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m-mi §& To Oenrt of Appall k' has decided, after1--g Hal the Pilgrim Ghuroh's cW-- of bella In St Loaii musk be silsaosd between 9 o'clock pt» m.-Hd 7 k m. The doclano ttufttho stalling of oloek » useLsea ngî o #o4 '-.fc'jL .-4S> PROBABLY the biggest cattle transac­ tion of the age is thepurohnse just con eluded in Central Kentucky of 1,100 high-grade and short-horn bull* for the improvement of [the 100,000 Texas cattle on the 600,000 acre tract of the Franklin Land and Cattle Company, located in the Texas Panhandle. The company is an English syndicate. owners. The sehom ̂ Is rsslfy an extension of the postil system. At present the system slops with the bllini of letters to the Dead Letter The Woods scheme is to carry it still farther and tarnish a list of all tiwletteis in the Dead Letter Offioe from time to time, and port tins printed list in the leading offices of the country. His theory is that three-quarters or four-fifths of the letters which are de­ stroyed in the Dead Letter Office, their delivery having been found to be im­ possible under the present system, may really be made to reach those for whom they are intended. LORDSBUBO, New Mexico, is a front­ ier paradise. It has 500 inhabitants and thirty-seven saloons, besides a choice collection of dance-houses and gambling dens. Fourteen persons have died in the town, and the causes of death may be classified as follows: Lynched, one; murdered three; sui­ cides, six; small-pox, three; doubtful, «ne.V MAST BULLOCK got a ridiculously- heavy verdict against the English com­ pany on whose railroad she was slightly hurt. But a new trial has been granted • on the ground, as expressed by the • Judge, that she and her sisterq, who appeared as witnesses, were so beauti­ ful that their charm of person had ^seemingly deprived the jury of common -sense. A NEW YORK editor who took Horace Greeley as his model, has a little farm out in Westchester county. He has labored faithfully, and says if his po­ tatoes are not destroyed by the bugs, his cojrn by the crows, and his wheat by the weevil, and some fellows doesn't : invent a worm to eat up the rest ef his crops, he will clear this summer enough to pay his hired men and have $1 left to buy a circus ticket. $HE following figures show the num- ib$f of Texas cattle driven north to Kansas and other Northern States and Territories during the year 1882 and previous years: 1883. 350,000 1881 280,001 1880., 894,78 k 1878.....:.,. 357,927 1878.... <..1.. 965,846 1876....... 331,998 1875 151,618 1874 166,000 187®........*. 405,000 18tt. 350,000 1871 .OOO.UOO 1870 300.01:0 1869 &50.000 1868 75.0CO 1867 S5.000 1806 260,000 This gives an ̂ average of 277,060 head jmt sixteen years. AXEST the alleged duel BETWEEN Knox, of the Texas Sifting8, and Sheahan, a New York sculptor, the New York News perpetrates the follow­ ing: An editor went out to fight ^ ' A modeler in olay, , ',1* •• They chose the spot at Fiddler's late, ; Beyond Far Bockaway. Bat when they found the ran biased dowi Upon the shimmering sands. They grabbed Iheir shooting-irons and skipped To Jersey's marshy lands. They fought all day, they fought all night, In half-a-dozea States, They got a heap of'fazne in type. But paid no printers' rates. fa / The people laughed, the police grinned At such a gauzy hoax, And knowing onea said, with a wiak: "The Jumbo of great jokes!" :r -. Was there no firing? Ah, you bet, : > • Big guns and smaller fry! • 1 Pop went the corks! The duel itself < Was an all-fired lie. DOMESTIC pets may cause serious domestic infelicity. A New York Judge has just granted a divorce, without alimony, on the prayer of a husband whose chief grievance was a profane parrot. The husband alleged that his wife persisted in keeping the wicked Poll, notwithstanding his objections. He evidently thought himself com­ petent to do the swearing for the fam­ ily. A few years ago a pariot who per­ sisted in invoking maledictions upon that much-abused aisseminator of liter­ ature, the book-agent, found his way into the studies of at least two Chicago pastors, one hyper-orthodox, the other ultra-liberaL Where the bird learned to give voice to public sentiment about book agents is an unsolved problem, but luckily no pastoral relations were ever known to have been dissolved by his profanity. • " A YACHTSMAN who WSS SFN&H • country town in New England invited a large party to take a sail with him. He wrote a -'dispatch to his wife: "Going for a short trip along the coast. Have invited all the oldest and ugliest hens in-town." He was amazed next day at the small attendance. His wife ex­ plained it on his return. A lady friend of his wrote her that the lady operator At the telegraph office told every one the contents of the dispatch. A 3PEAXKR at a meeting of female suffragists at Prince's Hall, London, occasioned considerable amazement, notf preaching, Candid Talk from a Clergyman. X was speaking, a little while past, with a clergyman who had once been a carpenter. He said to me: "Hived in a retired portion of the country, where my mind was not sufficiently occupied with constructions. I became a relig­ ious person and took up morals for a study. In a little while I found my mind drifting towards divinity instead of carpentry. I was a good builder and my work was well spoken of. But I thought that to» become a portiou of a moral instrumentality would reflect more credit on my young children then toddling about my feet, than to continue to build dwellings and barns. 