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kx " mmm ut . ' m fgcgetiriJ §lain4enlcr J. VAN SLYKE, Mtaraatf NMWMT. McHENBY, •ma-- g ILLINOI& CITIZENS of an Illinois town made a kite seven feet long, and sent it 2,000 feet into the air. A windless was rigged, and it required the power of three men to drag the kite back to earth again. FOB a new town Birmingham, Ala., has some very queer old customs. One is to have the City Hall market bell rang loudly at intervals of one hour during the night. The ringing wakes people up and lets them know what time it is. THE latest erase in book bindings is crocodile skin, rivaling in appearance the best morocco. As it was used ages ago upon the banks of the Nile for coverings for the rolls of papyri of the ancient Egyptians, it has the honor of age and respectability. VANimmense quantity of jewelry is ftow made from thin layers of gold alloy upon an ingot of brass, formed while it is hot. On the ingot cooling, it is forced- between steel rollers into a loftg, thin ribbon, each part of which is, of course, still covered with the gold alloys, incalculably thin, but which wears for years, and can be molded into any shape. "I SAT beside Horace Greeley once at a great political meeting in Newj York just after the war," said Rev. Bennett, "and heard him define ference between society am Said he, overlooking the cr< were to confine the right of only such of you me^yls I x mit to marry mighty few of to vote, MR. L nove mmm man who accomplishes this marvel is a conjurer, a magican, an adopt in the art of white magic. The performer who spins a plate on the end of a stick in his left hand "while he is keeping three balls in the air with his right hand--this performer is a juggler. The conjurer does that which seems impos­ sible and leaves you in wonder as to the means whereby he deceived you. The juggler does that which seems difficult, but you are never in doubt as to the way in which it is done, for there is nothing hidden, and the feat explain^ itself. In short, the conjurer deceives you and the juggler does not; this is the gist of the matter; and we may go further and say that if the juggler uses a 'fake'--a secret device for assisting his skill--he has taken illegitimate ad­ vantage." - ACCORDING to a recent return the number students at the twenty uni­ versities in Germany is now 28,210. These are distributed as follows: Ber­ lin, 4,434; Leipzig, 3,060; Munich, 3,035; Halle, 1,518; Breslau, 1,425; Tubingen, 1,403; Wurzburg, 1,369; Frieburg, 1,319; Bonn, 1,293; Got- tingen, 1,076; Heidelberg, 1,036; Greifswald, 1,016; Marburg, 939; Er- langen, 909; Konigsberg, 871; Stras- burg, 856; Jena, 650; Kiel, 542; Gies- sen, 513; Rostod in the number Germany years. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. staves et the chance at American idea of the con- their country- construction of a a hole and twist some it." He adds, conoern- ames' "Bostonians," that "it is Q&arly as monotonous as the sea in a calm, when little wayelet follows little wavelet in pxim* ordered, wearisome succession." IT is claimed by some that the oyster- of Maryland are intrinsically more valuable to-day than they ever were, as to yield; that the persistent dredging by nearly a thousand boats, for the last four or five years, has so disturbed the oysters that the natural beds are greatly extended. The evil that now restricts their yield consists, it is claimed, in the annual dredging of immature oysters, thus reaching the field before the crop half-grown. A RUSSIAN makes public a system of Wlatment for acute articular rheuma­ tism, which is represented as having been employed with the greatest suc­ cess for twenty years past by Dr. L. Grinevitski, of Rostoff-on-the-Don. He administers two drachms daily of ni­ trate of potash in raspberry syrup, dis­ tributing in doses given every two hours. For the same time, for external use morning and evening, he prescribes an ointment composed of olei hyosc, 1 oz.; unghydrarg, cinerel, 2 dr.; ext- acon, 1 dr. This treatment is said to cure in almost all cases, in from one to two weeks, and is generally successful in the most severe cases, where salicy­ lates are ineffective. Rheumatic per­ sons should be glad of this information, if only as direction for a new line of {>ersonal experiment. ENGLISH society women have just come to the conclusion that it is a proper thing for married ladies to keep their maiden name in addition to their husband's name. Hitherto it has been thought desirable only in the case of those who have won a reputation for themselves before their marriage, in the way of authorship, or as singers, and actresses, and upon whom a change Of name would entail a pecuniary loss. Now, however, others who have no such consideration to influence them, begin to feel that they do not care to so entirely merge their own identity into that of another, and that their loss by so doing is quite as real as if it had a monetary value. This practice of re' taining their own names is no new fashion in the United States, those not doing so now being either among a class who have not thought of the matter at all, or if they have, are afraid of being numbered among the strong- minded. GEN. W. T. SHERMAN visited San Jose some time ago, but while there declined to be the guest of the Mayor, saying : "I much prefer to stay at a pub­ lic hotel, and have made it a general rule to do so, for