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m • ,<. < ••' ; < .'• > - " > : * V v w ~ v * » d*» A* « [df raw Ulaiudealct I. VAN SLYKE, Etfltor and Publisher. LLCHENRY, i- -- ILLINOIA • , * ~ ., \ ATTDTTBOH ma buried iit Trinity Cemetery, on) Tenth A-cenne, New Tork. A new street is to be cut * throngh there, and the naturalist's re- ' plains are to be removed to Trinity Churchyard, and a monument to his iaemory will be erected by the Academy ' ¥ Science at the head of the new jtftreet, which is to be called Audubon "BUT you may be entertaining an jftngel, madam," said Tom O'Brien, tramp, to Mrs. Pyburn, of New Albany, Jhd. "Yes, you smell like one long 4fead, assented the lady, meditatively, ^bnt I'll let the Pyburn l>efore I'll set ^;p up for you, nevertheless." Then he "vent out and set fire to her barn, got «ftxot in the leg, and is eating locusts And wild-honey in the county jail. JUST in front of the spot wh^re Pres­ ident Cleveland stood in the room of the Board of Commissioners in the city ;|iall of Philadelphia when he received * the public at the recent centennial, -there is a threadbare spot in the carpet. It was formed by the people marching tip to him, shaking hands, and then turning toward the exit. Many thou­ sand feet shuffling in that turn wore the carptet to threads in a few hours. A GERMAN composer was conducting one of his overtures. As the "horns" played too loudly, he told them re­ peatedly to play more softly, and more softly they played each time. At the fourth repetition, with a knowing wink at each other, they put their instru- , ments to their lips, but did not blow at at all. The conductor nodded approv­ ingly. "Very good, indeed," said he, "now one shade softer and you'll have it" SOUTHERN California produces olives in great perfection. The most pros­ perous grower is Col. Edward Cooper, the largest grower and manufacturer of sweet oil in the world, who expects to make from his present crop from 20,- 000 to 25,000 bottles of oil. He em­ ploys thirty men steadily, from sixty to seventy a great part of the time, and has 100 acres of olive trees. This year he will also raise at least ten car loads of English w alnuts and four or five of almonds. TIIK Savannah News perpetrates the following: A lady at Iudian Spring has a hen that is quite a curiosity. It has a coat of hair in place of feathers. Although it is only a chicken, still it is a wonderful freak of nature. It came from a flock of ordinary chickens, and the cause of its singular coat is a mystery. It lays, sits, and hatches like other chickens, and some of its offspring, is like the parent, but she has not yet succeeded in bringing them to maturity. A BACHELOR in Frankfort, Germany, advertised for "a helpmate of agreeable exterior and good education; money a secondary consideration." He received 3,643 oilers. Of these 2,137 came from Germany, and 237 from Frankfort. There were 1,827 who said nothing about their fortune, 1,816 gave their wealth at various figures from $350 to $50,000. Photograhhs accompanied 3,112 of the offers, audit cost the ad­ vertiser nearly $250 for return postage on them. He picked out a poor Han­ overian maiden and married her. "W. R. PEASE, who resides near Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, CaL, says his attention was attracted to the cries of the cattle in his corral, and on going to learn the cause he saw a very large eagle trying to fly over the fence with a young calf in his talons. Mr. Pease seized a pitchfork and struck the bird, which let go the calf and atr tftcked him, and he sustained a number of severe blows from the eagle's, wings before he succeeded in impaling it on a pitchfork prong, when he got his shotgun and finished the job. The calf was so badly injured that it had to be killed. The eagle was the largest ever seen in that part of the State. MR. LAWRENCE JEROME stands alone in New York as a story-teller and wit. He can literally tell funny stories by the hour, and the peculiarity of his case is that it does not matter in the least what company he is in, he is equally happy. He has been known to amuse a party of ladies, a crowd of -workmen, and a club of practiced wits all in one day. A3 for children, they think no one understands how to please them so well as he. He told a story at the Chamberlain dinner the other night, of a dude running for Congress in a down-town district, and saying to a lot of 'longshoremen that he had never been in that locality before. This in censed them to a strange degree. "Low cality? Low cality, is it?" said one of the angry men. "Fwhat d'ye mane by insulting dacen-t people that way ? If this is a low eality I'd like to know where you'll find a high cality." THE line was composed of stragglers for some moments, and the President had time between shakes to get a glass of water. He first stood on the step of the dais, but finding the reach too long he descended to the level with the people he was expected to greet He stood facing the