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f̂r§tfn^ l̂aiuilealfr I. VAN SLYKE. Editor aM NMMrar. MoHENRY, ILLINOIS. A CLOTH tor deaf and dumb people has l>een formed in Paris. It in called the "Club of the Silent," and nobody who is not deaf and dumb can bo a meml)er. The waiters and other servants are also deaf mutes. There are over fifty mem­ bers, all wealthy, and all great whist players. 7 AN English sportsman, shooting cm the north shore of Long Island, was in­ vited to dinner at a farm-house, jmd was so astonished that he writes to a London newspaper about it: "I wonder how often in merrie England," he says, "a farmer, with his family and two men servants, sits down to roast turkey, chicken pie, with four or five vegeta­ bles, and cranberry pie, to say nothing of -both beer and whisky to drink." A RECENT incident recalls the curious «ffect produced on manv ladies present at the marriage of the Duke of Albany l>y the violets used in trimming the frocks of the bridesmaids. "What can they be thinking about ?" said a baronet's wife; "violets are fit to deck a funeral, not a wedding. No good will come of this." For such excellent reasons opals, the prettiest gems in the world, never fetch their real value, and emeralds, also held unlucky, are little cared for, while pearls are of great price. KING MILAN,1 of Servia, so say the gossips of his court, has taken to wear­ ing a hidden coat of mail which is, how­ ever, hardly^ what a Norman warrior would have understood by the phrase. Next the body it is of the softest silk. Over this is a thick, tightly-compressed layer of eider down, and upon this, again, is a layer of wadding; the outer surface is of the toughest leather.' This dag­ ger and bullet-proof case, which reaches from the neck to the knees, and covers the arms as far as the elbows, cost £50. It was obtained from a firm in Vienna. ANYBODY who wishes to take a peep at another world than ours has only to look at the planet Venuss which now shines brilliantly in the southwest after sundown. Venus is of nearly the same size, as' the earth, .and astronomers think it may possibly bear life not alto­ gether unlike that upon the surface of our own planet. Yet at the distance of some 80,000,000 of miles its huge bulk appears reduced to the dimensions of a •star, reflecting the sunlight to us like a pellicle of silver. We inhabit a won­ derful world, but our world belongs to a still more wonderful familv of worlds. THE young man of wealth is con­ stantly seeking new means of spending his income.^ It used to be the thing to buy teams and ballet girls and yachts --now the rich young man buys a base ball club. Jim Lucas, the St. Louis millionaire, indulged in the luxury of a club, and now his example is being fol­ lowed by other men of means. Erastus Wiman, of Staten Island, has just bought the Metropolitan Base Ball Club and will take, it over jbo New Brighton for his own amusement. Pretty soon a man who doesn't own a base ball dub will not be admitted to the highest society. SENATOR BECK says (according to the Louisville Courier-Journal) that the reason the Democratic Senators did not .suggest to Vice President Hendricks before the special session of the Senate adjourned that an opportunity should be given the Senate to elect a President pro tern., which could only be done, of •course, by his retirement a day or two prior to the adjournment, was because they knew his health was bad, and that he was aware of the fact himself that his hold on life was precarious, and they feared to alarm him by any suggestion which would seem to imply that he would not live through the recess of j Congress. s \ I IN Arkansas a young girl is always off with the old love before she is on with the new. Miss Jennie Orrall, of Mor- rillton, that state, was in love with a young man named Barnes, who was tried for murder. She attended the , trial, and evinced the deepest affection for the accused. But when he was sen­ tenced, she consoled herself by at once marrying J. B. Dickinson, the prose­ cutor. Time, one/ week; beating the record by fifteen minutes. The mar­ ried couple wisely left for North Caro­ lina. Should Mr. Barnes rlgain his liberty, there is no telling but a sudden divorce might be had and another im­ promptu wedding arranged. RICHMOND (Va.) Jteligious Herald: The pastor travels sixty miles on horse­ back twelve times a year (he is a once- a-month pastor) in meeting his appoint­ ments, on a salary of $100 a year, and the church has gotten $125 behind in paying him. The writer was present at the last church conference, and presided while the subject was under discussion. 1 A committee was appointed to confer ; with the pastor about the $125, and they 1 stepped out a moment and returned with this report: "As the pastor had failed to meet some of his appointments, we have agreed to put the amount due Shim at $75, he giving up $50 of his claim." The pastor explained that he had buried his wife $fter a long season of poor health, and that caused him to fail to meet some of his appointments. ME. G. H. D. GOSSIP, an appropriate name for a raconteur, is writing inter­ esting reminiscences of old Parisian life in an Australian monthlv. t)ne of his papers relates to the frequenters, twenty years ago, of the Cafe de la Re- gence, which was the resort of all the famous chess players. Here is what this ready Gossip hap to say of the Pres­ ident of the French Republic, who, as |Jule8 Grevy, dressed in plain black alpaca coat, used to play chess: "His large intellectual forehead, firm month and clean-slutved face gave him a marked personality.0 Grevy was a quiet, reserved man, with a certain noli vie tang ere air, as if conscious of hia-own, merits, and his habitual tactiturnitv contrasted strangely with the volubility of the great sculptor, Lequesne, and other loquacious Frenchmen wfcd fre­ quented this resort." * THE village of Cavendash, Vermont, has just lost its oldest character in the death of Dave Ordway, an old miller, whose peculiarities were not altogether cheerful. Years ago he had a costly coffin