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&*. J BY. Publisler. - ILLINOIS. Giuss widows we not exempt from J»y fever. " V-^-. I No MAW In thli country fi /iwiT •Other can assume a more youthful •*364 than can Dr. Oliver Wendell BMmes. TH3E statue of William Petin for the elphla City Hall weighs 40,000 s. Philadelphia can't 4tt*ke Penn in hand," anyway. Air astute bachelor declares that Tie is never going to marry till he can ioreta wife with money enough so that be can support her handsomely. i,)| Yotr can tell more about a man's I -rtiaracter by trading horses with him •once than you can by hearing him talk for a year in prayer-meeting. EMMEROR WILLIAM is said to favor the whipping-post as a means for the .^repression of immorality. In this . idea he is warmly opjgogfd bj ipost * of the nobility. * " * KICK parents tftdsfc who have been keeping their idiot £irl for years in a cage six feet by two. The law doesn't provide adequate punishment for 6uch folks. IGNATIUS DONNELLY is suing a paper for $100,000 damages for libel. There are more ciphers in that than Ig. found in Shakspeare, and he's likely to get a cipher for a verdict. Jv ' „ A LATE African discovery is a vesge- V table the fibre of which is so tough it •can be used as a substitute for steel. In the Western part of the United States the prominent substitute for / . steal, so far discovered, is the nerve which real estate agents use when s they begin to boom a town. , MASSACHUSETTS advices are to the X-: -effect that the school boys of Maiden ; 'will hereafter be taught to sew during school hours. This is probably in an- ticipation of a big woman suffrage boom, during the ravages of whieh MA their wives and sisters will not be able to sew on buttons*^/ ; F THE pocket savings bank, which a I few months ago was locking up most , -of the dimes in this country, is now ' introduced into England, and iscaus- f; Ing a scarcity of sixpences. Ameri- ' -cans will rejoice that they have thus wreaked at least a partial revenge upon England for sending us Its spar- » «>W. • MR. EDISON promises to give us a tnotor that will make the speed of a railroad train 100 miles an hour. This will entirely blot out the land­ scape, and suggests that some of the "blessings of civilization" are dearly bought. Still, the motors would be highly beneficial jn an uodeisround road. „ • • •• AT a meeting of the common coun- ' cil of Quincy the other night one of the honorable members called the pre­ siding officer a "miserable puppy," to which the chairman responded by calling his assailant a "blanked rebel." If these things can be done in a little provincial town like that the reports of the debates in Congress Will lose all their novelty. A STORY is going the rounds of the J f>ress concerning a young man who pawned a $5 bill for $4.62 so as to have some money to spend and at the «ame time be able to save the bill, •which he desired to keep in memory of a friend. The story bears internal -evidence of its own falsity. No pawn- ' broker would ever advance more than $1.60 00 a $5 bill. THE decision of the Omaha Coroner thgt a negro recently lynched in that town died from fright is on a par with tiie Lime-Kiln Club's resolutions of sympathy for the family of a re­ spected member who died of lead poisoning incurred in the act of visit­ ing a white man's hencoop; the poison •being administered in 32-caliber pills. I'd? cents an acre looks like a rea- •Qonable figure for the rainmakers to charge for keeping the farms of Kan­ sas supplied with water, and few farmers will ktck at the price, but what will Mr. Melbourne do In the case of the man whose acres are sur­ rounded by those of paying custom­ ers and refuses to pay a cent himself? Will he bring down his rain-storm in the form of a hollow square? THE recent successful struggle of the great ocean liners with wind and wave, is calculated to give the public -confidence in their stanchness and ^safety under any circumstances. The igales which they safely outrode were the fiercest of modern times; and while the passengers suffered a good deal of discomfort, they do not at *ny time appear to have been in serious pearl. It Is a pity some of the great steamers did not try the -effect of oil on the waters. The op­ portunity for testing its efficacy was an excellent one. RUSSIA has succeeded in having a loan of $100,000,000 subscribed for. All of its net proceeds will be re­ quired to meet the 183,000,000 rou­ bles called for by the necessities created by the famine. How much of tills will reach the famine-stricken people may be measured by the ca­ pacity for peculation of Russian