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SLYKC, PsMitNr* and once at CASH NOT CALLED '*Qfe As Austrian! takes the prite m the 8Mt army ride from Tlenna to Ber­ lin. Kaiser Wilhelm feels cross about this. TEN thousand dollars for the first coin of the World's Fair half-dollar Series is a pretty bit; sum. Bat, then. It Is going.to be a pretty big fair. THE Homestead affair will cost the iState of Pen nsylvania $400,000. The lesson was an expensive one, but law must be upheld, cost what it may. •TORONTO has just lost a colered man of the age of 109 years 3 months and 4 days. He was evidently good as well as antique. He did not claim to have been the bodyguard of any­ body when "the century was new* 1 "IT is alleged that beer has ft ten- (Jgacy to enlarge the feet, but it should be regarded as a campaigu roorback until more proo* is supplied. Its effects on the head, however, is Dalton gang 'twreh rounded up for extinction cost the number of good and true citizens of the town of Coffey, vtlie, Kansas. Had the {duck and energy displayed in this encounter been employed against the plunderers and murderers early in their career, it would probably have checked them without the spilling of innocent blood. Evans and Sontagwho are in Catifor- qia are now courting the fate ot thes£ miscreants, and whether it is meted out to them prtynpuly or not now de­ pends on whether the Coffeyville trag­ edy has a stimulating or deterrent effect on their pursuers. If they are permitted to escape, they will in all probability afford history an opportu­ nity to repeat the story of the deeds of the James, the Youngers and the Daltons. IN an Eastern paper appears a la­ ment over the departure of the typ­ ical grandmother. A pretty picture is drawn of the gray-haired old lady that is a memory of childhood, with her sweet and patient face and gentle manners. Then it is affirmed - that she is no more. In her nlace has A TEAR or more ago a little child <lfed at Plain City, Ohio, of what was diagnosed croup. Its mother kept its toys for a whole year and then sent them to children in New California, Union County. An epidemic of diph­ theria followed and the whole county thereabout is in a panic. The diag­ nosis in the original case was doubt­ less a mistake, and the bacilli of diph­ theria was conveyed with the toys. I EUROPEAN nations have talked loud : about. Uganda and the planting in its fertile territory of their several liajr- etaffs. Now returns from Uganda one who has spied out the land, and Who says chat it isn't much for milk and he failed to observe any honey. However, flagstaffs planted in its soil would take root as quickly as any \ thing else would, and the nations, for want of anything better to squabble over, are still vociferous. THE work of the GutUam reporter Is a thing of beaut# and a joy forever. One of the 400 was sued for a divorce tile other day on the ground of non- support, and a euphemistic New York paper gravely announced that "the sole fault of the defendant seems to have been a great desire for luxuri­ ous surroundings without a willing­ ness to pay for them." We never cease to wonder at the resources of the English language and the New York newspaper man. THE father of the Dalton boys who were killed at Coffeyville, while en­ gaged in the daring but hardly lawful enterprise of looting two banks, com- plains that his boys didn't have a fair show. The rest of the world is of the opinion that they had a howling two- rtog circus and the only general re­ gret is that they we^e not killed with­ out the shedding of a drop of honest blood. Dalton pere would better withhold his opinions or give Coffey­ ville a wide berth. Otherwise he himself may be a participant in a show not altogether fair, acco«U^to * his ideas- : • * *' 1 ' 1 1 1 £ A SAILOR on horseback is a humor- -ftfis spectacle. During the great New jjjTork parade the commander of the e|,ilorsfrom the Spanish gunboat was V inboard of a handsome but very mild : Horse, it was easy to see that he * was emphatically at sea. Had a jib and mainsail been meed on the horse * . and the commander held the ropes it - Blight have been smooth sailing. As * it was, he had bis feet at full length tn the stirrup, sat with an air of fear - * lest be tnight slide out of his seat, handled the reins with both hands I nervously and altogether presented a '* spectacle that caused a ripple of ' laughter as be went along. He * as if he would give forty king- H;•*** '" U1 kaleidoscope of European politics constantly shifting, and one who at­ tempts to follow the advice of Mr. Lowell's