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* VMI 81YKE, Editor and PufcHsSsr, McHENRY, - - - ILLINOIS. ':r;v * - W- A NEW FORK compositor yawned un- tt he dislocated hia jaw. He was prob­ ably em ploy &d in setting up the Herald aditorials. A FAIR damsel to wliom was shown tin chair in which tho Sing Sing mur­ derers died recently pronounced it "just 4oo electrocute for anything." EJJGINEEBING presents the diagram •and description of a new five-day trans- Atlantic steamer. Engineering skill is I'irtt waiting for time and tide nowadays. A SAN FRANCISCO woman sold a piece of her epidermis, 9x5 inches, to •nrgeons for a skin-grafting experiment lor $100. The lady has opened up another sphere of feminine possibili­ ties, bat it is hardly probable that example will find many followers. A MONKEY in New York got drunk 6n • bottle of whisky and went on a regu­ lar tear. His success in imitating the nude specimen of the human species would seem to add considerable force to the Darwinian theory that the monkey WAS the earliest ancestor of man. A MAN was killed on the steps of an •elevated railway station in New York by having an umbrella jabbed into his eye by the man in front of him. The man who carries an umbrella or a cane under his arm on a crowded street deserves banishment to a country where it never nana. _ |^ A PRACTICAL joker at Wheeling, W. Va., recently did unusually effective work by snapping an "unloaded shot­ gun," killing a woman and seriously in­ juring two men. Of course the man was overwhelmed with remorse, but there should be a more practical' pun­ ishment for this class o! jokers. A MONTH or two ago 3,500 people in Omaha were victimized by paying 50 cents each to witness the flight of . an air-ship. The ship did not materialize or fly, but the projecters of the scheme did. Three thousand people were gulled in the same style at Fort Wayne, Ind. The air-ship swindler appears to be thoroughly familiar with the profitable points in the green circuit. ;. AHA ! a lot of Peru (Ind.) people have been poisoned nigh unto death by eat­ ing imported dried beef. Maybe now •the effete monarch* of the old world will in shame withdraw their strictures on the great American hog in his dressed condition, if they don't iin- •ported dried beef should be barred, ab­ solutely and utterly. The unwholesome bovine is just as dangerous to America as the unwholesome swine'is to Europe. HUMANE societies have lost an earnest Worker for their cause iu the death of Edwin Lee Brown. For many years he -has been the Henry Bergh of Chicago, and it is largely due to hit efforts to prevent crneity to animals that a horse *too feeble to work or one being inhu­ manely treated by a cruel driver is now seldom seen on the streets of that city. Both were once uuly too common spec­ tacles. A FRENCH lady leaves by will $100,- 000 as a prize for the person who shall, within ten years, be able to communi­ cate with the people in any other planet. Astronomers think that oertain lights seen flashing in Mars are attempts to eignal us. They may have telescopes there which reveal us to them as clearly •as we see our own mountain ranges. Yery few things are really impossible, and we may be telepnoning to Mars long ere the ten rears prescribed ex­ pires. CALLING things by names too big for * them is a provincialism that ought to be depreoated. Every little amusement ball is dubbed an opera house; every barber shop, though it have but a single chair, is at least a parlor. A two months' course of study, not above high school grade, in various simple divisions of primary culture, is dubbed up North "a summer university," This is going a little too far. More confidence might be felt in its value were its designation tnore honest and more modest. FOR the first time since the war, West Point this year turned out too few grad­ uates to fill the vacant second lieuten­ ancies in the regular army. Good! The rank and file want promotions, and the martinets of West Point have been too often mere military automatons. Even in the war they had to be unstarched •ere 'they became first-class soldiers, while the great ones like Grant, Sher­ man, Sheridan, Thomas, Lee, Johnston and Jackson, were men too great to worship their West Point sheepskins. In a country whose army in all great •emergencies must be citizen volunteers. West Point Cadets should Ijfere no monopoly of military honors. Ex-JUDGE PRENDEKOAST, of Chicago, was fined for contempt of <jourt, and conduct therein unbecoming a gentle­ man. Wheu a judge he fined others for the same offenses, but seems to have relapsed when he resumed practice. Blackguardism in court deserves no mercy. Too many lawyers who claim to be gentlemen, and elsewhere deport themselves as such, in court browbeat witnesses, insult women and each other, and talk in such style as anywhere else would secure them a good thumping. Judges can maintain their own dignity and benefit the public best by ooming down on such doings like judicial pile- drivers. CALIFORNIA seems to have been trying a rather costly experiment, a little on the principal of that of the WM who undertook to pay 5 cents for the first nail in the horseshoe and doable the amount for each succeeding one. Cal­ ifornia had oovotes and did not on joy their depredations, so in an impulsive tfcaamn . _ . ... . _ at its citizens, for the scalps are ooming in at such a rate that the dilemma seems to be whether the State shall repudiate or go into bankruptcy. ENGLISH slang is just as slangy as American slang, but it does not always attach the same meaning to the same words. For instance, Edmund