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mrnMsmMm es should water colore. painted in - :V: I.VAN M.YKK. Mter--*•»«*.. iLLmoia :sm THE crown of Charles II., r.neue fn is the oldest easting ic England. - THE resignation of Maoflonald, man­ ager of the London Times, has been ' accepted. " . f ; lTi« said of a certain cranky clergy­ man in Ohio that he always has either a row or a revival in his church. GOVERNESSES are going to the front. Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts was a gov­ erness and so was lira. Levi P. Morton. * -" A MAN who has been baching in an Old cabin near Blaine, W. T., climbed up Jttto the garret one day and found there • A FI;<*RII>A VEGETABLE grower has con­ tracted to deliver three tons of water- itifcion seeds to Northern seed houses 'next autumn. ' JJ THE hair of King Otho, of Bavaria, spocently turned white in a night, and two servants have to support him wher­ ever he goes.. •„!' MHS. E. D. STANDIKORD, OF Louis- vfile, with $3,000,000 is reported the richest woman in Kentucky. She is a and only 23. J ' A KENTUCKY woman lamented the loss of a purse, a thief having carried off, which she laid away forty years ago td insure her a decent burial. * „ Miss FANNY MACAULAY died the other Miy at Brighton, England, at the age of •80 years. She was the latest surviving •ister of the illustrious historian. " . MBS. HARBISON is understood to hsv£ 'fjlgreed to take part in the quadrille to be danced at the Washington centennial ball in New York. The President doesn't |fcnoe. _______________ WHY can't some reformer - persuade ' lie brutal and jealous husbands of the land to reverse the order of their pro­ cedure and shoot themselves first, then T'fsweir wives? • • : A RECENT visitor to the library of Dr. Wendell Holmes says that the books in it that appeared to be most -frequently consulted were a Bible and a <66py Of Shakspeare. A VERDICT rendered in the Court of - Assizes of the Seine has just been set >Aside and a new trial ordered because the foreman of the jury spelled the word Majority with a "g." / 1 >.i^ - ^FENCING is so popular among the Wiiaies of Europe that many of the con­ vents have tefchers of the art, for the benefit of their pupils. Eveiy pretty I onian likes to have a foil. APRIL 30, the centennial anniversary -of Washington's inauguration, will not a legal holiday. The resolution making it such passed the United States #snate, but failed in the House. " ^ 5 iA WHAXE ninety feet long, the first , ifeen there for twenty years, lately went ashore in the Copenhagen Sound, and was killed. Its skeleton is to be for­ warded to the Copenhagen Museum. • Miss BRADDON, the novelist, is a tall, «etive-minded woman of 52, with gray hair and a ruddy complexion. She is an expert horsewoman, writes three novels a year, and is married to her publisher. V BESIDES the loss of prestige, the < pecuniary losses of the London Times toy the collapse of its charges against Mr. Parnell have been very large, and . 'title proprietors anticipate libel damages $1,000,000. ' B. P. SHILLABKR ("Mrs. Partington") is, living at Chelsea, a Boston suburb, "Waiting for the better life," as he says, "with pen, paper, pipe, and pills." Mr. Shillaber is 74 years old and crippled with rheumatism. MR. GEORGE BANCROFT, the his- * torian, no longer graces Washington so­ ciety circles. To a lady who had sent him an invitation he wrote: "I cannot come, because I dtry upon me the weight of 89 years." SANDHILL cranes are made pets at Olflando, Fla., and spam at will about the houses. One man has had four for some time, and the other day they were ...joined by a wild one, whioh haa made itself perfectly at home. THE Madrid physician who made the pOst-mortem examination of the body of Pigott declares that he never saw such a well-formed skull and brain, the latter indicating a man of superior force of '^araeter and imagination. - PRINCE VON BISMARCK weighs 165 pounds, and aa .far as physique is con­ cerned, is one of the finest looking men in Europe. His weight was 260 pounds when Dr. Schweninger began to treat him for obesity several years ago. t „• MONTREAL man has patented a device by trhich, a§ he somewhat ' vaguely claims, he can jpake a year's supply of ice foy 75 cents. After all, it isn't the ice that costs so much, it is the sugar and l^mon, the Angus terra and-- < and the rest of it. TRAVELERS over the Pennsylvania Central have long been amused by the sign "Cleveland and Frank" on a duilb- ing near the Newark, N. J., station. "Take Harrison's Tonic" is a legend "which can be seen from the car windows y M the train leaves Philadelphia. •V» THE much-discussed portrait of- Mm Hayes in the Green-room of the White House recently drew from Senator Evarts a clever witticism. "Time may , do a good deal for the picture," he said, "but' there was a jnistake made at firsi which can nevex be corrected. The artist painted the portrait in oils. 'Mrs. REV. NORMAN LI MAMI, an eloquent preacher in charge of the Methodist Church at Searspozt, Me., is totally blind. A touching feature of the ser­ vices at this church is the sweet singing of the pastor as he folds bin hands and tarns his slightless eyes toward Heaven. CARDINAL MANNING will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his Episcopal consecration on June 8, 1889. A fund is being raised as a testimonial to pay off the $60,000 debt on big Cathedral, so that the building may be consecrated on or before his own anniversary. BILL NYE says the New York World paid him $6,000 the first year of his en­ gagement with it. After that, in lieu of increase, he took the profits resulting from the sale of his articles to a news­ paper syndicate, And, as he says, is mak­ ing nearly three times his original sal­ ary. .. • MRS. LIVKRMORE says her husband is a Republican while she is a Prohibition­ ist; he is a protectionist and she is a free-trader; he has a pew in one church, she in another; he has one doctor, she another; and yet they are happy and harmonious and never dream of quarrel­ ing. ; TRADES people and shopkeepers in Russian Poland are Being compelled to sign an agreement not to use the Polish language among themselves or to cus­ tomers. For the first breaking of the agreement they are fined, and if they break it twice their shops are closed by the police. MRS. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT has just discovered that she is desoended from the great revolutionary hero, Gen. Marion, and has resolved to rescue the remains of that personage from the Neglected condition in which her fam­ ily, who probably never heard of Gen. Marion, have allowed them to lie for so many years. THE Duke d'Aumale, against whom the ban of exile-has been removed, was expelled from France in 1886, and sub­ sequently he presented to the Institute of France, to be held by it in trust for the French nation, the entire domain of Chantilly, with its magnificent castle and all its dependencies, the value of which, at the lowest estimate, is over 60,000,000 francs. A FEW days ago the cars fended at McKeesport, Pa., a young man without legs, a handsome, dashing brunette, a hand-cart, and a dog. The girl har­ nessed the dog to the cart, lifted the man into it, and helped to push the cart across the Reynold town bridge, where they took the train and departed. Later in the day an officer from Leetona, O., arrived in search of them. He said they were elopers. Ji- AMONG the cariosities of Queen Vic­ toria's railway journeys we the time tables supplied her majesty, these be­ ing printed in violet ink, on hand-made paper with gilt edges. They contain the exact times of the stoppages at all points, and give other information of interest. The Prince of Wales has per­ haps the finest railway coach in Europe, It contains seven rooms, a study with a little library, a couple of bed-rooms, a dressing-room and a bath-room. The bed-room is most luxuriously furnished in old gold silk, being lighted by elec­ tricity, and the paneling is beautifully painted. THE Blaok River Falls correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press is re­ sponsible for this story: Mrs. William Galloway, who lives in Trempealeau County, some years ago was attacked with a cancer. It increased in size and the physicians said nothing could be done to help her. But someone made the discovery that it was a "beefsteak" cancer, and prescribed beefsteak as a remedy. Over a year ago it was ^bought she would not live from one day till the next. The beefsteak Was applied and it was found that every twenty-four hours the cancer would eat seven pounds of beefsteak. When taken from the cancer there is nothing left of <the beef but the tissue and tough parts of it, and eveiy particle of moisture will be drawn out, the remainder being as porous as a sponge. Mrs. Galloway is no worse than she was a year ago, the cancer living on the beef instead of on her. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS; IJTTERESTING ITEMS GVTH*REIJ f MOM VARIOUS SOCRCB&. . Foar Hundred Million Collisions Dally. Observations of falling-stars have been used to determine roughly the av­ erage number of meteorites which at­ tempt to pierce the earth's atmosphere during each twenty-four hours. Dr. Schmidt, of Athens, from observations made during seventeen years, found that the mean hourly number of lumin­ ous meteors visible on a clear moonless night by one observer was fourteen, taking the time of observation from midnight to 1 a. m. It has been further experimentally shown that a large group of observers who might include the whole horizon in their observations would see about six times as many as are visible to one eye. Prof. H. A. Newton and others have calculated that, making all proper cor­ rections, the number which might be visible over the whole earth would be a little greater than 10,000 times as matiy as could be seen at .one place From this we gather that not less than 2,,000,000 luminous meteors fall upon our planet daily, each of which in a dark clear night would present us with the well-known phenomena of a fjiooting- star. • • This number, however, by no means represents the total number of minute meteorites that enter our atmosphere, because many entirely invisible to the naked eye are often seen in telescopes. It has been calculated that the number of meteorites, if these were included, would be increased twenty-fold; this would give us 400,000,000 ot meteorites falling in the earth's atmosphere daily. --J. Norman Lockyer, in Harper** Magazine. - MRS. JAGGS--Well, what kept you so late this time? Mr. Jaggs--Been tendin a meetin' of ze z'siety of com­ parative fiil-ology. 'Ni laid 'em all out, too. wili'Ow Netgl»!»or* Are I»oln« Matters of General sud Local Intereat -- M»r- itages and Death*--Aoeltlonts and Crimes STAT* OAX«r --Thets is one coiner of every home whieh is sacred, and it is not the skeleton closet. Houses that are considered pub­ lic property are generally thought to he free from these home corners, but they are not, especially where there are chil­ dren. When President Hayes was in the White House, that institution even had Ha eomer where the boys were not free from the slipper of the first lady of the land. Nellie Arthur had her play-house in a sacred corner, and in the ExeetjJive Mansion of this State at Springfield, Florence Fifer, a bright little miss of 12, hasher corner, which is not open to the pub* lie, even though the honse do s belong to the States and the people feel free to wander through it at their own sweet will. Miss Florence has her own ideas of propriety, and while she can slide down the banisters of the great stairway with the skill of a boy and a grace of her own whenever the mansion is quiet, she can also be as digni­ fied at a reception as any grand dame. But there is a room up in the top of the old mansion where this bright-eyed little girl finds more pleasure than at receptions. In this room are the cats of state, as she calls them. Only her intimate friends, in whom she has. perfect confidence, secure admission to this room, for the cats are very particular with whom they associate, and in fact are the aristocratic members of the Governor's household. Miss Florence has the word of Master Dick Oglesby, a young gentleman of her own age, who held this post of honor as guardian of the cat-room for four years, that the mother cat has a long line of aristocratic ancestors, and that the family even dates back to the royal lines of France, for she is allowed in her own .right to wear the maltose oross of