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'V ».,t. ' * '1 * / r' " *' * " * " * -' ** > *-? ^ , » . - » , * • • ? * % „ , N • * • ' > < ^ f - , * > » * v • • * * . * S j r > ^ r • „ « s - ' » - / » ^ « * * " - # * < • * * v N'AFGFFKHULCALA J. VAN SLYKE. Editor and Publisher. McHEXRT, ILLINOIS. SECRETAIIT ENDICOTT'S dog TA one of the social terrors of Washington. It is of stern aspect and threatening manner, and often a servant has to be sent out to call him off and let visitors enter. ' ISAAC WVATT -went to Bosherville Gardens, near London, and while there was feeding a bear in a cage. He turned to speak to a frieftd, and the bear seized his hand. An attendant tried to beat it off, when the animal crushed the bones in a horrible manner. Wyatt was awarded $2,000 damages. PHILLIPS BROOKS, the most promi­ nent preacher in Boston, is a bachelor of fifty, who, without being handsome, has a noble head, and a frame of mas­ sive proportions. He is eloquent, but not, according to the Boston standard, an orator; is as popular as he is promi­ nent, and he lives in one of the most beautiful houses ever built in Boston. ' JfHEN old "Dad" Freeman was buried 111 Windsor, Canada, a few days ago, it was believed that the oldest man in the world had been laid to rest. "Dad" was 122 years old, as conclusively proved before his death, and left 138 descendants. Since Freeman was buried some relic-hunters have brought forward a man whose authentic record fixes his age at the remarkable figure of 127 vears. WHILE grading and repairing the railroad track near The Dalles, Oregon, receptly, one of the workmen found a large, oval-shaped piece of petrified wood. Close examination disclosed the fa(?t that it was almost divided in two parts, Mid after a little pulling the in­ side was exposed to, view. There, bedded in the hard stone, was a worm about an inch and a half long and as hard as the stone that surrounded it. GREENVILLE, Pennsylvania, boasts about Mrs. Magdalen Miller, wl^ is 90 yearg" old and the mother of twelve children. When young she was as vigorous as a man and could shoulder three bushels of wheat. During the graveyard insurance craze she was in­ sured for over $100,000, and has out­ lived all the companies. She is yet so hale and hearty that she can go through the snow for some miles on foot. She has smoked tobacco for more than seventy years. MRS. ELIZABETH TILTON, the wife of Theodore Tilton, who, since her 'separa­ tion from her husband on account of the Beecher scandal, has resided with her mother, Mrs. Morse, in Brooklyn, has become a resident of Chicago, mak­ ing her home with her daughter Alice. She has a granddaughter now of whom she is very fond, and she expects to re­ main in Chicago. Mr. TiHon is in Paris, living frugally off his earnings as a lecturer in this country, and he does not, it is said, expect to return to this country. THERE is a play entitled "Only a Woman's Heart." What the value of that woman's heart was is not stated, although, like the heart of most women, it drew very well. A tragedy that might have had the title "Only a Woman's Toe" was enacted in a New York oourt, and the verdict seems to settle the cost of a toe. Henrietta Redlein got a verdict for #4,000 for the loss of two toes which the Long Island Railway cut off. This put the value of a toe at $2,000. Almost every woman, then, can claim that she is an heiress in her own right to $20,000. THE annual meeting of the Royal Zoological Society in Dublin disclosed some interesting facta. The cash re­ ceipts. from visitors were about $6,000. Twelve lion cubs had been reared and six sold for £500 in cash and the same value in other animals. The sale of lion cubs since the opening of the garden has amounted to about $14,000. The Presi­ dent, Dr. Haughton, claimed that the garden stood first in the world as a lion- breeding establishment. Among the dogs is a Thibetan mastiff whose pecul­ iarities and habits identify the breed , with the griffins described by early Greek visitors to the East. THE New York Central Railroad seems not to be very popular in the district through which it passes. The fare from Syracuse to Memphis is 26 cents, which is 2 cents over the legal rate. Eight suits for the recovery of this 2 cents overcharge were decided against the railroad. The road in each case had to pay back the 2 cents and the little additional sum of $80 fine, to­ gether with $30 costs. This makes the affair about as expensive a 2-cent in­ vestment as any railroad ever made. Three hundred fresh suits on the same theme have been started. One would think that even a railroad would be two eentsible to commit petty illegal acts like overcharging. REV. SAM JOXES thus talks about pew renting: "Methodism is as much Qut of place in rented pews as a Georgia cornfield darky would be in the White House. A Methodist that wouldn't give more voluntarily to his pastor than he would for Ilis pew is a disgrace to the ehurch he belongs to, and the Method­ ist who is selfish enough to pick out the best pew for himself and family be­ cause he has a little more money than some one else, that man has selfishness enough in him to damn him. That's about the fact of the matter. If I was in this church and was obliged to rent a pew I would rent the best one in the church, and I wouldn't let my daughter or my wife go into it, but we would stand in the rear and give sinners the pew. They will go to h--1 if something isn't done lor them, and we cannot afford to let thesesinners be danmed. I love a Christian that will divide his last nickel w itu God, and I love a man. who is gen­ erous to all people and generous every­ where. " , r : ;-- .THE celebrated Polish novelist Michael Czajkowski, known also as Sadyk Pasha, who lately committed suicide, had a singularly romantic ca­ reer. He took a leading part in the up­ rising of 1830, and was wounded at Warsaw. For some years after he lived in England and France, but in 1840 went to Turkey