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£* 1,-A mm •is fftcnrn 2?towtkalw vQ "? " J. VAN SLYKE. Edit*r an it Publisher. F TYDHENRY, ILLINOIS. WITHIN four months death has re­ moved a name from every Democratic Presidential ticket since 1864--McClel- lan of 1864, Seymour of 1868, Brown of 1872, Hendricks of 1876 and 1884, and Hancock of 1880. There are only three left. Cor,. PKTF.R MCGLASHAX, the last brigadier Whose commission was signed by Jeff Davis, just before the fall of Richmond, is carrying on a saddlery and harness business in Savannah. In these piping times of peace the Col­ onel is of the opinion that there is noth­ ing like leather. A BOSTON writer declares it to be a matter of fact rather than of fancy that there is more nutriment in a dark than a white-shelled egg. The white of a white-shelled egg is like milk of lime- water, while that of dark eggs has sub­ stance, is gelatinous in appearance, and M ill hold together if lifted a few inches, and, it is claimed, is one-third more valuable for any culinary purpose. FnotJDE, in his new work "Ooeatia," calls Auckland the workingman's para­ dise, and says that 8 shillings ($2) a day are the common wages, and the cost of living is less than in England. A poor clergyman's wife asked the price of some hot-house grapes, and when told, laid them down with a sigh, at which the dealer sympathizing!v remarked: " 'Tisn't the likes of you that can afford them grapes; we keep them for the workingmen's ladies." Ax uinlirella-dealer says that um­ brella# will last much long'er if, when they are 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 umbrella holds the mois­ ture, <iwing to the lining underneath the ling; it consequently takes a long time to dry, and injures the silk or other fabric with which it is covered. GLADSTONE, as a young man, was not overestimated by Disraeli, who wrote in a letter in February, 1845, and now first published, that Gladstone's ad­ dress was dull and ineffective, and that he might come to be somebody, but he did not. think so. He also writes of a dull dinner party at which "young Gladstone" was present; but there was an excellently cooked, swan, stuffed with truffles, which, according to Dis­ raeli, was "the best company there." end,he aafev -what srstem will be left.. Ir^s told of Gen. Hancock that once, when his friend Mr. Esenburg, who kept bachelor's hall at George­ town, D. C., invited him to dine, and when at the hour appointed no dinner could be seen, because of the drunken freak of a cook, the hero of Spottsyl- vania turned to and helped get the meal himself. A half dozen canvas- back ducks, and a dozen fillets were hunted up, the table set, and in three quarters of an hour a good dinner was ready. Hancock helped cook the ducks and timed them with his watch, dressed the salad* and ate with great glee. "Thank heaven," he said, "we aren't at the mercy of a drunken cook, at least so far as opening the claret and champagne is concerned. This is the "best dinner I have had since the war." JUDGE COLLIER, of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has a pair of gloves which were presented to him by the first man to congratulate him upon his ascension to the bench sixteen years ago, the late Marshal Swartzweldor, who said: "Judge, it i*. an English custom which dates back for centuries for members of the bar to present a judge upon his ascension to the bench with as fine a pair of gloves as can be obtained. It is a silent admonition that h8 shall keep his hands clean;" THE will of the late Kev. David Abel, of Burlington, New Jersey, recently probated, provides for the establish­ ment of si Bible temperance school f©r the thorough classical education of young people of both sexes, at which the pupils may, by manual labor, pay such part <>f the school expenses as may be considered advisable. The executor is directed to devote as large parts of the grounds of the school as may be found advisable to the pasturing and propaga­ tion of goats, in order to encourage the use of their flesh as food in the jflace*>f that of swine. THE English steamer South Cambria has brought from the bottom of the sea an interesting relic of the war of the re­ bellion. Running short of coal she was compelled to put into the harbor of Newport News. As- the crew were hauling up the anchor they found the bowsprit %»f a war vessel attached to it. The spot where the South Cambria was lying was exactly where the great navv duel took place between the war vessels Congress and Merrimac, in which the former was sunk. This was in *1802, and the bowsprit brought to the sur­ face is supposed to be that of the Con­ gress. "TAKING the greatest depth of the ocean as five miles and the height of the highest mountain as five miles above the level of the sea," says The Engineer, "and remembering the glol>e itself has a diameter of eight thousand miles, the comparative insignificance of all the surface inequalities of the earth is at once forced on our attention, but it is bettor seen if we take a circle sixty-six feet in diameter, having on its surface a depression of one inch, or a globe one foot in diameter with a groove on its surface one-sixtieth of an inch in depth, which would represent on a true scale the greatest inequality of moun­ tain height and ocean depth on the sur­ face of the earth." A HINDOO priest writes to the Fort­ nightly Review, complaining that the material benefits which British rule is conferring upon India do not compen­ sate for the uprooting of the old faiths which have followed. Morality, he