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ITJ.TNOia : ; i G®H. BtrrucK has had wiiac he de» to be ha lust picture taken. He " probably vdl pleased to with bis counterfeit presentment •,/J. "W. GKATSON'S invention for throw- ibg shells charged with dynamite from ordinary cannon has been sold to the French Government for 2,500,000 fance- . • . : HAEVAUB HW graduated three presi­ dents, two vice presidents, eighteen cabinet officers, three speakers of the House of BepresentatweCi and four Su- pwAe Court Judges, Miss VICTORIA WEST, daughter of Saokville, discourages all suitors for her hand. She onc^ loved a Mr. DeBildtk ad attache Of the Swedish legation to this country. He married •pother. .••• S THE cabbage-growers around WM- Iws, Ohio, organized a trust tliis year, demanding 5 cents a head for cabbage in the field. They eoalil not sell their twoduce and will be glad to get 2 cents a bead nest spring. "TAKE all the lawyers in Boston, New "Tork, Philadelphia, and Chicago and they can't sorape np one single ease where an* innocent man has been banged," says the Chicago Herald. "All such instances are purely imaginary." CHIEF JUSTICE GEOROB W. STONE of file Supreme Court of Alabama cele- tttntcd his birthday a few (lays ago, and was surrounded by over seventy children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He danced a jig with one of bis greats grandsons, - QUEEN ISABELLA, of Spain, who has many fine characteristics aa well as a lot of bad ones, has now earned the sympathy of Americans by displaying deep devotion to the game of poker, to which she invites select parties at her houee in Paris. „ CHAUNCCT M. DEPEW was graduated bom Yale? College in 1856, and threo years later was admitted to the bar. His connection with the Yanderbilt rail­ road interests dates from 1866, when he made the acquaintance of W. H. Van- derbilt, and became the attorney of the New York and Harlem Road. < MART MURPH* of Newtown, Conn., aged 1®, died ft few days ago from a singular cause. She was an inveterate gom-chewer; even carrying a morsel between her teeth when she went to bed. While she was asleep a short time ago the piew of gum siipped down her throat, lodged in the entrance to the atomach, and eaused a fatal ulceration. The iron chairs arranged so thickly alOng the Champs Elysees belong to the dfy of Paris. There are 7,500 of them. The right to control them for the period of four yearn will soon be sold at auc­ tion, the upset price being 45,000. The liayer may demand 3 sous for the use of an arm-eliair and one son for a plain chair and must keep them in good or­ der. • Xi. FOIXENDEB, a Roumanian, who keeps a lodging house in Kansas City, has received authentic information that be is one of two heirs to an estate of $7,090,000 l$ft by an uncle in Koumania. Follendcr was so overjoyed by his good luck that he went on a big spree, took morphine to induce sleep, and was or.lv saved by bard work and a stomaoh- j^jgmp from missing his fortune. JOSEPH SBIPE, aged 25, and Margaret Douglas, aged 10, were engaged to be married thirty-five years ago in East Tern tssee. Relatives objected because of tho*girl's youth, and the marriage was postponed from time to time. Hav­ ing at last reached an age when they could afford to ignore outside objec­ tions, the ceremony whioh made tw > loving and patient hearts one was per- formed. ' WILLIAM RALSTON, who has been ; made insane over too close attention to the Whitechapel murders, is the well- known writer of folk lore and myths; and has written several well-known books and contributed a great number of articles to English periodicals. He became interested in the mysterious murders to such an extent that his mind was unbalanced and bp Is now in ous- tody of a keeper. A HENRY PLUMHER CHEATHAM, from & tte Second North Carolina District, • will be the only colored man in the Fifty-first Congress. He is about thirty jrenrs old, and a graduate of Shaw Uni­ versity at Raleigh, N. C. He is popular with the white people of the "Black District.* Cheatham is a mulatto, and * has some of the best white blood in the State in his veins. He is a well-behaved, quiet man, and the Democrats in the dntrict believe he will do Ma full duty. : ) MR. AND MRS. GLADSTONE aa they ap- ^ peared on the platform on the occasion of their reoent visit to Birmingham: Both were in evening dress, the lady charmingly attired in crimson silk, black lace, and diamonds, and carrying a *x swansdown fan; Mr. Gladstone, with the customary camellia in his coat, "his dxes(B-«hirt open at the neck for strong oratorical effort,7 and the way of hi-* white tie thus made easy for ita custom­ ary journey to the side of the neck in the course of his ooming oration. Mr. Gladstone's letter of praise, and are counting upoa large sales. It Is some stub mahas Mr. ' tfiWtstone that comparatively Unknown authors have been long praying for. JOHN W. SHECKKLLB, a* locksmith, who lived by himself for many years in a little room over his dingy shop, died recently at Washington, leaving his property to an Uncle named MeElfresh. Before his death he told his uncle that be would find a piece of paper in his safe telling him where he "kept tilings." After a search