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i ' » \ j .?^,.4„^v..(.Av^i:;»..^/^.;'.r/. ^sr-t ^y^;*"-»y, >• ^'s<< i jf^pprgf^f^aMpppiw :N>;:\- C* -* a- '•$*. tP ,< ?>v-: L ,<-. . t.Vc»'. - •;-' *> . f V • ' ' *# ^ ; jfrfwi? f towftalet * I. VAN SLYKE. ESNsr art PoklUher. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. ••' •» [ A PEKING newspaper tells of the ^sale of a Chinese wife by her husband. She had fallen in love with the pur- -MuMpfwho .greed to p.y *130 for her, ^ ftt<J(] licit he neglected to bring the money %hen he called to take her away, and the husband refused to give her up. that emergency the enamored pair drugged him, forged his signature to the bill of sale, and eloped. They were arrested while eating their wedding breakfast, and put into dungeons, where* both committed suicide. t first boiled and then allowed to cool. Stringent directions 4tre given that in case of choleife or enterio fever all water is to be boiled before use, and distillation adopted if practicable. In the matter of food, it is advised that all meat be thoroughly cooked; that the consumption of vegetables awl fruits be encouraged. As to beverages, strong alcoholic drinks are condemned, red and tea, coffee and cocoa are recommended. It is declared that tea is especially' valuable "where water is at all doubtful in quality--cold tea, with a little sugar and lime-juico, being an an'tisoorbutic, a&d; making fc refreshing drink. 4 ( A WOMAN was lately indicted in En­ gland for causing the death of her •child foy denying it adequate nourish­ ment. Investigation showed, however, that the mother had fed the child reg­ ularly on corn starch, mixed with a little 'milk, ignorant of the fact that starch is unable tsrsupply the necessary nutriment to young children. Under these circumstance 4 the woman was of -course acquitted. It is a lesson which mothers and nurses would do well to remember. ! i MB.' OUTER AMES, who ha nominated for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, has been in the employ •of the Ames Shovel Works at North Easton since he was 15 years old, ahd he has been the Superintendent. His lather, Oakes Ames, died with an in­ debtedness of $8,000,000. In the time *of panic the son managed the assets, which were scattered all over the Union, so that he pafd dollar for dollar, Qaid a imillion dollars in legacies and had a ^surplus for the residuary legatees. ONE of the most extensive tree plant­ ers in the world is declared by the En­ glish journal Land to be the Duke of Athole. Every year, it says, he plants from 605,000 to 1,000,000 trees. Dur­ ing the present season he has covered •with trees a plantation of some 2,000 acres. By the gale which destroyed the Tay bridge his plantations were denuded •of 80,000 trees. One of the Dukes of Athole is still known as the Planter Duke. In the year 1774 his Dunkeld Mils were almost entirely bare, and he began to plant on a large scale. Before hq died he had planted 27,000,000 trees, i^hich covered 15,000 acres. THE bridge which is to be erected across the Forth will be one of the greatest scientific achievements of the •century. The main girder will be with­ in a few feet of a mile in length. The Tmdge is to rest on round cylindrical piers, each weighing 16,000 tons, to "Whifth must be added 8,000 tons, the es­ timated pressure on the top of the pier «of the superstructure, rolling load and wind-pressure. This gives a pressure at the base of about 24,000 tons, or about six tons per square foot. The founda­ tion is clay, and is considered excellent. "Steel will be,used in the construction of the bridge, the amount required being abbot 42,000 tons, And the estimated .•cost of the bridge is $7,500,000. * A SHREWD advertiser in New Ifork <3ity hires a young man for 25 cents an 'Iwiur to s$&nd in front of his store and •Agaze fixedly at tKft, windows. The simple scheme has been found to be very successful. The young man's atti­ tude and gaze attracted the attention of ;a plasterer who was passing. The - plasterer stowed short and followed , 3£ith his eyes the gaze of the young man. *A boy observing itlie youth and the plasterer * staring across the street, joined them. Then came a washwoman, "then a bank clerk, then a man of leis­ ure, then two negro swells, and finally =a sizeable crowd of a promiscuous nat­ ure was collected, all looking in silent Admiration at two men in an opposite - window, who were engaged, one in swinging Indian clubs, one in pulling .•away at a patent chest expander. THE Mail and Express says that, un­ less all signs fail, New York will have in five years the handsomest apartment houses in the world, not excepting Paris. Every week new designs are de­ posited with the Department of Build­ ings. For instance, in a projected Madison avenue flat there is to be a garden on the top of the structure. An­ other plan proposes to have Russian or Turkish bath for the use of the inmates. ' The Navarro houses, in qourse of erec­ tion on Fifty-ninth street, are to be nine stories high, of granite and brown stone, in the- Moorish style of - architecture. They will cost upward of $3,000,000. Although they will not be ready for sixteen months, thirty-nine suites are already engaged. The most-munificent scheme, however, is that of Mr. W. H. 3?ost, whose houses will be located near -^Central Park. The Astors are said to be interested, and it is proposed to sup­ ply the occupants with provisions and ooal at wholesale rates. The cost of the various apartment-house enterprises now on file at the Building Department jg estimated at $10,000,000. TALMAGK is descfribed as follows by the Boston Herald correspondent: "His mouth, like his church, is more commo­ dious than that of any other American clergyman. Otherwise he is a common- looking man. rfis hair is straight, and reaches to his coat collar behind, but not nearly to his forehead in front. When he smiles you know it, but you do not see the idiotic grin of a clown. He steps high in walking to and fro on the platform; but does not jump up and crack his heels together. He uses his arms freely in gesticulations, but