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fftk; 5- : ?*>V £ t>W f. VM SLYKC. Ei MoHENBT, ILLINOIS, •, RAILROAD building ia China is rue latest chimerical project of the Marquis de Mores, the eccentric Frenchman who lost $500,000 trying to show the people of Montana how to ran the cattle busi- 'tiess. «„' JOHN I. BLAIR, of New Jersey, the Ij luau who has bnilt and sold more rail­ roads than any six men in the world, lias just disposed of his Kansas City ' And Southern line. Mr. Blair is "rising 8;)." but it's a cold day when he hasn't t feome new railroad project on hand. A Man in a,small New , England vil- t. |age has just been brought up before ; his church for encouraging the use of profane language. He owns a dog which lie has named "Damage," and of course fill the people in the village naturally ^•all the dog "Dam," to the great an- 5 Hoyance of the church pillars, especially the dog always answers to "Dam." THK Central American republics of * Honduras and Guatemala have caught the railway fever. New railway proj­ ects are getting to be "as plentiful as (lees on a dog," and the capitalists of - (the United States are urged to invest. . $>igns of progress in any respect irf those *leepy, semi-Spanish republics should l>e hailed with applause by all the rest cf the American continent. T THE dentist of the Queen of Italy is a Jiitle pale-lpced, dark-haired American, Chamberlain by name. He has rever­ ential admiration for the goodness and loveliness of his royal patient. Talkirg •bout teeth, Mr. Chamberlain says that . ' lia doesn't think that they will disap- i |>ear as mankind grows less carnivorous ,|md indulges more in cooked food; but lie admits that the higher ofte goes in r • the grade cf civilization and culture the i, p^Horse tiie teeth seem to grow. A YOUNG man in Marianna, Fla., dreamed the other night of making a galloon ascension and making his de­ scent by means of a parachute. He . , thought he threw every garment over- ' l>oard, not even retaining his gauze , fcliirt, before making his perilous de- • Scent. Imagine his disgust, whon ho #wokc. standing up in bed holding to an ^Open umbrella with a grip that made " Ilia hands ache. He says he lost no : time hunting for his lost garments. "i Mr.. ANDREW LANG is said to be one - \ ./#f the best paid literary men of the time. The London Daily Netcs gives liim forhifi editorials on minor topics #3,000 a year; his monthly "Ship" in Longman's Magazine brings him in #500 annually; his articles in the Sat- i* rday Review are said to be as remu­ nerative as those in the London DaiUj ^ News; he has a handsome salary as ^reader" for Longman's; he writes ahagazine articles and London letters; and copyright receipts from his books dwell the list. / life. JAMES CAMPBELL, a colored an of ftlorgan County, Oeorgia, wlule work­ ing in the field heard the buzz of a rat­ tlesnake. He seized a club, hunted up the serpent, struck it, and, as he thought, killed it. He stopped to pick it up and .the snake struck at his hand, bury; ihg its fangs in the flesh. Campbell fan to the nearest house and told what |*ad happened. The neighbor, having no whisky; ran three quarters of a mile \ JRor some, but when he returned the negro was speechless. He lived several hours in great agony. THE Buenos Ayres Herald says the jpecds and rushes of the Parana are des­ tined to become of great value for paper pulp and as a fiber for textiles fabrics. By a recent invention wool and silk are Daadc from reeds, and the Herald re­ marks : "We have examined heavy goods ior overcoats, blaakets, and . gentlemen's wear, feltings and black iilk dress goods, all made out of the fiber of these rushes, which for texture, tor finish, for strength, and for holding colors we could not distinguish from Igimilar goods made from wool and silk." AN observing man has remarked that inercly to glance at a pretty woman is to cause her to moisten her lips with a «ort of nervous rapidity, and the reason lor this action is causing no little dis- fHission among his fellow-men. "Glance liowever casually, in a car or place of Amusement at a lady," volunteered one < man, "and not® bow promptly her tongue moistens her lips." The mascu- Bue verdict is that the action is a bit of •faulty; an endeavor to enhance the ©5ior of the lips; but the action is Iberely a mild burst of irritability at the jltarc, which is probably a scrutinizing "WE desire to return our thanks," ob­ served the editor of an Arkansas paper in his last issue, "to the members of the Oallnsville Cornet Band for a serenade last night. The band can't play for ahucks, and the music would have drawn a howl of pain from an Egyptian mummy, but it waked us from a hor- xible nightmare in which we seemed to he standing at the door of our office and defending it against a sheriff who wore horns and hoofs and had come to take possession of it. Notwithstanding the ippalliug character of the music it was the sweetest sound that ever struck our <sar, and we don't lay the serenade up against the boys. They didn't meau any harm, and they probably sav6d our . O N Broadway, New York City, may ~fce seen a wonderful block of agatized wood. The block is an immense one, weighing 4,200 pounds and measuring 40ix32 inches and 34 inches high. It •came from the petrified forests of Chalcedony Park, Arizona, near Cor- sizo, and twenty miles fromth% nearest railroad statiaa. Other pieces oi the petrified wood have