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ttt Mi diNjH )»sN§a* >i !»•> si «M ni*rt a* MMMMKrl)* wtltomtymmmMHi "You can'fc earn -SO oenta without forking for it," Bays an exchange; true, Imt you may frequently work fo>r 50 •Gents without getting it. "OKB of the most impressive- lessons -•-&* -4f nay childhood was to 'lay by some- !/ thing for a rainy day,'" exclaimed a wet iramp as he entered a wayside cottage %nd threw himself 4o«n beside the kitchen store. r - : r':i[ IF Mr. Keeley'S motor and Mr. Max­ im's flying machine should get together And exert their combined influence they «ould probably stand still so hard that ft would stop the earth's annual auddi* iirnal revolutions. ;J OUE modern Shakespeare--the one in New Orleans--is not a writer of trag­ edies. but his language to the Italian £ock rioters, and in reference to Consul Corte, indicates that he has reached a " frame of mind where he may create a tragedy any day. v ^ < A BESIDENT of Searsport, Me.,t lately i- 4iscovered a peculiar phenomenon on > fhe beach. Large quantities of clams 'J -, fead been forced out of the sand and f Were lying in pile* in the clefts of the (v tocks on Mosman's Ledge. He,hauled ' *way more than seventy-five bushels. ^ ' .. ' 1 * : . THE newest thing in tulips is the Tan | l d e r N e e r , a d u l l , p e t a l e d f l o w e r , a l m o s t }• . #iagentain color. Among the novel" • ties recently shown at the Londop slower show was this wonderful tulip .And a bine primrose, probably the first - ? Di the color ever shown. WI 51;; THE fellow who, just before the race, $nows exactly how it is oomingout looks so much like the fellow who, just *fter the race, borrows a quarter to pay lis bus fare * to town that you would think they were twin brothers if yon did Aot know better. _ " A NEW appliance weighing only a ; le .v pounds enables cloth dealers and ' others to measure fabrics while rolling '"$r blocking them. The cloth passes over and under* set of four rollers, th§ last of which actuates a counter, which iells the number of yards paid out IT has been shown by the researches «f Sir John Herculand Pouillit, that on the average our earth receives each day supply of heat sufficient to heat an •cean 260 yards deep over the whole •urface of the earth, from the tempera­ ture of melting ice to the boiling point. v;,, . ALBERT BAKNEY and Jennie Karns, , 4eaf mutes, were married at the Spen- • < ' cer House parlors at Marion, Ind., by llev. W. I). Weaver, who propounded < v, -fhe important questions with a type- V * Writor, says the St. Louis Republic. i The novelty of the affair attracted a -V *targe attendance. A YOUNG woman of West Union, Ohio, h " filled up a pan with corn meal and play- • iully ran hef hand through the con- |,:;_,;|ents. She felt something on her - finger, .and on drawing her hand out / louncf a fine g >ld ring, worth $10 en- ts- •; »"•circling her third finger. It is an ele- ffant on^but how it came in the meal ' Is a mystery> £ • • > A NEW till ha£\been put on the mar | ; 5 ket which gives an ala^m when an at- , £: -leiiipt is made to open it l^y any un- ?• * authorized person. The till has five ^ *tops on the center of its left-hand edge, Any one of which can be pet as an open- i |ng key. Failing a knowledge of the \ v* correct setting, any one attempting to : . 4lraw out the till will csuse a bell to be ttrng, an# tampering is thus provided gainst. ¥i* • ST. LOUIS occasionally has a sporting «vent that is rare and roseate. Such promised to*be the case last week when [^ "•ne ostrich-stomached citizen wagered ;; #25 that he could eat sixteen feet of . freinerwurst in an hour. He choked /j .flown a dozen feet of the sausage and laifited. Next day he appeared in court jfcnd sued tlie stakeholder, claiming that t fhe weinerwurst had been "doctored." ;; THE experiments with a pendulum, ^ * ,4o visibly demonstrate the motion of the eaith, formerly made by Foucault ' binder the cupola of the Pantheon, are _#bout to be renewed on an even larger' ecale; says Popular Science News. , .; The new gigantic pendulum has bpen Suspended from the center of the second 1 - platform of the Eiffel Tower. It con­ sists of a bronze wire 350 feet long, " with a steel globe weighing 180 pounds «t the end. ' ~'s " FOUR ladies were discussing a pleas- if'"•at theme as they eat around the stove v" In the sitting-room of Mrs. Pines H,V; ' • Bhelton, in Sedalia, Ma A sudden - thunderstorm arose, and lightning de­ scended the chimney, struck the stove, ^.i'.^jend drove it into, the basement through 5. ..' -the floor. A yonng lady had her feet «n the stove at the time, but was un- ; ^|iurtji but Mrs. Shelton, who was some -,^feet distant, wis severely shocKed. | J- AFRICA is glowly. but surely passing from the control of the native rulers. ';lt compri&es about 11,000,000 square ' Iniles, of which only 1,500,000 are gov- lege, Poughkeepsie, A PECULIAR case of increase in ooal consumption is reported from France. An official engineer, having been called to investigate the cause of a considerable augmentation in the consumption of fuel by a large battery of boilers, discovered that the phenomenon was due to the presence of water in the smoke shafts. The measures which were taken to ex­ clude the water have resulted in a sav­ ing of 16 pei cent, in the annual coal bilL WiSHiKd^roK, for its size, is a small place. Ita street lamps are not lighted on nights when the almanac says the moon should shine, and as, even in Washington, the weather bureau isn't on speaking terms with the almanac, the results of this custom are bad,especially for the stranger.. Then, again, there are few shoeblacks; the hotels do not 41 have them, and the streets are not furnished with many of them. Even the clubs get along without them. It seems logical to suppose that jiYfirjone blackens his own shoes. A NEW YORKER fell the tyth^r from the top of a five-story tenement house, and, after breaking the balusters on two floors in his descent and bound­ ing on his head from one floor to an­ other, landed all in a heat) „ on the ground floor. He then got- up and walked to the street Two boards in the floor on the spot where he stopped were broken by his fall, and his feet went through a panel of a door in the lower hall. Beyond breaking his jaw he suffered no injury. 