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*<• \ "">4, » - . ? 77 *; •i- < -' * ?pt Ml, urn l?laiutlcaler J./VAM SLY HE, Editor an* PgMWwr. ILLINOIS. Gkn. ALBERT PIKE never uses any trat quill peas, apd he carefully pre­ serves them when they are worn out He Las probably 10,000 old pens stored *way in his cupboards. . The fallowing is the seating capacity at the eight largest churches of Europe: St Peter, Rome, 54,000persons; Milan Cathedral, 37,000; St Paul, Borne, 25,- 900; St Sophia, Constantinople, *23,000; Notre Dame, Paris, 21,000; Florence Cathedral, 20,000; Pisa Cathedra], !£,<- 900: St Mark, Venice, 7,000, ' / IT was Tsiliella of Bavaria, a woman remarkable for her complexion, who introduced the fashion of having the shoulders and part of the neck uncov­ ered as a feature in the evening dress. The fashion, no doubt, dates back to Eve, bnt what is now known as decol­ lete dress is credited to Isabella. » s is from the Philadelphia Press: T"liaven't had a cold for years," said a well-known physician the other night. "Not sinee I gave up the pernicious habit of turning up the collar of my top coat Don't be afraid of exposing your that which is good.' RBV. m. 8LA.OS. Pastor. never been sick a day. She speaks both German and English, the former language having been taught her by her mother, who was born in Germany. She is always in good spirits and is not at all abashed in the presence of strangers, answering all questions put to her. FACTS FOR FREE TRADERS. BRUTALITY TO (0NVICTS. Taxes ia England and the United - • Sff^-Some Figi^s Ttat D« Sot Lie. ' v ; ; * COXOBKS8UAK CRAIK, of Texas, k a highly impassioned speaker. When he . , - takA« Dnn... v.-- 4»_ : sources by Mr. Alfred R. Whitney, and are taxes the House by its capacious ear he published in the New York Scientific [From tlie Allegan iMich.) Journal. 1 _The following tables from the New York JPrees are stated to be .reliable, and to have been compiled from recent authentic does it with fiie in his eye. He struts and bellows and pants. He walks up and down tbe aisle, pounds the desk in front of him and saws the air with his beautiful arms. It was one of these moods, says a Washington correspond­ ent, that I saw. him talking about-- which isn't so very strange, after all-- bnt what impressed me particularly was the vehemence with which he be­ labored a poor, innocent atlas spread out before him. It must have equally impressed a group of Re­ publican Congressmen on the other side of the hall, for presently one of them was heard to exolaim: "There, now, gentlemen, there's a striking instance of tlie necessity for passing the Blair educational bilL" "How's that?" "Well, there's "Crane--a Congress­ man Irom Texas--he can't even talk geography without the aid of an atlas." For all that Crain ia considered to be "a very good fellow." W Announcements, FOB STATE'S ATTOBNET. tnbj announce myself 1 candidate for the office ot State's Attorney, subject to the approval of the Republican Convention ot the County. M. F. ELLSWORTH. " $ated February 37th, 1888. FOB STATE'S .ATTORNEY, thereby announce myself as a candidate i*r the office of State's Attorney, subject to the approval of the Republican Convention of this county. A. B. COON, Jit. Marengo, III., FeU 22d, 18S8. FOB 8TATE'S ATTORNEY. ieslte the nomination as Bepublicao can- te for the office of State's Attorney, such candidacy subject to the decision of the Re­ publican County Convention, A. W. YOUNG ?exas member this Tow* MEETING on Tuesday next! ^OBPOKATION ELECTION on Tuesday, April 17th. Sea netlce elsewhere In this paper. BEAD the new advertisement of Bonslett & Stoflel, to be found Id an­ other column. WE understand the Morfenry Mili­ tary Band propose to give a dance sometime about April 12th. Fall particulars next week. THE Elgin Driving Park Association has decided upen Juna 6, 6. and 7, as tbe dates for tbeir opening and •pring meeting. THE report that Frank Saylee. of F o x L a k e , w a s f r o z e n t o d e a t h I n s Daketa blizzard proves not to be true. He bat been In Chicago since he was human breatli, as well as that of ani­ mals, thus contains a poison wbijh is most powerful. 8. The hygienic re­ quirement of free ventilation, espe­ cially of sleeping-room?, is well founded. YEARS ago a movement was started in "Northumberland County, Virginia, to erect a monument to George Wash­ ington's mother, and now the United States-Senate has voted to appropriate $20,000 in aid of the enterprise. Upon this the Cleveland Plain Dealer says: "With all due respect to the worthy woman who give to the world the father of onr country, we are inolined to ask how much monumentary glorifi­ cation the Washington family is entitled to ? Why should not the first Presi­ dent's father have a monument raised to his lienor? Perhaps the government might also reduce the treasury surplus a bit by putting up tablets somewhere to tlie memory of Adam and Eve, from whom the Washington family was de­ scended. " A New YOKKEK,, in speaking of Torn Ochiltree, says: "It seems almost im­ possible to keep out of his way. I have him served np with my toast and morn­ ing paper; lie is the first man I meet on Broadway in the morning; he gen­ erally occupies two table 1 at the Hoff­ man every time I lunch there, or in any other restaurant it happens to be my luck to plunge into. He is the first in the Hoffman House bar, and the last to leave it. Not that he is a drinking man. but he is a goodtnatured, jolly little man, with an infectious laugh, a fund of good anecdotes and a pro­ fusion of time on his hands to tell his own fish yarns, and listen with appar- j ently