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TO CORRICSTOXfieSTSk v Un fcwttmuntotloni for this paper shoaid be locam- by Us* name of UM udiori not HITMHI!!/• fot ; J^»UC»UQO, but as an evideAc« of good faith on the part 0t wrttur Write only on on* aide of the paper. B« >'< partMitiy careful, In nuam and dMw, to km lattm and fi£um» plain and distinct, , ^^JpSS--^^SESSHESKSSSSESKHSSHHSBHS '< A TOBOSTO paper figure# out fkat THE drunkards of that city lost $191,682 In Wages last year. . THE Indian boys and girls at the In- school have $11,000 on deposit in Carlisle, Pa., banks. :'/CA MAN recently arrested at Williams- port, Pa., for larceny gave his occupa­ tion as that of a dude. NORWAY is wealthier in nickel ores any other European country but «HJtly two mines are now working. THE academy is the only French insti­ tution which has come down unchanged irom the times before the Revolution. A SHBEVEPORT, La., beet of the Wood •red variety weighs forty-six i^nds. It grew on Silver Lake soil. ; /A FLOWING well from which a strong <currsnt of cold air constantly pushes is the latest curiosity near Greensburg, r ^ has Veen noticed that ̂ when a man dresses up in new clothes, he will walk just as far to show them as a woman would. • THBEE are now 19,373 newspapers of different classes iu the United States and Canada, a net gain of 1,613 over last year's record. An expert electrician insists that an tlectric train, making 125 miles an hour, would require 7,000 feet ia which to come to a standstill. . A LADY naturalist has demonstrated that moles are not entirely carnivorous by star.ving one until it ate oatmeal, on which diet it afterward subsisted. AN Indianapolis man swore in court tlffi other day that he did not know Ms wife's first name, though they had lived happily together for thirteen years. A FULL-GROWN wild boy, aged about sixteen years, has been captured at Enoch's Point, Australia* His body is said to be covered with hair four inches long. THE voting lists recently made up at Chicago show that 88,000 foreign born and 81,000 native born males are en­ titled to exercise the right of suffrage that city. yt*t BECENT explorations in Greenland have developed the fact that north of the 75th degree the land in the valleys is covered with ice 5,000 to 6,000 feet in thickness. RESTAURANTS should put screens in front of their doors. A man looks as ri- £ diculous when he bows to a lady, with a piece of pie in his mouth, as he looks stretched out at a barber shopb THERE is a large lake near Hutchin- edn County, S. D., well filled with corn- fed fish (bull-heads). They got away with seven acres of corn which was left fiiJthe field, shocked but not husked. •' -ENGLAND is importing butter from Hew Zealand. The butter is found to keep perfectly sweet if packed in quan­ tities of fifty-six pounds and upward and kept at a temperature not greater than 45 degrees. THE father of shoemaking in this Country is said to have been one Abra­ ham Lovering, who came over in the Mayflower, bringing with him a num­ ber of pelts to be worked into footwear for the colonists. THE four most common eatises of boiler explosions are external corrosion, overheating, overpressure and weak­ ness of flue. The four least common causes arQ absence of eafety valve, bad material, weak manhole and deposit THE telephone was called into requi­ sition in Quincy, 111., the other day, for the marriage of a couple. The girl at * central" must have been side tracked during the ceremony or she would have captured the bridegroom herself. THE following advertisement appears in a German newspaper: "Wanted by a lady of quality, for adequate remunera­ tion a few well-behaved and respectable- dressed children to amuse a cat in delicate health two or three hours a day." THE Western town which showed a growth within the last ten years ex­ ceeding 1,000 per cent are ^ order, Spokane Falls, -Tacoma, Seattle and Kansas City, Kan. The first three places mentioned are in the new State of Washington. BOTS in Germany begin to study Latin when they are 9 years old and continue the study for niqe years. They learn a great deal of Greek, too, and of mathematics. But the general informa­ tion they acquire at school does not oompare with the American student THE notion that ice purifies itself by the process of freezing is not based on any trustworthy observation. On the contrary it is utterly wrong in princi­ pal to take ice from any pond for con­ sumption, the water of which is so foul as to be unfit for drinking purposes. . PR. RAPHAEL MARTINEZ, the Mexican surgeon who says he ctia transplant a heart from one man's breast to another's, should bear in mind the wise old Indian recipe for cooking a hare. In these days of increasing wealth and deepen­ ing poverty the learned doctor will first have to find the heart THE ohaplain at Wandsworth Piison has come to the conclusion that crime and (flfensea rise and fall with the ther­ mometer. A rise in the temperature, .he says, lias a tendency to diminish human recitude. Even the oonduot of to] . -it« * • ' ^ n;^v k.t*' ..L-„As..A>^;' Al" ik* children, we are told, is affected by a high temperature. A3 intoxicated Atlanta, Ga., negro went to church, and because the preacher did not happen to suit him. threw him down and sat on him. The negro was arrested and held, not on a charge of assault, 4>ut on a charge of having brought liquor into a house of worship, though all the liquor about him waa in his stomach. THE Rev. Robert Mclntyre says that "profanity is peculiarly an American sin." In all that goes to make a great and glorious nation we have been for sometime plunging ahead of all con­ temporaries, and now ttiat we have snatched find place from the gifted'and versatile army in Flanders it is safe to say. our place in history is aaanred. IT is commonly believed in England that a good way to get rid of uock- roaches is to address to them a written