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BREAKING A SHEEP THIEF. WITH SCANT RESPECT. WHAT tS BEAUTY. ^ tmmisjtw •08*11 OR 8TARTLIW0, FA FULLY RECORDED ^cprttt| flaindcalct YAi4 SLYKE, Editor •ICHENSY, Pufclisltr. ILLINOIS. batch who behived thu3 would get into trouble. The best way to ileal with such outbreaks of lawlessness in the jury box is to fine the offenders and send them to jail to meditate over their misconduct. Had this been done in th3 flrst instance there WITH whalebones at 'r~A- a poupd i would have been no repetition of the &.y- tbe dress-reform movement ought to boom. THE aggregate mileage of railroads <m earth would reach ,to the moon and half way back. The puzzle is to determine how the rest of that re turn trip is to be made. WYOMING, wjiere the <<rustlersM and Uncle Sam s bluecoats are shoot Ing at each other, is the only State in which women vote. The moral of this is left for Susan & Anthony to •draw. - OF course Chili can sever all di plomatic relations with this country If it choose to do so, but it can learn more about the business of carrying on a republic by keeping on friendly terms with the United States than by ifiriir fjjccs at us. /.!: ' A MINNEAPOLIS paper charges that '4 many servant girls of the Country, and especially of Chicago, are in ^ league with the Anarchists. This ¥ would be startling news but for the ^ fadt that in most domestic circles the ^ servant girl is much more feared than - is the Anarchist LAST year the aggregate loss of property from fire was $140,000,000. Smoke and ashes were all that re­ mained. Despite this, heavy drain upon the country's wealth the con­ struction of ! tinder-box buildings in town and country goes right along as though there were no such thing as - a Are risk. CONSTANTINOPLE is infested with * Russians whose chief employment is : the hatching of conspiracies against * Bulgaria. The latter country calls * upon the Port# to expel these trouble * makers and indicates an intention of ; doing business by purchasing 6,000,- 000 cartridges in Vienna. It is even . more significant that cash was paid for these war-like supplies. KING MHBMOBA of Butaritari, is a royal visitor in San Francisco, but has none of that pomp and pageantry that cluster about the vague concep­ tion of imperial grandeur. He eats peanuts on the cuibstone, rides on the street cars, runs to the fires, stares into the store windows, only wears one suspenderand persists in retiring with his boots on. Anyone who says that King Mhbmora is stuck up does not know his "royal nibs." WARD MCALLISTER assures the world that he hasi made a handsome annual profit off his little farm near Newport for the last ten years. For the benefit of farmers who would like to learn the secret of Ward's success, we will state that he buys everythingjLhat the • diminutive es­ tate produces, and pays from three to five times what it is worth. Hence his account with the farm makes a fine showing, and the leader of the 400 is proud of it. A man requires a great head to fool himself like that. TnE Christian Endeavor Societies, organized about ten years ago, have had such a phenomenal growth that the Committee of Arrangements for the National Convention, to be held In New York, July 7 to 10, are at a loss how to accomodate all the dele­ gates who propose to attend. In 1882 there were six of these societies in the country, with a membership of 481. Last January there were 18,500 societies and a membership of 1,100,- 000. More than 13,000 delegates have already notified the New York committee of their intention to at­ tend the convention, and the large Madison Square Garden cannot ac­ commodate them. It will be the largest convention ever held. SAYS the New Orleans Picayune: •'It would appear to be a wise plan for this country to at once take steps to build a lake navy capable of de­ fending the approaches to our great cities and to properly orotcct our im­ mense commerce on the vast inland seas. As things now are Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and other cities arc entirely defenceless and would be an easy prey to Great Britairvjn the event of war catching us unprepared. Such a state of things is a disgrace to a great and powerful nation and should not be permitted to continue, particularly as matters are annually shaping themselves so as to make a quarrel with some foreign power, and partic­ ularly Great Britain, more than a possibility at any time." THE Illinois Habituals Criminal act provides that where a person is convicted for the second time of burglary, robbery, horse-stealing, counterfeiting, forgery, or grand lar­ ceny, "the punishment shall be im­ prisonment in the penitentiary for the full term provided by law. A man was tried for burglary in the Cook County Criminal Court. The indictment was drawn under the above law, ard the jury found the man guilty as indicted, and yet re­ turned a verdict fixing his penalty as twelve years in the penitentiary, while the law say.? it shall be twenty and gives no discretion to change it. Another jury was guilty of a similar offense, but got off with a slight re­ buke. * The Judge told the jurors in this last case that they had violated • their oaths, that there was