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i&e, ij** ; c - - ' - > ? <*£ ' •';.'K *«" < c' , v^;- iJIppifp;' ^tifigs J. VAN SLYKE. E«tor ami PNtlisMr TT.T.rWOTft, TH* Prince of Wales, who !s ove/- whqli^Sfl #i|h defotS,is yet able to sell to his toyiA mother land -which she wants to add to her Balmoral estate, and for which the Queen pays Wales $125,000. By and by the people who are struggling for cottages and potato patches will begin to ask where these royal folk get all their lagd and plenty of money to buy more. Miss "CHAMBERLAIN, the American lady who has attracted so much admira­ tion in London and Paris, had a strange experience in New York not long ago. In a store, one day, a woman had the impertinence to pass a handkerchief across Miss Chamberlain's cheek, with a quiet remark: "I wanted to see if the color was natural!" The ancient Athenians were fond of new sensations, but they never rose to this high level of curiosity. / ^ A NUMBER of girls in New York, who understand stenography and Spanish, are getting good salaries from mer­ chants and others having trade with Mexico. This indicates that trade with that country is growing, and that "it is quite worth the while of women who work to diversify their stock of informa­ tion. Spanish is a language very easily learned, three months being ample time to acquire enough of it for the pur­ poses of correspondence. SWELER at Salem, Oregon, has constructed a curiosity in the shape of a steam-engine insido the wreath on a $1 gold piece. Its weight is two pennyweights and six grains, and the length of the stroke is fifteen-one-hun- dredths of an inch. The length of the valve stroke is three-one-hundredths of an inch, and the machine when run by steam is capable of 5,000 revolutions per minute. It is now run by com­ pressed air. The cylinder and bright work is gold-plated. / f'jk f ' -- : .. * THE Baltimore American has intro- cttlcfed in its columns a new feature. Tinder the head of the "Prophet at Work" it gives answers to the questions of Various people who describe their personal appearance and want to know what their future will be. These ques­ tions are answered with all gravity and apparent earnestness. The Baltimore American, it may boksoberly said, is the only newspaper in the country which has determined that there are fools among its subscribers and taken 9«$ion accordingly. A MAN in Southwestern Georgia had a remarkable experience the other night. He was driving home the cows, when he and the horse on which he rode suddenly went down out of sight. The earth had given way beneath them. In the descent the man and horse had parted company, the former lodging on a ledge of rocks. The horse went down ^$gto a deep cave, and the man managed tog^out. Next day, the neighbors got the horsfc *mt with the aid of pulleys. The animal was not much damaged, although he had fallen over fifty feet. DEAFNESS appears to be exceptionally prevalent in Kennebec County, Maine, and in Martha's Vineyard. A recent scientific investigation of the matter shows that in both districts there is abundant evidence of heredity and es­ pecially of atavism. In the families af­ fected there were also found blindness, insanity, idiocy, and deformity, and in some cases a long history of consan- gnineal marriages. In Martha's Vine­ yard the distribution of deafness coin­ cides with that of certain soils, and its eastern boundary Is also the typhoid fever line. FREDERICK N. PALMER, the Boston physician who recently jumped from a Portland steamer • and was drowned with his 4-year-old grandchild, was Postmaster at Brattleboro, Vermont, during Polk's administration. He was the originator of the first American postage-stamp, which was engraved for the Postmaster'8 personal use. These stamps • were in use long before the government decided to use stamps for the prepayment of postage. The Pal­ mer stamps bring £ fabulous price, one having been recently sold for $145, Nyhile a few years ago one sold for $300 atvtiuction. COL. "BOB" INGERSOLL has never been a hotel clerk, but he seems to under­ stand what every traveler demands of the much-abused attache in the office of the inn. In sending his regrets to the dinner of the Hotel-Men's Associa­ tion he wrote: "Hoping that the in- yventive genius of the country will finally build hotels with only front looms with southern exposure, raise csfctle entirely composed of tenderloin, chickens all breast, and fish without bonei; produce eggs that grow fresher as the years roll by, and, in addition to all this, put in operation some scheme for funding bills on long time at a low rate of interest, with breakfast, dinner, supper, nni lodging coupons attached, I remain, and always have been, yours, B, G. IngersolX" jUDGE BYBEE, of Portland, Oregon, his an Irish setter, and between the Judge and the dog a very "intimate friendship exists. The other day the Judge went to San Francisco without consulting the setter. As soon as the dog missed his master he went moping about, and refused to be comforted. The next day he grew moodier, and %hen three days passed by and still no master was visible he lay down in the closet -where the hunting traps were kept, and refused all caresses, and for five days would "not take a particle of food. Finally he wandered off to a liv­ ery stable, where his master's horse kept, aad would nofcrim driven away. Once a day he went back to the house for food, and kept up this pro­ gramme until the absent one returned. A DEPLORABLE accident happened *an board H. B. M.'s man-of-war Albatross, at Port Hamilton, China, recently. There had been target practice during the early part of the day, and by some oversight one of the Nordenfelt guns had been left loaded. Some time