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ir? %, 4*1 Pff- , ' > . *Tyt« •ppppl ggcgenrir ftaradcaltt I. VAN SLYKE, EMM «* Publisher. HoHENBY, >, ; I £$*&*•••- ILLINOia THK income derived »>y French peo­ ple who rear fowls, according to official returns, is 637,100,000 francs, or about i65,ooo,ooa ? A STAG which weighed over a ton tad "• half, and whose horns had fourteen tynes, was recently shot at Muckross, If el and. It was the largest eyerseen in that country. • , * -» IT is -written that in 178& a Iroiman first ran a newspaper, yet it is well*; known that Eve was the first woman to 1)6 "boated" by the devil. w. : THE Grand Canyon of the Colorado i» simply the channel worn by the ac­ tion of running water to a depth of $000 or 6,000 feet; the sides are ̂ per­ pendicular cliffs. •I^C^IX' is stated that in a recent gale the | Ittiemometers on the top of the Eiffel tower registered 630 miles an hour M. Mascart says that had this velocity occurred at the levei of the city eyery chimney would have been leveled to . the ground. ^f:>- i'V-. , SHOULD you have become soured on 'liHiis cold world and desire to get away from the sight of man, there are no less than 470 i>lands in the Indian Ocean to which you can retire^ and become the only living inhabitant! and monarch of 0 you survey. ^ "•A CURIOUS Toronto man, while ex- iftuning an old musket which he thought was unloaded, touched a lighted match to the nipple. The gun was discharged, throwing the man to the^oor. When picked up he was lifeless, having died 4w>m fright. ' A- CONNECTICUT tramp attacked a School teacher on her way home, and 8he struck him across the face with a light umbrella. The weapon was bro­ ken, and in snch a way that the broken ribs entered the tramp's eyes and blinded him forever, and be hits been sent to the State asylum THE "barking sands" of the Hawaiian -group, as described by a recent scientific Investigator, are found in dunes and are apparently fragments of shell and coral, "which, -when disturbed, slide down the elopes of the dunes, em iting a deep bass note not unlike the buzz of a saw iu a leaning mill. ; FREDERICK L. 4MES, at $25,000,000. is reconed the richest man in Boston, and his cousin, ex-Governor Ames, son of Oakes Ames, is worth about $10,000, 000. The founder of their fortunes was their grandfather, Oliver Ambs, who Accumulated wealth in the shovel-mak­ ing business. LONDON, Berlin, Vienna, and Paris liave provided themselves with under­ ground roads or are preparing to do so. Uondon was the first city to meet this problem, and its underground roads have proved the swiftest, most satisfac­ tory, and most profitable system yet • jwrovided for a great city. *"• -.A- •lie.. A MEMBER of a Western legislature accepted $10 from a hotel keeper, a wheelbarrow from a factory, and a knife from a merchant, a barrel of flour from « mill, a dog from a farmer and a gallon of whisky from a distiller. He says he had just as much right to do it as his Associates had to accept railroad passes, And why is he not right in this conten­ tion ? A STROLLING surveyor happened along to a certain farm house in Illinois and offered to run the farm lines for $3. He was put to work, and he found the lines All wrong and got seven farmers into fights and lawsuits before the County Surveyor came along and discovered that the stroller couldn't run a straight line for twenty rods to save his neok. Then he strolled again. To BE be a full-blown Indian warrior ' #£buck" must be able to make forty from the well, miles a day over any sort of country-- go without food or water two or three days--find his way to any part of tlie country--laugh at a wound, to disable a white man. and be a hunter, trapper And fisherman. On top of this he must hate the white man and thirst for his -aoalp. - SPIDERS differ old corn-field with a broken leg, while hones were dead and wagon smashed. IK England the monthly dues in the Bookbinders' Union are $2, and a man is entitled to $2.50 a week when out of work, and two cents a mile for every mile he travels in search of employ­ ment, until he has drawn $40, when he can get no more for a year. ALREADY people are beginning to talk of summer quarters and to engage places, make plans, and perfect arrange­ ments for the coming season. Every­ body who looks back years enough to be able to form a deliberate opinion must appreciate the fact that the years •re not nearly so long as thev usod to be! * STARFISH, the greatest enemy of the oyster, are now canght by sending to the bottom a big mop, made of long cotton thread fastened to a frame of iron. This mop is drawn slowly over tbe beds of oysters, and without dis­ turbing the crop, entangles the starfish, which tiling to it until they are brought to the surface. When the dredge, full of stars, is taken on board the dredging steamer, it is immersed iti hot water, and the dead stars drop off. THE pain tor, Herr Gerhard, of Dnssel- dorf, has invented, or re-invented, a new mode of painting, in which oil is not used, but casein and wax; while painting water is employed for render­ ing the mixture fluid. Over the paint thus made oil paint can still be used if desired. It is said that the old Egyp­ tians and Pompeians, as well as the modern painters till Rubens, and especi­ ally Albert Durer, employed this , method. IT is not easy to frighten a lawyer, yet two of them in Texarkana, Tex., are in dread of a visit from one of their clients. He is Napoleon McDaniel^a noted train- robber, whom they bad unsuccessfully defended. After having been sen­ tenced to life in the penitentiary, Mc- Daniel