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|wnf» INamtlwrtet J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and PuWIslw. JfcicHENRY, ILLINOIS. Among modern ind entions is named a bird's wing of diamonds with the least .possible setting of gold visible. " » T ^ Two CONVICTS have died in the Con- [ ' '-^ifcord, Mass., reformatory from drinking 5' '%leoho;ine, a preparation jsed in the s" %hoe shop. BKTTING on the rainfall has been ear- led on to such au extent in India that |he Government has passed an act for- tridding it. --• ̂ , IK 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa grossed the Isthmus of Panama, and fjtiscovered the Pacific Ocuan at meet bv sewing on overalls that pay 75 eenta, shirts 60 cents, rests 95 cents, trousers $3, flannel shirts $1 a dozen. They are obliged to find their own thread for the overalls and shirts and carry the work to and from the shop. If they take a BtrceS -ear-e&e-teath ef their earnings is gone. "IN New Mexico the total number of cattle is 1,810,000, valued at £25,000, 000; horses, 80,750; burrows, 41,500; mules, 5,180. The number of yearling steers that can be shipped during 1891 is 360,000. Sheep to the number of 698.500 are for sale and leady for ship tnent. In Arizona there are 41,281 horses, 2,317 mules, 837,500 cattle and 4,945 hogs. %est of America. V THE institution of Fast Day is of t i>^ery ancient origin. In the time of •{ r Christ fast days were numerous, any- - A jfrhere from two to five in a week. HENRY KRAMER, a lineman, recently Received an electric shock at Louis­ ville, Ky., and has become hopelessly Insane, believing he is pursued by an electric ghost. VIRGINIA, Nbrtli Carolina, and Ten­ nessee raise an average of 2,970,000 bushels of peanuts a year. The annual value ot the crop averaged $2,500,000 for the last four years. A RUSSIAN civil official reports to the government that in January he saw a the j pack of wolves estimated to number J 2,000, and that half an hour later he saw another pack about 500 strong, all Beemingly in good condition and pre­ pared to devour anything eatable which might come handy. He adds, as a sort of an apology for making the report, that he was up a tree whe^ he saw the wolves. THE coasters of the Fiji Islands will not eat until they can sit flat upon the ground directly over a triangle made of three small fish bones; then they handle the food with the left hand. A BOSTON wigmaker says that the bulk of the hair used in this country for wigs and switclioi is imported from Fiance and Germany. This hair is less brittle and lasts longer than the hair of New England women. THERE is very little ebb or flow of tide in the Arctic, but occasionally there are xery strong currents. All winter there is a general flow of tido and ice toward the south, while,in summer this flow is northward. Foil mauy years it was believed that "the atmosphere had a great deal to do with thread-making, and that good thread could only be made iu Scotland. It is now known that it is all in«the twist •and nothing in the atmosphere. "THERE we women in this pj^ce who flirt on the street when they ought to be at the wash-tub," said a preacher at Daleville, Pa., and during the week nearly every single woman in town called .on him and said it was none of his busi­ ness. He was hitting at only two. THE other day a philanthropic lady found the following appeal among her susual grist of begging letters: "Dear Madam--Will you help me to get a po­ sition as teacher, to support myself and two little ones ? Also tell me where I «can buy a parrot 1 year old." IT is authoritatively stated that the electrical underground railway in Lon­ don has proved that a speed of twenty- four miles an hour is practicable. There are bills before the House of Commons from many other British cities for rapid transit Tailwaya on the same plan. ' A YOUNG man with small feet was the last person to leave a friend's house after a social entertainment in Lewis ton, Me. The only pair of rubbers that he could find proved to be badly matched --a No. 6 and a No. 11^. He wore the small one, and the other still awaits a claimant. IT has been calculated that the elec­ tromotive force of a bolt of lightning is about 3,500,000 volts, the curreut about 14,000,000 amperes and the time to be one-twenty thousandth part of a second. In such a bolt there is an energy of 2,450,000,000 watts, or 3,284,182 horse­ power. A SYRACUSE street car horse which got into the habit of kicking was tied in a stall and a bag arranged for him to practice on. He begau at 7 in the morning and kicked until 11:35without a let up, and then, broken-hearted and disguested with man's ways, he fell on his side and yielded up his life. A NEVADA paper wants convicted mur­ derers dropped into the shaft of a mine in that State which is 896 feet deep. It says that a person falling will lose all •consciousness after descending 400 feet, and the death to be found at the bottom ot the shaft will be entirely painless and without any chance of bungling as on a gallows. THERE are no less than five discov­ eries aside from Koch's for the cure of •consumption, and all by reputable phy­ sicians, and proved of value, and it is predicted by medical men that within ten years consumption wilf hardly be known in the civilized world. The •discovery made by a Detroit physician ranks, in the professional mind, almost on a par with Koch's. ON Feb. 8, 1862, the island of Roanoke in North Carolina was taken toy the United States troops under .Major-General Burnside. Roanoke Island, the scene of Sir Walter Raleigh's original colonization scheme, was the key to all the defense of. Norfolk. "It unlocked two