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J. VAN SLYKE, E«br an« FSMMNT. ;*oHfcNBT, » - !• ILLINOIS, ̂ COL. INQEEBOIX'S par for clearing Boodler Kerr, of New York,' is said to liave been $25,000. tions. Warner Miller ia a papermakar. So was and ia ex-Congressman William Whiting, of Massachusetts. Rodney Wallace, Whitney's successor, is a paper maker also. So were the Russells, of Massachusetts. So ia Congressman West, of New York. ' \ THE new premier of France was once | ̂41 humble watchmakeroa the Boulevard Sebastopol in Paris. ^ ; --__ ̂ A MOXEE, W. T., company are mak- xttg arrangements to manufacture cigars ||̂ «xelu9iTely from tobacco grown ia that legion. _____ <?>' IT has been necessary to turn, the city hall at Walla Walla, W. T., into a tem­ porary home for immigrants, tip , rogh into the territory ia so great. ' f'-H ' SIXCE the death of the Hon. SMtiey Ifartlett, John C. Park, of Newton, be- smes the senior member of the, Boston He was admitted in 1827. A PAKISTAN critic, who had ne»ii?wiMi near Ireland, writing of a new composer's ttrasic, said that in it "one seems to hear the patriotic songs of an unknown *a tion." :' • • , i , : A seagull mistook the shining bald head of Alfred Hollister, at Sea Bright, ST. J., for a stone the other day and dropped a mussel on it, ontting his . scalp severely. . A GANG of workmen who were dig­ ging a sewer in Savannah, Ga., . un­ earthed a skeleton, on one of whose legs Was an iron shackle with part of a rusty ohaln attached. AUSTRALIA has promised to give £35,- 600 annually for ton years toward the building of the proposed new British V• ships of war, and to maintain the vessels When completed., f\ : A GERMAN girl 20 years old arrived III Atlanta the other day and met her * sister for the first time. The elder girl left Germany before the appearance of the younger on the scene. ( , IT has just been discovered that out of 25,000 native Kanakas in the Island o| Noumea, 4.000 are afflicted with ^ leprosy of the* worst sort. Efforts to ^ #op the scourge is under way. » ; . A MAN in* Philadelphia who cotrtd not • procure employment, hung a board over his back, inscribed "Work Wanted,* abd took a stand in a business street. He got a job within a couple of» hours. 41 \ THE London and Northwestern Rail- L;- Wad has put a dining-car upon one of its trains, and the whole English nation is open-mouthed with wonder at the ,,,s progress railroading is making in Great ;?V Britain. " ] ' A NEW machine set up in Massachu­ setts makes 12,000 nails a minute, against 1,200 which was the former limit. The man who makes ten nails grow where one grew before is the friend - oi {he manicure. SUSAN LA ITLESCHE, an Omaha Indian girl, graduated in 1886 at the school for her people at Hampton, Va. Since then she has been assisted by the Con­ necticut Indian Association, and she was among the graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Philadel­ phia. She will stand among Let peo­ ple as their first woman physician. * GEN. SLOCUV, who marched to the j sea with Sherman, speaking of death says: "I am a coward in the face of pain and cannot bear to think of the physical sensations that may attend my death-- the choking in the throat, the paralysis here, the torture there; but that aside I think of death as sleep and rest, and I have no feeling whatever ordsead «<; the hereafter." ' CHARLES LOVEL?, of Vermont, has entered suit against Daniel L. Hawkins, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, for $100,000 damages. He charges mali­ cious rulings by which he has been de­ prived of about $6,000 arrears of pen­ sion and a monthly increase of $36, and has been reduced to circumstances of great poverty, and subjected to great worriment of body and mind. IN 1888 811,410 barrels, containing 2,434,230 bushels of apples, were im­ ported into England from this country, in addition to thousands of tons brought from various parts of the continent, England is paying Out over $40,000,000 a year to foreign fruit-growers, and more than $500,000,000 yearly for im­ ported fruit products, more than naif of whioh, it is olaimed, could be raised at h'ome. POSTMASTER WANAMAKER said a few days ago: * "I wonder why a woman al­ ways adds a postscript to her letters and her interviews ?" Mr. Wanamaker has a fine reputation as a business man, and has shown a commendable disposi­ tion to grapple with all the great ques tions pertaining to his department; and this inclination to wander into the re­ gions of the unknown and unknowable has both surprised and grieved-his man/ friends. IT is said that love for pets and love of traveling are the two ruling passions of the Princess Maria Theresa, of Ba­ varia. She is unmarried, and her many journeyings is attended by a maid and a chamberlain. She always takes her pets with her, and the chamberlain has to look after them. His place is no sine­ cure, for she has fourteen animals of one sort and other, including Beveral dogs, two magpies, an enormous rat, and a diminutive bear. AFFAIRS IJT ILLINOIS. INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FKOM VARIOUS SOCBCES. A FREAK of the types makes the At­ lanta Constitution say that the New York World is "still proacliing civil service reform." If it is not, proaching it faster than the country is, it won't "git tliar" very soon. • A LITTLE boy living nelr Ontario, San Bernardino County, Cal., was badly burned and knocked senseless by a . stroke of lightning the other day, while - not a cloud was in the sky or the air disturbed by wind. ;, ̂ EX-PRESIDENT HAYES says he is now \ nsceiving fifty letters a day from appli­ cants for office asking for his influence. Mr. Hayes does not as a rule answer communications, but when he it is invariably a brief regret, etc. . " E LEVI H. GBBHART, a carpenter of Schwenkville, Pa., has a curious afflic­ tion of the eyes which causes him to see sU objects in duplicate, notwithstand­ ing he is a temperate man. Oculists are puzzled to account for his afagnlar malady. LR ' ̂ -NOTWITHSTANDING his great age--88 |f/?