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I. VAN SLYKE, E«ter PublitH«r. MrHENBY, TfTTiTXPFR V»M) wuicn enuties tlie oa%or i nOOi ' i THE Li trains between Chicago and Hew York now make an average run of ibcmt thirty-five miles per „ : Owb respect for the much-ridiculed peamitiisosaevecid degrees when we learn that the crop cf 1881 amounted to2,370,- 000 bushels, valued »t £2,150.000. night ontsicle while the officer has made p--Uagnl eall*. at private houses, res­ taurants and saloons. There is nothing in the relation between officer and pri­ vate which ̂ entitles the oa*or compels THERE are still on the Englffifr pen­ sion lists the nampwof fwnrfmte of tjueqn Charlotte, who ,4fcw and 4 pence annually, and £10 is paicTto those pf George 111^ A CixcvfisATf mail §ued a neighbor for oalling his son aldonkey ; but the Judge decided that the law did not afford a man a remedy for slander against his posterity. have been brought in behalf of the a " , , k ^ . . i ; . , THB wheat-and-llour-export trade of California since J ujv \A the commence­ ment of the current ̂ ealy^r.Ias been unprecedented , There were forwarded in the four paonths ending ;Oct 3,1 174 cargoes, representing 7,527,400 centals and a value of $11,816,400. ;.4 - tr • VICTOR HUGO is absolutely invisible to all up to 3 in the afternoon. He break­ fasts alone, and works steadily both be­ fore and after. At 3 o'cldgfi; UT felt weatliers, he goes out--if fine, oh foot; if wetj- in tm omnibtys, JEfe takes ; the first street or the first omnibus, regard­ less ol its destination, and continues to walk or ride for three honrs. A LINE man, putting up a telefflmne wire in Mefideo, CC.; a&d *heii/at the top of a tall pole, was seized with a fit and feH ^Y£t l!ftCteai^L^ The spur on ipoimri ef Se1f.defeifee. The truth now - 1 A CULPRIT was recently tried in a Ger­ man court of justice for murder and |jobyeryf The Jindge, before summing np the evidence for the jury's considera­ tion, asked the prisoner whether he had anything to .say for him^plf( f "Only*, this, your Honor," replied the latter ; "it was not a murder, but a suicide." Jhdge--" How do you make that out ? " Prisoner--" In this way, your Honor. for^TSlBrttefOT^ii^deftth, v*i^«!*i&ever^dkAti iayijfg.iie wwi determined to put an end to himself; but ha never, had the courage to do so. 4-t }ast his irresolution toioVed me to pitv; so, to save him from disappoint­ ment, and, more especially, from being yrorae than his word. I suicided him." Jfaflge--"Ijraar fcrafjl vfry weH, 4ju4 what made you take his watch ? " Pris- ,9^er--" When Jie was dead he did not require a' watdh." ̂ tfid, so l' Very natu­ rally put it in my pocket. Besides, he %<*Wol̂ frlkm<*|r»ip^Y^ ̂granted something ?o remember him try.'*- • ' ' 1 • . I , . ( ' I ' M ? . : WHAT se^fned kike^ a commonplace, drunken row, except that it ended in a homicide, occurred a y«ar ago in a St JL&iis satoon/ "E0rfcbe B. Vial went into the plaoe in ih«i eoutte !-6f a spree. Edward Tremaine, the keeper, was be- lii£dtk#bar. Hjsvlffi^a young and pvetty w&man* satdoAag at a table, for it .was ^>ast midnight, and only a knot of bitlrimenl wefM 'fihere. Mrs. • Tremaine engaged Vail in conversation, and in­ duced- him to bay* a drink for her. Then Tremaine became loud in declara­ tions ot jealousy, a fight i&sned, and Vail was killed by a pistol-shot. Tre­ maine was tried' and acquitted on the comes out (and Tremaine safely con­ fesses it, for he caft, never bu tried again after the |<N^iitt#1) that ye waft n hired assassin. Tail stood in the "way of an important business scheme, and Tre­ maine agreed to kill him for $500. The his boot was fixed firmly in the pole, and heijd although a heavy man, from: fallijtg on f _ sharp pfck^t fence. He hung head downward until his companions, who were nearly par­ alyzed at the frightful spectacle, got a rope with which to help him down. | anger and jealousy were mere pretense* THE Boston Journal of Education says I f* forced upon Vail, who that just before his death the son of a ! defended hlmself 80 ^^perately that the late prominent la«Vfert Mf. Dumut,, of ! *H0J. «elf-defense was easily sustained, that city, put^is Ws%r«fcS ta&h- 7*? ^ er's neck and said: " Father, I am go- | muraCTer. ing to die; 1 am going t« heaven, and I JOAN OF ARC. Wlileli t« lk«w VaiNMBuMtMiU, ILondon Standard.] rTlxoa^b Joan of A*c is a French hero­ ine in little daiiger of being forgotten, the citizens of Crotoy have thought fit to make assurance doubly sure by rear­ ing a fresh statue to her memory. The Maid of Orleans having had the misfor­ tune to be a sound Catholic sacrificed by a bisiiop, the clericals and their oppo­ nents have seized the occasion for a re­ newal of their ancient combat against everybody tend everything considered inimical to the Warrior Girl of Dom- remy. The story or Jeanne d*Arc's life, as conventionally received, is a tragedy which aptly lends itself to the legion of painters, sculptors, poets, and prosers who have chosen it for their illustration of their genius, or the demonstration of their dullness. But, in truth, after an interval of four centuries and a half, his­ tory iffnpt to grow e. little moldy, and though so orthodox a chronicler as Mr. Henri Martin, who was chosen to pro­ nounce the Crotoy eulogy, might have proved equal to tlie demands on his im­ agination, the ieast exacting of historians must now and then be staggered as they try to repent the oft-told tale of the foundress of the noble family of De Lys. A dareer of nineteen years, so obscure in its beginning, so sad. and yet so bril­ liant at its close, could not fall to enlist the sympathy and admiration of every age. Thus Jeanne d'Aro has been ao- corded an immortality of glory, and a Weal th of pictures, statues, memoirs, and epics such as have fallen to no other woman of her nation. Unhappily, we live in Philistinish times. The iconbe- lasts of history delight in hewing down their fathers' gods. With such m spirit let loose among the record^ it could scarcely be expected that the Maid of Orleans would escape the cruel investi­ gations of the spotless critic. 