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rgflara&aler i* VMftLYKE, EihrMMMir ILMNOIS. McHENRT, MB. Bunra, GOT.-elect Bodwell, sod other prominent men in Maine are each laving made a suit of clothes the ma­ terial of "which was grown and milled in Maine. The goods will be "ill wool and a yard wide." MES. JOHN C. MILLEB, of Keytes- •"rille, Mo., has a ship biscuit which it is stid was brought from England in 1630. People who have seen it, however, de­ clare that the petrifaction bears a sus­ picious resemblance to a railroad res­ taurant sandwich of the present day. MME. BOUCICAUT, of the Bon Marche, Paris, has given her employes, outright, a pension fund of over $1,000,000. This 'fluid is available to - all who have been In her service twenty years, provided the men are at least 50 and the women 45 years old; and not among the share­ holders of the establishment. Mme. Boucicaut has in addition paid the fee which the State charges on legacies, amounting to nearly $140,000. A BELLEVEBNON (Pa.) paper tells that A lady of that city has a remarkable sewing machine. For three years it •was run constantly every day, and for ihe past three only for their own sew­ ing, and during these six years it was never taken apart to be cleaned and oiled, nor has there been a screw re­ moved from its place. For three years there was but one needle used in it for all purposes and a few days since it gave out, having been worn up to the «ye. The machine has just been cleaned oiled thoroughly for the first time. resistible. The Bullions of India are not cared for; they bear the burden. The result is not yet; but these de­ partures from morality and from true statesmanship will bring about calamity, and perhaps ruin, which our children may witness and deplore. You write what is true on the Indian ques­ tion, so far as I have read what you have written, and I hope your efforts may yield some good fruit." IT is not truer M some of our ex­ changes have said, that a pulmonary weakness has compelled Mr. Nye, the popular humorist, to cancel his lecture engagements and to seek rest and quiet among the hills Of North Caro­ lina. Nye has no lung trouble at alL His present ill health results from the serious sickness which he had four years ago and, which kept him an inva­ lid for many months. This sickness was meningitis, one of the severest mal­ adies ; it left Nye pretty nearly a phys­ ical wreck and he has never been able to recover his old-time vigor. He found that traveling aggravated certain symptoms which were unpleasant, if not alarming; the mbtion of railway trains gave him terrible pains in the base of the brain, and finally he found himself a victim to nervous torments, a specially distressing feature being an apprehension that these symptoms por­ tended death. Everybody who has suffered with what is called nervous dyspepsia will know how horrible this apprehension is. At any rate, Nye be­ came so thoroughly alarmed about him­ self that he vowed he would travel no more for the present, and forthwith he started for the hilly fastnesses of the tar-heel State, where, if we may judge by the cheerful tone of his letters, he is rapidly improving. CONGRESSMAN SYMES, of Colorado, says a Washington correspondent, is creating a great deal of amusement at both ends of the capitol by retailing a story which shows Senator Sherman to SENATORS ELECTED. Charles B. Farwell Chosen . Jtaoceed the Late •£• era! Logan. * to Stockbridge Selected in Michigan «>4 ; lkvis in Minnesota -- Senatorial Elections. THERE is a happy little family in San Francisco, the head of which knows the art and taste of good living. He has mo elaborate courses and few useless ac- He has a little niece about 1>e sadlJ deficient in the noble science <cessories "the regulation age of clever children. She is vety fond of going to his house ior dinner, and he is very fond of having her there. But it puzzled him for a long time to know why she seemed to like to have dinner there, seeing her own home was a very luxurious one. He said to her one evening, "You like to come here to dinner, don't you?" *'Oh, yes; indeed I do." "Why?" "Be­ cause I like your little short dinners." .He's the most flattered man in the city. . EUGENE CARTER, the billiardist, was ifWng ah exhibition of fancy billiards at the Press Club rooms in Chicago, when Wizard Herrmann walked up to the table, and, seizing a red ball and a white ball, tossed them in the air, where they appeared to vanish. Carter looked on in amazement as the Mepliis- toplielian prestidigitateur combed the spheres out of a night police reporter's whiskers and rolled them upon the ta- "ble. "Pretty good shot yourself," said JSugenc, looking at the wizard. "Oh, .pretty fair at my game," replied the Frenchman. "And what game is that ?" "*'Banking," retorted Herrmann, raking several hundred dollars out of the gov- ornment building reporter's shirt front. .THE Seventy-first Regiment, Penn­ sylvania Volunteers, known as Col. E. ~T). Baker's California Begiment, has iinally agreed upon a plan of monu- 'anent to be erected at Gettysburg to ^designate the position held by the com­ mand, which was part of the Philadel­ phia Brigade, at the time of Long- tstreet and Pickett's charge on the third •day. The monument will be a more elaborate memorial than most of those now on that battle-field. It will be of Hhode Island granite,* 14 feet high, 6 ieet 6 inches square at the base and 4 feet at the top square, which will be surmounted by gables. The tablet on