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c^rarn paindralc* li VAM S'.YKE, Editor «MCH*NRY, IIXTHOI8. WE are exultlngly told teat there «re minarefa on the World's Fair ground which pierce the very clouds. Clouds (it Chicago smoke explains the apparent exaggeration. $ome of the riotous Russians who killed ten doctors for trying to save theui »rom cholera realize their error now. They have lieen sentenced to Mleatb, and a few of them even to Siberia. black letters were the Words, **W6 mourn our loss." The New Yorker evidently thought Gotham was at* tending the funeral of the discoverer. This is an educational year. h;V?.. Cx'i • ifx4-. •! '• i# #V '.21'" »' < &a;: THE kind ot patriotism which tears MroWn the flags of other nations when ?they are flying to do lienor to this, is not the patriotism which qphold$ its *own flag when active support i| lie- «eessary. A BAGGED vagrant who had $17, •000 In bank is the latest sensation in » New York police court The judge nought to have kept h|m until he promised to wash up and wear clean •clothes. ^6HH KATES O( Cincinnati, HORNS with a sense of wronsr. Having one sound kidney, and one somewhat out of repair, it was deemed wise to re­ move the damaged member. The doc­ tor, somewhat, distraught at the responsibility of searching out and amputating so important an organ, plucked from its hiding place the sound kidney, leaving the invalid one to do double duty. When Kates awoke to a realization of the disastei he sued the doctor for damages, and, needing material evidence, also sued for the missing cog of his own works. The case is pending, but it is sate tc assume that popular sympathv is witu Kates. THE surplus of the Pullman Palace Car Company for the past year amoun ted to over three and a quarter millions of dollars, not to mention 'tips paid to porters. Stock in such a •concern would be well worth having. MRS. E. BUBD ' GRIJBB has been •elected ensign of her husband's old regiment, the Twenty-third New Jersey, and it will be well, for the <Colonel to understand that military discipline will have to be velvet lined when she is on duty. v^BE Princess of Wales and her •daughters have attended a memorial service in'honor of Tennyson, and Tiaving thus made the amende honor­ able, it is to be hoped the Radical •press will let the Prince enjoy his faces and his visiting in peace. THE admirers of Columbus need *iot let their angry passions rise at the present attacks on his character and memory, The young man whojburnt the temple of Diana, one of the won- •ders of the world, confessed it was the only means he had to bring himself into-notice. / EDWARD BLAKE, the Canadian leader who got elected as a member •of the British House of Commons, is shrewd enough not to promise too much as to his future work in the House. He does, not want to start off like an avalanche and end like a mud puddle. > < Pro^'C. E. Monroe, who has re- jflignetMhe post of chemist at the Newport t0£pe<ft> station in order to .accept a cba'ir in the Columbian uni­ versity at Washington, once received 41 fright ^n the laboratory which .sud­ denly turned his hair white, although he now says he cannot recall the par­ ticulars. RATLROAD fares to Chicago from all parts of the country have been flxed at a reasonable sum,-but there are in­ dications that when the Exposition is opened and travel in that direction increases the roads will begin a wai with each other, and will cutv rates to a figure that will prove anything but profitable to them. While special rates for large parties or organiza­ tions going to the Fair would be legitimate, yet the average citizen ie willing to pay a fair sum for good traveling service, and this is rarely given him while the roads are cut­ ting rates to ridiculously small figures and cutting each other's thioats at the same time. Let the roads main­ tain a reasonable rate, and all con­ cerned will be better satisfied. ANOTHER poor fellow has been sent to his long home bv the fatal and dangerous "knock-out" It is true that one doctors says that the man died from concussion of the brain, caused by the violence of his fall af­ ter the blow, while another attrib­ utes the death directly to the blow it­ self. But these small disagreements will not bliqd the public to the fact that every little while the useless and reprehensible practice of fighting to a finish results in the death of some­ body. It is about time to regulate the responsibility of fighters, and tc see that their bouts stop short of the "knepk-out," which is so often dead­ ly. ^Ko man can be trained so that a severe blow may not kill him. Peo­ ple who pound each other stand on the danger line close to manslaugh­ ter and murder. EX-SENATQR EVARTS is now 74 years of age, and considering that he was never robust, and a worker -who •didn't know what it was to be tired, is remarkably well preserved. He «eems to be enjoying, in a quiet way, the sunset of a long and busy life, 4iad still clings to that venerable hat •of the 1872 vintage. WHEN a child is old enough to de­ cide matters for himself, and select his own way in life, it is , considered proof of sense, not waftt of duty, if he does not go on in the old parental ipath, knowing he can do better. But in dependencies of a nation desirous of going into the government business for themselves, such a course is termed treason. ' OYSTERS will be scarce. The re­ ports show that indisputably. Last season Baltimore bad to buy oysters from Long Island Sound. The In­ dications are that she will do the «ame this season--this, too, in the chief market of the Chesapeake Bay, which twelve years ago furnished 17,- 000,000 of the 26,000,000 bushels of oysters consumed in this country. CHICAGO has been in such a condi­ tion of delirious «xcitement that even fhe animals went on the spree. The great elephant kept chained up in Lincoln Park for the delectation of infant Illinoisians took it into his head that he wanted to celebrate,and he did so by overturning a few blocks of houses, uprooting a small forest or two and making the circumambient prairie tremble with the thundering of his trumpeting?. Then he startec for the exhibition, and if he had not been diverted by the pleasure of tear­ ing a milk wagon to pieces, and strew­ ing the milkman over a ten acre lot, he would have made short work of the costly Columbian pajaces • Be­ fore he was captured the majority of the visiting jays were able to swear that they had "seen the eleghant" as well as figuratively. |T is said that a wealthy brewer lias won over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars this season betting on horse-races, and that he intends to stop betting because be has been so successful. Everybody has heard of such things before. People who bet often talk that way, but they go on betting as before. It Is as old as time to make resolutions to do better and then break them. Isf1:. i OFEN-AIR mass-meetings are not as popular as they were a few years ago, and perhaps it is better thus. More than one case of pneumonia could doubtless be traced to the exposure at such a meeting, and the orator who stood bareheaded on the plat­ form for an hour was very lucky if he woke up the next morning free from a" cold. It is better and safer for all concerned that nearly all such meet­ ings are now held within doors. A NEW YORK paper says the mili­ tary and naval representatives of for­ eign governments were greatly inter­ ested in watching the State troops and the non-military bodies like the Turners, the German shooting so­ cieties, etc., which took part in the recent parade in that city. Foreign representatives are acquainted with the extent and resources of our regu lar army, and what they are most in­ terested in, from a military point of view, is the army which the United States could put into the field from civil life. They are quick to recog­ nize the availability of drilled bodies like the German Turners and shoot­ ing societies, who are well trained, athletic men and good marksmen. In addition to these there is a vast army of Knights of Pythias, Knights Templars and similar organizations, which are accustomed to drill move­ ment, and could soon be converted into soldiers. Of course, these bodies are not under government control, but in the event of a foreign war most ot them would be "in it" MARK TWAIN should not go abroad in search of interesting objects of his wit When he asked a countryman of Columbus who was sounding the praises &f the admiral, "Is he dead?" he doubtless fancied that in his own land such questions would be scorned as impertinent instead of answered as innocent -Otoe of the decorations in a Gotham window was a portrait of Gotambus draped in black. Below in Land for Three Cent* an Acre. One need not go to the far west to get land at low figures. The County Commissioners of Carbon County on Tuesday sold 10,000 acres of unre­ deemed mountain land. The tracts are in different parts of the county. Some of it was sold for less than three cents an acre. -The sale was differ­ ent from the usual treasurer's sale of unseated lands. The County Treas­ urer every two years puts up at pub­ lic auction unseated lands for the taxes that are charged against them. The purchaser cannot buy a tract for any less amount than the taxes and the former owner can redeem the tract at any time within two years, by refunding to the purchaser his ,money. All tracts not sold at the Treasurer's sale are turned over to the County Commissioners. The County Commissioners hold the tract for five years, and if during the mean­ time the taxes are still unpaid, it is then advertised, put up at auction and sold for whatever it will bring, regardless of the taxes that are charged against it That is the kind of a sale that was held on Tuesday. The only requirement was that a tract must not bring less than $10, so as to pay the costs, etc., of adver­ tising. --Altontowa, Gfctroiilcle» News ----TT" - • ,v" ,7 REPUBLICAN DEFEAT. SOME or THE CAUSES THAT BROUOHT IT ABOUT. They Accept the Situation Phnoeophlcally, and Will Continue to Stand by Their Principle*--Democrat* 'Will Bo Hold to Striet Aceoant. After the Battle. It Is idle to attempt to disguise the fact that the