'j PROF. ELIHU THOMPSON is led to conclude, after long and elaborate ex­ perimentation, thjrt the alternating current's power to destroy life is in in­ verse ratio to the number of alterna­ tions per second. It took, for example, twenty times as strong a current to kill a dog when the alternations were 4,500 per second as when they were 120 per necortd. When the alternations were 300 per Becond the current was only half as dangerous to life as when the alternations were 120. IT is reported that the observers at Mount Hamilton have lately kept a sharp eye turned upon the shadow of one of the moons of Jupiter. This shadow seemed double, indicating Ithat the tiny moon which past it, is also double. Since tlie first hint of the dis­ covery many observations have been made through the Lick glass, all tend­ ing to ponfirm the original impression, to-wit: That these particular satellite of the greatest of planets is. double--a dot of a moon revolving around the main moon. A SPEEDY way of forwarding the mails was some years ago proposed by an English engineer, and its novelty caused wide discussion of its practicabil­ ity. The letters were to be enclosed in a durable iron shell, which was to be fired at a bank of earth six miles dis­ tant. There it was to be projected on the second stage of its journey; and so on until it reached its destination. By this plan, the inventor thought, Ithe mails could lie dispatched from New York to Philadelphia in fifteen minutes, or from New York to Chicago in two hours and a half. THE gajlant Gen. Franz Sigel maybe seen on Broadway, New York, at times but lie does not look as vigorous as he looked in other years, and it is evident that the hard experiences of life have told upon him. He is but i 66 years of age, yet it is half a century since he was a student of the military school at Carlsruhe, in Germany, forty-three years since be held command in the Bftden revolution, forty years since he came to New York, and thirty years since he entered upon service in the war of the American Union, in which he won renown. Be had a life of activity and many experiences as a soldier, politician and writer,' and it is pleasing to know that his mind is yet brightened with hopes for the fnture. THE latest investigations show that bacteria are spheroidal, rod-like, or spiral. Under the most powerful mi­ croscopes they are fonrd to have a granular mass in the center, surrounded by a thin, structureless membrane. Under favorable conditions, with plenty of food, they drive across the middle, each part growing longer and again subdividing, and so on indefinitely. If this should go on for a few weeks these minute animals would become so num­ erous that they would use up all the carbon, hydrogen* oxygen and nitrogen there is available for. life purposes. But their increase is limited by the facts that the food supply gives out the sun is their deadly enemy and they ex­ hale various chemical substances that are poisonous to themselves and each other. • Tba Itrop -on llim. "Good morning," smiled the long­ haired man with a persuasive sweetness n his voice, as he glided up to the editor's desk and deposited a pieee of manuscript on the confusion there. "Good morning." echoed the editor, picking it up gingerly and opening it, "what's this?" "A poem, sir," said the trembling wretch. Of your own composition?" inquired ferned by the Africans. France has I the editor, without flinching. S,300,247 square miles; England, 1,900,445; Germany, 1,035,720; Coft- Free State, 1,000,000; Portugal, ^^74,993; Italy, 360,000 and Spain, 210,- While the share of France is t, England's is most valuable. ^"" IT is now a settled conclusion in the .Astronomical world that the great re­ fracting telescope at the Lick observe- ry, California, is the most perfect in­ strument that the art of man has ever 'produced. It has but one rival in the •j,; V- World, and this only in a few minor de- U^'Xtails, vrhich is that of the great central P Imperial University of Baasia. Then me have the immense instrument at O, yea, sir; I drop into poetry some­ time*," and he smiled with a taint hope peeping up over the horizon of his desire. "Um-um," continued the editor read­ ing along slrfwly, "I see that you do, and this time you have dropped in over your head. But the waste basket shall not get it, or the office goat either. Here, take it away and trade it off for a step ladder so you can climb out Good-bye, run along now," and the editor jabbed his blue pencil into forty- seven lines of a fifty line article on a church fair and the poet swallowed a lump in his throat and went out oough- ing.