they ftever look like more than two. He is not a jumping-jack---at least he was not on this occasion. Perhaps there was nothing in his sermon exciting enough to pull the string." The same writer credits Talmage with /memorizing his sermons so perfectly that, without copy or notes, his delivery is almost, sentence for sentence* identical with the manu­ script which he has studied. "When it js considered," he savg^that the long­ est role in a play seldom equals a ser­ mon in length, and that the actor is aided by the breaking up of his lines into dialogue, by the dramatic situations in which he is placed, and" by the prompter, whenever his recollection fails, then Talmage's two feats of memo- ory every Sunday may be fnlly compre­ hended." • jaw o J THE sanitary instructions sent in -pHaphlet form to the British army in % Egypt iBay that camps should not be amade on ground that has recently been flooded, nor should the surface be dug up more than is absolutely necessary lor drainage. If turbid water must be , used, it should be allowed to clear it" •elf as much as possible by subsidence' «d a teaspoonf al of powdered alum lidded to every ten gallons. The filter- of the water where possible is and any water can be drunk if •t e ALL the white mew of Northwestern Dakota have Indian squaws to do their house work, that is, those who are able to afford them, for it <$orits something to get one. Those young whites who catch a young Indian woman away from her parents : and throw a blanket Over her and run off and secrete her for a certain length of time tan have her as a wife.' Otherwise it will take several ponies or cows, or from $100 to $500, according to the rank of the family. Among the fifteen or twenty families only one white lady was s^en. While there the wife of a rancher died, and was buried acoording to Indian customs. In the coffin, which was a pine box, the relations of the dead squaw placed every­ thing that they thought would be of any benefit to the spirit Indian in going to the happy hunting ground. Such things as thimbles, scissors, thread, needles, smoothing iron and the likev were heaped on the corpse until the lid would scarcely close. The bereaved husband told me that the Indians mourned for pay. One squaw, as a re­ compense" for her %otjrniBg, relieved his sugar barrel of twenty-five pounds of sugar. Others todk other things in ac­ cordant 6. Three hundred cups of cof­ fee a day while the lady was sick was a low estimate of the coffee he dealt out to the Indians. *•- - A11 Indian Dinner Party. Born in 1822, Colonel Ramsey com­ menced his military career in the Scots Greys, but after a few years exchanged into the Fourteenth Light Dragoons, then serving in India. Ho had been but a short time m India when he was appointed aide-de-camp to the Governor of Bombay, Sir George Arthur. At the first great dinner party his brother aide-de-camp was ill, and he had to pair off the guests, all strangers to him. To make matters worse, at the last moment many of the arrangements had to be, altered; "I got on very well until I came to a large, imposing-looking officer, and said: 'Colonel D , I believe V He bowed assent. I see you are down on my list to take Miss A down to dinner,' Sternly and briefly he replied: 'No, sir, I will not.' I stared at him speech­ less; and he said: 'Ah, I forgot; vou are new Ofc the island. That fellow D'Arey is, I suppose, aliasing himself in the jungles, so I may is well let you know I am a full Colonel off pay and reckoning, and Commissary-General of the Bombay army, and my position en­ titles me to a married woman. I will take no Miss dovr* to dinner.' I smiled sweetly, and said; 'Colonel, I have just come from a little place called England, and there we nre very fond, of taking young ladies down to dinner, and the older we get the more we like it.' 'I know nothing about England,' he re­ plied ; and off he went again--the old refrain, full Colonel, Commissary-Gen­ eral, etc., etc. I was obliged to tell liim that he had been originally marked off for a married lady, but, owing to the numerous apologies, there was none available. The next officer I came to was standing by laughing. I said: 'Colonel B--?' He bowed. I then told him how delighted I was to find that he had a married lady- He in­ quired her name. I told him. 'No, sir, he said hastily, 'I cannot; I have not spoken to her for twenty years.' I was in despair. However, the two great men went down good-naturedly together."--London Athenceum. TYPHOID fever has bfcen-endemic in Paris in recent years, arid in 1880 and 1881 the mortality from this disease was more than four times as great as in London. During one week recently only eleven deaths from enteric or typhoid fever were registered in Lon­ don, against 106 in Paris. Judging from the French official returns, tvpliife, however, is now unknown in Paris, although the disease is still far from extinct in London. • • A MAN of Jacksonville, Fla», hit in­ vented a machine for the artificial hatching of alligators. When the incip­ ient saurian is unable by himself to break the shell of his pent-up Utica the inventor lends the necessary assistance. WHO BLIWDERED. [FrSia the Chicago Inter OOMKI , , The Republican State ticket in Ohio has been defeated by a Democratic ma­ jority as heavy as that given for Bishop in 1877. „In tlie last Congress the Re­ publicans had fifteen of the twenty Ohio Congressmen. In the next Con­ gress they will have only six of the t wenty-one elected on Tuesday, a net loss of nine. Of all the Republican defeats in. Ohio this is the worst. From 1855 to 18G2 Ohio was as stead- ily Republican as Iowa has been in later years. In 1862 the Republican candi­ date for Secretary of State was defeated through party indifference. This was so goal a lesson t-h-it, beginning with a majority of 101,000 in 1863, the Repub­ licans held the reins until after the Presidential election in 1872. In 1873 Republican indifference paved the way for Allen's election, and this was fol­ lowed bv a sweeping Democratic vic­ tory in 1874. But in 1875 the State was redeemed with Hayes as candidate f°r Governor. Ih 1877, however, Re­ publican dissatisfaction with the Presi­ dent's Southern policy resulted in the election of Bisho'p, the Democratic candidate for Governor, by a plurality of 22,520. In 1878 the State swung into the Republican line again, and since that year there had been a steady in­ crease in Republican majorities,'Gar­ field having a plurality of 34,227 in 1880. and Foster a plurality of 34,309 in 1881. 