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IcSrnrjjfflauidfaltt % VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pabiisltt. WcHENRY, rLLINOIS . THERE IS in Salt Lake City • society *>I young Morrnou women who pledge themselves not to marry a pol vgapiist. WHEN the railway across Siberia is completed, it is estimated that tbe toyr of the world in fifty days will be feasible. - A CHICAGO cigar man in authority for (he statement that the better class of smokers are returning to the pipe for comfort. THERE are a* many cities with a "population of 1,000,000 and over in this country as there are ia Europo, yet we jure only a century old. Ax old prospector bought a piece of £iound near Nevada City the bther day tot $300. He went for goid and soon struck a deposit that wiii pay him *5'000- • • > THREE years ago 0. E. Gordon turned loose two wild turkeys ou his stock farm near Jefferson,* Wis. Now there are great numbers of them on tbe shores of Lake Koshkonong. WILLIAM RILEY, whose fatniljr has tndurned him as dead for many years, and for whom a stone is erected in a Hingham (Mass.) cetnetery, has written from Maine in regard to getting out pension papers. THE balloon proposed for polar ex­ plorations is ninty-nine feet iu diameter ®nd 500,000 ctibic feet in volume. The journey ia to be begun in Spitsbergen, •and with a favorable wind is expected to last four or five days. THE STARS AND STRIPES OR THE BRAGGART ROOSTER. DR. JUNKER, who learned in Central Africa to relish fried ants and lived for years on a negro bill ef fare, expresses decided views in his new book on the way to get along in the Dark Continent. He goes so far as to say that iu his opinion the white man who accustoms himself to native food will keep in better health than if he enjoyed the best of European cookery. THEKE is a conductor on a Cincinnat •street car who was recently appointed, who is heir to an estate in England valued at $150,000. The young man "visited the home of his ancestors some time ago and arranged to convert tbe property into casli. While awaiting the money he is putting in his time manip­ ulating the bell punch. It is said he has arranged with some of the stock- holders'of the railroad company to in- irpst his money in the company. * ON returning from church a Lafay­ ette, Ga., man saw what seemed to be two small snakes about the size of a lead pencil and eight to ten inches long. They were barely moving. On closer examination instead of a snake It was a mass of little measuring -worms, each about three-sixteenths of an inch long, and each traveling on the layer of worms under it. By moving in this manner they escaped the dust .which would have been fatal to them if they had separated. tual tes-dfinker who scorns the fragrant TJYnFR WHTPTT IT YQTr V9 drink which is made from coffee berry. ' * " " • Converts would be forced to his belief by the tons of thousands. When all this shall come to pass, we may see men closing an elaborate dinner with cups of coffee small as thimbles. At cafes the precious liquid would be dealt out at fabulous prices and coffee would be­ come an amazing extravagance only to be found at the banquet of a modern Lucullus--a luxury to l»e compared wilk Cleopatra's dissolved pearl. UJTLE99 we can accept the theories about the old mill at Newport, R. I., which ascribes its origin to the Norse­ men, the oldest house in America is the stone fort erected by John Smith "as a retreat near a convenient river hard to be assailed and easie to be de­ fended, but the want of corne occasioned the end of all our worke--it being worke sufficient to provide victuall." The house stands near tbe York Biver on the Ware Creek, in Virginia. It is immensely strong, being built of hewn stones with thick walls. There is a subteraneau magazine and portholes for muskets. Popular superstition has peopled it from time to,, time with ghostly visitors- --Pocahontas, Black Beard the pirate, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers. It is a desolate spot, overgrown with poisonous vines and in­ habited now only by bate and owls in­ numerable. A POMONA man came up^ recentlv from Bedondo. He changed bis seat very often, opened the windows, squirmed about uneasily, and finally kicked bocause he supposed there was a corpse in the baggage car. Arrived At Los Angeles, he reached into his coat pocket for his handkerchief and found five or six fish, which he had carefully placed there three days before to be used for bait. They were of the va­ riety known as smelt, ana they were 44true to name." THE egg industry of the United States is one of the mort important in the country. Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, with a population of 3,000,000, annually consume in eating, baking, etc., about 1,501),000 barrels of eggs. °r three;eighths of a barrel, say twenty-eight dozen, to each inhabitant. Applying the same ratio to each of the <>5,000.000 inhabitants of the republic we have a grand total of 1,820,000,001) dozen eggs used annually, which at 12 cents a dozen amounts to $218,01)0,000 Canada alone imports to this c ountry yearly 70,000,000 eggs. A crteioi;s wager,with fatal results,was reoentlv decidednt Siepring, Bavaria. A notoriously strong man, named Freytag, Taet that a horse could not move him from the door of his house. The horse was brought, and Freytag put his hands ®nd feet against the door posts, while Stern, the man With whom tbe bet had l>een made, fixed a rope round Frey tag's neck. At the first pull the roj;e broke. A new rope having been brought, Stern plied his whip with all his might, when F rev tag gave a scream and, letting go. was dragged along for some yards. His neck was broken. WARD MCALLISTER'S son is amember of the Seventh