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H" 1. VMSLYKE. Ed NeraadPaM •her. - D JJN01S XITKBARY talent hi kept fully abreast ' roller-skating progress at Brans* tick, Georgia, where one of the papers arintM -- -i*» i.*u. 2^v*^v*«n«w «iav iiiUaV* JriiiS xiiivu gliucu aruuuu iliu hall like a sunbeam playing upon the oteats of the sparkling waves. Mrs. Mclver ia quite at home upon the roll- ers, and skates as smoothly as the swan glides over the passive waters. Miss Mary Stacy flitted around the hall like M light-winged dove on some heavenly mission." WHEN G rover Cleveland became President of the United States he lacked fourteen days of being 48 years old. Only one yonnger man has been Inaugurated President, and that is Grant, who lacked some six weeks of being 47 years old when he entered the White House. Franklin Pierce was three months over 48, and Arthur and Garfield were each a trifle less than 50. f All the other Presidents have been older, William Henry Harrison, with his 68 years, being the oldest of them all at taking the oath of office. IN remembranoes of George Eliot,re­ cently published, it is stated that at one time she was much interested in .phrenology, and had a cast of her liead taken. Eer head was a very large one, twenty-two and one-quarter inches aronnd. The temperament was nerv­ ous lymphatic, that is, active without enduranoe, and her working hours were never more than from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. In her brain development the intellect' greatly predominated. In the feelings the animal and moral regions were about equal. The social feelings are very active, particularly adhesiveness. 'She was of a most affectionate disposi­ tion, always requiring some one to lean upon. She saw all sides intellectually. M. CHEVE JUL, Dean of the College of France, will be 100 years old next August. Ho fills the chair • of chemis­ try, and is at the head of the chemical department of the Gobelins. Though he comes from a wine country, he is a water-drinker. Notwithstanding his age, he rises at 5 and takes a long morning walk in all weathers in the Jardin des Plantos, where he lives and attends to his professional duties, which arc arduous. His father was a doctor, though he enjoys the present, he takes infinite pleasure in thinking about the fthe past, and recalling the images of most of the celebrated Frenchmen and women of the century. He dresses ac­ cording to the style that was in .vogue in Charles X's reign, but is too absent- minded to be neat in his apparel. IT, is estimated that there are 200,- 000,000 Mohammedans in the world, of whom 6,000,000 are in Southeastern Europe and 20,000,000 in Asiatic Tur­ key, 7,500.000 in Persia, 25,000,000 in Arabia and Central Asia, and 60,000,000 in Hindustan. Considerably more than half of them are in Asia, and the remainder in Africa, except the fi,000,- 000 in European Turkey. It is also •tated that Islam is rapidly converting the followers of Brahminism. This is the force which threatens England •honld the Mahdi succeed iu impress­ ing it with the belief that he is the True Prophet. It depends upon the promptness and power of her blow whether his power spreads over both Asia and Africa. The doom of her Asiatic Empire may yet depend upon her immediate activity. A VOTING lady living in Dallas, Tex­ as, dismissed the young man to whom, she was engaged because he drank. A few days after she had told him she would never speak to him again a little negro boy brought a note from the wretched young man, whom we shall call George. The note read: "Faith­ less, yet still beloved, Fanny: My suf­ ferings are more than I can bear. I cannot live without your love. I have, thereforo, just taken poison, the effects of which I am already beginning to feel. When you read these lines I will already have joined the great silent majority. I will be a corpse. See that I am decently buried, and shed a silent tear over my tomb in remem* brance of the happy days gone by. Your dead George." When the young lady had finished reading the note she ask< d the little negro what he was wait­ ing for. "De gemman told me to wait for an answer." SOME of the British peers are very wealthy, as for instanuq the new Duke of Buccleuch. The entailed estates in Scotland to which he has just suc­ ceeded extend to upward of 450,000 acres, and include the magnificent seats of Bowhill, Drumlanrig Castle, and Delkeith Palace. The present annual rental is about £170,000, which is at least 20 per cent less than the return of ten years ago. The Duke also comes into the Boughton estates, in Northants, near Kettering, and he gets a property in Warwickshire, near Rug­ by, the two being now worth about £28,000 a year. The Duke's piers at Granton bring in £10,000 a year, his minerals and quarries are worth nearly as much, and he owns valuable urban property in Midlothian.. The Duke will receive about £500,000 from his father's personal estate, His income, therefore, will be about" £270,000, on hich pittance ever a Duke can live handsomely. " '• * NOVA SCOTIA : » not generally re- rded as a gold-producing country, ret since the discovery of gold in 1860 t is said its mines have produced over 000,000 worth of bullion. The mines leased for twenty-one years, with privilege of renewal, or royalty of 2 cent, on gross yield. Strict account kept by the mines' office with every iu operation and every person iOldUUE ^ A- . A rtA !?<&!* , I. *. . j!1-- " " " ; 's work expended in the gold-fields, both for mining and prospecting, an amount of bullion has bean produoed equal to I15Q per per man, counting wages at an average of $1.80 per day. The gold is of a very fine quality, being worth on an average over $19.85 per~ounca, Mid frequently $20. The auriferous rock is free mill- iiig iuiu j ioIud <»uui *hi »u foOu per icu. juuiwutiB ior working the mutes are very cheap. - Wood averages $1.75 per cord, lumber $6 per 1,000, and ooal $2.50 per ton. Timber is the same price as wood.