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ri&rntjt fHamdealct J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publisher. McHENHY, TTJJXOIB. A PHILADELPHIA wife wants a divorce because he* husband compelled her to take a scrubbing brash and cratch his back for half an hour every morning. What « chance iS work in tacks on Mm! . •" J. M. HILL, Margaret Mather's mana­ ger, sold his team of pacers, Westmont and Lorene, to Frank Siddall, of Phil­ adelphia, for $50,000. Mr. Hill pur­ chased "Westmont and Lorene about a year and a half ago, paying $20,000 for the former and $5,000 for the latter. BOSTON N in the throes of a religious revival. The awakening began about the tinle Rev. Downs made his bad Jbreak. Something bad to be done to •offset the scandal, and the clergy seem to have decided with great sense to have a revival of the legitimate gospel as a noveltv. THE widow of Dr. Brandrdth, the famous pill-man, recently lost $2,000 worth of diamonds in a railroad car. Here is food for a mathematical mind with a pensive turn. To estimate how many pills and what human suffering those diamonds represented would oc­ cupy an expert for a vast autumn even- to* ' ' . • • • ' A BUFFALO woman last spring re­ ceived a telegram announcing the death of her husband, Who had de­ serted her. In the summer she mar- maried again, and the other day was distressed to see her first husband re­ turn, proving her a bigamist. He had sent the lying dispatch himself to set his wife into trouble. "HE was a most particular fellow ' about his clothes," writes a Washing­ ton correspondent, speaking of no less a person than the Father of his Coun­ try, "and some of his brass buttons he li$d cast with his initials, G. W., and around their top the legend, 'Long live the President.' Such a button lies before me as I write." A LITERARY man, in a recent letter dated Fargo, Dakota, says: "I have been writing persistently since I came West last November, and have plied the pen under all conditions and circumstances--sometimes in sitting- rooms, sometimes in hotel offices,some­ times in lumber-yards. I have been reduced to using a sewing machine as a desk, and at the present moment I.am writing on a wash-stand!" BELL, the telephone man, has just purchased a beautiful piece of ground < n Georgetown Heights, known as Cooke Park, covering two blocks, including the site upon which ex-Governor H. D. Cooke started to build the finest palace in Washington when his financial re­ sources were impaired by the failure of «lav Cooke & Co. Mr. Cooke will divide the park up into large lots and erect beautiful villas upon them. A VERY elaborate and impressive service in memory of Gen. Grant was recently held in the hall of Congress in the City of Mexico. There was a beautiful stage-setting in one end of the hall, one side of which was a de­ serted battle-field, with the debris lying around in confusion, and on the other ide was the same field in time of peace. In the center was a magnifi­ cent funeral pyre, with funeral fires burning around it. The building was packed with Mexicans -and American visitors. .• THE low prices of wool which have prevailed during the past few years have convinced most sheep farmers that in the fiiture it will be safer to look for their profits from the sale of lambs and mutton than from wooL Choice mutton is always in good de­ mand, and is sure to be in the future. The French shepherds are evidently im­ pressed with this idea, as they are test­ ing the English Leicester and Cots- wold cross upon the Merino, for the purpose of improving the carcass and hastening the maturity. OF pantos, the "boss" of Uruguay, a correspondent writes: "He was the son of a common soldier and born in a barracks, never saw the inside of a school house, and, when a child, was not considered of consequence enough to receive the baptism of the church. Yet it was this man's destiny to intro­ duce free schools in Uruguay, secure the passage of a compulsory-education law, demolish the monasteries, drive out the nuns, banish the Papal legate, and forbid the discussion of political questions from the pulpits of the Catho­ lic Church." THE "code" has received a terrible set-back in Georgia. Two young men named Thomas and Roberts had long been paying attention to the daughter of a wealthy farmer. The girl BO di­ vided her favors that neither could tell which was the favored suitor. Fi­ nally the rivals got to the fighting point and agreed upon a private duel with shot-guns. They retired to a se­ cluded spot, marked off the ground, and were about to fire, when Roberts lowered his gun and said: "If you will give me a suit of clothes you may have the girl and be hanged." The proposition was accepted, and now Thomas is in full possession. THE English papers contain accounts of an adventure on the Thames, of which Mr. Henry S. Welcome, formerly of Philadenphia, but now described as "the young American Maecenas of Lon­ don," is the hero. In passing through Boulter's Lock, a particularly danger­ ous spot on the river, the canoe of Mr. Welcome and Miss Annie Wakeman, a literary compatriot, was sucked be­ neath the surface of the in-rushing water. Mr. Welcome in an expert swimmer, but he was obliged to dive •v-s. "no fewer than four times before he succeeded in finding Miss Wakeirfan." says the British Medical Journal, and was then once drawn under water after he had brought her to the suriaee. THE Due d'Aumale travels nearly always in a reserved carriage, and is generally attended by a secretary and some