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AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. JUrfERKsTIMG ITEMS 64THKBXD VBOH VASIOV8 SOVBCBS. k;^ W ' j r '« ; m, -Vrfi J- i**Y $".vv Wfc»t Our HelgrhHwr* Are Dolngr -- Matter* ' of Creneral sad Local Intercut -- Mar- , stages Itoatlu--AeoMmttaaad Crte»s . --4Perso«al Pointer*. •QtTEEB FBEAKS OF A COIiORKP WOMAN. On the 25th of January Mrs. Paulina King, a colored woman of Springfield, had a "vision," in whioh she was eommnnded by the Lord to fust for forty days end forty nights. Being a religions fanatic, she entered upon what seemed to her a plain duty, with perfect faith that she would pass through the ordea], and thai the Lord would he glorified. There meats to be little doubt but that the order was carried out. For the first seven days she drank no water even. Then tno Lord ap­ peared to her again and commanded her to drink. From that Mine on she took water until the 27th of February, but after that time she drank nothing until hor long fast had ended. The event was mad 3 the oc­ casion of a feast and merrymaking, which attracteii a, great crowd to the Court House. : where the feast was held. The negroes ' provided food i» considerable abundance, : and Mrs. Kin? made a good square meal of oysters, cold turkey, ham, and other \ aubstaatialo, which fihe seemed to enjoy greatly. During the progress of the affair, hymns were sung, talks made, and two or three negro women went into trances such as are common to the disciples of Mrs. Woodworth, the celebrated faith cure ; evangelist. When Mrs. King entered npon ; her fast she weighed about 113 pounds. A day or two after the fast was ended shtf | "tipped the balance" at 8!>. She was much | emaciated, but declares that she did not * sufffir a particle during her fast and had i no desire for food. Her strength remained with her, and she did her washing and : ironing aud performed her usual house- . hold duties without inconvenience. She proposes now to become an evangelist, v. and go forth and do the Master's work in such fields as he may direct. She is thirty-twO years of age, and has a husband /, and two children. She was reared in ? Quincy, and resided in Chicago for some yean before going to Springfield. She * commenced to h%ve "visions" about three ^rcarc a&o. She is illiterate, but sprightly, h and quotes Scripture freely. She has fre- . qoently been in heaven, and seen the streets paved with gold and the walls of I jasper. She is, the appears to think, in­ timately acquainted with Jesus, and many f, of the negroes look upon, her as little, if * #any, lower than the angels. 1- --tfohn McGratft, of Jerseyville, has had tiro children scalded to death within a ; few weeks. One pulled a enp of tea off « the table into its bosom and died. The f other fell into a backet of hot water and | died after lingering in terrible agony for 'I two days. | j --The Secretary of State has issued li- ' censes to the Springfield Electric Light | and Power Company, Springfield; Ladd | Savings, Loan and Building Association, Ladd, Bureau County; Steam Loop and •• Separator Company, Chicago; Joliet Street | Bail way Company, Joliet; Bevell Mann factoring Company, Chicago. ! --M. P. Webster died in Nnperville at the age of 99 years. He had been a reei- ^ dent of Dupage County since 1834. --Mrs. William McClary, a highly re­ spected lady of Bamsey, is dead. --In the Cirenit Court at Shawneetown, the |ury found John Price, colored, guilty cf the murder of Clinton Garrett, white,, and fixed his punishment at death. The date of execution has been fixed for May 24. --The Hon. Grant Goodrich, dee oi the oldest, test-known, and. in his time, most prominent citiaens of CJrieago, died at the family residence, at the age of 78 years, ':"V^ --H. F. Jenuld, plow manufacturer of tandalia, died of heart disease. --John Stoat, a deaf mate of Ripley, in Brown County, and a fancy bicycle rider of general reputation, died suddenly in the public highway ope mile east of •Mount Sterling. He undertook to ride his wheel from Bipley, a distance of ten miles, in an houi» and a half, became overheated, stopped, and drank two pints of water, proceeded about a hall-mile, and fell from his wheel and died in the road. Hia death is supposed to have been caused by congestion of the stom­ ach. Stout and his wife, who is also a deaf mute, intended to start on a trip around the world on bicycles, and was on his way to Mount Sterling to order a n$w wheel-for his wife. --Henry C. Morey, the well-known leal estate man, died at his residence in Chi­ cago, aged 57 years. „ --Miss Hannah Sharpe, daughter of a wealthy farmer near Bloomington, at­ tempted to commit suicide by cutting her throat with a razor. The wound extended from ear to ear. The windpipe was sev­ ered, and death is sure to follow. Miss Sharpe is 45 yeait 'old, and has been despondent of late. --The marriage of Charles L. Blewett, of Washington Territory, and Miss Blanohe Haines, of (galena, at Fairplay, Wis., last September, has just been an­ nounced. --The City Council of Carlyle closed a contract two years ago with a company of St. Louis to pat in a first-class system of water works. Everything was completed the following year. Upon testing it the Council refused to accept the plant, claiming the water was not forced to the required height at the different plugs as mentioned in the contract, and the com­ pany brought soit in the Circuit Court of Carlyle in the spring of 1883. The case was decided against the company, and was at once appealed to the Appellate Court, and word has been received that the decision is reversed. --John Martin and his former wife, Bettie, became involved in a quarrel two miles eaBt of Benton, at the residence of her former husband, in which she was se­ verely shot. The incidents connected with the shooting are about as follows: Martin and his wife had been divorced for about two years, he all the while having the custody of their children. As she had done many times before, she went to see her children, and reached the yard with­ out being harmed, but her husband re- "fyft^to let her enter the house. Hot vfg the ^sed. and she started to leave the --Dr. W. P. Marshall, one of HweldeBf 'ym . wh en outside the gate lie dis • *' ¥S, and most prominent physicians in Mont- •;gomery County, died at his residence in • ' Hillsboro, the immediate cause of