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piKftiwMiw* ILLINOia Cot. cTon* OCHXLTBKK says that h« has reached the altitude of his fame. A Kentuckian has named his best make of whisky after him. HENRT S. JVKS, the "bankrupt" broker, has sold his Brooklyn residence for $125,000, and is boarding at a fash­ ionable hotel in New York. THE kick of a horse, when lie kicks to kill, has the same power as a six- pound cannon ball half-spent. It would be well to set this down and have the doctor's telephone number at hand. SEBOT. XKBDAJU., pf the British Army, can exhibit forty-eight different wounds received in the line of duty. A bursting shell inflicted twelve of the wounds at one time and one bullet left three ing as a juror, but he wouldn't mind performing that little duty of citizen­ ship some ottier time if business per­ mitted. An attachment was issued, and shortly after the Sheriff introduced the soil tiller to the Court, which fined him $20 for his pleasantry. THE rapid increase of the foreign pop­ ulation in France is causing great con­ cern to the Government. Since 1886 no less than 482,000 Belgians, 265,000 Italians, 100,000 Germans, 78,000 Swiss, and 80.000 Spaniards have gone into France in addition to the foreign popu­ lation previously resident there. In 1851 there were but 381,000 foreigners in a total population of nearly 36,000,- 000, while the native population re­ mained nearly stationary. The despair of the situation is that births in France are actually diminishing. THE hair and beards of miners em­ ployed in the Martin White Mine, in Nevada, become permanently green > through the agency of some unknown mineral released in the roasting ol the ore. ' 1 • <TAMES 1#ITHO, of St. Mary's, Ohio, lias a dog which acts as an alarm clock. If Liiho wants to be awakened at say 4 o4clook, a. m., he gives the dog's tail four twists on retiring, and exactly at the time set the dog wakes him by barking. DANIEI. FISHER, who is still living at Old Saybrook, Ct., was the first man to use a cab on a locomotive engine. He was an engineer on the old Harlem road and rigged a shelter of boards and can­ vas at the end of the boiler to protect him from winter storms. DB. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES writes to a friend in' New York that he has not felt able to write anything for the public of late, "but," he adds, "in the sweet bv-and-by (if a by-and-by I am to have) I hojje to please my friends Ijy once more using my pen for them." THE French never did well at trans­ lating Shakspeare. Even Voltaire did not "catch on" to the meaning of the great dramatist. $hakspeare's expres­ sion, "I will carve myself a fortune with my sword," Voltaire rendered, "With my sword I will make my fortune carv­ ing meat." v UNDER the simplified drill TRF the German army the battalions will in fu­ ture learn but three formations, the -double column, the deep column (four companies following each other in com­ pany columns) and the broad column. The company column is the basis of all formations and movements in war. Gkbhan savants have decided that dreams seldom reach the length of a minute in duration. Evidently with the lack of knowledge of life not uncom­ mon in scientific men they labor under tite impression that there are no dreams except such as occur in sleep. Every­ body knows thai walking dreams may endure indefinitely. A PENNSYLVANIA Justice of the Peace discharged a boy arrested the other day at the instance of a man named Galla­ gher for continually calling out, "Let er go, Gallagher!" whenever the unfor­ tunate man was around. It has thus been deoided by a oompetent tribunal that no Gallagher has any feelings that the small boy of America is bound to respect. MB. GEORGE SIEMAN engaged him­ self to marry Miss Mall Bernstein, of Washington, and put up a forfeit of $500 that &e would be on hand at the time appointed. A few days before the wedding ceremony he discovered that he was afflicted with heart disease, and he released Miss Bernstein, who took the money. Mr. Sieman is . now a friend of the family. A BIRMINGHAM, Ala., man made a clook which he intended as a present for a friend. He set it running, and it went all right for a while, and suddenly stopped. It wa3 afterwards ascertained that the person for whom it -was in­ tended had died at the very time indi­ cated by the clock. It has been set go­ ing frequently afterward, but always stops at the same hour. WITHIN the antarctic circle there has never been found a flowering plant. In the Arctic region there are 762 kinds of flowers. Fifty of these are confined to the Arctic region. They are really polar flowers. The colors of these polar flowers are not as bright and varied as are our own, most of tbem being white or yellow, as if borrowing these hardy hues from their snowy bergs andqgolden . stars. ' ABCHBIHHOP CORRIOAN is the young­ est of the Boman Catholic Bishops and presides over the largest see. He is tall and well-built, and has the step of an athlete and the manner of a courtier. He seldom uses a coach, and when he cannot walk rides in a horse-car. In his dress he is altogether unassuming also. Bishop Corrigan was bom in a