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». ,v ^ * --» *••*•_ -* -i|. «.* »• - v. «.•»•*> lk4*„7" -- i m > *»* " l '-if'* ' " * J*"#." f' '"• * « ? ~ " ^ -T ". - «»•«« J. VANSLYKC, Maraud PIMMmt. McHENRt, HiUNQBw •M ^ mms IT Is reported in Toledo, Ohio, that Frank Hurd has been offered $25,000 a year to act as counsel for John W. Mackay, the millionaire minor. TwEtiYE, varieties of fish may be «*0gh! In waters of Lake Superior. They alojAelwhitefldi, herring, pick­ erel, pjkof'vttrgeon, red and common siskewet, small and large kroofc trout, suckers, and perch. IT is said that if a person whose clothes are on fire will lie down in a horizontal position the fire will be till­ able to do any immediate damage, giv­ ing the victim plenty of time to divest himself of his clothing. BtrssiAi bias a new remed^ fo* hydro­ phobia #hich "^ts never been known to fail in a cure." It is the onion-shaped root of the water plantain, collected in August, dried and grated. The powder is spread with batter upon bread and eaten. CASTERSVIIXE, Ga., is proud of Joe, a dog of superior intelligence. He has been known to seize an ear of corn, carry it to a rat hole, shell off a few kernels, back off otit of sight, and then bounce upon the rat thus epticed to destruction. •* > . LOED RANDOLPH CHUBCHILL pro­ nounces synod as though it were ay-nod, and he makes other slips of the sort that cause his hearers to wink at each other knowingly. In the House of Com­ mons, the other evening, Sir William Hacrourt pronounced millennium as if it were written mile-ennium. | SAID PASHA'S tooth-brush stand is s made of two oblong emeralds of the largest known to the Hue de la Pais jewelers. • They are arranged to form an X, and at the point of intersection are fastened with a brilliant-studded twist of gold. The tooth-brush handle is so bejeweled and carved that it cost 50,000 francs. THE old story of the child and the serpent comes anew from Cartersviile, Georgia. This time the child was the 4-year-old daughter of Mrs. Knight. The little one was discovered by her mother having a good time with a poi­ sonous snake in the back yard. The snake seemed to be enjoying the fun, but Mrs. Knight killed it, of course, and thota nearly went ijxto hysterics. • v I r- t I JEFFERSON HARMAN, of Owingsville, Kentucky, was clearing a hillside of bushes not long ago. His ax became entangled in grapevines, and in his ef­ forts to extricate it he stumbled and fell over a ledge of rocks fifteen feet high. It was Hot much of a fall, but Jefferton managed before he struck bot­ tom to out off his nose and most of his --JIDjjter lip, and to knock out nearly all of mi teeth and break his jaw. y . A GIRL from Bath, Maine, had Scar­ let fever while at boarding school. She recovered and went home, and a trunk containing clothing worn while she was ill was put away in the garret. Six months afterward two little children playing in the garret opened the trunk, and took Out some of the clothing. In a week both were taken very sick with scarlet fever, and One died. No other perscas in the neighborhood were ill. Thz Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche hears that Miss Murfree(Charles Egbert Craddock) "will soon m«*rry a big, raw- boned Tennessee mountaineer, presum­ ably captured while she was collect­ ing stories of Tennessee mountain life." It hopes that, "with enlarged experience and nearer points of observation, her newer creations may be even truer to nature and more lifelike than those with which she has already delighted the public." • THE story comes from Wurtsboro', Sullivan County, New York, that a farmer stopped at the house of afriend, unhitched his team end visited three hours, leaving the wagon standing in the barn-yard. When he went out to hitch up nothing relthftined of the wagon but theriron-work. There had been some straw, two horse-blankets, and a milk can in the wagon, and the conclusion was that the bright milk can had.focused the rays of the hot sun until they set fire to the straw. >- ./> DR. JOHN RAUCH, of Chicago,; secre­ tary of the Illinois State Board of Health, states that "there'"is, more danger qf cholera this year than there has been since 1881." Dr. Rauch is a physician of experience whose practice and knowledge of that whereof he speaks enables him to do so with almost absolute certainty. The reasons he gives for his views are these: "Here­ tofore the disease has been confined to such countries as we had little com­ mercial relations with. Now . the out­ breaks are near points whence oome the East India mails. England and Germany are both uneasy, and it is through them that it is most likely to reach the United States." A SYSTEMATIC plan of grave robbery that has been carried on for years was recently discovered at the Syracuse, N. Y., almshouse. The disclosure was brought about by finding the body of a former inmate in an old and unused building in Lyons., It had been thrown into a window, as if,the ghonl had been surprised by someofee, and had disposed of the body in the; first convenient place. The body had been buried only the day before. At least a score of grates have been opened and the bodies found to be gone. In 1881 there were twenty-two deaths at the place, and now an ex-officer, it is said, is willing to testify that at least twelve of these bodies were stolen. The thefts ^ere, it is said, an open sactpt about the ytina- house that year, and the inmates were terribly frightened by the thought that at their death their bodies might also be carried away for dissection. Who the body-snatchers are is not knowii, but it is generally believed that they have been medical students from Lyittas, Phelps, and Newark. Muss AMELIA MOROSINI, ofNewYork, who, it will be remembered, was bitten by a strange dog some weeks