his death being failure of the heart. --Bernard Faller, a leading citizen and 11 capitalist and one of the proprietors of the largest flouring-mill of Jasper County, is dead. >v._- /> --Judge Blodgett has rendered a de­ cision in the United States District Court •% at Chicago in which he held the propel- 1' ler Pridgeon liable for the sinking of the propeller Selah Chamberlain, off Sheboy- :'•** gan, Wis., Oct. 13, 1888. : , i --Ex-First Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral Stevenson, with ^tis family, has ar­ rived in Bloomington horn Washington. £ He will take up his residence in the latter "•„[ city and resume the practice of law with the Hon. James S. Ewing. ^ --The Senate Appropriation Commit- - tee has appointed a sub-committee of f < three to draft a bill for an appropriation to place the Executive Mansion in proper repair. The sub-committee is made up :: of Senators Pierce, MacMillan and Shutt. V; The House Appropriation Committee also ; appointed three members to act with the Senate. Committee. These are Bepre- . .' sentatives White. Hunt and Tilton. Both - committees have gone through the man- r; sion with an architect, who estimates that 'H* about $12,000 will be necessary to place it • in proper repair. The sub-committees v will make further investigations, that there may be no suspicion of extrava­ gance about the work, and will draft the bill accordingly. £ ' --The:e is a prospect of Leonard Volk, -• the sculptor, disposing of his models of Lincoln and Douglas to the State. The < State. Appropriation Committee has agreed to report favorably the bill to ap­ propriate $10,000 to have Mr. Volk pre­ serve these models in bronze for the : State, The models have for ten years V had a place in the corridor of the State Bouse. They are excellent likenesses of a the two great statesmen, and in bronze they will be a credit to the State and to the sculptor who designed them. --A local division of the National Trav­ eling Men's Protective Association has been organized at Bloomington, em bracing representatives of nearly all the whole- ' sale houses of that city. The following officers were elected: President, B. F. Evans; Vice President, F. H. Aldrich; U:\ Secretary and Treasurer, Courtland H. i. ;. Harlan; . Executive Committee, J. F. • Humphreys of Bloomington, J. M. Morris y of Decatur, George Bonn of Springfield, •H* Henry Meant and F. Ofcerkoetter, Jr., of Bloomington. --Miss Emily Schraum, of St.' Louie, has brought suit for breach of promise ; against Gottlieb Schantz, a wealthy brew­ er of Quincy, claiming $10,000 damages. She allegeB that he promised to marry her, and that they livt d together for seven months, when he jilted her and married another woman. Schantz is abont 45 yean of age and the father of several children ; by a former wife. --William E. Nigh twine died in Bloom- I ington at an advanced age from paralysis charged a shot-gnn loaded with squirrel shot into her neck, and afterward struck her over the head with the stock of his gun, which inflicted some severe wounds that may oause her death, bat she will probably recover. Some aie of the opinion that Martin is insane. --The colored people of Springfield have decided upon the erection of a monument in that city to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Charles Summer, Wendell Philips, John Brown, and other comrades and soldiers of the late war. The proposed cost of the monument is about $200,000, and the funds will be raised by donations from all the colored lodges, and churches . throughout the United States. The of­ ficers of the association are: President, Nathan Smallwood; Secretary, W. H. Buckner; and Treasurer, James Yoang. The association has secured articles of incorporation. --The vestry of Zion Episcopal Charch of Freeport, has sent a call to the Bev. G. W. Baggs, assistant rector of Grace Church in Chicago and manager of St. Luke's Hospital. It is understood that Mr. Baggs will accept and that his services at Freeport will commence April 1. --J. W. Wallace died at a boarding- house in Bloomington from the effects of morphine taken with suicidal intent. He was an old man and formerly lived at Amboy, where he had a daughter. He had a good deal of property.- --William H. Davis, of Chicago, well known among real estate men, has been arrested for forgery, and other warrants are ont against him for selling several pieces of property that were not his own. --"Dirty Eddie" Sheehan, who robbed Mr. Bridges, of the Ansonia Clock Com­ pany, while entering a Chicago street-car last January, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. --Samuel Warner, pioneer settler of Jo Daviess County, died at his home in Ap­ ple River Township, aged 79 years. He served in the Black Hawk war under General Dodge. --Matthew Begwood, ft pioneer settler of the lead mines, died at his home in Galena, aged 90 years. He was a native of Wiltshire, England, and In his youth served in the British marines. He was present on board the Bellerophon when Bonaparte was brought on board after his defeat at Waterloo. He* was perhaps the oaly living man in this portion of the Northwest who had seen the first Napoleon. --Stoll A Partridge, grocers, of Bloom­ ington, have failed. Liabilities, $2,000; assets about the same. --Maggie Harris, a buxom and oomely maiden, not 16 years old, of yandalia, eloped with her lover, Mike Benfro. They started from Minonk, and their des­ tination was St. Louis, where they in­ tended to get married. The City Marshal of Yandalia, on a telegram from the gill's mother, arrested her and held her in custody till the mother arrived. The latter refused to give her consent to her daughter's marriage till young Benfro agreed to pay her $15. This he did. The : of 'h? brain. He was one of the earliest j necessary papeip were then procured, and |«ettlers and business men of Bloomington, {the runaway couple went to * j»*tica«f | Literary In a remote part Tfim York, wQi^rMj- more apt M. look for doftlers in than for a literary oritic, live* a man who un- conscioi#^ jtf the grave-digger of many an author*® hopes and ambitions. He is the "s#ader* for one of the largest publishing houses, and often lias the manuscripts of several houses on his desk. His literary judgement is mar* velously good, and the opinions of few ""readers" are more relied upon. His decision is invariably the law with the