after firing had ceased a boat's crew was sent to pick up the^jtargets, and while they were engaged in this work some one on board the vessel moved the lever that actuates the firing mechanism of the gun, with the result that three of the boat's crew were hit by the discharge which followed, two 'of them being killed and one of them dangerously wounded. JOHN BRIGHT, though now 74, is still regarded as the greatest orator, the Demosthenes, of the House of Com­ mons. His wonderful voice still retains in age much of its delightful music, and his periods are full of the same pure and vigorous English as those of Milton, on which he has founded himself, and a copy of whose "Paradise Lost" he carries, as the best-loved companion, always -with him. But then, as he himself says, Gladstone speaks without preparation as many eloquent words in one night as he does in a whole session. He takes three months to prepare one of his orations, recites it carefully, like Macaulay, again and again, and studies every at­ titude. For three^weeks before the event is to come off he may be found wandering of evenings around the lobby like an uneasy spirit. ALBERT WILLIAMS, a farmer at Sa­ vannah, Ga., had a terrible fight with an eagle recently. While plowing near a thicket an eagle arose and tried to fly to the wood, but one of its wings being disabled it was unable to do so. Mr. Williams seeing the bird's condition ran after it and attempted to seize it around the neck. In an instant the eagle at­ tacked him, fastening its claws and l>eak into his legs in such a manner that he was unable to walk. He then attempted to beat the bird off with his hands, but was unsuccessful. Finally he dragged himself and the bird to a woodpile near by, and procuring a heavy stick plied several vigorous blows on the head of the eagle, which made it gradually unloosen its hold and fall to the ground. The farmer then killed it with two or three heavy blows. It measured seven feet and nine inohes from tip to tip. MR. J. C. FLOOD will enter upon the occupancy of his new house on Nob Hill, San Francisco, next fall. The Alta California says: "This building is probably the most expensive private residence in A1n erica. The structure is of veritable New York swelldom brown- stone, and the dimensions in the clear are about 160 by 120 feet, with suffi­ cient surroanding ground for a floral paradise. The artist in charge is the same gentleman who superintended the finishing of the mansions of Vanderbilt, Stewart, Villard, and other Eastern millionaires; and his delight over his present task is $uch that he declares that the parlors of any of them would be paled by comparison with the back hall of the Flood palace. It is idle to estimate in particnlar the cost of any of the parts of this magnificent edifice or set a value upon the whole. The con­ tractors for the interior decorations are said to have made an outlay of over $800,000 for their work and material alone." A SHORT time ago a menagerie was on exhibition in the town of Aberdare in Wales.' Some boys managed to gain entrance to the inclosure where the elephant, only four inches less than the renowned Jumbo, was stabled. They proceeded to feed the elephant with crackers, etc., when some of the more mischievous gave the animal a lot of stones. This so enraged the creature that it attempted to wreak vengeance on his tormentors. The boys, however, managed to escape over a wall. The elephant then turned upon an old man named David Watkins, 65 years old, who had been an amused spectator of the proceedings. He unfortunately was unable to make liis escape; the elephant seized the old man with his trunk, dashed him violently to the ground, and then battered him with its trunk. The cries of the old man brought to the spot the keeper, but he was in turn compelled to seek safety in flight. Watkins was finally rescued, but died the next day. Natural Beaut) of Nazareth. The valley of Nazareth is so charm­ ing that it has been called a paradise on earth. It is full of flowers and shrubs and butterflies and birds. Among the magnificent blossoms that in this coun­ try grow only in green-houses, and the foreign birds, with their gay glittering feathers, are found our own loved roses and daisies, our nightingales, black­ birds, thrushes, and larks, filling the air with their sweet songs; and even the little homely sparrow and robin redbreast, that we consider so pecu­ liarly our own, hop about and chirp gaily in Palistine as here. The people who live in the "happy valley" are more healthy and vigorous than their neighbors, or than the people who live in hot countries usually are. The fresh air from the hills makes them strong; and how sweet that air must be. pass­ ing as it does over mignonette and roses and many another flower cher­ ished in our gardens, and gathered to perfume our rooms, but growing there with all the reckless joy of nature. There is only one river in the valley, a little fresh brook. dancing down to the plain below, and here the women, clad in their pretty dresses, which travelers tell us were bryjhter and more pictur­ esque than those of their neighbors, as if even in the matter of costume they were to be best of all, came in those days, as they still do, with their great earthen jars, to draw the fresh bright water from the well, and carry it home to their families. ' ENJOY the present, whatsoever it be, andbe not solicitous for the future. AMERICAN HANDWRITING. legible than tho Englixh, but PDHMU- Inar More Individuality. Complaint of the general decadence of things are frequently heard, al­ though if the growlers were brought to the point they coidd not but admit that from every point of view it is a boon to live in an age like the