Republicans are sorely disappointed over the result of the election. They were United through­ out the country; they had a ticket which, in the matter of ability and character, was absolutely unassail­ able; they had the advantage of hav­ ing given the country an administra­ tion which commanded the respect and confidence of the whole people, and the commendation in many re­ spects of its political opponents; they had waged an honorable campaign upon clearly defined principles and policies which had been approval in their practical effect ftpon the busi­ ness of the country; in short, every­ thing which could commend a party to the favor of the people was on the side of the Republican ticket. There was nothing in the industrial and commercial condition of the country that was depressing to any considera­ ble number of people, notwithstand­ ing the charges of ruin and robbery made by the free-trade Democrats against the protective system. Those charges were not believed even by those making them--they were sim­ ply for effect upon the uninformed. As evidence of this or of the insin­ cerity of the Democrats on that ques­ tion is the course of Cleveland in backing squarely off the free-trade plank In the platform, by terming the theory the specter impossible of realization. There was nothing, then, In the condition of the country or the par­ ties that did not warrant the Repub­ licans in anticipating a victory, rea­ son in j? from rpsijit, nf four years ago. They have nothing in the way of mismanagement or deception, or lack of harmony in their ranks, or lack of effort in their cause to charge themselves with. They will accept the situation philosophically, and stand by their principles, believing that they have been struggling for the continuance of the policy best suited to promote the welfare of the country. The loss of New York was the be­ ginning if not the whole of this dis­ aster, and that was secured by the combination of the Democratic party with the disreputable Tammany or­ ganization on the basis of the spoils as the condition of its support The yielding of this demand by Cleveland is the most discreditable thing that can be ascribed to him in connection with the campaign just closed. It is something to be regretted from every possible point of view. By this trade, through which the victory of the Democracy was achieved, Tammany comes into control not only of the municipal patronage of New York City, but of the federal patronage of the whole state, and what that means its past history indicates as well as the career of David B. Hill. Any fear that the business inter­ ests of the country will suffer by the election of Mr. Cleveland is without foundation. Upon the question of the currency, which is the greatest of all questions, Mr. Cleveland can be trusted to do nothing* that will injuriously affect the credit of the nation--more than that, he may be •confidently expected to Interpose to prevent the accomplishment of fool­ ish legislation by Congress. Mr. Cleveland is, in fact, more nearly in accord with the Republican party upon the currency question than with his own party. For that we may be thankful.--Chicago Evening Journal. Democrats In a Dilemma. The election of Cleveland places him and the Democratic party in an embarrassing dilemma. The party which supports him is pledged by its platform to repeal the McKinley bill and to enact a tariff for revenue only. It will not do this, because it dare not do it if it could--and could net do it if it dare. But during the next four years it will have to face its broken pledges with ill that section of the party that were fooled into be­ lieving them sincere. It will make, as usual, a noisy parade of seeming to revise the tariff. If it shall under­ take to do so with any tariff scheme which seeks to subvert the protec­ tion which the McKinley bill affords to American industries, the attempt will only have the effect of demon­ strating the value and importance of that measure, and will arouse a popu- demonstrated its beneficial effects to an extent which ought to have over­ come the popular hostility which it excited before its real scope and pur­ pose and practical results became known. But two years is too short a time in which to at once work out the practical results of this great measure and to root them in the pub­ lic mind. If the Presidential elec­ tion could have been postponed for two years, the beneficial results of the McKinley bill as a whole would have been so firmly established in the convictions of the American people that the Renublican party would have peen Impregnably fortified against the assaults of the free-trad­ ers. As it is, the triumph of the Re­ publican party is only postponed for four years. Its policy will triumph in spite of the temporary political success of the opposition.