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X.1MSLYKS. m ft ;.V T. fiAEHVK, the "Prince of Show­ men," linn given his granddaughter, Mrs. Henry P. Clark, $100,000 for the Jpturchase of m 7,000 acre plantation in the South. JOHN GBBKN, a Kentucky negro, is suing a number of wealthy farmers near Mnnfordvihe for $20,000 damages for " Kukluxing" him and driviDg him away ' from home. He ought to get every cent of it. . QTJEEN "VICTORIA does not share the Vftoneral opinion that the gift of an opal Is likely td'bring ill-luck to its owner, tihe lias presented each of her daugh­ ters, on her marriage, with a par ore of opals and diamonds. • HORACE SMITH, of Philadelphia, has •he largest collection of newspaper •dippings in the world. He began sav­ ing them'fifty years ago, and has items pn every conceivable subject, alphabet­ ically arranged and properly indexed. ; Is Cuba a woman never loses her maiden name. When married her hus­ band's name is added to her own^ but she is always called by her christian and maiden name. Children take the name of both parents, bnt place the mother's name after the father's. ' H. GRAFTON DKLANEY is the wealth- • lest youngman and considered the best "catch" in Washington. He is about : 30, and his yearly income from an En­ glish estate is between $80,000 and $90,- 000. Heisjsaidto make good use of his $1,500 a week, unostentatiously jpla^ing the part of the good Samaritan to a host of less fortunate relatives. F GHOOIIY KHAN, the new Persian-Min­ ister, says it is sol improbable that tho Shah may visit the United States, "if lie should reoeivo a. oourteous invi­ tation." Ool. Ghooly says that the Persians, in speaking of ~ America, Yang© (Turkish for new) Doon-ya (Per­ sian for world), the compound title bearing a striking resemblance in quick pronunciation to Yankee Doodle. ; A VISITOR who examined some town records upon Gape Cod furnishes this extract from an old sermon, preached about 17601, on a sin of wearing peri­ wigs: "Adam, so long as he continued in innocency, did wear his own hair and Mot a periwig. Indeed, I do not see how it was possible that Adam should dislike his dwn hair and therefore cut it, that so he might wear a periwig and yet have oontinued innocent." SULTAN MULEY HASSAN, of Morocco, Is a man about 45 years of age. He is a handsome man, with a calm, imposing manner. His eyes are more animated ; and show more shrewdness than those of most of his countrymen. He is fairly -fell informed on European topics, bat bis information is marred by frequent exhibitions of startling ignorance. Al­ together he does not appear like a man who is charged with deeds of the most revolting cruelty. THE people of Evanston, HI., have hit upon a device for rendering church sociables pleasant. Each person is given a card on which a dozen names are written, andas required to talk five minutes with everyone whose name is on the card. At the expiration of five /minutes af^bell is struck and a new part­ ner is Bought. By this plan wall flow­ ers are eliminated, everybody receives attention, .cliques are broken up and all go home liappy. A NEGRO entered an Americus, Ga., restaurant, and, laying down a dollar, said: "Give me a square meal and no change." The proprietor hustled aund to oblige so good a customer, but soon sickened of the bargain. The hungry man ate thirty-two links of sau­ sage, thirteen biscuits, half a dozen slices of fresh pork, and two fried mullets. He remarked as he left the restaurant: "I have been suffering from dyspepsia, and my appetite isn't very good.7' A RETAIL dealer, according to the Shoe and Leather Reporter, makes money by selling a dollar shoe at cost. He says: *1 sell a shoo that costs me $1 at the original price, and use it as a 'leader.' Then I mark my $1.25 shoes at $1.50, the $2 at $2.50, the $2.25 at $4, and the $2.60 at $5. See ? A customer wants to look at my low-priced grades; I show them, and bring out all my principal lines. Likely as not I per­ suade him or her to pay $3, and this ,, secures me a fair profit." ' • A SCION of the sewing machine Singer family will soon celebrate his coming of age in Devonshire with great state. Ho will produce "Faust" on a scale of ' lavish magnificence in a private theater. He intends to play the part of Mepliis- topheles in person; Mile. Tan Zandt gets 10,000 francs for coming specially from Paris to sing twice as Marguerite, _ and both Ij&farge and Mme. Trebelli will probably be in the cast. The Duo and Duohease Decazes, Mr, Singer's re­ latives, will help to do the honors. ALD. WHITEHEAD, the new Lord Mayors of London, Is a fan-maker by trade. He is, of course, wealthy, as the salary for Ms' year «f office, $50,000, will not suffice for more than half of his ex­ penses. The glories of the position are many. '•le Lord Mayor ranks and has the precedence of an English Earl during his reign of twelve months. He is addressed officially and in privato as "My Lord," and his wife ranks at court as a Countess. Oncaithe term is over they sink baok into plain "Mr." and "Mrs." and are no longer eligible for •<K>nrt functions. ACCORDING to a communication in the Hussion Courier from a cprtain Mr. Schendal, who visited Count Tolstoi at his estate of Jasulai Paullana, the no­ velist is at present occupied in building an incombustible "i&ha" (cottage) in place of the one burned down. The icha is small, but commodious. The roof is to be thatched straw. Count Tolstoi and Paul Ivanovitch were kneading clay in a large tub, into which a peasant woman was shoveling it. The Counts daughter was spinning string for binding the straw. All the party went in turns to get water from a well situated in an adjacent ravine. Every one was busy at work, and apparently very happy. IT is claimed that when forests are extensively cut, the denuding of the land interferes with the rainfall. It seems nevertheless that there is a cer­ tain compensation about the march at civilization. There are now 30,000 locomotives puffing around America. These engines, it is estimated, belch into the air no less than 53,000,000,000 cubic yards of vapor every week which must be returned to earth in the form of rain. All the other engines at work increase the total to 470,000,000,000 cubic yards and so it is expected