ago, and Was taken to Paris by her father, has received her third inoculation of attenu­ ated virus at the hands of M. PaatOtir. She is his nine hnndred and fifty-thiift patient, and the first American woman thus far inoculated. A Paris dispatch says that the ladyis in excellent health, and seems to enjoy the treatment, and is greatly amused at the varied nationali­ ties of her fellow-patients--Circassians, Greeks, Russians, Arabs Turks, Rou­ manians, Kabylese, Portuguese, Tar­ tars, and Brazilians--the whole in quaint costumes and of strange tongues, which makes M. Pasteur's laboratory reeembli a sort Of jarditi d'acclamA- tion. THE latest advices from England, says the Chicago Tribune, intimate that India is now determining the prices paid for wheat in those markets, as the United States did a few years ago. This is the opinion of the gentlemen sending them, and they may be right. Some of them have hipted that there is a® addi­ tional reason why Englishmen should patronize the India wheat market just now, that being found in the attitude of Russia. To take as little wheat as pos­ sible from the land of the great bear, and encourage its cultivation in the south of Asia, is at once to furnialito the first but little of the stuff that has been called the sinews of war, and to grapple the latter to the hearts of peo­ ple in the old country as with hooks of steel. The making of India a feeder of bread to the British Islands, and a receiver of the pecuniary return for such service, will tend to make its people more loyal and more ready to furnish military aid in the struggle with Russia which that country would seem to be preparing to provoke. At the present moment a further decline in the price of silver is enabling the mother country to buy more cheaply than here­ tofore, and the best of wheat from Cal­ cutta is being offered for shipment in June and July at the very low prioo of six shillings and six-pence per cental, or ninety-three and a half cents per bushel of sixty pounds. The quality of the grain is said to be a little of the flinty order, but the English millers are largely introducing the changes in their machinery necessary to enable them to handle it to the best advantage, and they evidently look upon the supply of this class of wheat as having "come to stay." There is not much chance, therefore, of our soon seeing high prices possible to be obtained for our surplus wheat if we are to depend on Europe to furnish a market for it. One significant fact of the present situation is that our best foreign markets for wheat are in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, all of which countries could be advan­ tageously supplied from Black Sea ports if the latter had much to spare.: Perhaps this faot is the best commen­ tary on the statement that Russian wheat is being freely offered in England for shipment before the time of next harvest. , '* v . American Women in ChhflCT * The following from a private letter from Mrs. Deuby, wife of our present. Minister to China, gives a interesting description of a call made by the Gen. Li, Viceroy of Pekin, upon the women of the American Legation: "Was that not a step towards modern civilization to be taken by a Chinaman who had never been out of his own country, and who had never called upon a lady be­ fore? We had all preparations made for his reception, consisting principally of setting out a table with all sorts of Chinese cakes, confectionery and various wines, on the day appointed. In due time he arrived, accompanied, of course, by a numerous eBcort and with all the accoutrements of his high estate. He was met at the gate by the Secretaries and Chinese Secretary, all shaking their own hands and bowing. At the door Mr. Denby met him and escorted him into the drawing-room. We inferior beings watched the pro­ ceedings as well as we could through the window, but did not venture to go in until His Excellency repeated his re­ quest to see us, which he did in due time. When the summons came I entered, followed by my daughter, Hattie, and the two ladies of the first Secretary's family, whom I had sum­ moned to assist me in supporting this high honor. If you oould only have seen us! We entered in single file, all bowing and shaking our own hands in the most aboard manner. Gen. Li re­ ceived us in the same way, coming to the drawing-room door to us. He sig­ nified that 1 should tak«f a seat near him at tlte table, but I thought that too much honor and declined, but sat on a divan near at hand. Then he conversed through the interpreter. He asked me how I liked China. I respondod that I thought it a very wonderful country; that I had no idea of its greatness until I came to it. Then he said a few other tilings, and finally told me that when I came to Tedn-Tsftjt he hoped I would call upon his wife or wives, I am not sure which. When these courtesies had been passed, I thought it tj§st to retire l>efore our brilliant conversation began to languish, so I rose, and, after more shaking of our own hands and bowing, we went out, the General escorting us to the door. Li Hung Chang is a splendid looking man. He would attract attention anywhere for his magnificent proportions and fine face. He is larger and taller than my husband, and his face shows power and intellect. I met him afterward at a dinner at the Russian Minister's, and there he shook hands our way with all the ladies. It was the first time he had ever dined with foreign ladies." Is late experiments by a Russian physiologist, neither pure tin nor the bichloride of tin proved poisonous when introduced into the stomach of a, dog, but when the bichloride was in­ jected into the veins it was quickly fatal. . IF EVE didn't wear an apron we don't see how Bhe could"drive the chickens out of the garden. , ; > PBBBKOLOOT. A