no cxcuse hfor tbefr conduct, and that the next offense. If the laws for the punish­ ment of hardene| and deliberate criminals are to be nullified by jurors some radical changes will have to be made in the- administration of criminal iustice. So much power has been taken from judges and given to jurors in this State that the latter seem to consider themselves lords paramount of the criminal Courts. THE adroit and forceful hand of Lord Salisbury is seen in the quaiTel which has just broken out between the Khedive and the Sultan. To the gracious invitation of his sovereign lord the Commander of the Faithful to visit Constantinople, young Abbas rudely replied that this was impossible until Moukhtar Pasha, the Porte's representative at Cairo, was recalled. Moukhtar is a Turkish official who has no idea of quietly submitting to England's virtual annexation of the Egyptian Empire. His interference with the Egyptian Ministry greatly angered the English Minister, Sir Evelyn Baring; and it is evident to every one that the Khedive's demand for Moukhtar's withdrawal is directly inspired from the British Foreign Office, Appearancs indicate that some interesting developments may be looked for in Egyptian politics be­ fore long. THE recent advance in the price of coal is referred to by several papers as furnishing » fresfe Incentive to action on the part of those who have under­ taken to test in the courts the valid­ ity of the Reading-Lackawanna coal combination. A rise at this date in the year is unprecedented, and cer­ tainly finds no justification in the facts of to-day, the winter having been a comparatively mild one, giv­ ing a consumption of fuel less than the average per capita of other years. It is referred to as probably an un­ pleasant foretaste of what consumers may expect when they undertake a few months hence to lay in their sup­ plies for the coming fall and winter. Indeed it is said there is evidence of a deliberate intention on the part of the Reading folks to create a reason for putting up prices by holding back supplies, allowing local dealers to ob­ tain but little coal till late in the summer. The Pennsylvania railroad is being appealed to for aid in break­ ing the monopoly, and is understood to be working to that end.. It has bought the output of the Stout colliery at Milnesville, amounting to about 150,000 tons per year, and this is said to be but the first of a num­ ber of purchases to be made as soon as possible. The company has handled little or none of the anthracite coal from the Lehigh Valley since the Reading deal was consummated, all of that tonnage now going over the Reading line. The Reading officials are reported to make light of the ef­ forts of the Pennsylvania people, say­ ing their company controls 75 per cent, of the unm'ined anthracite, and the remaining 25 per cent is the most difficult to get at Under these cir­ cumstances the report that the Van- derbilt support is to be accorded to the Reading combination may well cause alarm and stir up the people to demand pr Section by the strong arm of the law from that gigantic monop­ oly. It is thought for these reasons the litigation already instituted will be vigorously prosecuted. H lien Ladled Pass. Dr. Wills, an Englishman who lived many years in Persia, says that until lately it was the rule that no male person over 10 years of age should be found on the road over which a royal wife or daughter was to pass. A violation of the i-ule was punished with death. Even now, he says, Europeans wisely avoid unpleas­ antness by turning aside when they hear the shouts which indicate the approach of the "palace ladies.'?. The late American Minister, Mr. Benjamin, made a groat mistake on one occasion by neglecting this pre­ caution. With true American sim­ plicity he was accustoned to ride through the streets with only one serv­ ant. Meeting the procession one day. tie failed to turn out of its path. The result was that his servant was beaten, and he himself was hus­ tled into a by-road. The next day he duly lodtjed a complaint of this treatment; but he had to put up with the apolotry that, naturally, 4 'the royal servants would not recognize a 'ime- hOTse minister.' " An Austrian officer of engineers, many years in the service of the Shah, was wiser in his generation. He met trie late Queen -Mother and the royal ladies when he was on foot, turned his face to the wall like a native, and as each carriage passed,^ deliberately saluted from the back of his head. The ladies screamed with laughter and told the Shah; who persuaded him to repeat his novel salute, and then congratulated him on his dis­ cretion. Jn frith bition Maine. Two Lewiston, Me., liquor con' stables raided a drug store which was provided with a surprising outfit of trap doors, pitfalls, vaults, and strong rooms. By clipioing to the top of a partition and dropping twenty-two feet into a cellar-like abyss one of the constables reached a stairway which led to a secret chamber, built ot briqk and baving a brick door framed with iron. A strong room was provided with an oaken door six inches thick. A big haul of liquors was made, and after settling his case the druggist will not only have to get a new stoch but ftlso devise