courtiers, "fie rarely misses coming to town Fridays, when he is at the seat of the Condes," writes ^ Paris gossip, "and he goes once a week in the season to the opera. A lady joins him there. As his box is on a level with the pit and in the shade, it is not easy to identify her. The letters 'L. L.' are on the panels of the coupe that awaits her, and into which, with her head closely muffled, she rapidly gets when the representation is over. Though she walks quickly, her step has not the lightness of 20, which it almost had, when, seventeen years ago, L^onide Leblanc played the part of the Duke of Aliba's daughter at Brussels in "La Patrie." THE Tampa (Florida,) Tribune says: Tom Williams' bay mule, which has been at work on the railroad at Blue Spring, was allowed to graze on the grass point across the mouth of the Blue Spring Creek, and, after a while, lay down on this point to rest, "with its back to the river. Only a few minutes elapsed before an immense alligator was seen to dash out of the river, its jaws stretched to its utmost, and, as he came within reach, the teeth of the alligator were buried in the poor mule's fiesh just at the rear of the shoulder blades. In the scramble that ensued the lower jaw, it ia supposed, was broken and the shoulder blades of the mule were left bare. An alligator was seen going into the water with his jaw swinging, and Tom Williams is unfor­ tunate in the loss of a very fine mule. THE oak tree planted by Lord By­ ron at Newstead Abbey is large and flonrishing, although the alder on which he cnt the names of "Byron and Augusta" long since died. The por­ tion of the tree on which the names were carved is preserved among the tre&rared mementos of the poet in the Abbey. The tree, planted by Dr. Liv­ ingstone is on the lawn, as well as the one planted by Stanley. The present owner of Newstead was the one white friend and bosom companion of Liv­ ingstone during his years of wonderful work in Africa. This Col. Webb, who bought the Abbey of Col. Wildman, the wealthy West Indian planter who bought it of Lord Byron, is the man who saved Livingstone's life by shoot­ ing the lion, which after fearfully mu­ tilating him still stood over his pros­ trate body. UNCLE LEW SIMONS, a jolly,, big- whiskered man, who lives at G oulds- boro Station, Pennsylvania, once lent $5 to Jay Gould. "One , day in the spring of 1859," says Mr. Simons, "I got word from him to drive down to Gouldfiboro Tannery, prepared to fetch him and a trunk to the station. I drove down and got him and his trunk. When we were within half a mile of this place he suddenly turned to me and said: 'Simons, lend me $5.' I had plentv of money in those days. I took a roll of bills out of my pocket, and, holding the reins between my knees, I hunted out a $5 bill arid handed it to him. 'Jay,' I said--I al­ ways called him Jay--'Jay,' I said, 'is that enough?' 'That's all I want,' he said. Then he put his hand on my knee audi said: 'When I get to New York I intend to make my mark.' I was ticket agent here then. I was in the office when Gould stepped up to the window to buy his ticket to New York. He took some loose change out of his pocket He counted it over. The fare to New York was $3.60. After counting his change he looked through the windowr-at me and said, 'Simons, I haven't enough money of my own to pay my fare to New York.' Then he handed me the $5 bill I had loaned him. I stamped him aticket and gave him $1.40 in change. He put it in his pocket. A few minutes afterward he got aboard the train for New York, and I have never seen him since." "Did he ever pay you the $5 back, Uncle Lew ?" "Not yet," suid Uncle Lew, "and the tannery has been turned into a clothes­ pin factory." A Brewery. , A brewery is usually an enormous building, showing in those portions where the beer is cooled great slatted windows like those of belfries, but given up in large part to "cellars," where the beer is fermented and stored, often several floors above-ground. Good beer requires good water, good malt for body, good hops for flavor, good yeast for fermentation, a good head on the part of the head brewer, and sufficient time to lie in store, or lager. Burton-on-Tcent, England, the greatest brewing center in the world, gets its repute from the excellent water there found, containing much carbonate and sulphate of lime and common salt. Given good materials, the skill of the brewer consists largely in his use of the two indispensable elements of heat and cold, and to judge when and how to use each to the best advantage, and to what extreme they are to be carried, calls for the best exercise of the brew­ er's art The processes are, essentially, the making of an extract of malt, or wort, by heating the malt in water, the addition of the bitter principle of the hop by boiling the hops in the wort, the cooling of the unfermented pro­ duct, the fermentation by the addition of yeast, in cool cellars, until the sac­ charine matter of the malt has become alcohol, and the clearing, of the beer, •and its storage until fit for. use. It* is a simple culinary process, and a brewery is only a big kitchen and cellar with modern improvements on a huge scale. <i. Pomeroy Keese, in Harper's Magazine. • Not Expecting Callers. "Bridget, did you hear the bell?" "Yes'm." "Why don't you go to - fhe door, then r " "Sure, an'it's nobody to see me. Fin not expectin' callers to-day."