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ILLINOIS STATE NEWS DOLLY IS A GOOD TRAVELER, gued It tills way; If he'd work for fifty cents a day, I "could affbrd to feed him. arid that would* be a saving to the coun­ ty, and I couldn't rind.no law agiri it. So says I, 'Mr. H., you take right hold.', And he has so. But I'm firm iis a rock 'bout his being in the jail nights. He understands that, and he goes to bed prompt by 7 o'clock. I won't have no foolish'.ng about that. . "1 calculate it's a sight better for him to be busy than 'twould 'be to be just sitting 'round, and I think the bet­ ter of him for thinking of it." aufejfee Plate^Tflggerslk ^lod^m^fweumtCoufitries _____ 4*.tW ^nitedlState during tkethree fiscal years', ending Jime.30,1091,189*1^1895' OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. IWMWofa iRockford's G-iant Policeman Learning to Kidc a Wheel for a Novel Race-- Vast Sums Contributed by Illinois Toward the Nation's Revenues. . Rockford's Baby Policeman. Frank Sully, the big baby member of •the Rock ford police force, is now learn­ ing to ride a bicycle, and will soon issue -a challenge to "Baby" Bliss, of Chicago, for the heavy-weight championship. Bliss was one of .the attractions at the Win­ nebago County fair last fall in the bicycle races, and the only reason why Sully did not challenge him sit that time was be­ cause he-eon'd not ride a wheel. He did challenge the Chicago an to a weighing A Massachusetts Viewy According to estimates there are over a million bicycle riders in the United States to-day and the majority of them are voters. All are interested in the improvement of our roads and this^ subject is fast becoming a political is-<^ sue. Before the introduction of the bicycle, when it didn't matter so much,. people who could afford to owa horses and carriages were willing'to pay a little higher price for their team, pro­ vided it had the latest thing in springs. attached,, and then, if the. road was merely passable, !t made no difference. No special thought was taken of the horse which drew them. He would get along all right. - - Now, since fashion and fad and trie low price of machines have made bi­ cycling so popular, there rises a cry fOr good roads. When a man is propelling hi nisei f along by his own bone and muscle' he thinks the, same road^over" which he used to drive his hard work­ ing horse are execrable Jfrid unites himself with the highway reformers. The new State highway law is doing a great deal toward the improvement of the leading thoroughfares between cities and towns. The cross and con­ necting streets are the ones which now need attention. There is no reason why a taxpayer living on one of these streets is not just as much'entitled to a respectable street in front of his house as the man who lives on the main ave­ nue. He demands it and he should have it. Englishmen visiting this country are surprised at the condition of our roads. Some of them even go so far to say that there is not a decent road in the country. Compared with English roads their assertion is in a great measure true. Every street there, country or" city, long or short, which comes under the control of the authorities, is either pavud, asphalted or macadamized. Smoothness, hardness, neatness and durability: are its characteristics. Driv­ ing along through an English country, town an American is surprised to see gangs of men at work repairing what in America would be looked upon as an elegant piece of road. The least hoi-, low is quickly filled, the least hump leveled, the first stone is chrted away.' This makes the country a cycler's para- dise. We need this same reform in Airierl- ca. Our people are fond of travel, on foot, on bicycles, by horse and by rail. We are on the eve of the abolition of grade crossings; the next thing to fol­ low is the establishment of good roads. This cannot fail to be accomplished in our progressive nation, -- Taunton, Mass., Gazette. 