1$ is true that, though there is a ques­ tion how far the fanaticism of Jeanne aided in routing our countrymen, no one doubts that they were defeated. It is, therefore, needless revising the verdict then passed at the npear-point. But after a hundred works ha 1 described her death, and thousands of reverent, pil­ grims have wept over the scene of her martyrdom in the Place de 1* Bncelle of Rouen, it'was a shock to hear, not only fffat the English were not responsible for her martyrdom, but that the heroic damsel was never burned at all, having lived to be a "respected matron and weH- to-do-citoyenne. This is, nevertheless, what Father Vignier asserts to be the fact, and *M. Delapierre has conjRj-nfed object,' so that he cannot move, for two hours a day. While this is going on he may further be dfealt with as if he had been an ordinary criminal under sen­ tence of three nionths' imprisonment with hard labor. The ingenious Tor- quemanda of the War Office wh<? has de­ voted his leisure and his gifts to this subject may be congratulated on the skdl with which he has accumulated horrors on horror's head." L'io Mpefr me there.? Alter tlii^ Bo|ton §uMeii "SMtJ Dirait want; adds nevqj1 thing t& say about lawyers," snd th« fact that Hike Boston paper sayjs it innooently does net softoA it ̂ nneh* CHARLES JONRS, one of the two Aim­ ers who discovered the^amous group of RobiAbii minete, iii Colorado, died while drunk m & LeadvHle saloon. He then owned a qaarter interest in seven minpp . out of 'the twelve cdhstituting the Bob* inson consolidation, from which the late Erfeut. Gov. Robinson made his fortune of over $1,000,000. The heirs of Jones , live in Vermont, Mct,*1§eln{£ hnlnform^d Of the great value of his estate, were in­ duced to accept $1,200 for an estate IS to follow. tV oldest convict auned to free himself of her control and in the Maine State prison, died recently, being upw^jf # j«»9yof $£ He had passed over thirty-seven years of his life prispn. ;2f* was nftqji as the zuau wfco pteymh ; jpie at one time on the Warden of the Massachusetts State prison. He told A story about having a*«rooms and lock%d him up With the baby. ghe then w«p}t off and at large sum o^noney buried ift tfeat State, , ( r ) and the WttfjHlMfc hiift^i4,tdy}ig gt sta^ej fi^t act the money. After working a while, PhiS^pswhen the officer got in the hole to dig, and Phillips, kicking sand in Ms eyes, ran away. J < t r--i'.il i! ( KING THEEBAW, of. Burniah, the big­ gest bt|lly and| brute in Ciet'world, has at las| fo^iid his matflli in wbmtoi who can awprt lh()jrightsj <^| |ei^ eexl Tli^ Queen was recently confined" of her third child, which prdved 4 d&ughter. kbw, King TheebaW de&teti to have an heir to tlie throne, au«l he resolved, therefore, lilte 'WapaLdQb, to provide himself Avith anothei' .wife. Indeed, he bettered Napoleon,' tot }ie tbok two new wives, one of £hem thd gi"and-daughter of the Kan-Pal: Mehghee, and the other the daughter' of a • imndr official. The Queen soon heard of this, and, as she was unable to go to the King, she sent hita a p»*E#i]jtpty f>|4»r |)ttt away his new wives at once. King Theebaw re­ plied that lie should do nothing of the kind--that he was tired of her Majesty, inasmuch as she only presented ln'm with daughters, and 'that he was deter* v /A Fatness Mlaer* , „ Vandille, a remarkable French mi«er, was at one time mayor of Boulogne, and wbile in that portion- partly maintained hiinseU by being milk-taster-general at the market; while mnnclilng a scrap 6f bread he would partake' of gratuitous draughts. He always travelled to Paris an foot. and. lest he should be robbed, took go6d care never Jbp have more than three-pence in his p&ctet; if he needed more money, he begged on the road. - By such methods, and lend­ ing money to the French government, he made a fortune of £830,000, sprung from a single shilling. During the very cold winter of 1834 he found it neoessixy to jburchasft pdsad extra fuel, and endeavored to beat '"down the wood merchant in liis price. xlie man drove i>ff, and Vandille stole a few logs from the back of the catt. In has­ tening away with them, he became over­ heated and contracted a bad fever. He sent for the surgeon, telling him he wanted to be bled. As the surgeon charged half a livre, which he thought too much, a barber was called in, who agreed to open a vein for threepence. "But, friend," said the cautious miser, "how often will it be requisite to bleed roe?" "Three times," replied the bar­ ber. "Three times. And, pray, what quantity of blood do you intend to take from me at each operation?" "About eight ounces each time." "That will be ninepence; tbo much? too much! I know a cheaper way; take the whole twenty-four ounces at once, and that will save ine sixpence!" He saved his sixpence, but lost his life. ! ILLINOIS NEWS. i i< Caught in His Own Trap. , iAetory--quite aa good for being,true 1--is told of two medical students, the one a very large and the other a very small person, who were room&iates and lied-feuows.