that unless Keely's motor takes the place of steam, we will send up vapor enough to make a very creditable rainfall of our own. - -a' -- DCNCAN B. HARRISON, a rising young tank actor, at New York, has just re­ covered from an accident which nearly closed his promising career forever. While diving into his tank to rescue the heroine of the play he twisted his neck jin such a manner as to lay him up for many weeks and leave his head turned immovably toward his riget shoulder. But the doctors brought him through. A removal of a section of the spinal bone has restored the flexibility of his neck, tyid he is diving into the tank again. It is impossible to conceive of n more lofty devotion to one's art than that exhibited by Mr. Harrison. If its exponents will dedicate themselves to it as sincerely and successfully as he the ennobling tank drama trill not perish from our stage. THERE are all kinds of ways of mak­ ing a living, but one of the most novel modes of earning one's daily bread was illustrated by a man who called at a house at Koxbury, Mass. He announced his calling after this fashion : "Madame, every housekeeper has some odds and ends of no practical use to her that she would be glad to dilpose of, but does not like to throw awayv^Jjow', I am willing to buy any broken ordisused article that you may offer for my inspec­ tion." ' The lady addressed said she had nothing that she wanted to sell at that time, and he replied: "Oh, you must have something. Now there is a set of false teeth for which I paid 30 cents to one Of your neighbors!" Even this failed to draw out any favorable re­ sponse, and the man departed, perhaps to obtain a bargain in a wooden leg in some more favorable locality. CANON LIDDON was particularly pop­ ular with the undergraduates at Oxford. His gentle, sympathetic nature, bright wit, and keen, powerful intellect made him equally beloved and respected. A few years ago a large gray cat was a frequent visitor in the common room at Christ Church after hall, and when the dons^ were sitting before the table dis­ cussing their port, it would always creep up on Canon Liddon's knee and remain there quietly for the wholeof the even­ ing; the quiet, satisfied purring of the cai forming a qui'et accompaniment to ^he bright, witty conversation of the Canon. They formed a picturesque pair, the cat with its long, handsome fur and the Canon with his pale, refined face, and large expressive eyes, now gleaming with mirth, now flashing with enthusiasm, and at times softly glowing with pity as he related some sympa­ thetic story. The Inventor of the Circular Saw, In a lonely, secluded spot in the northwest corlier of the cemetery, near the ever-beautiful little village of Rich­ mond, Kalamazoo County, Mich., the readfer can find on a pure white marble slab, nearly concealed from view by a large cluster of lilac bushes, engraved the simple inscription, "Benjamin Cum- mings, born 1772, dead A. D. 1843." And who was Benjamin Cummings V He was the inventor of the circular saw now in use in this country and in Europe. Nearly sixty yeans ago, "at Burtonville, New York, and Amsterdam, this man hammered out. at his own blacksmith's anvil, the first circular saw known to mankind. He was a noted pioneer in Richmond; a first cousin to one of the Presidents of the United States; a slave owner in New York State; a leading mason in the days of Morgan, at whose table the very elect of the great State of New York feasted and drank freely of his choice liquors and wines; a vessel owner on the North River before the days of steamboats; a captain in the war of 1812, where, after having three horses shot under him, with one stroke of his sword, he brought his superior officer to the ground for insult, and be­ cause he was a traitor and a coward: and after having been court-martialed, instead of being shot, he was appointed Colonel in his place. In this lonely grave are the ashes of the mm s. 'io. nearly seventy years ago, at Aioany, N. Y., took up and moved bodily larg<- brick buildings, and, to the wonder and astonishment of the world, constructed a mile and a half of the Erie ('anal through a bed of rock, and, who also built, on contract, those first low bridges over the same. He also aided In tho construction of the first ten miles of railroad built in the United States, and founded both the villages of Esperence and Bostonville on the Schoharie, near Amsterdam. The study and aim of this man's life appeared to be to do that which none other could itccomplish, and when the object sought was secured, he passed it as quickly by as he would the pebbles of the seashore.--California Architect. ACCORDING to Dr. Howship Dickin­ son, a furred tongue is not necessarily an alarming symptom. To some per­ sons it is normal to have a clean tongue, , and to others equally normal to have a coated tongue, so that it is impossible to fix any degree or limit of coating as a j necessary f n<pr>n\jpiTiiwaBt health. v MR. POWDERLT'S REPORT THK CHIEF OF THK KNIGHTS SCORES CERTAIN I*ARTIES. of Ninrtran Tear* !• the Wmnm of Diacourafflngr and DlthMrtnlaf Clrcumstanrr-A--TIM Abolition offtoe-'. MNI Adviied, [Indianapolis (IndL) special] The twehth general assembly of the Knights of Labor was held in this city. Much routine work was done. The most noteworthy feature was the report of Gen- oral Master Workman T. V. Powderly, which, in brief, was as follows: To the officers and members ot the Oeneral As­ sembly: For nineteen years the order of the Knights of Labor has maintained an existence in tbe face of circumstances the most discouraging and din- heartening. Struggling forward in its infancy beneath a veil of eecreoy, it met with opposition from those in whose behalf it contended, i.ater on it laced the world as the advocate of justice for the poor, and found all nhn were enemies of the oppressed crnvyed aga nst it. In alt of theae . years it has had t<* brave the taunt* atul insult* of many whose interests it serv. d. tl»» adoption of the drclnra.ion o" principle, ten years ajjo, this order has had the opposition of all who despised thaiv principles, but the year whoso ending we witness at thinaeasrn has Ikwu tbe most trying find (liKoourat'i g t3 those whose wish was to see t.t.e harmonious blending of