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f *• ' PH in VWR KTImi WOT* SNV ILLINOIS mm ; -c mm filS^k J A?>*i "• V ^ ipi? §k lr ' s" TEK Current: Do not gnw suspi­ cious of the business mazi whose honor is unsullied. Now is the time he most needs you* confiiimtwi, is t& time yon noH need the cheering iniltt- •nee of his energy. AUSTRIA employes 14,450 officials in her postal service, England 91,000, Germany 79,384, France 53,299, Italy 18,790, and Bnssia 15,557. Dnring 1883 Germany showed the largest amount of business, and England the largest surplus over expenses. The poatal re­ ceipts last year were as follows: Ger­ many, $44,488,000; England, 189,850.- 000; France, $32,145,000; Bnssia, $12,- 133,000; Austria-Hungary, $8,141,000; Italy, $7,092,000. ON* of the curiosities of the Now Orleans Exposition is an air flowor from the City of Mexico. It is two inches long, and resembles a beetle with wings and horns. The wings are of light sea-green < olor, dotted with sjjeeks. The horns are now white, and at the points very short. The body of the flower is pale yellow and deep orange, and gives a slight hyacinth per­ fume. Including the broad, banana- abaped leaves, the entire plant looks as though molded in wax. A ("DHloua explosion happened fn a Charleston, South Carolina, household the other day. A pot containing coffee was boiling on the store, when one of three children in the room observed that the steam was escaping from the top of the pot. He was about to raise the lid to prevent the coffee from boil­ ing over when the lid was blown off and the steam and boiling coffee hurled about the room. All of the children were more or less scalded, but not seri­ ously. It is supposed that the spout was choked up by the grounds, and that tbe lid got fastened in some way. NEW YOBK World: Colombier and Bernhardt told some rather tall stories about their experiences while traveling in America, but neither of them could boast of Aimee's experience.' This lit­ tle French woman had to walk a mile in the mud, owing to the burning of a railroad bridge in Kentucky, and losing her slippers had to perform the feat in her stockings (pale blue). Then the party had to wait for hours in an open field with a blizzard raging, and so they built a house of trunks, lit a fire in the center, and put the French wo­ man in it, where sho defied fate by singing "Un Mari Sage4* from "La Belle Helone." ! ik: ' I : ' rv ^ "WHEN Gen. "BoV Toombs, of Geor­ gia, goes up to Atlanta on one of his periodical sprees he throws off all his Southern dignity and becomes for the - time being "hail fellow, well met" with every one. Beeently he sprinkled a ' little red over the town in the company s^-of an aspiring young legislator, sepa­ rating from him in a wee hour of the i night. The next day the General met ' his whilom acquaintance in the lobby of the Markliam House, the latter ap­ proaching him with a gracious bow and saying, "Good morning. General; how f'- do 3-ou do to-day ?" The General took no notice of the remark but turned and - looked out of the window. "Why, Gen­ eral," resumed the other, "don't you re­ member mo? I was with you last * night." "Well, sir, what of it?" 4 roared the old warhorse, turning upon | Lisa wrathfuly. "Am I to be obliged : to recognize every d--n fool Vho gets ).j ona spree with me?" Hiss MIHANDA DAVIS, of Stafford, > Connecticut, is known far and wide as the "starving woman." She is 32 years old, and has been starring ever since the age of 17. Occasionally she takes a sip of water and eats a few cracker J crumbs, but that is alL Sometimes she goes forty-seven days without food or r. drink. Although emaciated, her gen­ eral health is moderately good. All efforts to account for her inability to eat have proven unsatisfactory., To a newspaper correspondent Miss Davis avowed tlio belief that she was pos- , sessed by a devil. When she said this ; a spasm stiffened her limbs, the joints extending with a series of sharp explo­ sions. Her lips turned livid, and her eyes blazed, to use the newspaper man's words, "like the diamonds of f hell." Miss Davis declares that all her " life she has felt the sway of the evil n spirit tempting her to every species of % deviltry. She is constantly watched, but has never shown a disposition to be ;; violent or to commit any crime. industrious, simple, and courteous monarch is "Count Vasili's" estimate of Franz Josof of Austria. "Having ur gent business, to dispatch one day," he relates, the Emperor had his dinner placed on liis writing-table. Hia aide- - de-camp dined at the same time in an ad­ joining room. After the meal the Em­ peror opened the door and said: 'You ^ can go; I shall work alone. What do you tbink of this food?' It seems to me, jour Majesty, that the dinner was not first rate,' replied the aide-de-camp. The Emperor then exclaimed: "What •differenca does that make to you? You can make up for it at a hotel, while I Am obliged to content myself with this trash. I am not allowed to go where •others go.* His work at an end, the Emperor remains along and reflects. Sometimes fie feels scruples about -what he has done, and if on the morrow some one echoes his doubts he modifies his past resolution. It is this temper ^ -of mind--ever striving to achieve the best--which in a chivalrous nature has sometimes made the Emperor Francis Joseph appear vacillating. 0 Only sloep, 6ianks to morphia, and lie only OH the left side. But enough; if I ever get better, you are sure to hear it at one©." "Remember Goethe," he said at another timf. "Was he not saturated with every human blessing? --great fame, loved by women, hated by idiots; his works translated even in Chinese; tbe whole of Europe rush­ ing to Isaes! bsforc hiss. And Nape ieou even said to him, 'V'est un homme.' Well, and with all that, when he was 82 he declared that during all his life he had been actually happy only a quarter of an hour! So, you see, we must not grumble.'