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W&m 1 Jlainicaln J. VAN SLYKt, C«tl * and Publisher. MoHENBY, ILLINOIS. The London authorise* harte put a •top to tiie holding of lotteries for the benefit of charitable institutions, which iave heretofore l:eoa wicked at when quietly conducted. MRS. HALLRB, of ^RL $O*S^ND, "Wash., dreamed that tier husband .-stood before her without coat or vest and drenched with water from head to •loot The next she heard of- him he ^was found drowned. 5&Vi • S&" Stone -work and glass of the old Boman i style has been unearthed under the city. A sewer of Roman c instruction was found fourteen feet under ground. A tile bearipgthe inscription, Leg. XTTTT,, j guve the best clew to the presence and work of the Romans, tdnce it is known I that the Fourteenth Legion canie back to Germany from the North in the year 70 after Christ and made its head­ quarters at Mayence. Another proof that the Romans had a settlement at Frankfort was furnished a short time Ago by tile finding of a Roman sarco­ phagus under the Eschenheimer Land- strasse. TrfK Italian heir apparent has reached his twentieth year, but he still shares the quiet fumily life of his parents, and Ax English religious paper publishes always accompanies the Queen on her the following advertisement: "A lady j visits to different parts of Italy and to -wishes to hear of a goud school for girls, j her mother, who resides at Saresa. The Prince o! Naples, though pale and slight for his age, enjoys very good health and has since the age of hine never been indisposed even for a single day. Ho is grave and thoughtful, fond of serious study, but also feitrewely fond of shooting. King Humbert in­ tends to present to the heir apparent, on his coming of age, the Palazzo della Consults, which is situated quite close to the Quirina!; but even kings cannot give away what is their own, and so many difficulties arose in connection with the gift that the plan has been abandoned, and the Prince will prob­ ably have to be satisfied with the Pal- izzina, built by Victor Emmanuel. London Rialto. where the birch rod, now coming into fashion again, is used in the old way. Also of one for boys. MM. Griffiths, Church Times office. ' CHESTER S. LTMAN, professor of as­ tronomy in the Sheffield Scientific School, whose death is announced,went, in 1845, as a missionary to the Sand­ wich Islands, and Queen Emma was one of his pupils. When the Queen visited this country a few years ago she made a point of calling on her old teacher. v WHEN a Corean marries he is careful ;*J#6 •; present his wife with a wild goose, «ven if he is obliged to hire the bird specially for the occasion; for, on<«a upon a time, a wild goose whose mate was killed, returned year after year to the same spot to mourn her loss, and tlje Corean bridegroom wishes his bride to understand the virtue of constancy. THE fire which destroyed the Palace of the King of Belgium started from a broken and unsafe lamp in the servants' quarters whieh had been reported sev­ eral times to the steward, but without .effect. The King once rcfuced to pay forty cents for a kerosene can, knock­ ing the item out of the steward's weekly bill, and tolling him that jugs were made to hold oil THE Government of, India has •compelled by law to purchase three copies of eaoh new book issued in the country, and it has been discovered that a practice has grown up of printing new books simply for the sake of the sale of those three copies, for which any price within reason could be charged. A change is about to be made in the law, and hepeafter the publishers will have to present the cojnes to the gov- «mment. , NOT long ago I saw the original man­ uscript from which was abridged and drafted the greatest message of Presi­ dent Franklin Pierce, writes a corres­ pondent of the Portsmouth Tim en. It was in the handwriting of seventeen digerent prominent publio men of this country, including cabinet officers and heads of departments, but the most pointed suggestions in it were in the fine peculiar clurography of Josiah Minot who is still living in Concord. A GENTLEMAN arrived at Palatka the •other day having in his possession a tooth weighing over six pounds, which was taken from the bed of Peace Creek, in South Florida. It looked aged and its enamel was nearly gone from the wear of the water. Four weeks ago a similar tooth was discovered and sent to the Smithsonian Institute. It weighed twenty-six pounds, and the scientists at the institution pronounced it to be an extinct species of the ele­ phant. IT appears that the famous text in Leviticus viii, 18, on which the oppo­ nents of marriage with a deceased wife's sister base their principal argu­ ment, has hitherto been wrongly trans­ lated. Professor Schroeder, the Presi­ dent of the Imperial German Commis­ sion for the revision of the Bible, says the verse means that a man must not take his sister-in-law as his wife while iier sister is alive. That is to say, he must not have two wives living at the same time in his house who are sisters. Luther's text essentially agrees with "this. ' IN an entertainment given at a village in Illinois lately, a novel use of incan­ descent lamps was made. Several young ladies gave a drill in military costume. Their helmets were sur­ mounted with three incandescent lights, with red, white and blue globes. In certain parts of the drill the lamps were snddenly illuminated, and the effect was striking. The means by which this was accomplished was extremely simple. A converter was placed on the outside of the building in which the hall w& located. The secondary wires ran under the floor to brass plates about three inches square, arranged in twos on, the stage floor. From the lamps on the young ladies' helmets concealed wires ran down to little brass plates in the heels of the shoes. After concluding a series of evolutions each young lady would eome to a stand in the front *of the stage and plant her heels firmly on the plate on the stage. The lights would flash up and contribute greatly to the general effect. SURELY the most infantile engineer­ ing project that ever commanded a million dollars is that of the "gravity tunnel" to connect » New York and Brooklyn. As set forth in a telegram the plan is to give the tunnel an incli­ nation toward the center from either end and let the trains of passenger cars run down by gravity. It is calculated that the momentum will carry them "almost up to the incline on the other side.9 From the point at which they stop they are to be hauled up with a cab!