the legion of honor. Mas* ter Dick ought to be authority, and Miss Florence is careful not t6 offend this descendant of royalty entrusted to her care by introduoing, promiscuously, the people whom she ean not guarantee as proper personages for. such a reception. This proud mother cat bears "the name of Duchess of Malta. She s the property of Illinois. She has two proud sons who are to be the care of Master Dick and Miss Florence when they are of the proper age to leave the maternal roof. Master Dick will not name his cat until he has search ed his father's library for a name becom­ ing a cat who was born in the executive mansion under the administration of Gov­ ernor Oglesby. But Miss Florence has given her kitten the name of the State over which her father presides as Governor, and will call it "Illinois," because she says it is to be the State cat of this administra­ tion. The old cat must abdicate, so far as she has any claims to active ruling in State affairs is concerned. Honorable as the record of the State has been under Republican rule, Miss Florence is a be liever in the Jacksonian doctrine to the extent that there must be an entire change of administration. She does not propose to b9 responsible for any of the foibles and follies of the old State cat, respect her as she may, and as soon as young Illinois is old enough to take the reins of government in the cat king­ dom he will be inaugurated. In the mean time the Dowager Duchess will be allowed to act as regent, and Miss Florence will see to it that there is no abuse of> author­ ity. The room occupied by the State cats is large and airy, but its furnishings are of a date belonging to the early history of the State. Miss Florence is interested in having the General Assembly make an appropriation to repair and refurnish the Executive mansion, for she thinks young "Illinois" should have a new throne-room and an imperial back fence for prome­ nades during the summer evenings. The Governor has not made any recommenda­ tions to the Legislature upon this subject, but Miss Florence paid a visit to the House the other day all alooie, and there an grave suspicions that she was lobbying with the Democrats, as she was seen smil­ ing upon "Tom" Merritt, the leader of the Democratic side, and an hour later "Tom" announced himself in favor of an appro­ priation for the mansion. --Judge H. M. Miner, the County Judge of Moultrie County, who Was mys­ teriously absent for nearly two months, arrived in Decatar recently on his way to Sullivan to assume the duties of his office. He claimed to have been help­ lessly ill in Chicago for several weeks, and cannot understand why the Supervis­ ors of Moultrie Country should have adopted a resolution calling for his resignation. His accounts are straight --The Hon. George H. Varnell, Mayor of Mount Vernon, died at his home after a lingering illness. Mr. Varnell had been a member of the Board of Supervisors, representing Jefferson County in the Leg­ islature, and at the time of his death was serving his fifth term as Mayor. He was one of Mount Vernon's most enterprising and pnblic-spirited citizens, was a self- made man, and left a valuable estate. In politics he was thoroughly Democratic. --A new ,company has just been organ- iced at Galena for the purpose of develop­ ing the Devry Mine, in Naw California. The company is to be called the Galena and Chicago Mining Company, and has a capital of $100,000, a largs part of which is furnished in Chicago. The mine is known to contain a rich body of mineral, and it will require but little capital to de­ velop it. --The Be v. C. W. G. Koch, pastor of the Lutheran Church, died at Lemont, of pneumonia. --A large number of representative far­ mers, from every precinct in McLean County, met in convention at Blooming- ton, and took definite action regarding the binding twine trust. Spirited speeches were made against the action of the trust, and resolutions were adopted pledging the farmers not to us6 any twine the coming season unless the price is greatly reduced. The meeting was preside® over by Joseph B. Orendorff, and among the speakers who assailed the twine trust was David N. Ful- wiler, of the Western Rural. Many favor the plan of absolutely refusing to uso any -- Brow* County has a prodigy in the •u«pe of a 10-year-old boy with a talent for days and dates. Hoy Odenweller, son Of S. P. Odenweller, of Industry Town­ ship, is the infant wonder. Give him any date in any month of this year, last year, or next year, and he can at once tell you the day of the week upon which it falls or has fallen. For example, ask him on what day of the week will the 17th of Oc­ tober, 1889, fall, and he will promptly answer " Thursday," which is correct. And so of any date of last year or the year to come. How he arrives at the solution he does not know. Numerous gentlemen of undoubted veracity have repeatedly tested his strange power. The little fellow is a bright youngster, but does not exhibit any unusual precocity beyond this pecu­ liar gift. He says that beyond the three 'years--the current, the last, and the next- he cannot give correct answers. Next year he will lost all power over 1888, jrith which he is now conversant, and his mind will grasp that of 1891, of which he now knows -nothing. He has no rule or method, nor does he know how he arrives at the true answer, but it is certain that be is correct when answering. --Beam Smith, lately out of the Joliet Prison, tells a terrible tale of suffering thei e. He says that one of the guards iir- snjted him and he struck him. For this the prisoner was put into a solitary cell and chained so that he could not move. He says that tho steam was then turned into the cell until he was in a terrible sweat. The steam was then shut off and the cell became damp and cold. This was carried on, according to Smith, for thirty-three days. Smith has consump­ tion, and the doctor Who was called says there is no hope JfOr him. Smith's friends propose to investigate the affair. --Detective Mose Lewenstein, of Chi­ cago, was stabbed by a stranger, and would have been killed in all probability had it not been for a morocco-covered memorandum'book in his pocket, which stoppe 1 the course of the dagger. His assailant says he was drunk, and