all classes of workers beneath the Kbield of knight­ hood. Manv causes combined to reduce the number of those who swore allegiance to the principles of the Knights of Labor. Their cir­ culation of false statements concerning the strength of tbe order drove away thousands who regarded quantity as being superior to quality in the roak up of the membership of a labor oganliatlon. When the rumor went forth from tbe enemies' quarters that the numbers wtre dropping down, those members, who looked to others for what they should do themselves, dropped out also. When the divergence of opin­ ion between the general officers beoame her­ alded b oadcast by those who always magnified, those members wOo lcoked for unity among the officers, instead of doing t Qeir duty by waiting un­ til they could rcplace those officers with others, withdrew from the order temporarily. The story, so often circulated and so wonderfully magnified, of ths extravagauce of the geueral officers frightened others, and they, too, stood still until this session would assemble. In tha ranks were men whose love of self predominat­ ed, whose selfish desires could not be suppress ed for the common weal, and on no occasion would they consent to sink self for the good of aU. The oft-told story of their grievances sickened and drove many from the order. With an executive board whose numbers were not in harmony with each oiher, who traveled irom juace to place denouncing their fellow- officers and condemning actions that they were not responsible for, it could not be wondered at that we have lost in numbers. The nnwiso strikes whi^h were entered upon against the laws and principles of th? Knights of I.abor swept thousands of our members into poverty and lorced t.ieni from the order. Add to all of those causes tbe campaign which has just closed in the United States, in which mem­ bers and assemblies wero pitted against eaoh other on a question which never was made a part of ihe declaration o principles, and on which tney could very well afford to differ with­ out diviJing on any point in the laws or rules of the order, and wo wonder not that there has been a falling otf, but that we have passeti through the crucial test with the ranks unbro­ ken as we find tbem to-dar. He states that these trials have resulted in good for the order, and denies anything like offi­ cial dishonesty, inviting a thorough examina­ tion of all books and accounts. Manychanoes are desired in the constitution, so aa to avoid the frequent, changes which are recommended at each session. He recommends tbe total aboli­ tion of sections which provide for th;< appoint­ ment and governing of examining organizers The law as at present framed is a . dead letter. An examination of sec ions vi and 23 will show that in addition to his other duties the General Master Workman is required to examine the statement of expensss us reported by the Gen­ eral Secretary." 'The treasury department should be held responsible for all monev passing through its channels, and the General Treasurer 8 loulrt be vest d with the Yisto power so far as delaying payment on bills, of wliidi he is in doubt, is concerned. At present he thinks the financial affairs are intrusted in too many hands. The responsible party should be in.rushed with toe management of the finances. After speaking of the high estimation In which the order is held by many outside of it, and showing the multiplicity of details he must look after, he continues: "We have been treats 1 to many a discourse during the past year on the subject of one-man power. The chief trouble with our order is because of the lack of one-man power. Our power has b ien divided in the paxt, and it has worked injury to us. The will of this - order crystallized into law. and imprinted upon the pages of our constitution by the representa­ tives here assembled sli uld be carried out to the letter. To do this tbe duty is assigned to one man 10 execute these laws. Wheie the many execute the laws themselves they always fail; where each man interprets the law for himself there is sure to be a babel of sound and confusion. Vest in one man the power to execute the laws which the many favor and pass upon; allow no interference with that man in the performance of his duties, and you may expect results. Al­ low every self-seeker, every knave, every dis­ turber and fault-finder to Interpret the laws, and we have anarchy pure and simple. A pandering to ignorance by some has given rise to the im­ pression that the man who railed against the one-man power was a friend to the masses. No greater mistake was ever made. The man who tells the people that they can all act inde­ pendent of each other on every issue that arises, and do it intelligently, is'a demagogue. No matter how intulligeut a people may be, they must meet to determine, not what one man wants, but what is best for all men. When they meet many cherished theories must give way to practical ideas, and when these are enacted into law and intrunted to the hands of one man for enforcement, every hand should bo stretched forth to aid that one man to carry out the will of all men rather than to have, as I have had, so many hands stretc ed forth to stay the work that your predecessors assigned to me. One man power is an absolute necessity in order to insure success, but those who confer that power should first know what power to give, and when the end of that man's term of office ar­ rives they should know whether he has wielded bis power in such a way as best to serve his constituents. If he has, accord to him the merit ot having done so; if not, then censure him, but do not censure him for not accomplishing results when the authority to do so was not placed in his hands, and when the power to tuw&rt his every move was delegated to others, who were sup­ posed to act in unison with him. Men have been p need in office with me with whom I would not lor a moment associate in a private business enterprise with any hope of success, yet for the Bake of the good that might follow silence, forbearance under such circumstances has been observed by me. Fancy the condition which the united colonies would have found themselves in had the first ten years of th > government of the United States ooen delegated