80 I en­ tered the church, received my com­ mission to preach, was perfectly honest in my belief that I had a call a 'call* to preach, and in course of time I drifted to a large city. There I found that I had wliollv mistaken my pursuit. I had not the education to interest the rising and powerful generation brought up in common schools, liigli schools and colleges. I knew nothing about music nor any of the lighter arts that illustrate Yet I could not change o unmingled witti horror, as she described the career of a "tall young woman" who tried fo obtain journalistic work in New York. She said that this young woman "went round from newspaper to newspaper until at lost the editor of the New York Times found out what she was fitted for and made her cattle re­ porter--to attend and describe horse- fairs, oattle markets, etc." THE new High-Lioense laws in the West differ widely. In Illinois all .licenses hereafter for the sale of spirits and wines are to be granted upon the payment of $500 a year, and for beer at $150. The Nebraska law puts the fee In cities of certain grade at $1,000, and «t $500 for all other places. The law of Iowa permits towns to fix the «mounti, and there is no uniform rule on the subject. In some places it is as low as $75, and in others as high •s $1,000, while there has been a large increase in the average amount through­ out the State, and a considerable 're­ duction in the number of liquor-sellers. AN old man, 93 years of age, a na­ tive of Spain, has just returned from •hi* country, where he has been living many years, to his native land. There is nothing remarkable about this, but the prodigious family which accom­ panied Mm book was certainly remark­ able. It consisted of sixteen daugh­ ters, twenty-three sons, thirty-four granddaughters, forty-seven grandsons, forty-five great-granddaughters, thirty- nine great-grandsons, three great-great- granddaughters, and seventy-two sons- in-law and daughters-in-law, making in all 279 persons. The old man had "been three times married, and his old­ est son is 70 years of age. The ship upon which he and his astonishing family colony went to Europe belongs to him, and is commanded by one of bis numerous grandsons. Notwith­ standing his age the old gentleman en­ joys excellent health. Every day he takes two hours gymnastic exercise, -walks for two hours, and directs the education of his great-grandchildren. Je never used spirituous liquors in any form, and does not smoke. He will shortly be presented at the Court Madrid. A 8CHXHE for raising the dead is on loot. The dead in this instance are letters. Mr. Woods, of Philadelphia, who has devoted thirty-three years to He subject of postal rpform, thinks he so late in my life, and I continued to preach until my hair turned gray and my children grew to be men and women, and then I suddenly discovered that I had abandoned the great business of the carpenter for the empty profession of the preacher. I could not preach as well as a large percentage of my con­ gregation. Had I continued to build and moved to as large a place as I then resided in, I could have put up miles of blocks of houses. In the meantime I had educated my children to be profes­ sional persons. I discovered too late that, if I had brought them up my own apprentices in the carpenter's shop, I would have made them all rich. I would now be rich myself and all my sons rich, if I had adhered to my com­ pass and rule and lathe and plaqe."-- New York Tribtine. A Panicky Atmosphere. "The country, sir ?" said a man on Austin avenue, "the country! What country are you talking about? This country ? This country won't last six months longer." "How do you know this country won't last six 'months?" inqqjred a by­ stander. "How do I know it? It's in the air. The premonitory symptoms are all around thicker than picnic ants. Com­ ing events cast their shadows before. Yes , sir, we are on the verge of a financial panic which will rattle us from center to circumference." "Do you notice any peculiar signs of a panic?" "Lots of 'em. Lots of 'em, sir. There is a financial stringency in the money market which, I dare say, might be appreciated by even you. Haven't you noticed it?" "Not particularly." "Not particularly, bah! Let me tell you, sir, I can bring this fact home to you forcibly--forcibly, sir, or I'm a mistaken individual. I can prove it to you before the whole crowd. "Well shoot ahead, and prove it." "Very well, sir. Didn't you loan me a dollar a couple of months ago?" "Yes." "Can you let me have another to­ day?" "I would"-- "That's it! That's it! Yo* are going to refuse, and right here, before all these bvstanders, you tacitly admit that a financial stringency prevents me pay­ ing vou the one loan or even negotiat­ ing another. If the state of the finan­ cial atmosphere isn't panicky, I don't know what it is."