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;'l». VMItLVKt, MoHMffRY, ILLINOIS. HwiieedKrf tli* tion require him to keep one eye open, so to speak, all the time,, and thus is his attention diverted. V MB. WILLIAM J. FLORENCE, the actor, Itt purchased a lot on Connectiont A venae, Washington, lor $15,000, and _ , proposes to boild a home there. ffc- '. * - Gov. AMES, of Massachusetts, SPEND^ ;v .about $50,000 a year to keep nphis establishment in Boston. This con­ sumes by far the larger part of His ||i••. aa .Governor. r ' • *\ MRS. LELAND STANFORD presented to ' lliss Crocker at her recent marriage In San Francisco a necklace, bracelet, ' ting, and earrings of diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and tourmalines rained at j $50,000. MR. WILLIAM PETER, an English ' tourist, accomplished the difficult feat i.' • entering the Yosemite Valley on i; snow-shoes. He walked ovej about eighty miles of roads on which the Snow lay ten feet deep, but he met with ^ %> accident and saw the great valley in f, Vfts winter robe of show and ice. COL. RICE, Gov. Hill's Private Sfec- & * fetary, is a youthful-looking man, with smooth face and blonde hair. tie is ifibout 29 years of •age, but does not took over 22. He is affable in manner, > and extremely popular in Albany soci- " *«ty. He is a clever politician, and as invaluable to Hill as is Lamont to the ^ * President. * IN New York city there are two edi­ tors who do not speak to each other, Although they are brothers. Joseph "Pulitzer, of the World, and. Albert Pulitzer^of the Morning Journal, are bitter foes. Neither will print the name Of the other in his paper; and when the Journal establishment was burned the World mentioned it merely as a "news­ paper. " ' GEORGE W. CHILDS, the prince of Philadelphia journalists, has a superb Vine cellar, but he never touches wines Or intoxicants of any kind. He doesn't £now the taste of them. ApolKnaris Water, -which is served in a superb sil- ver flagon, is his favorite tipple. He never uses even tea or coffee. As to llis eating, wheaten grits, and oatmeal porridge are his favorite dishes. wiXH] Chine THE cry comes from California that lese-made cigars are driving out of the market those made by white men. appeals to consumers to stand by their Own race on patriotic grounds having foiled to move them, they are now - asked to remember that a Chinaman is a filthy creature, and that the differ- Once of half a cent on. a cigar, which it Oosts them to smoke the white-made product in preference to that of Mon­ golian manufacture, is fully compen- . Sated by the greater cleanliness it in* SUres. AN; interesting Wagner museum has been opened in Vienna. The relics have been gathered by a private col­ lector, and are very complete. They • include all Wagner's works, portraits Of the master and his surroundings, autograph letters and various docu­ ments from the Bayreuth theater, statutes of the Wagner societies, and all accounts of the composer's funeral. Wagner's writing and smoking para­ phernalia, his visiting-cards, and his knife, spoon, and fork are the most treasured souvenirs of all. THE late Mrs. Catherine Van Rens­ selaer Hale, of Mobile, Ala., was the last surviving granddaughter of Gen. Schuyler. Left an orphan in child­ hood she was adopted by her aunt, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, and after the fatal Hamilton-Burr duel she went to live with her uncle, the Patroon, Stephen Van Rensselaer. The Patroon, she used to relate, would let the young folks have frequent entertainments in his mansion, but he would say, "My children, I cannot give you permission to dance, for too many prayesw have been offered in these rooms." PROP. ALBERT RUSSELL WXLLAC^, the English naturalist, who greatly aided Darwin in . developing »tlie evolution theory, is traveling and lecturing in the West. He says the orang-outang, chim­ panzee, and gorilla have strong points of resemblance to man. Prof. Russell is more than ever convinced of the truth of evolution. Strangely enough he is a Spiritualist He does not be­ lieve that there is such a thing as abso­ lute death. He believes that men live hereafter in a state of progression. He has, he says, a good deal of faith in the doctrines of Swedenborg. IT is reported that large numbers of locomotives on the railways of Northern Russia are being adapted to the burn­ ing of peat, the offered saving 1>eing about 50 per cent from the cost of the wood and coal hitherto used. This may seem strange in view of the fact that Russian petroleum is now being extensively introduced all over the Em­ pire at price? so low as to offer a sub­ stitute in many sections for other kinds of fuel. The result of the new compe­ tition may be a still further cheapening in the cost of the natural oil. Peat cut­ ting machines, worked by steam power, are said to bring excellent fuel from long depths below the surface. . A HUNGARIAN gypsy band who were to play before the Czar of the Russians had to submit to a two-days' examina­ tion of their instruments to see if chunks of. dynamite were pasted in anywhere. The instruments, it is said, were taken entirely apart and put to­ gether again. At the concert a big policeman was stationed behind each musician, ready to pounce on him did he make the slightest motion as if to assail the Emperor. The Czar is pas­ sionately fond of Hungarian music, but he says* it is impossible for him to en­ joy the wild melody just as he would were there no such thing as Nihilists STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, J*., had an experience a few years ago which few men have known. Mr. Douglas' father, the Senator, died in 1861, and .was buried on the lake shore near his old home, at Thirty-fifth street, where stands the monument, surmbunted by the "Little Giant's" figure. Nineteen years later, or in 1880, workmen opened the metallic case of the sarcophagus to renew the zinc lining. Stephen A., Jr., was sent for, and in a few moments stood