a small piece of paper folded up in a pellet was discovered, statmg that bis money would be found buried in the gro » d in front of the shop. A search was made awl $1,300 was found in two tin boxes. About five hundred dollars of the amount was in five and ten-cent pieces. J i i ' • i - ( » . . . AT Francis Murphy's twelfth anni­ versary, held in Pittsburgh, highly gratifying letters were read from Canon Wilberforce, Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, and other distinguished Londoners. Since Mr. Murphy left England, bis distin­ guished correspondents state that his work has been faithfully executed by his converts, and in the last five years 6,960,000 signatures fco pledges were ob­ tained. Mr, Murphy bad before per­ sonally obtained 7,000,000, making the sum iotal of 14,000.000 persons whoat- tached themselves to his crusade. It is claimed, too, that 85 per cent of this great multitude remain faithful to their vows of absolute abstinence. MR. GLADSTONE is proving a veritable bonanza for publishers and booksellers. It was his criticism that made "Robert Elsmere" what it is in point of papillar­ is. and he has now discovered virtue in •II almost unknown novel called "Rob­ bery Under Arms." The book was written by an Australian magistrate and deals chiefly with bushrangers. The m preparing a ne» f--*"~"l" J , <¥»» ' A MILD sensation was caused by the speech of Lord Salisbury at Edinburgh in which he declared iu favor of female suffrage. His lordship in referring to the subject said he earnestly hoped the day was not far distant when the woman would bear their share in' voting for members in the political world and in determining the policy of the country. He could oonoeive of no argument by which they could rightfully be excluded. It was obvious that they were abund­ antly as fit as many who possessed the suffrage by knowledge, by training and aby character, and their itifluencewas likely to weigh in a direction which in an age so material as this was exceed­ ingly valuable--namely, in the direc­ tion of morality aud religion. THE death has been announced of Mrs. Harriet Horry Laurens Ingraham, wife of Commodore lugraiiam of the Confederate navy, at the age of 74 years. She was, says the Baltimore 8un, tlie grand-daughter of Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary war, and also of John Rutledge, the Revolutionary Governor of South Carolina, and the first Chief Justice of the Suprenj#6ourt of the United States. Her uncle, Col. John Laurens, was Washington's aid- de-camp and Minister to France who arranged the negotiations ^ith the French Government that brought about surrender of Yorktown. He was appointed Commissioner by Washington to jSraw up the aiticles of Cornwallis* tulation. The yriginal documents, Washington's* interlinear correc­ tions, are still in the family. Another uncle, Edward Rutledge, was one of the early Governors of South Carolina, and with Henry Laurens signed the Declaration of Independence. Commo­ dore Ingraham, her husband, is now 87 years of age, and is the only surviving naval officer of the war of 1812-14, in which he served with distinction. cap; with ' A IlKWSPAfiHI WWtI» Old Dom Pedro's Simplicity. The Emperor of Brazil has at last gone home. ' The aged gentleman likes to cross the Atlantic just like any other traveler, and lias an especial preference for the English "Royal Mail" packets. He does net allow any difference to be made between him and other passen­ gers, dining at the Captain's table, and giving express orders that he and his party are to be fed just like any one else--no extra delicacies to be reserved even for his Majesty or the Emprestf, nor any other invidious distinctions to be made between them and their fellow- voyagers in the saloon. The ladies' cabin is given up to the Empress, and two gentlemen's cabins are knocked into j one for the Emperor; and this is all. | The Captain's deck cabin is indeed pat at their disposal during the day as a boudoir; but Peter declines to turn the Captain out of it, and spends his time on deck trotting up and down and ask­ ing endless'questions of every officer he f can waylay to satisfy his unquenchable thirst for information. When all other amusements fail Peter sits down in a quiet corner and puzzles over charades and riddles, which are a favorite source of diversion with the simple hearted old monarch. As for his consort, when she gets over the first few davs of mal de vivr, she employs herself with books and fancy work as placidly as her spouse, gives no trouble to any one, and has a kintj word and a smile for all. The an­ cient couple are universal favorites with all on board, and though they live so simply they do not forget to tip all who have in anywise served or helped them on the munificent scale appropriate to crowned heads.