506,t28j936 lb* 0,#' lbs' How do hands m ̂ dmericaYi TTn Piale Faclom jike ihe prospects Houj do tW u/lrojell jool oml c.lotWs to 1m plate hands like ill How do those iwbolrent :bcuse Voricl; Jurni sta voil- Yoad'irariaportotionltpltbese'haridsjilikfi^suc^^prospecl? WHEN STRIKES ARE FREQUENT. ness trip on the continent, as follows: "The countries of Europe,- outside of England, do not discuss the tariff to any extent. They are all, and, are growing more so,' protective as to their own in­ dustries and England will soon .have to change front or she will kill off the few farmers yet left. In fact, aside from trucking in the Neighborhood of the cities, there is not enough money in agriculture to pay ivnt and tithes." English agricultural statistics, show­ ing the decreasing area planted to sta­ ple crops every year, sustain this senti­ ment. FRANK SULLY match, however, but "Baby" declined, giving rise to a well-grounded suspicion that he does not weigh 525 pounds, as is claimed. Sully travels a beat in South Rockford around the depots, and is as hard as a brick in spite of his great bulk, his'tiesh not being soft, like Bliss'. He is the son of Tom Sully, who for years has been the keeper of the city jail. Frank lias been on the road a number of sea­ sons, and for a year or two tended door in a Chicago mhseum, attracting atten­ tion on account of his enormous size. He has trained in gymnasiums in a futile endeavor to lose his superfluous flesh, but always remains about the same weight. As a foot racer he has challenged many sprinters of the light-weight class in Rockford, and has never had his colors lowered. The race will be a novel one, and will probably take place in the spring. Sugar. Medical men say that sugar has a remedial value never appreciated until now. As a tonic and invigorator its value has been, in experimental cases, extremely satisfactory. The case is cited of a person who was subject to the most violent headaches from hun­ ger or lack of food. After a certain period, a peculiar pressure or congest­ ed feeling was noticed in the head, in­ variably followed by acutcrpam, some­ times by severe nausea. One day the individual in question tried the experi­ ment of taking sugar and water, this being the only available article of food :>t the time. Several blocks of cut sugar were dipped into water and eaten very slowly, with frequent dippings so that the sugar was almost entirely dissolved^ When the operation began, the pressure in the head was already very marked, and the headache was coming on. Strange to say, the un­ pleasant symptoms almost immediately left, and there was no return of them. Repeated trials had the same effect, and it seemed to be a foregone conclu­ sion that with this patient at least the sugar application was a success. Fur­ ther experiments are being made, with a view to demonstrate the value of cut sugar as a luncheon where other food is not to be liad'. " \ Some Farm Prices. A farmer told us last Saturday that he had sold 1.S00 bushels of oats for 19 cents per bushel, the entire crop bringing him but $3«". That is the good the Democratic free trade tariff does the farmer. Thus after selling his wool for 10 to 12 cents per pound; his wheat for about 50 cents; his potatoes for 25 to 30 cents and a prospect of from 20 to 23 cents per bushel for corn, is it any wonder that farmers have but . little money? " Is it any wonder they are discouraged? Is it any wonder they cannot buy as they used to nor pay for what they owe as they formerly did? And now Democrats ask the J farmers to vote them iinVo power again! I --Independent, Marion, Ohio. Illinois' Fine Showing. Illinois is still the greatest internal revenue producing State of the Union, according to the annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue. • The total revenues collected last year in the various internal revenue districts of the country was $143,240,077.75. Illinois came first, with $30,000,000, Kentucky second witli nearly $20,000,000. and New York third, with a little more than $10,- Q00.(M>. The greatest revenue producing district of the country was the Peoria district; which collected -$13,407,108.38. The fifth Kentuey district returned $10,- 000,000. tiie first Ohio (Cincinnati) $!),- 673,887.56, the eighth Illinois (Spring­ field i district came fourth, with $9,007,- 430.19. and the Chicago district, fifth in the list, collected $7,601,198.07. There were 320 suits commenced for violations of revenue laws in the Southern Illinois district court and 135 in Northern Illi­ nois; which compares favorably with other Stati's. The mountain regions of West­ ern North Carolina holds the record with 1,039 cases, while Commissioner Miller's own State of West Virginia, though small, showed the second largest number of cases, cf any district in the country, 739. Trilby is her name; She's a child of fortune, „ Out to win her fame. This tag bore the signatures of two young ladies in the money order bureau at Bozeman, Mont. So on all through the thick bunch of tags were written funny and poetical inscriptions, each office vying with the other to invent the brightest verse or idea.