escaped, and his lawyers have received from him a threat that he in­ tends to let daylight thine through them, because they did not do their best to prevent his conviction, •dOf" THE almost universal verdict of Ger­ man scientists is against smoking and snuff-taking as extremely injurious. Bilrotli, the famous Vienna surgeon, says: "That tbe posterity of tbe nico- tinized and alcoholized higher society is becoming steadily weaker and more nervous is by no means surprising. The colossal increase of nerve and mind diseases in our day is undoubtedly the result, to a great extent, of the tobacco and alcohol habit and of tbe straining of the nervous system caused by these poisons." « IT is not generally known that com­ mercial glycerine contains a consider­ able portion of arscnic. The fact should be borne in mind by persons who imagine this article to be so harm­ less that it can be used in almost any quantity. A recent medical journal re­ ports a case in which a gentleman nearly lost his life through symptoms olosely resembling these [of cholera by the use of a cheap grade of glycerine. Unless the glycerine is chemically pure, it is liable to produce poisonous symp­ toms when taken internally. AN artisian yell was some years ago sunk on th&betfSfTat San^Buenaventura, Cal., five feet from high water mark.' At a depth of about one hundred and forty-three feet a strong flow of water was obtained, spouting thirty feet above the ground. Some fish were observed in the waste water, and an examination of the well revealed the fact that it was filled with young "trout. They were perfectly developed, eyes and all, and measured about two inches in length. Thousands of them were thrown out by each jet. The temperature is about sixty-four degrees Fahrenheit. It is believed that the fish may have come from the head waters of the Santa Clara Biver by some subterranean outlet; that stream itself is several miles distant from insects in five minute particulars: their eyas are simple instead of compound, they have eight legs instead of six, they do not pass through th#metamorphoses which are characterise of insects, they have no antenrsa\ their breathing is accom­ plished by means of organs which com­ bine the functions of lungs and gills in­ stead of by tubes pervading their bodies A NATIVE of Bordeaux, whose wife died a few days ago, was called to her bedside to hear a bit of news. She stated that she had always meant to murder him, and that she had formed no less than fourteen different Jplots in the twenty years of their married life to do away with him. Something always happened to checkmate her, and she died regretting she had not accom­ plished her object. SIR SAMUEL BAKER, the great hunter and explorer, says it is the most foolish thing in the world to look a savage Animal in the eye, and a New Jersey tramp agrees with him. He says he has tried it time after time with dogs, And in every case was bitten. The beast reasons that he will be attacked if he doesn't attaok, whereas, if not gazed at, he will nearly always retreat A MICHIGAN farmer vtho drove to town on certain days of the week Al­ ways arrived at a railroad crossing the same time an express train did. For three years he debated as to who had the right-of-way, and to settle it he started to drive across the other day mgkA jnAmABi fffflllfl JUMAAU -an -- * - ..Wmm A METHOD is now on trial at the meteorological office at Stockholm which seems likely to throw some light on a subject which hitherto has been attended with some uncertainty, namely, the determination of the path taken by storms. From the telegraphic weather reports tables of the density of the at­ mosphere have been constructed, and other data have been collected whic^ have been embodied in special charts. These charts are found to give much more reliable clues to the movements and origin of cyclones that the usual method of the comparison of the isobars and isothems alone. The latest investi­ gations show that storms move in the direction of the warmest and dampest air, parallel to the lines of equal dens­ ity, leaving the rarer air to the right hand. CohtnrvAtism In Texan, The editci of the Fort Worth Gaeetle, whose feet are litre Patrick Henry's, in that they are guided by the lamp of experience, in a searching paragraph concerning a subcutaneous injection of strychnine as a remedy for snake bite, says the puncturing syringe will never rival the pocket flask. This is a truth so tersely and pro­ foundly stated that it deserves the sculptor's chisel and imperishable mar­ ble. There are some specimens of the crotalus horridens--a few--in the Southwest, and the time-honored anti­ dote to the fang bag continues to hold its own against all the alleged modern discoveries. The people in this section, indeed, long ago became converts to the relig­ ion that an ounce alpreventionis worth a pound of cure. *frThey have lived up to it, and are in a condition, generally speaking, to lie down "calmly, as to a night's reoose," with a cobra.--San Anionia Express. , "YES," said a male walking delegate, "this business of women working in factories and shops and such places is going to ruin manual labdr."