as a secret agent of France, and became a Mohammedan. He executed many important secret commissions for the Porte, and in the Crimean war organized and led the Polish Legion that occupied the Do- brudscha. Constantinople was his home thereafter until 1873, when the Czar pardoned him and allowed him to re­ turn to his native place, where he spent the remainder of his days in literary and horticultural pursuits. MOST people felt sorry for Hugh Conway when he died, as he was a young author of considerable promise who was then in the first flush of a great success. They would have sympathized with him still more if they had known the cruel­ ties fate had in store for his fame. Ever since he died works bearing his name have been issued, and still they come. A paper as prosperous as the Boston Herald publishes a syndicate storv bearing his name, and a' publisher in New York has just announced a new book by Hugh Conway. When the English Illustrated Magazine com­ pleted "A Family Affair," it stated that this was the last work finished by the ill-fated author. Doubtless this state­ ment was correct, yet since then there have appeared seven novels which claim Conway as their author. Of course he did not write them. The chances are that he left slight sketches of plots, which industrious word-mechanics have since elaborated and turned on a gulli­ ble public as the work of Conway. AN exciting incident occurred at a place of -amusement in Berlin. A com­ pany of Indians were engaged there in charge of a European well acquainted with Indian life. After the perform­ ances of the evening were over the In­ dians began to execute together one of their tribal dances--the eagle or winter dance--on the occasion of a religious festival. It is the custom among the tribe to which they belong that if .any one participating in this dance stumble or fall he shall be put to death by the ordinary mode of tomahawking. During the dance the youngest member of the party--by name Pook-Pook--made an unlucky slip and fell. Instantly the chief rushed upon him, seized him firmlv as he laid prostrate, and, raising his tomahawk, prepared to give the blow which would soon have sent the unfortunate man scalpless into the happy hunting ground. The European who is with the company, and who was watching the ceremonies, speedily in­ terposed, and under threat of penal consequences compelled the Indian to forego his sanguinary purpose. The fallen man was released, but his de­ liverance did not appear to be greatly valued by him, since he remarked to his rescuer that sooner or later he would have to pay for his false step with death, his fellow-dancers being bound to take his life either in Europe or in their own land. . Pertaining to Pie. Somewhere down in my internal economy there is a spot that has a con­ stant and tender longing for pie, and as a love for pie has been long thought to be a shining mark of genius, I have been rather proud of it. I think I in­ herited my appetite for pie from a poor, but honest, ancestor, who had nothing else to leave me. Some men would not be grateful for a little thing like that; but I am. My great thirst for pie M as noticed at an early age. It was not noticed by myself so much as by my parents. It often attracted their attention, and they saw with deep con­ cern sometimes that I left a painfully large void in a pie after I had com­ muned with it for any length of time. They reminded me often that I was too young to hold more than an individual half interest in a full-grown pie, and that an inordinate thirst for pie, even of home manufacture, was liable to lead a person to woe and dyspepsia. They advised me to shun pie, but the advice did not agree with me then as well as pie, so I took the pie and gave the ad­ vice to the poor; and from my boyhood I have continued to stand' by pie as long as a piece remained. There is one brand of pie, however, that I have been weaned away from. I can sit calmly by and see another eat it without feeling any pang of envy. I refer to the huckleberry pie; the huckle­ berry pie that is manufactured for the trade only. Previous to last summer I had been eating huckleberry pie with perfect composure, but there was then a change. While I was engaged with a quarter section of the brand referred to, in a railroad pie factory and sandwich emporium, and was wearing the glad smile I usually wear when I eat pie, I bit with startling suddenness into a new variety of long, black bug, which proba­ bly had been put in to add eclat to the pie. I bit into it in a rather off-hand way. The bug Mas of course uncon­ scious of the event, but I was not. I was at first startled, and then I became painfully embarrassed. My taste had noMteen cultivated for that sort of bug, and acting on the impulse of the mo­ ment I got up and went hurriedly away, forgetting to stop at the cashier's desk and pay for the pie. ti Since that memorable event in my career a coldness has sprung up be­ tween me and the liuckleberrv pie, and in its presence I am more sad than I am wont to be. I am strikingly thoughtful when I see a huckleberry pie. My friends have noticed this peculiarity of mine and they do not now press huckle­ berry pie uj>on me. They know that I more joyous and debonair without it.-- it.--Detroit Free Press. A Good Stayer. A San Francisco family recently en­ gaged a young girl from the East who advertised that she had been "four years in her last place." • The family subsequently learned that she would have remained longer than four years in her last place if the Governor had not pardoned her when he did.