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A little boy picked it up and began playing with it, wear­ ing it on his head. The next morning Miss Berdie picked dp the sack to throw it away, when a centipede five inches long dropped out of it. The creature had evidently crawled into one of the folds of the paper and remained there benumbed with cold. A RAILWAY consisting of a ohain formed of a series of flai plates 17 inches long and 13 inches wide, made of hard wood, riveted between two steel plates, is tbe latest solution of the problem of an endless railway- -that is, a road which is as much a part of the vehicle as the wheels are. As the wheel re­ volves it moves along the bottom plate of the chain and brings the next p'late into position without undue strain or friction. It has been used to good pur­ pose in South America* and is now be­ ing used in the swampy land in Ger­ many, where large beet-root planta­ tions are. NEW YORK State has had twenty- eight Governors, only three of whom were bachelors, namely, Tilden, Cleve­ land, and HilL But while Samuel 'J. Tilden was a confirmed bachelor, he was, nevertheless, fond of the society of ladies. That Mr. Cleveland had no strong prejudice against the gentler sex his marriage clearly proves. But Gov. Hill seems to be entirely devoted to the society of his own sex. He is the most uncompromising bachelor in the State, and, though he is repeatedly urged to contemplatd matrimony by his friends, he always turns a deaf ear to each suggestions. s Two BAD sons of Farmer Peek, who lives on the Upper Hornet Creek, Idaho, went hunting on a recent Sun­ day. They found a bear cub and shot it. Then they came upon a full-grown oinnamon bear, and fired at and missed it. The bear started for the boys, and the oldest, aged 16, stood his ground, and, with a second shot, broke bruin's leg. The animal didn't stop. The boy clubbed his gun and tried to strike the bear, which knocked the gun from his hand and caught his arm in his mouth. Then the younger boy, aged 12, ran up, and, putting his gun to the bear's head, blew out his brains and saved his brother's life. THE leaders of the two or three lit­ tle uprisings in Guatemala, following President Barillo's proclamation of semi-dictatorship, have been shot, and no further trouble is expected. In stating his position' President Barillos says: "Fellows Citizens: I have been forced to exercise acts^of severity which are not in harmony with my character, but I cannot look on quietly and see the peace of the country threat­ ened. I shall, therefore, if necessity arises, continue to exercise the same severity, should what has happened at Jutiapa and Huehuetenanqfo not suffice to consolidate order and assist prog­ ress, which combine to form the first and greatest necessity of our country." "WE greatly dislike to find fault with any of the customs of our beauti­ ful little city," says a Dakota editor, "but we must nevertheless insist that the people keep their swine out from under the office of this paper. While engaged at our desk writing our leader on 'The Stability of Our Territorial Institutions,' for our paper this week, one of Senator McBride's razor-backed hogs humped up its spine and began scratching its back on the beams under the floor, jarring the building and mak­ ing it necessary for us to stop our work on the editorial, crawl under our office, and welt tbe critter along the aide with a column rule. This inter­ rupted our train of thought, and the editorial is not what we cftmld wish." was ordered to give a few lessons to. the students of the university of Kief, and the lessons .were given in a style satisfactory to t^e officer in command. But it appears, after all, that the un­ dergraduates were not taught the lesson of obedience in such a way as to lead them to practice it faithfully, for we learn by cable that both the university at Kief and the university of Kazan have been closed by the authorities on account of the continued insubordina­ tion of fractious young men. This is the fifth time within ten years that these institutions of learning have been closed for the same causa The Czar has a mighty army, but young Russia shows an irrepressible spirit. FARM mortgages are swallowing up millions of acres of land in Southern and Western States and Territories. The syndicates that loan money at from 1 to 3 per cent, per month are mainly made up of Scotch, English, and New England capitalists, who have their agents throughout the South and West These mortgages are falling due, and soon an immense number of Southern and Western farms will be in the hands of foreign mortgagees. It is said that $200,000,000 has been loaned on farm mortgages in the Southwest--in Kan­ sas $20,000,000, and nearly as much in Nebraska. The Territories ore cov­ ered with mortgages on new farms not yet patented. In some of them the law has permitted outrageous interest, so that the farm-mortgage business has grown into immense proportions. In many land districts half of the settlers borrow money at high interest to pay the small price required by the Gov­ ernment on proving up. This is lead­ ing to wide-spread disaster. ONE of the lions of the day in Paris is a rival of Stanley and De Brazza, named Camille Douls, a young fellow of 23, who has just returned to the boulevards after many vicissitudes in the African deserts. M. Douls is a middle-sized man and not at all robust,. his privations having told rather pain­ fully on his health. He was accred' ited to the Court of Morocco in 1866 by M. de Freycinet, and set out to ex­ plore the mines of Erckchiroh, whence the Sultan gets his metal for his coin. He was not allowed, however, to go along by the Asiatic route, and he therefore dressed himself as a Mussul man, embarked on the coast of Sahara in a small vessel, and landed between Cape Bojador and the Bio Deo, pre­ tending to have been shipwrecked. M. Douls, having fallen in with some Moors of a thoroughly barbarous