Yates, referring to the German Emperor's English visit writes: "The Emporer had intended to stay in London until Tuesday, but the pace during his. visit to Holland and Lngland haa been too rapid, and His Majesty was so dead beat that he waa glad to get away to the solitude and repose of yacht on Monday night." In England to say that a man is "dead beat" means that he is thoroughly tired out. In this conntry to say that a man is "a dead beat" means that he has thoroughly tired out people from whom he has se­ cured credit AFTER quoting the statement of the Philadelphia Ledger that the chief rea­ son why good men do not more gener­ ally go into politics is because they are unwilling to expose themselve to the abuse of the newspapers, the Providence Journal says: "The only publio men who complain that they are unfairly and abusively treated by the newspapers are those about whom the newspapers persists in telling unoomfortable truths. They are men whose motives, methods, and records oan not bear the light of public scrutiny and who must necessar­ ily be held up to soorn and condemna­ tion wherever they are impartially and honestly commented upon. The only men, therefore, who need hesitate to go into politics out of fear of newspaper critioism are those who propose to in­ dulge in practices and work for ends which are in themselves incapable of approval and insusceptible of praise." THE historic old Valley Forge prop­ erty on the line of the Philadelphia and Beading Railroad is in danger of being divided up and sold, its present owner, Mrs. Anda, L. Carter, having instruct­ ed her attorney to dispose of 190 acres of it. The portion of the property about to go into the market contains the remnants of the ramparts of Fort Washington, the oold spring, the site of the forge, and of the headquarters of Washington, Lafayette, and Knox. It will be more than an occasion for re­ gret if this historic spot is allowed to be sold and it is thereby lost to the ooun- try. It will be a national shame. No spot is more indeliby connected with the Revolution and the days that tried men's souls -than Valley Forge. It was there that the tide of misfortune went down to the lcwest mark, and it was there also that the great leader of the army appeared in his noblest and high­ est manifestations of faith and courage. Let the patriotic orders of the country send in their protests at once and ask to have the sale withheld until they can take measures to save this relic of the Revolution either through purchasers who will agree to keep it intact, 01 through some action of the people at large or of the Government which will secure oontrol of it as a national park ' HO COMFORT FOR THE OHIO ALLIANCE. • By tlie FTAME U( ••X." In France, where great care is taken that men shall have no other name than that to which they are lawfully entitled, and whore every citizen's name, pro­ fession, social condition and history are carefully recorded and his goings and comings officially kept trace of, some very curious incidents take place. Not long ago a young man was ar­ rested at Constantino, in Algeria, on a charge of stealing money belonging to an establishment in which he was em­ ployed. When it Was sought to make a record of his name, it was found that he had no lawful name at all. He had been "inscribed" at Bordeaux at the date of his birth, but his father and mother were not known, and the name of Laffon, under which he had been inscribed without authority, he had since been forbidden by a court of justice to bear, because it was not right* fully his. After having been forbidden the name of Laffon, he took that of Bacon, and was in turn officially refused permission to bear that. Nevertheless, he managed to exist, in some way, without any name at all; but when, having been accused of taking some money that had disappeared, the law was obliged to take cognizance of him in some way, he was entered upon the lists of the court as "one X." If he is convicted of the offense with which he is charged, he will go to prison as X; and if be should be ao- quitted, he will have gained, if not a "good name," at least one letter of the alphabet toward some kind of name. Koyeotting the Xunng LMIIM * A peculiar boycott in the town of Tennille, Ga., which would be laugh­ able were it not that the young men are in dead earnest. An enthusiastic and well-attended meeting was held by some of Tennille's best young men for the purpose of declaring a boycott against the young ladies. The position of the members was outlined in resolutions to this effect: "That we organize a boy­ cott ; that this boycott applv to the young ladies in the town of Tennille that persist in going with the small boys; that this boycott shall not apply to any one young lady in particular, but to those who persist in going with small boys; that the boycott shall not apply to ny lady under 15 years of age; that information having reached onr ears that certain young ladies in the town of Tennille are in the habit of breaking engagements, we condemn this habit in the strongest terms possible and boy­ cott the young ladies in the future who shall be guilty of this; that we boycott any young lady over 15 years of age who auow-s boys under >16 years of age to call on or accompany her to places of worship or amusement; that we boycott any young ladies who make two'engagements for the fame night; that we solemnly pledge ourselves to carry this out.". After these resolutions were adopted the boyootters adjourned subject tocalL J* Is THERE no hope, doctor?" asked the dying Congressman. "No." "Then, if I must die tell the boys to place