-e. "Any schoolboy" ought to know that this short haul will require exactly the same expenditure of power (and therefore cost exactly as much) as it would to*haul the whole distance, on a level track--the time between termini being equal. The projector of this fas­ cinating enterprise is of course to be Prcsideut of the company, but he will hold his place as castellan in the tower of his own fortune by a precarious tenure. If ever a stockholder happen to open an elementary text-book on mechanics Mr. Projector's gorgeous edifice will tumble about his ears like the baseless fabric of a claim against the Government. t.~-. 1 The Bad Hoy Creates n Sensation in a i yonr tidings?" not tho usual reply, Keir Palp of Pants. j "The Kiug comes het® to-night," but During his rambles down town a j whisper spoken from behind a i pants pattern in the window of a tailor ' "co*c^ bonnet upheld to prevent the shop caught the eye of our jnnior part- j wor®3 reaching the ears qf the andi- ner. The | atteru was the loudest and j encw» "Hush, I'm Macbeth. We've cut most ear-splitting he had ever heard or j t}1®^ messenger out go on please!" Been, and a bright idea struck him. ~ " Why wouldn't a pair of trousers off that noisy pattern be companionable and entertaining?" No sooner was this thought devel­ oped than he bearded the haughty tailor in his den, had his measure taken, and left au order for a pair of trousers off that piece of howling trouHerings. In a few days they were finished, and with a few inward mis­ givings as to what his wife would say when her modest blue eyes should light on those checks, he donned the garment in secret, and spruug the outfit on the unsuspecting family. A shriek rent the air, the madam swooned, the children hid under the table, while the kitchen lady, who was passing the hall at the time, made a break for the street and is running yet. The owner of those pants apologized as best he could, explained the circum­ stances which had caused him to adopt Buch an extreme pattern, and begged jbo be allowed to reside in the ward for a few weeks, at least. The consent of the family was reluctantly given, and that same day lie strode bravely forth, no longer lonesome, and ready to walk twenty miles, if necessary. Only two horses ran away between his house and the court house, but he was saddened to see that his friends no longer recog­ nized him, they having eyes only for the trousers, as if charmed by the sight and unable to remove their gaze. This sgjt of thing went on for several .weeks, but finally the horses and the citizens became used to the sight and took no notice of it. These were pleasant days, for the owner of those trousers was no longer lonesome, and at the same time he congratulated himself upon having more gall than the ordi­ nary run of mortals. In fact, he had dared to do what no man in Milwaukee would do; but he is no longer proud of his nerve, for Milwaukee has produced a man, who, born without a conscience, cares naught for anv'thiug and has ap­ peared in our midst with his lower ex­ tremities encased in a pair of trousers at least two octaves higher than those afore mentioned, and so loud that any one can hear them a mile off. The owner of these trousers i< George Yenowine--he of the os dfied gall. Somebody once said: "See Naples and die." Another learned man once said: "Drop a nickel in the slot and get your weight," a quotation that has since become so popular that one may see it posted up in every public place. "See George Yeuowine's pants and have creeping paralysis," is the iatest that we would like to put before the public.--Pbck'a Snn. ONE of the most daring journeys eyer undertaken was finished at Paris, re­ cently, and finished disastrously for the journ<jyer. A man named vShermann Zeitung ensconced himself in a big wooden box whieh he had marked •Statuary," "Fragile," "This side up with care," etc. This box was shipped to Paris, andl Zeitung, having plenty of food with him, went undetected nntil lie was lifted out on the freight plat­ form at the end of his journey. He did not wait long enough, but in his eager­ ness pushed the cover off and jumped ottt of the box into the arms of a rail­ road official, who had been greatly puz­ zled by the queer sounds that eame from it. As the consignment of the box was fraudulent, Zeitung was promptly arrested as a swindier. NEW JERSEY has a school fund of $4,000,000 and doesn't know what to do with it. It can't be used for anything bat the public schools, and not very mueh of it is allowed to go there, only » part of the annual income being avail­ able, so jealously has the State con­ stitution guarded its sacredness. Mean­ time it is piling up every year, and the Commissioners are at their wits' end to • Senator Blackburn's Nightmare. Joe Blackburn has been re-elected to the United States Senate. While ho was out in the State visiting the legis­ lators he arrived one evening at a small village with only one hotel. It was a railroad town and most, of tho rooms of the hotel were occupied by railroad men. There was only one vacant apart­ ment, and that was to be occupied by an engineer who might come at any time. Blackburn was tired and sleepy, and said he would occupy the room and take the chances. Some