaded with this rubbish. THE drinking of ether in Ireland has now almost become a national plague. In some districts it has not made much progress, but in others it has become universal, there being towns in which not a single woman is frefe from the dangerous vice. The Government is thinking of applying severe measures of repression, but it is a singular fact that it derives a large income from the tax on the me thy lie spirit which is ui>ed for the purposes of intoxcation. GEOLOGISTS have proved that the dia­ mond mines of South Africa are situated in vents or chimneys, varying from about seventy feet to 1,500 feet in diameter, and descending vertically through the fchists which form the ordinary strata of the districts. These vents are filled up with fragments of silicated and magnesian rocks, in which the diamonds are scattered, and before the diggings began each was capped by a hillock or "kopje." They are seven­ teen in number, and run in a straight line about 120 miles. THE spire of St Helen's church, in the Isle of Wight, which was built in the beginning of the last century and shortly afterward struck by lightning, had, as was supposed, the large bell of it%ohime cracked, as the tone was very much muffled. The other day a churoh warden happened to be in the belfry and through curiosity examined the bell He found that there was no crack in it, but a piece of wood broken from the wheel was pressing against the edge and stopping the vibration. This be' ing removed the bell, after being muffled for 170 years, rang out mer­ rily, to the astonishment of the in­ habitants of the town. THE St. Albans (Vt.) Messenger tells a good dog story. The owner of a dog in that town has a brother who is quite sick, living in. the suburbs. During a recent dark and stormy nighthe decided to send his dog to the brother's resi­ dence to learn his condition. A note of inquiry was written and given to the dog, his master opening the front door and pointing in the direction which the dog should take. The "messenger' trotted merrily away and in about one hour and a half returned and made his presence known by barking at the front door. The dog brought an answer in the shape of a letter from the wife of the sick brother replying to the inquiry made, much to' the gratification of the household receiving the news. Prwnlifenl rftrrtion'* Galresttii Ithut an Illinois Woman Knows-The Treasury Is Nol I'nnkrupt--The Tariff League Banquet--Tarifl Ploture*. Your tariff suppresses imports, say the free-traders The truth is not in them, for imports of foreign Roods are not only greater In value absolutely, but In proportion to population also, than they ever have been under any other tariff. The heaviest foreign trade ever known, prior to tho establishment of protective duties in 1861, was during the fiscal year I860, when imports amounted to 8353,616,119 in value, or SI 1.25 for every inhabitant according to the census of that year. But in 1890 another cen­ sus showed the population to bo 62,022,- 250, and the imports were in value $789,- 310,409, or $12.60 for every inhabitant. But since the new McKinley t»rilf was adopted the imports have been larger than they were during the correspond­ ing months of last year. The following gives imports of merchandise at ali ports for the months October-Febrtfary, in­ clusive, and at New rork alone for the month of March: lKXV^l. O c t o b e r . . t 7 2 , 5 0,279 November...... ....... December.............. 60,8)1,'.))3 January *>2,3>)u,7$4 February.... 66,926.777 March, New York..;... *4828-2,379 ever framed and enacted, the benefits of which are already becoming apparent to j position. tbe whole country, and a challenge to country, and has, at his own expense^ tho enemies of protection to continue i taken a short vacation and sot out to see their opposition and make the tariff j some of the country he has never seen question the leading issue of the Presi- j before and get acquainted with that dential campaign of 1892. J country and its needs He has been re- It was good to be there, and tho guests ! ceived in the South with as many dom- of tho Leaguo went home in the wee j onstrations of favor as could a Demo- sma' hours of this mornini tilled with ; cratic President, and the press. North such emotions as raise up patriots aad.t and South, Democratic and Republican, ^ He is President of the whoUl AFFAffiS IN ILLINOIS. heroes for a worthy cause. Harrison's UalT0*ton >p««sh. President Harrison has made a re­ markable scries of speeches in the first week of his trip across the conntry, but ! nyivftfao clUi^n may do. --//UtT Occan. ias said nothing more cer aiu to stir 1 has commended his manly and sensible speeches. It on>y remains for tlif. mug­ wump press, the enemy in the rear afraid to declare itself, to covertly at­ tack the President for doing what any Total vt374,061,6i3 fSjft.tfMUlO In