east door, toward the right As a hand was projected toward him he swung his right back, and, sud­ denly shooting it forward, caught the offered hand in a vise-like grip, close up to the crotch. Ono brief shake, and then as suddenly relapsing his grip he would swing tliev hand back, shoot it forward, and grasp another hand as be­ fore. To most of those who greeted him he said in a very low tone, almost a ̂ hisper: "How do you do, sir?" or "I'm glad, to see ^ou." He looked •every one directly in the eye, partic­ ularly the women. He smiled from the beginning of the reception to the end. \ BET. ELLIS HOWELL, who resides near Cincinnati, Ohio, has married dur­ ing his ministry 994 couple, and although 82 years old past, is actively engaged in the ministry, and is deter­ mined, if life is granted him, to reaoh the thousand limit For years he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Humboldt County, and is well known all over Eastern Illinois. He walks without the use of a cane, and is very upright in form, and his step is nearly as elastic as a boy of fifteen. Being interrogated as to how he oould re­ member marrying so many couple, he said: "I don't make it altogether a matter of memory; I have an account of each, with the date. Many amusiiig events have occurred during these services. At one time I was marrying a couple of young people, and after the questions had been asked as to whether any one objected to the ceremony pro­ ceeding (an old-time custom), one strapping big fellow got up and said, 'I da' 'On what grounds?' 'On the grounds I want the bride for myself.' This made quite an uproar, but did hot interfere with the ceremony." THE Journal of Morphology is a new monthly magazine, edited by Mr. C. O. Whitman, Director of the Lake Laboratory at Milwaukee. The popu­ lar character of this publication can be seen by the following ai tides which ap­ pear in the initial number: "Sphyra- nura Osleri, a Contribution to Ameri­ can Helminthology;" "The Develop­ ment of the Compound Eyes of Cran- gon;" "Eyes of Molluses and Arthro­ pods;" "On the Phylogenetio Arrange­ ment of the Sauropsida;" "A Contribu­ tion to the History of the Germlayer in Clepsine;" "The Germ bands of Lum- bricus;" "Studies on the Eyes of Ar­ thropods;" "Development of the Eyes of Yespa, with Observations on the Ocelli of Some Insects." The trouble with most American magazines is that they are too heavy and serious for that large class of persons who read solely for the purpose of "killing time," as the phrase goes, in an entertaining way. The Journal of Morphology is evi­ dently designed to suit the taste of such readers, and for very light reading, for the amusement of an idle hour, for something to be skimmed over in the summer hammock, it is destined to be­ come very ffepular. PERHAPS one might theorize about character from favorite drinks as much as from "palmistry" or handwriting. Napoleon had the heart, if ever a man had, of a despot. He drank strong, black coffee, the Sultan's drink, and Chambertin, the rich wine of princes. Cromwell and George of Clarence were both ambitious, with very opposite end­ ings. Both loved Malmsey, which, tra­ dition asserts, drowned the latter in the Jewel Tower. llichelieu, the cold, crafty, calcutating cardinal, loved the thin red wine of Medoc. The magnifi- cient and high-spirited monarch, Henry VIII., and Francis of France, loved what Fallstaff holds to be so inspirit­ ing--namely, "a g6od sherris sack." Edmund Kean's erratic magnificient genius and mad career were nourished on brandy, which was, indeed life to tho unhappy tragedian. Dougan tells us that after his return, utterly broken in 1827, only constant glasses of "brown brandy, very hot and very strong," en­ abled him to get through his scenes. Addison's polished equable essays were written on moderate potations of excel­ lent claret Charles Lamb, most per­ ennially charming of essayists, was a Londoner in heart, and his - favorite drink was genuine London porter. Pitt and Eldon, who represented the older order of things, both loved port, of which the Chancellor could drink three bottles. A BLAZDfG BEAR I> A TENT. Hard On the Counsel. The following experience of a Mississippi lawyer was related by him­ self to the writer many years ago. He said: "I was defending a prisoner for horse-stealing, and seeing no other means of defending him, under the circumstances, I set up the plea of in­ sanity. I argued it at length, read many extracts from works on medical jurisprudence, and had the patient at­ tention of the Court The prosecuting attorney did not attempt to reply to my argument or controvert my authori­ ties; I seemed to have thingamy own way, and whispered to the prisoner that he needn't be uneasy. Then came the Judge's charge, in which he re­ minded the jury that there was no dis­ pute between counsel as to the facts of the case. Indeed, there could not have been, for several witnesses had sworn positively that they saw my client steal the horse. 