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|gtgirtirg fjflaiadcalci */v«8 tLYKE. Editor and PaMIsNr. McHKKBY, xzxxNOta BoYPTrAN mummic- recently ex­ amined show that the women of those days wore corsets. Stays had come to stey thousands of years ajro. IT is said that all the people IN the world could find standing room in a field ten miles square. Of course, there would have to be no University foot-ball game going on while all the world and his wife were gathered in. I^rfl86l the famous Languedofc canal was completed. Tins Rave France an artificial waterway 148 miles in lenorth, with a summit level of 600 feet above the sea, and includ­ ing upward of 100 locks tnd fifty aqueducts, ft"* ^ THE necessities of party journalism are many and pressing, but they are no justification for a paper failing to remember that a man does not neces- ,Lj„--sariiy cease to be entitled to be fejfri;• treated as a gentleman because he V • happens to be a candidate. x • THE old lest about the celerity of the gas meter has given way to the somber record being made by the iras in a mortuary way. The person who sleeps in a room where there is a jet and fails to wake on the bright shin­ ing shore is disregarding a fashion on which undertakers thrive. AT all times, in this wintry lite, tttfe frescnce of those we love is like a gleam of sunshine through the clouds, lighting up one particular spot amid the shadows, and giving warmth, and lustre, and loveliness to all beneath the ray. That passing gleam still seems brighter than the full sunshine. ^r- * 111;'* - IT seems to be a law of our nature, Intended perhaps, for our preserva­ tion, that little evils, coming home to ourselves, should affect us more than great evils, at a distance, han- pening to others; but they must l?e evils which we cannot prevent, and over which we have no control, for perhaps there is no man who would lose a little finger to save China. horsehair in the potentiality of wealth production. Margaret has certainly gained much pecuniary ad­ vantage by her change of spouse. It is to be hoped that her new nuptial relations will excel her old ones la point of duration. For the present, anyhow, "Prosit!" Isr Colorado is a sweet-faced, eyed boy whose locks of gold the wind of but eleven summers have tossed. No more angelic-looking child ever adorned the infant class at Sunday- school or saddened the public by ap­ pearing as a Little Lurd Fauntleroy. Yet this winsome lad recently mur­ dered a man in cold blood, robbed the body of a watch, took the vic­ tim's revolver,' and, with a smile of serene and touching innocence, told his mother about it. The case is sad as well as abnormal, for the boy does not appreciate his crime. He has not even the judgment to claim that his auto-hypnotic machine slipped a cog and led him astray. . IT has been the fashion tosetmrate hand-work from head-work, as if the two were incompatible. One was foi laborers* and mechanics, the other for professional and literal people; one was for the poor, the other foi the rich. But we are gradually learn­ ing that their harmonious union is the only means of perfection of either. Ruskin says truly: '«We want one man to be always thinking, and an­ other to be always working, and we call one a gentleman and the othei an operator; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense. The mass of society is made up of morbid thinkers and miserable workers. It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity." THE picture of Columbus upon the souvenir coin will be ideal, so it is stated. It is not altogether clear how it could be anything else, since the roving gentleman whose bones rest in a pair of tombs neglected to leave any authentic portrait. Those available range from figures of a pallid student to a bewhiskered bri­ gand, each probably as wrong as the other. THE Egyptian army intends to crush Osman Digna.an operation that argues the possession of courage and that Mr. Digna need not view as par- j ^ut were ticularly objectionable. A man who can die of starvation, smallpox and yellow feve$ in three different places | leather, at once and then bob up sound and ' pugnacious in three other places could he crushed half a dozen times and never know it THS old idea of advertising by throwing illumined designs on the clouds has been revived in England and some of the London papers are appalled at the prospects which it opens out It appears that a select party of engineers gathered together near London, made some very sue. cessfui experiments in throwing luminous letters on the clouds by means of electricity and the sugges­ tion to cover the sky with huge, flam­ ing advertisements naturally fol­ lowed. One leading paper, after ex­ pressing the conviction that the county council have battled in vain against "sky signs" on the tops of houses, if the clouds themselves are utilized for business purposes, states that it has received a letter from three electricians to the effect that they had patented an invention of this nature six months ago They further assert that not only did they succeed in projecting images of let­ ters and landscapes on natural clouds, able