* THE Emperor of Austria is described by "Count Vasaili" as finding his chief amusement in ^hooting in the Salz Kammergut mountains, where he gets up before daybreak to stalk deer, track the chamois, and shoot the wood­ cock. From taste and duty he con­ stantly attends barrack drills, military parades, reviews and sham fights. His entire energy runs in these two occu­ pations, because out of love for his peo­ ple he has debarred himself from all others. He would have liked to head armies on battle-fields and dangerous expeditions, with superb staffs in at­ tendance, but he early resolved to be the constitutional monarch of a Fed- alist Empire, and defeats that hum­ bled his pride forced him to make his renunciation of personal power com­ plete. His renunciation cost him^a great effort and saddened him pro^ found fy. He had to step down from the rank of Kaiser to be a bureaucrat without initiative or salient function. From 5 in the morning he is often kept until late in the day signing official pa­ pers, on which he never ventures to make observations. He has so much of this kind of monotonous work to do that he constantly has on his desk a hastily-laid breakfast. The parlia­ mentary system has never flourished in his Empire, in which there is no longer place for a Caesar. It is im­ possible for him to be popular, his life being too isolated, but he is good- hearted, and all those who approach him know that in being cbarible his left hand ignores what his rij^ht hand gives away. THE spread and fatality of cancer is one of the most alarming evils of mod­ ern civilization. We quote the follow­ ing from the Science Monthly for Feb­ ruary : If the data of the Registrar- General's reports are correct, cancer is steadily increasing in England and the rate of increase is augmenting. Thus, during the ten years 1850-*59 the in­ crease in the number of deaths from this disease was 2,000, sllbwing an av­ erage increase of about 200; from 1860 to 1869 the number of deaths was 80,- 049, and*the average annual increase 248; and from 1870 to 1879, 111,301 deaths occurred, with an annual in­ crease of 320. Dr. Charles Moore at­ tempted to show, in a book published in 1865, that cancer thrives with good living, and that its increase was an ac­ companiment of the improved econom­ ical condition and vitality of the Brit­ ish people. It abounds where the con­ ditions are ordinarily most favorable to health, and more among the rich than among the poor. According to a French observer, about 10 per cent, of the wealthy classs and 7 per cent of the poorer classes are afflicted with cancer. The disease, according to Dr. Crisp, also prevails among animals, more frequently among flesh-eaters than among herb-eaters, and among domesticated than wild animals. It is not zymotic or infectious, or conveyed in any way, nor is it transmissible, though the predisposition to it may be inherited; but it begins denovo in each individual whom it attacks. The only efficient remedy for it is the sur­ gical one, and that should be applied at the earlier stages of the disease, while the affection is still local... The Alliterative Mania. The advantage supposed to inhere in an alliterative head-line or title-page is not a device of the modern news editor. It seems to have been worked for all there was in it by the religious tract writers who flourished so plentifully iu Cromwell's time. In 1626 some one published in Lon­ don a pamphlet with the rather startl­ ing title: "A Most Delectable, Sweet, Perfumed Nosegay for God's Saints to Smell At." Later on another peculiar man presented the reading world with "Snuffers for Divine Love," and "A Pair of Bellows to Blow Off the Dust Cast Upon John Fay." Cromwell's time, however, was most noted for queer title-pages, A work on charity, written then, was entitled "Hooks and Eyes for Believers' Breeches." Anoth­ er author, in his attempt to elevate poor human nature, called his labor in that direction, "High-Heeled Shoes for Dwarfs in Holiness," and just then "Crumbs of Comfort for the Chickens of the Covenant" were thrown out to tempt the literary appetite. A Quaker, as serious as quaint, who was impris­ oned on one of the charges so easily found in those days, sent forth from his prison cell "A Sigh of Sorrow for the Sinners of Zion', breathed through a hole in the wall of an Eastern vessel, known among men by the name of Samuel Fish." About this time anoth­ er book, with a queer and ludicrous title-page, appeared--"The Spiritual Mustard Pot to Make the Soul Sneeze with Devotion." Others stood on "Sal­ vation's Vantage Ground, or Leaping Stand for Heavenly Believers," and fired "A Shot at the Devil's Head­ quarters Through the Tubes of the Cannon of the Covenant," which was said in the preface to be a language so plain that the most "illiterate repro­ bate could not fail to understand." A "Reaping-Hook, Well Tempered for for the Stubborn l ars of the Coming Crop, or Biscuits Baked in the Oven of Charity, Carefully Conserved for the Chickens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation," startles lovers of the curious to-dsiy. But to cap the climax of the old title-page mania an ambiti­ ous author declares his book to be "Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul of Sin; or the Penitential Psalms of the Princely Prophet David, Whereunto are Annexed William Huinnis' Hand­ ful of Honeysuckles and divers Godly and Pithy Ditties, now newly aug­ mented." . Some of the Grotesque HbtakM Th»t De­ cor >t Nuptial CMWBOBIM. "Tea," said a Boat cm clergyman, "mora ludiorous incidents and queer mistakes happen In ecmnfeeihtti with weddings or marriages than I aver no­ ticed in connection with any of my oth­ er work. There are times when I have difficulty in keeping my countenanoe straight, and of course you wouldn't liko uu laughed at by the minister jusi aa lie wus about to join you sol­ emnly in wedlock with the lady you loved. The most trying time I ever had was when I was young in the min­ istry, and when I had not such control over my keen sense of the ludicrous as I have since acquired. I was located at Houlton, Maine. One day a couple drove over from Woodstock, New Brunswick, and when they arrived in the village began inquiring for a min­ ister. Some of the mischief-loving boys got hold of them, and took them down to the market where they were placed on exhibition and plied with all sorts of ridiculous questions to the great amuseipent of the crowd, and without embarrassment to themselves, for they were too green to appreciate