letter, saying: "Oh, roaches, you have troubled me long enough; go now and worry my neighbors." The letter must be put where they most swarm, prop­ erly sealed. It should be written legibly and properly punctuated. VANDALS broke into the Big Four saloon in Anderson, Ind., and turned the faucets to a number of whisky, wine, and brandy casks, allowing about three hundred gallons of the liquor to run out. Near the saloon is a well about forty feet deep, and the contents of the casks have found their way into the well. Water pumped from it is quite intoxicating. THE area of London at present is somewhat indefinitely marked. The police have jurisdiction over about 720 square miles; the postal districts cover 322 square miles. The present popula­ tion is not far from 5,000,000 ; 2,000,000 of whom are foreigners from every quarter of the globe. There are about 8,000 miles of streets in the city proper. There are said to be more Jews in Lon­ don than in all Palestine, and more Roman Catholics than there is in Rome. In Germany it is found the average age of professional and tradesmen are as follows: Speculative sciences, 71 years; beautiful sciences, 70.9 years; abstruse sciences, 70.2 years; public affairs, 68.18 years; natural sciences, 68.7 years; fine arts, 67.6 years; school teachers, gar­ deners and butchers. 56 years; trades­ men, 56 years; lawyers and financiers, 54 years; doctors 52 years; bakers, 51 years; shoemakers, 47 years; smithies, 46 years; tailors, 45 years; stone break­ ers, printers, etc., 40 years. A BLACKSMITH near Philadelphia, says The Inquirer of that city, has a Dominique hen that makes its nest in the soft coal at one end of his forge. Every day about 10 o'clock the hen walks into the shop, mounts the forge and scratches hollow p'ace in the coal six Inches from the fire. No matter how hard he blows the fire, the hen will not move untU she has laid her egg. Several times her feathers were scorched, but she held her place. THE secret of the most successful barber iu New York is that he shows his customers how they should wear their beards and mustaches in order to suit the outlines of their faces. A pointed beard lengthens a round face, and a round one takes the gaunt look from a long and thin vissage. Men who value beauty go to greater trouble fot good barbering, and even haunt the whprf where the French steamers tie up in order to get service that is as fresh from Paris as possible. THE commander of the St Peters­ burg police force has issued an order that all Jewish stores and business houses should have signs with the names, patronymics, and families of the proprietors written in large, showy let­ ters. The cause of this new order, which is the nearest approach to medie­ val regulation by which the Jews were compelled to wear vullow patches on their garments, is that merchants of the Hebrew faith do not write their names plainly on their signs, in order to avoid the too frequent intrusion of official extortionists and the prejudice of the unreasonable masses. A DENTIST of Mosoow is reported to have discovered a method of supplying tlie human mouth with false teeth which will grow into the gums as firmly as natural ones. Dr. Znamensky has per­ formed several successful operations on dogs as well as human beings. The teeth are made of gutta rercha, porce­ lain or motal. Holes are made at the root of the false tooth and also upward into the jaw. The tooth is then placed into the cavity. In a short time a soft granulated growth finds its way from the patient's jaw into the holes in the tooth; this growth gradually hardens and holds the tootfc in position. Eyes or Wild Aniuials. A curious communication has been made to the "Academic de Medicine" by M. Motais, of Angers, whose works on the various diseases of the eye are highly esteemed, says Murray's Mag­ azine. He has closely examined the effect of captivity on the sight of wijd beasts, Buch as lions, tigers, etc., and asserts that all animals in a savage state are far-sighted. The same remark ap­ plies to a man in an uncivilized state, and even to those who, though civil­ ized, follow avocations which oblige them to remain constantly in the open air, such as sailors or farm laborers. The »ame faculty exists in (caged ani­ mals when they have been taken alter the age of six or eight months; but when Dorn in captivity, or kept in cages when very young, they become near­ sighted, which M. Motais attributes to the narrow space in which they are con- lined, and the training which obliges them to follow the eye of the keeper or tamer to obey his will. The near­ sightedness of school children may, in his opinion, be ascribed to the same cause--the habit of concentrating tfoe sight on one point, and the fact that the power of the visual organ becomes modified according to the requireittwata to which it is subject en. AMERICA'S GREATNESS THE RESULT OF PROTECTION Q1VBN HER INDUSTRIES. Testimony from KncUnd Con corning Its Kfleets--Confirmation or Britain's Views from Cermany-A •" ample i.f the Nob- mum Vtt*Nd by Free Trade Organs. An English View of the Effects of l*ro- tcet on. There Is this difference between an Englishman and his servant on the American press--an Englishman will sometimes stop lying. And English newspapers are beginning to tell the truth about the effects of our late fiscal legislation. One of these commences an article as follows: "There are sigjts of th-* McKinley tar­ iff producing the effect its promoters de­ signed and anticipated--that is, the transfer of manufacturing industries from foreign countries ' to the United Strtes. Rhode Island is likely to become the site of a great worsted manufactory promoted by powerful interests in Eng­ land and on the Continent. Germany is moving in that direction, for besides other trades she finds her cutlery trade hit hard, which is true a'so of Sheffield. The cutlers of Solingen think seriously of transferring their works, and many of their operatives have emigrated in ad vance of their empoyers." After a sneer at the quality of the German cutlery--the English have al­ ways maintained that their poor bayo­ nets and swords were from Solihgen-- and mentioning the (iorman habit of forging marks on their cutiery, the pa­ per continues: "There are signs elsewhere as well of transfers of factories to America--a movement that wou d increase in mag­ nitude if confident e were felt in the per­ manence of any li.