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OktimfeAtecs *7 adavions way and crooked of the hygienic the offer of the baat aug- C«tkaiaa4i>laiu for the proawvation •of iMalth acid safety in the construction Tliere were nineteen com- and four have received prises to soi&ewhat ovor $2,000. UmA and taluafels sugKoatibns ^ *re said to have been brought oat by tills contest, and it is believed that |^/a©me will be turned to practical use 4 ultimately in all the theaters of the world. - v 1 - K • CHABUES IICBUAU, employed by a ^-•^iTOBPvejTa^ piwrty in Northern Montana, 'was dismissed when in the field and >' jgiven imperfect directions as to the : route to the nearest town. With six v' biscuits and a pound of bacon he sat | | Wt on his journey. Nothing further - ;W»»8 heard of him until three weeks had " -elapsed, when he was found in a sfcarv- condition and almost destitute of H Rothes many miles from a settlement. * ' He had subsisted on grasshoppers, . prickly pears and young birds taken * ;from nests. • A NEW YORK paper, having savagely f; 'criticised Paul H. Hayne for rhyming honor and upon her, emotion and ocean, ' tender and splendor, wonder and tlran- j, *der, endeavor and forever, upyearning .and burning, scorning and morning, ; : gratulaticm and degradation, dreary > , _ ;and miserere, vision and fruition, ex- .iatence and distance, riot and quiet, a correspondent of the journal in ques- "tion points out that eight of the twelve | , rhymes objected to are found in the ^ '* verses of Swinburne, Lowell, Shelley, Myers, Pope, Wordsworth and Long- Jellow. SKVKBAL years ago there was asen- .-sational murder trial in Jersey City, in "which Covert D. Bennett and Mrs. •Jennie Smith figured as defendants. * Mrs. Smith's husband, a policeman, had been murdered in bed, and suspi- !oion rested on her and young Bennett. 'They were once sentenced to death, „ but securing a new trial, were acquitted, partly through the efforts of Emma .Abbott, the vocalist, who made herself •quite conspicuous in her endeavor to (save the prisoners. It is now said that "Bennett is an actor of fair ability in a New York theater, and that his old- time friend and co-defendant it at per* vant in a Jersey City mansion. - r To Bt^jD a ship so that in case of ac- -oident to the bow the stern half can be :; instantaneously separated from it, and i can continue the voyage securely and easily on its own account, is the latest ^ contribution to the list of safe-guards ragainst the damages of the sea. The idea is that of a German inventor, and is set forth with some detail in the ; Hamburg Courier, which sees no reason why it should not be entirely ..feasible. It would require many de­ partures from the present mode of building vessels, as well as from their internal arrangement and equipment; but the inventor asserts that, as a • whole, a vessel so constructed could be fully as sen-worthy and swift as any built on the present plan, and would be twice as secure against disaster. •V *<• ALEXANDER DUMAS has entered vig­ orously upon the work of social reform in France, and is just now attacking the law which forbids an unmarried woman to identify or prosecute the father of her children, tie urges the enactment of a new law providing that the father of illegitimate children, if he a bachelor, shall give them his name and take care of them; if he be a married man, he shall be punished with imprisonment from two to five years. If Dumas can carry through this scheme of social re­ form he will make a more notable repu­ tation even than he has accomplished by his writings, but it must be remem­ bered that he is fighting not only the Government but a solid wall of popu­ lar prejudice, and fighting them single- handed. • THE Chinese merchants in San Fran­ cisco are taking every year, with greater enterprise, to all the devices of Amerioan trade. They oompete act­ ively with the Caucasian business man }in the manufacture of clothing, under­ wear, shoes, cigars and other important •articles of merchandise, and of late , they have taken to employing commer­ cial drummers, who travel along the ^ whole length of the Pacific ooaat, and overrun Mexico and Central America ^ '. with the samples of their Mongolian ^ - employers. The drummers are of course Caucasian, and of all nationali­ ties. At one time these Chinamen could not dispose of their wares except by labeling them "white labor;" but T- , now it is not unlikely that their Cauca- T/ sion competitors mar find it sdvanta- geous to imitate the Chinese labels. ;v OLD bells from the churches in '$k Cuba are sent to Philadelphia to be J¥„ fcedken up and remelted. In this age of U. desire for everything that is ancient it seems great waste of splendid anti­ quarian material to faaeak the vener­ able Cuban bells. A venerable Cuban belle may not be much sought after, •but a venerable Cuban bell is valuable. Moetef these bells fcavo hang aadrung fe: . I;- . fen . . TT*T*ii, Trta-h iz mmWmrnMh inahapo,oaaiefrom jhgNuiaai is several thousand years old. It hung in a sa­ cred edifice there, and now has a little covered-in