absorbed attentiou to those of his J friends. In fact he is par excellence i a good listener, an accomplishment which I recommend all young men who want to got on in the world to cultivate most ardently." SKL MARTIN 'Stoddard, in week. A, B. COON. JR., of Marengo, was 01 our streets on Saturday last. M Coon is a candidate for State's Attor­ ney. ADAM LKIUHTNER and family, w btve been spending the winter at F Lake, have again moved lijito th< residence In this village. BE home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo.j iger, at So. Evanston, was glad< d on F riday of last week by the val of a little daughter. So sayi Waukegan Patriot. Mrs. Yagei formerly Miss Jennie Sear'.es, oj illage. MRS. HARRIET HOLMES, met! Mrs. O. W. Owen, Is very sick, ai this writing but little hopes are e( talned of her recovery. She is pa SO years of age. THERE will be an Easter and Cd munion Service at the Uuiversal church next Sunday morning, am the evening Easter deings by Sunday School, in tbe iray of Concert, assisted by others. THE calls far the Republican Cor gresslonal and County Convention ce be found in another place in th| paper. The former is to be held Geneva, III., April 19th, and the latu at Woodstock, April 14tb. We sha have more to say in relation to the next week. American of a recent date. The statement is in regard to the wages paid in England, and are compiled from the latest returns made by the Board of Trade in London and other official- documents of 1886. It must be remembered that the cost of living here as shown by official figures is 17 per cent, higher than in England: England. United States. "" .ou sis. 0 to 18.OJ Bookbinders Bruahmakers Boilermakers ....... Brickmakers........ Bricklayers Blacksmiths ........ Batchers Bakers Blast furnace keep­ ers .. MLUO Blast furnace fillers. * 1.50 Boltmakers §.50 Bolt cutters ,1.00 Coal miners $.88 Cotton mill hands... •' " La Carpenters "'.V xae Coopers r 1.00 Carriagemakers " §.75 Cutlery $,00 Chemicals «4.00 to «.00 Clockmakers 7.00 Cabinetmakers 7.00 Farm hands 3.00 Glass blowers 6.00 to 9.00 Glass ipart!y Hkllled) ft.00 to 7.00 (ilass (unskilled).... 2.00to 4.03 Glovemakera (girls). &50 <ilovemakers (men). 4.50 Hatters . 6.00 Heaters and rollers. .10.00 to 19.00 Iron ore misers fi.Su 3U.U • So Iron molders... ..... 7.50 Village, the past Iron per ton (finished) 8.00 to 3.00 A nEMARKABLE ease of ehWnic hydro­ cephalus is puzzling the physicians of East St. Xiouis. The sufferer is Maggie Clark, aged 5 years, A child of Edward Clark, a oar repairer in the Vandalia yards. The child wag born June 8. 1883, at Brazil, lnl., and only weighed two # pounds, but was perfectly formed. About five months after birth the child's head began to swell, and the paronte consulted Drs. Givert and Black, both of Brazil, Ind., but they were unable to stop the enlargement, and in three weeks the infant's head had attained its present circumference 4jurf two,foet three inches. When the child was born the skin on the top of the heal wa:i transparent an) the brain could be plainly seen. The skull has gradually grown over the* brain, how­ ever, until it is almost entirely closed. The child was 3 year.* of age be­ fore sho could sit up. and has never been able to walk. A lyost peculiar feature atont th» case is that tbe chiW Il ium than ordinarily bright, and has SEE the new advertisement of t Home Bakery, to be found iu auothi column. Messrs,. Barbee & Layti have their salesroom and Bakery fixi up in a neat and tasty manner, ai .... ^ «uiuM tlHCir-vz name Han Francisco, which is to be given to the cruiser building on the Pacific, comes under the condemnation of unlucky'names, as four vessels bear­ ing that name have been lost, either by foundering at sea or by being cast ashore. So far as our navy is concerned California names would seem to be un- lucky, for the Sacramento was wrecked in 1«<>7. Of the Ather naval vessels bearing geographical names which have been unfortunate we have the Albany, foundered, 1854; Boston, third, burned in Washington, 181-4; Boston, fourth; •wrecked, 1816; Concord, lost, 184U; Cumberland, sunk by the Merrimac, Delaware, destroyed at Norfolk, 18K1; Germantown, destroyed at Norfolk, 1861; Levant, lost in the Pacific, 1860; New York, destroyed at Norfolk, 1861; New York, second, burned at Washing­ ton, 1814; Ohio, captured, 1814; Penn­ sylvania, destroyed at Norfolk, 1861; Philadelphia, wrecked off Tripoli, 1863; Plymouth, destroyed at Norfolk, 1861; Yorktown, lost at Cape de Verde. These were sailing vessels. Of steam­ ers we have the Arizonia, burnt. 1865; Baratarin, grounded and destroyed, 18(i3; Chattanooga, sunk by ice at League Island; Eaitport, grounded and ilestroved in 1864; Hatteras, sunk by the Alabama; Housatonic. sunk by torpedo, 1874; Huron, wrecked in 1879; Indianola, captured in 1863; Key West, burned to prevent capture, 1864: Lan­ caster, sunk by Vicksburg; Merrimac, captured at Norfolk; Merrimac, fourth, foundered, 1865; Milwaukee, sunk by torpedo, 1865; Mississippi, destroyed at Port Hudson; Missouri, burnt at Gibraltar, 1843; Oneida, sunk, 1870; Osage, Patapsco, Otsego and Philadel­ phia, sunk by torpedoes; Philippi, de­ stroyed in Mobile Bay; Saginaw, wrecked, 1870; San Jacinto, lost, 1865; Saranac, snnk, 1875; Scotia, sunk by torpedo, 1863; Sumter, sunk by col­ lision, 1S63; Snwanee. wrecked; Switz­ erland, sunk by Pittsburgh batteries; Weehawken, sunk. 1863; Westtield, blown up. 1863. The Alta enforces its remarks by quoting the case of the British Wasp, and that name certainly appears to be one of ill omen in our own sex-vice as well as that of England. We have had four vessels bearing it; one was destroyed in Delaware Bay in 1877, to prevent it from faHing into the hands of the enemy; another was captured in 1812, and a third was lost at sea with nil hands in 1814.