which will be placed the inscriptions will be polished granite. The clover leaf--Second Army Corps badge--will occupy a prominent place on the monu­ ment. The entire cost will be $2,000. . .THE Farm, Field, and Stockman lias an interesting article in relation to the value of straw on the farm. It is stated to "be a highly useful article for the roof, as a filling for walls, and as a floor both in the barn and out of doors. But there is one use for straw which the paper does not allude to--that is, as fuel. It has been found to be of •especial value in this respect on the vast treeless stretches of Dakota and West­ ern Minnesota. About two years ago a genius living not far from Huron, Dak., invented a stove for the burning of straw, properly prepared and pressed, which has already come into extensive use and found to be one of the very best of all the appliances that have been zesorted to for securing comfort during the long, cold winters of that region. Jt furnishes a good supply of heat and requires renewal but about once an hour. As the material for feeding it is abundant on the areas that are devoted to the raising of grain the straw-burn­ ing stove is not only used on farms that would otherwise have to be deserted •during the winter, but it is said to have materially reduced the demand for coal in not a few districts which heretofore liave been able to obtain the latter only at a high price on account of the large ^tjjpst of transportation. THE following letter has been written "by Mr. John Bright, in acknowledging the receipt of a copy of "India Before and After the Mutiny," by "An Indian Student": "I regret with you and con­ demn the course of Lord Dufferin in Burmah. It is a renewed of the old system of crime and guilt which we had hoped had been forever abandoned. There is great ignorance on the part of the public in this country, and great 0, selfishness here and in India, as to our true interest in India. Extension of territory, new markets for our manu­ factures, fresh fields for promotions, with salaries and pension* and honors-- all these temptations are held out; and tthej are powerful, and with majL^ ij- of poker. Symes came to Washington in a private car with Senator Bowen. At Cincinnati they were joined by Sen­ ator Sherman, who found them whiling away the hours by a little game of poker. He was asked to take a hand, and although his knowledge of poker was rather hazy he consented. His blunders were a source of great amuse­ ment to the Colorado men. Bowen took particular delight in mystifying him. Once there was a jack-pot, which Sherman "opened" with a pair of queens. On the draw he caught a pair of aces. Elated over his fine ham&, he bet rather freely, and Bowen "saw him" every time. Finally Sherman called. "Three pairs," said Bowen, gravely, showing np his hand, "kings, eights, and fours." "Good," replied Sherman, "I have only two pairs. I thought I had the pot for sure that time. You're a lucky fellow, Bowen." The laugh that followed was something uproarious, but the Ohio Senator failed to see the fun till it was explained to him. Then he earnestly begged his companipns to keep the thing quiet. Symes has not complied with the request, however. Written Under Pressure, In a chat with a gentleman well known in the literary world he told me a number of entertaining things in connection with his literary experience. I asked him, among other things, whether he had ever written auything under high pressure. We had been talking about inspiration, but he pur­ posely misconstrued my meaning in the reply he made. "Yes," he said, "I once wrote a poem of forty lines in as many min­ utes, and it wasn't a bad poem either. It was a case of compulsory composi­ tion and taxed me mere than I had ever been taxed before--or since. I had sent to a certain magazine a poem entitled 'The Light House in a Storm.' Not hearing about it for almost a year, I concluded that it had been declined. I then had it put in a literary weekly of which I was the editor, and had a fine engraving made of it. The page was made up, and just about to go to the electrotypers, when the magazine for the month arrived, and, upon open­ ing it, there was the poem. A cold chill ran up my back--or down it, I'm not certain which. Of course it couldn't appear in the other journal--but there was tfie engraving, the forty lines of space, the form ready to go to the elec­ trotypers. I ran up to the composing room. 'Can you hold that form for half an hour ?' I asked of the foreman. 'I'll try,' he said. I dashed off an­ other light-house poem (so as to utilize the engraving), had it inserted, and was relieved of my embarrassment. It was entirely different from the other poem." "And which was the best poem?" I asked. "The one which I was compelled to write," he eaid. "If I was inspired I wasn't conscious of it, I'm sure. I'll show you both poems some day, and you can judge for yourself."--Phila­ delphia Call. CHABLES B. rASWKU. 