--Boston Journal. An Enterprising Undertaker. Albert B. Thompson of Uansomville, N. Y., is a hustler and deserves suc­ cess. Mr. Thompson is in the under­ taking business. He has some pretty sharp competition, but is determined to hold his own. Here is a copy of a print­ ed circular which Mr. Thompson has sent out to all the physicians resident in Ransomville and the adjacent terri­ tory : Dear Sir--I desire to say to my old friends and all others who may be iiif terested that I have purchased a thou­ sand-dollar hearse, robes, tassels for the horses and everything necessary for a first-class funeral. Cannot be beat in the county, and I will give a free funeral to the first one who will patronize me from Wilson, Young- stown, Fekin, Lewiston and Ransom­ ville. Also am prepared to give funer­ als 50 per cent cheaper than anyone else in the county. I will give you $5 for every funeral you will get me. Loo(se Confinement. To endeavOr to profit by a punish­ ment justly incurred is commendable, but few prisoners have the opportunity of combining punishment and profit so neatly and comfortably as did Mr. II., who lived in a country town in Maine. The town had very poor jail accommodations. Indeed, a prisoner could easily make his escape by raising a window, or even by a strong push against the outer door. Dangerous criminals were taken to a neighboring town for safe keeping, but occasionally the old county jail was used for a pris­ oner whose offense was slight, and who could in a measure be trusted. Old Mr. H. had been arrested sev­ eral times for selling liquor, and final­ ly. when a fine no longer seemed a suf­ ficient punishment, he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The jailer heard the sentence with more concern than the prisoner, and remarked to a neighbor that "it was dreadful trying to have to 'tend to Mr. II. just at planting time." "I s'pose likely I'll have to camp right out there with him," remarked the jailer. "It does seem as if 'twas time we had a jail that could be locked up and left. As things be, I calculate 1 shall earn my salary for a spell." "The jail's right handy to your house, ain't it?" asked his companion. "Yese, 'tis right in the yard, so to speak. I s'pose I can manage to keep an eye on the old fellow," continued the jailer. Mr. H. was naturally an active man, and after a day or two of indoor life he began to watch the jailer as he work­ ed in the garden, and to wish he were out there with him. His wish did" riot go unexpressed, and within a week he was helping to plant potatoes, and oc­ casionally -was seen on the village streets. Finally someone .asked the jailer about his prisoner. "Isn't Mr. H. in jail now?" - "Yes, sir, I s'pose I can say he is. And he acts sensible, too. Says he, 'I don't want to be a-wastln' my time this way,'"«says he; 'an' if you'll agree to pay me fifty cents a day, I'll take right hold and help you with your planting,' says he. , "Well, I thought it over, and I ar­ A Broken Boom. The Democratic tariff has placed our home market at the mercy of foreign manufacturers. Ignorant of the amount of foreign competition they will meet, our own factories are restricted in the output they will lay up for future trade. In the meantime, the stocks cut down by two years of business prostra­ tion are about supplied, and the tre- mendOtis boom wiricii--it--was--foml+y- hoped would follow the birth of that tariff child of perfidy and dishonor has about lost its wind.--Commercial, Louisville, Ey. A H U M A N B O M B , Queer Action of a Would-Be Suicide in the French Capital. The Parisian police are now in charge of an unexploded bomb which is a source of much speculation and won­ derment among the members of the force. It walked into one of the police stations the other day, and is in the form of a man. This human bomb bears the name of Balthazar, is a chem­ ist by trade, and, being anxious to de­ stroy himself on original and scientific lines, and, remembering that chloride of potash and brimstone on coming in­ to collision explode, swallowed first the one ingredient and then the other, in large quantities. He then waited for the explosion that was to take place in his stomach, and to blow7 him into very little pieces, indeed. This did not, how­ ever, take place as he had anticipated, and with a view of compelling the two recalcitrant drugs to recognize one an­ other, he drank a quantity of