* On a certain warm night the big man," who was ou tlys inner side, awoke to the consciousness that he was being crowded to the wall, h|s compan­ ion having taken a good-sized reserva­ tion in the middle of the bed. Byway of punishing the encroachment with neatness and dispatch he gently adjust- tt. the SW. fellow ticitv of ®l,ich tW caunot be mu °1, •*" » <V*°d 'T °% - - - - -- - 'carpet. The ejected one showed no to be .a real King. ^ Seven "* eight days were passed* in angry Jiuessages, but at the end of t)|f|y|ime the Queeu left her apartments and went to those of the King. &rri§ed ftli0t4 she u»ezed the monarch, carried him offilo' her own two new wives into prison them heavily tlanacled. to affairs to cast the to have Pb însi^v^nia i^i n,ot ^anally set down as much of an agricultural State. Her rermtatpp, however, for coal, iron and mountains is good. Still the old Keystone 18 #12$ Wt* breadstuffs. Tabulatea returns of the Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture show the following estimate of the cropB of Com, 88i?p0,flp9 ImsfiMs; wheSf; lO.-tTO.dKW buslMs* oats, 84,250,000 bushels; buckwheat, 1,687,- OOO bashtfaj potaWes, 6^031,250 bush­ els; to say nothing of tofca<$#<*, &20&.00Q pounds. The product of wheat and oats will oompim quite favorably with soqde of the preteatiolw Western1 States. The! old Keystone almost produces food enough for the aonflUmption ,of her great population. •M I M I • • 1 •• 1 ~ -- A LotrisvnAfc niaaden to&Hilove #ith a man to whom her parents 1 objected, and had arranged to elope with him to Indian^ J^pou <mtezhig a carnage for the pa/pola « |krr|i|ig ou# tiiis pro- gram lie sit d^c^if,! that flier pros- j til} hfTtaft pecti^J h^|> rved IpipseK for j apposite gate, the trying ordeal through which he ex­ pected to pass Uy imbibing a large amount of sour maslf ' Deciding at once to annul the contract into which she haMiflre|i j|e V^i^ladjr ed ti»a|||i(ffar|^ge ^ d|ite^ iyack to her clin 1"'- [ fnhpritei * Aiiil^athie 1 Cows hate dogs from their earliest oalf-hooa upwarda. I use to doubt ooee upon a time whethef the hatred waa not pi artificial origin, and wholly induced oy the inveterate human habit of e^ing on every dog to worry every other ani­ mal that comes in its way. Bolt I tried a mild experiment one day by putting a half-grown, city bred puppy into a small enclosure with ywim jinhithfirt^ unwor- „ryed calves, an4Jhefr aHfjjJfcoed to make |a common headway against the intruder with the san|e>«|riKin|[ «nanim«ty as the imost aneiaat An! S^peH^tiaed pows. .Hence, I am inclined to suspect that the antipathy does mi aetf ally result from a yflfrtftlv fshffiied -derived from jtfcf dayu v^ien th^ UI4£^OT ^ of our kine m a wild urus, ul [me auee«tor of but aogs a wolf, on the wild, foraafe-. clad plains of Central E'irope. When a cow puis up its tail on the sight of a dog entering its paddock at the present day, it has, probably, some dim, instinctive consciousness that it stands in the pres­ ence of a dangerous, hereditary foe; and as the wolves could only seize with safe­ ty a single usf llfy njake inMfng d ditWcfef>Ii «vi urus, the. oow* against the eads in one unanimity uli^er the> Such inherited antipathies seem com­ mon and uatnral enough. Every species knows and dreads the ordinary enemies of its race. Mice scamper away from the very smell dt % ea% • "|To|Uttg cliickens run to the shelter of tneir mother's wings when the shadow of a hawk passes ov<& tl|eir h«»dB.j Mr. J)arwin put a small snake iiito a paper blm:, which he gave to the monkeys at the Zoo; and one licemanfc and when one responded con- j monkey alter another opened the bag, tided hel'self to ' his «u^e alid was taken to heir home.' ' ^ ; GEN. SHERMAN'S proposal to abolish tlig^dteh^uLfcl&ers to Ijise commoji so^-", die^s? iR'nrapts withotit their eonseiit IW'hl r|uiunerat|Da is creditable to Sense his humanity. Grave abuses havearisen from this un- natni-dl'relation beroieen oifficers and pri­ vate soldiers. The power to command a man's perpetual services, which he can- not refuse without exposing himself to punishment for insubordination, is one easily abused. For instance, officers have been known to keep private sol­ diery holding their hearses on a freezing ' <6 »U i«I • 11 ,. s . i ' . t i looked in upog the deadly foe of the Iuadrumaneaus ^|ti(|f**"lkn^ |rt-V«nptly ropped tlie wh<i|ei/ ps^ka^ with every gesture of horror and dismay. Even pian himself--though his instincts have all weakened so greatly with the growth of his more plastic intelligence, adapted to a wider and more modified set of ex­ ternal circumstances--seems to retain a vague tuid oriftuia^terro^ £$zpen- tine , 1 THB bride vas led up the broad title, (Jot up in the most killing sUisIe. When asked if sbe'il be A true wife to he, She promptly replied: " I ahould smaiile " --Puck. And then lor a few days tfceretiagfefter There were smiles and kisses and laughter-- Then he tried tocnnipeller To forsake her old feller. Bat «to kicked Mtd mil " 1 dost haughter.'