de­ clares, is utterly vanishing in conseA quence. In pathetic language he goes on to say that idolatry to him and many of his friends is merely "traditional symbolism useful to simple-heart@d de­ votion and that when British mission­ aries assert the Hindoo mythology to be "mere imagination,"and the gods them­ selves to be "nothing but fanciful crea­ tion," "we," he adds, "of the priesthood can only reply mournfully that we have known it for years and felt the divini­ ties to be but shadows and signs of the incomprehensible -- a mere fantastic mystery play." When this comes to an A PHILADELPHIA lady, writing home from London,thus describes her impres­ sions of Mr. Irving's production of "Faust:" "We have l»een to see 'Faust', at the Lyceum, the talk of London. It was very grand and appalling; the effect almost made me ill. Never should I desire to see it again. Irving's idea of hell was the most frightful thing I ever saw. 'S.' said he thought it would do more good than any sermon, and it is probably so. The scenery was a mar­ vel of realistic beauty, the costumes were magnificent, and the devil himself could not haveJooked or acted the char­ acter better than Irving did. Ellen Terry was the sweetest and most girl­ ish Margaret imaginable. But it was heartrending all the same, and not a piece to really enjoy." THE Boston Transcript submits this as a genuine boy's composition : "What a pleasant place a theater is for instance a business man in the business world to drop into and join another world of wrapture and delight with rays of per­ fect sunshine gazing on beautiful woods green fields and imagine your very nostrils are filled with the fragrance of flowers w hen in reality it is a cold win­ ter's day in janerary the winds whistling around the building making the win- dows^pains clatter you do not mind and you are so absorbed with the world within listing to love passion and dis- pair you do not think of anything but the play and for two hours your busi­ ness cairs are gone thus it is at the Makodo. How many people enjoy themselves in seeing a good play." HERE is something for the boys--a simple traveling top. The • ingenious toy consists simply of a perforated disk, which can be easily whittled out of a piece of thin board, and a piece of "Strong cord of such length that when the ends are tied together it will form a loop, through which the legs can be passed. At opposite points on the edge of the disk are cut two Binall notches to receive the cord. The performer passes his legs through the loop, inserts the two lengths of cords in the notches of the disk, and then tigiitly twists up the cord. He now lets go of the disk, and suddenly forces his legs apart. The untwisting of the cord rapidly revolves the disk, which will drop to the ground and run away for fifty or 100 yards, ac­ cording to the strength and skill of the -manipulator. NORA PERRY has written some remi­ niscences of Wendell Phillips, in which she thus illustrates his power as a "fas­ cinator:" "In the old anti-slavery days a Southerner, who was visiting Boston, said to a friend that he wanted to hear Wendell Phillips; that he had heard so much about him anil his eloquence that he was curious to judge* for himself. The friend, with some misgivings, took the Southerner to Faneuil Hall one night when Phillips was to hold forth upon his favorite topic. The Southerner sat stolidly through it all, not an angry gleam apparent in his face, but looking at the orator with a fixed, concentrated attention that never wavered. At the end Boston leaned forward and asked : 'Well, what do you think of him V Of course he must have offended your prejudices--you couldn't agree witl what he said.' 'I don't care a wha he says. 1 could listen to him al night,'was the unlooked-for response. The School of Patience. MY dear boy. if a man can only oul tivate patience and strengli, it seems t me lie will be a good neighbor, a plea' ant man to do business with, a safe ma to trust and the kind of a man the worl loves, even though he lack wisdom, an has no genius, and can't tell a goo story or sing a note. How much doe the "fretful, restless, hurrying old worl owe to the patient man, who finds hi strength "in quietness and confidence, who can be patient with our faults, or, fancies, our wickedness; who can I quiet when the softest word would hav a sting; who can wait for storms to bio over and for wrongs to right them­ selves ; who can patiently and silently endure a slight until he has forgotten it, and who can even be patient with himself. That's the fellow, my boy, who tries my patience and strength more than any man else with whom I have to deal. I could get along with the rest of the world well enough if he were only out of it. I can meet all my other cares and enemies bravely and cheerfully enough. But when my­ self comes to me with his heartaches and blunders and stumblings, with his own follies and troubles and sins, somehow lie takes all thetw-k out of me. Mj strength is weakness and my patience is folly, when I come to deal with him. Ho tires me. He is such a fool. He makes the* same stupid blunders in the same stupid way so many times; Some­ times, when I think I must put up witli him and his ways all his life I want to give up. And then the next time he comes to me with his cares and the same old troubles he seems so helpless and penitent that I feel sorry for him, and try to be patient with him, and promise to help him all I can once more. Ah. my dear boy, as you grow older, that is the fellow who will try vou and torment you, and draw on your sympathy, and tax your patience and strength* Be patient with him, poor old fellow, because I think he does love you, and yet as a rule you are harder on him than any one else.--Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle. THE VAXDERltILT BOYS.™ Sow Tliey W«T<- TimKlit to Shiftfoi'tiicm- wlvn.t-jLessoiis \V«>'1 i^anwil Cornelius Vanderbilt is 40 now, and- he is worth, I suppose, at least *80,000,- 000, perhaps more. Thin, at compound interest, should double every twelve years, which would make it no less than $640,000,000 when Mr. Cornelius is 76. It would increase a great deal faster than that at the interest which he is to­ day receiving on his stock and bonds, but there will come panics, reverses, cataclysms, perliays, and he cannot •afelv count outiiakitig nnre thau $450,- 000.in.i0 in thirty-six years* ' These young men are remarkable characters. They started in the path of life under the iron rod of their remarkable grandfather, the old Com­ modore. He didn't believe in boys at all: he didn't b;>iieve in anybody much; and when Cornelius and William K. got out of short clothes he said to their father "Look a here, Billy, boys are no good; there's only one way to save 'em, and that is by putting 'em at scmetliiiig, and making 'em work like the devil all tlu* while. Now, stick these boys ift some­ where, and ma*ke 'era come down to it. Don't let up on 'em." Wm. H. w^6 not half as hard and in­ flexible as his father, but he was accus­ tomed to mind that gentleman--as ol»e- dient when he was 40 JUS when he was 14--and he knew perfectly well that it was better to kick a boy out than to pet him and to give him money; so he told the boys, as his father had told him, that they "must support themselves." Cornelius got a little clerkship in the Shoe and Leather Bank when he was 16, and for four years lie got there as early as any clerk and worked as late and as llard. He allowed himself no extra holidays, and neither his father nor his grandfather did anything to make his life easier. During these vear.s his Uncle Torrance, going to Europe for the Commodore, invited "the young­ ster" to go with him, and the grand­ father relented and consented. The boy was delighted at the chance, but the question of salary was involved. He presented the matter to the president. "You can go," said the amiable func­ tionary, "but oif course you will lose your salary, $150." That* settled it. Cornelius turned his back on the temp­ tation and declined to go. When he was 20 he was made a clerk "at the bottom of the" ladder" in the Hudson River Railroad office, and his younger brother, William K., was put to work there the next year. For more than eighteen years, now, they have "bowed down to it" in that great con­ cern. and they are far better trained than their father ever was in ail the de­ tails of the busn ess. They are not fas men. They own no yachts. They care nothing for clubs. They are content, ufT^to the present time, with one wife apiece. They love their children, and each family, filing into church, looks like a pair of gently sloping stairs. They care little for fast horses. They do not swear" One of them is superintendent of a Sunday school, and both are deeply interested in various charities of the city. Cornelius is First Vice President and Head of Finance, William K. is Second Vice President and Master of Trans­ portation. Each knows his business thoroughly. The most striking thing about cither of them is that they work as hard as if they were hired by the job --which they are. by the way--and that they are perfectly democratic and ac­ cessible to anybody who has business with them. Oil the whole, the present seniors of the honse of Vanderbilt are about the most quiet, unassuming, well-behaved, well-trained, and level­ headed of the New York millionaires of the present day.- -Xeir York: Lcttef• Louis XIV-- His (ireatness. The secret of the great king's great­ ness lies in his fashion of understand­ ing the duties of kingship. "I am the State." he said: and he meant it, and ruined himself and his people in the at­ tempt to live up to the expression. Un­ der him Versailles wa< umbilicus (ial­ lied' -the very navel of France. In him every;lung was centralized; from him everything proceeded; he was the cause, and his kingdom only an effect. Conde and Turenne were personal emanations from him; Moliere and Racine were but his expressions in drama; in Boileau he wrote verse; he governed in Colbert and Louvois; he painted in Mignard and Le Brun. Whatever was done was not only done in his name but de­ pended absolutely upon his influence. He made a man a minister for a good stroke'at billiards; for how could his nominee do wrong? His life was a per­ petual anothecsis. He surrounded hi nisei f with reminders of his glory. Aim ng pictures of his divinity, among "ila/vwa .Ubut "Un'i uuittfo *.v'oy > water. In fact the water it at their doorsteps. Uncle Harvey Hubbard has planted his potatoes for early market, but on Sunday last they were covered with a wliHe blanket. Remember the Literary on Friday evening of this week. The debate will be: Resolved, That the States- •nan has done mora lor the world than the Warrior. Ike Kiinck, Hike Donley and Ji on Tlbbet*, started on Monday of this week for California. They took the benefit of the cheap rates. Dr. Nason attended the Reunion'and Banquet given by the Faculty to the Alumni of the Chicago Medical CoUaj** Apollo, he was Hercules, lie was Jupi­ ter in turn; one after another all the greatness is of the past were presented in his image, like him high-nosed, and like him bewigged; M. Genevay has even seen the legendary perruque in­ troduced as an attribute of God the Father. To such a man the spending of blood was as natural as the spending of money. In one year he flung away on Versailles alone over 45.000,(XX) of francs; the Dragonnades, the edict of Nantes, and the wrecking of the Pala­ tinate cost him no more than the mere scratch of the pen.