--Pioneer Press. ^ WUI Hold Democrats Accountable. The St. Louis Globe Democrat, after conceding the Democratic Presiden­ tial victory, and yielding the House and Senate to the Democrats, says: "The Democrats, will be in undis­ puted control of all branches of the government for the first half of Cleveland's new term at least Their majority in the House will not be so great as it is in the present body, but it will be great enough to give them a decided preponderance on all questions on which partisan lines are drawn. They will thus be entire­ ly responsible for all the legislation ofx the two years beginning with March, 1893. Often in the past eighteen years control has been di­ vided owing to a lack of partisan harmony between the two branches of Congress or between one or both and the Executive, and for this rea­ son each party has been enabled to shirk responsibility for legislation in some degree. With the Democrats for the next two years, however, the situation will be different, They will have control and undisputed sway in all departments of the government, and the people will be able to hold them to a rigid accountability for the management of its affairs." The Triumph of the Slums. The vote of the South with the vote in the big cities is the mainstay of the Democratic party. If Illinois has gone for Altgeld and Cleveland, it is because of the enormous in­ crease in the population of Chicago. But for the overwhelming avalanche, of the Tammanyite swaim from the slums of Gotham, the electoral vote of the Empire State might have been saved for the Republican candidates. The San Francisco sand lots are re­ sponsible for the loss of California. The governmenf has been in a meas­ ure surrendered to the mob; but be­ tween the welfare of the country and the destructlveness of the mob stands a man with many good In­ stincts and a stubbornness of char­ ter which guarded thfe nation from free silver, and may shield it from other evite in the future.--Milwau­ kee Wisconsin. P°] lar^feeling in defense of that policy whifch could be awakened so effectu­ ally in no other way. It is easy enough to deal In generalities of de­ nunciation. But a tariff measure is necessarily a matter of specific detail, and the moment the Democratic party is forced to abandon its ground of negative criticism and frame an actual tariff policy upon the lines its leaders have been urging; the mo­ ment, in other words, it begins its threatened assault upon the Ameri­ can industries that have been or are being built up under the Republican protective policy, that moment will seal its doom with the people of this country. So that is the dilemma in which the election of Cleveland places the Democratic party. If it does noth­ ing with the tariff it will be damned for its broken pledges. If it does anything with the tariff it must strike at the foundation of the great industrial enterprises which so large­ ly contribute to the national pros­ perity, and will be damned still worse for menacing the country or inflicting upon it a reactionary policy of industrial and commercial disas­ ter. The election of Cleveland in 1892 thus insures beyond question the return to power of the Republi can party in 1896, and the permanent triumph of its policy.--Pioneer Press. THE Republicans have been de­ feated in the national contest, but they have made the best fight they knew how. They have done nothing which they are ashamed of. They have left nothing undone which could be done honorably. Were thSfc to tight the battle over again, they would adopt no other policies nor seek to change record. The Republicans suffered, as they have done for the last sixteen years, by the suppression of the votes of half a million of the Southern members of the party and the loss of the electoral votes of four States, to which their candidates are entitled. They suffered from the malignity of the Drys and by the un­ principled fusion agreements west of the Mississippi, which testified both to the dishonesty and utter lack of principle of the Democrats and the besotted ignorance of the Republi­ can Populists, the last-named of whom could not see that a vote for Weaver was one for Cleveland; and yet they would have won in spite of these things if the Democrats had made a frank free-trade fight aud had told the workingmen of this country just what it was that they intended to do when they lweld the reins of government. -- Chicago Tribune. THE evils which might naturally flow from the election of Mr. Cleve­ land was to a large extent prevented by the exhaustive campaign through which the country has passed. It was an educational campaign, and not among the least of its advantages has been the enlightenment of the Democratic leaders vand statesmen concerning the effect of their more radical pledges, if carried out as promised at Chicago. It is fairly cer­ tain now that the Democrats in au­ thority, including Mr. Cleveland, have no notion of carrying into effect the declaration that a protective tar­ iff is unconstitutional and a fraud. Both Mr. Cleveland and the orators who spoke for him during the cam­ paign modified, if they did not alto­ gether repudiate this declaration.