these six months, the new duties having been in force all the time except­ ing six days of "October, and imports un­ der thom have been £18,OM,443, or nearly 5 per cent, greater than they wero in the same months of the previous fiscal year, although imports were then the largest ever known. That is, tho imports are at present at tho rate of about $13 for every inhabitant under the McKinley bill, against $11.:25 in the latest and largest year under any revenue tariff. Falsehoods so darken the air about the new tariff that many may imagine that it has failed of its purpose if it has not excluded imports of foreign goo is. Who­ ever wants the truth will learn that tho McKinley tariff placed a largo number *bf articles on the free list which were previously dutiable, and reduced the du­ ties on a greater number of articles than it advanced in rate of duty. In conse­ quence the dutiable imports were but little smaller during the six months than in the same months of tho previous year, but the additions to the free list took off the imports of many articles wh'ch were dutiable a ylar ago, and added to the imports of articles lree of duty not only equal but largely increased imports bf these articles. Thus the free imports during the six months, including as be­ fore the imports at New York only for March, were $26,593,410 greater than lor tho same months last year, while the imports of dutiable articles wero $8,527,- 907 loss, as follows: 1893-91. 1SS9-90. Free imports. $152,470,51)8 »l25,87ts,H93 Dutiable imports 22l,5JltS5i 2'.O,11(J,818 Music ami tbe Blind. Mnsio will ever be the blind man's ruling passion; but that it may be a blessing to him and not a curse he must be taught to know, • to master and to love only that of the purest and best kind. What he does he must be able to do well, or the gift will be fatal. He must learn not merely to scrape a fiddle in a more or less exasperating fashion or blow into a cornet with painful suc­ cess, so as to gain admission into the school band, but to do far more and far better; or within a year of his leaving school--away in the country village or alone in the London garret--the cun ning of his hand will fail him and his music be worse than useless. People will say, "It is very clever for a blind man," but there it ends, and such words will not even provide bread and cheese for a day. His descent into the streets is not far off, and unless he has learned to make a basket or a mat he will soon become one of the forlorn minstrels who, says May hew, "behind a string and a dog haunt the curbstone and fill the ears of the sorrpwful with strains of still greater sorrow." The higher sense of true music is gone from him, and the want of this sense is to melody what the loss of fragrance and color would be to flowers or of color to the sunset sky. And of all this loss he is at last unoonscious.--Edinburgh Review. The tire at Klver of tbe North, There is a river flowing in the far North as mighty as the Mississippi Kising in British Columbia, it sweeps to the northward beyond the Artie cir cle; then bends back, and sifter a jour ney of a thousand miles, bursts into Behring's Strait, with a current that muddies the water of the deep sea for many a league. This marvelous stream has flowed on its lonely course, almost as unknown to civilized man as was the Amazon or St. Lawrence before the days of Columbus. The Russians knew there was in Alaskdf the mouth of a great river, but they never traced it above two hundred miles from its mouth, and its source was as unknown as that of the Nile was many years ago. The Union Telegraph Company, which commenced to lay the Asia telegraph by Behring's Straits many years ago, found the mouth ofthis river, and de­ termined to solve the mystery of its source. An idea of immensity may be gained when it is stated that this ex­ pedition ascended it for more than 1*500 miles. --Hearth and Hall. O Ki S 74 0 ,155 f)h '.t:M,784 F.).S9M14 13 222,933 l>3 £>8,991 4I,S>71,184 the Southwest than his utterance at Galveston. Galveston is a Democratic city in a Democratic State, but thcro is not a s oli­ tary doctrine of the Democratic party which is not opposed to the present needs and future prosperity of Galves­ ton * Galveston wants $6,000,000 spont on its harbor, and the Democratic party is opposed to such improvements, in order i to do the work economically and effi­ ciently, an appropriation lasting over several years is needed, and power to contract for the work as a whole. The Democratic party in Congress has al­ ways been opposed to such appropria^ tlons, holding that the purse-strings should be loosened each year, and no appropriation made extending over sev­ eral fiscal years. Galveston will profit by reciprocal trade with Spanish America more than any other seaport on our coast, and the Democratic party steadily opposes reci­ procity. It wants new