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Wm INCIDENTS. <30&ER. OR STARTLING, FAfTH- : mf FULLY RECORDER Masked Bobbers O^RNT* in GMM County-- Severe Wind Storm fat Southern Illinois --Fount Norvell Tired of U'«1 ttn||U --Utehfield's Poor Numerous. Two CMI County Fwuen Robbed. Another daring and successful hold- Up and robbery was enacted in the northern part of Cass Ccunty Thurs­ day mcrniiiff. John Kelso and Mike Finnegan, living on the Thompson fan BL were arou ed from sleep by loud knocking at the door. Going to the door, opening it and on asking what •Was wanted, three masked men stepped inside, confronted Kelso and Finnegan with drawn revolvers and ordered them t:> stand stilt. The house was Ransacked and 550 in cash and ether valuables tecured. The robber's.. are Supposed to be the same gang that held tip John Kershaw, a prominent farmer residing near Chandler ville, relieving him of all his available money. Roof* Oo at linrrisburjj. fit A heavy storm passed over Southern Illinois Friday night. It was a i-traight > l>low of remarkable energy. The town cf Harrisburg, on t' e Big Four Rail- g^lread, suJiercit severely. The town g Stands on a ltigh hillr-• The .buildings «t*e m ostly of ~brick. Tho wind reached <v; Its highest velocity about 5 o'clock and f «- within half an hour the following buildings had been urtroofed: The Ma- ' ^ «onio Hall, a handsome three-story v etructuro; Gaskin & Co.'s clothing houso; the Saline House, a new hotel; . v - "Gregg & Grace's drug store; Ferguson & Co.'s haidware store, and Harper & Grog's clothing hous >. Tho Masonic ©uiiding and the Ferguson building were completely unroofed, and the •. Tain, which fell in torrents, completely ! v^renchcd the furniture and goods. No ::' <:.c lives wore lest, and so far as learned Only a few persons were injured. Failed In Both I-ove and BnslneM. Fount Norvol, of tho firm of Pew 4 Norvol, cattle buyers and proprietors ;^>::5:«f a meat market, committed suicide \St Litchfield. Norvol's troublo was , financial embarrassment and disap- 5 pointment ia love. Falling short in - :3Snances, he endeavored to allay the .persistency of his creditors by forging ; the name of George Dorsey on notes and checks. These forgeries wore de­ tected and Ncrvel was at once threat­ ened with arrost unless ho should make good the amounts for which the papers Were forged. He could not raise the ./V money and just fifteen minutes before y Jus time for settlement to< k his life. , -Added to these financial difficulties and crookedness was the breaking of an ^ •ngage'ment to marry him by & woman I »^of Butler. * r\ ! • " Many People Destitute, s, r * At the meeting of the County Board !n Hillsboi •o more cases of destitution „»• Were presented than were ever before I-" , brought before the board. Over sixty families in the city of Litchfiold are jiow being supported by the county. **,-•••. Reports from adjoining counties also show that the destitution is groat, and the taxpayers are alarmed about the > additional taxes they will have to pay ||£ • m a result. ' Barthqnake Shocks In Illinois. , Three shocks of earthquake were * felt at Albion. The second and third cheeks caused buildings of every de- - . #cription to tremble froin cellar to gar- " ret. Dishes and similar articles danced -*•* jig and books, fell from stands and , ;; tables. The disturbance, which came " v <«ach time as a wave or series of waves * "r , from the southwest toward the north- . v «0a^t, was preceded and followed by a 4eep rumbling noise. Rockford Shoe Cnmuftiiy AmlgiiR. The Rockford Shoe Company made g#n assignment for tho fccnofitof credit­ ors. ana Harry Southgato, Secretary I i|nd bookkoepor for the company, was : named as assignee. No schedule of as­ sets and liabilities has been made, but " President Tribou states that tho assets Will more than pay all liabilities. §£ankakee Sheriff Balds a Flffht. t . Tho sheriff raided the Larkina-Hnr- ley fight at North Kankakee just after " •* -.the first rcund had boon finished. Tho f;"-principals and sixty-five sports wero Arrested. Some of those in attendance Jre engaged in business in Kankakee, 'he principals will have to remain in until next ApriL •; •; • •• I Record of the Week. £"«" j, MRS. CECELIA NEEDHAM, one of •• HDass County's oldest and woll-known ; ' Settlers, died at the advanoed ago of 80 " r ^ears. •- 1 FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS' worth of Jewelry and diamonds was found on '.".'