made for himself. When it was ready he paid a clergyman $100 to preach his funeral sermon, and, laid out in this coffin, was l>orne amid doleful dirges down the aisle of the church to the foot of the pulpit, where he lay listening to his mock obsequies. This over the coffin was placed in his parlor, and remained there until the time for its real use came. One of his mil lstones forms the base of a quaint monument, bearing the following inscription--* little thing of his own: '.'Tho " I am dead yet speaketh, for here in rest upon this millstone top I sot this noble block to let the world know what I have done." IT is now yaid that the death Of Vio6 President Hendricks was not so much of a surprise to his intimate friends as has been generally supposed, and that even those who, though familiar with his condition, did not think the end so near, had little liope that he would again assume the duties of his: office. Vice President Hendricks was a disappointed man. His ambitious had been thwarted, and an election to the Vice Presidency by no means satisfied them. It is thought possible that he brooded too much over his defeats, or rather his lack of such success as he had hoped for, and that the effect was direct upon his health, his brain suffering from too much thought upon one subject. A visit last summer to St. Clair, Michigan, to test the virtues of a mineral spring, seemed to result in good, but the effect was only ephemeral. His old vigor of thought would not return, and his friends recognized the difference in him. The end, almost as it came, wras prophesied bv more than one of them. THE new system of disposing of dead bodies devised by a Brest chemist has much to recommend it--that is, if its practical features have not been over­ rated, says the Chicago Tribune. The process consists simply in coating the body with a substance which, after proper treatment, leaves all over it a' metalliv deposit. Then, just as an elec­ trotype plate is treated in the process of its manufacture, the body goes into a bath of sulphate of copper, electricity is employed, and a line, hard copper skin is produced all over it. This can be plated with gbld, silver," or any metal desired, according to the we&lth of the deceased and the wishes of Ids heirs. It will be perceived at a glance that the new process will be a great thing in the event of a great man's death, as afford­ ing a means of setting up an absolutely perfect, statue of him at the , minimum of expense, ife is plated and put upon a pedestal--that is all there is of it-- and the traveler of the future, gazing upon the statue of a famous personage of the past, will have the satisfaction of knowing that he has before him* not merely a marble imitation, but the fa­ mous personage himself, with only the change in personal qp^jearance of hav­ ing a firmer and brighter skin than in real life, and of lack :ng soine|hing, per­ haps, of what might be called vivacity of expression. How different must be the traveler's sensations in such a. case from what they would be were he look­ ing merely at an unmeaning block of stone hewn out by some artist of more or less ability. And, aside from the case of a great man, the new system lias its enormous advan­ tages for use in private life. It cannot cost much to have a body elec- trotvped in plain copper, and then, in case of * straitened circumstances, the statue can be laid aside until means are available for plating it. The de­ ceased will necessarily look for a season like an American Indian, but that can be changed at any time. The scientist of Brest appears to have hit upon a great device--something calculated to make even crematory stock go down. How to En joy a Walk. I want you to consider the walk an intellectual passtime, says Ora Colt- man in Outlay. I beg of you not to confound it with the muscle-walking tramp who is not satisfied with less than four miles an hour. The walk which Thoreau loved, that ended in a saunter, is the genuine article. You don't think you must reach a certain point, or go over a certain amount of ground, or that you must know the names which science has given the forms of nature. You have an. eye for pictures, perhaps. Well, look for them. Think of an autumn evening; the growth of a summer, dying a tender haze hanging over the cornfield before you in the shadows; a twilight, mysti­ fying and glorifying like the memory of youth; the trees on the hill-top above you a bank of gold with the glory of the sun on their leaves. And this is only one of a thousand. Do you think that Cflande or Ruisdale or Turner could get into oHft^of their pictures what you can see betweelPHhose hills ? Don't go too far, for weariness of body dulls the mind, and that last mile, should it be a hard one, will embitte'r all your pleas­ ant memories, like dregs in wine. You go often, for it is an art you need to cultivate. You go when you are ready; you go hunting for something, but you need not go burrowing, as if you should always be adding to your stock of knowledge. Remember that the most of us need ideas more than technique, and himt for the wide views, the lifting tilings. Try to keep your sympathies aroused, your senses awake, and see how soon you will learn the rudiments of universal language. The sermon goes oil continually, but no one listens. Oh, the glory of it! The pictures, the music, the voices! You are awed and humbled without being saddened. Yo» are exhilarated without being made pt# sumptuous. TNGEBSOLL ON LINCOLN. The Splendid Tribute of m Kind HtMt to th« Nobloat of Americans. Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone--uo ancestors, no fellows, and no successors. He had the advantage of living in a new country, of social equal­ ity, of personal freedom, of seeing in the horizon of his future the perpetual star of hope. He preserved his indi­ viduality and his self-respect. He knew and mingled with men of every kind, and, after all, men are the l*est books. He l>eeanie acquainted with the am­ bitions and hopes of the heart, the means used to accomplish the ends, the springs of action and the seeds of thoughts. He was familiar with natnre, with actual tilings, with common facts. He loved and appreciate the poem of the year, the drama of the seasons. Lincoln was a many-sided man, ac­ quainted with few smiles and tears, complex in brain, single in heart, direct as light; and his words, candid as mirrors, gave the perfect image of his thought. "He was never afraid to ask; never too dignified to admit that he did not know. No man had keener wit or kinder humor. He was not sohainn. Solemnity is" a mask worn by ignorance and liyprocrisy--it is the preface.' pro- longue and index to the cunning of the stupid. He was natural in his life and though--master of the story-teller's art, an illustration apt in applcation perfect, liberal in speech, shocking Pharisees and prudes, using any word that wit could disinfect. He was a logican. Logic is the neces­ sary product of intelligence and sin eerity. It cannot be learned. It is the child of a clear head and a good heart. He was candid, anil with candor often deceived the deceitful. He had intelli­ gence without arrogance, genius without pride, and religion without cant--that is to say, without bigotry and without deceit. He was an oratoiv-clear, sincere, natural. He*did hot p\ptend. He did not say what he though^others thought, but what he thought. If you wish to be sublime you must be< natural--you must keep close to the grass. Ydu must sit by the fireside of the heart; above the clouds it is too cold. You must be simple in your speech; too much polish suggests incincerity. The great orator idealizes the great tran- tigures the common, makes even the inanimate throb and thrill, fills the gallery of the imagination with statues and pictures perfect in form and color, brings to light the gold hoarded by memory--the miser shows the glitter ing coin to the spendthrift hope--en­ riches the brain, ennoble the heart, and •quickens the conscience. Between his lips words bud and .blossom. * If you wish to know the difference between an orator and an elocutionist between what is felt and what is said-- between what the heart and brain can do together, and what the brain can do alone--read Lincoln's wondrous words at Gettysburg, and then the speech of Edward Everett. The oration of Lin­ coln will never be forgotten. It will live until languages are dead and lip: Are dust. The speech of Everett will never be read. The elocutionists be­ lieve in the virtue of voice, the sub­ limity of syntax the majesty of long sentences and the genius of gesture. The orator loves the real, the simple, the natural. He places the thought above all. He knows that the greatest ideas should be expressed in the shortest words--that the greatest statues need theUeast drapery. Lincoln was an immense personality --firm but not obstinate. Obstinacy is egotism--firmness heroism. He in­ fluenced others without effort, uncon­ sciously: and they submitted to him as men submit to nature, unconsciously. He was severe with himself, and for that, reason lenient with others. He appeared to apologize for being kinder than his fellows. He did merciful things as stealthily as others committed crimes. . Almost ashamed of tenderness, he paid and did the noblest words and deeds with that charming confusion-- that- awkwardness--that is the perfect grace of modesty. As a noble man, wishing to pay a small debt to a poor neighbor, rejuctlantly offers a $100 and asks for change, fearing that he may be suspected either of making a display of wealth or pretence of payment, so Lin­ coln hesitated to show his wealth of goodness, even to the best he knew. A great man stooping, no wishing to make his fellows feel that they were small or mean. He knew others because perfectly ac­ quainted with himself. He cared noth­ ing for place, but everything for prin­ ciple ; nothing for money, but every­ thing for independence. Where no principle was involved, easily swayed-- willing to go slowly in the right direc­ tion--sometimes willing to stop, but he would not go back, and he would 'not go w rong. He was willing to wait. He knew that the event was not wait­ ing, and that fate was not the fool of • chance. He knew that slavery had de­ fenders, but no defense, and that they who attack the right must wound them­ selves. He was neither tyrant nor slave. He neither knelt nor scorned. With him, men were neither great nor small--they were right or wrong. Through manners, clothes, titles, rags, and race he saw the real--that which is. Beyond accident, policy, compromise, and war, he saw the end. He was patient as Destiny, whose undecipher­ able hieroglyphics were so deeply graven on his sad and tragic face. Wealth could not purchase, power could not awe, this divine, this loving man. He knew no fear except the fear of doing wrong. Hating slavery, pity­ ing the master--seeking to conquor, not persons, but prejudices--he was the emlKxlintfpnt of the self-denied, the courage, the hope, the nobility of the nation. He spoke, not to inflame, not to upbraid, but to convince. He raised his hands, not to strike, but in bene­ diction. He longed to pardon. He loved to see the pearls of joy on the cheeks of a wife whose husband he had rescued from death. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the great­ est memory of our world. The Foundation of Jokes. Owing to the great popular demand for humor in this country, nearly every alitor from Dan to Beershelm has un­ dertaken to "evolve from his inner con­ sciousness" something that would pass t r witticism or joke. In this, asinevery- hing else, it is only a few that-succeed. After an editor has failed tojiave his al­ leged jokes copied by his exchanges, he milk of human kindness sours in his system before he can dispose of it at he cheese factory, and he proceeds to ail at his more : uccessful neighbors, lis billiousness, which he mistook for minor, is vented at what he calls a chestnut" or "stock" joke. He ex- laims: "Give us a rfst on jokes on the mis, the mother-in-law, the plumber, ie gas-meter, the roller skate," etc. aid what is the strangest of all is that some of the reputabla paragriphers ' . k have joined in the senseless cry of these unsuccessful numskulls. There are only six mechamcJt pow­ ers or principles. No man ever has or ever can make one of those principles, but the records of the United States Patent Office show that the inventive faculties of men have combined those six principles into over 300,000 useful machines. They could make tho ma­ chines but not the principles--could make over 300,000 machines with six starting points, as it were. Just so with the mule joke, the mother-in-law joke, etc. Any man who can make a new combination of the sis; mechanical pow­ ers is an inventor; so any man who can get up a new combination of ideas that will make people laugh about a mule or a mother-in-law is a humorist. But as some men invent more machines and better ones than others, so some men are greater linmorists than others. There is just as much reason for con­ demning a man for inventing a machine that you never thought of. One-fourth of the machines that will be useful have not been invented, neither 'has one- fourth of the mule jokes been written. Of course there are many retold jokes, but we are not defending them. What we defend is the subject of the joke. The people insist that the combination of ideas be new. and that they contain a new point, blended with the element of surprise, Then they will laugh sim­ ply because tliey can't help it.--Cali­ fornia Maverick* charities the ttoi the forh Tliev ar Three Model Orphans. The three wealthiest young ladies in Philadelphia are noted more than any­ thing for their simple and unostenta­ tious piety. Had they lived 400 or 500 years ago they probably would have founded a community of nuns. It has indeed been reported that one of them was to retire to a convent, but it may be said authoritatively that there is no basis for the report. The ladies are the daughters of the late Francis X. Drexel, himself a man of religious feeling so strong and true that, besides jrivirty away thousands a year during his life, he left at his death more than a millioii j dollars to be divided among churches j and charitable institutions. Their mother was possessed of exemplary vir­ tues, and in the rush and whirl of things it is a high pleasure to speak of qpe who, with the possession of means to lead a life of splendid luxury, was hap­ piest in the part of almoner to the poor. The young ladies were carefully trained, and tliev act upon the same genera] principles that guided tho lives of their parents. With the exception of the poken of, they were almost gatees of their father, and ie of each exceeds $3,000,000. all unmarried. They are seen very little in society, and place small store by its pleasures. They are now at their superb country place; at Tor- resdale, some fifteen miles from town. Their fortune is so well invested that the income of each of the girls is about $4,000 per week. Yet the living ex­ penses of each cannot exceed $4,000 a year. They dress with the greatest simplicity, and their only epctravagiuice is their charity. They give away to\}ie poor and to religion five timesftis"lffuch as they spend upon themselves. Since the death of their father they have built two memorial wings to the chapel oi the convent near their country place. In one of them a superb marble altat has been erected to the memory of their father and in a crypt l>eneath it the dust of their parents lie. The young ladies attend services at the the chapel, and they are there at hours so early that the sun has hardly time to rise. They have a Sunday-school for the children of the neighborhood in their own house, and their pupils number about sixty, who, by the way, are very well cared for in temporalities as well as in spiritual matters. Withal they have had an excellent training in the affairs of everv-day life, and are thor­ oughly able to take case of themselves They ase perfect horse-women, and a morning's canter of ten miles is as child's play to them. They are excel lent book-keepers, too, aud themselves maintain the records and accounts inci­ dental to the care for their vast estate, HOW KEROSENE IS DISTILLED. The Usual PrommM Refining Petroleum-- Crml«- Illumlnating Oil. petroleum consists of a great many different kinds of fluids, which range in volatility from the l>oiling point of ether to nearly a red heat. Such being the ?ase, as soon a3 the oil is heated at all, the most volatile products begin to come over, at first colorless as water, but very gradually assuming a yellow tinge until the most dense distillation coming aver attjie last is quite dark brown in coloyf'sotKftt if all the distillate were allowed to run into a tank together, it would not look very differently from the original petroleum. ' In the ordinary process of refining petroleum tlu> distillate is divided into three portions: The first is the liglit- J est, colorless portion, nearly as volatile as ether» and is called ertide naphtha, or "benzine." Like the crude petro­ leum. this crude naphtha may be dis­ tilled and divided into gasolene, A, B, and C naphtha, which are used in gas machines, for mixing paints, and other similar purposes, sometimes also for burning m lamps and stoves. The mid­ dle portion of the distillate, which is neither very light nor very heavy, and, having but little color, is the crude il­ luminating oil, or kerosene. As it runs from the still it has a very offensive odor, due to the decomposition of cer­ tain portions of Jhe petroleum at the high temperature reached in the still. To remove the offensive "compounds; the" oil is first agitated with alvout 5 per cent, of strong oil of vitriol. This combines with the offensive oils, form­ ing a black, tarry residue that falls to the bottom ofthe tank as soon as, the oil is brought to rest. This mixture of acid and oil is called "sludge," and "is used in large quantities in the manu­ facture of eommereialjyfertilizers. After the acid is drawn off and the oil washed with water, it is again washed with a strong solution of caustic soda, and also some peeular