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jfrjcntii 1 !?laiudealer I. VOW SLYKE. C4Bf aiK PatlUht;. McHENBY, - - ILLINOIS. GEN. CASSICS M. CLAY does not stand as erect as when he represented this country at the court of the Czar, tut he attends personally to all the bus­ iness of his large estate and takes keen inteiest in current- events. "GOOD American preachers are better than those in England "of the highest class," writes a contributor to the Pall Mall Gazette, and the reason of this superiority of American preachers is "that the institutions of the country allow them to be genuine."* Many of our most genuine preachers, however, are English or Irish born. THE genial "Bill Arp," who la writ­ ing tip Texas for the benefit of his Georgia neighbors, says: "One man told me jocularly there was one good |ign that spotted the Georgians. He said that when a man in the cars wanted to draw the cork from his bot­ tle and couldn't, he rose up and said: 'Is there a Georgian in this car?' And when a modest fellow rose up and said, 'Yes, sir; I am a Georgian,' the man said, 'Well, lend me your corkscrew.' " LIVING creatures in waters-Seem to have a vegetable origin, Bays Prof. Swing in the Currant. Examine pure Jake water or 3pring water with a mi­ croscope and no life is visible; but put flowers or any vegetable substadce in the water and in forty-eight hours the water will swarm with life. Water thus is revealed as the hatching me­ dium for many forms of life. Many beautiful grassplots in cities are ruined by excessive watering. The water hatches out millions of eggs which the dry sun would have killed. A COMPLETE collection of the native woods of the United States^ is being prepared by the New York Museum of Natural History. It will comprise thirty-six varieties of oak, thirty-four of pine, nine of fir, five of spruce, four of hemlock, twelve of ash, three of hick­ ory, eighteen of willow, three of cherry, nine of poplar, four of maple, two of persimmon, and three of cednr. Each specimen will display both longitudinal and transverse grain ings of the wood, as well as the log in its natural condi­ tion, with the bark attached. THERE may be nothing in names, but you can't make a citizen of Long Island believe it. Matthias Hell, of that un­ happy region, has brought suit against his wife on a charge of assau't and bat­ tery. She threw red pepper into his eyes and then fired twice at him with a revolver. Of course, Bhe missed him; but Matthias will have her ar­ rested just as soon as he can see to Bign the complaint. A man of that name should never get married. Sup­ pose a child should be born. Would his neighbors allow him to raise it? ONE cause of Ingersoll's prejudice against orthodoxy is said to be because his father, a Ccngregational clergyman, reared him BO rigorously as to deprive him of every pleasure. The exact con­ trary is true. The paternal Ingersoll, of whom Robert was very fond, was remarkably liberal, and on account of his liberality was always in trouble with the members of his church and other evangelical persons, who made him very unhappy. This seemed so narrow and unjust to Robert that he came to hate the name of Calvanism and all itB teachings. \ ^ v IN a Greenbush, New York, public school, a pupil asserted that some money had been stolen from his pocket. The principal thereupon Bent out for a policeman, and, with his assistance, searched the boys, while the two lady teachers performed the same service for the girls, stripping them to the skin. The missing money was not found. The Greenbush parents are now calling for the scalp of the princi­ pal, and demanding to know if they and their children have any rights which public school-teachers are bound to respect. The day is rapidly ap­ proaching when the public-school "sys­ tem" can only be preserved in all its integrity by requiring parents to vest all authority over their children in the teachers, only retaining sufficient inter­ est in the youngsters to provide food, and clothing. « . THE Afghan matchlock, or jizail,has no parallel as a firearm on the face of the eartb. It is about nine feet long, and is fitted near the muzzle with a prong which supports it on the ground when it is about to be fired oft It is fitted with a powderpan and a catch for holding a fuse. An Afghan marks­ man has to depend upon the state of his fuse, and therefore he is by no meas a certain shot. During the last Afghan war it used to be a joke among the British soldiers that an Afghan would «poise his jazail upon a rock, cal­ culate when the enemy would be likely to arrive in front of his muzzle, fix his fuse, and then go off to some little distance and sit down and smoke. If the enemy arrived in front of the matchlock just as it went off, why then he would most likely be killed, but if he didn't, and the weapon went off a quarter of an hour after he had passed, then no tiarm befell him. THE close physical resemblahoa of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher to the Rev. Robert Collyer was much re­ marked^ few days ago, when those gentlemen sat near each other on the stage of the Madison-square Theater, at the authors' readings. Each has long flowing white hair, brushed back from a high forehead, a very florid com­ plexion, a robust frame, and large fea­ tures, and each is often taken for the other.0 They are much nearer alike in appearance than most brothers are, and sometimes at a public dinner can scarcely be distinguished apart, even by those who know them fairly well, save that the Rev. Mr. Collyer's head is sur­ rounded by faint wreaths of smoke. They both sit erect when facing a crowd, and much more quiet than many younger men, Mr. Beecher resting his hand?, one after the other, by placing them partly in his trousers pockets. OK the introduction of English spar­ rows into this country Dr. Elliott Coues, a distinguished naturalist, warned those advocating it that the people would see the day when they would curse the men who thought of the scheme. His prophecy has already come tru& Professor Ridgway, of the Smithsonian Institute, writes to a London publication that "the English sparrow in the United States is a na­ tional misfortune which is likely in the near future to assume calamitous pro­ portions." In England, with its dense population, it is comparatively