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^cptnrg flaindealrr J. VAN SLYKE, E«sr antf PuMMier. tcHENRY, ILLINOIS. "MR. JAMES B. PAGK," savs the Rich­ mond, (Va.) State,"is the richest man in "Hie city, his wealth being estimated at ^between $1,500,000 and $1,750,000. He is President of the Planters' National Bank 4ttul President of the Memphis, Birm­ ingham and Atlantic Railroad." « THE startling information has again Hlfeen given forth that perpetnal motion &s been discovered. A man in Youngs- ttwu, Ohio, has secured letters patent on & centerl ess crank or lever clutch. Of «®urso. if perpetual motion is ever dis­ covered, it will be in Ohio, and the ila- %|ntion is alwavs accomplished- by a crank. _ ONE of the new Congressmen . from flew York State, when asked at the ^apitol, the other day, to vote for a lull, astounded the man who was elec­ tioneering for the measure with the fliiswer: "I shall taKe pleasure in ask­ ing the opinion of my legal adviser at Albany as to the bill, and will act upon **rhat lie says." . ; * \ GENERAL SCHEXCK, who still lives on a milk diet because of kidney troubles, , recently secured the payment of a claim Of $3,000,000 to an American citizen ^lio built a railroad in Uruguay, which was seized by the government. "I un­ derstand," says a correspondent, "that the General got a fee of $25,000 in this, "Which will buy all of the crackers and milk he will need the rest of his life." SOMEBODY says in a London paper that the highest velocity yet imparted to a cannon ball is 1,826 feet per second, «qual to a mile in 3.2 Blonds. The velocity of the earth at the equator, due to rotation on its axis, is 1,000 miles per hour, or a mile in 3.6 seconds; thus, if a cannon ball were fired due west and eould maintain its initial velocity, it would beat the sun in its apparent "Journey around the earth. ' EMPFROR WILLIAM has L>estowed the Order of the Black Eagle, set with diamonds, on Count Puckler, who has resigned the post of High Court Mar­ shal owing to his advanced age. Count Puckler, who is only half a year the JSmperor's junior, having been born Dec. 24, 1797, is a well-known figure in "'Berlin society. He is succeeded by Count Frederic Perponcher, who has hitherto held the office of Court Marshal. IN the last House of. Commons the United Kingdom Alliance counted 248 *meml>erB who htffl promised to support -one or other form of "local option." In the new House it will have 348--an in­ crease of 100. As many as 203 have promised to vote for a direct popular veto on the issue of licenses. The party of temperance is divided politi­ cally in the following fashion: Liberals, *322: English and Welsh Conservatives, 3; Scotch Conservatives, 5; Irish Con­ servatives, 16; Nationalists, 2. THE bald head of Senator Isham G. Harris is a striking object to the visitor looking down from the strangers' gal­ lery in the United States Senate. A deep scar running in a semi-circle across the top of the skull marks the energetic effort of a Federal cavalryman to end the Soutperner's career on the battle­ field at Shiloh. Mr. Harris, as Gov­ ernor of Tennessee, was with Albert {Sidney Johnston throughout the two days' conflict, and it was In his arms thatthe Cdqfederatp leader expired. THB German Emperor William and the Imperial Princess pay the full tariff on all private and government railways, whether it is for single tickets or special trains, with the exception of the line between Cassel and Frankfort, on which the Emperor and the Empress travel free of change. Prinze Bismarck paid for all his railway tickets until 1870, when the Society of German Railway Administratiori8&>.presented him with a salcjpu carriage, in which he travels free on all lines belonging to the so­ ciety, as well as on all government rail­ way lines. A NEW YORK paper is of the opinion that the games of the chess contest be­ tween Steinitz and Zukertort will be played over for many a day hereafter in England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Russia, Persia, India, China, Japan, Australia, Siberia, Algeria, and Brazil, as well as in the United States. The people who en­ gage in these games will find the intel­ lectual strain much less if they will use the "key" furnished yesterday by the Journal, and others of the same nature, which will be given from time to time, as occasion seems to demand. Now is the tone to subscribe. younger members of the family wrote to the General inclosing a cutting from a Southern paper, to this effect, and piked him to deny it. The old warrior wrote back that he did not think theTe was any necessity for a denial, "Be­ cause, for my part, I think a corner a very good place to keep a grocery.* " THE Philadelphia Times reports aa interview with an old colored woman (Aunt Mary Smith) who was found in the third story front room of the tena- ment house No. 308 Lombard Street. Aunt Mary was alone when the reporter entered by an imitation from a rather strong voice within. "Did I ever stee George Washington? Laws, yes. Seed him and waited on him, too. He visited de house often, and whenever he would cum he'd say, "Whar's my good-looking little niggar?' And I'd cum in and curtsy and say, 'Here I is, massah when he would say, 'You know what I wants, don't you?' 