little white frame house Qii Market {street, Newark, N. J., used since as a saloon and later as a newspaper office. ; * WAT WHITELY and Maud King, aged IS, granddaughters of the Captain of the light-house at Point Pickney, 8. C., have been recommended to the Secre- , tary of the Treasury by the Light­ house Board as in every respect worthy of the gold medals awarded by the Government for heroism in saving human lives. On August 21, at the risk of their own lives, they went out in -a boat in a heavy gale and rescued three men and a boy, whose boat Vd been ; capsized. I AN Ohio farmer who had been drawn for jury duty, instead of presenting him- 4 w* m , » HABBY ALLEN was a wild Maine youth, who gave his family a lot of trouble, and finally ran off to the.. West. He procured a situation in a store in Washington Territory. One day he happened to say to the store-keeper that he'd got quite a pile and ought to put it in the bank, and the man replied: "Don't do that. Put your money into land." Harry took his advice, bought land, and after that invested every dol­ lar he could raise in the same way. When he was about twenty-one he saw a chance to make a big trade, and made it. Then his father went into the same speculation, and they put up mills and engaged extensively in the lumber busi­ ness. To-day Harry Allen is said to be worth $150,000. PROBABLY the first prohibition peti­ tion issued in this country has been dis­ covered in the State archieves of North Carolina. On May 26, 1756, King Hagler of the Catawbas thus petitioned Chief Justice Henley: "I desire a stop may be put to the selling of strong liquors by the white people to my peo­ ple, especially near the Indians. If the white people make strong drink let them sell it to one another, or drink it in their own families. This will avoid a great deal of mischief which other­ wise will happen from my people get­ ting drunk and quarreling with the white people." The Chief Justice, as appears from an indorsement, promised to bring the matter to the Governor's notice. THE managers of the famous beauty show at Spa seem to have made a great mistake in not providing rules and ac­ commodations for the hand-to-hand con­ flicts which formed the concluding events of this notable celebration. The unsuccessful and slighted fair ones spat in the faces of those who had obtained prizes, scratched and struck them, and even went to the length of attempting to gouge out the eyes of the fortunate-- unfortunates who attained the honor of the first prize. Hereafter, things will probably be better managed, and at the great beauty show promised in London personal conflicts will doubtless be ar­ ranged and advertised as a regular part of the business. Another interesting result of the Spa show has been the in­ stitution of divorce suits by the hus­ bands of several of the exhibited dames; but then after all, a few divorce suits are absolutely necessary in a woman's career before she can consider herself fairly established as a professional beauty. 0 bedienee--Composition By Joany Fit- zletop. The disobedience of parents is often the source of a great deal of uneasiness to their offspring. Men who commit the darkest crimes generally begin by being disobedient to their children. Disobedient parents are often the re­ sult of indulgent children, who intend it for the good of their progenitors, but are aware, too late, that it is not benefi- cient. Of course parents have their privileges, and do not relish having them interfered with, but it is the duty of every concientious child to see that they do not assume too much authority. Parents are naturally presuming, unless they are checked up once in a while. How often do we see a home where there is no peace, no harmony, and no love ? The indulgent kid allows not only his parents, but his grandparents and rela­ tives, who may be in the house, to have tlieir way, and follow the dictates of their own foolish desires. The child who fails to keep a tight rein on the reckless parent, is, sooner or later, sure to have his gray hairs, if he lives long enough, brought down in sorrow to the ceme­ tery. Pareuts who obey their children are the first to obey their Heavenly Father. What a wise old adage it is-- "Bring up a parent in the wavhe should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Obedience and good parents make useful men and women, when they grow up.--Texas Sifting s. Sent to Jail for Sneezing. Visitors to jails frequently remark on the number of innocent inmates--that is, if you believe their own stories. Every convict has, at least, some excuse to offer, which is at variance with the court records, and one of the most amusing was made the other day in a Pennsylvania prison. "What brought you here?" asked the visitor. "A sneeze," replied the convict, who was a professional burglar. "A sneeze!" repeated the amazed visitor. "Yes. I pursued my calling unmo­ lested until one night, while I was in tha act of robbing a house, I was unfortu­ nately overcome by an impulse to sneeze. That woke the policeman, who brought me here." The visitor passed on to the next cell. --Golden Days. A CINCINNATI drummer exhibited symptoms of yellow fever and excited much alarm. People were much grati­ fied to find that he had purchased his sympton* in Kentucky at fifteen cents a glass. IT is related of a Lincoln, Neb., man that he journeyed to California in order to see an old enemy executed. PHILADELPHIA is to have another in­ dustrial school. The manual training . ayafom VMTV BQimla]' •- V.'