-- Baltimore American. What the West Pay* for It* Sohooi*. The interest of the people of the West in education is Indicated in no better way than by the test of the dollar. The financial measurement of interest may be applied with the greatest accuracy and significance to the salaries paid for instruction, and also to the cost of the education of each pupil. The average salary a month paid each man teaching in the public schools of the United States is $42.43. The lowest below this aver­ age is the salary paid in those States known as the South Atlantic States, beginning with Delaware and ending with Florida, which is $28.11. The next lowest is represented in the States of the South Central division, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mis­ sissippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkan­ sas, which is $40.59. Above the average of $42.43 is found the salary paid in the North Central States, §43.09, and also the salary paid in the extreme Western States, which is $64.81. The highest average salary paid a month in any State to a man teaching in the public school is to be credited to Massachusetts, $108.88; but the next highest salary paid is that found in Colorado, $95.21. A study of the figures of salaries paid to women, who are teachers in the pub­ lic schools exhibits a similar result. The average salary each month paid in the United States is $34. |7. The States of the South Atlantic, fall be­ low this standard, with an average of $27.07, of the South Central division with an average of $43.45, of the North Atlantic division with an aver­ age of 832.4H, and also of the North Central division with an average of $34.07. But the States of the ex­ treme West rise above this standard, showing $86.62. It is thus made evident that the women teach­ ing in the schools of all the Western States, beginning with Ohio, receive an income considerably larger than that which their sisters receive who teach in the States of New England, in New York and Pennsylvania. Colorado pays its teachers wore tnan Massachusetts; Ohio gives its teach­ ers twice as much as Maine, and the teachers of Illinois receive more than twice what the teachers of Vermont receive.--Harpers. The Worth or a Ma Idea. •'Miss Keedick -- Dora, n began young Mr. Hippie, "Dora, dearest, I love you!" "So does Mr. Spatt," replied Dora. "I know it; but he can't love you as I do. It fen't in him." "But he says l am worth my weight in gold." "Dora, how much do you weigh?" asked the young m^n. *'Let me see," replied Dora, medi­ tatively. "What is my weight now?" "I suppose it is about 120 pounds." "No; it is not quite that. I never weighed over 113, and that was last winter. But what are you doing?" The young man had taken a pencil and an old letter from his pocket,and was figuring on the back of the en­ velope. "We'll call it 113," be said. "In 113 pounds there are sixteen times that many ounces, or 1,808 ounces. Now gold is quoted at $20.67 per ounce; 1,808 ounces at $20.67 per ounce amounts to $37,371.36." "What on earth are you doing. Mr. Hippie?" Miss Keedick demanded "Ifahi ascertaining the difference between Mr. Spatt's valuation tf you and my own estimate. His value of you. as reported by yourself, is pre­ cisely $37,371.36. The creature act­ ually has the audacity to place a cash value upon you, and one of such pal­ try proportions, too! Less than $40,- 000 for a superb and angelic being like yourself! It is figured down to cents even. Think of the odd 36 cents, dear! The very idea of lugging is the paltry copper cent as a meas­ ure of your value! Yet that is pre­ cisely what my rival has done. Now, Dora love, I value you at billions on billions of dol----" He did not finish. fjhe interrupted him with the exclamation, "I am yours, George!" The weeding will occur in about six weeks, says Harper's Bazar. Cause* of Defeat. What are the causes of this defeat of the Republican party? One does not need to go far to seek them. It has not yet recovered from the popu­ lar prejudices against the McKinley bill, which two years ago, just after Its enactment, rose like a deluge and swept away the Republican majority in Congress which had. enacted it. It la true that in these two years the McKinley bill taken as a whole had IT is needless to say that the result will be a great disappointment to Republicans, because they have con­ fidently relied upon the assurance of long-experienced leaders in different States, whose knowledg&pf the peo­ ple's wishes has rarely been defective. It has been hoped that theNsplendid results attained under President Jlar- rison's administration had placecfabe- yond doubt the maintenance of tne Republican policy for years to come.' jMpesult in doubt 1s therefore most disappointing, and, if it proves that a Democratic President and a Demo­ cratic Congress have been elected, the consequence to the business in­ dustries of the country will not be such as to insure that party a long lease of power.--rNew York Tribune. THE country has decreed a change of fiscal and industrial policy in the most prosperous time it has ever known. This is largely the result of the immense foreign vote in the great cities. The labor vote, largely for­ eign, ignorant of the extent of its prosperity, has been misused by dem­ agogues and has revolted against the best conditions it has ever known.