present. Fancy making a fire with a flint on mornings like these, as people did l>e- fore the invention of matches. The most inveterate praiser of times past must- own that getting up and turning on the register for simplicity and com­ fort beats it hollow. However, there being nothing else in particular to complain of, an old writ­ ing-master of New York bewails in the public prints the decline and fall of penmanship. He says that in his- day, which was early and remote, it is to l»e presumed, people were proud of their handwriting, and everybody strove to excel in legibility and beauty. It was studied almost as one of the fine arts, and he points to specimens in fac-simile in old books and also to the many orig­ inal documents available. It is not fashionable now, according to this critic, to write a good hand, and many of the fair sex even go so far as to describe it as a vulgar accomplish­ ment. There are some who have ceased to use the pen altogether, and who re­ sort to the caligraph or Remington. In these machines this old-time master sees a device of the diabolical enemy of the human race. The indictment is brought chiefly against American girls. The fair maid­ ens of England continue to write "the delicate Italian hand" which was once in universal favor. The objection, however to English penmanship is that it is too uniform. By pursuing a system all learn to write alike, and the result is a total lack of individuality. Those who have correspondence with English friends must have observed the close similarity in the specimens of chirographic skill brought to their no­ tice. The penmanship may l»e said to have a national character. All the let- tw'H are formed upon the same system, and there is an almost total absence of distinct traits. American handwriting is less legible, but possesses much more character. If it is really possible, as many have claimed, to tell much of personal iden­ tity from penmanship the right field in which to pursue the study is in this country. Hardly any two persons are found to write alike, even among mem­ bers of the same family. In all there is found a variety and independence much more interesting than the monot­ onous legibility of English pencraft.-- Baltimore Xews. She Knocked Him Out. A New York girl took a seat on the sunny side of a Fourth Avenue car as it turned into the Bowery. She was a little bunch of loveliness, and her black eyes twinkled with a gleam that told of a merry soul. Though small she carried a great many pounds of sweet­ ness to the square inch, and as she set­ tled back in the seat with the tips of the daintiest little shoes just touching the floor and dove eagerly into a big blue-covered book, everybody looked at her because they could not help it. She smiled so sweetly at the conductor, whom she had kept unconsciously wait­ ing for her fare, that the attractive Bowery pictures for once passed him by without notice. A large jewel on her left hand flashed prismatic ravs as the pages of the book were quickly turned. Presently a tall, well-dressed man, with an immense black mustache, got on the car and sat down by her side. He turned his eyes upon his neighlior with an admiring glance and never took them off. She did not know it until she raised her head quickly to see how far up the car had gone, when he smiled and bowed at her. She was buried in her book in a second and the carmine in her cheek took on a deeper tinge. He kept up the steady gaze. She felt it, but did not look up. Her face be­ came sober, and she held on to the book with a tighter grip. He moved his head forward, backward, and sideways and coughed to attract her attention. She was annoyed but tried not to show it. Though she appeared to be intently reading, the pages were not turned. He grew bolder and she became more determined not to notice him. As the car passed Cooper Institute he lowered his face close to her with a disgusting leer. She saw him not, and he was quiet for a moment. Then he raised his hand to his chin and touched the little woman's shoulder with his elbow. She did not stir, but the blood, seemed as if it would burst through her fair skin, and her eve-lids trembled. He repeated the last maneuver and lean­ ing toward her said something in a whisper. The little feet patted the floor for a second, then like a flash her left hand flew upward and the lustre ot the bright gem on her finger was buried in the cheek of the man who had in­ sulted her. Before he knew what was the matter the blow was repeated with greater force. The car had reached Fourteenth street, which was just where the "masher" wanted to go, and he slid out of the car as if the air were greased, with the laughter of the prssengers ringing in his ears. She seemed start­ led and smiled prettily in a frightened sort of a way, as if she had done some­ thing she ought not to have done. Then she tried to read her book, but she kept watch of the streets and when the car got to Twenty-fourth street she got off, as modest and unassuming as ever.