-cal policv adopted in the United States. The speech of the President at Galveston shows that the leader of the Republican party will only modify the protection policy in the line of reciprocity, as laid down by Mr. Blaine." This is undoubtedly true, and if Presi­ dent Harrison had stated distinctly after the November elections that no legisla­ tion in the interest of British capitalists could become a law during his adminis­ tration, more transfers of factories to this country would havfi been chroni­ cled, and by so much wpuld there b# loss corruption in our next general elec­ tion; for oven a British manufacturer, with his mill in this country, will not be found contributing to "Reform." •billion-dollar Congress" and not know what he is talking about, but Mr. Cleve­ land, as President for four years, had opportunities for securing knowledge and information about the finances of the nation which shame his ignorance. A single example will show how tar he de­ parted from accuracy in his presentation of figures. The pension expenditures of the National Government were asserted by him to be three times greater than they were a few years ago, when the total for a given year w,?s $53,000,000. The Pension Bureau's report shows that the annual outgo for the current year will not exceed $110,000,000. Mr. Cleve­ land was thus only 643,000,000 out of the way. This may not be a large sum in Democratic calculation, but it is quite a considerable amount in national finances. It should, moreover, be understood that of this S11<>,000,000 a very large sum is for arrears of pensions, which will not be required next year, and that the an­ nual expenditure for pensions after, these arrears are paid will be largely under 5*100,000,000. When this fact is consid­ ered Mr. Cleveland apDcars in a most unenviable light as a statistician. Eagle ought to be more considerate of its party brethren whose supply of ar­ gument and assertion has run iow, and who are not ingenious in producing new material. "A high tariff is for the bene­ fit of all American industries;" just so. TarMT Pictures. NO. 1. McKi nifty protection to oar finer eotton-goodl industries has lneressed our imports of fine foreign cotton fot nine months of the fiscal year to •1.006,201, OB against •1,048,263 German View < of Keclproclty. In view of the fact that the English papers of Rio, New York, and London were prompt in their assertions that the enforcement of reciprocity treaties by the aid of the McKinley bill offered 110 advantages to American trade, the fol­ lowing extracts from Kuhlow's are in­ teresting: "In consequence of the commercial treaty, made by the Brazils and the United States of America some time ago, the Union of German Iron and Steel In­ dustrials has applied to the Foreign Of­ fice with the entreaty to use its influence thus, that to German imports are to be granted at least all those facilities of customs granted at present to the United States. * * * iron industry in North America had developed during the last years to such an extent that our German industry, even at the same custom rates, had had to meet with greater difficulties every year in competing with North America. The perfectly one sided and unjustified favoring of the North Amer­ ican import must have the unavoidable consequence that our export to the Bia- zils would be supplanted altogether." The Commercial Chamber of Leipsic addresses the imperial Chancellor on this subject as follows, in part: "Your excellency knows that the United States--alter having locked by the McKinley bill more than ever their country against European import--have begun, following the instigations of the Pan-American Congress, to enter by commercial treaties into closer relation with other American States. By the commercial treaty with the Brazils, and which must be looked uj:on as the first result of these endeavors, important productions of the United States, and not only productions of agriculture and cattle-breeding, but ab*o certain kinds of hardware, especially instruments and machines for agriculture, mining and manufactories, are not only entirely free of duty in the import to the Brazils, whereas others, like cotton wear, in­ clusive of ready-made garments, iron and steel ware, leather and India rubber goods, etc., are to enjoy a reduction of 25 per cent, against the general Brazilian import custom tariff. * * •*> # "In England, which is in the same con­ dition, commercial chambers and other corporations representing the parties concerned have addressed the Govern­ ment with the prayer to do the neces­ sary steps in order to get a commercial treaty from the Brazils, guaranteeing to English goods the same rights as to the North American ones; and according to intelligencC.received, Lord Salisbury has promised todo all in his power to attain this end." " ^ This does not seem to show that the McKinley bill,with the reiprocitv annex, is quite so destructive of American trade as has been represented. Source of the South'* Frospert y. The St Louis Republic thinks it has found ground for criticism iu the impli­ cation of some of President Harrison's Southern speeches that the Industrial progress of the f-'outh was largely due to the Republican party. "The,truth is," says the Republic, "that Southern indus­ tries owe the Republican party abso­ lutely nothing. The Southern manu­ facture of iron, cotton, etc., was possi­ bly in greater volume and certainly