time in the night the Senator was awakened by the thrusting of a bright lautern into his face. Somebody Beized him by the shoulders, gave him a tremendous shake, and a coarse, gruff voice exclaimed: "Getup, Lanky; "you've got to go out'on No. 9. Skinny's already gone on No. 7, and the order is for you to fol­ low. Shorty's goin' to make the power for you, and Sandy Jim is goin' to do the figurin' in the back end." As such language was strange to the Senator he concluded it must be a night­ mare, turned over, and was dropping off to sleep again when he was shaken two or three times, dragged out of bed and dropped on the floor. "No you don't,"^exclaimed the intru­ der; "that won't wash, Lanky. I'm not going to loose my job for you. If I leave you here you'll go to bed, think­ ing you'll only snooze a minute, and of course you'il get left. Then they'll fire me for not calling you. No, there ain't i no use to kick. Put on your clothes and come on. I hear old No. 9 growl­ ing now. Hurry up!" "What in do you suppose I know or care about No. 91" exclaimed the Senator. " What are ye given* me?" answered the intruder. "I've had 'em tell me that before when they were sleepy and didn't want to go." Then the night watchman, for it was he, jand be had taken the Senator for find an investment for it. The original idea was to have a fund large enough to en&inef. who™ .. * r , thrust the lantern into Mr. Blackburn's entirely «W>rt the public schools face He recognized bis mistake and throughout the State, but that, it is knew the Senator, and was for a mo- said, would take $70,000,000; and, be-jmeut aghast. He quickly recovered side, it is generally believed that it is j himself and said: better for the school system to have th< ?T„he onl? aP°lo«7 1 to offer is local schools directly provided for b* , i 11 , . - . As he spoke lie pulled out a small local t*xes. People take more interest pocket flask and handed it to the Sena- ? i n s o m e t h i n g t h e y h a v e t o p a y f o r . . THE historical theory that Frankfort- on-the-Main was fouuded by the Franks has been thoroughly shaken up by the recent discovery there of several relies - of the Romans of tbe time of Christ, tor. The latter took a draught, smiled affably, said the apology was sufficient, f and went back to slumber.--New York Sun. .. | ALL those who pass through the door to success will find it labelled "push." --Oil City Blitz ard. lloes Man Require a dronud Connec­ tion. "Do you see these large copper brads in the sole of my shoe?" asked a gentle­ man as he held up to view the sole of one of his shoes. On being assured in the affirmative he said: ' "To those f-imple brads alone I at­ tribute my present good health. For years I was an invalid, subject to dys­ pepsia, neuralgia, headache, and other innumerable pains, and travelled the country over in search of health. In travelling out West among the Indians tribes, I was struck with their remark­ able health, and especially their exemp­ tion from the maladies that affiict me; but also with the fact that the strongest and healthiest went bare-footed alto­ gether. "I sought an explanation, of the mat­ ter, and by continued observation and study was finally led to the conclusion that the aches and pains to which civil­ ized man is heir are o>jing to the man­ ner in which we insulate our bodies from mother earth. Science is every day more clearly demonstrating that electricity is the vitalizing constituent of our bodies, and that tins giobe of ours is a mighty battery, continually generating and discharging electricity. Now. I reasoned, if this was correct, the secret of the Indian's health was in .his bare feet, which exposed his whole body to the vitalizing influence of the electrical earth currents; while my ill health was attributed to my feet being insulated from these currents. Acting on this hypothesis I Nought to restore the broken connection by inserting these brads in the soles of my shoes, and the result, I must say, was astonishing. My feet, which formerly were nearly always cold, soon became warm and moist; my health began shortly to improve, and in a few months I was entirely relieved of all' my pains and have ever since en­ joyed good health. It is a very simple . thing and easily tested, and I feel sure would benefit any one afflicted as I was." --St. Lotus Republic. THievc ; Aided by Chance Remarks. A cause of many of the successful robberies by sneak thieves, said a vet­ eran detective recently, is the habit not a few New Yorkers have of unguardedly divulging secrets to chance acquaint­ ances and to friends. "Would you be kind enough to tell me the hour, I've left my watch in my other waistcoat {»ocket in my room," and various sinii-ar remarks are common, particularly on street cars, and sneak-thieves are al­ ways on the alert to hear such disclos­ ures. They even ride on cars to over­ hear them. For instance, a man might be riding down town on a car, and dive into his packet for his fare, when he tvould sudddnly remember that he left his purse on the dresser in his room, and would - apologetically tell his friend so. There might be some thief in the car who, overhearing this, would follow him up, learn his name and ad­ dress, and then all would be plain-sail­ ing. The thief would go the house and tell whoever came to the door that the man had sent him for the purse which he left on the dresser. The wife, find­ ing the purse in the place described, would be thrown off her guard and, in nine cases out of ten would give it to him and pay him besides, for taking it. The boldness of the plan allays alt suspicion, with even the shrewdest house-wife.