--Texas SiftinQ8. PBOF. JOHN NICOL, speaking in his "Historical Sketch" of American litera­ ture of the non-existence of mterna- tional copyright, says that "this gross injustice to the authors on both sides of the Atlantic, for the benefit oi the pub­ lishers on one, leads to the intellectual market being glutted with stolen goods. Considerations of interest in business are of course everything; those of prin­ ciple or art or patriotism nothing* of"tl»e Covaitry pulttibian weavils by sat­ urating the beans in petroleum. The bean W«« l&ot injured for seed. Aw Eastern farmer recently an­ nounced bifcoonversion to ensilage, and announced Ida intention of immediately building a "cyclone. "--Chicago Jour­ nal. THE chemist of the Agricultural De­ partment at Washington savs that the soil best adapted for the growth of sorghum for sugar ' appears to be a sandy loam. AN authority says there are $1,900,- 000,000 invested in the 6,000,000 miles of fences in the United States, and that they have to be renewed on an average once in fifteen years. THOMAS R. MCCONNKIA, of Scott county, Iowa, soaks his wheat in vitriol water for twenty-four hours before sow­ ing as a cure for smut. He uses one pound of vitriol to twenty bushels of wheat. VERY careful experiments made in New York last season, show that the flat culture of potatoes produces the finest tuber and the largest yields. The best results followed the Dutch method of planting, which consists in keeping the surface level, planting a single eye in a place, covering it six inches deep and allowing but a single stalk to grow in a hill, which are a foot apart each way, A ooBBKSPoNDENT of the Farmers' Bevietu has practiced during several winters the plan of keeping apples in dry sand, poured into the filled barrels softer storing in the cellar, and finds it a "decided improvement" on any other ever tried, the fruit remaining till late spring "as crisp and apparently as fresh to when first gathered." He does like­ wise with potatoes, and uses the same sand year after year. THE practice of some of the best farmers new is to keep pigs through the summer, on green food, cut and car­ ried to the pens, with a little grain, and what milk can be spared after butter making. Spring pigs are thus made to weigh 200 pounds at 7 months old, and, except in the last month, they get little grain. The best time to seli such pigs is at the beginning of cold weather, usually in October. THE Indiana Farmer says one of its subscribers kept a record of the time employed in cultivating fourteen acres of corn last season in the old-fashioned way, and finds he gave about two days to the acre. The yield was 800 bush­ els, over fifty-seven bushels to the acre. He estimated the value of his crop at $320, and the labor expended on it at $120, and, deducting expenses, he claims a profit of $14 per acre. PRESIDENT OHMER, of the Dayton Horticultural Society, says he knew a man who made a great success with an acre or two of strawberries, gathering from twenty to thirty bushels a day, and he was so elated with his success that, on enlarging his fields, he said "he would gather 100 bushels a day or bust." He "busted." His single acre was well attended to; his five acres were necessarily more or less neglected. This scrap of history has been many times repeated---Chicago Journal. A FARMER vouches for the following as a prevention of chicken cholera: "Take a tight barrel, saw it in two in the middle, then wash it out good with hot water, so that there is not a particle of bad flavor in it. Then take two quarts of fresh lime and slack it, filling the tub or half barrel full of fresh water; when slacking, add one pound of alum to it and stir it good; let it stand until the sediment has settled and the liquor is clear, and it is ready for use. When using it, take one piut of the clear liquor and add it to one pail of fresh water, and give your fowls to drink during summer months." AN exchange, speaking of the Central Ohio farmers, says: "They abandoned our old-fogy, antiquated way of allow­ ing every farmer to work out and fool away his own tax according to his own notion. There is a money tax, and the money is used by the lowest responsible bidder who agrees to keep the roads in repair. At one time there were a got>d many toll roads, but the people are gradually buying them out, so that all roads shall be free. They go much fur­ ther. They often tax the land a mile or more back from a certain road up to as high as $8 an acre, and make a good pike. This tax is in most cases very willingly paid. Several men assured me that it raised.the price of land from 25 to 50 per cent. They could not be induced to go back to dirt roads, using a foot or so of gravel on a well-graded foundation. It is certainly a great treat to live where the roads are good the year round; and a farmer is thereby brought much nearer his neighbors, Hearer market and the rest of the world." THE mode of breaking steers in Ken­ tucky is thus described: Oet a strong post, eight feet long by two thick; plant it three and one-half feet in the ground, well rammed; round or level the top of the post and leave a pin to it, or make a mortice and insert a strong two-inch pin of tough wood in it, per­ pendicularly at the top, six or eight inches long. Then get a tough sapling tweuty-five feet long, measure off at the small end of it the usual length of a yoke, and bore the holes for your bows. Then bore three holes, or more if you choose, four, eight and twelve feet from the other end of the sapling, of the size of the pin in the top of the post, giving the shortest lever