roof for itself on the outaide of a dingy London house,and although the inscriptions with which it hi cov­ ered may be hard to decipher, yet lie who runs may read that th«* establish- men is owned by Mr. Bell. Tra Princess Soulouque, who died at Port-au-Prince, not long ago, was an interesting character in many respects- She was born in 1843, when her father held imperial sway at Hayti, which con­ tinued for the succeeding sixteen years* The Emperor had been a slave, of African stock, but the daughter was not so dark, and had none of the ob­ jectionable stamp of features of the Haytien slaves. When she was 16 years old the Princess and her father were driven into exile, and, though they returned ia 1867, the Emperor never regained control over the people of the island. The daughter married Count de Petionville, Gen. Amitie Vil Lubin, and on the death of her father contin­ ued to live with him at Port-au-Prince. She lived on the interest of $1,000,000 which her father had invested in French rentes. The Princess several times visited this country, and was last here about a year ago. Her appearance as she rode out at Port-au-Prince, is de­ scribed. She was mounted on a mag­ nificent Venezuelan horse about sixteen hands high. She wore a white turban with an immense cardinal feather streaming behind. Her habit skirt was of sky-blue silk, so long it trailed in the dust. Around her waist was a broad gold sash, and on her bosom a huge sapphire brooch. She wore dia­ mond ear-rings worth $S0,000, and a neclace valued at $100,000. Her riding- whip had a gold handle set with pre­ cious stones, and the bridle chain waa of solid silver. Her gauntlets were of yellow leather, reaching to the elbow. The horse was cream-color, with long, snow-white mane and tail. ORIGIK OF POPULAR SAYINGS. "DOMINO." -- A common ejaculation formerly uttered by English soldiers and sailors when they received the last lash of a flogging. The allusion may be understood from the game of domi­ noes. A domino means either a blow, or the last of a series of things, whether pleasant or otherwise, so the ejacula­ tion savors somewhat of wit. "CHUCKI.E-HEAD."--Much the same as "bull-head," "cabbage-head, " "well­ head," etc., all signifying that large abnormal form of skull generally sup­ posed to accompany stupidity and weak­ ness of intellect; as theS.-otch proverb, "muckle head and little wit." The ex­ pression was originally Devonshire (En­ gland), but has become general. "CHIMERA."--This was a monster of Asiatic ' mythology. Homer--Iliad vi., 181--in narrating its destruction by Bellerophontes, describes it as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and tail of a dragon. The later poets vied with each other in t ssigning to the chimera all the elements of the te: rible and the horrible. Horace depicts it as vomiting forth flames upon its enemies --tremenda flam ma chimera. From tli's fabulous story is derived the pro­ verbial application of the term clriiaera to any wild incongruous faucy, and par­ ticularly to any plans too inconsistent with themselves or with ordinary expe­ rience ever to be realized. "THROUGH FIRE AND WATER.*--The old saying, "I would go through fire and water to serve you," is a relic of ancient trials by ordeal. Iu the old times, when trials by the ordeal of lire or water were recognized by English law, both ordeals could be performed by deputy. This WAS sometimes done for hire and sometimes out of friend­ ship. The ordeal of fire was passing blindfolded and barefooted through a place where nine red-hot plowshares were arranged at irregular intervals.. In the trial by water the person to be tried was bound hand and foot and thrown into a pond or river. If he swam he saved his life and redeemed his character. If droyned, he was con­ sidered to have met with a just retribu­ tion for the crime of which his drown­ ing was held to be proof that he was guilty. The saying, " I would go through fire and water," etc., was, therefore, equivalent to saying that the Serson using it was ready to sacrifice fe or limb to serve his friend. "TAKING THE RAG OFF THE BUSH." --Not a little has been written in refer­ ence to the origin of this popular pro­ verb. It is, perhaps, another form of the proverb taking down one's colors, in which "rag" is used for flag, and "bush" as a contemptuous or ludicrous appellation for pole or staff. The victor, of course, bears off the standard of his conquered opponent, and so pulls down his colors, or "takes his. rag off the bush." A curious illustration of thin proverb may be found in the travels of Morier through Persia. "At a short dktance near the roadside," says he, "we saw the burial-place of a Persian saint, inclosed by very rule walls; close to it grew a veiy small bush, upon the bnuioneb of which were tied a variety of rags and remnants of garments. The Persians ooaceive that these rags, from their vicinity to the saint, acquires ptauliar preservative virtues against •MAHMM, and substituting ethers, they bits away, and, tying them about their persons, use them as talismans." He who has thus taken bis rag from the bush is either the worker of a miracle or is a fair way to work one on himself, and so may be said to be superior to common mortal"* and entitled to bear theoolors of a victor. In like manner he who has told the most difficult achieve­ ment, proven his prowess over superior men and outstripped all his rivals, is surely worthy Of distinction, and may bp allowad to "take the rag off the biwh. FfcQWMtg.