the limit at $5 and driiik nothing bat cham­ pagne on the funeral train." Shoald Be KEPT Promlaetit- lUdprooItT with SAIL Damln£O-Cl«R«> land and Boles--How to Organ I U--The People's LU Ohio. Cleveland and note*. There fs some dlft'culty associated With the work of p:erenting ox-President Cleveland and soou to be ex-Gov. Botes as a harmonious Presidential ticket for 1892. In order to make the Iowa man a possibility next year he is compelled to make the effort to stand on the Iowa Democratic platform this yeaf. , The following presents one aspect, of the situation at present: •VvVy; ci^BvKi aho Gr O T «r Cleveland' Hor«c« Boies wrote wrote &B follow* la Jnly ?5, lust: -In the ruary last: "It rarely infancy of thin republic canuot be necessary fo'r it was onaeted by those me to make » formal who established it that expression of my agree- gold and silver should ment with those who enjoy equal and unre- beliere that the great- etriured rights in the e*t peril would be in- coinage of our mints, vitaa by the adopti n "After a lapse of of the scheme em- more than eighty veara, braced in the measure during all of which the now pending in Con-two metals wore ao- gress for the unlimited corded precisely the cohmgo of silver at our same prixileges in the mint*. If we have de-monetary system of our vekjped an unexpected government, at a time capacity for the assim-;when o. r people were ilation of a largely in-burdened with onor- creased volume of this mons national, munici- earrency, and even if pal and individual we have demonstrated debts, by an act that the usefulness of nuch was never demanded an increase, other con-|by the masses and ditions fall far short of that Was thrust upon insuring us against dis- them without any to­ aster If in the present'telligent. discussion of situation we enter upon its merits, silver was the dangerous, t h ©(deprived of its ooinage reckless experiment oflrijjhts. free, unlimited, and in-j "An aroused people dtpradeut silver coin-'have compelled a par- itial restoration oi the > a 1 • rights of this metal, but it is still hampered by statutory provisions Ithafc are made in the jinterest of the creditor, jat the expense of the 'debtor classes. "'Ihe Democracy of Iowa demaud that sil­ ver shall lie restored to • its ancient estate un­ der the law* of th9 na­ tion. "If on account of changed conditions, as some loeHeve, the effect of this will be to re­ duce the metallic cur­ rency of the country to a silver standard alone, or otherwise injure the business interests of the country, the people can be safely trusted to devise some means of > j maintaining the two | metals in the relative -positions assigned them by the founders of our | government." vJl*, Boies will be compelled to take a elide soon. The chances are that he will slide out of the Governorship, and that the names of C leveland and Boies will cease to figure in juxtaposition. The people of Iowa are opposed to in­ viting "the greatest peril," and they have their own way of devising means.-- Sioux City Journal. Beelproelty with San Dominie. The Republic of San Domingo, which occupies the eastern half of the large West Indian Island of which Hayti is the western half, is the other party to our latest reciprocity treaty under the McKinley bill's famoti9 third section. Great Britain's exports to the island of Bayti and San Domingo have been fall­ ing off of late'years, having dropped from $2,221,750 in 1887 to $1,313,450 in 1889, while her imports therefrom in­ creased only from $233,220 to §235,615. Our imports from San Domingo alone, however, grew from $303,757 free of duty and $1,150,504 dutiable in the fiscal year 1889 to a total of $1,951,013 in 1890, of which *$1,720,172 was dutiable. Our exports of merchandise to San Domingo, however, fell off from $1,180,019 in 1889 to $950,217 in 1800, our coin and bullion exports to the same Republic also drop­ ping from $7«1,270 to $91,691. The fol­ lowing tables show the principal items of our foreign trade with San Domingo for the fiscal yt ars ending respectively June 30, 188'J, and June 30, 1S90: IMPORTS FROM SAN DOMINGO. r, H . 188H. Manufactures '*351 l)y«tffto » ..ii.V Gums and gum resins.... 834 Chemicals 91 Crude coooa and cacao.... A40 Coffee.. 1C0,863 Fruits ....... 6,871 Hides and skins *1.497 Wood 4,070 Sugar 1,142,844 . 1820. 95 .1,492 8,202 48,443 1,228 77.279 18,180 1,710,884 Total, including smaller tUma. •1,454,261 . $1,951,013 XXPOBTB TO SAK -DOMINOO. 1889. 1890. Books.... #3,677 (8, MS Bread 4,366 <lSti Breadstuffs............... ST.59S lMj.645 Carriages ... 8,720 14,371 Che i loals 14,781 . 10,339 Clothing ltft,3£6 10,525 Cordaga.... 7,969 7,734 Fisa 82,941 .4*154 Iron and steel MS.lfiO MS,002 Leather goods 83,527 %418 Malt liquors ' 7,493 11,697 Oils 44,029 8*251 Paper 8,04fl 0,885 Provisions 103,166 100,431 Soaps 9,149 7,873 Sugar, refined .....