looking through the glass lid of the coffin upon the face of his father. No perceptible change had taken place in the score of years. Aside from the leathern sallow tint which the flesh of the dead takes on, the face had the naturalness of life itself. The cheeks were ' not sunken, there had been no falling away of the flesh, and the ex­ pression was as perfect as when the blood of life coursed through the veins, long years before. For an hour the son, a man of 30 years, sat gazing upon and studying the face of the father whb had died when this son was a boy of 11 years. . BILL NYE, who has been in North Carolina all winter, for his health, came home for his health, the day be-, fore passes expired, and is now quaran* tined at Hudson, unable to move. In a letter to a friend he says, and volumes could not say more: "I arrived here just in time to witness the last moments of a Northwestern pass as its spirit took its flight Had I postponed my journey a single day I would have been too late. It was still young. Life was be­ fore it Barely a quarter .of the span of its life had been passed when it curled up and expired. It was a cute little thing, with an olive complexion, and large, mournful, upper-case eyes. A few weeks ago I noticed that it did not look well. It did not complain of illness or p&in, but I thought I detected a condition on its back, and so I hurried home in order to be here in case it should expire. As soon as the conduc­ tor looked at it and felt its pulse, he said that he could do nothing for it The Inter-State Commerce Law is one of those things that will have to be tried before we can pass upon it, and it is going to be very difficult to pass upon it even then. This thought occurred to me just after the gate-keeper pushed me back yesterday and told me to go and get my ticket. 1* then first realized what it was to be rudely ground under the heel of a cold corporation that is devoid,of soul, devoid of noble thoughts, devoid of re'fined instincts, devoid of kind impulses, devoid of bowls of milk of human kindness, devoid of bowels of compassion. From force of habit I walked up to the gate with a joyous nod and the old password, only to be coldly repulsed by hired bouncers of this heartless, soulless, and impulseless, milkless, and bowelless corporation. But the railroads will get the worst of it, for I know that travel on some of these lines has fallen off since April 1. I can see it already. I have fallen off myself since the first of the month, and other will do the same." USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE, FREE your stoves and flues from soot by throwing a piece of zinc on a bed of hot coals. STEEL, when hardened, decreases in specific gravity, contracts in length, and increases in diameter. , A POULTICE of salt and the white of an egg is a powerful resolvent, and if applied in time, will disperse a felon. ASPHALTUM dissolved in oil of turpen- time is recommended as one of the best varnishes for smoke-stacks and steam- pipes. A SOLDERING fluid composed of a tea- spoonful of chloride of zinc dissolved in two ounces of alcohol will not rust and tarnish and has no bad smell. SAWDUST thrown on a circular saw table will render the hauling of heavy planks quite easy. The grains act as small rollers and reduce friction. PLASTER busts may be cleaned by dipping them into thick, liquid cold starch--that is clear starch mixed with cold water--brushing them when dry. STEEL plates in the fire-box can be prevented from crackling by washing out with cold water after being blown out Hot water will produce a crack. SIX parts of sulphur, six of white lead and one of borax, thoroughIv mixed and wetted with strong sulphuric acid, make a strong cement for connect­ ing iron work. IK the healing of burns and scalds, where there is danger of contracting scars, rub the new skin several times a day with good sweet oil. Persist in this rubbing until the skin is soft and flexible. ACCORDING to a French industrial paper a mixtnre of oil an graphite will effectually prevent screws becoming fixed, and, moreover, protect them for years against rust. The mixture facili­ tates tightening up, is an excellent lubricant, and reduces the friction of the screw in its socket. To POLISH plate glass and remove slight scratches, rub the surface gently, first with a clean pad of white cotton wool, and afterward with a pad covered over with cotton velvet which has been charged with fine rouge. The surface will, under this treatment, acquire a polish of great brilliancy, quite free from any scratches. A BELT has been known to refuse to do the work alloted to it, and continue to slip over pulleys two feet in diameter, but from the moment, the pulleys were changed to three feet in diameter there was no further trouble. These ob­ served facts seem to be at variance with and to contradict the results of the experiments that have been made. She Was Merciful. "Why, I declare," said Mrs. Bjones, looking through a telescope, "the edge of the half-moon looks just like Ham­ burg edging. What perfectly lovely trimminer that would make! But i won't ask you to buy it for me, Regi­ nald, dear." "No?" said Reginald, dear. "And why?" "Oh," said Mrs. Bjones, "because it comes so high."