--JVcuh- inyUm Star, OUR HOME HOW PHOTECTI "THE F KET. TECTS It Is • Suicidal Farmers to F»*or Will in the Least They Have at Hoi Our farms produc 000 worth of materi which we exported or just 10 per cent. per osnt. is more th Imports of every kind in In the same year. 11 wo a1 products the value of (joo1s sold and consumed $5, COO,000,000, to make a we have a total of $8,330, is raore than the total impo countries of Europe, Asia, an#1. South America, Aust islands of the sea, which Jin the "Amer­ ican Alamanac" for 188J arc given as 569,000,000. If we could take trade of the world, goods imported b; 700,000,- lucs), of worth, of 90 lie total feat. Britain »the farm tafacturcd home say fiw estimate, ), 000, wlilch jS of all the frica, North ia, and tho affect the price of any grafie rJ hats It is reasonable to suppose it would oe woolen hats. The competition, however, is w» sharp among hat manufacturers that those who. advanced the price on wool hats found they •tfere losing trade and had to come back Vo the old prices. That 1s Just what the friends of the McKinley bill asserted would occur. They claimed that com­ petition would regulate prices, and It docs. This Is true of every business. S have asked manufacturers how they could afford under tha higher tariff to furnish better hats for the same money. They have told me that competition forces them to do this. They say they economize In other directions and bring the cost of running their factories down to a minimum. This illustrates very clearly to my mind that the I McKlnley bill will not oppress the people, | but, on the contrary, will prove one of the | most beneficent measures the country has ever had. 1 have talked with importers, and they tell me that where they were pur­ chasing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of goods in foreign markets they are now purchasing the same goods from do­ mestic manufacturers at an advance of no* more than 2 per cent. , luce of the glob^ would fall market dollars. Would 1> measure danger chance jrhic_ ing their export ssion of the nish all the on the is trade home >11 lion of policy it rs to favor any in the least cn- t, for the slight would have of cxtend- buyins their supplies little cheaper in other markets The great advantage of all this to the farmers is that these people who make this market are hero and are his sure customers. They must buy his food and the clothing for which he raises the material. Instead of being in a foreign land, thousands of miles away, working for starvation wages, they are at his very door, earning the highest wages in the world, and they must be his custom­ ers unless driven by free trade to the farms. We hoar on all sides the complaint that the price the farmer gets for his wheat is fixed by the Liverpool price. This is because wo export 27 or 28 per cent, of our wheat, and the remedy is not more wheat to export, moro imports of foreign goods to be paid for in wheat, for that will not help us compete with India and Russia; what is needed is a demand at home for that wheat which is now exported. No one complains that the price of corn is fixed in Liverpool, because wo use 98 per cent, of our corn at home and export only 2 per cent. The farmers of the West and South have a still greater interest in protection than those of tho Northeastern States. The first result of tho protective tariff was to develop tho manufactures of New England and the Middle States, while the West and much of tho South were only in the pioneer stage. But the days of the pioneers are numbered, if not al­ ready past. Except in the extreme West, the farm lands are all pretty fairly occu­ pied, and there are people ^enough oil them to raise all the produce which can now be sold. Illinois, for instance (and the same is true of all the States in the Mississippi Valley), has about all the purely agricultural population needed to till tho soil and to do tho business re­ quired by the farming people. The de­ velopment which is going on now, and all the growth there can be in wealth and population, must come through in­ creasing the demand for farm products by adding to our mining and manufact­ uring. Any considerable increase in the agricultural population and the value of farm lands must come in this way. Twenty years ago there were towns enough and people enough in them to supply the farmers* wants. It is not the growth of the country trade which has made the growth of the towns and cities of tho West in the last twenty years, but the increase in the industrial popu­ lation. This moans more people for the farmer to feed, and the nearer they are to him tho surer he is of their trade. An industrial population near by glyes him a sure market for the small products'of the farm which otherwise cannot be sold, and the magnitude of this trado is amazing to any one not familiar with the figure*. In 1887 the farmers of this country, in addition to their-own consumption, sold 55590,000,000 worth of butter, eggs, milk, and cheese. This is more than twice tho value of the cotton crop, and more than the value of any other single crop except corn. The West and South cannot af­ ford *0 see any change in the tariff policy antil they get the full bencfit-of it in the development of their resources. The South, with her advantage of cli­ mate, timber, water power, coal, iron, and minerals, has all the elements neces­ sary for tho most prosperous manufac­ tures; and if the new South will unlearn the teachings of its older leaders, who still have the .old prejudice against labor and manufactures, and if it will support the protective tariff, it will see an era of prosperity compared to which the old ante-bellum cotton pros­ perity will seem like seven years of fam­ ine. The West is more naturally inclined this way, and I think can be relied upon to support the policy which has mads Illinois the fourth, Ohio tho fifth, Mis­ souri the eighth, Miciiigan the ninth, Indiana the tenth, and Wisconsin the eleventh manufacturing State in the Unicn, and Chicago the largest maker of Bessemer pig iron and steel rails of any city in the world. Whatever may be the fact in regard to protection as affecting other interests, there seems to be no doubt that the in­ terest of tho farmer is in favor of a*pro- tective tariff.