'But,' con­ cluded the Court, 'the plea of insanity has been set up, and I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that it should receive your very grave and serious de­ liberation; but I must be allowed to say, gentlemen, that for myself, upon a review of the whole case, I can dis­ cover no evidence of insanity on the part of the prisoner, except, perhaps, in the selection of his counsel.'"--Har­ per's Magazine. In a Land of Darkness. New Guinea, probably the seoond island in size in the world, is less known to civilized man than any other region of equal size. Until recently, even the principal, features of the coast had not been accurately deter­ mined, and the interior still offers an extensive field for exploration. During the present year an expedition under Mr. Theodore Bevaa has successfully sought a water route to the inland mountains, discovering two magnificent rivers, with numerous tributaries. The main streams were named the Douglas and tho Jubilee, and were navigated for 130 and 110 miles. The course led into a country of superb mountain scenery, through fertile lands in which sago, banana3, tobacco, bread-fruit, and sugar-cane were found to be indig­ enous. The island proved to be prac­ tically uninhabited except within a few miles of the coast. Seven tribes of na­ tives were encountered near the gulf of Papua, the largest numbering 400 or 500 men. The climate was not un­ healthy. The. temperature varying from 72 to 86 degrees during the day. --Arkansaw Traveler. The Warm Reception Given to a Prowling Grisaly in California. One night a very interesting frame was in progress. Mark Farney held a king full against Squiers's flush, and Noisy Smith staid in with a bobtail straight and a placid smile, says an Espinosa, CaL, correspondent of the New York Sun. There was a double handful of beans on top of the oil can. Ah Suey had gone to sleep at the back of the tent, and was chopping wood in his dreams. Just as Noisy (Smith was about to raise, Ah Suey sprang up with a yell and bounded out of the tent, up­ setting the oil-can, and two of 'the players en route. Arguello looked up in anger, and drew his revolver to take a shot at the fleeing Chinaman, but changed his mind when he saw the head of a grizzly poked through the rear flap of the tent. The bear was surveying the scene with evident aston­ ishment and some interest Arguello's anger was diverted toward the bear. "Ah! you break up such a pot as that!" he cried. "Carajo!" And he blazed away at the shaggy head. There was a howl, a charge, and a rush of the players out of the tent. They did not wait to seize their guns: The bear knocked down a tent-pole at one end and Farney carried away the other as he plunged out headlong. The tent came down on the bear and en­ veloped him. For an instant thero was a young earthquake under the can­ vas. Then it became a volcanic dis­ turbance. The lamp exploded and set fire to the whole mass. The plug uuist have been knocked out of the big oil­ can by the bear's vigorous antics. All the oil was ablaze in an instant, and tent, blankets, an.l 1 ear weft enveloped in flames. Arguello, Smith, and Far­ ney happened to have their revolvers on them, and they stood around and added to the bear's discomfort by plug­ ging bullets into him. Squiers had no pistol, and prudently got up into a tall tree and yelled "Fire!" Ah Suey had crawled into a hollow log and kept very still. The bear wailed and yelled with pain and rage, and rolled over in the burn­ ing canvas. It was not much more than half a minute before he broke out of the mass with a howl and rushed blindly about, striking furiously at trees and everything in his way. Pieces of the tent clung to him, and he tore them off with his claws and teeth and sent blaz­ ing fragments flying in all directions. His shaggy hair had become saturated with oil here and there, and was blaz­ ing and snapping merrily in patches. His fury was somewhat frightful, and his general aspect decidedly demoniac. At first he did not see any of the party, but in one of his mad whirls he caught sight of Smith, who had just fired at him. The bear charged or. Smith, who turned and ran like a deer, with tho blaz­ ing bear in literally hot persuit. Smith did not notice the direction he took un­ til in hsilf a dozen jumps, ho saw the bank of the creek before him. There was no time to turn. He put all his energy into his legs and leaped as far into the stream as he could, falling feet foremost with a "chug." Tho illumi-' nated bear followed, falling with a prodigious splash and a distinct sizzle. Than Noisy Smith dived under water, turned up stream, and swam silently back to tho bank from which he had leaped. The bear drifted down-stream and swam to the opposite bank, Farney" aud Arguello peppering at him with their revolvers. He roached the other side and disappeared in the chaparal wailing aud moaning with pain, and that was the last seen of him. In Mnracaibo, Venezuela. fTwenty-fivo miles from