sounds, eight livers four canals, and two railroads." IN England's large cities after the holiday seasons the shops all hold what are called "Rnmmage Sales." In New York similar sales are held, but in one of the great stores the much-tumbled, much-marked down articles are put on an immense table and marked "Odd­ ments." Women hang over them day in and day out like bluebottles over molasses. We do lore to get much for little in this world. SUPERSTITION controlled many of the actions of Heinrich Schliemann, the great German traveler. It was a rule of his to always pull on the right leg of his trousers first; and he believed that if he chanced to unwittingly reverse the process, bad luck was certain to attend him on the day when he did so. He would pause half an hour on his way rather than walk under a ladder, and he invariably ate his boiled eggs from the small end. AN old soldier of the Massachusetts Thirty-fifth Regiment gives the follow­ ing advice regarding cold feet: "At one time while I was stamping on the ground, in the eflort to warm my ex­ tremities, a comrade in the same regi­ ment said to me, 'If your feet are cold try this.' Ho raked his foot from the ground, and struck some light blows with his hands on the upper part of his leg, just above the knee. I did the same with both legs, and instantane­ ously felt a flow of warm blood cours­ ing downward, and the feet Boon be­ came comfortably warm." THE court in Algiers has acquitted a ma^ who murdered his wife on the mere suspicion of her infidelity, it being adjudged that she had conducted her­ self with enough unwarrantable freedom to excite bis* spirit of vengeance. M. Omessa, the murderer, a Corsican by birth, and an Algerian journalist by profession, was told that his wife, also a Corsican,. had been receiving atten­ tion from an army oflicer. On coming home he accused his wife and she de­ nied his charges, but admitted that she had "beeu to see the man," whereupon lie shot her, and, rushing to the officer's house shot him. His acquittal was loudly applauded by tfre goodpeopWof Bona, the city of his deed. A PRETTY Btory about the good heart of the young Emperor of Germany is going the rounds of the court circles of Berlin. During a recent dinner at the house of Herr von Kotze, Master of Cer­ emonies at the Imperial Court, Count Eulenbe^ told his Majesty of a young music teacher in Carlsbad who had lost her piano in the late flood. The girl was poverty-stricken by her loss, as the piano was her only means of earning her daily bread. The story touched the kind nature of Emperor William and he at once proposed to take up a collection for her benefit. Placing 100 marks on a plate, he passed it arounl the table and quickly secured enough money to purchase the young woman a new piano and to give her a fresh start in life. It is needless to add that the young woman is now a "schwaermerin" for his Maj- esty. THE WESTERN FARMERS. AMQ'CMSR GOVERNOR BROUGHT DOWN BY FACT3.FE That Unfortunate Reform Club Banquet "to i'ofk Onee More--A ItiscnDun Writer Who Knows More About Iowa than Her Governor Tells a Lot of Tariff Truths. The Reform Club Jubilee In New York, held in December to celebrate tho Demo­ cratic victory in November, continues to return to plague tho inventors. The merciless exposure of tho misstatements of Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts, about tho industries of this State, has com­ pelled absolute silence on his part and on the part of the newspapers which sus­ tain him. If tne mortification of our people over his fouling of his own nest were not moro than counterbalanced by their prtfe in tho prosperity which he belied, they would have hard Work in pardoning his speech even as a "youthful indiscretion" or an "ebullition of calam­ ity politics." There may, however, be consolation for him in the adage that "misery loves company," for Gov. Boies, of Iowa, "put his foot in it" also; but from a political economic standpoint, this only adds to the offense. The loun state Register prints the following pointed letter from Mr. F. B. Norton, of Burlington, Wis:, who is a recognized authority on economics, and especially in statistics of productfon, trade and transDortation. Although it appeared several ̂ weeks since, Iowa's Governor and his friends have.remained as silent under the condemnation of truth as have their friends in Massa­ chusetts: BURLINGTON, Wis., Dec. 30. I notice that the Hon. Rogor Q. Mills was unable to speak at the recent free trade AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. an acre*bf clover, and raises the best* hogt in the State for S cents a pound, and lhat, too, on sandy land which an Iowa farmer would not take as a gift If Governor Boles would call the most progressive farmers of ! ITEMS GATHERED PROM VARI-- the State together in farm Institutes, as we do in Wisconsin, he could learn some points not laid down in the free trade pamphlets. But possibly ho. like our JVLsconsin Demo­ crats, opposes farm institutes on the ground that, the diffusion of knowledge is "agin the party." The Iowa farmers who have worked their farms &s systematically as the Free Trade League has "worked" them, have made money. In hogs Iowa leads every other State In the Union: in milch cows It is a clo^e second; in horses It ranks third in number and sec­ ond in value. Her growth In dairying has been phe­ nomena!, and her dairy products pay less freight to New York than did those of New England thirty yoars ago. Tho fact that Iowa baa only 500,000 sheep and has made little gain during the past ten yoars, is wholly due to the gigantic frauds in our revenue and tho pc.slstent attacks on the wool tariff