Regiment, and not long eince went with his regiment to Peek- skill, where the State military encamp­ ment was being heid. One rainy dis­ agreeable night young McAllister was put on guard duty, his assignment be­ ing to gnatd a wagon supposed to con­ tain army supplies. McAllister stood it for about two hours, and then, wet to the skin and sad in mind, called up -Col. Appleton. "Colonel," said he, "how much is that infernal old wagon I am guarding worth?" "About $300," •was the answer. "All right," replied ^McAllister, "if I give you my check for the money will you let me go to bed ?" ^ " * Tho dismal prophecy has been made that coffee will soon cease to be the Ijeterage of the people: that the plant is dying out and that growers are driving 3ip its production and turning their at­ tention to the raising of tea. It is hinted that men must take to tea. This woold be a great triumph for the habi- IN Texas we have about 800 murders committed yearly. Under this mis­ chievous sympathy we hardly ever find a jury that has the manhood and the courage to pass the sentence of death on a criminal, writes a correspondent. They not only turn loose a dangerous man upon society, but he may afterward be lionized for the very crime he com­ mitted. Several years ago there was a ruffian that was the terror of Austin, after killing about a dozen men. It ap­ pears from the fact that he had such a formidable record that he was elected by the citizens as Marshal of the city. And it is said he made a very good marshal, for every rough knew how to respect him. In the same town a vio­ lent. disagreeable man murdered a harmless German in cold blood. Of course, after some time he was acquitted; yet this very murderer afterward was elected Mayor of tbe city. IN a certain New York mission is a bright street fellow, who, if this inci­ dent may be taken as an indication, bids fair to develop the brains and the patriotic sentiment of a good American citizen. A gentleman announced his intention of delivering an address on political reform iu the neighborhood of the mission, a particularly disorderly district. He and his friends were in­ formed on good authority that if the speech were made the speaker would be pelted with rotten eggs. It seemed that the proposed address, which, it had been believed, would exert an im­ portant influence, must be given up. A small boy, between whom and the speaker a friendship had developed at the mission, solved the difficulty by an ingenious expedient. "I tell you what to do," said he, "hang the Ameri­ can flag back of the platform, and you stand before the flag. The roughs won't throw eggs at the stars and stripes." MAIIK TWATX at home dresses verv plainly, as he thinks he cau work better if he wears workingmen's clothes. He is always glad to receive visitors, but always insists that they shall play bill­ iards with him. He has elegant billiard and pool tables in his residence, and is himself an expert player. There are but few who can beat him. He talks very slowly and drawls through his nose. He shuffles when he walks, smokes a corn-cob pipe, and never laughs at his own jokes. This shows remarkable self-control, as it is believed that he is the only living man who can refrain from laughing at them. Mark Twain is worth $1,250,000, which is quite a respectable sum for a man to make with his pen. It is said that he has a morbid, half-crazy fear that he wilt some day lose his fortune and come to poverty. He says he is now engaged on a book, on which he has been at work, off and on, for over twenty years. Stroae Comparison Between tbe Impulses of lh« Iwo 1'arltM, us Drawn froln at Current IlliMtratton -- The Republican Norlhwmt--The New Tariff--Ai ill*' De­ liberate Misstatements. The laws of New Mexico authorize each political party to select an emblem to be placed upon their tickets. At the democratic territorial convention held- at Silver City it was proposed to adopt the American flag as the party emblem, but this motion was defeated and the rooster was selected instead. Gov. Prince, while presiding the republican territorial convention a few days since, took advantage of this action of the democrats to draw a comparison between the party records as follows: The contrast between the parties on the broad field of national affairs is well illustrated by a recent event at Silver City. You remember that the last legislature passed au act authorizing each party to select some emblem to bo printed on its ballots. Naturally it was to be something appropriate to the party. At ti»e late democratic national convention, a delegate from Sau Miguel, whose re­ publican education had given him some patriotic ideas, moved that the American flag be adopted as their emblem; thereupon the convention, with great unanimity and amid loud applause, proceeded to reject the flag and take a different emblem. This was proper and appropriate. For the democratic State sovereignty party to disguise itself under the American na­ tional ilag woultf have been a fraud, and the stealing of the livery of heaven for a very different service. Certainly we may congratulate the flag. If it could have spoken it would have protested loudly against the proposed 1 prostitution of its glory. Think of its being so used by the party which so long caused it to wave, not o'er the land of the brave, but the land of the slave: which fired upon it at Fort Sumter: which for four long years dragged it in the dust and riddled it with shot and shell; which tried not only to tear its stars from it. but to de­ stroy it from among the national banners of the world; which after the war would have disgraced It by repudiation; and even now seeks Jo sink the laborer and the artisan, who are protected under