Yankee: "Don't never prophesy unless ye know." should be wary of his interpretation of these small clouds upon the European po­ litical sky. WARD MCALLISTER, the discoverer of New York's "400," was questioned concerning the standing of Columbus from a social standpoint. He was asked: "Mr. McAllister, was Colum­ bus a gentleman?" "Well, well," said Mr. McAllister, "the Newspapers of to-day are enterprising/ Your query is a proper one. Columbus was a self-made man, and all his social influence came from the fact that he appeared before the court of Isabella. He must have been of humble origin, don't you know, don't you see. don't you understand; but/ie had fine as­ pirations. and he was a bold, bold man. I believe he had the noble in stincts, however, of a,gentleman. He certainly had the other attributes, vis: daring, boldness and pluck. He must have been a man of good ad­ dress or else he could Dot have ap­ peared as he did before Queen Isa­ bella and pleaded his case. The Queen was pleased, was she not? Did she not pledge her jewels for the cause so eloquently and so success­ fully advocated by Columbus? Seems to me I've heard something of the kind. Yes, Columbus had the stuff of a gentleman in fftm, but you come to me with some knotty questions to decide and you must excuse me if I have not made myself sufficiently clear.w It Neve* Fall*. ' ••Do you see that gentleman sitting opposite?" said one man in a cable car to his next neighbor. "Yes," "I can make him poll his watcn out of his pocket and consult the time, without saying a word to him?" "You know him, perhaps, and have it arranged that he shall do so on a certain signal from you." "No; I neversaw him before in my life." "Well, then, I don't believe you can ao it." ^ "I have $5 to sav I can." - fc. "1 have five to say you cant"",/ < - "It's a bet, is it?" "It is." The other man waited* few mo- ments until the glance of the man re­ ferred to fell on him, and then with much deliberation, drew forth his watch and looked at it The man across the aisle saw the movement, and instantly lifted his own watch from his vest pocket. The man who had bet he wouldn't handed bis 95 bill over without a word, and as Che other took it he re­ marked: "It never fails. Look at your own watch and it's as catching as yawn­ ing. Try it yourself on somebody." --Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. VMl»tiB«d NHMy lMHArnmAiti ttwwWjeSsnsoe. In the Subtreasurv in New York Oil' there is on deposit to-day more than §3,000,000 representing out­ standing money orders, and of this amount more than $2,000,000 rep­ resents money orders which are overdue and which may never be presented for payment, says the Philadelphia Press. Ten years ago, in a spasm of virtue, Con­ gress appropriated the money to pay the salaries of ten clerks who should check up the books of the money order ottk-e and prepare a list of money orders which had not been presented for payment. It was estimated then that if this list was prepared the owners of two- thirds of this money oould be traced, and the money could be restored to them. To-dav one solitary clerk sits in a little office on the top floor of the Postottice Department annex, check­ ing up the unpaid money orders. He is working now on orders issued in 1871; at this rate he will not catch up with his work within twenty years, and by that time most of the owners of the money will be dead and their heirs or executors will be hard to And. The other nine clerks, for which Congress has been making appropria­ tions regularly, are working away at other business. The business of the office is very much in arrears and is likely to fall behind still farther since proposed appropriation for twen- 'our additional clerks for the Sixth itor's Bureau was left out of the dry Civil Appropriation bill. The ber of money-order offices in the ted States has been increased 11,000 to 20,000 in the last year, at it is not surprising that Sixth itor Coulter should want more ks, but if the truth were known >ut the lost iponey-order fund the ,ue of Congress was only spas- ic, and the Government is not y anxious to return this money to [owners. It would mean very 'lit- proflt to any individual and it Id involve a loss of more than i.OOO to Uncle Sam. t seems strange under the pre- tionary system now used by the toffice Department that such an mous amount of money should e accumulated to the credit of un- id money orders, but the chief ac- ulation was under the original es of the office, which were much re conservative than those now in If A at Columbus sent a ney order to B