by Grover Cleve­ land and his- followers, ltut for this Iowa would now have 1,900,000 sheep, ami there would be no complaint that fanning did not pay. As it is now, since the frauds have been stopped and the McKinley bill passed, there is not a farm of 160 acres in Iowa that canuot clear $1,000 a year in raising sheep, in addition to the other revenue of the farm. Tho "straight and narrow1' sheop path la the only road to heaven for the poor grain grower. Governor Boles asserts that a tariff on farm products cannot help the farmer. But it helped us in 1888, when it kept tho specu­ lators from crushing our market with 10,- 000,000 bushels of Manitoba wheat* So the' duty on barley, malt, tobacco, wool, pota­ toes, poultry, eggs, etc., is worth millions of dollars to our farmers every year. No States are moro directly Interested than Iowa and Wisconsin, for free trado would shut us out of the Eastern trade during some years. As it is, we have shipped over 600 cars of potatoes to Neiv York City from a single village in Wisconsin, and th« OUS SOURCES. KKCIfBOClTT BKAB1MO FRUIT. THIS W'U.BE CHA'nctp: The Umr«» S*»Tts enAi't * 7ftO00.cw> .<-> ONU' pwr L«rce •T- J-Buu. CORK SUCK wrji? fcl , President Harrison--Fair exchange, Mac. Brazil, is all we ask. will be pleased to take your order. ' jh • ' My secretary glorification banquet in New York City, having worn out his throat in preaching British free trade in Wisconsin, at $200 per night, during the late campaign. But his place seems to have been made tood by Governor Boies, of Iowa, whose speech was mainly a repetition of tho plausible Actions and standois of the windy Roger Q. Iowa is a farming State, and if your farmers de­ sire to follow Governor Boies down Into the dismal swamp o&Uriusli free trade, I should be glad to seo them learn a few lessons in that school of experience, if it could be done without ruining tho best industries of Wisconsin and other States. I have read his speech as reported, and cannot find in It a single statement portaining to our In­ dustries that ho could prove iu any court of justice. Ho covertly drags in the old slan­ der that tho tariff is filched from the con­ sumer and given as a bonus to the manu­ facturer. No\y, Mr. Mongredlen. an English writer for the Cobdoix Club, ridicules and repudiates this idea that the tariff is a bonus to the manufacturer. Mo rightly argues that if this were so, men would leave all other industries and rush into protected employments. In other words, if it had been true, as,all American free-traders' have tolcL/tts, ~4hut vhe maker of steel rails pocketed a bonus of 817 per"'ton, Grover Cleveland, Roger Q. Mills. Governor Bois and other free-trade leaders would have tumbled over each other in their zeal to buy stock in Bessemer works. Why, then, do our American free-traders continue to make this assertion, which they know to be falser1 Simply to lire tho popu­ lar heart end get .votes. Simply because slandering tho rich and arraying thi poor against them has always been an easy way to win tho rabble. Like the venders of cheap whisky, who, finding the puro article too expensive and tame, use sulphuric acid and strychnine to satisfy their cheap customers. He says that an acre of corn in Iowa costs cents more than it will sell for, and that this is equally true with their great staples, adding that, for years farming has been prosecuted at. a loss in that State on account of our protective tariff. At present prices in Chicago, corn 50c, wheat 81, oats 40c, flaxseed £1.25, potatoos 90c, wool 30c, cheese 10c, butter 28c, every intelligent" farmer in wa knows that there is more profit in theso products at these prices than our manufacturers, make. But granting prices of farm products, especially such as we have exported, have been too low the past ten years, what has been the chief cause? lioger Q. Mills in his speech in Congress says, and rightly nays, TAKE a slice of the United States as large as Ireland, makiug New York and Brooklyn the eastern boundary,and forty tenants are evicted from dwellings End farms for every one in Ireland. New York alone turns out 100,000 non-pay- i and quiet is restored. lug tenants a year, and all are poor peo- pie. Brooklyn evicted 53,000 last year. "Pay, or go," is the motto here as'wcll as in Ireland." Barbed Wire a i'eaceinauer. - A poet has written about "doing good by stealth, and blushing to find it fame." Tbe barbed-wire fence, and i 1 !i:il []i'"V1)Cun raised by our demouetiza- •hose who make it, are hardly capable " °f silVt'r' And loadlng fre«-^adersin of blushing, but they seem to have done an immense amount of good in a wholly unexpected way, which now promises to become famous. The curse of the pleasant and fertile land of the Argen­ tine Confederation has been revolutions. The periodical upheavals by which "Outs" took the offices away from the "Ins," and boosted themselves into their profitable places always left a long train of unpleasant sequences. The half- savage gauchos, or cow-boys, of the thinly-settled plains, made these up­ heavals the pretext for carrying on pri­ vate brigandage on their'own account" for several years. They would make sudden forays on well-stocked farms and little towns, and get away with rich booty in horses, cattle and goods before the government troops could reach them. Finally, tbe government had some railroads built, and the ; roprietors of the estancieros began inclosing their lands with barbed-wire fences. This last ended the business for the gauchos. No more galloping whither they would over the free prairies to attack" and to escape. They must keep to the roads, where the government troops could fol­ low, find, and inflict punishment upon them. The gauchos sadly turned their horses' heads away toward the remote interior, and the farmers and townsmen slept free from apprehensions of mid­ night arson and pillage. They still have i evolutions down there, but they are mainly confined to short, sharp fighting in the streets of Buenos Ayres and other principal cities, when the beaten party quietly accepts the result Xaticnal Trib- are thousands of wives and in New York who make ends LITTLE Johnny--Say, father, what makes the baby cry every time it wakes up? Brown--Well, from what I know of Rabies, it cries from vexation, to find that it has kept still for fexgasonable length of time. tor afcZeasoGi England, bankers and statesmen, told us years ago that their advantage of 33% per ci'iit. on the silver of India was stir6 to ruin the American grower of wheat and cotton. Our growers have been paying a duty of per cent, to get their grain and cotton into England and the half of*it would ruin them. And why is it that tho^free-traders lay the depreciation of farm products to silver when they talk in Congress or in En­ gland, and lay it all to Our tariff when they talk to Western farmers'; It is simply be­ cause thoy want to run Grover Cleveland for President on the free-trade issue. They know that he made haste as soon as he was elected President to write a letter opposing legislation in favor of silver, and that during all his term of office he stood as the champion of the gold speculators of Wall Vrcet and prevented the best men Of his party from passing any silver bill favoring theMVest or Sjuth. They know that the farmers of tho West, to use a vulgar expression, would* "knock the stuffing out of the stuffed prophet of Williams street." if they allowed him to run on that issue. All that has saved our farm­ ers from the utter luin which the English predicted has been the benefits which they have derived from protection, which has given them a larger home market and cheaper machinery and transportation. To put us back for one year into the condi­ tion we were in I860, when the South had made such a British free-trade tariff as Grover Cleveland now proposes, would ruin every farmer in the West. The rate on train all rail from Chicago to New York was 65 cents per 100 in the winter of I860 against 20 cents this winter. How would the farmers of Iowa like to have the rail­ roads add 45 cents .per 100 to the rate on grain, and put them back into what the free-traders call the "golden era of Ameri­ can industry." Then a reaping machine ;ost $300; now a self-binder worth twice as much costs $130, to say nothing of sulky plows, corn planters, etc. While the anti- silver free-traders have done much to rob the Western farmer, it is not true that farmers have made no monev-in Iowa for the past ten years. I knew one Iowa farmer who fattened 1,000 hogs a year, and got an average of fourteen and one-half pounds of pork from a bushel of corn. E ven at 3 cents a pound for hogs, this is 48% cents a bushel for corn, which is not a losing price on Iowa land. We have a farmer Theodore Louis, in Wisconsin who gets 600 pounds of pork from heaviest shipper In tho We it lives In West­ ern Iowa. The statement that we must Increase our imports .of manufactured goods in order to Increase our exports of farm products is flatly contradicted by the facts. In 1860, when tho pros la very Democrat# and tho British Importers had made a tariff for tho express purpose of clcsing Amoricati factories, and stimulating tho import ol British goods In exchange for our farm products , Great Bri ta in took loss than 4. - 000,000 bushels of oua, wheat, all told, ground and unground, which would not be enough to supply tho mills of Minneapolis for two months. Wo are steadily buying less of England as our industries improve, and she is buying more of us as her Indus­ tries decline. Tho condition of the farmers of England who aro enjoying tho blessing! of freo trade ought to be a lesson to us. They are taxed 14,per cent, oi) their farm products, which must compete with tho un­ taxed products of all other nations. The result is that .1,500,000 acres havt gone out. of cultivation, and farm workers have been reduced one-half in forty years. Thousands have flocked to tho overcrowded cities, or gone to more favored lands. A single steamer, not long since, brought forty English farmers to this country, whe had lost all they had in getting "rich on the Glads lone-Cleveland pljjn. Nor are their manufacturing Industries much better off, with all their free raw ma­ terials and cheap food and labor. One aftei another the best industries, as watch-mak­ ing, sugar refinery, silk weaving, etc., have gone to tho graveyard, supplantod by tho machinery and better-paid labor of pro­ tected lands, while tens of thousands ol honest working people are left to join the "submerged tenth" of Gen. Booth. Three millions out of 35,000.000 unable to get an honest living In the most favored land on the globe! A line banquet this for froe trade to invite us to partako of. and 1 do not wonder at tho enthusiasm of its advo­ cates in the United States! „ •For colossal cheek commend us to the free traders. The Blind Will Not gee. The trouble with the freetrader is that ho can soe but one angle of an eco­ nomic question. The whole? tribe now aro puzzled at the markets., They said that the McKlnlcy hill would Inevitably raise prices, because tho rate of duty on some articles was raised. Tho markets confound them. Tin plate is lower, wire nails are lower, and so are scores of other articles, than they were before the new tariff bill was jia -sod. The frec-tradei sees but ono