--N. Y. Sun. Keeping Up. Pierre has a street car line and some half dozen other places are burrowing down in their pockets and are going to set up one too. We of Dakota are not much on letting another place get ahead. We are largely engaged in making Progress grab the bit in her teeth and throw a shoe in a mad at­ tempt to catch up. It keeps Advance­ ment standing up in the stirrups about half the time yelling for us to hold on. We are especially long on improve­ ments that we don't really need but are still handy to have about house. There's the electric light, shining and going out when it's most needed all over the territory despite the fact that the moon is full two-thirds of the time and on the half-shell the balance. The telephone with the mild hello and wild, wild output of profanity meets us on every hand. The "best system of waterworks in the territory" and the corresponding high rate of insurance, the national bank and the church debt, the paved streets and the sleeping night-watchman, the richly decorated opera house and Eli Perkins, the lux­ urious institution of higher education and the base ball dub; all these and many more are among us. It is an age of growth and progress for the territory. There is no stagna­ tion, everything iB on the move from the editor who takes that course to jare rent to the treasurer «l QM, of the northern counties who resolutely^ and uncomplainingly sets his face to­ ward Canada. It's all right, let things move; we can never hope to become a great state and have six or seven men in Congress trying to get postoffices for us unless we do in ore, --tell ine Belt. ONLY A BRUTAL SLANDER. ' ?r idk lid the temerity mwiifuit after slight Wheeler's Uncalled-for Attack Stanton's Memory. Upon After an A bold traveler to ascend Vesu ^ eruptions, and while ft was still in a state of ferment, tht»'deseribes its ap­ pearance : "Not a speck of green, not abird, not an insect; no life--only fields on fields of lava and. scoriae* and ashes. The silence from time to time was broken, but it was only by the low mutterings and growlings of the mountain that al­ ways heralded an upheaval of lava and debris. Again we bent our steps tip- words, going zigzag among scoriso and lava, passing various little extinct craters, until we came to where the mountain was hot and where white sul­ phurous smoke was rising all al>out. Here another halt was called, aiul the guide went off to explore. He soon returned and bade us follow. We could not go higher at this point for smoke and falling stones, and so he struck across the mountain in the Naples direction. We soon saw where we were--at the fountain-head of two streams of burn­ ing lava. These we must cross before we could make a further ascent. The guide stepped very cautiously on the black, cooling crusts of lava, and we followed. We were surrounded at times by sulphurous smoke. Our feet felt blistered in our boots. The lava creaked and cracked, but we passed lightly on. A little dog had followed us from the hotel; its piteous cries at­ tracted us. The poor creature was having its feet sorely burned, so we took it up and carried it But now we were safely over, and could examine more closely the phenomena. We approached as near the stream of burning lava as its scorching heat permitted. We saw it issuing from what looked like huge black cast-iron cylinders. These were formed of the outer rim* of lava that had gradually cooled somewhat and hardened. The burning mass moved constantly, but not equally. It seemed to pulse and throb in its flowing--to be jerked out of the cylinders. As it ad­ vanced down the mountain it grew in width and height, because always cool­ ing and became less liquid, until it ended in the great piles we first saw. I think the worst and most dangerous part of the whole ascent had now to be made. This was an almost perpen­ dicular cone of loose ashes. At every step we sank to the knees, so our prog­ ress was exceedingly slow. Right be­ low us were the burning streams of lava, into which it seemed we were bound to slide. Above us was the cra­ ter, whose -thunderings we could hear and whose tremblings at times we thought we felt. Breathless and ex­ hausted, we frequently lay down among the ashes. But at last we gained the summit, and all our exertions were re­ warded. Such a sight! The crater of Vesuvius! A perfect hell of sulphur, fire and smoke, cinders and ashes, and red-hot stones; its flooring of hardened lava was rent by seams and cracks and yawning chasms emitting stifling vapors, while in the midst of it all rose the last formed central cone of smoking debris, belching forth clouds of sulphurous vapor, and at intervals, with loud thun- derings, and with an effort that shook the mountain, throwing like a mighty fire fountain showers of rock and scoria; high into the air. AmicPthe terror of the scene there was an element of great beauty. The rich and varied coloring that everywhere prevailed was wonder­ ful, from the purest white up through all the shades of yellow and rich orange to deepest reds, the deposits of salts and sulphur and iron and chemical matters. . • - • Objected. Railroad surveyers occasionally re­ port laughable incidents, showing the ignorance of people, with regard to rail­ roads in localities not yet reached by the steam-cars. A party was surveying on a farm in the Far West, when an old man came hurrying out of his rude house, and asked: "What you doin' liefe?". ' ' "Surveying," was the reply of one of the engineers. "Surveying for what" , • ^ . « "For a railroad." "Where's it goin'?" "Right through your barn, I laughinglv said the engineer. "What!" "I can take it right through your barn." "Well, now, Mister, I calculate I've got somethin' to say 'bout that. I want you to understand that I've got some- thin' else to do l>ssides runnin' out to open and shut them doors ev'ry time a train wants to run through." On another clearing, an old lady came hurrying out, in the most excited frame of mind. " What you men doing on my ground ?" she asked. "Surveying for the new line of rail­ road, Madam." "Is it coming here?" "Yes, Ma'am. The topography of the locality is such that we shall prob­ ably be obliged to do this." "Well, now, it just shan't do nothin' of the sort." "You will be paid fir all damages done" "That don't make no diffrence. Your old ingine cars ain't comin' here." "I fear they will have to." "Well, now look here. Ill tell you right out an' out what I'll