publisher. To his favorable report is due many of the most famous books of the day, as the literary shelves of his room testify. No other man in America could tell more literary secrets than he, but to all entreaties for a talk he is dumb. Occasionally, however, he emits a few thoughts when in an especi­ ally talkative mood. In such a frame of mind he was found the other even­ ing. "My life is becoming burden­ some," was his opening remark. When asked the cause he replied: "Because of this thirst for passionate writing which has entered our literature since the success of that Rives girl, Why, it seems as if all the feeble­ minded young women in the country have got possessed with the idea that if they can once publish a truly "fleshy" novel their fortunes are made. As a result scores of illgpelled, execrably written stories are thrust upon me, and there is no stopping it. For the most part the deluded women who write them try to be very gross with a little dainty wickedness to enliven it all; the effect, is dreadful. I am sure that if the read­ ing public suspected the service I do them by reading and crushing these literary atrocities, I would be canonized. Another sort of cheerful idiot from whom I am suffering is the woman who composes epics and poems of passion, which she wants published in book form. I have frequently had the same MS. submitted to me three times. The title being changed each time, a new ex­ amination of the book is assured, but I never jorget that sort of a MS.; it is all too horrible--would to Heaven that 1 could." In reply to the question, "How large a proportion of the MS. is examined and accepted ?" this well-in­ formed man replied, " Seldom more than 2 per cent.--often only 1 per cent." Here is encouragement indeed for the ambitious young author.--New York Mail and Express. ' ••• its place along-side of German and Gceek. The lack of « thoroughly ap- p^ii^id gymnasiiim or proper means of concise in a college to-day is inexcus­ able, and it should l>e the aim of every faculty and governing board to allow the greatest possible freedom in c.thirt­ ies consistent with college Boston Advertiser. ' v ; Yoang Men from the Coanttfk "I believe that the general tendency of this age is from the country to the city," remarked the head of a prominent wholesale house to a Baltimore reporter. "This is evidenced by the movement cityward discernable in almost every plane of life, from the awkward country boy to the prominent merchant or lawyer of the town or small city, who seeks in the metropolis an enlargement of what is considered a too contracted field. "My country customers tell me that there is a scarcity of young men in the rural districts, and fewer than ever are beginning farming or going into busi­ ness in the country, and that there is a general exodus toward the city. This I believe to be so, because the number of strange young men seeking employ­ ment here is much larger iof late, and we find the majority of them to be from the country. This is partly because the hard jbimes have been particularly felt in the rural districts. Farming opera­ tions have been unremunerative, and young men have got hold of the idea that fortune and probably fame awaits them in the metropolis. This movement has also been pronounced among men of locallprominence also, as the number of lawyers and others who have been re­ moving from country towns to Balti­ more, Philadelphia, and New York, such as ex-Governor Hoadly, of Ohio; John S. Wise, ex-Judge Perry Wickes, and others. Notwithstanding the cry that the cities are crowded, I say let them come. There is plenty of room for men with pluck and ability to rise. Many of the most prominent business men of Baltimore came here as poor country boys. The crowding is all at ther bot­ tom. "There is one thing, however, that the man or boy from the rural district has to fight against in the city, and that is the oppressive feeling of individual shrinkage when he is brought in actual contact with a mass of rushing, bust­ ling, busy competitors. No matter how prominent a young man may be in his country home, or how much confidence previous plain sailing has given him in his own ability, the first few years ex­ perience in a city is to the average new­ comer like the chilling, disheartening rush of a shower bath in February. The young man who soonest overcomes this feeling succeeds more promptly and fectually." Elizabeth's ©radons Clemency. On one Christmas Eve in the early part of her reign, Queen Elizabeth en­ tertained a party of nobles at the palace. It had happened unfortunately that the First Lady of Her Majesty's Laundry had failed to keep her appointment, and the Queen appeared at the dinner in one of her unofficial collars. Shortly after the boar's head had been served, the Queen turned to the Earl of Leicester, who sat at her right hand, and remarked that she was very uncomfortable. "And why, me liegess?" queried the handsome courtier. "Because me collar befitteth not the hour. It hath no jewels, and sore doth vex me for that it is upon the edges frayed." "By me halidom," quoth Raleigh, who sat upon her Majesty's left, "but that is ruff." t As may be well imagined, this ill- timed jest threw the table into an up­ roar, and the Queen's anger knew no bounds. "To the block at dawn," she cried, and swooned away. It would have fared ill with Raleigh had her Majesty not been brought to, and in honor of the season been induced to pardon the offender. Raleigh was sent to represent the Court of England in Siberia for a year, and those who were in the confidence of the Queen at the time assert that lut for his uncalled for affront to her Majesty the well-re- me in be red statesman would have found the Order o$ the Garter in his stocking the following morning.