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THE HEW lloHENRY, VAN 8UKE, Editor an* Publisher. • . i « • a . -- A tl&INOIS EDWIN BOOTH uses the compound word "stage-sick" as against "stage- struck," a popnlv expression. Mr. Booth's fire of ambition is said to have been quenched by the tears which trickled down thfe fallow and sttnken cheek of a %ftptepfid ' He told Law­ rence Barrett lately that next season would be "a farewell season" in fact for Edwin, son of Junius Brutus. ifr • . * ' " • " IN India it costs more to get married loan to die. Expensive presents are bestowed, and the parents of the bride are often impoverished for life by the dowry which they give the bride. When a great wedding takes place troops of beggars and priests appear, and they most not be Bent away empty-handed. At a recent marriage 10,000 people were snmptnously fed, and jawaoatod with clothing and money. s MANY of our able excLanges are mak­ ing nominations for the next Presiden­ tial contest. This is an agreeable and harmless occupation and there is no absolute reason why it should be dis­ continued, but it is crowding things a little, even as a pastime. Men rise and fall so swiftly in this country that even guesswork loses its'charm. There will be a great many neat white shafts Added to those in the political cemetery between now and four years hence. " - HEBE is an advertisement, taken from A recent issue of the London Court Journal, which suggests that in the matter of shrewd advertising the En­ glish can easily hold their own. "To ladies going into mourning through the unfortunate war in the Soudan, having their wardrobes to dispose of, Mrs would feel honored by their patronage. Furniture, carriages, jewelry, and plate bought. Money sent the same day for country parcels. New streets, Dorset square, N. \V. No post cards." !&. WBITXB in the Medical World says tlbat as opium is an antidote for pain, so, conversely, the real antidote for an overdose of opium is to cause persistent pain. With this idea he has "often t placed a hand vise on the thumbs and snap clothes pins on the fingers to neutralize the effects of the drug." The method appears to have been success­ ful, though the patients did not feel pain until a considerable time after the application. As the pain was increased in severity the pins were removed one ab9! one and the patient revived. "LIONEL SACKVILLB WKST," writes a Washington correspondent, "is of mid­ dle height, with inconspicuous features, a pair of large, sad blue eyes, and a • look so wearied and bored that it can only proceed from ill-health or hopeless ennui. He is of middle age, quite bald, and slightly gray. His court dress is notable as the most heavily-enriched among the legations. It is embroid­ ered in gold bullion until-it is as stiff as a cuirass, and the only place where ^ the cloth is visible is in the back, be­ tween the -collar and the shoulder- blade." A GENTLEMAN who csme through Lancaster County, South Carolina, re­ cently, found in his route a very pretty little girl, about 6 years of age, har­ nessed with a rope to a light guano dis­ tributer, and very contentedly plod­ ding along with it, while a sister about 3 years old managed the machine, the two doing the work of a full hand. They were asked why they did not change places, when the smallest ex­ plained that she was too little to reach the handles. *Both were cheerful and happy and interested in their work, and their father, who was ploughing in the same field, kept a paternal eye on them. 1 MB 8. CTTSTEB has now been eight years a widow, and during the most of these years she supported herself by acting aa Secretary to the Society of Decorative Art Her pension then from the Government was only $50 a month, but such a to-do was raised by the newspapers and public about this niggardly way of dealing with a brave officer's widow that a short time ago her pension was doubled. So now she is enabled by close economy to live without working, and this she does in a moat charming way. She has a little flat in a house in East Eighteenth street, New York, and * prettier or more attractive apartment it would be hard toiind. 08MAM BEY, the favorite chamber- ^ lain of the Sultan, followed an Otto­ man practice of choosing a mechanical trade in early youth, as the Sultans do. The tr*d6 Osman Bey took up was that of a printer, and he acquired such a liking for it that it became a favorite amusement even during court career. With the view of encouraging the printing of Turkish works, he set up at great cost a large printing office, with the best machinery, and employ­ ing 200 men. He is now devoting a considerable sum to a great paper-mill, and, as his attendance on the Sultan no longer allows him to give adequate time, he has. turned over the manage­ ment of the whole concern to his grandson, Jevad Bey, who shares his '•testes. ^ IT is strange how luek seems to fol­ low certain ships. An officer on one of the trans-atlantic steamships avers that though there is not a stancher or more seaworthy steamer on the Atlantic than a certain designated vessel, yet it is a terror to be compelled to sail on her. From beginning to end of the voyage there is an uninterrupted chapter of accidents. The last time that the offi­ cer referred to crossed in that unhappy craft there was an awful Etorm, in which the wheel-house, part of the cap­ tain's room and two boats were carried away; a cabin passenger broke two of her fingers, «pd * steerage passenger a leg; the sailors required con- attendance, and a poor little srirl fell dosra the hatohway and was killed the v^rday she arrived in port Those who mrjpCsted resort to every expedi­ ent to avoid being ordered to the ill- fated vessel. IK a paper on "Worldliness in the Church," which was read by Bishop Huntington at a meeting, in Syracuse, of the Congregational church of West­ ern I$ew York, be said: "If it had been proposed a