* skepticism. There always was a belief that the woman executed in 1431 was not the real "Maid" and at different towns during the subsequent years num­ erous impostors were punished for at­ tempting tp pass themselves off as the authentic martyr. M. Vignier, how­ ever, found ill «he archives of Mentz a contemporary account of 'the arrival of Jeanne in that city on the 20th of May, 1436, and her recognition of her two brothers. * This paper furthermore mentions that in dne time she was married to a Sieur de Hermoise or Armoise, and though it might be admitted that the document discovered was a modern forgery, it is certainly staggering to disinter from a family muniment chest of a M. des Armoise, of Lorraine, a contract of mar­ riage between "Robert des Armoise, Knight, with Jeanne d'Arcy, surnamed the Maid of Orleans." This also might have been a coincidence, though a rather striking one, but among the archives of the Maieon de Ville of Orleans, under dates 1435 and 1436, are records of cer­ tain payments made to messengers bring­ ing letters from "Jeanne the Maid" to her brother John du I/ils or Lys. Now, this surname is well known to have l>een that under which, as a reward for long service the Arc family are ennobled. So, here--unless we at once cut the knot by declaring tlie entire mass of documents (tho«e in Mentz, in Lorraine, and in Or­ leans) to be gross forgeries, which has not yet been attempted--is a curious net­ work of facts, out of which it is rather difficult to escape from the conclusion that there must have been some mistake about the Maid of Orleans having been incinerated in that lively city on the Seine in which stands one of her many statues erected to attest the truth of the event. Most curious of all--and M. Delopierre, in his "Doutes Historiquesf" adduces numerous other data tending in the same direction--in the Orleans ac­ counts, under date of Aug. 1,1439 (eight years after she ought to have beed dead), there is an entry of 240 livres presented to Jeanne d'Armoise by the Town Coun­ cil for services rendered by her at the siege of 1429. It is difficult to get over these facts. Dismissed With Costs. At a meeting of the Lime Kilp. Club, the Bev. Penstock presented k written appeal from the wife of Kyfustus St. George, stating that her husband was confined to his bed and she hadn't a o^nt to get her hat re-trimmed . for Sunday. The iieverend backed up the appeal ili a speech that brought tears to the eyes of Gen. Scott, and jammed Samuel Shin in betweeu the window and the wood- box so hard that it took two men to pull him out. "Bi nder Penstock, did \ou inwestr-, gate dis case ? " asked the President. •'1 nebber investigate, sah, when I h'ar the voice of distress." "Do you know what ails Bru&der St. George?" " I understood dat ke was seized' wid a chill, and de arternoon I was in dar his pulse was up to fo' hundred, and he was outer his head, an' talkin' 'bout wolyes an' tfars." " Jiflt so--I see. Maybe I kin gin yotl some points on de dase. I war' Out lookin' fur my ole boss de odder evenin' an' I passed Brudder St. George's cabin. He an' his wife war' jawin* as to which owned de dog, an' ten minits later, when I returned, de dog was runnin' *ur de woods. Ryfustus was lyin' on de grass all broke up, an' his wife was sittin on de fence suckin' a lemon. Arter a man has bee knocked into de middle of Jinuaxy wid an ole base-ball bat he am quite apt sign of resentment until several nights later, when, finding the bulky comrade Occupying a position similar to the one in which he had given offense, he plotted a revenge. Stealthily clamber­ ing over the huge form, he braced his back against the wall and planting a foot on either siele of his friend's spine, collected all his forces and gftve a tre­ mendous push. The effect was instan­ taneous, and, if not just what hat! been anticipated, was certainly ir^ strict ac­ cordance with nature's laws'. The big I man moved, but the bed moved with him, opening a wide space between it­ self and the wall, through which the little man immediately dropjied to the floor, where he doubtless had a chanoe to recover from' his astonishment and re­ flect on the reasons why another good [dan had gone wrong. rJ: Detrmt Free Press. O ' ' 11 f • ' i'f Worse Than the " Cat.* The official successor to the "cat" in th^ British army is thus described iirthe Pall Mall Gazcttf,: " Tlie War Office ha* published its substitute for flogging, and the persons who were attach<*d to that penalty when inflicted on others will probably find much satisfaction in studying the component parts of its suc­ cessor. It consists of field imprisonment No. 1 and field imprisonment No. 2. It may suffice to describe field imprisonment No! 1. Under this form of punishment the offending soldier may be kept three months tied up in straps, ropes, hand­ cuffs, fetters, or both handcuffs and fet­ ters. During that period he may for twenty-one days, with a day's interval every three days, be fastened, in addi­ tion to his other fastenings, to a ' fixed • • r The Poet. Whittier. i ;, Mr. Whittier wrote this touching lit­ tle letter to a child in Pj&insylvania who asked him how he spesfcpis clays in boyhood : " Amesbury, Mass., 9th mo. 17, 1881.--My Dear Young Friend : I think at the age of which thy note in­ quires I found about equal satisfaction in our old rural home, with the shifting panorama of the seasons, in reading the new books within my reach and dream­ ing of something wonderful and grand somewhere in the future. Neither change nor loss had then made me re­ alize the uncertainty of all earthly things. I felt secure in my mother's love, and dreamed of losing nothing and gaining much. Looking back now, my chief satisfaction is that I loved ana obeyed my parents, and tried to make them happy by trying to be good. That I did not sucoeed in allTespects, that I fell very lar short of iay good intentions, was a frequent cause of sorrow. I had at that time a very great thirst for knowledge and little means of gratifying it. The beauty of outward nature early impressed me, and the moral and spirit­ ual beauty of the holy lives I read of in the Bible and other good books also affected «ie with a sense of &jr own fall­ ing short and longing for a better stkt& With every good wish fer thee, I am thy sincere friend. "JOHN G. WHITTIER." A~No*eH*t's " i'einte# " ' -Mr. James-Payn, the novelist, tells us that when hewas a vfery youUg ft^u, tnd had very Httle experience, he