--Magazine of Art. 81iy C hildren. Modern intelligence and modern hu­ manity protest against laving burdens on children--at least to the degree com­ mon long ago. It is still more culpa­ ble to impose .upon children already burdened with their own timidity or 1-ashfulness, "who feel the pain Of fnneipil ajid ttn-lrxrrvtii disdain Ami bear th • limrks upjn tbe blushing face Of nordlesa shnnie. The Boston BwJget pleads for them as follows: We ought to be tender with naturally shy children. The agonies these little peojde have to go through they alone can understand. Bat those of us who have passed through the same ordeal can remember what we suffered in our days of small beginnings and unused experiences. * To be told to go and speak to a^ stranger; to be taken between hia knees and kissed by a big, dark man. with a scrubby beard and a red nose to be asked when older to repeat that bit of poetry, whi -h is as much as the poor stammerer can do to say to hit governess in camera; to be made tc play that sonta before a proficient; to be set down to dinner with a spectacled stranger who has a reputation; to be taken out to drive with a formidable old aunt: to be, in fact, initiated from child­ hood upwards in any of the necessary procedures of life, is simply to be tor­ tured. We would not force a weakly child tc take the exercise only natural to the healthy, stong, and powerful one, noi shoidd we force a shy child to moral exertion oversevere for its constitution. --Youth*# Companion. Hair and Character. "It is a fact," said the barber, fflliat a better idea of character is" oftentimes expressed by the beard than by the countenance. The art of reading char­ acter by the beard is taught as a sciencc in Paris, under the name of philography," and I understand a book is shortly to be published in which the principles of this science will be given in detail. Did von ever notice tfcnt people having a very violent temper have always "close-growing hair? It's a fact that every man naving close- growing hair is the owner of a decidedly bad temper. It is easy enough for me to note at a glance how a man's hair grows. Then'I know how to handle him. Men of strong temper arc gen­ erally vigorous, but at thev same time [ they are not always fixed in tlieir o p i n i o n . N o w t h e m a n w i t h c o a r s t j hair is rooted to his prejudices. Toarse 1 hair denotes obstinacy. It is not good i business policy to oppose a man wnHSc [ hair is cod/rse. The eccentric man ha;-j always fine hair, and you never yet saw i a man of irratic tendencies who at the same time had ,a sound mind that was not refined in his tastes. Fine hair in­ dicates refinement. You may have noticed that men engaged in intel­ lectual or especially in a^thetie pur­ suits, where delicacy is required, e invariably line, luxuriant hair and beard. The same men. as a class, par­ ticularly painters. are always remark­ able for their personal peculiarities. The brilliant, sprightly fellow, who, by the way, is almost always superficial, has generally a curly beard.... If not, his hair is curly. It is easy to bring s smile to the five of a man whose hair is curlv. He laughs where colder natures see nothing to laugh at. But that's because his mind is bouvant and not deep enough to penetrate to the bottom of things. There is a good deal of difference between coarse hair and hair that is harsh, though it requires an expert to distinguish it. For example, a man's moustache may be as fine as silk, and yet cannot be trained to grow into a graceful curl. That's because the hair is harsh. Now people whose hair is harsh have amiable but cold natures. They are always ready to listen, but it is difficult to arouse their feelings. In men of this disposition the hair on their heads is generally, in fact, almost always, of a shade darker than their beards. When the beard is full, covering the entire face, the color varies from a dark shade near the roots to a red which colors the ends of the hair. These men have very rarely a good memory. They forget easily, and often leave a cane or an overcoat In­ land them in a barber's shop. They are great procrastinators and are bad at keeping api>oiutmeu^. Think over your acquaintances and see if the man w ho is habitually slow has not a mus­ tache or beard of lighter shade than his hair. It's always the case. - These are tli'e men who come in late at the theater and get to the station just in time to miss the train. But philography is n science. It takes years of study and observation to acquire it. From long practice and natural liking for the art I have attained coq/uderable skill in discerning character." -- Household Words. True Courtesy. Many people go mourning all theii lives over some personal defeat, per­ haps in itself slight, but made import­ ant to them by careless remarks often not intended unkindly. It May be a cross eve, a wen, a birth-mark, weak eyes, lameness, deafness--anything that makes them a little peculiar, even if not markedly so. Now if others would but ignore the defect., not question about it, sympathize with it, or remark upon it, the unfortunate one would have nothing to bear