|f)prs--Count Yon Moltke is as 'devoted as ever to music, and seldom misses a court concert or any musical entertain­ ment of importance. But lie rarely now v touches the piano, upon which he used to be a first-rate performer. ̂ DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES ad- ^ vises young men not to smoke. "It is liable to injure the sight," he says, ."to render the nerves unsteady, to enfeeble the will, and to enslave the nature to an imperious habit likely to stand in the way of a duty to be performed. ^3 " THE suggestion of a law prohibiting ' 1 jffofanity in any public place in Illinois ia probably made by the street railway officials. At all events there, is very little satisfaction in saying to a con­ ductor: 4 My gracious, man, why in the name of common aence didn't you atop your blatned car when I whistled?" « REV. DR. E. G. ROBINSON will re- the presidency of Brown University at the close of the present college year. He is 74 years old, but retains full physical and mental vigor, and his only reason for desiring to retire is that he thinks it would be better for the college to have a younger man in his place. He is willing, however, to retain the pro- fajaorships of moral and intellectual philosophy and of natural theology. A NEGRO who was on trial in Dodge County, Ga., was asked what he had to say in his own behalf, "Just tell the jury," said his lawyer, "whether or not you took the clothes." "Oh, yes, sab," replied the negro, "I certainly tuk dem clothes. But you see, sail, I tuk dem uring % night, and dej ca^'| prQV6 _ me.-' • . ; H ./ * THE atmosphere of- a papermill is iMlieved to breed congressional aspira- A FAMILIAR figure about • Printing House Square, New York, was' "Aunt Mary" O'Connor, the apple-woman, who has just passed away. The crowning achievement in her humble, honest life, was the funeral she gave her husband two and a half years ago. It was the grandest obsequies ever seen in the Fourth Ward. The ward turned out, as it -faere, in a body. Out of candy and apple savings Auntie paid the ex­ penses. She was an unobtrusive wo­ man, never speaking unless addressed. THE work of cutting the Perekop Canal by the Russian Government is now well under way. This canal is to extend across the isthmus of Perekop, connecting the sea of Azof with the Black Sea. It will be seventy-four miles in length^%nd is expected to be completed in/about three years. As with most Russian works, the main ob­ ject- in this case is military, namely, to enable war steamers to pass from the Sea of Azof to the forts and dockyards of Odessa, without circumnavigating the Crimea or passing through the danger­ ous straits of Kertch. The canal has also commercial importance, as the bulk of the trade from the Don River and a great de&l of that from tJpper Volga goes to Odessa, so that the new canal will very much shorten the voy­ age for all vessels engaged in that busi­ ness! As the canal presents no special engineering difficulties the oost will by no means be excessive. Must Take Care of HimselC A colored gentleman knocked at a white man's door. The man came out and asked the negro what he wanted: "Is dat yo' dog in de yard dar, sab?" "Yes." "•Wall, sah, he dun treated me mighty shabby." " What did he do ?" "Jumped ober dat fence jes now an' tore my garments.. Look yere, jes ruined dis coat." '•Why, I am very sorry." "You ain't ha'f ez sorry fez I is, tiah. All de coat I's got, an' I hatter go ter my wife's funul dis ebenin'." "That is bad. Let me see if I can find you a coat." He went back into the house and soon returned with an excellent coat. "Here, old man, take this. I can't spare it very well but, as I have been the innocent cause of ----" ' - "Oh, doan mention it, sah. Thankee. Good-day." •* "Huh," grunted the old fellow as he turned a corner. "Neber seed sich er fine coat ez dis yere in my life. W'en I goes ter dat picnic ter-day folks think I jes come outen de guberment. Dat dog! Dat dog couldn't t'ar er handker- chuok. Oh, er man hatter take kere hisse'f deze days."--Arkansaw Trav­ eler, r . A Blow at Freedom. "Whois at the head of this vile con­ spiracy ?" shouted the editor, as he did a.war dance amongst the exchanges on the floor. "Who is it that has struck this blow at American freedom; who is guilty of this dastardly attempt to grind the people and keep them in ignorance of their rights by muzzling the press? Who is it ?" "What's the matter anyhow?" asked the foreman, as he came out of the com­ posing room. ». "Somebody has stolen mj scksore." --Merchant Traveler. 1 Wfcat <h?r HelffMKm AM Doing -- Matter* , rf «1<>neral and Local Interest -- Mar- wtMgr«s and Death*-Aerid«ab mm* CHUM --P«nmn»l Pointers. --John Toes, editor and proprietor of the Galena Volksfreund, died in that city of general debility. He was for several years professor of Osrza&n in the Galena Normal School. --David G. Perrine, aged 39 years, a promising vonng bnsinesa man engiged with his father extensively in the culture of strawberries, died at Central!