--Somerville Journal. Two $250,000hotels are being erected in Riverside, Cal-. Bean' Pwn, ElephaaU' Feet, Deer'S KMMI and Odd Parts of Other Animal a. The New-Brans wickers find a special charm in, the loose nose of the moose deer, says Household iFords. Sharks' fins and fish-maws, nnhafthed ducks and chickens, sea-slugs, and birds' nests are all prized by the omnivorous Chinese. The Parisians eat horse­ flesh ; and at the exhibition of 1851 a M. Brocchieri showed and sold deli­ cious cakes, patties, and bon-bons of buljock's blood, rivaling the famous matrons glaces of the confiseries of the boulevards. This seeius almost a tri­ umph of art In Havana the shark is openly sold in the market, and the Chinese ascribe special invigorating virtues to its fins and tail. The Gold Coast negroes are all fond of sharks as they are of hippopotami and alligators, and the Pylynesians are also very fond of shark's flesh, quite raw. Caymans and crocodiles, lizards and frogs are all eaten and enjoyed by cer­ tain people. The typical crocodile is like veal; but some species have a strong flavor of musk, aifi some are like young, juicy pork, while others re­ semble lobster. Others, again, have a powerful fishy taste, very disagreeable. On the whole, therefore, crocodile is uncertain eating, and not to be ventured on with rashness. Alligator is sup­ posed to be invigorating and restora­ tive, and at Manilla is sold at high prices, the Chinese clutching at the dried skin, which they use in their awful messes of gelatinous soup. Alli­ gator is likened to sucking pig, but its eggs have a musty flavor; The French are notoriously addicted to frogs, which command a high price in New York also, where they sell the large bullfrog, sometimes weighing half a pound, as well as the tender little green animal (rana esculenta), whose hind legs taste so like delicate chicken when served with white sauce in restau­ rants and hotels of Paris and Vienna Of course, frogs do not escajie the Chinese, who devour everything with blood and fiber; and the negroes of Surinam eat <£he loathsome Surinam toad. Monkeys are also considered good eating in some countries. African epicures are never more charmed than when they can dine off a highly-sea­ soned, tender young monkey, baked gypsy fashion in the earth. The Rreat red monkey, the black spider monkey, and the howling monkey are all eaten by the various peoples among whom they are found. The flesh of the monkey is said to be both nutritious and pleasant One species of bat is considered good eating by the natives of the islands of the Indian archipelago, Malabar, etc.; it is called by naturalists the edible bat, and it is said to be white, tender, and delicate; but for all that, it is a hideous beast, like a weasel, with a ten- inch body, covered with close and shin­ ing black hair, and with four-foot wings, when stretched to their full ex­ tent. In some countries even the fox is considered a delicacy; in the "arctic re­ gions, where fresh meat is scarce, when judiciously made into a pie it is con- sideied equal to any rabbit, under the same conditions, ever bred on the Sussex downs. But, strange to say,the Esquimau dogs, which will devour al­ most everything else, will not touch fox. Cats .and dogs readily find purchasers and consumers in China, where they are hung up in the butchers' shops, to­ gether with badgers--tasting like wild boar--and other oddities of food. In the South seas, too, a dog is a favorite dish, and a puppy stew is a royal feast in Zanzibar; but it is only fair to say that where dog is eaten it is especially fattened for the table and fed only on milk and such like cleanly diet. The Australian native dog or dingo is eaten by the blacks, but by no one else; and a South African will give a cow for a good-sizecHknastiff. Elephants' feet, pickled in strong toddy vinegar and cayenne pepper, are considered in Ceylon an Apician luxury. The trunk is said to resemble buffalo's hump, and the fat is so highly prized by the bushmen that they will go al­ most any distance for it. Hippopotamus fat is also considered a treat; when salted it is thought superior to our best breakfast bacon, and tho flesh is both palatable and nutritious, the fat being Used for all the ordinary uses of butter. A Puzzling Interview. Motley, the historian, while at the University of Gottingen, made the ac­ quaintance of a student who is now known as "the man of blood and iron." Bismarck and he became friends, and the friendship lasted until Motley's death. The two students we^-e once arrested and lodged in the guard-house for singing too loudly in the streets of Berlin one night, as they were return­ ing from a students' festival. In Mr. Whipple's essay on Motley the follow­ ing anecdote is told: When Motley was American Minister at the Austrian court Bismarck visited Vienna to settle terms of peace with the Emperor, who had been Prussia's ally in the war against Denmark. Arriving too late to go to the office of the Minister 6f Foreign Affairs, he drove to Motley's house and found the American Minister just rising from a family dinner. The old friends joined hands; fresh viands were brought in trom the kitchen, and the old collegians chatted merrily over their student life. It was long after midnight when Bismarck departed, unconscious of or indifferent to the fact that the brain of every foreign ambas­ sador at Vienna had been wondering at this incident for hours. What meant this mysterious visit to the American Minister? Was there to be an alliance between Prussia and the United States ? Telegrams flew to London, Paris, Turin, and St. Petersburg. Diplo­ matists taxed their ingenuity to discover what the long visit meant. Charles Sumner, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, received private letters from, eminent persons abroad, nervously asking what the interview signified. Has the United States, they asked, deter­ mined to depart from non-interference in European affairs, as recommended by the immortal Washington ? Mr. Sum­ ner, knowing the intimacy between Motley and Bismarck, smiled, and years after, the two gentlemen laughed heartily at the one humorous incident in American diplomacy which disturbed the peace of Europe for two days.-- The Argonaut. The French Crown Jewels. The official catalogue of the French crown jewels, which Tiffany & Co„ of New York City, agents of the French Government to further and assist in their sale, have lately received, pre­ sents a list of more than 30,000 bril­ liants and 2,700 rose diamonds, of an aggregate weight of over 8,000 carats, with a large variety of pearls, rubies, sapphires, and other precious stones. The largest single diamond weighs twenty-seven carats, and in one set are over 6,000 brilliants. The jewels, which ALL LAXDS. are now on exhibition, will be sold at auction in the palace of the TuOleries, beginning on May 8, and their proceeds turned over to ftie public treasury. Good judges estimate the market value of the entire collection at not less than 10,000,000 francs.