its folds, to a level with the peon and the pauper workmen of less favored lands. No, the flag is our rightful emblem; not theirs. It belongs to the party which first made it truly the emblem of free­ dom and nationality, which bore It aloft during the rebellion until the triumphant culmination in victory, peace and union: which provided by the constitutional amendments that every one under the stars and stripes should be free and JK>S- sess equal rights; which preserved its honor by resuming specie payments; which insists that every citizen shall re­ ceive protection to his fair wages, and which demands that wherever it waves there shall be free and fair ballot and a fair count. Let us take it as our emblem, with not a star erased, but carrying on its azure field the entire forty-four, and with space still left for the brilliant star which will soon represent the new state of New Mexico. When the democratic convention re­ jected the flag it chose another emblem. It was a barn-yard fowl, the personifica­ tion of brag, the bird which always crows over its performances, which makes much noise, but accomplishes nothing himself. This was appropriate for the party which was onoof the nega­ tion. which for forty yesgr^ has left no mark on the history of the country but evil, and which has continually opposed all of the good that has been achieved from the days of Calhoun and the rebell­ ion war to the present. REPUBLICAN NORTHWEST. The Cakes Were "UMIMMI." A gallant officer of the Thirty-sixth Illinois in the late inter-state scrim­ mage, now on duty in the Interior De­ partment, remarked the other evening: "It is funny how some trifling tliiugs stick in a fellow's memory forever, while events of vastly more importance fade away and are rarely recalled. Now there was a rather comical little inci dent in our early soldiering days which all tho subsequent bloody conflicts of the war-- -Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone River. Cliickamauga and Franklin--can not efface from my recollection, and it's tbtre now, more vivid than any of them. While after Price in Missouri, in 1862, passing through the little town of Cass- vilie, some of the boys of our comuanv looted a drug store, capturing among other things, a bcx half full of a white powder, which one of them, who had been a drug clerk, pronounced a supe­ rior article of aaleratus. When going into camp that night the bright sugges tion of haviug "raised" cakes instead of the usual monotonous slapjack rendered the boys jubilant. They were gotten up in great style by one of the com- panj's cooks, and the officers were in­ vited to share the unwonted renast. Well, we had a delightful time, and tho "raised" cakes called up many visions of home, though some of the chronic grumblers insisted that they were no more "raised" than if tho ordinary eold water alone had been used. Standing around the camp-fire after supper there was noticed a sudden lull in the cheer­ ful conversation; a deathly pallor came over the faces of the late cheerful ban­ queters, followed by a universal up­ heaval of the internal mechanism of all concerned, and sick! Why, no ship ever sailed that had such a deathlv sick lot of humans as filled that camp. We thought we were poisoned sure, and the regimental surgeon was sent for in hot haste. Dr. Young examined the stuff we had used, and smilingly informed us that those cakes hed been "raised" with emetic! Reasons' Why Wyoming Is Republican, and the Significance of Her Vote. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] Those who have been looking for a break in the republican line in the northj west will see the fallacy of this notion in tho returns from Wyoming. The youngest as well as tho oldest of the states of that section are unshaken fn their fealty to the republican party. Every one of the magnificent collection of commonwealths extending from Mis­ souri westward to the Pacific and be­ tween the latitude of the southerly bor der of Kansas and the Canadian line is as securely republican in any canvass as Massachusetts or Vermont. Tho devo­ tion of Oregon, Colorado and Kansas to the party is no more pronounced and con­ stant than is that of the Dakotas, Wash­ ington and Wyoming. The republican margin in the latter state in the election just held appears to be about the average of that given in the three canvasses imme­ diately preceding. After being previously controlled by the republicans the terri­ tory went over to the democrats in 1880 and remained with - them in 1882, but since then it has been held by the repub­ licans without intermission. This year the democrats made a more vigorous canvas than in cither 1884. 18SG or 1888, as more was at stake now than then, but the republican margin, nevertheless, is ample. The causes why Wyoming is republican and not democratic arc not very difficult to find. She is surrounded by a cordon of strongly. republican states and the vast majority of her citizens have come from republican communities. She can give still better reasons even tkan those for the faith that is in her. It is to the republicans and not to the democrats that the territory of Wyoming looked for the laws which would permit the full devel­ opment of her material resources, and to the republican party and not to the de­ mocracy must the stat«? of Wyoming look for the laws which will allow her to make the best and most profitable uso of her natural heritage. From the begin­ ning the republicans have been her reso­ lute, pronounced and consistent champi­ ons. Her admission to statehood was conferred by republican votes, and the population and industrial importance which have entitled her to that distinc­ tion are the result of repuljlican policy. All her