but the actual incon­ venience, which, whether seriousor $ot, is quite enough. So don't asked the one-legged or one- armed man where he lost his limb. Don't asked the mother of that epilep­ tic child whether she thinks his mind is much affected yet. Don't offer to read aloud to the weak-eyed one, or 'press foot-stools and supports upon the feelile but young-hearted grandparent, who tries to • think himself as hale as ever. Don't draw your chair close to the particularly deaf friend, put your lip to his ear, draw a long breath, and scream some commonplace remark in a tone that startles him and draws the notice of all present. Neither make bewildering signs and grimaces and mouth von words absurdly, but speak naturally with no apparent effort, slowly, carefully, and only a little louder. A trial or two will enable you to accom­ modate your voice to his ear, without making."yon ridiculous and you friend unhappy* Yet do not ignore him be­ cause it may reqire a little pains to make yourself understood; betber take a little trouble than to leave him to feel himself neglected or contemned because of liis infirmity. This trouble is almost the only one for which there is not usually quick sympathy. People are more apt to be inpatient with it, or laugh at it. Those who would weep to see the blind groping helplessly, laugh at the involuntary mistakes or the ap­ parent dullness of the deaf. Therefore the the blind are usually more happy under their privation than the deaf, be­ cause they are not humiliated by con­ temptuous impatience, or covert ridi­ cule, or cool neglect. There is no use in saying to them. "You must not mind it." They do mind it; tliev cannot help "minding" it. We are so constituted that our happiness depends very much on what others think of lis. If you have a deformed, shv, or peculiar child, do no neglect, scold, or discourage him. (Hve such ones double love, double care; have them cured if possible, at whatever cost of toil or pri­ vation. Teach them to be so lovable that their defects may be forgotten. Give them every advantage of society and education in your reach; cultivate whatever special gift, grace, or aptitude they may have; so shall they have con­ fidence and self-respect, and "he fitted for useful and happy b'ves. IN Philadelphia a guild of kind- hearted ladies has been formed to do mending for bachelors, at low rates. SAT10SAL DZSURACE, ilMpn ol Vainib!e ENmlvs, ami Works of Art in the Cu»si«s.<iouil •>' I was astonished to see the confusion in the Congressional library. About 1854 the present apartment was fitted up in the west end of the Capi.el build­ ing. It is entirely fire-proof, but not dust or moth-proof. All the gal­ leries. stairways, book-cases, and floors are of iron, and the w\iole was origi­ nally intended to accommodate about 200,11)0 volumes, but into this space is crowded but few lc.?s than 500,000 books. Not only is every shelf crowded to the bursting point, but thousands of volumes are laid sideways on the top rows. At the end of every shelf is a huge pile of irregular-sized volumes reaching from the floor to the top of the shelving. In many instances two extra cases have been placed in the aisle, ren­ dering passage through it well nigh im­ possible, and totally obscuring thou­ sands of books in the permanent shelves. Wherever there is room the assistants start huge piles of books, which they are unable to find room for on the shelves. I saw several of these which were five feet square at the base and twelve feet high. All the window shelves are loaded and temporary shelves have been affixed to the outer edges of staircases, etc. Re­ peated efforts to secure better quarters for the library have failed, and in de­ spair Librarian Spofford seems to have given up all hopes, and looks forward to the time when the entire library will be one solid mass of books. It.is a na­ tional disgrace that it is so. and it is heart-breaking to a book worm to see hundreds of thousands of books prac­ tically thrown away and thousands of volumes in the most expensive bindings.- editions de luxe, etc.. standing, or rather lying, in siicli position as - to ut­ terly ruin the beautiful morocco, Rus­ sian, or calf bindings. Tin1 books in this great library are actually rotten from dust, moths, and misuse. The almost priceless Force archives are tied up in bundles that have not been opened for a year. In the vaults be­ neath the Capitol are thousands of tons of copyrighted material, manuscripts, pamphlets^-music, etc. The syStem under w liich books were first, received and catalogued has been overwhelmed by the influx of literature, and, save the bare entry in receiving books, no record of location, etc., is kept. Any­ one is at liberty to enter and examine any book in the library--if the assistant can find it. I believe a hundred books could be stolen in a day from that library and not l>e missed in a year. I found that it was the practice of new Congressmen to borrow at the l>eginning of their first session a s?t of the speeches of Web­ ster, Clay, Calhoun, Madison, Hamil­ ton, Jefferson, Jackson, or whoever he may choose to be his political saint. These volumes he has carted up to his house and keeps during his entire stay- in Washington. Oftener than not it is his first introduction to or knowledge of the statesman. Spofford is espe­ cially well versed in matters upon which Congressmen wish information, such as - political economy. American history, and statistics, and he has made himself so valuable in this way that he is sure of his ]H>sition. The salaries in