do. An' I'll do it as sure as them cars come inside this fence, an' you can tell the railroad so. Ill tie my clo'es-line across the track ev'ry single night, an' smash your ingineallto pieces! I will, I vum I will." *5 Author and Publisher. A young author without a name but with a meritorious manuscript will in the case of a majority of publishing houses receive in answer to his request to publish a proposition to do so pro­ vided the author will forward from $300 to $500, according to the size of the book, the condition offered being that the publishing house will then put the book on the market and account to the au­ thor for 75 per cent, of the wholesale price df the book. Some publishing houses will accept the $500 check of the author and agree in consideration to re­ turn the same when the book reaches an edition, say of 2,000, after which a copyright or royalty will be allowed the author somewhat larger than if the au; thor invested in the work. In either case the demand is that the author shall also become a publisher, using the reg­ ular publishing firms as agents. CANTERBURY is the place for self-sac­ rifice. When a young lady who has been eating onions appears at a country dance, all the rest bite an onion, that she may not feel embarassed m lonely. | [Washington cor. Chicago Tribune.] I The Southern brigadiers in the h&lli of their fathers have at last got expression for the venomous hatred they bear to the mem­ ory of Edwin M. Stanton. There appears in tho Congressional Record to-day the complete speech of Wheeler of Alabama, which has been delivered in part at the last two Friday night sessions. Wheeler gives as a reason for the speech that "his acci­ dental and unpremeditated assertion that Stanton's talents had been sometimes used to disparage and even to destroy those who did not conform to his views" was being misconstrued. This "accidental and unpremeditated assertion" was m ide during the debate on the military appropriation bill. It was then ! that the ex-rebel cavalry General de­ nounced Stanton as an arch-conspirator who sought to conspire and destroy those who did not agree with him. This brought oat Hepburn's savage rebuke that since Stanton was dead the very men around whose necks he bad drawn (he halter and who owed so much to his forbearance were the foremost to malign the great War Sec­ retary. Th e seemed to rankle deeply in the hearts of the ex-rebels in Cong ess. It was about the time Jeff Davis was receiv­ ing the plaudits of the Southern people, and the Brigadiers seemed to think it in­ cumbent on them to make some sign by which it would be known that a Democrat­ ic administration was ngainln power. This is done in Wheeler's speech, which for vir­ ulence exceeds anything ever put forth by Northern Copperheads. It is an elaborate attempt to make out that Stanton should 6tahd out in his country's history as re­ markable only for infamy. In the first discussion Wheelet; confined his malice to denouncing Stanton's coin'se with reference to the two Northern idols of the rebels--McClellan and Fitz John Por­ ter. In his calmer and more deliberate as­ sault he has undertaken to show that in the closing days of HucfiananV Cabinet Stan­ ton was guilty of a degree of turpitude that would have made Benedict Arnold blush. All this because Stanton had recognized that slavery and secession were both crushed by the agency of the Republican party, which was soon to take the reins of the Government. Wheeler shows much feel­ ing over the War Secretary's treatment of Isaac Toueey, the Naval "Secretary, who had dispersed the. war vessels of the United States into distant seas upou empty er­ rands. The secret of Wheeler's malice crops out in his declaration that the Demo­ cratic party of the North crushed the re­ bellion; that Bm-hanau would have done it anyhow had he been let alone; that the Southern members left the Cabinet because they thought it right to do so; and much of the same sort. Probably the most atrocious passage in the whole article is the insidious suggestion conveyed in the following words: "Can it be possible, then, that Mr. Stan­ ton maintained secret and confidential re­ lations with a third body of men wl^ose secrets he systematically disclosed? If so, could this third body have consisted of Se­ cessionists pure and simple and their sym­ pathizers? It 6eenis well-nigh incredible, and yet that conclusion seems to be una­ voidable. But, irresistible as this conclu­ sion appears to be, I reject^, utterly. I had rather be thought illogical than so sim­ ply credulous as to permit even the most potent reasons to convince my judgment of 60 arrant an absurdity as that Mr. Stanton ever established or ever held--!or even the briefest period--confidential relations with the Secessionists. I almost dare be sworn that he never was so associated. It is not merely an absurdity--it is in impossibility. So firm is my faith on this point that tire could not burn it out of me." This cowardly stab is based on the. un­ questionable services which Stanton ren­ dered in ferreting out the plots of the traitors who were conspiring to destroy the Union under Buchanan's eyes. Concern­ ing the sentence of the court-martial in the Fitz John Poiter case, Wheeler calls it "the tiiumph of deception," and says the means by which effect was given to the sentence still further confirm the presumption of prearranged determination to work the ruin of the officer at all hazards. Wheeler fur­ ther goes into much war history to prove that the War Secretary had absolutely noth­ ing to do with the successes of the Union forces. This is sought to lie shown by a few garbled extracts from Gen. Grant, and also officers of the caliber of J. B. Fry. He repeats