--Free Press. IF you want a man's eandid opinion ol you, make him angry and you'll get it. THE HOUSeiCeEPtlf^ftJfcS. Wftjrs of th« Moth th* --How to Fight Them. It is now time to look for moths, and to put away all fnrs and woolen gar­ ments that will not be used during the summer. Like so many insects which are pests of the household, the com­ mon moth lays its eggs late in April. If the clothing and furs are put away before it has had a chanoe to get to them, all trouble will be avoided. It is well to use camphor or some similar thing in wrapping up valuable artieles, because the moth avoids an atmos­ phere saturated with any of the vari­ ous "moth exterminators;" but this is all. If she has already laid her eggs, saturating the goods with the odor of camphor, tar, or anything else will be of no avail. The grubs will, hatch out in cedar trunks and' thrive as well there as anywhere else when they are used to it When clothing is put away, hang it first outside in the'airand beat it. thoroughly to be sure that nothing has already got in it; and then it can be packed with tolerable security against the ravges of the ordinary white moth. The practice iu some families of leaving old coats, felt hats, and other cast-off woolen artoies that are never worn hanging in olosets is sure, sooner of later, to draw nwths. Such articles ehouid be given away systematically where they will do some good, and cannot become a source of harm, as they surely are when left un­ touched for months in dark closets. The carpet beetle is quite different from an ordinary moth. It also lay» its eggs during this month and its hairy little grub hatches out and begins to eat almost anything that lies in its way. Fortunately this pest has not yet ap­ peared all over the country, aud there are many sections of the land entirely free from its ravages. Though the grub of the bnffalo-beetle is an om­ nivorous feeder, the beetle, iu its winged state, is a strict vegetarian and never touches wool. It is especially fond of the spirea and plants of allied species, and for this reason those Bhrubs should no longer be familiarly cultivated in our dooryarda as they are now. AFTER THE BUFFALO BEETLE has once set up a claim iu any house it is exceedingly difficult to dislodge it After it has passed through the grub state and fed to its full on your most valuable carpets, books, and everything that comes in its way, it flies away a bettle to live on a strict plant diet and disport itself in the sunshine. But it never for a moment forgets where it came from or mistakes your house for your neighbor's when it gets ready to lav (its eggs. Nothing is more exas­ perating than its reappearance after months of absence in exactly the same corner of the carpet or book-case where it was before, or the avidity with which the third or fourth generation seem to foilow the habits of their ancestors and eat in the same exact geometrio, lines, never making a zag in all their work. Nothing will ever dislodge them but spraying the spot profusely with ben­ zine. They enjoy tobacnco, camphor refreshes them, and tar builds np their strength to renewed efforts. The buffalo beetle is somewhat smaller than the little "lady bug," for which it is unhappily often mistaken. It is black, with, white s]>ots or blotches, with a bright red line down the center of its back. It has a deceitful way of curling up its legs aud pretending to be dead when discovered. Do not believe this, but crush it unmereifully, for in a few moments, if you watch it on the sly, it will get up and walk away, as able-bodied and insolent a bug as ever flew. The little lady bog or ooccinella, which is so often confounded with the buffalo bug or anthrenus, is an entirely different creature, and should be eti- enoourged as one of the strongest allies of the gardener and farmer in his night with insects noxious to vegetation. The common species of coccincllaiis a coral red with black spots on its wings, though there are several varities. It feeds upon the aphides or plant lice, which are more destructive to plants than any insects we have, and, but for the little lady bug, would soon de­ stroy everything before them. In England the lady bug or "lady bird" of the nursery rhymes is protected with the greatest care.--Neiv York Tribune. JtHSOlK If any one is desirous of having for a pet an embodied joke, he should im­ port a secretary-bird, or take up his residence in Airica, where these strange creatures dwell. The author of "Home Life on an Ostrich Farm" describes one such pet, named Jacob, who proved to be a most amusing companion. His per­ sonal appearance was decidedly com­ ical. He always reminded the author of the book ofalittleold-tashionedman, in a gray coat and tight black knee- breeches, with pale, flesh-colored stock­ ings clothing the thinnest and most angular of legs, the joints of which might have been stiff with chronic rheumatism, so slowly and oautiously did Jacob bend them. Not by any means a nice old man did Jacob resemble, but an old reprobate with evil-looking eye, yellow parch­ ment complexion, bald head, hooked nose and fiendish grin; with his shoul­ ders shrugged up, his bands tucked away under hi$ coat-tails, and several pens stuck behind his ear. His objectionable noises were very numerous, and some of them unpleas­ antly suggestive of a hospital. He would begin with what seemed a fright­ ful attack of asthma; then, for ten min­ utes, he would have violent and alarm­ ing hiccoughs, and the performance would conclude with a repulsively real­ istic imitation of a consumptive cough. His favorite noise was a harsh rasping croak, supposed to be a gentle inti­ mation that he was hungry, though the impostor