--Chicago News. door WRITER'S LIFE. Some Valuable Suggestions from Edward Kverett Halt;--Emphasis Laid Upon the KeceHaily of Sound Sleep. The business of health, for a literary man, seems to me to depend largely upon sleep. He should have enough' sleep, and sleep well. He should avoid j whatever injures sleep. .. , , This means that the brain should not ! tieasure first been formed, s^gLjfthese had been covered with gold plates, some ol which were further ornamented with impressions of concentric rings. The boats, of which only a few are in a far state of preservation, are tapered at both ends, and resembles the Danish craft of the present day. This discov- j ery, which may be regarded as a de- of votive offerings, be excited or even worked hard for six ! belongs, doubles?, to the close of hours before bed-time. Young men can tbe b,ronze a«e' ?TOVf8 ^at ^ame-built disregard this rule, and do; but as ona 1 vessels ™re already known at that time, and that man was not satisfied with the hollowed-out trunks of trees. The gold of which these, little fishing models are composod was valued at $20, which amount, ^together with a tion, according to me, should be light Jr*tuitT' ,Uas 'omardedtothe and pleasant-as music, a novel, read- kfinders. who are both poor men. grows old6r he finds it wiser to throw his work upon the morning hours. If he can spend the afternoon, or even the evening, in the open air, his chances of sleep are better. The evening occupa ing aloud, conversation, the theater, or watching the stars from the piazza. Of course, different men make and need different rules. I take nine hours for sleep in every twenty-tour, and do not object to ten. As men live, with the telegraph and telephole interrupting when they choose, and this fool and that coming in when they choose, to say, "I don't want to interrupt you; I will only take a moment," the great difficultly is to hold your three hours without a bteak. If a man has broken my mirror I do not thank him for leaving the peices next each other; he has spoilt it, and he may carrv^ them ten miles apart if he chooses. So, if a fool come m and breaks my time in two, he may stay if lie wants to. He is none the less a fool. What I want for work is un­ broken time. This is best secured eat-ly in the morning. I dislike early rising as much as any man; nor do I believe there is any moral merit in it, as the children's books pre­ tend. But to secure an unbroken hour, or even less, I like to be at my desk be­ fore breakfast; as long before as pos­ sible. I have a cup of coffee and a soda biscuit brought to me there; and in the thirty or sixty minutes which follow, before breakfast, I like to start the work of the day. If you rise at a quarter past 6 o'clock there will be comparatively few map-podd.lers, or book agents, or secretaries of charities, or jail-birds who will call befor 8 o'clock. The hour from (3:30 to 7:30 o'clock is that of which you are most sure. Even the mother-in-law or the mother of your wife's husband does not come then to say she should like some light work with a large salary as matron in an institution where there is nothing to do. I believe in breakfast very thor­ oughly, and in having a good break­ fast. I have lived in Paris a month at a time, and detest the French practice of substituting for breakfast a cup of coffee with or without an v^g. Break­ fast is a meal at which much time may be spent with great advantage. Peo­ ple are not apt to come to it too regu* larly, and you may profit by the inter­ mission to read your newspaper and lecture on its contents. No harm in spending an hour at the table. Stick to your stint till it is done. If Philistines come in, as they will in a finite world, deduct the time which they have stolen from you, and go on so much longer with your work, till you have done what you set out to do. When you have finished the stint, stop. Do not be tempted to go ou be­ cause you are in good spirits for work. There is no use in making ready to be tired to-morrow. You may go out of doors now; you may read; you may, in whatever way, get light and life for the next day. Indeed, literary work i3 that you have something ready to say be ^>re you begin, you will remember something which most authors have thoroughly forgotten or never knew. This business of writing is the most exhausting known to men. You should, therefore, steadily feed the machine with fuel. 1 find it a good habit to have standing on the stove a cup of warm milk, just tinged in coldr with eoffee. In the days of my buoyant youth I said, "of the color of the cheek of a brunette in Seville." I had then never seen a brunette in Seville, but I have since; and L ean testify th^t the description was good. Beef tea answers as well; a bowl of chowder is probably the form of nourishment which most quickly and easily comes to the restoration or refreshment of the brain of man. If this bowl of coffee, or chowder, or soup, is counted as one meal, the work- ingman who wishes to keep in order will have five meals a day, besides the morning cup of coffee, or coffee colored with milk, which he has before break­ fast. Breakfast is one; this extended lunch is another; dinner is the third, say at 2:30; tea is the fourth, at 6 or 7; and, what is apt to be forgotten, a suf­ ficient supper just before bedtime is the fifth. This last may l>e as light as you medical gentlemen please, but let it be sufiicient. A few oysters, a slice of hot toast, clam chowder again, or a bowl of soup. Never go to bed in any danger of being hungry. People are kept awake by hunger as much as by bad conscience. - Remember that sleep in the essen­ tial force which the whole scheme