••."-Frank Easton, at Chicago, whocon- ... tossed to a burglary in 'Frisco. L- 1 AT Chicago, Charles Brown, robbod npf $1,195 by negroes, has been put un- " " • ^er bonds to insure appearance against , sfhe thieves. * *&.&>•' ASSASSIN EUGENE PREDERGAST •called Lawyer Trude a scoundrel dur- . 4ng the cross examination of the prisoner's mother. CHARLES CODLIN, of Fairbury, at- ' lempted to kill himself while at Fon- - fiac. Worry over financial troubles is . , the cause assigned. tWM. VANDELOW, a janitor, fell from >.e second story of the State House in pringfield and received injuries , ' 4rhich proved fatal. " '•} AT Springfield August Johnston, Jr., tas arrested for forging the name of is father, August Johnston, to checks r ';•_" amounting to $503, all of which he suc- »V - Reeded in cashing. ; ATTORNEY GENERAL MOLONEY is •f opinion that a building and loan as- . . vgociation may legally limit tho number "T|f shares of stock to be held by any <0ne« person, but says the limit must be Reasonable. - "V3 INSURANCE SUPERINTENDENT DUR- G TEE has reported the Prairie State •Beneficiary Association to tho Attor­ ney General because of insolvency. "This condition was revealed by an ex­ amination recently completed by the •* ' department. • L RAN SMITH and J. T. Hennessv, Jtgents of the Hammond Publishing ? , Company of Chicago, were bonnd over 4t Carrolton to await ihe action of the f -and jury on a charge of impersonate g an officer in serving a summons on R. Bradley, whom they sued for $15 . ^ Iganaiito MAS FLORA HANLET WU aqnitted jury at Decatur en the oharge of mrmm. EX-MAYOR CROCKER of DE^TUR tn»rrted to Miss Belli* B»i?ri nl^o of Becatur. • * G. V. BROOKMAN, one of the earl* settlers of Montgomery County, diea, aged 77 years. MRS. TABITHA J. BAKER, >GED 80 years, a resident of Macon County since 1830, is dead. FIFTEEN cars of grain on the Chica­ go, Burlington and QuSncy railroad were wrecked east of Naperville. Gov. ALTGKLD appoint d H. M. Kas- saman to be judge of Ja3per County, vice Judge B. F. Harrah, resigned. AT Mascoutah, John Peter Fiiess, a pioneer citizen, and one of the oldest hotel proprietors in the State, died, aged 74. THS Fr. eport clothing firm of Witts & Co. made an assignment. The as­ sets amount to $10,605 and the liabili­ ties to *<US9. JOHN A. RULE, residing near Wise- town, while cutting timber accidentally felltd a large tree on his 7-year-old boy, killing him. MRS. WILLIAM SHEPHERD,- mother of Aldorm-n Ilobort Shepherd an l an old le.-ident of Rcckford, died bf the grip at the age of 73 years. " HORACE S. MARSHALL, Deputy Revenua Collector in Pekin for the eighth internal revenue district under Harrison, committed suicide by taking poison. ^ JAMES CROW, an and highly~ leomed resident of Crystal Lake, died at hi* resi 'enoe. Mr. Crow was promi­ nent in c nnection with the agricul­ tural interests cf McHonry County. THE grip, in epidemic form, exists in Casi County. Although more acute in form than usual the fatalities aro fewer than two years ago. Lung fevor is unusually severe and attended with more fatalities. THE 12-year-old s n of Dr. F. Schultz, a farmer and st ck raiser of near Martinsville, was killed by a hand-car on tho Chicago and C h|o read near Round Grove Station by being struck by < na of the handles. JOHN H. PIPER, who has been for several" years tho chifcf clerk in tho oflioo of the State Board of Health, will retire from that position on the 1st of January. Ho will be succeeded by J. W. Knickerbocker. THE Wostern Military Academy in Upper Alton has been replaced on tho Government list of institutions entitled to have a United States army officer as instructor in military tactics. Liou- tenant Adams has been assigned to the academy. J. W. MILLER'S grocery store at Lincoln was robbod, and Wm. Schelles was arrested. Sholles is now awaiting indictment for participating in the Peoria, Docatur and Evansville train robbery, and has boen out on bail but a week. H. O. CASSELL died at Jacksonville. He was a lawyer of many years' stand­ ing and well known at the bar. Dur» ing the war ho served as adjutant of tho One Hundred and First Illinoif Regiment and took part'in a numbei of engagements. ANDREW BRAZENA, an Italian coal' miner, was shot and fatally wounded by Policeman Joseph Co?grove at