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1. VAMSLYKE, Editor ml ÎfcHENRY, ELLINOia THE wife of President Diaz, of Mex- »ieo, has established in the City of Mex- *" i \r'v ico a large "Friendly Home of the vj;Cy\ Working worn an," at which small chil- 5-• Ste' •dren will be cared for during the day "while their mothers are at work. *'.V«N f THK Rev, Daniel Pike, who died re- KJently at Newburyport, was a great isermonizer. His record is placed at is •5,000 sermons. He is orelited with V • *Jhaving officiated at 2,000 weddings and V :".ian eqaal number of funerals and be- ' / T -,',|tween times managed to baptize by im- »\ Emersion 1,100 converts. ' , . AUNT HATTIK NOKTH, who reoently ^^4-r^ Tr^t Kan., was thought by " 7 those who knew her best to be fully 117 yean old. She was a colored wo- , man, and remembered living in St. , Louis when the city was a French ' , . trading post, with very few houses. H' < * She often related incidents which oc- >• *-' curred a full century ago, and as she | p v , ' n e v e r k n e w h o w t o r e a d i t w a s t h o u g h t pfe: ^ ' that she spoke from actual experience. • m. ;; LIEUT. FBANK CUSHIXO, well known fior his archseologioal investigations among the Zuni Indians, is now in San JFranciaco, devoting himself to Chinese subjects. He ha3 been attending the Chinese theaters and claims to have made the remarkable discovery that Chinese mythic language is the same as Zuni, and further says he will agree to translate any myth represented on the Chinese stage by means' of his knowledge of the Zuni myths. A PEOBIA girl who went to a ball the other evening wearing a pair of new shoes, soon found herself in such agony that she went to the dressing-room be­ tween dances and took them oft She had hardly removed the shoes before her feet puffed up to such an astonish­ ing size as to make it impossible to put the shoo on again. No others being ob­ tainable, she was forced to pass the re­ mainder of the evening without danc­ ing, and eventually to go home in her stocking feet 1 FRANK HENRY, of Crawfordsvflle, Ind., owns an English bulldog and two milch cows, and, pasture not being convenient, the dog is their protector and constant attendant Through all kinds of weather he follows at their heels, remaining with them until they return at night When the cows are fed on corn, he too, must have his ear, or he will jump up into the maiiger and help himself from under the cow's noses. He eats the corn with as much relish, apparently, as does the eows, and thrives on the diet SENATOR VEST, of Missouri, appears to have supplanted Senator Butler, of South Carolina, in the good graces and companionship of Senator Don Came* ron, of Pennsylvania. For several years past Messrs. Cameron and Butler seemed almost inseparable, except in strictly party matters, and in social af­ fairs you would seldom see one without the other was near at hand. During the past summer Vest took several long excursions with the Pennsylvania Senator, and since their return to Washington for the winter they are almost always together, either walking or driving, while Senator Butler now goesit alone. THE restoration of some of the most important stone structures in Paris, such as the colonade of the Louvre, of the Pont Neuf, and of the Conserva­ toire des Arts of Metiers, has been mainly accomplished by means of a metallic cement invented by Prof. Brune. It consists of & powder and a liquid, the first composed of two parts by weight of oxide of zinc, two of crushed limestone of a hard nature, and one of crushed grit, the whole in­ timately mixed and ground, ochre in suitable proportions being added as a coloring matter; the liquid employed consists of a saturated solution of zinc in commercial hydrochlorate of ammo­ nia, equal to one-sixth that of dissolved zinc, and this liquid is diluted with two- •, thirds of its bulk of water. In using ^' the cement one pound of the powder ,y is mixed with two and one-half pints of the liquid. The cement hardens very quickly and is of great strength. THE new Senator from West Virginia, Mr. Faulkner, is the youngest man in f..- the body, being six months the junior of his colleague, Mr. Kenna, and nine »*'; months younger than Mr. Spooner of 1; Wisconsin. He will be 40 years old in f V ' M a r c h . T h e y o u n g e s t m a n e v e r a d - if*", -' mitted to the Senate was Stephen W. ' Dorsey, who was 36 years old when he h:j^r was sworn in. There have been a num- % i; ber of Senators who were less than 41 s»hen they were sworn in, but the aver­ age age in that body was never so low } 5 as now. Mr. Fije of Maine is the pp'm youngest-looking man in the senate, ; ^ . although he is nearly 60, and is the I -" grandfather of nine healthy youngsters. *is He has not a gray hair on his head. , His complexion is as fresh as it was r f forty years ago, and he does not look p v; *' - more than 35. The oldest-looking man >***•&[ is Mr. Edmunds, who would be taken 7;1 •> . for 100 at least Mr. Evarts is a bun- die of wrinkles, and Mr. Morrill, the man who carries the greatest number of '4f years, looks fully as old as he is--78. -it <*• THE construction of another Alpine " tunnel through tho Simplon, as a rival 5r' of the successful St. Gothard, has for ' •* *..< Hsome time been talked about in Paris. [fti: It is estimated that the Simplon Tunnel *'f,: > ' would shorten the line between Paris ;• i ? ®nd central and southern Italy by 4 # three hours, as compared with the St u • ' Gothard line, and the gain over the gY?