steamship lines, and the Democratic Postmaster General ubder Cleveland refused to pay out even the ocean mail pay, which had been ap­ propriated. Texas has vast iron depos­ its. Their developement. will give Gal­ veston what it always lacked, a mineral back country. The Democratic party wants to stop the developement of these mines by laying down English pig-iron and steel rails free on tho wharves of Galveston. Texas cotton goes further to the mill than any other grown in this country. Protection means putting the cotton-mill in the cotton patch. The Democratic party believes in sending Texas cotton to England and bringing English steel rails to Texas, and doing both in British steamers. President Harrison made all this clear without a line of partisan comment un­ becoming in the President of the United States, and the applause with which his speech was received shows the impression which it made on citizens and merchants awake to their own interests.--Philadel­ phia Press. Tm lft Picture*. NO. 1. Decrease in pries of win nail* in tbe United State*: Prioe in 1875, UN), per pound. Price in 1879, *N Prioe 7.95c. per pound. 2.83c. per pound HO. 3. It Will rajotee the heart ot Jerry Simpson to Eee tbe increase ot more than 100 per Mtt is the prioe of corn In twelve months. t orn flS-Hn. per bushel 1889. JTBillft GATHERED FROM VAM- OUS SOURCES. BO.ee. per bnthtl 1890 It ia evident that they are not burning oota for fuel since the McKinley bill was passed. NO. 3. The Republican otnbs at Cincinnati a few days ago distributed 1,800 tin souvenirs for the button-hole. They were sought as eagerly as though* they were gold and silver. Here, an the wages of tinsmiths at homo and In Kngland. Average daily wages--Tinsmiths: England, tl. lO. United States, S3.00. The souvenir button not only represented the starting of a new industry worth ten million dollars' annually in wages, but it was an em­ blem of American wages as against foreign •afies.--Sew York Preu. Total. (5174,061,8->3 ®ar>.V.;95,410 The imports of a few dutiable articles which the new duties were especially in­ tended to restrict have been sharply cur­ tailed. Thus tho imports of woolens in the months November-February, inclu­ sive, at all ports and at New York in March were only 812,393,(591), against §19,611,537 last year, a decrease of 87,- S17,847, or 37 per cent But the decrease In this and similar articles in conse­ quence of more effective protection was substantially balanced by the increase In imports of other art'c es on which duties have teen reduced. The new tariff is doing exactly the work it wa3 Intended to do: It is giving American industry the best and most thorough pro­ tection it ever had, and at the same time Is giving the people the freest and larg­ est trade they have ever enjoyed under any tariff.--New York Tribune. Tou Cannot Fool a Womgfi. In a recent number of the Chicago Inter Ocean Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, .of Bloomington, who speaks for herself and to tho point, gives her impressions of the McKinley bill in tho following terse language: I an) a Democrat's wife, but I am sick of seeing such lies as this in hewspapors whose editors claim not to be fools. 1 cut this paragraph out of the Chicago Herald to-day: "When a woman pays 50 cents more a yard for stuff to make a dress of than she would have pa'd if the McKinley bill had not become a law she should keep it to herself. So doing she will confer a great favor on President Harrison, who thinks that he may get another term in the Whito House if people will quit making 'malevolent' remarks about the tariff.--New York Times. " Now, don't this fool Democrat who edits Herald know, or can't his wife tell him, that everything a woman wears costs less than it did before the McKin­ ley bill-passed? Calico is cents per yard; a good summer silk costs froin 25 to 35 cents a yard: It used to cost $1. Black silk can be bought for from 60 cents to $1 that used to cost from $2 to $3.50. Sugar costs 5 cents that used to cost 8 cents. Ribbons are half the old price, stockings the same, and jerseys, since they are making them in this coun­ try, cost half as much as the imported Ladies' things aro down. We ladies know that Democratic husband9 can lie to each other, but they can't lie to us. We women are not fools. Let the Herald liar stick to men's things when he lies, and not try to lie about women's things. We won't stand it I'm a Democratic woman, but I don't want any lying to keep the party upi We women are not fools. ELIZABETH HUNT. An American I'anquet. Probably tho most successful, whole­ some, patriotic, and enthusiastic ban­ quet ever held in this country was that which came off last night under the aus­ pices of the American Protective Tariff League. It was distinctively American in all respects, and therein lay its chiefest charm. Protection is the great