in Philadelphia enty-tive years ago and B did not sent that order for payment the tmaster in Philadelphia might t B three times a day for a year d under the regulations of the toffice Department he could not 1 him that the money was await- g his ordei. The postmaster at lumbus could not notify A that the |oney remained unclaimed. So if the order had srone astray prob- ly B wondered why A did hot send at money to him; and A puzzled er the fact that B did not acknowl- ge the receipt of it. and unless they me together and had an under- landing, the money was never imed, and it lies in the Sub-treas- to-day awaiting au order from A to B. But if A sent a money order to B to-day, and the order was ndl presented for payment, the post­ master at Philadelphia, examining the letters of advice received from other offices at the end of the month^ and finding this money order to have been unpaid at the end of the pre­ vious month, would notify B that there was a money order tn his favor on file in the office, sent to him by A from Columbus. If at the end of another month the money order were still unpaid he would notify him again. And at the end of a third month the money had not been claimed he would advise the postmaster at Columbus, who would notily A that his money order in favor of B had not been presented at the postofflce at Philadelphia, and ask him to urge B to have it cashed. It would seem that these precautions ought to insure the pay­ ment of money orders within a reas­ onable time, yet every year hundreds of them remain unpaid until they are invalid. The Superintendent of the money order office seldom receives any ex­ planation of the delay in cashing a money order; all duplicates are issued from [his office, |but there is a regular form of application for dupli­ cates kept on tile in all money order offices, and all that the Superintend­ ent receives usually is an application made out on one of these blanks. Occasionally the postmaster forward­ ing the application sends a letter tel­ ling the circumstances of the delay in having the order cashed, and some­ times the applicant for a duplicate sends a lettsr to Dr. Macdonald. the Superintendent, giving an explana­ tion of the case. Such an explanation came four years ago from the executor of a Ger­ man Bishop, in the interior of Penn­ sylvania. He sent in a bundle of money orders which were found in the Bishop's desk. He said . that there was a Bishop's fund to which the con­ gregation in the diocese Contributed, and mauy of the remittances were sent by money orders. These money orders th'e Bishop put into one of the pigeon holes of his desk, and they ac­ cumulated there unpaid until his death. A great many people do not know that lost money orders can be dupli­ cated. They think that a lost money order, like a lost bank note, is beyond redemption. And many people would not take the trouble to aDply for a duplicate of an order for a small sum. Still some very old money orders come in for duplication almost every week. A few days ago three orders dated 1869 came in for duplication, and within the past two weeks an order of the date of 1866 has been received. All these orders were accompanied by formal applications. Nothing is known of their history. Until four years ago the money or- "der business was profltable and had been profitable since the establish­ ment of the system--1864. The re­ duction in the rates cliffged is re­ sponsible for the deficiency in the last four years. The Superintendent claims a profit on postal notes in the year 1891. As the entire fee for the postal note is given to the postmaster who issues it, this profit represents the nd§||pi| of have nafc&efi presohtodforfcnrfbeQt. ^:postafii^hM'all|rti^.^f»e months. After that the original note will not paid. It tuust be sent into the money order office for dupli­ cation. Unlike the money order, it cannot be,duplicated if it is lost or destroyed. The monev order is in­ valid a year after the date of issue, but it can always be duplicated, even if It is at the bottom of the sett. IN THE New HEBRIDES*. A Rooky Moontalu Avalanche. It was a February day, with a warm sun and a Chinook wind from the Pa­ cific Ocean melting the snow. All along the trail, as we wound up the mountain side, great masses of snow seemed to overhang us, and more than once I noticed how anx­ ious the grizzly-haired old guide seemed to be. Only a nar­ row path had been cleared, through the snow, and the twenty mules followed each other , in single file. Half way up we came to four cabins occupied by miners. Three brawny men in red shirts