acid compounds that exist in the soil. The oil, after another washing with water, is nearly colorless, with the pe­ culiar balsamic odor of kerosene, and possesses the slight Opalescence pecu­ liar to these oils. As usually prepared, they belong to the class known as "high- test" kerosenes, and consist almost en­ tirely of oils that exist in the petroleum already formed, being merely sepa­ rated from the largest and heaviest por­ tion. Such oils are called the educts of the petroleum. The heaviest por­ tions of the distillate contain parafline, and an» called parattine oils. They also are mftnlv educts of the original oil; they, however, contain a much larger proportion than the kerosence of the products of the oil. A tarry residue renfains in the still called "residuum." --Boston Budget "Note^ and Qufr- iex." Mr. Vanderbilt and His Architect. Mr. Vanderbilt never gave a thought to an artist's or an architect's reputa­ tion. He couldn't• Xtnderstand why a man should coiu^sWm of fycliange in his plans which woulA injuiyhiin, so long as the owner and ciwpkn er paid for it. When the plans for his big house were in course of preparation he was urged by the Architect to prepare for a larger dining room than he was contemplat­ ing^. "Why," said the man of art, "you can't give banquets in such a room." "Oh, d----n banquets. - I'm not going to give any." HONORING HIS MEMORY/ Senatorial Eulogies on tbe Late , Vice President of United States. Iwnrto by Senators Voorhees, Er arts? Sherman, Harrison, and Others* St. Petersburg Lodging Houses. The„habitof living in lodgings is gen­ eral in St. Petersburg. Some of the richest families are content with lodg­ ings, and but few of them need all the apartments which constitute a^St. Petersburg flat. A St. Petersburg lodging house frequently contains aa many as a thousand rooms, with a pop ulation of from-JJ.OUO to 3,000 persons. The finest apartments are on the ground floor; The poorest are reached by as­ cent of from ten to twelve stories. A suite of six rooms suffices for the wealthiest lodgers who have no palace of their own. Two or three supply all the needs of the well-to-do tradsman and his family; the majority of pro­ fessional men who are bachelors, nearly all teachers and students, and a large class of officials find themselves amply accommodated by a single apartment. The cost of lodgings, of course; upon such elements as situation, number, and furnishing of rooms, liiglit of flat, and service. As a rule, it may be said that, taking into consideration the general purchasing power of the money ex­ pended house rent is some is somewhat higher in St. Petersburg than it is in Paris or London. Rent charges in Russia are invariably exacted "in ad­ vance," even when a lodger surrounds himself with luggage valuable enough to yield the amount of a whole year's arrears. Upon personal property dfHhis kind there can l>e legally 110 lien. Any forcible detention of property in such cases is treated by the courts as a quasi- criminal offense. The lotlgiug-liouse* is actually a con­ tinuous quadrangular wall, full of apart­ ments, the windows of which look out upon the inclosed space within. Com­ rades know each other's windows, while the corridors lead easily from room to room. Reunions are nnmerous under these circumstances, and 110 more charm­ ing or delicate part is taken in them than by the young girls, whom eager­ ness for knowledge has led to the capi­ tal, hundreds of versts, it may be. from their homes, and who, once in St. Petersburg, labor with singular perse­ verance and a really remarkable suc­ cess to qualify themselves for the posi­ tions to which they aspire.--Atlantic Monthly. A Pat Proverb. Mrs. Samuelson is the mother-in-law of Gilhooly. The last time they met, she said, reproachfully:-- "You haven't been to see me in a long time." "I have been intending to pay you a visit for some time, but you know the proverb: 'the road to perdition is paved with good-intentions,'" replied the wretch.--Tejra.s Sifting.v. "But you must. A man can't live in such a house as you are building with-; for "public "'duty, out. giving large entertainments." "Well, if I give any," said Vander­ bilt, "I'll give them in the picture gal­ lery." ' The picture gallery adjoined the din­ ing room, so the butler's pantry was ar­ ranged to open into both rooms. But one morning, when the walls of the great house had gone up two stories, Mr. Vanderbilt made his appearance in his architect's office. Hunt was build­ ing William K's house, and was giving the young man a noble banquet hall, thirty feet high, and splendid, . with carving. "Why, my son's dining room is going to be bigger than inini\" shouted the excited millionaire, wiping the prespir- ation from his brow. "I can't have that anyhow," he continued. "I thought this ^\vas all settled. I thought " f "Oh, no matter about that/ I won't There was am unusually large attendance in the Senate of tho Unitad States on Tuesday, Jan. 26. and an unusual number of fine ppjechea, the well-mnrked character stu« of the late Vice President fornish$ig themea for memorial ora­ tions that some ct tho best orators utilized. The most marked Breeches of the day were those of Voorhees,. Harrison, Evart-i, and Sjioan- er. It •w as the tirat time the latter has spoken in the Senate and he fully justi­ fied the reputation that followed him from his State, where his oratorical gifts have long been recognized and admitted. Aside from being a scholarly and eloquent, pro­ duction, it has the merit of originality,,,jyhich is rarely found in funeral orations. and ̂ Ir. Kpoon- er'« treatment of tho life and record of Mr. Hendricks created quite a sensation., Proceed­ ings were opened by Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, who called up his resolution expressive of the Senate's deep pense ofthe public loss in the death of the late Vice President Hendricks. Hie resolution having been read, Mr. Voorhees ad­ dressed the Senate: "For the eminent citizen of the Republic," be said, "who lately fell from his plaofe^and who now sleeps in honor