--A lady of ^ttsdcflN,aad tlte on and better WHAT thltin' ds. This so satisfao- traatment was tried awwt was a healthy growth, and more and •lid of richer colors. FARMERS TALK ABOUT.--At the fanners' clubs nowadays the dis­ cussions are not confined entirely to the details of practical farm work, though these, of course are not lost sight of. For instance, here are the questions lately treated by essayists, and then discussed by members of a New England farmers' club: "How can farmers best improve their social and political standing?" "Pleasure and profit of fanning." "Is it for the best ifcfenfsts of. fanners to have a pro­ tective tariff?" "Money at interest compared to investments and improve­ ments on the farm." "Failures of farmers due to their credulity in adopt­ ing new crops and new methods which are mere humbugs." "Are the rights of farmers in their lands sufficiently protected by law." "Doss it pay a farmer to build silos?" To become citizens in the highest sense, and to be capable of holding any position of the highest trust and responsibility is be­ coming the ambition of the farmers of to-day, It is no use for them to be eternally oomplaining of the evils of legislation ana the laxity of laws so long as the farmers themselves take so little Intelligent part in legislative af­ fairs.--Exchange. CULTIVATION or MILKING CAPACITY The development of deep milking capacity is the result of artificial train­ ing, aided by feed and breeding. The starting paint can be traced to the manipulation of the udder as in hand- milking. To produce the best milking animals it is essential to have the heifers come in when 2 years old. If the intention is to produce beef, as well as milk, it would be preferable to have them come in at 3 years old. Though wild animals are healthy, vigorous, and generally as well fed as*in the domestic state, no extraordinary production of milk ever occurs. The wild cow, like the buffalo, gives milk enough to sus­ tain her young, and that only for a few months. The milking qualities of cat­ tle running wild in a few generations run down, which may be taken as proof that hand-minting is not only necessary to the development, but is also indis- pensible in sustaining the abnormal secretion of miik. As large quantities of milk depend upon the amount fed, such feed must be properly selected and given at the right time. If more feed is given than is necessary to main­ tain a healthy«nd normal condition, or enough to cause a development of flesh, such feed has a tendency to choke rather than to increase milk secretion. --Chicago Tribune. A NEW IMPLEMENT WANTED.--The introduction of commercial fertilisers into general use has created the want of a new implement or machine to spread it. Most of the fertilizers are ground fine, and, a? oaly 500 pounds to a ton is usually applied to an acre, it is some­ what difficult to spread it evenly over the land and apply just the amount desired, when done by hand spreading, as most of it now is. Few men have an eye and judgment good enough to spread evenly on one acre 600 pounds, and on another 10,000 pounds, as it is often desirable to da What is wanted is a light, machine that will easily carry over the ground from fifty "to 100 pounds of fertilizer, with the strength of one man. It should be made to be easily changed so as to spread 100 pounds to the acre, or one ton as may be desired; it should also be made to spread as near the surface of the ground as possible, that the fertilizer may not be blown away by the slight wind. It cannot be very difficult to con­ struct such a machine. No doubt as soon as inventors understand how great is the want of suoh a machine, they will soon supply it. A costly, complicated machine is not what is wanted; it must be so cheap as so bring it withia the reach of the smallest farmer, and so simple in its construction that anyone can understand how to use it and keep it in order. While it should operate similar to a hand seed-sower for sowing broadcast, it should differ from it so far as relates to transporting it, for it would not do to have to carry the fer­ tilizer, therefore the machine should be mounted on very light wheels, with a framework as light as possible. On large farms horse power will always be used to spread fertilizers, as soon as it is known that such machines are for sale that do the work well, but for small farms and gardens a cheap hand machine is demanded, for a large ma­ chine drawn by a horse would be too expec^'ve, therefore small farmers must resort to hand labor, and continue in this way until the desired machine is for sale. Possibly there may already be a machine in the market for the purpose. If there is, it has failed to meet our at­ tention and that of many others, as we have frequently been appealed to for such machine. Here is evidently a field open to inventors which they would do well to enter.