Toluca. Cosgrove attempted to arrest him for being drunk and disorderly. A brother was locked up for threaten­ ing to kill the officer, and more trouble is fgared. THE fight for the postmastorship of Rock ford, in which there are half a dozen candidates, took a new phastj when a call signed by many prominent disinterested Democrats was issued for a mass meeting of tho local Domoc» racy to te held to decide on the date ol a popular olection. Two DESTITUTE girls in Chicago* says tho Inter Ocean, claimed they had come from Champaign and IJrbana t'i look for housework. Now a Cham- I paign correspondent claims that his town and the sister city of Urbana aro j full of people lvantin * good girls for , housework, at good wages. And tbore you aro. , Six families of Mennonitos arrived at St. Elmo and proceeded to farms in I Softon Township,which they purchased I recently. About a month* ago re pro- j sentatives of a large number of Men- ! nonites spent a week in Fayette County ! negotiating for the purchase of several hundred acres of good farming land, j They finally purchased farms sufficient i for sixty or soventy families. v ATTORNEY GENERAL MOLONEY de> | cided that he could not consistently ' proceed against tho Rock Island ana Peoria Railroad Company to compel it . to remo\ e certain tracks on First ave- J nue in Rock Island, as asked to do by ' certain property owners. Ho thinks that if these be a nuisance, it is not of a public character, and that the suffer­ ers should proceed in another way to se­ cure a redross of their grievances. A NICE, clever gentloman met Will­ iam Stevenson, an Ottawa carpenter, in Chicago the ether day. He knew William, likewise his family and friends. He sold clothing and was a nephew, as alleged, of Mr. Hamilton of Hamilton & Nash, bankers, of Ot­ tawa. Ho introduced William to a nice, easy game. Thoy rolled the bonos . awhile with some friends of tho nice i man. Now William wants the Har­ rison street police force to find $200 for him. GENERAL WELCH, commander' of the Third Brigade (Aurora), Illinois National Guard, has appointed the fol­ lowing as his staff: Assistant Adjutant General, W. S. Frazier, Jr.; assistant inspector of rifle practice. I. C. Copley; Assistant Inspector General, J. Stanley Brown, Rockford; Judge Advocate General, J. H. Plain; Surgeon, with rank of Major, Charlos Carter, Rock Island; Quartermaster, David Belden; Commissary, Fred Fareth; Aids de- Camp, Edward Allen, Joliet, O. T. Reynolds, Chicago, each with rank of first lieutenant. THERE was the liveliest kind of a fight in the Rockford High School tho other day between the seniors and the juniors. Several of the pupils got black eves, and the teachers who at­ tempted to end the quarrel were rough­ ly handled. The trouble grew out of the appearance of the seniors in a body wearing new mortar board, caps. When they entered the school the juniors charged cn them, shouting "Out with the dudes." They tore the headgear off the seniors, and a bloody fight fol­ lowed for ten minutes. The affray will probably be the MHM ft! a &WW mere expulsions. TOO MUCH FOB HIM. O&K&AW «*»"> "OT HAH- HAWAII ALONE. T ^ .-T'Vfv Ifhe President Acknowledges Defeat, and Kofcr Ask* Congress to Pull Him Out of the Ditch--Humiliation Brought Aboat hr Diplomatic BinDderlnft Throws Up the Sponge. The Cieveland-Gresham Throne Restoration Compound didn't do what its ads. said it would. The adminis­ tration's Hawaiian policy has proved a miserable failure. All the correspon­ dence and other documents bearir g t n the Hawaiian muddle have been sub­ mitted to Congress, together with a lengthy message in which Mr. Cleve­ land make J his address to public opin* ion. But he does this only when he has come to the end of his tetter: when all his plans have experienced defeat; when he is compelled to ac­ knowledge that his schemes have mis­ carried and that he is no longer master of the situation. Having cut himself off by his own act from farther nego­ tiations with what is now tho only ex­ isting government in Hawaii, and'hav­ ing found that his whole theory of the case was based on such misin­ formation that it cannot longer be maintained, ho has thrown the burden of the blunder on Congress. That he has blundered is the inevitable conclusion t3 be drawn from his own argument, on his own Sresentation of it. His instructions to linister Willis were to