stood at the door of one of the cabins talking as we filed past. Salutes were ex­ changed, but we had no occasion to halt. We had gone about 300 feet; and were about to make .a turn In the trail when I halted to look back. The guide was ahead--I came second. The line of mules was strunsr out for a quarter of a mile, and on foot among them were five packers, all half breeds. £ heard no signal of danger--no cry of alarm. With the swiftness of thought the snow, 500 feet up the mountain, began to move. The width of the avalanche was about half a mile, and it moved like a (lash. I was looking full at it, but its speed confused the eye. There were thou­ sands of tons of snow, hundreds of trees, hundreds of great bowlders. There was no rumbling, no crashing The rush was almost noiseless-- simply a sound like a gentle wind blowing amorg the pines. In fifteen seconds it was all over, and a cloud of what, seemed smoke hum? over the spot* It drove off down the mountain after two or three minutes, and l looked for our pack train. Not a man nor a mule had escaped. I looked for the cabins. They had disappeared. Aye! the very trail had been swept down into the valley a mile below and al­ most across it. For a space half a mile wide there was neither tree nor shrub--not a yard of earth. The avalancbc had ground its way down to the rocks heaved up in the convul­ sion of 10,000 years ago. I turned looked at the guide, wondering if it was all a dream. "Purty clus call that!" he whis­ pered as he pointed to the well-defined edge of the avalanche, not a yard from my horse's heels. "Come on. All the men in Montana could not dig them out!"--Goldwaithe's;;^;! The School Lunch Bankets / There is a point of health to which the attention of parents shou!d be called, and that is the preparation of the lunch basket, upon which the lit­ tle ones are to depend for their noon* day meal. Every one who lives in a home whence the children go to school daily, will bear witness to the fact that very few of them eat a solid morning meal. What with the vexed servant question, and the consequent late breakfast, the hurry to gather books and wraps, and to receive the points of the too frequent commis­ sions with which mothers and older sisters tax them, the child docs not give time nor attention to the eating of a proper breakfast, but, snatching a hasty bit of the most palatable, and frequently least digestible portion of the morning meal, crams into the lunch basket what pleases her fancy, and rushes off to catch a car. If mothers could feel the impor­ tance of this matter they would in­ sist, in the first place, that the chil­ dren should eat a gocd substantial breakfast before leaving home. This can be done if it is made a point, and they b$ required to rise early enough to ;,be in, readiness to start as soon as breakfast is over. In the meantime let the mother herself put up the noon basket, even if something else must be left undone. Let there be fruit for the 11 o'clock recess, with the injunction that nothing else be touched. Then a generous slice of good bread thickly spread with Abut­ ter, cold meat and a bottle of rich m1lk,and perhans a bit of sweets that the obedient r>on or daughter is told to eat last. Ask the children when they come home if they ate the lunch, and make It worth their while to obey, and if I am not mistaken you will have happy, rosy-cheeked little folks, who will love school and will not need physic to keep them from "breaking down" before the session is finished.--Texas Sanitarium. SktHi Flea. * jpar. .Edward Everett Hale has writ­ ten Upon many subjects. In a recent number of the Atlantic Monthly-he touches a new theme--the making of sand pies. He went to school, he says, when he was about two years old--a private school, and "a very much "go-as-you-please' sort of place." The fioor was sanded with clean sand every Thursday and Saturday afternoon. This was a matter of practical importance to us, because with the sand, using our feet as tools, we made sand pies. You gather the sand with the inside edge of either shoe from a greater or less distance, as the size of the pie re­ quires. As you gain skill, the heap which you make is more round. When it is well rounded, you flatten it Dy a carefu? pressure of one foot from above. Here it will be seen that full suc­ cess depends on your keeping the sole of the shoe exactly parallel with the piane of the floor. If you find you have succeeded when you withdraw the shoe, you prick the pie with a pin or a broom splint provided for the purpose, pricking it in whatever pat­ tern you