thing; the duty is raised, and therefore the article will be higher in price. Though they have had over a quarter of a century of experience and observation of tho influence of competi­ tion on prices, says tho Indianapolis Journal, they refuse to note this fact. They reckon well on this feature of trade when their grocer asks tliem a stiff price for a breakfast outfit, and exemplify 1t by going around tho cor­ ner and buying of another at a less price. But they never apply such com­ mon sense to tariff discussion. Hero Is a lesson on this feature of economics from the London Financial Times, and if "tariff is a tax, " shows who pays It. The Times says: "Roughly and approximately, tho Mc­ Kinley tariff has produced declines on this scale--carpets and steara engines, 80 per cent.; sheet and boiler iron, per cent.; worsted tissues, 6(5 per cent.; bar iron, apparel and haberdashery, 50 per cent.; salt, jute, woolen yarns, cut­ lery and cement, 30 per cent.; linen yarn and woolen tissues, 25 percent.; linen piece goods, :?0 per cent.; and wool­ en tissues, 16 por cent. That repre­ sents a tremendous hole in our staple ex­ ports, and poor, littlo Canada, though doing its best to use more of our exports, cannot atone for the loss. A Tariff Picture, Her* Is another one about the hom« prices ot cereals. Hie price of wheat In eight farming States is 86 cents per imshel. In eight manutii taring States 1)1 cents per bushel; 38 per cent, higher in manufacturing State*. And doe* not m bill msnaffcctaring give a bushels moro of wheetT NmoTork*rn. to increase home wwrket tor many Wftgr. MrMnijri- What Om 'Seljjhbors AjPo Doing Matters of General and Local Interest -- Mar­ riages and Deaths - Accidents and Crimes --l'ersonal Pointers. THE l<i-year-old dansrhte'r of George Duddleston, a wholesale and retail butcher, married a former Chicago hotel porter while visiting New Mexico, and now the porter wants «20,000 to waive any claim on tho girl. PEBCV JU.IXKMAS, a mounted messen­ ger employed by the Armour Company at Chicago, was thrown from his horse and killed. Ffte in Dletzler Lee's store at Hins­ dale resulted in tho death of Andrew Dunphy and a los9 of about S:.\~>.ooo. Dunphy roomed over the store, where the fire was started. An effort to save him was made by the firemen. Sam Elwin alone could reach him, but before he could drag the Insensible body out the floor .gave way and he himself nar­ rowly escaped. .Toiix BECK, of Mascoutah, who was kicked in the abdomon bya mule several weeks ago, died. WII.MAM EWING was picked up un­ conscious and terribly mangled near Bo:ehill railway station. Miss. EHNEST MILKER went to Peoria to do some trading. On the road home she fell asleep as she sat in the wa-ron box, with her head leaning upoii >r son. When they reached home th »v was unable to waken her. The woman was carried within the house, where it was found that she was not asleep but dead. . ABRAHAM GOMISTEIX, of Chicago, was arrested for having two wives and held in bonds of $500. TIIK Bernritter Manufacturing Com­ pany, of Chicago, made a general as­ signment. Lack of available cash is given as the cause. Tho liabilities are about §('>0,000; assets, $110,000. OSOAH lloui'KIT foil on a revolving saw at Carrollton and was killed. AT Arlington Heights, Geo. Sclionoef, a hotel proprietor, committed suicide by shooting. • THE following figures, gathered from tho reports of the Illinois Board of Agri­ culture, tend to show that fruit growing Inythc State is retrograding. The Ia^t crop of apples is the smallest raised in the State since 1876--there being but 1,400,408 bushels. The scarcity of tho fruit brought the price up to 96 cents per bushel--a price exceeded but once in fourtoen years. The value of the crop this year was pi,398,954. After two years of "plenty," so far as peaches are concerned, the crop of 189;) dropped back to 37,170 bushels -only one-fifth as largo as the 1889 crop. The price ob­ tained, $1.3 ). brought the value of tho crop up to $48,:.'59. Within fourteen years there have been six lighter yields of pears, in bushels, but only two of less money value. The crop of 1890 was 7,371, valued at $9,351. Of grapes,'there wore raised 1.780,152 pounds, worth 866,- 027--the lightest yield for four years, and surpassed by eight years in the past fourteen.' THE Stock Yards folks at Chicago aro just now listening to a story of a now enterprise that may take root at that place. Representatives of a European syndicate are looking up the proper place for a hew plant to manufacture sausago from hor^e llesh for tho Belgian market. The parties say that could 100 horses a week be secured tho plant would be operated. Tim sto-kto be utilized will I e those injured to such an extent that their usefulness will bo impaired. "In Belgium," said a Stock Yards man, "sau­ sage made from tho lle-h of horses is regarded as a delicacy, and is a delicacy tnat comos high. Only those of the blu­ est blood can afford to enjoy and indulge in such luxury." dust, how the proposed syndicat" will evade the law on the sub- je< t remains to be seen. The city or­ dinances proh'bit the receipt or ship­ ment of dead animrjs, and it may be that the law on the question will nip the scheme in tho bud. W. S. WHAUTOX, the Chicago insur­ ance broker charged with swindling 1). H. Tolman out of $18,000 by means of forged checks, escaped indictment by the grand jury. M. B. Crims, the actor, of "Sam'l of Posen" fame wa9 sued at Chicago for 81,792, but when oflicers attempted to serve attachment writs all they found was the remains of an elegant lunch. J Aeon Lrxn and George L. Peterson, who are .connected with tho orchestra of the English Gaiety