this reason: I have found in traveling--especially in the large cities--that where I accepted private hospitalities I was taken to ele­ gant residences and entertained mag­ nificently, but there are a great many old soldiers who did their duty nobly and who are now, to a great extent, as result of that meritorious duty, not blessed with much of this world's goods. Their clothes are not of the latest cut, but yet they desire to see and shake hands with me just as much «s their more prosperous comrades, and I am sure I deBire to see them. But the man whose boots are dusty or whose clothes are shabby, has a reluctance to go to a stylish private residence, when lie would readily call on me at a hotel. This is the reason that I must decline jrour kind hospitality. V Otrr of the Saturday Review oomes „ this as to the difference between a con Jnrer and a juggler: "The gentleman in a dress-coat and with a foreign ac­ cent, who borrows your watch and your friend's hat, and who vanishes the former and makes an omelette in the letter, and then reveals to you that the vetch is in the omelette--the gentle- 3. The increase sitv students in marked of late Mr. Matthew ••known report, 9. In 1880 it was he faculties of the- cine that the greatest in- taken place. Thus the num- rotestant students has increased 2,315 in 1880 to 4,683 in 1886, and at of Catholic students from 638 in 1880 to 1,197 in 1886; while the num­ ber of medical students has men during the same period from 4,018 to 8,308. The faculty of law shows, on the con­ trary, a slight falling off (from 5,201 in 1880 to 4,914 in 1886); that of letters is practically stationary (8,816 in 1880, 8,919 now). THERE is a terrible mortality just now among probably the oldest in­ habitants of Europe. The carp of Fontainebleau are dying by dozens. Many of them are certainly 100 years old; some of them may be 150, some few even more. Thackeray conjectured that those he saw at Sans Souci were the identical fishes that Frederick the Great used to throw morsels of bread to and watch fighting for them. They had great humps of blue mold on their old backs, and were monstrously ugly and unwholesome-looking. The au­ thenticity of the Fontainebleau carp is, however, beyond conjecture, as the keepers of the palace have meaiyi of knowing the dates by marks on the the nose and month of each fish. But even in the case of the veterans the deaths are not attributed to simple old age. It seems there is an epidemic in the fish-ponds of Fontainebleau. Young and old are falling victims to it; and it is a problem how to arrest the course of it. The epidemic is now known to be a kind of typhoid fever, from which at all events in popular belief--all the lower creatures were considered to have immunity. It is clear that the fish cannot be treated individually as if they were human patients. It would be interesting to know what is the general state of health of the town. ; SQUIRE HOBBS' FILOHOFT. IT am bettah tu be trusted dan tu trust. EF 'oman am de fair sex, man mus' be de foul sex. DE bes' way tu serbe er good dinnah am tu eat it. DE boardin'-hous kream-pitcher am de bes' fly-trap in de worl'. DE value ob lif depends sumwat upon de 'pinyun we hab ob oursevs. DE braves' &m not alwuz de tenderes'. A game rooster, fo' instans. WEN de 4th ob July kums we long fo* a Herod tu pass de boy ordinance. IT nebber paze tu play hoss wid de bizness edge ob er buzz-saw. WEN we doan' understan' er fellah, we am inklined tu ridikule him. DAB am 2 tings dat Btik all de kloser fo' er likkin'--a dog an' er pos'age stamp. IT am kweer wot a hankerin' de deef man haz fo' promenadin' on de rale- rode trak. A HOME widout chillen am like er boka widout flowers, or a heaben wid­ out angels. IT am diffikult tu distingwish 'tween hous-kleanin' an' er siklone. Deeffek's am 'bout de same. STJM peeple go on an exkusshun jes' fo' de sake ob enjoyin' de grate happi­ ness ob gittin' bak home. WE hab yet to hear ob de yung man dat wood offer hiz bes' gal er chaw offen his plug ob 'bakky. IT am hard tu tell wedder er boy am happies' in hiz fust par ob butes, erwen he diskards wastes fo' suspendahs. "WEN a man kommits suiside 'kase he kan't support hiz family, he seems tu take it fo' granted dat hiz widder kan. IN France Saturday am pay day, Sunday am drinkin' day, Mundy am re- pentin' day, an' Toosday am suiside day. MARKVIN' er gal fo' her munny am sumtimes berry much like pakkin' yo' shooz aroun' in yo' han' to keep from warin' 'em out. DE bes' wa' to suppress Mormonism wood be tu send mishinarys 'mong de Mormon wimmen tu teach dem de hen- pekkin' skeme. IT am bettah tu wate fo' er frate trane tu go by dan tu 'temp' tu krawl undah it wen it am skootin' long at de rate ob tirty-five mile an 'our. IN wun respek' de telefone am er dis- adwantage. Befo' de tarnel ting wua inwented er man kood git outen ear­ shot ob hiz wif okkashunally. DE fak' dat dar am mo' men in de penitenshary dan wimmen am not be- koz 'oman am mo' hones' dan man, but it am owin' tu de fak' dat 'oman am not 'lowed tu sit on de jury.