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mg§txi»dealnl the year 0400 A. D., on March 21, the * /JS* nn firxe, Editor »4 Potash*. HcHayrnr, . ILLINOIS LEGISLATURES AND their perform­ ances under our system of govern­ ment are just what the people allow tbem to be. Park 'earth will again be nearest the sun, evaporation at the equator will at­ tain its inaximuih, ana the moisture be precipitated in the temperate zones with consequences similar to those which inaugurated the last Glacial Age and the traditional del] uge. Sr *r4 IN the presence of Herr 127-ton rifle visitors to Jackson "will please refrain frqfii remarking . *4Jotmoy, sret yoar --^,r' But let it THE Rio Grande road deserves well of she world. It has dared to defy the ukase prescribing it a profes­ sional duty to charge all the traffic 'will bear. r - ' A CHAPTER has been added to crim­ inal history by a man at Santa Cruz, who frankly confesses that the mur­ der of which he stands convicted was committed by somebody else. RAGS are still being imported. Some of them are in bales, and some are on the backs of paupers In either case there appears no especial reason for thanksgiving over the matter. v'"»„ EVERYTHING in life, from the larg­ est to the smallest, has its surface and its depths; and it depends upon the eyes with which we view it •whether we merely skim over the one or descend into the other. p Z - : g;J r ; \^v As A POTTER, a notorious bank wrecker of Boston, served a, sentence «of sixtv days for his rascality -and doubtless laughed lot his 3leeve. But if Asa thinks that justice is alto­ gether blind and never grips the transgressor let him set hungry and «teal a ham sandwich. ' PADEREWSKI sailed tor home with 180,000 American dollars in his pockets. He would have to maul a piano about 500 years in Europe to obtain that much money, and it never will be a surprise to him to learn that the gold-brick man flour­ ishes in the United States IF Lord Craven, whose blue blopd bas been partly let and poisoned as to the residue, should die, the event would be especially grievous to the Americans who bought him at 4750,- ^00. No arrangements were made, it is understood, beyond simple delivery of the goods, and they were at the buver's risk. " OB, what a bad lot is the Khan of Khelat when he goes on a "bat!" With scorchers he tortures the lean and the fat. He slices with knives his black and tan wives, and of ten of his captains he's taken the lives. When he looks sinister at a high minister, thenceforth lathe latter no use to the hatter. (How can be and he with his head on a platter?) Such was the "bat" of the Kahn of- Khelat, too -utterly utter. We learn from Calcutta that rather than take from the monarch bis butter they give him a pension--a fat one, we ween, annex his dominions and "God Save the Queen!" " A GROCERY paper calls attention to the fact that prepared oatmeal, known under a hundred different brands,has been aeteritorating in quality. It is stated that out of Ave or six brands recently tested, all of them contained more or less of the husks. These goods when first introduced were well pre­ pared, and became popular at once. Possibly their very popularity has contributed to make manufactures lax in the matter of cleaning. As the journal in question, the American Grocer, remarks: "It has, been a goose laying golden eggs for many of them, and it is too valuable a -biped to be killed for a fault so easily rem­ edied." A QUEER case is reported from Denver, Colorado. A man got drunk, «tole his own trunk and hid it. He •complained of the theft, ttoe property was recovered, and he was made the prosecuting witness. The Judge be­ ing in a quandary how to treat so novel a case, decided that the thief was. not accountable for his act. |Ms|^)YALTY to truth requires that as much attention be paid to give suffi­ cient forte and strength to our words as to refraining from giving too much. Yet verv intelligent careful people frequently do not see this; and, in their anxiety to avoid the exaggera­ tion which they so much despise, they fail to give that force and vigor to their words that truth demands. CYCLONES and earthquakes are -giving prophets of evil a chance to air their tongues. There is a lesson for them in the fate of a Ukiah, Cal., minister, who lost his job because he predicted that the end of all things would come within seven years. Ukiah people figured It out that they would not be ready to quit so soon, .and now they are after a pastor who will grant an extension of time. AMONG the many ingenious swin­ dlers who have been operating in Philadelphia for a long time is one who devotes himself especially to ministers anC makes a nice living at it. He watches churches and gets posted through hacKmen and when­ ever there is % wedding he finds out who the minister is. As the minister usually goes to the house of the bride he follows him there and waits until he gets out Then he follows bim home. Generally he strikes him at the door, tells the minister that he is the fallen son or a minister, a victim of rum and so on, and must have some money or go to destruction. Clergymen are generally gullible and with a fat fee in pocket and after a good feed. the. average, clergyman gen­ erally shells out liberally. DEMOCRATS. TfiS"FINANCIAL CONVULSION IN THIS COUNTRY. I PETER JACKSON, the colored pugil- ist-actor, is a much mo^e modest man than the late John L. Sullivan, who has also sought laurels both with ces- tus and buskiue. Speaking