was read­ ing ou a coach-box an acooun^of some gi­ gantic treeB. Ctae of them was described as sound outside ; but within, for many feet, a mass of rottenness and decay. "If a boy should dimbup, bird-nesting, into the fork of it, thought I, lie might go down f^et first, ami never Ue heard of again." '#Tlie®," lie adds, *%t struck me what an appropriate end it would be for a character of a novel. J^efore X had left the coach-box, I had . thought out' 'LostSir Massingberd.' Such a pro­ cess lasted for a shorter tune witb Mr. Payn than with the majority of novel­ ists ; with many the little seed might have germinated for yoars befere it brought forth fruit. Tet Mr. PU\TJ is re- j the National Government. THB Cumberland bounty jail Is yawn­ ing for an occupant. ̂ ABOUT 25,000 head of cattle will be fed atPeoria distille ies during the winter. A pBcuiaiABiiT fatal epidemic of rial typhoid fever prevails in Brown county. / THE Monarch Distillery, of Peoria, lately shipped twelve cars of high wines to Marseilles, France. AT Blue Mound, Macon county, Roe- well W. Shaw was shot dead by James T. Ward, who made his escape. * THE f Peoria Transcript says an En­ glish capitalist has sent $170,000 to that city to Invest in real estate and the erec­ tion of business blocks. CHARLES S. BOYD, who settled in Bu­ reau county in 1830, died at Princeton, aged 87. Mr. Boyd was one of the first settlers in that section. STOCK to the amount of $73,000 has already been subscribed to the new ho­ tel at Peoria, audit is said that the con­ tract will be ready to let inaide of thirty days. • A THB losses to farmers living on the Mississippi river bottoms has been quite serious on account of the recent floods. A great many valuable horses and cat­ tle have been drowned. ' A HISTORY of the life and times of Hon. Edward Coles, the second Gov­ ernor of Illinois, by Hon. E. B. Wash- burne, has been issued by Jansen, McClurg Si Co., of Chicago. A MAN near Hor»er, Champaign coun­ ty, found three valises in a corn-field containing 271 penknives, eight re­ volvers, several finger-rings, watch- chains and other gold and silver ware. THB distillers of Peoria used 531,205 bushels of grain, producing 1,867,069.67 gallons of proof spirits during the month of October. This is a larger showing than any other district in the United States. Mi CHAKII ROCK, a Menard oounty farmer, while intoxicated attempted to ride across a trestle-work of the Wabash railroad, at Petersburg. He was thrown from his horse and killed. A train after­ ward ran over the horse. A COMMITTEE of Chicago commission merchants proposes to prosecute everv retail grocer of that city who sells but- terine for butter. It is believed that one-fourth of the retail men in the city are liable to prosecution. A LADY in Pekin brought $1,600 from its hiding place the other day, upon a remark from her husband that he wished he could raise enough to purchase a good piece of property. The wife had saved the money in the oaurse of several years. THE Republicans of Bond county in­ dorse Prof. S. M. Inglis, of that county, Wr the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction, which is to be filled by popular election next year. It is also understood that Prof. Blade will be fei candidate for re-election. A CORRESPONDENT at Wapella Aays: A farmer living north of town has forty- five acres of land, for which he paid $27.50 per acre. This year he raised seventy-five bushels of corn per acre on forty-three acres of it, the other two acres producing ninety bushels each. Thus he move wan paid for the land by ne crop. THE trial of Gen. Ira J. Bloomfield, of Bloom ington, on the charge of ac­ cepting a bribe wlule a Trustee of the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home result­ ed in his prompt acquittal. Gen. Bloom- field has instituted suit against liis ac­ cusers, C. M. Winslow, Judson Spauld- ing, Wm. E. Hughes fcnd Chalkley Bell, asking $25,000 damages. THE total losses on the Peoria glucose works, as approximated by the insurance adjusters, is between $440,500 and $458,- 750. The total insurance on the build- ng, machinery, warehouse and office is $267,719, hut, owing to the insolvency of some of the companies, the entire amount will not be recovered. The in­ surance was placed with ninety compa­ nies. THE whisky fight in Champaign has taken on a new phase. The City Coun­ cil by vote, there being only a partial attendance, approved the bonds of a saloon-keeper, and he immediately opened a gin mill, all saloons having been closed many months. This action. was taken in the face of an existing ordinance, the validity of which is in dispute, prohibiting ail whisky sales. THK gross earnings of the Chicago and Alton for the first week in November were $155,499, against $158,840 for the corresponding week last year, a decrease of $3,341. Tlie gross earnings thus far this year were as follows : Freight, $1,- 444,860; passengers, $4,666,270; miscel­ laneous, $261,431 ; total, $6,372,561. The gross earnings for the correspond­ ing period last year were $6,605,567, a decrease of $233,006. A CONFERENCE of the Iowa and Illinois members of the Hennepin Canal Com­ mission, which grew out of the Daven­ port Convention of last May, was recent­ ly held in Chicago, and it was the gen­ eral sense of those present that it is necessary to agitate the question of the improvement of the Illinois river and the construction of the Hennepin canal in order to get Congress to make the necessary appropriations. Senator Lo- fan, Gen. Henderson, Congressman arwell and Congressman Aldnch were present, and declared themselves in hearty sympathy with the movement. Senator Logan pointed out that it would be necessary to submit an amendment to the State constitution to a vote of the people of Illinois, pro* iding for turning over the Illinois and Michigan canal to The canal, fatty degeneration, so much so that the parts affected could be broken off with the finger. The pulsations of the girl's blood could be seen in the jugular wins across the room. The given reason for tliis terrible enlargement was the exten­ sive muscular action caused by the el- forts of the heart to beat, united aa it .was to the pericardii!iq. . , 1E1W A HELMlWi HJUfjk,. lift a little! Lift* little! .Neighbors, lend s he! fiat heavy-ladi'n broffielt- Who for weakness i-carcr ran *l ;v^ '• - .