first. Draw your steers up, let them be young or old, gentle or wild, it makes no differ­ ence ; yoke them to the end of the pole; but, instead of tying their tails togeth­ er, if vou wish to avoid bobtail oxen, tie their loins together with a good rope, wrap up their head halters, clear the front and let them go; round and round they will go with a rush; drunk-- drunker, still they grow, until, groan­ ing, down they drop. For awhile they lie panting and lookiug wild; then leap as if suddenly frightened, and rush round and round again, grow drunk and drop again. Leave them, they will repeat the experiment, until, reeling, they will stop or stand. In a few hours you may lead them around by their halters. Uncouple them from the pole or yoke them to your cart, and drive them where yon please with safety. HOUSEKEEPER'S HELPS. BOILED POTATOES.--Parboil large potatoes and cut them into thin slices; broil the slices on a gridiron, which has been well greased, until brown on both sides. Season and serve on a hot dish. TOSSED POTATOES.-^Boil some pota­ toes in their skins; peel them and cut nto small pieces, toss them over the ire in a mixture of cream, butter rolled .n flour, pepper and salt till they are fiot and well covered with the sauce. Serve while they are quite hot. I BAKED ALXOSO PUDDIKO.--Beat fine an it; six ounces of battier °a quarto! thick cream. When well nixed, bake half an hoar with a paste around the dish. LYONAISB POTATOES.--Take a half pound of cold boiled potatoes, two ounces of onions, a heaping teaspoonf al of minced parsley, butter sine of an egg. Slice the potatoes, put the butter into a saucepan and when hot throw in the chopped onion, which must be fried 4 light brown, then add the sliced potatoes, which turn until they are thoroughly hot and of a light color, then mix in the minced parsley and serve im­ mediately. PRESSED CHICKEN.--Boil the chicken until the meat will separate from the bones readily; use just as little water as possible to cook it in; after you have taken the chicken out and removed the bones, cut it in small pieces aud put back into the kettle with the broth and boil until Very tender, then put it into a basin and turn what little broth remains in the kettle over it; put in a press and leave until cold; when cold slice thin. CHICKEN Pa.-Divide the chicken at all the joints and boil until tender; season with salt and pepper, make a nice, rich, biscuit dough and roll to an inch thickness; line your pan or pud­ ding dish on the sides only, letting the crust roll down over the edge of the pan; put in the chicken, and add butter generously and flour enough to thicken the gravy 5 let it boil up good, then pour over the meat until covered; boil the top crust and cover, having pre­ viously seasoned to taste, pressing the crust well over the edges; cut plaices in the top for the steam to escape. Bake one-half hour. PORK AND VEGETABLE PIE.--Peel and slice thin six good-sized potatoes and one onion, one-half pound sweet salt pork cut in thin slices, and fry brown; one pound of beef or veal cut thin and also fried rare in pork drip-, pings. Make a good crust as for biscuit, not too rich, line your pan around the sides only, line the bottom with the pork, then a layer of meat, potatoes and onions, season with pepper and salt to taste and cover with a thin layer of crust; repeat until the vegeta­ bles and meat are used up,then pour^in sufficient hot water to cover, finish with a crust. Bake one hour in a moderate oven. DRY HOP YEAST.--Peel, wash and boil six medium-sized white potatoes; put into crock three pints ot flour, press the potatoes through colander or seive into the flour; boil a large handful of hops in three pints of water for fifteen minutes, strain the water over the flour and potatoes, mix thoroughly and when only luke warm pour in cold water enough to make the consistency of sponge; soak half a pound of dry yeast and add to it; now let it set and rise very light, stirring it down and let it rise three or four times; stir down each time, then sift three quarts of corn meal into a bread-bowl, and pour the raised yeast into the middle of it, mix until quita stiff; if this is not enough meal to make it stiff add more; roll out and cut in squares, place on dishes to dry in the air where it is shady; turn occasionally. Be sure to let it get per­ fectly dry before putting away. Keep in a dry, closed place. This makes beautiful bread an a >£iis with good floux. * a' 4 The Thin Air of Colorado. V If there is one tiling that Colorado prides herself on more than her gold and silver it is the air, and the air of Colorado is almost as thin as some of her silver mines. It is so thin that when a June sun shines upon it the air fairly "sisses," like dropping water on a hot stove. The tender-foot comes here and walks around the streets for an hour in the sun, and because he does not perspire as freely as he does at home in a hot day he thinks it is not so all-fired hot, but" he becomes weak, and before he knows it he has not ambition enough to quarrel with his wife, and he wants to lay down and reBt, and be let alone. It seems as though this would be a splendid place for a person who was wild and reckless to come and have the tuck taken out of him. The most savage person, after standing in the sun here for a few hours, and