--Exchange HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. f i f . . i IF you wish to have the best results in cake-making, always use pulverized sugar. BANANAS sliced and served with ice cream are very delicate and dainty. They should be sliced and have a little powdered sugar scattered over them for about an hour before serving. Set them in the refrigerator for that length of time. FOR breakfast try this: Take the skin off a nice piece of salt codfish; wash it in several waters, end lay it on a gridiron to broil. It should be broiled for about twenty minutes, and must be turned often to prevent burn­ ing. This ip nice for tea also. JUMBLES which will keep a month are made thus: One pound of butter, one pound of sugar, two pounds of flour, three eggs, nine teaspoonfuls of water, three of baking-powder, witfc salt and flavoring to suit the taste. Boll them, and bake in quick oven. No MATTER what any recipe says, a half cup of butter is a liberal allowance for one cup of sugar. That is the proper proportion to use in cake-mak­ ing, though sometimes one may use a cup and a half of sugar with this quantity of butter when you do not care for rich cake. "iM using fish as food for invalids tba nttoxtiniin . * ww lS 111 TKSRR fm »»*«y of eeeMsg tomatoes that one may send them to the table every day for dinner without fear of their being rejected. Scalloped tomatoes are sfaipiy dulioious. Line an earthen dish with brepd orambs,sea- son with butter, pepper and salt, then put a layer of bread crambs, and so on until the distli is full. Put in enough hot water to moisten the bread crumbs; a teacupful is enough for a moderate sind dish. Bake till brown on the top. Another way to bake them is to lay slloeeof bread in a pudding-dish, and lay slices of toniatoes over the bread; have one layer only; season the same as the scalloped ones. Still another way is to set whole tomatoes, with the skins on in a large pudding-dish, make a hole in the center of each tomato,and fill with well-seasoned bread crumbs. A Lady's Letter. A few words as to the actual compo­ sition of a letter. It should always be borne in mind that, if a letter has a purpose, a reason, or an object for be­ ing written, this fact should not be lost sight of, or overweighted with a mass of extraneous matter. Again, it is idle to devote the first page of A letter to trivial excuses for not having written sooner, when no particular reason ex­ isted why a still longer delay in writing might not have been allowed to elapse, if it suited the convenience of the writer. Of course, when a letter re­ quires an immediate answer, it is then a matter of politeness to give the reason for the omission, but this should be ex plained without circumlocution, and other matters should at once be re­ ferred to. A want of punctuation in a letter will often cause a sentenoe or a paragraph to be misunderstood, and made to convey the reverse of what was intended. Notes of interrogation should not be omitted from a letter when questions are asked, though many consider it a waste of time to make use of them. Notes of exclama­ tion, when required, materially assist the clearer understanding of a "passage which, without them, might have a vague meaning. It is not the fashion in these days to accuse one's self of writing a stupid letter, a dull letter or an uninteresting letter; one's friends are only too likely to take one at one's own valuation, and to indorse the writ­ ten verdict, while the solecism of lay­ ing the blame of bad writing on pens, ink and paper is confined to the servants' hall, where writing materials are perhaps not always of the best quality, and seldom ready to hand. In answering a letter it is a great proof of poor imagination, beside being ex­ tremely tedious, when each paragraph of the letter under treatment is minutely paraphrased. Questions nat­ urally demand answers, and important facts coll for comment;* but trivial re­ marks and observations, perhaps plea£ antly put, were never expected to be returned to their author u itli poor plat­ itudes attached to them. A postscript was formerly- supposed to convey the pith or gist of a lady's letter--a poor compliment, it must be confessed, to her intelligence; it is now considered a vulgarism to put P. S. at the bottom of a letter containing the few last words. If something is re- mepibered when the letter is concluded that should have been said it is added without apology.