'the Sew Senntor-KI«t from Illinois. Charles B. Farwell has been elected by the Illinois Legislature to succeed Hon. John A. Logan in the Senate of the United States. The Democratic members of the Legislature cast their votes for Hon Wil­ liam R. Morrison, while the Labor party members voted for Benjamin \V. Goodhue. Mr. Farwell was born in Painted Post, N. Y., July 1, 1823; was educated at the Elmira Academy; removed to Illinois in 1838; was employed in government sur­ veying and in farming until 1844, when he engaged in the real estate business and in banking in Chi­ cago; was elected County Clerk of Cook County in 1853, and was re-elected in 1857. He subsequently engaged in mer­ cantile pursuits, and is now the widely * known member of the firm of John V. Farwell & Company. He was appointed a member of the State Board of Equalization in 1867; was chair­ man of the Board of Supervisors of Cook County in 18G8; was appointed National- Bank Examiner in 18C9; was elected a £ep- ing citizens. He was the first Senator sent to Washington from the new State. He s re-elected, and his two terms lasted from 1864 to 1875. Mr. Stewart possesses large wealth. His residence ie in San Francisco, where he entertains handsomely. He married in 1855 a daughter of ei- Gov. Henr^ S. Foote, of Mississippi. 8SNATOK QUAY. Sew Representative In the House of Lords. The Legislature of Pennsylvania has de­ termined that Matthew Stanley Quay shall succeed John L Mitchell as Senator from that State. Mr. Qnav's residence is in the f 1 (ihastlj Plaster Cast. There is a curious object of interest in the Algiers museum--a ghastly plaster cast of the Christian martyr Oeronimo, writhing in the agony of death. Tradition had for 300 years told the story of the Moorish lad who, coming under the influence of Spanish missionary monks, became a Christian and a saint in all but faith. He abjured the faith, it was said, for a brief mo­ ment under the pressure of bitter per­ secution and slavery, but returned to it with new zeal, and proved it in the end by a heroic and horrible death--that of being thrown alive, with his hands tied behind him, into a block of liquid con­ crete, which was afterward built into the wall of one of the outlying forts near the city. Such was the tradition, singularly and literally true in the minutest details, as was proved in 1853, when part of the Fort des Vinsrtquatre Heures was demolished, and block of concrete found containing the accurate impression of the writhing body, face downward, and the hands tied with cords behind the back. The block itself was claimed by the church, and deposited with great honor in what used to be a Mohammedan mosque, but is now the Roman Catholic cathedral of the town.--The Argonaut. resentatire from Illinois in the XLIId Congress as a Republican, receiving 20,- 342 votes against 15,025 for John Went- worth; was elected to the XLIIId Congress and the XLlYth, running against J. V. Le Moyne and receiving a majority of votes, though after Mr. Farwell had served for over a year, the House gave Mr. LeMoyne the seat. ~ FRANCIS B. 8TOCKBRIOGK. The Successor of Onmr II. Conger, of of Omar Michigan. Francis B. Stoetbridge, of Kalamazoo, will succeed Omar D. Conger in the Senate, having received a majority of the votes of the Michigan Legislature. Mr. Stockbridge was born in Maine in 1826. In 1847 he came to Chicago, and was employed as a clerk at a lumber dock. He saved some money, joined some lumbermen at Sauga- tuck, Mich., started a mill or two, and in 1850 went to Saugatuck to live. In 1873 he located in Kalamaeoo. He is reported to be worth $750,000. Col. Stockbridge is a large, fine-looking man, full of beaming good-nature, and famed for his broad views and whole-souled liberality. One secret of his popularity in Michigan is that he has helped hundreds of men in business, and aided scores in other ways--some, perhaps, who were undeserving. There is a saying in Michigan that Stockbridge is ou every­ body's note and everybody's bond. He be­ gan his canvass for the Senatorship last summer, and was ahead of everybody in the field. His only real opponent was Conger. STEWART, OF NEVADA. The Man Who Will Succeed Millionaire Fair. The Legislature of the little State of Nevada has chosen William Morris Stew­ art to till the seat in the Senate hitherto occupied by James Graham Fair. Mr. Stewart was born in Wayne County, New IT is worth remem wealth will suffice us less to die happily. bering that a little s to live well, and York, in August, 1827. In 1833 his parentB removed to Trumbull County, Ohio, where his schoolboy days were spent. He went to the Pacific coast with the great tide of emigration which swept thitherward in 1849. Beaching Nevada County, Cali­ fornia, in April. 1850, he engaged in gold-mining, and was fairly successful. With the proceeds of ais digging, some $8,000 or $10,000, he engaged in the study of law, and was ad­ mitted to the bar of Nevada City in 1852. He removed to Virginia City, Nev., in 1860» tn 18$3, when Nevada was admitted to the Union of States, he was one of her lead- western part of the State, but as a public man of long standing he is known through­ out Pennsylvania, and has many influential fri ends in all the principal towns and cities of that commonwealth. In 1873 he was Secretary of State under Governor Har- tranft, and he advertised the new Constitu­ tion in every newspaper of note in Penn­ sylvania. The office he is now holding is that of State Treasurer. A eulogist speaks of him as "conciliating in council, and easy of approach to the humblest citizen. Ora­ tory is said not to be one of his strong points but he is a man of culture and his publk address is good. JSX-GOV. C. K. DAVIS. Tin Newly Eleoted Senator from Mill* nem t \. Cushman K. Davis has keen chosen United States Senator from Minnesota for six years from the 4th of March next. Governor Davis attended Carroll College, an incipient seat of learniug at Wau­ kesha, Wis. Carroll College is now thing of the past, but it once promised to be a large and famous school. It