been brought on from these forests, but none which ap­ proached this specimen in size. The wood is used to make np into table tope and handsome ttood ornamentation. The polished surface shows a beautiful blending of yellow and black, and in some respects resembles the re4 wood of the big California trees. *' AT the end of the last calendar rear we had about 150,000 miles of railroad in the United States. According to Spofford's almanac all the countries of Europe together had only 133,667 miles, or 16,000 miles and upward, less than this country alone. All the rest of the world outside of the United States had 193,400 miles, or not quit# 29 per cent, more than this country. Our extent of track is sufficient to girdle the globe six times at the equator. Ao- cording to Poor's manual the freight moved on about 136,000 miles of our roads in 1887 was equivalent of 60,000,- 000,000 tons moved one mile or 60,000,- 000 tons moved 1,000 miles. That is about equivalent to one ton moved 1,000 miles for each inhabitant of the countrv. SOME one took advantage of the ec­ centric acoustics of the statuary hall in the National Capitol to play a cruel joke the other day on John J. Joyce, the poet, who claims to have written one of Mrs. Wiloox's poems. Mr. Joyce waa standing uncovered in the middle of the hall when suddenly a voice from over the marble clock, another from the arched roof overhead, and yet another directly under his feet repeated in meas­ ured tones the first line of the disputed poem : "Laugh, and the world laughs with you." A look of great distress- came over the poet's face, and he trem­ bled violently. He stood spell-bound until the voices had repeated the poem throughout. Then the man who was playing the trick came from his place of concealment and explained that the echo elfin had part in the trick. MAINE historians say that over 100 years ago wolves came down from the north and devoured most all the deer in the colony. Some of the deer swam to the islands along the coast and a remnant was saved. The wolves hav­ ing no deer to eat, turned to the do­ mestic animal* of the country, and gave the settlers great trouble. The Indians* too, robbed of their meat supply by the wolves, were for a long time in a starv­ ing condition, and often those in the in­ terior went mi'es to the seashore for food. The wolves at length went north­ ward, and little by little the deer in­ creased until 1840, when there was an­ other wolf raid, and for two Clears they played havoc with deer and cattle. Then they disappeared and have not since been much in the State. Deer are again increasing, both because- of the absence of wolves and because Of the stringent game laws of Maine. . CoL. GEOKGE S. PEKKINS is aged 100 vear3 and 1 month. Col. Per­ kins was the most interesting centena­ rian in America. He was born in Nor­ wich, Conn., August 5, 1788, lived there all his days, and died thore. He was treasurer of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company from 1836 till his death. Col. Perkins was six feet high,* straight as a reed, broad shouldered, and with a military carriage which he acquired in the war of 1812. He had steel-blue eyes, and read through spec­ tacles made for men of 50. His life had been a serene and methodical one. His temperament wa*i of the well-regulated kind that permitted no cares to assail lxiin. His manner was of the stately old school, dignified but genial. He always dressed in black and were cloth gloves. He liked wine, but not tobacco. He drank at dinner a little claret qr sherry. After business he would go straight home. Never in liis life did he "hang out with the boys." SELWYNN TAYLOR, a mining engineer and coal expert of Pittsburgh, thinks natural-gas is giving out. Ho says: "Within two years at furthest coal lands will be selling for what they were con­ sidered worth before natural-gas was thought of. This will be due largely to the failure of the gas fields to supply the demands made qpon them. Gas, like oil, will in time exhaust itself. New fields may be opened, but taken all in all, I think the outlook for coal was never so bright since natural-gas came in nse. All the large gas fields are playing out. Murraysville has seen its best days, and all the wells in the Bea­ ver and Ohio valleys are going. The prospects of fields large enough to take their place in case of total failure are not bright by any means. The natural- gas companies recognize this as a fact, and are expending thousands of dollars on a process for making gas fuel. This is significant. In my judgment two years will see #n end to natural-gas as fuel." From Quaint Nantucket. Apropos of Nantucket, one hears some rather odd sayings and of some quaint hap]>enings there. "You see, we are somewhat out of the. way," said one of the Islanders; "so tramps seldom trouble us, and it is only when our summer visitors come that we think of locking our doors at night." Last fall a man was tried for petty larcony, and sentenced by the judge to three months in jail. A few days after the trial, the judge, accompanied by the sheriff, was on his way to the Boston boat, wlien they passed a man sawing wood. The sawyer stopped his work, touched his hat, and said, "Good-morning, judge." The judge looked at him a moment, passed on a short distance, then turned to glance backward, with the question, "Why, sheriff, isn't that the man I sen­ tenced to three months in jail ?" "Yes," replied the sheriff, hesitatingly --"yes, that's the man; but you--you see, judge, we--we haven't any one in jail now, and we thought it a useless ex­ pense to hire somebody to keep the jail for three months just for this one man; so I gave him the jail key, and told him that if he'd sleep there nights it would be all right."