the effect that the Queen should be offered his assist­ ance in securing a restoration t :> her throne on condition that she would grant a general amnesty to the revolu­ tionists and assume tho obligations created by the provisional Government in due course of administration. He admits that he expected in this way to reimpose monarchical rule upon Hawaii without consulting or asking the co­ operation of Congress, and that the scheme failed because the Queen would not accapt the conditions, which prob­ ably means that he would not agree to furnish troops for her defense, and that she was afraid to take the risk of re­ suming her functions in the absence of such protection. It suits Mr. Cleveland, says the Globe- Democrat, to still contend that our Government is in justice and honor bound to put the Queeu back on hey throne; but he is much mistaken if he supposes that public sentiment can be brought to favor a proceeding so ob­ noxious to the spirit of our institutions and so inconsistent with the lessons and precedents of our history. He has committed a blunder that strange iv damages his reputation for level-hea<i- edness, and it will take him a long time to recover from it. There can be no doubt as to the fact that he in­ tended to bring about the restoration of the monav,cy by what he calls "ex­ ecutive mediation," with arrogant in­ difference to the authority of Congress, and without letting the country know what he was doing until his object was accomplished. The undertaking has turnei out to be a miserable failure, for reasons which he did not anticipate, but the measure of his offense is none the less on that accouut. If he could have had his way, Queen Liliuo- kalani would to-day be ruling over Ha­ waii; and when he says he is ready to co-operate with Congress in the solu­ tion of the problem, he means only that he will aid in a plan for subverting the existing republic, and reviving the monarchy "as if its continuity had not been interrupted." It is safe t J pre­ dict that Congress will not solicit his co-operation in any movement of that kind. His refusal to send the Harrison treaty back to the Senate puts annex­ ation out of the question during his term; but that is as far as his oppor­ tunity of mischief extends in the mat­ ter. He has made a bold play in diplo­ macy, and he has lost. That is the simple, practical, mortifying truth. He is not the sort of a man who acknowledges a mistake, but the mis­ take stands against him all the same, and his Hawaiian policy is destined to "live in the world's wide mouth scan­ dalized." Who Is Benefited. It costs just about i a cent a pound to refine sugar. For that reason the tariff rate on imported refined sugar was placed at that figure. The Wilson bill reduces the rate one-half. The present cost of raw sugar is 3 cents, and the German refiners are now able to land refined sugar in this country at 4 cents a pound, paying the present duty. With the duty reduced to i of a cent a pound the refiners would be able to market sugar in this country at 3.65. As the raw sugar would cost domestic refiners 3 cents this would leave them .65 to pay for refining, meet all trade discounts, and other incidental expend* itures; in other words, on this basis there will be no margin of profit. The alternatives is a reduction of wages in order to maintain the American re-, finers or else let them go out of the business. If they close then the for­ eign refiners have a monopoly of the market and wi{l put up prices just as far as thev can without inducing the American factories to start up again. In this way American sugar factories are either closed or else the wages of employes reduced, and meanwhile the people of the United States who con­ sume the sugar do not buy it any cheaper. Who is benefited, excepting the ioreign manufacturer?--Burling­ ton Hawkeye. f: y* Trick of Wilson's Committee* Like the Secretary of State in tlie case of the Blount report, the special Cleveland newspapers were furnished by the Ways and Means Committee with the rates of duty of the McKinley law, compared with the proposed duties of the Wilson law. It is a very imper­ fect and a very misleading perform­ ance. It is misleading because it puts the decrease of duty from the McKin­ ley law to the Wilson bill as a percent­ age. By its figuring for instance, the aa valorem duty on barley under the McKinley law is 53.25 per cent., while the duty proposed in the Wilson bill is 20 per cent.