1 The latest returns indicate that this year the Democratic plurality will be about as larga as was the Repub­ lican plurality last year. This is bad enough, but the worst phase of the matter is that relating to Congressmen. The Republicans can­ not well afford to lose control of the first Congress elected under tile new apportionment, but Ohio's example and influence are heavily against them. In 1874 the Democrats elected thirteen of the twenty Ohio Congressmen, in 1876 only six; in 1878 they eloetedb^eleven, and ia 1880 only five. This year they elect fifteen of the twenty-one, the Re­ publicans doing worse even than in 1.874. Several causes contributed to this sweeping.Republican defeat. The in­ tense feeling growing out of the action of the Legislature on the Sunday ob­ servance and temperance questions was carried into the preliminary canvass, and when the convention met it was dif­ ficult to reconcile differences. In 1881 the Republican platform declared "that public interests require that the Gen­ eral Assembly should submit to a vote of the people such amendments to the constitution of the State relative to the manufacture and saje and use of intoxi­ cating liquors as shall leave the whole matter to the Legislature." The Dem­ ocratic platform had a resolution de­ claring "in favor of the largest individ­ ual liberty consistent with public order, and are opposed to legislation merely sumptuary." The Republican plurali­ ty with the temperance issue thus treat­ ed was 34,309. In the convention of 1882 one divis­ ion of Republicans claimed that the temperance issue should be treated as it had been in 18S1, while the stronger ^division took other ground. In an at­ tempt to reconcile the factions the tem­ perance plank of the platform was made to read: RnoUrrt, Thattuetax-paying people of til e State demand that by specific taxation the traffic in intoxicating liquors shall be made to bear its share of the public burdens, and that the constitution, no far an It may be an obstacle in the way of tl»e exercise of the people, through tlieir representatives, of practical control over the iiquor tratliev to the end that the evils resulting therefrom may be effectually provided aganiRt, should be amended at the earliest date allowed by law. This, it is claimed, met the new phase of the case presented in the decision of the Supreme Court declaring the Pond liquor law unconstitutional, but the res­ olution was not satisfactory to the ex­ tremists on either hand, and the le:wlers and papers proceeded to interpret it, and to define the issue as presented, in accordance with their own views. Gov. Foster early in the canvass took advanced ground, and expressed the opimOh that the Republican party would gain more than it would lose by maktiig a square fight on the temper­ ance question. It was conceded that this course would alienate many Ger­ mans, but it was 'believed that it would bring the 16.0(H) Prohibition votes of 1K81 over to the Republicans. Senator Sherman took more moderate ground, and there were many who took the po­ sition that the temperance insne wis not before the people at all. The Demo­ cratic platform declared that that party was opposed to legislation merely sump­ tuary, apd the campaign managers neg­ lected no opp ortunity to influence the Germans and liquor-dealers against the Republicans. As the campaign progressed, more ai^l more attention was devoted to the pro­ hibition question and the Sunday issue, speakers 0:1 both sides becoming more outejjoken. The result was that the German Republicans deserted in a bcvlv, and the Prohibitionists gave the Republicans no assistance. There were t'our tickets in the field, the Prohibi­ tionists voting for their own candidates, and in some counties forming alliances with Democrats. The experiment of "making concessions to the Prohibition­ ist-* resulted disastrously--as disas­ trously to the temperance cause as to the Republicans. In other words, the Prohibitionists of Ohio have secured the defeat of the party most inclined to grapple with the temperance issues, and have put in power the party which has officially no­ tified them that it is steadfastly op­ posed to legislation on any phase of the temperance question, and because they have done this the people of the State will doubt their honesty of pur­ pose and the Republicans will be in­ clined to question their motives. The German Republicans wjio con­ nived at the defeat of their party for the sake of rebuking a faction, or who allowed themselves to be misled by loud talk about what might happen, are as short-sighted as the extremists on the other side. They have been hood­ winked by the Democrats, and have probably turned over the next Congress to the Bourbons. It is plain that somebody blundered in Ohio, and it is doubtful whether the November States can make good the ground lost. say sincerely that we do not believe that., if the worst come* to worst, the Democratic candidates for State officers will be beaten 'at the polls; but it is within the probabili­ ties than the Democracy will lose their con­ trol of the lower branch of the State Legis­ lature. * • There is still a larsre ne­ gro majority in Sov.th Carolina. Yet heedless Democrats speak and act as though the State candidates cannot l>e imperiled. We say that they can, and if the Independent break con­ tinue they will -- Chsrhxtou Xi-tm and Cour­ ier. The Democrats of South Carolina are like a family whose chimney is on fire J the neighbors can all see what the trou­ ble is, but the people in the house know nothing about it. The Democrats of South Carolina have set up the doctrine that the negro shall not vote in that State fixcept in such