--Editor'0 Drawer of Harper's Magazine J* Misuse of Ordinary Word. & M I A short time ago the word "potwal- loper" was used, and a school' teacher objected to it as slang. The one who used it contended that it was Queen% English, and referred her to any diction­ ary. A glance at Webster's showed the Word there and defined as "a voter in certain boroughs in England where all who boil (wallop) a pot are entitled to vote." A similar term in this country is the "mattress voter* of New York, i. e., men who ostensibly live at two or three different places about election time. The ignorance of the correct meaning of words is more universal than one would suppose. Should you ask a per­ son the meaning of "transpire" he would say it would meant "to happen," and it would be very hard to make him believe it also meant "to sweat." He would be positive that is you who are wrong, thinking you have the two words per­ spire and transpire mixed up. But when they hunt up the word they will be convinced. Ask a person the mean­ ing of "livid" and they will say "pale, ghastly;" they are surprised that it means black and blue. The word "lurid" is also very gen­ erally misunderstood. The proper in­ terpretation of the word is very different from it3 real meaning. When we read of a lurid sky as from a fire, we think it generally as bright red. The word "lurid" means ghastly, pale, etc. A great many other instances could be cited of the misuse of words. The above instances will BIIOW you what little reliance can be placed on any im­ pression one can have of the meaning of a word. A small dictionary glanced at occasionally will do much to correct these erroneons impressions.--Hartford Globe. Extraordinary Names. There has been much controversy in Congress over the names proposed for the territories that want to become States. But whatever the final result, says the Now York Times, it could hardly be as astonishing as the series proposed in Jefferson's original draft of an ordinance prepared in 1784 for laying out the Northwest territory. The terri­ tory north of the forty-fifth parallel to the Lake of the Woods was to be called Sylvania. The one between 44 and 45 degrees and west of Lake Michigan was to be Michigania. The one "between Lakes Michigan, Huron, St. Clair, and Erie" was to be known as Chersonesus. The one between the forty-second and forty-third parallels, "through which the Assenisipi or Rock river runs," was to rejoice in the name of Asgenisipia. Still another, including "the fountains of the Muskingum, the two Miamis of the Ohio," and other rivers, was to have been entitled Mesopotamia. Other names of territories laid out in this ordi­ nance were Illinois, which became Illi­ nois, and Saratoga. Then there was to have been Pelisipia as well as an As- senisipia, and a Polypotamia as well as a Mesopotamia. These are the names which the west has missed, and there is hardly anything quite as extraordinary in the recent discussions in Congress on State nomenclature. : and lor many years was city maralutL :l& -hi-. ~^V * ; tba MMM and were married. * ? Boys of Brain and Brawn. In the recent meeting of Yale men at Delmonicc*, New York, remarks made by eminent graduates upon the value of athletics and its bearing upon mental training are well worth attention. The "almost unlimited liberty" of Yale in this respect was claimed to be nothing more than a sensible union of brain and muscle. It would be well if all of our New England colleges would adopt a leas conservative policy in regard to athletics, and let physical training take ,iS i' M 1 What is Coarage. The one first, best, highest quality that we recognize in man is moral cour­ age. Physical courage may be a matter of physical condition, and is common to animals. The bravest animal only fights when it»is hungry or called upon to pro­ tect its young, or to defend itself, or in the Qiating season. There never was a man bcrn of woman brave enough to fight a black cat in a dark room volun­ tarily, with no one to have knowledge of the encounter or to look on and ap- pland. Moral courage is the growth of principle; physical courage is the result of pride. The best trait--or aft least one of the best traits--of the human character is pride; it is the synonym of a thousand virtues. A proud man will go open- eyed to deliberate death, no other animal that lives will willingly on- counter destruction. The dude is a hero on the battle-field because he is a dude. The man who is proud, well born and moves in good society, who is ambitious of the esteem of men, the love of women, the honors of life, will expose himself at the head of fighting squadrons, on decks where bursting shells are hurtling, and on the field of honor, mid conflagrations and storms, to do a duty that will win applause.-- San Francisco Argonaut. Cnre for Hydrophobia. Chance has led to the discovery of a cnre for hydrophobia. In Ayacutho, Peru, a man was bitten by a mad dog, and shortly after the dreaded disease developed. In his madness the man rushed from the house, and falling among 9, lot of "penca" plants, some of the juice of these plants entered his mouth and he srcallowed it. A moment of reason seems to have followed, dur­ ing which he seized some of the leaves, broke them, and drank of the milky and glutinous sap with which they are generally saturated. When his friends found him he was senseless, with the "peuca" or "magney" leaves clutched in his hand. He was carried to his home, and soon regained his health. Experience has long since taught tho Indians that "peuca" juice or sap in­ variably acts as a cure upon dogs suf­ fering from hydrophobia. The World's Great Railroads. The four greatest railroads in the world, in respect to mileage are: The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe system, 7,530 miles; the Pennsylvania Railroad system, 7,530 miles; the Missouri Pa­ cific, 7.115 miles; the Chicago and Northwestern system, 7,082 miles. The Canadian Pacific system comes only eighth in the list with 4,960 miles. • An Aid to Surgery. & well-polished glass rod, rendered luminous throughout its length by a small electric lamp at one end, is used by two Vienna physicians for illumi­ nating, from the outside, some of the cavities of the body, such as the larynx and the nose. Placed against the skin of the throat, it lights up the interior of the larynx sufficiently for surgical operation.