-- Portland Oregonian. uVviw.*-' ' V ' . v ? * ON Southey'S appointment in 1813 the tierce was commuted into an annual payment of £27, in addition to the sal­ ary of £100. , x V -7/, , • > » 5 * ' .rV- „ " Platitudinous People. In a world Of quotations, literary and marketable, it is difficult for most human kind to avoid lisping in plat­ itudes, lor the platitudes come. Everyone has an acquaintance who uses phrases that are so threadbare that the winds would whistle scorn of them. It is a mortifying oc?upa- tion to watch one's own conversation and see how little of originality of expression there is in it But there is hilarious entertainment in watch­ ing the conversation of your friends, to say nothing of j'our most intimate enemies. This atones to you for an occasional suspicion that you do not always sparkle with originality or cor­ uscate with wit These last three words show how easy it is to slide into phrases which are almost tire­ some from their familiarity. The wise use of the platitude has kept many a preacher in his pulpit has aided many a politician to achieve power and has built up the fortune of more than one popular novelist of the goody-goody, school. But it is in every day life, in the common re­ lations of workihg and visiting and in the interchange of fragmentary scraps of talk, that the platitude has its chance. It is less endurable than absolute slang, which a delicate mind may resent as coarse or accept as novel; it intrudes with dull decision of its own right to come into daily speech, and there is no way to get around it Usually the platitude ap- "pe^rs with mildly jocose mien, de­ manding a more or less smiling recog­ nition of its utterance. Then it is that it stings a sensitive soul, and either transforms the sensitive soul's 5wiier into a paragon of good humor, i martyr of tame responsiveness, or it sours a sensitive soul and makes it ribber protests, in secret agony, against its cruel environment--Bos­ ton Transcript An Englishman's Novel Appliance of Oiw l»» Pipe and Telephone Circuit. Frederick J. Smith of Trinity Col­ lege. Oxford, explains in Nature a curious way of finding the depth of a piece of water at a distance. "About two years ago, " he says, "I wished to know from time to time the rate at which a river was rising after a fall of rain. The river Was a consider­ able distance from the spot where its height was to be known. By means of the combinatisA of two organ pipes and a telephonic circuit described in the following lines I have been able to make the required measurement within rather close limits. At the rivcr%tation an organ pipe was fixed vertically in an inverted position, so that the water in the river acted as a stopper to the pipe, and the rise or fall of the water determined the note it gave when blown by a small bel­ lows driven by a very small water wheel. A microphone was attached to the upper end of the organ pipe; this was in circuit with a wire lead­ ing to a town station at some dis­ tance; at the town station there was an exactly similar organ pipe which couia be lowered into & vessel full oi water while it was soundltig. By means of the telephone the note given by the pipe at the river was clearly heard at the town station; then the or­ gan pipe at this station was lowered or raised by hand until it gave the same note. The lengths of the organ pipes under water at the two stations were then equal, so that the height of the water in the distant river was known. "The determination can be made in less than a minute by anyone who can recognize the agreement of two similar notes. The arrangement when first tested was so placed that the height ot water at two places near together might be easily com- pared. I found that a iad> with an average ear for musical sounds was able to get the two heights to agree within one-eighth of an inch of each other, while a person with an edu­ cated ear. adjusted the instrument immediately to almost exart agree­ ment. The total height to he meas­ ured was seventeen inches. A differ­ ence of temperature at the two sta­ tions would make a small difference in the observed heights. For in­ stance, taking a note caused by 250 vibrations per second a difference of 10 degrees C between the tempera­ ture of the two stations (one not likely to occur) would make a differ- erence of about 0.02 feet in the height* a quantity of no moment in such a class of measurements. The organ pipes were of square section and made of metal to resist the action of thr water." A Prosperous Shaker Colony. No more prosperous colony of Shak­ ers can be found than that near High Bridge, Ky., in one of the most beau tiful sections of the blue-grass coun­ try. These Shakers originally camc from Mount Lebanon, Ohio, where there is still a wealthy settlement ol th?se people. Thfc migration to Ken­ tucky was made in 1805, while the Indians still roamed through its for est The village which they founded is known as Pleasant Hill or Shaker town. Pleasant Hill is the old home of the late Bishop H. L. Eades, the author of "Shaker Theologv," to