* In Deoember, 1882, he wrote: "I repeat, I am not losing heart; till I did not give up all hope it was much worse. I am 64. I have enjoyed my life, and now I must shut up. But how I wish I could go to Russia." In the published volume ol his correspondence, the last letter-- written in pencil with almost a dying hand--is addressed to Count Leo Tol stoy, and is dated June 28, 1883. He died on the 22d of the following Au- gnat THE question'of plants in bod-rooms is still being discussed by medioal au thorities. At a medical conference re­ cently held in France it was demon­ strated to the satisfaction of all the sa- vans there present that plants, as long as they are plants only, may safely, and even with advantage, be admitted tc the elysium from which they have oo often been exiled. These pretty orna' ments, as a learned writer now declares, "far from being hurtful, are beneficial inasmuch as they exalo a certain amount of ozone and vapor, which maintain a healthy dampness in the air. and besides that are destructive of the microbes which promote consumptive tendencies in human beings. It is only flowers, and not the plants which bear them, that do the damage. Forns are innocuous, roses and sunflowers are pernicious, at least during the interest­ ing period while they are in bloom." This is all right so far as the medical questions involved are concerned; but the discussion does not touch the real objection to plants in bed-rooms, which is, that whenever the man of the house has to get up after the catnip tea, or any other sort of "nip," he invariably falls over them, greatly to the damage of his shins and to the disturbance ot his usual serenity. Plants should never be in a bed-roOm. -7 : ! TOCBGCENEFF bore his last illness witii great fortitude* "It seems I may linger twenty years with my incurable illrip--- But is such life worth living? JAMES MARSHALL thirty yeata ago gave to his brother, John Marshall, a farm of 4C0 acres on Thorn Creek, Pennsylvania, upon condition that he would go and live there. The offer was accepted, but no deed of the farm was ever issue 1 to John Marshall. He con­ tinued living there until a few years ago, when, with his family, he moved back to Pittsburgh, but paid taxes on the Thorn Creek farm as usual. When James Marshall died he disposed of all bis property by will, but did not enu­ merate the farm as part of his posses­ sions. No one considered the farm to be worth bothering about until the oil excitement in Thorn Creek began. Then the heirs of James Marshall claimed the farm as part of their fa­ ther's estate, and leased it for drilling purposes. The great Armstrong well, which flowed 9,COO barrels a day, was struck on this farm, as were several other wells nearly as prolific, and the Marshall farm became the richest oil territory that had ever been developed. The heirs of John Marshall claim that they had a legal title to the farm, ow­ ing to their twenty-one years of continu­ ous possession. This title was recog­ nized as good by ^Thompson H. Lines, and he bought the farm a few days ago. NpSvTy $350,000 worth of oil has been taken from the farm, and it is valued at Etiquette in Drinking* 1 The custom of touching glasses prior to drinking healths is common in Eng­ land and other countries, and especially in Germany. It is curious to trace how this customlttA prevailed, and still ex­ ists, even among savage tribes. To drink out of the same cup and to eat off the same plate, was one of the ways in which ancients celebrated a mar­ riage, and the wedding feast continues to be not the least important of the marriage ceremonies to the present day. 'i'he Indians of Brazil retain a custom of drinking together a little brandy, as a sign that the marriage is concluded. In China similar customs are met with. , In the mediaeval banquets of Ger­ many it was tbe custom to pass a lov­ ing enp" from hand to hand, but this gradually necessitated that the cup should be of enormous size, and thus smaller cups or glasses were adodted, and the old custom was conformed to by the drinkers touching their glasses be­ fore drinking. The ceremony attend­ ing the passing and drinking out of the "loving cup," as practiced at our great city festivals, and at some of our college halls, is said to have arizen from the assassination of King Edward. It was then the custom of the Anglo- Saxons to pass round a large cup, from which each guest drank. Who thus drank stood up, and, as he lifted up the cup with both hands, his body was ex­ posed without any defense to a blow, and the occasion was often seized by an enemy to murder him. To preventthis the following plan was adopted: When one of the company stood up to drink he required the companion who sat next to him to be his pledge--that is, to be responsible for protecting him against anybody who should attempt to take advantage of his defenceless posi­ tion. This companion stood up also, and raised his drawn sword in his hand to defend the drinker while prinking. This practice, in a somewhat altered form, continued long after the condi­ tion of society had ceased to require it and was the origin of the modern prac­ tice of pledging by drinking. In drink­ ing from the "loving cup" as now prac­ ticed, each rises and takes the cup in his hand to drink, and, at the same time the person seated next to him rises also, and when the latter takes the cup in his turn, the individual next to him does the same.