- -London Society. queer System of Book-Keepingv A little man who runs a prosperous drug store on Cottage Grove Avenue has a system of book-keeping that is probably without a duplicate from one end of the city to the other. His dis­ tinguishing trait is an inability to re­ member names. He has a score of cus­ tomers whom he has traded with for , years, and whom he knows by sight as well as he does his own brother, but whose names he could not call off to ijave himself from hanging. The con­ sequence is, that, when three or four of these customers have called in one even­ ing, and have made small purchases which they wished chalked up, his little book contains entries something like this: "Man with the black whiskers: cigars, 25 cents"; "The short-necked man: paregoric, 10 cents"; "The hand­ some man, with the gray dilldalls, 50 cents' worth of Jamaica ginger"; anl so on, This is the only set of bookkeeping that the little drug-store man indulges in, and he says his creditors are all good, and never let him lose money by it. But it would be interesting to know how he'd address his envelopes if any of his debtors let their accounts run long enough to necessitate the sending out of bills.--W-fiago Journal. The Own Toug' MHM Who Mc*«r Bad * Good Exeow, and Cot fbnt Qvite tiUhnully. When I was in Chicago last summer the city editor of one Qf the papers there told me this story, which will show the advantage of not having an ex­ cuse : Some years ago a (green-looking fel­ low appeared in the city editor's room from no one knew where, and wanted a job. The city editor told him as he had told hundreds of fellows before him, that there was no vacancy at present-- that is the usual formula--but that if he t ame across a good bit of news it would be cheerfully accepted and paid for. Well, the young man brought in what stuff he could, and sometimes an item or two was used; but more often noth­ ing was available, and the fellow lived the best he could and slept in sheds or in the park and never grumbled. The editor began to get tired of seeing his want-stricken face, and once or twice advised him to go home, but the young man said that perhaps a chance would come along by and by, and anyhow he was there to stay! One biglit the city 'editor said to him: "If you want a chance there's a beau­ tiful oae open for you to-night. The street car men are having meetings every night, and we can't find out what they are up to. They meet at the cor­ ner of th street and --- avenue. " All right," said the young man. "Have you any objections to. my say­ ing I'm a reported on this paper?* "Not in the least," said the editor with a griu. "I may say, though that Ratagan, who tried to get last night's meeting, is in the hospital to-day." Seeing how nrach in earnest the young man was the city editor added: "The meeting is Slade's regular assign­ ment to-night, but I don't think he'll get much except a broken head, per­ haps. Anyhow, if you get anything at all it'll all kelp out. Here's a couple of dollars to meet any expense? you may have." Shortly after midnight the young man appeared in the city editors room. He looked as if he bad been principal in a prize fight. "Well," said the city editor. "I couldn't get in," remarked the young man. "Has Mr. Slade brought anything?" "Yes, a first-rateexcuse, like yours." "I tried to pass the guards, but they flung me down stairs. That is how I got this," pointing to his cut and swollen lip. "That's all right. 1 didn't expect you'd get in."* "I bribed a fellow for a dollar to let me in the back way. They found me out and dropped me out of a window. That's how I got this," pointing to his closed right eye. "Well, you imisn't feel discouraged." "1 felt a little cast d >wn when they dropped me out of the window." "That's not bud. You ought to apply for a position in the paragraph depart­ ment. "I climbed up (o the roof on the rear fire «'»oap«>, got into the top story through thn trap door, went down to the room aliove tltem by the stair, and found that the store pipe came up through that floor." "Yes," said the oity editor with in­ creasing interest. "They were having such ft stormy time below that I removed the stovepipe without anyone hearing and held the lower pipe from falling with my left hand." . *Yes.n "I oouldrssov* it aaideandaeeall I wanted to and hear everything." "Yes." "They have resolved to go on strike on all the lines at 9 to-morrow morning, and every one is sworn to secresy." "Great Scott!" cried the city editor, jumping to bis feet, "write that up. Give us all you can of it." "It is written up. You see the elec­ tric light opposite made the roof light enough to write by, and I had to stay there and hold the stovepipe till every one was gone, and then fit it up-again so they wouldn't suspect. Good scheme for next meeting. So I wrote it up as I lay there." "Great head," said the city editor. That young man is now managing one of the biggest papers in the West, and all because his rule was: "Never have a good excusef'--Luke Sharp, in Detroit Free Press. - The Exiles* Begging Seng. George Kennan, in the Century, writes of life on the great Siberian road, and describes the following incident: "I shall never forget the emotions roused in me by this song when I heard it for the first time. We were fitting, one cold, raw, autumnal day, in a dirty post station on tha great Siberian road, waiting for horses. Suddenly my atten­ tion was attracted by a peculiar, low- pitched, quavering sound which came to us from a distance, and which, al­ though made apparently by human voices, did not resemble anything