in more prosperous condition in 1860 than at the close of the reconstruction era of Republican misrule." It admits that somo progress was made after Demo­ cratic State governments were re-estab­ lished in the South, but says: "It was not until Cleveland's administration demonstrated that the South was back in the Union that the real era of indus­ trial development began there." This is absurdly false. The South owes all its modern progress directly or indi­ rectly to the Republican party. ^Sup­ pose the Repub lean party had never been formed and that the old Demo­ cratic regime and slavery had continued, where would the South bo to-day? Or, suppose that, slavery being abolished, the Democratic policy of fre£ trade had prevailed instead of the Republican policy of protection, where would the South be? It is not necessary to pro­ duce statistics to slrow th? wonderful contrast between the South of 1860 and that of 1890. That period embraces all the progress the South has made, and it is a period of Republican rule and Re­ publican policy, except the short ad­ ministration of Cleveland, during which the policy of protection was not changed. The South owes all the progress it has made to the Republican party. If the Democracy had continued in power from l.sGO to 1890 there would have been no new t-outh and no record of progress to point to Mr. Cleveland's Figures. When Mr. Cleveland, in his Buffalo j sp ech, departed from his usual custom of uttering lofty platitudes and common platitudes, to the citation of statistics with which to prove the necessity of a return of the Democratic party to power, he literally "put his foot in it." Any ch«ap demagogue may shout about a in the corresponding thrse-qnarters of the last fiscal year. Bernetiber, there was no change in the duty on the raw cotton itself, for it ia and baa long been on tb% free list. The greatly In­ creased demand is dne solely to the increased protection of the piodact and the development of new American cotton industries. MO. 2. Oar exports of mows and reapers arc grow­ ing. Poring March o/lA°t w-w exrorted S253,000 worth, and fluting March of tht* year OOO worth. NO. * . There is another handsome Increase in oar Im­ ports of article* free of duty in the official re­ port for the month of Ma-refc The total waa $30,628,170, Soap-Barb for Cleaning. There are very few women who un­ derstand how to use soap-bark. It is the j very best cleaning material in use. i Nothing olse cleans a black silk or black ' woolen dress so satisfactorily. Five cents1 worth will clean an entire dress, i It may be purchased at any druggist's in the city or country, being commonly used by all tailors in cleaning gentle­ men's clothes. It may be used to clean almost any dark cloth, but it possesses j color enough in itself to be liable to stain t a delicate color. To prepare soap-bark j for cleauing, pour about a quart of boil- l ing water over 5 cents' worth of the I bark. Let it boil gently for two hours and at the end of the time strain it through a piece of cheese cloth. Put the liquor in a clean pail. Have ready a smooth board of suitable size, and have the dress to be^cleaned already ripped, shaken and brushed free from dust Lay each piece of cloth ono aftePanother on the board, and sponge it thoroughly on both sides, rubbing carefully any spe­ cially soiled spots. Alter all the cloth is sponged, fill a large tub full of cold wator. and rinse each piece of the goods up and down in it, one at a time, so as to remove thoroughly tne soap-bark. Wring the pieces through the wringer, lay them in a heavy, c.'ean clothes-basket, and when all are rinsed and wrung out, begin pressing the first that were rolled up. Iron them on the wrong side, if woolen cloth, till they are dry or nearly so; then hang them 011 a clothes-horse to air for at least twelve hours. The cloth should hang in a place free from dust, and when it is put away it will look like new. If tho dress to be cleaned is silk, after thoroughly sponging it in the soap- bark, lay it on a clean board and sponge it off with^clear, cold water on both sides. Wipe off ffll tho excess of moisture you can. Pin tho smaller pieces of silk on a sheet, and hang the sheet outdoors in a shady place, where no sun can roach It, or throw tho sheet over the clothes-horse. It will need a slight pressing on the wrong side when it is made up to make it perfectly smooth.--New York Tribune. as against •25,088,834 for March, 1800. This is due ch'.«tiy to the en­ largement of the tree Uat by the McKinley bill, for the datible imports daring the Came month were **5,093,976. aB against S4S\081,673 In March, 1890. A Sample of Free-Trade Nonaonae. In its report of the banquet of tho Tariff League, in New York, the New York World gave the duties 011 the af- ticles used at tho dinner and worn by the guests. The Anglomaniac press re­ ceived this feature of the report with so much favor that it has since been going the rounds. In regard to tho hose worn by Major McKinley, and other articles of his apparel, it gave the duty as fol­ lows: Duty. Tax. 1 pair racks, cotton. .91 doz. and 40 p. 0. •0.91 Every man, unless he is seeking Con­ gress or otlice on the "no-socks" plan of Jerry Simpson, knows that a good qual­ ity of men's hose can bo purchased for 25 cents a pair, and a fair article for even a less sum, fo that the price abroad would be 4 cents a pair, according to the free-trade theory that the duty Is added to the foreign price. But, as a matter of fact, tho great part of the hosiery worn by the American people is made in the United State; in abundance, and never was so cheap as now, when we are independent of the foreign maker so far as the common grades are concerned. The next item mentioned by the World was: Duty. Tax. 1 shirt 59 p. & $0.59 Very good laundered shirts, made in the United. States, are retailed for SI each, showing that the duty has nothing whatever to do