the joke. Finally, after everybody had had his fill of fun, the bride and groom were escorted to my house by a few of the most mischievous of the ciowd. It was all I could do to keep from roaring When they entered, but I felt that I. must maintain my dignity, not only for the sake of the bride and groom, but because some of the young men present were members of my congregation, and if I yielded to my feoliilgs then I might have difficulty in restraining myself when I faced them from the pulpit. The woman was the tallest, most awk- wai'd, and most fantastic female I ever saw. She was six feet and two inches high, and dressed in all the bright-col­ ored toggery she could get on, without regard to harmony or style of make. But one article struck me so forcibly, and was thrust on my attention so prominently that I forgot all other de­ tails. She had a hand which came nearly answering the description 'as large as a codfish,' and these were in­ closed in a pair of thick yarn mittens, which make every finger look as big as a potato. These gloves were a marvel. They were striped, red arid white, the stripes running lengthwise of the fin­ ger. while on the back of each hand she had worked, in coarse yarn, what she thought was some sort of a flower, into which she had wrought every im­ probable color that a grotesque imagi­ nation could picture. The man was a diminutive half-breed, Indian and French, and he had no vest or collar on, and his pants were held up by a lumberman's leather belt, fastened with an old, rusty iron buckle. I man­ aged to get through the ceremony, how­ ever, and relieved my feelings after they had gone. "I remember a bashful fellow who came to my house with his girl to get marr ed. He was so bashful that I pit­ ied him. He was absolutely over­ whelmed--paralyzed, I ought to say. He came into the parlor ' with his hat on, and did not remove it once, despite all the hints that his bride and I gave him. I said all the assuring things I could, and tried to encourage him and his lady in conversation, but he was so abashed that he could neither answer nor move. I liinte'd that he stand be­ side his lady, but he was so frightened that he did not understand. Finally, in dispair, I said quietly and confiden­ tially to the bride: 'If you will take your place beside the groom I will marry you,' and when she approached him it seemed absolutely to startle *>"" with a new fright. "One young man who came on the same errand was struck with curiosity the moment he entered the house. He absolutely ignored hid bride, while he wandered about the parlor, scrutinizing in a wondering way every picture, ev ery book, ornament, and piece of furni­ ture in the room. The bride sat and blushed, while I tried to call his atten­ tion to the business of the moment, but he kept on, and it was more than fif­ teen minutes before I could get the two corraled near enough together to mar­ ry them. "I married a queer couple once, a short time before I came to Boston. The man had just entered on his pro­ fession, which we will call that of phy­ sician, and had determined upon his place of settlement. The yd a bright, intelligent, well-eduoated girl, who knew the ways of society, nad made up her mind that she would mar­ ry a doctor, and finally she had brought matters round in a nuiet, wo­ manly way to the point of hts asking for her hand and heart, and of courEe she yielded. The acquaintance had been astonishingly brief. They were hardly acquainted when I was sum­ moned to marry them. He was very skillful and devoted to his profession, which he had mastered well for a young man in theory and practice but knew less of the ways of the world and customs of social life than any other man I ever met. He was on the point of starting for his new home the very next day after hia marriage, and, with the utmost unconcern regarding the proprieties of the occasion, had packed up all liis apparel ready for the jour­ ney. He was stopping at the house of a friend, who, at the lasi moment, late in the afternoon discovered that the bridegroom did not have a change of linen to dress with. Hurried consulta­ tions were had, and his hostess, with a woman's readiness for emergencies, took the measure of his collar and waist, went down just as the stores were about to close, and purchased the desired article, which the bridegroom accepted with the utmost equanimity and as if tha article was not of much consequence anyway. They went away, and in a few days the bride wrote a let­ ter to one of her friends, in which she remarked with charming naivette: 'We had a good, pleasant journey, and I found my husband quite entertaining. I think 1 shall like him first-rate when Iget acquainted with him. Distribution of the Sense of Taste, however, is not equally dis­ tributed over the whole surface of the tongue alike. There are three distinct regions or tracts, each of which has to perform its own special office and func­ tions. The tip of the tongue is con­ cerned mainly with pungent and acid tastes; the middle portion is sensitive chiefly to sweets and l itters; while the back, or lower portion confines itself almost entirely to the flavors of roast meats, butter, oils, and other rich and fatty substances. There are very good reasons for this subdivision of facul­ ties in the tongue, the object being, as it Mere, to make each piece of food to undergo three separate examinations (like "smalls," "mods," and "greats" at Oxford), which must be successively passed before it is admitted to full par­ ticipation in the human economy. The first examination, as we shall shortly see, gets rid at once of substances which WfUljkl Iff iK'tivAjj ipifl jJ,g- ( ' Jn r > » > f f« 1 ¥ ' t it* **- * '» v. .. r, H- Si s m ftTiffTtliiWnfmrtly; nates between poiaonotia asd chemical­ ly harmless food-atuffs; and the third merely deeidaa the minor queation whether the partioqlaritiod is likely to prove then and tb«n wholesome or in­ digestible to tha particular person. The sense of tttto prOMWdt*, in fact, upon the principal selection and elimination; it raftwea first what ia positively gaatructrve, next what is more resspWy deleterious, an.l finally what la cely undesirable or over-lus­ cious.