offi­ cials. Of that the Russian people ought to be pretty good judges, and IF heresy hunting % to ooniinne after tiwv naannef m present in vogue, the brainy miniature of the Presby- terian and all chogcbes will simply have to stop thinkjft? and preaching. With Dr. PattoiT iuuiled over the coals for his remarks in 1887, made to Princeton studentis, the example thus set is capable of the widest extension. Few, if any, are safe, if extracts from their extemporaneous addresses, sen­ tences clipped at random, are to be made the ground of accusation. RUSSIA sent a tew "volunteer" wur vessels through the Dardanelles; now England gives notice that she too will send a fleet of "volunteer" mpn- of-war on a similar excursion. John Bull enjoyed a picnic on the Island of Mitylene; Italy announces its inten­ tion now to take a like outing on that rocky pleasure ground. The game of follow my leader progresses merrily abroad, but with each new feat attempted thie danger increases that the sport may break up lb a row. THE census returns show that in June of last year there were upon ranges in the United States 517,128 horses, 5,433 mules, 14,109 asses or burros, 6,828,182 cattle, 6,760,902 sheep, and 17,276 swine. The total number of men reported as on ranges is 15,390. During the preceding twelve months the sales of range stock had amounted to $1,418,203 for horses, $17,913,712 for cattle, $2,660,- 663 for sheep, and $27,132, for swine. The definition of a range was not strictly adhered to in the count, owing to the difficulty of exactly d$r ,tenuining the border line between the range and the farm. Hence only the stock known to be outside the farm limits, as previously taken by the farm enumerators, is counted in the above results. DOM PIDRO. THE. Italian Ministry has revoked the decree against the importation of American pork; it is but doing an act of tardy justice. The of objection to Amcriean beef and pork by European Governments is based on no sound sanitary basis. In spite of the efforts at inspection abroad, their pork and beef is far more diseased than the American commodities from the very nature of the way in which the cattle and swine are herded. In London tuberculous meat for laboratory work can be easily purchased in the open market, while the native pork in Germany is often badly diseased. American beef, from cattle whose lives have been spent in the open plains, and pork from swine that have roamed over great fields, even with­ out inspection, is the more wholesome food. Since, however, all precautions regarding inspection have been lived up to on this side of the, water, the foreign Governments, unless they wish to expose their illogical position** will be forced to admit American hog. •Jt'. THERE is no accounting for iemf- nine fads. A correspondent of the New York Recorder writes that Ibsen has ceased to be the fad among the feminine literati and connoisseurs and Schopenhauer has taken his place. Nothing is read and talked now in the drawing-rooms and among the reading clubs but Scho­ penhauer, and associations are formed to study him. Soon, as in the case of Browning, there will be books to explain the jargon of the Cult stud glossaries to define the hidden mean­ ings. There are some things in Scho- panhauer, however, Which are quite, intelligible, as, for instance, when he describes women as "the undersized, narrow shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race," and again when he asserts that they have neither sense nor susceptibility for music, poetry or art, and that they only make a pre­ tense to it, as they fancy it makes them more attractive. It would be hard to find anything more uncompli­ mentary or even brutal than these characterizations; and yet such Is the perverseness and contrariness of the sex it insists upon taking up this pes­ simistic Teutonic philosopher^^ pet fad! - She Uoatilnf Wwh A curious case of especial interest to elderly spinsters and lovers of house pets is shortly to come before the Berlin courts. A young woman was engaged as companion to an elderly lady at stated wages, but ran away from her plaoe two days after entering service. Her mistress procured her arrest under the law that a servant must give due notice before leaving her situation; but the police, after hear­ ing the girl's statement, told the lady that she could not compel the girl to return, and could only claim damages in the civil court. For the girl stated, and her state­ ments have been proved true, that on entering the lady's flat four im­ mense dogs jumped at her, although they did not do her any harm. In the next room another big