of his Thespian career Mr. Sullivan re­ marked on one occasion: "Actin' comes dead easy to me." Mr. Jack­ son, in referring to his efforcs upon the stage, said: "Hike acting, but the question with me is, do the people like my acting?" The question is a serious one and must appeal to every actor. Its solution, in Mr. Jackson's case, must be sought of th$ sphinx in the box office. If Mr. Jackson shall succeed in punching Mr. Corbett into insensibility on some occasion in the near future, then ithe colored pugilist may feel sure that lie will be a theatrical star of the first magni­ tude for sortie time after the event THE sea cast up a unique bit of treasure-trove before an alderman of Leeds, England, who was walking nn the shore at Bridlington. He saw a mat package coming toward him on the crest of a waye, and, on securing and opening it, discovered that it coutaineda promissory noce for $15,- 000, and bank cheoks for twice that amount, all drawn in the year 1815. The papers are valueless, but are in­ teresting as souvenirs. EVEN the gentle nannie goat is forced to aid the engineer down }• New Mexico, if we are to believe re­ cent accounts of the construction ot an earth dam eighty-five feet high and 1,000 feet in length near Santa Fe. This structure was formed by dumping.sand and.gravel and leveling it. off into 3-inch layers by draggir# a beam over it, then springing the *Dp ^ with water, and, finally, keeping a1 herd o f 1 1 5 goat s in mot ion over the j top When the animals were first put to work they tired easily and were ! able to stand it but a part of the day. They were fed for a few days on peas! and hay, which brought them into' good spirits, and were afterward able • to run about all day. Goats have 1 often been used for sugh a pur­ pose in India, but this is probably the first dam that has. been consoli­ dated in this manner in the piM#ed States. - PERSONS who want to "help** the working classes can best accomplish their object by so altering conditions that the workers can help themselves, for in the long run the individual roust work out his own salvation if it 4s to be worked out. Meanwhile "slummers" should remember that it ds not pleasan^for self-respecting but bard-Working girls to. be questioned •by move' fortunate sisters, who are i too apt to underrate the moral ability «nd mental strength of the poor. THOSE who pity Harriet Beecher ^Stowe are having a good deal more trouble than has come to her as the sunset of life approaches. She is sutterly oblivious to what is transpir­ ing in the world, eats well, sleeps like an angel, is perfectly happy with her paper dftlls, sweetly sings the favor- site hymns of long ago. Already the joys of eternal rest seem to have come to her. Her brilliant mind is dying, (, but the innate beauties of her nature «bine the brighter from amid the rulna* THE traditional flood is not an iso­ lated but a 'periodical phenomenon, •says Rudolph Falb in Der Stein der Weisen. There were floods before the i days of Noah, and the conditions Books Make of HetaL Books were originally metal plates and boards, or the inner bark of trees. In many cabinets may be found the discharges of soldiers, written on copper plates. Whilst an agricultur­ ist at Benares, the sacred city of the Hindus in Northern India, was re­ cently tilling his ground, he came upon a copper plate. A search brought to light several others. Twenty-four of the plates are about eighteen inches long by twelve inches broad, and three twelve inches by eight inches. The former have huge copper seals with rings attached to the plates, while the three, which appear to constitute one book, were linked together. The plates bear incriptions relating to dealings in land in the time of Govind Chandra Deva, Sambat 1196-1149 C. Hesiod's books were written on leaden tables: lead was used for writ­ ing, rolled up like a cylinder. Mont- faucon notices a very ancient book of eight leaden-leaves, which, on the back, bad rings fastened by a small leaden rod to keep them together. They were afterwards engraved on bronze. The laws of the Cretans were on bronze tablets; the Romans etchcd their public records on brass. The speech of Claudius, engraved on plates of bronze, is preserved at Ly­ ons. Several bronze tablets have been dug up in Tuscany. Treaties between the Romans, Spartans, and the Jews were written on brass; and states, for better security, wero made over on this enduring metaL rhich brought about the deluges of The Return to Power of a Party Pledged 'to Overthrow American Industries Mas Precipitated the Present I>tsooaraging Oatlook In Business Circle*. Where Responsibility The responsibility for the existing financial and business situation rests solely upon the Democratic party, The attempt ot the administration to shift the blame on the banks will not do. The clamor cf Democratic news­ papers that try to delude the public with the belief that the stringency in-business and the threatened pa­ ralysis of credit are due to Republi­ can mismanagement will not impose upon a single voter of common sense. The Louisville Courier-Journal makes a futile effort to hold Republicans re­ sponsible for the present status of af­ fairs. Four years ago the Courier- Journal, in common with other Dem­ ocratic newspapers, was vehemently, denouncing the Republican party for not reducing the revenues of the Government. The Republican party reduced the revenues by the McKin- ley law and the special organ of the Star-Eyed