now means ©1 secret tag his gondii, < / Bafc fykw or 'Pofnuni RMn for O ice bet* Bin • til or Mutton. A stranger who was up in the 'Bos- sum Ridge country the other day fell in with an old resident of the section and engaged him in conversation. After discoursing on a variety of sub­ joins, From politics down to the latest neighbor lood gossip, the old resident said: . . \ "Stranger, I reckon yoa never knowed old Bob Sykes?" "No, 1 never did," the stranger*re- plied. "You've heard tell of 'im, 1 low?" "I do not remember that I ever have." "Humph! that's quare. I thought Shore'most ever'body had heard o' old Bob. He's a mouty noted man." "Indeed! For what is fie noted?" "For bein' the boss sheep thief o' this yere section." "Sheep thief!" "Azactly. I reckon, stranger,' ft would be mouty hard to flgger out jest how many sheep old Bob has stole in his time. He's stole 'em from ever'body for ten miles around, an'he jest keeps right on at it year in an' year out He stole some from me once." ' ' "Only oncc?" xlz . • -."... .'.V "That's alt I broke Mm ofP ifgfct on the start. You can't guess how?" "Threatened to have him arrested, I suppose?" "No, nothin'-o' the kind." '•Threatened to shoot him?" "Nary." 1 •Then what did you do?" "Wal, sir, old Bob stole my sheep one night, an' the next mornin' I missed 'em. 1 knowed in a minute that he'd got 'em, so I determined to git even with him an' try an' put a stop to his botherin' 'long o' my prop­ erty. I figgered out. a plan in no time, an' takin' my old pistol, I went over to Bob's bouse. Bob was settin' in the corner by the fireplace an' Mi's Sykes was cookin' breakfast" " 4Mi's Sykes," says I, 'I've come over to take breakfast with you, an' if you've any mutton, I want some. I'm powerful fond of it,' says I, "so please cook a plenty.' "Wal, Mi's Sykes, she went to work a-slicii^' an' a-fryin' o' mutton, an' I told her to keep at it ti^l 1 said stop, 'cause I wanted a plenty. So she sliced an' fried till she got 'most half a sheep cooked; then 1 told her she might stop for awhile. She looked skeered, an1 with her £yes stickin' out like knets she says: "'Shorely you can't eat" all that mutton, much less wantin' more.' " 4I don't know,' says I, Til sea' "Wal, when it was all on the table jest ready to set down to, I draws out my old pistol an' p'iutin' it at Bob, says to him: " 'Bob, set up thar now an' pitch into that mutton.' "Bob see I had him an' he turned pale an' begun to shake, but one glance into that oldNpistol barrel set­ tled him, an' he done what I said. He eat, an' eat, an' cat till he'd eat enough for a dozen men; then he stops, lays down his knife an' fork, an' looks up at me sort o' pitiful like, sayin': " 'I can't eat no more. ? " 'Yes, you kin,' says I. *Anybody that loves to steal sheep like you do ought to eat a whole one. Eat on,' says I, bringin' the old pistol into line with his face, "He let into it agin an' for a good bit cat right along. Then he lets up agin, an' looks at me appealin* like, an' says: " 'I jist can't eat no more. I'm plumb chuck full.' ' •' Oh, yes, you kin,' says 1. 'You ain't half cat yit. You're awful fond o' mutton, I know,' says I, "an1 this is my sheep an' my treat an' 1 mean for you to have enough once. Go into it again,' says I. "Wal, sir, I kept the old cuss a-eatin' mutton till he couldn't git an­ other bite down him an' as fast as be put it in bis mouth it run out. I let him quit then, an' told him I wouldn't be hard on him, because it was the first time; but if I ever caught him stealin' sheep from me agin I'd make him eat a whole mutton, if I had to ram it down him with a pole." "Did he-ever repeat the offense?" the stranger asked. '•Hardly. He steals sheep from other folks, but he never bothers about mine any more. He knowed I meant what I said, an' you bet he don't want to eat more mutton at the p'int o'a pistol."--Detroit Free Press. i Value of (Spare Time. ' Most of us grumble aboi^t the streugth we waste over unprofitable tasks and think with greed of th<3 enormous progress that we would make if we could afford or dare to put in all our time in doing what was really progressive. Some of us, hav­ ing the courage of our victims, do achieve increased leisure and put it to good use; out I suspect, says a writer in Scribuer's Magazine, that most of us need some sort of compul­ sion to put our machinery in,motion and find that when our other tasfs have been abandoned our spare time becomes a task itself and loses its character, so that its products are not the same. A case that is familiar is that of Charles Lamb, eminent among the conservators of spare time, who longed so ardently for his release from his clerk's desk and finally found his increased leisure so troublesome a boon. When a man reaches the point when he requires no tasks, can im­ prove only three of tour of his spare hours daily and can conscientiously loaf and invite his soul the rest of the time he has attained an enviable pitch of human felicity. There is a theory that the imagination thrives on leisure, and that ^imaginative writers 'profit better by being very moderate in their daily demands on their wits. A favoiite illustration of this theory is the reported case of a New Jersey