all the stale slanders about Mrs. Surratt, and sums up his assault by claim­ ing to have proved that an innocent woman was executed, despite a recommendation to clemeticy; that Stanton systematically vio­ lated the trust reposed in him by Buchanan and the Cabinet; that he professed fealty to one set of party fuemls while se­ cretly aiding their enemies; that he was insatiable in engrossing power and arbi­ trary and ruthless in exercising it; that he conspired to disgrace and ruin one officer of the Government and secured the dis­ missal of another hv the most reprehensible devices. It is scarcely conceivable that these slauders will be allowed to pro un­ answered. Most of them are entirelycon- sistent with Wheeler's view that the men who, while holding offices of trust under the Government betrayed it, were moved by a sense of dutv. While the Republican members recognised that it is proper under a Democratic administration for the Demo­ crats to give voice to their true feelings, and while any reply to Wheeler's challenge may bring out thq cry of bloody shirt, yet some one probably will be found with ihe hardihood to offend the sensitive mug- wumpsby hurling back the insinuations of Stanton's traducers. Decoration-Day the only ilowers on the War Secretary's grave were placed there by a stranger. This ac­ cidental oversight might be taken to show that the people of to-day sympathize with the rebel view of his character, unless some voice is heard in the halls of the fathers ^defending his memoiy from the malignant assaults of those about whose necks, as Hepburn said, he drew the halter. . . «... : .«• XO WOMEN IX THAT TOW*. COAL-OIL PAYNE. The Charge* of Hrihery in Hii* Klettlou Will Certainly Be InventigatcU. [Washington special to Indianapolis Jburnal."| As predicted in these dispatches some time ago, there is undoubtedly going to be an investigation into the charges against Senator Payne, of Ohio, whose election, it is alleged, was obtained t>y the use of money. Your correspondent has had con­ versations with a majority of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, which has the charges against Senator Payne under consideration, and he finds a very firm determination on the part of the members of the committee to make an example of some one who has been elected through fraud. As one of the gentlemen stated: "The use of money in Legislatures where Senators are elected has become too common and is too often winked at; somebody must be made an example of." Even the Democratic Stnators here believe that money was used in securing the election of Senator Payne. It is simply a question now of proving it. Senator Payne will have justice done him; but theie is a feeling akin to exasperation on the part of every one, when this frequent use of money in buying seats in Congress is spoken of, and a feeling which almost borders on taking the benefit of the doubt to the side of the prosecution; The inves­ tigation of the charges against Senator Payne will probably be made during the recess of Congress, and as it is to be thor­ ough, and there will be some earnest men at the buck of it, the venerable politician will have to look well to his guns. If he is not ousted from Lis seat the report which the committee will make will undoubtedly be an issue in the Senate next winter. "ACTIVITT in Greece," as the fly said when he tried to kick himself out of the butter-dish; McoUarltto* of a City Wbm Man lag-- and Births Never Occur. *1 know a city in the United States <*f over 130,000 population where not one vote was caBt for G rover Cleve­ land." "Where was that , "In Washington." "I know a stranger place tlmn that. I have been to a town where there had been no births or marriages in hun­ dreds of years, yet people live there and die." The captain of the bark "Malta" orossed his legs, opened and shut the blade of a penknife with his thumb and finger and complacently chewed tobacco. The "Malta" arrived at New York from the Mediterranean last Friday, with figs and Egyptian onions. "Yes," said Capt. Baldwin, "we ran up the west shore of the .3£gean Sea to Haggion Oros, meaning the Greek holy mountain. It is a grand pile of rocks, rising 6,200 feet straight out of the water, trom the end of a narrow pe­ ninsula. What Giberaltar is to the Mediterranean, Haggion Oros is to the Dardanelles. This peninsula runs back from the mountain about 40 miles, grand coast--and averages 6 miles wide. It is joined to the larger Chal- cedonian peninsula by a narrow neck of sand. They told me there that Xerxes, the fellow who led a million of heathen soldiers, cut a canal through the sand at that point for his vessels to sail through. There is another moun­ tain on the peninsula--Mt. Athos. We had an Ohio preacher and his daugh­ ter, passengers from Alexandria, on board, and the preacher told us about the peninsula and town of Athos. " 'Before Christendom,' said he 're­ cluses used to live at Mt. Athos in holes in the ground. The solemnity inspired by the bare peak of the mountain har­ monized well with their minds, bent on wild and mystic thoughts. So,' said he, 'after the new religion came the place got to be a popular resort for monks, who didn't want to live with the rest of mankind* and Greek monks have been going to that peninsula ever since,until now,after 1,600 or l,800years, they have formed an ecclesiastical self- government. Under, the Byzantine emperors the monks were under no secular control whatever, but now the Turkish government keeps a caimakan there. He has no power, however. His duty is only to observe the monks. The caimakan has two zapteiths, or soldiers, for a body-guard, but they represent the honor of the office more than the power. The community has its