sort, went through a series of adventures which, according to his interesting ac­ count, are almost as thrilling as those recorded in "She." He was not in danger of "hot-potting," like the hero of that strange story, but the natives of the place where he landed put irons on his feet and buried him to his neck in the sand for a fortnight After this species of torture the members of the tribe were deeply impressed by his fortitude, and not only gave him his freedom but invited them to join them. He soon discovered that they were blackguards and freebooters of the worst kind, and for five months he had to remain with them, helping them to plunder caravans. As M. Douls spoke Arabic he was believed firmly to be a Mohammedan, and his manner of es­ cape was as romantio as anything in fiction. The chief of the tribe took a strong liking to him, and offered him his daughter as a wife. M. Douls, however, had not the wherewithal to furnish a marriage portion of seven camels, and he asked his intended father-in-law to allow him to return to his own country--Turkey--in order to raise funds for the wedding. This was granted, and an escort accompanied the ingenious Gaul to southern Mo- rooeo. CAPT. HOLSTEIN, of the Danish army, has invented a portable folding steel shield for the defense of a force when its breastworks are demolished by the enemy's artillery, and their advancing attack makes it a case of die or run for the party of the first part. Each shield will cover two men, and has two loop holes at the top and two at the bottom. When the enemy is within 500 paces throw up your shield and save yourself if yon can. It is extremely doubtful if an American soldier will ever do much fighting through the peepholes of such a defense. The South would never have been populated with Colonels if its impetuous soldiers had cramped up their heroism behind steel ramparts, and the Hotspurs of the North would have turned near-sighted and bald be­ fore their time, figuring on the prob­ lem of when where and how it was the proper thing to quit fighting and hide behind a shield. THE universities of Russia have al­ ways been nests of sedition and disor­ der, annoying to the czardom. They have been especially troublesome within the last eight or ten years, and stern measures have often been nq^essary to q?ell the outbreaks of the students, 8ome weeks ago a battalion of Cossacks V. Assaulted by Monkeys. \ It must have been a comical sight, a company of men chased by a pack of monkeys, but this is the story as told by Capt Lawson in his "WanderingB in New Guinea." According to his ac­ count, the monkeys were the aggres­ sors, but one would like to hear their 1 side of the question before passing judgment: "While mareliing under some wallah trees we were maliciously attacked by a larcje troop of monkeys, who pelted us with the wallah nut3 and uttered wild screams of delight when they ob­ served that their sudden assault had been successful. A regular volley of hard missiles fell about our heads and shoulders with such force that, being unexpected, we were smitten with die- may und scrambled out of the way in a very undignified manner. "Upon recovering myself I laughed heartily at the ridiculous figure we had cut, on which one old fellow, who seemed to be the leader of the troop ran out on a branch that hung over my head, and deliberately spat at me with all the gravity of a human being, a trick that I had known a monkey to perform before. "Stepping back a few paces to get a better aim at him I raised my rifle and fired. He appeared to bo killed in­ stantly, but sat immovable for several seconds before his body lost its balance and felL "The hubbub that then set in amcpg his companions was fearful Tney howled at the top of their voice and seemed to become half mad with rage. They again began to pelt us with the nuts, and though we shot several of their number they refused to desist, but followed us on our march, leaping from tree to tree with great ability. "At last we wore glad to break into a run in order to escape their persecu­ tions, but this move wa3 unsuccessful, for the monkevs were quite as nimble as we were. So we were compelled to submit to the nuisance for fully three hours, during which time I received so many blows upon tke head, back, and shoulders that I became quite sore, and my light helmet was battered into a highly disreputable shape. "At length, much to our gratification, our foes tired themselves out and gave up the pursuit But while we remained in sight they continued to shake their fists with many grimaces most express­ ive of defiance and a desire for re­ venge. " * GOOD company and good convener- tion are the very sinews of virtue. THE TARIFF. Not "For Revenue Only," But for Protection a Development. An Able and Thoughtful Paper by Seatta, George F. . • M Yemeni. ;<r ̂ [Prom Harper'a Magazine, r It is not tree, as I understand history. that in any instance a protective tariff has been inaugurated and put in operation for the benefit of any privileged class what­ ever. These systems of legislation have, it is believed, always been put in operation for the general development of the re­ sources and the encouragement of the in­ dustries of the countries that have resorted to them, whatever in some instances m ty have been the motive, as distinguished from the purpose and effect, of such laws. The one instance of Great Britain may be taken as a fair example of all,* although from a protective taritf country she has oome in tbe course of two centuries to a very large degree to be a so-called free- trade country. "When her system of protection began she was (.as our own country is now) in a large degree a rural country, with mines enough and lields enough, and in general with every other resource sufficient to feed and find employment for the whole of her population; and it was her policy to pro­ vide by her customs and navigation laws that every one of her natural resources and all of