novelist, of high contem-1 porary renown, who writes two hours a day and has the rest of his time to spare! Nature furnishes a parallel case in the geysers of the Yellow­ stone, some of which take twenty- three hours to get ready and only spout fifteen minutes. But spare time, when it such bulk, ceases to/be a lux it usually happens that men ship or flirtation, being willing to en­ dure some pretense of a regular occu­ pation for the sake of its bicsscd-in- termission. ^ •' A Olinspae of Life'* Under Mdfll It is not often that one-half the world gets a glimpse of the other half. Still less often is the observed half off its guard. A little scene, enacted every evening on a down-town street, tells a story of how the "under one- half" lives--a story terrible in its pathos, yet seldom if ever impressed on the hearts of the thousands who casually glance at it as they pass by. On Randolph street, in the shadow of giant buildings, is a restaurant and bakery patronized by those who toil in the vicinity. There are two en­ trances, but one of them is kept locked. At this closed door every night before 8 o'clock is clustered a crowd of boys and girls ranging in age from 9 to perhaps 13. Each bears an empty basket In all kinds of weather, in frost, in rain, in sleet, in snow, they are alway there--some­ times seven or eight; sometimes a doxen or more. The boys are usually coatless, their hats are a mockery, their shoes and trousers are tattered, and* in many instances they wear no i'lliil uears remote resemblance to a dress does as a garment for the girls. Hats are scarce, and shawls are rarer still. With grimy faacs and the somber air of children who feel poverty but cannot see it they stand at that door and jostle each other for a better place near the warm flagstones over the bakery oven, or for better shelter from the wind. They are anxiously waiting for the customers in the res­ taurant to get through with their evening meal. It means for them the distribution of all the bread and cake and pie left over after the day's business. Thousands of Chicago's homeward bound army pass them by. Perhaps they gaze with mild curiosity at the little group of basket bearing gamins; perhaps they never give them a thought. No one seems to take enough interest to question them. All hurry by, seeing only a knot of street-arabs. As soon as the rush of business in the restaurant is over the locked door is opened and the urchins scramble into the bakery. Here the day's sur­ plus is distributed as equitably "as possible. It means the first meal of the day to most of these youngsters, and while loading the basket with one hand they eagerly bolt the food with the other. In a few minutes it is all over--the precocious beggars are on the way to homes where the food will be as eagerly devoured.--Chicago Tribune. _ Uood Habits. As one of the most Important things, see to it that you form good habits. The gross sins of evil speech, the impure word, the low thought and act, the bad temper, the spirit of envy, jealousy, or revenge, the isolat­ ing pride--all these,of course,you will avoid. But beyond these negative virtues, diligently cultivate positive Christian habits. Speak charitably and kindly of all. Cultivate a help­ ful spirit Strive to be always and everywhere useful. Crush out, if you have it, any ingrained selfish­ ness. Strive with daily effort and prayer after the Christlike spirit of love to all and obedience to duty. Keep a conscience void of offense, and sensitive as the apple of the eye to all that is right and wrong. To help you to all this study the Bible con­ stantly, that you may be mindful of these things, and pray for grace to be faithful to its teachings and filled with its spirit. So shall right habit be the channel of your life, the moral veins and arteries in which that life shall almost unconsciously but safely move, insuring the best vitality of moral and spiritual health. Sir Kobert Pell and V«orgt> the fourth. The King was accustomed to com­ ment upon the dress of Sir Robert Peel, whose clothes never fitted him. Sidney Smith accordingly repre­ sented the minister, when on a visit to the Brighton Pavilion, as being called out of his bed in the middle of the night to attend to his majesty in what the King supposed to be his last moments--his dinner having dis­ agreed with him in an alarmintr man­ ner. Peel was much affected, and the Kin?, after a few short words which hecoulcj scarcely utter, said,-- "Go, my dear Peel--God bless you! I shall never see you again!" And as Peel turned to leave the room he added faintly, "Who made that dress­ ing-gown, my dear Peel? It sets very badly behind. God bless you, my dear fellow! Never employ that tailor again!" Six Brave »oraan. The leader of the convict women of the Andainen Islands, who saved six men from drowning last November has, as a reward, been released from jail. Her five companions have 08- tained promotion and remission of their sentences for their bravery. These six women, it may be remem­ bered, showed great courage when the Indian Marine steamer Enter­ prise was wrecked opposite their bar­ racks. They rushed into the surf and. holding on to one another formed a chain out to where the survivors of