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H Previous Campaign Recalled Y by Gen. Benj. Harrison's Candidacy. #«W tk® WMga Whipped th| Loco Foeos --SMrrlng Song of " Tippeeaaoe and Tjler To©." ( „ ffn» the ICnwankee WlscoosiaJ • /.' *&&**> is no mistaking the signs. It is to elan enthusiastic campaign. Go. Harrison will in- terit much ol the enthusiasm of 1840, wten bis HAJgEISON z3Bg} P.,. , JVJUrrODRTB, 1840. distinguished soldier grandfather was, the suc­ cessful candidate for Pi-esident. Mai Charles B. Rosa, of this city, the Milwaukee agent for the Baltimore & Ohio ltallway, is the possessor Of the only plates used for the Harrison badges in 1840. Maj. BOBS' father, A. C. Ross, of Zanes- •iUe, O., was a jeweler and he engraved these plates himself for the Tippecanoe Club of that City. He also wrote the famous song which Is destined to reappear forty-eight years after it <lid such good service in the oampaign, which resulted in the disastrous defeat of Martin Van Bureu, who bad been unanimously renominated toy the Democrats. Maj. Boss hunted up theBe plates after Harrison's nomination, and is hav­ ing a few old-time badges made for his own e li- Acation. On the small ba<lge appears the log «abin and under it, "Harrison and Kefonn, 1810." On the larger badge are the words, "Tippecanoe Club," and a picture of Harrison, and under it the log cabin and the words: "Our Country's Hope." During that exciting campaign the author of the ringing campaign song which was destined to become historic visited New York on business, *B<S attended ail immense Whig ratification meeting. The speakers were late, and the time was occupied in singing. There was a lull. The speakers were still absent. The Chairman of the meeting said, "If there is a gentleman present that can sing let him come forward." The mo I- est Ohio merchant said to his friend near him, •"If I was up there I could sing them a sons." His answer was heard by several, and he was im- , mediately lifted over the shoulders of the immense •ndience to the platform, when he sang "Tippe­ canoe and Tyler Too." Tne audience was wild With enthusiasm, and he had to rei>eat it again •fid again, and the next day all over New York people were humming the stirring campaign tune. Within the next month or two "Tippeca­ noe and Tyler Too" was rendered in every city and village throughout the country. The senior Boss was a Whig throughout the existence of Mat part / and from that time to his death in 1883 he was a stanch Reimblican. " We publish herewith five similes of the two lodges. Following are the words of the old cam­ paign song : TIPPECANOE AND TTMSB, TOO. what has caused this great oomwoUoe,-mo- ; tion,-motion, Our country through? . : CS i* , It 16 the ball that's rolling on « For Tippe.-ane and Tyler, too, / " xV; For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, And with thom we'll beat little Van, Van, Van, Van, oh! he's a used- p Hum, ' . And with them we'll beat little \ an. . like the working pt mighty waters, waters, waters, On it will go, 4nd in its course will dear the way For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, dee the Loco's stand and tottering, fcot^srtog, tottering, ,, -r » • Down it must go, y ^ J; Jgd in its place we'll rear the fl^g , Qf Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,--ete. : ^hs Bay State boys turned out In thousands, thousands, thousands. Not long ago, And at Bunker Hill they set their seals For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,--etc. Jfow you hear the Vanjacks talking, t*Vttagi talking, '* a Things look quite blue, i t M ' JPor all the world seems turning round For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,--«fbO,r Xietthem talk about hard cider, cider, ntlW, And log cabins, too, - i It will only help to speed the ball , For Tippecanoe anl Tyler, too,--eto. Btia latohstring hangs outside the door, door, b: OUR COUNTRYS H o r c door, ... . r ^ And is never pulled <n, ,* *" ' fe 9te always has his table set, set, set, fr s. ^ For all honest and true, It , "SBo ask vou in to take a bite. p; With Tippecanoe and Tyler; too,--etc. f-r , #m the spoilsmen and leg treasurers, treasurers ^ - treasurers, 15' : " '_i All in a stew, [' 9or well they know they stand no chanse t 1^ With Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,-*to, , little Matty's days are numbaced, numbered, > numbered, And out he must go, h ' ' "Woe in his place we'll put the good Old Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,--ate. r SPEECH BT GEN. HARRISON. 4. Felicitous Address to » Delegation of Illlitoisiui* Who Galled ITpon Htm. GEN. HUNT AND Mt ILLINOIS FRIENDS : I tank you for this cordial expression of your terest in Republican suocess. I thank you for e kindly terms in which your spokesman has conveyed to me the assurance not only of your political support but of your personal confi­ dence and respect. The States of Indiana and Illinois are neighbors, geographically. The river that for • portion of its length constitutes the bound- between our States is not a river of times whan so many thing! ace "go­ ing dnr„" rather to oblttentejta* «* the eot afekos^on between us. But I know that we an not only geographically neigh- tiora bat that Indiana aad lfigo 1 have been neighborly in the high sentiments and purposes wbioh have characterised their people. I rejoioe to know that ths same high spirit of loyalty and devotion to the country that rTm"»cite<1ini the State of Illinois in the time whan the nation made its appeal to the heave men of all the States to rescue its flag and its Constitution from the insurrection which had been raised against them was equally characteristic of Indiana; that the same gnat impulse which swept over your Sta:e swept over ours; that KicharJ Tate* of Illinois and Oliver P. Morton of Indiana stood together in the fullest sympathy and co-operation in the gnat plan they derated to augment and n-enfone the Union armies in the field and to suppress and put down treasonable conspiracies at home. As Americans and as Repnb'icans, we an glad that Illinois has contributed so many and such conspicuous names to that galixy of great Axnerioans and groat Republicans whose deeds have been written"on the scroll of eternal fame. I recall that it, was on the soil of Illinois that Lovejoy dird a martyr to free speech. He was the forerunner of Abraham Lincoln. He died, but his protest against human Blavery lived. Another great epoch in the march of liberty formed on the soil of Illinois the theater of its moat influential event. I refer to that high de­ bate in the presence of your people but before the world, in which Douglas won tne Senator.-hip and Lincoln the Presidency and immortal fame. But Lincoln's argument and Lincoln's proclama­ tion must be male good upon the battle-8eld, and again your State was conspicuous ; you gave us ti1 a it and Logan, and a multitude of less notal 13 but not less faithful soldiers who wrote the proclamation with their swords. I congratulate you to-day that there has c me out of this early agitation, out of he work of Lovejoy the disturber, out of the great debate of 1858, and out of the war for the I'niot , a Nation without a slave; that not the shackles of slavery only have been broken, but that the scarcely less oruel shackles of prejudice, which bound every black mac in the North, have also been un­ bound. We are glad to know thit enlightenel sentiment of the South to-day unites with us in ! our congratulations that slavery has been 1 abolisht>d. They have come to realize, and many \ of their best and greatest mm to publicly ex- ; press, the thought that the abolition of slavery | has opened a gateway of progress and material development to the South that was forever dosed against her people while domestic Blavery existed. We send them the assurance thit we desire the streams of their prosperity shall flow bank full. We would lay upon their people no burdens that we do not willingly bear ourselves. They will not think it amiss "if I say that the burden which rasts willingly upon our shoulders is a faithful obedience to the Constitution ami the laws. A manly assertion by each of his in­ dividual rights and manly concessions of equal rights to every other man is the boast and the law of good citizenship. MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY. The Pennsylvania Senator Who Is the Chairman of the National Committee. "Dear Beaver: Don't talk." This was the brief note addressed to the pres­ ent Governor of Pennsylvania by Colonel Mat­ thew S. Quay in the campaign of 1P82, when a re­ porter wanted to interview the candidate and sought a card of introduction from Quay, says the New York Press. The remark has already ruled, aad. without saying award or lifting a hand, retiring toUte rear to await Us Vindication by results. The victory or Pennsylvania's reunited party in 1888 was largely the result of Quay's genaral- ship. Charles S. Wolfe, the leader of the bolt of 1881-1388, was the Prohibition candidate for Gov­ ernor. Treasurer Quay insisted that the Repub­ lican 8 recognise the temperanoe sentiment, and inserted in the plat orm a high-license pledge and a promise to give the people a chance to vote 011 a prohibitory amendment to the consti­ tution. The backbone of the Wotfe movement was broken, and Quay was the tagioM choice of the Legislature ele ted with Governor Beaver for the United States Ken ate. .HTh»^r i stlom of his liquor policy was shown By the reduction of the Prohibition vote in Pennsylvania from 32,000 in SENATOR QUAY. 1888 to 18,000 in 1887, af er the Legislature had kept the party's pledges. Chairman Quay is a mau of broad culture in literature an 1 art. He has a fine private library at his Beaver mansion, particularly rich in re­ ligious history aud political economy and rare editions of standard works. His pictures and statuary have cost a fortune and are selected with discriminating taste. For Workingmen to Think About. I would not have an Idle man or an idle mill or an idle spindle in this country if by holding exclusively the American market we could keep them employed and running. Every yard of cloth imported I erj makes a demand of one yard less of American fabrication. Every ton of steel diminishes that much of home produc­ tion. Every blow struck on the other aide upou an article which comes here in competition with like articles produced here, makes the demand for one blow less at home. Every day's labor upon the foreign products sent to the United States takes one day's labor from Ameri­ can workiugmen. I would give the day's labor BESIDENCB OF BENJAMIN HARRISON. at Indianapolis, of the Republican Candidate for President. become a part of the history of Pennsylvania. It ssrved to call the attention of the whole State to the remarkable qualities possessed by the quiet, imperturbable little man from Beaver County. But his record was by no means begun then. "Quay never made much noise about him­ self, and he nail been a big man and had known himself to be one long before the world found it out. Born of a Scotch-Irish family in York County, Pennsylvania, in ltS), Matthew Stanley Quay was the son of a preacher. When the boy was six years old his father brought home a Bible and a tin sword and offered him his choice. The baby politician chose the Bible, because he knew that bis delighted father would give him the tin sword anyhow, and then he would have both. Another instance of his early develop­ ment of diplomatic institxt is related. His father's arrival at church was delayed one Sun­ dae, and the congregation began to get restless. Matthew quietly arose, and ascending the pul­ pit steps began to turn the leaves of the big Bible and ar.ange the marks. The congregation became interested and wondered what he would do next, but he didn't do it. He Bimply kept their attention tixed and prevented their de­ parture till his father's arrival. Young Quay was graduated at Jefferson Col­ lege, Pennsylvania, at the age of 17, aud read law in the office o5 Judge Sterrett, now a member of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court. He spent some years in Louisiana aud Texas, where he picked up much of bis profound knowledge of human nature. As a schoolteacher in Texas his great­ est exploit was to cure his pupils of the practice of carrying pistols. The average Texas school­ boy was larger than Quay was. or, for that mat­ ter, is now, and it is needless to say that force was not the means used. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1H53, and en­ tered noli tics in Beaver County, where he was elected and re-elected to the office of prothono- tary. He cast his first vote at the liquor-law election of lp54, and voted for prohibition. Since then, however, he has become a hiKh- license advocate. He resigned his oiHce in 1861, to become first Lieutenant of the Pennsylvania Reserves, but was immediately appointed As­ sistant Commissary (ieneral on Governor Cur- tin's staff. He preferred, however, to go to the front, and Oovernor Curtin asked him what ap­ pointment he wanted. His repjy was, "I should like to be Major." But f urtin offered him the Colonelcy of the One Hundred and Thirty- fourth Pennsylvania Infantry. Quay said he would rather not, but Curtin insisted, saying, "That is the only commission you can have." Then Quay took it. His first act as Colonel was to studv a book of tactics on his way to Virginia in the fall < f 1862. He contracted tynhoid fever in camp and had re­ signed to go home when the battle of Fredericks­ burg was making ready. He withdrew his resig­ nation iu order to go to the fight with his regi­ ment, which be did, carrying through it a haver­ sack containing over $30,000 that had been in­ trusted him to take home. Gen. Tyler com­ mended his bravery in an official report. Quay then became Gov. Curtiu's military secretary. He entered the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1865, and was at once marked for leadership and ap-' pointed Chairman of the Ways and Means Com­ mittee, in which post he secured the passage of an act relieving real estate from taxation and in­ creasing the taxation of corporations instead. He started and edited the lieaver Radical in in 1667, and made it the most powerful weekly Bepublican journal in Ptnnsvlvania. He was Secretary of the Republican State Committee in 1863, and helped to tlect Gen. Hartranft Gover­ nor in 1872. He became Secretary of State in 1873. and Recorder of the city of Phila 'elphia in 1878. when he was elected Chairman of the Re­ publican State Committee. To CoL Quay is due more than to any other one man the Republican victories of 1878 all over; the country. The Greenback craze was appar­ ently sweeping over the continent. The Demo­ crats knuckled to it. What were the Republi­ cans going to do? All at once ex-Speaker Ga- lusha A. Grow, the old hero of the homestead law, msdt a speech defining the Republican po­ sition in favor of resumption of specie payments and a sound currency. It was the campaign keynote. Grow s voice shouted it forth, but Quay had struck the tuning fork, planned the campaign, and suggested Grow's historic speech. Everybody knows how the fight went. The Pennsylvania idea triumphed over the green­ back idea. Secretary Shermtfn's policy was overwhelmingly indorsed, ami resumption be­ came an accomplished fact before Jan. 1, 1879. In the unit-rule fight of 1880 and the Pennsyl­ vania bolt of 1882 Quay's conciliatory advice was rejected by the Camerons. When Governor Hoyt, who had reappointed him Secretarv of the Commonwealth, wrote a letter in favor of the bolter, Quay promptly resigned from his staff by telegraph and retired to private life, as an ex­ pression of party fidelity. In 1883, however, he came to the front as a candidate for State Treas­ urer, and was elected by 44,000 majority. His strength Burprised even his friends, al hough they could see, after looking back over bis uni­ formly conciliatory career, that it was the natural to our own first, last and all the time, and that policy which fails in this is opposed to Ameri­ can interests. To Becure this is the great pur­ pose of a protective tariff. Fr^e trade says give it to the f reign workman if ours will not per­ form it at the sami price and accept the same wa 'es ; he workiugmen say no, and justly and in­ dignantly resent this attempted degradation of their labor, this blow at their independence and manhood.--Congressman McKinley's Speech. The Harrison Residence. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, wife of the Republi­ can nominee fcr President, is th daughter of the Rev. J. W. Scott, of Oxford, Ohio, one of the most eminent professors of this country, and an honored laborer in the field of higher education. Iu her maiden days she carried off ths palm among the notably beautiful wo neu of ihe State, and to-day she preserves still a rare attractive­ ness of face and form. As Miss Catrie L. Ircott she was verv popu ar among her schoolmates. She was brilliant in conversation, and jiossessed an ease and grace of manner which gave her a prominent place in the admiration of her friends. In October, 1832, she married Mr. Harrison, who was then but 20 years of age, and in March, 1854, the young couple settled in Indianai>olis with the small fortune of $800. Mrs. Harrison is described as a little woman, plump, and wonderfully young for one who as­ sumed the responsibilities of life iu her teens. In the society of Indianapolis she has long borne a leading part.. No woman is better fitted for the position of mistress of the White House. She is not a woman of fashion, but she dresses very handsomely, and everything she wears has MRS. HARRISON. an air of elegance--her lace is real lace, her vel­ vet is real velvet. Like an economical woman, she avoids cheap imitations. She has a married daughter and a son who is becoming prominent in the politic b of Manitoba Territory. A good picture of the Harrison residence is printed on this page. It is a substantial but unpretentious brick house, surrounded by pleas­ ant grounds. It is 674 North Delaware street, one of the principal residence streets in In- tUauapolia. . „ COMPARATIVE WAGES. i : • ir" v - • •r - • 4 ' ' j - ,?»• *1 \ • &• Figures Compiled from the Latest Returns Made by London Board of Trade. [From the New Yorfc Press.] - v~\ Btffland. United States. Boa binders ..{zJS *6 00 *15.00018.00 Biush-makerik.I " Boiler-makers......... Brick-makers. Bricklayers ........ Blacksmiths.......... Butchers Bakers Blast-iu -nace keepers. Blast-furnace fillers .. Bi >1.-makers Bolt-cutters.... # COal-miners 4 Cotton-mill hands.... Carpenters. Coopers. Carriage-makert..,... Cutlery Chemicals Clock-makers'.'. :i Cabinet-makers Farm hands Glass-blowers 6.00 7.75 3.54 8.00 6.00 0.00 6.25 -i 10.00 $ 7.50 : 6.50 IS ' V- 4.60 • 7.SO * 6.00 6.75 6.00 •1.000 0.00 7.00 7.00 3.00 g.00@ 9.00 15.00@20.00 16.50 11.86 21.00 13.00 12.00 - J2.75 Jt H8.00 4.00 .6.50 0.00 3.00 ' 0.72 5.00 3.20 13.O0@25.OO 12.00®20.00 13.00C3U6.00 18.00 18.00 7.50@ 9.00 25.00@30.00 nay « mat 7.no 10 ova-is nn !.«• 4.00 2.00 "4.50 , 6.00 10.00012.00 7.5J 9.008 3.00 •vHfVW- 7.00 4-10 8.00 am n Heater* and rollers Iron ore minsrj Iron mokiera Iron, per ton (finished). Instrnment-makars... Laborers "Longshoremen Linen thread mien) ,;f, Linen thread (women). Machinists Masons Printers (1,000 ems).... Primers, week hands. Pattern-makers. Painters Plumbers Plasterers. Po.ters Polishers ^Paper-makers......... Puddlers. per wiMk.... Quarryinen Bope-makers Railway engineers.... Railway firamea...... Shipbuilding-- Boilermaker*..* «,». s7.00 Machinists.....,.,...;. 7.00 Copparsmitttfj,... ... Platers 8-00 Drillers -'4^^6.01 Riveters - • •?-> 8.00 Riggers. " , 5.50 Pattern-maker*....!. ;<.« 8.00 Salt-makers 6.00 Silk ,men) . 5.00 &lk (women) 1M Hbarf-makers l.Aft2.2> Servants (month)......; 6.0) Shoe-makers .......... ' i . ' 6.00 f-1 ationary engineers.. • • -si** 7 • 80 8.50 f •? ' 8.00 7.511 8.00 7.50 > 8.67 7.00 5.90 0.00 6.00 5.25 ao.oj 5.00 10.00.«i90.00 H.ou&at.w *>.00330.00 12.00 15.00 5.31(39 8.71 18.00090.00 8.00 15.00 7.50 *.22 I?:,00 toap-makers 5.0J 00 40 U:S 15.0J 18.00 21.00 18.30 18.00 12.00s ai.oo 18.00 a 20.0> 12.00al5.01 9.OO&1SO0 21.00 U.00 U.00 M»50 16.15 IS. 00 18.00 17.40 11.00 24.00 9.00&10.50 10.00 6.00 6.00& 9.00 15.00 12.00 15.03S18.00 10.50 THE SHAMK OF THE SOLID SOUTH. Almost Complete Suppression of the Re- puMlenn Vote. [From the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.] In twenty-two of the Southern Congressional districts, three more thi n the number added to the representative district* of tbe Solid South, in the enumeration of emsueipated slaves as citi­ zens (the South gained nineteen districts on tbe change of the blacks to be people - in twenty- two of the Southern districts the Republicans did not nominate candidates to CongTesi. In nineteen of the twenty-two districts the colored prople ore a majority of the inhabitants. In one of the districts where the Republicans had can­ didates the Republican yote was only seventeen, in another i'3), in a third 491, in a fourth 420, and in a fifth 11. In three of these the colored voters exceed th» white, and in the remaining ones-- namely : in that one which cast only 17 Republi­ can votes--they number 14,148, and in that one which cast 11 Republican votes thsy number o.iKW. These districts, with tile Republican vote and the number of colored voters, are shown in ih) following table: ALABAMA. Republican Colored vote. 14,869 3,382 1.477 Districts. First...,*.. Second...,*. Third....,., vote. »*•««.• ...,».»-»,. • N one • •N o n® .....; None A KANSAS. None None eaoBou. 17 .'....None .....None ^ 330 . .None . .None ...i..........None .....None LOUISIANA. ..None 495 420 MISSISSIPPI. None None None ........None SOUTH C ABO UN A. First. None SecouJ,. ..None Third None Fourth. . .None Fifth. .None .......... --None First....... Fifth First............. Second.,„,.ni.. Thiid. Fourth........... Fifth............ Sixth Eighth.....,..!,.. Tenth. Fourth.....^,... Fifth ii...,. Sixth........... First.... i. Fourth..,,..,,,. Fifth Seventll......... 342 14.U8 17,881 13,297 17,956 13,188 90,929 90,841 17,315 18,375 83t089 18,707 13,068 90,697 19,897 19,166 13,998 17,096 18 757 17,519 13,434 14,385 Hints for Young Wires. cheese in a tight tin box. A b:ig of dry, hot hops on the chest is excellent in lelieving cronp. Preserves and jellies should be kept in glass or stone or in self-sealed jars. Fruit stains are removed by bleaching on the grass when apple trees are in blos­ som. A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with yonr white clothes will aid the whit­ ening process. Wh en (>tung by a bee or wasp make a paste of comuMW eartb aad «sier, put on the place at once, and cover with a cloth. Applying kerosene with a rag when you are about to pxit your stoves away for the summer will prevent them from rusting. To set delicate colors in embroidered handkerchiefs, soak them ten minutes previous to washing in a pail of tepid water, in which a dessertspoonfal of tur­ pentine has been well stirred. Where weeds persist in springing up as fast as they are cut off kerosene oil may be used to advantage. If a small quantity be poured on the plants after being cut down the effect will be to destroy them. Old linings should be washed, ironed, and kept in a receptacle devoted to such things. It is seldom these can be used in a good dress, but sometimes come in course for children's garments or for everyday cotton gowns. Carrot and celery cooked in cream make a nice dish. The carrots should be cut in thin slices and boiled in salt water, the celery in inch lengths and then scalded. Add the milk thickened with cornstarch while boiling. A wash which will remove the sunburn acquired by outdoor Bports is made by adding to twelve ounces of elder flower water six drams of common soda and six drams of powdered borax. Applied to the skin. it will moke it as clear and soft as a baby*s. Put dishes, tumblers, and other (glass articles into a kettle, cover them entirely with cold water, and put the kettle where it will soon boil. When it has boiled a few minutes set it aside, covered close. When the water is cold take out the glass. This process will harden the articles so that they will not be so easily broken. To expel mosquitoes, take of gum camphor a piece about one-third the size of a hen's egg, aud evaporate it by placing it in a tin vessel and holding it over a lamp, taking care that it does not ignite. The smoke will soon fill the room and ex­ pel the mosquitoes, and not one will be found in the room next morning, even though the windows should be left open at night,--Neu> York Mail. Triplet Maxims. Three tilings to love--courage, gen­ tleness, and affection. Three things to admire--intellect, dignity, and gracefulness. Three things to bate--cruelty, arro­ gance, and ingratitude. Three things to delight in--beauty, frankness, and freedom. Three things to wish for--health, friends, and a contented spirit. Three things to like--cordiality, good-humor and cheerfulness. Three things to avoid -- idleness, loquacity, and flippant jesting. Three things to cultivate--good books, good friends, and good-humor. Three things to contend for--honor, country, and friends. Three things to teaoh--truth, in­ dustry, and contentment. Three things to govern--tempier, tongue, and conduct. Three things to cherish--virtue, goodness, and wisdom. Three things to do--think, Jive, and act. • 1 ' ' / JONATHAN SCOVILLE, of Buffalo, ex-Mayor and ex-Congressman, who has been a Democrat all his life, says : "The tariff is the sole issue of the campaign. Party lines are as comple ely swept away as in 1860, when there were no Whigs, no Denlocra s, no Repcblicans, and hundreds and thousands of Democrats voted with the Repub­ licans on the Blavery question." He believes in protection, and says that thousands of protec­ tion Democrats will vote the Republican ticket. The Democrats will not be able to muzzle their "free-trade cranks" this year, for the chielest at the sinners stands at the head of thair ticket. The issue is Harrison or free trade. A PHiiiOSOPHEB being asked to define a quarrel, said: "It is usually the ter­ mination of a misunderstanding."; LOVE looks through spectacles which make oopper look like gold, poverty like on/1 fnnl foorc lilfA Tuamyla nmsim PROGRESS. Off* ofthen««t ingenious inventions of tile dtty is the self-registering ther­ mometer -which a famous London firm announees. It consists of an indicator1 which can be o^t up in any green-house. Wlien the temperature fails below the point at which injury would be caused to plants ain electric bell is set in mo­ tion, ae th*t an fl&Rn is at once sounded. Its other lines af usefulness are obvious. AN electrical heating stove invented in France, presents some interesting points oi arrangement and operation; In it the (XiQaucting wires are led through apertures in plates of refrac- tory c|ay fjijpt plumbago, and in which wire hobhtiis placed as part of the electrioal oirouit. To carry out this plan the bobbins are heated by the passage at the current, and in turn heat the air, which is allowed to 'pass freely through the apparatus.- "FOCR years ago," says Nature, JENNY UNO'S TRIUMPH. Coaqnvrad St K#W 81M CSIM, Saw, and Loula Fenplet. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] v Wyman Hall has long since <Ksap- pearinl. The recent death of Dr. Ed­ ward Wyman recalls to the memory of many old citizens the building that was situated just west of the present loca­ tion of the Granite building, which was for years a famous place in the annals of St. Louis, as in the second story was located the only large hall of which the city could boast until the erection «f the Mercantile Library building. During 1849 and 1850 a number of entertainments were given in Wyman's Hall, but the spring of 1851 was its time of glory. Early in February of that year St. Louis was flooded with large posters and small handbills announcing the arival in the city of Jenny Lind, the famous "Swedish Nightingale,'! Tfvhp at _ . „ . ( that time was on her triumphant tour "there was exhibited to a fashionable 1 through the country under the manage- and scientific meeting at Knight's Hill, Upper Norwood, a lens constructed by Hev. A. W. Yarrow, M. A., B. C. L., whereby the letter-press of the London Tim e.s was easily read when displayed from the terrace of the Crystal Palace. Subsequently it was tested with an equally successful result at a distance of 4,320 vards, or nearly two and a half miles. The practical use of this instru­ ment has been in abeyance through the long and serious illness of the reverend inventor, but there is no doubt it will .prove an efficient aid to photographing, 'which may be extended to naval and military purposes. THE direct conversion of heat into electric work is a problem that con­ tinues to tax the ingenuity of electri­ cians to the utmost. What seems to be the most promising attempt at solution .yet made is a new thermo-magnetio generator and motor devised by Mr. Menges, of the Hague, Holland. Like the recent pyro-magnetic dynamo of Edison's invention, it depends upon the fact that the magnetic metals lose their magnetic power when heated. Several important advantages are claimed in its behalf, however, the chief being that the necessary alternations of heating and cooling are given automatically, and that the cores of the armature coils are relieved from changes of temperature. THE material known as Woodite, in­ vented by Mrs. Wood, a very versatile English Woman, promises to become a much-used substance. Its chief ingre­ dient is caoutchoue. During the past few months it has given good results for a variety of purposes, and is now de­ clared to be especially adapted to many uses. According to Sir Edward Reed, member of Parliament, it has been pro­ duced in various forms, such as fine sheets and ribbons for water-proof arti­ cles, dense blocks for resisting the blows of shot and shell, and particularly satis­ factory rings for engine packing' One process converts it into an elastic sponge­ like substance, and another, in which it is mixed with whalebone cuttings, gives it a rough or frictioual quality for mats. Some curious naval applications have been worked out. It is made into armor i plates, which on being penetrated by a shot close up so tightly that no wates is admitted, and it is also formed into light and convenient cylinders for carrvin g compressed air to drive life-boats, tor­ pedo-boats, and search-boats, while it is suitable for making floating or partly floating cables for protection against'at­ tacks by torpedoes. Iron gives an interesting account of what it calls the universal solvent, and which it declares, though long known to modern chemistry, has only just been separated, and cannot even now be retained in its isolated state, simply because it destroys everything. This fury of the chemical world, it goes on to say. is the element flourine. It ex­ ists peacefully in company with calcium in flourspar, and also in a few other compounds; but when isolated, as it re­ cently has been by Henri Moissan, it is a rabid gas that nothing can resist. It combines with all metals explosively. When they are already combined with some other non-metallic element it tears 'them from it and takes them to itself. I11 uniting with sodium, potassium, cal­ cium, magnesium, and aluminum the imetals become heated even to redness 'by the fervor of its embrace. Iron fil­ ings, slightly warmed, burst into brill­ iant scintillations when exposed to it. Manganese does the same. Even the noble metals, which at melting heat proudly resist the fascinations of oxy­ gen, succumb to this chemical siren. At a moderate temperature glass is de­ voured at once, and water cease's to be water by contact with this gas---Scien­ tific American. A Novel Scrap-Book. «»n reminded," writes C. M. Skinner, in the Book Buyer, in speak­ ing of extra illustrations, "that a scrap- book may be made a thing of beauty that will put to shame the rarest of editions de luxe. Only the practiced inlay er of plates should undertake its preparation in order to insure this re­ sult, but in its diversity of theme and treatment, it has a more general inter- iest than the biography or book of criti- jcism that is the usual subject for pic- jtorial enlargement. Travelers' scrap- Tbooks are especially entertaining. One young gentleman made a running record |of his foreign tour in letters to 'his .folks' that he sprinkled with pen sketches, and bound in a volume on his return. A wealthy gentleman in Brook­ lyn, who travels far and often, makes a pictorial record of each trip in a form |of a book or books filled with photo­ graphs of places and things he has seen. His last journey amon^ the eft'ete (despotisms is memorialized in three portly volumes, bound in crimson mo- rocco, and containing in the order of their viewing, all the sights of moment visited in his journey. Another tourist made a history of his European travels in letters to newspapers, and these let­ ters have been clipped out, pasted in double columns on heavy paper, neatly 'bordered with black lines, and inter- •spersed with 400 illustrations and ad­ denda carefully inlaid, some of the smaller pictures serving as tail-pieces to' ;the letters. The illustrations embrace photographs, photogravures, litho-' j graphs, wood-cuts, etchings, steel en- jgmvings, pen and pencil drawings, and represent distinguished people who) were seen, and celebrated pictures in 'the museums as, well as places of scenic and historic interest. Such curiosities as hotel bills, and theater programs are also included. The volume is a quarto, nearly as bulky as Webster's Diction­ ary.* Getting There by Hard Work. Chicago Lawyer (to witness)--Are ybu sure that you are tiling the "truth,1 the whole truth and nothing but the (truth ? ; 1 ' Chicago Witness (wiping his face)-- •Great heavens, sir, can you ask me such !a. question ? Don't you see these beads jpf perspiration York ment of the great showman, Phineas T. Barnum. Mr. Barnum's advance agent, after making a careful inspection of all the theaters then in existence, decided that Wyman's Hall was the only suitable place in which to give the concert, and engaged the hall for three evenings, paying what was then considered the enormous sum of $1,500 as rent. In order to accommodate as many auditors as possible, a. temporary gallery was erected, capable of seating some 500 people. Jenny Lind was announced to appear oh March 18, and two days before the time Mr. Barnum arrived in the city, lodging at the old City Hotel, at that time kept by Mr. Theron Barnum. It had been determined to fix the price of tickets at $5, and to sell the choice of seats at auction. On the morning of the 17 th of March an immense crowd gathered at the auction-room, compris­ ing among its number nearly all the leading citizens of St. Louis. So great was the throng that only a small portion of those in attendance could obtain ad­ mission to the room, and it was decided to charge an admission fee of 10 cents, the proceeds to be" devoted to charitable purposes. P. T. Barnum took the rostrum, and after expatiating upon the great treat in store for St. Louis, and letting fall a hint that unless satisfactory results at­ tended the auction Jenny Lind would not sing, offered the seats for sale. The competition for first choice was very keen. Mr. Samuel Johnson, at that time the most fashionable hatter in the city, bid as high as $100, but re­ tired from the contest when an Italian merchant, doing business on Second street, bid $150, thereby securing first choice. Mr. Johnson secured second choice, paying $100 privilege. Half a dozen seats sold at a premium of $75, some fifteen or twenty at $50, a large number at $25, while scarcely a seat sold for less than $5 in addition to the price of the ticket. On the night of the ooncert the hall was packed with the most fashionable audience ever assembled in St. Louis. For squares about the hall the streets were jammed with an attentive throng, anxious to catch at least a few notes of the voice of the Swedish Nightingale. On March 20 Jenny Lind gave a second ooncert, on the 22nd a third on the 26th, by special request, a fourth. *On the morning of the 27th, just be­ fore her departure, she sent a check for $2,000 to Luther M. Kennett, Mayor of the city, to be devoted to charitable purposes. The entire city was wild with enthusiasm over the Scandinavian J singer. She was made an honorary mem­ ber of the Polyhymnian Society, aud given a reception such as has never be­ fore or since been accorded to any Binger in this city. How Much a Man Eats. been calculated that on the i, each man who attains the age onptescore and ten consumes during the course of his life twenty wagon- loads of fobd, solid and liquid. At four tons to the wagon, this would corre­ spond to an average of about a hundred ounces per day during adult life, and about eighty ounces during infancy and youth. Most modern doctors agree in regarding one hundred and twenty ounces of food per day, corresponding to five or six half-pints of liquid food, and seven or eight pounds of solid food, as in excess of the real daily require­ ments of a healthy man or woman, ifot probably most of us take more than this, in one way or another, during the day. Dr. Lankester, from an analysis of the dietary of soldiers, sailors, prisoners, and the better paid classes of artisans and professional men in London, , found the average daily quantity of solid and liquid food to be one hundred and forty- three ounces. Doubtless many take much less; but unquestionably many take more than this. When some one mentioned before Sidney Smith the twenty wagon-loads of food calculated for each man's allowance, he turned to Lord Durham, who like himself was corpulent (and not without sufficient reason), with the quaint remark, "I think our wagons must have been four- horsed ones." There are members of the London Corporation, to seek no fur-. tlier, whose wagons must be six-horsed ones, and well loaded at that. Western and Eastern Hay-Fields. The Western haying field is a bright and joyous one, very unlike those in Europe which Millet and his followers paint. Here are no bowed backs and gloomy faces, toiling in the half-light; no huge and clumsy tools; no feet thrust into huge wooden shoes; no miserable looking women straining at a load too great for their strength. The American farmer is poor enough and brutal enough, but he is not hopeless. I say "Western" haying fields, because even in New England there is not the same exuberance of young life. That which first strikes the Western man when he goes East is the fact that all the old men work in the fields; whereas, in the West, the old men are comparatively few and *n.kfl less share in the hard labor.-- Hamlin Garland, in The American Magazine. ,1 Genuine Entertainment. The first absolute requisite for success in entertaining people and adding to the pleasures of life, is to have a kind heart and a real desire to make others happy, and not to be prompted by a wish to display our possessions for the unsatis­ factory gratification of having them ad­ mired in our presence, and the source from which they were obtained, and our taste criticised in our absence.--Mrs. John A. Logan, in the American Magazine- A few years ago cotton seed were thrown away as worthless, but to­ day the seed is as valuable as the lint. THE Omaha World thinks that f I ILLINOIS STATE NEWS* 4l -<f**H a special bulletin on tbe eoaAtftlll; qf growing orops throughout 'hi rumplis tfre Commissioner of Agriculture at Wash­ ington has this to say of the wops in titfa State: . Tbe corn ana -fit tbe caatnl and aMUMni parts of the State Is inaxmuMd, owisg movtty tm tbe failure ot Vbeat. Tbe tiom M niiktaf well and promises an ^vngpjtmUL The lata heavy rains have interfered tO>aome extent with the cultivation, but on tbe vtatris the prospeeta ai» encouraging. The recent rains, wfafeb have beea generally distributed over the Stafealwve puda a marked improvUMttt IntbaodMUQaefwta- ter wheat finee tbe date of lastlWfXV ~ present a rank, rfeh growth. Iniha< division quite a eonsManfbte are* of crop is proatfeted by storms. Apart • f drawback, the erop protuiMs to 4M the ever grotm in tbe State. VThara ia an increase in the area ot Irtfh potatoee.^aad the erspla looking exceptionally wait. The afeaa at sweet potatoes compared with 1SS7 is tbs-saaba. «s»- gbum has'ananee al t $>er cent, nsare than luk year. Tbe arte of tobacco la beioW thiti.i year. It li ra fair condition. There Is a off in the amount of wool as MOQiaMt- 1887, c wing to low prices and a dtwudUW to engage in tbe Tearingef horses, cattiS. aais**W kinds of stosk. TIm clover crop has some improvement during the last month, under the most favorable conditions will nOa make mora than 75 per cent, of an aveeaja yield. --The following is a list ot Illinois ooflofc ̂ ty fairs for 1888: Adams County --Camp Point, Brat S-7. BOOM --Belvidere, Sept. 4-7. Brown--Mount Strung. An3 27-31. Bureau--Princeton, SCpt. 11-15. Car­ roll--Mt. Carroll. Sept. 10-14. Champaign--Cham­ paign, Aug..31-24. Christian--Assumption, I 5-7; i>ana,,8ept. >1-15. Coles--Charleston, I 11-15. Crawford--Robin son, Sept. 11-14. Cum­ berland--Toledo, Sept. 19-22. De Kalb--Syca­ more, Sept. 11-14. De Witt--Clinton, Sept. 10.14} Farmer City, Aug. 98-31. Douglas--Camarao, Sept. 18-21. Du Page--Wheaton, Sept. 11-13. Kid- gar--Paris, Sept. 3-a Edwards--Albion. Aug. S84 31. Effingham--Watson. Sept. 4-7. Fayette ' Vandalia, Sept. 18-21. Ford--Piper City, Sept* 13-20. Franklin--Benton, Sept. 18-21. Fulton-- Canton, Sept. 4-7; Avon, Sept. 18-21. Gallatin-- Shawueetown, Aug. 28-31. Greene--uatroQbn, Oct. 16-19. Hancock-Carthage, Sept. 10-14; Warsaw, Aug. 21-24. Hardin--F" Aug. 7-10. Henderson--Bi, Henry--Kewanee, Sept. 3-7; < 31. Iroquois--Milford, Aug. U-K Carbondale, Oct. 8-12. Jasper--Newton, Sept. 11-14. Jefferson --Mount Vernon, Sept. IS. Jer­ sey. JerseyviUe, Oct. 9-14. Jo Daviaas--WaRSn. Sept. 18-22; Galena, Oct. 2*5. Kankakee--Kanka- kee, Sept. 18-21. K endall--Yorkvllle, Bant. U- -Petersburg, Sept., 16. Knox--Knoxville, Sept. 8-7. Lake--Wanka- gan, Sept . 10-15. La Salle--Mendota, Sept. ML' Livingston--Fairbury, Sept. St-T. Logan--IJneoln, Aug. 27-31. Logan--Atlanta. Sept. 4-7. Macoupin; --Carlinville, £ept. 4-7. Marshall--Wanona. Sept. 10-14. McIJonough--Bushnell, Aog. 91-M ; Macomb, Aug. 27-31. McHenry--B~ 18-21; Woodstock, Aug. 11-14. " ington, Sept. 11-14. Menard- 4-7. Mercer--Aledo, Sept. 1S-21. Montgomery --Hillaboro, Sept. f8-2l. Moultrie Sullivan,! Sept. 3-7. Ogle--Oregon, Sept. 18-21: BoohaUs. Sept. 11-14. Peoria--Dunlap, Sept. S-7., Perrv--Pinckneyville, Oct. 2-». Plait--Mon- ticello, Aug. 13-17. Pike--Griggs villa. Aug.: 14-17; Pittsfleld, Aug. 21-24. Pope--Golcottda,' Oct. 3-6. I'ulaski--Villa Bidga, Aug. »-31. Randolph--Chester, Sept. Biohland-- 0)n«y, state Fair, Sept. 24-30. Book Island--Pott Byron, Sept. 3-7. Saline--Eldorado. Aug. 20-24 Harriaburg, Oct. 2-5. Schuyler--BushviHe, Aug. 21-24. Shelby--Shelbyville, Sept. 1»-2L Stark--! Toulon, Sept. 11-14. St. Clair--BaQavilto.; Stophenson--Freeport. Sept. 3-7. Taaswall--. Mackinaw. Aug. 28-31; Delavan, Sept, 10-1.4. Union--Anna, Aug. 28-31; Jonesboro, Sept. 11-14. Vermilion--Hoopeston, Aug. 27-30; CatUB, Aug. 21-24. Wabash--Mount Carmel, Sept. 5-8. War­ ren--Monmouth, Sept. im. White--Carmi, Sept. 4-8. Whiteside--Morrison, Sept. 4-7; Al» bany, Aug. 28-31. Williamson--Marion, Sept. 25-28. Winnebago--BooItford, Aug. 87-31. Wood­ ford--El Paso, Sept. 17-21. Iroquois--Watsaka* Aug. 13-17. --The amount of drainage in this State, as it exists to-day, is so large that it wttt1 surprise any one who looks upon the fig­ ures given below. TAse figures are fur­ nished by the State Agent, from his of­ ficial report to be presented to the Stat* Legislature at its next session. The \mount of open ditches under the State drainage law is not yet known, but, so far as reported, their cost will amount to over $2,000,000, while the cost of tile drainage re­ ported to this date will reach the sum Of $18,000,000, and the length of the tileage drains exeeeds 700,000 miles. The coun­ ties Ih^it have put down the taost tils are <in the order named--McLean, Livingston, Champaign, Vbrmiliori, La Salle--ea& over twenty million feet, or four to five thousand miles. The list is given by counties, so that the reader may localix* the improvements and learn the length* laid down in each county: Countisa. Fast | Counties. Feet Adams 191,345 Livingston.... 33.297.404 Bond 8.84W Logan 8,14,165 178,524; Macon 14.SK.7U 1,282,983 Macoupin .... 1,890.231: 8,&4,38jtMadison -- " " 37,20J(Marion. 205,9.13 Marshall 3,441,389 Mason 20,G93,408'Massac 7,776,789, McDonough... 324,137 {McHenry 26,92#McLean 13,6&};Menard. 6.18 >,541 (Mercer 1,188,787 Monroe 507,665 Montgomery. 307,934, Morgan 8,336,080 Moultrie. 6,532,433 Ogle 10,028,332jPeoiia BOJUO Brown Bureau Calhoun Carroll Cass Champaign... Christian Clark Clay Clintoet. Coles Cook .... Ciawford Ciiiiitteriand. DoKulb DeWitt Douglas; Dupn^je Ed,jar Edwards...... Kdingham-- Fayette Ford. Fulton........ Gallatin Greene Grundy Hamilton.. Hancock Hardin........ Heudereon.... Hoary.... Iroquois. Jackson....... Jasper Jefferson. ..7.. Jorsey ...... Jo r>ayiess Johnson Kane.. .-...• Kunkakee. Kendall. ... Knox Lake........ La ShIIs ...... Lawrence..... Lee 904,363 4.093.675 2,868,030 Perry 12,488,576fPtgHr.-W Jt... 35,630; Pile 36,365i Putnam d,195;Randoiph 3»a69,07llBichland,..... 6,684,080 So4k Island.. 134,478;Salftle 1,^34,652, Sangamon 6,793,706 Schuyler. 1,740 Scott 968,479 Shilby 16,«U5|Stark 883,W7JSt. Clair 6,339,5'5'2 Stephenson .. 8,504,08 > TazeweU. $240 Union 473,a 4.40i,Q . 2,050,44ft, 6,510,9)8, i,40J &0«S.3« SJS,0l*7 3,313,771 « 7,134 wf.m 18,45* 8,461.388 1,487,560 499.67Q 3,318.457 4,805,084 372.779 76,623 9,006,758 58a 975,t»0 Vermilion 30.382.SM7 1,^76 Wabash 68,146! Warren. 3Vi24,\Y usbington.. 0501 Wayne > 4,463,A".) White S.TOO.w: Whiteside.... 6,105,00". Will 7,877, ;-81 Williamson... 5"J7,(W . Winnebago... a*6,9SS " m 12,338.315 90.3S1.4S8 Woodfoi 9S.5S5I 496,791 Total. 903,373 5.675.94S 10,315 41.027 ear>,8«u! S$4,76S> 11,662,850 363,466,890 --Governor E.. J. Oglesby and Judge J ames H. Matheney, of Springfield, wilt deliver addresses at the old settlers' re­ union of Piatt County, which will be> held Aog. 14 at tna fair grounds in Monti- cello. The old log cabin, the first house buiit in Piatt County in 1822, just northed tbe depot on the Wabash Road, has been taken to the fair grounds and will be on exhibition at tike reunion. It was erect­ ed sixty-six years ago by George Ha worth,, and the Kickapoo Indians assisted him ia building it. The building is twenty feet square and is made of hewn logs of oak and walnut. There ate two doors and a fire-place eight feet wide. The windows wete made by sawing holes two feet square in the logs. Many of the old clap­ boards and some of the chinking yet to- main as sound as when put there. --Between 3,000 and 4,000 people f twi . Chicago created such a jam and cnlsh at the doors and in the front hallways of the Joliet prison the other day that several women fainted away. A gang of pick­ pockets accompanied the excursionists from Chicago, and during the jam of people trying to get in and others to get out the pickpockets reaped a harvest ia. gold watches and pocketbooks. One old gentleman lost his gold watch in the crowd right outside the door of the War­ den's private office. Many ex-eonviota, among them the notorious Lesser Fried- berg, took advantage of the occasion to visit their old quarters, knowing that ia • such a crowd it would, be almost impos­ sible for the officers to recognise tbeak The oavse of such a crowd of going to Joliet was the annual a : fifty V" * Charles B. Man ford, of the Booth-Bar- j and picnic of the Court of Welcome 80- 1 g$tt combination, is the coining actor, ^ pi$tv of the Chicago Foresters. Is? , - *• iMi imst