.'• . .'i/'. [Detroit ttase 3TOOS.J "Well! Well! But I thought you were in Germany by this time!" exclaimed Sergt. Bendall, as Carl Dunder entered the Woodbridge street police station yesterday. "No, I doan' go. Maype dere vhas some flies on me--maype not." "But you were discouraged the last time you were here; you had tried poli­ tics and got left. Perhaps you have struck something else?" "Dot vhas it, und I shall shtay right here. I learned some new tricks, und I haf some chances to speculate." "Tell me about it," said the Sergeant, as he settled down iu his chair. "Maype you doan' like to hear from some greenhorns," replied Mr. Dunder with an injured look. "If I vhas green ash grass und some oowa feed on me, better I go home?" "Come, go ahead. What new tricks have you got ?" "Yhell, Sergeant," said the old man as he melted slowly, "dot trick I shpeak of vhas to wait until more ash ten loaf­ ers vhas in my place, schwearing und ^pitting und hugging the stove, und den ptttjn a shtick of wood mitsome powder in it1 und blow 'em oop. You neafer saw such scbumping und running in vour life. It vhas enough to kill you mit laughing. A stranger gif* me dot trick for two glasses of beer." ^ "You blow up the loofersf* °; "Dot vhas it. •* v" " "But you blow up the stove. tfto, perliaps your saloon. Can you afford to buy a new stove every time you want to play the trick?* "Eh? Does der atoaf go, blow up •no?" "Of course." "H'm! I doan' think of dot pefore. Of course der stoaf vhas blown oop mit der loafers, und maype der bouse vhas on fire." "What else?" " Vliell, I figure on some canary birds. I can buy 'em in Shermany for two shil­ lings apiece." "Yes." "Und der price here vhas two dol­ lar." "Exactly." C "If I buys one million der profit vhas oafer a million und a haff of dollars." "I see. You want agents here and in Germany, and there is the cost of trans­ portation, the loss by death, and you must find a million buvers. Splendid scheme, Mr. Dunder! i suppose you'll buy a steamer to ship by!" "H'm! I got dot speculation for $2 in cash. Vhas he wrong."' "Oli, no; go right ahead. Anything else?" "What if I buy oop all der oranges in der country for a million dollars ?" "Then you could advance prices 50 per cent, and make a heap of money." "Shust so. I vhas glad you see it like me. Dot scheme costs me only tree dollar." "But where is the million dollaro to buy with?" "H'm, dot's so. Oh! I remember now. I vhas to gif my note for one year. Dot makes her all satisfactorv." "What else?" 5 "Vhell, I goes in der railroad pees- ness, I guess." "How?" "In Mexico. If we build 100 miles of railroad we get two million acres of land. Dot land vhas worth twenty million dollar, und der income of der road vhas fife millions a year. Here vhas der figures like some grease. Dot pointer cost me two tollar." "Splendid idea. Mr. Dunder, why don't you buy the City Hall for $100,000 and sell it back to the city for half a million? "By Sheorge! but dot vhas excellent! It vhas a wonder I doan' think of dot pefore!" "And, say, you could buy up forty steamboats this fall for $20,000 apiece and sell them next spring for double the money." "Donder und blitzen, but you vhas a sharp man, Sergeant! I doan'know you pefore. Shake my hand. How much shall I pay you ?" "Oh, that's all right, Mr. Dunder. You can always have my advice free." "Und vhen I make two hoonered mil­ lion dollars I gif you der best bank in Detroit for a present. Good-bye Ser­ geant, I see you quicker again vlngR l vhas a millionaire." ^ A Russian Fete Day. We have been lucky in being in cities on holy days. The other day at Kazan was the great fete of the year--over. 100,000 peasants were in town. We drove out among the roads leading to the country and saw the peasants going to there villages, some, perhaps, tju, fifteen, and even twenty versts away. They were afoot and in wagons--the latter a sort of wicker body without springs. Some wagons held two or three, some five to eight. Every man was more or less intoxicated. Here would be a couple arm-and-arm in hot discussion; there a half-dozen with arms about each other's neck, singing and happy. Here a woman dragging her husband along: there she props him up in a wagon. Here they lie in the bot­ tom of the vehicle; there swaying back and forth. Sometimes there were a half- dozen men with urms over each othe r's neck--the outer one having his outer arm over a young woman--all singing at the top of their voices as they reeled from side to side of the road. The wo­ men in such cases seemed thoroughly sober, but amused by their mail com­ panions, whom they were conveying safely home. Sdme of them were per­ haps their brothers. I have never seen as many drunken men at one time, nor indeed on a dozen occasions together, as I saw on one road during a half-hour. At one locality there were