the library range from $1,200 to $4,000. -- Chicago Sctrs. The Semblance of Gravity. There are few qualities which may in the world of society be made to serve a man more materially than the sem­ blance of gravity. Indeed, this may not inexactly l»e called the secret of social success, and the person who is by na­ ture endowed with the semblance of gravity, or who has by well directed efforts obtained it, has already more than half won the battle of making his way in life. We are frequently in- stcucted in the importance of being able to listen well, but tliis is only one of the ways in'which the art of assum­ ing a demeanor of seriousness makes itself felt, n one can but cover him­ self with the semblance of gravity he will be a perfect success as a listener, and a corresponding favorite with all who love to talk--a class embracing nine-tenths of mankind--even though they comprehend not a word of. what is said to them, and , never offer a single remark that might not have emanated from the brains of a town pump. And the principle is one of universal appli­ cation. A society girl, being asked the secret of the immense popularity with her sex of a certain man about town, answered, after due consideration: "It is all be­ cause he is so much in earnest. He asks you how you are with a seriousness ami an intensity, as if he were perfectly absorbed by a desire to know, and he listens to whatever you say, even if it is only a platitude about the weather, with as devout a seriousness as if he were hearing a Princess speak. No woman alive could resist the flattery of that fascinating gravity of his." Is the man of whom she speaks more earnest, more serious, more intense than his fellows? As a matter of fact, nothing in the universe but his own pleasure interests him ill the slightest (legre'e. He has achieved perfectly the semblance of gravity, and, as a conse­ quence, lie is a great social success. That is the whole1 story. Of course, in this ense, the thing we advise savors rather strongly of hypoc­ risy ; but one who is too conscientious to oblige his neighbors by a trifling ex­ aggeration of the interest he feels in atlairs and their words, had better re­ tire at once to the solitudes of the wilderness; while those who remain may satisfy their conscience by endeav­ oring to make their seriousness as genuine as possible. In either case, whether one likes it or dislikes it, it does not seem easy to deny that one of the most effective in the whole list of social accomplishments, and yet one of the most easily cultivated, is the sem­ blance of gravity.--Boston Courier. INOCULATION FOR HYDROPHOBlAi An Interesting Interview with M Pxstenr --He Sticks to tbe Efficacy of v i ® i s B a b b i t F a f c • • . & • THERE is an excellent chance for the inventor of a simple peat-cutting ma­ chine'for Russia, which can be worked by a team of horses, and would take the place between the ordinary hand cut­ ting-machine 'and those worked by steam, the latter of which cost about $4,500. Large deposits of peat exists iu the country, which it is intended to use instead of coal as soon as they can lie worked cheaper than coal. In fact, on the Northern railway of Russia the locomotives hitherto burning wood or coal are being adapted for peat-burning, as a considerably saving is expected to be realized. The hand machines, by the way, have the drawback that the peat cannot be worked below eight feet, while the steam cutting-machines penetrate twenty feet and reach a su­ perior kind of peat. WHEN the hour is struck in Mandelay the watchman still announces: "By the favor of the King it is such and such o'clock." PBOF. FELIX ADLER claims to have discovered that heat engenders crime. tFuris special.] I have juut had tbe following interview with M. Pasteur about the death from hydrophobia of the Russian Mujik, Ka' jusurow: ^ Correspondent-- Was rnlung thn tianiff frf Kajusurow's death? . t ? ; " M. Pasteui--Undoubtedly, ? Correspondent -- Do you consider his death shows that his treatment by inocula­ tion was inefficacious? M. Pasteur--By no means. It proves that the virus of a mad wolf is more intense and works more rapidly than the virus of a mad dog. Kajusurow was bitten March 1. He died n of rabies nineteen days after the bite. He had only received seven inocula­ tions, and virus of serious strength can onH lie used on the sixth inoculation. His wound was terrible. Part of bis jaw was torn away, and the wolf's fangs penetrated right through and caused what amounted a!- most to direct inoculation into the brain of the wolf's virus. I a In informed by phy­ sicians from Russia, where bites from mad wolves are more common thau those from mad dogs, that death after the bite of a mad wolf often occurs sixteen days after the bitt. and that '.'5 per cent, of those bitten by mad wolves die of rabies. Thus, in the pure interest of science, the death of Ka­ jusurow may be considered a benefit. The autopsy made yesterday proves conelusively that Kajusurow died" of rabies. If the treatment succeeds in the cases • of the •eighteen others bitten by the same wolf what demonstration can be more c omplete?, Correspondent--These Mujiks, then, pre­ sent th-.' most seveiv test that the prophy­ lactic method has yet been subjected to? M. Pasteur--Yes, I think so. While conversing those Russians Mujiks whose wounds enabled (hem to leave the hospital arrived at the lal oic.'orv. They were depressed at the de^ih of their com­ rade. but were confident of the success of M. Pasteur's treatment so far as they were concerned. They all wore