breathing this air, would become as mild as a bread pill, and as easy to manage as possible. It is impossible to descril>e the air on paper, but it does not stimulate a per­ son who breathes it to get up and hump himself. It bears the same relation to Wisconsin atmosphere that rattle-stom­ ach pop does to a drink of bourbon whisky. A might get drunk, or sick, on pop; ho*might exist on it if his stomach was weak and a blubber of wind was as good as a square meal to him, but if he wanted to feel like getting up and stirring things, he wonld pass by pop and take whisky. A person feels, after breath­ ing this air, as though a couple of mouthfnls of Lake Michigan breeze woul'd make him intoxicated with joy, and his weak body would feel like call­ ing somebody a liar, just for exercise. The air here is good for those with weak lungs, because it does not go into the lungs and search around for some­ thing to blow up, the way Eastern air does. The Colorado air goes into the lungs in a mild, apologetic sort of a way, as though it wanted to ask the pardon of a tubercle, or a hemorrhage scar, for coming in, and it sort of loafs around in the lungs, blushing and bashful, and backs out noiselessly, and hopes it has not inconveuienced the breather, and goes off down an alley as though ashamed at having intruded. The Wisconsin air goes into one's lungs as though it was a policeman going into a saloon to break up a row, and seems to say to the lungs: "What is going" on here?" It hustles around, attends to business, braces up the man who owns the lungs, and goes out like a cow crowding through a garden gate, and leaves the gate open. Everything is laid to the air here. If a man goes wrong, by robbing a stranger, some­ body says it is the rare atmosphere that caused it. If a person tells a lie tint would cause the old star-spangled American liars of the Eastern States to bow their heads with envy, the apolo- gizers of. the liar will say it is the air he breathes that causes it. And per­ haps it is so, for I find that it is easier for me to lie here than it is at home.-- George ir. PecfcV Denver letter. Settled that Dlffleolty. Bfmk Cashier--"You must have some­ body to identify you." Stranger-- "Understand all that; brought this gentleman with me for that purpose." Bank Cashier--"But I don't know him." Stranger--"Of course not; but I shall make you acquainted." Permit me to introduce you to my friend, Mr. Smith. There you are. Now, Smith, introduce me to your friend, please." Mcwnsnoim or TALUS. in a jar thai has BttEiWAX end salt will make runty flat-irons as smooth as glass. Fisa may lye sealed much more easily if dipped for ail instant in boilisg wa­ ter. SHKLLAC is the best cement for jet ar­ ticles. Smoking the joint renders it black to match. A BAO of hot is a {pood comfort­ er for cold feet in winter, if a hot water bag is not at hand. Can AM cures sunburn on some com­ plexions, lemon juice on others, and cold water suits still others best. IT will rest you wonderfully to change your seat in the room occasionally, if you have a long day's sewing to do. TOUGH meat may be made as tender as any by the addition of a little vine­ gar to the water when it is put on to boil. IT soothes aud cools a feverish pa­ tient to bathe him with warm water in which a little salaratus has been dis­ solved. BOASTED coffee is one of the most powerful disinfectants, not only render­ ing and vegetable effiuvia harmless, but really destroying them. IF the brass top of a' kerosene lamp has come off, it may be repaired with plaster of paris wet with a little water, and will be as strong as ever. To BEAT the whites of eggs quickly, put in a pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs the quicker they will froth. Salt cools and also freshens them. IN caring for furniture, remember to keep water away from everything solu­ ble therein, oil from everything porous, alcohol from varnish, and acids from marble. To TAKE tar and shoemaker's wax out of clothing, break an egg and take -the yelk alone and rub the soiled parts with it till the tar softens and comes out, then wash with water. IF you wish to pour boiling hot liquid into a glass jar or tumbler, it can be safely done by putting a spoon in the dish before you pour, but a draught of cold air must not reach it. THE unpleasant odor left in the breath after eating onions is entirely removed by a cup of strong coffee, and the coffee being prepared while the onions are be­ ing cooked counteracts the smell. AN attack of indigestion caused by eating nuts, will be immediately reliev­ ed and cured by the simple remedy, salt. Medical men recommend that salt should be used with nuts, especially when eaten at night. To KEEP ice from windows, take a sponge or ordinary paint-brush and rub over the glass once or twice with a little cold alcohol. This not only keeps the panes free from ice, but gives the glass a fine polish. WHEN one has had a fever, and the hair is falling off, take a teacup of sage, steep it in a quart of soft water, strain it off into a tight bottle. Sponge the hear with this tea frequently, wetting the roots of the hair. ON coming out of a warm room or hall, to walk home on a cold or damp night, do not indulge in too much con* versation, however agreeable your es­ cort may be. Breathe through the nose, and keep the mouth shut as