like. The skill of a good pie-maker is measured largely by the patterns. It will readily be seen that the pie is better if the sand is a little moist. But beggars cannot be choosers, and while we preferred the sand on Mon­ day's and Friday's, when it w$s fresh, we took it as it came. f%MuHUidi frw I f I&JTO TibMM, aays < * Mbskwarr. Not the least Interestinff of the visitors to San Francisco at the pres­ ent tints' is a venerable old man, with halt kmc, thick and white Thisold gentleman is John G. Paten, mission­ ary to the islands of New Hebrides. Here he has tapored for the last 34 years. When he went to New Heb­ rides from Scotland, where he was born, he was young and unknown^ now he has D. D. attached to his name and is Presbyterian missionary for all Australia. 4 \ Mr. Paten's accounts of his expe­ riences are very interesting. His work, lying as it has among the most savage of all the islanders of the Pa­ cific ocean--the cannibals -- has sub­ jected the venerable missionary to many thrilling and not altogether pleasant experiences. Many times has he been compelled to leave his bed at night and flee for his life. Many of his assistants have been killed and eaten before his face and his own es­ cape from such a fate he attributes solely to Providential protection. When 1 went there," says.the missionary, "not a wOTd could l e un- m of the many langusgcs-cf the New Hebrides cannibals, nor could they understand a word of English. Feathers were in the twisted hair of the natives. Their faces were painted red, black, and white. Some had one cheek black, the other red; others brown and wh'te and the chin blue. "There were warring tribes then as now. In a few moments there was the clash of clubs and spears and tne discharge of rtiae weapons, inter­ mixed with wild cries. At length X sent a boy to get water for our tea. After a while of great anxiety on our part he returned, saying: "This is a c.ark land. The people of this place do dark works. At the spring they have cooked and feasted upon the slain. They have washed the blood into the stream. They have bathed there until the waters are red. I cannot get water to make your tea.' •;That was my introduction to the New Hebrides From the island of Tanna I at length went to the island of Aniwa, which has ever since been my island home. I might as well have been stricken dumb. One day I observed two natives, the one lifting up one of my articles to theother and saying, "Nunski nan enn!" I consul- ered that he was asking. "What is t lis?" Instantly lifting a piece of wood 1 said, 'Nunski narl enn.' They smiled and spoke to each other. I understand them to be saying, «He has trot hold of our language now.' Then they told me their name for the thing I had pointed to. 1 repeated the questions, pointing to various thincs and carefully noting their an. swers down, spelling always phoneti­ cally. it was in this way, after very close observation and long-continued labor, that I learned one language af­ ter another. Notwithstanding all that has been done there are yet at least 40,000 cannibals on the islands." Goldie. He was one of the tou&h newsboys, but honest, like men of his kind, though equally ready for a word or a blow. When he came out in his full irlory, was when he had sold all his Sunday morning papers, arid had funds enough to treat his little sister Goidie to a street-car ride iu the after­ noon. "Then he was a different kind of a kid, and we ail had something to say to the little 5-year-old girl, who was being brought up by an aunt, the mother of the two children having deserted them some time previous "We fellows on the cars got well acquainted »with Goldie, and her brother, and we had a sneaking af­ fection for Goldie and that was why we were all broken up when on Mon­ day morning as we went down on an early trip, we saw Bob--we never knew his real name--jump on the car with tears streaming all over his face: " •Here's-yer-mornin'p-p-p-a-p-e-r-s, all about the collery in Azuh ' " 'What's the matter?, Bob?' we asked. " K3ol-d-i-e's dead! Here® yer mornin' p-p-papers, all about s-s (sob) Sull-' (sob-sob). " 'What happened her?' we asked as we grabbed right and left for papers, relieving him of all he had. •Was she sick long? Never mind the change--that's for Goldie.' "Died er wantin' a m-m-m-other what weren't no good. Thankee, fellers I'll get a bokay of f*Movers fer Goldie wid dis.' "He walked off with something of his old swagtrer, but we saw that his thin shoulders were shaken with sobs, but there was such a mist in our own eyes that we could not see very well--for