--the difference being called 39.25 per cent. This is decep­ tive, because to the causual reader it will appear that the duty has been re­ duced less than one-half, when in fact the per cent, of reduction is over 60 })er cent. So on potatoes the ad va-orem duty under the McKinley law is figured at 26.39 per cent, and under the Wilson bill as 10.56, and the , difference as 15.83 per cent. Both ; duties are specific, being25 cents under the McKinley law and 10 cents unddr j the Wilson bill per busheL That to,' the real duty under tho present law is | _ the Democrats, when they go on thf TOO MANY RISKS TO TAK& go ( stump, will claim thai lUo Wilson Mil out down the duty uu potatoes but 15.83 per cent., when as a matter of fact it has been reduced 60 per cent. The . duty on hay under the McKinley law is $4 per ton, while in the Wilson bill it is $2. Mr. Wilson's committee fig­ ures the reduction to be 22.35 per cent., when everybody knows that a reduc­ tion from 81 to $2 is a reduction of 50 percent. Attention is called to this juggle now because it will be used to deceive people, as were the stories about the increased price of the din­ ner pail of the laborer and the pearl buttons on the laboring man's shirt In 1890 and 1892.--Indianapolis Journal. Views of Contrreismen. Some t me ago the Chicagv JjIrter Ocean, with the ide i of ascertaining the views of members of Congress through ut the country < n the ques­ tion ot" the tariff, sent the following in- quir es to its correspondents with the request that they interview their Con- gre smen: We want to know what his views are on what Congress, shall do to settle tbe tariff question--whether the reoent elections will ba regarded as a w»|nstru.-tlon from peo­ ple, or whether It sbflMtbt agttled as suggested in the Demoontlc nUtta&T^ Pleas? ask him afso^MWt tn-otccted product m h;s State or district can he put, op the free list or hs-ve its tariff reduced to a purely rev­ enue bases; also Whether he favors an inooxne tax or an increase in tbe Internal tax on whisky and beer. The replies cover nearly three pftges of-the Inter ( c *an. On hundred Dem­ ocratic replies are classified as follows: Unawed by recent election 53 Have learned moderation 14 Nothing to Bay ....v.. 16 Think silver the issue 1 Want to know about the Wilson bill........ 10 Opposed to radical measures Too vague for classification S Total ;.' i v....... iioo Tht sa figures, as well as the letters published, indicate a preponderating sentiment in favor of carrying out the tariff pledge of the Chicago platform. Fifty answers from Republican mem­ bers Bhow firm adherence to the pro­ tective policy, and are almost unani­ mous in attributing- the hard times to fear of Democratic tariff legislation. The results that have already followed the Wilson bill fully coincide with the views expressed by the Republican members of Congress. Bayer* and the Tariff. The New York Telegram, which iB not a Republican newspaper and is not prejudiced in favor of the protective tariff, recently made this statement: "The retail department of tho city is as fascinating as a visit to fairyland. There is hardly a quarter of the globe that has not contributed to the wonder­ ful show in cur shop windows, and the chances are that a given article oan be bought at a cheaper price than is asked in London, Paris, ana Berlin." There can be n) doubt that this is true, but that being the case why should intelli­ gent persons demand a change in a tariff system which has given such sat­ isfactory results? It is admitted that in no city in the world can a better va­ riety of goods be found than in New York and that they can be bought at lower prices than in any foreign city. It is also admitted that the present tariff system tends to keep wages high and that the changes proposed in the Wilson bill would reduce wages. With a tariff that gives low prices for gocds and high prices for labor, why should any one desire a change? Working- men are asking themselves this ques­ tion. If tfcey decide that they were more prosperous before the McKinley bill was threatened then they can hope to be if the Wilson bill bee >mes a law, let them protest against the proposed revision. After the Tote Was Taken. A little boy'climbed oa an old man's knees. Begged for the reason, "Do. papa, please. Why