--Chicago Ledger. SOFT words may appease an angry man--bitter words never will. Would you throw fuel on a house in flames, in order to extinguish the fire ? THE highest pyramid in 520 feet in height. --Hurricane Neck and Cracker's Bend axe the names of small towns neer Jackson­ ville. - „ -- The young folks at Lincoln have or­ ganized a dramatic club, and expect to have an entertainment ready for Thonks- giving. --Colonel Robert Q. Inge moll's physi­ cian has given him strict orders not to make any speeches in his present state of health. --The Chioago Board, of Trade elected F. G. Kammerer a director for the unex­ pired term of Nathan if. Neeld, the ab­ sconding director. --At South Elgin, Ernest Sharpe, at one time a member of the orchestra in Mc- Vicker's Theater, Chicago, committed sui­ cide with a revolver. 1 --During a recent windstorm at Wenona a board was blown from the ground against the bay window of a house and held there until removed by a person who saw it. --A horrible tragedy is reported from Dixon, where John Denny, in a fit of in­ sanity, killed his wife. Denny is an es­ caped inmate from the Elgin Insane Asy­ lum. --Charles M. and Wil'iam J. Baum, of Yermilioa County, have been awarded "by the Federal Government $900 of a claim for $1,800 for depreda'ions committed by the Osage Indians in 1866. --Perry Dewees, of Deland, who was ac­ quitted by a jury several weeks ago of the charge of murdering his wife, became alarmed at the lynching of Wildman, the Atwood wife murderer, and left the country. --1The Merchants' National Bank of Chi­ cago and other firms began proceedings in the District Court of Washington County, Minnesota, to have the assets of the bank­ rupt Northwestern Car Company sold, and the affairs of the conoern closed up --An open car on the Adams street line, loaded with passengers, was by mere chance saved from pitching into the Chi­ cago river the other evening. The driver misunderstood a call from the bridge-tend­ er to "hold on." The front of the car was wrecked. --A woman at a railway station in Deca tur folded her arms and went to sleep standing up without support. After sleep­ ing an hour und a half in that position she was awakened by a railway watchman The woman told him that she frequently slept standing. --A cider-mill near Geneseois suiround- ed day and night by farmers' wagons con taining apple9 to be ground. A farmer who lived twelve miles from the mill reach­ ed it one morning at daylight and found fifteen teams ahead of him. He had to wait all day for his turn. --Charles C. McMurtree, of Pine Bluffs, Ark., was robbed ne&r his home of $1,900, all the money he had in the world, while on his way to Danville to get married. He arrived at Danville and related his misfor­ tune, but his bride declined to delay the wedding, and they were married at once. --The scholars at a country school near Woodhull, after having been feebly gov­ erned by several female teachers, became almost unmanageable. A man weghing 275 pounds was secured this fall to restore discipline. The muscular teacher did his work so well that in three weeks not a scholar was left. The teacher now goes to the school house and sits there alone during school hours. He draws his pay and re fuses to resign. --Chicago Man--"Got any Chicago pa­ pers?" Omaha Newsdealer--" The Chicago papers will not be here for an hour or more. Are you from Chicago?" "Yes "Did yon see what the Rev. Sam Jones 6ays about your city?" "Why, no." "He says every kind of sin described in. the Bible is committed in Chicago." "Is that so? How soon did you say the Chicago papers would be here?" "Ob, not for an hour yet." "Well, how much are your Bibles?"--Omaha World. --Three confidence men invited an old farmer of, Lovington to join them in a speculation, each of the four' to put in $'2,250. The farmer eagerly agreed to the plan, and went to Decatur and drew the required sum out of a bank. In returning the farmer lost his way. The confidence men became frightened at his long absence and disappeared. The farmer was found by his friends next day. He was furious when he learned that he had missed the opportunity to invest his money with the three rogues. --The people in this vicinity who have noticed the character of the men who em bezzle money from the Pullman Company must have seen that they are of a veiy pe culiar, and at the same time similar, make­ up. Two prominent cases have occurred in which agents of that company haye be trayed their trusts. In both instances the sums were large, and in both instances the persons implicated levanted, and took up their residence on a foreign shore. In both they," in time, appeared before the courts of justice, penitently confessed their crime, invoked the judgment of the law, asked to be punished for their own good, and both went to Joliet happy in the con viction that their sins were about to be washed away.--Chicago Times. --The Audubon societies which are being organized in many of the States for the protection of wild and song birds, find ing that appeal has no effect in restraining milliners from Belling birds for the pur­ pose of ornamenting women's hats, ore turning their attention to the law to see if it cannot aid them before all the song and plumage birds are exterminated. In our own State there is a law which forbids the killing at any time of no less than twenty seven varieties of wild singiug birds. New York has a still more effective law which covers "any wild bird other than a game bird," and provides that no person shall "purchase, or have in possession, or ex< pose for sale any such song or wild bird, or any part thereof, after the same has been killed." It will be seen that the New York law, if it were enforced, is amply sufficient to break up this infamous busi­ ness. Both the milliner who sells the bird and the woman who wears it are equally amenable to its penalties. Our own law is not so ccmpreheusive, but it is sufficient to stop the slaughter of birds. A few rigor­ ous prosecutions would go ^far toward breaking up this wholesale massacre of our singing birds to gratify the vulgar existence is vanity of some women.