--Editor's Draw.r oj Harper"# Magatine. BOUND FOR AUSTRALIA. BASE BALL EXPERTS ON A MXSSIOX- ABY TOITK. Something About the Teams with Which Mr* SpaldlM* Will Introduce the Ameri­ can National Game Into the Aatip- [SPECIAL COBRK8POXDXNCS.] Chicago, Oct. 19, 1MB. Tho principal event to interest admirer* of base-bail between now au 1 the opening of an­ other championship race is the trai of the Chicago and All Amer­ ica teauis across tl»-» V&eirk' Ocean, under tlie auspices of Spald­ ing's Australian Itase- ball team. Never be­ fore in the histx-ry of th* na ioual cams hai BO boid a venture been undertaken in its in­ terest. Baaa-ba 1 ia c mp irnf ivtlv u n - kr.o.vn in Australia, but the Australians i are a crreat F port -lov­ ing people, and th 'ir natural fondnsss for athletic pastimes A . G . 8 P A H . D W O . a n d r t a p o r t 9 of every description will doubt loss CSUSJ them to look with tavor upon tlie national fieme of the Americans when they see it played by tw>i reproat ntative professional ball toania. To take two complete y equipped, ball tenuis of twenty or more men half way around the plobe in Bpecial trains of sleeping and dining cars, and In a chartered ocean steamship is a formidable un­ dertaking. and will necessitate an actual outlay ot not lees than 990.IXM in cash. Mr. Spaldinit, however, has both the nerve and the means to undertake the enterprise, Me one, wd a* a piteber ha haa surprised som» of the strongest batting teams in the oomntry. THOMAS P. HALT. "TSm" Paly, as he is familiarly known kmon1. lovers of the game In America, is one of th» most prominent of American back stop?. Hia first appearance as a League p'ayi r was (luring the sea SOT of 18*7, when he WHS taktn from tbe Newark, N. J., team by Cnptoin Anson. His style an 1 effectiveness behind tho plate ot onca made hini a favori e among admirers of base­ ball in all League cities, and in lss< aa weU as is 8 he has done the bulk of tbe back-stop work fcr the Chicago team's pitchers. MARK BALDWIN. Mark Baldwin has played ball with tbe Chi­ cago team for two aeasons past, and is one of tho most effective pitchers--judging fn m hia record against thegreate t w*;imsof the cojn'ry --in th<> Iicague. He is a big, powerfully built fellow, with a world of end inmse and an as tor- isui ig amount of spoM in doliverv. JOHN MONIOONKRT WARP, NKW'YOISK TKAV. Ward Is one of the oest known and most popu­ lar professional playtawof th ) ureseut day, aad A3CBOK. PETTirr. and the ability aa well. n-> doubt, to make the trip a auoeeasfnl one. The teams play the opening cames o( the trip In t'hicago on Saturday. Out. '20, and depart the following evening in a special sleeper and dining car for St. I'aul, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Has'tiu^s (Neb.), Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, Stdckion. Sacramento, and San Francisco, play­ ing Ramos at each of theoe points. All preparations that have been made for the tour, evfni to the most miuu e detail, are in keeping with tho magnitude of the undertaking. Both thb Chicago and All America teams, as male up fo\thi£ Australian tour, are repre­ sentative ones fn every sense of the word, and, with Anson as fl^ldcaotain of tha Chicagos and John M. Ward to handle the All-American forces, the two organizations will doubt­ less be able to put np such a game upon Australian sod aa will do thein- selvea and th-j game all possible crjdit. SULLIVAN. RYAN. The following brief sketches of the players who compose the t sams will be of interest: , ADKIAN C. AtirOX, CAPTAIN < F THE CBICAOOB. Gapt. A. C . Anfon, tho kic-hrarted giant, who holds down ftiat baso and captains tho team tba° has won mora Liea&ti < pennants than all the other I,«avue team* combined, enioys tbe repu­ tation of bem,' the best batter that game has yet produced. Few, if any, plavera in the proiei- sion are mote widely known than Anson, bis tmue an a p aver and his lon{ connection with ti e champion t'liica :os have mad ) bis name ftimiliar to everv pa r>n of the cams. He ia a native of Maralinlltowii, Iowa. Hia first engagement waa with the 1 west City Club of Roek:oru, 111., in lt71, as tbird basmian and chiH!ga catcher. He rose rapidly in public es­ teem, and in 187*2 was signed by the Athletics of l'ld odeiphia. accompanying thei club to Europe in 1*74, where he ma le tlio hiwhest individual f-co'-e in the cricket match a; aiust tho All-Ire­ land Eleven, carr»-itii< hi* bit oat. In 1H7H he siRi ed with tbe Chicago Club, and has remained wi.h them ever qip^j&ntou is popular w-ibi* BURNS. WILLIAMSON, his men, and Is admired for hia successful man- element of a succcssful team. ROBKkT PE 1TITT. Tettitt is a native of New England, aad aa a dashing, hard-working outfielder haa few If any superiors. MABTIN SULLIVAN. Fulliran Is another player who made hi* repu­ tation quickly as a League player. While plaving wlih lhe Boston Blues iu tie ahowtd that he had the rujht stuff in him for a League player, and was engaged for the Chicago club. JAMKS ItYAN. Few ball players made their reputation so quickly or jumjved into popular favor so com­ pletely