knew nothing of the occurrence. --Charles J. Beattie, the Chicago law­ yer who procured a fraudulent divorce for Mrs. A. C. Gordon, was found guilty of contempt by Judge Jamieson, and sen­ tenced to the County Jail for one year and to pay a fine of $500. Beattie, it will be remembered, after the case of Mrs. Gor­ don had come up on first hearing, gave the woman what he told her was a copy of the decree for her divorce. Some three weeks afterward he brought a couple of witnesses into court to testify to her hus­ band's infidelity, and on the strength of this testimony the divorce was finallyi granted. But before this Mrs. Gordon had married again, supposing she, was a free woman. Mr. Gordon was in South America at the time and returned to find his wife had been divorced without' his having reoeived notice. He attacked', the testimony on which the case was de­ cided, and the result shows that Beattie hired perjurers to testify against Gordon in order to get a decree for the woman,- from whom he had previously collected his fee. with the assurance that her di­ vorce had been granted. An appeal has' been taken by Beattie. --Adolf Weiohebaumer, of Chidago, en route to Germany, fell from a train at New Brunswick, N. J., and was killed. --Collinsville is a great place for cattle bells. That cow-bells are made and do! not grow on trees or elsewhere seems to' surprise some people, but there are four establishments in the United States which are exclusively devoted to the man­ ufacture of that resonant article, and two of these are in uollinsville. One hundred and fifty dozen are turned out daily and thousands of them dangle from the necks of unfortunate cows all oyer' tbe prairies' of North and South America. The man­ ufacture of cow-bells is entirely distinct from that of other bells. Instead of be­ ing molded the metal is rolled into sheets, cut into symmetrical polygons, which, when folded, are pressed into their well- known form. Having been rivetted, they are next packed in clay and brought to a white heat. When suddenly cooled these Bteel bells are found to be not only tem­ pered, but also beautifully brazed. -Ex-Alderman Augustus Curly, aged about 38 years, one of the best known residents of Galena, dropped dead of heart disease in the livery stable office of the firm of Calderwood & Co., of which he was a member. --The members of the Central Woman's Christian Temperance Union held their fifteenth annual meeting at Chicago. The, sessions were largely attended. Miss Helen L. Hood presided. The Treasurer's report showed $224 on hand at the begin­ ning of the year, receipts $5,635 during the year, and total disbursements of $5,856.08. At the Bethesda Nursery 6,515 children have been cared for, and 10,485 meals given them. The dispensary has treated 800 patients. The Union ha6 cared for 944 lost and abandoned children. Eight thousand men have lodged at the Bethesda Inn. Each of these has been given a bed, Bandwich and cup of coffee for ten cents. The officers for the ensu­ ing year are: MiBS T. B. Carse, President;; Mrs. E. P. Howell, Secretaiy; Mrs. C. G.. Davis, Treasurer. Mrs. C. S. Lawrence, - «f Elkhart, died at the age of 94 years. * •••' - Connie Pierson, known as "Joe Mackin's Secretaiy," was found dead in a Chicago lodging-house. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Maps, of Galena, have celebrated their golden wedding. Hiram Allen, one of the early settlers of Fayette County, died of heart disease at the age of 68 years. A oommittee of the State Legislature has decided to report against the passage of a bill regulating undertakers and em- balmers. --Charles Talbott, who stole $35,000 worth of diamonds from Fanny Daven­ port two years ago, while she was stop­ ping at the Gayoso Hotel, Memphis, has been pardoned from the Tennessee Peni­ tentiary, after serving two of the seven years which he was sentenced to serve. FARMERS AKE HAPPY. THE Y LOOK FORWARD CONFLDE^AL V , *0 A PLEKTIFP, HAKVJETFLVU ., ' fcsrty Grains Are Boln* Reeded Qnlt« Gen- eral 'y-Morp Rain Needed in Many Local- ftlea--Winter Wheat Looks Very Prom- [Chicago ipeciaL] Uaroh, which, particularly in. ttda latitude, t» always one of the most trying, disagreeable, and disheartening months, not only to the producer but to every one connected directly or indirectly in the moving of the crops, haa this year, end particularly during the last two weeks, given us phenomenal conditions. From a large corps of correspondents w&tteml throughout the coun­ try. the coiidiUoti of crop#, seeding, etc., up to March '25th, m*y be summarised as follows : As yet there hag prac tically no seeding been done of 8 j All the Western part of Minnesota ana Dakota are ready t<> go to work at once. On some of the higher knolls wheat has already been seeded. The reports from these two States show the pound in good condition for seeding as soon as it warms up. But the reports are also unaui- mous upon one point, and that is that tlia ground still continues dry after you get down an inch or ao, and that there is great danger of the crop being injured unless rains follow soon after seeding. There was no rain to wet the ground any in Dakota Sast. fall, and little snow fell during the winter. South Dakota reports that if tliore were any bushes there tlw birds would he singing, bat the moisture is as scarce as the birds. Farmers1 have been harrowing their ground; the ground is dry, but the opinion seems to be that the mild winters have always been followed bygoo<! crops to Dakota, and farmer* will seefi every anew pos­ sible. Mild weather has been the order of tho day in Southern Minnesota lately. All corre­ spondents report that seeding will be quite gen­ eral within a few days, but that rains are nece&» sary immediately alter seeding, as the ground is so dry that the wheat will not Bprout with­ out it. Nebraska reports that they have had little rain throughout the State this spring. The far­ mers are seeding spring wheat, but tho average is growing Jess and less «very year, oats and com tailing its place. The movement of corn in Nebraska at present is small and will continue so until spring seeding is over. After that every- thing points to an increased movement in corn. In Iowa dry weather prevails, and in some portions of the State the wells now are as low aa at the driest time last summer. Farmers are sowing a little spring wheat but not to any great extent. The ground is dry enough for the seed, tog of oats, but farmers are cautious with regard to seeding just now for fear of bad weather in the near future. There seems to be an unusually large amount of corn back in farmers' hands in Iowa, and at present prices it is not likely to come forward.