-- Puck's. Annual. REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN. BYABEN: PERLET POORE. Senator Blaine appeared to great ad­ vantage as a ready debater in the Sen­ ate, on the 16th of December, 1878. The proposed investigation of Southern outrages was up for discussion. With their usual political adroitness, the Democratic Senators displayed ingeni­ ous strategy when Blaine first had his resolution taken up. only offering a nominal opposition; but after they had secured the incorporation of Thurman's amendment, and just as there was every indication that the amended resolution would pass without any debate, Butler, of South Carolina, moved an amend­ ment that the committee hold its sit­ ting with open doors. This was the Democratic antidote by which they hoped to make the labors of the com­ mittee useless in exposing the alleged disenfranchisement of the blacks, and the outrageous frauds committed where this could not be accomplished. On this motion the skirmish debate was com­ menced, and although it was once ended by the casting vote of the Vies Presi­ dent, defeating the amendment, the war was resumed, when Davis, of West Virginia, offered another amendment, declaring that the committee and its sub-committees should always sit with open doors. This also was finally de­ feated, when a vote was reached, by one majority. The only impaired absentees were Jones and Sharon, of Nevada, who had not then entered an appearance at the session, and Hill, of Georgia. " The Democrats displayed good generalship in their disposition of forces. Bayard led the van, then came Kernan, of New York, and then successively Merrimon, Butler, Ransom, and Lamar. Blaine had to encounter this array of talent al­ most single-handed--although Hoar and McMillan spoke briefly and impress­ ively--and he was equal to the occasion. He displayed great dexterity and en­ ergy in meeting the arguments which were so ingeniously and speciously ad­ vanced on the other side of the Senate Chamber, and while at times his voice rang like the defiant notes of a bngle sounding a cavalry charge, he was, nev­ ertheless, prudent of speech. He in dulged in no personal or vituperative language, but some of his scathing in­ dictments of Southern politicians evi­ dently touched Ransom, of North Caro­ lina, whose warm Southern blood mounted to his face as he replied, his manner more excited thau his language, and his voice more belligerent than either Blaine was in no wise daunted, and for a few moments the debate was spirited and warm, so much so that the Vice President had hard work to check the desire of the Northern spectators in the gallery to applaud the sharp par­ ries and thrusts of their champion. La­ mar, who followed, was not more success­ ful, although cooler and more guarded, and Blaine came off with flying cojors when it was moved bv ...Whyte, of Mary­ land, to go into executive session, and the spectators reluctantly left. The scene in the Senate Cham be? that day recalled the debates when Webster used to attract crowded audi­ ences. Sir Edward Thornton and a number of other foreign diplomates were in the gallery reserved for them, with Secretary Evarts, and in the re­ porter^ gallery opposite were nearly one hundred correspondents, without distinction of sex or color. The other galleries were packed like sardine boxes, one corner being filled with Southerners, who appeared anything but happy. On the flooj^every availa­ bly space was oceupied lfwJk chair or sora. A quorum of the jR*epreseritn- * f ives came over from their end of the Capitol, and there was a large attend ance of ex-congressmen, department of­ ficers, and leading men from different sections; while a few adventurous la­ dies found their way in at the doors and remained during the debate. Mr. Blaine M as listened to with marked attention, not only by the crowded audience, but by the Senators on both sides of the Chamber. The only exception, per­ haps, was Mr. Conkling, who, while all others listened, sgt at. his desk writing, although an occasional glance showed that while apparently indifferent, he M as really deeply interested in what was being said. Mr. Blaine's own seat, while he was speaking. M as occupied by Hon.. Lot M. Morrill, who for so many years graced the Senate, and there were a numl>er of other prpmi- nent citizens of Maine on the floor. Mr. Blaine was a noble specimen of a par­ tisan leader as he addressed that great audience. His stalwart frame, with its broad, muscular shoulders, his well- poised, massive head, his magnetic manners, and the clear, incisive tones 3f his voice commanded attention. While he boldly stated his point and defiantly threw down his gauntlet be fore the Democratic champions on the other side-of the Senate Chamber, the courteous mildness of his language took Almost everybody by surprise, as did his refusal to wave the "bloody shirt," and the practical, business-like view which he took of the results of a solid South Frederick Aiken, a journalist, who died at Washington on the 23d of De­ cember, 1873, M as a native of Vermont, and before the war a correspondent of the Burlington Sentinel. He had aft­ erwards been connected with different Democratic papers, and when the Washington Post Mas established he became its city editor. He had also been a member of the bar, and he ap­ peared at the great conspiracy trial as the defender of Mrs. Surratt. He was a devoted friend to Chief Justice Chase, and .worked hard to secure his nomina­ tion for the Presidency by the Demo­ crats. At the National Democratic Convention in New York which nomi­ nated Horatio Seymour, Mr. Aiken was master of ceremonies at the Chase head­ quarters, and he introduced many of the delegates from the rural districts to Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, who took a deep interest in the success of her father. Gen. Butler, while on the House com­ mittee which examined Louisiana af­ fairs in June, 1878, exhibited several times the ingenious, sometimes ill-tem­ pered, and often brutal manner in M-hicli he could examine a witness. Gen. Smith, ex-appointment clerk in the Treasury, was the victim one day, and afforded an opportunity to the Lowell lawyer to demonstrate how he gained his reputa­ tion as a torturer of witnesses who would not testify as he desired: but Butler did not have