few years ago to open in each of our cities and villages large and attractive places of amusement where, at night, any number* of persons of both sexes could come together for an exciting kind of sensual pleasure, with the freest possible latitude as to the acquaintanceship and intercourse, and with no possibility of excluding the worst elements of society therefrom, the whole moral and religious S6i:se of the community would have been shocked and outraged. Yet we have this very thing at the corners of the streets, and it is claimed that it keeps one class of youth from grosser dissipa­ tion. It is, however, forgotten that another class is drawn down from safe­ ty to immodesty, or even from virtue to vice. Doubtless, discrimination and moderation would correct the evil. But while virtuous and benevolent ladies in the city are taking praise­ worthy paines to savo female honer in India, China, and Japan, ought they to leave the other more important work close by undone?" A FASHIONABLE tailor in Boston had a difficulty with his workmen and dis­ charged them, taking in their places journeymen who did not belong to the union. The discharged union men thereupon laid siege to the establish­ ment, enticed the new employes off, sc far as possible, and, to prevent others coming and to drive away custom, or­ ganized themselves into a guard, and paraded back and forth in front of the store from dawn until dark. This has gone on for several weeks, no violence being offered and no overt acts com­ mitted which would warrant the ar­ rest of the offenders. Finally, the be sieged merchant devised a mode of re­ taliation which seems likely to be ef­ fectual in ridding himself of annoy­ ance. He engaged several negroes, dressed tham in fantastic costumes, and sent them out with instructions to dog the footsteps of the guardsmen, to turn when they turned, stop when they stopped, and to otherwise conduct themselves as grotesque shadows. This, of course, created great merriment, and drew an immense crowd. £The tramp­ ing tailors became objects of ridicule, and it required all their nerve rein­ forced by liquid refreshments served by sympathizing friends, to endure the jibes and jeers of the multitude. The crowds became so great as to impede travel, and it finally became necessary for the police to disperse the pedes­ trians, with their sable attendants, which was what the merchant wanted. At last accounts he had made arrange­ ments, in case the guard again appears, to add to the procession some colored damsels fresh from the Carolina cot­ ton fields. They will be arrayed in the height of fashion, provided with im­ mense hats and sunshades, and directed to walk beside the troubled tailors. This, it is thought, will be an enter­ tainment which will put an end to the persecution, as it is believed that ridi­ cule will kill a striker more easily than care killed a cat. Deeply Repentant. The other day while General Biddle- ton was standing in his yard, old Dave Hawkins, a well-known colored gen­ tleman, approached lr'm. Old Dave carried a basket, containing something wrapped in an old shawl. "Mars' Bob," said the old negro, bow­ ing reverentially. "I hab come, sail, ter ax yer furgibness. De Law<l hab done furgib me, an' I knows yer will follow de zample," "What have voa done, Dave?" MOh, sab, I trimbles when I thinks o* whut er 'miliatin' 'fession I hab got ter make. Marster, las' night, arter I had wqrked roun' yer house all day, I stepped inter de smoke 'ouse an' stole er hog's jowl. Now I've fotch it back an' heah it am," he added uncovering the jowL "I doan' keer whut comes, Mars'Bob, I'se gwine ter be hones'. I ain't got much longer ter lib in dis heah worl', an' when I leab it, I wanter go widout fear an' trimblin'." "Dave," said the general, "I am glad to see that you have become honest and I am sure you will never lose anything by it." "l oan' make no difference ef I does, boss, I'm gwine ter be. hones' jes' de same. Im gwine ter put dis jowl right back whar I foun' it Oh, it's 'miliatin' marster, but I deserves it, I does in­ deed, sah. Doan' say a word. Doan' open dat hones' and ligious mouf o' yourn, lur I'm gwine ter put dis meat right back whar I foun' hit." He went into the smoke house. When he came out, he hummed the splinter of a sacred tune. "Oh, I ain't felt bet­ ter fur many a day an' I does b'lebe dat I coul' stan' up an' look Nebbercut- nezer in de face. Wall, good mawain,' marst:r." As he was going through an alley, he lifted the old shawl, looked at a ham and said: "No, ain't los' nothin' yit by bein* hones', ur he, he. Wuz so 'cited las' night dat I didn't hab a fa'r shake. I oughter knowed better den ter tuck dat ole jowl, but er man kain'bring hisbes' jedgment inter play when he is pushed fur time. De advantages o' de swap is more den wuth de trouble. Dis ham is ez much mine ez it is de gen'Js. Heep ino' so, I'm thinkin'. Whut right hab one man more den anuder ter own er hog? I wusli de gubbernment would set de hogs free like it did de niggers. Uh, Lau d a massy, whut er rich piece o' meat dis is."--Arkansaw Traveler. Impecunious Americans* A correspondent writes that "Never since the close of the civil war in America have there been so many im­ pecunious Americans in London as now. The recent tumble in securities, the consequent distrust of new mining ven­ tures and their promoters, and heavy losses in betting on Blaine, have all contributed to work havoc in the col­ ony, and the American who is able to pass the week without the hopeless loan to a compatriot is fortunate."