several dozens of houses about an open space 'covered by wagons. These were all filled with"men who were laying in their supply of drunk for the road. In one wagon were four men asleep on the bot­ tom, a woman and little boy driving. The woman did not seem at all put out. They seemed to take it as a thing of course. Tliere were a few nearly grown lads somewhat high. Men of 30 and under were full and jolly, from 30 to 40 full and stupid. Nearly all the old chaps were clean gone and asleep. I spoke to a gentleman of what I had seen. He said he doubted not that nine out of ten of all the thousands of male peasants in town that day went home considerably intoxicated and the bulk of them thoroughly drunk. These are the descendants almost pure of the old Scythians of 2,000 yeare ago, great drunkards at that far-away period. A very prominent jjhy.sician from Mos­ cow, and one of our fellow passengers, tells me he does not think the Russians drink as much as the Germans, but that they are the only people in the world who drink on empty stomachs and be­ fore eating. To that he ascribed the drunkenness, and savs the peasants do When the railwnĵ vas first opened between Moeoow andfSt. Petersburg it was an objeotof great terror to the sn- ]>erstitiou9 peasantry of Northern Rus­ sia, who thought there must certainly be some witchcraft of ; magic in an in­ vention which oovMkmake a train of heavy cars run alongefithout horses at the rate of twenty "»"*« an hour, when the speed of the wagons to which they were accustomed was only three miles an hour, or four at the very outside. Some of them would not even go within sight of a train, and made the sign of the cross whenever they heard one rattle past. Others peeped timidly over the palisade of the railway station to catch a glimpse of the fearful smoke- breathing creature, which they believed to be a living monster, and when the steam-whistle sounded they cried out, "Hear him screaming! He's hungry, and wants to eat somebody!" and took to their heels at once. But little by little this terror began to wear away. The village priests were seen to go to and fro by train, and the simple country folk thought that what they did could not be wrong. By de­ grees the peasants themselves began to try the "smoke-wagons," too, and one day an old man named Ivan Petrovitch Masloff, who had never been out <}f his own village till then, made up his mind- to go and have a look at "Mother Mos­ cow," which all Russian peasants rever­ ence as the finest city in the world, and the capital of Russia. Now it happened that the down-ex- press and the up-express met each Ather at the station of Bologoe (midway be­ tween Moscow and St. Petersburg), where the passengers of both trains stopped for half an hour to have supper. Among the crowd of people who got out of the other train Ivan suddenly recog­ nized an old friend. The two went into the refreshment-room together, had a chat over their steaming tea and lemon juice, and then Ivan, without thinking of what he he was doing, got into his friend's train instead of his own, and was soon trailing back toward the spot whence he had started. Their talk went on merrily tor n while, for Ivan's friend never thought of asking the old man which way he was going. But presently Ivan began to grow silent and grave, as if ponder­ ing something which puzzled him very much; and at length, after sit­ ting for nearly five minutes without ut­ tering a word, he suddenly broke out: "Ah, Bavel Yurevitch (Paul, son of George), what a wonderful thing these railroads are, to be sure! Here I am going to Moscow, and here you are going to St. Petersburg, and yet we are both traveling in the same car!" The Red Cress Society. The Red Cross Society is an organiza­ tion for the purpose of securing neutral­ ity to the ground occupied by hospitals, etc., during the war, and to provide re­ lief from disaster by flood, pestilence, or other calamity during peace. The movement had its origin in Europe. The battle of Solferino was fought in 1859, and Henry Dunant, a Swiss gen­ tleman, visited the battlefield. What he saw of suffering on the field and in the hospitals made a lasting impression. He saw that with all the appliances and outfit of the French army, aided by in­ habitants where the wounded were taken, the wounded were often left for days without attention or surgical relief. In 1862 he published m description of what he had seen, and set forth reasons for establishing in every country per­ manent societies for the relief of the wounded, A society in Geneva, Switz­ erland, called the Geneva Society of Public Utility, appointed a committee, of which Gen. Dufour, the General-in- chief of the Swiss Confederation, ac­ cepted the presidency, for the purpose of advancing the proposals of Dunant. This led to the International Confer­ ence, held at Geneva, in October, 1863, which was attended by delegates from sixteen governments. The conference lasted four days, and resulted in the calling of an ' International Congress, known as the International Convention of Geneva of 1864. The special aim of the convention of 1864 was to obtain the neutralization of the wounded in war­ time, and also of the persons and ma­ terials necessary for their care. The conference of 1863 had aimed at a (sys­ tem of relief societies for all countries. The treaty of 1864 secured the neutral­ ization of hospitals, materials, nui*ses, and surgeons, and that these might be recognized, a common sign was fixed upon by one of the articles of the treaty which provides for a flag for hospitals and conveys an arm badge for persons. The flag designed was a red cross upon a white ground, adopted as a compli­ ment to Switzerland, this design, with the colors reversed, being the nation^) flag of that country. Thus from these two notable conventions in Geneva, in 1863 and 1864, arose the establishment of national relief committees, and a treaty that now embraces every civilized nation of the earth. Made tbe Father Weep. "See, papa!" exclaimed Mabel Oliffnah, in her inpulsive way, as she held a large dish of some semi-plastic material up before her loving father, who turned pale and stifled a short two- by-four groan as he recognized it. "No," he said hoarsely, "no Mabel, not a " "Yes, papa," cried the girl, "a pie! I made it this afternoon while you were shut up in your musty old office. It is all for you,'papa; every bit of it." Mr. Ohanah sank feebly into a chair. He had not been feeling very well since Milwaukee common broke down to 43 on the first call, and this was too much for him. "Why, Mabel!" he faltered, "I thought that--since you joined the church--am I to eat it to-night, Mabel?" he added, a gleam of hope lighting up his tired eyes as a thought of escape flashed upon his mind. • "Eat it. papa?" exclaimed the girl re­ proachfully; "no, not to-night or any other time; I am going to decorate it." Her father turned away his face that she might not see his tears, and that night as he, went to bed he said to his, wife, "If ever a girl in thisVorld w<» % sincere Christian! our Mabel is oi#.*-«^ Burdetle. Afraid of Drawing the Prize. An old dodge was tried witli success by a smoker in New York. He lives at a boartliDg-honse, and recently placed a box of valuable cigars in his bureau drawer. Two days later he missed four of the cigars, and on the third day discovered that three more had mysteriously disappeared. There­ upon he "wrote on a sheet of paper, which he placed beneath the lid of the box: "One of these cigars has been quarantine against _ yellow fever prevails is jugt$e4t>jr knowledge of the na­ ture . witWn&ib M propagation of this dfoqaaf. Dn oameansnsof medical opin­ ion ia oppoa»d to the contagiousness of yellow fever, bat flavors the view of its mfasffijaftie origin. It is believed that the cause is a living miasm developed in a locality under favorable conditions of climate and Mill, and those who suffer from tbe morbific agent do so only within the area of its generation and occupation. Under certain circum­ stances the peculiar emanation may be air-bom, aa is believed to have been the case at Bermuda, where successive out­ breaks of yellow fever occurred without there being any other source from which it conld have been derived. But then it doea not give rise to the disease until after it undergoes further development in a congenial soil under favorable cli­ matic condition. Or, the ]*>tential agent may be carried to distant places in the fou hold of a ship, which for the time beoomes a locality engendering the disease but affecting only tlume who come within reach of the emanations from it. The spread of the disease at such places depends on whether tbe local conditions are favorable or not for the further development of the miasm. There is not sufficient evidence to sustain the opinion that the importation of cases from fever-smitten localities to healthj' places will give rise to out­ breaks of the disease. Another char­ acteristic. of fellow fever is that it is chiefly developed in cities and towns which have maritime commerce, whether that be upon the seacoast or upon rivers. It is not by the traffio of the great thoroughfares of land,but by means of commerce carried on by ships, that it is diffused. It would seem, therefore, that strict 8anitrtion broadly applied, particularly to vessels from localities where the disease prevails and to the localities themselves, and the removal of the healthy unacclimated population from the area of fever prevalence, are the best means of checking the spread of the disease. Inland quarantine, whioh inflicts un­ necessary hardships, paralyes trade, and leads to demoralization, does not seem to be warranted by the facts at our command. The accounts which appear in the daily press descriptive of the Elans being pursued in the South, show ow mischievous demoralization may become when it obtains ascendency over calm and judicious direction of scientific taeawaes.