was the first notable iustauce of co education in the United States. The plan worked well there. The girls did the cook ing and the boys fnrnished the meat and groceries, and if the good friends of the institution had been numerous and rich enough to provide salaries for the pro feasors, the experiment might bv this time have become one of the marvels of Western civilization. Davis studied law with Alex­ ander Randall, who afterward became Johnson's Postmaster General. He went to the law Bchool at Ann Arbor, and gradu­ ated in 1857. Last July he delivered the address to the graduating clasB of the Michigan University. He served one term as Uovernor of Minnesota. OTHER SENATORS. Hearst Returned from California. [San Francisco specisj.] The Legislature balloted for a United States Senator on Tuesday. In the Sen ate George Hearst (Dem.) received 25 and Henry Vrooman (Rep.) 11 votes. In the Assembly Hearst received 38 and Vrooman 40. On Wednesday the two houses for mally met in joint convention and elected Hearst. Whitthorne tor the Short T«ras In TM The Tennessee Legislature, at Nash ville, elected Hon. Washington C. Whit- thorne to the short Senatorial term, he receiving 82 votes to 49 cast for J. A Nunn. " Hawley Re-elected In Connectlwrt. Both houses of the Connecticut Legists ture re-elected Senator Joseph R. Hawley The vote in the Senate was 12 for Hawley to 10 for Charles R. Ingersoll. The total vote cast iu the House was 227. Hawley received 128, Ingersoll 'J8, and Henry C Baldwin, Knight of Labor, 1. Cockrell Succeed* Himself. The two branches of the Missouri Legis lature voted separately for a successor to Senator ( ockrell. in the House the vote stood: Cockrell, 86; Warner, 50; Ford, In the Senate: Cockrell, 25; Warner 8 Subsequently tbe two houses met in joint convention, and formally elected Senator Cockrell. _ Gray the Choice of Delaware. Both houses of ihe Delaware General Asserfbly, in separate session, voted unan­ imously for the re-election of George Gray as United States Senator. The joint ses­ sion formally ratified the election. Kitgeue Utile Re-elected. The Maine Legislature elected Engene Hale to Bucceed himself as United States Senator. The vote was as follows: Senate --Hale, 27; W. i*. Clifford, 3. House- Hale, 114; Clifford, 26. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. Regarding the Celebration of Uio Constitu­ tional Centennial. |Washington telegram. I The President sent the following mes­ sage to Congress on Tuesday: To the Sennta and House of liepresentatives: As a matter of national interest and one solely within the discretion and control of Con­ gress, I transmit the accompanying memorial of the Executive Committee of the Sub-Con­ stitutional Centennial Commission proposing to celebrate the 18th of September, 18s7, in the eitv of Philadelphia, as the day upon which and the place where the convention that framed the Federal Constitution concluded its labors and submitted the result for ratification to the thirteen States then compoBiug tbe United States. The epoch was one of the deepest interest, and the events well worthy of commemora­ tion. I am aware that us each State acted in­ dependently in giving its adhesion to the new Constitution the dates and anniversaries of their several ratifications are not coincident. Some action looking to a national expression in relation to the celebration of the close ot the first century of popular government under a written constitution has already been suggested, and while stating the great interest I share in the renewo 1 examination by the American people of the historical foundation of their govern­ ment I uo not feel warranted iu discriminat­ ing in favor of or against the propositions to select one day or place iu preference to all otliers, and therefore c ntent myself with conveyiug to Congress these, expressions of pop­ ular feeling and interest upon tbe subject, hop­ ing that in a spirit of patriotic co-operation, rather than of locil competition, fitting meas­ ures may be enacted by Congress which will give the amplest opportunity all over these United States for the manifestation of the affec­ tion and confidence of a free and mighty nation in the institutions of a Government of wliich they are the fortunate inheritors and under which unexampled prosperity has been enjoyed by all classes and conditions in our social sys­ tem. GBOVKB CLEVKI*A.NIJ. Executive Mansion, Jan. 18,1«87. The House passed a joint resolution, re­ ported from the Special Committee on Celebrating the Constitutional Centennial, providing for the appointment of a joint committee of five Senators and eight lJep- resentatives to consider the expediency of holding, in 1892, an international exhibi­ tion of the industries and productions of all countries. THE man who cannot take care of him­ self is about as safe among wild beasts as when oanyinc Us wrongs to * eonrt of law. Mr. Mnrfcy Pops the Question. She's consulted at last! Fur two years Td thocht a dale ov Nellie Mc- Cusker, only I had nothin' ov an Irish bye's bouldniss to np and tell her that same! But yisterday, sez I to mesilf: 'Pat Murky, now's yer toime, or niver!' "Nellv was in the pantry washin' the dishes, an' sumtliin' shouted: 'Ax her'. She's too busy to look at yer ony way.' "So I starts on wid: 'Troth, Nellie, it's a bad loife for a bye to be livin' alone.' 'Yis,' sez she, wid nary a twinkle, Mike Ryan,that's jist bin sint to prison, is in a bad way indade.' " 'Och,' sez I, 'there's mony a bye that's lonely livin' rite wid his friends an' naybors. Sure an' I'm lonesome mesilf.' How can I b'lave that,' sez she, whin ye've a fiddul ?