dog, with a litter of pups, met her gaze, while the third room was tenanted by at least three dozen different varieties of birds. The kitchen of the old lady was given over to the cats, and the girl's sleeping-room was converted into a temporary hospital for invalid mem­ bers of the animal world. "The old ladv,"' said the girl, "was very kind to me, but as my duties consisted in washing all the dogs daily, and I had to share my bed with half a dozen dogs and cats, I was obliged to run away to avoid sick­ ness." THE trouble with most men is that BRAZILIAN PROVINCES DECLAR­ ING INDEPENDENCE. < tot iIra- SHejr WUl Hm Nona of Fomana Hiwm of New geoc«tloa>-Qr>a4« Do S«1 itejrota TT>« D1ISMW,«P4IAIIIHNNMM It* Aaton- • • * Oridi la Brazil. j Whoa. on theisth of November, IMP,! Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, was hustled on board a steamer at Rio Ja­ neiro, and shipped, to Lisbon, the world regarded the feat as the mmt completely saeoeesful aad at aolutely bloodless revo­ lution te ail bUtory. Those nations, like on*awn. who had ceased to,respect the I divJae theory of monarchs, dapped their haade with joy and welcomed another and important acquisition to the great fanally of republics. Though that re vo­ lutin wao as unexpected as It was thor­ ough^ preparations had been made fur it as far1 back as 1883,-by the establishment of a military «*uh, which wa« the focus of repaMieaakkM^aadofwhom the leading •(.bit wae President Da Fonseca. Dom Pedro, who had ruled the country since 1831, was a man, like Abraham Linco n, who, if he erred at all, erred on the side af mercy. like Lincoln, he had also liberated slaves; and a a-a member of the House of Braganza he had Indulged to the utmost the political pretentions of the Catholic cJertry. While not disliked by the people, he was considered to have passed the stage of usefu ness His daughter, the Princess Isabella, had also al owed herself to become the mere toot of Cardinal De Costa, the Primate of Brazil,, and the p ople therefore, feared that on the death of Dom Pedro the government would' be handed over to clerical influence. It was this belief more than anything else which nurtured the spirit of revolution. When Fonseca established' a provi­ sional gbvernment many of the nobility aad the Jesuits had to quit Brazil, and . _ . e a t t w w s o u t h e astern _ v . „ rit, hardoria* on the frontiers of Of# tony. It kaaacoa* line of 400 nftfld* but aof maay ports of r importance, ow­ ing to tbe dfifculty of aavigation in their harbors. Keverttoass It has con­ siderable eeormesce and promises to be- comeoaeei ttwmest prosperous of all the Brazilian prwrlncea. ft has valua­ ble eoal mines*. fmpartaat fisheries, raises large herds ef cattle and hand­ some crops of wheat, which is made Into flour in its own Mills. The Its'ian col- oalsts produce 25,000 pipes ef wine an­ nually Woo! i» grown and cloth man- sfactured, and fne emmimeses from its merinos are sold Rie» Janeim Thedispatche& state that this province is largely co'onized by Germans, and maintains an army of 50,000 men of German o; igin. The statement, how­ ever, is not altogether correct. A Ger­ man colony of l-'« persons was organized at fc'ai* Leopolds by Ped*ro I. in 1824, which ha^ increased ? ince that time to over 40,.< Oft The dispat. h, therefore, must refer rather to the'entire German population than to the number in the army, thowgh it is not improbable that a liberal element of Uermaae or German descendants are to be foand in the ranks, and that to this extent it will be found supetior to the native forces when it is cal e1 into action. Out of this colony forty-three others have sprung in this province, the members of which are largely engaged in agricultural pursuits, the principal one of which is the culti­ vation of tobacco Their whole num­ ber, however, does not reach 50,000. It w 11 be seen from th's general sketch that in military strength and re­ sources Rio Grande do Sui is in a posi­ tion to mak3 ser ous trouble for the dic­ tator. If the revolution breaks out in other provinces, as now appears likely, it is not impossible that he may meet with a fa'e akin to that of Italmaceda, so far at least as defeat is concerned. The situation, Indeed, is- a deplorable one, but there appears to be no other so­ lution of the problem than by the stern and bloody aroitramcnt of civil war. * The cause of tbe present trouble may best be judged from the following language of the Primate of Brazil, so far back as February, threatening if tbe constitution did not suit him "that a conflict, painful and grave, will ensue throughout our dear country, which