and suddenly as did Kyan. the brilliant little center ft eider of the Chicago team. He is a "Yankee" out and out, being a nitlve of Clinton. Mass. His firs: profes lional work was done for the Bridgeport, Conn., club in lsJ33. THOMAS DURNS. Thomas Burns is one of tbe "old euard" of the Cblca ;o club, and few bal '-players in the coun­ try can count so few e lemios or so many friends upon their list of acquaintances as he Thoug h a great ball-player, h < is oneof tbe most modest atid unassuming men in the profession. He claims New Britain, Conn., as his bir.hploce. WARD. KELLY". is gaining his consent to act as field captain or the AU America team, Mr. Si>aldin^ secured tbe services of one of the most capable ball-plavers in America. He was born March 3, 1H<>0, nt Belle- fonts?. Pa., and commenced his base-ball career while a student at the Pennsylvania State Col­ lege. H t was married Oct. 12, 1887, to Miss Helen Dauvray, the well-known actress, and purposes practicing the legal profession iu New York City after ho retires from the liail field. MICH AEL .J. KKLLT. BOSTON TEAM. Certainly no ball-player :u America is better known than Michael J. Kelly. Genial, witty, and intelligent, he is the life of his team, aud to a great extent the magnet which holds its mem- bers together. A great general iu a contest; a .clever strategist, well versed in every point of play, and competent to play any position hittl- aeif; tricVy, bold, thoroughly ©xnerienced in Ids work upon the diamond, he ia thoroughly capa­ ble of making any team h" may connect himself with an exceedingly uncertain quantity, if uot a dangerous factor, in a championship rac>. E1JWAHD HANLON. DKI HOtT TEAM. "Ned" Han Ion isou-»of the most capab'e as well as one of the meat popular ball pia>era In one o< ttaegu«4--t taw gall te>viis e.or oi-^aa- ^ WOOD. ,U Is a native of New Fa> TIEBXAK. ized--the Detr>U* glanl. JAMES O. FOOARTY, PHILAD1LPHIA 1E\M. Fogarcy is also ono of tbe best known out­ fielder* of the National League, his position with the Philadelphia team bein_; that of right flcld. He ioiuod the Philadelphia team in lsst, and his work for it ever since ha< been of a high order. FHK1> H. CAIIKOLL, P1TI SBtlHll TEAM. Carroll is a native of California, hawug b^en, bora in StirHinenw July i>. 13H. He cow- m«nctd ball plavin; as an Hinateur in l-Wl./A* a back-stop ( arroil nas f*w if auy suitcriors in his profession. He ia a h rd worker when in uniform, and has caught some of tha swiftest pitchers of the League. M AIMV a. KIMV8CX. NFWAEK TKAM. Simpson U on all-round base-ball, foot-ball, and oricker plaver. In be ng a member of the Newark Cricket Club, he organized and man- HAXLOW. W FOOARTT. agea th « base-ball team known as the Newark Cricket and. Baae-BALL Association. During the two years with that association he had a good record, both as a base-ball an 1 cricket, player. M. J. TIEHNAN, NEW YOHK TRAM. Tiernan hai made a great repntntion as a b»ll player since he bee une H member of the New York team at the outset of the season of 1WJ8. As a batsman be has especially distinguished himaeif, and as an outfielder the management of th1* New York team claims that he has no su­ perior. QgOBO", A. WOOD, PHILADELPHIA TEAM. George Wood is one of the greatest outfie dera of the National League, his work for the Phila­ delphia team durinu the past two seasons having b ienof a character to win for him au enviable reputation as a ball player. His career as a pro­ fessional began in Lyi'ii, Mass., iu 1878. Wood is a native of Boston, wh >re he was born in 18">8. He weighs 18 i poi:n Is, and Is five feet ten and a half inches tali. •JOHN HEALY. INDIANAPOLIS TEAM. Healy is looked upon in America as one of the puzsling pitchers of the League, and manv a lot of strong batsmen have gone down be tor J hia de- PPKFFER. TEMBII. He is a fine batsman, and one ot the heat third baseman in the Leagne. EDWABD N. WILLIAMSON. Williamson is also a member of the famous Chicago infield, and when n prominent American newspaper lant season asked for answers to tbe question of "Who is the grt atest ail-around ball player in AmoricaV" honors wero equally divid­ ed between Williamson aud Michael J. Kelly. He is a great ball player, and one of the most popular--both among ball players aad specta­ tors--in tha pro os*ion. FRED X. PFEFPEB. Fred Pfeffer iS'perhaps as well known aa -sny professional ball player in America, both for his abiiitv as a ball player aud his gentlemanly con­ duct on and off the diamond. Impulsive, am­ bitious, and a ball player by talent and inclina­ tion. be naa ni«de an euviable reputation for himself as an:enib<r of the groat Chicago in­ field. He has mode his raputat/on with tbe Chi­ cago team, having signed with that organization tar back in the eighties. Asa second busews^nhe CARROLL. SIMPSON. livery. His steady, determined style in the box has won for him the respect df the horae.it hit­ ters iu the League. He is 21 yours old feet 3 inches in height, an l weighs ISO pounds. For three years past he has l>ei-n one of the main­ stay "twirlers" of the Indianapolis (National League* team, and his effective pitching saved that team many a defeat. JAMES B. DONNELLY, WASHIJfOTOW TEAM. Donnelly has played as a member of the Wnshindt-in (1). C.l team since tbe season of 18*<7, and hus made an admirable record there M an intielder. His position is at third base, and as a third baseman he ranks with the best