her inhabitants (should find develop­ ment, labor,and with due thrift an increase of wealth. The only differences in sit­ uation among her people were purely inter­ nal and conventional, or were the natural ones that must exist in all countries until we have anarchy and chaos; that is to say, one person might be the owner of land, another the owner of a mine, and the third .of a water-power, and a fourth a merchant, and a tilth a feudal lord, and so on. If all these could be induced by legislation to supply each other with the necessaries and comforts of life without resorting to for­ eign aid, which muut be paid for, it was thought certain that the general average of wealth and development must necessarily increase, and with it the individual pros­ perity of all her people, RO far as individ­ ual prosperity could depend upon industry, economy, and thrift There was nothing in her general system of customs and nav­ igation that favored one class of her people at the expense of another, for the laws ap­ plied equally to them all, uutil in respect of her colonies she adopted another and fatal policy. Her laws commercial were not calculated to build up, nor did they build up or tend to build up, an aristocracy either of land, power, or money in favor of one body of her people as against an­ other. The aristocracy of land, as it may be called, was not a consequence of this system, but it existed before it, and it is clear that it would have continued to ex* ist to a much larger degree than it does now had it not been for the very system of protection she 60 early adopted and so long continued, and that she has now, with tne same purpose of protecting and advancing her interests, partly aboMshed. With the increase of her general wealth, distributed among a great ni^paber of persons, came the distribution of her lands into the hands of a greatly increased number of people; and just in proportion BB the general dif­ fusion of wealth increased the independ­ ence of her middle and lower classes in­ creased also, and the domination of the great land-holders diminished in the same proportion. Through the long period of her protec­ tive system for production, manufacture, trade, and navigation, it will net be dis­ puted by any one that, in spite of the enormous waste both of life and treasure in wars, her wealth as a nation, tbe devel­ opment of all her natural resources, the improvement of the condition of all classes of her people, and her population, in­ creased enormously, so that in later and still recent days ber condition, as it re­ spected the necessity or even desirability of continuing the strictness of her customs and navigation laws, has passed away. She had already become the mistress of the world in manufactures and commerce, and almost so in arms. She had, however, from this very growth, become unable either to feed or clothe her nov over­ abundant population from the products of her own soil, aud so, as it waB thought a partial free trade became as naturally ber proper policy for the con­ tinued prosperity of ber people as protection had been before under en­ tirely different conditions, and of cour-e she would then more strongly desire, and could with more plausibility advocate, the abolishing of customs and navigation laws by other countries whose markets her peo­ ple wished to employ for the sale of their productions, well understanding the error of the idea that seems to be advanced in Mr. Watterson's article, that it is the con­ sumer who bears the whole burden of im- S>st duties, and well understanding the ct that, at the very least, a very heavy {iroportion of such imposts is borne by the oreign producer or manufacturer. This last-named fact appears to be entirely overlooked by those who advocate great re­ ductions of customs duties as a benefit to the consumer, and as a relief of the con­ sumer from taxation. If tbe profits of the foreign manufact­ urer or producer are essentially diminished by customs duties, and are essentially in­ creased by the diminution or abolition thereof, then, so far, the money obtained from them is not by taxation of our own people, but by taxation of the foreigner; and if the surplus revenues are to be re­ duced by the a'l'lition or reduction of the customs duties, so far they are reduced, j not for the benefit of our own people, but ' to the benefit of people of other countries who are the exporters of goods to our mar­ kets. This is well illustrated by our ex­ perience in the abolition of the duties upon tea and coffee in the year 1872. Be­ fore this abolition there had come into the Treasury many millions of dollars a year as duties from these two articles (in 1870-71 there were over twenty-two millions), neither of which was produced in the United States, and so it was supposed that these articles would be cheapened to the consumers, and that no injury could be done to any domestic interest by their abolition. And this was partly true, so far as its direct ef­ fect was concerned, but there ceased to eome into the common Treasury from fif­ teen to twenty millions of dollars a year, while the consumers of tea and coffee paid substantially the same or higher priees for these things than they did before, and the net result was that our Treasury gave up to foreign producers and operators that number of millions of money without any advantage whatever to us, except that the Treasury was by that sum depleted. Even in respect of wholesale prices no change can be attributed to the repeal. The price of tea rose, as did the price of coffee such as is chiefly used by the great mass of the people, though the price of Java coffee was less. Allowing for all conceivable accidents and incidents of production or trade, it must be apparent that tne abolition of the duties upon tea and coffee was substantially purely a benefit to the producer and ex­ porter, and not to ourselves. But if it be not true that, in respect of things produced in this country, the aboli­ tion of duties works no fall in prices to the consumer, it must be because the foreigner may then undersell the home producer and manufacturer and still have a margin of profit This, of course, means the in­ creased consumption of foreign commodi­ ties, and by so much the diminution of the consumption of domestic products and manufactures; and consequently there must be a corresponding diminution of home production and manufactures, or a production that cannot be oonsumed. What does this mean, and who desires it? Will the iron master or the textile fabric worker, however wealthy, employ as many man and women or p^y as high wage* as before if his sales are thus diminished? f Certainly not If he does not, what j is to become of tne people he now j employs? Let them leave tbe occupation to which they have been bred, and "go j West" to fanning, says the free-trader. If j they knew bow to do this, and could do it, j farm products would largely increase, but ; where would be the market for these in- j creased farm products? The home maTfcet I among the manufacturing clashes would i have been diminished, while the farm ?>roducts would have increased, and the arm laborer, whether owner or hired, would find.,for the results of his labor a market already overstocked, and there would be a general failure of all who were not already independent and for them a pure stagnation, for there are now pro­ duced more farm products than can be sold at much profit in all markets, both domes­ tic and foreign. How could such a course increase the prosperity of the whole people? But what is the capitalist aud where is the monopoly that free-trade is expected to overcome? The capitalist, as such, is, so far as any active effect on social progress or his own is concerned, the most helpless of any member of a community. His cap­ ital is simply the saved and stored-up fruit of previous labor, and it is as inert as the metal in the heart of the mountain (or, as the paper-money men might say, as the pulp in a mill) until the brain and the arm of the workman, by whatever name he is called, put it into active motion, and en­ able it to exert its force by a combination with labor. The day's labor of the work­ man, whether of brain or pen or muscle, is only turned into capital as wages, be it 50 cents, as may be the average in other coun­ tries, or one dollar, as may be the aver­ age in this "tariff-ridden" country, and that capital of a day's work is then only useful as it comes into contact with the product of other labor in the form of food, clothing, house, or whatever its possessor may want. On the other hand--and not an adverse but co­ operative hand--the labor of man is more than one-half lost unless it has the ben­ efit of capital already aecumulated to aid it in its operations. Who can well begin the simplest farm operations-- even with free land such as our country gives to every citizen honestly desiring to work it--or open a mine, or build a mill, without some capital, the stored-np fruits of previous effort? And if the laborers of a country seized all tbe capital, and the "liberty of anarchy" had its wish for a day, the unchangeable law \rould remain the same, and the relations of labor done, which is capital, and labor to be done, would be just what they wore before. The argument, therefore, that the accumula­ tion of capital is injurious to the interests of the workiugman is destructive of all personal liberty and the light of personal advancement. It puts the lazy and the vicious on the same footing (or better) as the industrious, honest, and economical. The one class take what they have not earned, and the other lose what their labor has achieved. The disturbance of the occupations of labor in the United States would affect a great--very great--proportion of our in* habitants. There are, in round numbers, now engaged in agriculture, 8,000,000; engaged in professional and personal ser­ vice--justly embraciug, as the census puts it, lawyers, doctors, and the hired help of every domestic kind in ono class--5,000,- 000; engaged in- trade and trausportation, 2,000,000; engaged in manufactures and mechanical industries, 4,000,000; a total of 19,000,000. This total represents in families a num­ ber not less than 30,000,000 directly de­ pendent upon agricultural pursuits,' and not less than 14,000,000 dependent upon manufacturing and mechanical pursuits. If, then, by importing more of the pro­ ducts of foreigu labor, we dimiuish the consumption of the products of home la­ bor, welpould shorten not only the total wages upon which 14,000,000 of our peo­ ple subsist, but also tbe earnings upon which 30,000,000 of food, eta., producing citizens, who now supply their wants from the wages earned in manufacturing and mechanics, depend. The probable, out­ come of such a step ought to appall every working man, and every capitalist, ana all others who desire the welfare of all the people of their country. If the whole internal revenue system were abolished except the tax on national banks, and the customs laws were left sub­ stantially as they are, the revenues would be diminished to the point (and perhaps below) of the absolute necessities of tne government, and we should have only in force the system of collecting revenues that existed before the war of the rebellion, and with "the restored harmony of the States" would be restored to them the right to deal with whisky and tobacco, and all social questions growing out of their production and use, untrnmmeled and un­ embarrassed by the interference of nation­ al law or the army of internal revenue agents. Everybody must agree that the money reised by the internal revenue sys­ tem is a tax, and entirely a tax, upon the people and industries of the United States, which, as has been shown, is not the case with the customs revenues; and if any tax can be said to be direct and discriminative which is based upon a selection of particu­ lar home products to bear the burden which is not imposed upon other home prod­ ucts, it is this, and upon the just theory of equality in taxation upon properly as such it cannot be defended. It is true that it is feared by many politicians, who look with a just and natural eye to the temper a&d sentiment of the people in their respective States, that a repeal of the tax on whisky would not be popular in those communi­ ties and States where prohibition or other means of repressing or restraining the traffic in alcoholic drinks prevail; but it is believed this is an error, and that on reflec­ tion the people of tne strongest prohi­ bition communities would be satisfied that such a step would be of advantage to their cause. While the laws of Congress do not purport to interfere with the police powers of tbe States in regard to this subject, they certainly have had no tendency to di­ minish either the production or consump­ tion of liquors, atid they do recognize the manufacture of and traffic in them as a lawful and tolerable occupation even in States denouncing the same traffic as a crime. Under the wise and necessary separation of the powers of Congress under the Constitution from those of the respective States, every internal social question was left with the States themselves, to be judged of and dealt with according to their own sense of pro­ priety. Certainly, apart from the senti­ ment of deriving a revenue from an occu­ pation or a commodity injurious to the Enblic welfare, neither the cause of pro-ibition nor that of repression has been in any manner advanced by the internal tax upon whisky; and on moral grounds the prohibitionist would hardly felicitate him­ self upon sharing the profits of a business he believed to be totally wrong and deserv­ ing of extirpation. If, upon gronnds of sound political economy, the internal-rev­ enue tax ought to be abolished, members of Congress need not hesitute to do their duty from fear of an adverse s.entiment on the* part of some of their constituents. This path to a radical reduction of revenue is ̂ ilain. the way easy, and the result cer­ tain. No industrial interest, whether of agriculture, of manufactures, or of com­ merce, can be injured by it, and if the in­ come of the Government should thus fall somewhat below its present rate of ex­ penditure, there would be a very whole­ some incentive to a rigid economy in all branches of the public service, and per­ haps an introduction of that real reform which has recently been so much preached about and so little practiced. What the Republican Party Is. The Republican party was never in­ tended to be, and has never claimed to be, the party of the poor against the rich, or of the laborers against the employers, or of the people against the corporations. It holds that poor and rich have both a vital interest in good government; that laborers and employers both have need of a de­ fensive national policy which promotes the welfare of both, and that people and cor­ porations both have a right to dknand from their government no favoritism, but even- handed justioe. The Republican party has from the first been, in fact controlled in a great degree by practical wor kingmen who form a smajority of its members. But it has honestly striven to do equal justice as tbe trustee of power for the whole people. Many times it hus failed, but it has so far succeeded that the growth and prosperity of the oountiy sinoe this party shaped the policy of the Government have been un- equaled in any age or country. It does not dishonestly pretend to be the party of labor, and at the same time vote against protecting labor.--New York Tribune. OPPOSINO CLEVELAlli Bill and Randall Movements Significant of Democratic JMaaatlsiketlon with the President. [New York special. • The first little cloud of opposition to President Cleveland's renomination has appeared in Pennsylvania aud New York. It is not larger than a man's hand, but it has set all the politician* gossiping. Mr. Randall's friends in Pennsylvania appar­ ently were worsted in their contest with the Federal ofii-ialu, but in New York the battle is an acknowledged good draw. Un­ der the surface of things BOTH Samuel J. Randall and Governor Hill may be seen in the attitudes of Presidential candidates. There is a suspicion abroad that the Penn­ sylvania and New York affairs are the be­ ginning of a great movement to defeat Mr. Cleveland's renomination,"' the general plan of which is to divide and conquer. Over a month ago one of the closest friends aud politi­ cal managers of Governor Hill, talking in the Hoffman House, where the Governor was a guest, made this remark: "Suppose three or four candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination should spring up in different parts of the country ju«t on the eve of the convention, and following on the heels of the public disapproval of the President's free-trade message, would not the result be either to scare Mr. Cleveland off or defeat him?1' He was asked to answer his own inquiry, and added: "If you will take what I say as a hint, rather than as having any authority, I will tell you what I meau. The entire Democratic party is honeycombed with dis­ favor toward the administration. In noth­ ing is that so clearly demonstrated as in the acquiescence in favor of Mr. Cleveland's renomination. There are no avowed can­ didates in the field on whom to rally the op­ position. It is so easy to break away from Mr. Cleveland any time before the conven­ tion that politician* find it convenient to announce themselves as favoring the administration, thereby avoiding all dis­ pute and discussion. You need not be surprised, however, if on the very eve of the convention, you find that Governor Hill is a candidate, that Speaker Carlisle is a candidate, that Mr. McDonald is a candidate, and possibly others. The excuse their friends will give for putting them in the field will be that they wish to have them in line for 1HD2, but as a fact the effort will be made to divide Mr. Cleveland's forces by presenting a number of favorite sons, and to break him down piece-meal." "Is Governor Hill a tariff man?" "He is not a free-trader, and he will op­ pose anything that squints toward free trade." Another view of the Hill movement is that which fell from the lips of a well- known New York politician to-day: "Gov­ ernor Hill probably intends to dictate his own terms, said he. "It is for that reason that he wants the State committee and party machinery. At any rate he does not inteud that Edward Cooper shall capture it for Mayor Hewitt, who would possibly like to be Governor, and President alBO. I do not think that Governor Hill is a can­ didate for the Presidential nomination. He could not defeat President Cleveland if he should try, but he can dictate terms.n VILAS GIVEN A BC0RUT6. Senator Plumb on the Late Postoffice Ad­ ministration--Wretched 8ervioe In Order to Make Possible a Claim of Economy. [Washington Bpeoial.) Senator Plumb on Monday told some truths abopt the Administration's Postoffice Department which will not be relished by Mr. Vilas, though he cannot gainsay the facts. The Kansas Senator is an incisive talker, and when setting forth the griev­ ances of his constituents he is not apt to spare any one's feelings. What he said Monday afternoon had the more force from the Democratic evidence and the personal knowledge of Congressmen. Vilas has few friends among the Democratic Sena­ tors, and privately they were not displeased that Bome of his humbuggery should be shown up. Senator Plumb prefaced his remarks by offeiing a resolution in­ structing the Postoffice Committee to inquire into the cause of the inef­ ficient mail service, especially in the West and Southwest, and presented newspaper extracts and letters to show the "demoral­ ized" conditions of the service in Kansas-- the result of a "stupid attempt to make a record of economy." He first had read an extract from an Atchison paper telling how the people of that locality were suffering from the inefficiency of the postal service. Then he blandly remarked that this might be called a partisan complaint, and he proposed to show that the people of Kansas were damning the postoffice management without regard to party or politics. In proof of this he had read an article from the Ab­ ilene Gazette, a simon-pure Democratic paper, which made no bones of rebuking the management of the Postoffice Department It alleged that the grievances of the Kansas people were almost unbearable and loudly called on the Administration for a decent postal service. Several instances of out­ rageously bad service were quoted by Sena­ tor Plumb, who told his colleagues facts about Kansas which they knew to be equally true of their own States. The "very estimable gentleman lately at the head of the Postoffice Department was often re­ ferred to and also some of his tricks at economy. He said that the late Post­ master General had seemed to be pos­ sessed of a frantic effort to make both ends meet, and that he had, in that effort, de­ prived the people of what they always had had until within a short period of time. The postal service in the West had got to that point where its conation was abso­ lutely unbearable. A passing allusion was made to some of Vilas self-glorification. A Two-third Tote. The senior deacon presided. The meet­ ing was colored. It was a new pastor they wanted to elect Brown was the senior deacon's candidate, but the first ballot stood: Jones, 22; Brown 13. The senior deacon was not pleased. With brilliant resolution he pronounced the ballot in­ formal, and the hat went around again. Tbe proceeding seemed high-handed, but the brethren voted. The vote stood: Jones, 21; Brown, 14. "Brother Brown is elected," •aid the senior deacon. The dissatisfac­ tion was obvious. The senior deacon, with the genius of a Napoleon of finance, grabbed the predicament: "Brethren, you haven't studied the Constitution. Doesn't a two-thirds vote elect? Isn't 14 just two- thirds of 21?" What Senator Chand^r proposes by his Congressional electicras bill for South Carolina, Mississippi, Lou­ isiana, and Florida is to prevent the senior deacons of Bourbondom running in such deplorable arithmetic as this upon the un­ suspecting and unprotesting colored voters of those four states, where they are entitle! to representation they never receive.---Chi­ cago Inter Ocean Hews for Cleveland from Georgia. There are 117 newspapers in the State of Georgia, and all but four of them are in favor of the repeal or modification of the internal revenue laws. It is to be hoped that a few marked copies of these journals will be sent to President Cleve­ land in time to prevent him from repeat­ ing the assertion in his recent message to the effect that the taxes imposed bv such laws are not burdensome, and that there is uo demand fa? their removal or roduotion. --St Louis Qlobt'Democrui, IN THE SALZKAMMERGUT. Ik* Vunow Wine Cellar sad CtrsnM ef Balstmrg'* Jolly Monk a. (.Argonaut,] We plunged into the dark, stone, tunnel-like entrance. It looked more like a passageway to a stable than the hallway of a famous hostelry, and might have led to one of the famous riding- schools of Salzburg, close ft hand. The hallway was lined with rude tables and benches and crowded with peasants. The great flaring, wing-like head­ dresses of the women made them look at first like huge bats in the gloom. But, as we became accustomed to the light, or, rather, the darkness, the ox- like patience of the peasants' eyes de­ fined itself from out the shadows of the coif, and we saw men san lwiche d in between, with the inevitable feather and flower in their hats. They bring their own black bread and^ausage, now and then a bit of cake for an extra treat--for a sweet tooth always goes with a strong Ger­ man guttural--and spread their feast out on the tables when they buy the wine. One is as like to sit cheek by jowl w^th a prince as a peasant in the "stift-keller,'* but for the most part the peasants like to huddle together in the hallway, where their fumble spreads will not be criticized by more lordly wine-drinkers. The stone tunnel leads into a round, open room, lighted from above by a kind of well-hole, and gives immedi­ ately upon the cellar itself, into which one might look and see literally miles of bottle shelves and casks if the day­ light penetrated. As it is, lights are flashed through what appears to be endless darkness, and now and then the lanterns will flash on one of the lay monks--not so fat or so merry as the twain we met outside--as they serve the wine to the kellners who bring it to us; for the holy men do not serve their clientele with their own hands. Perhaps there is just a little too much rovstering sometimes iu the "stift- keller" to make it decorous or seemly, although there is no better conducted crowd in all the world than a lot of Germans enjoying themselves. One says Germans, even in Austria, where they do hot resent the term, though there is a subtle difference, even in the German language, from the moment you cross the frontrer-line. The oberkellner invited us to climb the steep stairway to an upper apart­ ment, which, he told us, and made a deep obeisance as he spoke, was re­ served for eccelenzas. But we chose rather to mix with the gay and comfort­ able throngs who were sipping wine at the crowded tables in the round room. It is true, it was redolent of every grade of tobacco under the sun, from a Havana, which a rich-looking Span­ iard was smoking in one corner, through all the grades of German pipes, and down to the long, thin Ital­ ian cigar, which looks like a lean and discouraged little breakfast sausage with a straw stuck in the end, presum­ ably to carry off the flavor. But every face gleamed through this haze of smoke alight with calm, lazy pleasure. Officers, students, priests, travelers, doctors of everything under the sun, and members of various societies for the protection of the memory of Mozart and the archbishops, were taking their afternoon comfort, which is part of the practical religion of a German, in the eool, grotto-like rotunda of tho stift- keller. A Dog's Hospital. The Bev. Mr. Munday, curate of Christ Church, is a lover of dogs and can tell a good story. At a recent after-dinner sitting he related this anec­ dote in his usual felicitous style: . "There was a fellow iu London called 'Kenuell Harry,' a name with a semi- military distinction, who sold dog's meat, and kept a sort of private hos­ pital for aristocratic pedigreed dogs. As he always cured the sick ones, I was quite anxious to know what his method was. and asked him one day. _ " 'Hit's me h'own secret,' h^said at first, but he relaxed at sight of a half- crown. " 'Yon see, sir, w'en one of 'em bloomin' cads as drives me leddy comes and li'axes me will h'i board a sick poodle h'i tips 'im a wmk kind of mys­ terious like, an' h'i says, says h'i h'it your leddy will 'pay well for . th<? priverlidge h'i'll take "the dawg an' send 'im 'ome li'as good h'as new at the end lio'f a month, an' h'i does.' "Then I asked him if he gave the dogs any medicine," said Mr. Munday, as he blew a silver-lined cloud of smoke above his blode head. "'H'i does and h'i doesn't.' said Ken­ nel Harry in hj^i loftiest manner. 'Wen them bloated dawgs comes to the 'ospital they're'm poorly an' full of airs as me leddy herself. They sulks round, an' wen h'i goes to feed 'em they turns up their noses at vitals as is good enuff forme. Wot does h'i do? H'i shuts 'em up an' starves 'em, sir, till they're glad to eat hanythiag h'as h'i's offered thtim. An' afore they gits h'it they must joomp for it "Joomp, ye beggar! .Tooinp, will ye," with a teeckle of me whip h'at every word.' " Well, sir, h'it gives 'em a bootful' cirkulatashun an' makes 'em h'as lively an' bloomin' h'as rats. An' by the h'end of a moonth, sir, they're mighty glad to eat vitals wot h'i turns h'np my nose at.. An' wen h'i takes 'em 'ome its " 'Oop! 'oop! an' 'ooray! 'ere's Flossie or Doggie.li'as fine h'as a fiddle," An' me leddy says wen h'ive charged for the board an' the medecine--medecine, do ye see, sir--she says: "I'll make it dooble," an' the dawg 'ejumps lively ILLINOIS STATE NEW8L --Mrs. E. EL ^osworth dledat Bight •»» fleetly, aged 86 yean. --Benjamin Ekblod, of Chicago, dropped dead on a Northwestern train, the other day, when the train was near Cherry Val­ ley. The body was taken to Pecatotrioa, where an inquest was held, the jury rtonlei ing that heart disease was the cause. --A gentleman at Naperviile, recently, giving his name as Jay Gould, called at tk» postoffice. His .physique, bearing, aad features, gave some reason for believing that he was the great money king. The report got abroad, quickly spread, and caused much excitement Later it wsa learned that it was another Jay Gould, holding no connection whatever with th* wizard of Wall street. --Uiss Evelyn Van Dyek Sleight, > ter of Delcai Sleight, Esq., and Mr. Will­ iam Le Baron, of the firm of Le Baron, Holt A Co., of Chicago, were married at St John's Episcopal Church in Naperviile recently, the Rev. M. V. Averili, assisted by the Bev. Canon Knowles, of St. Clem­ ent's Church, Chicago, officiating. After the ceremony a reoeption was held at tte residence of the bride's parents. --The other day two trains of ears wets run into the Federal Court-room in Chi­ cago, where Judges Gresham and Blodgett were sitting in judgment on a patent case. The cars, to be sure, were of reduced size, but Berved as models to illustrate the claims of two rival sleeping-ear companies--the Pullman and Wagner--the former claiming^ priority of invention in what are known a* the vestibule trains. --The venerable Elder Hiram B uck, of Decatur, Bome three years ago presented 320 acres of land, valued at $20,000, to the We8leyan University of Bloomington, with a proviso that he and his wife should re­ ceive $2,000 per annum during their lives. The directors now find that they have no authority to pay out money in this manner, as they have been doing, and the land has been deeded back to Its former owners. Elder Buok is worth $100,000. --At Decatur Judge Smith reoentiy checked an attorney who was complaining that there was no blank paper for general use, and announced in open oourt that there was no law in Macon County to keep a stock of supplies for lawyers' use, and he proposed to have the practice stopped in every county in his judicial district. The exnenee heretofore on this account has been quite an item. --A farmer of East Galena discovered an immense owl perched on a tree near his house. He procured his shotgun, and, being a pretty good marksman, fired at it, but failed either to bring it down or frighten it. He fired again, bnt did not even seem to attract the bird's attention. Then his son took a band in the match and fired several shots, but with no better re­ sult, except to bring down a few feathers. Finally a neighbor, the crack shot of the locality, tried his skill upon his owlship, but it still sat immovable upon his perch, unmindful of the fusillade. After using np all his ammunition, the farmer sent hie boy up the tree to investigate, when it was discovered that the owl was frozen solid, and its claws so tightly elasped to the tree that theJimb had to be oat off before the bird could be brought down. During the past few nights many birds in that seetiom have been frozen to death in the tress end upon their nests--a thing never bate* heard of thereabout^ <• -- Representative Joe Cannon, of this State, rides down from the Capitol every day in the street-oars, and. it is a rule of the Washington car lines that change need never be given for a bill of a larger de­ nomination than $2. The other day the conductor called for Joe Cannon's fare and he handed hi^n a $5 bill. The rule was pointed out, and for the moment it seemed as though Mr. Cannon might have to leave the car. He went through his pockets with nervous haste, and it was ourious to see what he brought out of them. From his right pantaloons pocket he drew out a handful of buttons, a knife with a broken handle, a piece of shoestring, a wooden toothpick, and a policeman's whistle, and his other pockets brought forth similar trinkets which are usually owned by a boy of 10. At each new exploration he ex­ pected to find a nickel, but the result of his investigation was only two cents. Hereupon he displayed such distress that the conductor kindly changed his bill against the rules, and he rede on in coss-- fort to Willard's Hotel. --Pensions: Sarah E., widow of Win. F. Baeon, Qninoy; Margaret widow of Jaoob Burger, Roodhouse; Sarah C., widow of Reuben Johnson, Golconda; Nancy Flem­ ing, mother of James Garner, Shelbvville; Elizabeth, widow of Michael Haas, Belle­ ville; Nancy J., widow of Americus Ken- rich, Golconda; Margaret, widow of Henry W. Galvin, Quincy; Mary V., widow of William J. Jordan, Mareelline; Isaiah W. Hedges, Merriam; Peter M. Fisher, Card's Point; William B. Smith, De Pue; Henry P. Beck, Frankfort Station; Robert Hard- wick, insane, Janesville; Edmond S. Val­ entine, Pocahontas; Edward D. Conley, with me h'eye upon 'im. That's h'all, I . .. ' B i i_ \V Lvnea rr,--1, r six."'--Detroit Free " • " J • ^vnee, sir. Thank Press. A Fortune Scattered by Marriages. Having only a gentile's knowledge of arithmetic and a fair share of gentile discreetness, I can neither calculate nor inquire the amount of the dowry Mdlle. Aline de Bothschild brings to her hus­ band, Mr. Edward Sassoon. But it would seem that the fortune of the Bothschild dynasty is getting scattered by the recent marriages of the young people. Now it is Mdlle. Aline who marries a Sassoon; yesterday it wa3 her eldest sister who married M. Lambert, of Brussels, and her cousin, Mtllla. Heleno who married a Dutch diplom­ atist, Baron voa Zuvlen; not long ago a Mdlle. de Bothschild became princess de Wagram, another Duchess de Gra- mont, another simple Mme. Ephrussi, and another Lady Rosebery. Tradi­ tion says that the old Baron James left a fortune of 830,000,000 francs, which was divided among his children, four sons and a daughter, the Baroness Nathaniel Thus each inherited 175,- 000,000 francs, which have doubtless increased and multiplied. At any rate, the marriage of the Baron Gustave's daughter was a grand affair. More than a,000 persons were invited or admitted to the synagogue, and nearly 10,000 people--according to Hebrew calcula­ tions--passed through the sacristy to congratulate the young couple. The immensity of this nuptial ceremony was •imply bewildering. --sLo ndon World. Biggsville; Isaiah M. Sperry, Cobden; Jared M. Keith, Mattoon; Win. C. Fransley, Beaver Creek; Joseph R. Hartford, Clayton; William R» W'hitman, Louisville; Chas. O. Perry, Chi­ cago; William H., father of Cyrenus Mon­ tague, Morrison; Jane Trimble, mother of Sylvester Yocurn, Williamsville; Schuyler, father of M. K. Trumbull, Marseilles; Catherine, widow of Samuel Be lion, Fair- bary; minors of Andrew Reed. Rochester and Chatham. Mexican war--Julia, widow of John Turrentine. Collinsville; Ames Gurnsey, Oakford; John Koonan. Kins­ man. Original--Louis Linne, Weet Belle* ville; J. D. Hughson. Prairie City; Jamea S. McLin. Philadelphia; Braxton Cook (deceased), Macedonia; Isaac Jelf, Tower Hill; August Baumann, Peoria; Calvin.F. Boardman, Oregon; W. S. Crilly (Slilitaiy Home), Quincy. Increase--George Houck^ Beecher; Thomas Cuddigan, ifenecaj Sam­ uel H. McCartney, Monmouth; WilliamH. Martin, Nashville; Alma Jatjues, Pitta- field; Benjamin Riggs, Hoopesten; A. J. Alexander, Melville; S. H. Smith, Van-, dalia; E. M. Hovey, Aurora; H. C. na, Danville; Eli Roberts, Omega; Jeeeptk] K. Bishop, Havana; John Coliaid^r Hill; Thomas W. Gray. I'atefca; J* Cowan, Toledo; Michael BoleaA wood; H. H. Smith, A*a. L. Putney, Augusta. Rsiseae sad i -Charles Haas. Bo* gg. > , ̂ - ' - -04 . si