* Mont Cenis roate would be still " V" • greater. According to the representa- • *ti°n9 the length of the contemplated 2 tunnel would be about twelve *** «nd the whole work would be aooom- plished in from four to six years; it would be the longest tunnel in the world, and require extraordinary provi­ sions for its suitable ventilation, though this could be attained, it is believed, by means of a horizontal air-shaft above the crown of the tunnel and running its entire length, connecting by a series of vertical shafts with the atmosphere above the nfountain. Pumping en­ gines would not only keep the air con* stantly renewed, but would draw off the water which otherwise would stead­ ily accumulate in the tunnel. The cost of this work is estimated aft about $16,000,000. IN the yeports of the opening of a new cancer hospital 'for women in New York it was mentioned quite incident­ ally that John Jacob Astor had given $200,000 to the endowment fund. How he came to do so is thus told by a New York paper: Ann Corrigan was a servant in the Astor household. She developed a cancer. The family doc­ tor could not cure her, several special­ ists also failed, and Ann died of a dis­ ease that puzzles and defies medical skilL Thus the subject of suffering from cancer was brought to the atten­ tion of John Jacob Astor. A thousand philanthropists might have talked it to him without avail, for millionaires are calloused against charity *appeals; but when he actually saw Ann Corrigan tor­ tured to death in spite of all the hin­ drances that money could buy, his pity was reached. He at once consulted with expert medical men and they told him that possibly, under conditions fa­ vorable for close observation and ex­ periment, a successful treatment for the disease might be discovered. He employed physicians and architects to plan a hospital from which no conoeiv- able appliances should be left Ottt • ft is exclusively for women., A CORRESPONDENT who sat opposite Chauncey Depew at a dinner says: "While he was speaking I noted him closely, and I think I detected the charm of oratory. In the first place it is simple and unaffected. Hh manner is entirely colloquial, and there i) no straining after points. Witty he is to a remarkable degreo, but there is a spontaneity about it and a sparkle that is as exhilarating as champagne. He has away while talking of looking al­ ternately at everybody along the line of the table opposite him, as though for the time being addressing his remarks to him alone, and it is a very 'taking way. He knows, too, when he has said enough. He is not so in love with the sound of his voice that he talks merely to hear it He always stops short when he is most interesting, and he takes his seat just when everybody is wishing he would go on fcr another hour. Lord Dundreary Sothern used to say: 'It's astonishing how some fel­ lows never know when another fellow's got enough of them." Depew makes it a point to stop long before he has sated his hearers, and therein he is wise. I noticed, too, that he ate very sparingly, and that his only tipple was apollonaris water. . A SINGULAR and invariably fatal mal­ ady, called lethargus, is reported to be peculiar to negroes in certain districts on the western coast of Africa. The patient, usually a male adult, is seized, without any premonitory symptoms, with a sensation of drowsiness, which continues rapidly to increase in spite of all efforts to throw it off, until he sinks into a profound and seemingly natural sleep, and which continues for about twenty-one days, when death takes place. Throughout the course of the- disease the patient preserves *a quiet and peaceful countenance, may be easily aroused for a sljort time, will take nourishment,and generally answers a few questions in a perfectly rational manner; the pulse, respiration, and temperature remain normal through­ out, the pupil is neither dilated nor contracted to any noticeable extent, and the voidings are comparatively regular; in fact, with the exception of the ab­ normal tendeney to sleep, nothing ex­ ists to denote disease. Many careful post-mortem examinations have been made by competent men, but nothing of an abnormal character has been found, while every remedy that could possibly be of any avail has been used without any apparent beneficial effects. A Chinese Hospital. In one of the most crowded thorough­ fares of the Chinese quarter of Shang­ hai there has stood for forty years a free native hospital, mainly supported by the European community. Very strange its wards look at first to En­ glish visitors. The patients bring their own bedding, consisting of a bamboo net and a wadded quilt Those who can move about are the only regular attend­ ants of those who cannot The house surgeon and dispenser is a Christian Chinaman, for thirty years connected with the hospital, and one of the first converts of a mission school Yearly about eight hundred persons pass through the wards, and the proportion of deaths is small. Last year there were fifty-six, and in the dispensary more than twenty-two hundred cases were treated. From very far distances many of the poor, suffering creatures come, and back to their far-cff homes many a healed one has carried a bless­ ing greater than bodily healing, for we believe that nowhere, at home or abroad, could better proof be found than in the Shanghai hospital of the benefit Of combining medical and Gos­ pel work. Daily the waiting room, seated for three hundred, is crowded with men, women, and children long be­ fore the dispensing hour, and daily an English missionary, as conversant with their language as his own, sets before this waiting multitude the Word of Life. "I believe," writes a Christian physi­ cian, who for some years had the over­ sight of this work, "that the Chinese undergo more suffering for want of medical knowledge than any other na­ tion in the world." In an institution like this, almost daily under a good surgeon may the blind receive sight, the deaf hear, the lame walk.