a way as will not endanger Demo­ cratic control. There has been no con­ cealment aliont this, for it has been openly proclaimed year after year. The tissue ballots, concerning the wholesale use of which in 1880 nobody makes any question, have* never yet been con­ demned by a single Democrat, high or low. A South Carolina Democrat who should publicly protest against any fraudulent proceeding, in cases where there was no way to carry an election without fraud, would be a Democrat no longer, for he would be read out of the party without a moment's warning. The Xews ami Courier, one of the ablest and most intelligent papers in the South, has never yet ventured a word in condemnation of any of the Democratic election frauds in its State. It contents itself with saying in effect that the Democrats must carry the elec­ tions, fairly if they can, forcibly if they must. The State is to-day overrun by red-shirts who are organized for no purpose in the world except to intimi­ date the colored voters, and, if need be, stir up fights with them and shoot them. Everybody in South Carolina""un der- stan ls this, and on the side of the Dem­ ocrats, who claim to possess most of the wealth and intelligence, there is not a voice found to object. Thejaw giv s a negro a right to vote in South Carolina, and its operation is not t-uspeuded, even when the negro chooses to vote the Republican ticket. In the long run, that riirht cannot be denied. No party will ever rest secure in ]K>wer until it does so by the will of a majority of the voters. Tissue bal­ lots may carry an election one year and red shirts may carry it another; but after awhile the real majority of voters will come into power. It behooves South Carolina to educate her citizens, nearly all of whom have been native to her soil for generations, up to such a degree of intelligence as to make them worthy of the ballot which lias been; put into their hands. If the negro is ignorant, it is because white men make it a crime to instruct him. The fault lies not with the North nor' with the Republican party, but right at home among the white people of South Car­ olina. If they have not done their duty, they must suffer the consequences of their mistake. They cannot ex­ terminate the race whose growth they encouraged for more than a century, nor complain if an enforced ignorance during the whole period of slavery does not in a moment yield the wisest 2>olitical judgment. The first issue in South Carolina is the issue for a free ballot and fair count. That has got to be settled--perhaps this year, and peuhaps in the next, or the next--before therajsvill be a peace­ ful election there or one whose results will be accepted in Congress or by the country at large. The State will be perpetually in danger of what Senator Hampton calls "ruin" until the meth­ ods of 1876 and 1880 are given up.--•„ Detroit Post. Sketching the Democracy. The Democratic party has been scold­ ing about this and about that for twenty years, and, after a thing has been finally debated and settled in the law and in the minds of the people, then Democrats come along and sav, now that is all right. You were right about that, but you are wrong about this. After the forests are felled, the clear­ ings made, the land drained, the houses lnult and the pioneers have settled down to enjoy the very first fruits of their toil, I have seen coming up the dusty road on a sunny day a wagon. It is l»e- ing drawn by a pair of horses whose dis­ couraging ears hang down to blind their eyes. Their lean necks rattle in their collars, and their hips stand up like mountains on a rugged plain. The har­ ness is made out of rope ends and the wheels of the wagon wabble like a bow- legged man in a walking match. Look­ ing from under a tattered covered wagon are a man and two sailow-faced women. In the rear is a cow that needs milk given her rather than giving it, and last of all a pair of yajlur dogs that would disgrace a tanyard. This team is the Democratic party. These people in­ dorse the work the pioneers have done, and are willing to share the benefits of other people's work. They are, doubt­ less, honest in this, but it wouid have been much greater to their credit if they had helped do the work that brough® these results about.--From Senat/ur Harrison's Speech in Cincinnati. - Grief in South Carolina. ^ Cf&i. Hampton is not an alarmist or an^fc- tremist, and when he says that " we shall be ruined, if we lose this election,** it is evident that he sees a possibility of the loss and con­ sequent ruin. Thd New* and Courier sound­ ed the alarm weeks ago, and there is still time for the canvas-linsr that will make the victory sure and complete. But the people do not realize the hazards of the situation. They have an idea that the election will car­ ry itself, and that the Democracy cannot be defeated. This is a terrible mistake. We What the Republican Party Has Done for the Negroes. It has freed millions of them from slavery. It has placed in the fundamental law a provision that they shall never Wen- slaved again. It has raised them to the dignity of citizenship, and given them for tlieir protection the privilege of suffrage. It has established schools for their children in all parts of the country. It has adopted legislative measures to secure for them in public places and in- public vehicles such treatment as should be accorded to all decent human beings. It has elected them to State Legisla­ tures, to the United States Senate and to the House of Representatives; it has placed one eminent black man in a high place in the treasury, and it has sent black men abroad as its Ambassadors. It lias defended the negro from fierce persecution in the South, it has fought his battles in the North, it has espoused his cause everywhere, and it has always found in its front when it entered such contest but one enemy, namely, the ^Democratic party.