--Arkansaw Traveler. "WEBE it not for the game of poker," said the President of the Punsters' Club, "mac* a pot of puns, chipped in to flush a full paragraph would be lost 1 straight from the deal." I SOKE Japanese chestnut tress at Santa Rosa, CaL, yield enormpus fpiijLl One dozen nuts weigh a pound. | : ' 1 ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERS. POPULAB SCIENCE. ILLINOIS CHARf OF THE COMMITTER IBnr®*. XXGATIXG THBU. \ EKY little business was transacts! by tho Senat<> on the 15th inat. Bills were introduced m follows: Providing that all cases in courts soall be tried iu regular order unless otherwise ordered, and that all exceptions to this rolemnAt be recorded; providing thai Justices of thel'eade mav collect costs in criminal cases where ap­ peals are taken and coQvitttioite are secured in higher courts ; also a bill amending tho practice act so as to provide that in CMea where oontinu- ance is asked on account at ab«enoe of witnesses it shall not operate as a conttntumc* to the next term; providing for the election of the State Board of Agriculture; to reimburse Cumberland County for the loss of records by fire. In the House the Chicago annexation bfll was passed by a vote of 115 vras to 4 nays. The Senate bill amending the law in regard to the firemen's pension fund was read a tMrd time. On a call of the roll it passed by • vote of 88 yoas to no nays. THE usual short session of the Senate was held on the evening of the 18th inat., during which the only business transacted was the in­ troduction of a bill by Senator Beefy raising the fees of auctioneers m adinfaistrators' oases to 410, and a bill by Senator Hamer amending the act in relation to the prostitution of females, so that any keeper of a brothel Who shall admit an unmarried female under the age of 18 years, no matter whether she be of previous good charac- ter and chaste life or not, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not leas than one year nor more than Ave. In the House the Chi­ cago drainage bill came up on a motion to recon­ sider the vote bv which its further consideration was postponed" until April 11. After much dis­ cussion, a vote disclosed no quorum. THE vote by which Senator Karraker's illegiti­ mate parentage bill was passed was reconsidered by the Senate on the 19tn Inst., and the bill waa placed in order of second reading. Senator Leeper's oiU. providing that no person convicted of illegitimate parentage who ia committed to jail for failure to give such security as the Court shall direct shall be discharged for insolvency within one year, was taken up on third reading and the Senate refused to jiasa it. The yeas were 6, and the nays 24. Senator Berry's bill appropriating £4,G0u per annum to the State Horticultural Society was passed by a vote of .HI yeas; nays, none. Sen- ator Eckhart's bill for the incorporation and regulation of pawners' societies was read a third time and passed--yeas, 39; nays, none; Senator Bassett's bill striking out of Section 8 of the Ap­ pellate Court act all relating to practice (that portion being transferred to a bill amending the practice act) was read a third time and passsed --yeas, 38; navs, none; Senator Evans" bill pro­ hibiting the sale of reworked or reoolored butter was read a third time and passed-- yeas, 35; nays, 2; Senator Thomas' biU making available the appropriation of 950,000 for a monument to John A. Logan was read a third time and passed --yeas, 33; nays, 3. A message from the Gov­ ernor announced the following appointments: For Trustee of the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary--David Goodman, Jr., to succeed himself. For members of the Board of Educa­ tion--Ella F. Young, of Cook Countv ; Joshua C. Knickerbocker, of Cook Couutv ; "Henry Haab, of St. Clair County; and Peleg "K. Walker, of Winnebago County, as their own successors. For Commissioner of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary--Joseph R. Messick, of St. Clair County, to succeed Jacob Grosch, resigned. Senator McDonald's bill permitting legal papers to be served on a receiver of a corpora­ tion by leaving copies thereof with anv agent of such corporation was read a third time and passed-- yeas 48, nays none. Senator Bassett's bill simplifying the practice act was read a third time and passed--veas 37, nays 1. Senator Shntt'B bill authorinng city councils to impose a license on wheeled vehicles was read a third time and passed--yeas 30, nays 9. Senator He- crest's bill appropriating 310.000 for State print­ ing needed before July 1, 1889, was read a sec­ ond time and ordered to third reading. Sena­ tor Berry's bill prohibiting book-making or pool-selling came up on second reading, and after long and acrimonious discussion was final­ ly ordered to a third reading without amend­ ment. The Chicago drainage bill came tip again in the House, and alter some filibustering fur­ ther consideration was po6ti>oned until April 11. Tho report of the joint committee to visit State charitable institutions was presented. On mo­ tion of Mr. Ross the Senate bill to enable coun­ ties to purchase or condemn any dam or dams on any of the streams iu this State for the pur­ pose of removing them to facilitate drainage was read a first time and ordered to second reading. Mr. Jones, of Sangamon, called up tho bill ap­ propriating #10,mK> tor the printing of the pres­ ent General Assembly. It was read a second time and ordered to a third reading without amendment. \... Sesatgr SfAcMn.LAK's drainage bill providing for the removal of dams in the Illinois liiver Csed the Senate on the 90th inst. Senator rv'n anti-pool bill waa killed. The Senate went into executive session and confirmed the Governor's apjK>intments sent in on the 19th. Bills were introduced as follows : Defining the duties of railroads, steamboats, and stock-yards in such a manner as to prohibit them from handling cattle that have been exposed to Tc£5b fever; to provide by election for village, ward of amp net or pteeinat*; also a 1 j.r^B wvci . IAJ> 1'iuviu priXibiting the licensing or sale'of intoxicating liquors in any county, city, "" city, or eleetton precinct or _ . to provide for the suppression of contagious dis­ eases among swine. Mr. Matthews' bill requir­ ing candidates tot admission to tho Soldiers' ,J Home to ha persons who have resided two year* ? • in the imnwd mtwrtel oppo­ sition. The House bill permitting the Chicago City Council to increase the levy for sewerage pur­ poses to 'I mills during the next two years was read a third time and passed. The Crawford bill to regulate stock-yard charges came up in the ' il order on third rcadin House as a special order on third ng. The bill was passed by a vote of W> yeas to S47 na$s. Mr. Brown's resolution to investigate the militia expenditures was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Cliott's firemen's pension bill was passed. Mr. Crafts' bill amending the law in regard to elections iu cities, villages, and incorporated