--Exchange. THE first iron ore to be discovered in TARIFF *? «• •*- , :L' '9 i'.: Mm www Allison Feds There Win Be Reduction, tat Ho ing Tkriff Cleveland's Free Trade Message Will Hart,in the Easter* ̂ [Dabnqne special to Chicago Inter Ocean.} Senator Allison having been aalled home to attend to some important private busi­ ness, the Inter Ocean correspondent vis­ ited him at his residence for the purpose of interviewing him on matters of public in­ terest. The Senator displayed his custom- ary disinclination to submit to the news­ paper inquiBitor. On the Presidential question and some other topics he refused to say anything, while on other questions he talked quite freely. As to tariff legisla­ tion he said, without hesitation* that legis­ lation was needed, and would undoubtedly be enacted during the present session. He said the great surplus now on hand and its rapid accumulation demanded that Con­ gress should do something in the direction of reducing the revenue, and that such ac­ tion would hare been secured during the last session had the Democratic majority in the House been willing to deal with it with* out sacrificing our industrial interests. This year, he Baid, the necessity for some action was very great, and Congress would be compelled to act. He did not wish to outline any definite plan, bnt said the par­ ties were so divided that, in order to reach any result, mutual concessions must be made. In this spirit he would consent to the iepeal of the internal revenue tax on tobacco. To his miud, the first duly as re­ spects tariff was to repeal or greatly reduce the Bugar tax, and he was confident this would ultimately be doce. He believed there was a probability of a still further en­ largement of the free list, but that had al­ ready been so enlarged that fully one-third of our entire importations now come free of duty. He did not believe it possible, with existing majorities in the House or Senate, to revise the tariff without preserv­ ing the protective principle, but that there should be a reduction in the annual reve­ nue from $65,000,000 to $75,000,000, or perhaps more. Being questioned in regard to appropria­ tions, the Senator Baid that there would be appropriations made to a moderate extent for coast fortifications aud for the iucrease of the navy, but tbat it was not probable that more than $5,000,000 annually for each of these purposes would be provided for. As to the river and harbor appropria­ tions, he thought they would be larger this year than usual; 'because the President had exercised the pocket veto at the last ses­ sion, and this suspended work on many needed public improvements of rivers and harbors upon which a large amount of work had already been done. He felt confident that Congress would, daring this session, make liberal provision for needy aud dependent soldiers upon ttie fension rolls, which, if not vetoed by the 'resident, would require a considerable increase of pension expenditures annually. Still, with all these proper expenditures, the existing large surplus would continue to accumulate unless taxes were speedily reduced, and he believed the party that failed to do its share in this work would lose in public favor. He favored the fur­ ther purchase of 4% per cent, bonds, even at a slight advance over present prices, rather than leave these large Bums in the Treasury, and that such purchases should be preferred to the enlargement of depos­ its with national bankB; and that such purchases were now iully authorized by law, notwithstanding that the President, in his message, had mildly expressed a doubt as to the power. In reply to a question as to the wisdom of Cleveland's free-trade message, he said that it had greatly injured Cleveland's ohances in New York. New Jersey, and Connecticut, without in any degree strengthening his forces elsewhere. He believed Cleveland would be renominated by his party, and would find the arguments used in his late message embarrassing to him in the States named. In his judgment, there will be no legis­ lation during this session looking to a change in the matter of national bank cir­ culation, although some more liberal pro­ vision might be made for the use of United States bonds in the organization of na­ tional banks. He did not look for any legislation on the silver question. The present law Beemed to be working well enough, so there was no apparent need of any legislation on the subject. In regard to the coming Presidential campaign, he believed the issues were likel ly to be made up by the conduct of the two parties in Congress during the pending session. He expressed his belief that Mr. Lamar would be confirmed, as the Demo­ crats would all vole for him, and, with their votes, he would only need two Repub­ lican votes to secure his confirmation. ratseAavlialcteUie platform en which he steed fit UN Mr, Cleveland wc never havs beea sleeted. Itsfcenctl* him In eveiy NflcDMRi State and most t •ddjd more to Ids .vote in New Teak 4 the beggarly 1,0*7 plurality which he oeived over Mr. Blaine. It gave AmIdi ecratio speakeis and newspapers a eh< to claim with some show of sincerity • their party is the friend of the Union dier. But how will it be next fall? 1 only has the nledge been ignored by whole party, from Clevelaad down, bu' cording to 8am Ban da U, a Democ' leader, the President believes that thi ternal revenue taxes on whisky and tob are oppressive and should be repealec whole or in part! On every side we i of Democratic intentions to repeal the on tobacco, whieh yields 37 million revenue, or one-third of the fund plec by the Democratic platform to be set a for the payment of soldiers' pensi* They are boldly proposing this repudia of the promise to the Union soldiert please the war-tariff wing of their part; If the Republicans in Congress do t duty they will not fail to force this mr Klc *TLM. partment* CONTRIBUTEDBT "THE PROvVLKB,' Fine slelgblng*- Cold, colder, coldest! > The teaehers' meeting last Saturday proved a (allure, a* the teachers failed to meet. A, M. Wray has been chosen Super­ intendent of the cattle department <af the McHenry County Fafr for 1888. The Northern IUlinois Sheep Breeders'Association held a. meeting it the Culver House last week Wednes­ day. There Is te be a donation fer the Rev. Mr. Harbaugh, the pastor of the Be irn to 8. the ow ire is- is iX- ed Congregational Church, at J. V. Ald- unon the attention of tho country and Erich's, next Friday evenl8g. pel the Democracy to face their own music tnot uu nnmiUra, nf « E~-- and stand the consequences of their treach- Hetooktne position of Secretary ery to the soldiers. The Amerioan people were educated by six successive Republi­ can administrations to expect campaign. pledges to be redeemed, especially those nude to "worthy soldiers disabled in the line of duly in the wars of the Kepublio." --Chicago Tribune. - ., with some sort of understanding that he was to be Minister when a vacancy oc­ curred, and that a vacancy was likely to ooeur. He was very strongly indorsed for the place, and might have got the appoint* POLITICAL ETENTS OF 1887. The Bleetteaa of the Now Dead Tear end What They Show. [Prom the Philadelphia Press.} The elections of the year, as a whole, have been largely in favor of the Republi­ cans. In several States where there ap­ peared to be a diminishing Republican strength the party has shown a decided re­ vival, and old-time majorities have been obtained. Elections were held in eleven States, and the vote cast in ten of them is given in the following table and compared with the vote cast in the same States in 1883, the year before the last Presidential election. The vote of the eleventh State, Rhode Island, is not given, as the official figures are not at hand : Massaehusts New iork.. New Jersey. Penn ylvania Maryland. Ohio I- eutaeky Ion a >ebrAska.... Yirgiafa. Totals.... 18S3. Rep. 160,09a 429,757 97,047 319,106 80,707 347,164 89,161 164,182 36.H81 144,419 1,888,036 Dem. 150.228 445,9.0 io ',a*5 302,oai 9'2,6!)4 359,793 1S:I,C,15 139,093 43,998 124,080 1,893,364 1£87. Rep. 136,000 452,435 107,026 38 \514 8P.644 356,937 12H,476! 16IK,69G! 86,725 119,380 •2,025,833 Dem. 116.W4 469,886 101,407 340,269 98,936 333,205 14:*,270 l£2,886 6tj,548 119,806 1,937,607 Dfltno.'ratic majority in 1H83 • 5,328 Bcpublican n»ft;o:ity in 1«S7...-. 68 226 Gala in Democratic vot* in fonr years... 44,423 Gam in Republican vote in lour years,. .137,797 The vote in Rtode Island would proba­ bly reduce the Republican gain of this year about 5,000. But as the figures for Virginia are the garbled ones sent out bv the Dem-« ocratic papers and not the ° official vote, which is known would add several thous­ and to the Republican total, the above re­ sult can be taken as a just estimate of the gain made by (he Republicans in these eleven States. It Would be at least 25,000 larger if the vote <4 the highest candidate instead of the head of the ticket were taken, Another important political feature of the year has been the interest shown in the question of prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Four States have voted on this isBue, Michigan leading off in April, Texas voting in Au­ gust, Tennessee in September, and Oregon in November. Prohibition was defeated in each instance, but its advoca.tes suc­ ceeded in polling a surprisingly large vote. The poll in these States was as follows: For pro. Against pro. Michigan Texas Tennessee Oregon .178,488 129,273 117,504 ........ 19,973 184,429 221,627 MS, 197 ^f7,958 The Fledge of the Democrats to the Soldiers. It was thought at the time that the last National Republican Convention pledged the party to make all desired provision for the relief and aid of the veterans and their widows and orphans, but the Democratic National Convention, coming a little later, "gaw" the Republican platform and "went the soldier plank one better." Not content with promising to make liberal provision for pensions in the usual way, the Demo­ crats put into their platform the following pledge : "The system of direct taxation known as 'internal revenue' is a war tax, and so long as the tax continues the money de­ rived therefrom should be sacredly devoted to the relief of the people from the remain­ ing burdens of the war, and be made a fund to defray the expeuses of the care and comfort of worthy soldiers disabled in the line of duty in the wars of the Repub­ lic, and for the payment of such pensions as Congress may from time to time grant to such soldiers, a like fund for the sailors having been provided, and any surplus should be paid into the Treasury." Nothing could be more explicit The Democratic party stands pledged, and has ever since its National Convention of 1884, io a radical new departure in the treat­ ment of the internal revenue. The fund of the sailors to which reference is made is known as the navy pension fund. It amounts to $14,000,000, and is a perpetual debt upon the Government, drawing inter­ est at the rate of 3 per cent, a year, thus yielding to the sailors referred to an annual revenue of $420,000. Whether it was. wise or not to pledge the internal-revenue receipts for four years to the creation o the proposed special fund it is not worth while now to inquire; but, having made that pledge, what excuse can be offered for never having done the slightest thing to redeem it? It will be observed that the promise was to set apart the entire income from internal taxation (liquor and tobacco) so long as the system itself should be perpetuated, to a special fund to pay pen­ sions granted from time to time by Con­ gress on the same plan as the sailor fnnd, except that any surplus should be paid into the Treasury. Can it be said that anything whatever has been done or even said in furtherance of this pledge in their national platform? No doubt the pledge caught many a soldier vote. More than enough to win that close election. The last clause of the resolution is a string attached to the soldier-pension pledge. Still the resolution as a whole would natur­ ally strike the ex-soldiers favorably. It was a pledge to set aside primarily for the payment of pensions an enormous fund derived from the liquor ana tobacco tax. For the vear 1884 it was $121,58(>,073, and last year it was $118,823,391. It no doubt struck many of the ex-soldiers that it would be a good tting to have a vast, permanent fund of that kind, on whieh they had a first lien, and which could not be used for any other purpose except as there might be a surplus in excess of the amount required to meet the annua! pension appropriations of Congress. It is morally certain thai with- Totals 445,238 > (79,211 Majority against prohibition .......:. .133,973 To this should be added the defeat of prohibition in Atlanta an»l Fulton County, Georgia, by 1,122 majority, where it had won two years ago by 228 majority. The interest shown in local option as a solution of the temperance question and its popu­ larity wherever adopted is also a marked feature of the year's politics. The Back Will Soon Be Broken. General Grant some years ago made a significant remark that showed the fore­ sight and keen political wisdom of the man. In speaking with friends about the probability of the Democratic party get­ ting control of all branches of the Govern­ ment, he quietly remarked: " Whenever the Democratic party comes near to a com­ plete control of the country, it will break its back across the Allegheny mountains on the tariff question." These prophetic words are likely soon to be realized. The Democratic party has control of the lower rhouse and lacks but one vote of con­ trolling the upper house, and has the ad­ ministration with all of its power. But while apparently just on the threshold of obtaining control of all departments, it is about to realize the truth of General Grant's prediction. It will break its back across the Allegheny mountains on the tariff question, it seems as if there was a mysterious fate right in the line of this prophecy that brought out Mr. Cleveland's message and at once solidified the great industrial interests of the country against him. Since Mr. Cleveland has souuded the keynote of tbe next campaign, his fol­ lowers will not dare to pitch it lower than his message. They will see then that the Democratic spine will be broken in two by the ridge of the Alleghenies, and what is more, since the growth of tariff senti­ ment in the West, both sides of the moun­ tains are going to help break it.--Java State Register. Earning His Fee. It is easy to "call the turn" on Bome people. When we said that ex-Senator McDonald was retained in the church suits, not for his legal but for his political influ­ ence, it was not because we had received a revelation, but because it was a plain case. When we said that his contract would take him to Washington, upon the assembling of Congress, to work for Statehood for Utah it was not because we were gifted with prophecy, but because certain effects are sure to follow certain causes. Hence it is no surprise to learn that the ancient Hoosier is faithfully earning the balance of bis retainer, even as we said be would, in Washington. How proud be must feel of himself; he, an ex- Senator of the United States, a standing candidate for President, prostituting his abilities and using his influence to erect a theocratic State on the soil of the United States, and doing what he can to make polygamy perpetual under our flag.--Salt Lake Tribune. Always Loaded for Democrats. American history shows that the tariff is always a dangerous thing for Democrats to play with. The only party that has suffered by fooling with this loaded weapon has been the Democratic party. In 1880, General Hancock, who was a good man and weighed rather more then the average, ment, bnt is said to have meddled in the internal politics of the country, siding with the clericals in their contest with Diaz, and this, of course, made him undesirable to the present political powers of the republio. Gen. Edward B. Bragg was born at Fnadilla, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1827. He re­ ceived a classical education, which was completed at Geneva College. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar. Re­ moving to Fond du Lao, Wis., he prac­ ticed his profession there. In 1868 and 1he was a member ot' the State Senate. Upon the breaking out of the war he en­ tered the Union army as a Captain. This was in May, 1861. In Ootober, 1855, he was mustered out of service with the full rank of Brigadier General. He was sent to represent hiB district in the Forty-fifth Concrress, and was re-elected to the Forty- sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-ninth Congresses. He was defeated in the nom­ inating conventions of the Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Congresses. He was a dele­ gate to the Demooratio National Conven­ tion in Chicago which nominated Cleve­ land, and in eulogizing the then Governor of New York, said: "We love him for the enemies he has made," alluding to Tam­ many's opposition. PUTTING MONET IN GAS. Pittsburgh Men Gobbling Up Enormous Tracts of Land Around Chicago. tllMlnatlnff Flnfd DIseevnNi Several Feints In the Windy City. [Chleagov spsel§|*!:;.;;~*:' There seems little doubt that natural gas exists under Chicago. Since the first dis­ covery was made at a brewery on the South Side, three or four weeks ago, several artesian wells in different parts of the oity have shown an inclination to spout gas in­ stead of water. In the Leland Hotel artesian well the aqueous has been wholly supplanted by the illuminating fluid, and hundreds of curiouB people daily visit the hostelry for the purpose of viewing the brilliant flame which shoots from the mouth of the bore. Gas has also been discovered in Marshall Field's and Mandel Brothers' large dry goods stores on State street, and in the National Tube Works, on Clinton and Fulton streets, West Side. At the Leland Hotel the How of gas is greater than at any previous time. The volume seems to increase from day to day, and it is now passing through the pipe at the rate of twenty cubic feet an hour. Only portion of the supply is allowed to pass through. The quality is also improved. The heat of the jet is remarkable. A coil of copper wire was melted in less than a minute, something that cannot be done very easily without the oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe. With ordinary gas or gasoline, even when a Bunsen burner and the com­ mon blow-pipe are used, it is impossible to fuse copper. Tbe unusual heating powers of this gas will make it of great value for manufacturing and heating pur­ poses. * Over twenty years ago the first artesian •well in Chicago was driven near the cor­ ner of Western and Chicago avenues to supply Reed's ice ponds. This well ran freely' until an artesian well 1,200 feet deep was bored at Dewes' brewery, near Robey street and West Chicago avenue, when Reed's well ran dry, the Dewes well taking all the water, which flows freely now and exhibits no evidence of any connection with a gas reservoir. A few feet away from the Dewes artesian fountain is another well 200 feet deep. The odor coming from it wonld put the odor of over-ripe eggs to the blush, aud is the result of sulphuretted hydrogen. But mingled with the odor, as a side or­ nament, is a perceptible kerosene smell. The water from the well oannot be utilised on acoount of its heavy and oily nature. Oil in great quantities settles on the water when it is not disturbed. Pittsburg gas men are taking a very act­ ive interest in the development of natural gas for Chicago, but are working very qui­ etly. Their agents are scattered all along the line between here and the end of the Indiana gas belt at Kokomo. They are leasing thousands of acres of land wher­ ever they find any indications of gas. Last | week a tract of 2,000 acres was secured j near Valparaiso. The Pitts burghers were on the ground very soon after the discovery of the Cooke macfe a few remarks about the tariff being brewery gas, and carefully inspected the his career as a region about Chicago. For some reason a local issue that settled Presidential candidate. Mr. Cleveland hasn't waited for the campaign to begin before monkeying with the same buzz-saw. He has made his remarks upon the tariff, and they are going to be quite as fatal to him as General Hancock's unfortunate ut­ terance was to him. Democratic candidates can talk upon anything in tne world with more safety than the tariff.--Dee Moines Register. OF course, Senator Chandler's bill can not pass the present Congiess. but it should be discussed, and, if possible, pressed to a vote. Let the Democrats be compelled to show their hands and put themselves on reoord in favor of maintaining the present oligarchy in the South, and in opposition i to.pwspw to ndralectte--. IndimapoUa J prime or other, they place their faith in the the ory that there is no gas under Chicago,# but that there are oceans of it near by. They believe the field is in Indiana. The prbspects are favorable near Valparaiso, whence gas could be easily piped into Chicago, a distance of but forty-seven miles. An application has been forwarded to the Secretary of State for the incorporation of the Cooke Natural Gas Company, of Chic«go; capital stock $1,000,000. The stockholders are John S. Cooke, Charles F. Cooke and John Sweeney, owners of the brewery where natural gas was first discov­ ered. The stated object of the company is and produce and supply for natural hss in Qhioaca, DAHGKK OF OTOOPPCS fQKWAl* MiIn on Mm ft*" s MMHeal J«vnuri eftlM HlgUct fltMHttaa fiMhaoa UMMM.} Every one knows that stooping for* ward, particularly after rising quickly from the bed in the morning, when the stomach is empty and the heart has less than ordinary aupport from the viseers below the diaphragm, is very apt tdoe- chsion a form of faintness, with verti&o, not unlike that which occurs in sea­ sickness. We do not at the moment speak of the faintness and giddiness f-oni cerebral' amentia, which are di­ rectly consequent, upon suddenly as­ suming' the orect after long continuing in tbe recumbent posture, but of the more alarming sensation of being in the center of objeots which are rapidly passing away, usually from left to right, with loss of power to stand or even sit, and an almost nightmare feel­ ing of inability to call for help to do anything to avert the catastrophe, while throughout the experience the sufferer retains painiully acute consciousness. This, we my, is familiar as one, at least, of the effects not uncommonly produced by stooping forward under the special conditions indicated. With many other varieties of the vertigo con­ sequent upon heart weakness or cere­ bral anaemia, observation or experience has made us all acquainted. We can­ not, however, help thinking that the consequences of even partial compres­ sion of veins of the neck, offering an obstacle to the return of blood from the head, with its important organs, are not ao well recognized. The pecu­ liar form--or, more accurately, the several forms--of headache distinctly caused in this way when the head is long bowed forward on the chest, bend­ ing the neck on itseM^annot fail to oo­ eur to every one; nor will the high tension of the eyeball, the turgid and heavy eyelids, the snuffing nose, the deafness, with buzzing or throbbing in the ears, the heavy breathing, and the puffed and perharps flushed or darkened color of the face, resulting from the obstructed venous circulation through the bended neck, be forgotten. \ There are other and more perilous, though secondary, effects of leaning forward, when the heart is weak or the blood-vessels are not so strong as they ought to be, which should not be over­ looked. Beyond question the extra strain thrown upon the apparatus of the circulation by anything that impedes the free passage of the blood through almost any part of the venous system is more severe and dangerous than a physically equal strain thrown on the arteries. At least this is so iii adult life, and, without going further into details in connection with the modus operandi of the mischief to which we point, it may be permissible to urge that the subject is one to whioh atten­ tion may be usefully directed. The weakly and those who are not unlikely to have hearts readily over­ burdened and blood-vessels stretched beyond recovery, or even ruptured, should be warned quite as earnestly against suddenly assuming, or too long retaining, any postures which do--how­ ever slightly and partially--impede tbe return of blood through the veins.* We know how prolonged sitting may cause the veins of the legs to distend and either give way or permit the ex­ travasation of their contents. When this sort of thing happens, even though in trifling degree, in the case of vessels directly connected with such delicate organs as the eye, the ear, and the brain, it is easy to see that the results may be very serious in their character; and probably few postures commonly taken up by persons who lead some­ what sedentary lives are so prone to dc misohief unnoticed as that of leaning forward as at work at a table which is not sufficiently high to insure the head being so raised that the veins of the neck may not be in any way compressed or the return of blood from the head embarrassed or delayed. We see rea­ son to believe that if this apparently small matter were generally understood' there would be fewer head and heart troubles, and we will ^o so fur as to say that some lives now lost would be saved. Mammoth Turtles and Their Eggs. Every few days there are great green turtles landed at the wharf tbat have been taken in the Gulf of Mexico, and are soon put in a conspicuous place in the market, but there are few women who know they are still alive, as they lie perfectly motionless for hours at a time. Turtles often live a month after being caught without food or water, and do not appear to lose flesh or de­ teriorate in flavor from their long fast Turtle-fishers have several methods of catching them, the most successful (4 which is to watch the female when she com es ashore to deposit her eggs, when by simply turning them over on their backs in the sand they are rendered helpless. The mother turtle exhibits a great deal of cunning in concealing the exact locality in which the eggs are left, and will back around in several direc­ tions, seeming to know by intuition that her unwieldy body makes deep tracks by whieh she can be easily fol­ lowed. After the eggs are laid she re­ peats the same cautious maneuvers, and tho ground for quite a distance around the eggs is a mass of deep tracks. Tur­ tle eggs are a delicacy for soup supe­ rior to the flesh itself, andthoyare eagerly sought They are enveloped in a square-shaped sack, of a motley gray color, wliich gives the eggs the ap­ pearance ot a lump of mud rather than anything edible. When a turtle is killed it is struck on the head and stunned, after which the throat is cut and the carcass hung up and allowed to bleed five or six hours. Then the shell is removed from the back, the entrails cleaned, and the feet ami curi­ ous! front fins are used in connection with the flesh for soup. An ordinary turtle weighs from seventy-five to one hundred pounds, and its meat will keep fresh for several days,--San Firancutco Examiner. Favorite Hymns* Tbe Christian Union lately invited its readers to send in lists containing what in their judgment were the best 100 hymns in the English language. More than 3,400 lists wero received. The first hymn upon the larger number of lists was TopJady's "Rook of Ages," having received 3,2*15 votes. The sec­ ond in point of popularity was Lvle's "Abide with Methe third, Wesley's "Jesus, Lover of My SouL * A hymn which is greatlv liked and widely sung, "My Faith Looks Up to Thee," occu­ pied onlv the sixty-ninth place on the lists. The lists "contain hymns from fifty-five different authors, and among these Dr. Watts and Charles Wesley stand at the head, each contributing seven hymns. Strangely enough, in the summary as given by the Christum Union we do not find Newman's hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light," which seevms to na the very foremost , Ok every small rare text the *olf ariaoa the ditof» •' •' --Three new eases of smrfl ym