FMHOO Science that Hu Waned in Popularity. M. Dumas recently delivered the fu­ neral oration Of one Desbarolles, pro­ fessor of palmistry, and, in course of his remarks, spoke of Desbarolles as having done for the hand what Gall and Spurz- heim had done for the brain. If this parallel is to be taken seriously it is not too much to say that the science of palmistry must be regarded as practi­ cally extinct. Phrenology to-day is an effete branch of thought. We look in • vain for any mention of the word in this indices of works on the brain which deal with the latest information science has elicited respecting the organ of mind. No one possessing the most ele­ mentary knowledge of the progress science has made within the last twenty years, in the matter of the functions of the brain, can for a moment accord to ' phrenology a stable position in the list of modern branches and modes of in­ quiry. It is, perhaps, only breaking a butterfly on the wheel and slaying the Rlain to say so much. But the science of Gall, Spurzheim, and George Combe still survives in holes and corners among us in the shape of demonstra­ tions by peripatetic phrenologi es, of the "characters" of their clients. Busts are still to be seen and bought in which the human head is mapped out into spaces of "destructiveness and venera­ tion," into areas of "amativeness," "form," "color," "language," and so forth. There are many persons who still believe that the faculties of human nature are all pigeonholed, as the phrenologist teaches, on the contour of the brain. The reading of character and the constitution of mind would be an ex traordinarily easy matter were such things true. The brain, alas! is miich •too complex an organ to be lightly dis posed Of. It has taken the best work of a quarter of a century in modern physiology to open up the subject of brain-functions, and it will occupy the energies of many years before we are able definitely to sum up clearly and explicitly the exact nature of many of ths brain's ways and works. But what we do know of cerebral structure and action slays phrenology more com­ pletely than it has ever l>een disposed of before. The work of Hitzig, Fritsch, Ferrier, and others has taught us the new phrenology--that of experimetal science. It has exploded the old myths about faculties, "bumps," and brain or­ gans, of which so much talk was heard a half century gone by. We are able to-day to indicate generally how the organ of mind works, how certain of its parts come to the front over others, how there should exist loWer and higher "centers" in its substance, how one part regulates speech, and another seeing, and another hearing. In our hospitals for nervous diseases to-day the physi­ cian from his studv in the work of the normal brain, is aLle to place his finger on the region he regards as affected in his patient, and post-mortem inquiry, as well as evidence of other kind, is brought into the field of research to confirm his deductions. Looking back to the days of palmistry and soothsay­ ing, we see in the old phrenology, which still survives in unlearned circles, a fit accompaniment of the "science** of hands.--London News. Seal Puppies. Alaska is the favorite home of the fur seal. About the middle of May they gather on the various islands of that interesting country in great numbers. Soon after landing the females begin to find their young, of which they have but one; at great intervals twins. As soon as the little fellow is born on the sand he begins to call for his motlier with a husky, strange voice, like the bleating of a lamb. He also begins to puddle about with his eyes wide open, evidently looking for refreshments. The pup for the first three months or so is black as jet, with two little white (Spots just back of his fore-arm. When first born they are about one foot to fourteen inches in length, and weighing from three to four pounds. The mother never fondles or caresses her offspring, but leaves it in the sand with hundreds and thousands of other puppies, and goes away to the sea to bathe and catch fish for food. The little puppy does not even know his own mother from any other, but is so constituted that he keeps up that frequent bleating, so that when his mother returns she instantly recognizes the voice of her own from all the rest, and nurses it. Early in August the pups begin to learn to swim, for during the first fifty or sixty days of their life they can swim about as well as a stone. Some naturalists aver that their mothers drive them down into the water and teach them the art of swimming. This is not true. After they have attained the age of six weeks or two months they go of their own choioe down to the margin of the surf, where the water rushes out over them, and in turn leaves them on solid ground. If a puppy happens to be washed off his feet and carried out beyond his depth, he becomes greatly alarmed, opens wide his mouth and big eyes, and struggles manfully for the shore. Many of them are drowned in this way. This kind of practice is kept up till the little fellows are able to swim in all sorts of ways, diving, twisting, and floating on their backs till they are completely tired out, when they crawl out on the sand and curl down for a pap. When this is done, usually occu­ pying less than an hour, they are at it again. The mother never takes the slightest supervision of her children's swimming or anything else, except to come out of the sea at intervals and give him nurse. About the middle of October the puppies completely shed their black hair and take on a beautiful steel-gray hair with a bright brown under fur. This is their sea-going coat. Early in winter they leave Alaska in small squads, and do not see land again until their return the next May. They go, seemingly by common consent, to the south, and are soon lost in the vast and wide ocean, where they spread them­ selves out all over the North Pacific from Oregon to Japan. They rest and sleep in the water with the greatest comfort from November to May, when those of them fortunate enough to es­ cape the shark and other enemies return again to the same sptot where they were born, having been on a voyage of seven months and thousands of miles on the briny deep.