in tbe National League. He is 3 yea* s Old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, and weighs '.55 pounds. J. A. ltOGEHH, CRICKE1KB. Mr. Rogers, the professional who will coach and train the team in cricket for such gamea as they may decide to play, is a right-haud bowler, and breaks both ways with puzzling change of both pace ai d direction. He is also a good bat, as bis average for the season of 1888 will show, having played twenty-four innings with an av­ erage of seventeen runs par inning; which, con­ sidering the important matches he has played HEALT. DONNELLY. DALY. BALD WIS. ha* few equals, and certainly no superior, in America. JOHN K. TEHBB. Tener sprang into popularity within as short a space of time, perhaps, oa evar did a National Lra.'ue debutante. After much persu&aton he was induced .o l.-ave Pittiiburg (his home) by Capt. Anson, and join the ranks of the Chicago team. His success was instantaneous'and pro- UiaJaliiaai AiiJli iliUift-A - in, ia something worthy Of note. His bowling average reads 13j wickets fot an average of four runs per wicket. BRIEF MTNTIOX. The teams will sail ou the steamer .Alameda, leaving ban Francisco Nov. 17. Between forty and fif-.y tourists will take ad­ vantage of the reduced rat^s and other privil ges offtred, to accompauy the tehrns. Any ona de- sirou«.< f joining tho pa ty should apply at once to Mr. Spalding. The distance from Frisco to Sydney is 7.200 miles, osiuipving a period of twtnty-five days. Tha party wili bo a large ono, however, afid will, n • doubt, find means of passing the time pleasantly. The first stop will be made at Hodblulu, in tbe Hawaiian Islands, '2,103 miles and seven daya' Bail irom Frisco. Here two games will be played, at which it is expected Kiixj Kulakaua will be present, The second stop of the party will be at Tutuila, in the Bamoan Islands, thirteen days' sail from America. No g in:o will be played tiere. Five days later, and twenty days after leaving Frisco, the purtv lands at Sydney, and in this city the Australian tour proper begins. The t«a"ni3 will visit Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Bathurst, Ballarat, Adelaide, and other pepulou* Australian towns aud cities. THEODORE HOOK'S JOKE. ! How He Made a Quiet 8lr«rt the Talk of 1 AU London. I Tkeotlore H wk wa3 a famous prac- ; tic&l joker, and once, at least, he per- i [>et rated a jest that disturbed all London I ami amused all England, writes William , Sliepard ia Lippincott's Mtvjftzine. This was the famous Bevners street hoax. Bernera street in 1810 was a quiet street, inhabited by well-to-do families living in a genteel way. One morning, soon after breakfast, a wagon load of coals drew tip before the door of a widow lady living in the street. A vau load of fur­ niture followed, then a hearse with a cnfKn and a train of morning coaches. Two fashionable physicians, a dentist, and an accoucheur drove up as near as they could to the door, wondering why fco many lumbering vehicles bl' c'jetl the way. Six men brought a gr;af t'hrur.ber organ; a brewer ..sent several barrels of ale; a grocer senx a carload of potatoes. Coachmakers, clockmakers, carpet manufacturers, confectioners, wigmakera, mantuaniakers. opticians, and curiosity dealers followed with sam­ ples of their wares. From all quarters trooped in coachmen, footmen, cooks, housemaids, and nurserymaids, in quest of situations. To crown all, dignitaries came in their curriges--the Commander- in-chief, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chief Justice, a Cabinet Min­ ister, a governor of the Bank of En­ gland aud the Lord Mayor. The latter-- one among many who speedily recog­ nized that all had been the victims of some gigantic hoax--drove to Marl- burough street ]>olice office, and state<J that he had received a letter from a lady in Berners street to the effect that she had been summoned to attend at the Mansion House, that she was at death's door, that she wished to make a depo­ sition upon oath, and that she would deem it a great favor if his lordship would call upon her. The other dig­ nitaries had been appealed to in a.similar way. Police officers were dispatched to maintain order in Berners street. They found it choked up with vehicles, jammed and interlocked one wi*h another. The drivers were infuriated. The disappointed tradesmen were clam­ oring for vengeance. Some of the vans imd gcxxls were overturned and broken; n few barrels of ale had fallen a prey to the large crowd that was maliciously enjoying the fun. All day and far into the night this state of things continued. tVIeanwhile the old lftdv and the inmates of adjoining houses were in abject terror. Every one soon saw that a hoax had been perpetrated, but Hook's connec­ tion with it was not discovered until nfterward He had noticed the quiet­ ness of the neighborhood, and ha .1 laid a wager with a brother wag that he would make Berners street the talk of all London. A doorplate had furnished him with Mrs.- 's name, and he had spent three days in writing the letters which brought the crowd to her door. At the appointed time he had posted "himself with two or three companions iu a lodging just opposite, which he had rented for the purpose of enjoying the scene. He deemed it exjH'dient, how­ ever, to go off quickly intD the country and there remain incog for a time. Had he l»een publicly known as the author of the hoax he might have fared badly. • How MenphU Ceased to Be a Manic!