social, business and political ties put her in harmony with the republicans and in opposition to the democrats. Whatever has been said here regarding Wyoming can be applied with equal justice to all the other states in her sec­ tion. Until new issues appear in politics and a complete and radical realignment of parties takes place, the republican hold on the northwestern states must re­ main unshaken. after the adoption of the constitution the men who stood by that instrument--tho federalists--were the ones who, with Washington at their head, had done the hard fighting during the war of Inde­ pendence. Among the anti-federalists, afterwards democrats, were found the trimmers and the men who had not courage enough to serve their country in the field and those opposed to national­ ity. Of the two provisions referred to in the ordinance the one about slavery was asserted to by the southern members be­ cause they thought, in their ignorance, that the territory north of the Ohio river, deprived of slave, labor, would not advance as rapidly as that south of the Ohio, where they persistod in retaining the "peculiar institution." As for the land grant of section 16 in each town­ ship for schools, it was insisted on by the Massachusetts men who made the Marietta, O., settlement. As they were all brave soldiers during the revolution they cannot be called democrats. No slaveholder or southern democrat would have dreamed of making provision for free schools. THE NEW TARIFF. It Will Belp the Republican* ia tlH>Cwi' ffresslonal Canvass. On the whole the new tariff will help the republicans in the congressional can­ vass. The advances in rates which have been made in some of the schedules, as compared with existing law. were, of course, not looked for by the great ma­ jority of the party before the measure first appeared in the house, and, in the opinion of the western section of the or­ ganization, these changes weaken the bill and leave it open to serious attack. But its good qualities more than offset its bad ones. The cut in the sugar duties strikes a blow at tho trust ami Mill re­ duce the price of one of the staple com­ modities. Relief is thus furnished in a quarter from which it was sorely needed. It is a relief which affects all classes and which will be particularly grateful to that most numerous and important class of all--the poor. The sweeping reduc­ tion on binding twine, too, will aid the farmers and strengthen the republicans with an clement of tho community to which the party has always looked for material aid. The republicans thus find themselves in a position to make an aggressive and winning canvass. Its pledges to the people are being kept with a fair degree <¥f promptness and sincerity. Several weeks ago the chances for the adoption of a tariff measure as favorable to the interests of consumers as the one which has just been agreed on is were not looked for. The democrats, as a conse­ quence, began to find the prospects for their success brighter than they have been in several years past, and discour­ agement was felt In the ranks of the re­ publicans. Now, however, the situation is entirely changed. Once more the out­ look becomes full of hope for the repub­ licans. There can be no reasonable doubt that government by the republi­ cans ordinarily is favored by the great majority of voters. The party can al­ ways rely with confidence on command­ ing and holding the popular approval whenever it is true to its best impulses and traditions. The change shown in the past few days on the tariff in the di­ rection of progress shows that the old spirit of liberality and regard for the rights and priviliges of the masses has again begun to assert itself. Whenever the republicans deserve to win they do win, and they deserve to win this year. MILLS' MISSTATEMENTS. In Ten Lines He Crowds in as Many as His Ignorance or Untruthfulness Will Per­ mit. [Chicago Tribune.] Now the republicans were verv anxious about the "little school house," and said It was in jeopardy from the democratic party, when it was the child of the democratic party and had been £pr years. The ordi­ nance of 1787 for the Northwest territory- bad contained two provisions--one that slavery should never enter it, and the other that the little school house should never leave It--and that ordinance was the work of democrats.--Roger Q. Mills. Historically there was no democratic jarty before, 1789. If there were any democrats then they must have been tories, because when parties did form ADMONITION TO FREE TRAD­ ERS. . [Des Moines Wo want taeaU,tfae attetttiofe of «ur low tariff p<H>ple to two happenings and leave them to judge for themselves whether the occurrences have any bear­ ing upon tariffs, as our people want tariffs. The first is tho election of 1888. The people elected Gen. Harrison presi­ dent that year over one Cleveland. Har­ rison was out and out for protection to American industries. Cleveland was not. The people also elected a protec­ tionist majority to the house of repre­ sentatives. All the talk and noise wo hear now from England, New York, Texas and other democratic places, was heard then, word for word, yell for yell, scream for scream, from all democrats, and by all who are paid by them. .Third parties run, the stool pigeon cooed, the bogus prohibitionist lied, and the side­ walk farmer wormed around. Papers that sail under republican colors, but have neither convictions nor prin­ ciples, advocated lower duties, threat­ ening like a policeman at a county fair. We had the whole outfit served up as we have it to-day, only more so: more fully, because there was more money in iti The farmers wore told about being robbed and taxed, but all to no purpose. Cleveland and crew went