--Or ant Allen, in Popular Sci­ ence Monthly. The Tramp Spatter. "Did you ever hear of the tramp spotter? Therahe goes on the other side of the atreet. Go and aee if you can 'work' him for an item." " The reporter who had thus been ac­ costed by apotiefMjMm oathe street had never heard of the tf*pnp spotter, but he looked scroaa ami: faw a fellow, P?°*& dressed, Wtt*arjpg leisurely along, aa though oppressed by no care or thought of work. The reporter was soon by his side, and in a few momenta had imde himself known. A five ftiinutes' conversation ensued l>efore the spotter could be induced to talk ratioafclly. "So y#to want to know how I worky ah?" he finally ejaculated. "Well, I dOii't know that it will hurt my business if you leave out my name. I am not after notoriety, for with m«- notoriety means destruction. You sef> I go to a town and engage srith the de tectives in a case. They give me point­ ers on a gang of crooks, and it is niy duty to get acquainted with them, learn their plans, and keep nay ears open for stories of late burglaries, inform my emplover, and skip before' I am found out* "But how does the deteetive com­ plete the case <*-•& "Why, don't you see,'lie has the names of the gang. The first thing he does is to arrest them, lock them up in different 'sweat boxes,* and let them lie there a day or two while the officers go through their rooms for 'swag.' The detective then tells one of the gang that another member has 'squealed,' and has straight enough information from me to give him a pretty fair sto­ ry. After going through the 'sweat­ ing' process a few daya longer, it is no trouble to find one of the crowd who is willing to turn state's evidence for his own liberty." "Why are you oalled tha tramp spot­ ter?'" "Because I persist in roaming through the country, I guess. That's the only reason I know of. I make more money than nine*out of ten defectives, and it surely cannot be because I am poor." •'Do you like your work better than if you were a real detective ?" "Much better. You see, a detective is looked upon as a rogue. Thieves are always ready to accuse them of re­ ceiving bribes, and officers, through jealousy, talk aliout each other. That is where the damage IB done. A man who hears a detective run down a rival officer, believes him, and worse thau that, believes that they, as a class, are all crooked. By talking so much they only bring the venom down on their own heads. With me it is different. If I don't dress like a gentleman now it is because I am working among 'toughs.' but generally I pass for the finest, live at big hotels, and circulate freely with the big guns. As a general thing my business is with the moneyed olass of crooks, who live well and en­ joy life."--Chicago Ifewn. A Mental MaladfJM'IIN îî A man of high fljjPWfr fee, yell ed­ ucated, and of vigorous understanding in most things, was nevertheless given to the practice of self-tormenting in re­ gard to the state of his health. He was fairly robust, ate and drank well, slept easily, walked with remarkable energy, was capable of Eevere and long-sus- tained mental labor and of much phy­ sical exertion. Unluckily for himself, he began to study domestic medicine, and straight-way a too active imagina­ tion led him to simulate in his own case the symptoms of almost every disease he had happened to read of. He was apoplectic, paralytic, rheu­ matic; he had heart disease; his lungs were affected; his liver was congested; gout threatened him; his vision became enfeebled; obscure senations alarmed him as to the state of his brain; fevers of one kind and another were perpet­ ually hatching in his system. The man's life beeame a burden and a* Mis­ ery to him; he half killed himself with terror, and nearly succeeded In get­ ting poisoned by a succession of varied andl opposing remedies. At last he was cured. Htaaxlmg the symptoms of a condition from wtilfeh it is physiologically impossible that alien should recover, he found to his horror that each particular ay nip ton* was dis­ tinctly marked in his own cftaia. He went over the ground again and again; each renewed oxaminatioa aular, served to bring out the symptoms with more alarming distinctness. Then tha affair became too ludicrous; a hearty fit of laughter dissipated not only that par­ ticular ailment, but all the rest, and the sufferer was cured.--Hearth and Home. • ' --'---- •* • A Japanese Noam. In describing the Japanese village at Knightsbridge, The London Tele­ graph says: The houses are built of wood and bamboo, and stand on posts raising them about eighteen inches above the ground. The floor is com­ posed of thick rush mats called tattams each five feet ten inches long by two feet ten inches wide. The size of the house is invariably determined by the number of these mats used, and a Japanese, in giving an order for the construction of a house, would at once indicate the kind of structure he re­ quired by saying that it must be so many mats in area. Thus, an ordinary house will have the floor covered with < three or four mats, whereas that of a wealthy person might have twenty. Commonly the buildings have only one floor, but sometimes another is added, and one of these is erected here. Access to the second floor is obtained by a lad ler inside, and there is a small bal­ cony running round, intended however for ornament and not for use. The fronts of the houses consists of sliding frames filled with paper, and all the windows are^also of paper, and very thin texture. Each bouse lias its shrine in­ closing a god, and some of these shrines are very elaborate and beautiful pieces of workmanship. The internal decor­ ations usually consist of paper, printed with flowers and various designs, but some cases there are also most ingen­ ious and beautiful effects produced by means of embossed paper and silk. A BROOKLYN young man is quite gone" on "Hamlet." Reading it to the girl of hia heart he came to the pass­ age: "Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fooL" "Is that a proposal, dear ?" she asked. "Yes, darling," he replied. And they settled it there and The narrow, restricted, and provincial character of Qrover Cleveland is signifi­ cantly shown in the select!cm of his Cabin­ et, the official announcement of which con­ firms the list precisely as .given in yester­ day's