to create artificial clouds for the purpose, so as to be practically independent of the l»- •< QQLLIS P. HUNTINGTON is in MEX­ ico,'scanning the opportunities for profitable investments. The greasers would save time by coming down at once, like Capt Scott's coon, and al­ lowing Mr. H. to institute whatever monopolies may suit his speculative fancy. He never fails in his ends. Whether in the quiet conciliation of Legislative bodies or the open pur­ chase of a princely son-in-law he in­ variably gets there with both feet. THERE is a degree of purity and of honor which is insensible to tempta­ tion. Circumstance is the occasion of vice, but no more. The seed is in the heart, and the soil has not been found in which it will refuse to grow. There are people who will "break out" as thp expressive saying is, any­ where, ana under any circumstances. If the tree be good, the fruit will be good; but if the tree be bad, no amount of cultivation will produce good fruit HALIFAX, S. S., sent to Sable Is- Jan0, N. S:, some time ago, a number ot cats to destroy the rats, which were killing the rabbits. The cats, tiring of destroying rats, played sad havoc among the rabbits, and at last becoming very numerous & number of foxes were sent to drive the cats out The foxes not only killed the cats but all the young birds. This fact has been brought to the notice of the Government with a view of having the foxes cleared off the island. It is estimated that the wheat crop of the United Kingdom this year will fall below 60,000,000 bushels. The estimated population is a little- ovei 38,000,000, and the consumption ol wheat per head is six bushels, so that 230,000,000 will be required to meet the demand. It will thus be seen that the United Kingdom will have to import wheat for the next year to as larcre an amount as usual,or nearly so. The amount of acreage under til­ lage has for seme time been decreas­ ing, many thousands of acres having been withdrawn from the plow in England and Scotland during the last four years and devoted to the plant­ ing of young forest trees. It seeigs likely that this will go on, not per­ haps, indefinitely, but until a much larger area has thus been withdrawn from the cultivation of grata, which the English farmer does not find profitable. It may be regarded as set­ tled fqr all time that agriculture will never regain what it has lost in the United Kingdom, though it is possi­ ble that under changed conditions to be expected in the ownership of the lands the time will come when agri­ culture will be more profitable than it is at present SOME Nebraska people recently got an opportunity to show their courage, and they showed it They were riding on a train at the rate of forty miles per hour, when a robber bold drew his gun and began to rob. He had placed the weapon against the person of a diamand drummer, with apparent intent to uerforate it Without an instant's hesitation the valiant Nebraskans rushed from the car.and, with a nerve almost magnifi­ cent precipitated themselves off the platform. MARGARET MATHER, the a?tress, having shunted her first husband, Emil Haberkorn, the musician, has married Col. Gus Pabst son of the great ilwaukee brewer. Beer may hot be equal to the fiddle in point of aesthetic artisticalityj but the amber fluid "lays way over" catgut and Bits of Natural History. One pound's weight of bees contains 5,232 insects. A bird in the London Zoo, a shel- drake, has apparently committed sui­ cide on account ol the death of its mate. A recent experiment has proved that carrier pigeons may be trusted to convey messages from ships several hundred miles at sea. Charles Wood of Harleston, En­ gland, has a brood of white black­ birds, a fact which is vouched for bj several prominent ornithologists and : naturalists. The giraffe is gradually disappear­ ing in some parts of Africa. Where it was no uncommon thing to see herds of eighty some years ago it is now a rarity to see a herd of more thdn twenty strong. New York City boasts of a cat which patronizes the soda water foun­ tain of a drug store on Sixth avenue. Some time ago "pussy" discovered that the cream of the fountain suited her taste and she has a habit of golnc up to the counter and waiting until it is served with its favorite flavor in its own particular saucer. WAR Off TI1E SOLDIERS. BOURBONS SAY THE VETERAN MUST BE SACRIFICED. Democracy Is Already Demanding that the Payment of Pensions Shall Bo Cat Down--A Newspaper Falsehood Hcteled '--Cleveland L»clu Courage.. • _ • Copperhead Methods. The soldier-hating Democracy is in the saddle and the assault on the Union veterans has begun. The Copperheads of the North whose representatives nominated a Demo­ cratic candidate for President on a platform declaring the war for the Union a failure, have united with the Confederate Bcurbons of the South in demanding that the pay­ ment of pensions shall be cut down. Before the election Democratic newspapers were filled with hypocriti­ cal assurances of affection for Union vetenans and respect for their claims on the country's gratitude. The necessity for dissimulation is now over. A Democratic Pesident whose hostility