that I had ever before heard. It was not singing, nor chanting, nor wailing for the dead, but a strange blending of all three. It suggested vaguely the con­ fused and commingled sobs, moans, and entreaties of human beings who were being subjected to torture, but whose sufferings were not acute enough to seek expression in shrieks or high- pitched cries. As the sound came nearer we went out into the street in front of the station-house and saw approaching a chained party of about a hundred bare-headed convicts, who, surrounded by a cordon of soldiers, were marching slowly through the settlement, singing the 'exiles' begging song.' No attempt was made by the singers to pitch their voices in harmony, or to pronounce the words in unison; there were no pauses or rests at the ends of the lines; and I could not make out any distinctly marked rhythm. The singers seemed to be constantly breaking in upon one another with slightly modulated varia­ tions of the same slow, melancholy air, and the effect produced was that of a rude iugue, or of a funeral chant, so ar­ ranged as to be sung like a round or catch by a hundred male voices, each independent of the others in time and melody, but all following a certain scheme of vocalization, and taking up by turns the same dreary, wailing theme. The words were as follows: Have pity on tie. O our htben t Don't forget the unwilling traI Don't forget tbe long-imprisoned. ( Feed us, O our fathers--help UBI Feet! and heip the poor and needy! Have eoinpaa; ion, O OUT fathera I •' &.•>*•: *f! Have compassion. O our mothers! '-.iff For the t>4ke of Christ, have mercy * Oil tbe prisoners--the Bbut-np oneai Behind walls of stone and frtiiiaga, •-V Behind oaken doorb and padtotka, , i -i. Behind bara and locksot Iron, .•H We are held ia closa confinement. , ^ >4 We have parted from our fath«V , From our mothers; - t We from all our kin bm gartlB'- ' * K Wuara prisoners; * ... Pity a#, O our fathers I • •If you can imagine these words, half igogl canted, slowly, in broken time, and on a low key, by a hnadveel wilt have a faint idea of the 'Miloeerd- naya,' or exiles' begging song. Rude, artless, and inharmonious as the appeal for pity was, I had never in my life beam anything so mournful and de­ pressing. It seemed to be the half-ar­ ticulate expression of all the grief, the misery, and the despair that had been felt by generations of human beings in the etapes, the forwarding prisons, and the mines. "As the party marched slowly along the muddy street between the lines of gray log houses, children and peasant women appeared at the doors with their bands full of bread, meat, eggs-, or other articles of food, .which they put into the caps or bags of the three or four shaven- headed convicts who acted as alms-col­ lectors. The jingling of chains and the wailing Toices grew gradually fainter and faintsr as the party passed up the street, and when the sounds finally died away in the distance and we turned to re-enter the post station, I felt a strange sense of dejection, as if the day had suddenly grown colder, darker, and more dreary, and the cares and sorrows of life more burdensome and oppres- . jkls Valedictory. % you wpuld like to say a few words before wo string you up," said the spokesman c>f the vigilance committee, sternly, "yo^ may have the chance." "There is something I would like to say," respotiled the condemned horse thief, pale bat self-possessed. "All I ask is that you will permit me to say it without interruption." MGo ahead" said the spokesman, laconically. "We'll let you finish.b "Then, gentlemen," began the con­ demned man, with deep emotion, "I have a few wottis of solemn warning to utter. In the innocent and happy days of my young nnnhood, before I came "to Arizona and fell into evil ways, I was engaged in a uiefnl and honorable call­ ing. Had I neVer abandoned it I might have been still a respectable and up» right citizen. Though I had become a bad man and im about to receive my just punishment, I have always kept a memento of thote happier days. In my valise, gentlemoft, you will find a copy of a little work entitled, 'The American Voter's Text-bo0k,' of which I sold nearly 1,000 cdpies in one County in Pennsylvania aldna. It is indispensa­ ble to every man who would keep him­ self thoroughly fttformed as to those questions eoneeitaing whieh it is the auty cf every citsen to be fully ad­ vised. You will find in that little volume, gentleni4), full and accurate information as to tee political platforms of all the parties, election returns from every State in tip Union, names of members of Congasss, judges ot the various courts, etc.l with a mass of mis­ cellaneous statistic* and facts never be­ fore grouped tog^her in one work. Bound in cloth or hUf-calf, the price ol this valuable book Ins always been--" He puused a monent to wipe the scalding tears from lis eyes. When he looked about him wain his audience had vanished. He wi|8 saved I--Chicago Tribune. 