*-. , --At Danvers C. E. Morrison, a citizen of Bloomington, was anested charged with having sold a horse lest October which he had hired from a liveryman named Cunningham,at CrawfordsviUe,Ind. --Two ice-houses belonging to the Woodruff lee Company ^ at Peoria have been destroyed by fire. , The loss is esti- mated at $2,009. . --In the House of Keprefentntives on the 'M inst., an attempt to cnll op the Eckhart telephone bill failed. The general game law was debated, and a motion to strike out the enacting clause developed no quorum., --Assistant State Veterinarian Williams found that a horse, owned by James Ma- honey, Of Bloomington, had the glanders, and the animal was shot. The animal was laken there from Kansas with several other horseB. --The farmers, and especially those be­ longing to the State Grange, are becom­ ing thoroughly aroused over the threaten­ ed "Twine Trust." Major J. M. Thomp­ son, the Master of the Illinois State Grange, has issued an address to the farmers of this State on this subject, which is signed by J. R. Shaver of Peo­ ria, J. H. Van Arsdale of Peoria, G. R. Fate of Smithton, and Thomas Keachy of Dunlap, in whioh the grange and farmers are called upon to battle with the syndi­ cate as follows: "It is now well known the country over that a syndicate is formed to rob the farmers of several millions of dol lars at one squeeze oh the price of this year's binding twine. If the supply was short we would not grumble at honest high prices, but for a few men to control the ample supply for the sole purpose of booming the price and speculating on our supposed necessities is putting a thief s hand into a bread-winner's pockets, and we appeal to the manly independence and sense of right of our brother farmers of Illinois'to join hands with the Grange, and with the great army of organized farmers all over the grain-growing Northwestern States, who have resolved to break down this wicked Twine Trust by refusing to buy the twine at a eent above last year's prices. Keep your money until the twine goes begging for a market. We can bind grain by hand one season, if it comes to that pinch, or put it up unbound, thus turning the twine money into honest wages for worthy men. We owe it to ourselves as farmers and to the mutual claims of honest labor to break down these thieving combines th it prey upon our pockets. If we beat this Twine Trust we serve notice of doom on many a similar ring of rogues, but if we submit now it is only to be robbed again and again, worse and worse every year. Brother farmers, in union is strength in a righteous cause, and we are bound to win. Meet, organize, show tbe independent colors of determined jnen, and adopt the battle cry of the Grange: Down with the Twine Trust." --Mrs. Pauline King, the colored women who broke her fast of forty days with a feast at the Springfield court-house some weeks ago, has had another vision, in which the Lord has communicated to her that the 21st of Apiil He will turn water into wine in her presence, and in the pres­ ence of all who desire to witness the mira­ cle. The place where the transformation is to take place is not made known, nor the amount of water to be turned into wine, but these will nil be given in due season. A large attendance is assured, as the citizens of Springfield have not had an opportunity of gazing upon the pure and unadulterated article for some years. --In the case of Mrs. Alice Powell, tbe colored woman of Chicago, who was ar­ rested on a charge of stealing MrS. Cud- ahy's $600 shawl, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for $1,000. The full amount Mrs. Powell sued for was $25,000. The suit of her husband, Charles H. Powell, against the same defendant, has been withdrawn, and a new suit against Mrs. Cudahy and Lieutenant Matt Kipley filed. Both Powell and his wife charged false arrest. Mrs. Cudahy, the defend­ ant, is the wife of the millionaire pork packer: ' The many friends of Joseph B. Dun- lop, managing editor of the Chicago Times, will learn with deep regret of the death of his wife. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia, superinduced by seven cold, which the deceased lady contracted a few weeks since. Prior to her marriage to Mr. Dunlop, the deceased was the widow of Henry Wendell Thom­ son, a former Chicago newspaper man, and at ene time Assistant State's Attor­ ney. A stately, beautiful woman of com­ manding presence and intellectual attain­ ments. --George Larue, a farmer of Bock Isl­ and County, met with a serious aecident, whioh may result in his death. While taking a plow to the field in a wagon, his team becoming unmanageable, he was thrown to the ground, and the plow fell upon him in such a way as ty completely paver one ear from the head, besides in­ flicting other injuries. --The Highland Association of this State gave a ball at Chicago in aid of the fund for uniforming the members of the "Black Watch Brigade." --William D. Curtis died at his resi­ dence in Chicago. Mr. Curtis, at the time of his decease, was 58 years old and a pioneer resident of Chicago. He had taken a prominent part in the business circles of Chicago for thirty-five years. He was the founder of the old firm of S. & W. D. Curtis, packers and provision mer­ chants. He was also engaged the grocery business. He was a close friend of John Wentworth. / --The general store of 8. T. Bartlett, at Irving, was destroyed by fin, causing a loss of $5,0Q0j, which vps pa|tiaUy.