much as possible. POISON of any kind swallowed will be &t onfle thrown from the Btomaoh by drinking half a glass of warm watei in which a teaspoonful of grouty] mustard has been stirred. As soon a* vomiting ceases, drink a cup of strong coffee in which has been put the white of an egg. This neutralizes any re­ mains of the poison which the mustard may have left. Chinese JuStlM*. The Chinese Government in Lama Miaco, the great entrepot, punishes highway robbery with violence by a sentence of death from starvation, and Mr. Gilmour saw this sentence carried out, the man being placed in a cage in the street, with his head outside, so that he might see the eating shops and die slowly of hunger and thirst. He was four days dying there in public. The Chinese citizens found this inter­ esting, and strolled up every evening, laughing and jesting, to see the un­ happy wretch sutler.--A Story Told in Gflmour's Mongols. (M His Own. "You are not looking so vigorous," remarked a gentleman to a person whom sickness had been holding on to for some time. "No; I had a pretty tough siege oi kidney difficulty, and I am well used up," said the sufferer. "You have the symptoms of Bright's disease." "I may have the symptoms, my friend, but I wish you to understand that I am no imitator. If I have any disease of the kidneys it is my own, and you ean bet on it."--Carl FretueVs Weeichj. The Son of Praise God Bsrebones. : It is historically true that the Puri­ tans in England gave to a child the name "If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee- tliou-hadst-been-damned Barebones." He lived under the affliction and, we believe, became a member of Parlia­ ment, and for convenience all the words of his Christian name were dropped but the last, and he was called "Damned Barebones." The name of the father was "Praise God Bare­ bones." The names may still be found on the official lists in England.--The Churchman. London Theaters. The controversy with reference to the theater holding the largest number of spectators in London is now de­ finitely set at rest on official authority. The numbers certified on authority are as follows: Britannia ..................... Htandard. "2,878 • Drury Lane. Her Majesty's. Awtley'tt Covent Garden Klephant and Oastle.... AMuunbra ........-- Surrey.... 8,283 AW1 A WKITKH who makes women the sub­ ject of his thoughts by day and of his dreams at night makes public his con­ clusion that a good-looking woman sel­ dom, if ever, displays her foot in pub­ lic. The next time, he says, you see a lady exhibiting rather generously her ankles, look into her face, and you will recognize that nature lias not been kind to her there. AMATEUR orange-culture in Florida is like incubator chicken-raising in the North--it leads to pleasant dreams, The Democrats of Ohio at their re­ cent oonventio* passed the following' bunoombe declaration among others equally hollow and insincere: We reaffirm the iwohttioos of tbeStst* Coaveattoaaof QMotnlWO, 1881; aadof MM Democratic National Goaraatian of 1872, 1K18, aad 1880. demanding thorough reform and purification of die civil service, and chaire that the Kepublioaa party ha* vio­ lated every pledge It has heretofore given for the reform thereof, eta When the reverses of last fall over­ took the Republicans, and the Bour­ bons saw a prospect of recovering pos­ session of the Federal offices from which they had been shut out so long, they at once set up the clamor for re­ form to blind the eyes of voters to their real purpose. How far Western Dem- oorats are sincere in their advocacy of it, and it should be remembered Dem­ ocrats are Democrats wherever found, may be judged by the following extract from the Cincinnati Enquirer: There is a remarkable unanimity of senti­ ment among Democratic editors of Indiana touching civil-service reform. At a recent meeting of these gentlemen at Loganaport, Where, it is said, every Democratic paper in the State was represented, there was but one editor out of the several hundred pres­ ent who favored the alleged reform. This solitary man was the edi.or of the Logans- port Pharos. It is charitably believed chat a rush of job-work has prevented him from giving the subject proper study, and his brethren express the hope that he will pres­ ently come over to their side and make the thing unanimous. W hat do the reform­ ers think of this showing? This is a fair sample of Democratic sentiment everywhere. It is not con­ fined to Indiana. It is shared by the very men who passed the Ohio reso­ lution quoted above. They have sneered at Mr. Pendleton and his ef­ fort to reform the civil-service from the beginning, and they have no other pur­ pose in view than to restore the Jack* sonian spoils system, and all the reform resolutions they mfcy pass from this time on will not blind the people of this country to their real purpose. There may be changes in other policies; there may be dissensions, even divis­ ions, on the tariff or other questions, but on civil service there can be no change. A party in one year could not so completely revolutionize the whole habit of its lifetime, even if it would. To attempt it would be the destruction of the party. Civil-service reform with the Demo­ cratic party means the removal of every Bepublicau holding any office, however small, and the substitution of Demo­ cratic blowers and strikers in their places. It means not only that the Democrats shall have the larger offices to which they may be elected or ap­ pointed, but that all the clerical and subordinate officials shall be swept out and their places given to Democratic bummers and scalawags as a reward for partisan services. It means that what little has been accomplished by the civil-service reform shall be uprooted and destroyed. As the New York Sun says, the slogan of the Democracy will be "turn the rascals out," but by the rascals it means the 75,000 minor office­ holders, trained, drilled, experienced, disciplined, honest men, who are thor­ oughly acquainted witli their duties and are giving satisfaction, whose places are to be filled with Democratic ignoramuses and bummers as a reward for their dirty work. Mr. George W. Curtis, in the current number of Harper's Weekly, accurately measures and exposes the contemptible preten­ sions set forth in the Ohio platform and other pronunciamentos in the following words: There is probably no Intelligent person in the Union so wild as to assert that a Demo­ cratic administration would, honestly re. upect the beginnings of rsfqrtns that have been already made and cany them forward. Whatever some Democrats might desire, the party action would conform to the general demand of the party. E*en the Democrats who are loudest in insisting that the cam­ paign cry shall be "reform," are very careful to say that by reform they mean a general turning out and uprooting of the civil service. They sneer at the lieform trill and thesj-stem which it provides for introducing a genuine reform as trivial and contempt­ ible. Their purpose is to overthrow it, and to restore the infamous spoils system com­ plete and unchecked. The general convic­ tion of this purpose, founded not upon the declarations of Democratic conventions, but upon experience of Democratic conduct, no platform will be able to shake, and the just apprehension of the consequences of Ruch a causeless disturbance no sneering at at civli-serv.oe -reform will auay. --Chicago Tribune. Joliet, aid disd Steyefcnine sgengr. Juno* EmnTHDOxmaiv one of j residents of Elgin, closed his < ad, Iowa. A loss of #10,000 was teamed at Joliet by the bandngof tibssoap faotacy of UNO** Bpear, on the bank of the canal. Six or eight prominent yeonf «MI «C Sumner allowed thsaeatvea te be fleeced out of #400 hy the eomaterfelt-eumey gwmm. TH* Wife ot Ben. A HI m man, st'Wanke- gan, one of the earty liQreca of Chicago, passed trot* earth aoen aftat IWgolden- wedding anniversary. T OaoBoc KCLKAK, an aged man. etafioyed In watching 'telegraph wires .at 8t Louis, came upon throe eotorscLtfcioves at work on a Wabash car, and wsaasayfolrfHad with a revolver. JOHR R. Bonus; reoeiteg of tfes flnuof McGeoch, Everingham A Co., has (f one month nearly discharged all claipf fgalnrt tile bankrupts, on the 50-per-cenfc cofspro- mize, at a cost of less than #20,000. This Is lightning work, even fee Chicago.--C&iew- go Times. THE Secretary of State issued a tteonse to organize a Grand Army of the iblic, Department of Illinois, with at Chlcaga The incorporators a A. Harper, & D. PutextMH^ ,̂ Hfcizy P. Ayers, George A Wilson and Charles Qoal- \ " Democratic Defaulters. As Uimtention having broken OUt in Ohio regarding the comparative honesty of Republican and Democratic office­ holders, the Cleveland Leader leads off thusly: « A brief examination of the following table will show that in fully one-half of the Democratic counties in Ohio defal­ cations have been made by Democratic officials, the amounts stolen ranging from $4,000 to $142,000. Read the list and compare the Democratic majorities with the amounts stolen; Dem. Allen .i..l!!os7' Ashland 634 AUGLAIZE 2.0S9 Belmont....... 100 Hrbwn .....1,113 Butler 3,678 Clermont 467 Coshoi'ion 794 Crawford 3,063 Defiance Fairfield Hancock. Henry Holmes, Licking.. Mercer. Ottawa Stark Van Wert Wayne Wyandot ...1,30(1 ,...1,837 400 IKK) ;.... 1,930 ....1.500 ...........1,713 900 800 300 890 M0 Aia't stolen. $ 15,10 J 13,000 40,000 131,811 M,000 33,000 10,01*) 7,000 143,545 96,000 33,000 39,000 " 10.1M) 43,9!K» 13,73!) 33,000 4,000 Defalcations have occurred in the Re­ publican counties of Clark and Trum­ bull. In both instances the defaulters were sent to the penitentiary. In Rich­ land county a Republican treasurer de­ faulted. But in the three instances named the bondsmen of the Republican officials made good the deficiency, and |£$-payers suffered no loss* Political Notes. THAT great monopoly, the Standard Oil Company, will feel still stronger if it can elect the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, JOHN M. PALMER is sitting behind his political tombstone, out in Illinois, waiting to see if the resurrection will ome next year.--Philadelphia Timet. LEADING Democrats in Ohio brag that over $200.,000 in cash have been contributed by the mossback, rag-baby, Bourbon and lire-in-the-rear alliance of that State. VOTKBS have no faith in the party that tries to get office by tricks and podges, evasions and concealments. They reason, and rightly, that such a oarty is either a mere conspiracy of greedy spoils-grabbers, or that it has dark designs which it does not dare to avow. Probably half a million voters will vote against the Democratic party for no other reason than this, that it brands itself as unworthy of confidence by the tricks and evasions to which it resorts.