American principle of government--not merely a policy. Under its benignant operations this nation has become prac­ tically self-sustaining. We might bo cut off from every nation on the face of the earth, and yet be able to live com­ fortably, produce all the necessaries of life among ourselves, and be peaceful, happy, and prosperous--aM because the wise hand of protection has buHt up in our midst industries and enterprises of the most varied type and character. The Tariff League was organized to disseminate inforrfiation and knowledge concerning protection among tho people. It has held annual banquets heretofore, but they all ..ale before the glories of last night's feast Five hundred sturdy protectionists from 4ill parts of tho country, double tho numl;cr at any pre­ vious gathering, sat down at table, and twice as many more were unable to obtain places because they ap­ plied too late. The boxes, besides, were filled with fair women and brave men. The spirit of Americanism reigned everywhere. Tho stars and stripes, emblem of unity and liberty, were every­ where disp'ayed. American linen cov­ ered the tables, American china and glass ware and cutlery, with a bit of tin plate by way of illustration, were used in serving tho courses. American wines were drank, and American cigars closed the repast, which was thus unique in every respect. The occasion was at once a rejoicing of the old saying that the Copperheads were worse than the Confederates dur- j ing the war. There is no similarity ! whatever between President Johnson's j swinging around the circle and the tour j of President Harrison. Johnson had - , quarreled with his party and made his over*thcTpas'saee of the" McKinley tariff ' trip to work up support for -my policy. " law, the most distinctive protective law President Harrison is at peace with hu Tale or a Joke Maker. A professional humorist said the other day: "There is a great deal of tjnith about jokes which both readers jffld writers recognize in practice but do not often formulate. It is this: *A good joke improves no less with age than does the wine of Bordeaux. Once upon a time there ipras a famous speaker whose tolerably bad lecture started off and ended with two of tile most exquisite jokes ever invented. People traveled miles and sat patiently through the same lecture year after year to split their sides at the same old jokes. After the effect of the intro­ ductory joke had worn off there was always perfect silence until the lecture was three-quarters done, when the an­ ticipations of an audience which had never been swindled would begin to break out in gurgling laughter, nods, winks and whispers of 'it's coming!' And when at last this well-seasoned old chunk of wit brought the perform­ ance to a close, the very roof was laised. \But one fatal night there was a bad case of dyspeptic pessimism in a front seat. It is true that when he roared 'chestnut1 at the first joke the audience nearly mobbed him, but the lecturer's tender spot was touched. He prepared a new lecture which began and 'nded with two absolutely fresh jokes. When the lecturer walked tipon the platform with his new manuscript in his hand he received an ovation. "The first new joke seemed to stupe­ fy the people. But a few sentences of the new lecture seemed to wake them up, and they rose as one man and de­ manded their monev at the box office. At the next town the lecturer affixed the old jokes to the new lecture, and all went so well that he is still crack­ ing them with constantly increasing success." More Effects or the "Infamous Ml'." Wo quote the Dry Goods Economist of March 28, 1891: Wo now introduce the price of stand­ ard sheetings, printing cloths, and mid­ dling cottons, with comparisons for three years, that our readers may observe how the market compares therewith: 188& 1890. 1Q01. Middling cottons.9 15-16 103-10 117-15 9 \ Standard shoot­ ings m 7* 7% m Print cloths, 6 lxG4 8i)-10 4 297-100 And the Dry Goods Economist is one of the froo trade papers that describe tho McKinley bill as "infamous. But if it be infamous to make AmeVican goods of better quality than English goods, and to 9flSl them in America at lower prices than English goods nil be sold for. then the country can bear with a great deal of such infamy. Anxiety Unnecessary. The following dispatch, dated Minne­ apolis, presents an entirely original soiflrce of anxiety on the part of Western farmers: "The prospect of an enormous wheat crop and an increased acreage in all Bmall grains will croatc a great demand for binder-twine, and there is some anxiety now felt among the farmers " The writer of the above should know that there is no politics in the binder- twine, the duty being but seven-tenths of 1 cent a pound, which is much less than was specified in the Mills bill. Tho complaint shows that those who do the political croaking to get the farmers vote are very hard up for topics. It is a very backward season for all such.