--Rambler. A Painee-Car Iter Babies. A lady writes to Babyhood: "I should like to suggest a plan I have tried for protecting babies from draughts while on the floor, consisting of a box two feet by three feet, and just high enough to allow Baby to look over the top as site sits on the bottom of the l»ox. Fasten strong cleats to each end, and into these put good casters. Pad the sides and cover with pretty calico. Put several layers of newspaper on the bottom and cover with carpet. In such a warm box my little girl spent most of the winter. Her playthings were within reach. In it she learned to creep and to stand, the sides being so soft a bump did not hurt her. Her little brothers amused her by rolling it about the floor. It did not take up as mnch room as Baby and her scattered playthings. It deserved the name the children bo- Btowed upon it--'The Palace-Car.'" Mountaineering in Persia. This is the way we were obliged to, prepare for the trip in order to reach our destination. It was essential that we should take with us tents, bedding, crockery, and sufficient animals to carry ourselves, the servants, and the outfit. This required the employment of much talk and of an occasional thrash­ ing when the insolence of the vhaita- dars, or muleteers, interfered with the clinching of a bargain. After several days of preparation all seemed ready for the start. One curious circum­ stance abou*. the journey, however, was the fact that we were obliged to jour­ ney by night. The great heat makes it impossible to travel in Persia iu the middle of the day during the greater part of the year. Our departure was therefore so timed that we could have the benefit of the full moon. Once on the road, and vi indiug through narrow lanes at a moderate walk, we were able to observe what an imposing procession we made. At the head rode the gUio- dar, or equerry, mounted on a white Shirazee Arab stallion. Two gentle­ men followed, and next to them came several ladies on donkeys. The tach­ travan was next in order, carrying the invalid of the party. This is a curious vehicle, peculiar to Persia and Turkey. It is a covered litter borne between two mules, and contains sliding doors and windows. It is rendered reasonably comfortable by mattresses on which a person can lie at full length.. The taclitravan of the wealthy is sometimes handsomely decorated, and mention is made of kings of Persia using it many oenturies ago. But generally this con­ veyance is more heavily constructed than is necessary, owing to the diffi­ culty of finding wood which is at once light and strong in Persia. The march of a tachtravan is necessarily tediously slow, but it is announced for a long dis­ tance by the strings of jangling bells carried by the gaylv decorated mules, which do not, however, seem to ap­ preciate the wealth and weight of orna­ ment lavished upon them. On level roads the tachtravan is a real luxury; but when there is a steep ascent or de­ scent combined with bad roads, this form of locomotion is not only very try­ ing _ to the mules, but is also a severe strain on the rider, l»oth on account of the exertion requisite in preserving his position and the nervous strain caused by watching the frequent peril of being hurled over a precipice. At the head of the leading mule marched a stately Arab, Abdullah Ibn Hassan. His gait was that of a prince; he was six feet in height, sparely built and perfectly erect. A cam el's-hair tunic reached to the ankles. His head was muffled with a striped mantle bound around the forehead with a white cord. His swarthy features were haggard but yet handsome, and the dark orbs which flashed from under cavernous brows were marked by a proud and romantic melancholy, deepening into a glow of injured pride tinged with sadness when hp was refused a backsheesh, as if he would reproach you for having disap­ pointed the confidence he had reposed in your elevated generosity, What a standard is to an army was this son of the desert to our humbler train. He gave to it such a bearing that he seemed to be the chief person in it, instead of a poor mule-driver earning 20 cents a day traversing the wastes of an" ancient land,--a mule-driver by descent and the father of mule-drivers of the future. In looking at Abdullah Ibn Hassan, I was led by a very whimsical turn of the mind to think of La Fotlieringay, in Thackeray's "Pendennis." Did that great reader of human nature realize when he delineated her character what a type she is of a numerous class who are so richly endowed with lofty mien and aspect that until they open their mouths and betray themselves they pass for something far higher than they are?