starts, decline tea or coffee within the last six hours before going to bed. If the womankind insists, you may have your milk and water at the tea-table colored with tea, but the less the bet­ ter. Avoid all mathematics or intricate study of any sort in the last six hours. This is the stuff dreams are made of, and hot heads, and the nuisance of waking hours. Keep your conscience clear. Re­ member that because tbe work of life is infinite you cannot do the whole of it in> any limited period of time, and that therefore you may just as well leave off in one place as another. Reading this over, I see that at the proper place I have not said that no work of any kind should be done in the hour after dinner. After any-sub­ stantial meal, observe, you need all your vital force for the beginning of digestion. For my part, I always go to sleep after dinner, and sleep for ex­ actly an hour, if people will only stay away; and I am much more fond of the people who stay away from me at that time than I am of the people who visit me.--E. E. Hale, in the Herald of Health. The Boats of Gold. The museum of northern antiquities in Copenhagan has just been enriched by a remarkable discovery made at a small place near Thisted, on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark. Two men digging in a gravel-pit in the neighbor­ hood of the old burial mound, called Thor's Mound, struck an earthen vessel with their picks, disclosing a number of gold pieces. On examination it was found that an earthen vessel about seven inches in diameter at the rim, and covered with a fiat stone, had been buried about a foot and a half below the surface, and this contained about a hundred little golden boats, curiously worked, varying in size from three to four and one-half inches. A gunwale, and frames of thin strips of bronze had THE NEW YORK ELECTION. T^^pnly Wonder 1m Ttat Was Not Worse. It Filibustering in the Senate. We had some memorable filibuster­ ing in my da^\ I remember one night when a great contort in the Senate, over a certain bill, culminated in twenty hours of work! The majority had determined that they would "sit the b:ll" out that night. So they as* sembled in force, ready to pass it whenever they might see their chance. The minority were also on hand. Both sides were nearly exhausted. As the hands of the clock approached the hour of midnight, there was scarcely a Sen­ ator in the room. I remember that Senator Merriman led the minority; Senator Logan "watched for the ma­ jority. Senator Merriman had the floor, with the unlimited privilege of continuous debate permitted, by the rules, and he seemed prepared to talk forever. But occasionally he paused to allow another member of the minor­ ity to make a motion to adjourn, upon which the "yeas Mid nays" would be ordered--"And the clerk will call the roll!" Those words were the signal for ac­ tion. "Call up the Senators!" cried Senator Logan; "call up the Senators!" came from Senator Merriman; "call up the Senators!" echoed Captain Bas­ set. This is how we would call them. Each of us would rush around through the various rooms, and give one of these sleeping Senators a little tap, shouting, "yeas and nays!" and dart away to find another. Sometimes a dozen pages would waken the same Senator. In fact, we usually ran in a line--all together. Soon the sleepy legislators could be seen creeping into the chamber from all directions, half awake, with dishev­ eled hair, and presenting a woe-begone appearance, generally. They would mechanically cast their votes, the mo­ tion to adjourn would be lost, Senator Merriman would resume his speech, and the other Senators, except the "watcher," would again vanish as mys­ teriously and as noiselessly as the sol­ diers of Roderick Dhu. When he had given them time to fall asleep, he would again yield the floor to ajourn, and the performance would be re­ peated. During all this spcech-making, most of the minority were asleep. They de­ pended upon Senator Merriman (as most of the majority depended upon Senator Logan and their leaders) to wake them at the proper time. They relied upon him to do all the talking. He was, as I say, prepared to do it. But he made a mistake. He remem­ bered the courtesy, but he forgot the rules of the Senate. He had been yielding the floor to his friends when­ ever he saw fit, and resuming it again after they had said whatever they wialieu. Senator Logan at last inter­ fered. He raised the^'point of order" that the Senator fr^ffiffiTorth Carolina could not speak turn twice" on the matter then p&uding. Senator Merriman stood aghast! The presid­ ing officer sustained the point of order. That is where the demoralization of the minority seemed to begin. At ten minutes past 7 o'clock a. m. the major­ ity passed the bill! How would you like to be a filibus­ ter?