* paltty. Under these circumstances the city resorted to a novel expedient. It sur­ rendered its charter to the State, and ceased to exist as a municipality. The leaders of this movement gave two rea sons for it--the wish not to repudiate the city debt, but to gain breathing- time, and that municipal government in tills country is a failure. The Legisla­ ture erected the former Memphis into The Taxing District of Shelby Coui.tv, ami provided a government for it. This government consists of a Legislative Council of eight members, made up of the Board of Fire and Police Commis­ sioners, consisting of three, and the Board of Public Works, consisting of five. These are elected by popular vote to sel've a term of four years, but the elections are held every two years, so t hat the council always contains mem- l>ers who have had experience. The Board of Fire and Police Commission­ ers elects a President, who is the execu­ tive officer of the Taxing District, and has the power and duties of a Mayor; he lias a salary of $2,000, inclusive of his fees as Police Magistrate, and the other members of his board have sal­ aries of $500. The members of the Board of Public Works serve without compensation. No man can be eligible to either board who has not been a resi­ dent of the District for five years. In addition, there is a Board of Health, appointed by the Council. This gov eminent has the ordinary powers of a city government, defined carefully in the act, but it cannot run the city n debt, and it cannot appropriate the taxes collected except for the specific purposes named by the State Legisla ture, which specific appropriations are voted annually by the Legislature on the recommendation of the Cotincil. Thus the government of the city is committed to eight men, and the execu­ tion of its laws to one man, the Presi­ dent of the Taxing District, who has extraordinary power. The final success of this scheme will be watched with a great deal of interest by other cities. On the surface it can be seen that it de­ pends upon securing a non-partisan council, and an honest, conscientious President of the Taxing District--that is to say, upon the choice by popular vote of the best eight men to rulo the city. Up to this time, with only slight hitches, it has worked exceedingly w ell, as will appear in a consideration of the condition of the city. The slight hitch mentioned was that the President was accused of using temporarily the sum appropriated for one city purpose for another. The Supreme Court of the United States decided that Memphis had not evaded its obligations by a change of name and form of government. The re­ sult was a settlement with the creditors at fifty cents on the dollar; and then the city gathered itself together for a cour­ ageous effort and a new era of prosper­ ity- -- Charles Dudley Warner, in Har­ per's Magazine. ARRIVAL OF C0QUELIN. THE DXSTrVGriSHED FRENCH ACTOB Df THIS COUNTRY. A Prominent Figure la the First Theater of the World--Sarah Bernhardt** Rival, Hrne. Hading--Interesting EtoettMl Flf- am--Other News. ' [New York special.] M'- Coquelin, the distinguished French actor, on his opening night in this city was greeted by a large and fashionable audi­ ence. He is a comedian of most excellent abilities. When he first discovered himself in "Les Precienses Ridicules" the audience broke forth into applause. The farcical and absolutely comic powers of the actor were here given full scope, and. the result was highly amusing and entertaining. Alter this piece Coquelin gave his monologne en­ tertainment consisting ot a poem called "Le Naufrage" (the shipwreck), and another called "La Vie" (life). The former is pa­ thetic and the latter strictly humoro'us. An­ swering to the enthusiastic encores Of the The Sock of Ages. . "The Bock of Ages ?" said Judge Fair- fee looking up at the chromo in the gilded frame above the mantlepiece,-- "well, Fve rocked this cradle for the last two hours, and the 'sweet little tootsey- wootsey angel of love* isn't asleep yet, either. The rock of age3?--h'm, I should think it was,Horatio!"--St.Louis Magazine. SMALL globules of porcelain are now manufactured in Muuieh to take the place of ordinary lead shot for cleaning wine and medicine bottles. Their hard, rough surfaces adapt them for quickly removing dirt and grease, and they are Hot acted upon by aoids or alkalfra. house M. Coquelin then recited fable of tho crow and the fox. The last part of tho program consisted of the serious play called "La Joie Fait 1'eur." Coquelin as­ sumed the character of nil old and infirm family servant aud was especially good in the part,bringing down the repeated plaudits of the house. Coquelin had been seen in many phases of dramatic representation during one night, the verdict being that' he had not been overrated. In appearance M. Coquelin is not hand­ some. Ho has a good figure and expressive face. His nose, which is retrousse, is a drawback to tragic or classical impersona­ tions. His eye is alert and penetrating, and he has the remarkable power of dimming Jts brightness and rendering it dull and dead "when the character requires aa immobility of countenance. His voice is wonderful. It is powerful, resonant, and musical, and he has it under perfect control. M. Coquelin has an almost supernatural power of losing himself in his characters. There is not the slightest similarity between any two of his widely differing