are you idle; why do you roam; Why have you no work now but loafing aft home?" «I had a good Job last year, you know, Why I have none now, child, I shall show, List to the story --Grover--last faU-r? 1 helped elect him--Idle--that's aX(»* •. % • • '* < After the vote was taken, " - After the change had cono|^ > After the factories closing^ After the wheels were dumb* Many a heart was aching If you could read them all. Many a homo was darkened After last fall "Bright were the prospects, clouds were not In sight, Happy our home* were from morn an til night; Then came the office sharks, spoke soft and low, Fooled us poor workers, how you all know. I knew the reason after 'twas done,, I helped to close up factories that ran; That's why I'm idle, no work at all- Voted my job away, only last fall. After the offices were all tatSSBi After the hard times had come, After all tbe promises were broken, Grover he went a-fishing-- Don't you admire his gall?-- We're all cutting bait now, _ After last fall --Wattebarg (Minn.) Times 1 yjjv* ' . A Comparison ̂ . \. > The Government revenues during the five months of the present fiscal year, which ended Nov. 30, aggregated $129,- 403,417, against $161,184,076 during the corresponding period of last year--a loss of $31,7£0,6o9. The expenditures the past five months wero $159,321,513, compared with $15'J,990,706 during the corresponding period ot last year--an increase of $2,330,807 during the Cleve­ land five months, despite the fact that the expenditure for pensions during the Harrison fi ve months was $65,481,- 795, while that of the Cleveland five months was reduced to $58,481,573. The Cleveland expenditures during the five months have been nearly $30,000,000 in excess of receipts, while the Harrison receipts were over $4,000,009 in excess of the expenditures. HtaiSli^ 'Ik, ' * J* ' Current Topic*. HINDSIGHT discounts foresight every time. As the Inter Ocean puts it: If the makers of the national Democratic platform could have looked ahead one year and seen the fool attitude of the administration toward Hawaii they never would have said, as the platform does: "The Democratic party Is the only parts' that has ever given the country a foreign policy consistent, vigorous, com­ pelling *respeot abroad, and Inspiring confi­ dence at home." AMBASSADOR BAYARD declares that Mr. Cleveland's policy toward Liliuo- kalani is based simply upon "humani­ ty." Let the White House philanthro­ pist direct some of bis superfluous "hu­ manity* toward the hundreds of thou­ sands of American workingxnen now is idleness and want. the Union Except Oregon. Tf RTNWHT.V may be estimated in dollars, the mule is a imhier animal than the horse, says the New York Sun. Yet there are no autumnal mule shows, and even If there were, it is hardly probable that flower- adorned young women would make a practice of patting the prize animgi. The oniy way to pat a mule, accord­ ing to the Texas code, is with a fence rail or a board. The man who col­ lected horse and mule stat stics for the census report shows th the av­ erage price of a mule is $7 more tha'n the average price of a horse The ordinary mule. in North Carolina, which owns about 55,000 of the long* eared beasts, is worth about $90; the average price of a horse in the fame State Is about $79. Texas probably t)as more mules (about 200,000) than any other state. The average price is about $41, or nearly twice the value of a Texas horse. In Missouri mules are worth about $7 more and in Kentucky about $3 more than horses. Only a few States have no mules, or so few that the Statistician didn't make a note of them. One of these States is Rhode Island, which the muie drivers of Texas doubtless would think is not any too large a pasturage and play ground for a fes­ tive mule of Southern birth. Oregon is the only State where horses bring highest prices than mules- The ordi­ nary mule out there is worth $46 and the horses $51. The figures for Cali­ fornia are: Mules, $«7; horses, $16. In Pennsylvania, where mules, fam­ ous for longevity, are much used in the mines, they bring about $86; horses, $67. In this State there are seventy times as many horse9 as theie are mules, which number about 14,000. A New YorK muie Is worth $91 and a horse $76. Mules are Drizes more in New Jersey than ia any other State, the average price being about $106, or $30 more than