-- Army and Navy Journal. k instrument makers. I.adorers 'Iiongsho-emen Linen thread (men).. Linen thread (women) Machinists Masons i'n]!t<-rs (1,000 ems).. Printers, week frmHl Patternmakers...... Painters ...<. numbers 1'lastereiS... I ottfi-d-- "... .. Polishers I'apermakers.... 7.00 4.10 8.00 5.00 2.35 8.50 8.00 .90 6.65 7.50 7.50 8.00 7.5 V 8 67 7.00 5.20 15.00 to 90.00 16.50 U.86 ai.oo 1.30 L00 1.75 16.00 1«.00 15.50 ' 10.00 Hi.00 , ' • «.73 15.03 18.*; 13.00 to 25.00 12.00 to 20,00 13.00 to 16.00 180J 18.00 7 50 to 9.00 35.00 to 30.00 13.00 to 15.00 7.00 "-a 10.00 6.00 to 9.00 10.00 to 30.00 12.00 to 24.00 ao.oo to 80.00 18.00 15.00 5.31 to 8.71 1S.00 to 30.00 8.00 15.00 7.50 ....^.22 : »i. 00 s #.00 ; .40 . IB. 44 1ft. uo *>.00 ®uk> 18.30 laco 12.00 to 34.00 18.00 to 30.00 13.00 to 15.(0 9.00 to 12.00 31.00 12.00 l uddlers, per week. 8.00 to 10.00 Ouarrymen ft- peuiakers Railway engineers... Ratliv.ty firemen Snip-building: Boiler-makers.....( Machinists......... Coppersmiths riater* Drillers...: Bi voters Fattera-m&ksrs.... Salt-makers......«... bilk mitt) Silk (women) Scarf ^-makers........ Servants (month).... Shoemakers stationary engineers Soap-makers Tanners riaaisters Tpholsterers......... Watch-makers....... Wire-draw era.... WOOLEN GOODS. Below is a table showing the average weekly rate of wages paid in woolen fac­ tories in the United States (Massachu­ setts), France (liheims district), England (Yorkshire district), Germany (Rhenish district >. It is impossible to doubt the ac­ curacy of this table, as Carroll 1). Wright is responsible for the Uuited States fig­ ures, ex-Consul Frisbie for those of France, Bobert Giffen for the English and ex-Consul Du Bois for those of Germany: " United Eng. Ger- OOCCPATIOK. States. France, land. many. Wool sorters: 9.00 to 10 50 10.00 6.00 to 9.00 15.00 12.00 15.00 to 18.0) 10.50 a oo to IO.OO 12.00 to 15.03 18.00 Men •9,4? 95.82 •5.76 •5.50 Women e.uo 2.70 2.40 2.50 Young persons 5.13 2.01 1.80 ],<J0 Sniimcri: [yen loverseenti..... IS.0J 8.50 S.00 6.60 l«p nnera 9.05 ft.00 5.00 5.35 ' women.. ,,6.18 3.00 3.00 8.00 Young person ,̂..... 4.81 2.00 1.80 l.flO I'iecers ;..... . 5.00 8.00 SI.-.0 2.40 Weavers: Men S.5S 4.57 4.80 4.25 WE. men". n 7.45 -> 4.00 3.48 4.00 MechanieS .... 13.40 6.25 >5.50 5.00 Laborers 3.53 8.75 3.35 3.C0 According to official authority, wages are 100 per cent, higher in the woolen and worsted industry in the United States than in any of tte European countries. WOKSTED GOODS. Relative actual cost of labor in a woolen mill of 200 hands in Providence and of a similar mill in Bradford, England, accord­ ing to Mr. Charles Fletcher: Providenoe-* --Bradford^ Per Wk. Total. Per Wk Tot! 45 small boys and girls, 14 years old.$ 3.25 <146.35 9 1.50 S 67.50 101 email boys aud • girls, lb years old. 5.25 516.00 2.50 960.00 50 boys and girls, 31 years old 6.00 3TO.OO G section bands 13.50 85.00 2 overseers 24.00 48.00 1 superintendent... 36.00 96.00 1 boss dyer 30.00 30.00 8 laborers in dye bouse 7.00 56.03 1 watchman 14.00 14.0J 2 machinists for re­ pairs. 15.00 2 elerks 15.00 3.00 7.00 9.00 15.00 10.00 4.5J 6.00 150.03 43 00 18.00 15,00 10.00 36.00 6.00 30.00 3a 00 7.50 7.00 15.00 14.00 Total cost of weekly pay roll fl.317.35 1631.50 107.97 per cent, in favor ot Providence operatives. The Scientific American is not a politi­ cal paper, but it gives facts, and if they illustrate certain phases of politics, so mnch the better for the politics. The tables give the wages paid in England, which is free trade, to certain classes of skilled workmen, and also the wages paid workmen in the corresponding industries in the United States, which believes in a tariff for protection. The figures do not lie, and they tell a story which the free- trade men cannot deny, and they show how macn better a protection country can do for its laboring men than a free-trade country can do for its laboring men.--^tl- legan (Mich.) Journal. THE DEMOCRATIC METHOD. Cost of €oal In Foreign C-Mratrice. Reducing British money into terms of United States currency, the avorage cost of bituminous coal produc:ion throughout each of these countries named, as a whole, is $1.16 in Great Britain, $1.21 in Germany, and $1.46 in the United States. The cost of pro­ duction in Belgium is nearly as great as it is in the United States, while in France it exceeds the United States figures.by about 50 per cent As coal is the basis of nearly every important manufacturing industry and of most of the great productive entarpris?s ex­ cept agriculture, its relative cheapness in Great Britain exercises an important influence a-i a factor in the material greatness of that country. It, indeed, furnishes employment in Great Britain to 519,970 persons at the mines alone. DEATH, rocks oar second childhood to sleep in the cradle of the coffin. -- Chatfield. The Civil Service Turned Into s Political Machine. ' | From the Chicago Tribune. 1 These circulars are being distributed in great quantities in Wisconsin. They are addressed to all the postmasters in the State, and show how the civil service under Democratic auspices has been con­ verted into a partisan machine. Mr. Hudd, the member of Congress wto has franked these documents, has couie perilously near to the commission of a misdemeanor. DKMOCnATIC f-TATE CENTBAL COMMITTEE, » Office of the Seoe .ary. f Ell s B. T'sher, rosse. Chairman. .loiin E. Wright, Baraboo, He c itary. Frank K. Fal*. Mil vaukee, '.treasurer. HARABO J. Wii.. Feu. 17, 1884.