everything his own way M'ith this witness. To the amusement of the audience Gen. Smith often paid his tormentor in his own coin, and in many notable instances was skillful enough to refute Gen. Butler's attacks. Gen. Cox charged Gen. Butler with acting as a prosecutor, not as a judge, and with conducting the investigation in the manner of a fierce and determined prosecution, and treating witnesses as criminals, and seeking to entrap them. To this Gen. Butler only replied with the threat that he was a peer of every­ body, that he would take the imputa­ tion of inferiority from nobody, and that how long he might remain upon the de­ fensive as regards Gen. Cox was a mat­ ter between himself and his own con­ science. Butler justified his severity by saying he could not make an ome­ lette without breakin'g eggs. This was the first public admission that he had an object to gain. The omelette which he sought to make was an impeachment. In a Persian Street. In such a climate as that of Teheran life is naturally passed chiefly In the open air. The chill of winter, rarely severe, seems to make little difference in the habits of the people. The shops are all open to the streets; the custom­ ers stand outside, and even the shop­ keeper attends to most of his business from the exterior of the shop. If he is a baker, grocer, or costermonger, in all probability he and the customer both stand in the street, retreating into the shop only when a string of camels or a dashing cortege forces them to move out of the May. A carpenter may fre­ quently l>e seen arranging a piece of joinery on the pavement in front of his shop. The schools often in nowise differ from the shops; in the midst of a crowded thoroughfare one may see twenty or thirty lads seated on their heels repeating the lesson together in monotonous tone. Another common sight in the streets of Teheran is the itinerant barber. The Koran enjoins the masculine Moham­ medan to shave his crown. The Sunnees shave the entire head except­ ing a long lock in the center whereby, it is said, the archangel may pluck them out of the grave. But the Sheahs or Persian Mussulmans shave from the forehead to the nape of the neck, leav­ ing a highly prized lock on each side. It is, therefore, common to see a man of the lower classes seated on the pave­ ment, going through the operation of having his head shaved. The remain­ ing hair and beard are dyed, and it is rare that one sees gray hairs in Teheran. The first tint applied is henna, en orange-yellow vegetable dye. Many consider this so handsome as * to prefer it without the further applica­ tion of indigo which most select. The last tint, combined with the henna, im­ parts a durable and rather agreeable dark-brown color to the hair. The women also have their hair dyed and join the eyebrows with the pencil. All classes make use of the bath at least once a M eek, the wealthy having steam- baths attached to their dwellings. No Christian is ever permitted admittance to the baths of the Persians. The pub­ lic baths answer the purpose of clubs and sewing circles; the vomen go in the morning, take their sewing with them, and, after being thoroughly st eamed and scrubbed, devote several hours to smok­ ing the kalian, embroidering, and dis­ cussing the scandal of the neighborhood, Mhich they assiduously circulate on their return home. Another street sight of Teheran is the tea-house, equivalent to the coffee-house of Constantinople or the beer-garden of Munich. These establishments are generally thronged towards the close of the day. . $Both Mine-drinking and card-playing are forbidden to true believers: and, therefore, neither is seen in these places of public resort. But V»oth are freely indulged in at home. The card-players of Persia use a set of twenty cards in five suits of four each. It is an interesting fact that America must relinquish the claim of having in; vented the gambler's flavorite game of poker, for it M as known in Persia cen­ turies ago. The game played by the Persians is in principle poker or brag pure and simple, and betting often runs high with them. Another characteristic sight in the streets of Teheran is the bread. Per­ sian bread is made in sheets the thick­ ness of sole leather; the best quality is sonieM'hat thinner. It is formed in 'the shape and size of a side of leather. The baker with bare arms dexterously raises a sheet of this dough from the counter MheSe it is rolled out. tosses and rolls it over his left arm until reduced to the proper tenuity. With a rapid fling of both arms he then spreads it over the hot floor of the oven. In a feM" moments it is baked and spread out to cool. If there is a convenient ledge in the street near the shop, one may see it covered Mith layers of bread. This bread is cheap, 1 cent a sheet, and what is more, it is sweet and nourishing, and, with curds, cheese, and fruits, forms a staple article of diet with a large part of the population. Consequently, one con­ stantly meets M'itli people carrying sheets of bread home with them, the womeu holding them in front like leather aprons. -r^Ex-Min^stef, Bbtfja- m i n . - • ^ \ f t | Things thatUlake One Weary.* Old mutton dressed lamb fashion. Goats and all other cranks. Men M'ho sow the country with wind. The bug that stalketh at night. Butter strong enough to wink. Women M'ho yawp. The surly fellow M;1IO wants his own way and lies to get it. Men M-ho discuss subjects they know nothing about. Longing to be wealthy. Working for love and never getting your pay. The barber with hands the tempera­ ture and consistency of the under side of a toad. The fiend who always wants to shake hands. Cyclones, earthquakes, creditors, bad bills, terrible murders, garrulous old women, and a sore toe. Mistaking a piece of soap for a cara­ mel. Those who cat molasses with a knife. A boil--anywhere. Paying a quarter to see a dime^show. People M'ho use a fork as they Mould an eel spear. The man with big cuff-bnttons and a bad breath. The fool who smokes everywhere ex­ cept in bed. "Chestnuts." Cheese that has the strength to talk, but won't. To be alone in a room with a talking machine--male or female. Men M'ho always eat as though they M'ere hurrying to catch a train. The girl who wants to know "where have you been at." The smell of peanuts eaten by some­ one else. The scandalmonger who never wants his name mentioned, you know. To see rogues flourish and grow fat while honest men toil and wear them­ selves out for nothing. The "I told you so" bofce who always turns up after a crisis. One drop of hot grease in the wrong place. Making your views clear to a thick­ headed man.