--PhUadelplua Bul­ letin. The Democratic Party of the Present Day. As the bulwark of the breweries! As the savior of the whisky-still! As. the foe of the Christian Sabbath! As the sneaking sympathizer with the infamy of Utah! As the enemy of the Amer­ ican wage-earner, seeking to put his' wages back to the -European level! As the opponent of the tariff, the national- banking system and honest hard money --the three pillars on wh eh the pros­ perity of the republic securely rests! As the enemy of equal right-* and the merciless suppressor of free suffrage at the South! That is where, and for what, the Democracy stands to-day 1 Boston Traveller. THE KORAN, r -- A Bo«lr Fall of Puerito Teaching. [From the Nineteenth Century.] • Perhaps the chief distinctive mark to be noted in comparing the Moslem's Koran with the Christian Holy Bible is that the Koraji is believed to' have no human clement at all. Nor is it even held to be a record of what Mohammed said or did, for that is recorded in the traditions. The Koran was a wholly Objective, not a subjective, revelation. It was revealed to one man only. It did not pass through many men's minds during successive generations for nearly 2,000 years like the Christian revela­ tion. The continuous subjectivity of our sacred Scriptures protracted through so long a period, and the fact of our acknowledging a human element in them, causes the Mussulman to place them in the same category with his sun- nail, or tradition. Acoording to his view even our (Gospels are not a direct revelation, but only a record of Christ's words and actions compiled by His followers and handed do.wn to others. Though admitted to be inspired, the inspiration is of a very different kind from that of the Koran. It is an im­ parting of ideas, not of words. The very words of the Koran, on the other hand, and indeed the whole complete work, not a mere portion of it, descended from God in a fixed and unalterable form on one particular night, called the "night of power," though happily for Mohammed's purposes its descent was arrested at the lowest of the seven heavens. There it remains treasured up, so to speak, stored away in reserve, portiofiTafter portion being delivered as successive declarations of doctrine, law or state policy became needed. Then an audible voice communicated each word in a low tone to Mohammed, or, as some say, whispered every sentence into his ear. This accounts for the con­ stant repetition of the word "sav" be­ fore each revelation. A very important factor in the success of this wonderful book, which, notwithstanding its un­ equal merit, utter want of system and the adulteration of its sub­ lime ideas by a frequent admixt­ ure of puerile and false teaching, is still revered as a direct emanation from God by about 150,000,000 of hu­ man beings, was, without doubt, this disjointed and fragmentary delivery. It was never, in fact, either written or composed like any other book. It grew like patchwork, little by little, piece after piece, patch added to patch. Even the Koran's warmest admirers must ad­ mit that it has often the appearance of being clumsily botched. The Koran's own account of itself is, that it de­ scended in a succession of parcels. Some of these parcels were delivered at Mecca, some at Medina, during a period of twenty-three years, the angel Gabriel being the supposed medium of delivery. About ninety of the 114 chapters, or more than two-thirds of the whole, are thought to have been the proportion assignable to the Mecca period; and of wioso t!.c earlier portions, umivcre>1 at a time when Mohammed really believed himself to be stirred by divine im­ pulses, though spoken in plain prose, are full of poetic fire. They are,the utterances of an enthusiast wrought up xl>y an intense consciousness of the truth of his prophetio message, and often rise to great sublimity. Christopher North. Ill the prime of his life, at the thirty-four, Wilson had obtained the important chair of moral philosophy in tile greatest university of his native country, and that post is associated with hip best fame. In Gloucester Place liia career was a pleasant and prosperous one, marked chiefly by the rich arteries which followed from his pen monthly (though there he lost his amiable wife, a loss which he felt keenly, and which cast a gloom over ajl his actions at the time), the colloge lectures, and the award at each session end to his rival essayists, the retreat in summer to syl­ van Ellerav and its circle of poets, or a visit to the Burns' festival iu Ayrshire. The death of Mrs. Wilson affected him deeply, nigh to depriving him of reason, and when he resumed his duties next session it was with a solemn and crushed spirit, but when he saw the sympathy of liis students wlio worshiped him, he fairly broke down, aud leaning his lion­ like bead upon his desk, exclaimed in a low voice, never forgotten by those who heard it, "Oh, gentlemen, forgive me! But since we last met I have been in the valley ®f the shadow of death!" He was elected first president of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution at its formation, and in 1852 he resigned the college chair, after an honorary pen­ sion from government had been con­ ferred upon him by Lord John Russell. Many are the personal ailecdotes still remembered of the professor in his Edinburgh circle, or elsewhere, from jocose colloquy with Lord Robertson to the incident of the unfortuuate printer, who lost some editorial "copy" in his liat 011 the way to Blackwood's, and re­ turning to Gloucester Place to narrate the mishap, was so crushed by Wilson's silent look as to take forthwith to his bed, so that his terrified wife, able to draw 110 explanation from him, went to the printing-office to ask what had been done to her husband. "I'll shake my tawny mane at you," was another ex­ pression which lie often used; and, in* deed, his magnificent head of hair looked like enough a lion's, .. So Easily Galled* ~; According t.o a Chicago street "fakir" the public is so easily gulled that im- posters and sharpers actually despise their fellow-men for their sheep-like stupidity. A man he knew of ran a perfectly square game whitMi was an out-and-out swindle, but which brought in the first people of the town. He had a pile of gold and a pile of silver coin. By paying half a dollar a person could throw six dice. If he threw six sixes he took gdld; if six aces, silver. No one ever did it. It was next to an im­ possibility, and the man raked in sever­ al hundred dollars and left. A fellow traveling down in Alabama who had scarcely money enough to buy a few bars of transparent soap, cut the soap in very small pieces, wrapped them in tissue paper and tin foil, sprinkled them with cologne, took a sponge satu­ rated with benzine and arnica, with it washed the grease spots out of coats and hats that came along, pretending it was the soap, and in three hours, with a glib tongue and a little rubbing, disposed of $36 worth of what had cost him almost nothing. 