company, are "mash­ ers" and were standing on Clark street, Chicago, after the theater the other night ogling folks. One of the pair passed an insulting remark as Mr. Rob­ ertson, passenger agent of the Wabash railway, went by with his wife, and with stout muscle and boiling blood the ath­ letic passenger agent turned upon tho offenders and sent the couple sprawling. Officer. McGinnoss answered their cries for help, with the result that the patrol- wagon carried Messrs Lund and Peter­ son to tho armory. ROM.ix II. MOUI.TON, a general sales­ man for Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., ex­ pired of apoplexy in tho apartmeuts of Mrs. Tony Delight, at 'Chicago, who claims that he had been paying her a strictly business visit The stroke visit­ ed him while in tho bath-room, and after hours of suffering death followed, THE English syndicate that last fall- agreed to purchase the Mollii" Plow W orks has failed to pay up on the con­ tract, and now claims the return of the S2."i(),o;K) forfeit and SiOO.O.H) damages because of the refusal of one of tho stockholders to turn over his holding. GOVEHXOK FIFHK commuted the sen­ tences of Calvin Iiolden and Albert Dun­ ham, who were 1o have been hanged at Monticello for tho murder of Harley Russell, to imprisonment for life, '/uis act of clemency wa< based on a doubt as to the guilt of tho men. In speaking of his action in this ease the Governor stated that if future developments shall show the innocence of the men he will grant an unconditional pardon. Dii. THOMAS P. J. GKIKFITII. a mer­ chant of Brooklyn, who is said to bo worth $25,000. was arrested by Marshal Carper, of Brooklyn, on three indict- i ments charging him with having pur­ chased and received stolen property from Georgo Clancey and others. He | was taken to Belleville and gave bonds J in the sum of $5 '() iu each case. Clancey [ is indicted for burglary and larceny, and j is confined in jail. I>r. Griffith does a j general merchandise business at Brook­ lyn, bears a pood reputation, and says that he purchased the goods in the best of faith, lie has engaged the Hon. Luk 1J. Hito as his attorney. DAN POIITKI:, the niurd«ver of Ed Smith, who escaped from jail at Quiney, was captured near Kahoka, Mo. Four farmer boys discovered a trail, and tracked him to the house of a colored man, twelve miles from Kahoka. The Sheriff of that county was notified, and he, with a posse, came upon Porter in the woods near the house. Tho next thing to be stated with any certainty is that Porter was delivered to the Illinois authorities dead, and that his captors put in a claim for the 82,700 reward which had been offered for him, dead or alive. At first it was reported that Porter sui cided rather than be- captured* but a latter statement is that he showed fight and was shot dead. CHINESE BEFORE THB'^WIOT- LIGHTS. a dhow Swell People or the Hub Attend (>lron by IttangollaiHi. Says a recent Boston dispatch: Bos­ ton society was treated to a novelty in tlio shape ol a Chinese theatrical per­ formance. The local branch of the American Foik Lore Society stood sponsor for the entertainment, and the participants consisted of a score of Chinese actors who are spending the holidavs with friends here. The play was given at the Chinese theater, a small, dark basement-room on Harri­ son avenue, but into it were crow'ded some hundred and fifty of the literary and society leaders of the city. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes occupied a con­ spicuous .seat and laughed as heartily as any at Iho pan torn ine, though he con­ fessed that he had not the faintest con­ ception of what they were driving at or whether he was applauding comedy or tragedy. William Dean Bowells stowed himself away in a corner and devoted his time to unraveling the plot of the play, declaring it to be fun. Francis Parkman, the venerable historian; the Rev. Samuel Longfellow, brother of the I>oet and himself an adept in turning a verse; and the Rev. Dr. C. C. Everett, dean of the Harvard College Divinity School, formed a trio that attracted a deal of attention. Mr. and Mrs. Ken­ dal occupied seats in the only thing that passed for a box in company with Mrs. John L. Gardiner. Among the others present were Thomas Bailey Aldrich, T. Russell Sullivan, Col." .Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Dana Estes, Mrs. Clara E. C. W aters, Mr. B. J. Lang, Gen. Charles G. Loring, Prof. J. W. Putnam of Harvard, Dr. S. W. Langmaid, Walter G. Chase, Sylvester Baxter, Dr. C. Augustus Pope, Dr. George B. Shattuck, Dr. Walter Chan- ning, Dr. Samuel Green of Warcester, Prof. Charles E. Fay, Prof, J. Walter Fewks of the Boston Society of Natural History, and Mrs. Mary E. Hemenway, whose liberal contributions have nlade the Ziyi excavations in the Southwest a possibility. The play was descriptive of the ex­ periences of a young heir to the Chinese throne, who, having been deprived oi his heritage, succeeds in overthrowing the usurping Emperor and regaining his position. Battles, hand-to-hand en­ counters with robbers, love-making, and fetes crowded each other in an alarming manner. Scenery there was none, and the stage furnishings consisted only of a half dozen benches, a table, and a uumber of Chinese banners, hangings, and legends. - The change of scenes was indicated only by a arrangement of the chairs, and the "sup63" who did this were seated conspicuously on the stage. The costumes of the leading actors, however, were simply marvelous--gold and silver, rich velvets and dainty silks in profusion and glory of color. " The most striking tableaux were a birthday fete of the Emperor, a Military review, an angel presentation of a baby boy from Heaven, and a battle. A novel scene was that of seven angels in changeable female costumes. These would perform a sort of dance, give a little skip into tho air, and in the de­ scent their doublets would undergo a kind of revolution and new ones appear in their places. The Chinese band fur­ nished a musical accompaniment for the play, and several songs were intro­ duced. The audience was rather paralyzed at one time to hear the Empress in response to an encore rattle off the familiar tune of " Annie Roonev." This play is only one of a series which the Folk Lore Society has in contem­ plation. Arrangements have been made for an Italian play, and a gypRy will follow. Theater slumming may be considered Boston's latest fad. 