--DKAK 8cr ievi« dently a P. M.1: I send yon by this mail ten conies of the Prefi tent's Message, which yon will distribute to tbe voting natrons of your office. These doonmenta are nil p-lntedln English. You will direct them t>nly to the so who are able to read in tnat linqtiige. The Hon. T it H'idd, M. C. from Wisconsin, lias franked th >ae envelopes, nopjstsne will be • hi'ued on th'm, and' all that yon are asked to do is to direct tnsm Ah a i tirther favor I ask tnat vou -write on the back of this letter the names tf those to whom you Buntl them, mid return the same (in the in- cli se.l stamped and addressed envelope) to this office, and ^houid y. u th nk it advisable that rtherratron-i at your oiice should receive cop­ ies of the message you will t-dd tbeir names to tbe lUt and we will direct and send them fiojn he e. 1 1 regret that it is necessary to put on you the t laHor asked for, bnt indulge the hope that it \ i<i l>e pi ou ptly done, and you may rest as­ sured that sucufavor will neither be asked ot yon again nor be forgotten by me. If you know the politics and age ot tbe pa- trons to wbom yon s.-nd tUes) documents and will indicate the same oti tbe list which >ou v i 1 put on tbe back of this sheet, this will add greatly to its vdue to me. Sincer ly yours, JOHN e. WRIGHT, Secretary Democratic State Central Committee. THIS is a very obliging and accom­ modating world, at times, regarding money. When a man wants a little it offers no objection; it lets him want. THE milking qualities of a cow depend more upon those of her sire's mo^er |han upon those of her own mothec. ' v a Horrible Ootragw Drv iloped in tits Investigation a Coal Hill, Ark. [Coal HiU (Ark.t special to thA Chicago News-1 Gov. Hughes and the Bolrd of Peniten­ tiary Commissioners a?e here investigating the outrages at the convict camp. The 149 convicts all have to sleep in a little room ninety by eighteen feet-- neproes and white, sick and well--on lfeds of shuoks and straw that have not been changed for years. The only covering it a thin blanket so dirty that a sickening stekch arises from it. Many of the convieta haTS to sleep in the wet clothes in which thef work. Their food consists of salt pork «nd corn bread in small quantities, k samile of the bru­ tality practiced by Warden Hudson, who was here last summer, was given in the fact that he chained a man to a post and whipped him until he died at the post. Another warden, J. C. Scott, whipped men unmercifully without any provocation. A convict named Frank Tolbert was whipped because he could not do his task in the coal-mine, and he ran away. The warden ordered Tom Gaddis, a pit boss, to go down and shoot him, which Gaddis did. Scott also whipped a sick convict almost to death. Green flies got to the lacerated back and the man soon died of poisftn. J. A. (iifford, the last warden, for whose arrest a reward of $400 is offered, whipped and kicked two convicts to death in tbe most brutal man­ ner. He made one convict kill another in a fight, and often made the prisoners fight for his satisfaction. There were thirty men on the stockade who were examined by the physician this afternoon whose backs are almost solid sores from whippings and beatings given them, ail ten men have broken or sprain­ ed limbs or backs hurt. Dozens of them testified that sick men were afraid to com- ! plain, as every man who complained or failed to do his task was whipped. Whenever a convict was killed by sheer brutality the prison physician at this place, W. R. Hunt, would make out a certificate that he died of a congestive chill or some­ thing of that kind. Fifty men were re­ quired to work all winter without shoes or socks on their feet in water from an inch to one and a half feet deep. They' have no* hospital, and the sick are treated just as the well men are. The men are required to mine two tons c>f coal a day, which is a good day's work for a skilled miner in good health. The air in the mines is very bad, so much so that a lump will hardly burn. Things that transpire in the stockade are kept profotind secrets from the people here, and they hear daily the shrieks of men who are being beaten. Scott, Gilford, and Hudson Will be ar« rested and tried for murder. THEY PLATEDJWITn SO LIMIT. Jos Ttanlwrlsks'it Big Gam* of ran at Virginia City. The house of Gentry & Critteiiden took the place of a great hotel in Vir­ ginia City. The capital of the gam­ blers was $200,000, and the game knew no limit. The sum of $3,000 a week was set aside for evendi el bibindi, for wine flowed as free as spring waten A frame house, inside a splendid gam­ bling palace, rough in exterior, was only one story and four rooms. One was a sleeping room, tbe next to that was a poker-room, for state officials and their elite friends, for the presence of leading men gave dignity and a semi­ official character to this, the best and biggest gaming house of the far West. The front room, which opened boldly from the main street of Virginia City, was a bar-room, whose rough splendor of Brussles carpets, solid silver goblets and rarest cut glaBs decanters and priceless paintings rivaled the Hoffman bar-room of a quarter of a later. The next room contained two faro tables and two roulette wheels, and at 6 p. m. the poker-room transformation into a dining-room, where cards of admission were needless and where the rarest und costliest of ILUStiril MTAfB KSffi ply, in which he emphatically refused ! to do as requested. The handwriting i was frightful --The Chicago and Western Hlinoie The attorney saw his chanoe. He ' Bailroed Company has filed articles