in the bosom of the State he loved so well and served so faithfully, we can do no more than has already been done by tongne, and by every inethod which human affection can inspire. The heavy drapery of woe had darkened alike the public building, the stately palace and the humble home. The proud colors ofthe Union have drooped at half-mast through­ out the United States and every civilised land beneath the sun. Klixpience in the forum and in the sacrcd desk has j aid its richest tribute to hi* exalted abilities and to his stainless charac­ ter. The tolling bell, the mournful dirge, the booming solemn minute-gun. tlio miglitv mul­ titude < f mourners, have all attended the funeral of Thomas A. H»ndrfeks, and borne witness to tho deep love and grief with which he •was lowered into his Inst restiug pla.e. All the honors due to the most illustrious dead have been paid by the Chief Magistrate of the Gov­ ernment, by the authority of tho States, and bjr the unrestrained affection of tho people. In the Sen at \ however, we may not be silent, even though tho cup of honor to his memory is full and overflowing. In this exalted theater of action--here, on this brilliantly lighted stag®-- he fulfilled his last official engagement and closed his long and commanding public career." Then, in strong and graphic Knglisli. Mr. Voorhees reviewed the life and public services, of Mr. Hendricks. In dealing with Sir. Hen­ dricks' political vie*vs. Mr. Voorhees said it had been, and especially late in his life, charged as a reproach against him that he was a partisan. If. by that, the speaker said, was meant that h* sincerely believed in.the principles and pur­ poses of the party to which he belonged, and sought, by all honorable methods, what he be­ lieved to be the public good by placing its meas­ ures and its men in control of the Government, then the accusation was true, and the term of reproach became a iust tribute to an honesk man. It was the partisan of deep, honest con­ victions dealing justl> with opposing views who. In all ages of the world, in every field ct human progress had led the way. In conclusion Mr. Voorhees said : "As long as American history, treasures up pure lives and faithful public services--af long as public and private virtue, stninless and without blemish, is revered, sulong will tho name of Thomas A. Hendricks be cherished by tho American people as an exampl < worthy of emulation. Monu­ ments of brass and marble will lift their heads, to heaven in honor of his name, but a monu­ ment more preeiovs to his. memory and more valuable to the world has already been ground­ ed in the hearts of the people whom he served so long, faithfully, and'with such signal ability. In the busy harvest cf death of the year 1885 there was gathered into eternity no nobler spirit, no higher intelligence, no fairer soul." Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin, while not believ­ ing that he could add to the effect of what had been said, desired, as a native of Indiana, to speak a word of tribute to the memory of the deceased. He was a man of strong convictions, and had little respect for those who were not. He had shown that above all things he was no "trimmer" in jMilitics. Mr. Spooner continued: "To him no political partisanship, honorable in its methods, was offensive. In party he saw only the instrumentality through which, and through wlrch alone, might be wrought out the triumph of his principles. In active, faithful, party service ho saw. therefore, devotion to principle, not mere lust for office. He .believed that the party clothed by ixipular will with tho fespotiRihility of administration should every­ where trust the execution of its policies to those who were in political sympathy with them, and who had at heart its continued ami complete SUCCORS. He believed that those of the ruling party who had donp the most and sacrificed tho 'most in honorable active effort should, be by that party everywhere f rst called to the public service. I have a tender feeling in my heart for the man who for twentv years, in sunshine and in storm, had ltd his pnrty again and again to certain de­ feat; who had kept alive its organisation in every State, and comity, and town, and who, by unwavering allegiance and effort, had made possible its ultimat - success, and I cannot brook with any degree of patience the suggestion in the hour of his party's triumph that such men should be reproachfully termed politicians and denied recognition lest some political esthete should say : 'It is^a rSward for party service.' The imputation that he was a spoilsman rather angered than grieved Mr. Hendricks, for he knew it came from those who had either been of a hostile camp, or, if "of his own, hud been wont to linger in tho shade and slumber while he and the 'boys,' as he sometimes loved to call the party workers, had borne th < heat, ami dust, and burden of the bat­ tle. Spoilsman or not, he went down to his grave loved, trusted, and mourned by his party; and I darj to br-lieve that the < 1'iuent of party fealty which brought to him this reproach will not cause his memory to suffer with the great mass of his opponents. "There is a melancholy comfort in the manner of his death. He died as one might wish to die who was as well prepared to go. God's linger touched him and he slept." Mr. Sherman, of Ohio. l>oro testimony to the marked ability with which Mr. Hendricks had have UIV son's dining room bigger than I always maintained liis opinions. He had been mine. How much will it cost to change mine and make it bigger?" "A good deal," answered the archi­ tect. "There will have to be new foundations, the walls that are up will have to be taken down, and " "What do I care for that? How niuch will it cost?" The architect made some figures, and told Mr. Vanderbilt that it would cost $30,000." "Well, go on and do it," was the an­ swer. But the architect objected. He told Mr. Vanderbilt that to tear down the walls w ould hurt his reputation. People would think that there had been a de­ fect in his plans. The Croesus heard this in open-mouthed astonishment, and when the architect at last asked: "What will the sidewalk committee say," lie answered: "What is that to you? Don't I pay for ii?"