* ' 114,831 83,535 Vegetables 8,161 13,10* Total, inolu' lng small­ er items 01.lfO.OU 9050,217 There are quite a number of other items of which we already export small quantities to San Domingo, and in which our trade might, be extended. The treaty places our breadstuffs, potatoes, hay, oats, pork, fish, cotton seed oil, agricul­ tural implements and mining and me­ chanical tools on iSan Domingo's free list, while, under the McKinley bill, the President can reimpose duties on San Domingo's sugar, molasses, coffee, cocoa and hides if she discriminates against our products. Ills Alliance in Ohio. Small comfort the Democrats will get from the Alliance nomination for Gov­ ernor of Ohio. John Seitz, of Seneca, who is the Alliance standard-bearer, was a lifelong Democrat up to 1877, and served two terms in the State Senate as a Democrat; He was the author of the famous Seitz bill, prohibiting the use of money in elections. Though he fell Away from the party in 1877, he returned to support Ewing for Governor in 1879. Two years later he was the Greenback Labor candidate for Governor. All his friends in political life are Demo rats. Whatever vot-s he polls personally will be drawn from the Democratic party. The Democracy has been encouraging the Farmers' Alliance to put up a sepa­ rate ticket in Ohio, and it has even been charged that it has been willing to foot all the expenses of the third party cam- paien. A Democratic candidate for Con­ gress in a Republican district in Nebras­ ka set up such a plot last fall, paying the expenses of an Alliance man to run for Congress in a triangular fight and carry off enough Republican votes to let him be elected. The Alliance man was himself elected, to the no small amaze­ ment of the Democrat who had paid the Alliance man's bills. The Alliance will not win in Ohio, but it looks as though the Democrats in encouraging the third party movement had given solid aid to Major McKinley and would insure for themselves as complete discomfiture as came upon this Nebraskan. Build Up the Home Markets. The farm statistics emphasize the ne­ cessity for building up the manufactur­ ing interests of the United States and thus developing a home market for all products that will be equal to the boun­ tiful productiveness of the soil. Within the last thirty years the. acreage devoted to corn in the United States has in- „ so&ooa. in th«4tm« period, l$M*^ded itaarta fp&ia i<1000,000 TO of arrest and thei.aiBO«nt produced from 100,000,* 000 to Wa,000,<HK» bushels. Those fig­ ures give Vl the neeee&iary proof that the farmers of the nation should be unanimously in favor of a protective tariff that will build up the home mar­ kets of every community in the country and thus secure mutual benefits for all classes of the po >ple. Protection is the only safety for the farmers, laborer* and manufacturers,and without they prosper all other business must languish. Ohio's Third Psrtr. The People's party in Ohio has adopt­ ed a platform which goes to show very plainly that no sensible and patriotic citizen can afford to identify himself with such an organization.Louis Qlobe-Dnnoerat. j The whole platform in its essential features is the work of tyros in finance and commerce.--Totedtt Hlndc. Tho People's convention in Ohio was rather a menagerie of cranks, each hav­ ing a hobby of his own. but all intent on defeating Senator bherinan because his great usefulness makes hiui con­ spicuous.--liulianiiitoUs Journal. It comprises the old Greenback-Labor contingent, together with disappointed office-seekers, agrarian agitators, and general political adventurers that havo grievances at one or both of the old parties. The Republican farm«rs of the liuckeye State will not play tail to the Southern . Democratic kite.--Pittsburg Gazette. Tho platform is more practical on Stato affairs than on national issues. On the latter it is simply ridiculous. It is in short a declaration of principles in favor of "Kansasizing Ohio," and the farmers of this State aio too smart to bring on themselves any such att'.iction as that which overwhelmed the West -- Ohio State Journal. Some of the delegates to the third party convention in Ohio who sang "Good-by, old parties, good-by," so en­ thusiastically yesterday will be coming back to the fold in another year, when they learn that their leaders are simply taking this means to get an office that has been given to better men by the old ot^a>pjUfttiQiis.--Kansas City Jom'^U,. f " ' • Va r i fT P ic tu res . ' 4 ' , NO. 1. ¥he New York hod carrier with his •11 a week in his pocket is vary glad that it Is Im­ possible to import briok bouses from Belgium, where hod carriers get •S.M The Republican pledge abont tariff legislation was to reduce the revenue, not to reduce the protection of American labor. The revenue from oustoms duties during the month of July* 1890, was •84,867,848 The McKinley bill out it dowii to 915,853,038 fOC the month of July.--Vm York Pr*s. Protection In the Sooth. Protection is growing popular in the South, says the Des Moines Register. In the States where Industrial development has made most progress the protective- tariff sentiment is very marked. A meeting of protectionists was recently held at Asheville, N. C.; delegates to the number of .500 were In attendance, rep­ resenting every part of the State except the Democratic back-woods regions. It is the intention of the leaders of this movement to organize protective-tariff leagues In every township of the State. The old South has been hopelessly wed­ ded to free trade, but under the domin­ ion of its bosses the chief products of that region have been a slaveholders1 rebellion, mules, wooden plows, moon shiners, and repudiated debts. The dawn of the new era, let it be hoied, has come--the era of progress, schoolhouses, factories, and improved farms under the beneficent reign of protection to the products of labor and to labor itself. The business depression that followed In the wake of the free-trade victory last fall has aroused the South to the interest it has in protection, and tnfp in time effect a political change. How to Organise. The National League of Republican Clubs has issued a circular of instruc­ tions for organization which is admira­ ble in Its completeness and simplicity. To promote antK lWintain the principles of the Republican party all are nrged to observe a broad