• • 3 »hat to thee, wi«x»hr •tfPosmtM^e . A > ' - f h a h £ i t i W c M r f r f c a * * . 1 f ^ 8 $ f f i ill to Mm a ponderonn bu-den ,j| J»!» t:am'>erinK his pilgrim road. Httle! ..Lift a little* "S7^r"Z . ,.; j^Effort givei one added ?r " " "That which staggers him at rising, -i-1-""" 11 cajwt Jwlflat arm's fqll i< I 1'HHot his fault that he Is frcVle, ' I ' » ' h y p r s W t h a t t h o i f arTVffoitif'T'* ' ll is («od makes live from- 't dft a little-! Lift a little!" a ~ **ny ther thai n**d (by «d;; , f.jj.f n } Wl,jrrti Railroads and the Farmers. '"*'f In his admirable address before the Minnesota State Fair, Cqil. William t1. "Vilas spoke of the immense benefit whiph the Western farmers have derived,from, the railroads. He said : •! Before railroads \jrpre devised there was no extensive freight communication but by water., • And that was valueless unless conveniently accessible,, From this, the agriculture of past ages gath­ ered around the seas and lakes, or lu»ed the rivers' margin. It girt the Mediter- ! rauean and mads famous the valley of' ' the Nile. The unwatered world of the interior was left to the wandering ' no­ mad or tlie forest barbarian. It the unknown region full of mysterious terrors. The great Hereynian wood was the home of beasts, brute and human ; the latter ever the impending peril, and finally tlie destroyer of the civilization of the world. The reserve corps af bat<- barism lay back on the plains of Russia and Tartary, which nourished the fierce savages who could live pn equine flesh and carouse on the milk of mares. So, too, water communication was slow and tedious, even when ac-}. oessible. That is true, especially of inland navigation/ T rn kWai)i5^SlSm #»fH ljing an the road-side. , > »» , , 'NVuth mi«fortmieV dreary shadib "I* 1,1 Pics hot like the Priest amir:i beedlues of the fcMow man.; m ttf HI. 'Bat with hewt and arms extended, * . , Be the Good Samaritan. "» «* f -- J.1' --mis tidi In vtidt PtTH I5D POIHTL ?* „ , / j ,. . » lo f t h<; Fid DUB S green--Amateur violinista.^. ^ ! I* goes against the gnain. to gamble Jn. . corn and wheat. ^ ' WHEN a broker goes out shooting ^a'^ *CT'*1. takes a pointer alon^. "' ' ' ^^,l* EyEax. man has his forte if he knew now to hedd it. • ' " - • v < WHEN a doctor loa^ ^ does not follow that he is out of tetnpe|r.^ '> THE girl pressed the leaves, but the' . boy' pressed the girl. The pr^8a< ip mighty and must prevaiL A FASHION magazine says: " Steel trimmtogs are a> longer markable frtr the clearness and coherency I he holds, must necessarily form a part of his plots; thry always h»ug togoth«rr'! of any scheme of improvement of the and have a substantia backbone. <fc<w>la<ion tot the Vat4^r oĵ trf̂ l̂ i There is nothing stingy or old maid- inh aViout a maternal alligatorJ When the old girl" j**' ady'to increase ihe Ct?n» j fewdays ag*>, ai waterway between the great lakes and the llississippi. f ' A» extraordinary ease of enlarged Heart was developed in the death of a young lady of 14 years, at Chicago, a She had been troubled eggs in a heap of mml and grass, piled { suffered tlie most interne pain. The up like a haycock, and it takes the center i complaint completely baffled the skill of of the .solar system a week or two of j the physicians, and at the post-mortem to have chills an' talk'bout wild animals, .hard S.l-iuftli^bade .work to hatch out I examination it was discovered that that Ishall dismissjle appeal wid costs."-- the colony. Brtt thte sun-does it, nnd t organ was greatly enlarged, weighing " when the old girl inf >rins her mate that I two and a quarter pounds, and being be fere 17!> mdro children ^ clothe a*tf1 much larger tluin that of a cow or horse, send to school, he looks a*tt>nished, like j The weigut of the female heart of an a man who has just found an orphan asy- : adult is from eight to ten ounces, and lum in a clothes liasket, land shins along ! then only about the size of pear. The up and down tlie shore doing his ffunily j extraordinary feature of the case is that marketing wherever he can find an uu- ; the heart itself was completely joined to wary dog, a young pit, * our a bathing ' the pericardium or heart case, and this urchin. Even tlie man who is struck ' in turn completely fastened to one of with triplets, when he wasn't jevgn ex-j the lunga. The ventricle was capable pecting twins, msy^ bf gqatefuj that he j of holding fully a pint of blood. The isn't an alligator. TEACHES : " What was the sin of our first parents ?" Bright pupil: " Steal­ ing apples." Teacher : " Correct. But did it ever occur to you to wonder what kind of an apple it was that Eve gave to Adam?" Bright pupil: "Often." Teacher: " Well, have von made up your mind about it?" Bright pupil: " Oh, haven't I { It wm m * fall, pippin." f doctors are puzzled to ascertain how the | heart, being fastened in this manner, 'was able to beat at all. Ordinarily a i clot of blood in the heart will cause I death, but in this case