with tho price. Duty. Tax. 1 suit clothing 49?ftc lb. ana 60 p. 0. $1149 Very good suits of clothes can be pur­ chased in any considerable town in the older States for $10, and more clothes costing $15 and less a suit are worn than there are that cost more than that figure. Consequently the duty has nothing to do with the cost of such American-made clothing. The duty is paid by those who think that American goods are not good enough for their wear. , • , • Duty. Tax. 1 watoh 23 p. c. §5 About every one in thfs country, ex­ cept the people who write the free-trade chatter of the Anglomantac papers, knows that the watch-makers of the United States can compete successfully in any market, and that watches are as cheap and probably cheaper here than in any other country. A few weeks ago Jeremiah Head, of Middlesborou^h, England, read a paper, after a visit to this country, in which ho said in regard to watches: "If you think I exaggerate, let me ask you to compare the manufacture of watches, as it existed in England twenty years ago, with the same as it exists in Waltham to day. All materials, labor, prestige and experience were in our favor, and we ought to have retained the trade. Nevertheless, English consumers are to-day buying AmericanVatches in large quantities, and bettor ones for the money, than can be made her >." The American Anglomaniac editor never comes across such complimentary statements as the above, or, if he does, he never publishes them; yet he never fails to assail an American industry which comes in competition with one in Great Britain. If he had lived in the time of the revolution he would have been a Tory and bushwhacked the Con­ tinental army.--Indianapolis Journal. Holut by It< Own Petard. The Brooklyn Eagle is a Democratic paper of undoubted loyalty to the doc­ trines of its party. It will hardly do to say that it is without guile, for in such case it could not be Democratic, but it is as earnest and ardent an advocate of "tariff reform" in the direction of free trade as the party possesses. Neverthe­ less, the alert and well-regulated Eagle slips a cog r.ow and then, and betrays the unsoundness of the tariff views it upholds. Discussing the fiat-money schemes and other^special legislation de­ sired by the Farmers* Alliance, and tak­ ing as its text the Pres'dent's remark at Omaha, that "this government cannot do everything for everybody," the Brook­ lyn paper says: "The protected manufacturers of Pennsylvania have realized handsomely on the paternal spirit of a high tariff; but, of course, they 'have been able to do so only because a high tariff is for tho benefit of all American industries. To pass laws for the special benefit of the farmers would be class legislation, and if there is anything from which the un­ crowned American king shrinks with abhorrence it is that. If the agricultur­ alists, for whose edification the Presi­ dent's remark was specially intended, can't see that the claims of the Pennsyl­ vania manufacturer are anv better than those of the Nebraska farmer their intel­ ligence has been overrated." This is a flat contradiction of the oft- repeated assertion that a protective tar- ( iff benefits only the manufacturer, and destroys at one blow a cherished stock of cheap Democratic ammunition. The AUSTRALIAN BALLOT. itm Mr. Cleveland's Hindsight. Is his specch at Buffalo^ Mr. Cleve­ land said: "I believo the most threat­ ening danger which to-day stands in the way of the safety of our Government and the happiness of our peoplo is reck­ less and wicked extravagance in our pub­ lic expenditures." It Is a pity he did not think when so he was President At that time ho signed appropriation bills with a reckless hand. Here is a com­ parison: Gar field-Arthur. Cleveland. 1883 «351,428,117!1«W. .«0O»,650,3*8 1S84 167,911,1888. 193,035,861 188) 137,451,39811889. 843,020,173 1886..... 170,608,114|18!>0.....' 218,115,440 Total .8747,399,1951 Total $865,830,857 The increase shown by these figures ia $118,431,662. In view of these cold hard facts the less Mr. Cleveland prates about "economy" the better.--Rochester Post- Ex-prcss (Ind.) t . Why I Am a Protectionist. Says the Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, in the American Economist: I am a protec­ tionist because I think by that policy tho workmen of America will bo well paid and not underpaid. Because I think by that policy the variety of industry will te created here which will make America strong in peace and In war. Because Uhe industries so fosterod will develop the skill and brain power of ray countrymen, and raise tho people of the United States to the first rank in intelligence among tho nations of the earth. Because that policy has a'ready made us the richest and strongest nation on earth, and under a properly restricted immigration will bring to us much that is most valuable in the population of other lands. Getting Neptune Down fine. An apparatus for measuring the mean level of tho sea has lately been invented at Marseilles. It Is based on the prin­ ciple that when a liquid wave traverses a capillary tube or a porous partition its amplitude diminishes, and it is re­ tarded in its phases without the mean levol of the wave changing. It consists of a glass tube, the lower end of which communicates by a flexible pipe with a plunger whicb is lowered beneath the lowest water level. There are two cells in tho plunger, tho lower being filled with sand and open to the sea, tbe result being that the column of water in the tube rises and falls very little with the tides, and the mean 6ea can be read from a graduated Scale. MICA is a curious crystal which can be split into plates so thiii that it would require '200,000 of them to make an inch in thickness. We have seen these crystals in the Black Hiflu and in New Mexico, where they oc«ur in veins of other matter much as bits of fruit occur in a cake or pudding. From 1881 to 1884 double the