to such men as I have described; and the interest of the 3,000,UW of that day were no greater than those which were placed in the keeping of tbe General Executive Board of the Knight s of I abor. Your General Master Workman realized full well his own incapacity to deal with the great questions which faced him, but it was not necessary to retard the progress of the order by placing an equal power in the hands of each member of the General Executive Board, and then expect the General Master Workman to aohieve the success so much de­ sired by all true knights." After remarking the influence of the order on public opinion, he takes up pending questions, saying; "The most important questions that en come before this body for consideration are those of finance, land, end transportation. Thase great questions are up before the people for dieenssion and solution; they must be settled by tbe peo­ ple, for it is not the interest of politicians to do so. Those wh» control our public highways ere reaching out with a hand of st< el to grasp and control the Government itself, and it is Indeed a battle for the supremacy. If the masses re­ main idle and ind.fferent the classes will rule through the power which conies to them through the banking, railway and land monopolies. It is, therefore, a duty which we should not neg­ lect, to select the sections wnich I have pointed out and place them prominently before our members for discussion. If we do our duty, and if the proper steps are taken, we can compel the campaign of 1B9^ to be fought out on these lines, and we. can so educate the people on these issues that they can discern for themselves the difference between the real friend and the sham when he presents hims if for the suffrage of the people." He recommends that a special committes of three be appointed te take up the matter. He advoca es concentration of en rgies on these questions, and further recommends the forma­ tion of junior assemblies for educating younger woefcing people. Matters of interest ohlefly to ~ irtfttntloa. •w mllHttMtmii a uli--m of the tune of holdi tec the tamt AsMmbtr, believing it comes tooeloeetotl>*election. He says: "Itmteht tappsn that to the neat pt a particularly excit­ ing campaign members would differ as to politi­ cal methods, and ill-feeling be engendered, bhouid our annual session be held in tbe tnlds^of tujh e contest or soon after ouo, it could not be productive of as mush good as ona held at a tinM when every trace oMhe excitement, anger, sod feeling of tbe oampagn had died away.* He advocates equal pay lor equal work tor worn- •n. The provisional committee is referred to as follows i -Scaroety had the gavel fallen on the last act of the Minneapo is session tlian traito s' hand* were raised to destroy what it had taken years of time and patient wor< to construct. The majority ot the las. convention were right; they legtsla ed as they SHW the necessity for it; they refused tp pass resolution wWch they were not in sympathy, at the close of the Otacral Assembly I Meet in? was held in toe city of Chicago with the avowed purpose of disrupting the whole order. At that meet ng it was resolved to organize what was called a'ProTisional Committee' for t1 e purpose of 'purifrina the order.' Decision No. 2.6, which is herewith presented for the a-1 ion of the Gen­ eral Assembly, deals with the question ot the rt®ht of a membor of the vProvis.onal Commit­ tee' t3 Tisit or otherwise meddle with an assem­ ble of Shis order. That decision should bs ap­ proved and a law passel at t'ais mreeling which would promptly and f never «vpei from the order the member who would engage in such dastardly work as was inaugurated at the meeting of the Chicago Provisionals. Reform 9 spring from noble impulses, bnt the Impulse which furth red the assembling of 'Provisionals' was bom in hate, nursed in enry. and grew to its present size in the hope that this groat order would one day be brought beneath the rule of men who do not possess the courage or manhood to properly rule themselves. No Lesitancy >uid mawkish senti­ ment should sway us at this session. Let ns onc« and forever put it beyond the power of any man to fight this order or its principles and re­ main a member. If they will tear down, let them tear from the outside, and let every true honest man in the order tako sides, and e ther go with those misguided creatures or stand firm and defend the order from their vile attacks. These attacks upon the Knights of Labor come from the persistent op­ position which has been shown to the idea of al­ lowing other organizations to control the Knights o: Labor. Do not misunderstand me, for I do not refer to trades unions. I once referre 1 to this matter at a meeting of this bodv. and my re­ marks wore twisted and tortured" to serve the purpose of designing knaves who attempted to play upon the feelings of trade union­ ists. 1 do not me an t rade unionists. Their cause and ours are one in the main. Tho orgnutzft ion of which your General Master Workman speaks is the International WorkineinenV Association, which p»Nt*i ret>«».utioi!s three years ago to secure the election of its trusted agents as general officers of the (<riier of the Knight of the I.abor. The proofs are In my possess o;i. The plans of these men met with but little success, and from that t ine to the present the members of that organi­ zation have secretly and untiringly worked for tbe mill of this order. There are * members of that sooiotv wbu live members of this, who do not favor the schemes of the warring factions of the International Worbingtuen's Association, but they aro few and far between, for tlose who are known are intent onlv On destruction. We had the misfortune to elect a man who was either a member or a sympathizer, to the General Executive Board, and he has at all times shown a preter- ence for the principles of that organization. An honest man would go with the society which claimed his alle.iance, but nu n who will deny the.r connection with other societies will not scruple to destroy the Knights of Labor it the opportunity piesents itself; the opj<ort.unity never presented itself, and they sought, to make it, and fai'ed. You may arcuae your General Master Workman of entertaining a bitter feal- ing for this element. If so. you are wrong; there is no bitterness, but there is a determlna- ion on his part to dr ve from the order every element of discord, if it lies in his power THE TREASURER'S REPORT. He Recommends Methods of Retrench ment--Interesting Statistics. [Indianapolis (Ind.) special.] General Treasurer Frederick Turner, of the Knights of Labor, in au itemized re­ port of the receipts And expenditures for the year ending J DM J and in a sup­ plementary report op to October 31, 1888, eays: The receipts from per capita tax, journal char­ ters, special defense assessments, appeals, and miscellaneous aggregate <07. Tne expend­ itures were #2*2-,597. including ¥7!t,0I':>donations, WW80 in salaries. 