--3. M. Cullom, in The Forum. Some Democratic Officials. An exchange which keeps the statis­ tics of the amounts which Southarn Democratic States have lost by default­ ing Treasurers gives the following as tbe latest aggregate of shortages: Shortage. State Treasurer ChnrchiU of Arkan­ sas State Treasurer Polk of Tennessee.. btate Treasurer Vincent of Alabama State Treasurer Tate of Kentucky.. State Treasurer Burke of Louisiana. State Treasurer Nolan of Missouri.. State Treasurer Hemingway of Mis­ sis eippi State Treasurer Archer of Maryland. State Treasurer Woodruff of Arkan­ sas Prices In 1891 and ia 1890. The Commercial Bulletin of New York is a' trade journal with pdlitical ed­ itorials; its editorial writing always has been in the nature of a plea for free trade; "cheap goods" has • been its con- tant demand, without regard to any con­ sideration of the purchasing power of the people, though If the purchasing power be made too weak by low wages or low prices of farm products of manu­ facturers will be unsalable, however "cheap" they may be. During the last campaign the Bulletin wrote constantly and zealously against the McKinlcy bill, which, it is said, would "advance prices to the consumer." We, therefore, quote from the Commercial Bulletin of Jan. 10, 1891: "During the past week print cloths American people will never fold their hands and close their inouths while the legal and constitutional rights of men in any locality are violated and their per­ sons maltreated and abused.--Inter Occam. TH® Democrats in Congress who fondly hope, for the tenth time at least, that the fate of honest elections in the South is "settled," would do well to re­ member that no great question is ever settled.till it is settled right.--New York Press. PKESIDKTTI HAKRISOX efn find no riper statesman or truer Republican to call into his Cabinet at this crisis than Major William McKinley of Ohio. Such a nomination would call out the ap­ plause of ninety-nine in every hundred Republicans in the * nation.--Chicago Inter Ocean. IF men are to be shot down with im­ punity becauso they do not vote to suit a certain party, or if the stealing of ballot boxes or false counting is to be the rule in this country, and no law is to be passed to prevent such outrages and abuses, there is no need of a World's Fair in 1893.--Muscatine Journal» THE Forum allows Senator Carlisle to discourse about the vanishing surplus. No one disputes it. Within a brief period 8100,000,000 of it has been used to redeem outstanding bouds drawing interest. About $35,000,0:H) of it has been called for to pay additional pen­ sions under old laws and tho disability act of this Congress. About $50,000,000 a year, which has boen extorted to pay tho sugar tax, will vanish from tho Treasury each year into the pockets of tho millions of people who buy sugar. The surplus has vanished from the Treasury to be made a better use of.--- Indianapolis Journal.* . .. ; 11 - iiU'^iijin. A HEAVY WEIGHT. Tho Southern «hot-gun and the bag of silver outweigh the elections bill. Jan., 1401. $ .(U'a .Mil .06 #80.582 01 400,000.00 243,148.'J-t '247,(2M.50 827,000 00 32,445.00 315,000.00 132,401.25 94,000.00 Total shortage.....' $2,368,545.70 It is said that ini some of those States which are rescued from negro rule by ballot-box frauds a large number of County Treasurers are in arrears. In Arkansas, which has had two defaulting State Treasurers, thirteen County Treas­ urers are so behind in their accounts that suits will have to be brought against the bondsmen to obtain any part df tho taxpayers' money.--IndianipoUs Journal. ' lfa's and the McKinley TsriC One of the charges against the Mc­ Kinley bill was that it would increase the price of wool hats of all kinds. It was said that it would make workingmen pay 75 cents for a wool hat that they could fonmcrly buy for 50 cents. This prediction has not come true. The Phil­ adelphia Inquirer tells what a prominent jobber of that city says: Ihe McKiuley bill, so far as it affects the hat business, is operating just as its sup­ porters claimed it would. Some manufact­ urers last fall advanced the prices, but they had to come down to the old scale this spring. In fact, we are getting hats this spring for 84 a dozetf that last year we had ' to pay $4.50 for. and they are made better, and in greater variety than before. These are wool hr*ts on which the tariff was In­ creased. Therefore, if the new bill would M mm; liavo sold at the lowest prices ever recorded in the history of the trade, this being 2 15-16 cents per yard for G4xfi4." The free-traders who assured the farmers and mechanics that the prices of such dress goods as arc worn by house­ wives while doing home work would be "higher on account of the tariff" do not appear to "be in it" just now. Such goods now are cheaper than they ever were since Columbus discovered America. We are told, also, by the free-traders that carpets would be a groat deal highor in 1891 than in 1890 "on account of the tariff." But the St. Paul Journal of Commerce quotes wholesale rates of pre­ pared carpet materials as follows: Jan., Jan., 18M>. -4HH. Carpet warps, net weight $ ,20l4 $ .30 Peerless 4-ply white board.... .19 .IS Wc quote the same authority for prices of other goods in the chief twin city of tho Northwest: Jan., Shirtings. 