-- Indianapolis Journal. An Exce'lent Suggestion. As Mr. Cleveland and Gov. Hill appear to hold different views regarding the tariff. Major McKinley suggests a joint debate between them to settle the ques­ tion of Democracy.--Indianapolis Jour­ nal. ^ It's Not Surprising. -President Harrison is making friends everywhere."--Associated Press dispatch. Why not? He is one of the best off­ hand speakers in the country. He is President of the United States, a man and a gentleman. It Was All Talk fn tho Beginning. The Chicago election ha3 at least put an end to all talk about Gen. Palmer as a possible Democratic candidate for President or Vice President--SL Louis Globe-Democrat. About the Sice of It. " The Republican party has made sugar 2 cents a pound cheaper since April 1; and the Democratic party has never made anything cheaper except the wages of laborers.--lft. Louis Globe-Democrat. THE cultivation of the ooeoa plant and the manufacture therefrom of the drug known as hydrochlorate of cocaine is to be tried as an experiment at the Indian Government cinchona planta- As a mugwump yawp this reminds one i tions -n ]jer,gal. The suggestion that it might be advisable to attempt the manufacturrfof this valuable and costly Tho Treasury's Available Cash. Having predicted that tho McKinley tariff law would bring in a revenue so groat that the Treasury would be filled with surplus, and having found its pre­ dictions wholly unfulfilled, the free-trade press has now taken another tack, and is crying out that tho Treasury is so nearly empty that it will soon be unable to pay its obligations. It is a cold day when our brethren of the opposition do not discover some overwhelming impending "calamity" about to befall the country on account of a Republican administration of na­ tional affairs. Unfortunately for their credit as prophets the calamities never occur. From I860, when they predicted the dissolution of the Union as tho cer­ tain result of tho election of a Republi­ can President, down to the present time, their aspiring prophecies have proven mere "croakings" of disappoint­ ed and disgruntled elements. Tho latest calamity which is recorded and prated about is the silliest of all. There is, according to official statements, 8751,000,000 in the Treasury, of which a large part is trust money--as, for in­ stance, $493,030,000 of gold and silver on which certificates aro issued--but $258,- 000,000 belongs to tho government abso­ lutely, and is available to meet its obli­ gations. Our calamity prophets have set down the amount of money available in the Treasury at various sums, ranging from S40,0t)0,00c) to SI00,000,000, and it is a singularly confounding feature of their croaking that no two of them present tho same figures. Tho country has always been sate as to its finances with a Republican Secre­ tary of tho Treasury. It was under a Republican Secretary that means were found to prosecute tho war; under another that specie resumption was ac­ complished: under another that a policy in relation to silver was adopted that promises to lift it to a level with gold in due time. The country is still safe as regards Its finances, because the only Democratic administration in a quarter of a century did not dare to change tbe Republican Treasury policy, and we have an able Republican- fin^nci r once more at the head of that department Whataver else tho Republican party may have done or left undone, no truthful accusation was over made that it was ! unequal to tho grave task of managing national finances, and all the hue and cry about "surplus" or "deficit" will not scare the country when the real facts as to money on hand and tho Republican record aro considered.--New York Press. An OBJECT LCIMHI. The American Economist has been furnished a table showing the growth of the wire-nail industry in this country, and the lesson of declining prises with higher duties, by A. It. Whitney & Co., of New York, iron and steel merchants. In 1875 one thousand kegs of these nails were made in this country, and the price was 10 cents a pound, while ^ie duty was 1 cent. In 1882 fifty thousand kegs wero manufactured, the price being 8.32 cents per pound. In 1883 the duty was raited from 1 to 4 cents a pound, and tho next year J~0,000 kegs were turned out at 7.44 cents a pound. In 1886 300,0C0 ke^s were sold at 4.64 cents: in 1838, 1,000,000 kegs, at 3.20, and, in 1890, 3,500,000 kegs, at 2.85 cents. That is. the first real drop in price did not occur until the duty had been raised to 4 cents a Dound, giving assurande of permanency to the industry. Once established, the price fell from 7.44 centra pound in 1884 to 2.85 cents a pound in 1890, or 4.59 cents a pound. Now the price is 1.15 cents a pound less than the duty. Consequently, if the theory which the Indianapolis News sets