'M 5 A l^ucky JKeporter. Reporters sometimes report speeches they do not hear, and bad work they make of it. An enthusiastic Irishman who was or.ee hoaxed by a wag into re­ porting a speech in parliament by Ed­ mund Burke on the merits of the potato as an article of diet. The wag reported the speech apparently from his notes, and the reporter, never doubting his good faith, handod iu a report The next morning all London was laugning over the speech, which made Mr. Burke attribute the superior virtues of the Irish people to the fact that they eat so many potatoes. Another reporter fared better, who made up a speech from his own imagin­ ation. It was a bold act, for the speech was from the throne, George III. being the monarch. The ministers were in- dignaut at his impudence, and were eager to punish him with the severest penalties of the law. But the good- natured monarch interposed with a quiet joke at the expense of the minister who had prepared the speech read by the King. "I hope the man's punishment will be of the mildest sort," said King George, "because I have read both, and so far as I can understand either of them, I like the reporter's speech better than my own." Tlio I'arasol Trick of Thieving-. A trade journal recently illustrated how the parasol trick of thieving is done. A richly-dressed lady enters and asks to see some diamond rings, at the same time carelessly hanging her para­ sol on the edge of the counter, iu order that she may have both hands at liberty Oddly enough, unless the jeweler or his assistant keeps a very sharp look out, one or two of the rings are drooped into the open parasol with lightning-like ra­ pidity, the beautiful customer gazing intently the while into the eyes of her victim. The more blundering style of first smashing a window and then rush- in jr off with whatever can be grabbed is rarely successtul as far as the thieves are concerned, but the loss to the tradesmauis much abaut the same, for trinkets are difficult things to pick out of a muddy road on a dark November night. Taking all things iuto consid­ eration, it must be confessed that the jewelers vocation is beset with perils from which other trades arevfree. Big Ainttrican IlielK 'he largest bell in America is that of N/btre Dame Cathedral, Montreal, which hangs iu the south tower. It is (5 feet high, 8 feet 7 inches in diameter, and weighs 24,780 pounds. It is ornamented ^ith images of the Blessed Virgin and John the Baptist, together with emblems of agriculture, commerce and industry. It was cast in London in 1347. In the opposite tower hangs a chime of ten bells, the smallest weighing 897 pounds, the largest G.Ull; total, 21,696 pounds. The largest bell in the United States is the alarm bell on City Hall, New York, which was cast by Blake, of Bos- son. It is 6 feet high, 8 feet in diame- er and weighs 23,000 pounds. THE more illiterate a wealthy men is sometimes, the more anxious Ike is to tound au "university" and tack his name to it. ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERS, IN the Senate, on the totb, Mr. Baemt presented a petition from Danville lad MM lor the passage of the amendment to tbe Constitution allowinff women to vote »t school election.-*. Tlio following bill wera passed: Allowing 7 per cent. Interest oft judgments and decrees if not redeemed te one year: -transferrin* the delinquent land tax"fund to a general revenue fund: nro- vidins -that the school fund of mnnaglajt schools under specfal charter shall not be governed hy the general school law. In ihe House bills were intn duced as follows: 15y Mr. Berry, to regulate the heatlngrof passenger coaches: by Mr. Bowlin, to require unemployed male convicts of the peniten­ tiaries not otherwise employed to work oa public roads: by Mr. Eddy, to amend tbe school law. also a bill making appropriation for a training-school building in connection with the Normal University, at Normal; by Mr. Farrell, giving the G »vetrnor full power to appoint Cook County justices when tbe Senate i,s not in session or when there is a disagreement among the Chi­ cago Judgos: bv Mr. Kenney. to regulate the dlsprsal of money received from dram-shr>p licenses; by, Mr. Nohe. to regulate the business of mercantile agen­ cies by requiring them to receive licensee from the Secretary of State and conform tfe certain regulations; by Mr. Watson, to provide for the weekly pavment em­ ployes; by Mr. Whitehead. to prohibit the shipment of calves less than four weeks old: by Mr. Payne, io authorise a 2-mill tax in cit ies of less ihan 100.000 inhabitants for city hospital purp oses. THE only business transacted bv the Legislature on the 11th was the meeting of the joint assembly and the election of Jobs M. Palmer to succeed Senator Farwell In the United States Senate. The first balk* of the day was the 154th of the session, and resulted--Palmer. 10:t: Lindley. 