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_ , *** $& k -rWWf ?:>•- r̂:/ i w-*vi;*%?j db '^3 iiis: ,.vt-» iff-. ? /! ^ ii» -4^ * U*§«»tg flaindenlrr J. VMSUTKE. IfoHENBT, ILLINOIS. '-V^-ipVS v- -•"'. • THE United States pays every year for cigars and cigarettes $186,500,000 and $20,000,000 for tobacco sinolted in pipes. To this it adds the cost of chew­ ing tobacco, $50,000,000, bringing the entire tobacco bill for the year up to $256,500,000. 1 v COL. JAMES STAPUTTON, of Btapleton, Ga., has several bales of cotton that he lias kept ever since the war. He says he can keep cotton easier than he can money, and as the staple ceased long ago to lose in weight he may be said to be saving as much money AS the cotton worth. Two VUAAGEBS in the West of En­ gland clubbed together and bought a hearse as a public memorial for the 'Queen's jubilee. It was done in good faith, but the gruesome object was con sidered a trifle out of place in the pro­ cession, and the testimonial was quietly returned to the donors. PRINCESS EUGENIE, of Sweden, who takes a great interest in the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the other day invited the cab-drivers of Stockholm to "afternoon coffee" in the large hall of the Exchange, where a lecture about the horse and its proper treatment was afterward delivered. One of the Princess' ladies in waiting officiated as hostess. SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada, says that instead of cutting off the railroad passes of Senators and Representa­ tives, as has .been done by the Inter- State Commerce Law, he would give them all passes and compel each man to travel at least 5,000 miles a year, in order to have them learn something about all parts of the country for which they have to legislate. QUEEN VICTORIA, while on her way from Balmoral to Windsor to attend . the jubilee, was stopped by a swarm of bees. It was at night The bees had swarmed in the glass box of a signal lamp and put out the light. The en­ gineer not seeing the customary light stopped the train, and would have se- oared the bees and taken them on to ^ Windsor as a memento had there been time. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND writes few letters and dictates none. His public papers he writes with his own hand. He uses a stub pen and a cork pen­ holder, and in reading or writing wears spectacles with a black steel frame. He shaves himself every morning. He usually wears a black Prince Albert ooat and black trousers, except in sum­ mer, when he wears a blue-flannel or serge suit with sack coat He wears a 7i hat " PROF. BOLTON expresses the opinion that the crowning glory of modern ohemistry is the power of producing in the laboratory, from inorganic matter, substances identical with those existing in the vegetable and animal kingdoms-- it being known now that the same chemical laws rule animate and inani­ mate nature, and that any definite com­ pound produced in the former can be prepared by synthesis as soon as its chemical constitution has been made out HARRIET BEECHER STOWE is failing rapidly. The brilliant intellect which -conceived the immortal tale of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is perceptibly shattered. The death of Prof. Stowe has added years to the appearance of his lonely wife, and she has lost entirely her vigor and enthusiasm. In her modest little house in Hartford she awaits list­ lessly the end of her busy life. Sadly she said a few days ago to a friend, "No; I write no more. I .have done, I have done, I have done. * AMONG the few survivors of Water­ loo is Lord Albemarle,, who entered the English army on April 4, 1815, and served on June 18 with the old Four­ teenth Foot He retired on half-pay as Major, became a Major General Oc­ tober 26, 1858, and a General Febru­ ary 7, 1874. The other survivor whose name is in the army list, is Gen. George Whichcote. This veteran sol- dier received his commission in Janu- vy, 1811, and served in the Peninsula .with the Fifty-seoond Light Infantry. THE Congregational Society on the Pacific Coast employes twenty-two -American teachers and eleven Chinese : assistants. It has five schools in San , Francisco and fourteen elsewhere. - Last year the pupils numbered 1,279. The Chinese converted in these schools •: join the Congregational Association of ; i Christian Chinese, the conditions of - membership being the same as to a 'church. The association now has 420 * "members, 117 being also members of "churches. Last year its contributions were >1,937.15. JOHN TOBIN, the Kansas City man ,vho has been lecturing against mor- monism, is about to institute suit / against Salt Lake City for $1,000,000. In 1868 ho was obliged to fly with the penalty of death hanging over him should he return. Just before John D. Lee was hanged for the Mountain Meadow massacre he confessed that he had been employed by Brigham Young vjto murder Tobin, but only succeeded in ^wounding him. At that time Tobin was obliged to fly from Salt Lake City. He then owned considerable property in the heart of the city, which is now estimated at being worth over *$1,000,000. • * MRS. ELIZABETH MACKINDER died at Anna, HI., in the 82d year of her age. ~ She had illustrious lineage. Her maiden name was DeBow. Her father, John DeBow, was the son of James De- Bow, who was born in New Jersey in 1735. Her mother was Sarah Mont- Nevf .Jersey. Along this line the records go back by way of Hugh, created