uot, and Harrison and republicanism came in, charged'to remodel the tariff on protection principles. This is the first thing we respectfully call attention to. The tariff bill has been gotten up and only needs the edges cut by the confer­ ence committee. Second, an appeal has been made to the people of a state to see how they liked it. Maine has held an election for congressmen. Rood went back to the people to be endorsed for his share of the tariff work or retired, t hat same Reed who sat down on Springer and Mills and Breck­ inridge, and flattened them. The very Reed who couutcd democratic members present who refused to vote, who of all men of our day has drawn upon himself the bitterest denunciation of all democrats asd all low tariff men since Lincoln and Grant, has received the worst their ill scraped tongues could say. Reed not only is re­ turned, despite all the Cobden club and its money could do. but returned by such a majority as he never had before, and so are ail the other Maine congressmen! This is the second happening. Now, to what end has all this democratic rhodo- montadc been dinged in our ears? They do not represent the American people. That is all there is about it. Our coun­ try will not legislate to please an alien sentiment. The Cobden club has not money enough to buy up our votes. We do lose majorities when stomachs crave whisky, we lose by apathy, wo lose by false prohibitionists and other false brethren, but when *he comfort of the homes of our workingmcn comes in issue, the elections always go our way. The issue this fall is protection to American industries against freer importations of foreign goods, and the enforced idleness of our people. The voters will cast their ballots as tliev alwavs have on this issue. Training for Kingly Dignity. It is reported in a semi-official way, by a London journal of high life, that the prince of Wales is disposed to coun­ tenance the recent action of the duchess of Buccleuch iu raising the bars to pre­ vent the admission of undesirable Amer­ icans of both sexes into the upper circles of London society, it appears that his royal highness lias been displeased by the "frivolity and jocularity" displayed by some of the distinguished American millionaires who have enjoyed the honor of being presented to him, and he is not unwilling to have his displeasure known by those who fail to guard their tongues or to adopt the proper demeanor in court circles. » HATES TO BE A WOMAN. CMI>«MS Sarolta Vay at>d Her .TSM Unique htst«»ry. The reeords of the Yay family, 1,-om the 10th centnrv founder down to Counters Sarolta. contains a wealth of raw material for simon-pure gossip in the finer drawing-rooms of Emperor f'ranz Joseph's subjects. Countess Sarolta Yay was born in 1866, just nine years after her mother's marriage. Her father was Couut Ladislas Yay, a General and an Im­ perial Chamberlain. He had waited so long and with so great anxiety for the birth of an heir that when Sarolta came her mother feared to tell him that his firstborn was only a girl. . With the aid of the nurse she con­ cealed from him the sex of the child, and, as tirho passed, took all the neces­ sary precautions that occasion de­ manded to keep up the deception. Sarolta went iuto knickerbockers and roundabouts at the age of 5, played connection was Ogden, Omaha and Ogden to Deming way to the South. From Helena connection was made with Portand, from that point to Seattle, j Tacoma and )jgw Westminster to the ! Nitfth, and Sffl Francisco, Sacramento ! and Los Angeles to the South. One man rushed that report out of Chicago and we all took it from him. It was re­ peated at relays automatically. I don't know how far that business traveled in miles, but I know that it was flashed from the extreme North of the United States to the extreme South, and from the far East to the shores of tbe Pacific, besides chasing off at a cat-a-corners at a dozen different points."--Seattle Tele- gray IK How a Cyclone Mnde a Rich Man of Him. He was a Western man and he was telling several gentlemen in the smok­ ing car all about the natural advantages of the wild and woolly West. "•Don't you have cyclones out there boys' games, got the elements of a boy's i sometimes ?" was asked of him. education, and when 12 years of age J "Cyclones," was the reply, "why, of could hunt, fish and fence as could lew ] course we do, but you'll never hear me boys of her age. In her 14th year her i complain about that, for one of em father decided to send her to.a military made a rich man of me." school. To prevent this her mother J "Would yon mind telling as about was obliged to confess all. j it?** queried oue of his surprised The Count swallowed his anger and • hearers. chagrin and tried at once to repair the j "Certainly not," was the reply. "Five topsy-turvy condition of his iamily af- i years ago I bought a little prairie farm fairs by putting Sarolta "into girl's ; out in Kansas. There were no build- clothes, calling her San dor. and bend- j ing8 °f anv kind upon the place when I ing her off to a girl's school. In vain ! }HH'ght it--at _least nothing but a Sarolta refused to be transformed. ! cyclone cellar, in this cellar the former She stole into her trousers and jackete ] occupant of the place had been content whenever she got a chance, and led her j to"dwell with his family, and here too parents a sad life in her constant en-! niy wife and I and our two small chil- id Chevenne, and from AFFAIRS II ILLINOIS J ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI­ OUS SOURCES. Si deavors to get rid of the petticoats they j tried to keep on her. She besought j her father to allow her t<> enter the 1 Honved Hussar regiment. His refusal was the last straw, and she declared