roles. He is devoid of mannerisms. He is natural--as natural as combined genius and art can make an actor. M. Coquelin has been the most prominent figure of the theatre that is generally ac­ knowledged to be the llrst in the world (that is, the Theatre Franeais) for the past quar­ ter of a century. He has created thore parts innumerable, and is to-dav tho artistic idol of the Parisian populace. The system there is so entirely different from ours that M. Coquelin's work has naturally been confined entirely to that one theatre. He has not alone been an engaged actor in the house, but what is known as associetaire, or, to put it more plainly, a member of the so­ ciety of the theater. Tho members ot the society arc paid a salary for their work, and bes«ies that have a certain share of the profits, according to their time of service in the house and the importance of their roles. M. Coquelin is to-day the highest paid member of that society, his income last year have been 60,000 francs, or, in round numbers, $12,000. which is considered an enormous salary for an actor In Taris. par­ ticularly when he is given a vacation of three months every year. His present va­ cation will be given to a tour of the princi­ pal cities of this country, one of his ob­ jective points being Chicago, where he will appear at McVicker's Theater, mac. JANE HADcra. Th* Alleged Rival of Sarah Bcnhsrdt Delights Americans. (New York telegram.] Mme. Hading, the captivating French actress, made her first appearance in this country jn this city in G. Ohuet's five-act drama "efit it led "Le Maitre de Forges." The success of the star was decided. 51 me. find­ ing assumed the role of Claire de Boaulieu. created by her at the Gymnaso in Paris. Mme. Hading's acting throughout was ex­ cellent. Mtae. Hading is calleW Sarah Bern- hardt's rival, but she is her rival in no sense of the word. Sarah's field ranges from melodrama to trage­ dy. Mme. Hading's is drama of the domestic order. Now and again the tones of her voice or her gesture may remind one of the "divine Sarah." but did not Irving's influence reach even Bancroft? And who would think of comparing Bancroft with Irving? In the opening act in tho scenes preceding her marriage Claire has littlo to do but to look beautiful and pathetic. Her opportunity comes quickly, however, in the famous scene with her husband after the wedding. Here she gave the full measure of her talent, and won repeated applause by the studied and concentrated power which she put Into her acting. She will play in the principal cities of America. ELECTION STATISTICS. The Electoral Vote and the Popular vst* fur President In 1884. THE ELECIOaiLL VOTE. Alabama 10lLoulnin.ua.... 8|N. Carolina. .11 Arkansas .... 7 Maiii'1 »;|Ohio 33 California 8lMaryland .... SOrrgon 8 Colorado S^ajR-'clia'ts .MirenDsylyaniaSO Connecticut.. GMichigm IS Hhxle iuland. i Deawnre 3!Minn« oa... 7|8. Car lina... 3 Florida 4|Mlssi«».ppl .. flj'l'ennissee ...14 Oeorgia 12 Missouri 16,Texas 13 Illinois 2i Nebraska .... 5 Vennout. .. . . 4 Indiana lslNevada »iVirgin! i IS Iowa 13 N.Hampshire 4IW. Virginia.. 6 Kansas 9'New Jersey.. #j\Viscouiln ..,11 Ken uokv 13 New York 30| -- Total 401 Necessary to a choice .301 POPGLAB VOTE FOR PBHSIDBHT IN 18H. Alabama Arkansas...... California Colorado...... Connecticut.,. Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisana Maine Maryland Massachusetts .. Michigan Minnesota*....... Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevuda Mew Hampshire. New Jersay New York North Carolina.. Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania.... Rhode Island South Carolina... Tennesaoe Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Totals 4,911,017 Plurality. Whole vote P8,973 72,927 89.228 27,603 67,182 1>V.W> 31,769 04,653 312,5*1 244,992 177,316 00,1321 152,9iil] 62/43! 51;S.-6i 9S.86ti! 122,352: 18X-*51| 70,0 551 76.510! 23o,9-8 54,3Ui: 5,:>13! S»,LS7I 127,778 5<-3,0 8! 14:7'5>l 3 j8,28ti| 24,6071 ?92.78->: 12.3l'i; tD,764 131,27(1 17.3^.1 14,4+7 67,317 140,45J 59,144 50,895 1(12,416 36,166 65,898 1,284 13,053! S.Oia 28,031 [ 3,758 47,692 ! 46,961 337,411 238,480 197,089 154,408 lis, 122 46,347 71,716 £>5,748 146,724 192,669 6,512 34,839 16,199 11,118 13,191 8,56! 24.&K 19,771 64,274 20.06C 62,683 24,372 3 306 iii;«85i i 41,'eae 4 J,599j 31.001] 292,929! 33,059 76,901 1 22.512 7,193; 1,61s 43,il0j ! 4,063 123,386 4,412' 562,0011 1,047."• 12~>,U68: 17,881 400,182 2h.8J0> 473,8*4' 19,13)1 2 .733j 48,0 il 121,09.'! 'J, 130; 91,7i)lil31,978 39.514; I 22,183 139,3561 6,141! 63.096 4,231 U1.137 ! 14.086 31,798 2,'iSd 81,013 6.63S 4,8.8,S34l4t>9,389j6J6,?G6 I 6s2,(K-3j 10,048,161 A Iwf* Bcfhtratlaa. Returns from various States show a very full registration: particularly is this true in New York, thus indicating a heavy vote at Hp jstoctioii JQXIK01S NEWS BUDGET. ITEKTS ASD INC IDEXT8 THAT lift LATELY OCCURRED. A* Ytftvreeftay Shtnmary of OH» Hon - psrtast Doings of Oar Neighbors--W*«~ Abfi and Deaths -- Crimes. CssaalttaM^ Md General News Note*. --The seventeenth anniversary of tb« great Chicago ifiip dc^tflrred on the 9th inst. --The Grand Jury at Roekford returned seventy indict meets agaioet twenty-three Bock ford saloonkeepers who have been openly selling liquor since the no-licenee law went into effect. •" One man is caid.to have twentv-fonr coants against him. The dealers have n rociety there and* fund, and will fightaevery case. --In accordance