amountf was mined that has since been produced About twenty-five tons only were mined and placed on the market in 1889, and four-fifths of this product was obtained in New Hampshire. Mica is now mined in North Carolina, Virginia, in the Dakota Black Hills, and in New Mexico. The output seems to be controlled by a syndicate, and is limited, though the crystal is plentiful and only requires labor, but not much skill to get it upon the market. The census report of 1890 nhows that mica costs only about one-third of the price at which it sold 1883. The demand for it is quite limited, aud at the mines it brought only a dollar a pound oa an average in 1889. "THE best markets for farm product! are not to bo found amonz agricultural, but among manufacturing, mining, and mercantile communities," says Roger Q. Mills, free-trade champion, in the Forum. And "so say we all of us," for his ad­ mission is the, base of the protection principle, and its application to the United States is clear enough, in view of the fact that nearly its per cent, of our farm products are consumed by our home markets. NEW MEASURE TO. VAIL IN ILLINOIS. PftE- THE Democratic Boston Globe fero­ ciously asserts "that glorious achieve­ ments of the Democratic Darty make up the greater part of the history of this most glorious of republics." But it carefully refrains from mentioning A single one of the Democracy's great "achievements." Both Houses Have Finally Agreed Upon » Bill--Its Chief ProTlslons--ladlscrtu- iast» Nominations Prerented--Ballota te l-e Preserved Six Months. The House and Senate finally agreed upon a bailot reform bill and passed it. It is modeled after the Australian sys­ tem. A Senate amendment to number the ballots to correspond with the num­ bers on the poll book was rejected, as that would have destroyed secrecy. The measure takes effect J uly 1. The chief features of the measure are these: Under this law the candidate must re­ ceive a regular nomination by a political party which polled at least 2 per cent, of the entire vote at the last preceding election, or by nomination papers. In such case the certificates of nomination are duly authenticated and given to tho officer whose duty it is to print the bal­ lots. Due piovision is made for inde­ pendent candidates getting their name upon the ticket by the nomination pa­ pers. The ballots are to be printed in State and county elections by the Coun­ ty Clerk, in city elections by the City Clerk, and in township elections by the Town Clerk. In Chicago the printing of them will be attended to by the Board of Election Commissioners. The names of all tho candidates of the different parties must bo placed upon one ballot. No ballots can 1 e obtained by any one except those which are legally printed and bear the signature of the proper officer; and the ballots are given alone to the judges of election, who are com­ pelled under penalty to account for every ballot received from the officer who lias them printed, whether saved, voted, destroyed, or mutilated; a com­ plete chock is kept upon all tlie ballets. Tho voter can only obtain his ticket after entering the voting-room and from the judge of election; and in- Chicago it will be the proper officer under tho law. This ballot ho takes and retires to an apartment which is in sight of the judges, and prepares it, returns and places it in the hands of the judge who deposits it in the ballot-box. At the head of each list of candidates thero will be a party name or somo words to designate the political party. The ticket will bo almost identical with the Indi­ ana blanket ballot. The officers who have tho ballots printed will also have prepared full cards of instruction to the voters, which will give them ample In­ formation as to the manner of voting and the other requirements of the law. In each of the rooms in which the election is held there will bo furnished small booths or apartments in which the voter must go and secretly and alone prepare his ballot. No one can be in the room where the voting takes place ex­ cept three or four persons who may be waiting their turn to enter a voting booth. No electioneering is allowed within a hundred feet of the polls, and no person is allowed within that space. Due care is taken Iu the bill to provide for any person who is unable to read. Tho ballots will bo preserved for six months, carefully folded and strung upon a wire which Is tied and sealed. The ballots will rot bo numbered, and it is thought It will 1M* Impossible to asi-er tain how an elector vot»nl» even if the ballots shou'd be inspected by the city or county clerk. In the country the time of opening the polls i<* changed to 7 o'clock, and the time of closing to 5 o'clock. The Chicago law Iu that respect remains us it now Is. The Senate bills appropriating $12,000 for an additional building to the Kanka­ kee. Insane Asylum to accommodate 300 additional patients, and $55,000 for mis­ cellaneous repairs, were also agreed to by tho House and passed, as was the Senate bill making an appropriation for tho Jollet penitentiary. It appropriates §100,000 to defray such portion of the current expenses of the Illinois State Penitentiary a4, Joliet as, on the expira­ tion of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General Assem­ bly, the earnings of convict«Jlabor in said penitentiary may be insufficient to de­ fray; also to enable the commissioners of said penitentiary to keep employed a'l prisoners who may bo left without employment by the expiration of any contracts now in force. The commis­ sioners are authorized to expend so much of the amojant appropriated as may bo necessary for tools, machinery and raw material sufficient to keep employed all prisoners in the penitentiary who may become Idle and to provide for the sale of goods manufactured. The commis­ sioners shall employ said prisoners at such occupations as are best adapted to secure their health, discipline