'Yes, sir,' I'd say; 'brandy and water.' Den I'd curtsy again. De Genel didn't think that anv- l>ody could fix his brandy and Water like me;" and the old woman tossed her aged head in a proud way, and her dull eyes gleamed with renewed light. PLAIN living must clearly be the order of the day in Berlin, whether or not high thinking goes along with it. Out of a total population of 1,200,000 nearly 222,000 are altogether exempt from municipal taxation as having incomes of less than £21 a,year. The incomes of nearly 270,000 range " between £21 and £33, so that, however cheap sausage, cabbage, and beer may be, there is clearly no great margin for luxurious excess. When we come to the other end of the scale we find incomes pro­ portionally modest. Incomes between £5,000 and £10,000 are credited to 108 individuals; eighteen persons have in­ comes up to £15,000, five up to £20,000, nine up to £27,000, and four persons only exceed ftiis sum. If we could get at similar statistics of the Incomes of Germans in London in the result of the comparison would probably be so start­ ling that half Berlin would rush to swell the tide of Teutonic immigra­ tion. . ONE of the daughters of Mrs. Eliza­ beth Cadv Stanton gives an amusing account of the way her mother and Miss Susan B. Anthony work together on their "History of Woman Suffrage." Mrs. Stanton is a stickler for the phil­ osophy of the suffrage movement, and Miss Anthony is punctilious about dates. The two dear old ladies often get into excited , discussions over the subject, and dip their pens into their mucilage bottles and. their mucilage brushes into their ink bottles in their excitement over their work. They sit at opposite sides of a large double desk in Mrs. Stanton's library, and occasionally they find each other so persistent in opinion that they sit back and stare at each other in a silence that is very near anger. Once in a while they will march out of the room by different doors, and there seems likelihood that their beautiful friendship of forty years will be broken, but after a while they will be found peaceably at work again together. AN inquest was held at the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots, near Redhill, con­ cerning the death of William Arthur Hawley, aged 20 years, an inmate of that institution. Dr. Cobbold, the Medical Superintendent, stated that the deceased was admitted the 21st of May, 1883, in a feeble state of health, drib­ bling at the mouth, and very thin. He had a vicious appetite and was unable to speak or dress himself. Witness had made a post-mortem examination and found the stomach very much en­ larged, and in it he discovered a large roll of foreign substance, consisting of human hair, horsehair, and cocoamit fibre, and a few dead leaves, the whole weighing two pounds and a quarter and completely blocking up the stomach. Witness was aware that the deceased had a habit of pulling out his own hair, but did not know that he swallowed it. He was almost baldheaded through that habit. It would have been quite impossible for him to have ̂ forced tlio quantity of hair and fibre witness had mentioned down his throat at one time. It must have been going on for years. The jury returned a verdict in accord­ ance with the medical evidence. REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN. AN urn of clay lately found while a ditch was being dug on the. east side of the Isle of Gothland^ has been sent to the Stockholm Museum. It contains 2,696 unbroken and .191 broken silver coins, part with old German and part with Anglo-Saxon stamps. There are besides silver bracelets, some with fig- urings appended to them, and also some rods of the finest silver, such as in early times werd cut aild used instead of money. The total weight of the treas­ ure is about nine pounds. The chief interest for antiquarians lies in the fact that old German and Anglo-Saxon coins have been found together. THE sharp sayings of Gen. W. T. Sherman, if collected in book-form, would make a large volume. Some time during the latter part of the war, or just after it, the society people of the South were in the habit of turning up their noses at "Old Tecumseh" as not 1>lue-blooded. In support of their charge It was reported and published in the Southern newspapers that he had onoe kept a cOr&fer grodery: Some of the Why Young Men Do Not. Marry. Th"e secret of the whole matter is that the young fellow with a moderate income, who does not niarrv, does not want to marry. He himself prefers the club, the fashionable clothes, etc., to the stuffy little house and the chance of ill-cooked meals from the slovenly girl at all work. If he were once heartily in love, he would have his own way in the matter, and easilv carry his chosen butterfly off to Kensington or a Colorado ranch if need be; in nine cases out of ten the woman would be more willing than the man to sacrifice luxury and fashion for genuine feeling. Since time l>egan, the Ophel­ ias more than the Hamlets have been ready to give all for love and count the world well lost. If there is downright actual love on either Bide, outside mat­ ters count for but little. Reports ol cases every day, in which young girls, delicately nurtured, and married men and women fling away character, home, the dearest ties, wealth, their hope of heaven itself, to gratify an illicit pas­ sion, prove this. We may take it foi granted that when a man remains a bachelor and enjoys au occasional ger- rnan, coat made by Poole, and costly wines and cigars, it is because in his se­ cret soul cigars, well-built coat, and case are dearer to him than any woman. --Washington Republican. He Wasn't Cultured. Mr. Algernon (to Boston young wo­ man)--"Did you have a pleasant time at the literary society last week, Mise Eugenia?" Miss Eugenia--"Yes, indeed; we had an evening wifh Emerson." Mr. Algernon--"Why, I thought he was dead."--Tid-Sits. LET every man take care how h« speaks and writes of honest people, and not pet down at a venture the first tiling that comes uppermost.