can' but result in the direst calamities." President Fonseca is a man of ability. He was the soul and life of the move­ ment which deposed Dom Pedro, and has both the army and navy at his back. He is also a large landholder in the very province which now revolts, and while he has be?n forced to dissolve Congress, that body was never very friendly to his administration and had ranged itself in opposition to the party who, by a masterly stroke of policy, made the country a republic. JULIAN HAWTHORNS, who has been writing a history of Oregon, took the tlduLiu- ~ •ovsaor DWCTIBS A* aio JAMKIBO. the founding of new convents and monastic orders was strictly prohibited. The authorities of the church did not therefore take very kindly to the ropub­ lic, and being favored in their intrigues by all the monarchists and the owners of the liberated slaves, the clergy last Febru­ ary secured tbe modification of those temporary laws which legalized civil marriages, secularized the cemeteries, and excluded the monastic orders from the control of tbe public schools. At that time the provisional ministry of tho President resigned, and Brazil adopted a new constitution which, while not go­ ing so far,as to restore the empire, was really a-cotnpromise between the princi­ ples of republicanism and the sullen attitude of the clerary. For.'example, the new premier, Baron Lecuna, not only ignored those decrees which abol­ ished titles but insisted on having his own rank of baron officially recognized. With such a premier the republicans- were sure to ha ve troub'e sooner or later. It has now appeared. Closely following the dissolution of Congress and the assumption of dictator* ship by Da Fonseca, the important southern province of Rio Grande do Sul has not only refused to recognize this precaution to* send West every chapter of the work as soon as completed for examination and revision by a com­ mittee of men expert in the history of the State. This will undoubtedly secure accuracy of statement, btifc It must tend to hedge Hawthorne's de­ scriptive work somewhat. The Ostrich Is a Din(crom Bird. * During the nesting season the male ostrich is anything but an agreeable creature and resents the intrusion of any visitors on his domain in a very pugnacious way. His mode of attack is by a series of kicks. Instances are known of men being killed outright by a single kick. If a man is attacked it Is useless for him to seek safety in flight, as the bird would easily over­ take him. The only plaipis to lie flat on the ground- and submit as resign­ edly as possible to the inevitable pum- meling, which, it may be expected, will be repeated at intervals until a means of escape presents itself, or the bird affords an opportunity of being caught PRACADA ACCLAICACAO. act of usurpation bat has declared its In­ dependence and set up a miniature re­ public of its own, to the Presidency 0/ which it has elected Siiverco Martinez, a citizen of great Influence. Reports also come from the northern province of Pernambuco, showing great discontent, and there are rumors of a disquieted feeling in all the States, which bodes lit­ tle good to the republic. As the out­ come of the action of Rio Grande do Sul, it is confronted already with the dismal prospect of civil war, for, having the army at his back, it is not likely that the dictator wilt submit to tho SOnrse which this province has taken. Later advices say there is no longer any attempt to deny that tho Province of Pernambuco has joined the Province of Rio Grande do !?ul in declaring its independence. Great excitement pre- vai s at Rio de Janeiro and throughout Brazil. It Is repo t d that Marshal da Fonseca has been informed that he is suffe Ing from a disease which must soo% cause his death and that he has an­ nounced his wi.lingness to resign the reins of power. The German popula­ tion of Rio Grande do Sul is reported to be organizing into armed bodies of men on the p?an of the Dutch settlers of South Africa and to be determined to de­ fend the independence of their new 8tate. Rio Grande do Sul is the sixth largest pfovina* In Brazil, the other five being by the neck, which, if tightly held and kept down, prevents much further mischief. Oil from Smoke and Oases. In Scotland there is a company which pays a certain amount yearly to a number of iron works for the privilege of collecting the smoke and gases from the blast furnaces. These are passed through several miles of wrought-iron tubing, and as the gases cool there is deposited a considerable yield of oil; one plant is reported to yield 25,000 gallons of furnace oil per week. Oil thus