--S. G. }V. Benjamin, in the Cen­ tury. No Woman Conld Make a Fool of Him. "Of all the fools in this world," said an elderly passenger on the Michigan Central train, "I think Senator Jones takes the blue ribl>on. The idea of a man of liis age making such a dunce of himself over a woman. The woman never lived that could hit me so hard as that. They can't throw any of their dust in my eyes. I am too old a b*td to be caught with feminine chaff." These self-congratulary remarks were uttered at 11 a. m. At noon a woman with a face once pretty, and still passable with the aid of a skill­ fully applied coat of rouge, came aboard at a way-station and occupied the seat next to the elderly man. At 12:30 she struggled vainly with the window-blind, and at 12:31 her neigh­ bor went to her rescue. At 12:45 they were seated side by side. At 1:30 he took her out to dinner. At 2:30 her head rested upon his shoulder, and his nigh arm lingered along the seat-back, with a spasmodic tendency to droop. At 3 sharp the train stopped five minutes to change engines and a telegraph mes­ sage came into the car. At 3:05 the woman was wringing her hands in de­ spair and her companion was reading the telegram which she had placed in his hands, and trying to comfort her in her grief at this sudden intelligence of the death of her mother in Boston and equally sudden call upon her to return immediately. At 3 :if> the elderly pas­ senger was standing with his open pock- etbook in hand counting out $40 in crisp bills and placing them in the hands of his fellow traveler. At 8:20 the unhappy woman had controlled her grief and stayed the flood of tears. At 3:30 she alighted from t he train, after an affectionate and thankful parting with her benefactor, promising to write him from Boston, whither she was to fly by the next train for the East. At 3:31 "she entered a cab which was wait • ing near the platform and which was occupied by a moustaclied man with a high hat, a loud scarf, and a wicked eye. At 3:32 the train started on its way, and a roguish, laughing face looked out the cab window and waved an arch and gay good-by to the elderly passenger. At 3:33 something seemed to come over the old man. He flew into a fit of rage, showed his teeth, looked into his pocketbook, shook his head, clenched his fist, and muttered: Cuss an old-woman fool like me, anyhow."--Chicago Herald. THERE is no patch of the moon's Visi­ ble surface half a mile square that is not accurately mapped, according to Prof. Young, while the earth contains immense tracts, and in Central Africa, which have never been surveyed. DEATH OF JOHN KELLY. The Noted Tammany Chief 4m Passes Away After a Long Illness Review of the Fallen Leader's Long and Active Career ill » Political Life. "I have tried to live the life of a good Catholic, and die in the comfort of that faith," were the last words uttered on earth by John Kelly, the noted Tammany chief of New York, who passed away peacefully at his house in that city on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 1st inst. He had been sick for a long time--in fact, his illness dated back to the close of the last Presiden­ tial campaign--bnt it was not believed bv his intimate friends that he was so near death's door. His mental faculties were bright and clear to the last. His death was Eainless and peaceful. He held the hand of is wife until his hold relaxed in death. Mr. Kelly leaves two children, a girl and a boy, aged respectively 9 and 7 years. His widow is a niece of the late Cardinal McCloskey. Mr. Kelly expressed a wish that his funeral should be private and simple, consequently there was no public demonstration. Dr. Edward L. Keyes, who attended Mr. Kelly throughout his illness, says that his patient had been iu failing health for two years. The nerve forces were impaired, and all the functions were deranged in con­ sequence. He made strong efforts to re­ gain his health, but they were futile, He finally acknowledged that it w as useless to hope for recovery, and for six or eight months past he had confessed he was dy­ ing. At times Mr. Kelly was much de­ pressed in spirits, but at no time was his intelligence unpaired. He retained that throughout, and at all times had full con­ trol of his senses. His physical deteriora­ tion was great. His hair aud beard be­ came perfectly white. He lost at least sixty pounds in flesh. His heart and other in- tegtal organs were veiy mnch affected, al­ though he had no organic disease. He seemed to show no regret, but appeared to bo willing to let go his grip on life. BIOGKAl'HICAI,. "John Kelly--Grate Setter," was the sign which hung from a modest two-story house in Mott street, New York, in 1844. It indi­ cated the humble beginning of one who, twelve years later, was a member of Con­ gress* and who, for thirty years since then, was one of the most prominent political figures of New York. His name was fa­ miliar to everybody, and his features have been portrayed so frequently by the carica­ turists that even children recognized it. It is said that the editor of an illustrated pa­ per at one time instructed his artists to re­ member that when timely subjects did not present themselves a cartoon on John Kelly was always in order, and Kelly has been 6een on a street-car perusing this very pa­ per, his eye twinkling merrily when he found a humorous representation of him­ self. John's strong characteristic was his Unostentatiousness, and for that reason people know very little about his private life. , John Kelly was born in New York City April 20, 1622. His father died when he waa 8 years old. When the New York Herald was in its infancy young Kelly walked into the office one day and asked the elder Bennett if he wanted an office boy. Bennett was a good jndge of char­ acter and quick in deciding. He talked with the youth a few minutes, and then told him to go to work. He became a great favorite with Bennett, and when at length he grew older and determined on learning a trade, so as to better snpport the large family that was depending on him. Mr. Bennett offered him strong in­ ducements to remain, and on parting with him predicted that he would succeed any­ where. The elder Bennett was as strong a friend of Kelly's as the present Bennett was a bitter enemy. Kelly learned the trade of soapstone cutting and grate-setting, at which he afterward made a considera­ ble fortune. He proved to be a re­ markably shrewd business mall, and his faith in the future of New York City was so great that