toward the men who bore arms in the defense of the nation found expression in long series of sneering and unmanly pension vetoes has been elected. The House is Democratic. The Senate, for many years the bulwark of Americanism, has been stormed by the men whose political principles are found in the Confederate constitution. The com­ mand has gone forth that the old soldiers must be sacrificed. The New York Democratic organ whose rampant treason during the rebellion forced the government at Washington to urder its temporary suppression, denounces the pension system as "a carnival of wrong and robbery," and shrieks fantically that it must be changed. Democratic journals in New England, in the Mid­ dle States and the West echo the cry. The Bourbon organs of the South are exultant in their triumph over the men they have never ceased to hate, and clamorous in their demand for the withdrawal of the nation's bounty for them. Be it so. The Republican party will not shirk the issue. The Repub­ lican party has no apology to make for saving the nation, no regrets for its generous treatment of the heroes who faced death under the Stars and Stripes. It will stand by its princi­ ples now as it stood by its guns dur­ ing the years of storm and stress when 'Democracy fought the Union armies in the field and treacherously assailed the Union cause from the rear. Attempts to rob the gray- haired veterans of the hard-won pit­ tance that this mighty and prosper­ ous nation--the richest on earth-- has decreed shall be theirs, will meet with the determined resistance of the Republicans in the Fifty-third Congress. If projected Democratic schemes are carried out in spite of Republican opposition, the Republi­ can party will appeal to the people at the next general election to hurl from power the faction uhat refuses bread to the men but for whose pa­ triotic devotion the United States would not to-day be in existence:-- New York Press. •loseph Was F&ollsh. The Cjst of shouting "Vive la France!" one time in Alsace-Lorraine has been fixed at 20 marks. Joseph Eugene Lemoine, a journalist whe lives in France but gave utterance tc his patriotic feeiingte Metz, baa Just, fouad this out. A Newspaper Falsehood. "The Harrison administration found $100,000,000 in the Treasury and leaves it with a deficit of $100,- 000,000." So shout the New York World and the New York Herald, and so repeats the Democratic cross­ roads organ from Maine to Texas. It Is a falsehood, and a falsehood which is a slander. W<en Mr. Cleveland went out of office there was a surplus of $100,000,000 because he did not use it in paying off the public debt. Half of this surplus was deposited in favored banks, for which no interest was received, but which ihe banks loaned to the people at from 5 to 8 per cent When General Harrison became President this money was withdrawn from the banks as rapidly as possible and used in the pay­ ment of the interest-bearing debt. During the first three years of Presideut Harrison's term $296,316,931.20 was paid out in the redemption of $259,093,650 in­ terest-bearing bonds. Whim General Harrison became President the an- nual interest charge of the Govern­ ment was $34,578,459.80. June 1, 1892, the interest charge was $22,- 8b3,881.20. Here is an annual saving oa the interest account of $11,684,- 578.60, or a little more than one- third since Mr. Cleveland left office in 1889. The revision of the tariff took nearly $60,000,000 a year from the revenue, while the pension charges have been increased both by the old laws and the act of July, 1890. There is no deficiency in the treasury, and there would not have been any danger of it if the revenues derived from the tariff bad not materially fallen off during the past two weeks, presumably because importers are not certain what course to pursue. Deficient in Courage and Dignity. President Harrison did not find it necessary to run away from his party friends in the intervals between elec­ tion and inauguration, though prob­ ably no President-elect ever had a greater number of visitors. Indeed, from the day of his nomination to the 4th of March he practically kept open house and denied himself to none who called. He was criticised by those who did not know him as a "cold" man, but though he may not have greeted all whe came with the effusiveness suitable to the reception of long-lost and beloved relatives, he at least received them with civility and listened to what they had to say. But Mr. Harrison Was not confronted with the difficult problem of explain­ ing to the representatives of party factions how the coming adminis­ tration was to reduce the tariff without injuring business or how it was to avoid the reduction without confessing that the party policy was a failure and its platform a lie. Mr. Cleveland is a stolid person, but he cannot stand this strain, and, there­ fore, slips off between two days to a secret biding place. But if Mr. Har- J rison had had such a problem to con­ sider can any one fancy him indulg­ ing in such a cowardly refuge from his difficulties? And can any one imagine Mr. Harrison dismissing in­ quiring reporters by sending bacl: their cards with the cheap and an* cient "gag" that he "could pot read writing?" Mr. Cleveland is President-elect, and as such the people, regardless of party, would like to respect him, but unless he preserves his dignity better they will find this Increasingly diffi­ cult to do. The Republicans and the TarlR Secretary Charles Foster, while de­ claring that the tariff was the cause of the Republican overthrow, says it would be "nonsense for the Republi­ cans to abandon in any degree their present policy." The St Louis Globe Democrat thinks, however, that the Secretary is not a wise counselor in the present emergency. This able Republican journal says: "When an army meets an overwhelming defeat its commander, if he knows his busi­ ness, at once inquires into causes, with the intention of remedying them, and thus to put his forces in better condition for the next en­ counter. If the defeat be due to the incompetency or negligence of his lieutenants they are either removed or reduced; if to a faulty plan of campaign the plan is altered;.and If to the adoption of a wrong position the positions taken in the future, so far as conditions will permit, will be different. The leaders of a great party, after the defeat of tfieir party, will, if they are at all fitted for their posts, make a like investigation and take similar precautions. "The Republican party wa3 beaten because it had taken a wrong position on some of the leading questions of national concern. It was wrong on the Federal election matter; it was emphatically and fatally wrong on the tariff. The passage of the Mc- Kinley law of 18»0 was the greatest blunder ever committed by any party since the Democratic crime of seces­ sion. It overwhelmingly defeated the party in the Congressional elec­ tion of that year, and it was the lead­ ing cause in the overthrow this year. Many Republicans who were never in favor of the act believed after the set-back of 1890 that tte popular hostility to it would subside by the time the President,j«l election came around, and that the party might then retain its supremacy in the executive branch of the Government and regain control of the legislative branch. The returns show how com­ pletely and conspicuously those hopes have been blasted, "The party must, of course, adhere to the protective policy, but it must be protection of the rational kind-- the protection which keeps th<; inter­ ests of consumers as well as those of producers In view. It must be the kind of protection which the party adopted at the beginning of its ca­ reer, which it began to practically exemplify in the early "70s" by re­ ducing discriminatingly but decided­ ly, and which it maintained until the McKinley school of economists forced themselves to the front. Under this sign the Republicans can again con­ quer." Will Be Short-Lived. A party whose victory is due to the fact that the opposing party simply refused to go to the polls, holds power on a frail tenure, and this power will be short-lived. This is the case with the Democratic party. In proportion to population there are no more Democrats in the country now than there were in 1888, while there are just as many Repub­ licans as there were then. No Re publicans have gone oVer to the Democracy. Their party was beaten because tens of thousands of its mem­ bers in every important State de­ clined to vote, and they declined to vote because the party's position on some of the leading issues did not suit them. The party's position will be fixed so that it will suit every Republican in 1896, The Democracy Is Disappointed. With the prospect before it of a Treasury deficiency brought about by the unprecedented appropriations of the Democratic Fifty-second House the Democratic party feels about as happy as a man who cracks a safe thinking it filled with gold, and who finds upon finishing the job that the money isn't there. It is partisan disappointment and not solicitude for public affairs that fills the heart of of the Democracy as it surveys the Treasury. THE official returns in Illinois show that, outside of Cook County, where Chicago is situated, the vote for President was: Republican, .288,034; Democratic, 281,6V*; Prohibition, 29,968* People's party, 20,593. In spite of the Prohibition and People's party vote, most of which came from the Republicans, they carried the State outside of Chicago by a plural­ ity of more than 6,000. It was the slums of Chicago, the thousands of aliens who took out their "first pa­ pers" a few days before the election, that turned the scale for Cleveland.-- Indianapolis Journal. THE President-elect loses his tem­ per early in the game, and goes off to hide after delivering himself of a few characteristic remarks concerning the motives of the throng of visitors who have been pressing upon him since the election. With his cus­ tomary selfishness he suspects each caller of being an office-seeker, and warns the public that he will put a rod in pickle for everj man whodares to mention patronage before March 4. What a fall there has been in the temperature of Mr. Cleveland since Nov. 8. . MR. CLEVELAND has started on a hunting trip to evade the pressure of office-seekers. A hunting trip may do as a temporary expedient, but nothing short of a whaling voyage will accomplish the desired result.-- Globe-De mocrat. CLEVELAND IS In a situation to ap­ preciate the force of Lincoln's droll observation with regard to an attack of small-pox, that he was glad he finally had something to give to all the office-seekers. EVIDENTLY Mr. Cleveland isn't half as glad to receive callers as he was before the election. Both the weather and the statesman have changed. FROM Buzzard's Bay to Hog Island is not a "far cry." Disconsolate Dem­ ocrats may be happy now that they know where Cleveland is at. IT is not half as easy to get a letter from Mr. Cleveland nay. as it was three months ago. ^ IN THE LOWER HOUSE. AN INTERESTING STUDY ITS PERSONNEL. or Bow It Compares with Its Predecessor In Numbers and Talent the Republicans Gala White tho Demoerats XoM -- Old. Member* Returned. From the Capital. Washington correspondence: The lower house of the Fifty-third Congress will have a decided Democra­ tic majority, yet the Republicans by the recent election gained more than they lost in numbers and talent, while the Democrats lost many old and experlenc- e l members. In the House of Repre­ sentatives of the Fifty-second Congress there are 235 Democrats, 88 Republi­ cans and 9 Farmers' Alliance men, making a total of 332 members. In the Fifty-third Congress the total member­ ship will be 356, a gain of 24 under the reapportionment of the new census. It is impossible yet to slate definitely the relative strength of each party in the House, because In many districts the official count will be necessary to de­ termine accurately the result. From the returns already received, however, it is evident that the Democrats will have in round aumbers 220 members, the Republicans 130, and the Populists and Independents the remaining 6, With such a working saajority as this the Democrats will bo able to enact any legislation they choose on the tariff or any other question; and as the Senate will also have a Democratic majority, the party will be entirely responsible for whatever legislation is sent to Pres­ ident Cleveland for his signature. A study of the personnel of the newly elected House shows that remarkably few changes have been made in its membership, considering the fact that the Kepresentatives were voted for at a Presidential election, when men of both parties are naturally more anxious for nominations than in go-called off years. There have been comparatively few men of conspicuous ability or striking personality in the lower house during the past few years, and the Fifty-sec­ ond Congress was especially lacking in big men. The new Congress gains lit­ tle If anything by the changes resulting from the elections, and ihe Democrats have failed to make up in ability what they have lost in the failure of old and capable members to be renominated or re-elected. The Republicans, on the other hand, in proportion to their total number, will have more men of real ability and parliamentary experience than the Demoorats. Losite* and Gains. The Democrats will still have such strong men as Speaker Crisp, Judge Holman, Springer, the Breckinridges, Bynum of Indiana, Bourke Cockran, Amos Curamings, Col. Fellows, Harter of Ohio, McMillin of Tennessee, Rayner of Maryland, and Blanchard of .Lou­ isiana; but they have lost Blount of Georgia, Herbert and Forney of Ala­ bama, Hemphill of South Carolina, Hoar and Williams of Massachusetts, and others. The three first named have served long years in Congress, and are possessed of valuable knowledge and experience, which will be missed by their constituents and their colleagt.es in committees and on the floor of the House. The Republicans lost none of their leaders, and the apt debaters, shrewd legislators, and skillful parliamentarians that make up the little band who have stood so gallantly by their dethroned Czar during the sessions of the present Democratic House are all returned, and will continue to Mlow the brilliant, if erratic and fateful, leadership of Tom Reed. Among the members of the Fifty- second Congress who were noted above their fellows for some peculiar trait of chai acter, personal appearance, or inci­ dent in life, and whose names will no longer be heard in the roll call, are Kittle Haivorsen, the Norwegian Al­ liance and Prohibition member from Minnesota; the venerable Leonidas M. Miller, of Wisconsin, wt:o, as he sat in the front row, his bald head bobbing over his spectacles, bore a striking re­ semblance to Pickwick, who was born in Greece, the son of a fighting chief­ tain, who left him on the battlefield after a fierce fight with the Turks; Sherman Hoar and George Fred Will- lams, of Massachusetts, who wept when Mills was defeated in the speakership caucus, and refused forsooth to vote for Crisp in the House; "Tom" Watson, of Georgia, who wrote a book to prove that his colleagues in Congress were drunkards, and "the three Taylors," all from Ohio, and all Republicans. There will only be two Taylors in the new House as against five in the old. One is from Indiana and the other is from Texas. There will be two Smiths only, George W., from Pennsylvania, and Marcus A., a delegate from Arizona. HI* Last Ofttclnl Da yd. Mr. Harrison will get his last month's pay on February 28 or 29 in the shape of a draft issued on a warrant signed as usual by the Secretary of the Treasury and sent over to the White House by a messenger. The amount of this draft would be $4,166.67, but four days' excra pay will be added for March. On the evening of March 3 he will go to the Capitol, where he will seat himself at the big table in the center of the President's room. This is said to be the handsomest room in the world, but the Chief Magistrate of the nation only uses it once in two years. It has a velvet carpet with a pile so deep that the footsteps of one who walks upon it are noiseless. The furniture is covered with red leather, and the ceiling is fres­ coed in the highest style of art. Mr. Harrison will take a chair between two great mirrors, which so throw back each other's reflections that looking in either direction, he can see an interminable line of his own Images extending out of sight. Up to midnight he will be occu- died in hurriedly signing bills, in order that they may become laws before the expiration of the Fifty-second Con­ gress. It will be his last night of power. The next day he becomes a private citi­ zen, with no more control over public affairs than a newly naturalised for­ eigner. Growth of Steam. STEAM was first used in making gas about 1798. STEAM was first used to warm facto­ ries in 1806. STEAM was first applied to driving looms in 1807. FIBST steamboat on the Thames made trial trip in 1801. FIRST steamer run on Hudson River by Fulton in 1807. TBEVETHICK built the first high-pres­ sure engine in 1801. FULTON built the steamer Clermont on the Seine in 1803. BLEKKII?SOP used steam power on coal railroad in 1811. SIEAM first employed in dramatto representations in 1821. IN 1804 the usual working pressure was 4 pounds to an inch. THE Rising Sun, built by Cochrane, crossed Atlantic in 1818. IN 1808 the Phornix was regularly running on the Delaware. WooiiF built the first double-cylinder expansion engine ia 1804. THE Chailotte Dunda*, 1803, used lot towing on Scottish, canals. * - < IN 1865, 850 railroad " Inoorporsitiad bills passed by Parliament. Fans Clouds Refuse to lYeep at the Com maud of Dyren forth. IA the rain-making experiment at San Antonio, Tex., several charges of rosel- lite were fired andT four shells were sent up from the mortars. The ground charges, according to a correspondent, did no more than shake the earth. T h e m o r t a r s threw their shells in the air about 1,000 feet and ex- ~f ploded prettily. * Then Gen.Dyren- forth brought out •his grand battery in the shape of an "explosive balloon. It took a long the necessary In- BXNKItAL DTBSXrORTH while to fill it with RTedients. The balloons used in these experiments are made of paper covered with a light cotton netting. There is il&nger in filling these dreadful things and even greater In letting them go, for the slightest mishap or carelessness would itfcd everybody to kingdom come. Kxploslon of the Balloon. It was nearly dark when the balloon went up, bat its ascent and explosion I was a pretty sight. The hundreds of eyes watching it all at once saw a blind­ ing flash on the heavens and then came a profound silence for six or seven sec­ onds, then a shock which shook the ground. The balloon had exploded right beneath a fleecy cloud. The cloud kept on its way calmly and serenely, but, as Prof. Ellis said, the cloud was 18,000 feet high, and as the explosion occurred only 4,000 feet nearer, the cloud might have been excused for its inattention. The following day it was fully 8 o'clock before the fusillade finally opened. The sky was greatly overcast in the morning, but everybody said it was not a ra. n cloud and the General might go ahead. The breeze ^as south­ westerly and blowing about ten miles an hour. About 3 o'clock Messrs. Dickenson and King, with the president of the San Antonio Beard cf Trade, waited upon Geneia! Dyr*nforth and somewhat sharply said that there was no use waiting for further favorable conditions. They wanted the test mads at once, and wanted it kept up till some result was obtaine 1. The General waived his military gauntlet in the direction of a battery to the westward which opened with a series of detonations of five and ten pound charges of rosellite. Then on the crest of the ridge could be seen other puffs ofs moke until nearly a semicircle of explosions had been seen and noted. Then Dr. Rosell opened his mortar battery from the brow of tha hili near Dyrenforth's headquarters and a dozen or more shells were sen! up a thousand feet and exploded. These shells contained three pounds of rosel­ lite. While the firing was going on Pro­ fessor Ellis prepared another gaseoui balloon. It was the same as was sent uf the day before, but to the relief of thi crowd had a longer fuse, for it did nol explode until it was a mile in the air. When it did go there was a vivid flash, a puff of smoke visible for an instant, and then a wait of eight seconds for th< shock. No Kflfcot on the Clouds. It was