--Frank Leehtf* , Pilets. "The man at the wheel" is the most interesting person on board to the boy who is making a steamboat excursion; for while the motion of the ponderous machinery in the engine-room fascinates him, he barely glances at tho quiet man who watches and controls it The lives of all on board are at the mercy of the pilot, who holds, therefore, one of the most responsible positions. All coast­ ing steamers are commanded by men who have licenses as pilots for every harbor along their entire routes. But there is another class of pilots who make it a business to lie outside the harbor, for which they are specially licensed, to watch for sailing vessels and steamships coming from A distance, or from foreign ports. Such a pilot, we must explain to our inland readers, takes entire charge Of outgoing and incoming vessels, until they have passed the dangers surround- the coast and harbors of our seas, lakes, and great tidal streams. The captain of a ship surrenders its control wholly to the pilot while he is on board, on pain of forfeiture of the insurance on the vessel in case of disaster within that time. There is no craft, perhaps, in this country that is subject to more rigid rules than this. The pilots, for ex­ ample, of Delaware Bay have for a cen­ tury been governed by certain inexor­ able customs, as binding as laws. Their business obliges them to be sober, in­ telligent. keen-sighted, and ready-witted men. When not in charge of a vessel, they are on large pilot-boats, which lie outside of the capes, sometimes sixty miles at sea, watching for vessels. The pilots of New York and Boston harbor go even further out to sea, and are sometimes met with from one to two hundred miles from the land. They are cruising in the track of incoming steam­ ers, and almost always appears in am­ ple season to offer their services. But if no pilot comes, the ship lies outside the harbor and signals for one. The corps on the pilot-boat have regular,, turns, and the pilot to whose lot this vessel falls is rowed out to her. He is bound to answer the signal by day or by night, in sunshine or in the fiercest storm. Nothing but the abso­ lute certainty that the boat cannot live in the sea running between him and the vessel will relieve him from his obliga­ tion. A boy who wishes to learn this busi­ ness must serve six years apprentice­ ship. For Philadelphia pilots the terra is six years, during which time the young man lives on the pilot-boats, studying the channels, soundings, and dangers. Then, after a j*ear and a half of partial responsibility, he becomes a pilot--Youth'a Conpanton. President Garfte!<l in Congress. When I went into Congress the war was still raging. I wanted to go back into the army. After Rosecrans' re­ moval, Thomas, who was a dear friend of mine, was exceedingly anxious to have me come back, and tendered me in a private letter the command of an army corps if I would go. He had be­ come theiliead of the whole army, you know. I very much wanted to go back, but Mr. Lincoln made a personal point [of my taking mv seat in the Heuse of Representatives.] In the first place, he said that the Republican majority in Congress was very" small, and there was great doubt whether we could certainly carry the necessary measures; and in the, next place, he was greatly lacking in men of military experience in the House to regulate the legislation about the army. So I went in, and was im­ mediately put upon the military com­ mittee. In time of peace ways and means and appropriations are the most important of the committees, and the military is rather a decoration than an influential committee. But in the war the military committee was way up above any others in importance, and my position on it, as practically acquainted with the wants of the army, called me into immediate requisition, giving me a prominence in the House in the beginning that I could not possibly have had in any other way. The first speech I made was on the 26 of January, 1864, on a bill for the con­ fiscation of rebel property. There are portions of that which you will probably think it best to print, enough at least, to show the swing of my mind and the character of my speaking. I was the youngest member in either branch of Congress, at that time, as I had been the youngest member of the Ohio Legislature, and the youngest Brigadier General in the army.--North Ameri­ can Review. • , Astrological Absurdities* However much we may condemn and ridicule the conclusions drawn by astrologers from the "voices of the stars," their method of arriving at these conclusions was founded on strict rule. Their system had every preten­ sion to mathematical and scientific ac­ curacy. Their mistake arose in the idea that the position of any particular planet at any particular time could have the least influence on human fortunes and destinies. This fallacy is scarcely worth disproving in the nineteenth century, but one fact will show it at once. The position of the earth in its rotation, changes with regard to the signs of the zodiac every four minutes. It is evident then, that all the children born within the same four minutes must have precisely the same horo­ scope. Rich and poor, clever or dull, would have, according to astrology, ex­ actly the same career in life mapped out for them--would undergo exactly the same vicissitudes, attain to exactly the same moment. As in England alone there are many children born in the course of every four minutes, the absurdity is evident As to questions regarding particular events, the fact can be proved in a different way. The moon, for instance, is a powerful factor in astrological problems. Her position is, however, changed