--London Brewer's Guardian. DB. KLEIN has so little faith in the poisonous nature of the comma bacillus, that be recently swallowed a quantity of the bacilli without any ill effect. Wlitau'i inflMi JowMf Onriasi to WtlhlBftOB. From an article in the Magasine of American Hiatocy, by lb* Martha J. After describing- the missionary journey of a party of five sent to Oregon by tike American Board, of which the Dr. Mar­ cus Whitman was one, the writer nar­ rates how Oiegoti and Washington Wfcire saved to tbe limited States: Six years passed by, ar»d the mission was fairly prosperous. One bright October morning, in 184S, Dr. Whit­ man was summoned to old Fort Walla Walla to see a sick patient, and dined with a party of chief factors (English), and, according to the account of Mr. Gray, some Catholic priests, who had just arrived on their way to the inte­ rior of the country. While at the din­ ner table an overland express came in bringing news that a party of colonists --some one hundred and forty in num­ ber--had safely reached Fort Colville. The shouts of delight opened wide Dr. Whitman's eyes. One of the young Britons cried out, "Hurrah for Oregon! America is too late; we have got the country I* Another exclaimed, "Now the Americans may whistle; the coun­ try is ours!" Dr. Whitman was not slow in making the discovery that this emigrant colony had been brought from the Red River settlement as a counter- intiuence to American emigration. Over these Red River settlers tbe Hud­ son Bay Company had unlimited con­ trol. The American missionaries had gained a firm foothold, from which they could not be dislodged without war between Great Britain and the United States. But their influence conld be neutralized by the planting of colonies hostile to American institu­ tions and rule. The able and saga­ cious managers of the Hudson Bay Company, whose chief aim hitherto had been to perpetuate wilderness and propagate fur, had suddenly awakened to the necessity of a change of policy. Holding a lease of Pacific territory one- half as large as Europe, for use only, and the Oregon portion of it by jomt occupancy with the United States, many important questions hinged upon that of English supremacy. Thus the double scheme of peopling Oregon with English subjects, and frightening away all enterprising emigrants from the United States; "for," as argued by Sir George Simpson, in behalf of En­ gland, "until some other power puts a good title on paper, actual possession must be held to be conclusive in her favor.1' Dr. Whitman was the only representative of the United States present; and when he heard the statement that an embassy would soon start for Washington to maintain Ore­ gon as British property becauso of the founding of the largest settlement, he responded with warmth, "it shall be prevented, if I have to go to Washing­ ton myself." "Butyou cannot go there to do it," was the exasperating reply. "I will see," said Dr. Whitman. As the energetic missionary rode his Cay use pony back to the lonely mission station, his mind acted with phenom­ ena) rapidity. He must start at once for Washington to induce the govern­ ment to send a company of settlers over the mountains to possess Oregon. In just twenty-four hours he was on his perilous journey. His wife entreated, and his associates used every argument in the language to prevent the execu­ tion of his bold project. A sense of duty to his country prevailed,^however, over every other consideration. He even threatened to throw off hia con­ nection with the mission if the oppost tion to his purpose was not abated. His brave wife was the first to yield, and her example was contagious. The narrative of this winter expedition over the mountains would fill our entire space, and we must refer our readers to Mr. BarrowV recently published work on Oregon for a spirited record of its principal and wonderful features. There bave been other journeys of vast import to posterity, but nono involving higher and broader and more magnifi­ cent consequenoes, or that could possi­ bly equal Whitman's ride in true nobil­ ity of motive, in personal intrepidity, romantic persistence, and magnificent results. In Washington, after six vears of residence in Oregon, he was prejWed to picture with great force the possi­ bilities of the country he had risked his life to save. In the language of Mr. Barrows, "his knowledge • of the case was original, personal and experi­ mental, and at the national capital he made it declarative." . He was absent from his wife and the mission eleven months; and during that time not a line or message from him could be received. The joy when he again appeared, weary and worn, but leading a caravan of eight hundred and twenty-five persons, with two hun­ dred wagons, and thirteen hundred head of cattle, can be more easily imagined than described. He had brought over the mountains many rough adventurers, but also some of the best elements of American society. He had been the life and soul of the whole party--the general in command. Every night a fortification had been made of wagons. Every days he was like an angel of mercy, everywhere present, cheering the weary, mending wagons and broken bones, hunting stray cattle and com­ fortable resting-places, and continually urging forward the train. "Travel, travel, travel," was his motto; "nothing else will take you to the end of your journey; nothing is good for you that causes*a moment's delay." And these families pouring into the charming Walla Walla Valley, scattered them­ selves here and there, and quickly con­ structed log-houses for present comfort. It was the army of occupation for Ore­ gon. The fruit from that little mis­ sion-house had swollen into proportions equal--it has been estimated--"to thirty-two States as large ̂as Massa­ chusetts." . Individuality in Stationery. Naturally enough every fashionable woman considers her taste superior to that of others. She wants to be char­ acteristic, and consequently not only manipulates her pen as' no one else can and writes her notes abd letters criss­ cross fashion, but adopts a certain style of paper and ink, and these she retains in spite of tbe vagaries of designers and manufacturers. This aiming at some- til ng to give individuality to the sta­ tionery is a difficult task, sinee the reg­ ulation thing is a white, thick sheet of paper, cut to suit the fancy, and an en­ velope to match. No decoration what­ ever is tolerated by people of reputed good taste unless it be in the form of some heraldic device or monogram, and then the owner must have indisputa­ ble claim to warrant its use. Aside from thiB crest there is almost no pos­ sible way of throwing a Thomas Carlyle viel about the possessions of Thomas CarlyJe as did that individual. Per­ fumery is permissible, but there is dan­ ger of overdoing the patter and mak­ ing the odor intrusive. Some people «4r . 