--Chicago Tribune, ^ ' " / •*' USES 1ID TKLLOW-JACKET8. A Good-Matured Man TelHWliat He Knovi AbMtnwm. "A bfee is a very playful and good- natured animal," said a gray-headed man with a benevolent smile, standing near the entrance of the bee-hives at the Zoo to a Philadelphia Telegraph reporter. "The only thing you want to be careful about when you come any­ where near a bee is never to hit him. That is, you must never attempt to hit him, for the ohances are just about nine out of ten that you oawn't do it if you try. Now, the 'difference between a bee and a yellow-jacket is just about this: A yellow-jacket is the most vile and dis­ reputable insect ever croated. They suffer from a chronic disordered temper. It is never safe to pick up a yellow- jacket, and nothing makes a yellow- jacket more happy and gives rise to a more general feeling of unhappiness on the part of human susceptibility than to have some unreflecting person take hold of him. It is then that the little yellow-jacket's soul throbs with fiendish delight, and misery seizes the unfor­ tunate victim. "The habits of these insects are peculiar," continued the benevolent man. "A bee never stings a person more than once. His apparatus has a barbed point, and when it enters any substance it stays there. This finishes up the bee for good. He lives but a few minutes after losing his sting. "There need never be any fear of an attack from bees," said the lecturer, "unless you begin the attack by striking at them. Then they respond with savage impulse. I should say if a whole swarm of bees were to surround a man and sting him the effect would be fatal. The venom of the honey-bee is very painful. But when treated kindly they are harmless. This shows their in­ telligence. They become accustomed to persons in the habit of attending them. "Do you know," said the man, "that a hornet is the most singular animal, and the most unpleasant one to fight with that people ever knew? A person wlio is stung by a hornet feels ready for a howling war-dance, and it all comes from not understanding one disagreeable characteristic of them. If a man was sharp a hornet could never sting him The minute a man strikes or throws a stick at him he instantly responds by making for him in a line as straight as tlie range of a theodolite. And lie al ways gets there. But if the man saw him coming and only had sen»e enough to dodge him the hornet wouldn't get there. And what Is more peculiar, the hornet would go straight back to the identical point he started from and make another sally for his victim. But just as often as the man kept dodging lie would never get stung. It only re quires a man with nerve enough to stand his ground and agility enough to dodge quicker than the hornet can fly to make it a very interesting combat. "But of all the spiteful, wicked, and uncompromising insects, save me from either a yellowjacket or a wasp. There 'is no getting away from them, and when they sting once they sting a dozen times in different parts of the body. They keep right at it, and a man may try to hit them with a stick or his hat all day and miss them every time. Wasps make their nests in the ceiling of a room or the roof of a barn. Hornets are generally found in clumps of fruit- trees, and yellow-jackets in the stumps of trees, shrubbery, or fences." Out of School-Honrs. There was need that earnest attention be directed to the bearing of the public schools on the health of our children. Both our present school system and our hygienic ideas are largely modern. But the development of tlio former was more rapid than that of the latter. Studies were multiplied; examinations made more and more rigid; the marking system introduced and the humble school-house gave place to huge struc­ tures as populous as some towns. Still, more correct ideas in physiology and hygiene are slowly but surely doing much toward making the education of the young a safe and healthful process. Meanwhile, however, we had not duly attended to our pupils outside of the four or five Bchool-hours. To guard against overpressure, we forbid the child's having such lessons as will make it necessary to study at home. Yet many parents allow the child any kind of home reading, and the libraries furnish unlimited facilities for the use of books. And as to the kind, children usually choose that reading which is the most exciting, and holds the attention the closest and longest at a time. Now the harm of this is ten-fold greater than an extra hour or two of average study. Many students, especially in the high school, suffer more from social pressure than from the exactions of the school­ room. They undergo, altogether more than is physically safe, the excitement or the engrossment of parties and family visits, of matters of dress, and of late hours. At the most critical period of life, their sleep is apt to be insufficient, their food inadequate, and the daily waste of their nervous energy beyond the daily supply. There is no gain in relieving the pressure within the school-room, while doubling that outside. Even the grammar-school pupils are not wholly exempt from this cause of nervous exhaustion. We expect the teacher to regulate the posture of pupils, and the distance o.f their eyes from the printed page. Yet out of the school-room multitudes of children pay no attention to the mat­ ter, but curl themselves down to long and exciting stories in defiance of eye­ sight and health. Of course, the teacher cannot control the pupil outside the school-room. Parents need to comprehend these matters, and to feel their responsibility in the case. Still, the teacher has not done his whole duty unless he has im­ parted correct ideas on the subject, and sought to make them practically effective at all times.