1WU0. American, per yarf $ .05^ A Ho n, per yard 05 Lodi. per yard .0494 Merriuiao, per yard .<<614 ludi|!o Blue, American prints, per yard. 08!jj Bed tickings arc as follows. Amoskeag, A. C. A., 32 .0 ,IV<J $ .13 Swift Kiver, 29 08 .07 Needles, wo were told by the free­ traders, were to bo ever so much dearer "on account of the tariff." Sharp's knitting needles sold at 75 cents per gross in January, 1890, and are selling at 50 in January, 1891. Corticclli sew­ ing silks are greatly lower this year than last. Shirtings are lower, sheet­ ings aro lower, cotton prints are lower, cotton flannel* are lower. Window shades that sold at $5.50 per dozen last year are selling at 84 this year. Very many articles of hardwaro are lower. Wc submit that these figures make a pretty good showiug of the effect of "the infamous bill" during the first four months of its operatiou.--Chicago In­ ter Ocean. The Production or Plf.Iron. Latest statistics show that the pro­ duction of pig-iron in this country in 1890 was 21 per cent, greater than in 1889, which in turn was 17 per cent, greater than that of 1888. The joint in­ crease in the last two years has there­ fore been 38 per cgiitf Our production in 1890 was about 1,„'00,000 tons larger than that of Great Britain in the same year, and it was about 000,000 tons larger than that of t5rcat Britain ir. 1882, which was its year of greatest produc­ tion. This is the first time we have ever surpassed Great Britain in our an­ nual product of pig-iron. Such facts as these are calculated to make free-traders very sick.--Indiatuipolis Journal. significant Statistics. The Chattanooga Tradesman has col­ laborated Southern statistics which show an increase of over 553,700,000,000 in the wealth of the sectiou and a de­ crease of $22,000,000 in the State in­ debtedness during tho past ten years--a gain of 62 per cent., while population increased less than 20 per cent. Capital invested in manufactures increased over 200 per cent., from ^179.000,000 to £551,- 000,000. The railroad mileage was more than doubled. Perhaps some free-trader will rise to remark how protection has ruined the South during the past ten years. --Albany Journal. Some McKlnley Hill Results. The big cutlery firms in Sheffield, Eng­ land, are reducing wages because of the McKinley bill, and the Rogers cutlery concern declares that its business has been curtailed one-half since the United States tariff went into effect. The other half of its trade must be taken up by American manufacturers. The money we formerly paid to Sheffield is therefore occupied here in giving employment to American workmen, trade to American shop and store keepers, and prosperity to America. The McKinley bill is work­ ing out its own indorsoment and salva­ tion. Political Comment. ALL the world hates a political traitor. A BOURBOX organ speaking of Cleve­ land's reception in Philadelphia says "he was honored by the cream of society." "The cream" is ail well enough, but it won't do to kick over tho bucket of "skim milk."--Des Moines Register. PEOPLE who imagine that "the defeat of the election bill" in Congress settles the question read history to a poor pur­ pose. No wrong doing ever stays settled. "The right will ever come uppermost And ever is justice done." IX not to-day some 43$, The Tariff Picture. Farmers, do you remember wliat a •trowbrldge seeder cost you in 1880 ? It «35 Mow you can set U fee --New York Prest. #13 THE MANNISH WOMAN. This Miserable Caricature or Her Sex Is an Unbearable Nuisance. There are many disagreeable things to met with in life, but none that is be much harder upon the nerves than a mannish woman, writes Amber. With a strident voice and a swaggering walk, and a clattering tongue, ghe takes her course through the world like a catbird through an orchard; tho thrushes and the robin are driven right and left before the advance of tho noisy nuisance. A coarse-tongued man is bad enough, heaven knows, but when a woman de­ scends to slangy speech, and vulgar jests, and harsh diatribes, there is no language strong enough with which to denounce her. On tho principle that a strawberry Is quicker to spail than a pumpkin, it takes less to render a woman obnoxious than to make a man unfit for decent company. I am no lover of butter-mouthed girls, of prudes and "prunes and prism" fine ladies; I love sprightliness and gay spirits and uncon­ ventionally, out the moment a woman steps over the borderland that separates delicacy of feeling, womanliness and lovableness from rudeness, loud-voiced slang and the unblushing desire-for noto­ riety she becomes, in the eyes of all whose opinion is worth having, a misera­ ble caricature upon her sex. It is not quite so bad to see a young girl making a fool of herself as to see an elderly woman comporting herself in a giddy manner in public places. We look for feather-heads among juveniles, but sure­ ly the cares and troubles of fifty years should tame down the hiarh spirits of any woman. Chance took me into a public office the other day, largely conducted by women. Conspicuous among the clerks was a woman whose age must have exceeded fifty years. She was ex­ changing loud pleasantries with a couple of beardless boys on the question of "getting tight." Noble theme for a woman old enough to be their grand­ mother to choose! As I listened pgrrfiV coarse jests and looked into her hard and unlovely face, I could but wonder how nature ever made the mistake to label such material "woman." It would be no more of a surprise to find a confection­ er's stock made up of coarse salt, marked "sugar," or to buy burdock pf a florist, merely