* " 'Fidduls,' sez I, 'are cheerin', but I've got me two eyes sot on somethin', sometlnn' cheeriner.' "She forgot to ask me what that sumtliin' wus, so I trotted off by an­ other road, savin': 'Faith, Neily, I'm going back across the pond in March nary.' " 'Indade!' sez she, flnrtin' the dish- rag. 'An' it's a pitv ye iver cum over!' " 'Yis,' sez I, 'Jane sed that same in her last lether.' 'An' who's Jane?' axt Nelly, gettin' red loike the crabs on the table besoide hor. 'She thinks a power o'me,' sez I, onheedin'. " 'Shuro an' that's quare. If she young es me?' " 'Yes.' " 'An' bether lookin' ?' / M *Paple moight think BO.' .. •* 'An' is she waitin' fur ye?' u. 'Yis.' " 'Shell be changin' names sore, I reckon?' ,T"** "'Yis.' , " 'r-: " 'What's her name now?' < j " 'Jane--Murky!' eried I widdeliglit. * 'Thin she's your sister,' sez Nelly, cross es her mistress. 'Well, it ain't much matter seein' ez how I've got a bye wotehin' fur me (fit Ballycoran.' 'Wat's his name?' axt 1, turnin' hot an' cold to wanst. " 'Barney Flynn,' sez she. " 'About me size?' " 'Yis.' " 'An'duz he luv ye f*" " 'Nixt to the Vargiftp " 'Is he comin' to Americky suref 44 'No. " 'WliV not, bedad ?' " 'Och,\Pat, he's married alriddyj' " 'The stoalpeen!' says I. " 'Don't/give him hard name,'sez she. 'Barney Flynn's me stip-brutlier!' "Then she laft't that purty laugh o' hern an' Invint up close. " 'Nelly,' sez L "'Wat, PatV' " 'Cud ye luv a bye loike mef " 'Troth an' I wudn't thry.* " 'Why not, darlint?' " 'Faith, I wuz niver axt to.' " 'Then I'll ax ye now.' M 'Don't do it,' sez she. Tm that fall o' work I couldn't raply fur a month, and the dishes flew'd ivery which way es she said it. "But I sat down on the stip. " 'I kin wait,' sez I. " 'The mistress woll cum an' fbind you here.' " 'I'd be plazed to mate her.' " 'I'll tell her ye're a robber.' " 'Begorra, that's just what I am, for I'm afther Nellie McCusker'sheart!' " 'Ye'U be arrested." 44 Tve bin alriddy and yer bin' eyes did it,' says I. 'Cum, Nellie, look me np in yer warm heart forever.' " 'Och, its boulted and Tve lost the key.' " 'Thin ni cloimb in at the winder.' "She hung her curly lied fur a minit, and whin she looked up I axt her to be me woif." "Til guv ye foive seckinds,'sez L 'Ef ye wull just fotch me the big pewter spoon ye've bin wipin'; ef you won't, thin put it back in the drawer.' "She peeped at me over the top ov it." " 'D'ye ye mane what ye say, Pat?' "'Yis, darlint,' saz L " 'Thin here is the spoon!"--Boston Herald. A Dry River. An eminent French art collector onee bought in Paris a landscape by a noted "impressionist" which ho showed, with much pride in his purchase, to an artist friend. "But I think,* quoth he, "that the picture lacks animation; it wants per­ sonages. Now if you would paint for me a man or woman on that road that runs through the middle of the land­ scape, it would greatly improve the picture," "That is easily done," said the artist. So he carried off the painting, and sent it back in a week or two with a figure of an old peasant woman going to market with her basket and her red umbrella introduced on the road in question to the great satisfaction of the picutre's proprietor. Meeting shortly after with the "impressionist" who had painted it, the artist remarked: "I had the audacity to alter a landscape of yours belonging to Mr. X. the other day. I painted an old peasant woman walking down the road." "Down the road ? I remember no work of mine with a road in it. I should like to see the picture and judge of the effect of your alteration." So the artist carried liim off to Mr. X's, and they speedily stood before the landscape. The "impressionist" turned perfectly green with wrath and horror. "Miserable man!" he shouted, "what have you done?" That is not a road that runs through the center of my work; it is a river!"--Our Youth. In Entertaining Guests. There is no reason why a person of limited means who has a very hospi­ table heart, cannot entertain a guest comfortably, if not luxuriously. In the ease of receiving a guest whose style of living is superior to our own, there should not be the slightest embarrass­ ment. Never make apologies. They are in bad taste, and only make your friend feel ill at ease. Make up for any de­ ficiency in luxury, in comfort even, by the heartiness of your welcome. Allow a guest to amuse himself or herself and they will be happier than if too closely looked after. It is a good plan in small households, where a guest is ex­ pected, to see that there is a sufficient supply of fresh table linen to last through the allotted visit; have the silver newly polished, and extra plates and glasses at hand, on or in the side­ board. Do not attempt to provide for a .8tyle of living greatly different to what you are accustomed in your every­ day life. It can only result in dis­ comfort to yourself and visitors. Re­ press all signs of nervousness result­ ing from the necessity of leaving some things to the mercy of on ignorant servant. MEN generally put a greater value npon the favors they bestow than upon those they receive. POPULAR SCIENCE. ILLINOIS HYDROPHOBIA is unknown in Lapland, but Pasteur has just shown that dogs may be inoculated with the disease. THE importance of microbes to the growth of plants has been practically demonstrated by M. Laurent, who ob­ tained only one-fourth as much buck- vheat from sterilized mould