--Harper's Bazar. Chimney Sweeps. "How do you go to work to olean a modern chimney with small flues?" waa the first question- which troubled the reporter. "We have peculiar tools--scrapers, brusiies and rubbers--made on purpose for the business. We go up on the roof and scrape the soot down to the bottom of the chimney and make it en­ tirely clean. How do we get the eoot out? Well, when the chimney extends to the cellar we have no trouble. When it ends in a parlor or other furnished room, we take it out of the stove-pipe hole and are obliged to take a good deal of care. We never leave any soot or dirt in a room." "Do you often go down a chimney?" "Al ways, if the flue is large enough. We elbow our way down, cleaning the chimney as we go. We go Out the same way; tben we take ont the soot ih the way I told you. We take chimneys by the job--so much a chimney. We clean a great many tall factory chim­ neys. Most of these have iron bars for steps inside, and we climb up them and clean down. Sometimes we have to go up with ladders on the outside and let ourselves down with ropes. We get from $25 upward for cleaning thesa large smoke stacks." "Is the business unhealthful?" "Yes; it can not be any other way. You see we can't help making a great deal of dust, and we inhale a great deal of it into the lungs. When we go in- side the chimneys we cover our mouths with sponge, but we always catch a good deal of the soot, do the best we can. How much does it cost to clean a chimney? Well, from 75 cents to $1.50 for" common chimneys, and it takes from one to three hours. In the larger factory chimneys we run a good deal of risk. In most of them the mortar around the top is rotten, and we have to lookout for loose bricks falling. Very often a sweep is injured by a fall­ ing brick, and it is almost cerfctin to be a bad injury." "Are you doing much business here?* . "Yes, we have cleaned a good many chimneys, and hate orders for many more. We have orders, too, from Avon, Dansville, Genesee, and other villages. Make money at it? Well, yes; bu- we don't last long in this business, and we have to make money while we can."-- Rochester Union. Itlsthe Bullet WhichTeBi. It is the bullet which tells in war. If seeks its target on the picket-post, on the skirmish line, on the raid, along the rifle-pits and breastworks. The musket is never silent. It is a slow cancer eat­ ing away at the life of an enemy. It seeks him out in the ravine, it discovert him in the thicket, it gives him no rest on the plain. Artillery roars and flashes, and its missiles scream and terrify, but the ponderous shot falls wide of its target or digs its own grave in the soiL --M. Quad. p. preliminary Blaine sent TKC Arctic raspberry is its i :nc and all. one of the own. A six-ounce the plant, branches, ae»*»to deepentha t the ex-starMronto mistaken clemency of & Washington jury, escaped the im- priaonment which he richly deserved in some yugwiial penitentiary. Per- sons who have Mad these letters hop­ ing to find lift them an exposure of campaign secrets will be severely dfc» appointed. The letters are not of suc|i a character that anybody need be ashamed of them or regret seeing them in print. The most noteworthy cir­ cumstances connected with their publi­ cation is, tbat but one or two of them were addressed to Dorsey himself. The rest of them woe directed to Governor Jewell, and came inito possession of the star-route thief through his accidental connection with the national committee. He had them under the seal of sacred confidence. The use he haŝ made of them in their publi­ cation by a Bourbon Democratic news­ paper will make him politically and socially an outcast for all time to come. A man who is capable of stealing and delivering to the press for publication personal letters addressed to another is morally in a position of a robber of the mails. It is easy to believe that one who can be guilty of such conduct would not be restrained by any nice principle of honor from engaging in the star-route conspiracy for which Dor- sev was tried and queerly acquitted. It will be found, on examination of the letters in detail, that none of them is damaging or even discreditable to any person prominently identified with the campaign on the Republican side. Garfield's letters to Doraey were per­ fectly innocent. They related to mat­ ters that he might with propriety dis­ cuss with any person actively concerned in the management of his political af­ fairs. The worst that can be said of them is, that they show a too-credulous belief on Mr. Garfield's part iu the character of Dorsey as a gentleman and a man of honor. The publication of these letters, so entirely upright in their tone and honorable in their senti­ ments, furnishes negative proof, if any were needed, that Dorsey has no docu­ ments in Gen. Garfield's handwriting to Justify the base and cowardly insinu­ ations which have been diseminated concerning the late President. The letter from Mr. Blaine, which Dorsey has seen fit to print for some mysterious purposes of his own, is highly creditable to the ex-Secretary of State. It exposes a cruel wrong wliioh was done Mr. Blaine and the Maine Republicans during the campaign of 1880. Mr. word to the National Committee that the Republicans of Maine had not re­ ceived "one penny's aid in the closest and most central battle of the cam­ paign." At that time it was notorious that the Democrats were flooding Maine with money, and through a coal­ ition of Greenbackers, trades-unionists and Bourbons were striving to