<OT*red by insurance. - --Hubert Chambers, paymaster of the Adams & Westlake Company, has been anested in Chioago on a charge of embez­ zling $800, the property of his employers. Mr. Adams' brother, it is charged, has also been forging ordors on hi* employer. --Mrs. Emile C. Atchison, widow of Captain John Atchison, at one time one of the most prominent men in the early aettlementa of Northern Illinois and St. Louis, died in Chicago at the age of 80 years. Mrs. Atchison was born in Phila­ delphia about the >ear 1809. She was mairied in the same place to Capt. Johu Atchison, and removed the same year to Galena; whei& she coQiinued to live until quite recently, when she went to Chicago upon a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Smith, at whose house she died. The funeral took place at Galena. Mrs. Atchison was known to every Galeuian or person who visited Galena for the past fifty ye, rs. Her house has been the scene of many brilliant entertainments. She died mourned by a large circle of friend a, both old and young, who appreciated her many sterling traits of character. --The Rev. T.N. Morrison, Sr., theoTd est Episcopal clergyman in the Chicago Diocese, died of .Bright'* disease. He had been an invalid for some months, although not actually confined to his bed. His death was rather sudden, but not altogeth­ er unexpected. Theodore N. Morrison was born in Pennsylvania in 1825, and moved with his pi rents to this State a few years later. He was educated for the ministry in the Seminary of Chicago Diocese, and was ordained in 1848. His first parish was at Aurora, where he remained until 1S53. He then went to Jacksonville, this State, and was there until 1807. Bloom­ ington waa his next parish,t where he was in charge for eleven years. The latter part of 1878 he took up his residence in Chicngo, and for some years past has been going to Wheaton every Sunday, whero he had a prosperous church. Mr. Morrison left a wife and five grown children. The funeral services took place in Epiphany Church. The interment was in Graceland. --Blatchford's new building, adjoining the shot-tower, Nos. 48 to 02 South Clin­ ton street, Chicago, occupied principally as a storage warehouse by S. A. Maxwell & Co., the heaviest jobbers in wall paper in the West, has been destroyed by fire. Maxwell & Co. lost $200,000 on stock;' J. T. Hair & Co., printers, $80,000; the Dean Rattan Company, $5,000; Danville Stove Works, $25,000; John Starr, $8,000. The damage to the building is estimated at $50,000. --The followingohangeshave been made by Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson in fourth-class postoffices in this State: Beaverville, Iroquois County, Cleophas Bonreau, vice G. Oaillowette, removed; Camargo, Douglas County, Thomas A. Edmonson, vice W. S. Fulton; Campus, Livingstone County, Alexander M. Brew­ ster, vice Thomas Feehey, removed; Donovan, Iroquois County, .John Nel­ son, vice A. C. Morrison, removed; Fish Hook, Pike County, Levi Gardner, viee John Moyer, resigned; Hinesborough, Douglas County, Emma Gardner, vice P. W. Hines, removed; Hume, Edgar Coun. ty, Harvey Boone, vice C. A. Minor, re­ moved; New Salem, Pike County, John B. Watson, vice Daniel Cover, removed; Piper City, Ford County, jS^jrin D. Cook, vice Mary D. Horan, removed; Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, J. R. Duclois, vice A. L. Branch, removed; Ridge Farm, Vermillion County, Lidia B. Pierce, vice James Baum, removed; Washburn, Wood­ ford County, M. S, Fulton, vice 'C. Huase, removed: --Carter H. Harrison, having been re­ quested by Louis Neebe to write to Gov. Fifer urging the pardon of Oscar Neebe, forwarded a lengthy petition, the main points of which are here stated. He does not believe that the evidence warranted Neebe's conviction, and adds that at the time of the trial Julius S. Grinnell stated to him that he did not consider the evi­ dence sufficient. Mr. Harrison thinks that had Neebe been placed on trial alone his case would have been nolle prosequied, but that a fear of the results of the action on the remaining casea deterred Mr. Grin­ nell from moving his discharge. Adding that it is an awful thing to deprive a man of liberty, he appeals in the name of a common humanity that this innocent man be set at liberty. F. S. Winston supple­ mented Mr. Harrison's petition with the statement that he never believed there was sufficient evidence to convict Neebe, and that he so stated at the time of the trial. Leonard Swett, after examining the evi­ dence in the case, records the opinion that Neebe was guiltless of conspiracy,, and says he thinks a pardon ought to be granted. --"Jack" Warburton, who has been conducting a temperance revival at Galena, received a notice, signed Galena White Caps, in which he is warned to leave the town. He has announced his determination to remain and "see it out." --Mrs. Mary Shorts, of Chicago, was found in her room dead, with her throat cut. There are indications which may prove that a murder was committed, and the woman's husband, John Shorts, has been arrested. --Lake View Postal Station has been opened for business, with Mrs. Julia D. Young, late Postmistress at Wright's Grove, in charge aa Superintendent, at a salary of $1,000. --A party composed of city officials of Jackson, Tenn., and Rockford, 111., visited Bloomington to inspect the paving, Eewer- age and lighting systems. From there they went to Mendota, Freeport, Dubuque, Sioux City, Siolux Falls, and back to Rockford. --Scott Walker, who was on trial in Judge Tuley's Court, at Chicago, on a charge of killing Luther Reynolds, Feb. 18, was found guilty of murder, anH the jury fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life. --Daniel Baldwin died at his residence in Lincoln. Mr. Baldwin was one of the most respected and widely known men in that section. --In a ease at law in this State the other day it was shown that a woman whipped her boy so that he was in bed for three weeks, because he could not commit fifty Bible verses to memory in