3* COAL 0 ILLINOIS. Statistics Showing the Extent ul Import­ ance or UM CMUPradMiai Intnml ia This Stale. [From the Report of the State Baren of Labor Statistics.] Illinois has superficial resources in the wide expanse and fertility Of its arable lands vast and inexhaustible; but beneath the surface of its fruitful fields there are other uctea of hidden treasures hardly less exten­ sive und equally prolific of promise for the future greatneasof the State. The ooal. fields of Illinois are as yet in the infancy of ' heir development, but still enough is known of their magnitude and production to justify the belief that the supuiy of this mineral tuel is as exhau-tless a-< tne modem demand for steam, for heat and for light is universal and continuous. An examination of the following' pares Will disclose the important fact that already the State of Illinois is second only to Penn­ sylvania in its annual production of coal, and that the output in this State has in­ creased since the statistics of the Census liureau were complete t in 1880 from fi.115,- •>" tons to ,.i,ll.!V,(i.r>:i tons, or 50 per cent in two years. Previous estimates have as- signed to Illinois the third place amon<* the coal-producing 8tates, and to Ohio the sec­ ond; but the subjoined table, compiled with preat care from original sources by special canvass of each- county, are believed to be the-most accurate statement yet published, and show a total tonnage jrroater than Ohie has yet attained, and as compared with the census returns a rapid growth in this indus­ try most gratifying and noteworthy. „ HOUND ARIES OF THX CC AT.-FIELDS. The general outline of the coal measures, or coal-beariutr strata, in the geological formation of this State, has been clearly de­ fined by the State Geological Survey, and embraces an area nearly equal to "three- fourths of the entire surface of the State. The north line of the coal-field, as at present developed, extends from Kapuls City, on the Mississippi river, Rock Island' county, throv.gh the northern part of Henry county to Sheffield, in Bureau county, and nearly due east to a point a few miles north of La Salle. Here certain irregularities of the formation are observed, but a few miles further east the measures agnin appear in. their normal position, extending to the Mor­ ris mines, from whence the line trends toth* south and east through the corner of Will coutity and the western part of Kankakee county,and crosses the State line into Indiana in Vermillion county. On the west, below Mercer county, a belt intervenes between the limits of the coal measures and the Mis­ sissippi river, varying from ten to* thirty miles in width, except near Alton, and ex­ tending around on the Ohio river border to Hardin county, where the measures cross the line and the river into the State of Ken­ tucky. Within these limits there have been dis­ covered sixteen different seams of coal, bear­ ing distinct geological characteristics and representing specific periods in the history of the formation of the coal measurea These seams varv in quality, in continuity and m thickness; they are never all found at any one place; they are sometimes too thin when found to be of commercial value, and in many plaoes are not found at all; yet some of the most persistent of them per­ vade vast areas, are of good mining thick­ ness, easily worked and sufficiently near the surface to be easily reached At' the same time there is a marked degreo of uniformity in the distribution of these productive seams throughout the State, so that ooal may be said to be generally prevalent In their geological classification these seams of coal are numbered from the bot­ tom upward, the No. 1 bed lying at th > base of the formation and Iniing 'the earli-st de­ posit of the coal period, and the No. IB being the latest. The strata bearing all those seams below the No. 9 are designated the Lower MoMSuresfC The former underlie nearly the whole body of the State, and, be­ ing carried to a groat depth Ivy th* dip of the strata in the middle and southeastern portion of the Bute, are there overlaid by the Upper Measure-', wnica oc­ cupy perhaps a hah of the whole field The most prolific and persistent seam*, and the only ones which are extensively m'ned, are those of tdc Lower-Measures, which h ippi- Iv, are also the mo-t universal. Of the^e, Noa 1, 2^ 5, 6 and 7 are the moot conspicuous pluuwt viTc, < No. 1 is the characteristic coal of Rock Is­ land and contiguous counties in the north­ western borders of the field, and it is not elsewhere sb extensively mined, though found in Warren and other counties. No. 2, however, is more generally distributed It has its fullest development in the "Big Mud­ dy" regions, where it sometimes attains a thickness of eight feet at or near the surface, and where the earliest coai mines of the State were developed. The same seam also appears in the opposite extremity of the State in the Braceville and Wilmington district, with a thickness of three feet, and a dopth below the snrfaci: of about lOo feet Again it is found at La Salie at a great depth, and is known as the " third vein" coal; and at Ml- nonk, in Woodford county, it is two and a half teet thi-jk, and is reached at a depth of Iw] feet below the surface. The latest dis­ covery has been at M;itloen, in Co ies county, .where it ha3 been reached by the deepest and most costly shaft in the State, at a depth of iKH feet. At all these