--Cervantes. BY BEN: PERLET POOBE. Thad Stevens conceived' a bitter dis­ like towards Henry J. Raymond, the editor of the New York Times, who made a speech in the House in Febru­ ary, 1866 in which he said: "The gi­ gantic contest is at; an end. The cour­ age and devotion on either side, which made it so terrible and so long, no longer owe a divided duty, but have be­ come the common property of the American name, the priceless possess­ ion of the American Republic through all time co come. The dead of the con­ tending hosts sleep beneath the soil of a common country, under their com­ mon flag. Their hostilities are hushed, and they are the dead of the nation for- evermore." "Sir," replied Thad Stevens, "much more than amiable, much more than religious, must be the sentiment that would prompt any man to say that 'tlugi courage and devotion' which so long withstood our arms, prolonging the terrible conflict ef war, and sacrificing the lives of thousands of loyal men, are hereafter to be the common boast of the nation, 'the priceless possession of the American Republic through all time to come,' that it is the pride of our country so inany infamous rebels were so ferocious in their murders. "Sir, we are to consider those dead on both sides as the dead of the nation, the common dead! And so I suppose we are to raise monuments beside the monuments of Reynolds and others to be erected in the cemetery on the bat­ tlefield of Gettysburg; we /must there build high the monumental marble for men like Barksdale, whom* I have seen in this hall draw their bowie-knives on the representatives of the people; men who died upon the battlefield of Get­ tysburg in arms against the Govern­ ment, and where thay now lie buried in ditches, 'unwept, unhonored and un­ sung!' They are, I supposed, to be raised and put into the fore-front ranks of the nation, and we are to call them through all time as the dead of the nation! Sir, was there ever blasphemy before like this? Who was it that burnt the temple of Ephesus ? Who was it imitated the thunder of Jove ? All that was poor, compared with this blasphemy. "I say if the loyal dead who are thus associated with the traitors who mur­ dered them, put by the gentleman on the same footing with them, and are to be treated as the 'common dead of the nation,' I say, sir, if they could have heard the gentleman, they would have broken the cerements of the tomb and stalked forth and haunted him until his eye-balls were seared." After Gen. Grant had been appointed and confirmed as General of the armies of the United States, it was known that Ms commission had been signed and was awaiting him at the White House. The next day, in honor of the great event, all of the headquarters officers appeared in full dress to accompany their chief, as they supposed, while he formally received his commission. But while they were waiting for him to sum­ mon them to attend him, a man attired in a duster, an old pair of gray panta­ loons and a slouch hat, was to be. seen entering the President's oflice. He soon appeared with a piece of parch­ ment in liin hand, and walked to the War Department. He stopped in the office of the notary public, and the clerk, in informing old Gen. Thomas, who was in an adjoining room, of the job l>efore him, remarked that the vis­ itor was "a rough old fellow." Gen. Thomas turned, and the required oath was taken. The man who took that, oath was Gen. U. S. Grant. The com­ mission was that of General of the United States Army. He loved vain display and affectation no more than he did six years before. His old friends were his friends still. Quietly and happily he lived in Washington with his family. Mornings about 0 o'clock he could be seen on his way to his office, ofttimes accompanied by his little son, on horseback, followed by but one or­ derly, who was more of an object of use than of show. He took great pleasure in his horses, and, collected as fine a stud as were seen outside the stables of a professional. His smoking was as inveterate as ever. One day, at a dinner-table, a gentleman who was apt to think (like njany others, too,) that which he had lsed and and come in contact with was a little better than his neighl>ors', remarked on the quality of his cigar, that it cost $10 a 100, and was the best article in the city. "I wonder," quickly said a person who knew Grant, "if it is any better than Gen. Grant's, which cost $60." He re­ solved at once to smoke fewer cigars, but he would let a half-smoked cigar become extinguished, and hold it be­ tween his lips for an hour or more, drawing the cold nocotine into his mouth. This the physicians said was more injurious than fresh tobacco smoke. Gen. Jo Lane, delegate, and after­ ward Senator, from Oregon, was a prominent man at the Capitol during the administration of Pierce and Bu­ chanan. He was born in North Caro­ lina in 1801, and migrated w hen a boy to Indiana, where he settled upon the banks of the Ohio, opened a country store, owned flat boats and carried on a farm. When the Mexican' War was declared, he resigned his seat in the State Senate, joined a volunteer com­ pany, was elected Colonel of the In­ diana regiment, and soon afterward re­ ceived the appointment of Brigadier General. His desperate guerilla fight­ ing, with Col. Jack Hayes as his second in command, gave him a brilliant repu­ tation as a soldier. Bnt a man can be a good guerilla fighter, yet no statesman. Appointed Governor of Oregon in 1848, he crossed the continent with a handful of men in safety, but a few week before Col. Fre­ mont's disastrous journey. When he arrived there he straightway began to fight the Cavuse Indians, and he had kept on fighting them for years. When Gen. Naylor superseded him he was sent to Washington as delegate, and well did he bleed the Treasury to carry on this Indian war in Oregon. Session after session did he arise, with a large roller map of Oregon spread out on his desk,' and so earnest were his appeals, so resistless were his blunt ar­ guments, that the money was always voted. He Was a middle-sized, farmer- looking man, "quick in quarrel," rather overbearing in his manner, true to his friends, and "down" on his enemies. He generally sported a blue coat with brass buttons/ and he was regarded as an available candidate for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. for hornless cattle, obviously desirable where great herds roam at