Journal. The Alleghenies seem to be the boundary of Mr. Cleveland's hori­ zon. The territorial distribution of his ad­ visers; even more than the question of their characters and capacities, will at once arrest attention. No sucli Cabinet, we venture, has been constructed since Mr. Jefferson's Northwest Territory has become the real heart of the nation and continent, with its vast resources, its teeming millions, its pressing demands, its supreme political importance, and its steadi'y increasing greatness. To the entire territory of the country west of a line drawn north and sonth through Baltimore, making a debouch on the 35th parallel to take in the "South," Mr. Cleveland has assigned one man. Col. Vilas, who is known to the country simply and solely because of a speech he was fort­ unate enough to deUver at a banquet in honor of Gen. Grant, a man who is not so known and honored, even in his own State, as to have ever held public office, and who must be taken entirely on trust, even in the purely executive department to which he is assigned. The sniprising features of the new ad­ ministration--though the surprise has been discounted by several weeks' well-grounded rumors--is that three members should be from the State of New York. With "Dan" Manning in charge of the Treasury, Whit­ ney of the nivy, and the President as chief executive, all from the same State, it has an appearance of centralization not often seen. These three will undoubtedly constitute the power of the executive branch of the Government. We do not separate the President from the others, for the reason that the arrangement is undoubtedly a per­ sonal one, above all other considerations. The "chums" will work in harmony, and with the palpable advantage of having one of their number to cast the decisive vote. Of Mr. Manning little cau be said, ior the reason that but little is known beyond the fact that he has been "offensivelv active in partisan politics." He is better known be­ cause of his manipulation of State poli­ tics, and latterly of Mr. Cleveland's inter­ ests, than for anything else he ever did or undertook. But for his prominence as a political manager he would prob­ ably never have been dreamed of in con­ nection with the Treasury portfolio--a rec­ ommendation fitting him' equally well for appointment to the court of St. James, or for the head of the army in the field. What is true of Mr. Manning is largely true of Mr. Whitney, the obligations of chumship, added to the known influence of Mr. Til- den. overriding all other considerations. We have, therefore, two principal places-- places to be of unusual and extraordinary importance--tilled without special regard to the demands of the duties pertaining there­ to, and quite evidently as personal compli­ ments from a confidential friend, just as one might ask either to act as ticket-taker at one's benefit. The selection of Mr. Bayard is more in conformity with ihe fitness of things. He went "with his State" in favor of secession; but he stopped "with his State" just short of open treason. His appointnant is. therefore, to be credited to the "feonth." While Mr. Bajard has a good reputation as a sound, conservative, and honorable man, he has never been regarded as a great man. His name is not asso­ ciated with auy important public aot or measure; he is a respectable gentleman, has made a good average Senator, is in harmo­ ny with the high-stock, 6ilk-stocking tradi­ tions of the aristocratic elements of his party and State, and that is all that can fairly be said of him. The history and legislation of the country will be searched in vain for any act of his that has made a ripple in the current of events. The State Department will be kept in the same rigid respectability it was under the grandfatn- erly care of Mr. Prelinghuysen. Mr. Endicott, for the War Department, is an eminently respectable man--a kind of Massachusetts "Mr. Litimer"--a man whose ancestors came over in advance of the May­ flower, so that, if possible, his respecta­ bility overshadows the respectable respecta­ bility of the most respectable respectables of the Bay State. It is to be presumed that he will make a respectable and accept­ able man for the place. Vilas, for the Postofflce, is. as has been said, the only bit of sop thrown to the "rowdy West." McDonald, one of the ablest, stanchest and most consistent Dem­ ocrats, was i>assed over, presumably be­ cause of the jealousy and fear of his more adroit and less scrupulous" friend," Thomas A. Hendricks. By this division of honors, New York, with a plurality of 1,200, gets two places, in addition to the President, while Indiana, with a Democratic plurality of nearly 7,000, gets nothing except ridi­ cule and contempt for the better elements of the party here. If there be any doubt of this, one needs but look at the following that Mr. Hendricks has at Washington, aud then at the men mortified by the treatment accorded Mr. McDonald, from the time his name was suggested for the Presidency aud the machinery of the party iu the State was oi>erated to his discomfiture, the crank being turned by the hand of Mr. Hendricks, personally, at Chicago. The remainder of the Cabinet, contain­ ing some of its most important elements and functions, is given over to the "South." The Interior Department is placed in charge of Senator Lamar, a representative South­ ern statesman of the first class. Since at least one place must of necessity go to the "solid South," it is hard to see how Mr. Lamar could possibly have been set aside for any other man from that part of the country. Yet, when the duties of the office are taken into consideration, demanding, as they often will, the keenest business tact and discernment, the thought occurs that Lamar, of all men, is least fitted for it. For while his scholarship and culture, and even the excellence of his deliberate judgment, are readily conceded, he is too much of a dreamer, too impractical, to make the ideal officer to fill that important position, and he may consider himself fortunate, and the country may be congratulated, if he suc­ ceeds In getting through the term without seriously impeding its functions. Of his scholarly attainments and' moral worth, however, there is no question. The significance