--Midical News. #; Lawyer Mayberry lived in a town in Middle Georgia. He wis a Ink, stout fellow, and as he had vefry little business in the courts, he spent most of his time quarreling and fighting with his neighbors, and any stranger that came along. One day Mayberry found it necessary to ascertain the whereabouts of a* miss­ ing client. He suspeoted that the man was in a certain village among the mountains in* the northern part of the State, and to satisfy himself he sat down and wrote to the postmaster of the place. In due time he received a rude reply Among other things the postmaster said: poisoned." his visits. The thief at once ceased The Venczneian Presi " " v A few lines in the Patriota, the daily paper of the town, announced that the editor and senior director had been im­ prisoned for expressing their opinions too freely upon public questions; and I learned that it was possible that they might remain for months or at the Presi­ dent's will. Uneasy is the hand that wields a pen where autocrats reign, for so constant an occurrence is the impris­ onment of anyone who criticises the Venezuela Government, that opposition newspapers have an attache called "the prisoii editor," whose*especial duty is to shoulder all responsibility for offensive articles, and spend such time in jail as mav please the powers that be. A. chat with my friend of the Patriota, who was just then in limbo, showed that he regarded his incarceration as quite a regular thing, and was in no way cast down thereby.--Dr. Wm. F. lIuttfyMfSqn, in The American Afatf a- tine* ..' t Wft and Homer. - ̂ TKe ideas of wit and humor tnat pre­ vail in different countries afford a curi­ ous study. A Scotchman is the most appreciative of all men of a joke or an absurdity after it has been knocked into the head with a club, but the club must be very heavy. An Irishman catches a thing of that kind on the fly, and sends it back with something better. The best wit has been English wit, because it has been the conservative article needing more or less serious reflection before the small and genteel article of Bmile. But there is no natural humor in the Scotch or English. There is nothing of that kind with them that is not pumped and unnatural. They never had Abe Lincoln, whose common sense woe illustrated by the best of all broad humor, and an English Josh Billings with his quaint philosophy would appear to them to be a crank. Reviewing the Sermon* Mrs. Smith--How did you like Dr. Pulpit's sermon last Sunday? Mrs. Brown--I thought it was per­ fectly grand, didn't you ? "Yes. The way he pitched into peo­ ple for talking about their neighbors did my heart and soul good. Did you notice how that contemptible cross-eyed thing, Mrs. Bejones, colored up? And no wonder, for I'm sure--don't you breathe a word of it though--that she is not one bit better than she ought to be. Why, her husband goes away and leaves her for weeks at a time, She says he's a traveling man. I'd like to know where he gets the money to travel on." "And look at the yfay she dresses!" "Oh, it's awful! She ought to be churched." "That's just what I think."--Ttxas Sifting s. - The Earth's Cloud Belts. 5Che researches of M. Teissernc de Bort show a marked tendency of the earth's cloudiness throughout the year to arrange itself in zones parallel to the equator. A belt of maximum cloudiness may be traced near the equator, two bands of light cloudiness extending from 15 to 35 degrees of lati­ tude north and south, and two zones of greater cloudiness between 45 and 60 degrees, beyond which the sky seems to become clearer, toward the poles. These zones have a noticeable tendency to follow the sun in its change of de­ clination, moving northward in spring and southward in fall. The zones of clear sky correspond with regions of high pressure. The distribution of cloudiness is a direct consequence of the course of the winds.--Arlcansaw Traveler. ' Relieved. "Are you up-stairs, Nellie?" shouted % husband, who, on returning front busi­ ness found that contrary to custom his wife was not waiting to receive him. ^ "Misses went out this morning, sir," said a servant coming up from the re­ gions below, "and she hasn't returned since." "Gracious heavens!" he exclaimed to himself, "she can't have run away and left me. I have given her no cause." " She went down town to match a rib­ bon, sir," added the servant. "Ah!" he murmered to himself, im­ mensely relieved. -"Gone shopping. It's all right. Shell return after all the stores a*Q dowd," and with a serene brow he sat down to look over the after* Boston Courier. AHD iHciMjrrs THAT m+wm tATELT OCCURRED. " '1$ CILWI*. Hews KOIM. •mm*. :* 1 "I shall not take the trouble to answer your question. Tou failed to inclose a stamp, doubtless thinking that I would take advantage of my position to use an official envelope for your accommodation. I have never defrauded the Government out of a stamp, and I don't propose to do it now. When Mayberry got this letter he ripped and swore until the atmosphere was sulphurous. Twenty-eight years rolled away Mayberry was a man of 60, but in spite of his years he remained as tough and plucky as ever. His fights were not so numerous, but when he took a hand in a racket the town boys lost no time in getting beyond the reach of his iron fist. There was a State convention to be held in Atlanta, and Mayberry was one of the delegates. He arrived in the city late at night, and was shown to a room in the old Atlanta Hotel. There were two beds in the room, and one of them was occupied. As the moonlight streamed through