~jf6t? flBf* SytdfHpk - THX announcement is made that tte: John J. Coons, ex-County Superintendent of Schools, of Richland county, fa ahoSbta hit accounts. The deficiency amounts Jo #3,- 52£ On this amount he was credttsdwlth #863, and his securities paid over #4®4. A committee of experts were appointed and discovered this shortage DOBISO a storm at Mackinaw, an old tank was blown down and fell on the railroad track. A genuine heroine, named Mrs, Frain, wife of William Frain, near whose house the accident happened, knowing that it was about time for the passenger train to arrive, seized a broom and rushed up the track through the blinding, furious storm, for nearly a quarter of a mile, and after considerable trouble succeeded tn ing the engineer's attention, and a accident was prevented. THE Chicago defaulter Kerr has had along pull Upon absconding from Chicago last January he took refuge tn New )[«k, but there he felt himself in danger; he took ship for Panama, where the enemy got scent of him; he made for Peru, found Callao unsafe, and at last took up his quar­ ters in Lima. But he had been tracked there, and there he was nabbed, taken by steamer to Honolulu, thence to San Fran­ cisco, and thence to Chicago He has had a half year of adventure and terror, and he will now pass the best years of his life in prison. What a stupid donkey la thia Kerr! What a prioe he haa paid for being a de­ faulter, absconder and fool! TUB tenth annual convention ot tte Illi­ nois State Bportmen's AaaodaMon waa held at the Palmer House, Chicago, about ty-five delegates attending. Charles E. Felton presided. , The delegates present represented the Taiioas duba of < Chicago and the clubs ct flouth Chicago, Evanston, Delavan, Peoria, Qoteay, lake ;! George, Jacksonville, Wyoming; CBenooo, Austin, and Lie oeuntqr. On mWp, tke- Law Committee was diieoisd to prspais tor submission to the noxt LsgMstwe a law providing tor the appolntn*nfteC|0Hpe con-J stables throughout the State. Oilman was' selected as the place for holdteg ws next convention. The following ofeeijs were selected for the ensning year: MMtdent, B. Clark, of Delavan; Vice Presidentŝ H. H. Fenstook, Peoria, aadX A Sextan,Chicago; Secretary, Ik, fik Cunningham, ®»tovsn; ' Treasurer , Fred KlmbaU, Peor |a j ! " • i Tin uncertainty of human aflstrs and the mutability of things teii«slittf are hardly to - be considered when it comes toa^nestton of the weather in Ghicsga Within ffee last few weeks this favored city has been given samples of every degree of temperature and every kind of weather known to meteorolo­ gists At noon the thermometer would record, say, 85 deg. Fahrenheit; and at 6 p. m. the belated traveler would shiver in his light coat, while the record showed an abrupt tumble of S# or fcO deg. Ibunder and lightning storms have alternated with tropical rains, and have been followed by a few hours of balmy sunahine and soft re­ freshing breezes The fame of CWeago aa a summer resort is widely spread throughout the land, but this year it offers to visitors the additional advantage of furnishing more varieties of climate to the twenty-four hours than tfngf other cfty In thertUSIted States I&soDOfii NEUBSBT, the victim of̂ the al­ leged accidental shooting at Sheffield, Ind, Is lying in a precarious condition at his home in Chicago, and Ids life Is despaired of ; by the attending physicians fleofege Bo- bach, who fired the piobably-tetal shot, sur­ rendered himself to the police officials Both he and Keubert .refused to make any statement regarding the occurrence, other than that it was accidental, till Neubert made a deposition before Justice FoOte. He said that he and Bobach were walking through the woods, Neubert being a few paces in advance, when a shot was fired. Bobach claimed that it .was accidental, and assisted Neubert for some distance, but then ran away. Bobach was taken before a Jus­ tice and secured a change of venue While going from the Armory to the court of the last Justice, A Neubert, the father of the wounded boy, drew a revolver from his hip- pocket and attempted to shoot Bobach. He was restrained by the attending officer, who arrested him and entered a r barge against him. THB State Board of Public Charities vened at the State House, it being the 1 for the quarantine meeting. The first thing done was to approve the quarterly financial statement of the State charitable institution?. The reports oover a period for the three months ending June 80, list; Cash on h»nd June 90 ̂1889: Northern Insane Asylum. 45.8W.si Eastern insane Asylum-- 8T,.;2».3(> Central Insane Asylum Southern Insane Asylum. Deaf and Dumb Asrltun j Blind Asylum Feeble-minded Asylum.. Soldiers' Home Eye and Ear Infirmary..... Beform School... at.Mti.si e,m*t SS.A--6.TS M3T.1T •.U3.0T Total.. Expenses present quarter Indebtedness Jnne.90 **,976 **> Dehoit June 30 Total deficit «WH9.JB Average expenses per capita ot temates: NorthernInsiuw Asylum ......t Eastern Insane Asylum................ Central Insane Asylum..... • Southern Insane Asvliun..., ,MK' Deaf and Dumb A.<ytum..... & ' B1 nd Asylum .'.........it Ee^ble-mindHl Asylum Soldiers' Home Eye and Ear Infirmary............... Beform School 3T.** 4 V 1 , ri:','