of the selection of Sen­ ator Garland for the Department of Justice is not so great as it might be. Some things, it is believed, have been settled since last the laws of this nation were in the keeping of the Democratic party. But the appoint­ ment of Garland puts the supervision of the national authority in its relations to elections into the hands of the South, and that is practically a nullification of any offi­ cial effort to secure to the freedmen a free ballot and a fair count. For the new At­ torney General it may be said that he is an able man, well equipped for the discharge of the duties pertaining to the office. The Cabinet is made up of "blue bloods," and aristocrats, and "chums." and it is sec­ tional to a degree never before equaled. Three of the seven come from the immediate vicinity of New York and eastward, three are chosen from the old slave States, and but one, a man comparatively unknown, is selected for the vast territory west and northwest--the center of population, the seat of national empire. It is to be a close communion of millionaires, "chums" and "gentlemen, sah," with the greatest portion of the nation hopelessly and insignificantly in the minor­ ity. The mistake of overlooking Mr. McDonald is growing significantly ap­ parent, and it may be remarked that Indi­ ana Democracy is strangely constructed if it is to be soothed in this most extraordi­ nary manner. By exactly the same course of reasoning, it may be inferred that Dem­ ocrats of this State would be gratified to even a greater degree should the President continue to ignore Indiana and the West while passing around the good things now supposed to be at hand. The great inter­ ests of the West aie practically without adequate representation in the new admin­ istration. Mr. Hendricks, now shelved for four years, will be of no value whatever in tha S»st aadtha Sooth have the trough, and there is little shew of any intention to let any of the feed get away in this direction.--Indianapolis Journal. CIY1L-SE&YICE " REFORM,w Aa Bxhwntly Btd Beginning bj tha Stew Administration. (Washington apeciaL] The nomination of Gen. Block, of mi- nois, to be Commissioner of Pensions is favorably received, so far as Mr. Black himself is concerned, in all quarters where he is known. Gen. Black undoubtedly will make a good Commissioner of Pensions, ond will be popular with the soldiers, but his appointment is not in the line of civil- servioe reform. The present Commissioner of Pensions, Col. Clarke, is also a Union soldier with a good record, is a most excel­ lent Administrative officer, and, moreover, has the advantage of an experience of many years in the Pension Office, where he has risen on his own merits from a subor­ dinate position to the highest place. But CoL Claske is a Republican. Col. Clarice, moreover, could not be classi­ fied as an "offensive partisan." He has, in fact, taken no part in politics. He has been so absorbed in his official duties in Washington that he has not generally gone to his legal residence to vote, and two weeks ago, when on the stand before the Pensions Investigating Committee, was not willing to swear that he had any politics. Col. Clarke manifestly, could not properly come under the designation of the Cleve­ land letter to George William Curtis, that he is an offensive partisian. Yet so color­ less a Republican as CoL Clarke lota had to go. His removal is the first of the Ad­ ministration. "They do not propose," said Mr. Reed of Maine, in his savage sarcasm in comment­ ing upon this removal, "to leave a single lamb to bite at them. The officeholders will have to go. It is right enough, per­ haps, that they should. It is the fortune of war. The only point about the matter is how much hypocrisy there is to be about it Not a single iamb, I tell you, is to be left to bite at them." IHE CABINET, Tim Manning - Whltnegr Crowd (• Baa Things. ' (Washington special.] The old-stagers of the Democracy are not satisfied at the political situation. A prominent Southern man, who. to the time of the nominations, was continuously talked of for the Cabinet, said to a friend to-day: "Do you observe auy nitro glycerine ele­ ments in the Cabinet--any dynamite? I do. When you say the Manniug-Whitney crowd you have struck the keynote. Those two gentlemen are the Cabinet. It is a New York combination. They intend to control things. They will manage the poli­ tics of the administration. See how they are preparing to organize every department of the Treasury in the New York interest; and if Mr. Bayard, with his peculiar no­ tions, and Mr. Lamar do not like it Mr. Bayard and Mr. Lamar will simply have to go. The others will not go. There will be a disruption, I predict, before the adminis­ tration has run a year." THF.Y are coming. "Brick" Pomenoy, famous for his bad grammar and anti-Union newspaper of war times, and later for a mining scheme, tlmneling a mountain for silver, which brought him to discomfortnre in Colorado, proposes now to start a Demo­ cratic newspaper in Washington, one "to herald the rising of Democratic reform and the era of public decency."--Chicago Trib­ une. TEXAS cave Cleveland a majority of 132, - 168, and New York but a plurality of 1,047, and yet the Empire State gets Manning and Whitney, while the Lone Star State still has her Gov. Hubbard on hand spoil­ ing for a good situation where he can give advioe.