* This report on spring seeding would not be complete without looking over Northern and Central Illinois, devoted now so largely to the growing of oats. No one who is not practically familiar with the development of agriculture iu Central Illinois has any conception of the in­ crease in the acreage of oats, the acreage now being almost as great as that of corn. The tile lands in this area are actually dry and dusty ; but farmers are talking seriously of ra- ducing the acreage of oats this spring, owing to the exorbitant price which they are obliged to pay for twine to bind the crop'with, and they are forming boycotts against twine trusts all over the State. They seem to be thoroughly aroused upon the subject. The seeding season maybe summed up prac­ tical) y as follows: From fifteen to twenty days earlier than utiial, little done yet; ground dry, but cannot yet, be called a drouth. Seeding will open up along the line within a few days, when rains seem absolutely essential to the suoeesa of the spring seeding. The general conditions of the winter wheat crop up to this date are backward. The distri­ bution of the rainfull of the country seems to have no method in its madness, for in Michigan, Northern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio the ground, is dry, and down in the southwestern portion of the w intery wheat belt there is plenty ol moist­ ure ami the crop growing fast and doiiig well. Reports from Southern Kansas all indicate plenty of rain; iu fact, too much for spring work. The wheat is making rapid growth? Quite a number of points iu Southern Kanaaa say there is little wheat in fanners' hands aofl none in elevators, and that they are importing now almost all the wheat they are using and expect to do BO until the next crop comes on the market, lieports from Central Kansas say that there is sufficient moisture in the ground to carry the • wheat plants through the spring. Reports from Northern Kansas say there is no surplus of wheat in that part, of the country; farmers have never sold as clcwwly as they have this season. Beports from Northern Missouri are all of a favorable character; much more BO than they were a year ago at this time. The milling out­ look shi-,ws quite an improvement and ft better demand for flour. The wheat moves slowly, and stocks in millers' hands are running low and mills are paving St. 1A>U1« prices for wheat. Eastern Missouri reports no complaint of the growing crop. It has Com­ menced to grow ; farmers' deliveries have been free in the early part of the month, but the stocks are now fast melting away. Southern Missouri reports favorable crop con ditions and demand for flour better; not enough wheat lias come in from farmers' hands during the last thirty days to keep the mills running, and they are sending away from home to get It by car lots. In Southern Illinois the great* wheat field of the State is all now in good growing condition. There is less wheat in t he farmers' hands than for many years at this date and particularly less good wheat. Farmers all though Southern Illinois are sowing oats; country roads have been unusually good during the winter and con­ sequently the movement of wheat up to the present time has been larger than usual. Northern Indiana reports the wheat looking well and all it needs now is plenty of rain for the remainder of the month. Bouthern Indiana reports warm and spring­ like weather, and with hardly a single report of winter killing or farmers plowing up their crop. The demand for flour is light, and none of the mills are running over half tho time. Bouthern Ohio reports fine growing weather for wheat and that all the wheat now in tho fanners bauds will be needed for home consump­ tion. Good wheat is scarce. Tho mills have little stock on hand and are buying from hand to mouth. Bouthern Michigan reports warm and dry weather for the season of the year. There is no movement of wheat from farmers' hands, and, in fact, there is little to move. The country ele­ vators art) carrying small stocks. Reports from the central and northern parts of Michigan all say they want good, warm rains to start the wheat to growing. Stock In farmers' hands is small, probably not more than one-half the usual amount at this date in 1888. Owing to the fact that prices were good last fall farmers sold freely, and stocks held by mills and elevators are also extremely light. Receipts have been scarcely anything. Many of the large country mills report that the supply is not large enough to last the mills thirty days' steady running, and that some of the mills are im­ porting from Toledo now the wheat they are grinding. Tennessee and Kentucky both report that the growing wheat crop was never better. Tho plants are starting off strong and healthy. Farmers' supplies have nearly all gone to mar­ ket. The condition of the wheat crop in California is changed for the better to some extent by the recent rains. Although to the observer the grain in Central California looks well, yet tho rivers and creeks are as dry as last September, and the grain lives on tins surface moisture. If in tho near future only • average spring rains fall (and the peculiarity of the San hat after Joaquin Valley is t£ March little rain occurs, except in phenomenal seasons), the harvest will not exceed the comparative yield of the two preceding yearB. Reports from Wash­ ington Territory are of a favorable character, so far as the growing crop of wheat is concerned. There is quite a large amount of wheat in the country to be moved off yet. The milling situa­ tion is good, millers paying equal to 85 eeuts for wheat in Taeoma. AUSTRALIA'S_WHEAT CHOP. It Is Expected to Fall Far Short of theJEs- Umated Product. [San Francisco (Cat.) telegram.] Advices from Sydney announce that the Australian wheat crop has fall n short of the estimated product