the crew were struggling fqr life. The women fought bravely with the waves, which were up to their neeks, and in spite of the canger of being submerged persisted in their task un­ til the men were ashore. < V no set selves anq horses or, politics or \7'.: tasks f< themselves of property unting o%courP) "How MANY people coming to Florida," asks the Times-Union, "know anythingabout the great fresh water spring in the Atlantic Ocean? This great natural wonder covers an area of about two acres, is located in the Atlantic Ocean about two miles (east from the shore, and about ten miles from St. Augustine (south.) The spring is defined by the silver gleaming white caps trying to force themselves over the powerful boiling spring." LAFAYEJTE KNIGHT' of Camas Prairie, has sent the East Oregonian a remarkable curiosity--a sheet of pa­ per made from nature's loom. It was found in an open seam in a tamarack tree. It is as soft and velvety as a baby's skin and resembles wood pulp appearance. The sheet is fully a jvide and two feet long. de is not muscular, but ikes an attitude he crip. tfh-k MBMdRIAL SERVICES IN CON­ GRESS A FARCE. Cmgrwumn Continue to Imlulfre In the Balo|UU« Burleaqne Breiy Saturday Afternoon--Mew* Leake bom Senator* TkemwlTM. •emlMi Talk to tsaaptf Seats. ' WASHINGTON c o r r e s p o n - d e n c e : W i t h all due respect to those Congressmen who have passed into the next world, it must be said that the weekly me­ morial services havo become a fareial and extravagant ;nuisanoe. Com­ plaints of the Fifty- e e c o n d Congress w being a do-nothing affair are heard on all sides, and among ; , the very loudest of I o o m p l a i n a n t s a r e many of the members themselves. Yet every Saturday afternoon, week in and week out, month in and month out, these same Congressmen, among them iiliv iuutiHHt i nimnniriMFH iIihxii aii. by and do nothing but condemn the cus­ tom which gives one-sixth of every week to eulogizing the dead and--yes---the next to forgotten. And such a farce it all is--save, perhaps, to such relatives of the deceased as may be present in the members' gallery and" to the speakers. To the former it is more than P farce, It is a burlesque. To the latter a stern reality. And no wonder. The House is called to order, and in the presence of a quo­ rum and to spare the chaplain offers a prayer. That over, the journal is read, a few bills are introduced, and then the clerk begins to read a resolution setting aside the day to hear eulogies pro­ nounced in memory of the late Honor­ able So-and-so. Scarce has he finish­ ed when there is a commotion on the floor. The members, that is, most of them, are leaving. Before the flrst speaker has got, through his flrst. para­ graph less than a fifth of the quorum fc^main and more than half of those are busy writing letters, reading news­ papers or conversing with one another on some political question of the day. The press gallery is empty; so, too, are most of the other galleries. In the members' gallery, perhaps, sit a few deeply interested persons, one of them in deep black bending forward to catch every word, her tear-stained eyes ob­ serving the lack ot interest among the few who remain on the floor and Whose number is constantly diminishing until, as has been the case most every Satur­ day, not more than twenty-tive out of the three hundred and thirty odd mem­ bers remain. Sympathetic creatures these members of Congress. And yet, listen a moment to the one who is speaking. His words are of a sympathetic character, and the speaker appears to be in earnest. So does an aotor. Both have their parts to play. It is work for them both, and they are heartily glad when it is over. The only difference is that one is paid for it; the other does it either because he has been requested to deliver a eulo­ gy or his acquaintance with the deceased makes him think it would be rather in­ decent in him not to say a few words. And so the afternoon drags wearily along, the solemn phrases being occa­ sionally punctuated by a laugh from the cloak-rooms, where another joke has just been cracked. It is all over at last, and as the last speaker drops into his seat a motion to adjourn is made, seconded, put, nnd carried. The gavel strikes the desk, the curtain falls upon another day. and the country wonders why Congress is so far behind in its work. During the debate on the rules some member moved that eulogies be deliv­ ered on Sunday. There would thereby be no interference with the legitimate work of Congress. But an objection was made and the proposition was not pressed. But most of the members were new and without experience then. Now they would welcome such a chance were it not that Congress is behind on eu­ logies, and to stop now would seem un­ kind to the memories of the uneulogized dead. Should there come a time, how­ ever, when Congress catches up, a reso­ lution will be offered to stop the farce in the name of decency and economy. That resolution 'will pass and will be probably followed by the wiping out of that other burlesque, the Congressional funeral. And when these are out of the way many a day will be saved and the peaple will begin to think that they are getting their money's worth of leg­ islation after all. Playing the wnbjr. Gen. H. V. Eoynton, the veteran cor­ respondent, writing about the leakage of "executive s crets, about which the Senate has been so concerned, says: "The proceedings of the executive ses­ sions became known simply and solely because Senators divulge them. If Senators should reform there would never be a word made public, except what was guessed at. Of course, much of the matter which appears in the pa­ pers is second-hand from Senators, but the preliminary disclosure is always from a Senotor, and more frequent­ ly than any other way directly to a newspaper correspondent. There is no exaggeration about these state ments, it is the cold every-day fact year in and year out of the Senatorial ses­ sions. Every correspondent of long service here will confirm it. The fact Is the correspondents universally recog­ nize the obligations under which these officers are to the Senate and do not ap proach them with forbidden questions about executive proceedings, s The pres­ ent move against them is not only un­ just, but to those whose business it is to obtain executive proceedings and.who both know how to do it and do it, the movement is ludicrous in the last de­ gree. It becomes a case where men make children of themselves and outdo infants during the period in which they take leave of their senses. Beyond question, if the Senate should rise to expel ail who were disclosed by an in­ vestigation as having made known ex­ ecutive secrets, and should then call th£ correspondents and the latter should rise to answer, the Senate would al­ most Immediately find itself not only without a quorum, but without a numer­ ous minority, without it rescinded the order to expel. Nothing but the refusal of correspondents to answer saves the Senate for a day when it orders investi­ gations." _____ 6 Blaine at the Circus. Secretary Blaine took in the circui thd other afternoon. Mr. Blaine looked well and seemed as pleased as any one at the show. He ate peanuts and heart­ ily applauded the innumerable funny acts of the clowns and the donkeys. There was no applause when he came in, for the circus was the greater show to the Washington audienee. The sighl of a Secretary of State was evidently a novelty to the attaches of the circns. The jockeys, male and female, the tum­ blers and the acrobats, kept their eyes J on Mr. Blaine during their acts, "ie production of "Columbus,* Mr. Blaine took an especial [t was at times difficult to dis- whom Queen Isabella cast glances, the hardy ColumLwg from Maine. ! fe*1 " • i . ,*5.1, .5SM,„.ks. to Depnnti on cMk' CoontTy >• Wtiieh tha Q a« at ion ]* ̂ ked.| It is remarkable to Iearn the ex­ traordinary ideas of female beauty which characterize different natvms. The ladies of Arabia stain their An­ gers and toes red, their eyebro^M black and their lips blue. In Persia they paint a black streak around their eyes and ornament their faces with representations ot various figures. The Japanese women adopt the singular method of gilding their teeth, and those of the Indians paint them red. In some parts of India the pearl of the teeth must be dyed Mack before a woman can be beauts iuL The Hottentot women paint the entire body in compartments of red and black. In Greenland th<i women color their faces with blue and yellow, and frequently tattoo their bodies by saturating threads in soot, inserting them beneath the skin, and then drawing them through. Hindoo families, when they wish to be particularly lovely, smear them­ selves with a mixture of saffron 'and grease, and in nearly all the islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans the as well as the men, tattoo a great, variety of figures on the face, the lips and the tongue. In New Holland the women cut themselves with shells, and, keeping the wounds open a long time, form aeep scars in the flesh which they deem highly ornamental. Another singular mutilation is made among them, for, when in infancy, they take off the little finger of the left hand at the second joint% In ancient Persia an aquiline nose was often thought worthy of the crown, but the Su- matran mother carefully flattens the nose of her daughter. Among some of the savage tribes of Orearon, also in Aracan, continual pressure is ap­ plied to the skull in order to flatten it and thus give it a new beauty. The modern Persians have a strong aversio* to red hair; the Turks, on the contrary, are warm admirers of it. In China small, round eyes are liked, and the girls are continually plucking their eyebrows that they may be thin and long. But the great beauty of a Chinese lady is in her feet, which, in childhood, are so com­ pressed by bandages as effectually to prevent any further increase in size. The four smaller toes are bent under the foot, to the sole of which they firmly adhere, and the poor girl not onlv endures much pain, but becomes a cripple for life. Another mark of beauty consists in having finger nails so long that cas­ ings of bamboo are nccossary to pre­ serve them from injury. An African beauty must have small eyes, thick lips, a large, flat] nose and a skin beautifully black. In New Guinea the nose is perforated and a large piece of wood or bone inserted. On the northwest coast of America an incision iftore than two inches lonir 1s made in the lower lip and then filled with a wooden plug. In Guinea the lips are pierced with thorns the head ot the thorn being inside the mouth and the point resting on the chin.