policy, free from "isms," so that all Republicans can cordially unite. The advancement of individual ambi­ tions should be avoided, even to the ex­ tent of refraining from making recom­ mendations in advance ot nominations. This precept will not, however, be com­ plied with in cases in which a strong majority sentiment favors a particular selection for high office, not for the sake of getting the office for a favorite, but lor the sake of securing victory tor the party. In all respects individual inter­ est must be subordinated to party and patriotic requirements, and there must be kept constantly in view the one great objcct of organization, to bring the full Republican strength to the polls and thereby insure victory. If the thousands of new c!ubs now forming or soon to bo organized will con­ duct their proceedings in conformity to the instructions of national headquarters they will make up a political army irre­ sistible through well-directed and sys­ tematized effort Kxobangre Comment. RECIPROCITY wins another great tri­ umph in the new treaty with Spain open ing Cuban trade.--Philadelphia Press. BUFFALO is the site of Mr. Cleveland's political debut. It now appears to be ambitious to be the site of his political exit.--Sioux City Journal UNFORTUNATELY for Mr. Cleveland when the Ohio Democracy met at Cleve­ land, they did not construct a Cleveland platform.--Cincinnati Gazette. "WHAT do the silver men want?" a?ks the St Louis Gtobi-Democrat. Evident­ ly a little sense and some knowledge of the laws of finance. Albany Express. IF Governor Campbell continues to kick his party platform to pieces, very eoon there will not be enough of it left for him to get ashore on.--Indianapolis Journal. ONE of the Ohio candidates tor Gov­ ernor stands a chance to be President, but his name is not Campbell. This 19 confidential, and not to be repeated for the present--St. Louis Globe-Detnourat THK big fact that stares out from the Kentucky election is that the Democrat? of the Alliance voted their old party ticket, just as they did last fall in Geor­ gia, Texas,Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and South Carolina.--Topeka Capital. IT will be remembered that Ohio has been the battle ground for the beginning of several fights in the monetary ques­ tion since the war, and it is also worth remembering that honest money hat won every time.--Boston Traveller. THE less said by our Democratic friends about the hostility of the Repub­ lican party, representing Will street, tc silver coinage, the better for them. Under a Republican law the entire product of American silver mines, 54,500,000 ounces, is being employed In making currency torthe people.--Topefca Capital. Urn Kbwily Believed the f<onesoraenes« Doling Her Rsibsad'i Absence. Many rffdara doubttam steal! a praeuoa indulged in by y^ung tfen tin­ men In former years (indeed, ! bat* reason to believe it is not obsolete at this writing), of "sitting out" competit­ ors for a lady's favor. In many agri­ cultural districts it is still a humiliating acknowledgement for a young man to admit he has been compelled, by any artifice of his rival, to retire from the held. One of the most whimsical inci­ dents growing out of thin phase of ri­ valry occurred recently in a small town in Ohio. A handsome, free, and airy young fellow who was a great favorite with everybody, called on a young lady whose father was "well heeled," as the aaying goes, in this world's goods. Miss R was accounted a great catch. She had among her admirers an easy, slow- going young attorney, highly connected, and possessing very decided talent. He was careless in his attire--almost slov­ enly. But he was a fellow who bore acquaintance--giew mightily on close acquaintance. The young lawyer hap­ pened to occupy an old-fashioned rocker when the wide-awake, bright Dick B-----Mapped in. He seemed to be glued to his seat. At least he did not budge from it while Dick was thera Dick left him there, but resolved to oust him. Upon a subsequent call, finding Miss R alone, Dick carried out his pro­ gram, for, the young attorney dropping in lazily later, was surprised to see Diok ensconced in the rocker. The medical student sat his fellow visitor/ out v But the contest, apparently, waa not ended,'for both happened to meet at Miss -----'a on the same evening, and now, with one result The young law­ yer, whom I will call Gray, would talk to Miss at intervals, amuse himself by exciting her anger, or wit, rise lazily, d^vdle at the door, and alter some whispered talk, leave his rival in the rocker. The young student could not resist the temptation to disclose the situation to the friends of both parties. Some there were who marvelled at the lack of spirit Gray revealed. As the first- comer, he should, it was argued, have held his ground. The mere fact that be did not, was deemed sufficient rea­ son for Dick B to boast, and his* boasts were reported to Miss R , who, however tantalized her lady friends by holding her toogue, and smiling when her lovers were discussed. Six months passed; the lawyer in all that time had not even seriously at­ tempted to "set Dick B »•" out. On the contrary, he Beemed to derive secret satisfaction in retiring at a uniform hour, whereat Dick B assumed the bearing and language of an accepted lover. He did not at once correct the impression that he was Miss it's accepted suitor; he entered faint disclaimers, knowing they would be regarded as admissions of his entire confidence in his suit, for it was now a suit in earnest People were pre­ pared for the announcement of the en­ gagement of Miss R and Dick B , when