towns caused considerable discus­ sion. It was finally amended and orderafe to third reading. SENATOR THOMAS' bill permitting all but throe trustees of any educational institution to be non-residents of the State, was ordered to a third reading in the Senate on the 21st iast., the former negative vote having been recon­ sidered. Senator Johns' election bill was or­ dered to a third reading. The Appropriations Committee reported back for passage Senator Secrest's bill providing that the salary of Canal Commissioners shall be paid out of the earn­ ings of tjie canal, and shall iu no case exceed $10,000 per year for each Com­ missioner. It was referred to the Committee on Canals and Rivers. The Senate resumed con- ••.ideration of the general appropriation bill, and, after being amended, it was ordered to third reading. Bills were introduced as follows : Re- enacting the old law making saloon bills amount­ ing to over 50 cents uncollectable; amending the law in relation to county mutual live-stock in­ surance companies by limiting the number of directors to nine and changing the time of hold­ ing £tnual meetings. The following resolution was introduced in the House and unanimously adopted: WHKKKAS, The House is oredWly in­ formed that the Trustees of the Illinois Hospital for the Insane at Anna have made to the Gov­ ernor an additional report to that made June 30, 183M; therefore, Resolved, That the Governor be and is hereby requested to furnish the House for its information a copy of such additional report, and that the Clerk of the House furnish the Governor a copy of this resolution. A large number of bills of more or less iiniwrtance were ordered to third reading. Chinese Stock Exchange* the biggest of the Chinese cities have their stock exchanges, and the queerest sight I have seen waa the sil­ ver exchange in Peking. In company with Charles Denfey, the son of our minister, I went at 7 o'clock one morn­ ing into the Chinese city. We wound our way through streets so narrow that only donkeys and men could pass through them, through passages where men had to walk sidewise in order to get by each other, and finally Ave found ourslvea in a long, low building which looked more like a cattle-shed than a business-room. It was lighted from the roof and was filled with 500 to 1,000 round-headed, pig-tailed, yellow-faced men, each of whom seemed to be yell­ ing at the top of his voice and each pushing his fingers into the face of his neighbor. These men were buying and selling silver dollars, just as oUr brokers do in Wall street, and they made more fuss than all the bulls and bears of New York. At 8 o'clock the rate was fixed for the day and the news was "telegraphed" by means of carrier pigeons to the various banks of the city. The pigeons of Peking are large­ ly used as messengers, and they are, perhaps, the only pigeons in the world that whistle. As they fly in the air they make a whistling sound which, in the case of a flock, sounds like a whole school of boys operating tin whistles at the same time. This noise comes from actual whistles which are tied in their tail-feathers by their owners, and the noise of which scares away the hawks from them. It is a curious sound and I heard it many times be­ fore I could find out from whence it came. They are the tickers of the Chinese banker and they give him all the quotations.--Frank G. Carpenter. Tlie Safest Plan. "I say, SMlleto! that blackboard, Ponsonby, has threatened to kick me the first time he meets me. If I should come serosa him in society what would THE sounds of the heatt have been recorded and reproduced by the phono* graph. THICK brass wire has been made as brittle as glass by being kept extended and subjected to vibrations. i Hners accomplish their high speed with a consumption of 1 ̂to If pounds of coal per horse power. Ax "inch of rain" means a gallon of water spread over a surface of nearly two square feet, or a fall- of about one hundred tons on an acre of ground. POWDEKED^ rosin, according to EL Hager, is liable to spontaneous com­ bustion, owing to oxidation by the air and it should be kept in tightly closed tin boxes.. PBOF. AYRTON estimates that the power wasted at Niagara Falls exceeds that which could be produced bv the annual consumption c#: $150,000,000 tons of coal. Au reus to B* t, Condition, but Many Ks«d * --jmr ftiilhl • "P -- Appropriations That Ac* tsliM Wmt ud Recommended. • [Springfield special.] The joint committee appointed by the Scaate •AD BOOM to visit the State charitable institu­ tions has presented to both branches ol Use Legislature their report, which, briefly, is m follows: Thursday, Jan. 91,1889, the committee visited the Asylum for Feofole-Minded Children at Lin­ coln, Dr. W. B. Fisk Superintendent. We found the institution in excellent condition. Tho management and work exhibited aa having been done during the year was highly satisfactory to the committee. Th< number oc fni--tna Wt --males 9M, females I^ -while the boOdinca were oriftinallr constructed to annommodate oaly 900. We fouhd 9B0 applications on file, whim oould not be accommodated for lack of room. The boys are kept in the asylum until the age of 21 years and t^e girls until homas can be ob- I tained for them. The averafe impcovanient is _ 1 reported to be 20 per cent, and has mcM aa 1HE microscope often reveals imnuri- ' "Skas 40 per cent. The institution has no* ties in diamonds nartinloa nr nm«.jn '< wn' ̂400 acres of land, at a rental of *1,008 per u, particles or organic , annum, resulting in a net income of matter and bubbles of gas being com- annum. The Clothing, boots and shoea naeoW mon. Quartz chlorite, pvrite. hematite 1 tE?,, *rn n?arl>" mfde J* the tootita and topi have also ^ j SaBS'S "V'. fTa fr lo™ b-vr»i»~-1 warswc uon from a large tank tor supplying the the of any year drorfag city of Napur with water, was 2| times as great as .the quantity supplied for consumption. DURING the recent fogs in London plants are said to have suffered not only from the absence of light, but from the pores of their leaves becoming filled up with the sulphurous sooty matters con­ tained in tho fogs. V- Banking in China. < There are at present no nationM %itfk in China. The Chinese, however, have thousands of private banks. There are 400 banks in Peking, 300 native banks in Tientsin, and Canton has banks and pawnshops by the hundreds. The rates of