100; Street- er. i. Messrs. Moote and Cockrell voted with the Democrats, the Republicans tor Lindley. and Taubeneck for Streetor. Rep­ resentative Tyler and Senator Wells at­ tended the joint assembly, though so til they had to be carried in and out on couches. IN the Senate, on (he L?th. a message from the Governor announcing the ap­ pointment of John It. Wheeler. 1. N. Phillips, and John li. Tanner lis ltailroad and Ware­ house Commissioners was received. Mr. Chapman Introduced a bill providing that flre insurance companies shall not only pay loss on buildings insured, but also repay «a excessive premiums received by them. Mr. Ferguson introduced a bill regulating tbe sale of lntoxicatln? liquors by making a saloon-keeper liable tor illegal sale, whether the sale was made with or without his knowl­ edge. Iu the House, the joint resolution: was reported from the Senate providing for an adjournment until tho 17th. The yeas and nays l eing demanded on the adoption of the resolution, it finally prevailed by a •ote of 51 yeas to 47 nays, the vote by no means being a strict party on®. Representa­ tive Van Praag's bill limiting racing on all tracks in the State to thirty days per an­ num, and providing that live per cent. Ot the gate receipts of racing associations shall be turned over to the State Board at Agriculture for the l e lefit of various coun­ ty fairs of the State, came up for special order to be read a second time. Representa­ tive Miller moved that the bill be referred to the Committer on Municipal Corpora­ tions when appointed. Ti e yeas and nays being demanded, no quorum voted, and tbe House at once adjourned until the lTtfc. Write Out Your Numeral*. Til give you a practical hint, young observer," said a certain well-known lawyer the other day. "Whenever yon send n telegram see that you write out in letters the numerals that you use. If you don't you may have the pleaa- ant experience that I had recently. A client of mine telegraphed me 1m would 'Meet me at I oYlock at Astor House, Thursday.' He put up a nioe little tail at the top of his '1,' and the telegram came to me and read this wajr --'Meet me seven 6'cloek, Thursday, at Astor House.' "He went to the Astor House at one o'clock, sharp, the business was im­ portant, and it was a bright idea to have it all settled so New Year's din­ ner could be more enjoyable. My Cli­ ent sat at the Astor House, 'cuss1 me' from one o'clock until half past ; - three Thursday. <*' § "I swallowed my New Year's diuner ~. V in inglorious haste and posted down to ' ' the Astor House aud sat : lentally pay- * ing him the same compliments until - ^ half-past ten p. m. In the morning .Tjjl came this telegram : "Waited for yon || at Astor House yesterday three hours , and a half. Come without fail to-day at half past twelve. Must leave town. Don't fail.' "YcM|bet I won't," said the Colonel, with % step toward the door. "It is twelve o'clock now, but I'm off; if I never see you again remember to tel»- if graph '1' o-n-e and '7' s-e-v-e-n, and tell " < every telegraph operator to do it, tocu" s-- •--New York Herald. " Drowning M il Catch at "Yes," said au old lake captain, *%. drowning man will catch at a straw* I have seen many illustrations thereof Most people think the old proverb is * mere figure of speech, but it is a living truth." "Is it true, Captain," was aske% "that the first thing a rescued maa thiuks of is his hat V * >2 "Yes, sir," replied the Captain, his- i a face lighting up, "that is a fact, too. I have seen it emphasized many times lit " VH the course of uiy experience. Over ^ and over again I have been called to the assistance of a drowning man; I - would plunge in and rescue him jus^ J let us say, at the last instant. Dragged. ' on the dock, gasping for breath, his voice choked with water, the man, he follows his instincts, will, as sooa ~ . ^ as he gains the least degree of strength^ ;,v?;' 3 suddenly rise from his prostrate postur* * ' 1 and stretch his arms toward his liea-d,;. . ^ then, missing his hat (usually lost ini . the struggle ), he will cry out desperates- ~ ly, pointing to his hat floating dow% - ,* the river. 'O, save my hat! save \ n , % if Fri»« Pi*s<3c» ^& 1 W- m hat!' "--Detroit Free Press. To Aerate Milk. Unaerated milk is said to be a great enemy of infants and one special cans# of cholera infantum. The process of \ ' aerating milk is very simple, and con- sists in allowing the milk to flow from ^ 4 <i one receptacle to another in fin#, V "f streams, so that it may come in eon- ^ tact with cool, pure air. If nothing * | f better is at hand let it run through * _;' * »/| nice, clean colander two or three times. " P - « A better arrangement is perforate^ "J milk pans, ote above the other,. ' through which the milk may run iqlt -fine streams. It is held that tyrotoxi- ^ con poison is generated in cream foi* the want of proper aeration, and this ^ causes cholera infantum. Aerated milk is better to use than milk cooled. upon ice. Lurk end the Emperor. A gentleman who has traveled im Russia relates the following: "I remember once when playing ecarte at a ball given by the Empress to the late Emperor, the latter, who was- wandering about, came behind me to| watch the game. My adversary and I were both at four, and it was my deal. ^ " 'Now.' said the Emperor, let us see^ whether you can turn up a king.' i "I dealt and then held Up the turn­ up card, observing, 'Your orders, sirs, %' have been obeyed.' ^ "The Emperor was greatly aston­ ished, and a dozen times asked me how j, I managed it, and he never would be­ lieve that it was a mere hazard, that I had taken the chanoe of the cardbeinjr a Jdnff." * . . ....... ,... ,„Jf. • - -•s; i 'f* 4 f- 3 ̂ -,kV! jyiii