'ihdM*-" •< -.•» >«v x:.. theysesri. a»d other ecoentrios have made themselves conspicuous by pot­ ting double postage on the letters they •lividuality deaired, andT that isto adopt a certain kind of variety of letter-paper and envelope and retain it through all time. The idea is a good one in many respeota; It has the advantage of scona- juy diiil it is soiiionuiti indicative of stability.-- Chicago Tribune, Old Hickory and the Frenrh. When General Jackson became Pres­ ident he found that France owed the United Statea 25,000,000 francs, which he resolved, "by the Eternal," should be paid. Andrew Stevenson and Wil­ liam S. Archer, both of A'irginia, were candidates for the French mission, but •it was given to another applicant from the same State, William C. Rives. Mr. Stevenson afterwards, received the mission to London; and Mr. Archer, rather piqued, joined the ranks of the opposition. | Mr. Rives made' but little headway until Louis Philippe came into power, when the treaty was signed. Great was the rage of whiskered Frenchmen, who asserted that Louis Philippe had bought up a large portion of the claims, and thus robbed the French treasury in order to fill his own pockets. Mr. Rives, on the contrary, was in high spirits, and it is asserted that only eight days after the treaty was signed, he wrote a dispatch to Mr. Forsyth, Secretary of State, in which he boasted that he had affected a treaty which all his predecessors had failed to accom­ plish, and by which he had gulled and out-generaled the French ministry, and induced it to "pay not only every just and legal claim, but many claims that were considered desperate and doubt­ ful. * This was, perhaps, pardonable in a young and ardent man, but Mr. For­ syth did very wrong in permitting the letter to be made public, as subsequent events proved. By the condition of the treaty the indemnity of 25,000,000 franca was to be paid in instalments, and Mr. Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury, was instructed to draw im­ mediately for one of the instalments. He did draw, and the draft came back dishonored and protested, and for the reason that the French Chamber of Deputies had refused to make an ap­ propriation to fulfil the treaty which JLouis Philippe had signed and sanc­ tioned. And the reason assigned by the Chambers for their refusal was that the American Minister in his dispatches to his Government had boasted that he swindled the King and the Due de Broglie. In the meantime Mr. Rives came home, and the late Edward Liv­ ingston was despatched to the Court of St Cloud, instructed to demand the immediate fulfilment of the conditions of,the treaty of July 4,1831, and, in the event of his meeting with any obstacles to the object of his mission, to demand his passports and retire to England. He was coldly received; the Chambers refused to make any appropriation, and Mr. Livingston, as instructed, de­ manded his passports and retired to London. Thus stood the case until the month of January, 1835, when Gen. Jackson issyied a special message re­ commending the issue of letters of marque and reprisal against French commerce. The message was referred to the Committee of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Edward Everett, chairman, in the House, and to the corresponding com­ mittee of the Senate, Of which Mr. Clay was the head. T}ie committee of the House reported inhacoordance with the message of the President; but that of the Senate unanimously reported that nothing should be done until fur­ ther information was received from France. Louis Philippe managed to have the indeminity paid, though the French nation was almost unanimously op­ posed to it, and certainly there was anything but affection manifested--- Pen: Perley Poore. How it is Managed. The thing that most perplexes the voung mea about town is how "to make both ends meet." Their greatest mis­ fortune seems to be ttiat they try to live a life of luxury on a very small or moderate salary. They wear expensive clothes, are often seen at the theaters, frequently dine in luxuriant style at some swell restaurant, and all this on salaries averaging not higher than $20 or $25 a week. "How do they do it?" is often asked. Rather impertinently, perhaps, I asked a friend, the other day, for information on the subject. He said: "Well, the fact is, I never en­ joy myself so much as when living the kind of life I havo passed during the past few days. "For instance, an evening dinner, at Young's with a friend. We sat there and talked fully two hours while eat­ ing, as if time were nothing to us. We enjoyed a meal such as .Vanderbilt might have envied. Then came the theater. Sunday morning at 10 o'clock we were again seated in Young's ele­ gant dining lialL We sipped our morn­ ing cocktail, ate our fruit, and when the other courses were finished, it was af­ ternoon. In the evening it was a table d'hote dinner in the cosy little private apartments of the French restaurant. I tell you that is what I call enjoying life." "But," I interposed, "how do yon manage to do this on your small salary?" "Well," he replied, "two days of the week I live as if I had an income of about $40,000 a year. The remain­ ing five I keep myself in seclusion and move about without a solitary nickel in my pocket. That is my way of enjoy­ ing life."