easy to keep them within bounds by a whole­ sale slaughter of them for food--chiefly as material for pies. But in this sparse­ ly settled country they can breed with impunity and grow into the intolerable nuisance they have already become. The Legislature of Michigan lias at this session taken from these pests the protection given to other birds, and they may now be assailed. It is not probable that any warfare *411 exter­ minate them, but they can at least I>e be kept down. They should be treated like the plague of potato bugs, weevils, and grasshoppers--as enemies of man --for either he or the sparrows must go. ' THE admission of De Lesseps into the French academy is a marked inci­ dent in the history of that eminent body. A man of action instead of let­ ters, his admission is exceptional in its character, although the world will not hesitate in agreeing that the honor could not be bestowed upon one who has earned a greater, right to the re­ spect of mankind.' In his speech, De Lesseps modestly asserted that he had no claim to the seat as a man of letters, but his claim, if any existed, rested on his love of country. "I have dedioated my whole life to my country. During more than sixty years, her interests and gljry have been my all-absorbing thought, the constant aim of my works, and finally, I feel convinced, the cause of my success. If I speak thus, it is in order to justify you in your own eyes for having chosen me by showing the points of resemblance which exist be­ tween my predecessors and myself." DR. HORACE BOWEN, of Vineland, New Jersey, is about as original in his views as any of the individuals engaged in the present popular movement of starting new religions. He has in Vineland an institution which he calls the "Sanitarium of the Order of New Life." He has a complex doctrine, and to this adds the physical treatment of starvation, rubbing, and occasional doses of homeopathic medicine. The doctor has been experimenting on the inmates of the place to try and develop his theory "that mankind is the fruit of a long prodess of evolution which still continues, and has brought the hu­ man race to a point whero another step forward is to be made, and abso­ lute perfection and equality with God attained." He states that lie person­ ally has reached the begenning of this beatific state, and is beyond the reach of disease and death, and that his mis­ sion is now to purge the world of Inst and show his fellow men his iiew discov-*i • ery. The doctor's theory that starva­ tion will produce immortality seems to be generally accepted by sortie of the Vinelanders with the omission of the first "t" in immortality. MosJL Of 4he converts are foolish old ladies, and the reputation of the sanitarium is such that aninvestigation is probable. J ; Historic Ground. Iff this valley and the high lands be­ yond, says the Qu'Appelle correspond­ ent of the Toronto Mail, ma^y a bloody battle has been fought in the long ago. The lands was at one time occupied by the Black feet, but the Crees, who had always the half-breed hunters as their allies, in their western march difpated the territory with them. The two tribes were fierce foes, and fought each other as only savages could fight. There was no quarter. It was murder, not war. The valley was drenched with blood, and all round about "strug­ gles fierce and wild" were of frequent occurrence. Thousands of braves of these two powerful tribes were slaugh­ tered and scaled, and he was a squaw Indian indeed who could not flaunt three or four bleeding scalps from his belt. At that time the buffalo roamed over the country, and as they moved westward the Blackfeet went too, and the Crees also advanced, until now the latter hold the plains, their old-time enemy being driven to the base of the Rockies, and the supply of Aood God had provided becoming extinct. The lastl battle between these sanguinary forces was in 187G, n ne years ago, near Swift Current, on the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Blackfeet, while on one of their marauding expeditions, came across a few tents of their hered­ itary enemy, and, not aware of the large force hidden behind a bluff a short dis­ tance away, advanced and killed two women who occupied the tepee3. Thfe Crees made a strategic movement in the rear, and corralled the Blackfeet in a coulee, climbing out of which in the deep snow on all fours, they were mercilessly tomahawked by another party in ambush on the summit. Forty were thus butchered, and the snow for yards around was dyed with blood. The Blackfeet then said they were tired of fighting. Peace was proclaimed. Mature Sirens. Helen of Troy was over 40 when the famous elopement took place. Ten years after, when the fortunes of war restored he? to Menelaus, he received her with love and gratitude. Cleopa­ tra was past 30 when she made the con­ quest of Antony, and Diane de Poitiers at 36, and for many years afterward, was considered the most beautiful wo­ man at the Court of Henry II., of France. Ninon de 1'Enclos received a declaration of love on her 80th birth­ day.--Baltimore Herald.- MANY people take no care 'of their money till they have come nearly to the end of it, and others do the sane with their time.--Goethe A FAMOUS WILL. Kurope SJust Be SatUnffrntsd and Roaakk Ha tie Kuler of the World. Among the papers left by Peter the Great w«re the following instructions to his sQooessors and to the Russian people: 1. The Russian nation must be constantly on a war footing to keep the soldiers warlike and In good conditio i. No r^st must te al- towed, exoept for the purpose of relieving the State fin mice?, recruiting the army, or biding the favorable moment tor attack. By these means pi ace is made subservient to war, and war to peace, in the interest of aggrandizement andinei casing prosperit/ of Russia. 2. Every possible mean* must 1 e need to Invite liom ihe most cul ivated European States commanders in war and philosophers in peace, to enable the Russian nation to par­ ticipate in the advantages of other countries without losing any of Its own. 3. No opportunity must be lost of tok'ng part in the atfairsand disputes of Europe, es­ pecially in those of Germany, which, from its vicinity, is one of i he most direct interest to us. 4 Poland must be divided bv kecking up constant Jealousies nnd confusions there. The nuthoriti fr ttnatt toe gained over with wo' cy, and the assembl e.