4<MM rot FAsmm Unknewn Sound is the seni us when the vibratioi on the drum of our ei few, the sound is dee in ummber, it beco; shriller; but when t! thousand in a second audible. Light is th] on us when wav eye. When four Is saticas. on produced of the air strike When they are as they increase ea shriller and ey reach forty ey erase to be effect^produced »on tbe fed millions of it&t- 1 ~ If • i fU ' hi *"! i - ... < v ̂ ' . . »f, 1 - * ; - - millions of vibrations of ether strike the retina in a second, they produce red, and as the number increases the color passes into orange, then yellow, green, blue, and violet. But between forty thousand vibrations in a second, and four hundred millions of millions we have no organ of sense' capable of re­ ceiving the impression. Yet between these limits any number of sensations may exist. We have fiv# senses, and sometimes fancy that no others are possi­ ble. But it is obvious that we cannot measure the infinite by our pwn narrow limitations. \ Moreover, looking at the question from the other side, we find'in animals complex organs of sense, rielfly supplied with nerves, but the function of which we are as yet powerless i-i explain.. There may be fifty over senseip as differ­ ent from ours as sound is from sight; and even within the boundaries of our own senses there may be endlsSs sounds which we cannot hear, and ioolors as different as red from green, of Vhich we have no conception. These and a thou­ sand other questions remain for solu­ tion. The familiar world wluph sur­ rounds us may be a totally Afferent place to other animals. To qaem it may.be full of music which we jcannot hear, of color which we cannoti see, of sensations which we cannot ooncjpive.-- Popular Science Monthly. George Augustus, Safa. The popular English journalist apd litterateur, George Augustus Sal̂ , saya that he has written over 7,OOf) news­ paper essays during the past thirty-five vears, but he wisely refrains from stat­ ing how many people have never rend a line of any of them. Hala's ready wit--which is proverbial across the ocean, is demonstrated in the following anecdote. One day while he was walking down Bond street, London, with Bret Harte, he noticed that Harte was walking close to tbe houles, and asked him why he did so. "To avoid being run onto," answered Harte. "The fact is, your countrymen wear so many glasses screwed into their eyes that they can't see where they're going to save em. Some hours later, Sala caught Harte hastily by the arm as they were passing the Langham Hotel, _ where all good Americans stop while in London. Harte did not understand the reason of Bala's haste and asked if he had suddenly seen his tailor? "Well, no," said Sala, re­ moving his hat and inspecting it closely; "but the fact is, that, as we both wear silk hats, it wouldn't do for UB to stay on that side. There are so many of your countrymen at the Langham, and they are spitting out of the windows continually." Beat that who can!-- Alexander N. De MeniX,in SL Louts Maganne. 1,,^T Business vs. Pleasare. ̂! r Mother--Goodness me! Is that Ivaoc •i the piano? Little Son--Yes, ma. Mother--Well, go ask her what she is doing. If she is practicing, she can keep on until the*hour is np; but if she is playing, tell her to stop. --Philadel­ phia Record. DR. CENTER, of Jacksonville, Fla., has. a regular beanstalk of nursery fame. He got (be seed from Japan, and the bush is forty feet high and spread* twenty-five feet From the "charge" given by Rev. Wallace Radoliffe, D. D., to fiev. R. J. Service, at his installation «s pastor of the Trumbull Avenue Church, Detroit, we take the following sentences: Don't study without prayer. Don't pray without study. Don't feed people with unbaked dough. Don't tell all you know in one sermon. Don't put the hay to high in the ricks. ^ Don't offer them sentimental reflec­ tions of intellectual shavings. Don't mistake philosophy for Chris­ tianity ; cant for j iety; noise for zeal, or crowds for success. Don't l>e so broad that you can float nothing but intellectual chips on your shallow stream. Don't wear blue spectacles all the time, but own a pair and always hasa them in the pulpit with yoti.?^ Don't scold. , -v.w Don't * the cap and belW - « * Don't mistake length for profundity nor brevity for wit. Don't lash the back of tbe sinner ill- stead of the back of his sin. V, Don't offer to other people manna which you have not tasted yourself. Don't imagine your sermon to be a revelation or anything but the text to have "Thus saith the Lord" written across it. Don't let your harp have only one string. \ • Don't be a Vender of nostrums. Don't try to .make brides without straw. • ' . ' Don't be anybody but yourself. Don't be a sectarian. •«,; Don't be afraid to be a denomination- alist. Don't let any religious hobby ride you, but don't be afraid to ride any re­ ligious hobby, if you have one. Don't live in the third century. Don't live in the twentieth oent^f. Don't live in the clouds. L £ Don't follow everybody's advice,, Don't be afraid of any'man. . v Don't be afraid of the devQ. Don't be afraid of yourself. ' Don't become a peripatetic gossip or a persistent tea drinker, nor an the other hand a solemn clam. Don't hold yourself too cheap. Don't try to do anybody's duty^but your own. Don't spare the people's pockets, lor therein lie their hearts. Don't expect the sun to shine through all the 24 hours of the day. Don't expect that all your geese will