one week. --Thtf new Penitentiary Commission has appointed E. C. Murphy, of Chester, flow to Protonf Life. . How to prolong human life is a ques* tion of personal interest to every man, and the duty of attempting to do so is one that particularly rests with tho medical profession. When an individual has attained to full development and sound health--say at 40--the expect­ ancy of life may be twenty-five or thirty years; for the individual there are great risks, but with the aggregate of man­ kind such questions may be calculated with business-like accuracy. There are two great factors which concern the prolongation of a human life--the in­ herits nee and the conditions which make up a life of history of the i idivid- ttal. The inheritance of longevity from one or both parents is a powerful factor, and one that carries great weight with life insurance offices. This is a more important factor than an infancy free of weekness, provided that the infantile ailments be dependent upon temporary conditions of defective nutrition, or con­ ditions incident to, the stages of develop­ ment only. There is no doubt as "to the import­ ance of the lmbits of life affecting lon­ gevity ; temperance in right things, in activity and in restraint, in regularity in morning rising and in work as well as in resting and sleeping; uniform in­ dustry is as conducive to health as is regularity in diet. From the period o? infancy upward a sound and well-Jcnit brain has much to do with the performance of a healthy constitution. The relation of diet to longevity has often been discussed; we can only say here that the diet should be adapted, in quality and in kind, to the work of the individual; while ' such articles as alcohol, tobacco, and tea, if used at all, .should be employed in mod­ eration by those who wish for a staple constitution and prolonged life: Pass­ ing oyer such important considerations as being familiar to most members of the profession, we come to the great question of the causes of wear in life-- the outcome of the frictions of life which all must meet with more or less. The various factors at work, especially in a town life, make impressions on the brain which leads to fatigue and prema­ ture wear. The strong-brained indi­ vidual may not be hurt thereby; the weaker man is exhausted by such im­ pressions from without, and a second generation under such influences ia likely to suffer through loss of tone and vitality, in cell structures rather than actual stature or measurement. City life necessarily produces a rapid and un- seasing series of impressions, and calls for constant exertion. The laws of sanitation and cerebral hygiene Bhould, then, be carefully studied. It is de­ sirable to have what quietness is* possi­ ble during brain work, and the neces­ sity for proper ventilation as a means of maintaining mental energy is well known. It might lessen brain wear in many offices if electric lighting were substituted for gas illumination. Good digestion is essential to continued work with good lasting power. Late rising and a still more burried luncheon and rush back to work, followed, at the con­ clusion of the day, by a heavy meal when the man is wearied, often tends to exhaustion as much as unavoidable pres­ sure of business. -- British Medical Journal. Temperature of Food and Drinks* A medical journal gives the results of Prof. Uffelman's researches in the field, and adopts the following rules: 1. That in general, a temperature of food and drink which approaches that of the blood is most healthful. For nurslings such temperature is essential. 2. For quenching the thirst the best temperature is from 50 degrees F. to 68 degrees F. The favorite American temperature is, as is well known, 32 de­ grees F., and an issue is raised at once between Prof. Uffelman and the Ameri­ can nation. 3. The ingestion of very hot or very cold food or drink in health has a dam­ aging effect, which the hot or cold sub­ stance is taken. Hence the gnlping down of ice water or hot coffee, etc., means eventually, according to the light we are quoting, a mere ventral damna­ tion. If a person takes a drink for tho purpose of warming himself, as in cold weather, he can accomplish this by hav­ ing the drink at a tem|>erature of 110 degrees to 120 degrees F. 4. The use of very hot and cold sub­ stances, following or alternating, is in­ jurious to the teeth. But the taking of cold water lessens the injurious action of extremely hot substances upon the stomach. 5. Ingestion of cold food and drinks lessens the bodily temperature, whether it be normal or febrile. 6. Cold fluids lessen the hyperirrit- ability of the stomach. Cold ingesta raise the tonus of the stomach, increase peristalsis, and pro­ mote movement of the bowels. Cold food and drinks increase the tendency to cough, according to Uffelman, by causing reflexly a congestion of the bronchial vessels. Hence, persons with bronchial disease ought not to indulge in cold drinks. It is, however, a com­ mon custom to give persons who suffer from pulmonary hemorrhage ice to swal­ low ; and, according to the view stated, this would be an injurious practice. Hot food and drinks stimulate the stomach more than cold, but after re­ peated use they lessen the tonus of the digestive tract, and cause congestion and dyspepsia. This condition has been observed after the (so-called) hot-water cure. Hot drinks tend to lessen bron­ chial irritation, and hence the success in some cases of the hot-water treatment of consumption. ' Where Rich Hen are Bled. The average of wealth in China is not high and the rich men of the country are interested in keeping the amounts