enormous boots, and filled the laboratory with a most acrid smell of Russian leather and tar. They received their last inoculation to-day. but will remain in Paris a month longer. M. Pa-teur and Dr. Grancher visit the other Russians, who ar<> still confined to their beds at the hospital, even- day. The priest's wounds are so severe that his lip and part of his cheek are to be cut away in a few- days. Another Mujik is suffering from fever. The Russian Ambassador and Bar­ oness de Mohrenlieim take great interest in them, sending them Russian t?a, vodka, pickles, and other national refreshments. OBITUARY. Dvutli ol Kx-.luNti<*«* Ward Hunt, of th* I'littwl States Supreme Court. |Washington special.] Hon. Ward Hunt, ex-Associate Ju'tice of the United States Supreme Court, died at his residence in Washington, on the '24th of March, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. About six years ago Mr. Hunt had a Iiaralytic attack, which completely disabled iim. Although •bulge Hunt had attained the age of seventy, he had not been on the bench ten years, and could not retire on a pension. In 1W8'2 Congress passed a special act granting him the usual pension if he would retire, and he retired and to some extent regained his health, although he ne* er fully recovered the use of his right side. He leaves a wife, who is much prostrated by the afflic­ tion. Justice'Hunt was born in Ttica June 14, 1810, and has always resided iu his native place. He graduated at Ui'i°n Col- "ge in 1828, and. turning his attention to -w, attended the law lectures of Judge onld at Litchfield, Conn. Iu 1 Si>5 he > as elected a judge of the Court of Ap­ peals of the State of New York, which position he held until 1872. when he was appointed a justice of th« Supreme Court of the United States. He received from Union College and Rutgers College the degree of doctor of laws. A. N. KelliiKR. Ansel N. Ktllogg, for many years a res­ ident of Chicago, died, March 2:1, at Thomasville, Ua. He was President of the A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Company of Chi­ cago. He had been an invalid for several years, aud for a long time had been unable to give his personal atteution to the exten­ sive business which he '«stabiished. Mr. Kellogg was born at Reading. Pa.. March 2(1. 1832. and graduated with distinction at Columbia College. New York, in 1N52. He was a sou of Frederick Kellogg and the youngest of six ehildrcn. He married Annie E. Barnes al Baiaboo, Wis., Aug. :S1, lb;j'J. After leaving college he removed to Bara- boo. Wis., where he purchased the Republic, which he published during the war. He was one of the pioneers of the ready-print industry. FOl'R MEN KILLED. A Train in Tetim I'lungos Through a Trea­ ties Causing Fatal Il«*Mults. (Kildurc (Tex.) snecial . j A terrible accident occurred about two miles west of this place, resulting in" the loss of four lives and (he serious injury of one of the leading business men of Cass County. At the time mentioned, the log train on the Jefl'ersou Lumber Company's logging railway, running from Kildare down into the pineries, was ruuni' g at a high rate of speed coming toward town. The train consisted of an engire and three heavily loaded flat-cars, and was in the middj^ of a 250-foot trestle fourteen feet high, when the structure sud­ denly gave way, letting the entire tiain through, ii.stautly killing the engineer, W. W. SJddmore. and three ne- gio • who had boarded the train only a few moments before it reached the trestle. The bodies of the negroes were crushed to jelly, the great logs rolling over them and flatten­ ing them out to the thickness of one's hand. Mr. S. F. Beinis, one of the proprietors of the Jefferson Lumber Company, was sit­ ting in the cab when the train went down, and while Skidmoi-e. the engineer, was killed. Mr. Bemis escaped with several serious wounds, but it is thought he will recover. His legs and hands are terribly scalded by the escaping steam, but he had presence of mind enough to threw himself ou the ground, face down. AX ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED. Eight l'eopl** A*»usiiiiiale<l in Sitntuntlftr, lTiilt«d Staten of Colombia--Six Assassins Arr«*ste«l. Panama advices of the lGth inst. say: A series of terrible murders have been com­ mitted at Arboledas, in the State of San- tander. An entire family were assassinated. The nam 's of the victims are: Carbelon Marciales; Facuuda Orti ga, his wif •; c .a- mila. a girl of 12 years; Valeria, ftg-d 10; lJicardo. aged 8; Cayetane, ;;ged 5; Vir­ ginia, aged 2. and an infant t» whom the mother had given birth i:i the ' xcit incut which preceded the wholesale umider. The horrible crime created a prof on- d s;nsa tion. and the populace, if not prevented, wou'd have disposed of the assassins by lynching them. They are six iu number, and their names are Antonio Estaban. Frauc'-sco Marciales, Miguel Flores. Pan- talon lioseo, and a ileal and dumb man. The President of the republic has directed that the assassins l»c tried by a military ••ourt-niartial. The apprehension of the assassins has led to developments and has brought to light other crimes of a revolting character. . . ILLINOIS STATE NEWS • ---Rock Eivjr, Eweliea by the rcccntrsfcas, near Dixon. • --Prof. Hyde, of the Chicago Theologi • eal University, died at his residence in Chicago recently. --John S. Miller, a prominent real es­ tate agent of Joliet, died sujldenlj^ija his chair of heart disease. Bockford's new high school, erected st m cost of $30,000, has been dedicated with appropriate ceremonies. ^ ? --The large ice house belonging to the Western Brewing Company, at Belleville, has .been destroyed by fire. --S: H. Neal, mail carrier, an old res­ ident of Lena, has been run over and killed by the cars at that place. --John ShOTt, of Circleville, Qlii^ merlv a marble dealer at Clinton, has well adjudged insane before the County Court at Clinton. ( --George "H. Coles, a young Belvidere law student, committed suicide because his parents objected to his marrying a young lady in Iowa. % --The farm residence of J. W. Cline. near Hillsboro. was entirely destroyed by fire recently, the family barely escaping in their night-clothes. --A majority of thfe male residents at Ivesdale were called before the grand ju*y recently to testify regarding a free-for-all fight at a recent dance in that village. 