be swans, or all your believers saints. Don't expect 'Borne to be built in a day, or the Lord to be in as big a harry as you are. Don't restrain too muoh; it is well, often, the steam escapes. Don't let the young people run away with you nor the bald-headed put too many brakes on. Don't drive, but lead. Don't ask any one to work hardsr than you do yourself. Don't be dis&ppciuied when harvests do not come in a day, and oats do not spring up like Jonah's gourd. Don't see everything that is wiOngia the congregation. Don't carry all your eoolesiastioal eggs in one basket. Don't despise the rich, and dishonor the poor, nor esteem yourself wiser than your brethren. Don't feel yourself responsible for the universe nor try to spread yourself over creation. Don't be an evangelist without a mes­ sage, a preacher without a doctrine, a pastor without devotion, a presbyter without responsibility, or a bishop with­ out watchfulness, and vou will not be a Servant without reward. Don't be too confiding. Dont despair. A11 Irish Horse An Irish clergyman, meeting Denny Cooley riding a horse, said: "Good morning, Denny; where did you get that horse?" "Well, I'll tell your rev­ erence," answered Denny.. "Sometime ago I went to the fair of Ross--not with this horse, but another horse. Well, sorra, a man said to me, 'Dinny, do you come from the aist, or do you come from the wesht?' Well, your riverenoe, I rode home, and was near Kilnagross, when I met a man riding along the road forninst me. 'Good evening, friend,' says he. 'Good evening, friend/ says 1. 'Were you at the fair of Ross'?' says he. 'I was,' says L Did you sell ?' says he. 'No,' says I. 'Would you sell?' says he. 'Would you buy ?•• says L 'Would you make a clan® swap,'.says he --horse, bridle, and saddle and all?' says he. 'Done!' says L Well, your reverence, I got down off av me horse-- not this horse, but the other horse--and the man got off av his horse--that's this horse, not the other horse--and we swapped and rode away. But, when he had gone about 20 yards, he turned around and called after me.' 'There niver was a man from Ross,' says he, 'but could put his finger in the eye av a man from Kilnagross,' says he; and that horse,' says he 'that I swapped with you,'says he, 'is bind av an eye!' says lie. We'll, then, your riverence, I turned upon him, and 1 called out to him: 'There niver was a man from Kilna­ gross.' says I, 'but could put his two fingers in both the eyes av a man from Ross,' says I, 'and that horse that I swapped with you,' says I, is blimj of. both eyes!'says I." ^ . ' \ Wonderful , The old Egyptians were better build­ ers than those Qf the present day. There are blocks of stones in the pyramids which weigh three or four times as much as the obelisk on the London em­ bankment. There is one stone, the weight of which is estimated at 880 tons. There are stones thirty feet in length which fit so closely together that a penknife may be run over the surface without discovering the break between them. They are not laid with mortar either. We have no machinery so "per­ fect that it will make two surfaces thirty feet in length which will meet together as these stones in the pyramids meet. It is supposed that they were rnbbed backward and forward upon each other until the surfaces were assimilated, making them the world's wonders in mechanical skilL- -London Budget." Distribution of Illiteracy. Statistics collected in (Germany show that in Roumania, 8ervia, and Russia about 80 per cent of the inhabitants are unable to read and write; in Spain, 63 per cent.; Italy, 48 per cent.; Hun­ gary, 43 per cent.; Austria, 39 per cent.; Ireland, 21 per cent.; France and Belgium, 15 per cent.; England, 13 per cent.; Holland, 10 per cent.; United States (white population), 8 per cent.; Scotland, 7 per cent; Switzerland, 2.5 per cent; and the whole German Em­ pire, 1 per cent; while\ip Sweden, Denmark, Bavaria, Baden^and Wu*» temburg there is practically no one who -eannot. read 'iM' " * »v Uf." •• k i-pi B> fttiHmh In Tbe -gossips are alreaiy piwitftig President Cleveland with empT after his retirement, some Pii at the head of an insurance and others at the head of a railroad company. All this is natural enough, for what we shall do with «sr ex-Pres­ idents has always been a question with the American people. As a rule, all our Presidents have gone baek to pri­ vate life with dignity, though in a few instances there have been-circumstances that we all might wish should have been otherwise. Washington returned to his beloved Mt Vernon with the joy a boy feels when let loose from school. There he remained, occasionally visiting the new Federal city, which was named after him, having at times contentions with old farmer Burns, who owned much of the ground the citv . was laid out cm, and who, on one notable occasion, turned upon the Father of his Country and told him that he would not have been quite so big a man had he not married the widow Custis, a retort that Wash­ ington took in very good part John Adams retired in a very groat rage, for he was angry at not obtaining a re-election, but he went back to Quincy and there, making up frit!