had probably had a substantial meal before coming to pose as a starv­ ing beggar beneath our windows. When it seemed impossible to get rid of him, we would fling toward him a large dried puff-adder's skin, which al­ ways threw him into a state of abject terror. He seemed quite to lose his wits, and would dance wildly about, jumping several feet from the ground, in the most grotesque manner. At last, grunting his loudest, and with the pen­ like feathers on his head bristling with excitemept, he would clear the fence, and rush, at railway speed, across the common, and only return at dusk to squat solemnly for the night in his ac­ customed corner of the garden. Though friendly enough with us, Jacob was very spiteful and maricious towards all the other creatures on the place. At one time, we found that he had been systematically inflicting a cruel course of ill-treatment on one un- i fortunate fowl, which was enclosed, { with a view to fattening, in an old and mueh-soaked lirbad, that low! never would get fat nor hl& |)is predecessor become so. We had grown weary of feeding the latter for weeks with no re­ sult, and had at last killed and eaten him, a poor bag of bones. One day, however, the mystery was solved. Jacob had devised an ingenious way of persecuting the poor prisoner, and on witnessing it, we no longer won­ dered at the fowl's careworn look. Jacob would approach his box, and make defiant and insulting noises at him, nntil the imbecile curiosity of fowls prompted the victim to protrude his head and neck through the bars; then, l>efore he had time to draw baok, Jacob's fcot would come down with a vicious dab on his head. The foolish creature never seemed to learn wisdom by experience, though he must, many times, Nave l»een nearly stunned, and bis head all but knocked off by Jacob's powerful foot and leg; yet, as often as the foe challenged him, his poor, simple face would look in­ quiringly out, only to meet another buffet. As he would not take care of himself, we removed him to a safe place, where he fulfilled his destiny bv becom­ ing respectably fat--1'outU'a Com­ panion. . " Grae« vith Special Tliiuika. Some years ago a gentleman friend of the writer who belonged to the legal profession was attending court in one of the lower counties of Alabama. The county seat was remote from railroads and many who attended traveled in the large covered wagons used for trans­ porting cotton to the distant market carrying with them provisions, cooking utensils, etc., and so keeping them­ selves. Those who could better afford to, put up at the public house, a large, rambling building of ^ie olden time and the only public resort in the place. Here, judge, jury, counsel, and many of the witnesses all are together at one long table in the dining-halL They had for dinner one day among other things an enormous pla'tterful of boiled eggs. An old planter who was present was -very fond of boiled eggs and when he saw the bountiful Bupply smiled on tl.«m with an approving smile and seated himself near them. It happened that this good old man was called upon to ask a blessing, a cus­ tom quite universal in that part of the country. Having thanked the Lord for a\J His mercies and for the bounties He had so freely bestowed he concluded with: "And, Lord, we thank Thee in par­ ticular for the bounties of the present occasion aud for the b'iled aigs, especially." A Horse with a MnittelM. There may be seen at the cornor of Montgomery avenue and Kearny street at frequent intetvals during the day, a horse thai would make a comfortable living for its owner if placed on exhibi­ tion in a dime museum. Neither horse nor master, however, seems to be im­ bued with a desire for fame, and the latter is content apparently to serve out his days at his alloted tank of draw­ ing an express wagon about the city. He is an ordinary aized gray horse, with a most amiable cast of counte­ nance, and with nothing remarkable about him except the possession of a large and well-shaped mustache. The latter is kept carefully trimmed aud brushed by the owner of the horse, but the possessor of this unusual append­ age seems to pay but little attent to it. He has never been known, at least, to stroke it as men do, but by watching him closely it may be observed .that he eyes it ocoasionelly in a critical sort of way. He is 6 years eld and was born in Mexico, but so far as can be learned he is the only member of his family who has ever been blessed with either mustache or whiskers. On the con­ trary, his father's lip was witlymt sus­ picion of a hair, and his mother, fit course, was a stranger to such a thing.--San Francisco Call. A W alking Hill. There is a hill in Connecticut that Walks. At least that is what E. S. Root, of Hartford, declared. "On the farm of a Mr. Tuttle, of Bloomfield, a few miles from Hartford," began Mr. Root, "is a hill that is grad­ ually sinking into the earth. This emi- nince is known by every old settler of Bloomfield, for most of them have slid down its snowy slopes in years gone by. There has been a cross-cut road around the hill which has been used for years. But no one goes that way now, for the ground is said to be enchanted. A month ago Tuttle sent his hird man out in the pasture after some farming tools. In a few moments the man came dashing back whiter than a sheet. He could not find his tongue for awhile, but finally exclaimed that the old hill had sunk into the earth four or five feet They all laughed at the servant, but he was so earnest that<lie family followed him to the pasture, anSMp and behol the hill had actually pushe<Htsjppjrinto the ground quite a distance. Every one in and about Bloomfield visited the lot next day, and the superstitions were greatly alarmed. Since then the old hill has slowly but persistently fallen into the earth, and it is now ogly three or four feet above the level of the pas­ ture. It is, indeed, a curious phenom­ enon." t%h«n 1m ChooM t Wils. Boys, when you choose a wife, look put for these two or three things. Is her hair nice, sweet and kissable look­ ing ? How tew girls have kissable hair' Are her dresses neat and nice around the edges, and what about the inside edge of the white skirt? Oh, dear, yes; you are sure to see it some time--when she steps into a car or out of an omnibus. When (she gives you a letter to "just post this for me," is it stamped? Oh, but girls are unscrupulous about stamps. Is she on time and with gloves on for the theater or concert to which you take her? How about the lace in the neck of her dress? Ob, you want to notice these things when you think of marry­ ing.--Daily American. Specks iu theEjre. Whenever a speck or splinter lodges in the eye never try to expel it by rub­ bing, as that simply irritates the eye, and drives the substance still farther into it It is better to draw the apper lid over the lower, so that when return­ ing to its place the lid slides over the lower eyelashes, which will sweep it clean, as it were. This process will, in the majority of the cases, suffice to re­ move the splinter or other foreign body; if not, the object may be gotten out with a strip of white paper or a camel's hair brush. Never, however, let any one use a hard instrument. If the case requires this it i9 most advisable to send for or go to a physician. ' LEFT A TRAIL OF B0IN. WORK OP IOWA'S GREAT STORM -Modern LocamoU**!. In the formation of a single Ittcbmo- _ __ tive steam engine there are nearly 6,000 packing-case, which had wooden bars [ piects to be put together, and these re- hailed across the front . j quise to be as accurately adjusted as the Somehow, in spite of abundant mealies | works of a watoh. Tho DMtraettai of lUb aad Property Grvator than first Keporteil--Ten Mvos Known to Har* Keen Lost--Desolation at Cherokee--I.IT® Stock Carried Away l»r the Flood. Late telegraphic dispatches indicate that the storm in the northwestern counties of IQWA was more severe than at first retorted. A dispatch from Waterloo says 100 houses at Cherokee were washr-d away, aad euerything is in the wildest confusion. The same is true fkt Correctionville and no word by telegraph can be re­ ceived from there. It is now known, though, that six persons met their death in the country around about Correction­ ville, and the number is reported In­ creased to eight. liousfs, barns and outhouses were re­ ported floating in the Little Sioux past Cherokoe a 1 day. No one knows where they came from, but they are presumed to be from Sutherland. Aurelius, n.ne milos east of Cherokee, reports storm clouJs gathering in the vicinUy of Cherokee aca n. An Illinois Central work train has succeeded in reach ng anoint about one mile east of Cherokee, further progress being barred by a vast expanse of water stretching as far as the eye < an reach. It is feared there will be adde 1 to the present suffer­ ings of citizens the pangs of hutiger. All the surplus stock of -.revisions was destroyed by the flood, and the town is now as effectual<y "solateit from the rest of the world as though no railroads were in existence. , Says a Sioux City dispatch: Reports are received from all quarters of unpre­ cedented high water in the streams, in­ jury to railroad property, loss of bridges, and destruction of crops a'ong tho rivers. Tho Floyd River is out of its banks, and people have been compelled to make hasty departures to higher ground. The following additional particulars of the flood ajt Cherokee were received this morning: Tho wagon bridge over the Sioux south of tho town went out about 10 o'clock Tuesday night. This was followed by all the houses on the flat in that part of the t^wn. numbering over one hundred. Tho numbor of peo­ ple driven from their homes was between twelve and fifteen hundred. The river continued to rise until 3 o'clock, at that time being ten foot higher than was ever before known. The destruction of property alone in Cherokee is about 9200,000. B :sides. almost all of the stock pastured along the Sioux were tarried away by tho flood, only a few animals being ?»ved as they came down the river. Yesterday aH passenger trains were stopped at Storm Lake The flood in the Floyd River which came past LeMar* and Merrill yesterday, doing great damage iu the country, reached her.* early this morning and the river rose about twelvo feet. One hund­ red and fifty houses iu the valley are partially submerged and the families have move out to the hills. The Laral stove works, shoe factory, flour mill and foundry In the suburbs of the town are closed. A man in from Molvllle, eighteen miles east of here, reports that the whole town was ewept away and only one house was untouched. A heavy flood came down Willow Creek, entering the Floyd River & mile above this nbacc, says a telegram from Le Mars. The bottom land along the river was at once a raging torrent near­ ly a mile wide. The flood washed out over a mile of embankment twenty feet high on the Illinois Central tracks a mile east of Le Mars, where Willow Creek runs under the railroad. Crops on tho bottoms were entirely de stroyed. Hundreds of head of cattle and horses were found swimming in their pastures and were rescued by men in boats. The flood is the highest ever known here. The water came down from the Sutherland storm, the larger part of it having gone on the other side of the di­ vide to Cherokee. Mails were delayed thirty-six hours. It will take several days to iix up the lllinoi-* Central from here to Cherokee. WEDDED IN THE RAIN. Pui*ll HarribM tho IMvoree* Will ol , Capt. 0>hM. The great sensation of the day lias been the wedding of Mr. Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea, says a London telegram. Mr. Parnell took the most extraordinary rreeaut ons to conceal as long as possi­ ble the fact of the marriage, lie bribed or cajoled all the officials at Steyning who were likely to be interrogated on the subject, so that it was impossible to obtain by telegraph from the registrars, the Postmaster, the stationmaster, or the clerks anything but denials or eva­ sive answers. Mr. Parnell had passed the previous evening at Walsingham terrace An order was given to have a solitary one- horse phaeton in readiness at 6 o'clock this morning instead of the usual order for horses or a carriage for exercise, as was customary when Mr Farnell was pping at Brighton. Wheu the con­ veyance was readv Mr- Farnell and Mrs. O'Shea entered the phaeton and orders were given to tho coachman to drive to the westward. After the party had left Brighton be­ hind them the driver was directed to proceed to Steyning by a circuitous route. Steyning was reached at 9 o'clock, at which time a heavy rain was tailing. Upon entering the town Mrs. O'Shea, who was familiar with the place and knew the situation of the registrar's office, relieved the coachman of the reins and drove direct to tiie ollice herself. Mr. Parnell was dressed in. dark clothes. He appeared to be well and in cheerful spirits, but occasionally threw nervous glances around him, apparently being somewhat anxious lest the wed­ ding party be observed. Mrs. O'Shea was also in dark attire and wore a pink- trimmed bonnet. She, too, was in good spirits and was Very vivacious both be­ fore and after the ceremony. It is announced that a second re­ ligious marriage will take place in Lon­ don Immediately, so as to satisfy Cath­ olics Mrs. Parnell was seen at Wals­ ingham Terrace. She said she and Mr. Parnell were married, but she declined to have the ceremony performed in a church in London, there having been difficulty In connection with the license. MET A HORRIBLE DEATH' A Frolfht Train in Nebraska Bushes la to • Washout feovonty-flvo Foot Doe p. A Burlington fast freight of twenty- threo cars on the Lincoln and Black Hills branch plunged into an abyss seventy- five feet deep, .says a telegram from Yo^k, Neb. Engineer Delaney and Fire­ man Bean are lying dead and horribly mangled beneath the upturned en­ gine and twelve cars. lirakeman Moore was rescued from the death trap with a derrick. An enormous iron spiko passed through his body, pinning him to the bottom of the hole. In falling, •n arm and leg had been torn from his body. For several hundred yards wide wreckage is piled in confusion, sur­ rounded by dead rattle with which the train was loadoi. Owing to the fright­ ful condition of the wreck, as a result of the storm, no effort has been made, to repair the dam ago. The Wreck was caused by the flood, THE SEA POSTOFFICES> Mr. WsMunakmr** Laimt Postal Urtm-- Sov In *«eo«e»fai Operation One of the Pofitmastet- General's first inquiries on his return from the West related to the development of the sea poetoffice*.. He found that there are now in successful operation ten of these, each bearing its appropriate number, and located on as many vessels. Begin­ ning with the arrival of the Havel on the 9th of April, there have been four­ teen inward trips made from Bremen and Hamburg to New York. There have been brought on these trips 800,000 un­ registered and over 11,000 registered letters, besides a large amount of •printed matter. This mail was worked ready for delivery either to the ad­ dresses in New York or to the railway postoffices running in every direction out of New York, according to the dis­ tribution scheme furnished the clerks in charge. The United States clerks, who were very carefully selected from the foroe of the New York City postofiice and the railway mail service, have done their work weli. The time gained in get­ ting this correspondence to the ad- dresses in the case of that addressed to parties in New York City is at least six hours, white in the case of correspond­ ence addressed to distant parts of the couutry there is a gain in some in­ stances of nearly two days. The largest mail worked on one trip was that brought by sea postofiice, No. 2, on the steamer Columbia on her second trip, arriving at New York from Hamburg on the Uth inst, with 91,415 letters. The distributing tables were found too small and have been enlarged to meet the requirements of the United Stated distribution scheme. The time made by the steamers has been good, the longest voyage covering but ten days, and in several instance* it has only been eight days. The United States clerks have enjoyed a remarkable exemption from sea-sickness, reporting none in fact in the last ten trips. German clerks have not been so fortu­ nate. Of the force at present employed in a sea postofiice, the United States furnishes a clerk and the German Government a clerk and a helper or laborer. One of the conveniences for passengers on board is that they are allowed to mail correspondence just as they would in an office on land, the clerks being required to carry the stamps of their respective countries. The United States stamps are used to prepay postage on the outward trips and the German stamps are used for the same purpose on mail on the in­ ward trip. There has been a constant improvement in the thoroughness with which the mails are worked, until now very little mail reaches New York which is not ready for immediate dis­ patch. . I'rovoKtny. Country servants have been the theme of more than one humorist, but there are many still undescribed. One of these said she was willing "to oblige" a Boston woman last summer, when the second girl was ill, and the distance from the city to the country house where the family were staying was so great as to render it difficult togetserv ants, Tho newcomer was a tall and gaunt widow, who called herself "Mis' Gere," and lived, as she said, "to Snow field Corner." She was not very satisfactory in her new position, and she had a haphazard way of doing things which made it un­ safe to trust her. She would lay the table so imperfectly that it would be necessary to call for dishes throughout the meal, and if she was remonstrated with, and asked to see that everything was on the table before summoning the family, her invariable reply was: "Wal, I did look before I rung the bell, an' I didn't see anythin' that wa'n't there." At last it was decided that Mis' Gere was worse than no maid, and she was accordingly told that her services would be dispensed with, a communication which she received with the remark, in­ solently delivered. 44 Wah I dunnosl blame ye fer sendiu' me of. I shouldn't want a girl in the house myself that I thought was too good for me to eat with." The lady of the house smiled, but made no reply. Mis' Gere waited, a moment, and then, in a reproachful voice, continued: MI sh'd think yoti might't least have said somethin' to that, go's I could 'a' had an excuse to sarse yer some!"--- lout ft'a Conipanion. Knives and Forkb The use of forks was introduced into France with many other refined methods of living, by Catherine de Medici, and from France was ' introduced into En­ gland, where Ben Jonson ridiculed their, use as a beggarly fashion, imported from Italy "to the saving of napkins." The first person who is recorded to have used a fork was a daughter of a Greek Emperor, who married a Doge of Venice, and whose luxurious way of living was the scandal of that City of the Sea. "She ate her food," says the Venetian chronicler, "with a golden fork, and yet in spite of all this luxury she died of a loathsome disease." The knives and forks did not come into com­ mon uses among the nobility in England till the seventeenth century; and as late as tip eighteenth ccntury, gentlemen, in traveling, carried their knives and fork, in a case, as inns did aot often furnish such luxuries. Valuable Chinese Bo--fc . In China there is a root called Khe- fci-ye, which often sells for from twenty to 100 times its weight in gold, lit Nanchuria the same root, under a differ­ ent name, if anything even more un­ pronounceable, sells equally as high. These roots, which MI order to be highly valuable must be of a peculiar thape, are bought only by mandarins, priests and others of . the wealthiest classes. Single roots of this wonderful ' ?) plant, not weighing more than the ;enth of*an ounce, are said to often sell for from $50 to $75 each. "What is still uore remarkable about this valuable Eastern root is the fact that it is a closely allied species, if not identical, with our common ginseng.--8L Louis Republic. " 1 1 !.* Sbiddlng Its Skin. No one seems to have been an ob- terver, orat least to have been a re- soider, as to how a snake sheds its kin. Dr. Benjamin Sharp, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural sciences, bad the opportunity last March, tOn the 18th, two of the com non New Jersey epeeies, Entameia irtalis, were captured and placed in he vivarium of the Academy. One »ne out of the water and got on the ;raasy sod, shrugged itself for a mo- nent, wiien the skin parted at the jaws. The cerebral portion, however, re­ named fixed, so that when the creature trawled out the old skin was inside out AFFAIBS IN ILLINOIS^? mm; rr«M8 GATHEREtl PROM OUS SOURCES. What Oar Neighbors Are Daing-MsttiM) of General and l^ocal Interest -- MaiM riagos aad Deaths--Accidents and Criwa! -- Personal Pointer's. THB Highland Bank has been granted permission to commence business at Highland, Madison County, with a cajh ital stock of S25,<;00. Louis E. Kume In President, and Pelmer Pabst Cashier. Miss NATALIE F. DCSX, a soprs&ft singer of Chicago, aqd Prot W. C. R. Seeboeck, ccmpo-er and pianist of Chi­ cago, were married at Kalamazoo, Mick. AT Piano J. T. Clifford wai struck by a freight train and killed. AT Alton Frank, the infant son of R. Johnston, was fatally burned by eaUkt* concentrated lye, A COMMITTEE representing the Board of Commissioners of Cook County wfll vfsit Baltimore for the purpose of In­ specting the Johns Hopkins Hospital* which is said to be the best managed institution of the kind in the country. FORT SHKRIHAX, the new army peat on the outskirts of i hit-ago, is in com­ mand of Col. Robert E. A. Crofton, of the Fifteenth Infantry. He is a fine- looking man of 5<>, with a soldier's fig­ ure and a soldier's record. He is an Irishman by birth, and in his younger days he held a commission in the British army. H A.MTVTON SPEKCSB, one of the most respected and noted lawyers of Bloom- ington, was knocked down by a cable car at