the window, the country lawyer undressed without striking a light, and jumped into bed He found himself wakeful and started a conversation with his unknown room' mate. " Delegate ?" he inquired. "Yes, sir," was the reply. ; "So am I," said Mayberry. t Then there was a pause for Ik Dtto- ment. "Where do yon hail from?" asked the lawyer. "Blue Rock." "And what might be your name?" "My name is Shorter,* answered the stranger. "Didn't you use to be postmaster al Blue Rock?r "Yes--but that was twenty-eight years ago. I--" But he never finished the sentence. With an angry snort, that sounded like the yell of some wild animal, old May berry leaped from his bed and thew himself upon the ex-postmaster. "Now, durn you, I've got you!" he shouted. "My name is Mayberry. Maybo yon don't recollect answering a letter of mine once, and charging me with trying to beat you out of stamp?" "That was" twenty-eight years ago, gasped the other, "and I liave almost forgotten the circumstances." "I don't care a d--n when it was, said Mayberry. "I swore that I'd whip you for it, and I will." And he proceeded to pound his victim with both fists. Old Mayberry dragged the Blue Bock man out of bed and rolled over the floor with him, pounding him all the time Then he got his knife, and, planting his knee on tbe enemy's breast, he said: "I'll just cut your blasted throat and settle this business." The ex-postmaster eommenoed beg was twenty-eight years ago," he said. "Do you want to kill a man for little thing like that? I'm an old man now, and I have a family. Tm sorry I wrote the letter. I wouldn't do it now." Old Mayberry turned him loose and struck a light. "Will you write an apology?" he asked. "Of course I will," was the answer of the half-dead delegate. The lawyer pulled a note-book from his coat pocket and handed it to the postmaster. He then dictated the apology and the other wrote it down. "Now," said Mayberry, "wind up with something about recognizing me as a perfect gentleman, of great forbearance and courteous manners." The postmaster groaned, but wrote it down. "Now sign it," commanded May-. berry. This was done and the old lawyer pocketed the document. "Now," said he, calmly, "you take your duds and get out of this room. I am going to have it to myself." As the postmaster with his clothes on his arm, slunk through the door, May­ berry heard him mutter: "It was twenty-eight years ago.. What a memory that man has. Old Mayberry gave a chuckle and jumped into bed. In ten minutes he was sleeping the quiet, peaceful sleep of an infant. The Nervosa System and Overwork. Dr. John Brown, a very sensible Scotch physician, penned in his char­ acteristic way, some excellent thoughts in the following paragraphs: "You see, my dear working friends, I am great upon your sparing your strength, and taking things cannily. 'All very well,' say you; it's easy to say, "Take it easy;" but if the pot's on th"e fire, it mau^ bile.' It must; but you needn't poke up the fire forever; and you may now and then set the kettle on the hob and let it sing, in­ stead of leaving it to burn its bottom out. "I had a friend who injured himself by overwork. One day I asked the servant if tuiy one had called, and was told that some one had. Who was it? 'O, it's the little gentleman that aye rins when he walks!' I wish this age would walk more and 'rin less.' A man can walk farther and longer than he can rim, and it's poor saving to get out of breath. I am constantly seeing men who suffer, and indeed, die, from living too fast; from true, though not con­ sciously immoral, dissipation, or scatter­ ing of their lives. "Many a man is bankrupt in constitu­ tion at 45, and either takes out a cessio of himself to the grave, or goes on paying 10 per cent, of his stock in trade; he spends his capital instead of spending merely what he makes, or, better still, laying up a purse for the of darkness and old age." . P. Palmer's Team. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, '^iilNhn- ported a four-in-hand coach and four handsome horses. The turnout is 'said to be one of the most perfect iu its ap­ pointments and the most expensive ever sent to America. The coach cost $10,- 000 and the horses another $10,000, the harness $100 for each hone, and the robes and oovers another $500. , If - ' *»" fa# ' A ' ' - A DOTRBM STCBDEB. -The village of Thostpsooville, Thaife.' lin County, located , on the Cairo gjmt Line Railroad, was the scene of a honAia double murder at an early hoar the other morning. The news spread rapidly, caus­ ing intense exeitement, and lfflndfads of people for miles around went to the ttttie town during the day to see the bodies eff the victims and learn the story «C tte'i crime. Tbe morning of the tragedy War-' ren and Beth Jordan, John and Chartte . Williams, and one or *lwo others were s deeply engaged in a game of cards. Beth > J || Jordan, who had been drinking rathar ' " freely during the night, was put telMK and the game continued until ended in a violent quarrel between Warren Jordan and John Williams. Jor- ; dan drew his pistol and fired five BhetS aft Williams, all taking effect, and any on* of them wpnld have caused death. Will­ iams