her dren passed our first night upon the farm. Now, gentleiren, comes the strangest part of my story. As I emerged from our cellar the follow­ ing morning the first things that my intention to tear up all Austria with j wondering eyes beheld were a beautiful her pranks as soon as she became of I liouse and barn upon my place. I en- agc* j 'fired the house and found that it was She kept her word faithfully. On j furnished throughout in the most ele- tlie first day of her majority she swung gant shape and a fine stock of provi-ions out into the world in a cutaway, tight j in the pantry. After going through the A THIEF was tracked in New York the other night by the trail he left ef stolen silver spoons. trousers and a high hat, and began a career of unprecedented dissipation. She did everything, and did it with a zest that made her the most notorious person in the fastest circles of Vienna. She got head over heels in debt, and to extricate herself forged, embezzled, and stole on a grand scale. Still her creditors were only half sat­ isfied and hounded her constantly. They finally drove her to a step which caused her arrest on a dozen different charges, and eventually her retirement. To extricate: herself she married Marie Engelhardtpfc beautiful 18-year-old girl whom she met at a summer hotel at Worthersee last fall. Papa Engelhardt, an army contractor, thought, of course, that his daughter was marrying a real Count Sandor Yay, and was so delighted to have her capture a title that he gave her a dowry of $500,000. Sarolta, or Sandor, was imprisoned in Ivlagenfurth; was deprived of the right to contract legal debts, and was threatened with the insane asylum. She was released after two weeks of incar­ ceration, and sought directly the quiet ot the liou*e of her friend, Fraulein Czoky, in Pesth. While Sarolta, in her 13th year, was at her grandmother's house, she was en­ couraged to play all sorts of high jinks iu her masculine disguise, to make love to an English girl of 16, and, finally, to elope with her, although the grand­ mother knew from the first of the de- c$ptiob. The' desire of Sarolta to appear to be a man, has always amounted to a par* tial mental derangement. Prof. Krafft- Ebing says she fought six duels, during the maddest part of her career, with Viennese officers and students who re­ proached her with her sex. She in­ sulted several more, who discreetly de­ clined to challenge the prowess of her arm. She has been "married" to no fewer than nine women beside Marie Engelhardt Nevertheless the Countess Sarolta has small affection for mankind. "I have never felt tbe slightest in­ clination to become well acquainted with any young man," she exclaimed. "As the years pass by I become more and more convinced that none of them is worthy of my friendship. "When 1 do associate with men, especially in the society of women, I prefer those of a plain exterior, because then I run no risk of being cast in the shade. The idea that a woman could prefer a ay otner man to me has always caused me the deepest pangs of jealousy. "In selecting my companions among women, 1 have always chosen the intel­ ligent rather than the l>eautiful. I have an inexpressible detestation of wo­ men's clothes and in general against everything feminine, so far as concerns me alone. On the other hand, where others are concerned, I love only those of the gentler sex." Prof. Krafft-Ebing has drawn some conclusions from the formation of the Countoss Sarolta's handwriting. "The strokes," ho says, "show firmness and certainty. They are thoroughly mascu­ line. A close analysis reveals these characteristics: Wrild passion, hatred and opposition against everything which partakes of the nature of heartfelt xove, an entire lack of poetic sentiment of the sentimental sort, nobility of aspirations, enthusiasm for everything beautiful and noble, a keen mind for science and the fine arts." The Countess Sarolta Vay is a woman' of imposing preseuce. She is of medium height and has limbs of masou- line developments. Her shoulders are heavy, her chest is broad. Her hair is short, curly and almost, black. Her nose turns up slightly, abd her mouth has the curves of • Cupid's bow. Although her years of dissipation have cut deep lines in her face she is still handsome, and looses like a boy of 21. A Circuit of America. The going down of the Western Union wires last night drove one of the nervous gentlemen who taps an instru ment in that office into a reminiscent mood. "This wire going down to night, bojs," he said, "reminds me of an ex­ perience that I had in Portland one night three years ago last winter, which is, perhaps, the rarest I ever had in my twenty years at the instrument. It was that of working on probably the largest circuit ever operated at one time in the United States. The weather was stormy, and early in the evening the wires on tbe Southern Pacific went down just east of Deming, N. M. "That was already bad enough, but the situation grew alarming, when at 9 o'clock Omaha reported: 'All com­ munication with the East shut off.* Then I knew we were in for it, for not a line of the night Associated Press was in, and tfe had only the wires on the Northern Pacific to work on. Time was limited and we had to get the report through to every town in the West. This was how it was worked: Chicago connected with St. Paul, and St. Paul with Helena* house i next visited the barn. Here, too, I foued everything in first-class shape. Standing gently iu their stalls were two fine cows and a horse, and in the mows I found hay enough to last 'em for months. You see gentlemen, there had evidently been a cyclone in the night and this house and barn had come to me from the Lord knows where. As the whole layout was worth perhaps $10,000, you can plainly see that I have no cause to kick about Western cyclones." "But," said one of the gentlemen in a hesitating way, as if he hesitated to suggest the idea, "are you not afraid that another cyclone may come along some time and take the house and barn again ?" "Gentlemen," replied the Kansas man as he calmly bit off the end of a fresh cigar, "I shall borrow no trouble in re­ gard to the matter. I am one of those kind of fellows who believe in letting well enough alone. I shall sell the place at the first opportunity."