in the heart were j found any number of organized clots-- clots which were all the way from the size of the thumb-nail to two or three inches in length, fully organized with skin, fat, blood cells, tissue, etc. The liver and heart were found affected with from St. Paul to New York, though the aid of steam be invoked; and in Northern climes that avenue is available for btit half the year. YoUr magnificent tvliettt fields would mostly lie unbroken,-farm­ ers of Minnesota. had not the invention vftnd enterprise of other men, stimulated by your demands, laid the double-lined highway to carry the freiglit-car laden with your precious berry to the seit; the Indian would still be master of the Ter­ ritories of the West; Your lands derive their value, your industry* its • reward; • your homes, the luxuries, ana many of the comforts they exhibit, from the railroads of tlie continent. In the beautiful language of that noble lover of human liberty j once the pride and ornament of Wisconsin's Supreme bench, the lamented Byron Paine, "Railroads are the great public high­ ways of the world, along which its gi- ; gantic currents of trade and travel con- i tinually pour--highway* compared with which the most magnitioeut highwnys.uf antiquity dwindle into jinsignificanpe. They are the most marvelous invention of modem times. They have done more1 to develop the wealth and resources, to stimulate the industry, reward the labor and promote the general comfort and | prosperity of tlie country, than any other and perhaps than all other mere I physical causes combined. There fe ! probably not a man, woman or child ! whose interest or comfort has i not been in some degree subserved by tlieqi. They bring to our doors the productions of the earth. They enable us to antici­ pate and protract the seasons. They en­ able the inhabitants in each clime to en­ joy the pleasures and luxuries of ail. j They scatter the productions of the press and literature broadcast through the country with amazing rapidity. There is scarcely a want, wish or aspiration of the human heart, which they do not in some measure help to gratily. They promote the pleasures of social hie and of friendship ; they bring the skilled phy­ sician swiftly from a distance toattend the siok and the wounded, alid enable his absent friend to be present at the | bedside of the dying. .They have more; I than realized the fabulous conception of the Eastern imagination, which pictured the genii as transporting inhabited pal­ aces through the air. Tliev take a train of inhabited palaces from "the Atlantic coast, and, with a marvelous swiftness, deposit it on the shores that are washed by the Pacific seas In war they trans­ port the armies and supplies of the Gov­ ernment with the greatest qf celerity, and carry forward, as it were on the wings of the wind, relief and comfort to those who are stretched bleeding and wounded on the field of battle." But, while we do tliem justice, let us not forget there are doubtless many fault# * to ue corrected and abuses to be re­ formed in the administration of theee highways. Corporate powers and cor­ porate values have advanced with a more rapid step than the invention of our statesmen aud law makers. The agebcy of the corporation is comparatively modern, and, like the agency of < steam, is a mighty power. Uniess subdued fyy proper appliances of law sufficient to control it, we are liable to disasters in­ jurious to our welfare, as the accidents which sometimes beftdl the truitt a*e destructive of life. But I must not protract thia .wepry hour to discuss this gpvblejn foreign to my subject. Important as it is, we need not fear it. The railroad, rightly used, is the friend of the farmer aha the whole people. It is the paramount interest of its owners th&t it should so remain. They dare not make <it an enemy, and when we reflect that <) tiujjle invention-- the steel rail--lias reduced the freight tariff 40 per cent., we may trust some­ what to time and genius to relieve the inconveniences, and continue to ,enjoy |tsblessings with composure. . l A Quaker in Westminster Abbey*- ±:< At Westminster Abbey Isaac Hopper paid the customary fee of two shillings, and sixpence for admission. The door­ keeper followed him, saying: ;. "You must uncover yourself, sir.** ' "Uncover myself!" exclaimed the R*iend, with an iiffectation of igrorant simplicity. "What do you mean? Must I take off my coat?" i "Your coat!" responded the man, smiling. "No, indeed;. I mean your hat." "And what should I tiJie off tny hat lor?" he inquired. • . "Because you are in church, six." an­ swered the door-keeper. "I see no church here," rejoined the Quaker; perhaps thou meanest the house where the church assembles? I suppose thou art aware that it is the people and not the building thai constitutes a chnrcb?" The idea seemed new to the man, but he merely replied: "You must take off your.hat, sir." But the Friend again enquired: "What for? On account of these im­ ages? Thou knowest Scriptnre com­ mands us not to worship graven im­ ages." The man persisted in saying that no person could be allowed to pass throngh the church without uncovering his head. "Well, friend, rejoined Isaac, "I have some conscientious ecruples on the sub­ ject; so give me back my money and I will go." The reverential habits ci the door- keener were not strong enough to com­ pel him to that sacrifice, and he walkt^d away without saying anything more on the subject. „ are no longer tfee styloi It ra weeks by water,} That settles it. -"Lay aside your bowM m .Rt<( li art'--. • •'.