-5 corrupted, so as to influence ifce election o.' the king-. We mu-t get up a party of our own there, send Hussiau troops into the ccu t y, and let them sojourn there S3 1 ng that. ttn>' may Ultimately fl id some pretext for remaining there forever. Shouliihe neighboring Sta'es m ike difficul­ ties, we must app ase ih?m lor the moment by allowi g them a shnre of the territory, until we c*a Mnlce Wta* we have given away. 5. We must takeaway as much territory as possible from Sweden, and contrive that the.- shall attack us fl"st, so as to give us a pre ext for their subjugation. With this otjeet in view, we must k» ep Sweden in opposition to Denmark, atid Denmii k to Sweden, and sedu- louslv lostor their mtltu*l jealousies. 6 The consorts of the Russian princes must always be chcs?n from among the German prineefst s, in order to multiply our family al­ liances with the Ge; mans, and so unitu' our interests with theirs and thus, by consolidat­ ing our influences in Germany, to cause it to attach itself spi ntuneoraiy to our. policy.' 7. We must be car fut tof taeep cur com­ mercial alliances with Rnglsnd, tor she is the power which has most need of our produce for her navy, and at th > same time umy b • of the greatest servica to us In the development of our own. We must report wood and other articles in exchange lor her gold, a d establish permanent connection between her meichants and seamen and our own. 8. We must krop Readily extending our frontiers--northwaid'along t!ie Hul'io, and southward along the shores of the lllack set. 9. We must pr >g ess as much as p issible in the direction of Constantinople and Ind a. He who can once set possession of these placrs is the real ruler of th > world. With this v ew we must provoke constant quarrels at one time with Turkey, and at another with Persia. We must establish wharves and dock- in the Euxinc, and by degr >es make ourselves mus­ ters of th it sea as weM as the Baltic, which is a doub.y important element in t:ie success of our plan. We must has en t ie dovrnfall of Persia, push on into the Persian gulf if pos­ sible, re-oatabijfb the a'Krient commercial it - tercpurae with the Levant through Syria, and force our way into the Indies, which are the store-house« of the world. Or.ce there, we can dispense with English gold. 10. Moreover, we mu-t take pi ins ti estab­ lish and maintain an intimate tu ion wi h Austiia. apparently eounieiiaricinjr her schemes for aggrand r.e t ent in Germany, and all the while secretly rousing the Jealousy or minor States against her. By this way we mu-t bring it to pa«s tha». one or the other party will seek the afci c.f Hussiu; and thus we shall (xcrcise a sort of protection over the country, which will pave a way for future supieni-icy. 11. We must not make the house of Aus- tr a interested in the expulsion of ti e Turks 1 rom Europe, and we must neutralize Irs jea ousy at the (capture or Constantinople, either by preoccupying it wi'h a W;ir with the old European States, or by allowing it a share of the spoil, which we can afterw.ird resume at i ur leisure. 12. We must collept around our bouse a) lound a center, all the detached sections of Greeks wh ch are sc rttered abroad in Hun­ gary, Turkey, and South Poland. We must make iliem 1 >< k to us for support, and then by establishing beforehand a sort of ei clr si astieal supremacy, we sha 1 pave the way for the universal sovereignty. 13. When Sweden is our* Persia van* quished, Poland subjected, Turkey con­ quered, when our armies are united and the Kiixtne and Baltic are In pwnc^eton of our ships, then we must make separate and secret overture, first to the court of Versailles, and thentoihat at Vienna, to share with them the dominion of the world. If either of them accepts our propositions, which is certain to happen if their ambition and self-interest arc properly worked upon, we must make use of one to annihilate the ottter; this done, wn have only to destroy the remaining cne by finding a pretext for n quarrel, the issue of which cannot be doubtful, as Russia will then be in the absolute possession of the east and the best part of Europe. 14. Should the improbable case hnppen of both refusing the propositions of Russia, then our policy will be to - et one against the 'Otber, and make thtm tear each other to places. Russia must then watch for and seize the lavc abl • moment', and pour her al­ ready ass m'j'ed hosts into Gernviny, whil > two immense fleets, ladencd with Asiatic horde-, and conveyed by the firmed sqtiad- ro sof the Euxine and the lialtic, set fail simultuneou-ly from the S?a of Azof? and the harbor of Arohar gelj sweeping a oug the Medi errancan and the Atlantic, they Mill overrun France on the one side, whi.e Ger- many is on rpowered oa the other. : When these countries arc fully conquered, the rest of Europe must fall easily, and with­ out a struggl \ un ler our yoke. Thus Europe can and n.ust be conjugated. History of the Tomato. A writer on horticulture states that the tomato is of South American ori­ gin, and was introduced into Europe by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century, who discovered its valuable qualities as an esculent. From Spain its culti­ vation extended to Italy and the south of France, and finally to this country, where it first began to be used as a veg­ etable in the later part of the last cen­ tury. The tomato is mentioned by a writ­ er on plants in England as early as 1597. Parkinson calls them "love apples" in 1 (>•")(), and says "they are regarded as Curiosities." Dodoenc, a Dutcn her­ balist, writes in 1583 of their use as a vege'able, "to be eaten with pepper, salt, and oil." They were eaten by the Malays in 1755. Arthur Young, the English agriculturist, saw tomatoes in the market at Montpelier, in France, in 1793. The tomato was probably brought from San Domingo by the French refugees, who also introduced into this country the egg-plant, the okra, and the smtill Chili pepper. Dr. James Tiltou, of Delaware, stated that when he returned from study in Eu­ rope, about 1802, he found the tomato growing in the gardens of the Duponts, (Joresches, and other French emigrants from San Domingo, and remarked to his family that it was a vegetable high­ ly esteemed and generally eaten in France, Spain, and Italy, and espec­ ially valuable as a corrective of bile in the system. Dr. Tiltou emigrated to Madison. Indiana, in 18*29, and raised the tomato in his garden there. It was then unknown in Louisville or the ad­ jacent parts of Kentucky. It is also known that the tomato was planted early in the present century cn the eastern shores of Maryland, that land of terrapins, sdlt crabs, oysters, can­ vas-back ducks, and other epicurean delicacies. M&rv years elapsed, how­ ever, before the tomato became a favor­ ite esculent in that region. In 1811 the Spanish minister saw the tomato growing in the garden of Mrs. Philip Barton Key, whose husband wrote the "Star Spangled Banner," and he re­ commended it as having been used in Spain for many years. In 1814, a gen­ tlemen dining with a friend at Harper's Ferry, and seeing tomatoes on the table, remarked: "I see you eat tomatoes here; the District people are afraid of them." Tomatoes were brought to Massachusetts by Dr. Goodwin, a soq of William Goodwin, cashier pf the Bank of Plymonth, Massachusetts. Dr. Goodwin spent many years of his early life in Spnin, at Cadiz, Aicante, and Valencia, and was America vice con- sel at Terragona during fts terrible siege by ths French troops in the pen­ insular wtr. He cam® none to Ply­ mouth in 1817, and dS^frat Havana in 1825. He belonged to a faftily of epi­ cures on his father's sirfe, and his mother, a daughter of Ci^t. Simeon Sampson, of the armed si ji Mercury on which Henry Lauren- sailed for Holland in 1780, was reno tied for the excellence of her cuisine. He planted the seed of the tomato it the bank garden in Plymouth, when*# the plant was disseminated throughoit the town and to Clark's island, in Pl^nouth har­ bor. In Mr. Goodwin's faulty and that of Mr. Watson, on the is&nd, it was used as a vegetable as ejt'ly as 1823. Tomatoes were sold in thfe markets in New York Ci;y in 1820.f They were only eaten, however, to 4 limited ex­ tent I * : A. Strange New Tori frade. A belated New York rapjrter found himself in iront of a haiiUome house, on Madison avenue, at Va. m A di­ lapidate,! wagon, drawn j |>y an aged horse, stood before th© liqo|e. The re­ porter noticed two men iijrrying from the cart, with empty pnt and pails, into the basement of ths Wise, and returning speedily with tlJ same filled to the brim. For a momat it looked like a burglary, but the 4'esence of a policeman on the near«t corner was assurance to the contrary One of the men paused as if to rest ftr a moment, and the reporter accostedmim: "What's the racket?" [ "The same old thing. uTree lunches, cheap restaurants, and Ej»talians." "I don't quite catch. That are you doing in the place?" | "Why, don't you see, fcey*re had a party there to-night, and# big supper. They've left three timer as much as they've eaten, and we're puying it up from the steward. We'lftake it around to our customers, and sell It all before 9 o'clock to-morrow." i "llegnlar customers? Why is this a regular trade I. "Of course it is, aiKflias been for over ten years. You see,there are over a hundred parties givet every night here in New York. Nearly all of them are supplied by regular dkterers. Now, they always put up allot more than they want; because it Mould never do to have just as much as leeded and no more. It would look fast as if they were dead broke. Old families order generally twice as mucu as they use, new families three or four times as much, and shoddies five ten times as much. Why, last week! we took in a swell place where they pad.fifty peo pie aud they had enoughjgrub for five hundred. .Now, what happens? The party is over, and t here s'all that stuff left untasted. All they lean do n to throw it into the swill barrel. That's where wo come in. We come along and buy it up. Sometinies we buy it from the caterer. Sometimes we make the deal with the eook or butler, and sometimes, but not very often, with the old man of the house. Anyway, we manage to connect and get the stuff." "What do you do with the stuff?" "Sell it to our customers. There's first, the cheap restaurants. They're alway ready to take anything cheap. Then there's the free lunch saloons; they don't pay much, but they'll take all you bring. There's one place down town where they give a fried oyster, a sandwicn, or something, with every drink. That man is one of my best customers. "After you've worked the restaurants and free lunches, you can always sell out what's left to the Eyetalians; lhey'll bur anything if it's cheap enough." "What do you get mostly from par­ ties ?" "It all depends on the kind of party it is. Literaries are the worst of all; they only have coffee, sandwiches, and salad, aud there's nothing left over. Musicals are almost as bad. Kettle­ drums and afternoon rackets are not much good either. The best is a wed­ ding. Receptions to public men are the next best; then come birthday, christening, and tin-wedding parties, etc." "Do you ever get any wine?" "Na-o! The old man of the house always comes down and collars what's loft If he don't the waiters drink it, and they are always helped out by the servants. I've been in the business for ten years, and I never got even a hall bottle. But I've got to stop, as I'm of! now to Washington Markets for our first customer." Chemistry a* a Profession. | Chemists aB a rule receive from $1,^HH) to $1200 a year. This seems small when we consider to what expense a young man has been put to obtain the necessary education. Sometimes, how­ ever, in a manufacturing house where he hus made himself particularly use­ ful, a chemist may receive $l£0l) or $2,- 000, and, as superintendent of works, he might get $5,000 or #10,000; but such cases are very exceptional. One reason why salaries are smaller in our large cities is said to be found in the number of competent chemists who have come from Germany, and who are willing to work for lower wages than their American brethren demand. When a chemist has, after yt ars of study nnd long practice, thoroughly qualified himself in his profession, he can give what is called "an expert opinion." This, as Sam Weller might say, "is an opinion as is much more valn'ble than an opinion an is not ex­ pert." In a lawsuit, for example, chemists would be employed by both sides, and an expert would receive from £50 a day to £25 an hour. If an expert examiued amine, made a report^on the the lormation. and gave his views on the likelihood of its paying the people who intended to purchase it. he would bo paid perhaps $500 or $600 and all expenses. But, remember, there are verv few "experts," and that those who enjoy that reputation have paid the price of long-continued study, of hard and enthusiastic labor, for the reputa­ tion they have made.