-- New York Mercury. Mental Relaxation Necessary. Some brain workers toil on year after vear, contenting themselves with the relaxation of a day or two now and then. They have no real vacations, and the brief iutervals that they are away from their duties do them little good, not being long enough for them to for­ get their work and vexations and get out of the groove they have been run­ ning iu. ^ There comes at last to these men*a time when memory weakens, when it is hard for them "to fix the miud upon one subject, and their work seems to grow more aud more irksome. And in conversation there is a slight tendency to incoherence. It is rather difficult for them at times to express themselves clearly; the suitable words do not come to them as readily as they once did. 'When conversing they start in well; but after a short time their ideas are somewhat confused, and they are obliged to make considerable effort to keep their attention fixed upon the subject they are discussing. In writing there i3 a hesitancy, especially on long words and sentences. They are obliged to stop and think, seeming to drop the thread that they have been holding. These are signs of mental failure, which must not be disregarded. • In this con­ dition of brain exhaustion not only are the reasoning faculties sluggish, but unusual effort is required from the weakened will to keep tho • attention fixed. Good mental work is then ac­ complished only at the expense of the brain, which is still further weakened by every intense effort. The time has now come when mental rest is impera­ tive. And it should be as complete as possible. A long vacation should be taken--short rests are not likely to do any good. - A sea voyage promises the greatest good to the weakening brain worker. On shipboard he seems to drop almost entirely out of his old life, i His vacation should not be les3 than a month's duration, and it ought to run for several months. Failing to take the needed rest, insanity is very likely to be the peualty.--Boston Herald. What Our Neighbors Ape Doinj-M»tter»;; ot General ami Local Interest -- Mar-- "j r'aS** anil Deaths- - Accidents and Crimea! < . --Personal Pointers. i-C',-'1", i, THE Washington Census Office an#. ! r-* nounces the population of the Third 111* % inois District as follows: . Vomit j. 189a i(«o. Bureau 34.971 33,172 Fulton 43.071 41,Ho Hancock 31,841 3S.337 Henderson... 9.HKJ 10.723 Henry 93.2V2 Knox 99,5 HI 3S,:ni McDonough. 27.46J 27,970 Mercer IS.a*) 19,", y Peoria 70,11» 5.,:VV. Putnam 4.701 S.9S4 Rock Island. 41,880 38.302 Schuyler.... 15,903 iti,'219 Stark 9.U52 11,207 Warren 21,273 iSi.'Jtl Chants*?^ Tncrrasa.... l.74#":V Increase l.Mtfj." Decrf»» 3,4911 ltacrsaae Decrease.. .. 3,34J< , IxnTcaaa 2hf Decrease.... Sit:'. Decrease l-iagS; Increase 14,304 Increase Increase 3, Decrease 3H, Do crease.... 1.95# Decrease 1 ,65» 3Jg,43i N'et increase, 8,86J an<| Total...401.313 Per cent. 2.26. Figures for some of the cities towns in the district arenas follows: In- crsas* 1,8S7 3,775 W0 f S on and towns. 1890. Canton........ .. 5.5fW Gnlesburg. ....> .15.212 Galvft ;.;,. 5,72* Kewanee........ 4,i>4 Molino ........;. .ll,99-» Monmouth 5,837 Peoria 40.7.18 Bock Island 13,53j r : %«• 2,7tS2 11.437 2.7 4 1.850 7.800 4, ISO j.ttKl 837 •26,2V* 11.490 il.fci3 1,S»7 A FIV»MOXTUS-OI.I> babv was smoth» ered to death by a cat in Chicago tln> * other day. The mother had placed it ot|::^; a couch, where it fell asleep. An houts later she found the cat lying over thai 1 child's faco. She drove it away and . wrapped the child tenderly with a cover* let. Returning again she found that tho cat had resumed its former position oit her baby's face. She flung the cat out, of doors and took.the child inhcrarms*,- ,, -j "My God. how cold she is," was the hor- riiied exclamation as she touched tbe^cMli baby's face. A physician was quickly summoned, but the child was dead. sign of a struggle was apparent on H* " face. Its breathing had been stopianl by _ the warm body of the cat as it nestled, - [y on the child's face. An inquest was hehf *̂i and the intelligent jury returned a ver«. * diet, "Smothered by having its broatli ' x sucked by a cat." The weird story told: . in childhood about the habits of cats and witches evidently produced this verdict. The attending doctor has encountered - •* several cases of the same kind in Poland and laughed at the idea of a cat inhaling the child's breath. Tbe Coroner was dis­ gusted when the fool verdict was an-*, nounced. THE State Fair at Peoria was a mag* nitieent success from every point of view. Never before in the history ot the State has there been such a wonder­ ful exhibit of everything going to mak<* up a fair. Almost every Stlte in tint Union was well represented. One do- .«1.^ -,v;» ,• partment was set, apart for a car-load of H growing tropical plants from Florida, . which attracted much attention. Then* * ~%f\ was also a car-load of minerals from thu ^ Northwest, a car-load of flowers from New York, and a big exhibit of cotton from the South. The attendance was' "I enormous, ranging from *>0.000 to 80,000r- !.v»' each day. At the annual election of members of the Hoard of Agriculture thrf , following changes were made: The Hon. John P. Reynolds, of Chicago, in the Second District, vice M. A. Morse, ofy ' ̂ Chicago: Myron F. Wyman in place of-.