Goldie had been more to us than we knew, and it his seemed lonesome-like on the cars ever since, for Rob don't sell papers any more." --Free Press. craving for freedom is so prisoners thftt they Wlir«vett throw away their chances tit pardon and release for the sake of ljte temporary gratification. The author of "The American Siberia," a book describing convict life in the South, says that one prisoner bad served out a long sentence up to its last day. He had worked faithfully, and never violated a prison rule; all the officials had the utmost confi­ dence in him. He was to be released the next day. and meantime was one of a squad of men working out of doors. The captain of the camp had occa­ sion to use a barrel left on the top of a neighboring hill, and said jo­ cosely to this prisoner: "Do you think you could come back if I sent you over the hill for that barrel?" He laughed at the idea "Why, of course I could, captain," be replied. "I've had a hundred chances to escape, and besides, I shall be « freeman to-morrow." "Go ahead," said the captain. He started over the hill, and was presently seen returning. When the captain looked up agnin, he was gone. > And^ pursuit proved that he had run about a mile, and then sat down to hammer off his irons. When he was captured he seemed half- dazed, and could offer no explanation except that he just couldn't help"it" Another prisoner knew himself bet­ ter. He was to be released in a few days, and the captain said to him in reference to some errand: •Do you think it would be safe for me to send you over there?" A singular expression overspread his face, and then, in one burst of candor, came its explanation. "Captain," said he, "you'd better not send me. If I got that far iway, I couldDft come back if I wanted to." DOGGINS--Wher' d'ye git that hat? Dudev--Hat store, 'course! "Y.i-u as, ye did! What's such a hat wuth, Dudeyf* "Dunna Man wasn't in." Idi Mlawrtl Three F»ft*l Sbc Cured Him Kariy. "When I was 30," remarked an old fellow of 90 to a lot of young­ sters, who were narrating their do­ mestic experiences. "1 married the belle of the County and she was a lively one, I tell you. She was about 25 and had a convincing way with her 'that was a caution. I had been one of the boys, and she knew it, but that didn't hold her back a bit. We were in love with each other and she was willing to run all the rtsk& For the first three months I did' very well, and then I began to stay out just a little later than before and still a lit­ tle later, but 'Hattie never said a word. One night I got in about 3 o'clock and as usual she was asleep, and I crept in without disturbing her, though it was three hours later than any time I bad got in since I was married. The next morning Hattie was as bright as a dollar." "What time did vou eet in last night, Tom? 'she asked at breakfast. "Oh, along about midnight," Ire- plied evasively. "Worse than that," she laughed. "Maybe it was a little later," I confessed. "It was about 3, wasn't it?" she asked with the air of a person who knew what she was talking about. "Oh, no, not quite so bad as that," I hastily protested. "It must have been, Tom," she in­ sisted, ' fur it was half past 2 before I got in and I was dead asleep when you came." It was my time to make a few re­ marks then, but I didn't make them. I confessed to 3 o'clock and from that day to this I've been in by 9 o'clock, and I don't know yet whether she w!is fooling me or not. Good nipht. It's a quarter to 9," and the old man walked out. Kentucky's F»moua Moving StOM. The "Moving Stone" at Lexington is one of the most remarkable freaks of nature in tho State of Kentucky, the great caverns aloue excepted. In the rear of the grounds attached to the home of the late Gov. Gilmer is a huge bowlder, standing alone on the edge of a stream. Resting directly upon this bowlder is another weigh­ ing at least twenty tons. This upper bowlder rests upon a stone pinnacle not more than two feet square, and evenly balanced that (although the slightest touch will cause it to rock to and fro) a hundred horses could not pull it from the socket. Geologists say that it must have been deposited in its present position in the time of the glacial epoch, and that the tex­ ture and composition of the bowlder argue in favor of the theory tbat it was transported from the Lake Su­ perior region to its present resting place in a good Held of ice long before there was ^ single human being on the face of he earth.