for tho season, and that 8locks are being tirinly held, owing to the probability of the imposition of a protective tariff by the colonial govern­ ment at Melbourne, and receipts to date are over 5U.O0O bags short. Beports from South Australia show crops to be below previous estimates. Last month's estimate of four bushels to the acre has been reduced to three and one-tenth bushels aguinst ten bushels in previous seasons. The totil yield amounts to 62,000,000 bushels from an area of 2,000,000 acres, more than one-fifth of s?hich is not worth re <ping. The total surplus for exporting will be less than 2,000,000 bushels, as compared with 10,- 500,000 buBhels for last season. Wheat shipments from Pacific coast ports alone this season to the colonies, promise to ex­ ceed in quantity those of aDy previous year. Three vessels have- already been chartered 1o load wheat for Svdney and to cany 5,000 tons. The steamship Zea- TT- , . . T, ... ,, landia, which sai's for Sydney soon, has He was caught m Kansas City with the , ^een engRged to carry over one hundred diamonds and part of the money he had # tonBi making a total export of 200,000 taken from the hotel drawer. His parents 1 bnshels in sight. reside in Cairo, and are highly esteemed people. He was only 19 years old when sentenced. Strong petitions from Cairo and Memphis were sent to ths Governor and secured his release. -- -- --yaztssgiSt#* '• sr Windriua Honored. Secretary Wiildom has appointed James H. Windrim, of Philadelphia, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, Yice Will A. Freret, resigned by request. "t?- CURIOUS FACTS. A NORWEGIAN savant estimates the age of the world at 1,000,000 years. * AN experiment recently made in Scot­ land proves that the tortoise can walk a mile in four hours. A LITTLK girl in DeKalb County, Ga., rejoices in the name of Hasan Julia Melinda Maria Savannah Sophia Eliza­ beth Lady bug Towers. A Swiss has invented a musical box which imitates the human voice and also the trill of birds. THE Persian name for Americans is Yange Doon-yn, which means a dweller of the New World. Ox the day of the Boulanger election a Paris paper employed 250 special re­ porters, each of whom it supplied with a cab, and thirty bicyclists to bring in the returns. AN African trader has a gorilla that follows him aronnd like a dog. The animal does numerous trioks, and is so docile that its master jalloirs it to sleep with him. NEAR the soda springs in Ashland, Ore., there is a spring which emits a gas so poisonous as to kill whatever may breathe it, and it is said that there is. al­ most oonBtantly a ring of birds, Bnakes, lizards, and small deer lying dead about it. THE edelweiss can be cultivated in pots or among rockwork, but it is said that, when transferred to a lower level, its blossoms sometimes become red. Amoag the Swiss monntainers it is con­ sidered the emblem of purity, and is used as a bridal flower in place of the orange blossoms of more temperate climes. THERE is a German newspaper pub­ lished at Jerusalem, and it-says that the city is grqwing in size and population at a remarkable rate, which is surprising because neither its situation nor its trade is favorable to a rapid increase. The Jews take the lead in building, fol­ lowed by the Russians and Germans. The Greeks and Amenians are also busy building oafes, bazaars, and shops. A Trick With Dominoes. Placing a set of twenty-eight dominoes on the table, yon ask some one in the company to arrange them face down­ wards. This he may do in any way that he sees fit, the only restriction t>eing that he is to arrange them after the fashion of the game of dominoes; i. «., so that a one will be coupled with a one, a thtee with a three, and so on. While he does this, yon leave the room; you at once pronounce, blind­ folded, that the extreme numbers of the row are six and five, five and two, etc., as the case may be. This feat, apparently so marvelous, depends on a principle that is a very simple one, as you will understand by experimenting. Place a complete set of dominoes in a row according to the game rules (with the numbers together), and they will invariably have the same numbers at each end. Thus, if the final number, it the end of the row, should be four, that at the opposite end will be four also, and so on, so that the twenty-eight dominoes arranged as above, form, numerically, an endless chain or circle. If this circle is broken by the removal of a doniino, the numbers on either side of the gap thns made, will be the same as are on the domino that is extracted. Thus, if you take away a six-four, the chain of blocks thus broken will ter­ minate at one dnd With six, the other with'four. This is the secret of the whofe trick. While the dominoes are being arranged on the table, at the beginning of the trick, you must secretly remove one of the dominoes. This makes it certain that when the row is arranged, the numbers on the ends will be as on the one you have removed. It is necessary for me to add, also, that you should take care not to remove a double-number domino, as the trick would thereby fail. A little thought will enable you to un­ derstand why this is the case.--?Yankee Blade. 0 White Slaves in Turkey* There is said to have been a consid­ erable sensation created in Constanti­ nople by the disoovery that a market exists there in which European girls im­ ported for the purpose from Germany, Austria, Italy, and Bussia are publicly sold as slaves. The matter is said to have been duly authenticated and is now occupying the attention of the embas­ sies. The statement is that every week large shipments of German and Italian girls arrive via Yerna, Odessa, Saloniea and from the Adriatic ports. Needless to add that this human freight is not disembarked on the ordi­ nary custom-house quays of the Golden Horn, where passengers and cargo are Usually put ashore, and where its pre­ sence would speedily have attracted the notice of the consular authorities. The girls are landed in small boats at the Turkish quarantine station at Kawak. whence they are brought overland through Bujukdere into Constantinople. None are aware of the fate in store for them, having been lured to undertake the trip to the Turkish capital by means of promises of munificent remuneration as governesses, pianistes,and other forms of respectable and honorable employ­ ment. On arriving, they are taken to a place which goes by the name of the "Casino," and which is nothing more nor less than an exchange or mart where human cattle are dealt in as freely as breadstuffs on the Produce Exchange in New York.