parted* at Clinton. ^ --Engineer Aatoaoa. of near Moeweqna, wwkffledby --Horace and Arte Osier, farmers and desisa ht hones, at Monticello, $15,000. --Hiram Pines. Jfc, the yoong man went to Gnloiadosome time ago to ha of the glanders, returned to Lincoln ly folly recovered. --James M. Larisen, agsd 75, a well- known pioneer, who came te this State fet 1838, and was at one time Sheriff* of Logon County, died si Lincoln reeently. --Alexander H. Swain, agsd 4 died a few days ago at Moamoeii Bti" the founder of the Monmoath 1865, and was its publisher for thirty yean. He was Journal Constitutional Convention el had recently been living at! tana. --Six ignorant men working en t railroad near Bockford, plaeed a couple of dynamite cartridges in tks blacksmith-shop in Argyle ^ cartridges went off with a terrible sion. Six Italians were badly injured • two seriously ao. The blacksmith-shop won demolished and had the appearance ef I ing struck by a cyclone. || The Board of Education of Centrals ha* determined to enforce the compulsecy ted*' ure ot the school law. About forty papttl of that city, of sohool age andmentaQty e»- H pablo of attending school, are oat en the iff streets. The Board of Edncatlim:|pB giv» en notice to all parents and"gu*4§gjsn that unless said pupils are sent to scliiot they will be proceeded against at oace. The execution of this law will produoe a sensa­ tion in Centralis^ --Mrs. Jodo Newklrk, who was incBeted by the Federal Grand Jury for **v;-g s letter from the postoAce at Esst;^|j|||pi-- belonging to Mr. James Gordon, " bAv ing the name of the letter to a 919 order and obtaining the money, has htf$ ffc' hearing at Springfield in the United District Court The jury, after deliberat­ ing several hours, failed to agree. The defendant then pleaded guilty as to the |i second and third counts of the indictment*. - which were punishable by fine. The las imposed was $500, which was snspendsd. >f on payment of coats. --Among a large number of eonvietafCij the Joliet Penitentiary who had swrra#^;,,^ their sentences and were restored^© tibei^fc - - recently, were the following sent firom Cht^ ' ^ cago: Billy Fischer, Charles Oahii|^$^ George Jackson, and Mike Rice, sB of thean having served two years; Dick Edwards^. ji§ Thomas Hayes, James Johns, O. A. Lin~ der, John O'Brien, Jacob Oleson, Wetzein, and George Anderson. JaehBMt: 1 Current, a twenty year convict from Island, was also liberated. William J. ® Gallsgber will be released this month. --The Sheriff of Boekfoid neM|^'|| served a very novel paper. It ond of the kind ever sened in the < It is a writof ne exeat JRqmMfeo, andl served upon Edward Eskelsan upon suit of Samuel G. Johnson by R. G. Evoy, his attorney. In English it< Is oommand net to leave the eennty m^ lM case is tried. Johnson claims a dsbt of if $300 due him from the defendant. elsen furnished a bond of 9400 to at the trial. It is a very i and the oomplainant, in order te issued, wss obliged to furnish a 'bond of $600, to be forfeited, in part or wholly, if he fails to make out a ease. --Mrs. Elisabeth F. Palmer, of JoUat died recently of apoplexy, agsd 89 jp*| She was the widow of the late Dr. J. S* Palmer, and came to Joliet fifty-fouryaMC* ago. Her first husband was a Mr. Aylae- worth, by whom she had two sons--H. D.» living in Chicago, and William A. ot Joli«t» There are two daughters, named Veauaatft . Mars, by the last husband. There waa jfr have been a double wedding at the of the deceased on the day later sstftr fili funeral. The daughter Mars and aaje: William A. were to have wedded Or. Me* Guffin of that eity and a young lady ot Wilmington, respectively. had a wide circle of friends and ly respected. --The State Bar Aseocia&m. has base holding its annual session at Springfield. Thomas Dent, of Chioago was eftMtad pres­ ident Incidental to the proceedings wan the unveiling of the statue of Pierre Men­ ard, ttfe first Lieutenant Governor of HH- nois, the gift of Charles P. Chouteau, of 6t Louis. Gov. Oglesby addressed the ssaociation upon the acceptance by the State of the monument. He spoke briefly J and introduced Judge H. S. Baker of AJ- ton, who remarked that he was chosen t»>: | fill the place vacated by the death of tfc*- Hon. E. B. Washbtune, because In M** boyhood days he was a resident of Tasini ~ - •>- Ida and personally acquainted with Piezre- j Menard and his family. Judge Baker. | eulogized Col. Menard as a man of derful public enterprise and the friend of the schools and ectacatioau was no movement in the direction of lean- ^ ing or of public morals- in whioh he did net take an earnest internet. --The official in vestigatien of the Web* and accounts of all! o&ears of Maeam County, going back, twenty years imaa«ft cases, was commenced reeently and wiB hs» continued under the direction of the- County Board untiLa fall report can ba> •t; reached. Wiiliam A.. Seuthwortk^ an ex-» pert from Sangamon* Is now at ami em -1 the books. This sweeping investigation is ** the outcome of the prosecution at W. W. ' Foster, ex-Sheriff who has beea eaad $15,000, part ot whieh it is illegally paid hho by the Goanty The Foster case la unlike those in. ether || counties. He made' regular rapoitnta>tip County Boajrd during his sis; years tamailf offici, and on retiring a tual setttiMMNt^ was made, the bondsmen feeling reH«*ljK ot responsibility by the p^ihKsbedpwieni , lags. Tbe investigation* heveear, the Board to bring suit against his bondsmen for the The bondsmen have steered a daehtan their favor frofti Judge Smith, whm the bondsmen are not Uahle fat a paid to .Foster contrary to law, term Foster received over State for oonieying prtMMM to The County si tea ingthee^HJiyt M . •„