because the tag attached to it was lettered "moss rose." The World's Cooling. A day will come in the distant ages, writes M. Jacques Leotard, when tho spots that are already darkening tho sun will cover its entire surface. A solid crust will afterward form, as one has formed upon the earth, which also trav­ ersed these phases of the life of a star, for our earth was a sun that had tho moon for a planet, and perhaps even (ac­ cording to Stanislaus Meunier) a second satellite that is now broken up. The sun will therefore be extinguished some day for want of fuel, but that fatal date will be far in the future, for we can es­ timate the time necessary for the ex­ tinction of the sun at more than twenty million of years, and the time during which life analogous to the present will be able to exist on the earth may be half that long period. Then the last human family, ex­ hausted by cold and hunger, will sleep its eternal sleep upon the frozen and de­ populated earth. Before the completion of this epoch, the ( racks in the cooling and thickening crust of the earth wili bo. gradually absorbing the atmosphere and the ocean, and man may be compelled to live in the bowels of the earth in pur­ suit of air and water Finally, de-. prived of atmospheric fluid, the surface of the globe will thereafter have for temperature that of interstellar space--, say a hundred centigrade degrees below zero! And while our human race will be immerged in the nihility from which it had emerged for a few thousands of centu­ ries, other humanities will succeed one another upon the innumerable stara of > infinite space. i /A )JIAN" who has had consderable! trouble and experience with a mule wants to know the best way to raise on» AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI­ OUS SOURCES. k, \ W«vouid||Ma£! I m to Iff dynamite. J! What Our Neighbors Are Dotag--Matters oT General and Local Interest -- Mar­ riages and Death*--Accidents and Crimes --Personal Pointers. GKO. J. GIBSOX of Peoria, secretary of the whisky trust, is under arrest at Chicago, charged with a fiendish plot The big Shufeldt distillery at Chicago has refused to join the trust, and has been the cause of great depreciation in the bonds of the latter concern. T. F. De War, a Government ganger, says Gibson hired him to place an infernal machine in the Shufeldt plant, which would have blown it to atoms and firfcd the wines. Do War squealed to Government officials at Washington, and United States offi­ cers came to Chicago and arrested Gib­ son. If the latter's plans had not mis­ carried, 150 workmen would probably have met their death. He is under $20,000 bonds. MICHAEL LOUBEV, just arrived in Chi­ cago from St. Paul, died from poi9on administered by unknown persons. Two drunken companions were arrested. GOVERNOR FIFER has pardoned Daisy Bree/e, who was sentenced to tho Joliet Penitentiary for life in 1874 from John­ son County for the murder of Donnv Breeze. It was shown that the latter was of bad reputation, and that the reputation of tho prisoner was good previous to tho killing. JOHN* E. ROHERTS, on trial at Hills- boro for the murder of John Patterson of Litchlield, has been acquitted. AN old man. Chris Knebe, was danger­ ously beaten by a young scoundrel named Gable at liosco. TnE grand jury of McLean County re­ turned 182 indictments, fully twice as many as any jury in the county ever returned before. The jury made things lively for the liquor dealers, tho gam­ blers and keepers of disreputable resorts, not only in Bloomington but throughout the county. Gov, FIFER has offered a reward of $200 for the arrest of James Polk Flynn, who killod George Lacey at Metropolis, Massac County, Jan. 9 last. AT Bridgeport Mrs. Samuel Ridgley was holding her bciy to her breast when Miss Ethalinda Beiding, her guest, sud­ denly presented a revolver at her, and with the words, "You've got to die," lired. The wound may prove fatal. Miss Beiding says she didn't know the pistol was loaded. MICHAEL ScHMn>T,*a Chicago beggar, was arrested and had In his possession $2,000 in bills. Ho paid a fine of $50 and costs and fainted. A LARGE party of friends in Chicago helped Mrs. Rothschild celebrate her 102d birthday. HOMER KIMBLE, nephew of P. F. Kim­ ble, a wealthy business man of Spring­ field, had, since infancy, been an imbe­ cile and confined in a house. The building was discovered to bo on fire, and young Kimble, who was 24 years old, was burned to death before he could be rescued. He was the son of S. W. Kimble, of Denver, Col. AT Bloomington, Judge Reeves, in the Circuit Court, issued an order sending David Fridley to the county jail for an indefinite period for contempt of court. Fridley and his wife have for years kept disreputable houses in and about Bloom­ ington. The Fridleys have two very protty daughters. The managers of the Girls' Industrial H6me of that city, hop­ ing to rescue the girls from the life of shame that seemed to be before them, recently applied to tho Court for the custody of the girls. This was granted, and the elder ot the two was sent to the home at Evanston. The Fridleys began habeas corpus proceedings, and were allowed to keep the younger temporarily upon Fridley's promise to produce her In court. He appeared without the child, claiming that she had been mys­ teriously taken away, he knew not where. Judge Reeves ordered him to be put in jail and kept there until the child is surrendered to the court JOHN SPELMAN, son of Edward Spel- man, tho wealthy Peoria distiller, was arrested in St. Paul, Minn., on a telegram from Inspector Stuart, lu charge of tho division