defeat the most prominent leader of the party n his own State. With reference to the other letters addressed to Gov. Jewell, but pur­ loined and published * by Dorsey, it is sufficient to pay that they are such as politicians continually write to each other during heat owl political campaigns, but seldom expect to sea in print. We suppose it would be idle at this late day to maintain the pleasant fict'on that elections are held in this country with­ out the expenditure of large s^ms of money. Money has been, is, and will continue to be used in elections for strictly--legitimate purposes. It was easily possible to spend a quarter of a million or a half million dollars in In­ diana for the organ'zation of political clubs, in defraying the expenses of speakers, bands and torchlight proces­ sions, in patrolling the borders of the State to prevent invasions of Dem­ ocratic bummers and repeaters, and in hiring detectives to watcli the Tam­ many thugs who were imported from New York to overawe and intimidate the peaceable Republican voters of Indianapolis and other cities of the State. The letters from Allison to Jewell are perhaps more unguarded than any of the others, but thev contain not one incriminating word. ^They say that money must be used in Indiana. We know that money was lavishly used in Indiana by both sides, the only d e­ ference being that the Republicans used their money with more judgment and effect than the Democrats used theirs. The publication of these letters will not hurt anybody but Dorsey. They show that bo has the spirit and the methods of a sneak-thief. Their pub­ lication at this time through the organ he has chosen will only complete the verdict of guilty which was passed upon him and the star-route jury alike by the. American people when, after two trial*, he at last escaped the felon's cell which lie was so well calculated to adorn. It would have been better for the Repub­ lican party, perhaps, if all who desired to contribute money had imposed the same conditions as Mr. John M. Forbes ! did--that none of the subscriptions should pass through the sticky fingers of the ex-Senator from Arkansas; but we can not regret that he was put in possession of the instruments with which to complete his own ruin and establish the innocence of others who>*e ouly misfortune and guilt lay in an3c$i»iuig with him on terms of equality. • a* Bmimm of the ei e&^ tsijirtva. ii fact, it was Cipher Sammy. Democratic shadows are rapidly lengthening into shapes which foretell the events of the next Democratic Presi­ dential Convention. The collapse of the movement to reorganize the New York City Democracy by the body of reformers known as the "County Demo­ cracy," and the harmony which has sud­ denly arisen between Kelly's Tammany Hall and the other factions of the party In New York, the moves in Ohio and Indiana, have practically no doubt that the "old ticket" is to be again the in­ spiration of the Democracy. Tilden and Hendricks! How familiar it sounds; and how easy it will be t> beat. The illustrated papers and all of us will be glad to see our old friend Cipher Sammy again iu the fields The illumin­ ated nose of Cronin, of Oregon, will loom up as a beacon fire for the voting masses, and the shrinking Marble will be once more dragged from his schol­ arly retirement to tell all about his mysterious visit to Florida ih 1S76. The cipher dispatches are already translated, so that hard job will not have to be done over agair*, and all we Will have to do will be to reprint them fta Manhattan or the Tam- only an "Old Man «* tbo taras of sgwsmart by wttfolitlMiTmin wmrstBta ta wosfc It ii g«a wirty aslder mouth, opening H<t nave been k snd shutting it when it *hoi been open, have very sadly dimmed U pro pects that Ohio woula lead off wit ly was, ao- , a move in not seem to If itdid large and part of the '-IMA, fae blunders since made with what friend Jayhawker n ate moor it when it should have been kept ahnt raid have thw off with a handsome Democratic majority in 1883 as the pioneer in the great work of acting «8 the vanguard for the march of the old ticket into the White House in 1884. The world has had a hard time in 1883. with its cyclones, epidemics, ac­ cidents by water and rail, its earth­ quakes and horrible eruptions, and it will be some consolation to have the next year enlivened by a spectacle which would excite as much amusement as that of Cipaer Sammy's contest for the Presidency. No one has yet, in American history, claimed that office on the sole ground that he was an ath­ lete, which is, if we understand the Literary Bureau, the basis of Mr. Til- den's qualifications. Athletes are very popular in this country, as is Bhown by the crowds that attended the exhibi­ tions given by that j rominent Demo­ crat, Mr. Sullivan, and followed Prize­ fighter Elliott to the grave. Mr. Til- den's candidacy would have a vastly- stimulating effect on physical culture in this country, a branch of education in which we are confessedly deficient, and it would also contribute unspeak­ ably to the general health of the people. All authorities are 8greed that there is nothing more hygienic than laughter, and the country would be on the grin from the day of Tilden's nomination to that of the election--of the other can­ didate.