terrific. Horses and buggies were changed about and all nature seemed convulsed, but again the fleecj clouds against which the balloon had been sent sailed majestically along, seemingly indifferent. The first bom­ bardment was kept up until midnight, when the first battery of 3,000 of rosel­ lite was exhausted. The fusillade will be resumed and continued without in­ termission for twenty-four hours. This will sonclude the first series of experi­ ments. FOR A NATIONAL QUARANTINE. Recommendations to Be Made by Surgeos General Wyman. Surgeon General Wyman, of the Ma­ rine Hospital service, in whose handa have been placed all the measures foi suppression of cholera, said that his an­ nual report to the Secretary of the Treasury would strongly recommend that the matter of quarantines be placed under national control. He will sug­ gest that there be established either a national quarantine or a Bureau of Health, whose duties will be specifically confined to meeting just such emergen­ cies as have been presented by the re­ cent, cholera scare. The report wiM follow closely the recommendation of the Quarantine Com­ mittee, made up of leading physicians of the country, appointed last fall at the meeting of the National Medioal Congress. These gentlemen have visited the various ports of entry from Maine to New Orleans, and they say the quarantine system at New Orleans is the one which should be adopted as a national measure. It provides for a thorough fumigation, and is so effective that New Orleans has not seen yellow lever in seven years, whereas the oity used to have a visit every summer prior to the establishment ol this system. Soldiers Crashed to Death. Additional advices per st amshlp China state that a traveler arriving at Foochow reports that a gale, accom­ panied by a waterspout, swept down from the mountains, swamping the country in the neighborhood of Chang- chow, the water in some places stand- Ing ten feet deep. The Confucian tem­ ple and the temple of the City God were bo'h submerged, the walls of the latter collapsing, burying eJUghty soldiers. In the Nan-Hslen district the people also suffered much. Brteflets. THE Missouri Legislature will at­ tempt to fix by law the price of sleep­ ing-car berths at $1.50. FOUR men were drowned by the cap­ sizing of a Government scow in Snake River, near lewiston, Idaho THE Hawaiian cabinet announces its willingness to yrant the United States territory and a harbor for a coaling sta­ tion. « SUNDAY opening of the World's Fah was advocated by the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor in a resolution adopted at St. Louis. PRESIDENT DIAZ has made the offi­ cial announcement that the Mexican Government will restore the import duty on grain Dec. 1. SOUTHEASTERN railway managers will meet at Atlanta, Ga., to discuss plans for a direct line of steamers between somo Southern point and Liverpool. A TEAM drawing a carriage occupied by Mrs. Grover Cleveland and other la­ dies ran away at Lakeside, N. J. Mr, Freeland, Mrs. Cleveland's host, who was driving, finally,stopped the team. WII,:LIAM E. CURTIS, who has just re­ turned from his mission to Spain in seach of Columbus relics, 3avs the greater part of the relies at the Madrid Historical Exposition will be transfer­ red to the World's Fair. THE Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst and a corps of 1,137 assistant will com­ plete a map of New York\City, showing the position and character of eveiy house within, the municipal limits, to­ gether with t^e paui'is and social status of ooeupants. This enterprise is to be prosecuted under the auspices Of the CHv Vigilanee League. BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. V,:V>vSl Determined to Die--Flemteg VMHMS Guilty -- Horse-Thief In Custody--MaN* > _ thfrii Epidemic IS Three TOWRS--KJISES 5 Near Centra!la--Fatal Explosion. From Far and ~Smmr. 'J?™ BY a premature explosion in the Oak- •; land mine, near Mascoutah, Gardiner was instantly killed and Sam*'^f:;f % uel Miles fatally injured. AT Mound City, Mrs. Ida A. Collins ' committed suicide by blowing her braiiit ' 5' out with a revolver. Ill-health is sup- 1 posed to have been the cause. ; : j A BARN owned by .Jere Fieids wap burned at Canady Corners with all itit contents, consisting of hay, grain aai4'",;: -: eleven cows. Loss $2,COO, partially • '**< sured. :>;i ELMER TINDELL. of Bo-k Island, years old, while hunting, was shot an4 instantly killed by the accidental diii»j;^/ charge of a gun In the hands of bit companion. THE charges of mismanagement ot . the Decatur Fire Department agains^"*fH? C. W. Devore, the Chief, made by Didk ' ' Bunyun, were dismissed and Devon •'% was fully exonerated. ;fiim DIPHTHERIA has become epidemic fib/ Scottsville, Hettick, and Palmyra. Sev­ eral deaths have occurred. The pablle schools have been closed and a quaran­ tine has been ordered. W. J. WIGHTON, the real estate deal- ^ er, who left Rockford six weeks ago after victimizing several people out ef sums aggregating $2,«00, has been 10*' cated at Laredo, Texas. AT Mascoutah, Phil Neff, the horse* - f thief, who has extensively worked the States of Indiana, Illinois, and