at Chicago, instructing him to arrest Spelman on a charge of having robbed the United States mails at Wash­ ington, 111. Spelman has been out of the Kankakee Insane Asylum for about two weeks. THE members of the Christian Church in Hey worth, McLean County, recently Voted by a^mall majority to have instru­ mental music during services. Some time during the night the church was broken open and the organ taken to the street, stuffed full of straw on which kerosene was poured, and tho whole set on fire. Although quite a number of persons must have taken part in the cremation, no clew, has yet been found to the identity of theQi^A large reward has been offered for their identification. JOSEPH P. MCCRACKEX, an old and well-known Chicago night watchman, committed suicide while on duty. He was iir comfortable circumstances, and no cause is known for the suicide. His domestic life was happy, and his wife maintains that her husband did not com­ mit suicide, but was murdered. She t>ays that McCracken had a considerable amount of money with him and that ho was killed thieves. The circum­ stances of the death, lioweverV-d&saet bear out this theory. " | FIVE HUNDBEP grimy furnace men in South Chicago are idle on a strike. The fires of the Illinois Steel Company's big rolling mills are bankod. There are complex causes leading up to this strike. The men are dissatisfied with Foreman Foote, whom they accuse of misrepre­ senting them in order to curry favor with his employers. Tho men also de­ mand an increase in wages. The com­ pany does not look upon their grievances with any commiseration. The company is angry at the loss of thousands of dol­ lars caused by the strike, and claim that the demands mean, if granted, an increase in wages of 70 per cent And so the strike goes on. HENRY SCHEAKER, for many years in the employ of Peoria, and at present city elcctrictlan, confesses to burglary of 8760. HENBY PRKNTICE, an employe in' the Pullman car shops, found $10,000 under a seat cushion in ^ car which had been sent to tho shops for repairs. No owner is yet known. ILLINOIS has 39,943 pensioners, or did have at the close of the fiscal year 1890. MRS. GEORGE GERMAIN, formerly of Brighton Park, Chicago, died at Bloom­ ington, from a pistol shot inflicted by herself while despondent. JESSE OSBORN, a rejected suitor of Blanche Clement in Chicago, while tak­ ing a farewell lnig, fatally shot her. He then shot himself, but tho wound not proving immediately fatal he engaged in a game of d!c» until officers arrested him. He will recover. *THE Chicago. Burlington and Quincy engineers have been sounding for a • bridge across the Mississipi at Alton. JOHN W. ASII, for many years a prom­ inent citizen of Alton, was arrested on the charge of being a party to the fraudulent collection of a pension. Over $3,000 was obtained. Mr. Ash is over 70 years of age. He pleaded guilty. ! ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERS. ON the 8th the House Committee tlons discussed tbe Australian balloting. The principal object,lo Were the expense and the liability of township election boards to not observe _ requirements, because of its complexity, la the House a bill was introduced piovldfag that all property should be ASSESSED CM purposes of taxation at a sum equal to What it would bring at a fair, voluntary saleflOC cash; another, to allow manufacturing companies to own railroad stock; anothefcj, to provide protection for camp-meetings of all descriptions; another, to compel rail­ road companies to stop any train at any station to take on or let off any officer bk the discharge of duty, or any legislate! poing to or returning from sessions of tbe General Assembly; and another, providing that county boards may remove coantgr superintendents of schools for gross Im­ morality. The F. M. B. A. resolution M investigate the Chicago Live Stock Ex- charge was carried. The Lutherans pra> sen ted petitions for the repeal ot the com­ pulsory school law. ON the 9tb, further complaint against tfc* management of the Anna Insane Asyluit was made, in the House. The iiivestigatbw now in progress at that institution reveals# state of affairs anything but commendable^ Parsimony in table supplies and sanltaljjr arrangements is found, and it Is more thee probable that the treatment given to pa­ tients Is conducive rather to make a saat man crazy than a crazy man sane. Maiqy letters from parties interested In human* measures are received by the investigatom. Bills were introduced to provide uniformity of school text books; to devote one-third ot saloon licenses to the maintenance of pma- pers; to prevent stock laws of cities froB Interfering with those of any townships, la the Senate, Mr. Allen presented a petltie* from Scott County citizens asking that tbe present road law of counties not undei township organization, which compels tlM election of three eommlssiouers and one clerk in each township, be repealed, and tht old law, allowing three commissioners tar, each road district, be enacted. Nothing new was done in the election o! United States Senator. ^ WHEN the joint assembly convened on the 10th every member of both branches of tlM General Assembly answered to his name. The F. M. B. A. party nnnounced before the meeting that Streeter would be dropped and John ctelle, editor of the Progressive Far- tner, of Mount Vernon, substituted ialkb stead. There was much suppressed excite- juent as the roll-call for the sixty-sixth b*^ lot began. The Democrats and Kepublic&nt each cheered,the first votes cast for thela I party candidates. Whon the nara^of Cock- I rell was