as in soil containing bacteria. IN a recent lecture, Henry M. Stan­ ley related the details of his explora­ tion of Lake Victoria Nyanza in Africa, fifty days being spent on it to prove it to be a single body of water 21,500 square miles in extent. A NEW method of cure has been re­ cently, and successfully tried by a physician in Thuringia. He made the experiment of letting several of Ids phthisical patients pass the night in the open forest in hammocks, covered with cushions and piaids. THE teeth of bakers decay so rapidly and peculiarly that Dr. Hesse, of Leipsic, declares himself often able to tell the occupation of patients by the condition of the teeth. He supposes the caries to arise from the action of an acid formed by the fermentation of in­ haled flour dust. IT is reported that at Dresden the experiment has been tried of placing a nickel lightning-rod on a building. The advantages claimed for this metal are lhat, being non-corrodible, it will last longer than iron, and will also keep bright at the points, which latter is very essential to the efficiency of rods as conductors of electricity. THE red color of bricks is due to the iron contained in the clay. In the process of burning, the iron compounds are changed from the ferrous to the ferric condition and rendered anhy­ drous, thus developing the color. Cer­ tain clays, like those in the vicinity of Milwaukee, for instance, contain little or no iron, and the bricks made from them are light or cream colored. ON the northern slope of the Alps the zone of perpetual snow reaches down to about 8,000 feet above the level of the sea, and on the south side about 8,800 feet. In the Pyrenees the snow line is at a height of about 8,950 feet; in the Caucasus, 10,000 to 11,000 feet; on the south side of the Himalayas 12,080 feet, and on the north, 19,620 feet; in Bo­ livia 18,520 feet in the Western Cor­ dillera and 15,920 in the Eastern; in Mexico, 14,760 feet; in Chili, near San­ tiago, 12,870; in Norway, 5,000 feet in its middle portion and 2,300 feet at its northern extremity; in Kamchatka, 5,200 feet, and Alaska, 5,500 feet. IN a recent issue of the Vienna Anthropological Society, Dr. M. Hal- berlandt discusses the origin, extent, and significance of tattoing. He does not believe that it was at first meant merely as ornament. He attributes to it a religious significance, the figures described on the skin having some reference to the totemic or ancestral god of the elan, and serving as a pro­ tection to the wearer. In latter days, when this meaning had faded, the figure became a mere style of personal decoration. Dr. Halberlandt draws a distinction between tattooing, in which the figures are delineated by inserting a fine-pointed instrument repeatedly into the skin, and what he calls, from an Australian word, the manka, in which process the lines are scratched or cut, and the coloring matter rubbed in. This distinction he maintains as im­ portant as an ethnological criterion. Chinese Religious Belieb. Stepping into a shop in Chinatown, a gentleman, among other things, asked the owner what his religious belief was,* and the result of the conversation was that he found the shopkeeper to be a believer in all three of the national religions, accepting the gods of each off-hand, paying his money to support the priests of all, and, if it would have made business a little brisker, Ah Wang would have undoubtedly an­ nounced himself a Christian of any de­ nomination required This then is one of the most striking peculiarities: that, while there are three distinct religions, they see no inconsistency in accepting all. The Confucian Chinaman believes in a spiritual appeal to the moral nature. He believes in conscience, sees a difference between virtue and vice, pretends to believe in law and order, and is a firm believer in paying a religious veneration to his ancestors; and, above all, is remarkable for his filial piety. The Taoist is a materialist. To him the soul is something tangible, a physical something, purer than the human form. It is not essentially im­ mortal but attains this state only by a physical training after passing through a certain pseudo chemical process. He believes in various gods, is a liberal of liberals in this. Even the stars are di­ vine or divinities. The Taoist is also a great believer in hermits, physicians, magicians, and holy men of all kinds. The Chinese Buddhist differs from these. His religion is metaphysical. He delights in argumentative philoso­ phy, and gives vent to his imagination in building up his beliefs on an ethe­ real platform. His gods are not reali­ ties, but the mere personification of ideas. Matter, as such, is entirely dis­ regarded, and ideas, or theories founded upon ideas, accepted. Taoism is per­ haps as popular among the majority as any, as it is of practical use; thus, a sick man will consult his god of medi­ cine, which is to be found in some of the houses, and the priest will tell the patient exactly what medicine or drugs are required to heal him. Over and around these gods are seen testimonials of patients that have been cured.