--Edmund Alton, in St. Nicholas. f ~ Arrangcmeut of Chairs. The majority of the women determine the arrangement of the chairs by the wall, more or less obviously. There is a sofa across cne corner of the room,, and in the angle is a small chair; an easy chair guards a window, and an­ other fills up the corner made by the piano, while two smaller chairs of dif­ ferent species flank the bay window. If there is a table in the center of the floor, another chair plants itself firmly beside that Otherwise and more com­ monly, the middle of the room is left vacant. Now siippose visitors appear. One sits on the sofa across the room from the hostess, and the other, at an equal distance from the social pole, looks out of the window. What possi­ bility of ponversation is there in this talking across space ? The situation is still worse when a tea-party occurs. The guests literally line the room. The chairs are like those pockets in a well-ordered work-bag which separate the different articles. When IVlrs. A breaks through her natural timidity sufficiently to suggest Jthat the day has been hot, the compatiy draws its breath as it does when the man at the circus throws knives--no one knows where the remark will hit. And Mr. B, who would have been charmed to answer with the corresponding temperature of a year ago, dareB not venture such a statement in the face of the brilliant Miss C, who sits at another arc of the awful circle. But if, by some good chance, those chairs had settled near each other, the blessed weather would have occupied something mote than a bad quarter of an hour, and a similar result having been achieved elsewhere, the social ball would have rolled too briskly to need any attention from the hostess.--Anna L. Dawes, in Good Housekeeping. The Christian Bible. The revision of the early Protestant versions of the Bible in different coun­ tries, and the widespread interest felt in the work among all classes, are among the many signs that the Scrip­ tures are not losing their hold upon the minds of men. The study of comparative .religion does " not operate to weaken, it rather tends to increase, the influence and authority of the Christian Bible. Let any one attempt to read the Koran, aud he will rise from the effort with a profounder sense of the depth of power that belongs to the writings of the Prophets and Apostles. Editions of heathen scriptures and ex­ cerpts from heathen sages which have been sometimes put forth as rivals of the Bible bring no very .large profit to editors or publishers. The Bible remains a wellspring of spiritual life. The conviction is not likely to be dis­ lodged that within its hallowed pages life and immortality are in truth brought to light. The progress of cul­ ture and civilization in the lapse of ages does not lessen the worth of the treasure which they contain.-- lite C'tntury. IN Bonmelia there are 18,500 gyp­ s i e s . ^ : : . j From the Chicago Tribune. For thirty ^ears the State of New York has been a debatable ground, with its gen­ eral drift toward Democracy since the wai period ended. Fourteen Gubernatorial elections have now been held since the Re­ publican party was organized, and each party has carried seven, tho most emphatic Republican victories being won during the war epoch, when the party had the benefit of Democratic accessions*. Since 1874 the Republicans have had but one Governor (Cornell, in 1879, when the Democrats ran two candidates), and the drift of the State has been so steadily in their direction that the Democrats now claim it in their column. The reasons for this are not far to find. New York City is the dumping-ground for Europe. Tens of thousands of Irish have poured into it, been naturalized, and are now known as "Tammany," an organiza­ tion at least 80,000 strong. The Italians and French are also very numerous, and "are solidly Tammany Democratic. The Germans also mainly all vote the Demo­ cratic ticket there. The few Republicans among them have neither an organ nor an organization. Besides these there are some fifteen or eighteen thousand American voters in the city who act with the Demo­ crats, and, with the thirty or forty thou­ sand Germans and a few Irish,, constitute the other faction called the "County De­ mocracy." Out of the 140.000 Democratic voters of that city, fully 120,000 are "foreigners," and their numbers are con­ tinually increasing, as their sous vote with them and more and more of their relatives arrive from Europe. New York has thus become really an Irish city under the rale of Tammany Hall. It has an Irish Mayor and an Irish Sheriff aud many of the Jhdges. The Irish control the Council, the Police, the Fire, and the Street Depart­ ments, and most of the offices, as they do in Boston and New Haven. Brooklyn is in the same political condi­ tion in a lesser degree. It gives a Demo­ cratic majority of from 9,000 to 12,(KM). Three-fourths of the Democrats there are, Irish. They have also swarmed over into Connecticut, and hold New Haven and other cities in sufficient strength to make Connecticut a Democratic State. West­ chester County, adjoining New York, and all the river towns up to Troy and Albany are alsa under Irish control, and conse­ quently are Democratic strongholds. Arrayed against Tammany is the "County Democracy," composed of Americans, Ger­ mans. and a few Irish, whose only politi­ cal object is to contest the local offices with the Tammany Irish., The two fac­ tions hate each other cordially. The Re­ publicans being in a hopeless minority in the city, there is no necessity for compro­ mise or union between the factions, and there is nothing to abate the fierceness of their rivalry. Their only object is to out­ vote each other and seize the local offices, and for this purpose to call out as big a vote as possible on each side so as to mo­ nopolize the consumption of the revenues, which now are swollen to about $33,000,000 per annum, and which are sufficient to give employment to 80,000 officeholders of all sorts. Under conditions like these the Demo­ crats have a solid and reliable majority of at least (10,000 on both sides of the river. Around the bay they control 5,000 more. In the range of liver towns from Albany down to New York there is an additional 3,000, so