with regard to our meridian every four minutes, and, in the course of a few hours, very consid­ erably so. It might, then, make a very great difference in the "figure" whether the querent went to the astro­ loger in the morning or the evening. In the one case he might have the moon in "joy," in "dignities," and in every other astrological excellence, -• while in the other she would be in the most complete opposition. -- London Society. . BARBED-WIRE fences are now used by many English farmers to protect their premises from the depredations of hunters, who seemingly delight in trampling down the crops and destroy­ ing fences. . >.. .. , COACHING is no longer the proper thing in England. Senator Qproan having espceeaed ap- ssgecei torn, the New Ymk ZWt takeroetturiMl to glorify Mr. Clwslsutf. I£ia *oaM of light The Lime-Kiln Club. "If Brudder Coincidence Jackson am, back dar' by de stove I should like to speak a few wocd* to him," said Brother Gardner as the meeting opened. Coincidence had just taken off one shoe and sock to agitate his chillblains, but after a few hurried motions he came to the front and U^e President continued: ,* ' " "Brudder Coincidence, has anything happened to you lately?" "Yes, sah--I'se got religun." "So I understand You've almoas' made up your mind to go fo'th preach, dey tell me ?" *" "Yes, sah. I'se jist waitin' 'till I git some money ahead." "Brudder Coincidence, let me advise wid you. People ofteb make mistakes in eich things. Now, in the fust place, try ye* religion an' see if it stands de teste. 1 "Has yer change of heart resulted in yer payin' up ftnv outlawed debts? "Do you do! any less pound in' an' sw'arin' when dat ole mule o' your gits stalled in de mud? "Am you firmly decided in your mind dat if you find a wallet in de road you will return it to de owner?1 . ' "Kin you see your n$vbiijr grain his front doah, put up new curtains an' sot out on iron hitchin' post widout feel in' envious of his luck ? "If you was gwine to trade mules wid Compromise Taylor, who libs 'longside of you, an' am nigh-sighted, would you oonceal de fackt da* your beast am blind in one eye au" lias got twenty- seven different spavins? "If you am paid a quarter too much in makin' change am you gwige to keep it, an' if you git stuck wid a bogus quar­ ter am you gwine to work it off on some­ body else ? "Doan' be in a hurry, Brudder Coin­ cidence, to believe an' announce to. de world dat you has got relignn. It ar' de easiest thing in de world to git fooled on. Wait an' test yerself. You may stan' ebery test an' come out pure gold, or you may fail on ebery one. An' in case it turns out dat you has religun-- de real religun--doan' be in a sweat to go out an' preach to your feller-men. De res' of us ain't in any mo' danger dan we was befo', an' it will be a queshnn whether you can't help de Lawd mo' by stayin' right at home an' takin' car' of yer family while somebody else does de preaphin'. You kin now sot down, Brudder Coincidence, an' I trust you will turn dese remarks an' ob- servasliuns ober in your mind an' giv dem due reflexun." -- Detroit Free Press. Wendril Phillips and the Htnbter. Robert Purvis, one of the founders and many years the President of the anti-Slavery Society, in a reminiscent mood, said: "During slavery days Wendell Phil­ lips lectured one evening of a day on which a number of Methodist ministers, held a conference. The preachers were on the same train with Phillips. One of the ministers, a big blustering fellow, inquired in a loud voice if Wen­ dell Phillips was on the train. " 'Yes, sir; there he is,' answered the conductor, pointing to the great aboli­ tionist, who sat quietly in the rear of the car. "The inquiry naturally exeited a great deal of interest, and everybody in the car turned around to take a look at the man then so much talked about " 'You're Wendell Phillips, are you?' v(tiled the minister, half turning in-his seat. " 'Yes, sir; that is my name.' replied Phillips, with characteristic blandness of voice. > " 'Well, sir, I was just about writing you a letter--' "'Indeed; I should no doubt have had great pleasure in reading it' " 'N you wouldn't! No, you wouldn't! I was going to give you some Sound advice. I want you to under­ stand, sir, that there are no slaves up North here. You have no right to go about raising disturbances and deliver­ ing unpleasant lectures. Why don't you go down South and deliver lec­ tures?' M 'Sir,' said Phillips, half rising in his seat, 'you are a minister of the gospel, are you not ?' " 'Yes, sir.' " 'It is your mission to save souls from hell, is it not?' " 'Yes, sir.' " 'Then why don't you go there?' "In the tumult of laughter that fol­ lowed the minister grabbed his valise and fled to another car."--Exchange. Indian History. If we could only get at the facts of the history of the savage tribes, it would •be of interest to compare these with what is related as the fortune of most civilized nations. It is only in tradi­ tion that the history of the Indian lives, and only one version of the story is ever heard. Sometimes this is so true to nature that no room for doubt can be found. Such is the following chapter from the annals of the leaver tribe, which lives in the northern part of the British possessions. One day a young chief shot his arrow through a dog belonging to another brave. The brave revenged the death of his dog, and instantly a hundred bows were drawn. Ere night had fallen some eighty warriors lay dead around the camp, the pine woods rang with the lamentations of the women, the tribe had lost its bravest men. There was a temporary truce; the friends -of the chief whose arrow had killed the dog yet numbered some sixty people; it was agreed that they Bhould separate from the tribe, and seek their fortune in the vast wilderness lying to the south. In the night they began their march; sullenly their brethren saw them depart never to return. They went their way by the shores of the Lesser Slave Lake, towards the great plains wiiich were said to be far southward by the banks of the swift-rolling Saskatchewan. The tribe Beavers never saw again this exiled band, but a hundred years later a Beaver Indian, who followed the fortunes of a white fur-hunter, found himself in one of the forts of the Sask* atcliewan. Strange Indians were camped about the pallisades; they were portions of the great Blackfeet tribe whose hunting-grounds lay south of the Saskatchewan. Among them were a few braves who, when they conversed together, spoke a language different from that of the other Blackfeet; in this language the Beaver Indian recognized his own tongue. IF ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his im­ agination along.