that young gentleman, who was prosecuting his "sitting out" scheme aasiduously, came to grief in this wise: It was a beautiful moonlight night, one of those nights made expressly for lovers. Dick was lolling iu the shadow of a vine-clad porch when Gray dropped in lazily. The conversation that night seemed more animated than usual. The young attorney had more to say, and paid it better. In the course of the evening he secured the rocker, and, to Dick's surprise, kept it. When the time arrived for his withdrawal, he did not retire. He seemed to enjoy the com­ pany of his fellows and made himself very agreeable. Eleven o'clock passed. The half hour flitted away. Dick be­ gan to grow uneasy. Twelve o'clock ar­ rived,but Gray was seemingly as uncon­ cerned as tho' it were but six. Another half, three-quarters, one o'clock came, passed, and yet Gray did not manifest any signs of a retiring disposition. In sheer desperation, Dick, as the first quarter rounded on one, got upon his feet and said something about the lateness of the hour. He was bidding Miss R good night, when Gray, rising slowly to his full height, said very deliberately: "Don't be in a hurry, Diok. Til go with you presently. This is the last night we may sit up as late as this to­ gether, for we," looking at Miss R , "will Ira in our new house in a week. Emma, you ought to thank Diok for his kindness in keeping you company while I've been poring over my books. We have been married two months, Dick." As Dick related it himself, he "scarcely knew whether he stood on his heels or hia head." It taught him a lesson, how­ ever, for Gray persisted in thanking him, both for his wife and on his own account, for "throwing people off the track." The Mystery of Ughtning Bhoekl. A correspondent writes to the New York Sun as follows: -1 think that all the primarily fatal effects of electricity are due to three causes which are distinct but insepara­ ble, and each capable of producing death if sufficiently powerful. The most prominent of these ia Uie forcible contraction of the muscles, which may be drawn so tightly about the arteries as to produce congestion and stop the action of the heart The caloric effect of electricity is to increase the temperature of the parts through which it passes, and this may produce their disruption or combustion. The current also exerts an" electrolytic action on the fluid and nervous portions of the system. The magnitude of these effects ia pro­ portional to the electromotive force of the current: practically proportional to the duration of its flow and inversely proportional to the resistance of its path or circuit. If the conjoint influence of these ef­ fects "paralyzes the nerves," or pro­ duces unconsciousness otherwise, in loss than three one-hundredths of one sec­ ond, it must act more quickly than sen­ sation and produce a painless death; but, if this period be prolonged, the subject will die a most agonizing death. He will feel that his muscles are being stripped from the bones, that each nerve is a conductor heated so intsnsed | by ig life has not yet been Tie law of electrical execution waa ftowMived gad ratified by ptesaaa ig­ norant of eleotrie science, who pcoWbly recall the faet that wi«o and mnfrwelq have been instantly killed by lightning, and drew this unfounded conclusion that artificial electricity would be equally effective. The electromotive force of an ordi­ nary flash of lightning can be Only esti­ mated iu billions of volts. Tho com­ parative power of artificial and atmos­ pheric electricities may be inferred from the following comparison: The spark given by the electric current is propor­ tional to the square of its electromotive force, and that of the most powerful dynamos does not exceed the thirty- second part of one inch; but that of a flash of lightning "varies from one to two milos in ordinary flashes to eight or ten miles in exceptional cases." (See Humboldt Library, 139.) The same authority informs us that only one case in three ia fatal ot those atruok by lightning. There has not yet been an artificial current produced of sufficient power to destroy life instantaneously with cer­ tainty. • •treivsth In Swimming), There are two periods in the year when deaths by drowning are frequently recorded: December, whop/ skating begins, and June, when swimming has coma Last winter was remarkable for the number of instances in which l>oys had the good fortnue to save the lives of their comrades who had broken through the ice. The Royal Humane Society of Lon­ don awarded their bronze medal to Cecil Stanley Manning, a boy of 14 years, fbr saving another boy aged 12 years, who broke through the ice in deep water seventy-live feet from the shore. They gave another bronze medal to a boy named Murray, who saved a little fellow one year younger than himself from drowning in the Thames at Hamp­ ton Court Then there were two brothers, An­ thony and Charles Ellwood, who saved two of their younger brothers, and to each of them the Society awarded honorable recopution. There were several other boys, from 14 to 12 years old, who saved or assisted to save children only a year or two younger than themselves. It is well for boys to become ao- qainted with such facts as these. At the same time they should bear in mind that a human being in deep water has no great amount of strength over and above what is neccessary to keep his own head above the surface, and that it may mean two victims instead of one if he tries to save frdhi drowning a person heavier than himself, or one who will cling to him and impede his action. The strongest swimmer canuot carry