horses, Illinois has about 140,000 mulee, or more than any other era State. Wierd Story of the Alpi. After thirteen long years, the glacier of Roserline, above Melringen, has told the sequel of an old Alpine mystery. In 1880, one Dr. lialler ana two guides of Grindelwald, made an ascent from which they never re­ turned; but now the slowly moving bed of ice has given up its bccret and brought forth a dead man--one of Dr. Haller's unfortunate party, but whether the professor himself or a guide it is no longer possible to de­ termine. A drlnking-cup of old- fashioned manufacture and a magni­ fy ingglass were tound besile the corpse The incident recalls, per­ haps, one of the most pathetic tales recorded of Alpine disaster--that ID which a glacier after many years brines to the light a corpse, fresh and young as when death fell: and an ancient dame--the lover of the dead guide--recognizes her sweetheart, lost so long. Time has stood still with him--for forty years, he hat slept in the ice^--and she, grown old and withered with burden of long life and much so row, recognizes her lover of half a century ago. '<• Lucy Stone's Marriage* 1 The marriage of Lucy Stooe wu the most romantic thing in her ca­ reer. Having dedicated herself to the cause of woman suffrage, she Ixad determined uever to marry. But Henry B. Blackwell, tv, young hard* ware merchant, of Cincinnati, whe had heard her speak at a legislative hearing in favor of the reform, was equally determined to make her lis­ ten to his suit. On his pointing out that together they could accomplish more for woman's emancipation than in any other way, she consented to be his wife, but stipulated that the ceremony be performed by a minister who would not use^he word "obey." They had to send thirty miles to And one, and be proved to be Thomas Wentworth Higginson. At the time of their marriage thev issued a joint protest against the inequalities of the law which gave the husband the control of his wife's property, person and children. This protest, which was widely published in tbe papers, gave rise to much discussion, and was an aii in the amendment of the laws. ' Expense* and Revenues of Great Britain. Great Britain, that is the United Kingdom, costs about $440,000,000 annually in the way ot expenses of Government. This immense sum is made up in a variety of ways. Duties on tobacco yield about $50,000,000, and those on tea, coffee, currants* raisins, imported spirits and ft few other articles yield about the same amount. Taxes on the sale of splr^ its, beer, stamps, eta, as well as the tax on railways furuish a large reve­ nue. The income and property taxes yield nearly $100,000,000. Ia addition to the foregoing the post- office yields about $50,000,000, while the telegraph and crown lands add largely to the revenues of the King­ dom. The Art of Interruption. A well-bred Frenchman is nothing if nbt polite. At a recent soiree the subject of ladies' ages was being dis­ cussed. "And how old should you take me to be?" queried a tine-looking dame of a male acquaintance of French birth. "Pardon, madam, but 1 cannot guess," answered the gentleman. "Then, monsieur, I will tell you," said the lady. "Yesterday was my birthday, and I am just M "Indeed, but you don't look IV gallantly interrupted tbe other with an eloquent shruj.--Toronto Mail. Hiis Was AM Trouble with Putatr̂ Xafr* Vt Kaierminatlon Scheme. In writing abont th* AnHrsHsn rabbit plague and the efforts of the New South Wales Government to pat an end to it, Mr. J. N. Ingram says ia Lippincott's Magazine: Pasteur in France found leisure to give the subject some reflection, modi thought he saw a way to accommo­ date New South Wales. He opened negotiations with the colony, offer­ ing to undertake the exterminatioa of its rabbits by inoculation. The animals were to be swept from the face of the earth hy hydrophobia. A few of them were to be inoculated and set free. These were expected to bite the healthy one*, and they ia turn to fasten their teeth- in their comrades until, by sue essive biting, the entire rabbit population would be inoculated and the land finally re­ lieved of their noxious presence. The proposal wa^considered by the colonial governmental Pasteur was notified to send on his experts and start operations. The specialists of the Parisian scientist arrive^ ia Au­ stralia with their hypodermic syringes. The rabbits