large. Re­ cently this demand has been growing smaller and smaller until it has almost entirely ceased, as it lias also in the case of Herefords, now selling a little more than half the values current a year or two back. THE fall in the values of pedigree cattle in Great Britain appears to have affected the polled Angus and Galloway breeds with exceptional severity. A few years ago there was a great run upon these animals, in consequence of the brisk demand in the United States The Possibilities of Future Discovery. We wonder, now that the whole earth is being searched as with a microscope, and that we are really approaching its secret places--the center of Africa, the great unexplored islands like New Guinea and inner Borneo, the north pole and long valleys of Northern Thi­ bet ; that thousands are hunting in the scientific field; and the antiquarians are inquiring about really interesting an­ tiquities, the origins of the races and of the states--whether we shall ever find anything really' marvelous, anything which will deflect the whole current of human thought, or even make us ques­ tion the accuracy of what we know. We doubt it greatly' One can dream such things--say, of a mountain transcending all human experience in New Guinea; or, a depression of miles in the earth's surface between, say the Desert of Gobi and Lliaasa, a dfpres- sion by which we might penetrate a lit­ tle below the outer skin of the world, and know geological facts at which we now only guess. - Man discovered a tiling as startling when he convinced himself that the sky was not solid. Or, say--for that is perhaps l»etter anil would startle cultivated mankind more effectually--that we found in Australia a buried city, skeletons and all; pre­ served like Hercnlaneum, and full evi­ dence of a high civilization aitterior to all that we know of men, and separated by time as well as the cxvan from all history. Or, fancy that we reached the north pole, and found a new race there, human beings, yet with some peculiar­ ity, say, sky-blue hair, which unmis­ takably cut them off from the known races of man. Or imagine--and for this we need fix on no locality--that we found early man, indubitable early man, not to be denied by theologians any more ' than by * savants, patent to Dr. Benson as to Sir John Lubbock, and found him suj>erior. and not infe­ rior, to man as he now is; found proof, that is, of the Duke of Argyll's hypoth­ esis that we are but rising again after having descended from a level higher than we have yet reached. Or to stand on another plane, dream for a moment of a ghastly rumor spreading over Eu­ rope, soon to be verified, that the mas­ ter chemist of the day hail discovered and had revealed the means of firing water, and that the earth was therefore at the mercy of tlio first misanthrope of high chemical attainments; or that a great surgeon, given to wild experi­ ments with electricity, had made what doctors, thevnvliisper, dream of as only just beyond hope--a light so concentra­ ted and so searching that the physi­ cian could look through his patient ahd see past all question or error what Mas wrong. Dream of that, or of a method of thought-reading actually found out and verified, so that whenever it was applied King would be forever rendered impossible or useless. Or, once again, not to waste time in such a speculation, think of a method --a practical method---suddenly occur- ing to mechanicians whereby the rush of the earth on its course through space could be utilized as a force, and human labor be rendered almost needless by an exhaustless and tireless method of developing electric, energy, which it would then be necessary only to dis­ tribute. It is all a dream. Geography has nothing to give us beyond a few mines; a plant or two--possibly even one that will grow like rye, yet bear like wheat; and, it may l>e a few drugs --perhaps to the despair of publicans, a sedative that has no reaction. Newspaper Advertising. Rightly considered there is no depart­ ment of a newspa}>er which will better bear inspection and which is more fruit­ ful of suggestion than its advertising columns. If one wished to forn™ con­ ception of a town he had never visited, of its business, its wealth, its stability, he would l>e greatly aided by a close survey of the advertisements in a local paper. These tell the story of the trades and industries of the place, the char­ acter of the goods offered, and indicate, in a measure the taste of the iiihabitants. A small community, with crude wants, exhibits itself in the advertising pages of the paper, and the varied necessities or luxuries incident to a city are also vividly reflected in these pages. They are daily records of the elaborate civil­ ization of the times. A newspaper of the revolutionary era in this country, when editorials played, a very subord­ inate part, is chiefly eloquent in its ad­ vertisements, and through them one can transport himself to the days of Otis, Franklin, Jay, and Washington. In this time of competition, when com­ merce, trade, manufacturers and the mechanic arts constantly enlist the en­ ergies and claim the attention of our citizens, it is absolutely essential to read the advertisements to be rapport with the real life of the.times, and to avail one's self of the best information rela­ tive to these current purchases which make up the staple of }>ersonal and do­ mestic economy. Just now it is decid­ edly good sense to make the advertise­ ments a special study and profit by their intimations.