Chicago and died a few hoars later at the County Hospital. The wheels of an entire train passed over the unfortunate man, and when he Was picked up his body was bruised In a frightful manner. The passengers on the train say that Mr. Spencer seemed to bo unaware that a car was approach­ ing until he heard the clang of the bell when he was within a few feet of the grip. He appeared to be dazed wheu he realizod his perilous position; the next moment the car was crushing his life out IN discharging the Chicago doctor who sewed up a gash in a man's head and then tore the wound open again because the patient had no money, J ustice Ebei* hardt said the doctor's act was not cov­ ered by auy law that he is familiar with. It will surprise some people to know that law is nccessary in police courts. The usual course of Justices is to change the complaint no matter what it ntay< be, to disorderly conduct and inflict a small fine for that. Couldn't Justice Eberhardt have reached the doctor In this manner? LAST week let loose 140,000 children from the Chicago public school* It is the biggest and best disciplined army that was ever discharged in the West ILLINOIS counties producing most coal are Fulton, Orundy, Jackson, Peoria, Perry, Saint Clair, Sangamon, and Ver- * mil ion. Fulton County has twenty-four regular and ninety-six local mines, but these do not produce as much coal as the eleven regular and eleven local mines ol Grundy County. La^alle has twenty- one regular and eight local mines, pro­ ducing 1,339,112 tons, ^alnt Clair has fifty-eight regular and twenty four local mines, producing 1,209,360 tons. ThO tive mines in Marion County, all new, produce 220,819 tons. The avciage price of coal per ton at the mines is 93 cents In Bond County, $L50 in Brown, S1.29 In Bureau, 78 ceuts in Christian, $2 In Crawford, SI-08 in Fulton, 71 cents In Gallatin, 92 cents in Jackson, Si. 15 in LaSalle, 73 cents in Macoupin. 76 cents in Madison, 80 cents in Marion, $1.01 in Peoria, 81 cents in Perry, 78 cents in Randolph, cents in Saint Clair, 88 cents in Sangamon, $102 in Yermiifon. The new mines opened in the last few years have greatly cheapened fuel in the neighborhoods 1n which they are situ­ ated. Thousands of farmers in thoae counties now use coal where dozoos did before. '«"• -•> Suit1 will begin In the Federal Court in Chicago next week to recover $2,00<V C00 worth of silver ore taken from a Texas mine. The plaintiff, Ernest Dale Owen, of the law firm of Crews & Owen, brings suit as trustee for Chicago and Indiana parties against the Nevada Bank of 8an Francisco, John F. Boyd and otiiers This suit Is a part of the litigation growing outof the purchase of what is known as the Jose Ygnacio Ronquillo grant near El Paso, Texas, consisting of over l,5oryno ac es and said to be one of the richest mineral dis­ tricts in tho world. This property is now owned by Chicago and Indiana capitalists who, through their agents, Crews & Owen, ha\e been for the last two years quietly buyintr up the interests of the Ronqui lo grant The deal, which has been practically consum­ mated. is one of the largest of the kind ever made. REGARDING assignment of property by debtors, the Supremo Court says: The statute of this State does not contain any negative words declaring invalid any Assignment not acknowledged. The directions are not obligatory but direc­ tory, and a failure to comply with all of them will not violate the act nor preju­ dice tho rights of those interested. The assigument act is for the benefit of cred­ itors, and unless they complain of a fa lure to follow out every absolute re­ quirement no others can interoose ob­ jections. When a deed of assignment is made and the property delivered with It che failure of the assignee to perform any or all of the acts required to be per­ formed by him should not permit the assignment to fa'l, because the assignor as well as the creditors is interested In the matter. AT Greenville. Mrs. Charlotte Mc- Cra ken was killed by falling off her pdrch. THIS 3-year-old son of Mrs. Laura Turner, of East Hillsboro, was drowned In a cistern. THK oat louse has done great damage to the oat crop in De Witt County dur­ ing the last two weeks and in some localities the Hessian fly is damaging the wheat THE news that I ewls Mamnel, A cook in one of tho Galesburg hotels, has fcean left a fortune in Italy was confirmed by a letter from his sister advising him to return to. Italy at once and claim the property. The entire estate is estimated as worth over $l,0iM),000, and his share will bo nearly $400,000. THE Governor has vetoed House bill No. 73 to amend au act to require own­ ers of thrashins machines to guard against accidouts. There Is now a law to protect persons against injury from exposod tumbling rods, and the proposed law, the Governor thinks, wouid render tho former Inoperative. A CASE was rcrcutly before the Supreme Court to recover the amount loaned on a mortgage whore it appeared, that the mortgagor fraudlently repre­ sented himself to bt" another person, and the clerk taking the acknowledgement certified that tho party was the one he represented himself to bo. The Supreme Court distinctly states that every officer who takes an acknowledgement most know that the person signing & paper la the person whose name is affixed there­ to, or he is liable for the full amowrt called for in the deed, mortgage, w other instrument JAMKS CHKKVKS Ihd John Hall wen arrested at Metropolt* charge ̂ V counterfeiting. .***• Si'- _vr 1 , /* " / J « Hi "... 3 s iX; 7^> ' M M mis