water. Still there was no explosion, and, re­ garding himself in his unexploded state as a menace to public safety and to the life of his fellow citizens, he walked over to the police station and asked the authorities to take charge of him. They are now waiting for him to "go off" with as much patience as they can mus­ ter under such particularly trying Cir­ cumstances. The Supreme Wish of the East. To keep up the house and not let the family name be extinguished is the supreme wish in Japan. This is the immortality of the East The house lives on; the individuals are but frag­ ments of the house. If there be no natural heir, adoption readily supplies the deficiency. The magnificent scale on which adoption is practiced shows a foreigner at once that the words "father," "son," can hardly have the same depth of meaning they have in the English language. "Why did Washington let his house die out?" was once asked me by a: Jap­ anese gentleman, who couldn't con­ ceive any reason for such neglect. lie thought our great general might have adopted some one to keep his house and name from perishing. "How long has he lived there?" I asked ouce concerning a certain per­ son. „ --As "he" was one of the pronouns that had to be translated into the mentaT contents of my pupil's brain, he took it to mean "house," and replied: "Oh. he has been there two hundred and fifty years!" «, "How long have you lived here?" 1 asked a merchant. . » "Three hundred years," was the -prompt-reply, with-alook of satlsfae* tion at the thought of his house having passed through ten generations. Locomotive as a Deer Hunter. The headlights of the B, & A. loco­ motives attract the deer from the long stretches of virgin forest through which the road runs, and frequently the ani­ mal ventures upon the track arid is run down. Two were killed at the same time in this manner a few days ago.--Kenne­ bec Journal. ° . I t isn't the working for a. lining that provokes us; it is the kind of liv­ ing we get for our wo*^ Razors Made by Machinery. The manufacture of razors by ma­ chinery has now become a fixed fact in Germany, and the quality of the ar­ ticle is said to compare favorably with the best Sheffield product, the process being also applicable to scissors-mak- ing. A die bearing the impress of a razor blade and tongue, or of a scissors blade and bow, as the case may be, is screwed into the bottom of a drop ham­ mer, which is worked by hand over a pulley, a corresponding die being placed on the anvil upon which the hammer falls. The end of the steel bar or ramrod having been heated to a red heat is laid across the anvil die, and the hammer, falling with a weight of about thirty hundred-weight or less, ac­ cording to the size of the article to be produced, forces the metal Into the mold, this, when withdrawn, appearing in the shape of a perfect razor or scis­ sors blank, but surrounded with a fray or fringe, which is afterward pared with the stripping tools as waste. This operation is repeated indefinitely, ac­ cording ix> the extent of the order in hand, t e tools being then changed on to anot .or size of blade or scissors. Re­ peated blows af the hammer are re­ quired to forge some of the blanks, reg­ ulated by their size and shape. Foreign Cottons Coming. When England sells us 20,000,000 yards more of cotton piece goods, in nine months of this year, over and above the quantity sold us in 1891, it can hardly be regarded as a satisfac­ tory condition to our own manufac­ turers. The increases were as follows: Increase in nine mouths, to Sept. 30, 1S95-- , Yards. Piece goods, unbleached 1,348,100 Piece goods, bleached 4,400,300 Piece goods, dyed 14,412,100 State News in Brief. Samuel Halsted, a resident of Winne­ bago County for forty-two years, is dead. KusFell Keep, a Salem boy. was acci­ dent ally shot and killed while hunting rabbits. "William Murphy went to Decatur to secure a marriags license to wed Miss Nellie Martin. When he returned he found that his intended bride had mar­ ried another man the previous day. This was Murphy's third attempt at marriage to the same young woman, lie having been, it is said, the cause of the previous nuptials not being performed. Murphy is a wealthy young farmer and takes his disappointment in a philosophical man­ ner. The Rev. Mr. Ehnquist, of Rockford. chairman of a committee r.ppointed by the Free < 'ongregational Church at its last confeier.ce to investigate charges of slan­ der brought against the Rev. Mr. Davis, of Minneapolis, Minn., by