--Lou isville Commercial. Chopin as a Boy. Chopin, alone of all the musicians, has " been immortalized through his 1>ia»oforte music. If all the works that lave ever bepn written for the piano were to be swept awav, his compositions would of themselves inspire one through all the drudgery that is necessary to master the instrument. Frederic Chopin was'born on Match 1, 1809, at a little village near Warsaw. The child's genius was apparent in his earliest years; when scarcely more than a baby, he was so sensitive that he wept on hearing music; and he began to com­ pose before he was old enough to write out the notes. He was placed under the tuition of Albert Zwyny, who was delighted with his little pupil's progress, and in his ninth year he gave liis first concert. Frederick was generally full of high spirits, and often amused him­ self by playing little practical jokes, sometimes 'being joined by his sister Emily. This sister gave as rare promise of being great in literature as Frederic in music, but, unfortunately, she died when only a young girl. Chopin had a talent for seizing the ludicrous and placing it on paper; and his power of caricaturing on the pinno was much like Schumann's. It is said that once, when his father's pUpils were • becoming very boisterous, Chopin en­ tered the room and seated himself at the piano. He imitated a band of robbers breaking into a house, their escape, and retreat to the woods; as the music grew fainter the pupils became drowsier and drowsier until they wer© all fast asleep. --Agatha, Tunis, in SL Nicholas % I; X, MECHANICAL* A PROCESS has been patented!' m> Great Britian by which metal castings can l»e punched, l>ored, and tapped as. readily as wrought metal. It was dis-4 covered in a Melboirrne foundry, where' a casting at a du)l red heat was dropped' by accident into a mixture of treacle- and water having a specific gravity of 1005, and when taken out was found to, have become remarkably soft: THE ten finest buildings in this conn* try, according to the majority vote given* in the American Architect, are Trinity Church, Boston; the Capitol at Wash­ ington; W. K. Vandcrbilt's house,| Trinity Church, and the Jefferson Mar-| ket Court House, New York; the City Hall, Hartford; City Hall and State Capitol, Albany; Sever Hall, Cam­ bridge ; and Town Hall, North East on.. MIT. GLADSTONE has carefully esti­ mated that the production of wealth in Great Britian, since the opening of this century and up to the year 1870,. equals the aggregate that has l>een acquired* during the entire time from the landing of Julius Ca»sar, fifty-five years before the birth of Christ, up to i800. Furth­ ermore, that the wealth produced since 1850 lias been equal to all that was made the fifty years preceding; yet there are more poor people and fewer rich than ever before. "TEIINE" plate can easily be distin­ guished from properly tinned sheet iron by the sense of touch when han­ dled by experienced jwrsons, unless the terne coating contains an unusually small proportion of lead. Fordoz's test may, however, be depended upon as final. Clean the surface of the sus­ pected plate, using a little ammonia to remove every trace of grease, and dry thoroughly in a gentle heat, after ap­ plying a drop of nitric acid. Let a drop of the officinal solution of iodide of po­ tassium fall on tliefdaoe where the ni­ tric acid was laid. A yellow spot will appear if the least lead is present. This test, as has been shown, is a good one for examining the qualitv of enaimels- of cooking vessels. THE plan to unite Paris and London with pneumatic tubes has been reported on favorably by French engineers, and submitted to the government. It i». pro­ posed that two pneumatic tnixes be laid, following the line of the northern rail­ road from Paris to Calais, thence across the channel to Dover, and following the line of the southeastern railroad to Lon­ don. Letters could lie thus transmit­ ted between the two capitals in one hour. Wagonets like those now used to transport telegrams from Paris, are to l»e used, weighing ten kilograms and capable of carrying five kilograms weight of mail matter. Twenty pneu­ matic trains are to be started every hour. The cost is estimated to be $7,000,Q00. The total distance is about 300 miles. A NEW YORK scientist claims to have discovered along the Lehigh Yallev a hitherto unknown metal, which will some day supplant nickel in general use. He was making an experiment with an explosive substance mixed with pulverized furnace slag, which, on be­ ing heated, caused an explosion to take place. Ui>on examining the crucible in which the' mixture had been, he found that a chemical process had taken place bv which an apparently valuable, but hitherto unknown metal, had been elim­ inated from the slag. It was silvery white in color, of tine, smooth texture and susceptible of a brilliant polish that no exposure will tarnish. It was found to l>e malleable, ductile, and of great tenacity, showing a tensile resist­ ance of 140,000 pounds to the squaro irtcli. Further experiments only con­ firmed the results of the first, trial, and a company has now been organized for the purpot*e of "working" the large slag banks along the Lehigh Valley for the new metal. Oysters Enough for OIK*. "I never had enough oysters at one meal excepting upon one occasion," re­ marked a Denver gentleman, "and that was just after the war, at Norfolk, Vir­ ginia. I had lieen a prisoner at Andcr- sonvUle, and was one of the very hist to be released. I wan on my way North, and you can imagine I wasnt very rich or very fat. I took my time getting toward the North aud so I staid around Norfolk for some time, waiting for health and monev enough to proceed on my journey. Two or three times I got pretty hungry on my way to Nor­ folk, but I wasn't hungry after I got there. "Early the first morning I went down to where the oyster-boats lay. I had just 10 cents iu my pocket, and you know that oysters are as cheap as mud there. I saw au old darky sitting on the side of an oyster-schooner and no ,one else around. "I asked him how many oysters he would sell me for the dime, and lie said that 1 could have as many as I wauted to eat. I gave him the money and got on board the schooner. I commenced to eat raw oysters and throw the shells overboard. After awhile I ate all the oysters above the hold, and then I began to dig down into the hollow part of the vessel. That made the distance too far for me to throw the shells overboard, so I just threw tliemMip onto the deck. I was careless about it though and threw too many on one side, and it was the side of the boat furthest from *tlie wharf, and along about noon the weight got too much and the schooner capsized. Over she went, just as I had got enough and was thinking it nearly time to go up town and rustle for a dinner, as I'd spent all my money. I gob an awful ducking, and I never .came BO near getting drowned in my life."