--George J. Man- son, in St. Nicholas. (jypsy Portraits. Gypsies are particularly supersti­ tious regarding portraits, and it is a rarity to find the photograph of a true Bohemian decorating an art gallery or store window. They consider it most unlucky to be photographed, and will Only submit to have their profiles taken in consideration of receiving, without asking for it, on old shoe-string with which they can bind the spirits of ill- luck certain to pursue the person whose likeness has been re-produced. ^ Found What He Wasn't Hunting "Where have you been all week?" asked the diplomat "Canvassing for votes," rftjgjipd the,' l^oneBt statesman. ' _ "Get anything?" * "Yes, I got fonnd out." „ They smile. At the diplomat's ex* peuse.--Brooklyn Eagle. IlISTORICAU Bv the "Venetiaa law, giving IGve potions was held highly criminal. THE smallpox was such a terrible plague in old times that its name was used as an imprecation. THE Romans believed that the genius of death announced his approach by some supernatural warning. THE earliest machine used format­ ing screws of which we have any record was invented by David Wilkinson, of III ode Island, for which he obtained a patent in 1794. OLIVER C BOM WELL prohibited all persons called fiddlers or minstrels fro m pi a} ing, lidding, or making music in any inn. alehouse, or tavern. If they proffered themselves or offered to make music, they were adjudged to be rogues and vagabonds, and were to be pro­ ceeded against. A POPTLAK name for Easter Monday •was Black Monday, so called because when King Edward III., of England, and hie host, on the day after Easter Sunday, April 14, 1300, lay before the city of Paris, it was so bitter cold that men were lrozen to death on their houses' backs. THE heathens regarded the number seven of great efficacy in religious cere­ monies. An ancient writer says: "Desirous of purifying myself, I wash in the sea and dip my head in the waves seven times, Pythagoras havingJthought that this number is, above all others, most proper in the concerns, of relig­ ion." DURING the month of April, 1733, Sir Simon Stuart, of Hartley, Enaland, ' while looking over some old writings found on the back of one of them a memorandum noting that 1500 broad pieces were buried in a certain spot in an adjoining field. Aftor a little dig­ ging the treasure was found in a pot, hidden there in the time ot the civil wars by his grandfather, Sir Nicholas Stuart HOMER was acquainted with the use Of the lathe, while relief carving in wood, and inlaying of metal, ivory, and amber, were early practised. The lat­ ter prooess can also be referred to Phoenician influence, in consideration both of the material employed aud of historical analogy. Even kings busied th^mpelves with such handiwork, as the building of his nuptial couch bv Odysseus proves; and royal ladies, such as Penelope/ Andomache, and Helen, embroidered and wore elaborute tex­ tures. IN 1695 a brigantine from Madagas­ car came to anchor off Sullivan's Island, in Charleston harbor. The Governor went on board the ship by invitation of the captain, and received from the lat­ ter a bag of rice seed, with information of the methods of cultivation in East­ ern countries, rnd of its suitableness for food. The Governor divided the grain amdng his friends wh° made ex­ periments with it in different soils. From this email beginning arose the cultivation of this staple of South Carolina and Georgia. Had the "Xnmlter Craze," Two railroad men were talking over old times. Inquiry was made as to what had become of tin old freight brakeman named Jack Taylor. "Didn't ye ever hear about Jack? No? I thought everybody knew what he come to. Poor o d Jack--he'll nev­ er twist another brake jor .siring anoth­ er lamp." "Dead?" "No, but he fnight as well be. "Ton see. Jack got the number ©**#9* Bo got 'em bad, too, Mid " "The what?" "The number craze. You don't know what that is? You eastern rail­ roaders don't seem to know much of anything. Well, Jack got 'em, his be­ ing tbe third case I ever heard of. Seven or eight years ogo they took holt of Jack, and they kept growiu' worsft In 1879 I believe it was, lie first started out to find the number of the year. 'Long about the middle of the summer he found it Then he was happy. Bqt New Year's Day he started hunting for 1880. He looked all eummer and all fall. Finally co!d weather came, and would you believe it? Jack would, sit out on the top of the cars in tlie freez- ingest weather looking for a oar num­ bered 1880. Whenever we passed a side track he'd look at the cars like a wild man. He got so c razy over it that he mighty near lost his job. Christ­ mas he found his car, but New Year's Day he started out for 1881. You see he got to believing that if he didn't l'nd a car numbered same as the year be­ fore the year was out he would die be­ fore the next EaBter. We couldu't talk it out of him. In 1881 he had good luck and found the number about J Uly. But in 1882 he had no luck at all. 'Long the last of the year he hunted day and night Instead of going to bed he would take his lantern and go up and down the tracks into the yard looking at the numbers on the cars. After Christmas he got frantic, and we saved him only by taking an old car and painting the number over for him on the sly, then steering him around that way.to look at it This narrow es* cape frightened him so that early in 1883 he was as crazy as he usually was in November. He got so he was of no use on a train and he was fired. Then he spent all of'his time going up and down the yards. He imagined we boyt were keeping the cars he wanted awa; from him, and so he went over the oth­ er roads where they didn't know him. When the New Year's bell rang out at the end of 1883 Jack was innning up and down the tracks like a maniac. He is now in the asylum--harmless, but clean gone. He didn't find a car num­ bered 1883."