--Youth's Com­ panion. Importance of tlie Nervdns Power. In a state of health and tone we recog­ nize its powers in the perfection of the five senses: the smallest derangement of its minutest organization is accom­ panied by imperfect communion with the external world in any of these five modes of relationship. The division of a little cord, finer than the most deli­ cate lutestring, shall prevent the eye from seeing, the ear from hearing, the tongue from giving utterance; nor shall there be aroma in the nose, nor smooth­ ness to the finger's touch--all shall be dead without; and then the inmost soul shall wither, pine awav, and die. Its importance over the vital and animal functions equally predominates. The division of two small cords shall sus­ pend respiration; and circulation is so dependent upon the duties of this funo- tion, that it soon ceasea afterward. In the process of digestic n, assimilation, and secretion, there-is efptl efidewp of its prior claim to consideration. It is not so easy to test it in these latter operations by mechanical lesion as in the former; but pathology affords us the same conclusive evidence; and another, of which at present we have but im­ perfect notions, bat which offers us much that resembles the nervous, makes that evidence still stronger. Thus the nerves, which preside over digestion, may be subject to test; and when, by division of these, this func­ tion is suspended, it may be renewed by the substitution of the electric fluid. SLUMMING IN LONDOK. Professional Novel-Writing. The fact is that the conditions of novel-writing and novel-selling have changed altogether, and unless we may look for another revolution, sooner or later, some future annalist will have to write the history of the decline and fall of English fiction. The question of money is at the bottom of the whole thing, for novel-writing has become a business like any other. There is an infinite charm, no doubt, in novel- writing when you feel the vocation. You can detach yourself from earthly cares in a bright world of the fancy; you live with the creations you shape "at your will, and pleasant company they ought to be, because they should have the fascinations of infinite variety. When the saints and the people of high principle begin to pall upon you, you may seek relaxation in the society of your sinners, and even mix familiarly with criminals of the deepest dye, with­ out the fear of compromising your character. Then, as Trollope pointed out in his autobiography, the pro­ fessional novelist is a chartered liber­ tine enjoying exceptional privileges and immunities. He needs no capital and superintends no staff. He can choose his own time and do the work at propitious seasons. That at least is the ideal, and to some extent the prac­ tical, view of the career. Yet the pur­ suit has its drawbacks like every other profession. Dickens complains of be­ ing kept awake night after night by the half-delined phantoms of importu­ nate characters, that haunted him till the flesh would fail under the feverish struggles of the fancy, and he had to fly to the coast or the Continent for rest and change of scene. As for Trollope, for a man of his tallent, he was an extra­ ordinary exception to ordinary rules. Like Mr. Payn, he could do regular mechanical work, daily turning out the fixed quantity of copy. But most men of brilliant imagination will rather sympathize with Dickens. There are days when, for no obvious reason, im­ agination refuses to answer to the call; and nothing can be more fretting to ambition or to patience than to suffer from an indefinite paralysis of the powers. Moreover, the writer who lives by his pen finds that the precious time is being wasted, while rent and taxes are running on relentlessly, and the bills must be met at the end of the half year. The author must make his income like other professional men, and in these days the clever author aspires to live well. Had he gone to the bar he might have attained to the dignity of the Bench, after feathering his nest comfortably with retainers and re­ freshers. Had he taken to medicine and become a famous physician, he would have seen his waiting-rooms crowded with patients. But as novelist nowadays he finds it an up-hill game from the first to the last. He must exercise himself in calm resignation, and be prepared to face many disappointments in any case. He should have some private means to holdout upon if he hopes to "stay. Failure and growing discouragements are more than probable; while at the best the prizes are few, precarious, and not very lucrative.