--Detroit Free Press. MECHANICAL. THE most cross-grained are by no means the 1 worst of mankind; or the humblest in station the least polished in feeling. FALL RIVER has fifty-four mills with 1,713,816 spindles, 40,586 looms, run by., thirty-seven corporations, with a capital of $17,478,000 and an investment of $35,000,000. These have on their pay­ rolls 19,000 employes. The last State census gives it a population of 56,863 and valuation of $45,000,000. IT is injurious to feed boilers cold water near the bottom, just where they are hottest, because the cold feed wa- ter in becoming heated robs the hot sheets of their heat before it can rise. Top feed (say by a pipe running length­ wise of the boiler, three or four inches below the water line) will save leaks and danger. THE order for 10,000 tons of steel rails for the tlnited States recently placed in England, although at a price when duty and cost of conveyance are paid £3 10s. per ton above the current rate for American rail, has its explana­ tion in the report of the engineer of the Michigan Central Railway, showing that the life of an American steel rail is ex­ ceedingly short. Of 536 that he laid down in July. 1884, 210 had l>een re­ moved by last February, and at the end of twelve months fifty per cent, had re­ quired taking out.--Mechanical World. , A LAKE SUPERIOR miner has invented i very ingenious contrivance whereby signals can be given from the lowest depths of the mines Mith the utmost distinctness and precision. The signal will be given by means of an electric l>ell, which Mill be heard by the per­ son who gives the signal as well as by the person receiving it. The entire ap­ paratus can be placed in an iron box sis inches square. Signals can be given from any level of the mine. This in­ vention will no doubt prove of great value to our miners, and may be the means of saving many lives, as there will be no possibility of mistaking the signal. THE Proell automatic expansion gear that lias been brought to notice recently has a character from the peculiar shape of the guides, while it. is rigid in all di­ rections, and has a sultstantial base both under the main bearing ami the cylin­ der. This gear is very perfect, and the results obtaiued for it are claimed to be superior to the Corliss gear, while the apparatus is very simple in its action. Steam is admitted by two Cornish equi­ librium valves, one* at the end of the cylinder, M hich are lifted so as to give a constant lead by a fixed eccentric on the crank shaft. The point of l'clease and the order of cut-off is decided by the governor. which being relieved of ill work or strains, is very delicate in action, and is so constructed as to have » wide range with a very slight varia­ tion in s]>eed. * HERE is a new spark arrester by which the sparks are delivered into the smoke-box by the action of lowering llie funnel. The smoke in its upward passage is projected against a series of '•onical baffle-plates, so "disposed that the sparks are directed downwards after impact M'itli the plates, M'liilst the gases continue their upward course. The sparks are thus collected in an annular chamber around the neck of the funnel w here it passes into the bottom of the jpark arrester. The bottom of the spark arrester constitutes the upper portion of the joint by means of M'liich the funnel is raised and lowered, and this joint is actuated very easilv by a simple counter-balance lever. The an­ nular chamber containing the spent sparks in the bottom of the spark ar­ rester is open at the bottom, so that when the funnel is partially lowered the sparks all fall down into the smoke box. THE test applied to the' 43-ton gun which has been placed on the Horse Sand Fort, one of the defenses of Spit head, England, has produced' very sat­ isfactory results., It is the first gun of the kind M'hich has been issued to the army, but others will folhtw, and this fort will receive four. The gun M'hich has been tested is on the lower gun gallery. It is a 12-incli breech­ loader, and of the enorihous length of twenty-seven feet, so that when it is run back to the complete extent allow­ able, its muzzle still reaches out five feet from the embrasure. It has an explosive charge of 296 pounds brown powder, and throws a Palliser projeo- tile of 750 pounds. The range adopted for the experiment M as 4,000 yards, and six discharges took place, all being sat­ isfactory. The recoil M as only about two feet six inches, and the smallness of this Mas accounted for by tho fact that the gun runs on rollers. There Mas no concussion felt in the fort at the discharge, which Mas effected by elec­ tricity. Secrete of a Seraglio. The London Times prints a letter from J. C. Robinson which is of great interest to oriental scholars and to his­ torians and antiquarians. It recounts a visit paid by the w riter to the old serag­ lio in Constantinople, M'hich has never before been penetrated by a European, so jealously are its treasures guarded. Among the extraordihary things de­ scribed • by Mr. Robinson is a throne made entirely of beaten gold and jew­ eled M'ith thousands of rubies, pearls, and emeralds. It is a most magnificent and dazzling structure, but inartistic in design and execution. Among the ancient Turkish armor M'hich Mr. Rob­ inson examined M'ere a number