own police in the shape of a squad of Albanians. The monks govern them­ selves by a council of representatives over which the proteros, or president, rules. He is called the First Man of Atlios. The proteros can only be boss for three months at a time. He then re­ signs to the next eminent citizen until the honor is shared by every man in the council. "They wouldn't let the ^preacher's daughter land. No woman is allowed, on any pretense whatever, to set foot in the territory. No female creature of any kind--cow, she goat or mare, or animal capable of giving birth to its kind--is found there. Not even hens are permitted in Atlios. So there have been no births, no marrirges, no love- m akings nor scandals there. Just about as many Greek monks get sick of the world and go to Athos as there are those who Jpe. But what a sanctimon­ ious funeral a monk must have there-- priests for mourners, hack drivers, pall­ bearers, grave-diggers, and lookers-on." The World's Seven Wonders. - The hanging gardens at Babylon were 75 feet high, built on seven tiers of arches, one over the other. The top was covered with earth, in which flow­ ers and even large trees had been planted. Water was supplied by aque­ ducts from the river Euphrates/ The Pharos at Alexandria, erected by the architect Sostratus, under the reign of Ptolmy Philadelphia B. C. 832, was the first lighthouse on record, and, ac­ cording to Joseplins, the light could be seen for fully forty English miles. Wood fires were used instead of lamps. The Olympian Zeus, a statue of Ju­ piter at Olympia, the work of Phidias, 55 feet in height, was made of ivory and gold. It represented the father of gods seated on a throne. The temple of Diana at Ephesus will be remembered by all Bible readers. It was 425 feet long, 225 feet broad, and supported by 127 columns of Parian marble, each GO feet high. The Colossus of Rhodes was an enor­ mous brass statue of the sun god, Apollo. It rested over the entrance of the harbor, all ships passing between its brazen legs. It was built 280 years before Christ, and thrown down by an earthquake. The next one also shared the same fate. The Mausoleum was a magnifi­ cent tomb, erected by Artemissia, to bury her husband, Mausolus, King of Caria. It stood for many centuries, and its foundations could still be traced in 1856. The pyramids of Egypt are the most wonderful of all the seven wonders, and so well known that we cAn in our brief space add nothing of interest. The Artful Turtle. It may be safely asserted that, from the highest to the lowest grade, ani­ mals have tlieir own and wonderful de­ vices to prey on their natural enemies, or to procure their food. The turtle is a remarkable and successful fisher. The writer had the curiosity to know how this slovenly ami slow amphibia lived, and found to his astonishment, in a ninety-pound specimen's stomach, three trout, as they are commonly called in the South, but which in reality are bass. On close examination, whether they had been devoured dead or alive, I found that the last had evi­ dently not been caught by his turtle- ship more than twenty-four hours, as it had not decomposed any, showing the marks where it had almost been bitten in two. The result of my search proved to me that, when the turtle's appetite calls upon him, he lays down in his favorite fishing place, closes his eyes, opens his mouth to its fullest capacity, plays his angle-worm which is, to all intents and purjioses, a perfect counterpart of a worm, on the end of his tongue, and he is ready for business. The game fish which "is out looking for worms, with his habitual rapidity fairly flies into the jaws of death. Thus the turtle fishes until his appetite is gratified. The fa -t that he lives on such 'fine food gives his flesh that richness which is so highly prized by epicures and which renders his soup so highly prized. Arkansaw Traveler. • zsM Si OVER a little shop in the east END °F the city there is a sign which reads, "Satan died here," by which the owner Mm are dyed at his shop. '• Hiwir --A Chicago boy has bewi anesxke$ J whose eyes are like those of a cat. If > --The pay-roll of a coal company at 4, eatur now averages $6,000 a month. --Jesse Mondie, of QtiinCy, caught a est^ fish which , weighed - 100 pounds' ilm , dressed.. . ; , < 4$ * ... .. f --Capt. Joel S. Post, a member of 8*isvSi Macon Connty bar since 1841, died at De­ catur, aged 71. ' j --"Chub," an old war horse, is still aliv* , at Genesee.' Its owner, Col. Galligan, rod* ,,'j the animal during the rebellion. | s J --About $1,000 have been expended bf 3§j the authorities at Cullom in beautifying the > ' ! J village. A park has been laid out and ; myriads of trees planted. , . .. --A swarm of bees has taken np its quar* t?rs in the cornice of a public building if| , $4, ; • Perry. The bees are hard at work laying1 ( ^ up honey in their novel hive. > 1 --An incendiary fire at Assumption de- "% stroyed five stores and a barber-shop, en- > tailing a loss of $30,000. Personal fendk \ • \i are said to be at the bottom of the matte*. ^ ^ --A book-she'f in the office of SherHf * Ware of Urbana is supported by the heads of four stuffed collie puppies. Each puppjjr \4 has a brass collar around its neck and all* i are connected by a brass chain. --Maggie Parker, nee Walker, of Fire*- fV port, poisoned herself with corrosive sob- • limate and expired Wednesday, because " -. relatives opposed her marriage, which took s place secretly six months ago,. « •. --Several farmers in Livingston County ' have recently been swindled by a man wfaw ' t sold them strawberry plants warranted nofr ' i to send out runners. The plants tbreateipt to spread trret the whole Congressional ' 4 * district. • \' * : 4/ --The