--; Yankee Blade. Vorcettln* Ibelr l^oea. It is not unusual for people who have lost the use of a sense or of a member to talk, more or less uncon­ sciously, as if they still possessed it. Not long ago a gentleman living in the country, who has been totally blind tor many years, but who man ages to travel aoout notwithstanding his affliction, wrote to a friend in London: "I am going to town this summer to see how the world wags, and I hope to see you while I am there." This is pathetic. More amusing, perhaps, was an incident'of like kind which happened during a tour through the provinces which the French President, M. Carnot, made not long back. At one place where an address was to be delivered to the President, the duty of pron«uncins it was committed to a maimed veteran, both of whose arms had been amputated. Just before the hour for the cere­ mony had arrived, a local functionary said to the veteran: "Are you sure you know your speech?" "Know it!" he exclaimed, confi­ dently, "why, I've got it right at my fingers' ends!" The Southern iVoman in Business. The woman m business in the South must have a lovely time if this story is true. The head of one of the larg­ est retail establishments of the South --a fine, courtly type of Southron, past the middle age--accompanied his lady cloak buyer into the showroom of a leading New York cloak house. They were shown seats in the buyers' corner. Presently the three partners came out of an inner office in shirt sleeves and smoking fine cigars and greeted the pair effusively. As the preliminary chatter was indulged in they puffed av^ay with great gusto. Then, as the question of showing the goods was led up to and finally touched, the fine old chevalier rose with great suavity and remarked with some dignity: "Not now!" And then turning to the lad}-, who had arisen, divining his meaning, he added: "We will go to lunchcon--which will enable the gentleman to finish their fraffrant Havanas--after which we will re­ turn." I'I rut Telegraphic Mes**ye» Stephen Vail, the son of the Al­ fred Vail so closely identified with early teletrrapby, says that on May 1, 1844, his father telegraphed from Bal­ timore the news that Henry Clay had been nominated for the next Presi- d ent. Mr. Vail also said that the flrst real message transmitted by tel­ egraph was sent over three miles of bonnet wi», stretched around the walls of a large room on the second floor of the now historic factory at the Speedwell iron works, Morris- town, N. J. The date was January 6, 1838. On that day a new set of instruments was put up and tests were made in the presence of distinguished guests. All persons were then convinced that Mr. Morse and Mr. Vail had laid the foundation of a wonderful discovery. But it was not until five years after­ ward that the bill appropriating 830,- 000 for their invention passed the Senate and was signed by the Presi­ dent. Patrolling Levees to Gn*rd Against <>*••» %w-DI«d iton a SpM«r*» Ttlfn ITIlMii v ham r*P«n Stopped in the Metis - •••so of a Lottery AdTcrtlnetnenl ftwn Far and Near. JIEOBOE WILSON, of New Milfortl, w*» 5 killed by a St. Paul train at RockforA. AFTER a family quarrel David Rhodes son of a farmer living near McLean#* • boro, shot his brother, inflicting % se ­ vere wound, and then blew out his owm brains. AT Benton, Judge Roberts, in tlMK Circuit Court, rendered a deeidet against the Cairo Sbort Line Railrowl Company for $5,000 in favor of Kit, Meek Carrforthekillingof her husband. LIGHTNING-ROD MEN are OPERATING near Ramsey. They victimized Thomsi Lawson and John Peaaley. LawMM* settled and Peasley will contest. Mj- bills are made by signing a contract what appears to be a small amount 1m| ootinfo im tri .4. THE body of a young, w«U-dreM6d» - and beautiful girl was found floating iil I the river above Alton. The Cor&ner% -V ill: infuipat fplled to reveal her v and the remains are now at St. CharieaL ,r;,i H Mo., awaiting identification. The gU| . ji] was not more than 16 veora of age. MRS. E» T. HEBEREB, of Evansvtlltiu died from the effects of a spider biteL O' Vtl She had been visiting relatives in S3U > * ^ L o u i s , M o . , a n d i t w a s w h i l e i n t f e a f c " | f city that the bite was received. Motlte- •• 4; ing serious was thought ot it until th» " , J following day, when her face and head commenced swelling, causing INTEIUM * pain. Everything possible was don# • •/ for her relief, but without avail. $,l~4 THE Duquoln School Board is in A quandary. The high school student* ' object to tfce admission into their rani# of a coloreo girl who has just been moted from the grammar school atten<|» ̂ ed only by darkles. Unless the toarijl. accepts the colored graduate as a men*-- ber of the high school it must build ft * high school for her especial accommod*- .. " tlon and for the use subsequently oC •••?, ,• other negroes. * . I AT Quincy some excitement was ere» 'Y, ated by a report that the Sny levee hail : * ; y broken and that the water was rapidly " flooding the district. The' report, how* w ' .