--New York Tribune* The Messenger Cot Out. Here is a story of a sotto voce com­ munication that must have greatly troubled its recipient. It seems that a famous impersonation of Lady Mac­ beth was starring in America when it was still customary for the local mana­ gers to provide the supporting c6m- Sany. The star had been accidentally etained on her journey to a remote theater. She arrived in time to change her dress only snd hurry on the scene. The performers were all strangers to her. At the conclusion of her first soliloquy a messenger should enter to announce the ooming of King Duncan. But what was her amazement to hear, in answer to her demand, "What is Pernecntpd for Their tiobd Firtm. While the Squadron of Evolution was in Boston recently, Admiral Walker in­ vited a couple of Charleston lad«, sons of friends of his, to come on board ship and vi-it him. The boat was sent on shore for their especial benefit, and with J flags flying and in a state which filled ' their whole boyish souls with joy they were taken on board at a time "when the general public were not admitted, and they were shown all about it with the gi-eatest care. \V hen the pair of youngster* reached their home it it hardly necessary to say that they were in a condition of proud belf-consciousness hardly to be over­ stated, and during the following days the amount of bragging which they did to their school-fellows was by no means small. The other boys were willing to listen until they had been put in pos­ session of all the facts of the case, atid untii all their questions had been an- awered, and then boy-like they began to devote themselves to taking down the pride of the favored youths. One day, about a week after the visit to the Squadron, one of the little fellows came home in spirits so evidently downcast that his mother inquired what was the matter. "I don't care," was the somewhat il­ logical reply;61 think the boys are just as mean as they can bo." "But what is the matter?" his mother asked. " Well," was the reply, "you see they are down on Tommy and me because we had a chance to go cn the Chicago when they didn't, and now they are grinding us." "Grinding you," repeated the mother, "what are they doingV* '"Why," the small lad answered in an aggrieved tone, "we are playing history games and all the other boys are kings and knights and generals, and they won't let Tommy and me be anything but outcasts 1" The touch of human nature which shows the boy world to be akin to that of their elders is very drolL--Boston Courier. A Persevering Prisoner. "Perseverance will accomplish every­ thing." I had these words for a writ­ ing lesson once, and I shall never for­ get them. It is a great thing to have perseverance. There was once a man who was shut up in a dungeon with walls 200 feet thick, made of the hard­ est kind of stone. He had no tools ex­ cept a pair of scissors his 1 not her had sent him in a loaf of bread, but he re­ membered that a drop of water will wear away a stone if it falls on the stone long enough, and that a worm, which is so small that yoa can hardly see it. will eat up and destroy a coral reef if you will only give it time enough. So he said that he would ] ersevere and dig a hole through the wall of the dungeon'with the scissors and escape if it took him 100 years. He had been digging about a year when the Governor pardoned him, and the jailer brought him the joyful news. But they couldn't get him to leave the dungeon. He told the iailer that he had undertaken to dig his way through the wall and escape in that way, and that he was going to stick to it, no mat­ ter how long it might take. The jailer urged him to give it up and walk out of the door, and even offered him $10 to give up his dungeon to a new lodger, but nothing cortld induce him to change his mind. So he stayed in the dungeon and dug away at the wall for forty- seven years, and every six months he had to pay a big bill for damages to the jail, and j he finally died when he was half through the wall. This shows what a splendid thing perseverance is, and that we ail ought to persevere.-- "Trying to Find Europe-" bj Jimmy Brown. " The Cure of Roaring in Hors#^ It is not long since the operation of larvugottomy was announced as an in­ fallible cure for roariug in horses, and there can be no doubt that a good many roarers were very decidedly benefited by the operation, which consisted of an incision through the cricothyroid mem­ brane and cricoid cartilage, and the re­ moval, if we understand the directions aright, of the left vocal chord and ' ary­ tenoid cartilage. The British Medical Journal says: "It now appears from a case recorded by Prof. Walley that this operation may comp^ete'y fail. A horse was purchased at Tattersail's in the early part of last summer; he proved to be atoarer, and his re-tpirtftion became so much embarrassed that tracheotomy was performed. Two months later the animal died suddenly while the canula was being cleaned and on post-mortem examination it was discovered that an operation had been performed at some previous time, and that the left aryte­ noid cartilage had been removed. It is said that the operation has al readv been discontinued in the army upon instruc­ tions from headquarters, and it is highly probable that we shall hear very little more of this method of curing roaring in horses." He Counted Out the Chips. A good joke is being told on a certain well-known police judge. Recently a well-known gambler was captured dur­ ing a raid on a poker game running in the central part of the city. At the trial the next morning the gambler de­ nied having played for money, but said chips were used. The judge fined him $10, however, saying that "chips" were money. After llie docket of the day had been disposed of the judge was approached by the poker ;player, who wanted to know if the judge still thought "chips" were money. On receiving an answer in the affirmative, he said: "Well, I suppose I will have to pay my fine." Coolly counting out ten "chips" he laid them on the magistrate's desk, and be­ fore the judge had time to recover his equilibrium he had disappeared. The fine was afterward remitted by the judge, but the "chips'* are still in his possession as a reminder that "chips" were'money.