--Inter Ocean. • • ,«i -- : cepne. of puhlkrt̂ ĵ F8; ' Sparking a La Mod*, ̂ Twasatthe close of day; the Sab­ bath day. They sat by the heater, he and she. His manner was full of agita­ tion, and her mouth was crowded with gum. His heart beat quickly; her jaws moved lively. Words came to his lips --trembling words--something like a stand-off, as it were, between the tremor of joyous hope and the stuttering of gloomy fear. Fear that her answer might drive the sunlight from his soul, aud hope that her words would open every window toward Jerusalem. Could she give him a little corner--only a little corner in her heart of hoarta, where he could doze in bliss and dream of Elvsium? Well, she should snicker! Oh, joy! Did he hear aright? And he was not distasteful to her? To her, the bright seraph of his visions; the load-star of his ambition; the day-dream of his life, the goal of his hope! Oh, bliss! It was too much for a poor mortal like him! Had he heard ner true, and yet lived to know that he was blessed? Oh, bright, enrapturing day! Could it be true, and not kill with the madness of liis joy! He could gamble that it was. Sweeter yet! Oh, nectar most am­ brosial! What could he do in recompense of favor so blessed; so inspiring; so full of hope, of life, of joy; of everything that could put music in the soul, and attune the heart to thankfulness ? What could he do to bless her ere he died witli transport too great for earth? Walk around the block. Ha, ha, lia! This delirium of joy would madden him; would soften his brain with its fervidness; but like the mpth, he was chained to the flame that devoured him, and couldn't budge from her side to save him. And there, like the panting hart, he would remain transfixed beside the water of bliss till the dart of her scorn pierced his breast, and a lot more gush to the same effect. But what could he do to signalize his love, and show her that her image occu­ pied all the spare room under his vest, in colors that would make a cheap chromo look sick ? ^ . Soak his head. » i It was swimming in ecstacy ndw. Could she love him--just a little--just a little, for his mother's sake? ' ' He was shouting. Aye! with the madness of rapture! Come to his arms, to leave them nevermore! And she would be hia bride '* His blue-eyed, bonny lassie, and all the other nonsense? He could bet. And he could make his home in her heart, and bask in the sunshine of her favor all his days? He could get there, Eli. And they could wander hand in hand by the seashore of time, in the golden sands of joy, and Have a boss time. Drink nectar from the bowl of bliss; sport in the crystal waters of their own felicity, and "Oh, wipe off your chin. If you mean to yank me into marrying you, drop on that slush, and say so like a man, and I'm your dewdrop. What's the use o' warbling all night ? If you can't talk, make signs. Collar me now, or you don't get me. I want to settle down in : mjr own ranch before the daisies bloom, and furs go out of style; and I won't deny that I like your shape, if you do sing so much you make me tired," said the slangish idol of his soul as she ad- hesed her gum to the back of a chair, and put her mouth in shape to receive the betrothal kiss.--C7t kayo J*edgei\ protest. Ihmt It was not t»tfe» XO ACTUAL I waa transacted in < ton OB tha 7 th Inst, tbm Senate i Braw. a;prataat, a «t Stark County. ... . "* • • slwflua ttat r - .. lf irTTr^-j theftemoenrta taktngtbe position thi icramr. iuamaelt aait iVBatett t» « mga of the joint aoaembhr, aar consideration onljr by tut Hafnea finally made a decision practically MM- tatotaK thn point of tfteDetnoerata, and ttSm this deoMm Mr. MlUrt appealed, la tfceta- terval a resolaUonwaa pwoafi by Mr. Hthrn A. Parker and unanimously adopted, nttpjn the congratulation* of the Hobae to Gen. Blaek on his appointment as jTnited States Oaawnla- Kioner of Pensions. Mr. Miller's appeal was, by direction of the Chair, required (a oe ceddoed tc writing. A roll-call showed thirteen Senator* and ftfty-live Rapreseatatfvaa present in the joint assembly. As was expected, oftly tm votes were ca*t for United Statee flm«Uir' that - of Streeter for John C. Black I for Richard Bishop. No BUSINESS whatever was done by the Ben- ate on the 9tli Inst, beyond calling the roll a&d vottna for an adjournment resolution. In the House there was a wrangle over a motion by Mr. Miller to amend the journal, which was Med out of order by Speaker Hainea. Mr. MflteC took an appeal, which was ttiil pending the House adjourned. In the Joint seventy-three members were present, f " ine dissolving after Messrs. Streeter, Haines had voted respectively for Biaek. riaon, and Bishop. Daring the first < ' of the session the expenees of the " footed up $101,575. t or this er was to snow the passage of a biL $5,000 for contingent expenses and 95,00* for tha Illinois exhibit at New Orleans. , CONSIDERABLE discussion was elicited in • the" Senate, on the 10th inat., by an amendaaeatt offered by Senator Cloagh to Senator Maaoa'a park bill, providing that aU qnest iona of ex­ penditure should be settled bv a vote of the property-owners of the respective pack dis­ trict a Tha amendment was finally •_ and the bill ordered to a third reading. Nu- " ' 'i memos bills were introduced, the first being .v,¥. one by (Senator McNary amending the rdvetfae law, which waa followed by aaother tzeo* Sena­ tor Lemon to amend the law in regard to the in­ corporation of citlea and vfilatea. Sen a­ tor Cnrtis presented a- Mil -to aM the Illinois Dairy Association in compDina publish­ ing, and distributing its reports. A bill attend­ ing the act revising the law in retattotato the commitment and detention of lffnsHca was in­ troduced by Senator Gore. Benatolt mil pre­ sented two bills, the first amending tha law in relation to Coroner*, and' the eaaoM amending the law concerningfeeaajadeslprt^a, ,AhWwae introduced by Senator MerrntngMDMdlO the dangers incident to railroed cuioalim on the same level. Senator Tonranoe aliaad fteUatby presenting a bill to prevent vsflfNd companies, and lessees thereof, fftfel rMeMn* {Syter services not rendered in the tiaaag ' freight or paseeagera. Numerous _ read, amended, and advanced on the 1 and one or two pet measures were aa ttfcftortn- nateaa to have the enacting clause atHafeen ant, the eaale-eved Senatora thinking thw <Ma0tM sometMng therein not intended to attain an al­ together legitimate end. a laeaaagfc waa re- eelved from the Governor anneuncmit ihe ap­ pointment of Sylvester M. Minard, «t Cook County^ Charles Bennett, of Colea Coaatf; and i t *•> „ ? y, . Parker Esrle, of Union County, asTnwtees of the Illinois University. In the Hoose Mr. Fuller declared that some parta of tke proceed­ ings of the House on the sth and 6th inn. had been suppressed, and the records were incom­ plete. The gentleman desired to bring before the House the protest offered by Mr. Miller some days since against the ruling made by Mr. Kim brougli when that gentlemanooonpied the Speak­ er's chair, and wished, moreover, to review the action of the House in making 1$. ft. Holies Reading Clerk instead of W. 8. Dougherty. The