that the Republicans have a fixed, unyielding- majority of at least 70,000 to overcome with their vote west of Albany. -In other words, except under extraordinary circumstances, this majority is a little more than that from the rural districts. The Republicans, carrying a majority of the counties, still retain control of the Legislature, and will be able to make the ' laws, subject to the Governor's veto, but this fpfH^lHEtjreigu majority around the Bay of New York^has swamped them on the State ticket. Tne «avl»g*' effort of the two factious to get control of the local of­ fices added to their strength on the State ticket, which both factions supported. The only hope of Re­ publicans in the future lies in the nomination of a man of extraordinary popu­ larity like Mr. Blaine, but who can at the same time command the mugwump vote. This vote Mr. Davenport had, but, whatever it may have amounted to, it was far more than offset by the "Blaine Irish," who went back to their allegiance all over the State. This fall, as in 1884, the Republicans also had to fight against the rural Prohibi­ tionists, who have become possessed of the insane idea that they can enforce prohibition in a State like New York, the chief city of which would vote down ft prohibition amendment by more than 100,000 majority if it were ever submitted, and if carried would trample its enforcement under foot. Their vote last year was 25,000, more than nine-tenths of it Republican, and this year it will probably reach 40,000. With such tremendous obstacles confronting the Re­ publicans, the chief among them being the Irishobstacle in the alien city of New York, it is needless to look further f<9r the cause of their defeat. The only wonder is that it was not worse. Its Mission Not Ended. As long as the Democratic party chops open ballot-boxes in the North and prevents men from voting in the. South on account of color, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as three-fourths of the foreign appointments are filled by ex-rebel officers, and there are deserv ing Union soldiers, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as the Democratic party en­ dangers American lal>or by agitating free- trade measures, the mission of the Repub­ lican party is not ended. As long as the Democratic leaders in Northern cities corrupt the ballot-boxes and change tally sheets, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as one vote in the South has the power in the Electoral College of three times as many in the North, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as Union soldiers are removed from office and men are appointed because of tbe part they took in the hanging of "old John Brown," the mission of the Repub­ lican party is not ended. As long as Legislatures gerrymander States so as to give Democrats two repre­ sentatives for the same number of votes that the Republicans get one, the mission of the Republican party is not dead. As long as a Southern paper prints in its editorial column that it proposes "to have the blood of any white hound who will dare to vote the Radical ticket," the mission of the Republican party is not ended.--Bloom­ ing ton Telephone. John Sherman's Bloody Shirt. Iowa, last fall, cast 375,000 votes and elected eleven Congressmen. But South Carolina. Mississippi, and Georgia al­ together did not cast as many votes, yet elected twenty-four Congressmen. Here are the figures: -- • - * Total vote. South Carolina-- 8even Congress­ men 91,02; Mississippi-- Seven - Congress­ men .". .120,99! Georgia-- Ten Congressmenl42.4"{ Twenty-four Con­ gressmen 355,09c Thus the Northern State of Iowa, casting more votes than the combined States ol South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia, hasn't one-half their number of Congress­ men. nor one-half their representation in the Electoral College.--Des Moines Reg­ ister. THE amount annually paid to school teachers in the United States is $60,- 000,000, an average of about $400 apiece. r. Total vote Eleven Congress- men. 373,810 What a Blacksmith Says about Horses. "Horse-shoeing seems an easy trade to master by any one strong enough to ,beat a red-hot iron on an anvil," re­ marked a workman blacksmith, while conversing about the size, weight and shape of the shoes for hard pavements and soft-road work; "but not one in three of so-called horse-slioera should be allowed to hand e a horse's hoof. There is a knack in it that cannot bo taught. Unless a man lia* an intuitive impression of the animal's disposition that he is working on, and a pretty fair knowledge of the anatomy of and the diseases incidental to tbe foot, he is unfit to clean a foot or fit a shoe. There are workers in. our line of busi­ ness that can never be regarded as first- class in it, although they may have toiled years at the auvil, while again there are others who, almost without instruction, will, in a week or a month after they enter a shop and put on a leather apron, do work that is admira­ ble. A horse's foot is like unto a man's in many respects. It may be large and clumsy, or it may be small and shapely; it may be troubled with corns, and the frog of the foot, which is a horny, elastic substance, may be as sensitive to the touch as a lady's finger. It is often diseased. There are a hundred things that will interfere with the usefulness of a horse--that may be developed by carelessness or cruelty--in the foot alone. If you would have an animal worth the trouble of caring for, see to it that his feet are kept in good condi­ tion. There are people who will keep shoes on their horses two or three months at a time and wonder why it is they walk as if their feet were sore--as if they were treading on the points of needles that ran deep into the flesh at every step. No quadruped on which shoes are put to protect the hoof from unduly cracking or festering should be permitted to wear them longer than four weeks without removal and reset- ing. I have had horses in here the hoofs of which had grown quite two inches over the edges of the iron! There are horses that should have their feet looked to every two weeks, but it's troublesome to bring them so often to us, and their owners take the risk while the poor animals suffer. Often fever sets in, the frog and the coffin- bone become diseased, abscesses are formed and the sores breed worms. Remember, the whole weight of the body rests on all below the pasterns. Tft remove these troubles what would seem to one who knows nothing of the horse rough treatment is often adopted. The fever must be reduced. To do this the inner parts of the foot are cleansed, tar and oakum applied, leather placed between the sole and the shoe, and other methods pursued. A horse's shoe, I repeat, should be re­ moved, if for no other purpose than to cleanse the foot, twice or thrice a month. And further, in my opinion, every shoe put on the foot ahold be made to conform to it. It is a little curious, too, how horses use their feet In this they are much like human be­ ings. Some will wear the shoe on the left, others on the right side. Again, some will strike tho ground with their toes first, and many will wear away the calks down smooth and leave the toe bit quite perfect. Horses that strike the ground with the heel of the foot rather than with tbe toe are rarely ex­ ceptionally fast. To overcome this difficulty in trotters,the toe is weighted --that is,a piece of metalis inserted be­ tween the sole and the shoe--just slip­ ped in and readily removed--which greatly helps the horse. Corns ? Oh, yes; there are many horses troubled with corns. It arises from, I might say, the same causes which give growth to them in men aud women, namely, ill-fitting shoes. Corns imply toes, do they not? Well, horses are provided with toes. But they are hidden by the hoof. Re­ move that and von will see the bony joints that constitute their toes as per* fectly developed as those that are seen in men. Originally horses were dig- itigraded, but, doubtless from some un­ known necessity, the digits gradually disappeared, because clothed with a liornlike protection as we see them to­ day.--Brooklyn Union. Alaska's Great Forest*. Alaska's forests contain enough tim ber to supply the world. The for­ ests of pine, spruce, fir, and hemlock cover every island of the archipelago and a goodly portion of the mainland The trees are straight and tall, and grow close together. The only saw­ mill, at present, in operation Is at Douglas Island, and so iar there has l ot been a cord of timber cut for ship­ ment. The trees, as a rule, not always> cut up into good-sized boards. For iuel, however, the wood is excellent, and much of it is valuable for building purposes. There is little decorative wood, although the yellow pine is richly colored, and might be used to advantage in interior work. Alaska spruce is an excellent variety, and often measures five feet in diameter. It is considered the best spruce in thti world, and the supply is very abund ant. In the interior of the country timber is of much heavier growth than on the coast and on the islands. Re gardlng the hemlock, there is a largo supply, and the bark compares favor ably with that of all the Eastern treed used in tanning establishments.--San Francisco Chronicle. "The Tune the Old Coir Died On." In Scotland and the North of Ireland this saying is very common in the mouths of the peasantry,though all who use it may not understand its origin. It arouse out of an old song: "There, was an old man, and^lia had an old eow, And ho had nothing to give her; •So lit' took out his fiddle and played her a tone-- Consider, good cow. consider; This is no time of year tor grass to grow. Consider good cow, consider!" The old cow died of hunger, and when any grotesquely melancholy song or tune is uttered the North country people say, "That is the tune the old cow died of."--Agricultural Gazette. Fast-Living Americans. "Well, Robert, an'*ow did you like Hamerica ?" "Oh, Hi liked it well enough, ye know, only they live BO blarsted fast over there." "Do they, though?" "Aye, an' they do that. W'y blars me if they don't live so fast that when they send a man to prison for ten years he serves hout 'is term in seven, ye know."--Chicago News, A Southerly Town. The most southerly town 'In the world inhabitated by civilized man is Funta Arenas. Patagonia. It has about 600 inhabitants. It is winter there all the year around, for the latitude cor­ responds with that of Labrador, or the tip end of Greeland. "How DO you pronounce s-t-i-n-g-y T* Professor asked the young gentleman nearest the foot of the class. And the smart boy' stood up and said it de­ pended a 'great deal whether the word applied to a word or a bee. "Go to the head, young fellow." County All the . aUJXOIS STATE SEWa . . --The Catholic fait in Lincoln wfft Ike church over $500. " *-.f s i --There has not been a ike alanik te ' Quincy for two months. " . •, --Israel Johnson, a fumn nctr CliaRm^ dropped dead from heart disease. • --The dry-goods firm of GauoA Shriver, of Pittsfield, have foiled, with liabilities