in the water more than a very few pounds, and that weight but a short distance. When he has plunged into the water with all his clothes on, with perhaps a pair of high boots on his feet, and a dozen * pieces of metal in his pocket, he must be a strong man to render much help to another. We advise healthy boys and girls to improve all good opportunities, not merely to learn to swim, but to acquire strength and confidence in the water. Our swimming-teachers very sensibly require their pupils to bathe now and then in a complete suit of • old clothes, including a pair of high boots, that they may know how it feela to be in the wster thus equipped, and how to get rid ot Bome of their garments. A person who has bathed encumbered thus will get an idea how much aid he could render to a drowning person. It is a mistake to over-bathe; and. in this particular there is • curious dif­ ference between oue person and an­ other. Of two brothers, both in ap­ parently equal health, one can bathe every day with advantage, while the other will discover that it is beat for him tp keep out of the water except on hot days, and then not to stay in more thau fifteen minutes. In this, as in all other athletic exercises, zeal should be tempered with prudenoe.--Youth's Companion. Lubrication BY Water. Water is a good lubricant if it is rightly applied, Bays the New York Railroad Men. A knowledge of this SOMM OR STARTLING, PA1 . FULLY RECORDED. KM** Desperate A Are? st TENS CMP- BR «lMslaj( -UFTGHWTJRME* MT tab- Bratal Assault ait Altos--ATTENTATE* Y 8aleMe of A ML) 11 iamiUi--Beanloas. Wrecked by High Winds. J A raevKRE wind, rain and hail stonlt passed over the section of country near Jacksonville. Thn storm lasted but 0 few minutes, but much damage was dona to crops and fruit. Cornfields tha$ promised excellent yields were totally- stripped of blades and are now utterl^ worthless. Grain and hay stacks wens? blown over and badly scattered. Many barns, sheds and fences were ovef^ thrown. Stock caught in the storm sul» fered considerably from the large hail* stones, which fell with terrific force. In Jacksonville a large oak tree was twist«4 off and fell with such force as to crusi^- in the roof of the house from whicfc Charled P. Scott had just removed hie • family. The house is a wreck. „ ; Returning from a fair at ESdi Mike jWeltzel of Carmi, was cut in t abdomen by Otfs Johnson and died. They were on a freight train at Texas City when the difficulty arose. Weitzei attacked Otis Johnson, a boy ,17 years # old. at the instigation of Mary Kalian- J': tine, aud tho boy stabbed him. Johnson, --h. was himself fatal y cut w.th a hatchet wielded bv the woman. „ RETAIL furniture dealers of • ChfcaifO have organized for social and business reasons. Their main object is to cheek wholesalers in their practice of seiliog % at retail. . IN Pope Township a nephew of State ̂ Senator Farmer, with a team of horses. , took shelter under a tree, when a bolt ^ lightning killed them ail. > A 11ABBKCUE was given at Battle Creek, by the Clinton County Farmer# Mutual Benefit Association, 2,000 peo» § pie being present. Foi r TiiorsAxi) people attended the £ last day's session of the Franklin County soldiers and sailors' reunion. NKAII Lincoln, Anna Itougham, dau&feH ter of a farmer, while washing dishes was prostrated by a stroke of lightning. !- She will recover., . •»: THE annual reunion of Sangamon . -V'- County old settlers was held at White •**; Sulphur Springs, Loami. *•, GKORHE WIKMAX, a prominent Mae- , coutah farmer, was be d up near hi*' c' home by masked highwaymen and lievt'd of §800. There is no c ew. Mas. THOMAS CAXAVAX, of Alton* was attack* d by a negro, who dragged her to an ad acent cornfie d. where he "j beat her nearly to death, robb ng her of and attempting to kill her with a ** ;. knife. Her young son succeeded la ^ driving away the vil'ain with a club, aud her husband started in pursuit with a shotgun. No results yet. c • eft AKT-KS BRSHKA, a Chicago toamst?r. was killed by falling from his wagon and r the wheels passing over his chest ^ AT the encampment of the Second Brigade, 1. N. G., at Springfield, Private Casserman,, of Newton, Company B. Fourth, attempted to disembowel him­ self with a bayonet. He had been repri­ manded and folt disgraced. A FLOATING paragraph has found Hp way into a number of papers to the ®f- ft ct that by a dec'sion of the Attorney General the publication of the new elec­ tion law from stcreotvpe l plaies is nat a legal publication, and that papers using the plates are not entitled t > pay for the publication of the law. Attorney Gen­ eral Hunt said: "No such opinion has ever been given, and the question of the legality of the use of plates has never b(!t*n brought before tho Department. 11 the stereotyped plates are co: cording to the copy furnished Secretary of State, I can see no why their use should not be legaL THE Secretary of State is sending tho official circular of instruction re­ garding the new ballot law to all of the county clerks of the Stato, who will dis* tribute the circulars to the city, village* and town officers in their respective counties. A HOT-BOX on a Belt line coal-car at Chicago, caused a fire, which spread to ' six cars which were almost entirely de- I stroyed. The loss will reach some * thousands of dollars . I Miss MABY WILSON was struck sad killed by lightning at her home at Salem. M iCI9 * tment If srreoMMfl ad DO re^^^^H gaL" sndingol^W1 FIBK destroyed a barn in Ravenswood The building, which was owned by Lincoln Ice Company, was valued at $500, and the horses at $1,500. There was no insurance. THR