Mi*- souri during the last thirty years, was given a hearing and held without baiL LOUIS KEMP, a Springfield colored ? man, attacked his wife, Ellen Kempt with a knife, and wounded her so seri- i ously that she will die. She refused to ' live with her husband on account of his ? cruelty. THE poor farm of McLean Counts' ( was the scene of a romance ia real Ula the other day. Charles Johnson and i Etta White, two inmates of the poor J farm, were missing v.l*fn the roll was called, and it was found that they hiitA : eloped. ; ; NEAR Centralis, an aged woman waa instantly killed and her husband fatally 1 wounded. Their team became fright­ ened at an approaching team of ponies. gave a sudden jerk, throwing the old ^ man and woman to the ground, killinn her on the spot and fatally injuring :i him. THOMAS BATBS, a farmer residing near Tolono, committed suicide. He ^ first took a large dose of poison, but the 1 doctors pumped it from his stomach aad he recovered. He cut himself in the | abdomen with a knife and died from - loss of blood in a few hours. He had '; been in a demented condition. > FIRE at Jacksonville damaged the ' | Ebey Block. Before the sleeping tenants .i in the upper story could be aroused they were confronted by the flames and 'i smoke. Some of them fell suffocated before they could be taken out. Xhe . business houses on the first floor were , ruined. The loss will be over $1^.00Ak AT Jacksonville, a long case in court " came to an end, that of Crit Fleming, , of Waverly, who was accused of arson., There were two fires at Waverly, where he lives, one last Christmas and another a few months later, and he was su»» i pected of being concerned in both. The ? case was given to the jury and & vecdiet . : of acquital was rendered. J . J . K EAYIN'S sawmill tdt Newfetlt was destroyed by fire. . ^ ^ S. W. HOLLINOSWOBTH A CO., JNI* •/. cers of Bloomlngton, failed. • ' k CHICAGO capitalists sre eresting-a building at Ramsey in which they will establish a bank. THE postofflce at Marengo was took* en into, the safe blown open, and all tfeMt stamps and cash taken. No clew. i DR. CHARLES H. McGORRAY, consult* _ ^ ing physician of Rush Medb al College, was instantly killed at Chicago by a 0.c B. A Q. train. .A THE authorities In Rockford will prosecute a number of unscrupulous , train news agents who ere selling vile pictures and books. CHICAGO is fairly overrun with thieves , of high and low degree. They hold up ' policemen aud citizens alike, and eves rob the dead bodies at the morgue. i JAMES B. CORCORAN, a fanner, w«p stopped on the outskirts of Aurora by a s ; * masked man. Mr. Corcora* whipped up his horses and escaped. The polio^ found the robber's pony. THE Adjutant General dishonorably discharged M. C. Green, Company II, r First Infantry, Chicago. GEORGE D. SIDWAY, the oldest in- s habitant of Alton and a pioneer in IlUk /, nois, died, aged 89 years. ' 'r\?\ D. H. SWEENEY, of Bellville, dropped dead as he was leaving the depot fear home at Chadron, Neb He was drunk, at the time of his death. He leaves a ' r wife and two ohildren. < AT Aurora, the Manhattan cloth ing - store, owned by Kuseli Bros., was closed by the Sheriff to satisfy an execution of ' Other executions folio we I. ^ swelling the liabilities to $40,000. ?\ A WELL-TO-DO farmer residing neat 5 Alton went to Chicago and returned *y badly disfigured and without a cent on . i6- his person. He went to make an invest* ' f ment in fjtreen Roods. He met his ap- , • " pointment and completed the deal, but f "/* was sandbagged and robbed before h# got away with the goods. r JOSEPH ROSS and Joseph Crafty claiming to hail from Pennsylvania, were held to the grand jury at VanJalim '} for obtaining money under fahe pre- * tense?. They fleeced several citizens ; with worthless paper, and tried to raisp $2,000 on a $5,000 draft, but Banket Folsrer took the precaution to telegraph * The swindlers were negotiating a realtjr deal, possibly with the hope of giving ; spurious paper in payment. ^ PROF. WM. McADAMS, Superintend* ent of the archa>o!ogical and geological sections of the Illinois exhibit at the World's Fair, has gone to the southern portion of the State, in company witfc Prof. G. S. Lockwood, to dis? in some at the mounds there for prehistoric re­ mains. THE Rev. Wilford, Methodist minister. boarded with M. M family members of family questioned his faith on doo 1 ^ trinal points. He attacked Mrs. Hus* < ton with a shoe, beating her over the '*: J: head and inflicting ugly scalp wounds. ' IN a burning dwelling in the town of * ^ v; Jefferson, near Chicago, two children lost their lives. The mother was in­ jured. as was also the owner of the house. JOSEPH E&LINOBB> and John Pellatir, of Centerville, who were suitors for the hand of a widow in the village, settled the matter by drawing straws. Er- linger won and the wedding will oecur soon. , 'iW&i AT Jacksonville a colored man named Frank Wright unearthed several fcua* dred dollars in silver coin, some of It dated as far back as 184". A good part of the find was genctee efeifc, bat a of it was counterfeit. & a Decatur Fxep is missing. Ha Houston and tha his flock. The