a ten-foot bar at the lake entrance, a city of 35,000 in­ habitants stretches its red-tiled roofs and many spires backward from the water. Situated at a sharp angle of shore, the city extends north and west for about a thile in each direction, with no trees except a few cocoa palms and the ones growing in the plaza in front of government liou§e. It is essentially a tropical town, yet not always, and certainly not in early spring, subject to tropical heat Frori tho northward sea there came a stea ly cool breeze all day and night that kept my thermome­ ter down to an average of 70 degrees F. while the nun was shining, and made nights cool enough for a blanket Yet over those shadeless streets there poured a steady stream of fierce glaring sunlight that pierced into every nook and threw shadows upon pavements almost as black as those beneath electric lights. When I wondered at the cool­ ness, so different from the inferno that had been pictured, one of my friends said that it was exceptional--that usually the weather was much warmer, and that in the summer the heat was steadily above 90 degrees. Going ashore early, before sunrise, Our first visit was made to the market-place, to see what Maracaibans live upon. A better and cheaper market would be hard to find. Excellent beef, goat, pork, and fowls averaged 10 cents a pound, and all varieties of tropical fruits abounded at corresponding prices. Tied together in bunches were great green lizards, two or three' feet long, with brown warts all over them, and vicious black beads of eyes. They snapped at us like dogs as we passed, and when teased with a stick, clung to it like bull terriers. These were iguanas, whose delicious white flesh is eagerly eaten by all classes. It tastes like chicken, but it is more delicate. Of course, considerable hunger would be needed to make them appetizing to a stranger who should recognize them in a stew. Farther on, an animal with head and tail like a rat, feet like an alligator, and a coat-of-mail like an iron­ clad man-of-war, was tied to a post Upon receiving a poke it rolled itself promptly into a ball, head and all being quite covered by its plates, and thus defied further attack. This was an armadillo, also a tidbit when properly stewed or roasted. The Fierce Soldier of ChUL As a soldier the Chillano is brave to recklessness, and a sense of fear is un­ known to him. He will not endure a siege, says W. E. Curtis, in Harper's Magazine, nor can be made to fight at long range; but as soon as he sees the enemy he fires one volley, drops his gun, and rushes in with his "curvo." His endurance is as great as his courage and no North American Indian can travel so far without rest or go so long without food or water as the Chillano peon, or "Roto," as the _ mixed race is called. As the "Cholo" in Peru is tho decendant of the Spaniards and the Incas, so is the "Koto" in Chili the child of the Spaniard aud the Araucanian In­ dians, the race* of giants with which the early explorers reported that Patagonia was peopled--"menne of that big- giness," as Sir Francis Drake reported, "that it seemed the trees of the forest were uprooted and were moving away." They have the Spanish tenacity of pur­ pose, the Indian endurance, and the cruelty o( both- Each soldier, in the mountains or the desert, carries on his breast two buckskin bags. In one are the leaves of the coca plant, in the other powdered lime made of the ashes of potato-skins. The COOA is tho strong­ est sort of a tonic, and by chewing it the Chillano soldier can abstain from food or drink for a week «r ten days at a stretch. The Chillano soldier is not easily subjected to discipline, and out- vandals the vandals in the destruction of property, as the present condition of Peru will prove. He burns and de­ stroys everything within his reach that has sheltered an enemy. No au­ thority can restrain his hand. Tl;e aw­ ful scenes of devatation that took place in Peru have nothing to parallel them in the annals of modern warfare." On the battle-fields nine-tenths of the dead were found with their throats cut, and the Chillano took no prisoners, except when a whole army capitulated. Thoy ask no quarter and give none. The knowledge of this characteristic and the fear of the Chillano knife were a pow­ erful factor in the subjugation of the more humane Peruvians. Good Living In Holland. People generally ask as to another country: "What sort of food did you have ?" Well, to choose out the most genuinely Duteh dishes, says a writer in the English Illustrated Magazine, we had, perhaps, potato puree, or bouillon, flavored with chervil, and containing balls of veal force meat. The fish might be soles or plaice, but to give me kindly a more national deli­ cacy, we had water bass from the canals sometimes. Tlieso are about the size of our trout and are served up, half a dozen or so, in tt deep dish, swimming in the water they are boiled in, flavored with "flat-leaved parsley." (The English name for this plant