--Correspondence Boston Olobe. The Best Potash-Salts. Speaking generally it is not to the laboratory of the chemist that we should go for our potash-salts, but to the laboratory of Nature, and mgre espe­ cially to tliatof the vegetable kingdom. They exist in the green parts of all vegetables. This is illustrated by the manufacture of commercial potash from the ashe3 of the twigs and leaves of timber-trees. The more succulent the vegetable {he greater tbe quantity of potash it contains, though there are some minor exceptions to this. As I have already stated, we extract and waste a considerable portion of these Baits when we boil vegetables and throw away the potage, which our wiser and more thrifty neighbors add to their every-day menu. When we eat raw vegetables, as in salads, we obtain all their potash. Fruits generally contain important quantities of potash-salts, and it is xppon these especially that the possible vic­ tims of lithic acid should rely. Lemons and grapes contain them most abund­ antly. Those who cannot afford to buy these as articles of daily food may use cream of tartar, which, when genuine, is the natural salt of the grapes. TOUROUENEFF is the author of the word Nihilist in polities. . A ladty friend of mum find ' ifiMifhw ' #*• hasfiii»*»t- W importuned us tadiscloae Why a woman couldn't' be Mason.** We have thus far comply with the request, but 'lipfSy find a solution to the propoatjjwtt' jw the following from an address "* by Major Sherman at Austin, ftevada "Womcs compiala that they axe uoi permitted to join our lodge and work with the craft in their labors, and learn all there is to be learned in the situation. We will «£• plain the reason. We learn that be­ fore the Almighty had finished his work he was in some doubt about cre­ ating Eve. The creation of every liv­ ing creeping thing had been accom­ plished, and the Almighty had made Adam (who wast the first Mason), and oreated him for the finest lodge in the world, and called it Paradise No. 1. He then caused all the beasts of the field and fowls of the air to pass before Adam for him to know them, which was a piece of work he had to do alone, so that no confusion might therefore arise when Eve was created, whom he knew would make trouble if she was allowed to participate in it, if he crei a ted her before hand. Adam, being very much fatigued with the labors of his first task, fell asleep, and when he awoke he found Eve in the lodge with him. Adam being Senior Waiden, placed Eve as the pillar of beauty, in the south, and they received their in­ structions from -he Grand Master in the east, whioh when finished, she im­ mediately called the Craft, from labor to refreshment. Instead of attending to the duties of the office as she ought, she left her station, violated the obli­ gations, let in an expelled Mason, who had no business there, and went around with him, leaving Adam to lcok after the jewels. This fellow had been ex- peled from the Lodge, with several others, some time before. But hearing the footsteps of the Grand Master, he suddenly took his leave, telling Eve to go making aprons, as she and Adam were not in proper regalia. She went and told Adaui, and when the Grand Master returned to tho Lodge, he found his gavel had been stolen. He called for the Senior and Junior Wardens, who had neglected to guard the door, and found them absent. After search­ ing for some time he came to where they were hid, and demanded of Adam what he was doing there, instead Of occupying his official station. Adam replied that he was waiting for Eve to call the Craft from refreshment to labor again; and that the Craft was not properly clothed, which they were making provisions for. Turning to Eve, he asked her what she had to offer in excuse for her unofficial and nnnta- sonic conduct. She replied that a fel­ low passing himself off as a grand lec­ turer, li<id been giving her instructions, and thought is was no harm. The Grand Master then asked her what had become of his gavel. She said Bhe didn't know unless the fellow had taken it away. Finding that Eve was no longer trustworthy, and that she had caused Adam to neglect his duty, and had let in one whom he had ex­ pelled, the Grand Master olosed the lodge, and turning them out, set a faith­ ful Tyler to watch the door with a flaming sword. Adam, repenting of his folly, went to work like a man and a good Mason, in order to get reinstat­ ed again. Not so with Eve--she got angry about it, and commenced rais­ ing Cain. "Adam, on account of hia reforma­ tion, was permitted to establish Lodges and work in the degrees, and while t .ve was allowed to join him in acts of char­ ity outside, she was never again to be admitted to assist in the regular Lodge work of the craft. Hence the reason why a woman cannot become an inside Mason."--Oconomowoc Times. The Coon. . "It is rare that you hear a hunter nowadays speak a good word for the coon," said one of Sullivan County's veteran sportsment, "and yet, if you ask his objection to this muoh-berated animal he cannot tell you. More abundant and more widely distributed over the American continent than any other game animal, except, perhaps, the rabbit, it is less frequently encoun­ tered when not hunted for than even the rarer animals. And yet the coon prefers to live in the neighborhood of men. In a country totally uninhabited and wild you may turn your best dogs loose and you'll never run a cooa up a tree. A coon is always on the alert, even when treed, and many\a cunning old fellow I bave known to Ifeqp from his perch high up in a tree and alight in the midst of hunters and dogs, and make Jiis escape by the very boldness of his maneuver. The coon is a mono­ maniac on the subject of water. The first thing when one starts out of an evening, it makes for the nearest run­ ning water and drinks and bathes pre­ paratory for its foraging expedition. Chicago Herald. The Washington monument will not long enjoy its pre-eminence as the highest structure in (he world. An •iron tower of the astonishing height of 1,000 feet is to be erected in the grounds of the Erench exhibition in 1889. An elevator, the safety of whioh is guaranteed, will communicate with the summit, and visitors to the exhibi­ tion will be taken to the top for a small fee. Those who have the courage to make the ascent will enjoy an almost interrupted view for nearly a hundred miles all round. The tower will also be utilized for astronomical and mete­ orological observations, for experi­ ments in optic signaling, for the investi­ gation of certain problems in experi­ mental physics, and for various other scientitio purposes. Economical of Space. A western circus recently ordered a large advertising poster to be printed, and then kicked because there was so much sky in it. "I ain't *agoin' to ad­ vertise the sky," he said to the litho­ grapher. "I paid you to advertise my show. Drop a few camels and stick 'em up there. I ain't agoin' to have all that good space run to waste."--Chica­ go Times. REV. MB. TALMAGE in the course of a Sunday sermon, said: "When sudden sickness has come, and fierce cholera and malignant fevers take the castles of health by storm, we appeal to God, but in these chronic ailments which wear out the strength day after day, and week after week, and year after year, how little we resort to God for solace!" SOME of the dwarf race of men re- ported by several travelers as dwellers in equatorial Africa are now at the Royal Aquarium, London, to which an­ thropologists are invited for studying this remarkable people. The tallest of the dwarfs is only four feet and a half in height, and he professes to be a giant among his people. Tht Utwy«r~ Upon th« LtMoit Noymbr | , CN*w Tor* »pecULj\ 8WB« lime ago the Union appointed a committee to arrange for a formal reception to William M F.vurt* commemorative of bis election as United States Senator. It was resolved to make the reception as simple and as social as possible. Invitations were sent to a great many of the prominent members of the Bepnblican party throughout the country, and also to every member of the Legislat­ ure of this State. The members of the club and their gnesta assembled in the dub theater about 9 o'clock p. m., filling the little auditorium completely. Soon afterward Mr. Everts entered, leaning on the arm of Judge Noah Davis, Vice-President of the club. The Senator-elect was escorted to a seat on the stage. Judge Davis presided, add in call­ ing the assemblage to order he remarked th;it those who composed it had come to tender congratulations to a roan whom the Legislature, "in obedience to the will of the people of the entire State," had chosen to represent New York' in the United States Senate. A congratulatory address was read by Mr. E. B. Hinsdale. "The Senator-elect was congratulated upon his election, and the whole body of .the citizens of the State were congratulated that they have secured his eminent abilities for that high office. Good party principles, the address said, could produce no practical results for the people until the party which holds them could secure the offices in, the government so as to enforce and exemplify the principles. The address continued as follows: "We think that, notwithstanding the defeat of the Republican party in the late general election, the majority of the people believe in its policy, and that they believe the personal rights of all citizens and the national prosperity of the country would be best conserved ni its hands. After reviewing very briefly the great work that the Republican party had performed, the address enumerated the leading issues now before the country, and expressed confi­ dence in Mr. Evarts' ability to fittingly ex­ press in the Senate the sentiments of the people of New York State upon those issues. The applause that greeted the Senator- elect when he arose to respond to the ad­ dress was tumultuous in its enthusiasm. It lasted two miuutes. Mr. Evarts said, among other things: i " I have no desire to conceal from you that the actual circumstances which marked the transaction of the election, iyid that found an echo in your kind applause, rests upon something more important than marks anything personal to myself or anything in the ordinary routine of political promotion. We, ti e Republican party, that were framed into the means of saving this country, and that through every danger and againbt every obstacle, and 'with every degree of triumph and prosperity have built up an nninitiated territory aud an uncorrupted constitution to be greater and better than it was ever framed or imagined by the great fonnders of our Government; we, the Re. publican party, find ourselves oast out of power aud surrendering to a reactionary party the possession of the same nation and ennobled Government. It is twenty-eight years since the people of this Government intrusted the Executive power to a Demo­ cratic party and a Democratic President. Now again they have intrusted that power to the same party and a President of that par­ ty's selection. We in New York cannot con­ ceal from ourselves that the center of the ar­ ray of the Republican patty in the United States was pierced at this point that was committed to our defense. No doubt some bitterness of reproach might be, should be, and is felt in Connecticut, in New Jersey, and in Indiana that, when New York failed, there was not an array of sufficient strength to succeed and to save the downfall ef-the party's possession Of the Government of the United States. But, look at it as you will, we can not disguise it at all from our­ selves; we can not hide it from the great party of tho nation that the defense, the protection, the power that was intrusted to this State, was not adequate to perform the pait, and in the fall of this great defense f£U, at least for the moment, the possession of the fortress of the Constitution. Now, I am not wrong in saying, I am sure the his­ tory of the election tenches us all, that the Republican manhood arid Kober patriotism in this State fairly counted a majority