--Macauley. HEAVEN opened wide her ever-duzxng gates, harmonious sound I on golden hinges turning.--Milton "'CARBOLIC C. MAGINNI8" U} the name of a hard-working Irishman in Buffalo, N. Y. It does not follow that the President dis­ approval} the JLea^acky platform because Senator Gorman approves it. It does not" follow Quit "the Democratic spoilsmen are becoming desperate, and tbat they will leave nothing untried to break down the Preside ̂in his ovru party," because Mr. Gorman has said that when the President decline*) a- remomination in hjeheaxipg, "he did not impress me as being so sincere in this as in other statements." Nor does it follow that Mr. Cleveland resents this as­ sertion of Mr. Gorman. There are a grest many indications that he, is apxious to-have such assertions made. He is reported to have said,. very lately, that he did 'not blame Senator Vest for diserediting his sin­ cerity. "In fart," said the President, "no one but my wife does believe me." It would have been well if the Tim en had waited nntil some word or deed of the President had given reason for belifef in either his dissent from the Kentucky plat­ form or his disapproval of Mr. Gorman's utterances. The appointments in Mary­ land have been, the mugwumps themselves being witnesses, as bad as bad could be. They have been distributed among Mr. Gorman's supporters, and, it is generally believed, at Mr. Gorman's dictation. Mr. Gorman has no reason to be, and is not, dissatisfied with the distribution of patronage in Maryland. It has been worse than partisan; it has been factional, and factional to Gorman's personal desire. The Maryland Senator accepts the gift,, and despises the giver, and so do the Kentucky Democrats, and so do most Demo­ crats. There is little dissatisfaction, even in Indiana, with tne distribution of patron­ age; the dissatisfaction ig with the manner or it. The old-frtshionod Democrats are plain speakers. When a Democratic Pres­ ident bounces a Republican and replaces him by a Democrat they do not care about cSbt phrases concerning "efficiency of the service;" they like a plain acknowledgment of the plain fact that the one was rejected because he was a Republican, and the other chosen because he was a Democrat. And if a Republican be retained they hate to have his retention explained by "de­ votion to the great principle of civil- service reform." If it were said that he was retained because he could do the party more service as a Republican than he could as a Democrat, all would be well. It is the cant that is objected to. The truth is that the President is not disliked by the Bourbons tor his acts, it is his words that are distasteful. The hands are those of Esau, the voice is that of Jacob. The Bourbons are not a cunning race, and yet there are things that«ven they oan not fail to discern, chief of which is the trick by wl^ch it is sought to place Mr. Cleveland before the mugwumps as a re­ former with whom the Democrats are dis­ gusted, and by the mugwumps to enforce his renomination in place of Hill or some other who is a Democrat and likes to be thought of as proud of his Democracy. Mr. Cleveland is a Democrat who likes to be thought of as ashamed of his --Chicago Inter Ocean. MHdfUll i« el«rk, 8eeratary, a ta- ly Miil the |ina««ami»is IHWBt s--Ion. IaffceHooae aa tipOpmnattSM'oa Bidas m- _ Mati tDoaaiMtsj The Rebel Rosser. " The Southern Democratic newspapers are commenting in genuine Southern fashion upon the Sheridan-Rosser inci­ dent. They have very little to say about the "savior of the valley," or the pumpkin' vine which the people of that section ad­ vised him to wear as being a better runner than the laurel, but confine themselves to insulting epithets and innuendoes directed sRainst Uen. Sheridan, which come with a bad grace from Mr. Grady's New South. The Charleston Netrn and Courier de­ nounces Sheridan as a "Federal Bashi- Bazouk," and the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, suggests it might be prudent for the Vir­ ginians to "bury their silver, donble the insurance on their barns, and drive the cows into the mountains" on his approach. All this Leo itue there was no child s play about Little Phil's niethod of making war, or Gen. Grant's either. But how about pumpkin-vine Bosser? W, H. H. Lan­ caster, who was the military telegraph operator at New Creek Station, Va., when it was captured by Rosser ip November, 1864, thus describes his experiences: "I was taken in with quite a number of other Unionists, Boldiers and civilians, and was completely robbed of money, watches, clothing, and all other valuables, stripped from head to foot, marched across the country to Staunton almost naked, bare­ footed, and hungry. We lay out nights on the cold, wet ground, were three and one- half months in Castle Thunder, and under their care still, yet suffering from neuralgia and rheumatism. We were captured by Rosser's advance guard, who styled them­ selves the Baltimore plugs. They were experts in the robbing business, as they went through the whole lot of us in than one-half hour. I lost about $1,090-- in money valuables, and clothing." Rosser proposes to run for Congress. K he succeeds insetting to Washington would it not be well for the people of that city to hide their watches and lock ap their money and valuables? Phil Sheridan was making war in thorough and open fashion. Ito*-: ser and his Baltimore plugs Were engaged in brigandage and highway robbery.-r-iZM? cago Tribune, No Trouble About Hew Englait#. One of the favorite delusions which the Democratic party has been hugging for the past few months has been that it was really making inroads in New England, and would carry one or more of its States at the next election. This flattering unction has been laid to the soul with much pleasure but little profit. The New York World, which looks at political problems from the standpoint of what is ana not what it would like to have, sees at once through the falla­ cy of this belief and very frankly says: "Mr. Carlisle ought to be too good a politician to be willing to take any chances in the Pres­ idential election on the hope of making New England doubtful. Doubts are not counted in the Elec oral College, and the only thing doubtful about the vote of the New England States next year is as to the size of their Republican majorities, as usual." The World is not only a parti­ san but a pretty good prophet as well. New England will take care of itself, and when the time comes will return as hearty a verdict for the Republican candidate and the principles of protection to American in­ dustries as it ever has done.--Iowa State Register. • • WIT HI DIBU'T BUT M Coras* "Oi say, Terrence, did ye sind 'jer brither's corpse home ter ther city jit?" asked one country laborer of another. . wOi did nawt." "An' w'y nawt?" "Ther divil as hez charrudge ov tha frate wuddent lave me sind it oover tha road." "Tha bloggard! W'y wuz that?" "He tould me tha Prisidint is afther soignin' er bill fer previnting raleroods from carry in' did-hids oover tha conn- three." MR. HARD GIDDENS.of Berrien County, Georgia, is proud of his war record. He enlisted at the beginning of the rebellion, and fought through the war. In the battle of Chiekamauga his clothing was torn in twenty-seven plac.B by bullets, only two of wjiich touched his t?e6h, cutting the skin on the left hip and grazing the little tirger of the left hand. One bullet cut his shoe­ string in two, another bursted his canteen, one cut his cartridge belt in two, one tore the leaf of his cap off, and one shot the breech of his gun in two while he was shooting. His regiment went into the fight with about Beven hundred men, and came out with about twenty-seven. His com­ pany were all killed, wounded and captured except one, and his clothing wa* riddled with bullets. providing tor a ate* die (««i Maeed aM mt in dfeoroe MM AM tot *£? ««*•*-'. bil. permitting nan-refMSata to be SimIIII of edu­ cational Inatttottons waa also,, •asssd. Mr. Davis' bill requiring employer* at Mamto help in atorea. etc., to proyiaa aeata, apt Mr. Pol­ lard's bill giving boards at supervisors the power to approve official bonds, were passed. A House bill tor the publication of tha names oi all ex-aoldiera, and aallora in the State at Illinois was read a third time. It provide* that the names ahaiLbe coUaetad by tne aasesaon throughout the State, wtumfd to the Secretary of State, wMl pnbliahed at public expense. Bon houses adjourned to the 16th. ALTHOUGH considerably over a qoaramwaa jaesent when the Senate convened on the ltth inst., there was no haaineas tranaaeted other thaa the introdaetion of a bill by BaMtarDv- ill to provide for the condemnation of the "" of way of one railroad br anottMr. right j Uattedtoaw* placea as tfcaee nat- ly obstructed, preventing tha loosMOh «( a practical route ootaide such right Of iray. Senator Organ then called up the Boose bill to prohibit the sale or componad adulter­ ated or notified spirita, and askedto have it advanced to second reading. Beaeatar Bell ob­ jected, and moves it ha referred to tha Judiciary Committee. In the call of the roll a quorum failed to vote, and the roll of the Senate wae recalled. Aodn a quorum did not nepnod, whereupon senator Southworth moved to ad­ journ, but the motion was loat This perform­ ance was gone through with aeveral timee, till finally the President adjourned the body on a viva voce vote. When the House was called to order with forty- two members present Mr. Galloway Challenged the correctness of the record aa to action on the Senate bill, advanced to third reading, allow­ ing the Government title in the Highwood mili­ tary tract. Mr. Galloway a aid the bill had been rushed through with but one page read. The Chair approved of the journal, and Mr. Gallo­ way's objection went for what tt was worth. Two or three bills were advanoed, and the House adjourned, THH Senate had an unusually lively aeaaioa on the 17th inst. The special order wae the consideration of the majority and minority re­ ports ot the Senate printing investigating com­ mittee. Senator Setter spoke in favor of the minority report, and aeverely eensaied Secre­ tary ot State Dement for an alleged gross failure to perform his duty in connection with the letting of the contract for the State printing. He asked the Senators to SUppbrt the minority report, a business and not a partisan poipt ot view. Senator Higgins, whose signature appears em the minority report, favored it strongly. Sena­ tor southworth spoke in strong oppoattion to both the majority and minority reparca, on the ground that the peraoos accused of illegal do­ ings in thia matter had never been allowed the slightest opportunity to dafend themaelvee. He thought the report was partiil and strlotly one­ sided. He wanted to know why H. W. Clen- denin, editor of the State Remitter and Poetmaa- fer of Springfield, had not been inoluded with others in the indictment contained in their re­ port. Senator Crabtree took the floor and vigor­ ously assailed the reporta, insisting that the proceedings ot the investigation were unfair in that the persona inveatjgated had been refused a hearing. Stnators Johns and Wheeler spoke in favor of the majority report. Senator For- man favored the adoption of both. A motion to substitute the minority report for the major­ ity was voted down. The roll waa then called on the adoption of the majority import. Only Senators Cantwell, Monahan, Orenoorf, South- worth and Stratton voted in the negative, and the report was adopted. The pure whisky bill passed by the House waa taken up and ordered to a second reeding. The Menritt anti-conspir­ acy hill was taken up and referred to the Com­ mittee on Judiciary. The House of Kep- resentatlvea peased Merritt's non-forfeiture life insurance bill, the hill tor the organisation of drainsge districts in different oonntles ot tha State, and the bill amending the-habitual erimlnale act. The laat named measure makes a man an habitual criminal by a eonvietion In any State, and the tlcket-of-leave system le put in operation, with a life sentence tor a third conviction. A resolution was adopted for the appointment ,of a commission to inveetigate and report regarding the existence and preva­ lence of pleura-pneumonia in Osok Canqr. IN the Senate Chamber, on the 18th inst.. Senators Crawford and CHbba gave ayegUisUe exhibition. The Boehe drainage bul having Seen reported from the House, was taken up, and Senator Gibbs moved to substitute the bill for the Senate bill on the same aubjeot. Sen­ ator Crawford, who had introduced the Senate bill, objected, and the two Beaatore soon got into a serious war of words on the subject. The question of veracity was raised between them . over an alleged agreameat said to have been entered into in regard to the two bills. Senator <Mbbs, finding the tide gain* against him. withdrew Ids motion. A few min­ utes later the two Oanatora'teaine togetiksr and began again to discuss the?matter. Immedi­ ately there waa a rush on the Benuhliean side of the house, and a cry of "Fight!" reaonnded through the Senate chamber, whieh brought the Sergeant-at-arma, and the Senators were separated. Senator Gibba had applied a moat disgraceful epithet ta Senator Crawford, and had said " I can lick yon." Quick as lightning Crawford dealt him a terrible blow. As soon as he could Senator Gibba regained his balance and returned the blow, when they were taken in charge by their friends. There was groat excitement in the Senate, ahd for a time business was suspended. Subsequently, both Senators apologized to the Senate. Tho Senate concurred in the House Joint res­ olution for a committee to Investigate the alleged pleuropneumonia in Cook County, and refuaed to ingraft the county asaasaor scheme upen the revenue commission bill. The House of KepreeentativeB passed the Senate bill ced­ ing to the GeneraUGovemment the looks and dams in the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Illinois Kiver. The ceasioa takes effect when the Government digs a shin canal. The House rejected the medical praetioe hill, whieh had passed the Senate, and also rejected a Joint resolution for a commission to revise the State, school law. / TBK Senate bill empowering the Railroad and Warehouse Commission to employ oompatent engineers to inspect railroad bridges and make ~ accidents1 inquiry as to the cauae of i ad­ vanced to third reading in the Senate on the lt)th. The Houae bill providing forthe appoint­ ment of court stenographers waa passed, as was also the Senate bill to authorize the election of buildings m Lincoln Park, Chicago, for the use of the Newberry Public Library. Senator Darnell, under a susnension the rulee. had read a second time the bill giving to one railroad the power to condemn and use the right of way of another in cases where the riwht of way to be condemned is the only accessible route. Senator Wheeler objected to the bill being advanced to third reading, and it was referred to the Committee on Judicial Department. The general appro­ priation bill gave rise to a lively debate iu the Senate. The Democrats offered smandainnts to nearly every item, which were invariably voted down by the Republicans. The principal discussions were over the salary of flwunilaiy Ives, of the fctate Board of Public Charities, which was reduced from 93,000 to K.500 per annum, and over the amounts given to the Board of Health Department. The House of Representatives adopted a report exonerating Mrs. Ohr, late Superintendent of the Soldiers* Orphans' Home, from all blame; and a resolu­ tion requesting her reinstatement was paased by a vote of Tl to 43. The bill abolishing tt* Board of Live-Stock Commissioners waa sent to third reading. The House adopted an amend­ ment to the revenue bill prohibiting! missiouers, under heavy penalties, from accept­ ing railroad passes. The i ill requiring tbat tne '5 "l * VJ consent of two-thirds of property-holde the lines of proposed elevated railways in cities shall be obtained before such roads e be constructed, was passed. M'ulse Bcata. II is strafe how few people knonr svhat their normal pulse is, said a phy­ sician to a St. Louis Globe reporter. They know that the average pulset is about 70, and imagine that they are well or otherwise aa their pulse ap­ proaches or departs from this staudara. It is true that an average of all pulse* would give a result of about 70 beats, but in no other physical peculiarity is there such wide individval variation. I had two students in my office at the same time, both very strong and re­ markably healthy young men. The normal pulse of one was 47 and tho other 93. This difference is unusual, few pulses falling below 60 or rising abo\e 8:> in a healthy subject, but aa unusually slow or rapid pulse is no in­ dication whatever of disease, as is pop­ ularly supposed to be tbe case. M«4 people overestimate their pulse, aa they often count its beats wheu talking about the matter, and it is a fact weU known to physicians that tbe excite­ ment of conversation will quickeu the pulse from 5 to 20 beats. The best time to arrive at the true normal is shortly after waking in the moraiagt when the nerves are tiuexeited. , SX4-- .V . • * . - . . f I'. I • ..r. . . - •• mcemm