--St Louis Re­ public. Philosophical. According to Rogers, the poet Vernon was the person who invented the story about the lady being pulver­ ized in India by a sunstroke. When he was dining there with a Hindoo, one of his host's wives was suddenly reduced to ashes, upon which the Hindoo rantr the bell, and said to the attendant who answered it, "Bring Squirrel Wit. The attribute of reason is often denied to all creatures except man; but a correspondent recently observed a chipmunk displaying a degree of in­ telligence that seemed to exceed any­ thing properly covered by the word instinct. I was visiting a farmer and had gone with him to the middle of a field, where he was planting corn. A mischievous horse in the adjoining pasture attempted to get some of the seed corn, and in reaching over the fence for that purpose overturned a bag of seed. We hurried to tho spot and found that a chipmunk had already begun to gather the scattered grains. He was very busy, and his conduct showed that he understood the situa tion thoroughly. The treasure would be within his reach for a very short time; so instead of filling his pouches and hurrying to his burrow, he set about hiding as much as possible of the corn within a few yards of where it had been spilled. A piece of bark, a chip, or sod served as a temporary hiding-place, and in a short time be had gathered all the grain thft the farmer could not conveniently collect, and began to transport it to his permanent granary. I noticed several places where he had put a mouthful, and found afterward that he did not overlook any of them when removing the spoil to his storehouse. fnn Vfcr and Xmr- Th* ease of Y. L. and "Wash* JfcxpP on trial in the Circuit Court o.t Bull* ville for four days for the nvoidar of Peter Fox Aug. 10 last, was givea to the jury. A veruict of guilty rstarajaS* A, L. Boosa Rets twelve years in- t&o penitentiary and "Wash" one year. MRS. ELIZABETH GIDXAK of KH- coutah, who lias been confined fn the County hospital on account of ary insanity, escaped from that ] tion three weeks ago. She was foand buried in a straw stack. She Had Sub­ sisted upon green turnips and water. AT a delegate meeting of miners of Springfield district a resolution was adopted that on and after Nov. 7 the price for mining coal shall be E0 cento Eer ton gross weight, that powder shall e furnished at not to exceed $8 per keg, and that payment shall be made weekly. J OHN REE1>, one of the p'oneers of II- llnois and th« oldest resident- of ooln County, died at the age of 98 year# 3 months and 20 days. He was a Shaker and had been an active rcanr, always cutting his own supply of firewoeftjttll two years a^o, when he was proetrautfS by the grip, from the result of whiob illness his death was caused. THE Auditor of Public Accounts re­ voked the llcenso of the Ohio Far mere* Insurance Company of Le Boy, to do uUoiiiuSS in Illinois. This sCtlOu SB taken because of the recent examina­ tion of the Ohio Insurance Department, which shows the company to have a set surplus of less than $200,000, the amount required by the !s,v?s o? THE financial record of the State charitable institutions for the three months ending Sept. 30 shows their total expense to have been $299,819.78; receipts not from the State, $29,915.87; total cost to State, $269,823.85. The total number of inmates for tho quarter was 8,685. The total number present at. the end oi iiiu qum an « .535, there being 4,658 males and 2,907 fe­ males. THREE fatal accidents, by which five lives were lost, occurred at Altoa. Tfain No. 4 of the Chicago and Alton luulroad struck a section-hand named John Madison at Mitchell, instantly killing him. Three colored men from Memphis, whose names ara unknown, went into a caisson of the Bellefontaine bridge, and, not understanding hoW to open the air-tight door, were smothered to death. Patrick O'Neil, city contrac­ tor for street cleaning, was thrown down and run over by a runaway team, and died from his injuries. THE Census Office has issued a bul­ letin on the manufactures of Quinoy. From this it appears that the popular* tion has increased less than 16 per cent., while the capital invested in manufactures has increased more than 50 per cent. The figures are so fall* tastio as to cast grave doubts on theft even approximate accuracy. They rep* resent that while the capital invested has increased 50 per cent., the wagei paid 85 per cent., and the number ot hands 50 per cent., the value of the m&~ terials used has increased less than 9 per cent., and the value of the product at the works only 24 per cent. Tl*# manufacturing establishments report­ ing in 1890 numbered 374. They had a capital of over $6,000,000, employed 5,000 