points this seam is noticeable for its excellence In the central portiou of the State No. 5 is the commercial coal, and in .Sangamon and Macoupin counties it lie< at a depth ranging 110111 2<K> to 400 teeb, and attains a ttuuiiuesB varying from five to eight feet This *eam also produces the greater portion «»f the coal iu l'eoriacounty, where it is found ne .rer, the surface and about four and a half feet thic'«". No. 5 is also the so-called "secoild* vein" at L i Salle. It make< a valuable out­ crop near Danville, in Vermillion county, and also constitutes a rich deposit at Astoria, in Fulton county. It appear < aNo in the youth end i f 1 he .State, Ootn in Williamson and .Sa­ line counties, and wherever found is a ccam of good bodv and <iuaiity. Beam No. 9 is the distinguishing ooal of the Belleville district, embracing several coun­ ties contiguous to St. Louis. It is from six to seven feet thick, sometimes at the sur­ face, but, following the inclination of the strata in a generai dip to the east, is carried in Clinton county to a depth of 4 <) feet, and in the vicinit y of Centralia, Marion county, to a depth of 6 «> feet In St. Clair county, however, it is generally witliin 150 feet of the surface. This seam is also identical with that at Kewanee and Sheffield on the north and is associated with No, & in the mines at Bloomington. The phenomenal seam, however, in our formation is No. 7, which in Wrliamson county, in the southern extremity of the State, presents an outcrop ten feet thick and an average thickness in the mines at Carter- vill«\ about sixty feet below the surface, of nine feet This seam also shows a thickness of seven feet in the P 'nville district, where it i-< exieimvelv mined and •stripped," and again appears a-t the "first" or "upper veiu* at La Salle, and is associated with the No. 5 in ilie outcrops on the Ohio river. The Btreator coal has also been identified as No. 7. This seam is distinguished wherever found by the character of its parting-**. Late discoveries at Btreator disclose a seam nine feet in thickness, with two partings, where­ as in the old workings the seam is six feet with one porting. These partings give the deposit the appearance of three seams in one, but it is believed to be really one seam. This brief summary of the beds of coal, which present themselves ia different parts of the State, illustrates the variety and uni­ versality of the seams, but can only sug­ gest the real magnitude of these deposits in the State. It is true that in some specific loca it'ea coal has not as yet and may never be found, and that in others it certainly will not be found However level and uniform the original deposits may have been, they were everywhere subject to greater or less disturbances, and were ground by erosions and locally displaced, or swept away alto­ gether by denuding forces, nncil all exact uniformity was necessarily destroyed Yet these changes were really so slight ia com­ parison wiih the convulsions which threw up the mountain ranges ot the Eastern coal­ fields that our deposits in general show as comparative a degree of regularity as tne surtace under which they lie. Thus far in the history of coal-mining in Illinois the min­ eral has usually been taken when it could be found in conspicuous outcrops, or so near the surface as to be readily obtained; and such places have been so numerous, and geographically so near important markets, that it has been necessary only' in a few localities as yet to make expensive prospects or deep tests for coaL In such cases, however, the excel­ lence and uniformitv of the deposits has abundantly rewarded the enterprise which prompted the search. In general, the inclin­ ation of the coal-producing strata in our State, regardless of irregularit e-», is to the sonth and ea«t Along the western and northern boundaries of the field the lower seams come to the surtace and are more or less irregular and detached, while in the oen- tral and southeastern portions I ried to an increasing d-pth 1 ,the Indiana line, and pia^ntl of (listmbaBoa In Sangamon cou^tr, adhere "being worked at a depth of S borings below that seam have < the existence of at laaft,, three of workable coal. Similar tests tn Peoria county show the same retrnlailty of ssw^ cession in the lower Kftaiirs,,anji al jndlna tions point to the cAnclositm fbtrtTlha amount of coal actually spawd awt la sight, however great the aggregate may seem, is reallv trivial and irisitrofecant com-' paml with that which is yet ~ undeveloped find unknown. It ti alike impossible and unprofitable to attempt =>n e timate of the aggregate re­ sources »>f the 8» tte in this valuable lamer.il. An illustration of its magnitude may tw found n the'estimates given bv the ftrologl- cal Survey for the one county "of Macoupin. I11 this c tuntv it is said that the one se 1® now opened is capable of producing 1.000,00© tons of coal per annum Tor the period of E.000 yea-s. i. There are forty-six counties in the Stat# ' which are now producing coal increater 0trZZ le-s oantlties and many, more in Wh!ch " liflc beds are only found at great depth. which are as yet unprotected; and, not* withstanding r ne frequent irregularities and disappear nee of many seams, it is fairHr presumable that whenever and wherever Within the limits of the coal measures the 1 necessity for coal may arise, imrenuity «nj[ enterprise will disoover and produce it The report will al«o contain tabulated statements of the pre-ent coa -productiop ' of the State by counties, and by individual establishments in each county, ahoyin^ tha amount of capita! emnloyed in efveh. tha numl»er of men employed, "the general char­ acter of each plant, the number of tons pro­ duced, the value of the product at tktf» , mines, together with a sket -h of the pa» cul arities of the coal deposits of each county and mention of the social con­ dition of miners, and the prices paid for mining in the larger mining com­ munities. Tbesj data have been obtained from the reports of the mine Inspectors ot the State, who have made a special surv-sy of each county for the purpose W otrtafti i^ the exact details. The result is, on tha whol«', very gratifying as showing the growl­ ing importance of this industry in the 8sate, the improvement in mining methods and.ap­ pliances, and an equally marked advance in those measures for the'protection of miners winch it is the purpose of the law to secure^ The rate of increase in coal product ;oif ia this State is shown in the two census report* of 1>C0 and 1S.VI, and by the aggregates tabled bv the State Bureau of Lahor Statia* * t.osfr !