--St. Louis Globe-Demo- c r a L . . . . . . " More Important to the Readers. Foreman (whistling down the tube to the editor)--One of these articles must be left out. There isn't room for both. Editor-- What are they ? Foreman-- Earthquake in Europe, fifty lives lost, and a piece about selling more papers in Quohoah than all the other dailies combined. Editor--Leave out the earthquake.-- Munsey's Weekly. WE have known many a man to ait around waiting for something to turn up until that something was his toea. ;AKING A, QIJOMII. (XTIBCSTINO OKCISION BY THE II?- DIASA SUPREME COL'KT. It C«WP» the XNVOLVWD In Speakar Bwil'i Killing-"Silenee Gives Con«ent" --The Minority Must Kale, and KeeJ Was Itlvht- LFrotu the Chicago Tribune.] Among common-sense men there is a general agreement if a man is able to at­ tend the sessions of the body to which he belongs, aud thereby make a quorum, that that quorum cannot be broken through his refusal to vote, nn4 that a journal which under Kuch circumstances says a majority of the body is not uresent tells a lie. Congress is given power by the Con­ stitution to coaipel the attendance of Ab­ sent members. That wa< in ordeT that a quorum might be had. But that grant of power would be empty and meaningless were it held that a member lawfully ar­ rested on the Speaker's warrant, in Wash­ ington or away from it. aud forcibly brought inio ihe hall of the Honse of Representatives, c.nld, by simply refus­ ing to answer to his name, be HS potent to break a quorum as if he were a thou­ sand miles away. It would be a barren grant if tbe rnling were susta ned tnat a member who will Dot answer to his n*mt is physically present tut must be taken to be absent for all legislative purposes. Courts are in the habit of dealing sen­ sibly with questions of this character, as is shown by a decision of the Supreme Court of Indiana wnich covers the very point involved by lleed's ruling: The question was brought before the court in the case of tlie RushviUo Gas Company apaingt the city of Rush wile. Members of the Council of that city refuso 1 to vote on a report recom­ mending tbo purchase of an electric-light plant. The meeting at- which this report was made was attended by nil the members of the Oouimon Council iind all who voted in favor of th? roso- lution. The question aiose on tho claim that three of the members present declined-to vote and tho resolution was not legally adopted. The court held that if there is a quorum pres­ ent aud a majority of the quorum vote in lavor of a measure it will prevail, although an equal number should refrain from voting. It U not the majority of tlie whole number of members uresent that is required. All that is requisite is a majority of the number of members re­ quired to constitute a quorum. If there had been four members of the Common Council present, and t hree had voted for the resolution aud one had vol-ed against it, or had not- voted at all, no one could hesitate to afflrin that the resolution was duly passed, and it can make no difference whether"four or sis members werf present, (dnce it is always the vote of tho majority of the quorum that is effective. The mere presence of inactive members does not impair the right of the majority of the quorum to proceed wiih the business of the body. If members present de­ sire to defeat a measure they must vote against it, for inaction will not accomplish their pur pose. Their silence is acquiescence rather than opposition. Their refusal to vot6 is, in effect, a declaration that they consent, that the majority of the quorum luay'aet lor the body of which they are members. It would not benefit the appellant if we should hold that tho Conneiimeu present and not vot­ ing did, in effect, oppose the resolution, and certainly the utmost that can with the faintest tinge of plausibility be claimed is that their votes must lie counted as against the resolution. It is inconceivable that th.?ir silence should be allotted greater force than their active opposi­ tion would h.ive been entitled to had it been manifested. If we should assume that their votes are to be counted against the resolution then the Mayor had the casting vote, and he gave it in favor of the measure by declaring the resolution adopted. This is expressly decided in Small vs. Ouuc, but wo think the law is as stated by \V ilcock, and that the members pres­ ent aud not voting asaonted to the adoption of the resolution. "Silence gives assent." The presence of Messrs. Springer, Carlisle, Bynum, Crisp, Breckinridge, etc., on the floor of the House, coupled with their failure to vote for or against the apj roval of the journal or some similar motion, may be taken as indicating that they were in favor of it, but did not take the trouble to vote beoause the majority was alieady large enough, or that they did not care whether it carried or not, and left the de­ cision to o hers. Speaker Iteed is ex­ actly right, therefore, in counting them as part of a quorum, and he will do it though they howl themselves ho.irse in denunciation. The majority have a right to rule iu this country, und the minorit; present in their seats must not be aU lowed to nullify it by p aying dummy when the Clerk calls their names. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. IN-TBRBSTINO ITEMS GATHERIBD V *BOM TABIOtTS gOUBClli. Krance tnd Protection. . j \ 1 ' -Ffftnee should know that she ishbtibd to the policy of protectiou," said M. Ribot, Republican deputy from Pits d« Calais, to the Customs Tariff Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. That com­ mitter is made up of thirty-nine pro­ tectionists thirteen free traders, and three doubtful. The classic school of economists has had its day in France, and in every other country for that mat* ter. Low tariffs do not reduce tariff revenue, for we finl from tho British revenue returns for 1S89 an increase of £4!)i>,000 ($2,480,000) in customs duties Nor do low tariffs add to the general wealth. For we tind in the sauie returns a decrease of £1,215,000 ($fi,075,00!)) iu the revenue from property and income tax. Nor do low tariffs neoes^crily five "control of the markets of the world. For we find in the British trade returns for 1889 that imports have increased to £114.000,000 ($570,000,000) in excess of exports, against £84,000,003 in 1888 and £82,000,000 iu 1887. Figures like these make the tine-spun theories of the classic school appear of little value. And France has taken tho lignres to heart and caBt the theories from its brain. Franco had a revenue of 3,755,674,<582 francs in 1888, of which only 347,342,<!00 were from tariffs, while the direct t ixes upon land, personal property, trade li­ censes, doors and windows in houses, car­ riages. and other artie'es reached to 441,- 85K.8H0, those on stamps for commercial paper to 157,604,000, and on excise, which includes a tax on every passenger carried by a railway company, to 5!>1,52(>,000. AVhile this burden of direct taxation was most oppressive, the increase of domes­ tic manufactures seems to have been un­ satisfactory. Tbe adherence of France to the protective nations leaves Great Britain .'done among the great powers in adherence to free-trade policies.--Chi­ cago Inter Ocean. The Sinews of the Filibusters. By the enumeration of 1880 it was as. 2ertained that there were twenty-eigM. congressional districts in the South where the colored males of voting age were in a clear majority. Twenty-seven of these district*, thanks to the pr <ctice« of bulldozing and fraud which charac­ terize the Southern wing of the Democ­ racy, are represented in the present House. by Dexnocratio psngressmen. These d stricts are: ,T K-'Cjro Alabama-- majority. First District, R. H. Clark, 1st term 2.P51 Second District. H. A. Horlwrt. 7th term... 241 Third District, Win. C. Oates, Schterm 3.J4S Fourth District, Louis W. Tnrpin, 1st term2ti,U15 Georgia- Second District, H. G. Turner, 5th term 3,-75i Third District, Charles F. Crisp, 4th term.. 2,431 Fourth District, Thos. M. Grimes, !M term 2.91? Sixth District, Jos. H. Blonnt, 9thterm.... 8.229 Eighth District, H. H. Carlton, 2d term.... 4,18C Tenth District, G. T. Barnes, 3d term 0,14£ Louisiana-- Fourth District, N.C.Blanchard, 5th term.. 5,75S Fifth District, C. J. Boatner, 1st term 22,154 Sixth District, S. M. Bobertson, 2d term... 4,31! Mississippi-- Second District, J. B. Morgan, 3d term 2,46f Third District, T. C. (Patchings, 3d terai.. .14.72C Fourth I'i-itrict. Clarke Lewis, 1st term... 5,77? Fifth Tiistrict, C. L. Anderson, 2d t^rm.... 1,57c Sixth District, T. K. Stockdale, 2d term.... 1,.'J27 SeventU District, C. E. Hooker, 6th term.. 6,4U South Carolina- First District, Samuel Dibble, 4th term. .. 2,23f Second District, G. D. Tillman, 4th term.. 6,64c Third District, J. D. Cothran, 2d term..... 1,21( Fourth District, W. H. Ferry, 3d term 1.59C Fifth District, J. J. Hemphill, 4th term.... 2,(>ll. Sixth District, G. W. Darpan, 4th te«m.... 3,®* Seventh District, Win. Elliott, 2d term 84,89t Tennessee-- Tenth District, James Fhelan, 2d term 3,671 --Boston Journal. TThat Onr Neighbors Are Dolng-itittm of General and Local Interest -- Mar­ riages and Deaths--Accidents and Crimes --Personal Pointer*. . --The following Illinois pensions have been granted: , Original Invalid -- James Watson. Sparta; George T. Coffer, Ora; John F. Harvey, Aledo; Charloa Ayers. Aurora; (Jen. \V. Seymour, Lit­ tle Indian ; Abraham Harris. Avoudale; John Strange, Mason; Charles liott. Carlinville; An­ drew Roger, Walnut ; Abraham F. Lacey, Fa­ rina : Martin Reynolds, Woosung ; Win. H". Ray, Decatur ; David S. Buck, Coleta ; John P. Mc- Kenxie, Morris City: (navy) John Washington, Mound Citv: Abram L. Osburn (deceasod), Bluffs; John W. Miller, Kockfovd; Aohiles Dillon. Farrisb; John Raymond. Chicago; John Cain, Chicago; Win. ban field, "-'Grafton ; Augustus Colvin. Chicago; Andrew J. Bone, Pana; John A. .lohn-ion. Chicago. Reissue and Increase--James Bumes, Athens. Increase--Samuel C. Wilson, Melrose ; Nathan­ iel F. Davis. Paris: Benjamin F. Mawbv, Aledo; James C. Sauitcraou, (ireenville; .tames H. Seuian, Martinsville; John Odl-;. Campbell; Daniel Lear, Fairfleld; Henry Narr, Waverly; Edward H. Fuller. Chicago; Jona nan F. Wise­ man, Carlxttulale; Lawrence Carr. Sheffield; Thomas Vines, Carmi; Arch F.. Walden. B'ooin- ing'ou; Tbomas Bargo. Chaunahan; George A. Williams, Atlanta ; Richard L. Burohett, Now Holland; Win. Pprrymau, Thompsriuville; Wm. Howe. Pittsfleld: Wm. Downey. Wenona: Jesse VamilgriefT, Shelterville; Henry Hart, Chicago; Lewis T. Peuwell, St. Elmo; Martin V. B. Mann, Cottage Home; W. B. Cordor. Bible Grove; Jonas Dissner, Mull>erry Grove; Mathew Harper, Mitchellville; Win. W. Russell, Chester; Lewis Caster, Rav; Wm. S. Kelley, Le Roy: Jos. 0'Kam\ Polci; Wm. H. Tut tie. Rock Falls; Edward Stomp,- Englewood ; Elijah Farris, Nebo; John W, Sanders, Alma; Frank Ho fee. Effingham; Peter Bolas. Altamoni : F.li Mnxhrusli, Chauncey; Gottworfch Rilenstein, Noble; Albert Kessel, Ava; Beuiamin F. Price, Olney; Lyman Randall, Ingraham; Henry Hackemack.oiKutter; Jacob Haberkorn (Soldiers' Hornet, Quincy; Elijah Connor. Claremont; Francis A. Rehtffo. Samoth; John A. Kin ley, Aurora; Alonzo Ray. 1- id;tin ; Thomas Abbott, Golconda; Jesse Frank. Tivoli; Thomas S. Kaggs, Sumner; Guilford Price. Junction City;. Robt. Chapman, Perry; D. B. I>aue, Decatur; • W. Drake. Cottage Hill; J. H. Bostwick, Upper Alton ; Martin S.Newman,Thompsonville; Chas. Balluft, Chicago; Richard Hukill. Smithfield; James li. Batten. Annawan ; Washington KHna­ il v, Sliawneetown; James J. Fisher, lvllervi He; Isaac B. Adams, DuQuoin; James Rose, t-helby- ville [Putnam Be^kvith, Wenona; John J. Gol­ den, HutsonvilU*; Win.Ii. Kii inan.Hutsonville; John Dodger, Crete; Thoo. Scovel, Upper Alton; (O. W.) Uazaway Klkins, Benton ; David Gaines, Morrison ville; .lameB T. Seymour, How yer ;. Nahum Lamb. Guruee ; Martin V. Day, Grants- burg; Robert Louder, Chicago; Hiram A. Hun­ ter, Peoria; Wm. W. Blair, Abingdon ; Simeon German, Lewistown; Richard Head, Ridgeway; John W. Wheeler, Canton; Seneca S. Ma.or, Mattoon ; Horace Miner, Lewistown; John W. Belyew, Metropolis; James T. Johnson, New­ ton ; Wm. Lorrback, Hardin ; Frank B. Reeves, Carpenters ville. Reissue--Frank Schaumberg, Crager ; James A. Donaldson, Rushville; William It. N. An­ derson, Neoga; James M. Nankin, Metropolis. Reifcsue and increase--John W. Jolley, Mason. Original Widows, etc.