--Boston 1'ost. GERMANY devotes 9,000,000 actfs. w. the cultivation of the potatoe. The yield laat y$q>r was 23,000,000 tons. Orthodo^/ Kittens. "Be von the Orthodox minister of this parish ?" asked a ragged urchin, as he Struggled into a well-known clergyman's study, with a large basket ou his arm. On being assured that he was right in . A l i i * 1 < 4 T I 1 V1U OI,IUL'n iu OUlVI^DtlVJ iCIV UOW^, DiilVClU, hlH presumption, tilt1 lflu s&ul: 1 liavea and overflowing sympathy and sorrow at the great curiosity here for you, three blue- " - -- • blooded Orthodox kittens--good skin, line hair and real John Calvin stock. I'm selling 'em for a $1 a kitten." After careful examination the clergyman ex­ cused himself from purchasing; he couldn't afford the $1 and he didn't need a kitten, but expressed appreciation for the opportunity of having seen them. A weel: later the reverend gentleman called upon a learned Universalist di­ vine, and had just got interested in a social clnvt when a knock on the study door was heard, and in walked a lad who. addressing the Universalist,-said: "Are you the Universalist clergyman of this parish?" "I am, indeed," he re­ plied. "Well, boss, if you are, I've got a great curiosity for you--got three pure-blooded Universalist kittens, good skin, fine hair, from real old Hosea Ballou stock. I'm selling 'em for a $1 a kitten." While the reverend gen­ tleman examined them the Orthodox visitor quietly called the lad aside, and said: "Aren't you the same lad that visited my study last week with these same kittens, and then assured me that they were pure Orthrodox?" , "Bight you "are, boss," said the lad, "but they've got their .eves open since."--Boston 'Saturday Evening Gazette. RRPEXTAXCE is not a mere feeling bad; it is a doing better.--Theodore L, Cuyler. ready and courteous in debate--never wild in maniicr or sentiment. He was a man of easy approach, affable and kind to all--the best type of an American citizen. Mr. Hampton, of South Carolina, said that when one of the great actors in the political arena fell, all animosities were buried with him. This impression was indelibly flxed on the speaker's mind by the extraordinary spectacle beheld at the funeral of Gen. Grant, when among those who bore the body of the great captain of the Union armies to tho grave were Confederate soldiers, who, a few brief years ago, were his mortal enemies. The same generous feeling marked the obse­ quies of the dead Vice President. If political and personal animosities ceased at the grave, should we not be tolerant and charitable in judgments on our contempsraries, ho asked, even though they were our political opponents? "All of us, sooner or later," he continued, "must claim from the living the tender recognition which we now bestow on the dead, for our hearts, like muffled drums, ore beating funeral marches to the grave." Mr. Evarts. of New York, referred to his long acquaintance with Mr. Hendricks, and said that manv years ago he was pointed out to him in court as a man who, it was natural to expect, would be a future and probably successful as­ pirant to the Presidency of the United States. The speaker thought that of all those who took part in the debates at the timo of the impeach­ ment of President Johnson no man appeared to better advantage in comjioBure of spirit, calm­ ness of judgment, and circumspection of de­ liberation than Mr. Hendricks. He could avoid extravagance and could skillfully draw the line between fidelity to the Constitution and ad­ hesion to the supremacy of party. Mr. Hansom, of North Carolina, said that Mr. Hendricks had always proved himself a lover of his wliolo country aiid its liberties. The South­ ern States in this emergency felt deep, sincere. bereavement of the Northern sisters. "Thank Almignty God," said Mr. Ransom, "that the ever­ lasting covenant of our union is established in the hearts of all our people, and that, through the clouds of thin sorrow, we can behold the peace that is never to be broken." Mr. Vest, of Missouri, said that Mr. Hendricka was nearer to the hearts of tho masses than any other man of his time. He was a partisan in the highest and best sense of the term, because he believed that devotion to party was neces­ sary to the best interests of his country. Ask­ ing and giving no quarter, he did not sprinkle rosewat.'r 011 the enemies of his party or give sweetmeats to the wolves ready to spring at his throat. , Mr. Harrison, of Indiana, said ho did not think that Mr. Hendricks' popularity had cul­ minated at the time of his death. He seemed to have been never more loved or esteemed by. his political friends than just before his death.' He was a liian of great jwilitical courage, and, while not aggressive as a leader, al- wavs met assault^ with force and skill. He liad never made his leadership offensive by1 too open an assertion or display of it. His ora­ tory was persuasive, his style clear and luaid, and, if he did not win his adversary over, alwkyg left him kindly disposed. The speaker paU a high compliment to Mr. Hendricks' legal ability. In hfl private life he was a man above reproach, strong in human sympathy, and loving the charms of home. He had been blessed in his married life. The wife whom he wooed and won in his young manhood walked with him in love and affection to the end. Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware, characterized the* deceased as a man of fine intellect and wide culture, who for more than a quarter of a cen­ tury had been known as a statesman of lai|;e and commanding influence, highly esteemed not only by all who had the honor to know him\ personally but by millions of his fellow coun­ trymen who knew him only by reputation earned by long, faithful, and eminent public service. Mr. Saulsbury expressed the belief that no greater safety could be found for the^ future of our republic than that it suould find its future statesmen as true in their devotion In tree institutions aa Mr. Hendricks had been. t:p ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. --The-residence of ^Porter Nesbitt, offp Aledo, was burned recently. --Decatur has a man who is manufacturing Italian harps. --The total expenses of De Witt 1 for the year 1885 were $15,390.01. J --Henry Luken, a wealthy farmer dwell- I r Alexander, fell dead of apoplexy. --Charles Brown, a peddler at Decatur^ shot himself on account of domestic troa« . bles. --P.. S. Y*eager, a shoemaker of Wad# dams Grove, claims to have discovered per-; < petual motion. s --Thornton R. Frarier, of Plainfiela^ - and Carrie Bauchfuss kmCdrowned whiter skating at Oolconda. --William Itohrbush, a farmer Curthage. was kicked by.one of lite hones, fron^which he died. --Three hundred and three loads of confl . were handled at the new Coffeen elevatof'- • in Homer, one day recently. --Arrangements have been, completed v - the Masons of Danville for the constructions of a temple to cost $30,000. , • --Noah Wood, of Rantonl, has just re*' ceived a back pension of $1,060, it being . $4 a month for twenty-two years past. --The Decatur Prohibition Club has made sf a move in the matter of arranging for th#S" nuti-lieense campaign to be inaugurated i§F> "v. February. . „ • •The Republicans of Jacksonville havl| ' J? anated W. D. Mathers to fill the unex^" % £' * nominated pired term of the late John Hopper, Mayof? of the pla --Fifty head of fat cattle were stolea ; from the pasture of Thomas Snyder, of, ^ Pilot, recently, and no trace of them hat ' been found. --Upon a pardon issued by the Governor of Wyoming Territory, Frank Smith. convict serving six years, was released frorin the Joliet Penitentiary. . j • t i" ^ --Edward Hawks, an Irishman, wajjt.?; v" buried from the North Arm Catholil V Church, Edgar Couaty, having attained the unusual age of 102 years. --Rev. Father Powers,, for sixteen year® pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Joliet, die4 recently, aged 55 years. Father P«wers wa* . an active temperance worker. ; --Joseph Mo6se, who has been on trial of Dixon for the murder of Frank C. ThieL a book^peddler, of Elgin, last summer, convicted and sentenced for life. --A barn belonging to M. Eickmann, northwest of Collinsville, was entirely co<n- , sumed by fire, including some valuable • stock. Mr. Eiekman was also badly burned* . --At McKeen, a village near Marshal]^, „ ^ William Snedeker and Frank Clark, tw» j voung men, quarreled on the way home froia church. Snedeker Is net likely to iiveJL W --As a result of the revival meeting* : * which have been in progress at the Firf! , , Methodist Church in Freeport for the paffc j < throe weeks, nearly two hundred convert*^ are reported. - fe vi --Harding, Wappieb, and Lebo, thriiN--*^ burglars who have plied their vocation . * nearly all the larger towns and cities of Of linois. have nguin boen put behind the be||^f',.v at the Joli t Prison. » . --"Undo" Johnny Crang, who left Clitt»: ton for England several years ago, writf§g.} back to his friends that he is the hnppgr parent of n baby boy. The old gentleman is nearly 75 years old. | --A POU of W. H. Newlin, of DanviUfB^' has mysteriously d'sappeared. He is abojjifc > fourteen years old. light complexion, lig|*| 4 or auburn hair, and blue eyes; rather largpt ;.v ^ for his age, tall, nnd Blender. --Joseph Lietuer, near Joliet, was driv­ ing home at night when he ran into a snow- drift with sufficient force to throw him fro|<t„: ", his sleiyu and render him insensible. WheBj. found lie was f&zen to death. --The Cumberland County Board of Su­ pervisors hive voted not to build a Court House to replace the one recently destroyed by fire. The*citizens of Toledo have hac| . a mandamus served upon them to take some action at once. --As a good illustration of the manner in which a case of hydrophobia may be manufactured, this is worth being put upq^L record: A man named Bundschuh, living near Unity, was bitten by a dog something over a year ago. There was no evidence that the dog was mad, or was supposed to be mad, his killing on the spot being m the . nature of vengeance. The wound wa» a severe one, and only healed after a long interval. The man is said to have expressed to his neighbor a fear of hydrophobia as a result. This fear was probably revived and heightened by the present sensation on the subject. Bund­ schuh had felt badly for several days, was. finally attacked with congestive fever, be-* came delirious, and the attending physician diagnosed hydrophobia. Bundschuh was held down, compelled to inhale chloroform, and treated as a madman. Upon the arrival of Dr. Royal, of Villa Ridge, the patient was released, chloroform stopped, and treatment for fever instituted. He soon l>ccame convalescent and is now nearly well. --"I'll bet you twenty-five on the red," exclaimed a stranger to the gamester who presided over one'of the roulette wheels in a gambling house on Clark street, Chicago. The ha]l was rolled round; "red" won, and the player was $25 winner. "Try it again," said the dealer, as he started the ball around a second time. The stranger obeyed him, artdf he won again. He kept on winning with sucfe regularity that he soon had all the checks! out of the rack, as well as a goodly pile erf* ready money.- One of the proprietors olj the game was astonished, because he coulA. ' not understand why "the red" should win^ ^ fifty-five times in succession; it was an heard-of thing in his experience as K 7 gambler. His astonishment changed tifr suspicion, and he ordered the gMn%^xf closed, and, c rawing out his knif^; . he dug the blade into one of th» "black" holes. It punctured a thin, trans­ parent substance, and then he tried same tiling with another hole with same result. Then the stranger's luck wtt' explained. The black holes had been COT^ en d up and the ball could fall only in th#* • red holes, thus making the strange of success a "sure thing." The luckf? player ami the dealer decamped before th#,'.1 1 ^ investigation ended, and they carried witJt « -- v - i-h ii