of the people, if we had all agreed among our­ selves. If the Republicans in this great State had been able to look alike upon their duty and their service Nov. 4, we should not now lament a transfer of the power of our party to the reactionary party of the Democmts. Well, it so happened that there was one stronghold in the Govern­ ment that our party had not lost, and fort­ unately will be able to hold a certain check on the Executive power on one hand and the Democratic authority in the popular House of Representatives on the other--I meau the Senate of the United States. That was not lost by the election in November." After returning to the contest for the Senatorship in this State, and compliment­ ing the eminent gentlemen who were candi­ dates, Mr. Evarts expressed his deep sense of gratitude for the election, and passed on to remark that the two opposing parties were in substance and principle the same that they were in 1860, and added, with reference to the Democratic party: "In­ deed, gentlemen, with the qualification that I shall make, you will see that, in political organization, the Democratic party as now brought into power is even worse adjusted in the relations between North and South than it was in 1860. [Applause. J This qualification I make with cheerfulness, that the years cannot be undone, the twenty- four years cannot be effaced, the history cannot be obliterated, and I don't think it can be written backward from this time forward, so that there shall never be an­ other rival for the glory of the Republican party unless by a renewal of its own power and its own services to the United States of America-" SOME PBOPHECIES. Mr. Evarts said that if he was to believe the generous congratulations he had receive ed and the press of the country, "We are nearer to a union and enthusiasm for the party, as a party and nothing else, than we have been since 1860, and I believe that as we enter upon the contest in the conduct of the Government and in the suffrage, so we shall pull through it during the coming years. We are as sure as that election shall eome around in this city, and then in the country at large, that wo shall reinstate in the posession of that power the Republican party, and then shall have settled forever that odioup and dangerous element that has disturbed us for forty years--a Solid South. I believe that we shall have shown in these four years and in our renewed power that just as long as there shall be a practical sup­ pression in the Southern country of the suffrage which the Republican party has conferred upon the enfranchised race, there shall be found enough men at the North to vote one way upon that subject, so as to se­ cure the promotion of this enfranchised people and teach a lesson that votes sup­ pressed at that end will only breed a double growth of votes at the North. I submit to you that in the last contest for the Senator- ship it has been an open, it has been a free, it has been an honest, it has been a good- tempered, it has been a brdtharijr contest that has preceded; and, gentfemen, this public contest from the press, a$d, in the opinions of mankind, in the State* and in the deliberative bodies themselves has taught a lesson that if the public men of the State will trust the people at large di­ rectly. that relation between the public men and the party at large, no Matter who shall be successful among the competitors, is a better and a greater success for the party and the people than the triumph of the most admired men if it is got by other means than that of the will of tho people. * oaUe Hbm Wart hrt " take control of UaloB -Psrk, -1 cult Judges ta the Judical dMHets Cook Cenatr troaa ttaae to fear was favorably t»T the MdMwy OgtuMi Oreodorfl tateedamd a Mil fixtea ML members ot the Oeaaial A Meanly |t' per day for aetnf Borne of tbe o m per diem shall be forte ConsMine made die point« stitatioa fixes the pay of _ could not be changed dorii Legislature. MrBfllsndi forfeiture of the pay wonld not be a i salary, but would be a 1 tion of the Hooae to attendanoe of member*. Sneaker Blfase held t® thto Idea, and dedded thatthe ieasiatf«a was in order. The subject was finally laM MV. Among the bills introduced «u eae by TKMB •regulating the charges for deepiapr-oar berth*. Several bills of a similar are iaSro- dneed at every session, bat the point to tUsooet, besides fixing the rates at |l.SDnt lo««rtiMm it for upper, and feso for a seeOoa. is, (Mn was referred to a special committee ot fire to be sppointed by the Chair. At the Joint session ef tbe two houses ten Senator* 'and fmty-wwi Reprmentatives ̂were absent. The enty tele c*sl tor United States Senator was by Speaker Haines, who cast his ballot for Mr. Morrison. TH> Senate consumed nearly two hoots, at its session on Feb. 17, discussing Senator Here- ley's motion te reconsider the wte by which White's report favoring the fjawssgii of his bill tM -Ctafc «• report to the Hoose his lesson for̂ amtetlaw E. L. Merrltt and six other penWi oa Ms clerical force without gothsttfey et Hie Sense. Mr. Snyder's rrsotatkm ma labaJTbs* an­ other one ofMted by Mawhibw.. SimHliig the Speaker to n House employes i report Is made the entfir*' qnasttt# 'Wffl lie brought np tor diaenssion. seoteeisxn was brought presented by Mr. Shefflel members are absent an t of the House or not en i to enable the Chicago West Patk Board to ac­ quire control of Union .and feCfmsou. Parks was .taken from, the Conunirtjna on Mu­ nicipalities and reoemridtfatt to Sat on Jndidal DepattaientT Thtf̂ nMoa waa lost--16 to v. The nswalgist o* sato hlanfMMr wine petHtona was iatrpdn^ed. rtt.t presented a petition Rom Cook Coanty tax- protesting against the war m,1 down the 1 ktlons at the expense of noiaers. Senator Stzeeter's rat committee to Investigate the Home at Normal was adopted. Mils were tntnduad r By Saai discontinue tbe Normal School oonvert the bnfldtUM -Into a ha sane; by Senator