interests are high and short loans in tight times reach 33 per cent. The pawnbrokers charge 36 per cent, a year or 3 per cent, a month, and the rate from one province to another is very heavy. China has no national currency, and each bank issues its own notes. These are much like our notes, save they are Chinese characters and on cheap white paper. The only coins of the country is the cash, of which it takes from 1,000 to 1,500 to make $1, and which, small as it is, is counter­ feited. The cash is a thin, round coin a little larger than one of the big Ameri­ can cents of a century ago and some-4 times no bigger than a nickel. It has a square hole in the center and is usually carried in strings of 100 or 1,000 each. Gold brick and silver nuggets are used in making large purchases and the unit of weight is the teal or ounce. One ounce of silver or a teal is worth about $1.40 Mexican and a common denomina­ tion is a ten-teal piece, which is a chunk of silver cast in the form of a Chinese shoe. I saw some of these silver shoes at the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank at Peking. They are stamped with marks denoting the fineness of the metal within them and they contain from 97 to 99 per cent, of pure silver. Gold bricks are of the size of little cakes of India ink, and these, like the silver, are sub­ ject to counterfeit. The business of the treaty ports, which includes that of all foreigners with the Chinese, is done in Mexican dollars, and each business house has a man called a shroff, who does nothing else but count money and pass upon its genuineness. The Chi­ nese are the greatest swindlers in a small way in .the world. They Appre­ ciate the accumulating proprienea . of little drops of water and little gfcains ot sand better than any other people, and they will shave a bit of silver dust off of dollar after dollar so small that you cannot perceive the loss until they have shaved enough to have made quite a profit. Tiiey bore holes in the coins, fill them with lead, and cover them with silver, and in taking money from the banks here it is necessary to ring every coin.--Frank G. Carjmit$e+ Two Kinds of Consciences. Let us take the case of a man 6f "~v©fy meager culture and education, whose ancestors for generations have been op­ pressed and their lot one of bare sur­ vival. Has he a true conscience in reference to a large range of moral questions ? To be sure he knows it is wrong to steal, and he probably oould be trusted not to steal money; but how about pilfering? On the oontrary, if your man of culture steals it will only be large amounts, for he despises and would feel disgraced by pilfering. Here you have the two extremes of society, with a common conscience about steal­ ing; but it is a weak conscience at oppo­ site ends., The high born fellow will not pocket a , slice of ham, but he will default in the handling of an estate or bank de­ posits. The one is feeble in moral judg­ ment just where the other is strong. These two men have also a common moral law against murder. Neither one dissents from the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," but one of them, who is fond of society and dislikes the burdens of a large family, does not hesi­ tate to commit foeticide; the other would recoil in horror at such a crime, but he is ready at a moment for a shindy in which he is liable to kill some one or to be killed himself. In neither case does conscience speak loudly or oondemn keenly. Your conscence is your power of morally seeing things. It is your inherited and acquired ability to judge when an act is wrong. It is far more easy to have a poor conscience than it is to have a good one.--St. Louis Globe- Democrat. A Grand Institution. A German organization of scientific men has for its chief object the spread of astronomical, geographical, and physical knowledge. The society is called "Urania," and it has begun its work by establishing a unique popular observatory, with an illustrated journal in connection. Instructions will com­ mence in the scientific theater, where will be represented eclipses, the motions and appearances of planets, comets, meteors, etc. Ip an exhibition hall the phenomena of sound, heat, light, and electricity will be explained by a variety of apparatus, models of many machines will , be shown, together with instru­ ments of precision, and fifty microscopes will aid the knowledge-seeing public. A lecture-room and a reading-room are provided. The observatory proper will contain a number of smaller instru­ ments, and in addition will have the most powerful telescope in Berlin---a refractor with a lens twelve inches m diameter.--Arkansaw Traveler. its existence. The afternoon of Jan. 31, 1889, waa spent at S?F"ftVv7l9lti5? the Soldiers and Sailors Or- phans Home, Harvey C. Be Motto Supertatsnd- «nt. The time waa occupied in attendance npoa the schools and & thoioiigh inr<-stiaattonolMia building. The cheerful, cleanly, audltttdllamfc appearance of the children, their orderly t*im- aer, good behavior, and their aptness and yro- nciencv in study were particularly noted by th» committee, meriting their entire approbation. Thjre *ro 371 children in the home, and 161 ap­ plications now on ale awaiting admission. The girls clothing is made in the institution. Tbe building is crowded beyond its capaoitv, is with­ out proper ventilation, or the necessary appli­ ance for properly providing for the present num­ ber of inmates, or their physical care and com­ fort, and the requisite number of school rooms for their instruction. The enlargement of tho home, according to the plans shown the commit­ tee, and meeting their approval, seems a press­ ing necessity if the institution is to continue its work and hold its place among the deserving charities of the State. For this institution the committee recommends appropriations saem. gating $165,000. -ws™- Feb. 1, 1889, vour committee visited the East­ ern Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee, Dr. K. S. Dewey, Superintendent. This is the largest hospital in the State, having over 1,000 inmates. There is a new hospital, built upon the cottage plan, not yet, fully completed and finished, and of larger capacity than originally contemplated. The condition of the grounds and roadway the unfinished work in ..J is ana roadways and steam pines, improving the , , farm buildings required, impressed