forth every week is true, steel-wire nails must not only be given away in England, but the makers must pay Importers the difference be­ tween the duty and the pri- e to bring them to this country. But there are hundreds of staple articles tho duty on which is more than the price. How is this? Tho manufacturers are making them regardless of the foreign price. The American manufacturer is not tied to British prices, but is ruled by the laws of home competition. But the free-trader will never believe this, so deeply is he dyed in Anglopianiaism. - What Onr Neighbors Are Doing:--Matters of General and Local Interest -- Mar­ riages and Deaths--Accidents and Crimes --Personal Pointers. AT Soringfield, tho homeopathic phy­ sicians of the State met at the State House. The President, Professor C. E. Lanning, of Chicago, delivered his an­ nual address, and Professor T. S. Hoyne, of Chicago, made a statist'cal report, showing the growth of homeopa­ thy during tho last tan years, the per cent, of which is about double ithat of the increase in population. * • A 5-YKAR-OT.I> boy named Harry Lieb- erfeund, at Chicago, went into the kitchen on an exploring expedition. The steaming teakettle attracted his atten­ tion. He put his mouth to the spout and drew in a lot of steani, which resulted in death. AUDITOKP.VVKV authorized the Moline State Savings liank at Moline to com­ mence business with a paid-up capital of 3100,000. AT Atlanta,. B. B. Olport of Carlin- ville, circuit clerk bf Macoupin County, swore out a warrant for the arrest of Samuel S. Cole, a well-known stock deal­ er of Carlinville, charging him with adul­ tery with his wife, Alice Olport. They were found at Mrs. M, A. Forrest's boarding-house, and with them was a iittlo boy of the Ol ports', aged 5 years. Later, Olport departed with |ns wife and child, and agreed not to prosecute Cole if he would pay all costs, which he did. A WKIX-I»IIKSSKI> woman left a big basket aboard a Cottago Grove avenue car at Chicago. It lemained unobserved beneath the seat until the car reached the end of the line, when tho basket was examined and found to coutaina healthy boy baby, whicji waS taken to the Hyde Park police station. Ax unpleasant surprise awaited W. E. Schaffer and family of Chicago when they returned home from a party. Dur­ ing their absence fire broke out in the flat occupied by Mr. Schaffer. Before the flames were extinguished they had caused a loss oT $1,500. Mr. Schaffer did not hear of the matter until he re­ turned and found his home in ruins. THE Piano Opera House, four tmple-. ment and warehouse buildings and two dwellings were burued, and the brick block that contains tho post-ottico wan damaged. The\Joss will reach $30,000. Auorxo Benton the prospects for good crops was never better than at present. Wheat is extra fine and meadows look well. Oats are doing only fairly well; the acreage is small. Corn is not all planted, but what is up looks well. There will be a large actoagn of cortt this year. The fruit crop will be tha largest for years. Strawberries are in very fine condition. Vegetables"aro do­ ing nicely since the recent rains. Hroii MCNAMEK, son of tho po5tmas> ter at Bcment, was arrested on a charge of robbing the mail. He was held to answer to the United States District Court in the sum of 81,000. He had beon suspected for some time, and was finally caught by a decoy letter mailed by a postoflice inspector. THKKK men were hurled to death by the bursting of a boiler on the towboat My Choice in the Mississippi River above Cairo. Tho boat wa* under a full head of steam,, and when in midstream the catastrophe occurred. Three men of the crew. Dick Sleason, .lames Law- rence. and John Arnold, were blowa into the water and were seen no mare. Three others were sew!rely injured. The tug with her bargeswas saved. Loins LKIHER, a fanmor living neat Mount Carmol, has struck a vein of nat­ ural gas on his farm. .JACOB MII.I.KR, an old citizen of Car« lyle, was found dead in his bed. He died of heart failure. ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERSJ THIS: was an attendance of only A con- pie of dozen members at the session of tha House on the lllh. Speaker Crafts pre­ sided and all the committee report* that had accumulated on the last, legislative day were presented and the bills advanced <kr tabled according to the report. No import­ ant business was transacted. In the Senate, on the 12th, bills were passed as follows: Appropriating Sl.SM annually for publishing the Dairymen's As­ sociation'* report; £35,900 for fire protec­ tion and purchase of a farm for the Lincoln Feeble-minded Institute; 3100,000 for keep­ ing employed the Joliet prisoners now Idle; $1,105 for a new walk at the State House; $6,750 for expenses of the State laboratory of natural history and State entomologist. Mr. Mahoney's bill providing that when cities condemn