--Mary J., widow of Christopher Hardesty, COssett. Mexican sur- \ivor--.jolrn S. Delano, La Crosse. Minor cf David Worden, Stilluian Valley, Mexican Widows--Malviua, widow of t-tephen Harrison, Cottonwood. s ' , ̂ Bas would have drowned--he saved her Ufa; She showed peculiar gratitude, And evil she returned to: good, For shs became his v.lfe. THERE is nothing that will in aome oases indne* temporary blindness quicker than a sight draft. ji * -'I'O • ' s , --John Price, eolored, pleaded guilty to murder at Shawneetown and was sen­ tenced to life imprisonment. He killed a white man namod Clark Garrett in De­ cember, 1888. --There are two sets of swindlers going through central Illinois swindling the farmers. One scheme is to purchase the farmer's corn at 25 to 30 cents per bushel and get the farmer to sign a contract lor the delivery of the corn, which turns up in some bank as a promissory note. An­ other and still later swindle is, the sharp­ er has a double fountain pen which is so arranged that it uses two kinds of ink; one will fade and the other will remain. The sharper makes an agreement with the farmer and uees the ink that fades, and then gives the farmer the same penhold­ er, only it is reversed, and he signs liis name. The words of the agreement fade and the signature remains, when the sharper writes whatever be pleases over, the signature. --Mrs. M. E. Ezell, wife of a well*, ln>wn former of Greenville, was killel by lightning a few days agi. --The report of Adjutant' General Vance showing the number of men in the Illinois Nation al Guard who won honor* at rifle practice in 1889 is completed. It shows 624 riflemen, 29:$ marksmen, 234 experts and 284 sharpshooters--the qual­ ification being at CO.), 000, 800 and 1,000 yards, respectively--aud thirteen distin­ guished, sharpshooters, the highest grade conferred. All who qua'ify in the higher g adeB alsi qualify :n the lower, so that the totals are 1,435 rifleraam, 8U marks­ men, 2S4 sharpshooters and thirteen dis­ tinguished sharpshooters. CiptainJ. B. Sauboro, Company Q, First Infantry, carried off tho honors by hitting the bull's-eye every time at all distances and at skirmish firing. Tbeie has of late years been consider­ able confusion amotg shippers of South­ ern cattle growing out of the fact that the United States Government, Illinois, Kansas, and other States hivo main­ tained different boundary lines for quar­ antine districts against the shipment of cattle infected with Texas fever. At a meeting of the Board of Live-Stock Commissioners in Springfield, last week, a compromise was effected whereby the boundaries will be uniform hereafter. The following is the new schedule from which cattle infected with Texas fever cannot be shipped: All of the Indian Territory, that part of Texas south and east of (he counties of Parmer, Castro, Swisher, Briscoe, Hall, Childress, and the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Ten­ nessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, Ala­ bama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. --One of the largest swine sales ever made in Central Illinois occurred oa the fair grounds at Springfield, last week. The total receipts of the sale were $5,000 for eighty animals, many of them hringiug over $100, Swine-breeders to the number of 100 were present from all parts of the country. --Articles of incorporation of the Peoria and Eastern Itailway Company have been filed for record. It is proposed to build a road through the counties of Tazewell, McLean, and Vermilion to the State line, aud thence to Indianapolis. The princi­ pal offices ard to be at Danville, this State. The capital stock is $10,000,000. --Gov. Fifer has pardoned Dr. Harris, of Saybrook, who shot a fellow practi­ tioner by the name of Barton a few years ago and was sentenoed to thi penitentiary for five years. --Gov. Fifer his refused pardons to Charles Carey, who was sentenoed to tifty years' imprisonment for murder in May, 1888; George A. Coppage, serving nine­ teen years for burglar;-, sentenced from Montgomery County iu November, 1883; and Edward Walker, sentenced from Madison County iu Octobar, 1383, to sev­ enteen ye r8 for murder. --Articles incorporating the Peoria and Eastern Bailw y, to extend from Peoria to Indianapolis, with the principal office at Danville, is this State, have been til.'d at Springfield. The capital stock if $10,000,000. m "DID YOU ETEB1" If Artaaft Bad P«»r*«mn Tbf* Ka WmM Have Drowned HIBIMK One of the Seventh aveune car# •topped at Twenty-first street the other davto let a sharp-featured, snappy-eyed, woman get aboard. When the con­ ductor came forward to collect her fare >*|§ she gave him a fifty-cent piece. After, giving her change he had turned to ^ to the platform, when she stopped hin* by saying: , ' - * "ft "Oh. conductor,yon Kara ut gnras >^J me the sight change.0 . *• *- ^ 5 The conductor said politely; "I think ' '/| ^ you must bo mistaken, lady. I gave ' 1 / j you four ten-cent piece*." < ',•> 4 ** t The conductor counted his change an<\ said: " You certainly must be mistaken, for th«- change in my pocket is all right." "Did you ever?" remarked the now thoroughly excited woman, appealing. to t. fat man opposite. The stout man did lot signify whether he ever did or not, ind she began upon the oonduetox "I never make a mistake," said she.. - "When 1 know a thing I know it." * "Btt I oer'-ainly gave yoa the righft-. 