first Earl of Eglinton by James IV. in 1585, to Arnulp, Earl of Pem­ broke, 1102; to Boger, Count of Mont­ gomery, who came over with William the Conqueror, in 1066; to Roger, the first historic Count de Mou Isomeric in Normandy, A. D. 900. « : : A RECENT application of a West "Vir­ ginian named Brown at the pension office in Washington brought to light the fact that one mother had given six­ teen sons to the service of the union during the war. She had borne thirty- tlireu children in all, of whom twenty were boys, and of these only four did not serve as soldiers in the union army. Two were killed and fourteen survive. Each of the latter is to-day in receipt of a pension from the Government for disabilities received in the service, and the death of her other soldier sons en­ titles the mother also to a pension. The case is an interesting one, not only for the remarkable number of sons of one mother who wore the blue, but as illustrating how contagious was the war spirit in some families along the line of fire. * - A MINES named Bobbins' got a ver­ dict against the Erie Telephone Com­ pany for $375 be cause of an electric shock given him by 'Belle Hepburn, one of the girls of the central office of El Paso, Texas. Paul Keating, ex- Mayor of El Paso, is^proprietor of a saloon opposite the central telephoce office. He had two rings hung from the awning in front and at just the height to tempt one to "try his muscle" by drawing himself up on them. Two invisible wires from the telephone office connected with the rings. When a man seized the rings to draw himself up, as Bobbins did one day, the watch­ ful Belle Hepburn turned on the cur­ rent and fastened him to the rings. When he was released he had to treat the crowd in Keating's saloon. Bobbins was so severely shocked that he was laid up for a month or more, and he brought suit for $20,000. Judge Fal- vey, before whom the case was tried, is said to have himself turned on the cur­ rent which one day fastened a county assessor to the rings. The assessor was a witness for Bobbins. Three hundred and seventy-five dollars was not satisfactory to Bobbins, and he has appealed. 4 THE area of the thirty-eight States and Territories (excluding Alaska) is 1,856,070,400 acres. Of this, 24.6 per cent., or 487,280,000 acres, was, ac­ cording to the last general census, covered with forest In the States west of the ninety-fifth meridian, and (excluding the Indian Territory) which cover 65.5 per cent of the total area of the United States, there is only 15.2 per cent of forest, and if from this is taken California. Montana, • Oregon, Washington, and Texas, the remainder west of the ninety-fifth meridian west longitude has only 8.1 per oent The thirty States east of that meridian have an area of 640,000,000 acres, or 34.5 per cent of the whole, and the census gave 47.5 per cent of this as forest In this group the twenty East­ ern and Northern States, including as such Maryland and West Virginia, have an area of 313,547,200 acres, of which 44.4 per cent, was timber. The ten Southern States of this group have al­ most the same area as the Northern and Eastern twenty, viz.: 326,421,600 acres, of which 50.6 per cent was for­ est. The group east of the ninety- fifth meridian, containing only 34.5 per cent, of the whole area, had yet <32-2 per cent of the whole forest space. CHOICE THOUGHTS. THE inventor only knows how to know. BIOHT ethics are oentral, and go from the soul outward. WITH the great, our thoughts and manners easily become great THESE are those who never reason on what they should do, but on what they have done. How MANY of our troubles ever hap­ pened ? We dream of ten for every one that comes. . THE great high road of human wel­ fare lies along the old highway of stead­ fast well doing. EVERT one can do his best thing easiest. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds ns of others. THF. boy who can claim honesty and sobriety--in a word, unimpeachable integrity--for his inheritance has a great estate to begin life with. THE world has a sure chemistry, by which it extracts what is excellent in its children and lets fall the infirmities and limitations of the grandest mind. THOUGHT is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who canf adequately place it A certain awkward­ ness marks the use of narrowed thoughts; but as. soon as we have learned what to do with them they be­ come our own. IT is not necessary or right that all men should enjoy art, nature, or music to make them useful or honorable. When we go a pleasuring at least let us be honest, and not pretend to a liking for white-bait when we hunger for a good meal of wholesome coarse bread and salt herring. To THINE right, to be right, and to do right should be the great concern of life. It takes nothing from the near interest which all should feel in the material work of the world, and it ex­ alts that work by subordinating it to a higher law of moral principles and the final cause of right living, a character that shall endure beyond death. IF God should happen to withdraw the knowledge of himself from us we can scarcely conceive what would hap­ pen. Vice and crime would l>e para­ mount and the unchecked passions of man would produce a fearful state of things. The world is better to-day for the presence of Christianity, even though there are thousands that have never raised their hands to help its progress or to secure its blessings. FRENCH experiments have shown that nickel may be effectively rolled upon soft steel plates, which are thus made as valuable for lamp reflectors' And IDE MIL 01 THE READ. Statements Made by Northerners tie* eenllj in the South as to Politics. Ooodj Shirt Talk the Stockist Trafl* of the Average Southern - .Politician, (Washington special to Chicago MK OOMUDL] Colonel Canady, Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate, was a Con­ federate, but he has been a Republican sinoe the war. He says: "Ihere is more waving of the bloody shirt in the Confederate circles of the South than there is among the old soldiers of the North or among the politicians of the North. As a matter of fact, the rebel •bloody shirt' is the stock in trade of ninety-nine out of a hundred of the orators of the South to-day. You can go to a country fair and hear an ad­ dress, or to a college commencement and hear orations, or to public gather­ ings and hear a speech, or attend any kind of a public occasion where there is speech-making, and you will hear the lost cause alluded to in some form or another as a thing to be glorified, re­ membered, and treasured. It is the one thing that the Southern orator keeps on hand as a sort of stock in trade, and his appeal is to the old Con­ federate element to stand together and make common cause against Northern politicians and Northern policy of gov­ ernment. The very same men in al­ most the same breath will denounce John Sherman as a bloody-shirter for standing up and demanding for every man, white or black, his rights to vote free, untrammeled, and unchallenged, whether he be North, South, East, or West. The inconsistency of the thing is getting tiresome, which induces me to speak where otherwise I might hold my tongue." Captain Carpenter, of Illinois, who is engaged in railroad enterprises in Texas, said the other day: "I have been tender-mouthed about the South for four or five years. I thought it was about t>me for us to stop what they called the 'bloody shirt' cry; but I heard enough in Texas among the Southerners there to convince me that the old spirit of the Confederacy is as much alive to-day as it was when they fired on Fort Sumter. They do not assert that they will fight, because they have learned a pretty good lesson about fighting; but they intend to make their fight just the same and score their point if they can without any _ appeal to arms. One fellow said to me, at the hotel at Galveston where I was stop­ ping, that if President Cleveland would stand by his order the people of the South would go up to Washington and take the flags whether or not there was oppositon from the North. You scratch a genuine Southern man on his bai-k on the subject of secession, and he is ss much a secessionist to-day as if he had not appealed to the arbitrament of war on that question and been whipped. I have come home from there thor­ oughly determined to wave the bloody shirt, and denounce Southern methods until all the secessionist is trounced out of these fellows in one way or another. It is they who flaunt the bloody shirt and not the people of the North." CLEVELAND'S SUBSTITUTE. Th« Story of His Knliatuient--The Presi­ dent Falls to Krap Hit Promise*. !B»th (N. Y.) special.) George Brinske, President Cleve­ land substitute, now in the Soldiers' Home at this place, is a Pole, and in his early years followed the life of a sailor on the great lakes. To a re­ porter to-day he said: In 1863 I was employed on the pro­ peller Acme, and frequently made the port of Buffalo. Drafts were being made and substitutes were in big de­ mand, with good money offered. I heard of men getting as high as $300 for going to the war, and when Cap­ tain Rhinehardt, of Buffalo, came to me and asked me if I wanted to make some money, I told him yes. He said that Mr. Cleveland, the Assistant City Attorney, wanted a substitute, and that he would give me $150 after I en- l'ated if I would go the front. I want­ ed some money, and accepted the offer. The Captain took me to Cleveland's office and the offer was repeated by him. Bhinehardt took me to the office of 'Squire Ryan and I was sworn into the service. Cleveland gave me $150, and said %t was all the money he had, and said that he had borrowed it from William lihinehardt. He said he was sorry lie couldn't give me more, but he promised me on his word and honor that if 1 lived to come back from the war he would give me money and do anything he could for me. I took the money and rode out to Fort Porter with Cleveland and Bhine­ hardt I was left at Fort Porter for a time and was then sent to Elmira, then to Biker's Island, in New York harbor, and then to Alexandria, where I was assigned to the Seventy-sixth New i'ork Volunteers, a regiment which was raised in Schoharie County and then stationed at Pappahannock. I was a handy man around the hospital, and was detailed to that duty. I remained in hospitals all through the war and was never in a battle as a combatant. The story that Cleveland's substitute was killed at the battle of (Gettysburg was a lie, for I was mustered into the service July 6, and the battle of Getvp- burg commenced July 1 and continued j Until the evening of July 4, 1803. i Koon after 1 got to my regiment I ran ; out of money, and wrote to Mr. Cleve- j land about it, and he sent me $', and ; that is all the money I ever got from him. j At the fall of Richmond I was taking ] care of the wounded in a hospital fif­ teen miles below Petersburg. I staid the$e until the wounded men were neatly all taken away, and then, after receiving my discharge, I went back to Buffalo. I was sick and needed aid, but Cleveland refused to help me. I went away; but I was often sick, and was driven from one hospital to anoth­ er, and was in a good many poor houses. I often triecUto get some help from Cleveland but never succeeded. I never got a cent, and I had to live in poor houses and hospitals because I was unable to work. I have got a claim for a pension and have been try­ ing to have the President help me, but he will not do it. Superintendent Winsfield and Dr. Berning of the poor house and Buffalo Plains know about my trying to get help from the Presi­ dent I am old and poor, and I think the President ought to help me in some way. He promised to, and he ought to do it I am in the hospital here and have hemorrhages, and need some money. I have no family now, for mj wife and -children died at Locust Point, of Trenton, mriu Mi she is the only relative I knowol I will make an affidavit to everything I have told you. Brinske, for a man who baa neither read nor write, is an intelligent con­ versationalist and speaks English very plainly. He has Been in Ward B of the hospital at the home for a number of weeks, and although not confined to his bed is suffering from hemorrhages of the lungs and is supposed to have consumption. His story seems to be generally believed by the soldiers and sailors at the home, and a great many country people come to see him out of curiosity. A MlttWUMP PLAN FAILS. to form a ltourbon Qrud Army Fall Flat. [Washington special to the Chicago Tribune] The administration people are suffer­ ing another disappointment The movement to break up the Grand Army was to have materialized this week, but it hasn't Following the President's St Louis letter it was hoped that some leading Democrats who are members of the organization would publily with­ draw, and thus jjive the nucleus for a Democratic society whose members would be ready to indorse everything Mr. Cleveland does. But the leading Democrats have been shy about doing this. They understand the situation better than the President's mugwump advisers, who have been vehemently calling on the Grand Army to apologize or else get ready for the vengeance of the second-term boomers. Their atten­ tion was first brought to it after the battle-flag blunder, whnn some of the office-holders here set up a demand that all Democrats in the organization with­ draw from it. This fell so flat that some surprise was shown last week when the President's partisans agatUj set up the same cry. It \*as thought that the split would begin in the East but it didn't. It happens that some of the leading local G rand Army men are Democrats, and these have been in a frame of mind over the outlook, but none of them have come forward to say they would withdraw and try to start a new society of veterans. The word re­ ceived here has been that the St Louis encampment would be made the great­ est success of years, and that the next year would Bhow a growth in member­ ship. This has not been comforting to the men who thought they could put in a wedge which would split the or­ ganization. The Grand Army men say that there is no doubt that ambitious politicians have tried to use the society in the past for personal ends, and the same attempts will be made in the future. But they have always Bat down heavily on such men, and have no doubt that they will be able to keep on doing so. The politician who just now iB said to be trying to work the political dodge the most is one of the main-stays of the administration--Commissioner Black. • Which Is Sectional! "For convenience of reference," says the Toledo Blade, we present in par­ allel columns the different opinions held by the Southern Democrats--as gathered from the editorial columns of the Southern Democratic newspapers-- and those entertained by the Bepub- lican party of the country. The newspapers referred to claim that the "South is loyal," while they, as well as the yelping hounds of the doughface press of the North--Demo­ cratic and mugwump--call the Repub- lican party of the nation "sectional." Bead the parallel and decide which is the sectional set of opinions-- the one on the left or the one on the right: SOUTHERN VIKW. | HKIHJBJ.ICAN VIKW. 1. Secession *H a| 1. Secession was re- right, and was not re-bellion, and tbe Union bellion. [is and was indissoluble. 9. Secession was not 'J. Secession was trea- treason, nor was Jetf son, and Davis was a THE MOOH AND THE WEATHER. Davis a traitor. 3. That tbe Houth was fighting for its rights. 4. The Houth was right in the war. a. The South was not conquered, but over­ powered by numbers. traitor. 3. The South had no rights imperiled. 4. The South was wrong iu all respects. 5. The rebellion was conquered, and the •nperiorjSouth treated with rare magnanimity by the conquerors. 6. That the suppres-1 •>. Citizenship and sion of the colored vote tho ballot were con- is necessary to prevent ferred on the negroes as the rule of an ignorant the result of the war, and non-property hold- and the constitutional tag class. guarantee ia flagrantly violated by the sup- Ipression of their votes. 7. That each South-; 7. That the suppres- era State h«s a right to sion of the colored vote conduct its elections as should be followed by the whit)* see tit. a diminution of the basiB of representation in Congress under the f o u r t e e n t h a m e n d - ment. 8. That the negro! 8. That absolute shall have only such equality'before the law rights and privileges is the right of every as tbe whites see fit to American, irrespective allow. of race or color. 9. That any expres-j 9. That the criticism sion of opinion hostile of such opinions as are to the above eight given in the opposite points ia a waving of oolumn is not "reviving the "bloody shirt" Ithe war issue," but {legitimate and proper. The Labor Party in 1888. The New York World recently sent out a series of inquiries to leading labor men in the States and Territories, totfcliing various matters connected with the policy of their organizations, particularly their platforms, their pro­ posed action in the coming fall elec­ tions and the general election of 18H8, and their opinion from. which of the two old parties the strength of tbe labor movement will be derived. Be- plies have been published, coming from almost every State and Territory. The two factions--the United Labor and George men, on the one hand, and the Union Labor, or anti-George men, on the other--differ widely as to their platforms; but all agree, with substan­ tial unanimity, on the determination to run independent tickets this fall and a labor nominee for the Presidency next year. In answer to the question from which of the two old parties the strength of the new movement will be derived, the majority estimate that three-fourths of the votes will be taken from the Democrats, and the remain­ der from the Republicans. The Milk in the Ceeoannt* Albany Journal: President Cleve­ land, leaving Jeff Davis out of the count, is the first pnblic man who has dared to court the enmity of the vet­ erans of the war. He is also the first man elected to Federal offioe by the votes of the solid South. Account for the first phenomenon by the second. Tlfty Have Tried It Before. New York Tribune: The Democratic attempt to put to rout the Grand Army of the Bepublic had not succeeded, when we went to press. A similar Democratic attempt was inaugurated in 1861, and was persisted in for a num­ ber of years. It is understood that it didn't succeed worth a cent No Sympathy for Missouri. Peoria Transcript: In the great ef­ fort now being made by the city of St Louis and the State of Missouri to get the President to come West, the people of the other States will wish the Missourians success. Nothing is too Scientific Vseia Regarding an Old Superstition. Of all surviving pseudo-superstitions that of the influence of the moon on the weath er dies the hardest; and the belief that the (so-called.) "changes" of the moon are accompanied or followed by changes in the condition of the ter­ restrial atmosphere is still to be found among a very large number indeed of otherwise edncated and enlightened people. A recent writer in the English Mechanic has examined tho grounds of this belief and attributes it to the weather predictions in the almanacs of the early part of the century. As to thfe moon "changing," one would imagine to hear the majority of people talk, that a "change" of the moon is in some sense counato with a conjuring trick, in which the performer, after showing that he has nothing in his hand, instantaneously produces an egg, an orange, or a ball from it. Now noth­ ing could well be further from the truth than this, the fact being that the moon is always, changing--.01 second before conjunction she is waning, .01 second alter it she is waxing, and so throughout her monthly path. When her (celestial) longitnde is identical with that of the sun she is said in the almanacs to be "newwhen such lon­ gitude differs 90 degrees from the sun's toward the east she isiu her "first quar­ ter;" when they are separated by 180 degrees the moon is "full," and when she has traveled to that point in her orbit in which she is 90 degrees to the west of the sun she is said to lie in her "last quarter;" in each case it being as­ sumed that she is viewed from the earth's center. The use of the word "change," then, in connection with her position in these four points of her orbit is a solecism, pure and simple. "But," people are heard to say, "as the moon influences the tides, why should it not affect the atmosphere too?" To which the * immediately obvious reply is that the tides are a semi-diurnal phenomeon, so that, on this principle, the weather Ought to change twice a day also--a conclusion too absurb to be entertained. Never­ theless the moon does influence the at­ mosphere by causing the production in it of tides so minute as, under ordinary circumstances to be masked by other fluctuations. The existence of these atmospheric tides was first definitely established by the observations of the late Prof. Daniell, but if these minute tides influenced the weather in the slightest degree it must change twice a day--a supposition too ridiculous to merit notice. The "moon on her back" as a weather sign would appear to be a good deal like the old woman's indigo test--if the dye was pure " 'twould either sink or swim, she disremembered which." In many parts of the country, and uni­ formly in England, the belief prevails that when the young moon is "lying on her back"--in other words, when the line joining her cusps is nearly or quite parallel to the horizon, she is "holding water," and that rain will certainly follow. How either belief arose it would be idle to speculate, but the ex­ planation of the phenomenon itself is sufficiently simple. In-the outset the moon is never much more than 5 de­ grees either to the north or south of the ecliptic, or apparent annual path of the sun through the Heavens. Now the line adjoining her cusps (the sharp points of her crescent) is always square to a great circle passing the sun and moon. Two minutes' study of a celes­ tial globe will show how variable is the inclination of the ecliptic to the hori zon, and consequently that of the line joining the cusps of the moon also. Finally, the most elaborate com­ parisons of meteorogical records made in France and in Eugland (where the Greenwich observatory for forty years were carefully collated with the moon's phases during that period) have sufficed to show that no connection whatever exists between them. The solitary ob­ servable effect of the moon upon our atmosphere was believed by Sir John Herschel to be exhibited in tho ten­ dency to disappearance or cloud under the fnll moon, and this he attributes to the heat radiated from her surface. w~ The Modern French Estimate of Napoleon. It has not been difficult of late years to collect contemporary prints of the First Napoleon. It may have been otherwise under the Second Empire-- probably it was--but since the estab­ lishment of the Third Bepublic it has been easy enough. This history of Na­ poleon's prestige in France may be told in a few words. Napoleon's personal foroe was so great, and he had sp identified himself witli France, that, in spite of the reac­ tion consequent on the Res'oratiou of Louis XYIIL, the French people, as a whole, accepted him and glorified him as the national hero. His fame, and the magical influence of his name, suf­ fered little even from the recollections of Leipsic and Waterloo; his reputa­ tion, in fact, increased steadily all through the period of the rule of the returned Bourbons, and at no time was more potent than in the reign of Louis Philippe. In his day Napoleon's re­ mains were brought back from St. Helena, and interred, with great pomp, in the Invalides. The shops of Paris were fnll of pictures of his battles, of portraits of him and of his marshals. Up to the Bevolution of 1848, Napo­ leon's government and policy were always, in the popular mind, opposed to the policy and government of the Bourbons. He stood for the principle of the national will; they--the older branch, of course, more particularly-- for the principle of divine right After the deposition of Louis Philippe, the tremendous influence of Napoleon's name carried Prince Louis into the chair of the President of the new Be­ public by an overwhelming majority, in spite of everything that the Govern­ ment could do to prevent it But from that moment a new chapter began. Napoleon was now no longer, in the minds of the French people, placed in contrast with the Bourbon Kings, but with ihe Republic. The coup d'etat of December 2, 1851, embittered the Republicans against the uncle almost as much as against the nephew, for it was by the uncle's name that the nephew had won. Hence came a sys­ tematic effort to write down the First Napoleon, with the view of weakening the hold of the Third Napoleon upon the popular mind. Lanfrey's History is the best illustration of a work of this kind. The fall of the Second Empire, with all its mortifying incidents and terrible disasters, did much--however illogically--to lower the prestige of Napoleon the First; and since 1871 Republicans and Bonapartists have been always at swords' points. In France to-day, whatever may be in fact the strength of the veneration felt for the First Napoleon, one sees and hears little of him. There are, of course, many prints, busts, medals, statuettes of him to be found in the prized, I fancy, to-day ss they were, forty years ago.--From mSome Illus­ trations of Napoleon and his Times," by John C. Ropes, in Scribner's Magazine. A Fall In Watches. "Do you see t|iis old watch?" said a watchmaker to a reporter for Che Pittsburgh Dispatch. He held up an article that looked more like a mantel clock, and proceded to qpen it up. By some twist of the thumb nail that only a watchmaker knows, he opened the onter case and it looked much like the shell of a cocoanut The interior por­ tion resembled the kernel. The thumb nail got to work again and the glass face was raised. AgaiA the thumb nail acted, and the works w^re turned out on a hinge, and they looked big and coarse enough to run a rolling milL "That watch doesn't look as though it was worth much," continued the watchmaker, "and yet its owner, who was in here a few moments ago, said he must have it fixed at any price. I found a couple of pivots broken, several teeth bent, and other damages. I told him it would cost $4. 'Fix it up,' he said, 'I don't care if it cost $10 to fix it That watch belongs to my lather. He has had it for many years, long before I was born. I don't think it could keep time enough for a pawnbroker, yet he wants it fixed and it must be done." "Now," continued the watchmaker, "that is a very old style of watch. He could buy a far better one for the price he would have to pay for repairing it, and one that would be much mors suit­ able, too. It is a burden to carry such a watch. But men liked them when they plowed, hammered around trees, fell into rivers, eta This old watch survives such mishaps, though it doesn't keep decont time. It can't Its machinery is'too rough and too old to keep good time. "Yes, there has been a great change in the style of watches. Years ago big watches, with all the flowering that could be got on the cases, were the style. Then camo the Opposite, and plain watches were the demand. The lady's wach came, a nedt, delicate little thing, and the men thought the little watches were the ne plus ultra. And the jewlers began to bedeck the oases with pearls and other stones, and the articles brought big prices. After a time the neat silver watch began to get its hooks in, and it was all the rage. ~ , "Prices for watches have fallen re­ markably in the last ten years. I re­ member when people paid $250 , and $300 for a hunting-case gold watch that you can get for $50 or $60, and some­ times for less. The change in price fa due to the fact that the makers, after a time, found they could mak5 cases much cheaper than they had been doing. The works were made much cheaper by the use of machinery, and of course the price fell, being nelped along by competition." Where dreatMMk are Bern. It is a curious fact, as noted by tbe Washington correspondent of the New York Herald, that the great majority of the prominent men are from the smaller citites and towns, while on the other hand, the number of those born in the larger cities of the North and West who have written their names high on the roll of political and military fame will scarcely reach a round dozen. Charles Sumner was a resident of Boston, but his great colleague in the Senate, Henry Wilson, came from the insignificant village of Natick, while Gens. Butler and Banks and Sens. Dawes and Hoar are natives of places but little more important in point of Sipulation. Tilden and Arthnr were ew York City men, but nearly every other New Yorker of prominence--like Pres. Cleveland, Daniel Manning, Horatio Seymour, Conkling, Seward, Greely ana Kernan--had their birth and training in the interior citizes. "Sunset" Cox claims New York City as his home, but he made his reputation as a reconteur and wit before he removed to the metropolis and while a resident of the sleepy old town of Zanesville, 0. Sam Randall is the only Congress­ man from Philadelphia in 20 years who is known outside of his state. The other famous Pennsylvanians--Buchan­ an, Stevens, Cameron, Curtin, Meade, and Hancock--all hailed from the provinces. ' In Ohio the contrast is still qiore sharply defined. Ben. Wade, Chase, Stanton, Garfield, Hayes, Gen. and Senator Sherman, Giddings, Thurman, Sheridan, and William Allen were in every instance citizens of obscure little towns that are known only to the world as the homes of these great men. Cin­ cinnati, as an offset to this, has fur­ nished to the country but two men Of national prominence since the warr^eoc- Attorney Gem Taft and George H. Pendleton. Chicago has done even less for her­ self, inasmuch as she has sent but one may, Lyman Trumbull, of first-class ability, to either hranoh of Congress. Grant, Lincoln, Logan, and Yates, the best-known names iu Illinois politics, laid the foundutioa d* their greatness in the smallest cities and towns of the state. What is true of the statesmen of the past is equally true of those of to-day. The Morrisons, Springers, Blounts, Hammonds, Butterworths, McKinleys, Reeds, Mills, Holmans, Pavsons, Weavers, Reagens, and Hen­ dersons, who control the action of the lower house, have their homes ia tbe Waterloos, Macons, Cantons, Auroras, Corscicans, Palestines and other unim­ portant towns in their . respecting states. i A Sensible PrineeM. '"'* For a person of only seven years' ex­ perience, the good sense shown by the child-princess Charlotte Was really re­ markable. Her musio-teacher, who was silly enough to think that a Prin­ cess without flattery was like., a duck without water, once highly commended her execution when she herself knew that it was faulty and deserved no praise at all. The room was filled with other people who held similar opinions about Princesses and ducks; and all, when she appealed to them, declared that her Royal Highness had played in a manner to ravish the ears of angels. She knew better, but said no more at the moment When Master Teacher came next morning for a lesson, how­ ever, he found his pay and a discharge ready for him; also a piece of advice from her little Highness, that "he should never indulge error in a pupil where he was employed to perfect the unskillful." Thus Charlotte showed her power of reasoning and her mastery of the English language, rebuked a flatterer, and procured for herself a very pleasant little vacation,--the find­ ing of another suitable teacher being a work of time and deep British deliber­ ation.--Ellen M. Hutchinson, in SL Nicholas. JITBGK no man because the disposition |}il» lyind ii. qnl_li^q junr QJTO» A , 1LI4X0I8 STATE --Fire in the aaarble block «t I*«HK&| ville did damage to QM SMOIM^WH $150,000. .. lis --Decatur Commissioners now nsenH instead of glazed tile for culverts. report if beftcr and much eBfeaper. ' . " --The flowing-mill at Milton owned by Heavner k 8hadel, valued at $8,000, qptotttib, was wholly Jboxned. $5,000.' > < --Maurice Emery, a Frenchman, aged SO years, committed suicide at TayleivlBe toy ^hooting himself with a 38-caIiber IfB'^n revolver. * --Danville pays $8,000 far the use eft water, and it is proposed to buy the wofiv at an advance of 10 per cent, on the ap­ praised talne. --The residence of Lycuxgus MeCsua* near Joliet, burneft recently. Loss, $2,90©. with $1,600 insuranoe. The fin originated from a defective flue. --A 300-acre tract of marsh laid near Colmar was recently drained by W. S. Neeee. During the operation ISO iat- Uesnakes were killed. * --At a meeting of the Old Settlers' Axw rang&nent Committee in Lincoln, it win decided to hold the annual gathering at Kodrft Pulaski, Sept. 14. --Tfie twenty, second annual reunion of g the surviving members of the Twelfth Regiment Illinois Yo'uateem will be held : at Cambridge, Henry County* Wednesday, t l Aug. 24. % --•While thrashing wheat opon the ;; ot David Greer, ten miles sonth of Mat- ' toon, the separator and grain were set oat ^ fire by the heating of a journal. Two | hundred and fifty bushels of wheat ml the thrashing outfit were consumed. --Mrs. B. F. Digman, wife of • ma- f ohioist in the locomotive department of the Burlington Road at Aurora, committed ' suicide by taking phosphorus. She soaked | the poison from a handful of matohflS and I drank the fluid. She was a brids of bat a few months. J--The Executive Committee ef A»"- Sonthem Illinois Soldiers' Association " met in Centralia and fixed Sept 13, 14 and 15 as the time for holding a reunion. The reunions of Southern Ijlindt are 4 among the best held in the United States, | and the committee are making unnafal efforts to eclipse all former efforts, lligiyv of the mo6t distinguished speakers in the " Xtaited States are invited to be present. : --Officers Coffin and Buel made a clever < capture at Chicago. Victor Hansen and ; David Mittendorf sneaked into Sophie An­ derson's restaurant, at 104 Wells atase!̂ ̂ and stole a hand-sachel containing it- pocket-book in which was $100 in wwy and valuable papers. The police were notified and the thieves were located in an H alley near by, run down, and $75 of the :';t Jnoney recovered in less than three bows. ' --Crop reports from all sections of the State indicate that the continuance of the > present general drouth and high tempera- :; tare will reduce the prospect for corn to 75 per cent. The northern and eastern portions of the State have had looalshewsc% • but elsewhere the crops are suffering. Corn looks best in the northwest comer of the State. Pastures are very poor in the ^ northern, poor in the central and below ; the average in the southern counties. The weather has not been so warn in ten years throughout the State. --Judge W. P. Sloan, of Golconda, ifaa swinging a long scythe among the weaifc ; on a hillside. Suddenly the bleedutg and headless body of a big rattlesnake flew into ;the air, and, falling upon the Judge's neck,, coiled itself round. The Judge was nearly choked, and terribly frightened, thinking he had been bitten, and that the blood came from himself--so frightened •that a farm hand had to come to his relief otod assist him into the honse. The swing 0 of the scythe had taken the snake's head clean off, and thrown the body into the air. The Judge will keep the rattles sa a memento. --Judges Gresham and Allen rendered a ; decision at Springfield in the Vandalia Railroad suit. They refused to grant the injunction and appoint a receiver, as prayed for in the bill filed by the com- ^ plainant. They hold that the property \ras iji perfectly solvent condition, and would iu no way deteriorate in the possession of the defendants, and there were no reasons for the property to be thrown into tbe hands'of the conrt. The question of the validity of the lease made by the St. Louis, Vandalia and Terre Hante Railroad Com­ pany to the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad in 1867, for 999 years, will come .up at the December term of the court, and ,i was not touehed upon in the decision am*' dered. --The temperature of the past week has ' been above the normal for the correspond­ ing period of the past ten years, except in Randolph County, where it was reported to be slightly below the normal. Local show- era have improved the appearance of crops in certain sections, but the majority of ob­ servers report a great lack of seasonable rainfall. The deficiency is greatest in the section bounded by a line drawn from Put­ nam to Pike to Saline to Livingston Coun­ ties. except in Christian, Edwards and Wabash Counties, where an average weekly rainfall i« reported. Knox County alone imported a rainfall above the average tor the week. The rainfall reported was pure­ ly local, consequently there are many lo­ calities that have had no moisture since the 3d inst.. the date of the last general rain­ fall throughout tbe State. The per­ centage of sunshine has been in ex­ cess of the normal dating the pest week. 1 ̂the few counties reporting an average rainfall there has been a normal amount of sunshine. Corn has improved somewhat in appearance) in the sections visited by showers, but unless there is note rain soon the crop will be seriously damped. In the section from Livingston to Kendall County the condition of corn is reported as promising only from 50 to 75 per cent of an average yield. In the nthnr rnnnties of the northern grand division corn is in more promising condition, but needs tain. In the central and southern grand divis­ ions the condition of corn is between 90. and 95 per cent of an average. The oat crop is nearly all harvested and the yield will be light in the northern, fair in the central, and slightly above an average hi the southern. Pasture lands are in rttf pOor condition in the northern, bat 1Mb better in the central, and below an average • J j /j!