with the provisions of the recent act of Congress providing for the survey of the route for the improve­ ment of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Hennepin Canal, a party of sur­ veyors have bc?n at -work in «od around Joliet making out a route. Two tonic/ are being surveyed, one along the channel of the Desplaines River, through which the Chicago sewage now flows, and the other is northeest of Rockford down tlio Hickory Creek Valley. --Dr. A. H. Scott, Postmaster at liana- field, in Piatt County, dropped dead at his residence of heart disease. V --H. H. Harris, who has been on trial ia the Cironit Court ai Decatur, on a charge of forgery, was convicted and given six years in the penitentiary. A sensation was caused when the officers looked for the prisonet, and found that he had skipped for parts unknown He was under bonds for his appearance ior swindling Mr. Davis, a farmer, who sigttd what ha supposed was an ordei lot hay-forks, bat which turned cut to be s prensissory note for $400. --The Grand Jury at ChaiUstcn tw le- turned nine indictments against persons supposed to have been concerned in tho lynching of the nogio, William Moor*, f. B. Benctiel, H. M. O. Thorde, and D. L. Weaver have given heavy bund* for their appearance at the cotniug term of the Circuit Court in November, while sev­ eral of the others wanted have been mist­ ing for weeks, sonrn leaving lmmediatelf after the hanging. ^ --Miss/Ella Morgan, daughter af Cflt- duetor Walter Morgan, of the Wabash Koad. fell under the wheels of a freight train, at Decatur, and both her le&) wero shockingly crushed. Her recovery is doubtful. She was ou her way to tbe high school, and was attempting to climb through on thebumpen» of the train, which obstructed the street ciossing. when the train started np snchlxnlr and sbe fell «•> der the wheels. --One of tbe most do«tnictire fires that Griggsville ever had started in tt* grocery store of A. E. Tootle, aud soon communi­ cated to eight other buildings, including the opera-house, owned by Parker Broa. The loss is $6,000 and the insurance only $500. Tootle will lose on groceries $300, insured in the German American, and A. G. Woodson will lose on a building occu­ pied aa aa undertaking eetahlishmsat $200, insured in the North American. . . --Two noted criminals have regained their liberty from the Joliet prison. Otto was Charley Sanders, alias "Wrinkles," who had been serving his second tana of nine years for burglary. "Wrinkles" waa the room-worker in "Tip" Farrell's and Tommy Heating's gang of sneak thieves that worked Chicago and 8t. ^ouis some years ago. The other was ffatma Mead, alias Mary Anderson, who had served three terms. She has the name of being one of the most expert shoplifters that ever operated under Mother Weir, of tha Reinsch- White gang, a dozen members of which have "done time," their latest job being the robber} of Gages Bros., at Chi-> cago. --Brooklyn, a suburb of Joliet, was in a state of excitement recently over the re­ port that three boys were buried in a gravel pit near the driving park. Whan tbe facts became known it brought aor- row to the home of Charles J. Vimpenny, of the Joliet Street Cur Company. His two boys and a playmate went on a nutting expedition. While passing through a gravel pit the bank caved ia and buriad two of the lads. The third ran to a stooa quarry and notified the workmen, who came to the rescue. They dug the boys oat, but young Vimpenny was dead aad the other boy unconscious, but waa brought back to life. ~~Tlie poetoffice at Moaticello taibntaa into by burglars. They had tools to break open the safe, but were frightened away before they had accomplished their object, and left their burglars' tools on the floor. A hoi so was stolen belonging to yonag Parsons, aud was^onnd the next day at Ivfesdale, where the thief had abandoned it. :--William and Frank Bntler, brothers, convicted in McDonough County, Octo­ ber, 1887, of murder, and sentenced to prison for six years each, have been taken from Joliet to Macomb, the Supreme Coast having reversed the judgment. ---The death at Aurora of Elder Stephen P. Keyes of general debility was unex­ pected. He was one of the best known di­ vides in that region, though he had been oa the superannuated list tor twenty yean sines resigning the position of Presiding Elder of the Chicago District. He was a charter member of the Rock River Meth­ odist Episcopal Conference. He was IT years old, and leaves a wife and two mar­ ried daughters. --The first of this year's repeats of Stats institutions, that of the Southern Insane Hospital at Anna, will soon be issued, covering the biennial period ended Juno 30 last. It will estimate the needed ex­ traordinary appropriations for tha next two years at about $37,000, and the ordi­ nary appropriations at $103,500 a year. The latter is estimated on the basis of aa average of 637 inmates at an average per capita cost of $162 a year. There were 630 inmates at the date of the report, and the death rate of the last year was three and three-tenths. There was a balance of $10,700 of the last ordinary hppropriatioa on hand June 30. The extraonlinary ap­ propriations asked are for completing tha water supply, for tank and pumping en­ gines, for laundry and enlargement of As bakery, for sidewalks, and for thenaa- stats and an electric clock. The prodaets of the farm of the institution in tha last i-i -X vl . ' , . • < Vv «