--Den­ ver Times. Umbrellas. Umbrellas will last far longer if when wet they are placed handle downward to dry. The moisture falls from the edges of the frame and the fabric dries uniformly. If stood handle upward, which is commonly the case, the top of the umbrellas holds the moistur^ ow­ ing to the lining underneath the ring, and therefore takes a long time to dry, thus injuring the silk or other fabric with which it is covered. This is the prime cause of the top of the umbrella wearing out sooner than the other part. Umbrella cases, too, are responsible for the rapid wear of the silk. The con­ stant friction causes the tiny holes that appear so provokingly early, When not in use leave the umbrella loose; when wet, never leave it open to dry, as the tense condition thus produced makes the silk stiff and then it aoonwill crack. Accepted His Apology. ChicagoMan(fiercely)--"Do you mean to call me a liar, sir?" Boston Man--"That is the construc­ tion which naturally suggests itself in connection with the observation that I addressed to you, sir." Chicago Man (mollified)--"All right, air. I accept your apology. I allow no man to call me a liar."--Mew York Sun. PRESIDENT AND) SENATE Mr. flbttimufcSfti Forth Boldly Distinctly th« Ito- publican Policy. J Eth«r Btancft of Cbngrmrr the Right to Any and Every? w Paper on Film •• 'r: He Warns tile Democrats (Hit They Are Pursuing a Cerise That Will React. TfXINOlS STATE ftEW& • it The introduction intheSenate of the United States, on the 8th task, by Mr. Eustia of a reso­ lution directing the Finance Committee to aalc the Secretary of the Treasury far pertain infor­ mation concerning the alleged refusal of the New Orleans Sub-Treasury to receive standard silver dollars precipitated a debate baaed upon the refusal of the administration to furnish Senate committees with.information .concerning the suspensions of Federal officials. Daring the debate of Mr. Eustie' resolution Mr. Sherman arose to support the resolution, saying that he thought the inquiry entirely proper, and that the Senate had a perfect right to < anything on the Executive files pertaining to > the subject under consideration' or to Executive appoint­ ments, suspensions, or removals. He con­ tinued: I think we have a right to a*ek. informattoa ol any department of the Government, Whether the information be on paper or by parol. I do not think there is any doubt of that whatever. Bnt for that we could not legislate--we conld not even by executive session. I.have just as much right to go to way department and ask for any papers affecting that department, affecting legislative business, if I go there armed with the power of the Senate, as tho Secretary of the Treasury or any depart.ntntof the Government, or as the President of the United States'. That has always, from the foundation Of the Govern­ ment, been the established law. Any infonna- tionthut may affect the judgment or conduct of a Senator or any subjret of public duty is infor­ mation thatthe President is bound to communi­ cate. There ought to be no secrets whatever in this Government of our* ; it is a government of the people. There is no rule < r provision for keep­ ing Becrets. We have no right to say to another department of the Government: "For what rea­ son did you do this thing f The President has no right t-.» come to us «nd say: "Why did you pass this law?" He lias no right to cross-ex­ amine us. The departments are separate anil distinct. But all the information contained on the files of anv department is just as mneh the property of a Senator as of anybody else. There la-no secret in thia-Government thatcan be pro­ tected from logislative supervisien. Mt. Saulaluiry thought that the discretion aa to furnishing "information concerning a sus­ pended officer was vested wholly in the Presi­ dent. Mr. Sherman replied that nobody proposed to deny the right of tho Presidt lit to exercise his discretion. He was M independent as the Senate. But he oi>ght not to prevent tho Senate from having the sauie sources of information that he had. The Senate had a right to call for that infotmation. At the same time the Senate should bo cour­ teous. If the President should give as a reason for withholding information that it was conf.dential, the njeakorw.u ld be content; but he had no right to withhold papers con­ taining charges openly made, on which he acted and which papers were on a public file, merely because they came t > him iilnnit an executive matter. If they were confidential they onght not to be filed and allow< d'to prison tho fame o* a man. If tlu>y ought not to be Keen by Sena­ tors or the suspended officiulg th y ought to be cant into the waste basket without action. Mr. Pugli said tlir.t Mr. Sherman did not claim that tho Senate should call, upon the President for any other than public doeumeut*. The character of these documents determined the right of the Senate to their poase^sii 11. The President had the right to determine the cfinr- act?r of the documents, and, hence, tho right of the Senate to possess them. Mr, Sherman re­ plied : Where did the Senator from Alabama >Mr. Pugh] discover this new-fangled idea? Whers are the precedents that enable him to say that the head of a department shall say what papers shall