if,. $30,000. ' , - • . - , I f --The Gmnd Lodge of Illinois Knights of Pythias wiR hold next year's meeting at. Belleville. --Isaiah Davenport' a veteran of (&« Black Hawk and Mexican wars, died Tues­ day night at Clinton. --The members of the Christian Church of Mason hope to get their building ready for occupancy by Thanksgiving. --At Toledo the Cumberland Court House was destroyed by fire, the records were lost in tho flames. --John Hoff, a farmer of DeWitt County, assaulted his wife with a hatchet, andijfc*< flicted wounds that will cause her death. --At Chicago, Charles C. Sing, an intel­ ligent-looking Chinaman, aged 3i, took oat a license to wed Miss Cellie Dillon, aged 27. --John Hoff, a farmer of Clinton, fatally cht his -wife with a hatchet while intoxi- oated. No trace of his whereabouts KM been learned. --Simon P. Doty, the oldest settler in Boone County, was buried at Belvideze; Half a century ago he had many a conflict with the red men. --John Mullins, sent to JoHetfrom Gil* cago in 1883 for five years foriobbery, Va6 pardoned by the Governor. Thete is doubt of bis guilt. --Baron Nordenflycht, who has been ap­ pointed German Consul at Chicago, was one of the officials sent to Turkey to redfc* ̂ ganize its fiscal service. | ^ --The Chicago Council has passed an ordinance closing the main bridges for two hours morning and evening, and extending the ten-minute rule to midnight. --Thomas M. Brown, a recently pointed railway postal clerk, has just been tried in Nashville, Washington County, for forgery. The jury disagreed. --The Live-Stock Commission of Tllinrtia has adopted a resolution to notify all rail­ road companies of the danger of transport­ ing hogs dying from cholera. --Lieutenant Danenhower, of Arctic fame, once a Chicago boy, is now an in­ structor at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, and is a great favorite with the cadets. --Capt. J. N. Hyde, of Dixon, who has carried crutches since 1864 for a wound re­ ceived at Marietta, Ga.,has been compelled to suffer the amputation of his right leg. --A company has been organized in Clin­ ton which will begin the work of prospeot- ing for natural gas. Recent discoveries make the success of the experiment pos­ sible. - --The apple crop .of Champaign County is not sufficient for home consumption. Last year fifty thousand bushels were shipped aw^y. More than half tbe trees have been winter-killed. --Mr. James Goodspoe most prominent citizens of formerly the editor of the; that city, and Postmastel* for years, died there of apople --Mrs. W. T. Whitmore, who died at* Fairbury, recently was the first and, it is said, the only female member of the well- known Union League, a political organize tion formed during the war to as: cause of the Union. , jji --Charles Harris, who is Said wealthy and reputable relatives in Chi was (pardoned by Governor Gray, of In­ dian^ having been sentenced in 1889 for grand larceny. Harris is a victim of con­ sumption, and has but a few days to live. < ---Gov. Oglesby decided to grant a pardon to John F. Burrill, who wa.s convicted in February, 1883, of embeazling the funds of the Illinois Grand Lodge of Masons. The pardon takes effect Dec. 30. if he had served his full term he would not be re­ leased till Jan. 10, 1887. • --The letters mailed in Chicago during October for special delivery numbered 1,621, while the deliveries amounted to several thousand. Postmaster Judd thinks judgment can not yet pe passed upon the scheme. Superintendent McGrath is of opinion that there is practically no saving of time by the special deliver}', and that the service would be bettered by giving letters to messenger boys at tl>*' ito-ital-can. --Dr. Thomas M. Hope died at Alton, where be had resided for over half a cen- ttury He <*um a surgeoi in the war with Mexico, in which campaign he fought s duel with Dr. E. B. Price. He served one erm as Mayor of his city, and in 1860 was the Breckinridge candidate for Governor of Dlinois. ,ixi: --President Lincoln went to the theater often to forget his cares. Grant not so. frequently. Hayes seldom. Arthur went every time there was anything worth seeing. He was.veiy hospitable to actors and act­ resses. too. President Cleveland does not care very much for the theater, bnthe goes occasionally. --Emmett Kent, one of the leading busi­ ness men of Clinton, has been declared insane, and taken to the asylum at Jack­ sonville. During the recent erection of s new church by the Presbyterians of Clin- on, Mr. Kent took an active part, and in the religious excitement following its dedication his mind gave way. He is an extensive dealer in grain and liunber, and carries on a business in nearly every town in DeWitt County. ~:W. i. *if> If of lite farewell yon'd take, Do not plunge into ttie lake. ! Of all the ways of suicide Men or women ever tried Most unpleasant, without doubi. Is i be common water route. It is cold and dump. And vou shiver and cramp. . And struggle, and and cl Yon lose your breath And the throttlms: death • Seems a liorrib'e way to croak;; Tie a fate you'd thwart. But you swallow a quart Of water, and down yon go Anioux slimy things With speckles and rings That Crawl in the ooze below. When a person is shot, , A# likely as not. *' Despite a few crimson »t*iaa , :• Which von have to expect The total e"«-t %i Is creditable jvniains. ^ But it's sur\» to found. When a bo ly s been drow&ffr That.an avoidance of bliXKt Is more than offae. Bv irettin* so wet •: vV . And lying a week in tte eww|» Tribune. •ivmi V ,* :. i