of ciine- ters and saddle-cloths incrusted with splendid jewels, M'hich formed almost the entire visible surface. There were also gorgeous examples of ancient Per­ sian textile fabrics, which are very rich and beautiful. Mr. Robinson also found thfere some Chinese scroll-work, which was the only class of production in which artistic workmanship Mas discernible. The Sultan's treasury is deficient in old European bijouterie, and contains none of the choicest art treasures of Greece and Rome M'hich the Sultans must have captured at the storming of Constanti­ nople, but M'hich Mere probably dis­ pensed as presents to court favorites and pashas. The ladies of the harems, Mr. Robinson says, revel in the pomp and magnificence of the barbaric east, but of the radiance of Greece there is nothing. A Very Dangerous Case. "Doctor, do you think my wife will recover?" < "Possibly she will, but we shall be compelled to exercise the greatest care. Do not admit visitors, and keep the house perfectly quiet. Above all, do not permit her to talk." "Great heavens, doctor! shell die if she can't talk! Such directions, if car­ ried out, will kill her."--California Maverick. AT Yokosuka, Japan has a submarine bdat of steel "capablc of running at a speed of 120 yards a minute under Mater at a depth of four feet from the surface." C i . E m A N D T A K E N . D 0 W H . Senator Spoom<r» or Wisconsin, Shows t L e F a l i a e y o f t h o P r e s p T 4 . , dent's Position. i " SV JWashlngtcn telegnam.] After Mr. Van Wvck hail offered M IUB amerlnd- :i.t-iii to tho resolutions concerninp the Duskin 1 tli«> toUowiug : "Ain] i;i r.ll aueJi cases of re- lt.ovnl tho niut^r of c ilrirniation shall l>e con- 8t<lere<) in ojien sessii n of the which v a* or-.ler hI jni, the nniediliu tan Jc® ilrow!). of <»'•<;v; i.v pa so l alonj; nn hour or more mid lia.1 d tuo Kt-n it»» Ch: mber and f_al- leru-i! in oxp.'esMug his views on the. controversy with tin; Vrcsulcn:. Wlit n the new Wisconsin Sciuitt r ?<xik tho floor the <-loak-r.x>nis were ]>io:i>jit!y v.io:itod and a (.reatmany House mem- heis l!ock»'d ovtr to hear him. The open- ing B;HTch of Kdmunds en I the saucy reply <f Kenna ( i 1 not attract more at­ tention nor make a deej>er impression than did the argument of" Senator f?po< ner. In Rii; port of the majority rewort, he said he would rnrik^ i:o atempt to dispuise the tact, or apolo- (.i e for it, tint the fortunes of the Hepublican purty wero very dear to him. He would not at­ tempt to deny that he wished that party might lit-ro aid Haewhere reap ev^ry fair party ad­ vantage which might he taken from the blunders mi l rihortcomings, if nnv such there were, of this administration. He continued : "Hut I trust t.iat I do not forget and shall not forge* thivt I am a Senator of the United States as well as a Hepublican, and that as a Senator my first duty is always to the people, and that I ha\ e no right to take action here to subserve a pnity interest which would be harmful to the interests of the people. I deny that the Repnb- lienn minority of the Senate desires to hamper the President." Keeling his way carefully, he was soon on fa­ miliar h»gal ground in dissecting the constitu­ tional points which llemncratic Senators had Hougl.t to ruiso. Taking up the Tenure-of-Offlce act. section by section, ht> showed pretty clearly that tho muddy argumentation which had been t-o iH on proceedod from very incomplete ideas of what the act itself was, and that the power of removal us well as of upi>ointnient was in the l're-ii o t and Senate ceting together, and that what wis in his sole discretion, absolute, was tin- power of suspension during a recess of the ten ate. There was a broad hint that some of Bonrhon orators did not know what they were talking about. He said: "One source of much confusion in this debate was'it confounding by the Democratic Senators of suspensions with removals. A suspension did not inea:i a removal. It was a very different tuing. To s ispend tin ofllcer caus« d a temporary ees.-a'ion of his frn .tions ; to remove caused a 1 eniuuient ci ssation. To suspend tho writ of la >e:ts conms was one thing; to obliterate it another and unite a different thing A sus- p< nded oilicir was not a removed officer; for if t: e M>:inte refus.-d to confirm his successor the suspeiii'ed mim returned to the office. The 8u- lii ome 'Urt hu-i so decided. ; Mr. Nj>ooner read f__o 11 the decisions of the courts to show this. | 'i he President had declined to furnish the pa|<ers c lie I lor I e 'iiuse. tor smith, they would enable the Konntd t i Ht»i> tho reasons for the suspension"; tliey would, nimble r.s to se.i that he had exer- ci sod the power of suspension wantonly. No |x>wer c .u'd be to dangerous to the republic as the power thus asserted by the l'r.-sitlfcnt that papers re­ lating to the public business on the tiles of the (it»\eminent were his private papers, to he re­ moved fioni the flies, buried in the cellars of th* Whit > House, or carted off to Butfalo if he chose, inert lv because he had used them in exorcising his jKiwer of suspension. If this was so, then it res'el with any Chief Executive to l«ick the door uj»oii t!r> House and Senate and defeat all inve? tigatio.i. "Senator ^l ienor's treatment of the Prresi- deut's message was especially happy. In his hiMi-h; tho *^nno< u us desuetude"'phrase wiil; mvy skillfully tuin d on its author. The terms nlwavs irovoked a smile, Mr. Spooner sitid, .»nt the.-o was nothing to smile at. This v.