4>23,OM in printing, $l4.s»a) in mileage, and smaller items mi- paper, hotels, postage, railroad fares, badges, buttons, express- age, e.c. l or the four mouths covered in the sup­ plementary report the receipts were jSki.-im. and the exjwmlituros $1:4,926. In conclusion Mr. Turner says: "According to tbe receipts from tax, the membership has decreased about, 3<»o,u00 during the past fiscal year, and at tha present time the receipts are not sufficient to meet the necessary expenses. In my opinion a reduction of s?25,0u0 in the ex­ penses can be accomplished without detriment to the order, and therefore I recommend, first, the abolition of the mileage pay to representa­ tives; seeond, (hamiottunasf thaofllces of General Secretary and Generttf Treasurer; third, the reduction of the General Executive Board to not more than five members, less if possible. This, based upon the mileage and salaries paid last year, will reduce the expenditures as stated above." GENERAL SECRET ART'S BE PORT. The Membership Over AtOOO Lswl Assem­ bles. [Indianapolis (Ind.) special.] The report of J. W. Hays, General Secretary of tbe K. of L., gives a tabulated statement of the membership, showing 5,8 0 local assem­ blies in good working order, with a total re­ ported membership of '2.W.518, and not re­ ported. July 1, ls8/, tbe membership, according to tnis report, was 451,179, uLowing a lo s in one year of not less than l >3,761, tue exact num­ ber depending on the "not reported* member­ ship. CDP1D HAS^NO NATION. Maniag* of Miss Endicott mad Mr. Cham­ berlain--How the Bride and Mrs. Cleve­ land Were Dressed. [Washington (D. C.) telegram.] The marriage of Miss Mary Endicott to the Hon. Josaph Chamberlain, about whi<h so much has been read and talked, has been consummat­ ed. The ceremony was performed at St. John's Church and was witnessed by a large crowd of people, the nnbidden guests, as might have been expected, far out­ numbering those to whom Invitations had been extended. President and Mrs. Cleveland were in attendance, the latter wearing a handsome walking-dress of stone-gray velvet with steel paasenteuteri .s aud a vest of white silk. Three large La France roses were worn on the left of the corsage. A white bonnet with aigrette of ostrich tips completed the costume. i; " £ me PAsnr. jg<u|jpij 'i, [Yankee Blade.] A Imndrptl pr two vears ago consid­ erable fear was entertained by certain philosophers and astronomers lost the earth should run into a oommet arjfft be destroyed, or, at least, be rentleraft un­ suitable for tho further resitl^ioo of men. There aro astronomers to-day punted. The human skulls are those who have been killed and eaten.. The daintiest dish here is man, and it is considered that only fools refuse and despise it. In tbe Inst court there are the same kinds of ornaments, and then on a screen with curiously formed things of wood and native cloth hang­ ing on it: also, sibis (their own cloth-. ? ninrois NEWS BI day, and the earth will freeze up solid, liko a great terrestrial iceWrg. and whirl, a frozen clcxl; through a universe of endless night. There are other weeping J eremiahs among our modern prophets who arc very much afraid that tlie world's supply ofjfuel will give out. The forests of the world, they say, are bein belonging to those murdered, which have been presented to the gods. Before and After. The most casual observers have nc difficulty in detecting the young mar­ ried couple of a few months from the manner in which thev coadr.^t thera- selves, in almost every case it is Hie AND INCIDENTS THAT - ' XaATEL.!' OCCURRED. ' ing very rapidh cut off, and our e~al. tnan whose manner shows, so clearly pplv cannot la-t forev^. There are 1 that he w" - - - - other philosophers who, like Malt hue, are very much worried for fear the w orld is not large enough to hold the people who are sure to be born in the course of time. Nature's supply, they say, will not equal the tremendous de­ mand, and in some future era people must starve because the world will be too small to raise sufficient food for them. But philosophers have always treated good mother errth with tremendous un­ fairness. The good mother always lius some undiscovered pocket in which she stores • ho runs may read, whether he has been married a month or a year. I once rode half a day on a steamboat with a young couple on their weddipg trip, and during the whole time 1 do not think they exchanged halif a dozen sentences, but simply sat and half- shyly held each other's hand. The beauty of the scenery, although we were ou the magnificent Hudson, made no impression upon them, and I could not help speculating on the future of this couple when once they became tired-of holding each other's hand, and wondering what resource would be left , n. , to two young people who had no eom- her goodies to meet her children's munity of thought or feeling. wants. When her larder apparently | If you see a mau carefully gives out there is some liigher shelf dis­ covered in her capacious pantry, where she snores away provisions tor her children. No one now is afraid of the earth coming in collision with a comet In fact, it is quite possible that the earth has passed right through a number of comets without knowing it. Comets that we cannot feel ure not te be par­ ticularly dreaded. As to the sun burning itself out and leaving the world an iceberg, the best astronomers say this cannot happen for 10,000,000 years. We need not worry for our remote great-graudcliildren of that far away era, for a great many new I th« ocder