--Chicago Herald "Train T a l k . " . » . . . _ Enormous ttaft*. The timber rafts of the Rhine ate t. noticeable characteristic of that river. They consist of timber felled in the mountain forests and brought down to the Rhine by the Necker, Main, Mo­ selle, and other river*. The single logs are.first hurled down from the heights into the mountain torrent, then a few are tied together, and as they float down the streamlet grow like a snow­ ball, till in the Rhine itself they are made into huge floating fabrics, which are carefully navigated to. Dorhecht and sold. A raft has often ten or twelve small houses cn it, and from 400 to 500 workmen, rowers, and pilots. The vast pile is steered by means of immense oars, and is to constructed as to twist like a huge snake in the narrow channefs. The sale of a single raft at the end of the voyage often re- about $150,000. OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. Judge Foraker for Governor--The Plat­ form--Ail Old-Pashioned '.w<v4 ' fa Prospect -4v-,v, Interest in the Stafft WfcfriWl- can convention centered in the nomination of Governor, the most oignificant indica­ tions of party spiiit were the evident dis­ position toward harmony and the ringing declarations of the platform, says a Spring­ field (Ohio) correspondent Judge Joseph B. Foraker, of Cincinnati, was nominated on the first ballot, by a vote of and the nomination was made unanimous. The convention was one of the most harmoni­ ous ever held in the State. There was evi­ dent a hearty good feeling from the first, and it is the almost unanimous opinion that there will be a stirring, old-fashioned cam­ paign, calling out as heavy a Republican majority as in 1884. It was noticed that every mention of the name of Gen. Logan provoked a hearty cheer. The following platform was unanimously adopted amid ringing cheers: The Republican party ot Ohio announces the following platform of principles: The rieht to vote, nccorded by the Constitu­ tion of the I'nited states, is the concern of the whole people, and must be secured at all hazards to every citizen In every part of the Republic. Existing anarantees must be sacred­ ly maintained, anil adOitional ones provided if necessary that the equal protection of the laws and the equal enjoyment of the suffrage shall not fail or be abridged In any way through the connivance, neglect or fraud of any of the States of the Union. The Democratic party, which OWN the national victory last fall to the willful suppression of the 1 (allot, can not be looked to for the enforcement of these consti­ tutional guaranties, aad the hope of the friends Of equal laws and eqnal suffrage is in the Re­ publican party, which pleJsres itself to wage the contest to a successful end We want such legislation as will harmonize the relations of capital and labor and promote the welfare of the people and protect and fester the industries of the State. We favor the es­ tablishment of a National Bureau of Industry, the enforcement of the eight-hour law, and ad­ equate appropriations from the public revenues for general education wherever the same are needed. We denounce the importation of con­ tract labor, and favor the most stringent laws to effectively prevent it. We are opposed to the acquisition of the public lands, or any part thereof, by non-resident aliens. We are in favor of a protective tariff which will encourage American development and fur­ nish remunerative employment to American labor, and we are opposed to the British policy advocated by the Democratic party under the guise of a tariff for revenue only. We demand the restoration of the wool duty of lstu, or its full equivalent, and we denounce the Democratic Congress tor failing to make good the pledges they made in Its beiialf. W:e conitemn the action of the present admin­ istration in lowering the national flag upon the public buildings at Washington as a mark of respect to a man who dishonored the one and sought to destroy the other: who planned with cruel determinat ion in his hiding place in Can­ ada to overwhelm the Northern cities with fire, and ti sweep to death their inhabitants by scat­ tering everywhere the germs of infectious and fatal diseases. That the elevation to important aad honorable offices of the Government of un­ repentant rebels whose political disabilities have not l>een removed is a flagrant violation of the Constitution and an insult to the loyal peo­ ple of the whole country, and we denounce the administration of President Cleveland for its general discrimination so far made against Un­ ion soldiers and men who fonght against the Union. Bhe Republican party, which enacted the present civil-service law, will faithfully main­ tain it and cheerfnllv aid in all needed amend­ ments to give It full force, and it is committed to exteud the law to all grades of service to which it is applicable. Ample appropriations should be made to enforce it in letter and spirit, and all laws at variance with the object of existing reform legislation should be repea ed. Having accomplished this much the party pledges itself to still further and higher reforms. It looks with deepest regret upon the failure of the present administration to promote the reforms of the civil service so auspic ously begun uuder Republican administration. The Republican party of Ohio demands the repeal of the limitation contained in the pension arrears net of l><7rt so that all invalid soldiers shall share equally and their pensions begin with the date of disability or discharge, and not wit h the date of application. We denounce the Democratic party for the de­ struction ot the Scott law and the consequent increase of burden of taxation upon all prop­ erty anil the abandonment of an annual reve­ nue ot ti.ooo.ooo, and, while recognizing the people's right to amend the organic law, we de­ mand the enactment of such legislation as will give us the most practical and efficient meas­ ure for the regulation and taxation of the liquor traffic attainable under the constitution. We denounce the Democratic Legislature for its treachery to the pledge on the subject ot contract labor, and ttretr incompetency utd ex- traragance and wanton disregard of the true Interests and good name of our own State. The Republicans of Ohio in convention as­ sembled tender to Gen. Ulysses 8. Grant our warm sympathy in this time ot his great suffer­ ing, and assure him of our great faith in and love for him. and earnestly hope that he may oe restored to health and be blessed with many days among his gratetul countrymen. CONFEDERATES IN THE SADDLE. He Was Not Mistaken. "What did I understand you to aay this is, mam ?" the new boarder asked the landlady. "Spring chicken, sir," tartly replied the lady; "pray what did you think ?" "That's what I thought it was, mam, with all the springs left out.