which Count Leo Tolstoi, in his "Kreutzer Sonata," made reference *on the subject of celibacy and moral­ ity. The Pleasant Hill Shakers num­ ber 200, and live in three-story brick houses in the midst of 3,500 acres ol fertile land. Their principal occupa­ tion is stock raising, but they alsc make brooms, weaving-looms, spin­ ning-wheels, cedar buckets and wooden ware generally. Dr. Penne- baker, one of the leading Shakers, who was interviewed the other day, said that the name of the society was given during a famous religious re­ vival in Kentucky, early in the cen­ tury, "when uhe devotional exercises were characterized by a great deal of physical agitatioa." Any one of good character who believed in the tenets of the ordpr and was willing to work for the necessaries of life, was re ceived into it--no matter what hap pened to be his or her nationality "Do vou not think," he was asked "if you should permit marriage under regulations as to health, mental at tributes, and moral disposition, you could in time build upa much grauder society and do far more good for hu manity?" The doctor said: "In an swer to that I would refer to the numerous communistic experiments made in the United States in the last fifty years, none of which, so far as we are informed, has been a success religiously, and but few financially." re- The Point of Ke.Memblaqpe. Dinwiddle--Young l?e Sappy minds me of a locomotive. Dukame--Because he is so fast, I suppose? Dinwiddle--No; because the loco­ motive's headlight is as conspicuous is De Sappy's light, head. --Pittsburgh "hronicla THERE are not things for married pie imagine as mai^y wicke* men to do as peo- Perftames. One Mercutio Frangipani, who lived in 1493, was a botanist and traveler, famous as being one of the Columbus expedition when they visited the West India Islands. The sailors, as they approached Antigua, discovered a delicious fragrance in the air. .This, Mercutio told t.iem, must be derived from sweet-smelling flow­ ers. On landing, they found vast quantities of flowers in full bloom, rendering the air redolent with rich odor, and from this plant, which the present inhabitants of Antigua call the Frangipani flower, is distilled that exquisite fragrance which is still so popular in fashionable circles This has the merit of being the most lasting perfume made. The grandson of this nobleman, the Marquis Frangipani, invented a method of perfuming gloves, which, when so perfumed, bore the name of "Frangipani gloves. Although the sale of perfumes was at first strictly prohibited in Rome, their employment became more and more extravagant, until even the eagles and standards were thought nnfit to face the barbarian hosts of Northern Europe unless they had been duly anointed before battle; and should the engagement have Droved successful, the ceremony was re­ peated. Such was the demand for the luxury, that the chief street of Capua was occupied solely by perfumers. The incense burnt by Nero upon the funeral pyre of his wife, Poppuea, exceeded the annual production of spices in Arabia. At a rather earlier period, Plaucus, when proscribed by the triumvirs, was betrayed by his perfumes. His place of concealment got wind, §nd discovered him to his pursuers. Si-"'**" X BOBFTR OR STARTLING* FAITH-* FULLY RECORDBD. Voider at Work at Cat**--A" lain Caught and JaUed at ^Tsrissa Mt». X» M. Glover Is Dead at Wichita. From Par and Near. W. J. tJj»i>Eitwooi>, ex-Judge of 8fc» Clair County, a Democratic leader Southern Illinois, dropped dead of he disease. AT Springfield Mrs. Adeiia Smith died after a painful illness. She was the wife of De Witt 8mith, President of tbo Illinois National Bank, of Springfield^ and the daughter of Justice Andrew Bw McConnell. WHILE John Bell and his wife, living a few miles west of Jacksonville, wet® absent from home their 18-months-old ehild managed in some way to get to tlw stove and was so frightfully burned that it only lived a few hours. '• A DISPATCH received at Sprlngileift announced the death at "Wichita, haa«» of Mrs. Glover, widow of the Kev„ Dr. L. M. Glover, who for thirty-two vears was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Jacksonville, and the mother of L. B. Glover, of Chicago. The fun­ eral will take place at Jacksonville. .* , A TRAMP who assaulted Miss Maty Pollock, the daughter of a farmer resid­ ing near Marissa, was captured by A SHERIFFS posse. He was safely lodged in the coutfty jail. He gave his name as Albert Schaeffer, aged 36, and ht% home Montreal. Miss Pollock is still ill a precarious condition, and her re­ covery is considered doubtful. The fel­ low called at the house of Farmer Pol­ lock and asked for food. Miss Mary was at home alone. She gave the tramp food and turned to attend to her house* hold duties, when the villain seized hep and assaulted her. ' THE faculty and young women of! Monticello Seminary at Alton eele-v brated the fourth anniversary of th» burning of the seuiinary buildings in » novel manner. The fever of political excitement penetrated the seclusion of the seminary, and the happy idea of eombininc the celebration