oomr in for a good sous of i m. xva iota, CHAXBEBLAIV. Mrs. Endicott and son occupied the front pew, and near them Sir. and Mrs. Cleveland and the Cabinet. No foreign notables were present. Miss Endicott looked very handsome in a traveling dress of French grav Henrietta cloth, fas.donod with an elegant simplicity, tbe color of the gown showlnc off to perfection her styli-ih figure and heightened color. Over a plain skirt the so.t ma­ terial was arranged in effective drapery. The tlgh(-fitting basque was finished in front with a full, soft fold of surah of tbe same color, which ormed a scarf-like vest, over which on the right side was a broad revcrs of the silk in "Dlrec- toire" style. A bunch of velvet of a darker shade with open work cut steel trimming on the left side, and bows of white Ottoman ribbon. Miss Endicott carried in her left hand three per­ fect Puritan rosebuds tied with white ribbon. Mr. Chamberlain wore a boutonniare of double white parnia violets. from the ofturch the wedding party drove to the residence of tha Secretary of War, where a wedding breakfast wai served. This was at­ tended by the Pres dent and Mrs. Cleveland, members of the Cabinet, and relatives of the faimly. Short!v thereafter the bridal party left on tne nor„h-bbund train. They »ill return to Washington, and then, after a few days, sail for Europe. Mr. Chamberlain has been twice a widower. In 1851, at 2.) years or age, wbon still with his father, whom ho had joine I in 1854 in the wood screw manufacturing business at Birmingham, and before he bad ac ieved a name aa even a local celebrity, he married Harriet Kenriek, a daughter of Archibald Kecrick, of Borrow Court, Edgbaston. His first wife died fn 1863. < Five years after he married Florence, a daugh- I t r of Timothy Hebne. of Maple Bank, Edgbas- I ton, who died in 1H75. Mr. Chambt riant is I a native of London, where he was born years i ago. Miss Endicott has not crossed the meridian ' of the second decade of her life. Miss End cott, ' who is a young lady of distinguished feature and fom, on her fathers side comes down through more than two centuries i and a half of Puritan deaeent from the Gubernatorial settler of Salem, in Massa- I ehusetts Bay, and ou her mo her'a side ! has the blood of tbe ancient end (Ustin- i oulshed Salem Peabodys. Miss Endicott has ' had all the advantages of Bos on culture, hhe is skilled in the feminine social arts, and will grace the surrounding < of bar husband, whether at No. 40 Princess Garden, in the arlstocratla section ot the British metropolis, Moor Green, the Bf tinguUhed British shelves will be discovered in Mother stroll out together at all, the chances Nature's pantry before that time; for are that he will be two feet ahead of his in 10,000.000 years our learned and highly developed descendants will have found some way of getting along with­ out the sun. Perhaps by that time they will have found means of emigration to some other solar system; and so when their own sun goes out they can l>orrow the sun of some neigh boring universe. At any rate, we will look out for our own needs and not worry abont their af­ fairs. ' As for poor Mai thus, who was afraid the world was hot big enough, he seems to have been needlessly alarmed. He had never made many trips of discovery into Mother Nature's pantrv. It is said that the population of tLe whole United States could be crowded into Toxas, and then the State would not be so thickly settled as Belgium. In fact, it is said that even in Belgium, where- the people are packed in almost like sardines in a box, the country is capable of supporting a much greater number. It is said that certain gardeners in the suburbs of Paris can raise from an acre of ground as much as a New En­ gland farmer can get from forty acres. By the use of chemical fertilizers, by artificial irrigation, by concentrating the active rays of the sun by the use of glass, the earth can be made almost a hundred-fold more prolific than it has been given credit for. Man has never properly estimated the true value of a pound of soil. The oommon dirt under our feet, considering its possibilities which have probably not yet been half discovered, is precious as gold dust. Nature's pantry is deep and high, and her children have not found uie top shelf by any means. As to the world's supply of fuel be­ coming exhausted, we will not worry. There is a tremendously big fire in the center of the earth that burns inces­ santly as the fire of the old vestal vir­ gins. In fact, the world is an immense egg of fire, with a very thin shell upon the outside upon which we stand. After our fuel supply lias given out we will bore througli the shell and lioil our tea­ kettles and cook our breakfasts by the blasts from Vulcan's own smithy in the nnder world. A Watch-Spring Bey. A boy is sometimes like a piece of iron, which, in its rough state, is not worth much, nor is it of very much use: but the more processes it is put through the more valuable it becomes. A bar of iron that is only worth $5 in its nat­ ural state, is worth $12 when it is made into horse-shoes. After it goes through the different processes by which it is made into needles, its value is increased to $350. Made into penknife blades it would be worth $3,000, and into bal­ ance wheels for watches, $250,000. • But the iron has to go through a great deal of hammering and beating and tolling and jw>lishing to increase its value; and so if j-ou are to become use­ ful and educated men, you must go through a long course of study and training. The more time yon spend in hard study of good and useful things, the better material you will make. The iron doesn't have to go througli half so much to be made into horse shoes, as it does to be converted into delicate watch springs; but think how much less valu­ able it is! Which would you rather be, liorse-slioe or watch-spring? Now is your time to choose your course, and to prepare for manhood. Do not think that I would have you settle down to hard study all the time, •without any in­ tervals for recreation; not a bit of it; a boy who stndites himself to death is of no use. I like to see boys have a good t ime, and I should be verry sorry to see yon grow old and feeble before your time; but you have ample opportunity for study and play, too, and I don't want you to neglect to study for the sake of play.