with even* $200 or $300 he wonld get he bought a lot up-town; these lots are worth to-day from $5,000 to $10,- 000, and Mr. Kelly has died a millionaire. Though his charity was distributed most secretly, it is estimated that he dispensed $250,0()0 in that way. When a young man John was notable as an athlete. The no­ torious John Morrisey said of Kelly that he had the build of an ideal pugilist. * Though the cartoonists have always represented him as a dumpy man, he was nearly six feet in height and weighed about 240 pounds. He ran with the "lire laddies" in his early days, and made hosts of friends, who elected him Alderman in 1853. Tweed, of ring fame, afterward said of this body: "There never was a time before that you oould not buy the Board of Aldermen, and if it was not for John Kelly's severity you could buy it now." In 1854 he was elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress. He resigned his seat before his laBt term was completed to take the office of Sheriff, to which he had been elected. It was while in Congress that General Cass, President Buchanan's Secretary of State, spoke of him as "Honest John Kelly," which he has been commonly called since. In 1868 he was chosen the candidate for the Mayoralty in opposition to Bill Tweed's Tammany Ilall candidate, but an awful burden of domestic affliction iu the loss of his wife and sou compelled him to with­ draw and take his two daughters--all that was left of his family--to Europe for his own health as well as theirs. He remained away three years, and during his absence New York City was given over wholly to the plunder of the Tweed ring. Prom­ inent men like Mr. Tilden, Seymour, Hew­ itt, and Belmont sought Mr. Kelly to help them in this crisis. He had vowed never to again enter politics. Their importu­ nities continued for a year, till at last he entered the fight, and while Mr. Tilden and Charles O'Conor attacked the Tweed ring in the Legislature and in the courts Mr. Kelly had a hand-to-hand tussle with them in Tammany Hall, their citadel, and routed them, as is well known. This gave him a prestige which he held since. An idea of the tremendous power which this ring wielded may be obtained from the fact that it gave employment to 12,000 persons and disbursed $30,(K)0,000 annually. In 1876 Mr. Kelly was appointed Comptroller of the city, and not only st6pped the debt of the city increasing,-something unprece­ dented, but actually reduced it $12,000,000 during his term of office. BA8E-BALL. The Straggle for theChampionsfcipin lie National League and the * American Association. J. FINLAY HOKE. Hla Plunder Foots Up the Huge Sum Of •180,000-- Mow He Got It. [Peoria (111.) dispatch.] The closed Merchants' National Bank had probably more depositors than any other bank in the city, although the amount of deposits was not so large as in^ others. It seems to have been the favorite bank for small tradesmen and men of small means. It is now ascertained that J. Finlay Hoke, the late bookkeeper, was even a greater rascal than he was represented in the first dispatches. So far as the books have been examined, it is ascertained that he got away with $180,000 of the bank's money, and all this must have been absorbed in the past fifteen months, as the books were exam­ ined and "O K'd" by a bank examiner at that date. Hoke, as book-keeper, had noth­ ing to do with the handling of the bank's money, and must have stolen the money from packages on the counters and in the drawers, and so doctored the books that they would correspond, unless there was collusion. He was a stockholder in the suspended bank, but just before leaving here on his Canadian jonrney he succeeded in disposing of the stock. The stockhold­ ers are men of wealth, and state that depos­ itors will be paid in full as soon as possi­ ble, and the bank will be retired. No state­ ment of assets and liabilities has yet been given to the public. The Detroit and St Lottis Olubt Still in i ^ I,«ad--Notes and Qoaip of ths ,.f National Game. The Leagce base-ball season opened the 1st of May. All the clubs, barring two, were thought to be evenly matched, and the predictions were many that none of the teams wonld win their first three games straight. How near these predictions came to be­ ing true will be seen: At the end of the first week's play the Chicagos were in.the van. They had won five games and lost cne, while one was postponed. New York came next, with five victories and two de­ feats. Detroit was third, wit'a four games won, two lost, and on? postpon d. The Philadelphias wen fourth, Washington tilth, St. Louis fixth. Boston seventh, and Kansas City last. At the end of the second week the Chi agos and Detroits were tied for first place. Ne.v York and St. Louis for third, while Pliiladelpbin. Bostou, and Washington followed, one game apart. Kansas City was still at the bottom of the 1 st. Bain prevented all th > clubs from playing the gam^s scheduled for the third week except those played by the Detroits. The result was that the "Wolverine team gained a lead of two games over the cham­ pions. New York dropped to fourth plaoe and St. Louis advanced to third. Phila­ delphia also came up a peg. Boston stood i*th, and Washington and Kansas City were trailing. The elose of the fourth week showed little chan.e in the positions of the three leaders. In the American Association the St. Louis Browns lead the van. with Pitts­ burgh a close second, the Atlile'.ies one game behind for third, Brooklyn aud Lou­ isville a tie for fourth, Baltimore and Cin­ cinnati also tied, and the Metropolitans bring up the rear. The following is the record of games won and lost, at the wind-up of the fourth week of the season's play: LEiODX IOBDVU. Clubs-- Woo. Lost. Cbicaeo ; 17 4 Now York 14 7 Detroit 19 3 Williulelphi*.................... 