aud reformation. CUT A CHILD'S THROAT. A Maxlean Tramp Nearly Murders the Son of a Former Chlct|mn. At Garden City, Kan., Louis Garnett, a well-to-do farmer and ranchman of Finney County, who was once a citizen of Chicago, puthisson, who is about 9 years of age, on a horse and told him to herd some cattle. In a few hours a Mexican tramp came along, took the boy down and cut his throat, and then took tho h6rse and fled; but he made the mistake of going by Mr Garnott's house and the horse was recognized and suspicion at once aroused. The boy was found nearly dead. A possr* of men immediately went in pursuit of the criminal, aua after a long chase caught him about daylight near the Colorado lino. Tho posse gave him over to Sheriff W. T. Eggen, who found a bloody razor con­ cealed in the tramp's clothing. The main blood-vessel was not severed and the boy may get well. The criminal does not deny the crime, but says it was committed in self-defense. THE New York Time* shows that we export ten times as much oatmeal as we import, and then finds fault that tha duty makes the foreign oatmeal higher. But thero is no law requiring an Ameri­ can citizen to buy foreign oatmeal, and so long as there is more than enough made for home consumption there is no need of it. -- ( THE New York World says that "the attempt to make Mr. Cleveland the special champion of public economy is ridiculous." That journal rarely crowds so much fact into so few words. Men like to be coaxed, and women know how to coax. What profiteth a woman to scold. REFORMS IN THE SEED TRADE. A Meeting at Cincinnati to Prevent Con- tinuan^e^of fraudulent Importations. Fifty members of the American Seed Trade Association met at Cincinnati, with President Albert McCullough In the chair. Mr. John Fottler, Jr., the Secretary, says the meeting will give some attention to fraudulent importa­ tions with a view to prevent unscrupu­ lous dealers from reaping an advantage by defrauding the Government. He says some men import dutiable seeds iree by giving them an improper classification. Seeds are also smuggled through the mails from abroad, he says, and thus again honest dealers suffer. Other bad practices among seodmen will receive attention. Area and Condition of. Grain. The June report of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture makes the area in winter wheat, as compared with the breadth harvested last year, 111.5; spring wheat, 103.4; barley 107.1; rye, 101.5; oats, 97.P. Condition: Win­ ter wheat, 9(3.(3: spring wheat, 92.6; bar­ ley, 90.3; rye, 95.4; oats, 85. In com­ parison with 1S89 tho increase in wheat acreage is quite moderate. The reduc­ tion last year of moro than 2,000,000 acres suggests the reason for most of'the present increase. This advance Is therefore both replacement and devel­ opment, tho former notably in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and California, the lat­ ter iu a less degree in Washington, Ore­ gon the Dakotas, and in several Terri­ tories. - THE most perfect popular government is that in which an injury oiferod to the meanest individual is considered an in* suit upon the whole constitution ILLINOIS lAW-MAKERSl AKONO the bills passed In the Uovm fm v? th« 8th were the following: Requiring milk- dealers to give bonds for payment for their milk and to make reports of their business; to prevent child labor--it prohibits th# s« employment of any child under l.'l years rfs of age unless It be first shown and a certl§ Cate be Issued by the Board of Education ?:§ or School Directors that such a child is th# : * means of support of an aged or infirm rel- «| ative; authorizing cities owning brldgs#^ && within five miles of their corporate limit# ° to construct and maintain roads from eltle#" to such bridges; to permit the di<4*oIutio«i j of drainage districts under the farm drain* * age act; providlns for the amendment of those sections of the present law governing' building and loan associations so that suclk associations may loan their money without • , , - selling the same to tbe highest bidder: pro* * ^ vidlng for the examination and regulation ,.1- * 1, of the employment of mine managers} ' making It unlawful for any person to wear *> , a Grand Army badge, button or emblem, o* * ; * T; to use the same to obtain aid or assistance " thereby from any person, and providing » penalty for violation of a fine of from $1% to $50; Riving legislative assent to the JMK» chase by the General Government of land in Danville on which to erect a publi# building, and to exempt, the same from tax* ation; to assist farmers In holding count* , | . institutes for educational purposes, and ap- - - propriatlng ttfeach such institute a sum not ~ to exceed $50 annually; providing for th# prevention of oppressive garnishment an# i the transferring of claims for the purpos#- * , 'h of depriving depositors of their exemption rights. The Senate had a brief and turbu- lent session, and accomplished nothing. On the 9th the House was kept in a tor* moil by the World's Fair bill, the friends of. the million-dollar appropriation holding- '1® the floor, and arguing strongly. No de» \ ! clslon was reached. In the Senate Senator • * Shumway's bill, requiring County Clerks t« , t -3 keep a record of the bonds of Justices of - the Peace and police constables; Senator ' Hunt's bill, giving the right of appeal frond " - -, assessments^ for drainage purposes to th# " County Board of Supervisors; Senator Zearing's bill, extending the jurisdiction • of farmers' mutual live stock insurance '-A,* 'ii companies to counties . contiguous to that in which they are organized: Mr. Kan- '/} raker's bill providing that a person canttofk Vj vote at general or State elections un lea*. yvr< registered: the bill requiring ers to possess a cert locate school teach*' from County Superintendents before they can be palfe from the school fund; and Mr. Allen's bd| providing that County boards shall hw# charge of the construction of all bridge# costing over $100 in counties not under township organization were passed. Senai* tor O'Conor called up the House Joint reso>» " ^ A* lutlon instructing Illinois representative# 1 ij In Congress to vote for the amendment of t the United States Constitution, so that r United States Senators maybe chosen by direct vote of the people, aBd it was unant- s ' mously adopted. THE hurly-burly in the House began OFE the 10th, and the floor was a a verltabt# t i bear garden until adjournment. One greafc . " ' '4 source of confusion was disposed of whe# ' .