--Christian Advocate. - _ly adjusting a sunshade for a lady at his side, or stooping to pick up her handkerchief or pay her any of the little attentions so dear to the feminine heart, you are pretty safe to say that it is before mar­ riage, and he is trying to win the affec­ tion which six months after marriage he will by no means trr so anxiously to keep. That couple before yon who are strolling so leisurely along, the lady leaning affectionately on the arm of her companion, while he stoops with fond­ ness and gallantry of courtship to catch her lightest word, depend upon it, are only engaged, or at best recently mar­ ried. A year after marriage, "if they A Cannibal Mansion. There are two large posts in front, eighty feet high, on which rests the large peaked shade, around which there hangs a graceful fringe of young sago leaf. The front is about thirty feet wide, and the whole length of the house is 160 feet, tapering gradually down to the back, where it is small. One com­ partment is about twenty feet high and ten feet broad. The front is a common platform, floored with the outer skin of the sago palm, and kept beautifully clean. The whole it divided into courts, with divisions of cocoanut leaves, nine feet high, on which hang various figures, not at all good looking. From the top of the oocoanut leaves hang graceful curtains of the young frond of the sago palm. Standing on the plat­ form in front and looking down the whole length along the passage or hall, with their various divisions and their curtains, it has a wonderful effect. In each of the courts are numerous skulls of men, women, wife, and she will certainly not be on sufficiently familiar terms with him to take his arm. This is quite as often the fault of the wife as it is that cf her husband. From the very first let your husband see that you expect and demand respect, and the chances are you will get it. Be as good a wife as you please, and study the comfort of your lord with tender oare and thought, but do not wait on him hand and foot, or he will soon take .your loving service as a right, and you will not get even a servant's thanks for it. We do not say this of all men, but almost any man may be made such a one by a slavish course of treatment. It is a tiresome fact to reflect upon that one is obliged to train and disci­ pline one's husband, bnt it is neverthe­ less a fact that must be looked squarely in the face. You have not even the ad­ vantage that you have with children of beginning young. Self-restraint is something that both sides must practice if they would have a pleasant home life. It is a gr^at mistake to serfeit a man with domesticity in his early married life. A young wife should not insist on her husband giving up all his male friends and all the pleasures 6f his bachelor life. Keep your place as the companion of your husband, but do not forbid him all other companions. One's dinner if composed of all sweets would be hardlv satisfactory. If you find by experience that your husband is apt to be a little cross on re­ turning home from business do nothing to ruffle or annoy him, and do not attach too much importance to any little sharp speeches to which he may give utter anoei-- Western, Plowman. QAbout iiloves. -are buying kit! member that there is such a thing as a price that is too cheap. It is best to pfty a good price and get the good gloves that go with it. Examine the stitches to find places where the thread has broken through the leather, stretch the seams, aud if the threat pulls away, leaving a white spot, don't get the gloves. The leather should stretch easily to make a good fit and to wear welL Mend a tear in the leather by work ing a button hole stitch around the edjges, and then draw them together neatly. The evidences of repair will hardly be noticed. When gloves need cleaning it is better to send them to some reputable shop where such work is done. But if you must doit yourself, fo j black gloves put a few drops of the bent black itak in a teaspoonful of olive oil, apply with a feather and dry in the sup. Benzine will clean white gloves, but it will hardly do for other colors. Corn meal, dry, will do for light gloves that are not much soiled. AVhen at the theater, do not let your light gloves come in contact with the ink on the pro­ gram. If you are about to buy a cheap pair of kid gloves, change your mind and ouy cashmere gloves instead. They look better than the cheap kids, will wear longer, and are always in style, besides Jtieing warmer. Fleece lined kid mit­ tens are the most comfortable for out­ door wear in winter. To keep the sur­ face of your kid gloves looking well, when you take them off, smooth them out lengthwise until they have about the same outline that they have on your hand, and put them in a dry place. If the gloves are rolled together into a wad, the surface will soon present an unpleasing appearance.--Good House­ keeping. • iim A Halfpenny Post for England. It is said that the "Halfpenny Pots Company" has secured a concession from the Postmaster-General -which will bring a private trading concern into competition with a public department. There are used in this kingdom 170,- 000,000 of post cards annually, and the new competitive scheme is to issue a halfpenny stamped envelope with note paper attached. The arrangement is in­ genious, and the idea of the inventor is that the public will jump at the con­ cealment thus offered, the contrivance being, in fact, a closed letter at the price of a postal card. It seems that, under this system, the penny stamp it- Self may l>e cornered to the embarrass­ ment of the department, but Mr. Kaikes, who has approved the subject with an actuary's calculation, estimates that a saving will be made to the nation of over £350,000 per annum. A feature of the halfpenny letter will be a side for advertisements, and, by the way, it will be sold by private venders, such as stationers and newsmen. PARSON--I am astonished, sir, to heai a man with three married dangliters say that "marriage is a failure." Citizen-- Well, sir, when you have three families and children, croco- 1 besides your own to support, you will A* lafntllt >wwmary the