-- San Francisco Call. A Picture of Xarbleheai, Born here, man had no alternative but to take to the sea. On* the shore there was scarcely soil enough to raise a potato. "Where do you bury your dead ?" asked the astonished Wliitefield on his first missionary visit to the town. A natural question. T With such scant soil to spare for the siek, the dead must perforce have had short commons. Meager enough, in fact was the drapery vouchsafed for their last couch by the thrifty old-time sexton who tucked them in among the bowlders three or four deep, as the moldering of the early slumberers made room for the later. Yield him a late pity, that honest old grave-digger ! Be assured he met with small sympathy in the flesh. Yet who shall say what knotty problems his grim gardening presented, or into what straits of despair a chance epidemic must have driven him. Nay. go to-day to the ancient God's acre whoever lists, and see for yourself from the huddled headstones the struggle he had to find comfortable beds for that long line of guests who were endlessly coming to his ghostly hostelry, to go no more out forever. --"Ag ties Surriage." ^HF. hardest thing in the world for a young womari to do . is to look uheon-/ cerned the first time she cornea oat in m handsome engagement ring. • :V Thk Senate wm in session bat m Um nbmtî F o«i thrf 14th, and transacted no btntaMM wtat* ' ever. In the House of Repr i iMiHHiiili Ifc.' Archer, of Pike, offered the fallM^ j tion. which was referred to the Agriculture: liftolvtd, That the iwn** of Agriculture request the favorably eonsfuer the bill to permanently locate the 8tateFair. of Cook, offered a preamble and viding for the appointment** a committee of to investigate alleged printing steal*, tteMtt committee to consist ot two KepabUeaaQ, two Democrats, and one Labor member. After sid erable debate the resolution was lost. Morrasv, ot Bureau, offered a resolution ing for a joint committee of three House and two from the Senate, wl take into consideration the qnestkm the Illinois and Michigan Canal to the raw Government, for tbe purpose of aiding the Wil nepin Canal project. The committee to NMMt at an early day to the House, by bill or other- * wise. Ueieired to the Committee on CsaaiaaMK Rivers. ONLY a dozen Senators answered to miMil when the Senate was called to order on tt* XMb inst. After prayer by the Chaplain and a ||# ' tial reading of the journal. Senator Sua&MC in­ troduced a bill concerning villages aaA fM>-' corporated towns, providing that tbe praaM*|||§ ̂ Of town boards shall be elected annually fcytilg" voters instead of the trustees, and shallcad^lM entitled to vote in case of a tie. Tbe sB was read a first time, and mfeHelt. A joint resolution extending the thaafea tit the General Assembly to Senator CalkMf lat­ his successful advocacy of the interstate enaa- merce bill was introduced by Senator CoctaSB. Bills were introduced as follows: By Senate Curtis, providing for the appropriation of S,fN for removing the flags to Memorial BlD: $60,704.07 to pay for blankets and service Of the I. N. G. at Chicago and in St. Clair County, sad 810.00J to pay the expenses of the I. N. S. far the year ending June 30, 1887. By Senator Bell, regulating' the description of pa&ir money in cases of larceny, and making )t unnecessary to prove the character of a bill or bills. By Senator Hill, amending the law in IS> lation to'jurors so AS to provide that the reeding , of newspaper accounts and the formation at aa opinion do not disqualify a juror if he itatee that he can render an impartial verdict upow hearing the facts in the case, and also providing that the fact that a juror has served upon a previous panel within a ear does not disqualify him unless he so electa, ly Senator Cochran, amending the act in re­ gard to depositions in civil cases, and also one concerning the making of affidavits. By QsB ator Cochran, concerning corporations, and al­ lowing such to extend the duration of tjttir 1 by a vote of two-thirds of the capital stock, 1 not for a period to exceed ninety-n<ne The House met at 5 o'clock p. in., with MrT 1 sick in the chair, and, immediately after tha reading of the journal, adjourned. THE President laid before the Senate, on tha 18th inst., tha resolutions adopted by the State Board of Agriculture regarding the permansnfc location of the State Fair and the necessity the speedy passage ot a bill for the suppression of pleuropneumonia. Senator Seiter called np his hill providing for the quarterly payment ot the bills of County Superintendents, had it lead a second time, and ordered to a third Bills were introduced as follows: By I Garritv, to amend the act for the inc of cities aud villages, making the number «C Aldermen when not elected by the minority follows: In cities not exceeding 1,00^ 6; exceeding 3,0* 0 but not 5,000, 8; exceeding 5,000 but not exceeding 10,000, 10; exceeding I0L- 00J and not exceeding 30,0J0, 14, and two addi­ tional aldermen for overy vW,00J over 30.0WL ex­ cept in cities of over 100,000, when fifty ana no more shall be elected. By Senator Curtiaa, pro­ viding for the study of the nature and effects ot alcoholic beverage?, stimulants, and naveoMoS npon the human system by the pupils of suit­ able age in all schools in the State supported by public money, or under State control. By Senator Streeter, to protect females from being drugged for unlawful purposes. By Senator Pearson, to provide for the weighing of coal at mines before passing over any screen or any other device which shall take away any part from the value thereof. By Senator Wi", amending the act in regard to elections and fitt­ ing vacancies, ftmi providing that' of a name vpon a ticket not found on lar ticket snail be evidence of fraud vote be not counted. By Senator Bell, ing the criminal code so that carnal" _ with or without consent between a female Uk- der 11 years and a male under 18 shall constitute rape. By 8enator an act to punish seduction, and the penalty at five years and exceeding $1,000. By Senator Crawford, pro­ viding for compensation to owners of iHuyirty damaged and destroyed by mobs or rioters, sua making cities, towns, ana villages liable to the amount of three-fourths of the damage sus­ tained. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Setiwell, of Bond, offered a joint rssolutlca calling attention to the death of Represent*- tive"~Helmann. It tendered the family ot the deceased the sympathies of Tiers and provided for the of a committee to attend service. The resolution was adopted rising vpte. Mr. Fuller said it that on this day some action be taken on hill appropriating W0,00U for the erection at a monument to John A. Logan. Upon Mr. Ful­ ler's motion, the bill vas advanced to thM reading by unanimous consent. Bills warn in­ troduced as follows: By Mr. Fuller, empower- ing county insurance companies to cover In their nolicies grain and hay In the stack; by Mr. Baiiey, authorising the taxation as ooetstn njits brought by employes vs. employers Cor arages a reasonable sum as plaintiff's attorneys' fees. Both houses balloted separately for United States Senator. In the Senate,'Bensdor Chapman nominated Charles B. Farwell, Btna tor Gibbs seconding the nomination, fisnstns Johnson named William K. Mi Stephenson seconding. Senator natcd Benj. W. Goodhue. In the Farwell was nominated by Representative Green, Col. Morrison by Representative Crafts, and Mr. Goodhue by Representative Dixoa. Mr. Cantwell, the only Democratic flunatar from Cook county, although he waa in tbe building, did not present him­ self to vote for Mr. Morrison, and this with the three absentees on the Dexnoexatto «ide of the House and tho two dead members, caused Col. Morrison to fall six short of his party strength. Otherwise it was a strict party vote and stool as follows: Farwell in the Senate, 32: Farwell in the House, 78; total, 11S. Morrison in the Senate, 16; Morrison in tfca House, 01; total, 77. Goodhue in the Senate, S; Goodhue in the House, 8; total, 10. David Ma- Cull och in the House, 1. ALL the Governor's appointments made dop> Ing the recess were confirmed by the Senate an the 20th except that of Joseph P. IMttman aa Notary Public in Wayne County. Senator Adams presented a remonstrance against Pitt* ntan'8 confirmation signed by citizens of " district. The following bills were introdc and appropriately referred: By Senator phrey--Ceding the locks at 1 Copperaa Creek and Henry, on the Illinois River, to the United States Government is furtherance of the Hennepin Canal project. By Senator Gore, making the usual appropriations in aid at State and county fairs. By Senator Wheeler, providing that Judges shall call and retain upon the regular pauel twenty-seven instead of twen- tv-four jurors, so that in exhausting the three peremptory challenges the jurors shall not be talesmen. By Senator Kckhart, making any person ineligi­ ble for the office of Alderman in any city who shall owe any back tax, or have been con­ victed of auy act of bribery or corruption, or who shall have auy business transactions with the city other than in bis official eapacitv. By Senator Streeter--Prohibiting the sale of to­ bacco to minors. By the same--To limit the charges of any stock-yards company. Bv Sen­ ator Adams-- Amending the law in relation to the State Reform Schools, so that girls as well as boys may be admitted. The House passed, the Logan monument bill by a vote of 119 yeas to 14 nays. The following bUla were introduced and referred in the House: By Mr. Jones, of Crawford, to apply the loaal option law to counties instead of cities. By Mr. Jones, of Sangamon, the State Miners* Aa* sociation bill making corporations liable forin- : juries to an emplove resulting from the neglect gof other employes. By Mr. Keyst r. regulating [the employment of convicts. By Mr. Lanua^ making the punishment for selling liquor with­ out license l>y tine or imprisonment, and mak- u]g five gallons the lowest amount to he sold without a retail license. By Mr. McLaughlin, the State Miners' Association's bill making new regulations in regard to escapement shafts in coal mines, and providing for additional means of escai>e in case of accidents By tbe same--Providing for the incoiporatton of co-oj>erative companies by workingmen. By the same--The bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. Chapman, providing for the employment Of convicts at Joliet Penitentiary in the printing ef school books. By Mr. Miller--Amending the habitual-criminal act of 1&3 so that on second conviction for a felony the maximum punish- ment shall be impost a. and a life sentence far the third. By Mr. Vickers--To prohibit tbe playing of base-ball Sunday under the penalty ot h tine of from $10 to $100. Spectators end oAoefS of grounds are also to be subjected to a Una for witnessing the games or leasing grounds for Sunday playing. Mr. ""I He Saw He Was fr»M Chteagfe ; A well-known dentist contributes ihm following: A gentleman from the boundleat West was calling at the "parlors* for consultation, and as the interview VM about terminating his eye ehanoed to fall upon the doctor's diploma, 11m leading line of which, in ve text, ran IDentium," etc. text, ran thus: *Acade»ria C ry UMK Jhirevgift As the Chirargia struck lust his f»M suddenly lighted np, and extending lit hand energetically, he exclaimed: "Why, Doctor, l|didn't know ftajft von were frost Chtosf ̂ Boston Secord. .... •