«*:>: • • 4;.1: vif mh , J Xnniher n f r s - Yt'at' I tahti*h- ! ments. 187.1.. 1SS0.. 1X32.. 3*i MO 704 X'tmber of men em- ptoprd. 6,301 14,078 19,421) Xtuiiftrr Of tOHS pro­ duced. 2,624,16:< 6,115.37' 9,115,l>53 -- " fi • W:' Yah,* at the ' IM&es. ; * S.7 .•«.«« 13,f)96,'2W These figures show an increase in the ag­ gregate tonnage of the State of about 50 jvaor cent, without materia! change in th? aver­ age value of the coal per ton at the raiaea, A valuable feature of the report is the fol­ lowing interesting comparative table show­ ing the returns made by the- Census Bureau for 1SS0 or the aggregate ooal product of tha State and its value at the mines, together with the returns of the same items seoured bv the State Bureau of 188, CENSUS M7BBAU, 18XU. Total | Total protl>ict\vabu> at tens, mints. Brown Bureau.... Clinton.... Coles Fulton.... Gul latin .. Greene.... Grundy... Henry Jackson... JasiK'r Jersey Johnson... Kankakee. Knox La Salle... Lotcan. Liviniist'n Maooapin. >Ic D'n gh Mc Lean.. Madison.. .Marion.... Marshall.. Mercer... Menard.. Monta'ry.. M or win... Peoria Perry Randolph. Rock Isl'd. Sangamon. Ketiuyler.. Scott... Shelby. Stark .. St. Clair... Tazewell.. Vermillion Warren.... f Wa.-ihinii'n Will William'n, Woodford. Totals. •. 4W> $ 66,980 40,000 330 386,171 80,400 3,3rtO 183,812 •4,412 " 54 2,300 27,000 1,6011 36,482 716.487 60 000 118,230 347,384 82,304 63.000 373,807! 39,9*3 B,4S0 79,631 61,120 42,400 13,-rf*l 273,600 222,186 69,95 387,586 2, 201 437,619 5,ll»i ' 5,700] 6.600 22,143 956,265 61,3481 2,28.850> 15,467 4.000 611,311 73,500 101,060 STATS BPBEll 1882. sue 115,781 i 60,0110 j 5.W . 419,365! 101,1501 4,77lW 381,355 251,633 100,413 60i 3,815; 34,290!' 3,600) | 39.087; j 1,067,384! 'l.lfiO.ncHlj 79,0(101 i 65,0001 17,1124 • Total product tons. " Toiot value m 'XkinesL 1 I- .-wi j 61,454 i&,7n j 40,000 50,000 •••WW 240,315) an.fioo; 3.2601 506,402! 216,760 429,8321 "i'aosj' 27,000j l.fiDOl 33,836 •as MM 4l(,8 S19,«32| l«'i,()U6i 113.4001 415,2Sail 45,49711 #,536j] 131,180|i 78,940:1 74,200! j 402,381' 327,3431 81,57 476,016! 3,4X0! B75,791>i 7,8«)| 9,9?5:! 13,100(1 2.V08 j l.KW.OO!)' 91,92 'j] 305,400 ; 26,0)iii (?,000l • 984,!KN p 73,500 i 175,000| j I 214,1001 780,995 110,451! 60.0(101 101,0001 5,450| 100,*601 95/.W8! 42.4'>0> i",5oo; 41;i,087l 2 '"\8t5 ISR.JIm 1»1,0H1 348,3 O (»2,R35 5.115 19,924 ••>,100 22,143 Si-5,6851 • ti,177| 342,4431 #2,3*6! t.enol 649,MW 1 '0,;«2! fl0,000j aw, MS 60,004 1,957,4M 9»,<X» 438,200 8M.QW w»,aoa 151,SOS •>54S 176,596 MS.91T *4,300 J9.0SS 6ft,871 249,UB 16 i,19S 249,084 470. 3* «03,700 29.6W J'jSs 30,'26# 484,254 •ViBS 6,000 *f4,100 - lf«,3tt 1S7,5<» ii , - .1 6,113,397 $1,7:9,833! 9,U5,6.K)i$15)ti'.M,aff From these returns it appears that the or­ der in which the counties rank as to their aggregate production has been changed. Heretofore 8t Clair has always been in tha lead, Li Salle ranking next and Wilf next* Now the counties producing the la^geik amount of co >1 rank in the following oraetr Ln.Salle, St. Clair, Macoupin, Will and?>aa» gamon. Following is a summary of the information contained in another valuable table, whiefc... concludes the chapter of the report relatu#; to coal: . . •. . "«„f W Number of acres of coal owned or con-*11 »rol led by proprietors of mines ia tha 1 State,...., 1-23, Number ot aeres of same supposed SO be work: d out. - Number of mines of all k IKIS Number of men employed unde*;-* s, it- ifround 19,1*0 Number under 16 8TO-̂ » Amount of capital employed.. $8,20(1,188 Average value of coal at mines, per ton. 1.41 - - -- - - - • -- Indian and Parisian Nabob*. Albert Wolff, in the Figaro^ that all popular conceptions of Indian: nabobs are simply absurd, and that any Indian nabob would soon be "fl broke" in Paris, should he attempt live in high style {here. Indeed, pe: Imps, the most extravagant dream eve|p * invented by Theopliile Gautier, WBit Fortunio--that novelette in which w» find an Indian nabob realizing the lux­ ury of the Arabian Nights in Pftris. Albert Wolff says: **' "Where an Indian nabob woulif giv» his wife a mother-of-pearl braceluk worth fifteen francs, the Parisian nanob gives liis dear pet, a house worth be­ tween 200,000 and 300,000 franag. Ill India a pretty little wouian nourishes . herself with poetry; it is enough to eajl her'Star of Heaven,'or, 'My sweet lit­ tle white elephant,' to make her so coor* • tent that she will not think of asking for anything more. Suppose, baureve*, that a beautiful girl with languishing eyes, says to a real nabob: "My own, darling, it would be so nice of you to ' set me up in house-keeping/ then wha§ does the nabob do? He command)*, twenty slaves, who earn on an averagj* three sous a day, to plant four posts ii the ground, unite each to the other with partition walls of palm bark, and spread ' a few mats upon the floor. Then th# little house is finished. If the India* nabob be extravagantly generous, h* may perhaps hang a bird-cage to th» ceiling--which bird-cage represents th» very craziness of liberality. Soma* times the nabob may give a woman din- ^ monds of great value; but then ne has always the right to take them back _ again when he gets tired of her. Bufc when the Parisian beauty finds a nabob to set her up in the world, the lirt£;: out-lay represents 1,»HH),000 f^ancp. ($300,000). Then the cost of a coun­ try home for the summer, 1,000 friuiefcy a day for domestic expenses, 50,0011. francs a year for the dress maker, 3,00ft francs a month for the milliner, not to speak of other things." NKAULY 1,000,000 bcktias are intfrre(| in Greenwood and Calvfuy near Brooklyn. ,*i. * m