9 11 St. I/Hits 9 14 Host* n. S ic \Vtinhington... 4 15 Kannua City 5 12 THE UUBICAK ASSOCIATION. Games Oa.iien worn lost. Athlotio............ 17 18 Baltimore 14 16 Hri*>klyn IS 12 Cincinnati «... ....14 19 Louisville ............1$ 17 Metropolitan..*.\ 8 ' 18 Pi'.ts urg... ..18 15 St. Louis ......21 13 DIAMOND DtTST. THE Philadelphia Leagne club playen all wear high plug hats. CHICAOO was the first club to play an errorless game this season. IT is claimed that it will take 5,000,000 base-balls to supply the diamond this year. HorcK, of the Baltimores, fouled a ball in his own face, and knocked out two of hiB teeth. THE only thing gigantic about the New York Clnb is the big head.--Philadelphia Herald. ATIITIEKCES of from 1,000 to 2,500 peo­ ple are an every-day occurrence in Dnlnth, Minneapolis, and St. Paul. IT required fourteen innings for Leaven­ worth to beat St. Joseph, at Leavenworth, May 18, by a score of 11 to 10. N. K. No YES, right fielder of Dart­ mouth's freshman ball team, broke his leg bv catching his fooi in first base while rnn- uing. WHILE playing in a game near Kanka­ kee, 111., William Studeman was struck on ihe side of his head by a pitched ball, and died in ten minutes. BUCK EWINO says: "Detroit is going at a great pace, bnt the whole fabric hinges on one man--Bennett." Buck thinks if he should be disabled the clnb would be no­ where in the race. IT is universally conceded that the cham­ pionships of the League and the Associa­ tion were won in 1885 by superior base- running 011 the part of Chicago and the St. Louis Browns. Effective coaching was an­ other strong feature on the part of both clubs. BUSHONO'R agreement with the St. Louis is said to call for $2,800 for the season, to catch two games per week, and $10 for ivery extra game. 'Tis said that Benuett has a similar arrangement with the Detroit directors, and that explains the reason why he is behind the plate nearly every game. OPT in Kansas City, it is said, they have devised a new scheme to worry batters. A small boy perches on a roof outside the grounds, and, with a piece of looking glass, casts reflections in the eves of the batsman at the critical moment. This idea could be worked to better advantage in some place whore they have had more sunshine than Kansas City has enjoyed recen'.ly. THE great amount of bragging done by the "New York Giants," as they were pleas­ ed to dub the League nine from that city, has lessened the popularity of that team away from home. Brag did not win the championship for them last year, and will not do it this. If one must crow when on top, it is advisable to always keep an eye open for a soft spot to fall on when one's turn comes to go under. THE Philadelphia Sporting Life says: "The St. Louis Brows have a new trick to worry pitchers and deceive the umpire, and worked it several times in Brooklyn last week. The wrinkle is to hug the plate closely and lean away over it, thus making the pitcher deliver wildly or else hit them. In the latter case the Browns have a knack of stopping the balls against their bodieB with their hands, so as to escape injury. Anything to get on base is their motto. THE first game played this season in the East by the Chicago Club was at Washing­ ton, aud the Western giants were slaugh­ tered to the tune of 7 to 0. The Washing­ ton people went wild over the famous vic­ tors-, and President Scanlan, of the* home club, immediately telegraphed President Snalding, of the Chicago aggregation: f Send on a club that can play ball." The following day the two clubs met again, and the Western iads came off victorious by the one-sided score of 20 to 0. Spalding there­ upon wired Scanlan: "How much ball do you want, anyway?" WILLIAM SALENTINE, aged abont 25 years, and a member of a prominent South Side family, died from apoplexy induced by over-exertion while engaged iu a game of bass-ball to-day. Upon crossing the home- plate in a "home-run" the young man reeled and fell to the ground in great pain. This soon passed away, however, and. con­ trary to the advice of his friends, he insist­ ed upon resuming his play, taking his appointed position in the field. A few mo­ ments later he started to ran in the direc­ tion of a batted ball, when he again fell to the ground and soon expired, with every symptom of apoplexy.--Milwaukee special. THE official figures showing the batting and fielding averages of the League clubs for the first month's work have been issued. The leading pitchers are Ca«ey of Phila­ delphia and McCormick of Chicago. The best ranking catchers are Hackett and Briody, both of the Kansas City Club. Start of Washington leads the first base­ men in fielding: ltichardson of Detroit the second basemen; Sutton of Boston the third basemen; Glasscock of St. Louis the short stops; Hornung of Boston the left fielders; O'Rourke of New York the cente* fielders; and Fogarty and Thompson are tied for first place among the right fielders. ILLINOIS SPATE NEWS. . ilM ' „ •. - --There wfll be a grand meet of Illinois wheelmen in Chicago in July. •~--There were 205 deaths in Chicago lut week, which is a remarkably low rate of mortality. --A jury at Belleville failed to agree apm the guilt of the Canty brothers, charged ;̂ with burglarizing the city safe at East St."-^* Louis. --The tile sheds of the Sutton Brick and Tile Company, at Urbana, were burned the other nigbl. : Loos, $6^000; iaanrance* $2,900. --Mrs. General Logan, at Che suggestioii of Bancroft, the historian, has named the great black eagle, recently sent the General , from Tennessee, by the appropriate title 0 '̂ "Old Hickory." --The death of Mrs. Pendleton removest from public life the only wom%a who couI®|^ at all rival the wife of Senator Logan as a'^>4' guardian of her husband's political inter- ^ ests.--Washington letter. , ,, - ^ •--W. B. Porter, an aged citizen of Mat-* \ toon, is abont to receive from the Govern- ment $92,000 on account of the destructions.^ of his grand-father's vessels on the Atlantic ;' ^1$ by the French navy, early in the centnry. *'% --Robert Mayes, cOnvicted of murder at ̂ Jacksonville in 1876, and sentenced to thO Joliet Penitentiary for twenty-two years, has been released. Governor Oglesby com-5 muted bis sentence to seventeen years, anct under the good behavior law It was still further reduced. < --Mr. William M. Tilden, a leading liver stock merchant of Chicago, who was tho "•$ Democratic candidate for Congress in tho *- South Side district in 1884, died last week. " ̂ Mr. Tilden, who was a cousin of Hon# -If Samnel J. Tilden, of New York, was sixty- two years of age, and had resided in Chi-' 'v,f cago since 1860. --Tho J. W. Butler Paper Company, iii a bill filed in Chicago against John B* , ; ^ Jefferv and the printing concern bearing* "*'1 his name, charges that his confessions of' '\A judgment to his wife were fraudulent, as nd consideration was received therefor. Judge Shepard enjoined the sale of the assets o|:'sS the Jeffery Company. * --John Foss, of Sedgwick Post, No. 84,' \ Department of Kansas, is said to be the ' .'f ? oldest Grand Army man living. He wa4Aft. ' ^' born in Leeds, Me., Oct. 10,1800, enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Forty- - ^ second Illinois, in May, 1864, and was mns- ^ teredoutin October, 1865. He had two** sons in the Ninety-sixth Illinois, and both ^ are members of Sedgwick Post. »»" ~ --It is said that in the Senate restaurant • -- flow when a man asks for cold tea he ge&' iir it, and if he wants whisky he must mako * his wishes known in plain United Stated 1 ^ language. It most be simply disgusting to * a stranger to walk in, wink at the waiter, ^ ask for cold tea, and then get it. The wink is losing its power. Even over in Iowa it ii1'^ „* not as effective as it nsed to be.--OKicaga i'< ^ Tribune. • --Away back in '52, days a Mattoon f special, George McDougal had a Govern- , ment contract to furnish 2,500 head of cat­ tle, but for some reason he never recei pay for them. He filed a claim against Government, and the matter drifted drifted till he finally died of old age; it was not passed upon. The case just been reached, and judgment for $81,- , * 250 given in favor of McDougal. This J munificent sum will fall to George P. and '•' ^ Frank McDougal, sons of the man who » filed his claim during Frank Pierce's ad* m i n i s t r a t i o n . G e o r g e P . M c D o n g a l i s a - ; v 8 . printer, and formerly owned an interest in r the Gazette, of this city, bnt for some yeans "* ' past he and his brother Frank have been operating a job office in Indianapolis. * --The New York World says: "The one * dynamite bomb fired by the crazy anarchist^ )\ti of Chicago was heard in every nook and - \ *»• cranny of this broad land. It will be a| ? long time before these enemies of the Be-' public get a chance to throw another. From this time forward the press, tho; pulpit, the police, and the lawmakers will,, !,'V work together for the legal extermination of . . ^ theso pests of society. Their declaration, of hostility to every social and govern- ' mental institution makes it the duty of all'* ' patriots to labor for their lawful suppres­ sion. When they go ontside of law to ap­ peal to force again, the force that should meet them should be one of annihilation." --"Random Notes," in Chicago Evening Journal: Next to the disappointment aodl ;I1 disgust that a picnic party feels when caught^1 ^ in the woods in a thunder-storm, is the5'*" plight that a preacher finds himself in when, ̂ entering his pulpit on Sunday morning, he> suddenly discovers that he left his care-,, s fully prepared sermon at home. This was the predicament of a gdod brother yester- - J day. But he was equal to the emergency. I * J Instead of reading a written sermon he gave his congregation a good, plain talk, -ft" J on "practical religion." Walking home^*^|?§ with one of his parishioners after the ser- •' t "fp vice, the clergyman expressed his mortifi- ' '? cation at having left his sermon at home. "*sv "It was well you did," remarked the par­ ishioner; "that off-hand talk yon gave us was worth a dozen written sermons. It was j ̂ like a basket of fresh strawberries, as com- ' , -t. pared to the canned fruit." The blnnt comment served as a revelation to the pas- ; tor, and possibly there is a suggestion in it , I that might s|rve'other clergymen to good purpose. --Two or three Chicago firms aft raid to be about to transfer a part or all of their packing operations to Kansas City. Such a change seems to be an entirely natural 1 one, and signifies only that the inevitable : II; argument of economy is supreme in the ' '4.- packing business, as it mnst be in every .. line of business and commerce. Pork and ^ beef collected in the "original packages" at the Missouri River cau be as cheaply-re­ duced to commercial forms there as here--! •. perhaps more cheaply there fl«n» here; * - J and the cost of transporting rtfuse, which > • i jr attaches to the movement of live stock, ^ may thus be saved. It does not follow that ., Chicago will suffer materially from the .4" change. The products of the country east 14 * ĵ of the Missouri most still oome here for if manufacture, and a large proportion of the . . V manufactured meats from the river and po!nts west of it will come to Chicago for , distribution. With the ever-growing d»- velopment of multifarious industries, tho >J diversion of a fraction of one of them to a " * tributary point is but a trival matter, affect- , > ing a few individuals, perhaps, bnt col to a perceptible degree the conuanaity si taqf*. n* --Daily Sim.