were on hand. . But inquisitive parties had some questions to propound. They wished to know, before observing the spec­ tacle of a country covered with mad rabbits, whether the inoculated ani­ mal would n;»t. he eaten by dogs and thus communicate rabies to the canines. Thev wished to know, further, whether or not the dogs would then bite the sheep and cattle, finish up w.th the people, and arfford vthe undesirable phenomenon of a continent where animais and people were alike afflicted with rabies. All pro eedings were suspended. Further objections were heard. The adverse arguments were considered sound. The Pasteur overtures were rejected. The colony concluded that it preferred to keep its rabbits and have its human and lower animals in their right minds, rather than risk indiscriminate hydrophobia. J The French experts returned over the seas with their hypodermic syringes. The bunntes continued U* hold high carnival among the gard­ ens and wheat fieias. • v* • 1 »v, " ̂ * * ?IJ • ' Queer Things About Frog*. ;/ A curious thing about frogs is that the larger part of the breathing is done through the skin. In fact, it is said that this supply of air is a nec­ essary*, fddltion to that takeu in by ordinary breathing, as the latter does not supply sufficient air to support life in a frog. Another peculiar thing about the skin of the frog is its powerful ab­ sorption of water. This is due, of course, to the numberless pores with which their skin is provided. It has been proved that a frog can thus soak up its weight in water in an hour. The skin of the stomach is most active in this way, and, at the same time, is most often in contact with moisture, such as inu:?, dewy grass, wet ground, and leave;, afford. As the skin perspires quite as freely as it absorbs, it is easilj seen why contact with moisture is so neces­ sary. Besides the loss from evapora­ tion, there is the stopping of skin breathing also, because the skin has to be kept mo:8t and soft to absorb fresh air and give off used air from the system. The soaking of water is what gives the frog's skin such a cold, clammy, and uncomfortable feeling when handled. And it ex­ plains another strange thing. Though a bullfrog were poked with a red-hot iron, It would not feel it enough to move out of its tracks; for the moist­ ure of the skin forms a kind of film of vapor between it and the iron, which takes time to heat through; and so the frog would not to 1 pain from the heat. Yet, if hot water is dropped upon him, be wilt instantly jump from pain, as this beat at once strikes into the skin. A frog has another safeguard against drying up--that is, a kind of interior sack for storing water. Like the camel, it thus keeps a supply which carries it over many a dry place, when it would otherwise lose all its moisture and die. The water is as pure and tasteless as that of any spriog. It is said that la Australia there is a species of frog that pre­ pares for a drouth in a wonderful way. Sometimes the traveller suffer­ ing from thirst will come to a bush, and digging into the ground a foot or two, will find a clay ball. Be cracks it open, and out jumps a frog! Stranger still, inside the ball is found a good drink of pure water! And with this the man quenches his can't tell ht '•iv * .. ? * Oranges for Export. ' • Mnerfcan oransres are bcrag ® troduced into England, and if the experiment proves successful finan­ cially shipments will be made to Holland and Belgium, and j erhaps also to North Germany. The fruit is shipped from Jacksonville, Fla., to New York or Philadelphia, where It is resorted and repacked for the trip across tbe ocean. The first ship­ ment from Jacksonville was made September 21, and the oranges sold In Liverpool October 6, at prices ranging from 11 to 16 shillings per box, the average price being 13 shil­ ling--a bout $3.15. The culture of oranges has grown enormously in Fioriau since 1886, when tife yield was less than 1,000,- 000 boxea The annual produce has increased every year, with a single exception, and the crop was cut short that year by coid weather. This year's crop Is estimated at 4,500,000 boxes, an increase of 500 per tent la eight years. If this rate is kept ap Ibr another eight years Florida will be able to supply all Europe wltte oranges and have enough left for home consumption.--St. Loula Be- public. •» . *•. V»v wic.. 1, } • v t .. j