of i*% hastened to hia client, and, thrusting corporation at Springfield, its capital »Uk* I have sue* t iut:no aao nnn fjn._ *• « * < ceeded at last Here is the order." K $,,W- 7116 luie " nn trom The "order" was taken to the corral, where the office* in charge recognized the signature and at once turned over oentury theproperty. When General Meigs asked what had become of it, he was told that it'^had been restored on his order. He saw the order, and, as he could not read it, he simply said, "I do not remember signing it"--Argonaut. The Best XerrtM. Physiologists agree that an abun­ dance of sleep is needed by all, in order to do the best work, enjoy the best health and longest life. Thinking and doing both use np the forces of the system more rapidly than they recuperate, hence it is necessary to lay by a part every twenty-four hours for repairs, and thus accumulate new strength for recurring duties. Many a* die yearly from lack of sleop, the wear sunerea a having been greater than the repairs. Whoever, by work, pleasure, sorrow, or any other cause, is regularly dimin- I.. « . ... . r, „ . isliing sleep, is shortening life. The the wiues divine of Zanzovene graced ; vjtaj • - BURLINGTON STRIKE. Startling Loss to Both Sides--Figures flawing that the Strike Has Gest 0?er $1,300,000l |Chicago special 1 The great strike on the Chicago, Bur­ lington and Quiucy Bailroad has dropped out of public notice as regards sensational developments. In the wake of the con­ test lies an expense account of gigantic proportions, ana while the generals are counting their dead and wounded, figura­ tively speaking, a curious public finds some wholesome food for study in contem­ plating the figures. The following figures show the total loss to the strikers: Loss of wages "Q" Kosd 51 "9,4V) P*v-roll of Brotherhood t>b,033 Grievance Committees' loss of Wages... 21,168 tirievtuice Committees' expense account 12,0£N> Non-union men buL-ttiJized.,... 10,000 Kxpense of headquarters 1,SX> Santa Fe strike 14,700 Other striken w.8,030 Misoellaaoous 5.U00 Total......... :..... #...... eauo, 946 Tbe above figures ate of course only ap. proximate, but are a fairly accurate indica­ tion of the direct loss to the brotherhood thus far in a strike which they claim is not yet ended. No account is taken ot' the vast loss to other individuals whose em­ ployments or business have suffered in consequence of the strike. The total approximate cost of the strike to the Burlington Road is: Jjoss iu traltic rece.ptg f919,20S t-pooial police protection...... 72,030 Cost of en^a>4inx new mett 30,000 D am age to property 20,OC0 Miscellaneous "10,000 Total *1,051,203 The above figures do not include many minor souroes of expense to the company forced upon it by the strike. A reference to the net earnings for tbe last fiscal year shows them to have been ?1l',337,21w, or $1,028,10'2 a month. Between the falling off in receipts and direct extra outlay oc­ casioned by the strike, it looks as if there will be no net earnings by the company for the present month, wbich will doubt­ less have its effect on the next annual divi­ dend. Strikes come dear. GEORGE RYERSOJTS ROMANCE After Being Separated for Ihlf s Century He Finds His Only Child, Who Believed Him Head. After a separation of hdf a century George B. Byerson and his oily child were last night locked in each other's arms. During all these years both believed each other dead. It is a stranf story. Mr. ltyerson was a brother of Milionaire Mar­ tin Kyerson, an old settle: of Chicago, who died last year. Fifty years ngo he left his wife and daughter ii Paterson, N. J., and went to Florida, enlsting as a sol­ dier in the {$eminole war. Hewas wounded, and for many months he was* at the point of death. \Vitbout frieuds or money, it was a long time before he rfiched home. Then he learned that his fife, believing him dead, had moved away. No one could tell where she had gone, titer a long, fruitless 6earch, Mr. Ryeson went to Mexico, remaining there maty years. He accumulated considerable property, and then moved to California, uiere . he lived until Lis brother Martin oscovered him six years ago and induced hm to come to Chicago. Kecently Mr. Byerson suqeeded in trac­ ing hiB only child. She is» Mrs. Shorter and she resides in Newbury, N. Y. In response to a telegram she fime to Chica­ go. arriving Thursday ri:h. Her mother died long ago, and nntil Ins week she had not tie faintest snspicionfhat her father eras alive. Mr. Byerson, albough 83 years ef age, is hale and hearty. Tmrible Work by F1OO<UIb Hungary. A cable dispatch from Vmna says that floods are doing great damge in Croatia. At Chaba coffins have beenwoshed out of the cemetery and are floaiii| pbout. Por­ tions of Gram are submergd. New Lasz- tomer and six otber villagetare inundated. Tlie rising Laborcza river $ doing much damage. The situation in he tieoded dis­ tricts in Hungary is nppnllftg. The dikes tt Bekes are falling an' the town is doomed. Fifty or more Km-es have al­ ready collapsed. Floating ice has de­ stroyed many bouses in Drfaplin. In the idjacent country the stori of corn and food have been lost. f Took Hofan Off HKOurd. Having married seven $nes, Harrison Hogan, of Ball Creek, Ind. found it easy •nough to get the best of 09 sheriff's ofii- cers, whom he held at ha;for a long tints In his barricaded house. Finally three j deputies disguised astrame gained admis­ sion and askerl for food, 4id in thio way took Hogan off his guard. . the table and a French cook rivaled and even equaled the rarest dishes at Delmonico's cuisine or the elegance of the Cafe Green in Philadelphia. A better