--Sheffield Daily New*. Entire Wheat as Food. Lawes and Gilbert investigated this subject several years ago, and concluded that more nutriment was lost to the hu­ man system by the clearing action of the branny;particles than was gained by their introduction. As a laxitive the coarse flour is not without limita­ tions. It is. not uncommon for those who have long used graham as a princi­ pal article of food to become dependant upon rectal injections. Many nice breakfast dishes are made' from the en­ tire wheat, whole, cracked, or ground, and their occasional use is often found agreeable and beneficial. As to substi­ tuting them altogether for fine flour, it ; proves to me to be truer food economy ! to leave the outer shell of the wheat, for ruminants. Used with caution, ; and upon competent advice, it is un- ILLINOIS IAW-: Belmwereintrodnsed in thai *Sd Inst, ks follow ̂ĵ Providing ft of additional buttdtogt for theHt In Bane at Anna; providing that loan associations may make loans wttfaoSt Jk' manding a pteniium; also a bill providing **--* driftwood obstructing a stteam ontsid* of a drainage district may he removed at thf rrmi»M of the district. Senator Burke's Chattel Mort­ gage hill ma advanced to third nadlni Vfav' House bill authorizing titips and imxiniinTiwl towns to establish pleasure drives, after it kmc wrangle, was passed with the emergency eJaaLiML : Senator Gihbs' bill for the administration of trusts by trust companies wag read a nor on J time, the committee amendments were adopted, and tbe bill was ordered to a third 11 leilliM tS the House the Judiciary Committee reported favorably Mr. Hunter's resolution for tbe sab- mission of a prohibitory amendment. tome discussion, further consideration was postponed until April 10. The following wn« Vere advanced to third" reading after beiM amended: The committee's substitute tor t'onners election bill; Mr. Schuwerk's wn malt­ ing radical amendments in the law in regard to the administration of estates; Mr. Cooley'n hm to make it. unlawful for any person not a mem­ ber of the Grand Army of the Republic to wear or nee that badge for the purpose ot obtaining aid or assistance; Mr. Crafta* bill to amend the law in regard to the regulation and administration «C trusts by trust companies. The Governor trtas mitted to the House a message returning to'Ola House without his approval the bill toehaMMa the time of applications for judgment aadortlts pf Bale for taxes and special assessments on de­ linquent lands front the May to the June tank ot tho County Court. Bills of the following efaar- aeter were introduced: Providing that Union soldiers Mid sailors shall be preferred In asiso^ ing employes for public offices; placing mtlli tions on railroads, steamboats or stock vavda receiving csttl* from any district WjMns any disease contagious" among is prevailing; comi>elling railroads to fence right of way six months after oonatrao- "on I appropriate #25,000 to assist the Mogla ot Jefferson County in rebuilding tiietr conatv court house, which was destroyedby a cyclone; to compel persons suing physicians lovmal­ practice to give bonds for defendant's costs as weli as costs of conrt in case of defeat--tlse MB «Iao prohibits attorneys from undertaking suits for damages from malpractice where the remun­ eration for conducting is to be o per cent, or past j of the damages recovered. | ONLY thirteen members were present when the Senate convened on the 25th ult. The ioux- nal was partially read when, by consent, Senator Reinhardt's bill for the transfer of the reeorda and papers pertaining to the defunct city eont of LaSalle to tho Circuit Court of Count v was read for a second time and the Sen­ ate adjourned. The House fought for a halt hour over the question of amending the journal so as to show the proper disposition of the Wisner anti-pool bill. Aftet thif question had been settlod, the House Mo- seeded to the first reading of Horns bills. Fifteen or twenty bills were read a first time and ordered to second reading. Bills of tba following character were introduced: Author* izing a defendant in action on contract otlMT than for the payment of a stipulated ram of money and where the damages Ma unliquidated, to make a tender of what he deemed ample -^-Tr ages, and providing that, in case judgment not be recovered for more tliaii the amount tendered the defendant shall not be required to rav any costs of suit from the time tender was- made; also a bill providing for the redemption of "draw-back" checks issued by railroad com­ panies or «orporations at any ticket offioe ownad by such company or corporation at any tins within ten years, after such draw-back cbecka may have teen issued, and providing furthar, if suit is brought to recover damagea, that ail costs shall be assessed against the defendant or defendants and a reasonable attorney's foe al­ lowed the plaintiff. THF. only bill introduced In the Senate on tba 26th inat. was one by Senator Keinhardt to ao- thotize the Secretary of State to puy salaries of #3 per day to the men who r un the elevators in the State House. Mr. Kckhardt's bill to regulate building and loan associations was taken up in. the order of third reading, and was dllr cussed at some length. The bill passed byk vote of 28 yeas to B nays. < Mr. Herrlek's Mil authorizing the dissolution of drainage dis­ tricts, Sheets' bill, to enable township mutual insurance companies to renew their charters. • and Secrest's bill appropriating $10,000 for State printing until July, 138*.t, w&e naaaad witteal material opposition. The Frisbee phmaaof bill, after two or three amendments, waa orrtniaw to a third reading. The bill containing tba mt> •ion and codification of the school law waa place* . on tho calendar in order of second reading. In the House Senator Tierce's l>iii providing tor the refunding of surplus funds that an aowar hereafter may be in the hands of oonnty eol- lectors of taxes or county treasurers