-- The Fortnightly Review. Hints on the Use and Care ef Lamps. Of all misunderstood things in daily life the use of the kerosene lamp prob­ ably stands;.At the head. First, a lamp is bought and fitted for use, and then filled day after day, and after a longer or shorter period does not give as good a light as it used to ; then come com­ plaints to the oil man or grocer about the quality of the oil, when a little reason and judgment used would rem edy the fault and remove the 'cause o' complaint. If persons using a lamp would re' member that the lamp is a machine combining the furnace and pump, and endeavor to learn the principle of using; oil, much trouble would be saved; for while no one expects to use a large ma­ chine without learning how to work it, any one can use a lamp. Now, tho wick is the pump to bring oil from the fount to the blaze, and as there is al­ ways more or less dust and dirt in the oil, the wick soon becomes clogged up, and cannot pump oil fast enough for a good light; so a complaint is made, when a new wick would remove the cause. Then, as we burn oil out, tlie lightest part burns, leaving the heavy oil; and as the lamp is filled day by day, the oil gets so heavy that the draught is not strong enough to pump it up, when the oil should be all turned out of the lamp, and it refilled with fresh oil. And then the burner, after a time, gets gummed up, and the even flow of the oil is disturbed, and causes a sruokv, uneven light which is vexatious. I have often had burners brought into my store condemned, and a new one wanted, when by two minutes' work they were made as good as new. When the wick needs cutting, some scrape it off; others cut it so uneven that it makes a pointing blaze which so provokes one that he wants to condemn it. If a little reason and thought were used in every-day life we would soon find that lots of our discomforts would be very easily overcome and banished; but things go on in a slipshod manner, year after year, with no attempt to im­ prove them. But to resume, the burner is fur­ nished with a great number of Bmall holes to provide air, to the end that perfect combustion may take place, and not to collect dust and dirt until they are clogged up, and a smoky, bad- smelling light is the result. Now, if in using kerosene we fill the lamp up with white oil every day, and once a week empty back the oil which is in the lamp, and use a new wick, cut even and true, every week or once in two weeks, and are sure to have the lamp- burner clean, and a clear, nicely-pol­ ished chimney used, we will find that the keTosene lamp is a cheap and great luxury, and not, as is often the case, a necessary nuisance, which has to be used for lack of anything better. A little care daily in using the lamp makes all the difference bet ween luxury and nuisance.--New York Analyst. A MARRIAGE having been suddenly postponed, after the parties had arrived at the altar, a gentleman asked a lady who was a friend of the bridegroom what the reason was. "I don't exactly know," she replied, "but I believe it altar-catioa.Ql»om€ kind. ' ~"L •teie .A. .-',t ij. Aal&tllih PutlmeThkt HM Not Obtained • Foothold In New York. There is one English fashion which the Anglomaniacs have not yet suc­ ceeded in introducing in New York," said the European buyer of a large silk house a few days ago, "and that is slumming. In London visiting the slums is believed to be about the jolliest and most fetching dissipation known to the fashionable world. The subject has been the butt of the comic weekly ar­ tists of London for some months now, and no well-regulated member of so­ ciety can afford to miss a slumming party during the season. "They do it up in great shape over there, you know. An Englishman must dress for every expedition, no matter whether it is a trip to Africa or a walk to the corner. In slumming, women run to cloaks and men to long coats. These outer garments are believed to ward off disease, though exactly how they do it when their wearers breathe the foul air of the slums is difficult to imagine. When they return to the house of their hostess or chaperon the young people all throw off these wraps in the passage, and the wraps are aired by the servants and returned by mes­ senger the following day. A supper, more or less elaborate, follows the 'slum,' as the excitement makes all hands hungry and talkative. There are always two policemen with the party, and as a rule no more than five or six people go along. London's tramps are liable to prove surly and ill-tempered when their homes are invaded. The part^r start from the hostess' house in carnages at 11 o'clock or perhaps mid­ night, although that is pretty late, and drive to the heart of the London slums. Here they wander through the quar­ ters of the poor, the out-cast, and the lost ones of the great town, pushing their way into rooms where drunken louts, repulsive women, and scraggy and unkempt children lie sleeping like so many worms in a bait-box. They go everywhere, for the police do not recog­ nize the rights of any of the paupers, and bang their way ruthlessly ahead. The high-born men and women gaze upon their dirty fellow creatures, visit their opium dens, their drinking places, dance halls--or, rather, cellars--and in­ vade their living rooms." When they've had all their stomachs and eyes will stand they return to their supper. It never occurs to them, of course, that the cost of one such meal as they dis­ cuss would lift a mountain of misery and woe from the backs of the poor they have just visited. Philanthropy is not a proper fad now across the water. "Though most Ahiericans would be apt to sneer at slumming in London, there really is a reason for it. Here, you know, we are familiar with all grades of life, from the lowest to the highest; but the majority of English aristocrats know nothing of people who are not in their own class, and the lower quarters of the town are full of novelties for them." "Is there no slumming in New York?" "O, occasionally parties of men send down to police headquarters and secure the services of a detective for a trip through Baxter, Mulberry, and Mott streets; but slumming is not reoognized as a fashionable amusement." A Bad Man. Hostetter McGinn is is an arrant cow­ ard, but at the same time he is very boast­ ful. Meeting Gilhooly, he saidr "Bill Snort came very near getting into a fuss this morning." "With whom?" "With me. I tell you he had a pretty close call." "What was it all about?" "Well, you see last week there was a piece in Snort's paper about me having stolen a hog in Cameron County. The article went on to say that a wd-hot stove wouldn't be safe if I was around, and it seemed to me that it was a sorter reflection on my honesty." "Yes, I read the article. Itwas father personal." "Jess so. Well, I thought Fd call on the editor and ask him what he meant, if I could find him in." "Did you find him in?" "Yes, he was in, so I asked him if he meant to impeach my honesty. What do you suppose he said?" "I've no idea." - "i "He said I didn't have any honesty to impeach, and with that he hit me in the eye with his fist. I happened to notice that there was a pistol on the desk, end as quick as lightning I grabbed it." "Did you shoot him ?" "No, I just grabbed the pistol to keep him from shooting me with it. As soon as I got hold of it I darted out of the door. He took after me but couldn't overtake me. What do you suppose Snort has done now? He comes out in his paper and charges me with stealing tlie pistol, when I only took it to keep him from shooting me with it. Snort is too darned reckless in what he says and does, and some of these days he'll get hurt." "Yes, he'll stump his toe running after you."--Texas Siftings. . ' The Management of Husband*. I came in to tell how many women . lose their husbands because they think they are lovers no longer. I have been watching a few young couples lately, and really I sometimes feel like shak­ ing one dear little woman I know. When her Arthur used to court her she used to look so neat and pretty (and I think it was the neatness in her dress that captivated him), but now she is his wife she is oftener found with an un­ tidy dress or hair in a very disordered state. She claimed that she was "never fixed up" around the house, but she made herself neat for him, as he always liked to see her so. I am very much afraid that his love will cool down un­ less she keeps up for him now and al­ ways, as he is a very neat man, I think a woman should make herself look as well as she possibly can without wast­ ing time or money doing it. Above all things, she should read the papers and keep up with the times, so as to be able to talk intelligently with her hus­ band on topics of the hour. I heard a charming looking lady say once that she really thought her husband didn't love her any more, as he did sot caress her as he did at first. Now, I came to the conclusion after watching them a few times that it was her fault in a great measure. She was irritable when tilings did not suit her, and every little detail of the day was such a mountain to her, and she enlarged it when repeat­ ing it to him. He soon got tired of hearing this, and when he did offer to be affectionate she repulsed him, and insisted on finishing her grievances, and by that time he was annoyed too much for any demonstrations of affection. Do yon blame him or her? --Aunt Harriet, in Cleveland JPlain- dealer. THERE is no better rew ard than the approval of our own conscience. It is worth more than others together, I ; J . >y V", MRS. The Aged Widow e# King Dies in Her ^--, j^ther Sadiody* ' fifew York ipoetat.) Cornelia M. Stewart, widow of At ons merchant, Alexander T. Ste' since the death of her husband living in the magnificent maiUt Thirty-fourth street and Fifth a**MMf̂ somewhat suddenly this mornia§»' health has been in a somewhat condition for some time, but •he has able to take carriage exercise add but mediate death was not looked for, her advanced age made it improbable that she would long survive. For many yean she had led a quiet fife* al­ though she occasionally entertafcisd her friends and continued to pay visitŝ to the most intimate ones. Her name sddtan came before the public, bat her gifHl to public charities have from time to tfhM attracted some attention. Mrs. Stseart died of congestion of the lungs and trouble. Her death was so that her physician, who was in her ments at the time, turned to converse With some relatives of the deceased, aaA- turning to the bedside found Mm. StMUt dead. ' ? Mrs. Stewart was nearly 85 yeais ef She was bom in this city,and was * d ter of Jacob Clinch, a well-known chandler of his time. She was Mr. Stewart in 1823. She never had SOT children, and her nearest relatives are half- sisters and nieces. It is not known jnsl what disposition Mrs. Stewart has madw of the wealth left by her husband. Wfcea Mr. Stewart died his properly was Va­ riously estimated from tnirty to fifty million dollars. Only one man in the world knew positively Mr. Htewarfs wealth, and he was John M. Hopkins,JuS confidential book-keeper. The fapttsl jn vested in the dry goods business at 'tee time was $10,000,000. His real propajj very large. Ho owned the store at ChiBfla- bers street and Broadway, and the httge emporium at Tenth street and BrOaidwkiy. numerous warehouses in Chambers iM Reade streets, the Metropolitan Hotaiead Niblo's Theater, a great many honses and lots in Bleecker and Amity streets Welt of Broadway, the Globe Theater, his mansion at Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, the Woman's Hotel in Fowth avenue, the Grand Union Hotel at.. f$im- toga, the vast Hempstead Plains *statS,fMMl many woolen miUs. The marble palabe contains a magnificent collection or pict­ ure s, and it is reported they have been left to the city as the nucleus of an ait Btitution. The collection is modern painters in America, and is over $1,000,000. Meissonier's alom $60,000 and Bonheur's $35,000. The i uary in the house has among the oolieetion some fine masterpieces. The death of Mrs. Stewart brings to mind the robbery of her husband's body several years ago, and the many stories told about the tracing of the thieves and of the body. Mrs. Stewart died beliifing that the body was interred at Garden City, but the general impression Is that it was never recovered, and is still resting eoeoe- where in New Jersey. It is believed by some that the inside history of the affav will now be told. Irish Landlords and Tenants. , " ' (By cable.] "' Ah'interesting proposal to heal the sehliii' has been made by Lord Monek, the MA Land Commissioner. He proposes a par­ liament which shall sit in Dublin strictly delegated functions from the Im­ perial Parliament, the latter retaining, di­ rect control and supervision. Bil hNd- ship asserts that this is what Ignl Halting- ton has asked for, and regards^wWW# * tory Parliament, acoording to HttSe down by Mr. Parnell. It that Mr. Gladstone has seised upon project, and speaks encouragingly of 1 Monck's labors to heal the breach in the party. Tne Government are aeting with seal discretion. By alternate wamingp and persuasions they ate bringing landloc#l to greater moderation. General Sir Buller will not give the police iift in evictions unless there is the dearest poe- sible proof that the tenant has .the of payment. This cheeks the incoaaiderate, while the better landlords seeai to he altogether neglecting to use the power at eviction. Anyhow, we hear practically nothing et ejectments. Lord Clanricarde's case is aa exception, which should give great fotee to the moderate leanings of landlords gener­ ally. A bachelor, a man of great wealth, whose face is not know* to his tenantry, and who has regularly drawn over $150,060 yearly from uilny without spending a penny upon his es­ tates, he has small claim upon public sym­ pathy, and there is a very significant sug­ gestion that he shall hereafter he allowed to take his rents with a minimum assist­ ance from the law. But for Lord Clanzi- carde the League would find for the operations of its new * So far this is the only notable c _ which they have fixed, and if it were i heartless there would be little prospeot at Mr. Dillon's proposal at Woodford and United Ireland s development thereof be­ ing accepted. It is well j pointed out that tenants who, being refused a reduction, should pay their money to trustees in order to tight their landlords would ran a great risk, not only of losing the money they have in hand but' ef being called upon to re- place it; and the Irish occupier cannet afford to pay rent twice over. There's Trouble in the Chartfeu * % A Washington telegram . says: Dr. Sunderland, whose church Mr. Cleveland attends, is in trouble over one of his deer cons, an old man with a very large family, who was recently rotated out of the super­ vising architect's office. The old gentleman aud his friends wanted the Doctor to inter­ cede with the President in behalf of the i anvient official with a view to getting him ' reinstated. Dr. Sunderland positively xs- lused to approach iiie President upoa iuj subject of a political nature, and now cer­ tain of his members have withdrawn ha consequence of his refusal. They say the Doctor refuses to render a kindness to his worthy deacon through fear of possibly losing Mr. Cleveland as an attendant at his church. Murderous Deed of a Jealous Lai. Alexander Hoard and John schoolboys and rivals in love, stood ha a store at New Frankfort, Ind., as their sweetheart, Miss Inez Hollis passed by, going to school. Hoard threw s lose to her, and Paxton knocked him in*tike 1 with a stick, fracturing his skull, and) stamped his face to a jelly. Paxton i ed to have gone mad. He foamed at the mouth and before he could be oaptvred: rushed to the woods, waving his hands aad shrieking. Both are sons of p«Wim-->; farmers of Scott County. Ballast. •, stand up. What's i officer?" - "Drunk, first, your Honor.* "This don't seem to be his Int any means. What nave you tossy,pite* oner?" - "Not guilty. It wasn't the whisky, yo«r Honor, it was the wstsr. I got wales • • logged." "The other charge is larceny, your J He carried off two horse weight*.* "Only borrowed them, sir. Oct SO1 logged I had to use them." *What for?" "To steady myself. Meant them. Couldn't navigate aloue. for ballast!"