*£l'. George Reed, of Belvidero. in the FifthfiHSM" District: Samuel Dysart in place of- • ^ Simon Elliot, iu the Seventh District;;^V^ W. P. Styker in place of E. C. Lewis, in 4$ the Eighth District: S. W. Johns, of ^ Decatur, in place of the Hon. Lafayetto ' *?; Funk, of Shirley, who was elected Presi- 1*.;' dent of the board by acclamation. the Sixteenth District J. R. Dickersou succeeds Joseph Skeavington, and in the . J?*. - % * * ̂ - ' f , - wi , '*P 7 - F» 1 • r •>" : Not an K.*i»ensivc Church to Iteion^ To. The pastor had given out the closiug hymn. He took off his spectacles wiped them on his coat sleeve and closed the book in front of him. "While we are singing this hymn," he said benignantly, "any persons iu the congregation who wish to unite with the church are cordially invited to come for­ ward. All we ask af them is to sub­ scribe to our doctrines, promise to try to live up to them and be reasonably faithful in attending the services of the church. It is not expected of the mem­ bers of this church," he continued, push­ ing his frayed shirt-cuff out of sight in­ side his coat sleeve and buttoning his vest tighter to relieve the sensation of goneness within, "that they shall con­ tribute anything to the support of the preacher unless they feel inclined and I will do most of them the justice to say," he added, pushing hi? ancient- locking hat further into retirement under the pulpit seat "that they don't feel inclined very often. I can guaran­ tee that all who wish to travel to the good world on the most economical plan will find congenial companyiu this church." -- Louisville Courier-Jour' nal. Eastern and Western Wisdom. Knowitall (looking up from the paper)--What utterly hopeless bar­ barians the Chinese are! They tore up a railroad because they considered it responsible for the recent flood there. Levelhead--If the railroad company cut down all the timber along its line, as railroad and land companies in thi* country often do, it was.--New York Weekly. THERE is no such thing as jealousy in nature. Even the cross-roads be­ come pleasant when the beautiful trees l?ut tfhem in the shade.--Puck. Eighteenth District E. C Paw was; elected to serve tho unexpired term of the Hon. S. D. Gillham, of Upper Alton, who was assassinated last winter. TIIK bulletin issued by the Census: lbirt au which deals with the preliminary statistics concerning rapid transit in cities of over 50.000 inhabitants furnishes some interesting figures in regard to th<? extension of street-railway lines in Chi­ cago. Chicago stands third in length of street lines, its. t >tal being li.t miles. Philadelphia ranks first, with 283 miles. Hoston follows with '.'Ol miles. New York is fourth, with 1T7 miles. In re­ gard to number of miles of track, in­ cluding sidings and switches, the re'ative standing of these cities is materially changed New YoriNeads in track mile­ age with a total of 3»>!> miles. Chicago has made the greatest increase in linos mileage during the last ten years, 1(M ; miles having been added during this time. A FATHER and daughter dead and a f' _ ;r- brldegroom crazy arc the outcome of a " '%} wedding at Lacon. in Marshall County. Charles Seifor was an employe of th« "•' ^, Lacon Woolen Mill, and Joseph Baxter 1 was a fellow employe, Seifert 'was also " - the father of a charming young girl ^ named Mary, about nineteen years of r-'.i age, to whom Haxter was attached. His affection was reciprocated, but for some ; reason Seifcrt hated Baxter with a ;"t deadly hatred and forbade his daughter having anything to do with him. This *^1 had the usual effect. Mary loved Bax- ' ter all the more because of this opposi­ tion. and. taking advantage of the ab­ sence of her father, she slipped away from home, met Baxter at the house of a friend and the two were quietly married. Tho ensuing *0.y she returned home to plead for forgiveness. Her father refused to listen to her, and as she turned to leave tha room he grabbed a shotgun standing in one corner of the room and fired, liter­ ally blowing oft' one side of her head. The poor girl fell dead at her inhuman father's feet. .After gazing at his bloody work for a moment. Seifcrt discharged the contents of the remaining barrel of his gun into his own head, killing him­ self instantly. Baxter, who had remained outside. 011 hearing the report of the gun, rushed in. and w.hen he saw the awful sight he went crazy, and is now a raving maniac. TIIE bell for the Wisconsin Central , 5 depot in Chicago is sixty-one inches high, with a diameter of eighty inches, and weighs 10.500 pounds. It will be sua- pendctf at au elevatu n of feet. LAST Sunday morning during religious services Ura»o Mis>ion Presbyterian Church in Peoria caught (ire and was totally consumed. Los*. Sl?.oo«>. The congregation made a wild rush for the ^ door, and the excited p'ople tumbled --I,, over each other to reach the open air. -J*? Almost •miraculously no oni* was hurl. v-*'* EI.OKI: R. E. IJOWKLI*. thg 'Chrtstjan '*" * r"f ministr while it located , V'lf of the FLOUBt FJLOUB! FLOUBI " TUK We keep Plllsbury's, Bishop's, Hon- est Abe and other brands. Remembe** - the place--Perry & Owen's * ings Ha CUU- Build in a mo nt ticed or that it floodin- - v Yoc may find ecstatic joy in the dream of hppe, but it takes money to go to From the Utter place market. . Also remember we pay <?atft for alt our goods jand sell them as low aa<¥ settling^many times lower than the so ooltedi and lias Cut StONA. ' ' " ̂ . corner^ " 4 ^ the ne.\ priation will pro! TUK n trial Tre to be k Agricult Boys, W last wee Perry & Owen*