of their property a secret. The officials are so corrupt that they can so easily squeeze money out of there rich subjects that the wealthy man is sure to be preyed upon by them, and if China had a Jay Gould the officials, from the Emperor to the mandarins, would be con­ tinually poking their fingers into his money-chests. Much of Li Hung Chang's fortune of $12,000,000 is said to have been acquired by bribes and squeezes, and the story is told at Shanghai of how one of his underlings attempted to send him $100,000 not long ago in wine-bottles, or rather wine- baskets, for much of the nine of China is carried in water-tight baskets. This supposed wine had to go through the hands o^sa very rigid native customs officer, who, (inspecting something, opened the baskets and discovered the gold in the wine. "Ah," said he, "that wine is too fine for the viceroy. It is only fit for the Emperor." He thereupon confiscated it and made a present of the amount to the govern- ILLINOIS LAWrMAKERS. ™E TOEPEDO. IK the Berate several unimportant meaanie* •were advanced upon the calendar on the 29th ? V»Ri those passed was Hamer's "dead- ut*at notel bill and the one reported by the Judi. ciarv Coiiimtttoe providing a life or loss punish- Jnent for the abduction of an infant or a child und«?r twelve years of age. The Bddv valued policy bill, which passed the House, was read a nrst time and referred to the Committee on In- surance. The bill of Senator McDonald to make toe board of trustees of ail the State charita- ble institutions non-partisan was taken upon v°f ruling and caused a spirited discussion belween Senators McDon aid, Matthews. Johns, and Higbee, and was w J "T ft Kl>eciftl wder. The tax-lew Ml) introduced provides for the raising of 860 00C ?xpenees of the StAte for 1KS9 ind 1^300,000 for the year 1890. The school -tax levy in i._ oooonn ~ a. KMT Knglm of Dentractioa Invested 1 KAMSS Physictait. For over a year Dr. H. W. Parsons, of Wamego, Kan., has been at work upon a machine called an "aerial tor* pedo," for which he has obtained a pafc.: ent in this country. The War Depart­ ment officials have written favorably o| the new invention, and it has awakened a lively interest among war officials in European kingdoms. Briefly described, the "aerial tor­ pedo*' is a cylinder containing numerous barrels or recesses from which dyna­ mite cartridges are dropped, the cyl­ inder being suspended from a balloon for each of the two veara will be raise the amount for the first year will require „ naMon'as esMsnated'by the Fiuanw Committed &nd the explosives released by a simple " """ " --* " • " mechanism controlled by electricity. When the House met there waa less than a quorum of the members present, those remaining being desirous of introduc tog bills which they had in their I>OB. session, it being the last day for the introduction of measures. When Mr Coolev from tho Committee on Canals and Kivers nii •ented an adverse report on the biU of Senator Secrist enabling county authories to purchase or condemn dams in another county, Mr. Paddock tried to get the bill placed on the order of second reading and the report of the committee laid on the table, but this waa opposed by Mr. Browne of LaSalle. and Mr. Coolev failed. Tho biU is one to which objection has been made bv the manufacturers at Marseilles as destructive The model, it is said, works to the entire satisfaction of all who have seen it- tested. While balloon that can be directed or guided in its course may be used against an ordinary atmosphere, and steered and controlled by the operator, who also discharges the bombs, yet Dr. Parsons holds that he can accomplish with a captive balloon all that is needed ai jiniawuTO itus uestructtve • 4 ~ J * . l . . of their interests. Mr. Pike, from the i oisplav the extraordinary features oi Committee on Claims, sent to the Clerk's 1--- ™ - •• - - - - desk fourteen bills^ with tho recommendation that they be icfermi to the Committee on Ap­ propriations. Under a rail of the roll a dozen or more bills were introduced, among the-num­ ber being a boycott bill by Mr. O'Toole and two by Mr. l'epoon of a very important character. One is to repeal the act passed at the last ses­ sion creating the Industrial Homo for the Blind at Chicago, and the other is the Ohio law for the suppression of bucket shops dealing in options. etc. Mr. Mooney, of Will, introduced a biU to apply the short-haul clause of the Interstate Commission Haw to the roods in this State. ONI,V eighteen Senators were present, when the Senat® convened on the 3d inst. Senator Hagle introduced a bill changing tho tima of holding the Supreme Court as follows : At Mount Ver> his invention. The location of tho bal­ loon could then be regulated by the reeling or unreeling of the cable which holds it captive, just as a boy changes the position of his kite by winding or unwinding his kite-string. It is not the inventor's idea that this machine can be aimed at a man and kill him as with a gun, nor that it Will do away with cav­ alry, artillery or infantry, but that an­ other corps of, say, 300 men manning 100 machines, and drilled to handle . them, will accompany ever brigade, and non mi the first Tuesday in May and the Third , beini? anrmortWl Vw tlin Tuesday in November"at Springfield on the ! D-V.