obtained is distilled, and a considerable quantity of creosol, phenol, and some other substances are procured from it. THE people of America who have sat under the spell of Edwin Booth's masterly acting certainly hope that the reports that he has lost his mind are not true. It is bad enough for his health to be in such condition that he leave the stage, without the additional misfortune of a clouded intellect. , SOMETIME there Is a good deal of pride in telling how big a sinner yoa used to be. •men Kr# nrMeb' K*. watly Cam* «o> Mmw f«a A yrang man wef! known? to the beat of "New York society cawae hack from New Hampshire' last we*»fc. «*ys the New York Times, after hartwg spent a month alt the beaches lbcafott within driving distance of Ports­ mouth. He esmve' back with a green patch on his left eye. "Why. HenryT exclaimed the young man's mother In a< tone exhibiting great alarm, "What's Che matter? You haven't your eye-out, have you, darling?" "Oh, no, manima'T the young man answered. "I've jiwt blackened It a bit. Ban against a---a1--bedpost, you know. Be all well ih'asfew days."' "I didn't care to tell mother how I got hurt," Mr. Henry* remarked next day to one of his men friends; "she'd never stop laughing at me if she knew. But I'd Just as-soon tell you, If you like."' "If I like; There's nothing I'd like better. I've already, made a guess, though, my boy.'* "What's your guess?" "That you ran up against some­ thing with more life in it than there is in a bedpost. What do you' say? Am I right?" "Right you are: I ran up> against the hardest flst in America. I'll bet you I was knocked the full length of this room. All my. fault,-too,.-. Quite deserved it." < "What had you dbne?"' ' ̂ "Played a joke on a> man--a tt|k- man." :• . "Good, Joke?" "Well,1 rather. 'irobut It. 'Twas up in Dover; that's-ten miles from Portsmouth- I was up there to see a friend, and he took; me into a place called'Skip' Twombly's for lunch. Said 'twas thconly place in town where we could get any baked 'coon." "I never ate any baked, 'boon. Ife't good?" "Don't know. Never ate any my­ self. They didn't have any the first day we went in, and the next day I got knocked out before I had a chance to try it. While we were in there the first day the milkman- came in, set his big can down on the floor, stepped into the back room, ate/a sausage or two, and went out. V "When he went out there were something in his milk-ctm besides milk; some things, I'd better say, for I had turned a quart of minnow bait into the milk." "Minnow bait! What's that?" "Whv, little flshes about an inch and a half long. Just good mouth- fuls for pickerel. "Well, the proprietor of the place saw me put the flsh in the milk and made me pay him for them, which was, of-course, all right enough. As I gave him the money he said: 'I pity you if Charley ever tlnds out who done that.' " 'O,' I said, 'it was only done for a Joke.' " 'Well, I guess if yon was a milk­ man you wouldn't care 'bout havln' a Joke liite that played on you.' "I laughed, and pretty soon my friend and I went out. Next day at about the same time by the clock we went into the shop again. " 'What did 1 tell ye!' said the pro­ prietor to me as soon as he set eyes on mei 'I told ye Charley'd be mad, didn't I? He's goin' up an' down town swearin' he'll kill the feller that put them flsh into his milk. Says it's tost him the best customer he had, the restaurant man up to the sta­ tion.' " 'How's that?' I asked. '"'Why, they was a man come up to the counter and called for a glass of milk. They gin it to him an' he went to drinkin' it. All of a sudden he turned red in the face an' commenced i chokin'. He put his thumb an' forefinger into his mouth and pulled 3ut one of them minnies. You can jest bet your hat that feller was mad. An' so was the restaurant man. " 'This mornin' Charley, knowln' nothin' about it, went into the res­ taurant same's usual and asked how much milk they wanted. They told him they didn't want no more of his milk. 'Twas had enough, they said bo buy milk of a man what watered his cows at a pump 'thout goin' fur­ ther an' buyin' of one that dipped his water out of the brook. " 'Then Charley flared, and he was flarin' half an hour l>efore he caught on to how it happened. Then he 3ome down here with blood in his ayes.' "'Did you tell him who did it?' I isked. " 'No siree; I didn't do nothin' of the sort.' ' 7 " Then I will.>|* "•You'd better not. He'll maul re.' "Just then in came the milkman. He was the maddest-looking man I jver saw. "I stepped up to him and said: •Look here, old man, I'm the chap that you are looking for. I'm awfully *orry about that restaurant matter, you know.' * *He looked at me a second, and then blazed out with the longest string of unmentionable words that I ever lis­ tened to. He ent4ed by saying: .'I'll 1'arn you to put fish into my milk.' "The next thing I knew I heard my friend say: 'He's all right now.' Then up came somebody with a piece of raw meat and clapped it over my eve. Then it suddenly occurred to me that I'd been struck by light­ ning." "What did you do about it?"' "Nothing, except that I got out of .Dover as quickly as my friend's horse aould haul me." Sea-Sand aa Hell. ** It is hard to think of anything more bar re ft, more destitute of fertil­ ity, than sea-sand. In connection with some studies of the chemistry of vegetable production in the laborato­ ry of' Wesleyan University we have been growingplants in just such sand, brought from the shore of Long Is­ land Sound. To divest it of every possible trace of material which the plants might use for food except the sand itself, it was carefully washed with water and then heated. The young man who prepared the sand for use, in his zeal to buru out the last vestiges of extraneous matter, heated t£ie iron pots in which it was ouleined ¥> hot that they almost melted. The . . . . . «0tted. and minute qusntiitaHft chemical salts, which plant* from the soil, were dissolved in H. the sand thus watered and fertilized dwarf-peas were grown. Peas of the same kind were cultivated by a skffl- ful gardener in a/ich noil of a garden close by, and grew to» a height of about fotir feet, while ffcose in the' sand with water and tlhe minute quantities of chemical salt* roached.a height of eigiht f^t.--Centciy.^w *ER OR •Hy |PULLY RECOR Hifcii Ofawtll i»\--f °f' r* Making ttpod Mortar. , * v- * ' Hfwrtar is a very simple tling' to nrricev especially when a man how, Iwt to make a good durable mortor requires a good deal off lJ»e know h«w and a oeTtain portioiP sand; 11 hoe and water, says a contem­ porary It does not pav to use tar thatt tan be picked out from Iwt* tween'the bricks after they have laii# a year or Stwo. Some mortar is found! which is about as solid as the brick,, and, in fac% the bricks will break through th«r middle as quickly as through thr* joints. To make this kind of mortiar use plenty of water in slacking tlae lime. Do not let it burn, as it is USahle to do if plenty of water is not u**d. Use about three barrels of gooclt ^harp sand to one bar­ rel of lime. Spread the sand in the bottom of the- mortar bed. which should be quite large, so that a thin body of mortar can be had. It does not pay to try tb make mortar in a small box, where the mixture must be quite thick.- Place a liberal amount of the sand in a corner of the box and at each end so as tv» avoid getting the lime into the square corners of the structure. Next, spread 011 the lime and run on water enough to keep it covered during the-process of slaking. Stir constantly to allowv the water to penetrate to each lump as fast as it breaks open. When the slaking op­ eration is complete, stir the lime into a milky substance, and when all the pieces have been slaked, then begin to stir in the sand, which lies in the bottom and sides of the' mortar bed. Stir thoroughly and evenly, having water enough so that the mass is a mere liqiud mud. When the given amount of lime and sand have been thoroughly mixed,run off.into another box or bin, and-allow Ik to stand as long as possible--two or three weeks if convenient, but under no consider­ ation use mortar that has not stood twenty-four hours after slaking the lime. When needed for use shovel out a quantity into the mixing board and work in another barrel of sand to the amount already specified. Mortar made in this way will be about as hard and tough as the bricks them­ selves after the work has set. In making hair mortar the hair should first be thoroughly soaked to dissolve out all the glutinous matter that has matted into 'bunches. • Be­ fore soaking it is well to place the hair upon the floor and beat it thor­ oughly with ordinary threshing flairs. This removes most of the bunches and allows foreign matter to be picked up. Next, subjeot the hair to the soaking process for twenty-four hours or over night at least. Then spread in the bottom of mortar bed after the sand has been put in, throw lime on top of the hair and proceed to slake and mix as before stated.--In­ dustrial World. r <£ * : * U > y " - - - „ w . . , - : S | -- l*ay Voar foataca- • i • • Perhaps the most common deviee for defrauding the postal and customs revenue of this and other countries is the inclosing Of prohibited articles,' with printed, matter. Although a great variety of articles thus com­ mitted to the malls reaches the dead letter office, few are of such a char­ acter or value as to suggest a specu­ lative purpose, beyond the saving in- postage. For the most part they are evidently intended as gifts, the testi­ monials of affection existing between families and frieuds widely scattered,. but which cannot be transmitted in the mails between postal union coun­ tries except at letter rates, and which can only be sent under certain con­ ditions in the domestic mails. Gloves, ribbons, small pieces of silk, children's shoes, jewelry of modest value, needlework, infants' garments, toys and stockings, are largely among the things found in newspapers, often accompanied by written communica­ tions, which, while not disclosing the identity of the sender, clearly indi­ cate a purpose to evade the law. The great uncertainty of success, and the equally great probability that the re­ ceipt of this class of matter at the dead letter office, if of domestie ori­ gin, insures its ultimate condemnation to the auction room, are evidently not clearly understood by its would-be friends. Heavy Wood*. There are 413 species of trees found within the limits of the United States and Territories, sixteen of which, when perfectly seasoned, will sink in water. The heaviest of these is the black ironwood (Condalia fenw), found only in Southern Florida, which is more than 30 per cent, heavier than water. Of the other fifteen, the best known are the lignum vita? (Guaiacum muxclum) and the mangrove (lihizophora mangle), Texas and New Mexico lands, full of queer, creeping, crawling, walking, and inanimate things, are the homes of a species of oak (Quercus grisea) which is about one and one- fourth times heavier than water, and which, when green, will sink almost as quickly as a bar of iron. It grows only in mountain regions, and has been found westward as far as the Colorado desert, where it grows at an elevation of 10,000 feet.--Scientific American. • The Lawyar aad Mia Cltoat. A lawyer whose client was charged with stealing a horse pleaded his case SO successfully that the man was promp^y acquitted and sent into the world as an honest and upright man. However, upon meeting his lawyer he looked so downcast that the latter ex­ claimed: "What! Are you not full of re­ joicing over your complete vindica tion?" "Alas! no!" replied the client-. "When I come to realize how slick you pulled me out of that I cannot help but wish that I had also takeq the mate to the horse and thus pro­ vided myself with a span!" MORAL. If we always knew just what waa the right thing to do we should h&v* no mistakes to mourn over. - ̂ ̂ trntmt «r Ac ; 6," at Bat# frfaul. vatnwi at" was fired I f f an incendiary and totally destroyed. * ; An OlrawrfHo miilerai well-* %ath honsw was totally deetrojuA ' by tii®.. Insurance, *4,400; loss, $»UNMt Miss HASNAII Motrin , a domestie fat the employ of .)**n S.' Maglt at Jac*£,•' sonvjlle, -^as fatally burned wlile wwrtfc- I tig at a stove. OSCAR fc/*KitivonA*. whose nlativ« five in' BHlefontainfe, Ohio, Miatives^ BOilOlllI rftaof bi» of dlptb- n County. himself at-atpringkeh* the aigi »rrivai. STKI.I.A MUjrsrsn, A Chicago £<year* •M, was pAayfa* with h«-» father s Imrsew jwften the animal suddenly laid down. on. ti« child and cnwsbcd her DEATH, AJ.BKKT 8LOA~X was foand guilty of aMBolaughter as Fairfield, In killing: L oyd Warren May 19 la*t, and sen* tftnaed to ten yea>&' imprisonment. ' AVSTIN ti. CAMFBKLL, a wealthy cttl- ren of Fayette County, while throwing: hayv <M»t of his barn ioft was s«ang -bf a. spidon or bitten by- * snake, resulting in* his death. AT New Memphis? during a big Alli­ ance rrtetin^, tbe gen«ral store at Henry .1. Peters was burglarized. The burglara- blew open the safe, securing about ftMfr in money and 9500 worth of gooda.- TifE *arn of Henny Kramper, ten miles south of Mascoatah, was struck by lightning, and. together with 1,609 bushels-0/ wheat, a lot of corn, hay and farm implements was burned Thelive stock was saved. Loss about $3,500; small insurance. BKRT GUTTING, a Cairo fisherman'a son, was frightened h*lf to death when the body of a man attached to one of his hooks came to the surface. The body was identitied as that of Frank Drum, an old man who disappeared the day be­ fore, be bavin* thrown hinself into th* river because he was ont of emplog* raent IT has developed that Henry Kramer,, who shot himself at Ashley several days- ago, did so intent onaily. It is thought he will recovcr. A few years ago his- mother became subject to tits and died, boon afterward a brother and two sisters became similarly a tlicted and followed, their mother to the grave. Young Kramer was taken suddenly with a fit. and upon recovery determined to endi his life. W. B. HIIX, a well-to do negro mer­ chant of Kock Island, has been arrested for attempting the life of his wife by using vitriol. He claims that they were both chloroformed by burglars and the house robbed, and that his wife, recov­ ering consciousness before they left tb* bouse, was burned by the acid thrown In her face by them. It was found that b» had purchased a bottle of vitriol. No- motive has been discovered for the act. AT Mount Vernon a case decided by the Supreme Court involves a question of'riparian rights and vests in Charles F. Orthwein, ox-President of the St. Louis Merchants' Exchange, the title to all accretions in tho Mississippi in frost of the village of Brooklyn, opposite St. Louis. TUe land is 2,000 feet in length and in width extends to the central thread of the river 'These accretions- were caused by a dike built for the Gov­ ernment by Gen. Robert E. Lee, then a captain of engineers in the army, to 1846. This claim Is founded on- tha militia right of the celebrated Indian fighter, John Murdock. Da W. E. DVI.K and Mr*. W. R. Carlton were marr ed at the residence of tba bride in Sumner. THERE IS a seriqpf Wdemie, tberia at Riverton, Saagamon County. About twenty-five depth8 from the dis­ ease have been reported. AT Nokomis, Mrs. Matilda Rttntrw died at her hope, aged 7,1 years. She was one of the first settlers, and was ia good health until a. week before her death. ' T ' AT Benton, the jury in the ease oif John Duty, thy mSlrioUfe, returned a verdict of guilty, and fixed his punish­ ment at twenty years lb. prfsen. A mo-; tion was made for a new trial. Gov. Firau issued a warrant on tha requisition of the Governor af Pennsyl­ vania for the ariest and return to that State of Frederick Scaife» now ander arrest in Chicago and wanted in Phila­ delphia, for embe'rfeaisst. DURING a fight at Pilot Kaot, between the male members of the Risinger and Williams tamilies, young William Will­ iams had his skull fractured. He has sued the Risingers for &JUO0 damages. The tight was the resuJt af a.faudaf longstanding. Ix Chicago the anarchists heM a meeting to comemmorate the execu­ tion of the Haymarket riot leaders. Ut­ terances Insulting to the American flag and (Government induced Police Inspect­ or Hubbard to insist upon thw display of the Aiut riean flag, and he enforced his command by the summoning of fifty po­ licemen. A DISASTROUS fire brokaont at Dewitt. The general store- of George Watts, above which was the ailinery depart- meatof Miss MoIIie Lafferty, the drug store of Mr. Edwatd Taylor, a barber shop, the dwelling rooms of A. G Scott, and the postoftice were burned. Tbe In­ surance will but partially cover the loss, which will b} up in the thousands A TKKKIBLK cutting affray occurred at Jacksonville. Joe Wood, a young car­ penter, and Jim Montgomery, another mechanic, were in the saloon, whea Wood's wifo ca*re to the door and called him out Montgomery followed, and, not recognizing the woman, ma io derog­ atory remarks about her, whereupon Woods whipped out a knife and assaulted Montgomery. As soon as he saw his mistake ho tried toapologi e. but did not succeed in stopping the attack until ha had been fatally cut A PBISOSKK confined in the Jersey ville City Jail, named Thomas Coatee, in a moment of drunken frenzy tore up his mattress and built a fire in his cell. The smoke was discovered in time to rescue the man and save the jail. JOSHUA HAKU. after the death of hia wife at Louisville, Pa., fifteen years ago, came to Columbus with his two boys, John and Thomas, aged 16 and 13. A year later he abandoned them and was never afterward heard of until tbe other morning, When a letter was received from him, mailed at i'ineviile. Teaa. He asks to be permitted to see his SOBS, and begs forgiveness. AT Jerseyvtlle, two pri-oners^bamed Miller and McCool escaped from tha county jail by sawing the bars froai a wi ndow. MRS. KATHAIUNA KI.EVMA, aged about 65 years, left her home in rayet Seville and her present whereabouts are un­ known. Mrs. Klemma is the widow of a forn er minister in Germany. She came to 1-ayettevilie afcout a year ago with her 12-year-old son Shedrew a pension of S30 quarterly, which she said was al­ lowed Her by her husbaud s church fat Germanv. She said her enemies in tha old country had sent men over here to murder her and left the village. Tha little son she abandoned if a imviac mautic. . '.V. . --4,' .-7$ • >3.1* J . TSi r 1 ,tit . * •vW