*---PiM#- burgh Chronicle-TelegrapK ILLINOIS LEGISLATORS. THS bill reducing the Etate militia to 4,009 men, and appropriating 1245,000 for their rap­ port for the next two years, and for the pur­ chase of equipments, etc., passed the Senate on the 5th Inst. The truck-store Mil ind tlie bill providing against Illegal voting at pri­ mary elections were advanced to third readmit. Senator Bell made an elaborate argument in support of his bill apppropriating $10,000for the maintenance of tbe Woman's Siik-Culture As­ sociation of the State of Illinois, setting forth at great length tbe benefits which would arise from the institution of a school for silk culture and a farm sultaMe for cocoon-growing. The bill was passed and sent to the House. In the House resolutions asking for an investigation touching Speaker Haines' threats the preceding day, ana that he make known the nature of certain docu­ ments which he had exhibited to the Assembly, were made the special order for June 10. On charges ot the Springfield Monitor, that at­ tempts had been made to corrupt members,,an investigation committee of nine was appointed, with power to send for persons and papers. The committee discovered in the afternoon that money had been sent to Springfield to be used in the interest of the bntterine bill. Both houses adjourned to Monday, the 8th. THERE was no quorum in either branch of tbe Legislature on the 8th Inst., and both bodies simply went through the form of meeting and adjourning, no attempt being made to transact business.---In the Senate, on the 9th Inst., the House bill limiting the compensation of officers, agents, and employes of incorporated towns and villages, abolishing the system of com­ missions or percentages on collections, was ordered to third reading. The Senate bill pro­ viding for the appointment of a State Veterinary Board was killed after a sharp debate. The Senate bills appropriating $10,1*10 for the pay­ ment of damages arising from the killing of cattle bv the State Veterinarian, and making all days upon which general elections are held legal holidays, were also lost. Senator Cantwell's bill appropriating $100,00# for the establishment of an industrial school for the blind at Chicago was passed. The bill mak­ ing the minimum punishment for burglary in the night time five years was also passed. The maximum penalty is left at twenty years, but if the burglar carries a deadly weapon, deadly druff, or anasthetic, the term of imprison­ ment may extend to a life sentence. The House advanced to third reading the bill to found an industrial home for criminal women and girls, the Senate soldiers' home bill, the trades assembly bill in relation to convict la­ bor, the State Department of Agriculture ap­ propriation bill, and the bill appropri­ ating $±2,000 to reimburse Mr. Kagsdale, of Springfield, for losses sustained in settling with the State for the construction of Wie Insane Hospital at Jacksonville some year#%go. The Senate bills making appropriations tof the cur­ rent expenses of the Elgin and Kankakee In­ sane Asylums and the .Toilet Penitentiary were advanced, and the corresponding House Mils killed. THE House bill for changing the name of the Illinois Industrial University to the University of Illinois passed tlie Senate on the 10th inst. The railroad consolidation bill was also passed after a sharp debate. The House bill in relation to railroad crossings was passed by a vote of twenty-seven to twelve. Resolutions in regard to the late Senator Bridges were adopted. In the House, Mr. Collins' resolutions in regard to Speaker Haines' threats were sent to the in­ vestigating committee, and the election bill was tikenup. After certain amendments had been rejected the House dead-locked on the main question--the passage of the act--the Demo­ crats refusing to vote and breaking thequorum. Under these conditions the House adjourned. THE bill for the gradual abolition of the sys­ tem of contract labor in the penitentiaries passed the Senate on the 11th inst. by a unani­ mous vote. A bill providing for the inspection of hotels, theaters, etc., as a measure of precau­ tion against fires, and a bill for the establishment of a penal institution of a reformatory nature were also passed. Bills for the detection and apprehension of horse-thieves, for the erection of fire-escapes, and amending the law of change of venue in criminal casts were advanced to third reading. The House discussed the elec­ tion bill without advancing it any further, and the Republicans, after adjournment, re­ solved in caucus to fight the measure through, even at the risk of an extra session. Puring the debate on the measure in the House, Speaker Haines and Representative West, of McLean, began sparring at each other. The Speaker preserved his temper, but West waxed wroth. Haines wanted to meet West outside the bar of the House nnd talk the mat­ ter over. West retorted angrily that he would meet Haines any place or time. The Lake County statesman saw the point, and replied that he would only meet West at the end ot a telephone wire. The members laughed lm- erately, and jeered both Haines and West. Partiality of the Administration for Those Who Fought the Flag. [From the Philadelpha Press.] < The following is a list of the officers and emoluments which have been conferred by the Democratic administration upon Con­ federate and Union soldiers. It does not include the great number of appointments which have been given to civilians in the South or in the North. The disparity in tiie favors which have been given to the soldiers of the two armies will be apparent to any one: L.<i.C. Lamar, of Mis- [ Lientenant Colonel in stsslppi, Secretary ofa Mississippi rebel regi- the interior. ment and Confederate Minister to Russia. Aug u s t u s H . G a r l a n d , ! S e r v e d i n b o t h of Arkansas, Attorney branches of the Confed- General. Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, Minister to Mexico. Alexander B. Lawton, of Georgia, Minister to Russia 'since declined, disabilities never re­ moved1. T. J. Jarvis, of North Carolina, Minister to .Brazil. Anthony M. Keily, of Virginia, Minister to Austria. erate Congress. Brigadier General in Confederate service. Brigadier General and Quartermaster General in rebel army. Captain In Confeder­ ate army. Papal enemy of Italy and rebel friend of Jeff Davis, having written a book praising him. Eugene Higgins, of Deputy Provost Mar- Maryland, Chief of the shal at Richmond, Va., Appointment Division under Winder, whose ot the Treasury Depart-cruelty to the Union ment. iprisoners is a matter of : history. J.D.C. Atkins,ot Ten-] Served in the rebel nessee, Commissioner army and in the Con- of Indian Affairs. 1 federate Congress. James D. Porter, of| Adjutant General on Tennessee, Assistant rebel Gen. Cheatham'a Secretary of State. stall'. Gen. Joseph E. John- Division Commander ston, of Virginia, Com-in Confederate army, missioner of Kailways. Henry Muldrow, As- Colonel of Confeder- stetant Secretary of the ate cavalry. Interior. I Robert B. Vance, of Brigadier General in North Carolina, Assist-[rebel army, ant Commissioner of Patent! James M- Mootan, of South Carolina, Consul to Melbourne. J. Ernest Meiere Con­ sul to Nagasaki (com­ mission withdrawn). Served under priva­ teer Capt Semmea. Confed., and declared in Washington recently that he was proud of having been a rebel. James Blackburn, of Served in rebel army, Kentucky, appointed and wrote tliat he want- Collector of Internal ed to see Union blood Revenue, but appoint^ flow deep enough to ment canceled. Iswim his horse in. Chas. M. Shelley, of; Brigadier General In Alabama, Fourth And- Confederate army. itor ot the Treasury. R. M. T. Hunter, of j Member ot Confedcr- Virginia. Collector of ate Senate. Customs of Rappahan-j nock District. j UNION SOLDIERS HON OEED WITH OFFICE. W. F. Vilas of Wis-: Colonel of volunteer consin, Postmaster'regiment of Union sol- General. diers. Gen. J. C. Black, of^ Served in Union Illinois, Commissionerarmy. of Pensions. I SECRETARY BAYAKD, it is very plain, has a very large-sized bee buzzing in his hat His appointments make him solid in the South, and his westward trip is undoubt­ edly only a coaxer. He is the sharp man oi! the Cabinet, and aided by Garland and Lamar, and feebly by Eudicott, he carries his points when he desires to. Manning is the quiet fox of the Cabinet, who knows when to hide and when to double on his track and throw off the hounds from his scent. Vilas is the man of good intentions toward the Democracy, but made an im­ mense blunder in hiB secret letter to Con­ gressmen. All things considered, Presi­ dent Cleveland is to be commiserated. There is this single consolation: there is a possibility that it might have been worse.-- Inter Ocean. NAPKINS are made from the bark of the paper mulberry in Europe. Cel. Thomas H. Benton. In the Teara 1853-'58, CoJ. resided m house No. 334 C street north­ west, now known as "Franklin'a house," and recently occupied by the Hon. Mr. Oreenleaf, member of the last Congress. In thia house he ftJ|pired April 10JUJ58, at the age of sevunty-al* yean. For the last two years of his life he devoted himself to literary pursuits, which were commenced even before he had entirely closed his active political career. In this period he completed his great work, "Thirty Years' View," wrote a remarkable paper on the "Dred Scott Decision," and commenced the her­ culean task of condensing tlie "Debates of Congress," which he finally com­ pleted down to the compromise meas­ ures of 1850. During his last winter death daily stared him in the face, and was only kept at bay by the almost invincible will of Benton. Su tiering intensely at times from a complication of diseases, he nevertheless retained his faculties unimpaired to the last, and on the very morning of the day of his death sat propped up in his bed and read and corrected with his own hand the closing proof-sheets of the "Condensed De­ bates. " The faculty had not then dis­ covered the recent arts for prolonging life at the expense of a bodily stupor and a clouded mind. Benton bore with surprising equanimity the inflictions of nature without the interference of the new system of dealing with patients On the verge of the grave, and, being left to himself, was enabled by his great vitality to complete his literary designa* --National Republican. A Kew Departure In Industry. The United States must try and de­ velop new fields for enterprise; we must not depend, as we have in the past, on the sale of our agricultural products. The increase of steamships and the development of the railway svstems of the world are rendering avail­ able the food products of distant coun­ tries for supplying the demands of En- rope. Then France and Germany are putting impost duties upon our wheat and other s mall grains, as well as on provisions. We can retain our monop­ oly of cotton and corn, but as a nation we must make money in other fields of ^pterprise than those we now occupy, or else fall behind. The most promising opening seems to be in our foreign trade, from which we are now excluded by our high tariff. Our manufacturing system is very efficient, but we must learn how to produce cheaply, and we must strike off the fetters on commerce now imposed by our impost lawfe-~ Demorest's Monthly. An Accomplishment. "How's yer boy gettin' erlong, Jas­ per?" asked a negro, meeting an ac­ quaintance. "Ken talk right smart now, kain't he?" "Talk right smart? W'y vououghter heah dat chile open his mouf. Talk, w'y I tell yer whut he ken do. He ken talk through on ̂ Qpllese heah tQly- fones." "Go way, now* - "Oh, it's er faok." "Yer doan tell me sol" ® VftSA T rl APfl ® ' "Talk through er tellyfone, eh?" "Jes* like I tells yer.' Ef dat boy doan grow up ter be er lawyer I'll jes' ax somebody ter tell me*der reason w^y; dat's whut m do."--Arkansaw Trav­ eler. You can never tell what kind of a man yonr son will make. Give the average small boy his choice between a prayer-book and a mouth-organ and he will invariably take the latter. OxE-THiBDof all the banking doittfcn the world is done in England.