fell dead and Jordan turned, dashed from the room, and started to run down the street, but he was followed by his •ie- tim's younger brother, Charlie Williams* who had in his hand a sharp haiclMb which he drove deep into Jordan's brain, clear up to the handle. Jordan fell and expired in five minutes, and Williama went at once to Benton, the oonuty seat, and delivered himself up to Sharflf Jtfbn B. Moore, who locked him up in the Ctfoipf Jail. The bodies of John Williams andl Warren Jordan lay where the men haft ' fallen in death until Coroner Raglan arriv- ed to conduct the inquest, the jury retain- ing a verdict in consonance with the abtfWai: facts. The hatchet was still sticking lit Jordan's head as they viavred the ce||ijav The Jordan and Williams families among the best known and most promt in Franklin County. The two men weratNJI- known and generally liked, and, wfcti* having the reputation of being hatd ftgfct> • ; ers, they wen respected by all eitiaHaa^ Jordan leaves a wife and- family, wfcB* Williams was unmarried. Charles Will­ iams has always borne the name of iMfetg; a hot fighter when mad. It is stated thak the sympathy of the public seems to be with him, and his friends justify his Swift vengeance on his brother's BMritnr. Never before was there such intense excite - ment in Ffanklin County as this StaHliag tragedy caused, and theft ate pave tan of further trouble. £ ' £ 111 --An unknown woman who step^fd eff one of the Northwestern tracks between Clybourn Junction and Haplewood t> avoid a passing train was run down. aa& killed by a train on the other track wtofe was coming in the opposite direction. --The Foreign Missionary Society et\ the Christian Church, late in ie»sion atr Springfield, elected Isaac Errett, of Cin­ cinnati, Ohio, President, and adjourned. --William Settles and Miss Delia M. Coonard were united in marriage at Mon- ticello. This is the couple which %aased such a sensation some time ago. - QeMlaa v-;^ was arrestod for kidnaping Miss Cceant4;V" and keeping her away from home against ^ her will at Springfield and other pOlata, . and was indicted by the grand jury bat es­ caped punishment. --Near Sullivan, Moultrie County, lata1 ly, the death of "Uncle Bill" WaftsatffwA; place. He was known as the '•Ipy made his own coffin and was vety SCMSK trie. The coffin was a plain one, walnut. Mr. Watson cut and sawedthe lumber himself and after seasoning it for about eight years concluded to make it into1! a coffin for himself. He did so aiafcy. years ago, and soaked it in oil and jBwb _ . varnished it well. At the head he pat a « cross piece, which raised that end aeme; , ^ five inches higher than the other. He •: /In­ stated that when he laid down he wanted his head raised. The reason given far Ml manufacture is the shoddy character ef the shop-made goods. Mr. Watson was 76 years old and a Mexican soldier and a sol­ dier in the late war. He had lived on hip present farm for over forty-five ysaaft n About two weeks before he died he had the ' ^ coffin brought into his room and placed a* the foot of his bed. --Jacob Behel, a well-known lawjeret.. Rockford, whose practice has been shaoet confined to. the securing of patents, la dead. --A typhoid-fever epidemic prevailed in Macon County, and outside medical aid was called in. Whole families were af­ flicted, and several deaths occurred. ' --At Rockford a well-dressed fellow, who represented himself to be O. A. San- ford's nephew, asked W. W. Fairfield, % wealthy retired capitalist, to ride with hfm ? Fairfield did so, and was driven to a heesat i on West street, where he was shown book and asked to subscribe for it. Af»et|j^ the capitalist had become interested, - ^ was shown a box and asked to ta3ke,^^* chance in the game. In the meentiaan# another stranger had appeared, and latter took the chance and lost. lb. Faimf t field then tried and won, and a of money was paid over to him, f$£ fore he was allowed to take ithewafn4*p|/: to put up an equal amount. He haNfliip; over what he had, and gave a check on t(i»i Second National Bank for the balana#^' The stranger wanted to get th»-'el*ate' cashed. At the bank Mr. SanBarik, cashier, suspected that something tit i wrong, refused to cash it, and eoaiinoai Mr. Fairfield that it was a skin game, and ' >, so the latter did not go back. The strangers left with what they got out of> ^ him, but had the check been catthad the}* *'$*4 would have secured a big sum. ^ --Long John Went worth's will, closely written by himself and covering fifteen folio pages, has been submitted to probate in Chicago. It furnished something of a surprise in that the value of the entire «- tate was given as $1,500,000 instead ot - ;, ̂ $3,000,000 or $4,000,000, as the gossip® had it. The real estate is said to repre- vaS sent $1,125, W)0 and the personal property . V $375,000, consisting of bank and railroad stocks, cash, cattle, etc. The realty the estate comprises over 5,000 acres o£ land ia Cook County, including an exten­ sive farm in Lyons and Palos to«ashi$<fc most of which ultimately goes to Moaaa Wentworth, whom the deceased namedap. executor and to wham letters of . tration have been issued. * * irV-€' "