land for municipal purposes the same shall be paid ft>r within two years, was passed. Mr. Sheets' bill, declaring that the Illinois State Dairymen's Association be made a public corporation of the State, and providing for annual meet­ ings thereof, etc.. was passed. Mr. Ker- rlck's bill, providing that property con­ veyed in fraud may be reached by the pro­ visions of the garnishment act, and that unliquidated damages, when the measure of damages is fixed by the conrt. may he reached in the same manner, was passed. In tbe House the anti-Plnkerton act was advanced. „ THE House. on the 13th, passed Mr. Mc- Orone's bill to enable cities and towns in­ corporated Under the,general or special law to fix rates for supply of water by any com­ pany or corporation. This bill Is for the special benefit of the city of Quincy. Mr. Springer moved that, as a mark of respect to the President of the United, who would visit the city the 14th. the House when It adjourns for the day. stand adjourned until 11 o'clock a. m. 15th. Adopted. Mr. Kerns' bill, making tho supervisor *?&d as­ sessor. with the moderator, judges of town­ ship elections, was passed. In the Senate. Senator Fuller's bill providing for the es­ tablishment of mutual savings banks pnssed. The joint resolutions of respect to the memory of ex-Cougressman A. J. Kuy- kenda'.l, late of Vienna. Johnson County, wero adopted by a rising vote. The bill appropriating $079,000 for ordinary and contingent expenses for all State charitable institutions was passed. Mr. Lehman's bill, providing for the Incorporation and man­ agement of banks in this State, was passed. :;:r 'f! IN the Senate, on the 14th. two Chicago, registration bills were passed. One in- , creases the time allowed for registration., the other makes transfer slips unnecessary, si Senator O"Conor made an efTort to amend ; Senator Anderson's bill to put the question ;• of license to the people In cities of less than 15,000 so that it would apply to all cities. The amendment was lost and the bill or- ? dered to a third reading. Senator Newell's; • "false spirit medium" bill was passed.;) Senator O'Connor, speaking of his gambling" ' bill, says he is not opposed to pool-selling ate races, but believes it Is a necessity toi • the maintenance of driving park asso- citations in the interest of breeders of trot-* ting horses and roadsters. The efforts of the homeopathic visitors have not be«Ai in. vain, but resulted In favorable action by , the House Committee on State Institutions on the subcommittee bill providing for th« building of a new Institution to be located!^ somewhere west of the Illinois River, and to^ be under the charge of the homeopathic school. The new building provides for 800 inmates, and the appropriation asked for Is $500,000--about $437 for each Inmate, in* * -hiding the purchase of lands, the build-' ing, furnished, and everything complete* A Mugwump Yawp. The editor of Harper's Wee};l<j reminds President Harrison that "Poor Andrew Johnson, swinging around the circle and carrying the Constitution with him, is an awful warning to all Presidents who have not a distinct personal ascendency drug in that country came some months ago from the authorities at the India Office. COOK books are valuable in allowing the oook what she had better avoid. JOSEPH FIVECK, a Chicago tinnar, committed suicide by hanging,himself With a p ece of wire. Fiveck was mar­ ried, bht his wife refused to accompany him to America four years ago, and lives in Bohemia. AT a small bla/e in Tli!cago a lot of benzine explo'el, fatally injuring one fireman and badly burning eleven others. MAKY FKEER, a 14-year-old girl, em­ ployed in tho book-binding establish­ ment of \V. It Conkoy & Co., Chicago, was fatally Injured in an elevator accl« dent, AT Benton, Johnny Martin met W. H. Williams and wife on the highway oast of tho place and opened fire on them. One bullet took effect iiuMrs. Williams' body, and she will probably die. Will­ iams immediately dismounted, and, wrenching the pistol from Martin's grasp, turned it upon Jiim. It failed to explode. Williams then pulled a pocket- knife and inflicted a wound upon Mar­ tin that will cause his deai.li. This is the third shooting affray that has re­ sulted directly from the Williams-Mar­ tin family scandal Martin is supposed to be insano. THE new Jer.