*1 at one fell swoop all tho House bills in th# ; -J calendar were swept off. This cleared th#' m calendar of from one hundred and fifty to - „ - two hundred House bills which have bee# 1-' • > the cause of much struggling among th# members who sought first of all to advano# * ? their own bills. The appropriation bill# > V, were'exempted from the general slaughter. < * it Among the bills advanced was one tl# * ? provide for a custodian of the Lincotal S Monument and take it out of the dim# \ museum list, where it has been so ions witib one man reaping a large profit in quartern > from visitors. The bill passed the Houa# by. an almost unanimous vote, was sent at once to the Senate, and had its first read- Ing there. The ballot reform bill was passedl as It came from the conference committed The most important bill of the session--th# . /$£$ Senate general appropriation bill, whidi meets tho expenses of the State Govern* v ment and appropriates $1.400.000--received 105 votes on Its passage The Senate spent X-'}j mnch time in considering House amend* inents to the Senate appropriation blllik \ The bill to amend the game laws so as to ,-fti punish by $25 fine every merchant selling ' ' ̂ game of any kind at any time during whidi. \ » ft Is not allowed to be killed in this Stat# was passed. ... ON the 11th the House passed the follow- . , ing bills: The Senate bill providing % , 1 penalty for cutting and Injuring embank* ' & ments and levees: the Senate bill changing the manner of practice in chancery case# by providing that service may be obtained In any county by either husband or wife; the bill making the first Monday fh September a legal holiday, to v:*- known as Labor Day; the Senate biff amending th<^ law in regard to fees of th# : * •=>; Clerk of the Probate Court ig counties Qt '! the third class. The most Important mea#» 3^ ures passed by the Senate are the follow^ 'i; Ing: Appropriating $10,000 to remove th# ^ bodies of the Illiuols pioneers from tho old ' cemetery In Kaskaskia to the new came- * tery; providing for the examination of y iifij mine managers and providing a penalty for " employment by operators of managers not ' J| having a certificate of competency from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; approprt* > ating $25,000 for new gates at Coppera# : Creek and Henry locks; appropriating $1 .000 annually to the Dairymen's Associm 'S.S'r tion; appropriating $50 annually to eacfc , ^ fanners'institute held' in the State; pro* • \ y' vlding that when girls under 13 years of agj# - • are found In houses of assignation the pro- . - Tr % prletor thereof shall be held responsibly - - \ t therefor and guilty of a violation of tb# > - '*£ lav, whether he Is aware of their preseno# there or not; providing that counties shall ~ V*' -fi bury at their own expense Indigent es*- * -J, Union soldiers: appropriating $2.5)0 to Jar cob Schmidt for Injuries received from a# unruly convict at Chester, and $10 to Georg# « Berriman for services rendered at the spar- -" • clal session. • > "iv .. >) " i «.* Work of th« Telvphoa* la CltihM* A vivid idea of the extent to the telephone takes the place of thgr errand boy" of our forefathers wag given a few days ago in Boston, whe«t §f the representative of the New England ; ' | Telephone Company stated before a f jS legislative committee that the message* i /v ' s it handled would require the employe ment of 10,000 messenger boys if the* S had to be carried through tbe street- '3 instead of over the wire. The averagg ^ ; use of a telephone by the man in whos# "• office it hangs, and by his friends who don't pay anything for its use, and who \ £ rail at the "telephone monopoly" ia - ,**»£ good set terms, is from six to twelve , . messages per day. Hence, in a city j I ifi like New York, with 9,000 or 10,*)0<j subscribers, the number of telephone 'I *. messages will run up some days to 75,000. If ten of those were given t<| « - I one boy as his day's wo:k. as letters o* telegrams for deliver^, this would ure out not lesa than 7,&K) boys oa vJ tive service. \ _• Nothing ImpofUlt SWEET strains--Sweet honey. Guxs are only human after all. H»? will kick when the load becomes totifc heavy. THE fact that Washington never told a lie has been satisfactorily accounted!,- for. He never went tishing. "PREPAKKD chalk," says a medical journal, "is a remedy for dyspepsia.* Wouldn't hotel milk do just as well? A BOSTON young iady has married * German baron "with an unpronounceable sg name. Her maiden name was to capture *• *"1 "• him. >, * THE house fly is very slew iu its move- ments when you want it to go out of % J doors, but quicker than quickness when ^ fa t wants to come in. « > Dio LEWIS says that hot water will' cure all comp'aiuts. fn that case mar­ ried men ought to be extra healthy, for they are always in it. Ax itinerant bliud fiddler who met with au at'cMent at Stockton, Cal.. aad had to be taken to a hospital, was found to have $l,-'oo ou his person. THE Indians originally owned Amer- ica, and would still own it if they had ,* , gone into the liquor business when the first white men arrived here. FOB heroic but vain endeavors to look '"J/ * > pleaded nothin,' can e^ual the facial $ pr»ssionsof two girls compelled to danc# with each other ou account of tb# dlft scarcity of the qtfttf, M -s. •5S&