reached, and that gentleman vote^ for John P. Stolle. there was applause og, both sides of the House at this change Ol candidates of the F, M- B. A. party, Moore and Taubencck followed in the sama way, and the sixty-sixth ballot gave Pahnei 101, Oglesby 100, and John P. Stelle S. There was 110 choice, and another ballot was at once ordered. The sixty-seventh, sixty-eighth, andsixty-nintli ballots showed no change, and the Democratic steering committee moved for a recess. The motion having failed to receive a majority was de­ feated. Balloting was resumed. The sev­ entieth. seventy-first, and seventy-second ballots showed no change, and the member* began to get very weary of the contest The seventy-third ballot showed no change, and the Republicans Interceded with the F. M. B. A. members to support a motion tc adjourn. The F. M. B. A. members voting with the Republicans, the motion pro- vailed. A GENUINE departure from the old reginte was made on the 11th. On the seventh- seventh ballot for United States Senator* Mr. Anderson (Rep.) was the first one tc vote, and when he called out the name ot Cicero J. Lindley instead of Richard Ogles­ by tho excitement was as if a bonib-sheli had been thrown into the Assembly. A vast concourse of spectators buzzed and chattered In excited comment; the F. M. & ' A. members sat with sphinx-like faces, and the 101 Democrats held their breath. Eve*} one of the 100 Republican members an­ nounced his vote for Lindley, the Presi­ dent of the F. M. B. A. But when the F. ML 11. A. members answered the call, and thett votes were again cast for Stolle, the Demo­ crats split the atmosphere with triumphant yells and shouts for Palmer. Amid excitement seldom equalled, they cast their 101 votes fbi Palmer, when a recess was taken. All othm legislative business la at a complete stand­ still. ON the 12th the strained condition ot affairs In the election of a Senator was not relieved. The eighty-fourth ballot wat taken without change. The Senate Judicia­ ry Committee recommended the passage Ot the bill reducing interest to 7 per cent, tn the House bills were introduced to regulate pool selling; to elect railroad commission­ ers by popular vote; to abolish payment ot the fee of 50 cents for issuing papers of citi­ zenship; to prohibit the contracting ot prison labor, and to make stone-breaking theonly employment of convicts, the product of this labor to be sold at actual cost to cities and townships for road improvements. Just beforo the House w^s called to order a janitor climbed up to the long portrait frog* which the placid and melahCboly ' featurfi of Lincoln looked down upon the legislated and draped It with the stars and stripes, fa honor of the anniversary of the uiartyt President's birth. Instantly the xietnbeta on both sides sprang to their feet and s«dfi up a cheer that made the windows rattle. \ How Gloves Are HI ado* The manufacture of gloves is not by any means of recent date; but the air' cient use of this article of dress waa rare and occasional, whereas tbt., modern use is common and almost universal. Leather, when prepared for this purpose, undergoes ft muah lighter dressing than when prepared for any other article 6f commerce. France has long been celebrated for ita glove manufactories, but New York baa now become recognized as a strong competitor. The first operation glove-making is to stretch out on • piece of marble and render xmifon* with a blunt knife the surface of the skis ^ of which the gloves are to be madty % ^ after which it is to be reduced into ' pieces of convenient length and width, without cutting the material to wasted' Before cutting, however, tbe skin j| dampened either by rubbing it with wet cloth or by putting it in a damp place. It is then sounded and eat? •• amined with a view to the discovery of faults or blemishes, so that they ma* #• ^ ^ be avoided in cutting out, orC^t least ; - ' that they mav be so placed as tobeur*» ^ important. ^There are regular scalei/ 4 of sizes for men's and women's S-love» U and for the width of the thumb pieces^,/'1 which are cut out at the same time^' ^ and are proportioned to the particul&t - size required. In order to out thf. ; ^ skin to the best advantage it is stretched 1 ^ from time to time bv pulling it at tht ' ».f«J edges between the thumb and the knifei. . • s ^ When it has been thus elongated aut » * Jp widened the actual cutting process commences. Here it is that the AmeriR i|| can glovemakers have a great advaner-' tage over the English and French. I* ' $ cutting up a dozen skins of equal sizt an American will generally manage tot get one or two pairs of gloves over and above the number which an Englishman • or Frenchman can cut from the sam< skins, and these not inferior or scanty, , but well and handsomely shaped as the^ rest. The shape of the gloves to be " cut is not the only thing to be attended to; great care must bj taken that th« , ^ ^ same shade of color prevails throagh-'^t,:'*:i^, out each pair, for it frequently happens ^ that there are cloudy spots and gr&da r tions of color to the skin, which would be destructive of beauty and gootl , ^ effect. The skin thus cut is in ordei now to be sewed, and the machine use*5 1 s • * is of a peculiar pattern, the feed whee!' *£• of which is tipped with a metal combt through the points of which the needlee carry the silk and make aa unusually speedy and neat stitch. The glove in- / \ | dustrv in New York has achieved im mense proportions, although quite a " few French makes are imported: how \ eTer. the home article finds a xea4| V f jg ft-' 1 « 'I ' A . . A*/tl £ t.4i