KM* portent Doisgt of Oar Xelghbeu Wsii l̂agt sad Psathi -- Crimes, sad General Hew* Notes. » THE Gil A ST HONT7MKJTT. ( --Potter Palmer. William E. Strong and E. T. Taylor of Chicago, members of the* Board of Trustees who have in charge the erection of a monument to Gen. Oral,, went to Cincinnati, Ohio, their being to view ana. pnss u^oii the model in clny which has been exe The model, which yis more than life-size. shows the General in full uniform astride his horse, reins loosely held in one hanA and a field-glass in the other. The fea-t tures of the dead hero are perfect. Two' months ago when Col. Fred Grant was in. Cincinnati the head had been completed. ,5> and he declared it was an absolute likeness v of his father. The hoTse stood firmly bdt 3 ecsily and n at malty on his four feet. Tha animal showed life nnd strength in every line, even as the noble heto astride his . back shotted thoi soldier. The trusleas were doligfcted with the work, and at once accepted the model. Gen. Strong says that it will be probably in tho early part ot 1S90 before the statue will be anveiled. The statue, which will be of bionze, will fade south, the head of the rider turned slightly to tbe left. From the plinth upon which the horse rests to the top of tha rider's hat the height is sixteen feet and ; two inches. The height, including the; pedestal, is abont forty-six feet. It will; be east at Chicopee Falls, Mass., aad . preparations for the groat mold are B1«s ready progressing. ~ ' v » ERCAPKP MritDWIRBa. --Henry Theatreau, alias "Paddy," aliaa : Frod Leland, who cruelly nrardered Mail- V carrier John E. Kilfoyla v. a saloon a* ' Halsted street, Chicago, u still at laqffe Theatreau is only M yomm aid, tat kfks v a long criminal reeord, bagnn In Nov ' York, which he claims M his natlrs Stated As Fred Leland he waa a prolegs ot m . smooth and daring gang of ootntoffoitei«,| headed by Arthur Webster, aliaa Gooiga, Ellis. He was than known aa tha tag * counterfeiter and shover. Latav fcown* the partner of John E. Clark and David •. Arado, alias "Bats." Theatreau, when . only 17 years old, served a terdk tor ooon- terfeiting at Cincinnati. In June, 1881,1 - ^4 he was sent to Chester for the same offsnaa. •. Tbe Desplaines street police district, in '"'"J Chicago, has been singularly unfortunate ̂ in its records of murder of late. Taseott, who is believed to have murdered Million-* , || aire Snell on Feb. 8 last, is tha most in- . ' teres ting alleged murderer atlarge fmftj. ; thai district. Samuel B. Smith, vktll '. • < murdered his wife with a shotgnn on A4M aras street in November, 1885, has doa» - v as well as Tsscott in keeping out of the * ̂ way. Some believe that Smith took ; * own life, but of this there has never tilife ^ proof. The murder by highwayman aC| *r> Fred S Chun emaxi, in the alley in the mar, • ̂ of the Snell residence last August, is still puzzling the police. Taseott, •" % Theatreau, and Schuneman's unkliownl murderer all did their work in that ana' ̂ small district. & There is no need to go as fkr baek aa; ̂ the Amelia Olson mystery at the artesisa wells to find a list of crimes the authors of which have never been brought t6 jm-; tico. The last two years will show a long: list. The ruffians who, on the night of ' the 2d of last April, murdered Watchmen . Kreigh and Dan Brassel on a Chicago and Alton train, near Twenty-second street, are still unpunished. - 4^ In February, 1886, Jack I/awler ahot^ Edward Murphy dead, at the brick-yards in the northwestern part of Chicago, an# 1,,- , has since successfully eluded arrest. Charles, alias "Monkey" Higgins, a well- known criminal, who killed Pat Monahan near Stewart avenue and Barber street, •' in September, 1886, escaped, and has never been retaken, although it is said he •••h has paid frequent visits to Chicago nnea A that time. * y In the same district a few weeks ago> Isaac Epstean was found dead, having been drowned in a bucket of water. It was undoubtedly murder, bnt tha murder­ er has not been caught. On July 2, 1887, John Healy of 9811 Hickory street was firing off a pistol to tha great annoyance of his neighbor, Ferdi­ nand Pommeranz, whose child was dying. When Pommeranz remonstrated, Healy. turned the pistol on him and shot M** dead. He has never been captared. On July 3, 1887, John Orkner, a baker,, was stabbed and killed almost instantly, in front of 211 Division street, by one of a gang of hoodlums. The murderer ee-i caped. Less than a year ago a woman died! from the effects of a beefing administered' by her eon. The son escaped, and haa< never been found. The cases above givenj are only picked up casually, and upon! careful, investigation the records would! ' undoubtedly show an increase in the nun-i ber of Chicago murderers at large. . 1 --The Cairo office of Train Diepstotarj George W. Hatter of the Illinois Central! Bailroad, has been visited by hundreds oil people. A large deer swam the Ohio' from Kentucky and jumped into the office* through the plate-glass in the front door,' driving Mr. Hatter and his operators onft.{ The book remained in possession nntffi killed by Mr. Baker. --Annie Seubert, of Galena, and Bev.' F. Brinkman, of Lamour, Dakota, ve«a| married in Galena. --Hyde Park residents are alarmed fun" the fact that two handsome residences o*} Woodlawn Park were entirely oonsnmed,, together with their contents, oaring to in-' efficient work -by the fire department.! The loss on both structures was $13,600, and the occupants had barely time to<aa-| cape. | --The postofflce at Hyde Park was en-< tend by two thieves, named M. T. and C.1 H. Dougherty, aged 25 and It years, ia* spectively, end cash, stampfe, checks, and money orders to the amoant of $400 wewi taken. Later in the day the robbers wasn arrested, and the yonnger of the two eon : fessed to the robbery. The missing artM cles and money were recovered. J --Mayor Boldenweck has vetoed ttej Bavenswood ordinances, whioh provided for the macadamizing of certain stints tat Bavenswood by special assessor ••if ^ » " ttlshmeiropolhk,otat HWhlwiT diles and bears, also manv beasts of the learn tliat marriage is positive bank- , tha around that tbe assessments ar« M»riagamfcsmeat^«» ^ <wrv8d and many rupfa^-^otoeH «aid in five annnal installments.