did not ask if there was a limit to the game. Its backcrs counted their millions an Eastern gamesters count their thousands. In October, 1863, a burly ranchman, John Timber- lake, worth a million, came up from New Mexico, having heard of the fame of Gentry and Crittenden's faro place, for it was known irom British Columbia to the golden slope of the Pacific. Joe Timberlake was known as a mill­ ionaire, in good standing with the San Fr ar.cisco banks and bankers. Tim- berlake's telegram was good with Mackay, Flood, and O'Brien for $50(V- 000. The old ranchman, with hiscordurov pantaloons tucked in his boots, was a welcome guest. He chatted an hour with Governor Nye at the table d'liote dinner, and after getting two bottles of Pommery Sec into him, the old man sauntered into the farg-room. "Give me v. staok of thousand-dollar fish" (chips), said Timberlake. "Certainly, all you want,* replied the suave Crittenden, a nephew of the once Kentucky United Statos Senator of that name. One thousand went on the jack. It went where the gentle woodbine twin- eth. Timberlake lost $10,lRK) without winning a bet. He swore like ojr army in Flanders, and got outside of another bottle of See. Luck changed, and at 1 a. m. the old cattleman was $50,000 ahead of the game. Flushed with victory Timberlake ordered wine for the house. But the Genius of Faro is as false as fickle to the worshipers at lier gilded shrine. The old man made a call with a $1,000 bill and picked up $5,0001, But luck failed him from that moment. Not another game­ ster staked a dollar, such was the ab­ sorbing interest in the great game. At break of day the burly ranchman, without handing in a dollar, playing a well-established credit, was out just $41,000. He was cross as a liear with a sore head, but tried to smile. "One thou­ sand on the ace," the cattle raiser whis­ pered, nervously. It lost. Old Tim­ berlake roae up and without changing a muscle, superb and magnificent in de­ feat, he said slowly, as if each word weighed a pound: "Crittenden, I reckon I've had enough fun for one jamboree," and, after ordering a basket of wine for the house, sober as a judge of the Supreme Court and without tasting his own wine, he seated himself at Gentry's ebony desk, and, cool as a cucumber, drew a check ou Mackay's Bank for $42,000. The game closed and Timberlake be­ took himself to his New Mexico ranch in the first train. But Nye and his Attorney General and Crittenden, Gentry, and Timber- lake have gone to the sweet by and by. Tlie Russian Rage. Since Tolstoi's works grew popular the rage for everything Russian has been steadily growing, and now Rus- soinania is threatened to rival Anglo­ mania. Mrs. Willie Vanderbilt's sis­ ter wore a Russian peasant's dress at Narraganset Pier two summer's ago, and at that time it was called "per­ fectly hideous." but now it is being widely copied. It is made of dark blue cambric, with a narrow plain skirt embroidered in red cross stitch. The bodice is gathered full at the throat and waist, and has a broad embroid­ ered belt and the long, open sleeves are entirely covered with needle work. An apron, so large that it is almost an overdress, is made in the same fashion, and drawn high on one side with full red bows. These are the dresses young girls will wear at teas, where tbe beverage will be poured from a samovar into the cut glass tumblers in­ stead of cups, and with thin slices of lemon floating in them. The married women when they serve lea will wear Russian tea-gowns which are trailing robes of white silk, trimmed down the front and around the neclc and heels with a broad band of black fur. They will call their teas prazdnick, and will serve the drink boiling hot, as is the fashion in the land of the Czar. Rus - sian music will be all the rage, too, and tbe bands which play at receptions are already practicing the compositions of Davorak, and other Russian compos­ ers. Small and select ladies' lunch­ eons will be intensely Russian, and this is the manner of them: After tbe usual consomme, bird, salid, and ice are served, boiling hot coffee in little jugs, with a spoon, a package of Turk- i ish cigarettes, and a Russian torch on a small individual tray. The idea is to sip the coffee between tl\e puffs of the 1 cigarette.--New York TimeK. ' Bad Writing. There is growing tendency to en- coutage handsome and legible hand- writmg, and there was need for it; for among some of the older generation tbe handwriting has sometimes been a puzzle, and as in the following instance capable of being constructed according to the reader's pleasure: During the war a quantity of per- forces become so impaired that disease follows. Blues, sleeplessness, neuralgia, petu­ lance, heartache, dyspepsia, hypochon­ dria, insanity, and death all may be caused by a lack of sleep The number of hours required for sleep for an adult varies from six to ten, according to the temperament, vigor, duties, and mental condition of the person. Cutter and others say that women need more sleep than men. It is claimed by some tthat persons who think and work fasi; will sleep more in an hour than slow people, and thus re­ quire a less number of hours for rest. This is certainly false and absurd rea­ soning. Persons of active, energetic, highly nervous temperament do not build up more readily than others, and by great activity of mental force, added to all they do, wear out more rapidly, hence require more sleep--not less than eight hours, and some as many as ten. They may seem to require less because they are so much interested in whatever claims their attentiou tha' after a moderate amount of sleep they find it easy to be wide awake. Energetic people need not be afraid of sleeping too much. Persons who feel uncomfortable after sleeping may generally trace their bad feelings tc other causes than too much sleep, which may have been heavy by an unhealthj condition of the blood, want of ventila­ tion or obstructed circulation from im­ proper clothing or position. No one should become so fatigued by work of mtyscle or brain that a good night's rest will not follow and afford complete re­ cuperation. No love of being con­ sidered "smart," or of fine cookery, or business, or wealth, or pleasure, can justify perseveranoe by wearing out life's forces without carefully affording daily opportunity for recuperation. Only the care of the sick can excuse a lack of so essential a duty as that of securiug a sufficient amount of this great "restorer, balmy sleep." It shonld be taken regularly, if possible, when the light and noise and bustle of the day cease. It is important to have several hours' sleep before midnight, and better to sleep. during the shade of night than when the sun bids all things astir; yet it is better to take a nap during the day than not to sleep enough. Indeed, a little nap before the noon meal will rest the nerves and promote digestion. Do not sleep just after eating, as it retards digestion. Stimu­ lants of any kind should not l>e resorted to in hope of gaining strength. They will only help to use up the latent powers of the system. Her Ticket in ller Stocking. A very pretty little country maiden was just in the act of boarding a train at the union Btatiou when a Pennsylva­ nia railroad brakeman stretched forth his strong right arm and said: "Please let mo see your ticket." The lady turned red in the face, and, with an innocent smile answered: "I don't like to--but--bui^-I have a ticket, sir." "Well, well', you must let me see your ticket, and don't keep the other Eassengers waiting," remarked the rakeman, a little impatiently. The young ladv placed her foot on the step of the car and drew ont from one of her black hose a coupon ticket almost a half-yard long. "There it is, sir," said she, with a faltering voice. The brakeman gave the ticket a haStv glance, assisted the young woman to the car platform, raised his hat in a polite bow, and was left to blush alone, while the other railioad boys laughed at his expense. "I was a brute," hejsaid.--Pitta burgh Press. The Earth's Primeval Crust. Geologists admit that the condition of the earth's surface before the pri­ mary strata began to be formed cannot be satisfactorily determined. Although certain parts of the still remaining crust are called archiean, it is very doubtfnl whether they represent the primeval crust There is a much better chance that in portions of the moon's surface the primeval rooks will still re­ main in something like its primeval condition, so that we may be able to read a portion of the past history of the earth better in our neighbor world, the moon, than in our own, just as we can form a better idea of the nature of our savage ancestry by studying the ways and manners of less civilized races of to-day than from any evidence that we can obtain from the study of the records of onr own race.--Richard A. Proctor. 'r-'WS Sycamore to. KeUhabnrg and frost Bpoa to Streator. --Mhs Jane Djens. of Ramsey, was taken before Judge Webb and • jury it Vandalia recently, on a complaint charging lunacy, and adjudged insane, and an oidsr made for her committal to the asylum ait Anna, but for want of room at that m«tj- tution she ia now eonfined in Um Covn^r Jail. --Andrew Hendriclcson, of the Co-opera­ tive Grocery Store, at Aurora, welcomed three additions to a family of four chil­ dren a few days ago, his wife giving birth to triplets, two girls and a boy. One of the girl babies died shortly after birth, b«fc the remaining two give evety indication dt attaining mature years. --Hon. Virgil S. Baby, a member of tilt Legislature from Piatt County, wae found dead on the sidewalk at Monticello. Heart disease was the cause. Mr. Baby was conspicuous in the last Assembly, being the author of several important measure^ among which is an act to regulate the safii of intoxicating liquor outside of cities^ towns, and villages. He was a candidal* , for re-election. --A newspaper of Illinois recently brought suit against forty-three men who would nit pay their subscriptions, and obtained judg­ ment in each case for the amount of each claim. Of these, twenty-eight made affi­ davit that they owned no more propel^ than the law allowed them, thus prevent ing attachments. Thus, under the decision of the Supreme Court, they were arrested for petty larceny, and bound over in the sum of $300 each. All but six gave bonds, while six went to jail. The new postal law makes it larceny to take a newspaper aafi refuse to pay for it Co --Mike Chriatman, a resident of Cham* paign, was shot recently by Alonso Caa- ada, alias Frank Price, a cowboy from tlw Cherokee Nation. Christman will dls. Canada immediately fled and has not besn arrested. Canada entered Joe Millet's saloon and got drinks of Mr. Miller, re­ fusing to pay for them. He threw a laige revolver upon the bar, alarming Mrs. Mil­ ler, and went oat Christman followed him and they had some trouble. A* Christman turned to re-snter the salout Canada shot him. --The will of the Rev. Dr. Wm. Hdfiy Ryder, of Chicago, has been probated. The estate is valued at $750,000. The only heirs are his widow and daughter who , receive the bulk of the estate. The following public bequests are made: First Universalis Society, of Provinoetown, Mass., $5,000; St. Paul's Church, Chicago, $10,000; Lombard University, of Galei- burg, $20,000; Old People's Home. Chi­ cago. $10,000; Hospital for Women and Children, Chicago, $10,COO; Chicago Public Library, $10,000; Univorealist's Convention, New York, $2>,Atit), and $10,000 to provide for free moral lectures in Chicago. _ --A terrible explosion of a box of dyns- 't y mite occurred in Joliet recently, at the roll- ing mills. W. M. Green was sitting <jn the box and was blown forty tee*- In air. Parts of his clothing were left burn­ ing on top of tbe mill building. Green was in charge of the dynamits with which the company was blasting rock for a via­ duct. No one saw the explosion till the report was heard, and it cannot be told bow it was caused. Green was blown to piece*. / The explosion was terrific, shaking the ; buildings violently for a distance of two miles. Had it occurred a few moment* later, when a large number of workmen were to go to work near the pi \oe, the leaa or life might have been frightful. " • --The investigating committee of th* '/ Board of Supervi ore at Decatur have de- ' ^ clored E. McClellan, Circuit Clerk, in­ debted to the county in the sum of $5,00fc When the office failed to be self-support* ing, in 1S72, the Board on the advice ot an attorney paid the clerk the deficiency Now they claim that if his office is not self-supporting he ma t pay the diflfereoesJ The amount overbid is some $3,000, while the balance is for witness fees collected and retained by him, as he holds he had* right to do prior to 1881. It is a question fi- V . M i of the proper interpretation of the law be* tween the Board and the Clerk, and the latter will doubtless resist the payment tbe money whioh the Board has once a£~ lowed and approved. ^ M --At the twentieth anniversary of tbe founding of the University of Illinois and the annual meeting of the Board at Trustees, held at Champaign, Or. Edward^ State Superintendent of Public Instruct tion. made a brief address, and Dr. S. B. •.ai , -!6 i Electric Fewer from Coal. The direct conversion of heat into electric work is a problem that con-; maideQ nftm9< 8he ^ ̂ tames to tax the ingenuity of the eleo- _ . . „ , . tricians. What seems to be the most • JOSEP*"ne Kerns, and her father promising attempt at solution yet made is a new thermo-magnetic generator and motor devised by M. Menges, of the Hague. Like the recent pyro- magnetic dynamo of Edison, it depends on the fact that the magnetic metals lose their magnetic power when heated. It claims several important advantages, however, the chief being that the nec- Wf, sonal property belonging to a resident' ess iry alterations of heating and cool- The Scheme Ml Connecticut man had be-n tampered with I iid for tha thief by plugging a charge of ant-powder into O stick of wood and plac ig it on the pile. The scheme miscarried, I r the thief never touched the loaded stick, *it it found its WBJ into the owner's pwtly demolished it arrfoJ. lose wood-pile of Washington was seized and confis­ cated by the United States. For years the original owner made repeated attempts to secure an order for its restoration from the quarter­ master who had charge of it But he was obdurate, and insisted that it should be restored only through an act of Congress. Still th) attorney for the plpintitr persisted, and again he wrote to Quartermaster General Meigs for an order of restoration. This was about the seventh attempt, and the officer had grown impatient wrote an exceedingly vigorous re- ing are given automatically, and that the cores of the armature coils are re­ lieved from chancres of tempeyature.-- Arkanxair Traveler. A PKIZF. of 25,000 francs, instituted b* the King of the Belgians, is to be awarded in lX'.'-J for the best paper on means for abundantly and cheaply pro­ viding laige towns, especially Brus­ sels, with the be-t quality of potable water.--Arkan.-a w Traveler. A DKALFK in small wares faoetionsly terms his salas of hosiery him trade. . - - ered an historical address of ^rcat interest, in wbich he reviewed the growth of the in­ stitution since the board fir t met in Springfield twenty-one years i.o. Dr. J. N. Matthews, of Mason, the firvt student matriculated in the university, read * poem full of touching references to the early workers and students of the uni­ versity. Dr. J. L. Piekard. late President •of the Iowa State University, followed A with a strong address. The celebration J was mos satisfactory and successful. sfj --A gang of thieves who for months had been constantly committng thefts at the - f various hotels in Chicago have at last besfl ran to earih. The information that led tif their exposure was given to the police by ft - woman calling herself Mrs. James Hn*!» . ray, who tells a strange story of herael^L •as si" one time Lord Mayor of l>ablin city. Bred in affluence, the youngest of the fam* •. ily, and carefully educated, the married James Murray, a wealthy shoo manufac­ turer of Limerick, and at present a mem­ ber of the firm of Hayes, Murray «fc Co., of Philadelphia. Ill-treated by him, she left his roof, wa» taken sick in New York§ where, without friends or money, she was attended and cared for by a hotel porter named Frank Emmett Grateful for hi« care, she has since lived with him as hit 1 Wife, her Catholic religion, notwithstandV ' ing her divorce from Murray, preventing her m irsyi^g him. She helped to soppert him, and bore sickness and hardship un« complainingly until she learned he waa t» thief, and then she exposed him. He has been employed as a watchman at the Bhsr- man House and, with other employee at the different hotels, has plundered the geilhl •Bd proprietors. ,5s ' ' * '