Speaker declared the journals to be regular in every rarticular, and overruled the paint of order relative thereto. The journals were finally approved, however, and referred to a select committee lor examination. The House passed a resolution indorsing the action of Congress in W passing the bill placing Gen. Grant on the re- ,»./I tired list of the United States army." The dfs- • ' • ' enssion ot trivat matters occupied the t L attention of the House until the joint ~~ session, at which onlv one vote waa cast--that ' "i ot Mr. Streeter-- who expressed a preference for , Gen. Black for Senator. After the joint Session 1 ^ the House roll was called far the introdaction of bills, and numerous documents were eent to * f$ the clerk's detk to be read or referred to the various committees. None of these bills were of special Importance, many of them being or a hackneyed nature .or, nearly identical .with bills previously Introduced. Bnxs were Introduced as follows fn the Sen­ ate at its session the ltth inst.: By Mr. Bay, to amend the law regarding the State Bfard of Health; by Mr. OrendorS, a hUl re--latlng the care ot lncnrable insane persons: bv Mr. Cloonau, a bill to preveat pooling in elecpiag- cars; by Mr. Clough, a bill av-prpnttating $8,000 for the education of d«af iM'dumb children at Chicago. The resolution of Mr. Bell for the investigation ot the boepltals for the insane, to ascertain the number, character, and condition of the inmates committed for care since last November, 'was adopted. In the House, Representative Gray presented a resolution appointing a committee ot seven to investigate the House and Senate pay-roll. An amendment was made to the resolution making the committee nine. The question produced a very acrimonious discussion between Bcpre sentatlve Gray and Speaker Haines. The latter defended his course, and promised if an in­ vestigation ensued he would make it interest­ ing for rome of those urging the motion. He then offered a lesolution discharging all employes of the House and providing that here­ after the House appoint all employes. He supple­ mented this resolution by threatening to dia- charge the whole outfit. The motion to lay the whole matter on the table was carried--yeas 75, nays 6!). A resolution WMS offered reducing the number of jauitora in the House from eighty- tour to twenty-live, th ; same number as were employed two years ago. |n the joint esasion there were four ballots for united states Sen­ ator. Col. Morrison received 9S ont of the 100 votes cast on the first ballot, and 9a out of 101 on the second. The third and fourth ballota were the same as the second, and there was aa choice. A MESSAGE was received from the Governor by the Senate, cn the 13th, announcing the ap­ pointment ot Edwin 8. Fowler, of Sangamon County, as Trustee of the Illinois Charitable Eve and Ear Infirmary, to succeed Perry A. Armstrong, whose term of- office haa expired. The Senate went into executive session and confirmed this appointment, as also the several appointments made the previous day by the Governor. The committee on elections reported bank the bill pernuttinz women to vote at school elec- r ty tions, and recommended its passage. Aresolu- . tion was presented by Senator Streeter inatrnct- 'N f >¥s* if, i f(S. J J W wjj {•„>*- ':v. "ft, : ing the State House Commission to, in the in­ terest of day laborers, as far as possible, avoid all contracts in the work of completing the State House, and to employ efficient inspectors to superintend the labor of dail* workmen. A bill was introduced b> Senator Funk to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and sur­ gery in the State. Senator Leman presented a bill amending the act governing the admin­ istration ot' estates. Senator Setter presented an amendment to the warehouse inspection law bv providing that East St. Louis lie included in the State inspection of grain. Two bills were sent to the Clerk's desk by Senator Shumway. the first m king au appropriation of tor repairs and improvements in the Joliet Peni­ tentiary, and the second appropriating $30,- 000 for the biennial expenses of the same. In the House a minority of the members of the License Committee made a report relative to a bill for the regulation of dram shoca, recom­ mending that the bill do not pa s. The bill, ga recommended by the majority ot thecommittee, provides for making a uniform lioense of $250. After the reading of the journal Mr. Cltfta, chairman of the Committee on Railroads,' re ported favorably on Varnell's bill tllowlag rail­ roads to extend their Unes without procuring a new charter, it is a copy of the bill vetoed two years ago by Gov. Hamilton. A joint resolution was ottered by Mr. Linegsr, which was re­ ferred to the Revenue Committee, asking to have a commission appointed to revise the statutes relative to the revenue, and ~ report at the next session of the Legislature.. The joint assembly was made up of every member ot both houses except Senator Bridecs. The balloting for Unit* ed States Senator began and proceeded in a sori of a mechanical way. Six ballota were recorded and no Senator elected. On the first call Logan received Morrison, 99; Black, i; Waahbnrne. 1; \Vai(i. 1; lilake. I. The sixth ballot resulted as follows: Morrison. M; Logan. 99; Ward, black. Blase, and Washbarae, 1 each. Trexler voting on the call ot absentees for Logan. fa':'* »-'A I - «... * ^ r 4$-. • . :v \ j - 'T ,-•* 51 t V-< L * J m ' 'fal The Expansive West. - * « "The West," the lecturer said, "it vast, illimitable, mighty; changing land. ' It is large. It takes two men to'see _ , the edge of it, and then they have to' ^ 4 look twice. Everything ia on the same , large scale. People out there, wear box Vj cars for watch charms, I do .noL I ̂ ' am too short." Then looking sadlj < toward the ground, he added: "I wear, , them for overshoes." ^eed it be added «v that he was a Chilouis man? (Chicago w, and St. Louis papers please copy, with , leave to amend.)--Brooklyn Eagle. MUNICIPAL suffrage has been grantol to unmarried women and widows in On- VP' tario and Nova Scotia, and fullsufftaau *?*.'• for women has been obtained in Waah- . Js'Jj Ington Territory. . THK name of God in theHindooataaaft language iagaip. îĵ eraiaa* aiMt-r m