to tbe credit' ' of I he bond fund of townships when saob boatl have been fully paid and canceled was ordered to third reading without amendment. Mr. Whiter of the Appropriation Committee, moved' a sus­ pension of the rules for the third Madtng of the bill appropriating dMMMft tor State printing daring the present Geneeal As­ sembly. The bill passed, together with ths' emergency clause, by a vote of 108 yeas. Mr. Brown's bill toi prohibit the manufacture and' •ale of adulterated liquors having sasfasaia* or < foundation in whole or iu pact alcohol, oologna, spirits, or high-wines, came up on. aecond read ing, the committee amendmenta wece adopt­ ed, and the bill waa ordered to third read-' ing. After a half hour's discuasion Kr. Oteea'a bin, amending-the law in regard to guardians and wards, was ordered to a third reading. Thia bill provides that the Governor, by and witt tba advice and consent of the Senate, ahalL Mora the first Monday in December, 1W, and erary four years thereafter, appoint in each county of, this State, and aa often aa any vacancies may occur, a suitable person, to bo known aa imbue guardian of such county, who shall hold his of- flee for four years from the first Monday of Da- cember, 1889, or until his successor is appointed' ami qualified. BILLB were introduced as follows in the on the 27th ult.: Enabling the commissioners of drainage districts to contract with railroad com-, panies to construct levees and keep the same te, repair ; amending the law of limitations aoaato provide that no action shall be brought to fars- close any mortgage after ten yeara nave expired since the execution of the mortgage, even thoagb partial payments have been made at intervals during that period; providing for the inspec­ tion on foot of cattle, sheep and swine. ThfS' is the bill adopted at the recent convention bald; at St. Louis to devise means of abolishing -ths- fnntltina UsnntA^ Tlinvnsa' MB; beef and pork combine. Senator Thou appropriating a portion of Dearborn Square ̂ Chicago, for a soldiers' memorial hall, waa passed without opposition. The general appro­ priation bill was then taken up and read stolid time,and passed without debate or material oppo- taken up by a special 28th ult., and after i aitlon--yeaa, :w; nays, 1. Senator Campbell cast the negative vote. Senator Hadley's bill tor the formation of county mutual windstorm in­ surance companies was "read a second time sad ordered to third rending without amendment. Several petitiona and bills of a minor cbatsoter were disposed of. In the House the Wianer antt- pool bill waa tabled, and can only be taken sn on a two-thirds vote. Several bills were ocdeaw to third reading. A resolution was adopted tar adjournment, on account of city elections, from. the 29th ult., until the following Wednesday. MB. CHAWFOBP'S primary elections bill was, il order of tho Senate OK tils, being amended was ordered to third reading. Senator Evans introduced ths following resolution, whieh was adopted by * rising vote: WHEHKAS, The pleasing iutellifleaaa is transmitted from Washington that the Preal- dent of the United States has selected for the IS*' sponsible position of Knvoy Extraordinary aadj Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of 9k.[ James--the leading diploaialic court of the cirt-; lized world--the Hou. Robert Todd Lincoln, ana-' tive-boru lllinoiBan, late Secretary of War; thtrs-j fore, be it Besolvcd, By the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, that we, tbaj Senators and Representatives of the people of tbSj State of Illinois, wit hout respect to anv party •il filiations, do most heartily and cheerfully indoraS) . tho wise and able selection of Kobert Todd Lin-, coin for Minister to England. Resolved, That, the Secretary of State be and he is hereby in­ structed to suitably engross and transmit to ths; Hon. James G. Blaine, Secretary of State of tbS' Federal Government, a copy of this preambls; and resolution. The House bill changing ths time of holding countv court in Stephenson Countv was read a third time and passed with* ' out opposition. A number of bills were ordered, to third reading. In the House consider*, v twn of the general appropriation bill wss| postponed for one week. Mr. Fisher s bill, pro­ viding that any surplus remaining in the hands of County Treasurers after the payment of; bonded indebtedness shall be returned to ths respective townships, was read a third time and) passed with tlia emergency clauae. Mr. Crnfta* bill amending the law in regard to non-real* dents of the State holding the office of TruataS In institutions of learning waa re«d a thir&> time and passed with the emergency clauaS.' The Senate concurrent resolution approving ths ; appointment of Robert T. Lincoln as Mlrustar j to England camel over from the Senate and ths • ' ruies were suspended for its consideration. TbS i resolution was adopted by a rising vote. Ths -valued policy" bill came up on third reading and, after an hour's discussion, waa pauMMfcbyft:;^ ; vote of SWtoM. % , . ! . . ' V M '-:;W .-V W:':N Our Railway Past. The Railway Mail Service at thfe close of the fiscal year ending June 30^ 1888, gave employment to 3,094 clerks. Matter was distributed on 126,31® miles of railway, and oil 17,402 miles additioual closed pouches were earrie<I» There were also operated forty-one in­ land steamboat lines on which postal postal doubtedly valuable in a remedial "j®1*® t tTi2c,f °iTn°cre<vs I ll'TloI but the unquaMed any curative agent, and its hit-or-miss application to all sorts of persons and conditions, seems to me less dangerous end quite as irrational as the calomel and blood-let­ ting treatment of former days. York Tribune. by steamboats. They distributed 528,77*2,060 pieces of ordinary nsaJIr. matter, and handled 16,001,059 i ter«?cl packages and eases, and New ' 0*^ through registered jxmehes and itf*T.i ner registered sacks.--Ej--Po.<tmaste$ij General James, in Seribner'a. MANAGER--How many characters do you say they are in your play ? Anfchor --I didn't say there were any. Tip M a French society drama. , - RECENT researches show tka* tli' electrical organs are reallv modiiei muscular organs or the terminations of ^ervous^sti'ucturvs m musR-lch. > J * ̂ ' « * • < " « • r • i ' -54.. ':