(#»« r . f i t o * '*iil I * -iff ; r .lift IT T) «l *ufj •o A knives;. . YOUNO Softhed says he fcevsr could stay angry at J&is wife when ^he.cotfxioK ly slipped Jier !i»nd' jli his, because soft hand, sir, tirn^th away Wi^th." ** ' A Pr.NNSYTFVANIAI Grand Jury in(^icl^.> s a man for stealing an umbrella* v here; by and by it will be so in thU country that it won't be safe to st«d - t even a paragraph. ' ;< ..,f. OH, you are bid 4fe&f•^it8ei<Mla,?,'",' s t k i A F o g g t o a y o u n g t e a f t ; ' ' ^ - T cou«ci(ytiH !" exclaimed Adoles&tttf; "X"" ' a m * c o n s c i o u s ' o f n o t h i n g . " ' i i i a f s A what I safd," replied Fogg. f <• "•>' ••>!» t " THE ato^prs tell Me yoq spel tissiolE ' " ,"u" with ph. Sich teachinAs this don't QM . and mus be immediately stopped,*' wrote' ' an Arkansas school director1 to xnui off-' '"oM the teachers in his district • ? , ,>fl ft; A PEOBIA toper justifies himself in thia! vfnin m a n n e r : " I a m t o t u l o f l o n g l i f e . J o i ^ , % | ality and good feeling promote long lifjL( :Whisky engenders joviality and gooa 1 ! ^feeling. Hence I cultivate whisky. ••w'•" ?*•'*»* A BOT defined salt as 'Hlie stuff thKt^' 'f t makes potatoes taste bad when you don't put it on." He was twin fc&tnar<T of the boy who said that pins hadeavediI j; i»» i a great many hvss by noVvbeingswaJ-j,,; lowed. ..... „ „ . . W« thought "The Peanut and Othtt(l,.l>( Poems" was a queer title for a book, an<^ f 1 ' 1 were not surprised, therefore,'to see ih" ' J •' the next issue of the paper a c-otTeetio*.'"' jit should have been '•'*The Pageant and •" ">i Other Poems."--NorrUtown HtiralcLv^-,^. „,j "WHY do we commence dinner with soup ? " asks a ihedical journal. Because/ -v^ the landlady sends it the first tiling, aq4„,#t w » there's no .show for the meats until the t , " soup is gone. That's the explanation ol' Ihe mystery at our house; we don't,knoW1 >""<«* how you'te fixed. ' •*:'? ' • ' . •«!» "WHY, my dear Mra."Sttltft;' • ever have you done with yowr -" Oh, Mr. Bmith insisted upon my posing of it, and buying instead a sew- ing-machine for each ol the girls. lis? 1 Says they Would be much more' irtOTuI, *t" ",v" and would make much less noise."" > * «»•« A HUNGRY lawyer, who was 'lining a hotel, shoveled the food into his moUth ' f 4* with his knife till he accidentally oat ? mi his mouth, which "Was observed by a If wag seated opposite, who bawled out? ^ "I say, Mister, don't cut that hole U. your countenance any larger, or we shsfi ' all starve." > r»l f* "FELLOW c i t i z e n s , « u d t h e s t r e e t - ' corner orator, standing on a dry-goOdi box amid the glare and Smoke of many? torches, " my position upon thia qugfen: f nA tion is a peouliar one." And jiyt; tbep. . , , when the box caved in. anil let him in the shape qf a letter X, 'wiitfrt w" *"!iT the neck and heels^ tWi ; thought it was. j>! '( <•« i i" %Lm ^n-ii " MADELINE"' sends us a sweet |M»eii^ i •**)* beginning "The winds are never idle/* Bog gone it, no, Madeline, neitipr ia* « sixty-day notat It oan lay clear ovapr.^,,. new cider in a warm October for work­ ing. We don't tak&jt ©elite worth 61 interest in the busy winds, but the six­ ty-day note is what lifts us where the capillary growth is abbreviated. - s- A WEEK you see a taaU NT the railww > fetation, who is really looking for .haa< trunks and valises, but pvho insinta thal^ lie is hunting " me. bo^es and K-~*' nij» fare perspicacity, heal It into " jubilee. nr.-.. •v^gr, •'ill you may safely bet your bottoni dollar * he isn't entitled to vote in this blasted,' 3 howling country--not "by a trunk fall if mf h's, he isn't. And if you oaa't gnesa < f what nation he belong?i.as^(hhin. ML •teliyou. . J as the worst case of spelling of recedk* ,14'K record. It occurred in a **iiofi^" ofV'" $ " sellybrashun" to be h«id-on4he shoi^1 * ! Of "Lake Eary,"; and naai^ioued tl»f|, « occasion as a " guble." Tnis word troa- <Wed the editor a. awwi A*al hnt wi£ at l^h resolve^^ ONE hour after an "old master" haA ' ' painted the name of a patent medicine'! "•»' ' on a big rock a cow dame along, licked itr-.-, off, and died before sundown. Whe*.< the simple name of a medicine kills a . .. cow, human beuigs want to beware of "' the stuff itself. A coW was never killed' by licking the name of a patent medf* •»•»--> cine in & newspaper, and no other kind * em be neommendsd. -rylforiwUmi* •-! :--li-- >-- " • The Ear. > r-' .' Few people realize what a wonderfully ̂ dehoate structure the human ear real̂ .̂ j " is, That which we ordinarily designatS t _ , so, is after ail onlv the mere outer porel^ ^ of a series of winding passages, whiclt 1 like the lobbies of a great building, lead' from the outer air into the inner ©ban* ?! bers. Certain of thes^ passages axe of hquid, aud their membranes ane s t r e t c h e d l i k e p a r c h m e n t c u r t a i n s , a c r o s s * i t h e d u r i d o r s a t d i f f e r e n t p l a c e s , a n d c a i r : be thrown into vibration or made tr tremble as the head of a dram or th*N || surface of Hie tambourine does when., '.M struck with a stick or the fingers. B%, , hy ' tween two of these parchment-like cufj , tains, a chain of very small bones e% S tends, which serves to tighten or retail- '4' ;, j these membranes, "and to (*ommunicati '«. vibrations to them. In tlie innermost! , . . I place of all, rows of line thread, callefl . , | nerves, stretch, 'ike the strings of a piano, to the last point to which thb " -;i tremblings or thrillings reach, and pa^» ' .% inward b» the brain. If those nea-ve* are destroyed, the power of hearing eef» «4 ' , tainly departs, as the power to jrive ouH sounds is lost by a piauo or violin wliejft t .•}? i t s s t r i n g s a r e l i w k o u . -- ~ ' s Time*. , J': •** . mJ