hands, paid $2,383,571 in wagee» and manufac.ured goods worth $10;» 160,493. THE recent deolines in the price of cereals on the Chicago Board of Trad# have caused the failure of Pegram & Bro., extensive dealers in grain, agri* cultural implements, and wheel goods at Lincoln. Their liabilities are piaesd at $150,000, but it is feared they will greatly exceed that amount. A Mil <4 sale has been filed, transferring el] their property to E. L. Pegram, son o! the senior member of the firm. The liabilities are due principally to com­ mission men in Chicago, with whom tht firm speculated extensively in corn and wheat, the depreciation in prices drag­ ging them down. The assets are noth* ing, according to the transfer of tkt firm's property. Local oroditors, banks, business men, and farmers in Logan County are reported protected, and the new proprietor announces that his ob­ ject will be to first pay the farmers who are creditors with the grain in store. The firm had eight elevators In Logan County and did a hoslnese of $358,oe® annually. i Vital -Question. An exchange prints the saying of a small boy who, without knowing it, perhaps, bas begun to apply one of the most Important principles of the military art. "Did you see a boy about my size round the corner?" he inquired of an elderly gentleman who was passing. "Yes, 1 believe I did," said tho man. •'Did he look ugly?" "I didn't notice." , 5 •'Did he look scared?" "I don't know. Why?" «. "1 "Why. I heard he was round there, and I don't know whether he wants to lick me, or whether he's afraid I'm going to lick him. Wish I did." An ITnrortnnate Combination. There recent ly appeared in an Irish paDer this advertisement: "Want­ ed--A gentleman to undertake the sale of a patent medicine: the adver­ tiser guarantees that it will be profit­ able to the undertaker." This is even an unhappier mode of expression than that adopted recently in a local paper, when the editor "regretted to have to announce the death of Mr. So-and-So. but was not astonished to hear of the sad event, as deceased had been attended for some time by Dr. Smith.' '7 A SINGULAR occurrence, which might have resulted in a fearful wreck, took place on the Big Four, between Alton and St. Louis. A Chicago, Burlington and Qulncy engine was ooming off ilmt road, at W ann, to the main line of the Big Four when an engine of the latter road ran out on the track in front of it. The "Q" engineer believing that a col­ lision was inevitable jumped aud aban­ doned his engine to Its fate. The Big^ Four ran on to a siding and let the "Q* engine pass it. Then the latter ran away with no one on it at a lively rate. This made it necessary to clear the track all the way to East St. Louis and. every train was at once sidetraeksd. The runaway "died" at Nameokl, how* ever, and was captured and returned by train No. 7, which was over an fcovr late. V' - '., PETEB JOHNSON, an 18-year-old Danish lad, was arrested at Alton. Mar­ shal Sworts had been notified to be on the lookout for a man and a boy who had been jumping board bills all over the State. The boy stated that H. C. Nunemaker was the man wanted, and that he represented the Eureka Eleetarie Company, of Chicago. Johnson say* he worked at No. 1222 Wabash avenue, Chi­ cago, when he met Nunemaker, who In­ duced him to travel with him. The boy*» story regarding his treatment by Nune­ maker is horrible in the extreme. THE Chicago and Western Indiana Bailroad Company filed with the Secre­ tary of State resolutions authorising the execution of a mortgage to secure an additional loan of §2,500,000, beads to be issued bearing 6 per cent, inter­ est and maturing in 1932. A PBOMINENT young fanner named John Spencer, who lives eight miies south of Grayville, committed suteide' by hanging himself from a tree with a trace chain. He has been in poor health for some time and had grown despon­ dent, which S supposed to be the cause of the suicide. His father is one of the wealthiest men in the country. A NOTABLE wedding occurred ks Jacksonville on Tuesday evening, that of Miss May Beeslev. the soprano singer, who has charmed so many peo­ ple on both sides of the ocean, and Alexander Adams, of Pittsburg, an iron manufacturer, and one of the prominent men of the smoky city. THE Governor formally requests the State Department at Washington to Issue extradition papers on tfcsGw* man Government for Jacob David, Wanted in Chicago for forgeiy der arrest tn Germany. foUcw** Charles Hefter, an attache of fMSytfltnt Ross' office, at Chicago. looted to make the trip to Germany, to bring back Jesse* I>» - a* m *;