members of the Masonic BenevO- * "11 lent Association of Central Illinois met Mattooa and re-elected its old officers, witfe the exception of Director H. P. Buxton <£* Carlyle, who was succeeded by Dr. J. T*; Craig of Kansas City, Missouri. ; • ; --Fish Commissioner Bartlett distributed * 2,000,000 native fish throughout the Stat#' ' during the last week. He announces thtft 4 ; the crop of young bass this year isunparal- > > $; leled in the history of Illinois waters, and that in growth they are a month in advanaa ; M of their usual time. --A young society man at Qtrincy wSs ' j recently informed that a female friend of f | his was about to be married at the polie*; • ^ station. He at once bought a bottle of wine > s Jj and immediately purchased a fine ring fat4 . the bride and rushed to the station. Oft > - •' | entering the court-room he asked for tha bride to be, and a likely colored girl wM .{1 . -A p o i n t e d o u t . H e a c k n o w l e d g e d t h a t h e h a * l : . > { • - been sold, and cigars were ordered. , .> ... 5. --"June 1," wrote the editor of the As- sumption Tribune, "we will sever eur omW *' - "tj nection with the Tribune and fine people a# . * * ' _ M Assumption. During our Bix months' stagr . in your town we have formed some friendly , «.. j acquaintances and made true friends of ' J2 honorable, upright, law-adding men and women. In that time we have discovered ' -it that there are a majority of your citizeafl , : who are unworthy the confidence or res peat . of hopest people. It is with feelings of re* V i gret that we leave the former to the mercies, . M of the mob, but the latter we leave with ap feeling of gratefulness like unto a sinner after repentance." -" • - 'i< --Two United States expeditions yean 4 > '-i ago crossed the Fox Biver near St. Charles. ^ , f y The first was that of Major Stephen Bl Long, which forded the river in 1823 dur- -r j ing the Indian troubles of that year. The I other consisted of four companions under • '? the command of Col. Cummings, wbich marched from Chicago to a point on Rook Biver near the present city of Beloit, Wisl, ' ' ^ : in August, 1832,dnring theBlackhawk war. ' \4.^ The graves of two of Col. Cummings' sol* > i , v1. diers, who died of cholera, are still to be" seen near the crossing place. Citizens of St. Charles are discussing the subject off erecting a monument to mark the 6pot. * --A large number of convicts in the Joliifc ^ Penitentiary, who have apparently resolve# , .. upon abandoning evil ways, wen on Sun* . v day admitted to the Catholic Church, the - > rite of confirmation being performed If • ' Archbishop Feehan, assisted by several priests. It was the first event of its kind . that ever took place within the prison walls... ^ ^ Among the men confirmed were a few no* torions Chicago crooks. Some of the con- * verts signed a pledge to abstain from the ^ ^ use of strong diink for five years. In a. • ' number of instances this pledge will un- doubtedly be kept--where the terms of this ^ v * .i| men do not expire within the, time pre- \ jj scribed in the pledge. J Policeman in IlisjfnM*. [East SL Louis telegram.] The City Council to-night discharged the entire police force on the charge of con­ spiracy to rob the banks and business houses of the city. Eighteen months ag» \-..t the city treasury was robbed of $8,000, anjl ^ a Lieutenant of Police, Tom Duffy, is now'"C ' ̂ sei vinR a sentence in Chester for the crime. ' > ; 4 He made a confession recently, the re6til| of which was the trial of two other city officials for implication in the offense. The jury disagreed. Sheriff Ropiquet, of St •* M. Clair County, recently arrested a burglar ; ^ who after a short confinement gave him th^ t details of a gigantic conspiracy to plunder* * * East St. Louis. His story was subetan* •4;;, 4* > tially that he and two other cracksmen, a®.:- • .'f*- exports in their line, h$d been invited to>> ^ f, come to East St Louis to operate. The in* vitations came from certain members of the t,v* police force. Accordingly, he and his pali^i* < U *,' * i caiue and had several interviews with tb^:. ^ police, th^ result of which was the forma* • ^ tiou of plans to rob the East St. Louis 15nnk, the Workingmen's Bank, and a half*'* * * ^ dozen of the leading business housts. Ay 1. • man named Jac ; Britton, employed at thf • Littl ' Rolling Mill. ws\s alleged to be in th# conspir »cy. and had charge of the taolsfe^fvt Both batiks were to be plundered the snma> > ^ l.iiht, and by ^rearrangement the police »« - ^ were to be ont of the way. The ussderw ; ' * standing was that the police were to h tvf> ." half, and help the burglars get off with thfe?; booty. Upon the strength of this Brittoffc, was nt once arrested, and is now in th# Belleville jail. i The matter was called to the attention of Mayor Joyce, and the faets and circum-, ,; ^ * stances pointed so strongly against the forc#„" ' ' ih_ that he called a special session of the conn** *"Vl* ' V 'a cil to-uipht. The matter was partially ex* * V.: auiined in the «v>iincil chamber, and a res©* ^ lution was adopted discharging the entire force of fourteen mt n, Chief Holleran alon# being retaine l. It is alleged that the ma*v»\ '£ jority of the policemen had a guilty knot»U. „ edge of the conspiracy, and that they wilf,, ^ be ptoceeded against. Detectives are novf' workiug » n tho case, and it is himed that' <r\, '• further developments of a r<markubl«k A*'v nature will so©:; be tuade public. Several . J of the po'ic men discharged are near rel«-» - tives of city officials and members of th«j** y* •ouneil. They wt 10 all prominent during ,. 4--^ ; t ) the recent strike, and aided IhJ striken i 1 f#Sy| ^ " ' t 4 ' ' f t . I . > • •• ' , 1 \ • , ' * '.iH