--Chicago Tribune. ^ ; >-04*' ffca Dana-Dersey Csmbisatiait . The letters of Garfield and other Republicans to Dorsuv and Jewell dur­ ing the campaign of 1880 are, when examined, a proof of anything save corruption. From Ma'ne to Virginia, the local managers of the campaign seem to have been clamoring for money --whic'i they did not get. Especially is it apparent that Maine, which, as Mr. Blaine said in one of the published letters, was the ecene of "the closest and central battle of the campaign," received no assistance from the National Committee. Other States received something--Maine received nothing; and (it may be remarked without any intention of raising up a dead issue) the men who refused Mr. Blaine the aid to which he and his State were justly entitled, were those who, after Plaisted was. elected, held the Maine statesman wholly responsible for Re­ publican defeat. On Aug. 29, Stewart L. Woodford wrote asking the committee to aid the Republicans of West Virginia, and he stats<} if they could rarse a certam amount of money they could organic* the State. There is not a word to show that the request was met or to in­ dicate that corruption was contem­ plated. f. From Virginia somebody wrote that the State could be carried for the Re­ publicans for $50,000. The money evidently did not get there. It has been claimed on the part of the Sun that it took $100,000 to carry Indiana. If the letters which the Sun now publish provo anything they prove the falsehood of that claim. Fron beginning to end the complaint on the part of the Indiana committee Mas that they had no monoy. Richard Smith was entirely disgusted with the situation, and his opinion was that $50,000 should be used in Ohio and the same in Indiana. That the State was not being Hooded with money was evident from the language of Mr. Smith's let­ ter, He says: "If your committee con- cludo to let Ohio take care of herself, and meet the enemy in half-way style, you might as well giv& up now and not spend another dollar in the effort." The letter was written on Sept. 17, and on the 12tli of October the election was held. There is nothing to show that any response was made to Smith's fran­ tic request for $50,000, and Foster had only succeeded in getting a promise of $15,000 on the 16th of September. In Indiana the situation was the same. On Aug. 30 John C. New, the Chairman of the State Committee, asked Governor Jewell, of the National Committee, not to disappoint him in re­ gard to $10,000 written for the day be­ fore, and stated that the fight must stop if he does not have it. By dint of constant begging Mr. New succeeded in getting hold of checks for about $11,000, and in acknowledging the receipt of this last $3,000 he very aptly remarks: "That Democrats have an abundant supply of money. I know they have $5 to our $1." Thus it is that the $400,000 said to have been used in Indiana dwindles down to a few thousand, as far the evidence goes. The combination of Dana and Dorsey on a platform of "Turn the rascals out," does not appear to have amounti«l to much up to date. --Omaha Repub­ lican. n Political Notes. KEEP the rascals out. DON'T "turn the rascals out" of tin penitentiaries in Ohio for they will vote the Democratic ticket.--Chicago Jour­ nal. The New York Herald calls attention to the harmony among New York Re­ publicans, and the biiter animosities existing among the Democrats. THE Rochester Post-Express wants "short party platforms." The Dem­ ocracy might simply say: "Resolved, that "the Democratic party wants the offices," and let all tho rest bo under­ stood. A GREAT many Democrats claim to be in favor of the "old ticket. * Let us gently inquire, which "old ticket?" Buchanan and Breckinridge, MeClel- lan and Pendleton, Greeley and Blair, Tilden and Hcndricks, or Hancock and. English? •M tt• " ' iy after be mttlejj kgr sn tfMjhtalisn coiBmifc- te& This contract Is ts last for a yest As inqu* 4 at the gMiffttSKM of Xra Mat?' Qnttfey, living Shelbrville, on the dead body < trougfct out the following tsiiiBI ^-1 was the illefittmc t) ofaptlsg at, Qnlglej, daughter of, llprar , grandmother i* alleged to havs.: Mrc. Fettekow, who was cause the ohild to bleed to death, I cot want it to live. The yoaag ediavaib. Theo.alafiy,ltlsaH*ed. pted to choke the efcOd todett*, b«* was prevented from so doing by row, who took the child »wagr an^ ta||| it on a bed Next morning, whea Mzt returned to see the baby, abe looad tttattt : had been buried. Snowing that diwaa not right, che sent word to the COnawr. who went out and asked the old lady tmHwwhtaa where it was buried. SheOMBpUsl̂ lMlths body was found in a pasteboard boa,'cov­ ered by about six inches of dirt. OK exam­ ination the jury returned a verdtat to the effect that the chi'.d came to its doalll by violence, having its head mashed in, and that it is their belief that the deed w»com­ mitted by Mrs. Mary Quigley. BABBY has experienced one of the mast thrilling sensations in all tt* hiitoay. O'Brien s circus was there,andduitug the ev­ ening performance a Cr ghtfal stocaa came up from the southwest, sweeping tin entire area of tenta before it lite tint waa packed with people, and in the panic that ensued the wildest confusion waft excite­ ment prevailed, everybody ru h ng pell- mell in search of safety. The scene for a time was moat appalling, and added to the Ed«aa.a of the terrified people werj the howling and moaning of the animate. The elephant became frightened and rubbed 1 rom the scene, making fttratgtitway fOr its car. Cages were captked and hordes tore loose from their fasfeeninga, manj of them fleeing in all directions Bferange to say, no one was seriously iaiuzed. Maay psople were braised by falling polea The damage te circus property was very slight, consist­ ing principally in the cutting of ropes and tents by the crowd in their attempts to es­ cape The storm lasted only a few minutea but the wind, rain and hail were moot terrific. About 9 pm, the sky became clear and the work of removing the debris wa| Insngur- ated During this the moat t of the evening occurred. In< hill on one tide of theoteeas gnrnad, oaa-aiC the large, fix-horse wagons left the road ^ and capsized in the ditch, killing faro fine horses and injuring two men on It is reported that one of the men died The show left In a dilapidated oondi- tton Tax residence of B. M. Whipple in Chicago ^ was burglatixed at an early hour In. this morning. The extent of the rob}M£y waa evidently not known at the time by the thief, who undoubtedly ftlaaglned that he was ftealiBg only a few worth of goods, whereas th* anew* Ipttar % ^ into the thousands. Between ths hittn4t A; 5 and tt in the morning a cololfd nja feoted an entrance thxoogh a lit|uhlij ii ln . % f* J dow. A hired girl, who sleeps ia «a' Sdft»v. ^ lug room, was awakened by tho saw the thief leaving with a ice pitcher and tray, a cot! ineas coat She at once gfcrv un mtmKUk,wmm Mr. Whipple, who nad also hoard ttos > < « went down stairs and started in W&- followed his man aa far. as TwoltthM where he iost sight of him. In tho of the ooat there were between mzMr* and #,0,0C0 worth of securities, a portion of which were indor ed These onaalitbd of 300 shares in the Sovereign Gold Km'Com- pany and stock in the Postal TVIegMipl'CiMB. pnny. There was also a pocketboelt ooa- taining a #100 gold note, soaaaNMagJasSthaa 9100 in currency, and a $1,000 note thsft wa not indorsed Mr. Whipple at once notified the Lieutenant at the Harrison Street Ration of the robbery, and froia then it whs re­ ported to the Central Police Station. Detec­ tives were put on the case and a colored man arrested The liked ghrl was, however, unable to identify him. Mr. Whipple ad­ vertised in the xapers yesterday morning cautioning any one against tec«ivia# tiie * s e c u r i t i e s . _ _ _ _ _ < • ; , Agricultural Report fl»r Auf+at. The report of the Illinois Department Of Agriculture for August, which has ju*tbeen issued, shows that the wheat crop (his year is 20,347,092 bushels, the smallest on record for the past twenty-four years. An averse* yield of ten bushels per acre ia ehown, which is less than any year on noafl, ex­ cept 1876 and 1881. On the other hand, the price of wheat in first hands, which was 95 cents per bushel immediately attar harvest has not been h'gher but twice in tan yeaia, being *1 15 in 1877 aud #1.07 in 188L Use value of the crop this year is 918,3^7^8 lees than any year since 1£S1, and tho actual net loss to farmers is #3,358,749. The area of corn plante^ this year Waa 7,801,5'Jt) acres, being 67,3M less than ta l&fii General complaint is made that this cereal is from ten to twenty days behind the nsoal time for maturing, and it is that seed obtained in Northern and States is not so far advanced as aeed The outcome of the crop *«*** de­ pends upon the absence of frosts va*U tke backward crop has time to maftara. The prospect is favorable for an averag* yield of 65 per cent of an average crop TWhay crop is largely in excess of any evst har­ vested in Illinois. The total yteld aggM£at~ ed 5,0(14,460tons, being an exosaa of 6ft3!S tons over the crop of 18$!, and tha total value ia #30,880,271. This snows a fMlt of 51VJ96.175. The rye and barley BMga am below the average Other crops ala#-*fc. >f material difference from former yestm A HIIXSBOBO dispatch Bays thai JMMflir •windier has been doing eome of tha aajfeh- boring counties. His plan i« aovaL llasa. cures a horse and boggy, stops aMirary house, represents himseif as aa tHHairaat dentist, puHs one or montMttU wpMl at each place he stops, taHntming Ihaifr MS« that he does not want any lanaqr fur ex­ tracting the teeth, botmakaa fahn«ne% and when he calls to take the tagyMiitaa be" will want one-ha>f the money ehas§ea; tor making the false ones. In a few fjmr he calls again and takes the impreasfaifv eat*. lecting one-half the money, return again in a few days, ItiameOMSsto Mf that he is never seen again. A cosTKAcr has been let for a drslaaf v 4-: Im * ^ taa««i