-eyville Council .reduced the liquor license from ?700 to $500. There is much disgust among the citi­ zens. JCDOE GEO. W. YOVNO decided that inasmuch as tho Benton Village Board has not complied with tlio statute as to the time of publishing village ordinances they were void. This leaves the vil­ lage withoin, any laws but ihi general statutes. JENNIE TCPPER, aged 18, and Clara Pong, aged 16, were both fatally burned In different accidents at Chicago. The former was using gasoline to clean old laces, and the latter taking an alcohol sweat bath. "Now I AM satisfied," said Mrs. Alfred Towsley, as she fired two 32-caliber bul­ lets through her husband's heart, while he was confined in a cfell in the Town of Lake Jail. Towsley had ruined his own step-daughter, a beautiful and accom­ plished girl of 18, who was also his own brother's daughter. A BITING frost did much damage near Centralia and Quincy. LEOPOI.H BI.OOM has retired from the Chicago Board of Trade, saying he has all the money 1 e wants. JOHN MOLAITOHI.I.V was siiot and in­ stantly killed by Jacob Blum, a Chicago night-watchman. It is ?sfid to be a cow­ ardly murder. The men had quar­ reled. * AT Benton, the First Baptist Church celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Over three hundred members belong to the church. LITTLE 7-year-old Louise Round was run over by a Chicago grip ca^ and in­ stantly killed. A SON of F. Chappell was robbed of 860 in Jerseyville by unknown persons who got him drunk. AT the fliberal services of the late Prof. A.- Cramer, President of Concordia College, delegations were present from St Louis, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Chicago, and other points. ARTRVI: C. LOWRY, a braVeman, was killed by the cars at Springfield. Two ATTEMPTS wero made to burn up the house and barn of Albert Tack, near Jerseyville. * AT Peoria Andrew Harms, a car pen- it fell from a pleasure wned. Five Instances. In the history of our country we have only five instances of father and son being both members of the Unite*! * States Senate. By a curious coinci^; " dence, in each of these cases one of - both of them were graduates from .. Princeton University. The families who have thus the honor for more tham one generation are the Stocktons, Bay* > ards, Frolinghuysens, Colquitts, and • Came ions. The most prominent iw stance is that of the Stockton family* - who have held the honor for four gen­ erations in direct descent from father ; to son. Richard Stockton (Princeton* class of 1747) was a member of thir Constitutional Congress and a signer • of the Declaration of Independences His son, Richard Stockton (class ol 1779), was a member of the Senate of the United States, as was also hia grandson, Commodore Robert 1?. Stockton (olass of 1813), and his great grandson, John P. Stockton, now Al» ; torney General of New Jersey (class of 1 1843). James A. Bayard (Princeton, ? class 1784) was a member of the Sens**5 ate, as were also his sons, Richarft H. Bayard (class of 1814) and James A. Bayard (class doubtful), and hie grandson, Thomas F. Bayard, not j£ college graduate. Frederick Freling* Jiuysen (Princeton, 1770), «his sola - Theodore Frelinghuysen (Princeton* 1804), and his grandson, Frederick Frelinghuysen, have all three occupied seats in the Senate. Alfred H. ColM quitt (Princeton, 1844) succeeded his father, Walter F. Colquitt (Princeto% 1819), and J. Donald Cameron (Prince­ ton, 1852) fills the seat of his fatheife who was not a college man.-- Weekly. 1 * ' \ ~ Extra Caufms. \ Mr. Jasper--Jedge, 1 wants tear puochase de ve'y strooges* kin' o' 'vorea papers dat you'm got in de c'ote. . ^ Judge--Divorce papers, eh? Haw . you and your wife had trouble? ^ ; Mr. J.--No, sah! Dat'd be a little ̂ prebious un'er de suckemstanzas, coa we hain't done been tuk into de shack­ les er mattermony ^rit. Judge--What f Not married yet, asking for divorce papers? Mr. J.--Dat's de case, Jedge; yo* see I'm gwinter take a partner n week, an* weze ten'iu* to mobe ober in de lowlan's whar cotes is mighty sca'se, an' I wants dese papers whar a kin lay mer han's on 'em. I'm oner deze percautionous citerzens, Jedge^ dat berlebes in de maxiums, Min timer peace, prepar' for war," an' I perfena ter hab deze documen's whar I kaa fofwif 'bolish de hdy widdim ef ah* done grow rantankerous. Ol' Parse®. Widemouf hain't been preach daft. Foolish Vargin case ter me fo' iiufEut, an'I tit ants to gyard merse'f exgia dft same 'speunce.--Boston Courier* First Appearance*. , , - ENVELOPES were first used in 1839. * " ANAESTHESIA was discovered in 1844. ' R /)| THK first air-pump was made in 1654. ' THE first lucifer match was made i& *. *•' 1798. . „ , ; THK first iron steamship waa built bi 1830.. _ THE first balloon ascent was mate {• 1798. A THE first steel plate was discovered It / 183a t, ^ CoAcass were first used in England la 1569. * > . THE Franciscans arrived in England. in 1224. . THE first stSfcmboat plied oa ̂ Hud*- ^ son in 1807. * v"t3 THK first printing press in TKE Haiti# States was worked in 1630. GLASS windows were first introduce#1 |||i into England in tho eighth century. THK first steam engine on this uent was broughi from Lnglaud in 1>5& THK first complete sewing machin*^: was patented , by Eliaa Howe, Jr.. W 184C. ^ Tire first society for the promotion of < Christian knowledge was organized Ijfc 1698. THK first attempt to manuf in this country «i» maA war of 1«3.