-as a (io\eminent of law ; and he was sorrv the Ch ef Executive of th< Kepulil c should have rsoil siu-ii words of any law that stood on the stati tr*-l>ook8. It. was a dangerous time when the President of the United States, with an outh regist ivd in lit-aren to "take care that the laws should be fHithfully executed," should sen 1 u message t > the Senate saying that a statute hud fallen into harmless disuse, thow.'h the stiitate remained on the books. If there ever was a time when there was need of respei t for law it was now, when in many States thoughtful nun wirj turning blanched laces to ihe fv.tui-e. How could the people he expected to vieid choerfiil obei iouce to the statutes when tli.) first citizen or the republic--himself chnrged v itli their execution- was heard asseit- in„' That r. statute couid harmlessly fall into dis.is.'V llut Mr. Spooner said the President did in t believe his own statement--his acts had been 1 ecter than his words, for he had sent in a large number of nominations of men to take the p a es of officers sus-pi-nded by him under the authority of tho very act to which reference had bet n made. a ,v%. x ,t r?" -V - ^ ~y ^ ^ \w " if* J ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. ^ J --S. H. Dolsen, general merchant at Sandoval,'has made an Assignment. 1--There is said to be no troth in the ra<* mor of astride at Decatoz among the roadmen. ., . --County Clelk Guy U. Lemen, of Cum­ berland County, died at his residence ill Toledo the other day, of slow consumption. . .„ --It is said several hundred persons havd" joined the M. E. Church, at Mattoon. flinch * tf the beginning of the revival meetings thera - .*"* Jan. 10. " --Measles have interfered ft* schools in Sandoval to a great extent, many children in Centralis have been simi- ' f|| larly afflicted. il --George Hall, alias Jade Lee, colored, « on^ of the most notorious and desperate ^ burglars in the State, died of consumption in the hospital of the Joliet Penitentiary the1 ' other morning. s|j --The elegant residence of James H« Phillips, at Danville, was foond on the a M few days since, having»caught from a defec- JAi tive fine, and before it could be extinguish- * Jl ed a thousand dollars' worth was destroyed. "J --Otto Heilwagon, an old citiaen, and brother of William Heilwagon, who was hanged in 1872 at Bock Island for the laur- • der of his son's wife, drowned himself in " the Mississippi, near Quincy, a few dajti ^ ago: • --Farmers about Hillsboro are complain- * % ing that a great deal of the corn isrettingin • the cribs, and good seed corn promises to be scarce. Farmers are making pre para- ^ tions to plow for oatsj a large acreage of which will be sown. ^ --Robert Cosmer, in the employ of the ?*§ Chicago and Eastern Illinois Road at Dan- ville but three weeks, was run over by cars ' , 9 in the yards of the company. Both legs and the right arm were crushed, and Cos- yj mer died in a few hours. --The mysterious disappearance of Al- a deman John Shuch, of Joliet, on New* L'J Year's last has at last been accounted for,. y hie dead body having been found floating 'Vi on the water in Porter 4 Waters' stone* quarry, a mile and a.quarter southeast of :3 the eenter of the city. ,'j --Joseph Woodside, a farmer living sooth - || of Rockford, and a hand were in the woods ^ felling a tree for firewood. In falling if C'% took an unexpected direction, and in at-' J|g tempting to rescue his team Woodside was ' ̂̂ struck by the tree and crushed to death. ~T -- The failure of F. Riebling, the paper manufacturer, at Joliet, was a surprise to nearly every business man in that city. Mr. t o*; Itiebliug claims to have assets due him •inf ^ Chicago, which he is now in litigation over, >fS and, if received by him, would enable him i|! to resume business again. ' - --Frauds have been trying to operate '% among farmers around Centralis soliciting subscriptions to Chicago and St. Louis pa- pers at fifty cents a year cash down. II - seems that the low price was offered in, ' ^ consideration of the subscriber furnishing ' : the papers occasional information concern­ ing the crops. --A severe snow-storm the other nightv * 4? prostrated the entire telephone system of' Champaign and adjoining towns. The ' ^ strongest poles were crashed by the weight. ' >%;}. of the wet snow, and the streets were nearly" impassable on account of the swinging Xf wires. Many telegraph wires were down. - V It was severe on exposed stock. 4*1 • . $yi --Richard Williams, of Quincy, while out duck-shooting attempted to take -hi* J gun from a skiff, when the gun was acci* 'Ps dentally discharged. The entire charge of • shot entered his leg near the knee, com- ' pletely shattering the bone. The surgeon found ife necessary to amputate the leg ". above the knee. SI SI'EXDKI) COLLKCTOR8. Important Actloa Kagardlnt Tfam | Washington special. | Tho President ndmits that he has been mak- in;,' chances for purely political reasons. When the controversy witii the Senate began, the IIIUKWUII p organs stipportinfj Mr. Cleveland de­ clared th<; whole object of the Senate tight was to force an admission that there hud been one ..singly removal or M's;>ension for political rea­ sons. Tiiey were positive he would never do this, even indirectly, but. after a aeal of palav­ er iij b< t-.voeii Secretary Manning mid Chair­ man Morrill of the Finance Committee, a step l.as be- ii taken which will relieve suspended Internal Kevenuo Collectors from any cloud un­ der which they mav have rested. The Presi­ dent, tlno ii'h the Secretary of tho Treasury, gives (i c> rtiticate that tho suspended officials li n e not 1 eoi; removed becaus-j of miy charges nfTecting tl.eir moral or official characters. If ihis is not an admission t tat thev were removed because ihoir places w< r.' wanted for Democrats the ltepui 1 can nieuibais of the l-'inance Com- in ttee don t know what such an admission would really be. In most cases the suspended officials a :cepted the suspension as the natural outcome of a change in par­ ties. l'Yr instance, oae of the removed Iowa Collectors had gone to Chicago to practice law, and assuredly had no idea of ever resuming his office. But he thought his old neighbors had a right to know whether he was displaced because not a proper person to hold a public office or simply because his .position was wanted for a Democrat. Tho Re­ publican Senalo s were of the Hanie way of thinking, and, after