L odv of a man was found floating in the Wabash River, near Mount Carmel. He had been killed by a blow on the head and had been ib the wattir at out ten days. He was well dressed* tact and the wit to use it at the right and six horses perished in the flames, moment helped an engineer out of a tight place. He hod to take the Super­ intendent up the road on his engine for an important meeting. The Superin­ tendent was in a hurry, and they started out at a pretty .lively pace. Every­ thing went smoothly for a while, when the guides on the right hand side began to Binoke. The engineer shut off, got down and found that guide in first-olass I but had on no shoes. M. T. Turner waa shape as a frying pan, but its efficiency stenciled on his shirt. as a guide was seriously impaired. The P^TEII PETEKSOS, an iron-worker at Superintendent got down too, and said, Chicago, fell thirty feet, breaking hit "put 8omewattfr on her quick." "No sir," nock. was the answer, "if you put water on! . . . . . T ' 1 A SENTSATTosAt. infusction suft, the outcome of a deal in life insurance to the extent of $100,000 placed on the life . of a man C'J years oid, has stirred Lincoln. The sensation came through > an injunction suit p'anned by John Wi Robinson, a farmer and stock-raiser, against Adolph Himmel, J. W. Conway, and tho New York Mutual Life Insur­ ance Company to restrain them frostV-'* coKectiug or disposing of $T,000 iu notes obtained as premiums for insurance Robinson in his bill alleges that'Ilimmel succeeded by pretending sympathy dur> ;; ing his illcess in causing him to mak* ' that guide now you will twist it all out of shape." "What are you going to do?" said the Superintendent, "we haven't much more than time to gei there now." The eugineer said noth­ ing, but he took his wrench and eased off the nuts on the stuffing box studs, enough to allow the steam to blow through past the piston rod. He rea­ soned that the steam blowing on the hot guide and condensing would cool il just as effectually and much mor« gradually than eight or ten buckets ol _ i » i il 1 "iff mi «Jas iu rausiug mni iiu uiak* water dumued on at once, while th< application for §100,000 of insurance^ water would at the same time act as a Robinson has paid premiums of tie,000 lubricant. They got up and started - ~ ahead easy. The engineer watohed that guide with some anxiety, for h< was not sure of the result. At the end of ten mile3 he Btopped, went down and felt it. With a calm smile and an Ml told you so" expression, he pulled out the throttle, drove ahead, and brought the Superintendent to his meeting in time. A Steel Bridge Across the Colombia. The great steel bridge across the Co­ lumbia River, at Vancouver, will be a mammoth concern. It will be 6,000 feet from the Washington to the Oregon shore, and it will be double tracked, with roadway on top for teams, and will be erected upon pneumatic piers. The pivotal pier, or draw pier, will support a draw which will give an opening of 200 feet space on either side for vessels the current that sears, burns, fries j to pass, and the span immediately south the parts adjacent which offer a greater j resistance to its flow; that he is being burned to death by fires internal, or that a demon has an iron grip on every inch of him and id rending piece from piece in the fires of hell. My own ex­ perience justifies this conclusion. The duration of consciousness under these circumstances independent, other things equal, upon the electrical resistance of the individual and his powers of endur­ ance; perhaps it. may last live minutes. In other exceptional instances death may ha sudden--almost painless. A of the draw span will be 375 feet. Whole structure to be of Steel, built ten feet above the high water of 1876, and forty feet above low water. On ac­ count of the sandy formation it will be necessary to go down eighty feet below low water to get a firm foundation. This gigantic structure will cast over $4,000,000. It will be January 1, 1892, before the cars can pass over it. The company is pushing the bridge and also the road as rapidly as men and money and their present perfected plana will permit.--Age of Steel and given his notes for ?7,000. A GASOLINE stove exploded and Mra, Hulda Lcnkey, of Chicago, was so sa* riously burned that she died. HIRAM J. BAKET\ who Halms to re­ present the firm of H. J. Baker & Now York, manufa turors of castor oil; committed suicide in .'ail at t^uiney, byf cuttinjj his throat with a small pocke! knife. HE came to town two weeks ag<V and exhausting all his money in drialL obtained credit at the Kuropean Hotel on the strength of his alleged connection with the lirm named. When his boarfc and bar bill amounted to about $100 tha landlord insisted on payment liaktr telegraphed his house, but received no* reply, and wv4 arrested. He was a gen­ tlemanly-looking man and had a wife ia. New York. THE recent Jerseyville law asainsf cows running at argt- is very dbni.\io«S to the people, who think it fs a scheme. Several citizens, among them Dr. Allen,! Bagley, English and others, caused all the eows ta bo driven to the pound. There the drivers of the bovin«*s were mut by an excited mob and harsh lan­ guage used with some fighting. Writs were served against the cow owners. Ar ©$clted crowd tilled the court-room, and a complete victory was scored against the law by the people. Wir.IJ.tM H. STABP, a bookksewMr m, years of age, living in Kogers Park, «p| run over by a Chicago and North' * railroad train. His right arm a lee were crushed and he died. . -i* • Vy >! -1 ". .< A Vj ' tfi „ '» >r^' *i'> •* v f ^ " • •% i V V * I1-