tbe commit­ tee with the urgent necessity of liberal appro­ priations to this institution to utilise mm! secure the full benefits of previous expenditures in it* construction and arrangement for the treatment and eustoay of the insane. Appropriations ag­ gregating *863,000 an recommended Saturday, February 2, your committee visited the Northern Hospital for the insane at Elgin. Pr. E. A. Kilbourne Superintendent. Numbef of patients, 523. Appropriations are recommend- •"•d aggregating $285,379. Sunday, Feb. S, lffis, vour committee vfs!te<t aud examined the Eye aiid Ear Infirmary at Chi­ cago, E. C. Ijawton Superintendent. Hero a«- Sropriatione are recommended to tba amount of 81,100. Feb. 4, 1889, your committee passed at tka Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Quincy, I. C. Bowlands Superintendent. This institution is surpassed by none in beauty of location, i«a* derlng it capable of beooming in the near futnxet with taste in laying out and adornment, a km. tiful site for a State institution. It was a i ure to your committee to find the old so and sailors, weather-beaten and worn from < posure in tbe nation's service, so oomfortal camped and quartered at tbe home, and to < serve tbe good management and provisions i for the care and comfort of the old veta. The committee recommend appropriations to the amount of 6897.000* The committee visited the Central Hospital for tbe Insane at Jacksonville Feb. 5. MB. Dt. H. F. Cariell Superintendent. Number of in­ mates, OSS; males, «64; females, <80. Beoom- mended appropriations, jp8&707. Your committee visited the Institution tar tbe Education of the Blind Feb. 8,1SBB. Num. ber of inmates, 171; males, 97; tenalss, 74. Thirty-nine acres of land. The Amanda of the Institution being comparatively xnodset, bat little discussion was indulged In pertaining to any of the items named to the anpcopciatione Irrsssars m. D>. nuso. OUMM, ~ $»'i *mcng the most wortiijH ~ * * of aamant- togto 9343,500 are reoommfindsd. Feb. 7, I860, your committee visited the South­ ern Hospital for ̂ ho Insane at Anna* tinder the •are of Dr. Horace Wardner, Superintendent, which was found in excellent condition. Number of patients, t«7. Appropriations aggregating ©24o,000 are asked. For the care and custody of the criminal in­ sane your oommlttee would strongly urge the necessity of making separate provisions. Tlw association in tho same nospital of nan-criminal Insane with insane convicts ie repugnant to our better feelings ami should be remedied. The reasons are too obvious and well understood for mention, and the increasing demands for larger accommodations for the insane are favor­ able for action in that direction. The characters of this dangerous class--still criminals--should be cared for in an asylum specially constructed and adapted to the purpose, and would be a measure of justice, humanity, and economy. We therefore recommend an appropriation for the construction of an asylum for the criminal insane as may be hereafter provided for by spe­ cial act. * Your committee have thus outlined the result of their visit to the Btate charitable Institutions, or rather suggested from their review tbe neoes- eary appropriations. Their visit was alike a duty, a pleasure, and a study. Tbe humane and efficient management of the State oharities, as seen in their work and results, we heartily commend. Tbe SupetfinStu­ dents of tbe hospitals for the insane are faithful and experienced, oombining rare executive and medical ability, and are fully in the advance In the enlightened methods and treatment ol the Insane. The officers in charge of the other instituttai* are equally fitted by education and practical training in tbe special work assigned them, giv­ ing to their different department a standing in successful results second to none in tbe world. The State has wisely and humanely provided a munificent system of charities for the unfor­ tunate of every kind within her borders. The increasing numbers in these dependent classes demanding care and treatment incident to an in­ crease in population and other causes .social, hereditary, and effects of vice, are multiplying, requiring increased provisions and means foi their care and support. The hospitals tM crowded and the county infirmaries are full. To meet this want your committee would sug­ gest the addition of new buildings to the present hospitals for the insane at Jacksonville, plain in architecture, permanent in construction, and planned for the care and comfort of the iar(* class of incurables. This plan would make provision for those now unprovided for, and be both economical and hu­ mane. To enlarge in this manner tbe present facili­ ties would meet the exigencies of the case and perform the greatest good at the least expense. Additions to tho Northern and Southern Hospi­ tals with this view are both practicable and feas­ ible. To care for the dependent is the iiuperatw» duty of the State; to neglect, a return to bar­ barism. The amount required is but a trtl* when figured per capita for the population. The good accomplished is beyond computation In dollars and cents. In this way we will make enduring this nobia charity and the grandeur of this beneyokmoa will a&ids. %Tk:{ ' * SIS? . •-* Two new candidates to succeed Judgo McAllister have been trotted out by the Democrats. They are Thomas G. Windes and S. P. McConnell. Mr. Windes' claim is based on his report as a Master in Chancery in the Socialist «a**> againat thp polios* •atrongone. t,,: Big Cans. « The heaviest gun that !Engfan t̂ possesses weighs 111 tons; six of these will soon lie in use in the navy. But this is not the highest point that has been reached in the manufacture of modern artillery, for Krupp has built for the Italian Government some breech-loaders eight tons heavier, and is at the present time building one that is to weigh 139 tons, and that ia expected to be capable of penetrating nearly fifty inches of solid wxought- iron. There is no saying where this craze for monster guns will end; one weighing 156 tons has been designed at Woolwich, and could be built if it were thought advisable. The strides thai i have been made in England become ! apparent when the relative sizes of the i heaviest gun in the navy to-day and | the heaviest that it possessed whea {Nelson won his brilliant victories ia I taken into consideration: Heaviest gun of i : , "A -