nuineious interviews be- t>voen Secretary Manning mid Chairman Mor- ri:i, the Democrutic administration finds itself of this mind also. Of course, there is a labored effor: to show that it hasn't come down a peg, but tli s will be judged from tho actual proceed­ ing ruthertlmn from its own assertions. Tho plan adopted, lias been for the Finance Committ 'e to addrass a letter to Secre­ tary Manning In the (a>e of ev^ry individual Internal Uevenue Collector. The Secretary- writes a diplomatic replv, i rotesting that he e innot pive reasons, etc.. because the President lias oirec » <1 him, etc. llut he t ikes pleasure in stating t -a*; there is nothing en tile in his de- wirtnu nt ivtlect n-,' in any way on the moral or ollicial character of John Smith, late Internal Keveim..' Collector of blank district. On this showing tho Finance Committee has recom­ menced two or three batches of Collectors for continuation. There are still about forty cases, o inceniii.;; which the Secretary of the Treasury •has not replied. If there are# any charges against the suspended officials under the forms of tli i letter it is difficult to see how they could be »itliheld, since a certificate of moral and of- tfcial character could not be granted. The pol­ icy (ollowed in the internal revenue cases has been discussed with respect to its influence on the oti(er suspended officials. Though the revenue officers do not have any fixed tenure, the dissimilarity is not so great that the same policy could not bo followed in the great majority of suspensions or removals. There is the case of Collector Seeberger, which is a type of probably ;*X) or 403 others. No ob­ jection exists to his" confirmation, but Philetus Sawyer wnnts to know whether his friend Jesse Siiaulding was removed for any cause, or simplv to make room for Mr. beeberger. It is said that th > latter information has be«n given pri ratelv and unofficially, but this is not enough. A Wife's Value in Cows. I asked some of the Kaffirs m the diamond mines why they worked so hard, when with their cattle, which is the currency of the country, they could live in ease. They told me they want­ ed to make money to buy more wives. Tliat people purchase their wives and pay for them in proportion to the amount of fiesh. An ordinary wife brings ten to fifteen cows, while a more Heshy one brings twenty, and one that will tip the scales at 250 pounds readily brings twenty-live or thirty^" cows. Zulus have fiom one to fonr wives in proportion to the amount they are able to pay. liaising young girls for such tradei is considered profitable. The idea of these Zulu women regarding this prac­ tice of purchase is best illustrated by an incident where an English lady had one of them as a servant until she got married. The mother of the girl call­ ed on the lady and boasted of the num­ ber of cows paid for her daughter, and thought it a grand price, and asked the English lady h*>w many her husband paid for her. She told her that the Knglish did not marry that way--sell themselves in marriage. The Zulu woman could not comprehend it. and isked: "Are you like a worthless dog, ! hat your father give* vou away for nothing?"--IF. • JET. Chrikty, in "Salt Lake herald. :iS- --When the First National Bank at Greenville went into liquidation three years ^ ago there was a shortage of $30,000. AJJ ftj effort was made to charge the deficit to & if former cashier, M. V. Denny. The case' was dismissed recently by the court at the cost of the plaintiffs, and the whereabouts of the $30,000 is still a mystery. --The Cumberland County Democrat» published at Toledo, has been purchased ' by Greenup parties, who will move it to the latter place and run it in the interest of the Court Honse removal from Toledo to> Greenup. The Vandalia Railroad is saicf: to be taking an active part in aiding the, Court House removal to Greenup. 1 --A destructive conflagration occurred in . l'ontiac the other day, by which the large flouring mills of Taylor Bros, and a number of dwellings adjacent were completely de­ stroyed. The origin of the tire is not defi­ nitely known, but it is supposed to hava originated from an overheated box or by spontaneous combustion. --As the freight train on the Illinois Central Railroad was approaching, threlt miles south of Dixon, the engineer and fireman saw a man lying beside the track. As the man attempted to rise, the pilot struck and killed him. From papers on hit person his name was found to be Harry H. Thompson, of Fort Dodge, Iowa. --C. M. Henderson & Co., and M. Dt, Wells St Co., the last of the five Chicago firms using prison-contract labor in th4 ' < manufacture of boots and shoes, and wh<| Q were consequently boycotted by the Stat# <« »>s| Convention of the Knights of Labor at De- • k catnr, January 13, signed th«t format' . ^ agreement to discontinue i;s use with the. Executive Board of that order, a few day* •' since, and the boycott will be raised imiue- s ^ diately. -j --Hammond, a country village of Piatt C o u n t y , i s i n t h e e e n t r r o f a g r e a t c o r n * , j producing section. Two hundred thousand bushel* of ci rn are cribbed at that point* ; It is owned by Chicago and Toledo specu» *' *• lators, who are hoiding it,for a rise. It tills. -^,|S twenty-two long cribs. Tha ground on which they stand has been leased for three * years, it being the intention of the syndi»' \ cate to hold the grain that length of tiBM it" necessary. - /'M --Fanners should carefully test their seed oats before sowing. Very few oata |l! were dry when stacked l^st harvest. Con- ^ ^ Eminently they heated in the stack, thereby ^ destroying their vitality. Take a quart of ijj oats, mix them with earth, and put them in ^ &. 1 a pan or box. and keep them in a temper- attire of 70 deg. or SO deg. They will soon,f sprout if tho seed is good. If 75 per cent. of the seed will get minate it will be tafe ta i. J sow then by sowing £»]»•> «*<** pw t# J f the acre.. .. -> "•'a •