be given to the le^tslalive department-- that he Hhall say what papers from the flies of a department shall be given to the legislative de­ partment of the government? When, in all the hundred years of this country's history, was such a doctrine presented before ? The Senator from Alabama IMr. Pught was a member of the House many years ago. Ho will reniemlier that, tiiuo and time again, we investigated the ad­ ministrations of Fnuiklin Pierco and James Buchanan. Wo called before us all the papers, secret and public, iu regard to that administra­ tion, and they were never denied us by the last two Democratic Presitllents. They never con­ tended that they could withhold one paper and give another. On the contrary, in.obedience to law the Secretary of the Navy sent to the Houfte of Kepresentatives a private letter of James Buohanan's which entered into the public records, u.nd was commented upon and used. The idea of a distinction: between pa­ pers, public and private,. never oc­ curred until during tne present admin­ istration. Why, Mr President, the law is | I'lin. and mandatory. I happened to hold the oflice of Seoretary of tho Treasury at one time, and I WM brought before both houses of Congress-- the Senate and the House of Representatives-- whtfii they called on me for papers in & certain controverted case--and I will not re far to it at any lengtb, bf cause it was in executive session. They not only called on mo for the papers, bnt they called oh tne to come in persoa, to explain the papers, and to give reanous why and where­ fore. I never conci ived that 1 had a right, a-t an executive officer, to put myself on my dignity and say : "I will show you such pspovs as will do me no harm find will keep back tne others.*' They say I was reckless sometimes, but I never was so reckless as that. What right has tha President to say for w hat purpose we shall use papers? If we have the right to use those pa­ pers at all we have the right to use them for all they are wcrth. Is the President to have the right to say : "You shall use those papers for one purpose and not for another?" There is no such distinction. If the papers are on the pub­ lic file we have tbe right to see thtm. They may be material or useful. Mr. Pugh asked Mr. Sherman Whether he claimed for the Senate the right to review the action of tho President fn linking removals. Mr. Sherman replied that it was unnecessary to go into that subject. He would suv yes with­ out question, however, us tho right to do so was given to the Senate by a law which ho believed to have been constitutional when passed. Mr. Harris (Tenn.) then asked Mr. Sherman whether he claimed a right to review tho grounds on which the President has made a suspension in vacation, which the law leaves wholly and ex­ clusively 'to the discretion of the President. Mr. Sherman, in answer, said: It is not a question of what we have a right to review, but what information we have a right to get from the executive de­ partment. I warrant you that I can show in tho historv of tho Senator from Ten­ nessee !Mr. Harris] that be has bevn as par- aisteut and insistent upon the right to exam­ ine these papers as any one else, for ho him called for them himsolf over and (over again, and they have ueTer been denied. What we wiil do with these papers--whother we will steal them, or burn them, or destroy them--we do not allow the Executive Department to put any in­ quiries to us. We do not put any inquires to the President of the United States, because the independence of that great oflico demands that he should not be inquired of for hia reasons- demands that he should be treated with respect. But every paper 011 which he acts, on any duty whatever, executive or legislative, is oi>rs as well as his. The papers tilled with him to in- dufie the removal of an officer are the very pa­ pers we ought to consider iu the very question of appointment. Whether we should uae them for one purpose or another is not now a mattex of ditpute. It may come up at aaMhsr time. From the beginning of this Government nntfl now the public archives have been as open to the houses of Congress as to any other depart­ ment of the Government. The law has been kept on the books, unbroken and unimpaired, by which the head of the great department may not only be compelled to bring all papers in his department, private or public, bnt may be compelled personally to come before cither house to be examined, cross-examined, and re­ examined. I state to Senators, as I have told some of you previously, that you are making a false issue here that will some day return to plague you. I would not recognize that any paper in the Government is beyond the right, of this body or of the other. They have the plain right to them. They are charged in the House of Kepresentatives with the power of impeach­ ing--where motives may be inquired into. With this power to impeach every officer of the Uhited States, why are they armed with the jiower of ascertaining the fuels? They legislate on every question coming under the jurisdiction of the United States. Have they not tho jjower to inquire of a department as to matters that may affect their action in the pas­ sage of a law ? So in tho Senate we have broad­ er powers because we have the power to try im­ peachments. Wo are the court of last resbrt. We are exeeutive officials, also, because we participate, to a great extent, with the Pres­ ident. No appointment can be male in this Government except by and with the consent of the Senate. How is that consent to be ob­ tained? Is it by the suppression of papers or the denial of information ? Is it by narrow and false--for I may sav false--pretexts I Is it by denying the customs of a century? No, no. We ought to maintain and uphold to the ut­ most the power of the Senate for information, •topping only at the bounds cf courtesy- bounds whioh the laws of gentlemanly