5 i; . 'T. J. Tomlinson, formerly business \ manager of the Detroit Daily Journal, has bought a half interest in the Daily NeITS- : Weekly Advocate printing establishment at v ! Elgin. -- The village of Livingston is greatly ex- v : Cited over the attempt of a citizen to take up the bodies of two of his children who - died of small-pox and remove them to Liv­ ingston Cemetery. --A Clinton goat climbed upon a portico " of B. A. Lemon's residence, and, seeing its "' reflection in one of the windows, stepped back and then dashed at it, demolishing ; the thick plate glass. --Michael Collins, of Sugar Grove, jumped from the cars at Aurora, and was so badly injured that one of his limbs was amputated below th? knee, and most of the' other foot was also cut off. --Great excitement was caused at Kin- mundy the other day, when the coal com­ pany there, after having gone to the depth of nearly 1,000 feet, struck a 32-inch vein, and a few feet lower a 2-foot vein. --News has been received of the death from yellow fever in South America of Harry G. Lamkin, the showman, whose home was in Petersburg. For years he was •••'•4 a celebrated performer inr-teading cheas companies. ^ --Governor Oglesby has approved the--'L report of the commission locating on a - quarter section ntar the Lincoln monu-' nient, at Springfield, the permanent camp of the Illinois National Guard. The tract will cost $l.r).n00. --The Penitentiary Commissioneis, re­ cently in session at Joliet, have forwarded a notice to Washington of their refusal to ~ accept any more United States prisoners. ' unless the Government defrays the cost of keeping them, on account of labor troubles. --The Paris Beacon says that progress­ ive euchre parties have become so frequent in certain villages of th? State that the ministers do not venture to make chur.'h announcements until they have consulted their congregations in regard to their euchre engagements. ^ --One of Pinkcrton's detectives arrested Charles Ho'.tz, charged with stealing from the E'giu Watch Company. Holtz worked for the company iu 1884, went to Rushville a year ago, and worked in George Honna's jewelry store till recently, when he started, a store of his own. --A young man of Cliuton drank a glaas of whisky on hi * way to church. On en­ tering the church he took some cloves out of his vest-pocket and began to chew them. The congregation was instantly startled by a sharp report like that of a pistol. Among the cloves was the head of a percussion match. The young man's mouth was pain­ fully burned. --Mr. J. F. Car'stent, collector for the Moline Daily Republican, had a narrow- escape from drowning in the Mississippi River at that poitt. Had it not been for the bra' ;' 'and prompt action of Frank Smith, as 19-year-olrt son of the feiryman, who at the risk of hislif > crawled on his knees and hands half a.mile on the ico and succeeded by great effort iu reaching him itli a boat- hook, Carl-tent would have perished. --Mr. Abraham Songer, residing at; Xenia, has in his possession a pocket-book, which was owned /by his grandfather one . hundred and fifty years ago. The book contains two pieces of Continental money. One for sixty dollars, which is about two by two and one-half inches, and which reads as follows: "This bill entitles the bearer to sixty Spanish milled dollars, or the value in gold or silver, according to a resolution of Congress at Philadelphia, Sept. 26, 1778." --Highway robberies have been becom­ ing alarmingly frequent at Galena. The other night a traveling man from Chicago, was held up on his way to the depot by two men, and would have been robbed but for the interference of citizens who were at­ tracted to the spot by hia outcries. The next night, J. Coatsworth, the leading, jeweler of the city, was stopped on his way home by a stranger who asked him to change a piece of money. While comply­ ing with the request, the man grabbed the money in Mr. Con', s worth's hand and tied. --A man by the name of Johnson, living near Oak Park. Johnson Township, has a set of hames which have an eventful his­ tory. They were mado in 1720, 157 years ago, by Mr. Johnson's grandfather. When first made they had holes bored in them to run rope traces through, inste.ul of hooks. They were also connected at the top with a light hickory withe. The strangest part of the history' is the fact that this withe, after lot! years, is still as sound as ever. The present IMr. Johnson's father used these hames in the Revolutionary war, hauling the American artillery iu the bat­ tle of Guilford Comthouse, N- C. Mr. Johnson is now ti2 years old. The hames. with th ' hickory withe in them, were used by Mr. Johnson whyi he moved to Clark Couuty thirty years ago, but they have not been used of lute years. -§H Tf'