'M* chang 3," ^ She turneri to the lady in the cornet -- Vr and asked: "Did you ever?" Thfr lady was noncommittal, which toree<J the sharp- featured woman to appeal to an old man. Whether he did or not ;, 4, was, however, left shrouded in gloom. /'"% The conductor conhted over his chang* . y-* ^ again. Then an • idea occurred to '-'~4 him. ,tj "Won't you get up, lady, and see t & whether that nickel is not ia • ^ clothing somewhere?" he asked. • ^ She fairly gasped lor breath, a* sh» v.;.| remarked, "Did you ever?"to the whol» car. • Then the conductor gave tip the fighl and drew forth r. 5-cent piece from hi» pocket, which shj> placed in her purser f As the car app oarhed Thirty-fourtli street she signalf.l the conductor thajl j she wanted to g.jt off. Six very mucik i; 3?* interested passf sgers watched her ri?« { £ to leave the earv and there was a gen- >;} 1 eral sigh of sa isfaction and an air o| I-told-vou-so ot> every one's face when * the missing nickel dropped from a fold in her dress <vnd rolled on the floor. ' ^ The conductor called her attention to it; . j but the only st^tisfaction he got for it - • .Jg was the remark she made as she looked % back at the shining coin on the floor £ "You ought to know enough to makft ^ the right chaiiget and not make such «* > is ,V :S •W n <*' -m fuss about it."--Neil- York Sun. Josh Hillings' Philosophy. The man vho weara out iz like a limi blfe coin--he,iz alwus worth the faoe»: aud keeps bright to the last. 4 Yu may make a mistake in a man'# kapaeity, but yu kant in hiz vanity. Natur never haff finishes a job, nor::'- '-t underlets n kontrakt. : ! Take all the dangers out or that world, ap I it would be a coward's para- *' 4 dise. f Thare ain't ennvthing that will kom- pletely i;ure lazyness, but i hav knowft . a eeckoi.d wife tew hurry it sum. A good nq£urd man haz got one of ;v that kind ov souls that will gro ennjr- thing that iz planted in it, good, bad, or -V'-l indiffirent. . v:Vy II11 iaan happiness iz sutch an eazy, - limply thing that thoze who hav the : '<!i most ov it kno it the least: Thare are men in this world whom , j flattery makes stronger, bekause it makes them more karefnl; but sqfeck men are skarse. The only safe way for most -people lew git along in this world iz tew watch others, and do jist az they do. Human happiness iz like Joseph** r^at--a thing of menny colors. if, I kant tell which iz the wuss off, thft , man who iz all lied aud no heart, or that, i one who iz all heart and no lied. . -xs Hope iz no flatterer--she cheats every body alike, but after all, iz the bell friend we have got. Every boddy seems tew dispize a hip- ' pokrit-- God, man, and tbe devil. An idle man iz always a bizzy one--* C be spends all his time hunting for noth- ing to do. Ji Thare are but phew people In this ̂ world who make more trouble than a. '</ bizzy phool. *, j Knowledge iz power, no doubt, bat 11 H iz not always virtew. Thare are suofe ̂ people who only edukate their vices.-- V:? New York Weekly. ' T • " ,., " * • 1 * ̂ The Husband Repeated. *** ^4 Apropos of a recent discussion fe M exchange as to the best method al keeping giddy husbands at home o* nights, comes the following anecdote: A little woman up town, whose honey* moon waned three years ago, discov­ ered to her sorrow 'that her husband took more interest in "a man who called on import mt business just as I was leaving the office," titan in h& home life. After puzzling her pretty head fojr many lonely evening*, she hit at last upon a plan to startle her liego lord into repentance. One night, after the little bronze clock had souuded forth a dozen chimes, the husband entered the flat in the condition usual to gentlemen w ho devote themselves too assiduously to ̂ their offices. He found on the table a ' V '<• note addressed to himself, informing*" ; him that his spouse had gone to th opera with "a frierid." § Stifling a word which is not to be , found in the ritual, he sank into a chait • ' and gazed vacantly into the nre. Re- r 'i$, r < morse entered his heart, and he mtir<* • ^ . mured an audible vow that he would n e v e r , n o n e v e r , i n i t a l i c i s e d c a p i t a l s , ^ go out at night without his dear little - > wife. Was his rei>entance too late--• -1c < has his wife's heart already hardened * ^ toward him? Who was this "friend," , anyhow? He would go to the Metro*. A - poiitan and escort her home himselt. , He arose excitedly and started for the .-w door, but his progress was arrested by ' a pair of laughing black eyes that < peeped at him from behind the por- ^ff • j tieres. That was six months ago, and. ' since then a fond husband has discov- ered that his darling is even more en- - tertaining than she was in ante-nuptial ^ days.--2Ve<c York Evening Sun. : "ij _ 1 -•;* • Big Hickory Trees. * ̂ Not many Eastern people, ; they are acquainted with the forests of " the Mississippi Valley, and more especially tho-e fonud on the'-higher 1 Alleghany Mountains, know what a , 'L?! -* really large hickory tree is. " * The shell-barks of Southern Indiana ,j|| /; are sometimes 150 feet tall, with trunks i|||p four or five feet in diameter, and bare \ of limbs for seventy or eighty feet; and " < even larger trees eats be found iu the l ̂ , still almost untouched forests of Eaat- 'W em Tennessee and Western North Carolina. But those large trees *re doomed,' and before many years have passed ̂ every hickory tree of sufficient use and proper quality will have been saciifioed to supply the ever-inereasing demand lot the wood.--Garden anci rorctL fW -•m?U •>- m •j J • ';/n w ":WL M ,1 ** 't ... ̂ , ^ j, v-^ v < P r V > < -