I cannot say, it being strange to me, but my cousin Hugo declared it unknown to us.) Water bass are eaten with thin sandwiches of rye bread; but without the latter, and the bread and butter only, I thought them excellent Another night we had a jack, done Dutch fashion. When bolted, $11 the small bones were removed and the fish chopped up and mixed with butter, pepper, onions, and savory herbs. Then, rolled bock into fish-like shape, the jack is browned, bread-crumbed, and eaten always with s-tlad. It was really very good. Next cama, generally, roast or stewed veal, or beef, mutton being so poor it is rarely eaten. For vegetables, invariably potatoes, excel­ lently cooked, with butter, and, be­ sides these, we likewise use boiled endives and bread-crumbed cabbage. Partridges followed, sometimes au choux, or other game. Wild ducks were plentiful, and some neighbors had just had an early dawn's sport out in the dunes, getting ninety-four birds to four guns. "Not so bad, but still not very good," said the irrepressible. Of sweets and savories I need give no hints, because they were mostly of French origin. Dessert over, both ladies and gentlemen returned together to tho drawing-room for coffee, which is drank in the smallest and most precious liandleless, old blue china. Such a set with us would be behind a glass case. Then comte liquors,--cog­ nac and anisseed, the latter being a favorite. Tho gentlemen went out this warm oveniug to smoke their cigarettes on the terrace for a little while. Then they dropped in again to the cheery, antique room for chat and t^a. The mahogany peat bucket and its kettle had been placed by the footman, as usual, beside the table, and very old Chinese little tea-cups, alni^stjfas valu­ able as the blue poroeiain, •efolfranged on a wooden tray truly Dutch. Left-Handed Writers. "It looks like copper-plate," remarked a prominent teacher of penmanship to a New York Mail and Express re­ porter, as he exhibited a handsomo specimen of chirography from among the many specimens in his large col­ lection. "It couldn't have been written very rapidly," suggested the reporter. "It was, though--as rapidly as the writer could make his fingers move." "Probably he is a professional pen­ man; book-keeper or teacher, likely." "Neither, and he only learned to write four years ago. He was a soldier. During the war he lost his right arm. After the war he became a traveling salesman. Five years ago he lost a log in a railroad accidcnt, and then took up penmanship. He had to learn it all over again. But by perseverance you see how much he has accomplished. He is the secretary of a mining com­ pany down town, and draws $10,000 a year salary. One odd thing about this is that he never was a good penman when he had both arms. But in learn­ ing to use his left hand he acquired the art of making all of his characters plainly. He made them slowly at first, and now he can't writjp badly, no matter how rapidly he works. He can do something more rapidly than that" "What can that be?" "He is an expert and rapid short­ hand writer." "Are there many like him?" "I don't know of any equally expert, but I do know a large number of men who have lost their right arms and learned to write very rapidly with their left bonds." "Did you ever know of a nlan's learning to use both hands equally well?" "Thero are a few instances on record. I heard of a man once who not only wrote with both hands, but wrote with them at th§ same time and a different sentence with each hand. He was the wonder of the profession, but he was more of a freak than anything else. Ambidexterity is a great accomplish­ ment, but Buch experiences as that aire not valuable, save as curiosities." American Geography. "What is the way that leadeth to de­ struction?" asked the teacher. "Broadway," replied Hollo, who had visited New York with his Uncle George. "Ye-es, or, possibly, BradsireeVs," replied the teacher. "What is the war to war?" "Longstreet." "Yes, or it used to be. What is the road to Kansas?" "Jim Lane." "That is the old road, yes; and what is the shortest cut to the War Depart­ ment?" "Endicott" "What are the natural features of New York and Maine?" "Hill and Blaine." "Anything els J about New York?" "Field and Flower. "--Bnrdette. THE remains of no less than fifty- four species of flowering plants from mummy wrappings in Egypt have been identified The flowers have been wonderfully preserved, even the deli­ cate violet cotor of the larkspur and the scarlet of tie poppy, the chlorophyl in the leaves and the aigar in the raisins, remaining. REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN. >EK: BI PEKLEY POOR*. Daniel Webster took great pains to be on friendly 'terms with his rural neighbors at Franklin, N. H., and at Marshfield, Mass. One of his Marsh- lield neighbors thus related his ac­ quaintance with the great expounder: "I was out in my doorvard one morning before breakfast last summer, and saw a gentleman in my cowyarcL He apoli- gized for his intrusion, as he termed it, but saying, 'I got out of my car­ riage, sir, to look at your barn cellar. I am taken with its plan and structure, and thought I might gaiu an idea that I may put in practice at home. My name is Webster of Marshfield. 1 am taking a look round among my neigh­ bors to see if I can learn something about farming.' 'Oh, Mr. Webster i My name is Collamore. I am happy to see you, Mr. Webster; won't you walk in, sir?' 'Not to-day, sir, if you will excuse me. But, Mr. Collamore, we are neighbors, not very far apart, and I should be happy to" see you at my house. I am a farmer, in my way, which is not so good as that of my more experienced neighbors, but we may find some things with which to while away a little time on my place. Come down, Mr. Colla­ more, and see me. and bring Mrs. Colla more and your neighbors,--please to invite them,--tackle up, and all of you come down some pleasant morning and spend the day.'" So Mr. Collamore, his wife, and neighbors went down. Mr. Webster led them all over his farm till they got an appetite for dinner. It was in that year when flour was so high. Mr. Webster attended to the wants of his guests at table, and then called upon tho servant for a piece of bread. He took the bread, remarked in an old- fashion style: "I tell you my woman that flour is so high we must not buy only a pillow bier of flour at a time, now a days." The idea of this allusion to old-fashioned times was to his guests very ludicrous, and was ono of tho inci­ dents they alluded to when they spoke with each other of their visit to Marsh­ field. Frank Pieroe was a fine horseman, and when the World's Fair was open at New York, in July, 1853, he ap­ peared at the morning review of the troops on the battery mounted on the full-blooded charger, Black Warrior, owned by Major Meftill, of the United States Dragoons, then past 21 years old, an<l cherishod for the loug and faithful services he had performed. After the review the procession was formed, and proceeded up Broadway. Everywhere were crowds of people eager to greet the President Tho side­ walks were densely thronged, the win­ dows wore filled to overflowing, and there were multitudes on the house­ tops. After the troops and the Presi­ dent and his suite, came, in carriages, the Major and Common Council of the city. Shortly after tho procession wached the park, a shower of raiu, which had sometime threatened to fall, came down with great emphasis, and caused a gen­ eral scattering of the spectators. Even tho well-ordered ranks of tho military were not proof against it, and many of the soldiers took refuge in doorways and under awnings. The majority, however, did not flinch, but bravely held on their march, dofying the pelt­ ing of tho r»in. Though repeatedly urged to dismount and take refuge, the President refused to break up the line of march. For about two blocks he carried an umbrella, which was thrust upon him, but this he soon dis­ pensed with. In comnquln Slif! vicfcrlv all in the processioi^^naebtert for tl vol through, and had to when he reached the Crystal Palace. Chang and Eng, tho Siamese twins, who were brought- to this couutry by Capt Coffin, of Newburyport when they were boys, afterwards exhibited themselves and when they had accumu­ lated some property determined to settle down and purchase a plantation in the up-country of North Carolina. Thero they induced the two daughters of a clergyman to becomo their wivos. The double nuptial knot was tied, and as they could not have separate and dis­ tinct establishments, they became heads of a double household. In 1853 they came to Washington, having become rather tired of country life, and started out on a tour of exhibition, accompanied by two of their children. At that time they had eleven children, six of them belonging to Mrs. Chang, and the other five to Mrs. Eng. They had also about thirty slaves, with a gocd deal of stock. When at home they attended indus­ triously to the business of their planta­ tion, kept the negroes at work, and were always ready and willing to plow, chop wood, and do all sorts of farm work. Then when business was not urgent they would devote thoir time to field sports, and were among the keen­ est hunters, fowlers, and fishers of their district. The Mesdames Chang and Eng seconded their lords right well in the management of tho concern and re­ mained behind to take care of the house­ hold during tho absence of their dis­ tinguished consorts. Madam Chang was said to devote her timo to the gen* eral supervision of the slaves and the direction of the work to be performed on the plantation; while Madam Eng charged herself with the care of all the young masters and misses, instructing them and the little negro children. A few years afterwards I saw it stated in the papers that the two wives had quarreled, and another plantation had been bought, so that each had her indi­ vidual home. The duplicate husbands, not being able to divide themselves, spent a fortnight alternately at each es­ tablishment ' Marrying by the Glove. To marry by proxy, or, as it is called, "marriage by the glove," is common in Holland, and is caused by the fact that many of the eligible young men, after having finished their education in the schools of tho fatherland, depart for Dutch India to engage in some lucra­ tive commercial enterprise, or to ac­ cept a position in the colonial service. The scarcity of marriageable white wo­ men in that clime induces the would-be husband to write to a friend in Holland, inclosing his wish for a wife. The friend selects a willing young lady, generally with a substantial dot, and otherwise conforming closely to the specifications of the letter. A photo­ graph of the favored one is onclosed in the return epistle. After the lapse of a few months a soiled left-hand glove, with a power of attorney, is received from the far-away bachelor. The friend in Holland marries the selected bride in precisely the same manner as if he were the actual groom, and the young wife departs in the next Indian mail steamer to bring happiness and prosperity to the lonely one in the far East A marriage of this description is as binding as if the bridegroom were present, and never repudiated. If either party to the glove marriage should die before meeting in India, the survivor would legally share the property of deceased. GnardeO by lib Honor. An old local history of Pennsyl­ vania, now out of print, says the Youth's Companion, contains the fol­ lowing anecdote, which £ives us a new incident in Washington's life. During the "whisky insurrection" in Western Pennsylvania in 1792, the leader, Brad l ord, acquired a powerful influence over a wealthy farmer named John Mitchel, and drew him deeply into the conspiracy. Mitchel was a young, enthusiastic man with a beauti­ ful home, a wife, and one child. The conspirators believed that in­ formation of their plans had been sent from the little village of Washington, in Pennsylvania, to the President Bradford persuaded Mitchel that the letters containing this information were in the mails and must be seized as an act of military necessity. Robbery of the mails was then an of­ fense punishable by death, but Mitchel, convinced that he was risking his life to serve his country, joined by two other men, stopped the wagon on a lonely road between Washington and Pittsburgh, and carried the mail-bag to Bradford's house. It was opened, the damaging letters were taken out, and the rest were returned to the postoffice at Pittsburgh. When the insurrection was quelled all tho leaders escaped excepting John Mitchel, who rode iuto camp, and, find­ ing Gen. Morgan, gave himself up. "I have been a fool," he said. "I see that plainly.. I am readv to bear the punishment of mv folly." » Gen. Morgan, who knew that he had been deceived by Bradford, was an­ noyed that he had not made his escape with him. He believed Mitchel to be at heart an honest man, and, with the rest of the county, liked and respected him, but knowing that if he was brought to trial the punishment would be death he determined to give him a chance to escape. "You cannot be tried here," he said. "I will give you a pass to Philadelphia. Report yourself there." "I am to have a guard?" "No, none." The General turned on his heel and*, walked away. He intended and ex­ pected Mitchel to flee as soon as he had reached the wilderness, but the young farmer's honor was a stricter guard than soldiers would have been, and drove him without flinching to his death. He bade farewell to his wife and child and started alone on horseback to Philadelphia. It was a three weeks' journey, at any hour of which he could have escaped. He reported himself as a prisoner, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged. When the news reached Gen. Mor­ gan he sent a special messenger to the President, with an account of the facts in the case. Washington, it is said, was deeply touched, and at once sent a full pardon to Mitchel, with a message to return to his wifo and child and to keep clear of conspirators for the rest of his life. French Good Sense. So preponderant is rationality in the French naturo that Frenchmen strike us, sometimes, as a curious compound of the Quaker and the Hebrew. Wo are used to less alortness, to more re­ laxation. Bathos, enervation, are foreign to their atmosphere, and aro speedily transformed amid its bracing breezes. But it is impossible to bo so completely unsentimental as the French are without missing some of the quality of which sentimentality is really but the excess. The perfume f>i this they certainly miss. There ar<l characters fn Anglo-Sasondom--not' seek the G-imiithlichkeit of Germany--that are completely penetrated with this fine aroma. Neither are they rare; every man's acquaintance includes such. Their lives are full of a sweet, indetin- able charm. Whatever the exterior, and often it is rugged and forbidding, the real nature within glows with a de­ lightful and temperate fervor that irradiates e%*erywhere,tho circle within which tboy exist and move. Whatever, indeed, the intellectual fiber of equip­ ment, the "mellow fruitfulness" of dis­ position and demeanor is potently se­ ductive. Still further, one may find the quality in question illuminating and rendering subtly attractive most de­ viously tortuous moral imperfections. And in France this quality hardly exists. In very few varieties of French type is it to be found, even in dilution. Even then it is apt to be imported. Rousseau was Swiss, and his heart and imagination had been touched by the deep colors and mysterious spaces of the Jura with a magic which it is vain to seek under the gray skies of North­ ern, or amid the "sunburnt mirth," the "dauce and Provencal song," of South­ ern Gaul. Passionately patriotio as was the chief of Rousseau's successors, it is undoubtedly to her Northern blood that she owes her sentiment. About her French side, a side which came to tho surface chiefly in her life, as the other did in her books, there was, if we may believe M. Paul de Musset and other chroniqueurs, very little senti­ ment indeed.--IF. C. Brownell, in Scrib tier's Magazine. HALN0IS STATE NEWSL --Lincoln Knights of Pythias will of ganize a lodge. --John AppeJ,~ a 66-year-old eit'smof Summerfield, is dead. • • V* --Sam Jones will shortly visit Decatsrfe* aonduct a stfdit revival. --The eity of Champaign has been coafr*- pelled to pay $425 damages to Mrs. For* raster because a sewer empties near ber house, breeding all sorts of diseases. 4 --In the Champaign County Court at Urbana, Miss Emma Sharp obtained ft judgment for $1,200 against Henry Isi* for breach of promise. She sued ft* $5,000. --The Board of Supervisors at Lineote ire investigating Logan County officials with a vengeance. The committee has hired an expert book-keeper to overhaul the late Treasurer's books. Heavy short­ ages have been discovered, it is said, in aR o t h e r d e p a r t m e n t s . ' / • --At Cherry Valley.250 prominent cf zens and 111) ladies bave signed a petition to the Circuit Judge praying for a new trial in the Bean-Reid case, as they do not think him guilty. They claim they fcan prove that Bean was in another locality at the time which it is alleged the assault was coat» mitted. One man agTees to back the doctor, for f 25,000. --A serious coal famine is threatened faa the towns and cities near Champaiga*' Dealers in that city and Frbana have so far supplied enough to prevent suffering, bnt their orders for many leading kinds of soft coal they cannot fill, and their customers are given small lots of such kinds as mvf be ou hand. Ten days of cold weather would bring great suffering. Only a small proportion of the orders for hard coal can. now be supplied. ' • 5 --The following table gives the grasS receipts and total expenditures of Presi­ dential postoffices in this State for the year ending Jane 80, 1887: B«- Expend, eeipts. ltuns. . Thoughts on Musics. Music exists for the expression of varied emotions: sadness, longing, hope, triumph, aspiration toward tho unob- tained or the indefinite, calm fulfill­ ment of an artistic conception of fit­ ness and beauty; and besides these, monotony, long spells of unbroken quiescence, mental perturbation even to a positive senso of physical discom­ fort, are absolutely essential to reliavo and heighten the mere eostutic emotions of pleasure called forth by a musical composition. We cannot always be burning with passion and reciting dra­ matic duets, or heading triumphal processions. We do not do so in real life. This is what the Italians have failed to recognize. Their staggering tenors and palpitating sopranos rave together down by the prompter's box in an almost unintermittent frenzy of passion; a very parody of life, bereft of many of its tranquil charms and minor impressions pleasurably painful, each having its own special effect and value by contrasts in relation to tho rest of our lives. It is not only vivid impres­ sions that are interesting; these heaped up one upon another constitute a plethora of overstrained excitement that will jado and eshaust tho most passionate nature. There are countless experiences in life which leave us in a tranquil condition of enjoyment, and since these make up by far the greater portion of our existence, and are the vehicle of the most powerful emotions, are they not worthy of a prominent place in so comparative an index of human sentiment as music ?--Chambers' Journal. THE novel method devised by an Italian engineer of treating steam boilers with sugar as a preventive of incrustation has been further experi­ mented with, the results proving ^aito satisfactory. , Abingdon Aletlo A1 toil Aniboy Anna Areola AliautV Auburii Aurora Harry Hata'vi* Bear. Is town liollevill* Belvidore licmenl JiioouDngton Braid wood Bunker Hill BuBhnoll Cairo Cam bridge Canton Corbond&le Carlinville Ciirini Car roll ton ...°. Carthage Ctmtrtuia, .' 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