* ever, proved to be without foundation^ ' * > ^ J and authentic news from there says tint ( J: levee is still intact, though the water Hfr r3 above the danger line. The Sny leve<* ;Sl and the Indian Grove levee are botk . being patrolled and all that can be doe# ̂ is being done to guard against a crer vasse. si-v -3-^'MM AT Effingham, Postmaster Laeejp 4 ^ created a sensation by stopping ail 1» * * li cal papers that commented on or pub* lished the names of the successful pas* ties who drew prizes at the Cathcdfii fair held In that city. Subscribers, t® get their papers, were compelled to to the various offices where they ar» Sublished. Public opinion is somewha^k ivided on the action of the Postmastet^ The Republican office had its foretif . working all night cutting out the ol)£ noxious article. ; 1 HE Supreme Court remanded the de»' cislon of the Appellate Court in thecaa^ : * of The People vs. James M. Bridges. * Bridges a year or two ago was arretted for seining fish In Sand Prairie Lake,* body of water situated wholly on Ural owned by one Jacob Miller, in Sanga* mon County. The lake is but a shaft distance from the Sangamon River, and ' in times of high water is connected with the river, although at the ordlnaiy * stage of the water the lake is not con* nected, and was not at the time of th« seining by Bridges. Bridges contended that, the lake being wholly on owned and controlled by a privaflb individual, and he having obtained tb» permission of that individual to fish ip-> the lake, there had been no violation at . \ { the law; and that the law, if it did apphr ̂ In such a case, was unconstitutional^. The Circuit Court of Sangamon County!. held him guilty of a violation of th^ law. The case was appealed to the Ap^ pellate Court, and there the decision of the Circuit Court was reversed. Th»A = Supreme Court now reverses the de»* cision of the Appellate Court, holding > . that the State, in the enforcement <*' laws for the protection of fish, has juris­ diction over all lakes or ponds which ariS*' connected part of the time with a run^i ning stream, whether or not such lake* or ponds are located wholly on lan<(|* owned by private individuals. It is held that the fish in sueh a body of water, having gotten there during the time th» pond or lake was connected with th« stream, are as much the property of thf|' people as though they were in " stream itself. ' *" r . $ * HSS CYRUS TUTTLE, an old citizen of Van* " \ - dalla, dropped dead while sawing woodQ • *, ^ GEN. W* B. ANDERSON was appointed MA- Maste> in Chancery for Winnebago •= County. . |. AT Mt. Vernon, the May term of th+ ' Circuit Court commenced, with 37 crtm» ,; . W ~ inal cases, 88 ehancery, and 72 common." law cases. Several of the criminal cases are assault with attempt to mur* der. PERRY W. BURKE, who hjkS^alread^ served seven terms in prtecwr; was t*keif| from Belleville to Joliet nor a seven. years' sojourn for horse-stealing. HfuL is a broken old man, and may not oat^ < --i] live the sentence. " CAPT. WM. MURPHY, an OLD *. -i soldier, died at the Halliday House. .s ' Cairo, after a prolonged illness, aged 58f years. He was a conspicuous figure ini local politics a few years ago, and flit leader of the Republican party. JOHN S. FOSTER died at his home BT|% »iro' from the combined effects of dis* ease and a brutal assault. He waal : Chief Deputy Collector of internal rev< - enue and for a year had been suffering from consumption. One night, six ofc eight weeks ago, while returning fron* his office in the custom-house he waafr v attacked by a footpad, who struck hla| on the head with a ear-coupling pin, aad.*- ;• > while he lay senseless robbed him. Tha . f shock aggravated the disease, and ho *- never fully recovered. AT Alton the water is 33} feet %bov% ' ^ low-water mark. The Illinois glaMf ' works and the flouring mills will b» ' * | ; compelled to suspend operations if tha river gets higher, and the main leveed ^ V|' « guarding thousands of acres of growing; 4; wheat have less than two feet to spare. ^ FEED TOVEY, a young Mt. Veruoa V boy, aged about 12 years, was killed by the ears. He was standing 011 the track,v ^ J and in stepping out of the way to allow. a passenger train to pass, stepped in -f| ,, front of a moving switch engine. Hfe/ ^ body was mangled in a most horrible ^ manner, his head and one arm being . *2 being severed from his body. < i$%t ^ AT Cairo preparations had been made ̂ " „• T for a reception to the United State*' ^ 1 steamer Concord on its arrival, bat * •"% 4, Commander White positively refuses to < bring his ship any further up the river, ' J-J, -f; claiming that his orders ore discretion- 1 a r y a n d t h a t i n h i s j u d g m e n t i t i s n o t » . ' 4 safe. i AT Jerseyville, Mrs. Eph Chappell, $ Jr., died a few days since from fright. , A few weeks ago a tornado swept throvk J ' 4 • < 1 the farm, which terrified her extremely. ' Shortly after a oolt was struck by light- - ^ - % ning near her, and lastly she stepped o® * -1 J a big blacksnake while walking a tte *; ' * yard. This so shocked her that A* ^ went into* swoon, imkowtA by qpavat- " 'f "-1 alona anddeatiu . 2 . jsA * ^ SSujf ,...