*, all his enemies, lived a long and happy life. Jefferson, who was not shrewd in business habits, spent more than his salary while in office, and returned to Monticello poor and in debt, a condition he never escaped from. His splendid library he sold to the Government, aud it was the foundation of the Congress­ ional library. Madison retired with a competence, but Monroe was poor, and, after serving in bis native county as a justice of the peace, withdrew in his old age to New York City, where he died at the home of his married daughter. John Qnincy Adams, two years after his Presidency had expired, was elected to Congress, and served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1888 to 1848. In his seat he was struck with paraly­ sis, and died, like Dunham, at the post of duty, The succeeding Presidents, up to the time of Grant, who did not die m office, retired to farms or country places, living in privacy and decorum. Under some strange infatuation Gen. Grant, after his tour of the globe, entered upon a business life in Wall street, closing his years in a great financial disaster. Hayes continues to live in dignity and ease at his country home, Ihe only liv­ ing ex-President. It has often been a question whether some provision should not be made for the ex-Presidents. As a general rule they have left office having nothing to fall back on but their private fori unes. It does not seem proper they should again- enter on the contentions of life. The time must come in the not distant future when they will be suitably pen­ sioned, that they may not die in pov- C'FtV, IlKt? Jefferson, Monroe, ami Grant --Chicago Herald. Z*^ ' - ""Apple Chama." 5 ̂ ! Horace mentions the use of apple pips in love affairs. A lover would take a pip between the finger and thumb wad shoot it up to the ceiling, and if it struck it his or her wish would be accom­ plished. Nowadays a maiden tests the fidelity of her lover by putting a pip in the tire, at the same time pronouncing his name. If the pip bursts with a re­ port it is a sign that he loves her; but should it burn silently she is convinced of his want of true affection for her. This is often performed with nuts in­ stead of pips. Gay's Hobnclla experi­ ments with the pips by placing one on each cheek, one for Lubberkin and the other for Boobyclod: "But Boobyclod soon drops upon the graffid, A certain token that his love g unaoisiiii.; Wbile Lubberkin sticks flruily to tbe lant.~ Gay also mentions the common amuse­ ment of paring an apple without break­ ing the peel and then throwing the strip over the left shoulder in order to see the initial letter of the lover's name formed by by the shape the paring takes upon the ground. Mrs. Latham, in her "Sussex Superstitions," gives another apple charm. Every person present fastens an apple on a string hung and twirled around before a hot fire. The owner of the apple that first falls off is declared to be upon the point of mar­ riage, and as they fall successively the order in which the rest of the party wiU attain k> Makituouiol honors is clearly indicated, single blessedness being the lot of the one whose apple is the last to drop.--Chambers' Journal. Monkeys' Aversion to Craelty. r In Hindoostan, where three varieties of sacred monkeys enjoy the freedom of every town, those four-handed pensioners often assist the police in en­ forcing the riot laws by charging en masse for the scene ol' ewery dog fight and school-boy souffle. They will res­ cue worried cats, and, for greater*«e- curity, deposit them on the next roof, or suppress rowdyism in general, the stout Rhesus baboon, for instance, be­ ing physically as well as morally quali­ fied to quell the aggressive disposition of the fiercest cur. On the platform of a publio warehouse the British residents of Agra, a few years ago, witnessed a scene which put the character trait in even a stronger light. A little street Arab had spread his pallet in the shade of a stack of country produce, aud had just dropped asleep, when the pro­ prietor of the Plan tern' Hotel strolled up with a pet leopard that had learned to accompany him in all his rambles. A troop of tramp monkeys had taken post on the opposite side of the shed, and, like the beggar boy, seemed to enjoy a comfortable siesta, but at sight of the speckled intruder the whole gang charged along the platform like a squadron of spahis, and, instantly form­ ing a semi-circle about the little sleeper, faced the leopard with bristling manes, evidently resolved to defeat the sus­ pected purpose of his visit--Popular Scimtf*. Monthly. Maehlne-Hade 6u Barrel*. In the old days--that is, when your son-in-law was a "kid"--it took a gun­ smith days to rifle out the insid* ei a gun barrel, so that one could shoot a squirrel through the head without kill­ ing anybody in the next town. But now the slow gun-making process of , "afore de wah" has given away to the ) genius of machinery. It is said that by j the methods of recent improvements j made in the manufacture of rifles aa many as 120 barrels can now be rolled I in an hour by one machine. They are | straightened cold and bored with oor- i responding speed, and even the rifling ! is done automatically, so that one maa tending six machines can turn out sixty t or seventy barrels per day. With the old rifling machines twenty barrels was j about the limit of a day's work, but the j improved machines attend to everything I after being once started, and when the j rifling is completed ring a bell to call ' the attention of the warkznaa.