with a valve for the suppressed political feed­ ing presented itself to Miss Haskal.' Accordingly the young women went allowed to have a rally, or combination; of rallies, each party marching with flags and banners, and the various pro-! cessions Anally resolving themselves, into one column, which entered v the> banquet hall. The parade was an. amusing affair. THE other day a young man, giving his name as M. M. iocke, presented ant order for $18 at the Pacific Express office! In Cairo. It was correetly drawn, and! the agent cashed it. Later Locke pre-4 sented several other orders to clothing! merchants, and succeeded in raising! about $75. One merchant sent his or^ der to the office to be cashed, when a| comparison with the first showed dif­ ferent signatures. Forgery was at oneei suspected, and an active search com*! menced. Locke was found at the nois Central depot, waiting for a traiiui On his person were found papers thato bore the naraeof J. H. Shuckling, and indicated that he had been a railroad! agent and telegraph operator at Eada. Col., and had worked at Sedalia, Mo., and Houston, Tex. A package of Pa­ cific Express money order blanks was also found on his person. ? ? -•m THE first reports- sent oat about tlM failure of Pegram & Kro.. of Lincoln, are proved substantially correct. Tha liabilties are $250,000. The local banks are secured, and the farmers of Logai^ County are said ta be, but no settle-; ments have so far been reported. Farm­ ers are besieging the firm who displayed much diplomacy in disposing of then* for the timo being. The firm handled! one-third the prain of the county, and the farmer creditors aro more numerous than at first thought. The represents-' tives of commission houses, the agents of agricultural and wheel establish*? ments began arriving early. They gained nothing beyond promisee. Nine- ty-fiv i thousand dollars' worth of prop-' crty will be applied io the payment cC the farmers' claims. There are threat* of litigation and conn er claims of Befe tlement, , JOHN NICHOLAS RTENRBOC# commits ted'Suiclde at Chicago by blowing oat his brains with a revolver. Steinbock was 61 years old and ieaves a wife and three children. He was engaged in tbs milk businoss and was Jh coinfortabls circum^ances, owning the propei-tjf where ne lived and also ah orange giovs In Florida. For years Steinbock had been an inveterate smoker, and his family believe this affected his mind» For some time he had been despondeid( over imaginary property troubles. 1 AN unidentified man was found at Washington and Franklin streets, Chi» cago, in a dying condition. He wa£ taken to the County Hospital, but diod soon after reaching there. When found by Officer Morrison, of the Central Sta* tiou, he was shivering with the cold^ and his pinched features showed signs of hunger. He was miserably clad antf was without a shfrt. There were no marks of violence upon his person, and the police are of the opinion that ths man's death was due to exposure and want. THE stockholders of the Georgia^;' Alabama Investment and Development Company are making efforts to regais the money sunk in that enterprise*. Gen. B. F. Butler, the former president of the company, has written a letter t# B. A. Osgood, chairman of the investi? prating committee representing the Net# England stockholders, in which he ex.* presses the op:nion that the proper!®" still owned by the company is sufficienK* to reimburse stockholders and save them from loss if the property is prop* crly handled. An appeal to stockhold­ ers is issued by the committee, askinjf them to contribute money to further th«t Investigation and redeem the property^ There are 5,COO stockholders in Illinois* and for their benefit the committee Is a§ the Grand Pacific, Chicago, and wilt. soon go to Tallapoosa, Ga., to oontinas v its lnvest'gation. A HEAVY snowstorm began at Cairo , • on Wednesday forenoon and continued all day and all night. As the leaves . -|: were still green on the trees the weight. of the snow on them broke off the limbe* /| and fine shade trees were ruined ONE of the most remarkable election -A, ; bets made Is that of Clerk Shaffer, ot ' the Victoria Hotel, Chicago. 8haffer it .s-4 J a lampaut Republican.' His bet was* jj made with an old Deipocrat cf Eat*. h Claire, Wis. Shaffer has lost, and wilf wear a straw hat during the chilly daya of winter and a heavy friese overcoat*»||| during next summer. * j$3l AN unknown man was instantly killed; by a fast passenger train on the Chi- cago and Northwestern Boad at Cuyler. The train w<ts late and Waa running.;. about thirty miles an hour. " AT Westfleld on the day of election Dr. Parcet shot Levi Watson with a. shotgun. Parcet was drunk and Wst- f-on, a special policeman, took his to> his office. When leaving th« doetoi*S; oiJUe Watson looked around, when Par­ cet discharged one barrel of tltegus^: the shot striking Watson in th* fees. He then discharged the other barrel, tbs ;( shot striking him in the b: east sad shoulders. W atson is a boat 0$ yeare ot age and is not expected to 11m t Pareet was arrested. II 'i • Y-v •*&./;!* •#>'/ J 5