Prof. Princell. of that city, reports that the defendant Ras been found not guilty, and nO trial will be held. There is a possibility that counter-charges may be brought against Prof."'Princell at the next conference of the church. Five hundred Swedes, Norwegians and Danes from Chicago are on their way to their mother countries. They left on a special train from Dearborn station for New York, whence the steamer Norge of the Thingvalla Line will carry them home to spend Christmas. For over thirty years excursions of this kind have been customary among the Scandinavians of the United States. Wihen they emi­ grate to this country they rarely do so with a view of breaking home ties for good. and. though loyal to the country of their adbption. the majority, from the time of .their landing, look forward to a visit to their homes on the other side of the Atlantic about Christmas time. The party was considerably larger than in previous years. The station was crowded with friends of the travelers, and as the train pulled ^out a band struck up the Swedish national anthem, a thousand voices joining in the chorus. Kauffnian Brothers, cigar manufactur­ ers at Rockford, have been closed by the sheriff on two suits by local creditors amounting to $1,360. The Illinois State Board of Health has received reports of contagious diseases as follows: Diphtheria at Springfield; scar­ let fever at Springfield; typhoid fever from Springfield. Reports from places where scarlet fever and diphtheria have been epidemic show the disease to be un­ der control and abating. The secretary of the board has advised all authorities where contagion prevails to close up the schools. While a party of St. Louis hunters were looking for game in the Catholic cemetery one mile south of Raymond, they discov­ ered the remains of an apparently young woman lying in the woods. Her face and , hands were black, owing "to decomposition, but it was discovered that she was white. It is supposed she was murdered. A jury in the United States Federal Court at Chicago awarded $50,000 dam­ ages in favor of Wilbur F. Davidson against the Illinois Central Railroad. Feb. 27, 1893,-Davidson stepped from a suburban train of the Illinois Central at the Hyde Park station, and in passing down the track was struck by a freight train and sustained severe injuries. Where Knglnnd Buys Her Wheat. The Argentine and Australasia are both becoming more important factors in supplying the English market with tallow, their sales of this commodity having increased by 250,000 hundred­ weight this year to Sept. 30. During the same months England bought less than half the quantity of tallow from the United States that she bought in 1S94. A Democratic Confession. For the fiscal year to date the deficit is now $10,000,000, and the hope of making both ends meet for the twelve, month Is vain.--N. Y. Herald. A Grewsome Drama. A rather grewsome play achieved sensational success at Turin, Italy. It is entitled "The Corpse of the River Po." In the first act a supposed corpse is dragged from a tank representing the river, with all the realism that can be put into such a scene. The second act plays in the morgue, six bodies on slabs furnishing the realistic decoration to the place; but the climax occurs .n tlie fifth act, where the. hearse upon which twelve coffins are being con­ veyed to the potter's field, is drawn over the scene and upset in sight of the public, the coffins tumbling over. One of them, containing the murdered body of a woman, opens, and the dead victim rolls at the feet of the heavy villain, her murderer. This is realism with a vengeance! And this play is given night after night in a civilized country, and hundreds are turned away from the doors of the playhouse! The Farmer Learns His Lesson, Describing Things Unseen. The best description of mountain scenery was written by a man who had never Climbed a mountain and Miss Nora Hopper, the most distinctively Celtic of the new Irish school of writ­ ers, has never so much as set foot in the green isle in her life. Gifts to British Heroes. Strathfieldsaye, the seat of the Duke of Buckingham; Blenheim, that of the Duke of Marlborough, and Trafalgar Park, the seat of Earl Nelson, were gifts from the country for military arid naval services. Leaps of the Flying Fish. Flying fish are to be constantly met with in certain latitudes. The flying fish rises ten or fifteen feet out of the water and keeps in the air for 100 yards, when It is obliged to wet its fins by dipping.