Goddess now condemns it because they have been reduced. The Courier-Journal wildly asserts that the "Republican party,, while thus cutting down the national income, plunged into a series of profligate ex­ penditure never before dieamed of in the wildest orgies of legislative plun­ derers." ' Our excitable Kentucky contempo­ rary undoubtedly refers to the ex­ penditures of the Republican Fifty- first House, whose appropriations were by no means "profligate," but were made necessary by the growing necessities of the national government and the imperative demand for sea coast fortifications and the construc­ tion of the new navy. But if we admit, for the sake of argument, that the appropriations of the Republican Fifty-first House were excessive, what has the Courier-Journal to say of the expenditures of the Democratic Fifty-third House, which exceeded them by some $38,000,000? J If there was "profligacy" in the one case, there was about forty millions more of "profligacy" in the other. The Cour­ ier-Journal reserves its most ridicu­ lous charge for the last. It says: It wa9 the Republican party which, always loud la proclaiming it j fidelity to sound money, entered into a disgraceful dicker and compromise with the silver miners--a compromise which it refused up i to the last moment to repeal--by which the government has lost millions of dollars, i and by which the Treasury is to-day j drained of lta gold and will continue to be j drained as long as the outrageous Sherman I law remains in force. J As a matter of fact the Sherman i law was enacted as a barrier against , the unlimited coinage of depreciated silver dollars which the Democratic party was determined to tiring about. In so far as harm has resulted from any of its features, the Democratic party is responsible for the evil done, for the mischievous features were without exception the embodiment oL Democratic principles inserted in the compromise Sherman measure at Democratic demand. To-day the great mass of Southern and Western Democrats are clamoring for the en­ actment of a free silver measure that would multiply the bad effects of the Sherman law five-hundred fold. An overwhelming majority ot'the Democ­ racy demand the repeal of the Sher­ man law, not that they may enact a better measure, but one that is infin­ itely worse. The attitude <?f the Democracy toward the currency is shown by its record in the Fifty-sec- ond Congress. On March 24, 1692, ,130 Democrats in the House voted for the Bland Free Silver bill and only 81 voted against it In the Senate July 1, 1892, 30 out of 40 Democratic Sena­ tors put themselves on record in favor Of the Stewart Free Silver bill; in the House oil July 13, 117 Democrats voted for the same measure and only 94 against it. The facts are unmistakable. The Republican party found the finances of the country disorganized and or­ ganized them; it found the nation's Credit prostrate and raised It to a point above that of any other coun­ try; it found American industries un­ developed and built them up by pro­ tection until the United States is in­ dustrially independent, and American workingmen the best paid in the world. Republicanism found the nation weak and made it strong, found it poor and made it rich, found it stagnant and dishonored and made it prosperous and great, the leader in the world's civilization, the cham­ pion of human progress and human freedom, the hope and the stronghold of the oppressed of every race. The return to power of the Demo­ cratic party, pledged to overthrow American industry in the interests of foreign monopolists, demanding that wages shall be reduced and tue na­ tional currency be degraded, has transformed the condition of affairs in ten weeks' time. The country had grown accustomed to seeing Ameri­ can interests upheld against the world by the Government at Wash­ ington, anil it has seen the adminis­ tration deliberately preparing to sac­ rifice those interests: it had been taught to look for firm and far-sighted guardiatfthip of the people's welfare by the Republican statesmen who have administered the national finances, and it has seen incompe­ tency, ignorance and selfish partisan­ ship holding full sway in the Treas­ ury Department. It is no wonder that business interests have taken alarm; that projected industrial en­ terprises have been given up by hundreds all over the Union, or that credit is becoming difficult to obtain. Democratic Incapacity to govern, Democratic hatred of American in­ dustrial independence and Demo­ cratic fanaticism in behalf of "cheap" and unsound money are the manifest and sufficient causes of the present discouraging outlook in business and inlustfial circles.--New York Press. Weeding Oat the Veterans. The board appointed by Secretary Lamont for the purpose of weeding Republican clerks out of the War De­ partment states, in regard to one of the clerks, that "in recommending his discharge the board has taken in­ to due consideration the fact that he has a military record." No doubt of IU Of cotuse the Bourbon board SWEEPS Alt BEFORE IT means a Union record. kind of military record would not have resulted in that kind of recom-1 ----r mendation. The board also re com. L.O88 OF LIFE AND GREAT DAM- mends the discharge of a one-armed j AOE BT A TORNADO. clerk who was a Union soldier, be- f Thm Cyclone UiU Only About • Qoarter of > Minute, bat LWTH Devastation and Death la Iu Path--Three Score Hart at Lima, Ohio. cause he is not "cheerful." One-armed men ought, of course, to be excep­ tionally cheerful, especially when they lost their arms in the Union cause and know that the men they fought against are hungrily waiting to take their places under the admin­ istration of Cleveland, Lamont & Co. It Is hard to please some people, and it will be quite hard for any Union veteran holding a place under the government to do his duty in a man­ ner that will satisfy the Bourbons. Proposed Overthrow or Reciprocity. One ot the reasons assigned fof the proposed abrogation of all the recip­ rocal trade arrangements made by the Harrison administration is that the free admission of the merchandise of these countries has stimulated its shipment to and consumption in this country. That is, sugar bein« cheaper and the people in this country having the means to do do so, are purchasing more coffee of late than formerly, making the aggregate of the imports of these noncompetitive products of Cuba, Brazil and Mexico much larger than when there were dutie> upon them. The inference i3 tbat it is im­ portant to cut down the importation of the noncompetitive articles by puttiug a duty thereon, while the im­ portation of competitive merchan­ dise, of which we can produce a full supply in this country, is to be stim­ ulated by cutting down the duties! The United States must continue to buy its sugar, coffee, tea, etc., abroad. The question, therefore, is, shall we pay for them with the prod­ ucts of. our farm* and factories, or in gold? In 1889 our exports to Cuba were valued at $11,000,000, while last year, under the arrangement of the Harri- son administration, the value was $18,000,000--an i ncrease of $7,000,000. During 1889 our exports to Brazil were $9,000,000, but the last fiscal year they were $14,250,000. Here we have a gain of markets aggre­ gating over $12,000,000 under the reciprocal trade arrangements which give us the advantage over other competitors therein. Abrogate these trade arrangements which give us the advantage, and the $12,000,000 worth of merchandise purchased in j riage works of "Ambrose Ochs. this country will go elsewhere. In- j gale~struek the building and in an in' Work of Willi Winds. A cyclone, lasting only about a quar­ ter of'a minute, played great navoo In Lima, Ohio, and vicinity. The tornado swept everything before it, and killed three persons and wounded a score more. Half a dozen business blocks were unroofed ana the gas works, Globe Machine works, the Selfridge Handle works, the Lima Machine works, Bt. James' Hotel, and a score of other buildings were unroofed. The little town or Hume was also almost totally destroyed. The Methodist Church was blown to atoms and the Church of Holiness destroyed. Daniel Miller, a farmer, was killed by the barn on * his farm falling on him and crushing him to death. The storm was genera* all over the section, within one hundred miles of Lima, and damage to the amount of at least $300,000 was done. Two miles south of the city a path was cut through the woods to a width of about fifty feet, and as clean as though a chopper had gone through the woods with en ax. Everything was swept in front of the storm, including houses, .barns, fences, ete.» whole orchards be­ ing swept away slick and clean. IAMS of Llic a» Cleveland.* A,t Cleveland four men were Instantly killed and many injured. A scaffold blown from its fastenings by the high wiud injured four men employed by th e Cleveland Gas Light and Coke Company. A portion of the plate department of the Cleveland Hulling Mill Company un­ dergoing construction gave way to the storm with fatal results. There were a number employed on the structure, two of whom were killed instantly; another received injuries ,which will doubtless prove fatal, and several were badly in­ jured. Another casualty caused by the severity of the storm was the destruc­ tion of a two-story frame house at Doane and Superior streets. It was blown down and John Cole buried be­ neath the debris. When taken out the man was in a terrible condition, and death soon followed. Fremont experienced the effects of a tornado, the storm being by fi| the worst that has ever been known mere. It swept across the city from the south­ ern to the northern limits and in its path destroyed and unroofed buildings, uprooted trees, and did great damage on every side. The most disastrous effect was in the destruction of the car- The stead of paying that many millions in the products of American farms and factories for sugar And coffee we shall be obliged to pay $12,000,000 in gold. This is just what the Cleve­ land administration is said to be making arrangements to do by abro­ gating the trade arrangements and treaties which cost the Harrison ad­ ministration such patient effort to negotiate, and which, as the years pass, would insure us a widening market, with advantage over every competitor.--Indianapolis Journal. . " %, A New Army for 1800. The recent convention of the Na­ tional League of Republican Clubs at Louisville has already had two ef­ fects, at once appreciable. It has given to representative young Re­ publicans from the North and West a local insight into the obstacles which confront the party in such Bourbon States as Kentucky, and it has given to the Kentucky Demo­ crats in their own home an object lesson of the falsity of Editor Wat- tereon's assertion that the Republi­ can party of the North is a party of "proscription," and that its prejudice of latitude Is the chief cause of the "solidity" ot the South. The Ken­ tucky Democrats for the moment, by their generous exercise of traditional Southern hospitality toward friendly invaders of their soil, learned by per­ sonal contact Ibat the Northern Re­ publican is utterly devoid of merely sectional hostility. Even if the League Convention had accom­ plished nothing more than this, the time, the travel and the expense of bringing together these delegates from forty-one of the forty-four States would be well repaid. But the Louis­ ville convention wrought broader re­ sults. It has created a healthful and lively spirit of discussion within the Republican party. But beyond all else, the gathering, of the younger leaders of the party at the League Convention has shown to some of the honored veterans of the organization that an already mature and yet new generation is pressing toward the front in the ceaseless conflict of American politics. It is this irre­ sistible upheaval of men, middle-aged in years but young in action, which may well command the attention of both youth and veteran in the Re­ publican army. The virility and the youth which made themselves mani­ fest at Louisville signify the enroll­ ment of many hundreds of thousands of voters between the ages of 21 and j 30, in the Army of Restoration of i 1896. stant it collapsed. Most of the men escaped with slight injuries. Reports from the country are to the effect that great damage has- been- done-to- hqpses and orchards. Wows Sixty Miles an Hoar. At Detroit the wind rose to a velocity of fifty-four miles an hour, and increased in force until about noon it was blowing sixty miles. Many shade trees through­ out the city were blown down, and some streets--Cass avenue especially--are so thickly strewn with bioken timbers and trunks as to make them almost im­ passable. With a few exceptions, tele­ graph and telephone wires running into Detroit went down. Fiult trees by the score were blown over in the vicinity of Dundee and sidewalks in many places are blocked by fallen shade trees. Many buildings are reported unroofed in that vicinity. At Holly the storm unroofed the opera house and wrecked half a dozen, stores. Many houses %ere badly damaged. Dama|« In Indiana. A windstorm passed over Indianapolis and did great damage, In the eastern and southern portions of Indiana the Wind blew with great force. At Jeffer- sonville many houses were .unroofed and trees were blown down. ' John Slem was blown over an embankment and severely injured. At Elwood the roof of the Mnerican Tin-plate works was blown off and the building other­ wise damaged. At Marion the roaster building of the Columbia Zinc works was blown over. The total damage will run up into the thousands. CROP CON PITIES. Excellent Growing "Weather "and Fine Prospects Prevail In the Northwest. The Washington Weather crop bulle­ tin says: The weather during the last week has resulted in improved crop con­ ditions in the northwest and central valleys, while the outlook is less favor­ able in the southeast section of the country. * Illinois--Conditions unusually favorable; corn planting progressing rapidly; considera­ ble acreage sown in oatd; meadows and pas­ tures generally excellent; wheat heading in southeriupOTtlon. Indlantf-Weather last half of the week was favorable to plowing and planting and bene­ ficial to crops. Missouri--Vegetation makes rapid growth and improvement, work being expedited; ground breaking. Michigan--Weather during last week gen­ erally favorable to crops and farm work; farm* era mostly finished cat seeding; considerable preparation made 'or corn; oats and rye doing well. Wisconsin--Forest fires have done great damage in lumber towns; tornadoes and haii cut many fields in southwest counties; extent not known; planting corn and pota­ toes nearly finished; all crops- growing nicely. Minnesota--Another good growing week; seeding, except iiax, nearly finished; com and potatoes half planted; wheat everywhere com­ ing up nicely. Iowa--Favorable weather conditions for corn planting and other farm work; planting prac­ tically completed, except in localities where plowing was delayed from excessive moisture; oats and spring grain show improvement. North Dakota--Seeding of all small grain nearly finished, and corn planting in good firogrt'Rs; much damage to growing crops and ate seeded grain by high winds; excessive rain in west portion of great benefit to grazing lands. South Dakota--Very favorable except grain whipped considerably by^^Hb; corn growing in south and planting pal^sslng la north; flax-seeding general; some growing. What OojMooracjr Costa. It Is estimated by competent au­ thorities that the loss to the people in the shrinkage in the values of se­ curities since March 4 amounts at least to two hundred and fifty mill­ ions of dollars. This enormous de­ preciation of the people's savings was inaugurated by the vacillating, un­ patriotic financial policy of the Cleve­ land administration. If the admin­ istration had issued bonds, or even if it had definitely announced that it would issue bonds when- the Treasury reserve should reach a certain point, this depreciation would have been checked. In refusing to do this Mr. Cleveland and his advisers have failed to perform their plain duty as the constitutional servants of the people. Mr. Cleveland's " Object Lesson." The President's idea that by re­ fusing to use the legitimate authority Wheat and Rye* ihe Farmers' Review, which is con­ sidered authority on crop conditions, contains the following regarding wheat and rye; In Illinois the general outlook for the wheat crop is still bad. Thin fields are being plowed np and planted to corn. In some counties, however, the weather has been favorable and the last two weeks have seen a material ad­ vance. The winter rye crop is in fair condi­ tion. In Indiana the outlook for wheat is a little above fair, and very much better than In Illinois. Some is so heavy that it' is already lodging. Winter rye is nearly an average crop. Ohio wheat prospects are good. Sun and showers Are bringing the crop forward nicely. In some counties the outlook is the best In yean-. The rye crop keeps pace with the wheat, and in most counties where reported Is in good condition. In Michigan the condition is generally bad, though a few counties report the outlooc as good for a full crop. Rye is reported as fair and good. Winter wheat is generally good In LEGISLATIVE DOINGS. WORK OF THE STATE SOLOMS AT THE CAPITAL. ftoftord of One Week's Business--Measure* Presented, Considered and Passed--. Whfct Our Public Servants Are Dotage la and ArosinU Legislative Halls. The Lsir-Mskm. In the House Monday many bills were advanced on the calendar, many others read a second time and advanced to third reading, but none were passed. The session lasted but an hour and a halt When Pres­ ident pro Tempore Coppinger called the Senate to order there were atout fifteen members present The re'adlng- of the minutes was dispensed with and the Senate adjourned. The House had the Congressional appor­ tionment bill up for consideration, and passed It. The House sent a message to the Senate officially informing that body, of the selection of Peoria for the State' fair. The bill was sent to the foot of the Senate calendar for first rending. Thi* is thought to bo the result ot the Influence of SprlngSeld, Decatur, and Bloomington lob­ bies. The Senate defeated the bill which sought to appropriate $10,000 to the Attor­ ney General to prosecute the suits against the ex-Stnto Auditor* and ex-Treasurers. In the Senate, Wednesday, Ford's com­ pulsory school bill was passed. Senator Bacon's bill authorizing mining or manu­ facturing companies to own and hold shares of capital stock of railroad companies •where such roads connect the different plants of such mining or manufacturing companies, was passed. Senator Mahoney's bill providing that wheii an assessment is made for an improvement which has leen ordered upon the petition of the property owuers, the ordinance cannot be repe aled except upon a like petition, was parsed. In the House. Representative Sn.vder's bill prohibiting the placing of insurance on property in this State by agents outside of the State was real a third time And passed. Representative Murdoch's bill for the organization and regulation of mutual district windstorm insurance companies was passed. In the Senate Thursday the bill amend­ ing the law in relation to the Illinois State reformatory was passed. Senator Hunter's bill to regulate the width of wasou and truck tires was passed. The Fsnato went Into executive session for the purpose of confirming the nominations made by Gov. Altgeld. and sent to the Senate Mav 17. The deficiency bill appropriating fl2,50D to the Illinois National Guard was passed. The House took up the Senate general ap­ propriation bill. Au amendment was adopted providing that the Auditor shall report annually to the Legislature the re­ ceipts and expenditures of the insurance department On n otion of Mr. Merrltt the further con^ideratio » of tha bill was post­ poned until Wednesday morning, and the clerk was Instructed to have the bill printed for the use of the members. The House then passed the Stringer compulsory educa­ tion bill. / RAILRQAO NOMENCLATURE. Origin of, the Klcknames of Some Well- Known Roads, We often hear of accidents happening on the ,'Soo,Mthe Panhandle, the Nickel Plate or 6ome such line, but some of us are in a great many cases ignorant as to the location of the particular road. Here are Some of the beet-known roads that have received sobriquets, with the origin of their r.ickna'mee: . The Nickel Plate^lljie received its nickname from a remark-made by Wm. H. Vanderbilt, who, about >o purchase it, was grumbling at the pricih, " Why, if the internal road was nickel-plkted it couldn't cost more." The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chi­ cago road has* been called "Paddy Fin- nigan's Wife and (.hildien," but where the name came from is more than any­ one can tell. The "Soo" and "Big Four" are' per­ haps the most familiar nicknames of railroads known to the reading public. The former is the Minneapolis, St. Paul and £ault Bte. Marie, and is an abbre­ viation of the pronunciation of Sault; the latter comes from the consolidation of four big roads, the Cincinnati, Indi­ anapolis, St. Louis and Chicago, the Cleveland, Columl us, Cincinnati- "and Indianapolis, the Indianapolis' and 8t. Louis, and the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago. The Chicago, Bt. Paul and Kansas City road is called the "Maple Leaf," the Pltlsburg, Cincinnati and St. louis the "Panhandle," which derive their names fi om the fact that if you draw a line around the cities after which the roads are named, the one will forma perfect leaf of the maple tree, and the other a good counterfeit of a panhandle; the Toledo. St. Louis and Kansas City the "Clover Leaf, "frotq the exceedingly fine grass lands througlhwhieh it passes; the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas the " Cotton Belt," from the great product of that region; Kentucky Central, the "Blue Grass." the Southern Pacific, the "Sunset," whose origki seems a mystery. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas line sails under the name of "Katie," no doubt taken from an imaginary blend­ ing of the names of the last two States. The Buffalo and Southwestern is known as "Brandy and Soda," and the Buffalo and Jamestown the "Jinitown" road, from its connection with the last named city. When the Erie road was first built it was nicknamed the "Davy Crockett," from ah exciting experience an engi­ neer once had with a runaway engine, the latter being named the "Davy Crockett," , Important bat Not Essential. At M the other night there was a temperance lecture in the chapel of one of the churches. The gentlemin who was to preside did not show up, and a man known to have a deep interest in the temperance cause was called upon to act in his place. Mr. S. is a very nervous man who easily gets rattled. He struggled to his feet and this is what he said: "Ladies and gentlemen-- Since Brother is not here to ask the blessing of God to rest upon this meeting we will proceed wilh the busi­ ness and do the best we can "•itljvBut it. Amen."--Boston Globe. ^ ^ Japanese Books. Japanese books begin at what we call thte end. The lines are vertical instead of horizontal, the first being on the right hand edge of the page, and are read downward from the top. The place tor the "foot notes" is at the top of the page, and that for. the reader's marker at the bottom, AROUND A GREAT ST BRIEF COMPILATION OF NOI8 NEWS. ILU* Of the Government to protect the j Kentucky. In Missouri the condition remains public credit and check tlie present ~ depreciation in values he is teaching the country an "object lesson" in finance is an illustration of his char­ acteristic egotism and his ignorance of the fundamental principles of statesmanship. It is certainly a novel theory as to the President's functions which assumes that he has the right to inflict heavy loss on the business interests of the country in order to prove his .own superior wisdom. fair, but" considerably tinder a full crop. In Kansas and Nebraska the outlook for the wheat crop has not improved materially. The drouth last fall supplemented by the hard drouth thie sprint; must result in a very short crop. In Iowa both wheat and rye are re­ ported in from fair to good condition. In Wis­ consin the winter wheat and rye are coming forward in fine shape, though In most counties are a little late. AN attempt was made by burglars to blow open the safe of the Beaver De­ posit Bank, at Beaver, Pa., with dyna­ mite. The robbers succeeded in forcing j open the outer safe, but the inner safe, _ -TTT7--" , , „ , I containing over $20,000 in cash and Be- THCS far but three Chinainen in Bal- F eurities, withstood the shock. The ex- timore and one hi Philadelphia have pi^n aroused the town, and the registered under the new law*- . p ( ^ thieves fled with about $200 in silver; , * .. ..s^: Types and Printinp- THE first took printed in Ireland was the "Liturgy," in 1550. THE first French newspaper was the Mercure Francais, 1C05. IN 1494 Aldus Manutius started a printing office in Venice. PRINTING began in Scotland-lA* 1503 on a press in Edinburgh. THE first printed edition ot the whole Bible was issued in 1517.' THE first Dutch newspaper was the Nieuwe Tydinghen, 1605. IN 1870 there were 5,871 newspapers printed in the United States. IN 1B61 the papier-mache process was used in New York for dailies. GHEECE has £0 NEWSPAPERS, of wMcb 75 are in the Greek language. OF the books of 1890, 1,118, or about one-fourth, were prose fiction. IN 18S0 4,293 new works and 1,415 re­ prints were issued in England. , IN 1510 vellum was introduce! for the binding of piinted books. THE first newspaper printed tB En­ gland was issued in 1589. IN 1500 there were more than 900 printing offices in Europe. ' v . traitam Kcwby, an AUeged Penal dler. Is a'Man with a History CttteeM Highly Indlffnaat at chad's Light Sentence. f From Par and Near. ANTON BOOKHEIMEB, a farmhattft. living near Mascoutah, engaged In H fight with a vicious bull and was gcreft to death. THE auditor issued a certificate ««• thorizitg the Bank of Fairfield, of Fair­ field. begin business with a capital; stock of $2.?,000. The President is C|£? W. Scott and the Cashier E. E. Creb®. CAGED in an elevator in the Hartforft Building, at Chicago, ten men fell ft. distance, of eight stories the other the result of a break in the cold-water pressure pipe. Six men were injured BF the fail and all were badly shaken UGPK; WILLIAM MABTLAND, of Hardin, Cal* houn County, having been non>lnftt«FT by the democrats for Representative iifr the lower house of the Thirty-sixtir General Assembly to fill vacancy, th® nomination papers were filed by PET|^ tion in the office of Secretary of STAT#^ As these are the only papei$ filed frcitt the district, Judge Martland Will elected without opposition. IN the Circuit Court at Marion 1 Carmichael was convicted of criminal assault. He is tie MAN who was SAVED from the wrath ot a mob three mcntfca ago, the time the deed was committed, by the shrewdness of the officers WLJJI* arrested him. The jury gave him on# year in the penitentiary. The iodigna^ tion of the people at the jury's venliet ran high and it was thought for a tinier that Carmichael would never SEE th» inside walls of the Chester/peniten­ tiary. \ COMPLAINTS are fast COMING IN against Marcel de Claremont, who* WAS arrested at Chicago by Detective Storea, charged with running a swindling co»- ! corn known as the World's Fair EM* ployment Agency. The number AT warrants aggregated twenty-five, anrft quite a number more are expected L^JR the police. Te Claremont claims to a French newspaper correspondent, and says he was only in the employ of Manuel Marcia. who, he claims, oper­ ated the agency. He also says that Marcia left town and.told him he would need his services no longer. The police do not credit this story AT all, but con­ sider De Claremont the leader in TH* enterprise, and are positive that he Is A well-known French confidence man. Neither do they think Marcia left town. WILLIAM NEWBY, alias Daniel Bet- ton. who has been lying in jail at Springfield f.»r several weeks, AWAITTAJT, the action of the Federal grand jury, on the charge aga'nst him of lmpersoa* ating a deceased soldier of White County for the purpose of defrauding the government out or $20,000,001* back pension pay, was released by Uniteg. Stales Commissioner Kidd on bonds. Newby is a man with a history. Two men swear that he was killed at the battle of £hiloh, while his wife AHH# many of his relatives and old neigh­ bors, as well as several of the court offic rs, are satisfied that he is William Newby. His wife has been drawing A widow's pension for many years: New­ by now tiles an application for a pen­ sion and back pay, and the government has had him arrested as a fraud. He was hot several times at Shiloh. A wound in the head is said to hat« caused insanity, end it transpires that he has been wandering over the coun­ try ever since the war; sometines HE has been in the penitentiary and at other times in the insane hospitals poorhouses. It is th ught New. trial will take place between June 6 a (T ' 12, and arrangements a^e-feeing made to run an excursion tri'n from Southern Illinois at that time. ' THOMAS RATCLIFF has BE^N LODGED In "the St. Clair County Jail cha:g«|V with beRng the leader of a gang of cat- tie thieves who have worked the Indiaa Territory extension end shipped thou-> Bands of dollars' worth of stolen CATTI#'1^ to the Chicago and East St. Louie stockyards. Ratclilf was arrested iat ; Texas and brought back on a requisl* 'j tion by the Governor. • THE Preferred Accident Fasuranc* v 1 1 Company of New York was admittedy / . •- by the Auditor to do buainesa in' thia "'V. -1 State., . " \Jjj THE body of an unidentified MA»>RAIRTV_ found under a high railroad trestle near T** ^ Arenzyviile. It LB supposed he fell through. ; THOS. JOHNSON, one of three IRE*/ S who refused to pay for the liquor THE£^. .• had consumed in a West Side,*C1" saloon, was shot twice in the neek Charles Nichols, the bartender. AUDITOR ACKEBMAN'S reports ahoit the World's Fair to te already receiv­ ing $5,000 a day above running ESP*: penses. ADJT. GEX. OBKNDOBFP has granted . . Sermission to the Sheffield eadeta, ot. ' 1 heffield, to drill and parade with arms, ^ ' but without ammunition, until Dec. 31, - 1893. WEDNESDAY night the fourth bien­ nial reunion and banquet of the "Logan- .' 'R 103" was held at the Leiand Hotel at i *?" Springfield. There were only ABOUTT ^ F ̂ thirty of the famous 101 present. IT^ { J •. was a notable gathering, however*; many rrominent Kepublicans of the'" ^ State being present. After one of the • : • most exciting political contests in that * history of the State, and after the RE-*®" •'% publicans had followed their leader foi$ ^ nearly five months, Gen. John A. Logan * 1 was elected to the United States SENATE », { ' over William R. Morrison on May 19," J 1885. The reunion was postponed FROOI', Friday, the anniversary of the EVENT^? until Wednesday, as the Legislature^ was in session, thus allowing old MEMTJS bers to renew the memories of eighf? years ago. The ranks of the "103" HAV$J been somewhat thinned by death sinew ? that memorable contest, those on th# death-roll being: Alfred Brown, Martin " B. Thompson, V. 8. Ruby. W. S. ell, L. D. Whiting, James H. Miller. \V^- L. Prunty, Simon Greenleal and Jonea|; Tontz. THE midsummer meeting of the State Teachers' Institute will be held in Springfield on June P, 7 and 8. The railroads will for the first time in the,; history of the institute give reduced rates, and it is believed that this WIL|^ Insure a large attendance. Gov. ALTGELD commuted the term of Jas. Hynes, robbery, from six to four ^ and a half years; Jos. Dempsey, burg- . •}) lary, from thirteen to four years; Iguatis- •" ̂ Habryiewics, manslaughter, from twenty to five years. All were from . Cook County. The Governor also par-; doned Edward Eafferty, of Springfield. ^ ^ He has consumption. % A *>> FREDERICK FBEHX. a German retired- farmer of Berlin, 70 years old. com-*;., . > m i t t e d s u i c i d e b y c u t t i n g h i s t h r o a t £ . 1 , , with a razor. #He was supposed to be IJ; ^ insane. ,* -«•* THE other day two mad doge, in th® ^' > western limits of Chieago. bit ovar twenty persons. Several babies were L among the victims. Such a crowd pur-' sued the brutes that officers could not safely use their revolvers, and both dogs were killed with clubs. A Naek-.v I smith was attacked while at work at his " ^ ̂ 1 forge, and with ready wit eauteliaea ,,V ^ ptveiai wounds at once. Physicians ( 1 ! attended the others so soon that It te \ believed that hydropkoWa will aot «*• ~ ' ana. - " '~ '̂ 4