Hlggins, to _ _ _ deposit for opwty. U>w»s^a»dfhnllar taids which are liable to be loss by the fafhurs *f bonds In which they are flsasd. Jbsfhs Psass. Mr. Dill, In the Interest of Speaker Haines* de­ sire to delay the appointment <o( semmlttess. SEACTE SSFSFT read a first time. Mr. Hood offend a W«tl>to as a substitute that the Speaker be lalumtiil to report the oommftteee wtthsat ton- enter mn*t first be elected* The Hoose sat down on Mr. Dili's proposition by tabling it, and numerous Members on both sides dsslsis the standing oommttteos are snplatsJ. . Mr. Deiokman offered a resolution whioh was afsgad at curing the abase at absenteeism kr pcevid- ing t hft members who are abiwat wttfamfc leave except on aoconnt of wotbiie "shall be deemed ta contempt of tbo Hons*. An. cesafnl effort was made * " It was then referred tot with instructions to report a rale Ht _ . _ . imr, by fine or Otherwise, jrtliiUO she ige sent wtthoat leave of ST convention of the two was the only petal choice tP be Mr,,Mi twenty SssAToit WRirardte to a qMstMet jidT liege In the Senate Mi tViatf Se^HlaadMs action in reporting the the Committee oa Mo the •• Snutovi wti6 tooths OwjOfflnftfetM iRiv*worx... ua. Senator Jbaebait on the taxation of ' resolution recites State Board of Kauallsatfoa that the corporate property of stantiy dodfaingta vawgfee I. that since the Supreme Court ot decided that the capital stOCfc < is taxable there aeons to b* placed on it by the bosrd, bnt, that the board has which this property escapes its portion of tajcauon. It is therefoi resogstion oi tne oanjeo* •><>'"> isnssa benaenee of persona mt lanrtauibBi a* panees provided an 4 tsssSvad that the Judiciary Committee St tits Senate investigate the subject and, mnsgti - 1. Should the act creatine tbe Stata/Board ot Equalisation be repealed or sfeould Jke powers of the board be limited or extended? S. Dose the svstem of levy and valaatloa ttnigrt by tal stock of corporato property assessed and valued for the purposes oC tararton 4. To re­ port by bill, resolution, or UthmtlSs a isssDtla MSU'SSS.' JROWATIRS the booh attendance of persons < Bills wen Introduced sa Crawford, two bills to amend the law! to township i the usual of the Supreme Court, i the place where tbe sessions shall be Senator Kelly, amending the law la the assessment ot property, so that la bonds and stocks slMl be subject to The President of the Senate appointed SeaaSoca Strecter. Funk, tiellar, Thompson, wad Johnson as the committee to investigate the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Normal in sefereaoe to the disposition made ot children Stat there who. It was alleged, were afterward lost to their . friends In the ftnnee. a joint resolution to revise the srimtaal code of Illinois was detested. Mr. Stewart Introduced a resolution fee a uuasllla- tional amendment providing for lepriMBfwWv which waa sent to the Committee on Kaueattoa. The bill appropriating 15,000 for tbe Illinois ex­ hibit at New Orleans was taken tram the table, the amendment appropriating £1,000 lor the Woman's Department was stricken oat, ead the bill was ordered to third reading in its original form. The two houses met in joint convention and balloted for Senator, with tbe following re suit: Logan. 101; Morrison.04; Haines,4: Law- ler, 1; Ward, 1; and John 8mlth, L and a Republican were absent. THE proceedings of tbe Senate, at its sse- sion on Feb. 19, were very monotonous, and consisted chiefly in the introductloa off petitions and bills. Several woman-eOffmge petitions were introduced, and Senator AtlX wetth made a report of the special committee on MS, wfrteh. with some modifications, was adopted A lution memorialising ~ • • Hennepin Canal was also prtetated aada< _ A bill was introduced by Benstor JMImglrtnir it a penitentiary offfense for a bank ptBeer or offi­ cial handling money to deal m Options. Senator Evan* presented three Mlla, the first appropriating Ma.000 tor the gensssl the Northern Insane Asylum; the identical wtth it thsLtfUa- arionsaeetioaa priatin? $180,000 for sdditionJU same; and the third providing for' a contraeta in tbe conditional sale orhMee eff rail­ road equipments and rolling sto«w% Senator White presented a bill amending the,law la regard to special assessment*. - Mr. In­ troduced awl amending the read law. and Mr. Thompson followed by a bill, the effect ot which is to legalise in every way primary aleewsaa, Abill to permit the confession of Judgment fea counties other than those in whteh It was a ted was presented by Mr. Funk, la as ment to the law concerning corporttone was introduced by Sir. Merrltt. The Moaaa spent the first two hours of the day's session la dia-r cussing a report of the Committee oa whic i makes the roles virtually 1 those governing the last session at ture. Numerous amendments to vfcrlsne i were offered and much speech-ma Icing was In­ dulged in,* the Republicans dotajr everything in their power to delay tbe adoption ot the rules, while the Democrats tiled their best to gelt them Indorsed by t he House. There port of the com­ mittee was tin illy adopted. In tbe jolnt con­ vention for the election of' a Senator, three ballotB were taken, all resulting alike, town re­ ceiving IUO votes, Morrison SM, the remainder scattering- O 'Shea (Dem.>. who voted tee John U. Hoxie, explained that his constituents being opposed to Mr. Morrison's free-Wade#e*e ha could not support him. Sittig {Rep.), who voted for K. 15. Washburne, stated his opposition to boss rule and the cast-Iron caucus mandate of standing by General Logan to thei ter what the fesnlt may be. Ml (Rep.) cast his ballot for Andrew,! fourlfeinocratic vote* were rec-- Hihes. i BUSKIN says if a nan lores a girl rightly he will not "take a fanqy to hot," out "take an imagination to bar,* since the words differ in kftw. CAKOM FAMB&tt *uH, Jto Pdthwl. States next autumn, u * h - .;•* U; • .. " i, •» * 1 . .***< v ' '*Ul 1 ~ il * » . , :i.K$ . . V ;