--Ifem York Telegram. IP;* 1. An latamSaf. »nrtwt MPofwtgm «f i diafs mm* , aa* OIMMI Mma Wstam, ABEXJ -William Thom**, w&o1 doned by Gov. Oglssby, 1 of thai to which ha fenced on a which suffered is a 1880, a muuvumua in his enfo fconsa, burglars. Half a dozen young m in and near Sandwich wera ed, Including one or two crs of Miss LSbbie, the of the murderid rata, sad a of the crime. Xoihiag 0! fastened on them, and they were The ce.se wfes taken «pby»Ohio»«» teetive agency, and p<u*yin the fait WiUiam Thomas, $he&'*19 . arrested in hip brother's saloon, 198 son street, Chicago. At ihn suns tinHi Clarence Wood worth, also of Chicago, wto arretted. They were charged with* ttia murder of Hiram P. Allen, and taS lodged in jail at Sycamore for trial$ They took a change of venue from DeKalb to Kane County, and after a long Thomas was foond guilty, and, his strong protestations of innocenos, %pt sent to prison for seventeen years. Wood- worth proved an alibi. Both of the pxif* oners lived at Sandwich at the time. Qia the trial the most important and sensa­ tional witness was Miss Libbie Allen, wla swore that she recognised the voice ef Thomas as one she heard in the tween her father and his before the former was shot dead. other witness who implicated Ti was the notorious Cera Huai, of Chi­ cago, formerly a detective and latex a revivalist. As s detective, she formed the acquaintance of Thomas and Wood worth, and testified that she had heard them talk of their part in tbe Attsn trngedy. Thomas' tether, mothar?4tlMi sister swere positively that he wa»athj§|»o on ihe night of the murder, bed with his father. Th stripes and began his long came to him until two y< James Young, a feiiow- thft prison official? maAi»long tession of crimes of whioh be had-:fcii» the perpetrator. To tbe surprise of body he declared himself the murderer Hiram P. Allen, detailing all the ciro stances, bat holding back ftfceaai* of accomplice in the deed. Y( |̂ag |̂ to Sycamore, where be pleaded ̂ the Allen murder, and for it tenced to life imprisonment. Th^ ently heavy penalty Young did for he knew that death woi lease him. A jear ago he sumption, leaving to the confession, whieh wae « and excited great interest. suffering for the same who had never met before they eama tft. gather in the convicts* xaaka., Oglesby was in a dHemma, f»r 'ZfjjfeMHilf !" friends demanded his immediate A theory was promulgated that Yoaagjijf̂ Thomas had formed a strong mutaal tftf•» fection in prison, and thai-the fBiaw»j. knowing he was doomed to speedy Aiafth. made the confession to save -XfceplM^ Gov. Oglesby, however, at last reaahafelftifc. conclusion that Young had told the truth, and issued the pardon. Amos Thesis* met his brother at the prison gales, Mfe restored him to his parents and sisters.; who, a year ago, removed from SandwMk1. to Chicago, now the home of all tbe pat1-" sons who figured in the gteai tragedy. Mrs. Allen and daughter Libbie ale living, at 411 Oakley avenue, Chicago; ClaiaataS" Woodworth is living in the same efiy, and] during the last session of the LsgtsIfcMW was Secretary of the committee of •Mak.' Senator Eokhart was Chairman. Cam.'X Munn is still punning her ways in CkieaC cago, and several others whose nam«M^ were heard in conneettba with the caSRk have forsaken Sandwieh for Ohioago. . r UBOB siiTiavioa, 8tate Board of Labor Statistiea has made publio its report on the morfe* gsge indebtedness of the State. The ia| * •estigation has involved a search of iiNf mortgage records of every county aad. thal transcribing of tbe details of. met mortgages. The totals developed Aor $8§S for the three classes of mortgages--landlj lots and«hat|Mfcr~pv be formulated aat follows:. , ..I;" IIOMI. Ameviitel:'. Lota .....^...........na,7S) vaaotjw Chattels 74,740 80,7^1*1 Totaia„............ mo.«7 ain^Myat mm** Iu v ook Coantjr Outside Cook loanty. 188,977 Balldlps and loan eraoola- lions W. UB ar.SHJB N on-residents. 14,477 41,«M<| The loans and deferred paymenta art m follows] ^ \-:y ' 4. Jjoaaa. Lots. Cbattals... Totals. 16,8 «.<,»* .oLsai.** tmipiW Lands outside Cook Co,S118,158,* a Lota OB'Glu® L oa-i COL .. <B,Wl.eW Chattels outside Cook County Totals...... ...•l3S,414,g*» . .. The annual interest on lands is 456; on lots, $15,565,770; and on chattel̂ $1,622,389--a total of " f' The relative number Of aores mortgaged in the State outside of Cook Couatyst tbe several periods of 1870, 1880, sad 1881 is as follows: 1870, 188*, 6,902,130; 1887, 7,963,354. ' The average r te of interest in 1887 «*>. ' • lands was par eeat.; oalnts, &t; aail': on chattels, 7A --Stephen Lewis, who resides in tbt. north part of Clinton, wan shot fcgr % couple of toughs naaed William Tag^V ̂ and William L>a*e port, receiving a bait"J wound iu tbe th:gh. ' --Sam Jones, the revivalist, was greeted by aa audience of oaly 100 aft Clinton, anil' refosed to lecture, reiandjig aost| ticket-holders. "" ' • , . , - V . S W " w.-1 €v.«l.