„tlle infantry, C8T- first Tuesday in January and the first Tuesday ! alrJ» an{* artillery Will, when occasion in June; at Ottawa on the first Tuesday March and the first Tuesday in October. Senator MacMillan introduced a bill to permit corpora­ tions not organized for pecuniary profit to chango the number of their directors. There was con­ siderably Jess than a quorum present when tho House convened. The bill amendiug the game law was read a second time. Considerable dis- ussiou occurred over a motion to strike out the enacting clause, but owing to ny quorum, no ac­ tion was taken. A BILL appropriating $500 fo* an oil painting of ex-Gov. Oglesby, to be hong in the Executive Mansion, was tatcon up in the order of third reading and was passed by the Senate on the 4th inst. A bill providing that no more than two members of the Imard of trustees of auy charita­ ble institution shall be members of "the same political party was ordered to third reading. Aiuong the bills introduced were the following: For tlio jtrotfetion of discharged emploves, auu to prevent blacklisting (this is the 'biU in­ troduced in the Hou se some time ago); providing that telephone companies re­ fusing to operate at the rates fixed by the laws of tills State shall forfeit their fran­ chise; also a bill revising the military code. The following bills were passed: Senator Had- lev's bill for tho formation of county mutual windstorm insurance companies; Senator 8e- crest's bill making appropriations for the pay of officers and members of tho next General As­ sembly ; the bill appropriating $13,600 for repairing the Executive Mansion; and the bill authorizing tho trustees of tho Hospital for the Insane at Elgin to sell a certain strip of land not available for hospital purposes. The bill to make insurance companies responsi- bl» for contracts made by their agents was passed by a vote of 41 to 1. Senator Eckh&rt'a bill for the better protection of life and property from steam boiler explosions was passed--yeas, US; nays, 4. Senator Hogle's bill to prohibit the employment of any persons except native or naturalized citizens, or persons who have de­ clared their intention to uccome naturalized, in any work which is to be paid for in whole or in part by money raised by taxation, waa read a third time and passed by a vote of 26 yeas to 4 nays. In the House, after seme discussion, tho drainage bill was made a special order for the llth inst. The game bill came up on second reading and provoked a long discus­ sion. It was finally ordered to third reading. Mr. Cochran's bill amending the law in regard to the Railroad and Warehouse Commission was read a third time and passed by a vote of 109 yeas to 1!) nays. Mr. Lester informed the House that he had consulted the Governor and been warned by his Excellency that ho would not issue the proclamation making April 80, 1H89, the one hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington a legal holiday, until the bill now pending in the House had been actually passed by the General Assembly. He, therefore, moved to take this bill up for passage. There was no objection and Mr. Lester's bill passed with the emergency clause by a unanimous vote. The bill asking appropriation for the State Board of Agricultural and for county and other agricultural fairs was read a third time and passed. The only change which it makes from the appropriat ion of two years ago is to appropriate J«10O per annum to each county or other agricultural <mm»mty tut lit ing a farmers' Institute. Might Have Been Worn. There is an old saying that there is nothing so bad that it might not have been worse.. Some people will dispute this axiom, and can never see the sil­ ver lining to the dark cloud. The victim of the following disaster may be excused for holding to his opinion: Mr. Jones went to an entertainment, and by mistake sat on his neighbor's silk hat, reducing it to a shapeless mass. At the conclusion of the lecture, he arose, and the disaster was discovered. The owner of the hat was naturally highly indignant, and breathed threats of vengeance. "Sir," said Mr. Jones, calmly, "I was awkward, and no miHtafrft. But," he added, complacently, "it might have been worse." "I don't see how it could!" roared the victim. "Oh, yes, it could!" said Jones. "I might have sat down on my own hat." Novel Bridge Tests. The old wooden bridge, known as the Lower Bridge, at Bridgeport, Ot., which was built in 1791, has been re­ moved, and a new one of modern con­ struction has taken its place. When the new bridge was completed and ready to be tested, the first test was made with a seventeen-ton road roller. The Mayor of the city then suggested to Mr. P. T. Barnum that the test be further made by having twelve of his elephants pass over it. These heavy animals, the aggregate weight of which was about thirty-five tons, were led down and across the bridge. The de­ flection under this weight, and that of the crowd which was in attendance, was only one-eighth of an inch, and the test was declared satisfactory. ..E '\ Effects ef Massage. iitt anonymous writer in a mediea. journal gives the following description | o£massage: "Upon the nervous sys- I - .... . tem massage exerts a delightful and at j nium, but it will be nearer to it than the same time a profonndlv sedative ' this world has ever yet been. Boston and tonic effect. While it is being j Transcript. ^ performed, and often for hours after- An Historical Cloek. ward, those who submit to it are in a . . • ' , , ,, , , 1 A most unique and valuable clock i^f favors their use, do more effectual set- v vice than the whole brigade could paft* sibly do, so that the General in com­ mand would maneuver his troops ia such a manner as to bring this corps into action and allow them to do their work, the infantry, artillery, and cav­ alry thus forming but auxiliaries to this baud of 300. Now, watch their work. It is estimated that each siege ballooa will contain from 200 to 1,000 half- pound cartridges of explosive 60 peat cent, dynamite, arranged in such a man­ ner that they are under the control of an operator, who is stationed on the ground and can discharge one bomb at a time. One hundred machines will give this corps 20,000 bombs at one charge, after which they may be reeled bade and charged again-every two hours or less, making six voyages in twelve hours and carrying the enormous load of 12®,* 000 cartridges, or throwing the aston- ishing amount of sixty tons of explosive into a fortification in a single day. Dr. Parsons believes that by usragr i this apparatus modern military tactics will be revolutioni?ed, and that between nations having such powerful resources at command arbitration will .... usurp the place of war. > •! Salaries of Cooks. 