propriety imi»ose ypon men, not to press an inquiry where it may impair the dignity and honor of another branch of the Government. But, short of that, and only short of that, we are entitled to all the In tl»a --Another GK. &. K put fta* 1 ganized at WelSon. --It is figured that the Aholtz forgery cases at Decatur have cost Macon Comity *15,000. --A miner in Braceville- vat instanty killed jby a falling; rock fron> the root qf the mine. --The Sheriff has taken po--cmrion of the boot and1 shoe-stor* o£ Jame« C. Fnfa|t, at Danville. --A gang of thie'ves hare been at wale annoying many people in the neighborhood of Waukegan. --Prof. 6. N. Snapp'is in charge of the Mansfield schools again, the former princi­ pal having resigned. --John B. Clingman, who>died at Cedtt* ville recently, aged;82, went to- Stephens^! County forty-five years ago. --The wife of C. B. Merry, living' three miles south of Kingston, committed tmirjilii by hanging herself- to the bedpost. --A Deputy United: States Marshal ar­ rested Isaac McCalla, of Dakota Village, charged with a violation of . the revenue law. --The hog cholera still prevails in the vioiliity of Blackberry. One farmer has only eleven left ai Iterdi of sixty-fMt hogs. / ' --The preliminary examination of Dr. F. G. Varney, of Griggsville, charged with criminal assault, resulted in his discharge by the court. --The submission to the people of Elgm of the question of water works has precipi­ tated a discussion whioh promises ^ to be long and warm. --The Bev. William H. Prestley, who hns been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Decatur for- ten years, has tan* <l red his resignation. --The City Driving Park property at Wil­ mington is nnder a clond, it being the size of a mortgage of $'2,750. The property will be sold under the hammer. --Constable I. N. Kinney, in. attempting to seize some horses on chattel' mortgage against one John Sailor, residing near Danville, was shot' by. Sailor* . Kinney wiM die.- --The members of. the Joliet Driving Park Association report the association in good condition financially, and that thin summer's meeting will be the ninnt nnnnrtl fill ever held. --Callahan, in jail at Bridgeport, was allowed iu the corridor on the physician's recommendation. The guard went to sleep, and Callahan life himself ovl iiiii. locked the guard ini; --Officers at Freeport are on the lookout for Charles Dawes, a young Englishman, who absconded with $'2,000 belonging to W. C. McNamaraiv a contractor for the- Chi­ cago, Burlington and Northern Boadl --The report of the Secretary of the, State Miners' Piotective Association recent­ ly assembled at Springfield shows an in­ crease of fifty-five lodges,, and from nine hundred to five thousand in membership. --Dr. Noah W. Daarenpoit, of Paw Paw, who recently died, was a cousin of Ira Davenport, of New Yonk. Dr. Davenport was a prominent Mason, andia member of the Itochelle Commander}' at the time of his death.. - ' - --The IUmois. Humap*» 2$»c>e{j ^ dropped the prosecotion of B. H. Haaff, oft Genesee^, for dishorning, cattle. The leading formei» of Henry and White sides Counties have passed resolndecw indorsing (he practice.. --Dr. John M- WalKngferd, with several aliases, was arrested at Belvideve to answer to>the charge of collecting money with the understanding that he was to famish medi­ cine, apparatus, etc, which articles, it is said, aever arrived. r --A few weeks since tbe Hen. EM. Sto­ mas, Postmaster at Jacksonville, and Dr. McFarland had a violent w2r of words in one of the newspapers, and the Doctor m himself so abused by his opponent that had him arrested for libels ' --Two suspected young men were arrested at Puna for earning concealed weapons and put on the rock pile in default of $10. They possessed three fine revolvers of the latest pattern and Bom? jewelry. Beth claimed to be from Shnwneetown. --Mrs. Frederick Lippert was murdered at Millstadt by some unknown person. Her husband found her unconscious on the floor of their home, and an examination of the body showed th.it she had been struck on the temple with a rock aud her skull frac? tured. --Gov. Oglesby has just pardoned a man who was serving a three years' term in tha penitentiary for stealing three quarts of ice cream. The scarcity of this article in Vermillion County, where the heinous crime was committed, probably accounts for the severity of the sentence. --Eastern capitalists have, visited St. Chailes and arranged tq manufacture milk- sugar at one of the creameries. , The mar­ ket value of milk-sugar is now 50 cents per pound, and this industry will create a de­ mand for whey, and which now goes to waste at all the creameries in that section. The cost of manufacturing is quite expan­ sive. --Henry Thielan, a farmer living al Casey ville, stepped into Martin's planing mill and sat down on a counter covering a buzz-saw. While sitting convening with some friends, the saw started, and in a few moments afterward th$ counter fell to iti customary position. The sav/ flashed up­ ward through the slit in the counter and cut Thielan in two. He died instantlv. --The question of strict observance the Sabbath has been violently agitated it Pana for some time. A petition was circu­ lated. asking the City Council to pass" an ordinance prohibiting all traffic on the Sab­ bath, except the tilling of physicians'cer­ tificates by druggists. The vote was a tie among the Aldermen. The Mayor having the casting vote, reserved his decision for thirty days. --The citizens of Lena are endeavoring to secure the release from jail nt tou, Wis., of Kichard Magoon, confined there on tha charge of extorting from ex- Congressman Henry S. Magoon, at the point of. a pistol, a note for $15,000 to in­ demnify hini (Richard) against the loss of his share, as an alleged son, in the estate-of, tjtie late Peter Magoon, a wealthy resident^ of Stephensoh County, who died ia lOTT* ' -