-- London Letter. Coeoaine a Care far Drafticecaaess and Opium btla|. "What is coeoaine hydrochloride, the new annssthetic, worth per ounce?" asked a reporter of a Chicago druggist. "Five hundred dollars," he replied, "and it is not likely to be any Cheaper for fome time to come. However, so small a quantity of the solution is re­ quired for each operation that the cost to the patient need not be very great." "Why is it so expensive?" "Because the salts of cocaine had, be­ fore this new demand arose, but a very limited sale in this country, and whole­ sale dealers carried but small stocks. At last accounts the supply of the alka­ loid in New York had beon exhausted, while orders have accumulated in hun­ dreds. The demand in Europe, like­ wise has been so great as to deple'e the stock of the German manufacturers. The stock of coca leaves both in Eu­ rope and America are reported to be small and largely of inferior quality, so that the prospect of supplying large amounts of the alhaloid in the near future seems not very good. You know of course that the value of this anesthetic, so far as demonstrated at present, is confined to operations upon the eye. It has been proved in a ma­ jority of cases that an application to the eye of a few drops of 2 or 4 per cent, solution will produce a more or less complete transient insensibility to pain. Operations ordinarily requiring the use of chloroform or ether have been performed upon patients con­ scious of everything being done, but saved from pain by a weak aqueous solution of this salt. Outside of ophthalmic practice this substance has • not been universally so successful, al­ though it has been used for a month or six weeks by some Chicago dentists. It acts only on the mucus membrane, and appears to havo no effect on the bone. Dentists use it on teeth requir­ ing treatment and the removal of the nerve?. One told me the other day that he had placed a cotton saturated with a few drops of a 4 por cent solu­ tion on the exposed nerve of a patient's tooth and removed the nerve without her experiencing any severer pain than would be occasioned by the prick of a pin. Another claim set up for it is that it will cure drunkenness and morphine taking, completely paralyzing the crav­ ing for either alcohol or opiunn An in­ dividual cured of either propensity by its use is said to have no relapses, and the disuse of the coca is easily er^i- cated. It is more difficult to cure al­ coholism with it than morphine-eating, because there is a direct antagonism between cocaine and morphine. "Another drug for which the demand is greater than the supply at present is antipvrin. It has been used with great success in New York hospital practice. It possesses a remarkable power of lowering the temperatue in cases of fever. It is an article manufactured and sent out by a German tirm. The composition of it has not been dis closed. "A great many curious substances and many expensive ones are u-ed as drugs. Hyoscyamin, for instance, a narcotio used in conjunction and in place of opium and its alkaloids, is worth $100 per ounce. Erseni, a prepa­ ration made from the Calabar bean, and used in epilepsy, rheumatism, fe­ vers, and for local applications, is val­ ued at $125 per ounce. The Calabar bean has something the same proper­ ties as strichnine, and serves as a nerve tonic. Morphine is expensive, ranging in price from $4 to $8 per ounce. Of the various salts, bimeconate is the most costly, and brings $10 per ounce. Chloride of gold is worth $15 per ounce. It is used for scrofula and various diseases of the blood. Musk is worth $40 an ounce. It is used most largely, of course, as a perfume, but occasion­ ally to relieve spasm. It is obtained from the musk ox. It is used for burns by the Chinese. It is believed the Chinese have knowledge of many val­ uable remedies which would be of great benefit to science,' but they jeal­ ously guard their secrets. Ergotin is a curious but inexpensive drug, being worth but 34 cents an ounce at whole­ sale. It is used in apoplexy. It is a fungus growth found on rye in Nor­ mandy. A similar growth on the rye in this country contains a very little er­ gotin, even less than that found in the smut on corn. The wild ginseng root was used a few years ago as atonic, many persons smoking it. The demand is less now. Some people in the Wis­ consin woods really made a living just searching out the wild ginseng. Its roots are very fine and light and it re­ quires a considerable quantity to make a pound. The Humming Bird at Houie. Cosily sitting in the very tiniest little nest, so soft and elastic that even her delicate plumage is unruffled by con­ tact with its moss covered sides, we find our humming bird. High on the gnarled and twisted branch of a dog­ wood she has built this fairy home, and therein, With the overhanging leaves for a canopy, the little sylph is brood­ ing. How shall I describe the cunning little structure? A few weeks ago the building was commenced, but on such a small scale that the foundation was laid ere the site was discovered by us. Solt puffs from the blossoms of oak and chestnut, bits of the softest brown fungus and scraps of gray mosses that grow in secret places known only to these littl.e fairies, worked into the walls, and gradually the little cup-like house approached completion. Little flakes of lichen and bark* veritable diminutive clapboards, were next ad­ ded, and the task was finished. There it rests, its mossy covering harmoniz­ ing so well with the tree bark as to conceal it from all but the closest ob­ server, and often, though knowing its location so well, I have missed it for an instant, so cunningly is it placed. A dead twig projects from the branch a few inches to one side, and here the little wood sprites frequently perch. There is the male now, his ruby throat all ablaze as a sunbeam covers him for an instant with gold. See him edge np to his little darling ! And now as he snuggles c^ose beside her he is evidently telling her where her breakfast is wait'ng for her in the trumpet flower he tapped for her last night, and which is half filled with nectar this morning, accumulated drop by drop during the cool hours of dark­ ness. Like a flash she is off, and he takes her place to keep the chill from the tiny eggs. These frail creatures have gradually become accustomed to my presence. At first they were ner­ vous and would cease work, while one or the other would dart down to with­ in five or six feet of me, and there, poised on its whirring wings, closely inspect the intruder, uttering the while sundry peeps and curious little cries. Now that they are convinced that no harm is intended they do not even leave the nest at my approach. What a dream-life is theirs! Gliding in zigzag lines over the flower beds, now sus­ pended almost motionless over a lily bloom, now racing with the bumble­ bees for a honeyed prize, or dashing at the sparrows w robins, and speedily putting them to flight with the fury of their onset. Whet they do or where they go when it storms Ido not know; but a* the first returning gleaa of sun­ shine they tre„ back again, with the rapidity of thow^k sipping the rain­ drops from the fljOwltfc,' And when bed­ time comes what wonderfal stories of the sunlight the little things must tell each other, as cuddling clo:e up there in the dark they listen to the croon! croon! croon! of the insects, and watch the fireflies guidifcg the moths among the trees by the light of their tor " --Fbre0t and S'ream. M ^ * The Botfle Itnsinegsi : 'M "Here is one of the neatest things that have ever been brought out in the glass line," said the clerk, as he handed the reporter a small medicine glass. Tea and tablespoonfuls are marked off on it by lines, and on oae part was the name of a business firm and its address. "You see a druggist can have his name etched on here by hydrotiouric acid, and whenever he sells a bottle of med­ icine he can give away one of these lit­ tle tumblers with it." The huge bottles which; filled with colored liquids, are seen in every drug­ store window are all blown, it was learned, and not molded. They are in three styles--the Boman, so called from itB resemblance so the old Boman pedestals; the pineapple, also named from its shape, and the Wayne, from Wayne county, Pennsylvania, where it is made. These show bottles are plain, engraved, or cut, the cut glass.of course, being the most expensive. The differ­ ence between cut glass and engraved glass, which may not be understood, is just this: The work upon each is done by means of rapidly-revolving wheels, var\ ing in size from one-eighth inch to five inches in diameter, i ut the cut work is done by wheels made of Scotch stone called "oredlief," and has to be polished up before it is finished, while engraving is done with copper wheels moistened with emery powder and oil, and is not polished. The chief reason why America cannot compete with Eu­ rope in the manufacture of glass is be­ cause of the difference in the price of labor. Just as artistic work can be done here, but in Bohemia, for instance, the peasantry, who are taught the glass business from the cradle, visit the man­ ufacturing towns in the valleys in the summer and take a load of goods to their mountain homes. They are charged with this, and during the win­ ter they cut the glass with their little loot-wheels and go again the next sum­ mer for a fresh stock. But, curiously enough, notwithstanding the general exceUenco of foreign work, the finest bottle-wear usually has one defect The glass Ktoppe^s are nearly always loose. They seem to fit tightly but they do not, and^very often this point is of the highest importance in preserv­ ing liquids lrom evaporation.--Boston Olobe. A jii|Mtne»e Baby. When Kine. the little Japanese baby, was one hundred days old »,he was car­ ried to the temple, just as some Ameri­ can parents take their little children to the church to have them christened, though Kine' parents do not know or worship the true God. The priest wrote a prayer on a piece of paper and put it into the prayer-bag, which was small and made of red crape, embroid­ ered in white flowers and drawn to­ gether by silk cords, 'ihis bag con­ taining the prayer was the "guard from evil," and it is devoutly believed by all Japanese to have the power of keeping children from evil spirits, from delu­ sion by loxes,--for the people think that foxes can cheat or enahant people, --and from all dangers. This little red bag was attached to the girdle behind After bestowing a gilt in money upon the priest, the parents and relatives re­ turned home with the little girl and held a great feast in her honor. Kine was carefully nursed, and carried on the back of a faith fulservant, who fastened her there by a long string or bandage drawn around the waist and legs of the child, and crossed over the neck and shoulders of the maid. Her little head and bright eyes would bob on every side as her nurse walked or ran, and here she would go soundly asleep, or play as any baby would. She was never carried in any person's arms. Japanese babies seldom are. When Kine's aunts or cousins wishod to coax her away from her nurse or mother, they would hold their backs invitingly, and she would put out her little arms and go to one or another as she ohose. Clasping tightly the neck of the favored one, and held there by the feet or legs, she would be as happy as if cludded up in the arms. As the baby grew and began to walk, little sandals made of straw were put on her feet These were fastened on by putting the great toe through a loop. When she was a year old her hair, which had been shaved^ was allowed to grow a little, and then tied on the top in a very funny fashion, Every year it was worn dif­ ferently.--M. C. Oriffis, in Nicho­ las. ' Names in Novels. What enrious mistakes female novelists sometimes fall into with regard to the naming of their c aracters. A female novelist once took all her names out of a subscription list in a provincial paper. In the course of time the novel drifted into that particular part of the coun­ try, and when it was therein written that the banker had a liaison with the Methodist minister's wife; that the re­ spectable lawyer had seven years' pe­ nal servitude in bis youth; that the proprietor of the most rowdy house in, the town had been in the Balaclava charge; that the chief cheese monger was the illegitimate son of a duke, and that the consumptive ritualist curate had wound np a London career of hid­ eous crime by hobbling the Derby fa­ vorite--why, the words that we have at our command are not strong enough to express a tithe of the sensation that was caused.--Court Journal. y - f " : • v ' : V h ' ; ' * TIIK injurious effect produced by il­ luminating gas is due, according to G rube's researches, not to the continu­ ance of its action, but its concentration, or the percentage of it in the air. It is asserted that air containing five parts in ten thousand can be breathed by men and animals for hours, and even days, without any injury to the health; from seven to eight parts in ten thous­ and cause indisposition; twenty-parts produce difficult breathing, loss of pow­ er, and uncertainty of motion; with twenty to forty parts drowsiness be­ gins* and, when there is still more car­ bonic oxide, in the air, the poisoning is attended with violent symptoms; brain and spinal column are especially af­ fected, cramps seize the victim, yet he may recover if brought quickly into fresh air. Breathing air heavily charged with carbonic oxide for a longtime may likewise cause death. * I.) "OPES Th« Democrat* Han. KVMHNM of [Washington special to One of the great paign cries was "Open thebookn** The Treasury books have been open sinoe March 4, and skilled accountants, book­ keepers, and counters for a month have been engaged in counting the vast stun of money in the Treasury vaults. The work wan completed to-day, and the committee has reported to Treasurer Jordan that the funds have been found to be correct in every particular, The 2 cents shortage was the only discrepancy discovered, but thai was at once made good by the cashier. The bag in which this discrepancy occurred was a bag containing $S in 1-cent pieces. The person who counted it for the Treasurer was one ol the most expert woman counters in the service, and the Treasurer insists that if the bag had been kept and not inad­ vertently paid out in the ordinary course of business even this supposed shortage of two cents would have been found to have been a miscount of tile Examining Committee. Ex-Treasurer Wyman, who is in New York, was im­ mediately telegraphed that the funds so long in his possession were found to be correct. His bond is released and the bond of the new Treasurer substi­ tuted for it. The report of this com­ mittee is a great compliment to Mr. Wyman, and it is a vindication of the Bepublican party. The expert New York accountants who represent the new officials in this count say that there is no banking house in New York City which could be subjected to such an examination and show such results. Two Months--The Result. 1?he highest compliment that the Democrats have ever paid or can pay to the Bepublican party they are pay­ ing now in the pretended adoption oi Bepublican policies and principles as their own. To do this is not easy or pleasant for them. Men of any 'self- respect find it unspeakably humiliating to admit that they have been lying like cowardly scoundrels in every political campaign for years. Yet the Demo­ crats have to do that, or to do worse. Here is the monthly debt statement. There is hardly a Democratic editor who oan print it, • or a Democratic speaker who can read or quote it, with out proving that his assertions about the finances for years past have been as full of untruths as an egg is of meat. He has been asserting that there was an enormous surplus, which ought to be spent in clearing off debt. Mr. Hendricks and Mr. liandall unblushingly said it was $200,000,000 or more. Every offi­ cial statement of Mr. Manning, the Dem­ ocratic Secretary of the Treasury, tells them that they have been lying. The Democratic orator and editor persisted for years in asserting that the liepub- lican statements were "crooked" and fraudulent; that they were cunningly devised to conceal the truth and to hide the robbery of the people by Kepnbli- cans. Mr. Manning's statements, com­ paring dollar for dollar and cent for cent with those of his predecessors, using the very same items and differing only in the arrangement of them, prove that these assertions have been simply a pack of falsehoods. It is not pleasant to admit all this. But the Democratic administration is forced to do that, or else to let the Treasury become bank­ rupt in the first year of Democratic rule, and the latter would be fatal to all chances of keeping office. When a Democrat has to forfeit either hm chance of keeping office or his reputa­ tion for honesty and his self-respect, there is no doubt which he will give up. The civil-service reform convicts tho Democrats of untruth every hour. They would abandon the policy and abolish the system if they dared, but that would cost them defeat. Attempt­ ing to pay some sort of respect to it, they involuntarily prove that they were untruthful when they called the Re­ publican officials "rascals," and assert­ ed that the publio service had been crowded with incompetents. If the old officials were really rascals--if, in fact, any accusation whatever of im­ propriety, however flimsy, could be es­ tablished against them--they could be put out at once, in strict accordance with civil-service rules. Not a single one has yet been so removed, except in a few cases where charges had been in­ vestigated, and removal virtually de­ cided upon, by the previous Bepubli­ can administration. Hundreds of men have' been turned out whose up- righteousness and eflicienoy have been officially admitted, in order to make room for persons in harmony with the new administration; but no rascals have been found to remove, and no incoinpe-. tents. Nearly a hundred thousand persQps still retain office, after a Demo­ cratic administration has had the power to remove them for two months, be­ cause no fault can be found with them. The net result of two months under Democratic rule is to prove that the Democratic party gained office by per­ sistent, stupendous, monumental false­ hood. Bepublicans await the develop­ ments of the next two ^months with serene satisfaction.--JVCM? York Trib­ une. jFecskniffisn Cant. ' f * Postmaster Pearson, of New^ork, would not let his employes vote on election day, and he is reappointed in the interests of "civil-service reform." Postmaster Palmer, of Chicago, al­ lowed his employes to exercise the high­ est privilege and discharge the most solemn duty of citizenship, and he is removed for "offensive partisanship." The Pecskniffian cant about civil-service reform in this administration is already sickening and disgusting. Both Bepub­ licans and Democrats, and people gen­ erally, would think more of it if it were not so contemptibly hypercritical. The public hates a sneaking, driveling, cant­ ing hypocrite.-- Indianapolis Journal. S. CORNING JUDO, appointed Post­ master of Chicago, was, ac cording to an official report on the Camp Douglas matter, in 18ii4, a prominent member of the peace organization, known as the "Sous of Liberty" or "American Knights." If there is any slimy old copperhead and unreconstructed rebel who'lias not been provided for by this "reform" administration, he should ap­ ply at once. The oversight has not been intentional.--Indianapolis Jour­ nal. "THK management of his office was perfect," says Mr. Vilas of ex-Postmaa- ter Palmer, of Chicago. "Turn the rascals out^" says the administration, "and if the/ afe not rascals, turn ttiem out any way." SENATOR FRYE says of Cleveland's appointments that every man given a Erominent place is "either a Copper-ead or a BebeL I see nothing in the administration to commend." »• -/' •*- >•»<>.£ .'4 v ; A ' • ' I don't know «f anything that makes a modeik^jotiring man feel comfortawe than to sit in a tmfwSjf' train, holding up both hands, whil# xn Iront of him stands a fellow tfastlodks "like a hurriedly arranged Mephis* toplieles in a tramp Faust company, leveling a six-shooter whose muzzle seems to open like the mouth of a hungry catfish. A man may have faught duels and may have the reputa­ tion of being as firm as the architec­ ture of Themistocles; but when an un­ gainly citizen, wearing a mask, throws up a revolver and says "What time did you say it was?" he will not repeat an old joke and reply, "Same time 'twas this time yesterday," but hands his watch to the demonstrative stranger. This is not surmise with me. I argue from a foundation of truth, plastered with the cement of experience. I was a passenger on the railway train re­ cently robbed near Little Bock. Just before leaving Pine Bluff, a friend came to me and said: "I wish you would take my watch up to the city and leave it with a jeweler. It stopped the other day and I think there must be something the matter with it; indigestion, probably." Of course, I consented, desiring to accommodate my friend, as I didn't owe him anything. I put the dyspep­ tic time-killer in my valise, but after the train started, fearing that someone might mistake my luggage for his own, I took the watch out and wore it, not without a slight thrill of pleasure as the gold cliaiu caught the rays of the lamp overhead. When within a short distance of Lit­ tle Bock, the train suddenly stopped. The rapid firing of pistols without seemed to assure the passengers that tax collectors were in the neghborhood, for every one began to show signs of uneasiness, but before we had time to engage in those little speculations and humorous remarks which frequently delight an appreciative company, a very tall fellow, followed by several companions, entered the car and made a remark which I understood to mean "hands up." The passengers readily accepted my inter­ pretation of the remark, and following my example, held up their hands. I felt sorry for one poor fellow. He only had one arm with him at the time, and his piteous implorations that somebody would lend him another hand for a few moments were quite enough to have moved a gall of fiint. The captain of the gang was very gentlemanly, and doubtless tore my vest by mistake while taking off the valuable watch which the Pine Bluff man had intrusted to my keeping. "Look here, William the Kid, or whatever your name may be on the present occasion," said I, "this watch dots not belong to me. I am only taking it up to town lor a friend. It won't run, so wait until it is repaired." I looked around to see if the audi­ ence were applauding my presence of mind and determination to be facetious. No one smiled, but an old man who was so fat that he filled one seat and bulged over on another, groaned and said: "Wonder why some fellow don't shoot that fool." "Not your watch, eh ?" said the lead­ er, tugging at the chain. "No, sir ; belongs to Colonel Met L. Jones, of Pine Bluff." "That so? Why I am glad to know it. Colonel Jones is a friend of mine and I am sure he made a mistake in letting you take it There now, it's all right." "Look hear, boss," said an old negro who was searched, "mebbe yer doan know it am ergin de law ter ack like yerse'f is er doin'. I'se dun had all my property made over in de name o' my wife, an, yer ain't got no right to take er lady's property dis er way. I doan mine seein' er man 'posed on, but when er persun 'poses or er lady, w'y den I --yas, sah, yas," as a pistol barrel came up under his nose; "take de lady's property, sah. Got no bus'ness wid Bit, nohow." When the robbers allowed the train to proceed, everybody got mad, and af­ ter we were under way, one man drew'a pistol and swore that no rooster in America could rob him, and then re­ membering that he had lost his watch, added "again.* It makes no difference how cool and frosty a man's temperament may be, it is quite difficult for him to keep from feeling anxious and uncomfortable when a burly fellow levels a pistol and says: "Throw up your hands."--Opie P. Read, in New York Mercury. Wonderful Skill. "It beats all what skill some people can obtain, said Smith. "What induced yon to make such a queer observation ?" said Mrs. Smith. "Why I saw a fellow down town throw water from a bottle through an inch auger hole ten feet distant, and every drop of it passed through the hole without wetting tho sides. Of course the feat posses no importance, except the careful practice necessary to perform it." "I should think so," said Mrs. Smith, "that it would-be a difficult feat How in the world do yiHi suppose he ever learned to do such a thing? Must have belonged to a \fire department didn't he?" \ "No," Baid Smith, quietly "he be Jongs to the Mormon church, and ac­ quired his skill by firing soothing syrup into his babies." --Newm an Indepen­ dent A Good Reason. A benevolent lady investigated the wants of some professional beggars. "Where is the blind man?" she asked of a little girl she mot at the door of the tenement house. "He's readin' der paper, mum.* "Ah! And where is the deaf map?" "He's talking politics wid de bntoh- er."J <9 "And what has become of the para­ lytic?" "He's abed, mum.* "Well, that's strange. He ought to be running a race." replied the lady, sarcastically. "He's the only holiest beggar in the building. Why ^s he in bed?" '•Because he's dead, mum."--Drake's Traveler's Magazine. : . As Mad as a Hatter. A hatter sees one of his debtors pass him by in the street without any recog­ nition of his existence, and straight­ way becomes as mad as--as a hatter. "Curse the fellow!" he says, "he might, wheu I bowed to hiin, have at least had the decency to lift my hat 1"-- Faris Paper. How SACRED, how beautiful is the feeling of affection in pure and guile­ less bosoms! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to de­ spise it; but the holy passion is surely Of heaven, and is made evil by the corruption of those whom it was sont to bless and preserve. Z2& «trosNMI Inst. ift nvw cocamth Watlw pwrMiXSi waa mm* to attaint DrotfrciUT^bffl vhumiiM andratanxL SRoconrttored MAbUttoni at the UBtowMmk laife. once raised. Mr. KeOy "Wff ered,aad sent back to pleuro-pnenmonta bill readtajr. T&etfc W*s no and that body devoted ment of bills and tlM n«hrtu«( committees. The followiBff WIS i to third ENMttnjr: Cnfti' Mil,) and towns to make impro»em« segments amfast the pitpwly stead of asainst bill, repealing the act contiguous taken in jndinnent to be tell'a bill, ants of parts of towas nnder special clwrtem to separate cities or villages onderthei Baker's bill, requiring the l Railroad Commfoslonemi to State printer and not in a k'-mpwar; aa bill, making a coal right separatafzootthe 1 under which it is located; L _ fire 1nsrcrance companies to MMrthSS lie oi their policies in ease of total ] bill, authorizing cities having i department to impose a license tax fire insurance companies. Ninety-sfat answered to their nam< 8 when UM jat| bly convcnel at noon. Only eight cast for United States Senator, offWMeHI received Sittig % Callahan 1, Logan 1, and Morrison 1. NOTHING whatever was done by the Seaateat its Bession on the 9th inst. In the Hovntto' following resolution w&e ntrodaead by SiSfc Sheffield, and unanimously adopted: "WkMilSb the law requires that tne reporter®# flw IP preme Court shall pnblish the reports of decisions within four months after a sufficient number to make a volume been filed, and in default thereof shall re­ ceive no salary; and whereas, lor said law is not complied with; resolved, that a committee of three be sp> pointed to investigate and report to this HmsS what action should be taken to secure the en­ forcement of the law and the prompt publica­ tion of such Supreme Court reports. Mr. Me»- sick presented a resolution providing tor the printing of the journal of the House under the /Instructions of the Secretary of State. It was solidly opposed by the Democratic ride. After an hour's discussion the resolution was made a special order for May 13. A resolution was presented by Mr. Messick, and adopted by the House, instructing the Speaker to appoint a committee of three to inquire into and determine why the Supreme Court of " Southern Grand Division fails to file in all cases as prescribed by law. Several were introduced and read a first time. Three Senators and twenty-six members of' the Home answered to their names when the joint assem­ bly convened. Twenty ballots were cat 11 for Morrison, 3 for Logan. 2 for Prtckett, 2 foe Baker, and 2 for Weaver. NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that only a dosen Senators were present in the Senate on the 11th Inst., the order of bills on the second reading was taken up. Senator Shumway's amendSEMat to the medical-practice act was moved np a BM and placed in the order of third n ading. A. wmi presented by Senator Duncan afflew ling tte law of bailments also went to the third tead- ing. It is intended to prevent the IHesal sale of goods by parties to whom they ate con­ signed, On motion of Sena: or Streeter, ,tba piggy-sow bill was advanced to third MMraut- Senator Shnmway called up a measure provid­ ing for the election of Justices of the Peaoe. to fill vacancies occasioned by death or resign* tlon, and had it engrossed for third readtttg. The Housedid absolutely nothing beyond listen­ ing to the reading of the journal »nd adopting an adjournment motion, in the joint Senatorial convention Morrison received 23 votes, Duncan 1, and H. H. Waldo l. UNDER the order of unfinished business Sen­ ate bill to appropriate $13,500 for the T|U""U» Asylum for the Feeble-Minded at Lincoln, and to enable the trustees to lease or sell the ooSl rights of the land to such persons as may seen best for the interests of the State, came np in the Senate on the l.'th mat. Mr. Merrltt opposed that part of the bill appropriating SS,OuO for the erection ot a hoapltal. His motion to strike out that portion was lost. The clause appro­ priating $7,500 for thirty-eî ht acres ot land adjacent to the buildings was next attacked, and an attempt was mads to kill it by aa amendment to reduce the price to $3.80o. A long tight followed, and after several lnelfectnal attempts to am Mid the item for tts purchase of grounds it was finally ordered to a third reading without alteration. Senate US to appropriate *36,000 f»r ordinary and con­ tingent expenses of the Asylum far idloto. Wis read, and it met with the same ojuptsitiosu Pending a motion to reduce the Mir for contingent expenses the Senate ad­ journed. The House, after mfiisias to order an investigation into the ment of the affairs of the School at Pontine, began tho . the general appropriation bilL nt< items in regard to the Gorerhor'a Ottce •»ais agreed to without much dispute. Mr. West tried to knock eff lioo from the salary of tita colored porter, and give him only $60u a year, but this economical move on that inconspicu­ ous person failed to succeed. When the ttasa of $3,000 a year for the purpose of continuing the work ot indexing the laws and other docu­ ments in the Secretary of State's office was reached, a long debate sprung np. Mlthoattak­ ing a vote on the question the House adjourned. In the joint convention only one vote was east for Senator, that of Streeter for Mr. Morrison. THE rules of the Senate were amended, ea the 13th Inst, so as to provide for the holding of afternoon sessions on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays of each week. Senator Johnson called up a House bill amending the drainage law by extending the time for the payment < assessments levied lor such " had it advanced to a third providing for the ordinary expenses Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children, at: was sent to a third reading. The bill i _, ating $553,000 for the maintenance of thei kee Insane Asylum was advanoed to a third reading after a long fight Mr. Merritt stated that this amount would be $S00 for every patient. Mr. Wheeler l fact that there were 1,*00 inmates. Inthel a report from the Committee on Military j that 5,000 copies of the Adjutant General s i of 1866 be reprinted was adopted, notwithstand­ ing decided opposition by the Democrats, one el whom, Mr. Linegar, gave notioe that he would demand a reconsideration of tho vote. The House, by a vote of 06 to 6*\ passed a resotul vesting in Julia A. Bakeweli, ef Normal, 111 , title to fortv* acres of land near Bloominston, conditionally donated by her husband to the State Board of Education. During the joint Senatorial convention no one cast a vote, there being one Democrat and three Republicans missing. \ THE bill making an appropriation of $300,000 for the erection of new buildings at the Kanka­ kee Asylum was discussed at some length by the Senate on the 14th inst. The amount was re­ duced to $lt5,ooo and the bill sent to third read­ ing. A bill appropriating $5,00u for the support of the school for the deaf and dnmb children afc Chicago was ordered engrossed for third read­ ing. The appropriation for the support of the Illinois Eye and Ear In­ firmary at Chicago was sent to third reading, and was followed by a measure setting apart $28,3GO for the erection of now buildings at the Chester Penitentiary. The bill* for the ordinary expenses of the Penitentiary at Chester and the Asylum for the Insans at Jack­ sonville were also sent to third reading. In the House Mr. Boutell's bill amending the law in relation to township organisation came np on third reading, and it was passed by a large ma­ jority. Next came a House bill awsnariating for curbing, flagging, snd paving the tent of is, an* he bill of the t Lincoln. ieSanSnb $27,400 walk aronnd the which was also passed. When the two houses convened in joint session the hall was Gubernatorial Mansion, nlled with spectators, who anticipated an < ing contest. Two hundred members responded The Republicans refused to voted fcr Morrison, second and third to the roll-call. vote. Mulheam received- 99 votes. On the ballots Senator Streeter voted for Morrison, who got 101 votes, the full strength of the par y. Senator Duncan then withdrew the name of CoL Morrison. The fourth ballot resulted in the naming of fifteen Democrats. On the titth ballot Morrison's friends went over to 1 ambert Tree,and on the sixth ballot that gen­ tleman received 89 votes. An adjournment until evening was ordered. At 5 o'clock Gov. Ogles- by issued a certificate of election to Mr. Wea­ ver, of the Thirty-fourth District, who took the oath of office before a notary public. The Democratic managers resolved that the Sneaker must not recognize any person arriving at the evenina session to present Mr. Weaver's cre­ dentials. The first ballot at night gave Lam­ bert Tree 91 votes. On the second ballot, as Senator Ruger voted for Logan, and 1 ree re­ ceived U'l votes, the latter came within one vote of an election. The third ballot gave Tree nil votes. A recess was then ordered to 8:30 o'clock the next mcrning, thu* cutting Off Mr. Weaver from participation in the balloting. ^ ...V • .. „tv .£ >•„&. " Prompting Eje-tilraes. HM "micro-photoscope," devised lqr a schoolmaster of the Isle of Man, is a pair of spectacles in the rim of which are several micro-photographs, each provided with a little magnifying lens. The instrument is worn as an ordinary pair of spectacles, and the wearer mar at any time see the pictures by slightly turning his eyes. A public speaker may thus have in view photographs of his notes; a traveler, maps or taiuas of in­ formation; a detective, a list of crim­ inals sought; and go on. Tin tea that always tastes btttar to fMt tno-AAwitj.--iWew Furfc Juantofc •: > «>r'. ^ f •, *- ^ t , 'V* ) 1 \ J J .. *w .6* > U*- -y