1 August Brunow, cook for August Belmont, gets a salary of $7,000. He is a Frenchman, > and cooked for the , Russian Embassy in London. J, Bailhe, cook for Orm Wilson, of New York, gets $5,000 and his board.; - Audrain Pons, Mr. F. T. Wilson*# • cook, gets $5,000 and board. He waa cook for ex-Queen Isabella, and was somewhat noted for certain wedding breakfasts he prepared for royal parties in France and England. %h Henry Reviere, the most jovial cook in New York, provides over Mrs. "Wii*- tlirop's kitchen. He was formerly with ' Yanderbilt and Mayor Cooper. He gets $4,000, with the privilege of mating extras. * Adolph Gallier, who oooks for Whitelaw Reid, was formerly at the ; Hoffman House. He gets $3,500, with the privilege of doing special jobs out­ side, wnich probably amounts to «i much as his salary. Henry Bouile, who dishes up meals , for Pierre Lorillard's family, gets $4,000 a year and his boanl. , . Henry Schelclier, now chief cook at the Grand Union, Saratoga, gets - straight salary of $8,000 a year. , ^ Jules Webber, cook for WilliatiiH Beldin, of New York, gets $3,000, with perquisites and valuable privileges. He is President of the Societe Culinaisa Philanthropique. J , ' Henri Mathieu, oook for Mr. W. Ufc * | Sloan, of New York, gets a straight salary of $6,500. Frederick Hemmerle' gets $5,000 for preparing toothsome dishes for Cor- . - nelius Yanderbilt. . Gustave Berand, the youngest of the , high-salaried cooks of Gotham, is now ' V#) 25. He was brought from Paris by W. •, W. Astor to cater to the refined taste of fj his family, at a salarv of $5,000 a The Coming Time. ̂ When science fully controls the m#» chinery of war, when its terrible engines *#| of destruction have been perfected and • "•[% the great, awkward military plan of to* y (<| day has been pushed back into history • J| what then? War will have become aa incomparably horrible that no natio* will be willing to precipitate a conflict* ^ A sure system of international arbitra- -V tion will be agreed upon. A general^-M-;:'r:§gl§ disarmament of the nations will follow*' ' » with its consequent relief from taxation - ^ of the overburdened people of the mill*-. . /.Us tary powers. It will give a quietus tfii,. , !, " {• ^ the principle that the ability of one people inflict a greater injury on aw>.. . * ^ other people than they themselves suf* M| fer, settles correctly a question of righf * or wrong, or anything else. It wil|rvM^^i| give the nations a greater and better re* k * spect one for the other, based on a mora" i , feg correct ̂ estimate than now exists, wher4^ the criterion is the number of bayoxseta-. ' ^ and the weight of gun metal. Thfr-• t state pictured will not be the millcn? '" t ti > tvv. blissful state of repose; they feel as if 1 A^,rn, T V ^ * £ ft 3 they were enjoying a long rest* or as if pT?, , Tt^ Y *.er' they had just returned from a long Philadelphia, Pa- » is a production of; vacation; it makes optimists of them ment at Peking. I don't think he mei)- Warden, In place of G. M. Mitchell, re- ! tioned Li Hung Chang's name, and in- moved. R. E. Mabrey, of Fairfield, was asmuch as the matter was a bribe Li appointed cfcief clerk in place of J. K f Hung Chang dsred w* objepfc^gfcw ̂4>had been chewing Hub The new Warden has taken:obacge, Carpenter. ̂Herald _ J\ for the time being. An aptitude for either rest or work generally follows, with an indL Tence to the oidinary cares of life, ami needless apprehen­ sions are. dispelled. Hence, it has been recommended by high autliori- tiea."---San Francisco Argonaut. Tobacco, Not Gum. "Husband, I've got a vary serious thing to tell you." "What is it, Laura?" \ "Oh, it's dreadful^ It's about Johnny." "What has he been doing?" "Well, he came into the house this morning, and, what do you think--he was chewing tobacco " "Pshaw! Don't give me such a turn again, Laura. I didn't know but he w j the Louis XVI. period, and was pur* •«*„ chased in France for 500 frs. by tho " ' grandfather of the present owner. Its . y I most interesting feature is the super- /f>% structure of bronze, copper, and brass*- j which contains an historical scene from j the last stage of the French Revolution, during the Reign of Terror. The seener , ; ̂ is a subterranean prison beantifullj|W.;^'i worked ia bronze and copper. A Girr ̂ ocdist of bronze has been imprisoned U* 1 die by starvation. His feet are eii&iuetl v)j to two huge stones represented iu brass, while on each of his wrists are attached ^ , light chains fastened to several weights. 'f Seated near him is a bronze figure of a s , beautiful girl, his daughter, who is aK,. ; ^ lowed to see him once a day during hia^! h * fcnprisonmeat.--Jewelers Weekly. | THE language in which forged checks, tad counterfeit money are "uttered' is^ ot a peculiar grammatical ooa&fcruotiou •i-ao modi so that it cannot ha passed* ~ • *4^ ̂ til: