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•*r?f" * • v**> DOT? OF REPUBLICANS, but the ;We* KWH9-M smm fiMn SPfjW »•>«$>i:;r. %r-i\ A WARNING NOTE TO OUR PAR- ; i • TY IN CONGRESS. {KiActtM la th« gnttv Witt Attempt t* .. 'Bep«blie»n* to Pnm Falsa tot Their Trust--Preparing to Bald the TMMmgr. m Oemocrau la w OIlrmnuL :z^he Republican party is confronted t by conditions which have not been ' presented before, since the party was called into existence by the uprising fe of Northern intelligence and love of-liberty against the arrogant dom- f ination of a slaveholding aristocracy. ;y"' Until the 4th of March next, says the New York Press, there can be no - national legislation without the ac­ quiesce nee and co-operation of the 'Republican President and Senate. After the 4th of March the Demo- ^ crats will have control of the gov- ernmenfc. The nation, as it stands, f is a monument of the success; the ^patriotism, and the wisdom of Repub- Ilican rule, virtually uninterrupted for /_ more than 30 years. The Republican record is without a blot. Loyalty to jf ^ the Union, fidelity to free institu- tions and the protection of American ( industry--these are the principles of p a - the party, and nobly have they been ^ sustained: The verdict has gone i;V forth that the Republican party shall give up for the present its steward* B-. ship. To that decree Republicans P bow with the same loyalty with which • they have always obeyed the national will. The party goes forth into exile, obedient, like Aristides, to the people's decree, but conscious, like •: Aristides, that its only crime is that many have grown weary of hearing it called "The Just." „ Under these circumstances, it would be the height of folly for any Republican to give even the slightest aid to the enemy in impairing or un- derminiisa the structure which Re­ publicans have created. The De­ mocracy, conscious of the falsehood of its pretensions in the recent cam­ paign, is eagerly looking for some tendency on the part of Republicans to assist it in escapiug the dilemma in which the Democratic party will be placed by complete control of the government. The shrewder leaders of the party, who do not feel, like Cleveland, that thei^r political careers will terminate at the close of four years, are riiost anxious to in­ volve Republicans in responsibility ; for Democratic attempts to redeem Democratic promises. Those leaders know that the Democracy must do something to prove that the protec­ tion of American industry is all that the Democratic platform, orators and press have denounced it to be; or else that the Democracy will stand self- convicted as a party which has ac­ quired power under knavish, false ^ and fraudulent pretenses. The Dem­ ocrats, according to report, have va­ rious schemes for getting out of their dilemma, and all the schemes include an effort to induce Republicans in the Senate to prove false to the trust ' of their constituents. .Whatever variety of form Demo­ cratic plans for .using Republicans as cat's-paws may assume, they should be utterly ignored and repudiated. J There is not the slightest ground or excuse for any Republican to assist the Democrats, either by consenting to a s^called tariff commission or by ' passing House bills repealing portions of the McKinley law, or in any other way. The country is all right in the form th^t Republicans have placed it, and in the form in which the Re- pubficttp administration proposes to leave it. The great State of Penn­ sylvania .has repeated, by an emphat­ ic majority, its indorsement of the protective principle. New England has ag^aiu been heard with no uncer- tain vofce: Facts are coming out every day which show that in several of th6 States which appeared to change their allegiance the tariff was a sec­ ondary consideration. Wisconsin, and eVeri Illinois, are shown to have fceen carried by the Democrats >on what is called the school question-- 1% an appeal against American institu- „ •'tions to the prejudices of foreigners • V not able to speak the American lan- guage. The startling statement is ;jijkraade. and with strong evidence to Sustain it, that the Democrats car- ricd Wyoming chiefly by the aid of •&:£i eait'c thieves and their sympathizers. K p Perhaps, after ail, there is nothing < •• surprising in this, for, apart from the votes of the worst elements, New . , York would be a surely Republican State. There is nothing, therefore, in the J v - returns of the recent election which ' ^ would in the slightest degree justify ,v"3 any Republican in departing from # the principles of his party or in giv­ ing aid and comfort to the party of ; " - free trade. On the contrary, the sit- !> uation.makes It all the more incum- £' bent upon Republicans to be united and firm in the advocacy and support of Republican principles, and to re- move by education through the press Pf C' and other agencies the ignorance and " "misapprehension which made a Dem- j ocratie victory possible. b over to Democrat f : prcv<*n6 a deficit adanpistration, * be/ enough left ^country against A MOT PLACET OffCI5 The Democi Mr. Cleveland the repeal of th< denounced the "si icy of the RepubH procity is part of the and the Democratic Oft WtlflJl promised .tariff and fc>city"* pol- n party. Reci- Mclvinley law, party is thus committed to the repeal of both. Is reciprocity "a sham?" The Sec­ retary of the Treasury in hfs recent annual report presents figures show­ ing that the total values of our im­ ports and domestic exports of mer­ chandise, in our trade wttj| countries with which we have reciprocity treaties, during the periods since those treaties have been in force to Sept. 30, 1892, as compared with cor­ responding periods prior to the treat­ ies, have teen as follow$t Prior,*©, treaty. Since treaty. Domestic exports- Germany and Anstria- Hungary. $47,673,750 $57,#99,0fi4 American countries.... 54,«13,598 Imports- Germany and Anatria- Hunitary <W,5G6,M$ ss>,(574,331 American countries 19C.07'J,743 289,266.473 it thus appears that the total in­ crease in the value of our exports to all the countries with which we have reciprocity agreements has been $20,- 772,621, while the increase in our imports from these countries since the agreements went into effect has been $84,294,525. This increase has been entirely in imports from South American countries. Taking Cuba as an illustration of the effects of reciprocity, statistics show that our exports tr» that island for the thir­ teen months ended Sept. 30, 1862, after the treaty of reciprocity, over the value of like exports during the corresponding period prior was $9,114,350, while the increase in im­ ports was $15,955,969.,--Indianapolis Journal. The Silver IAW of 1890, . Senator Wilson, of Iowa, takes the view that it will be impossible to re­ peal the silver law of 1890 this win­ ter unless some other measure pro­ viding either for as large an absorp­ tion of the metal or for free coinage is substituted for it. The same view is known to be entertained by many members of each branch of Congress. If this be the correct view the law, of course, had better stand a while longer, for any other act that would call for like purchases would almost inevitably be open to the chief objec­ tions which this one encounters, while a change to free silver would decidedly and emphatically be a change for the worse. The present law, it is remembered, was the result of a compromise between those who stuck to the Bland-Allison act of 1878, but who were determined to cut down the purchases at the earliest opportunity, on the one side, and the extremists on the other, who wanted the mints thrown wide open to sil­ ver. Senator Sherman did more than any one man to bring about the com­ promise. He did it in order to defeat free silver. The alternatives were this measure and the unrestricted coinage of the white metaJ, and the least harmful was chosen. If we did not get this act we would Itave got something worse. It is on this ground alone that the law is defensible. But many of those who voted for the act are now in favor of its repeal, and bills to bring this about are before each branch of Congress.--Globc- Democrat. * AaKarlySeasloo, If our Democratic brethren have reasons for the faith that is in them, let them also have the courage of their convictions. An early session is indispensable to the proper per­ formance of their promises to the country. That the contract is a large one, involving much labor and careful deliberation, is only an addi­ tional argument for taking time by the forelock.--Washington Post. Not the Only One. President Harrison evidently be­ lieves that the Democrats will have a sweet time increasing the prosperity of the countrv by adopting legisla­ tion that must result in the reduc­ tion of wages. And he is not the only one who thinks so.--Philadel­ phia Inquirer. I'rcparlujt to Raid the Treaaurjr. In his recent message to Congress President Harrison sounded a note of warning in relation to claims against the United States, amounting to about $400,000,000, for losses in­ curred during the war. These claims are nearly all from the South, and arc presented in behalf of parties who allege loyalty to the Union C4USC. It is a sinister as well as sig­ nificant fact that the Democrat and mugwump organs, which devote col­ umns to assailing the idea that pen­ sions ought to be paid to Union vet­ erans, have not a word to utter against this enormous danger threat­ ening the Treasury and the revenue. There is all the more reason, there­ fore, that Republicans in Congress should be on the qui vive against this organized army of raiders, who will undoubtedly descend upefti the com­ ing Democratic administration as likely to favor their schemes. Nearly these claims may safely be set down,as fraudulent pretexts for ob­ taining money from the Treasury to reiii&urse persons who have no meri­ torious claim against the Govern- them-! REBEL war claims against the Gov­ ernment now amoufit to $400,000,000 --so Attorney General Miller says in his annual report, and he is in a posi­ tion to keep track of them. Their market value has increased apprecia­ ble since the second week in Novem­ ber.--Minneapolis Tribune. The President's Mpnitage. TAKEN as a whole the paper is one of the best that have emanated from the White House.--Kansas City Jour­ nal. PRESIDENT HARRISON'S message outlines the affairs of a great nation as no small man could do it.--Hart­ ford Courant. THE message is an admirable vin­ dication of Republican policy and a sagacious prognostic of events about to be.--Chicago Inter Ocean. PRESIDENT HARRISON'S message is practical and business-like in its con­ tent®, earnest, dignified and unparti- san in its tone.--Chicago Tribune. No RULER that has ever lived has been able to submit such an exhibit of national progress and abounding prosperity as the n*essage presents.-- IJittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. IT leaves nothing unsaid that should be said, and say3 nothing that requires unsaying as to the work of the administration, which is now about to close.--Washington Post. DEMOCRATS and assistant Demo­ crats flinch at the President's scorch­ ing words, and Republicans admire th?. courage and consistency of the strong man who stands right up to his convictions in defeat.--Boston i Journal. J IT is the utterance of a thoroughly ! sincere and public-spirited official, j who has always, in meeting the du- j ties of his position, shown an intelli- [ gent desire to advance the interests of his country.--St. Louis Globe- Democrat. IT is an exhibit of material and in-nicnt, and who either were , , . selves, or #ho represent those wh<^| ®us^ria^ progress, of national growth were, in sympathy with the rebellion. ; prosperity, of honest, capable A The Truth Aboat It. The truth about the condition of the trcafory is very simple. There is and intelligent administration such as has never before been made by any 1'resident of the United State*-- Detroit Tribune. an Oflteer«rttte Vlstttnr tnmh the-Hwwerd. Lieutenant Senez, the second officer of the French irun-boat Hussard, now lying in the North River, is a young man who has acquired considerable reputation for courage and enterprise among his teliow-officers of the French navy. Iri January, 1885 when General Briere dc l'lsle, Commander- in-Chief of the French expedition to Tonkin, decided to carry the war into Chinese territory, he sent Commander Domine and 600 men to occupy the citadel of Thuyen-quan. This fortress stands at the entrance of the passes which lead westward to- ward Yunnan, and was a point which had to be occupied in order to keep communication open between the French advance column and the sea. Two gun-boats, sixty feet in length and of tllteen feet beam each, armed with a six-inch breech-loading rifle and two Gatling guns, with a crew of fifteen men all told, were assigned to duty in the Clear River to keep open communication between Thuyen-quan and Sontay. One gun-boat was com­ manded by Lieutenant Senez, the other by Lieutenant de Blaincourt The French column, in command of General Neg-rier, had hardly started through the mountain passes when the Chipesc army corps of Yunnan, 12i 000 strong, came down from Lao- kai toward the Delta of the Red River and attacked Thuven-quan. The Chinese General besieged the citadel and expected to capture it easily on account of the greater numerical force of his army and the power of his modern artillery. But he scon found that he could do nothing as long the two gun-boats kept pro­ visioning the fort. He therefore es­ tablished four batteries of Krupp guns six miles below Thuyen-quan, at a point on the rivfer where the rocky shores narrowed find turned the stream into foaming rapids. On the most prominent rock* he built an ad­ ditional batterv of barbette guns. To make the place even more impas­ sable, the Chinese Commander filled two junks with stone and sank them in mid-stream. When Senez and de Blaincourt found their retreat cut off they used their guns to defend the fort. But at the end of a bombardment of thirty-six days two-thirds of the French garrison and most of the offi­ cers had been killed. A breach had been made in the wall3 at which Com­ mander Domine had l een compelled to repulse seven assaults of Chinese infantry, and still the siege artillery of the enemy was pounding away in attempts to make other openings in the defenses. The commander of Thuyen-quan saw that something must be done to save the men still left. In a few hours it was decided to send a gun-boat down the river. The decks and machinery were protected by additional steel plates, and Lieu­ tenant Senez was put in command. The craft started down stream, and in a short while had arrived in sight of the rapids. The officer rang for full speed, and steered straight ahead toward the obstructions. A shower of shells and cannon balls was sent from the shore batteries, and the pro­ tected infantry on the rocks kept up a .hail of bullet*. Lieutenant Senez was wounded eight times and thirteen out of the fifteen of his crew were killed. The steel protective plates were blown to atoms, and the whole top hamper of the boat was torn dway, but the gun-boat got by the barricade and reached Hai-Phong in safety. There Senez found General xJriere de l'lsle with 6,000 men. In three days, by means of forced marches, these troops reached Thuy- en-auan, and after a bloody tight re­ lieved the fort, which must have sur* rendered before night. --New YoPk SUn. both Che Irorsc and the ox tribes are imports i»t» South America, and they are now more plentiful there than In the countries-they came from. •!>«* A Piece of Adrlcr. _ In our/peeper was an old man who wai going to Buffalo. He looked feeble a^d ill and he had a bad cough. About the time we were ready to go to sleep his cough grew worse, and after a bit one man in particular be­ gan to kick. He' called to the con­ ductor and the porter and made more fuss than the man with the cough. He got up and went to bed again, and got op a second time, and it was 2 o'clock in the morning before any of us got anv sleep. When we turned out in the morning the kicker was still kicking, says the New York Sun. "Look here, pt.rter,'* he said to that official, "has that old chap with the cough got off yet?" "No. sah.r' "Where is he?" "Oberdar, sah. He hain't dun got upyit." "Well, when he does 1 want to give him a piece of advice." "Yes, sah." Fifteen minutes later, as the kicker was on his way to the dining-car, he stopped at the old man's berth and said: "Come, old man, it's time to get up and cough!" Receiving no answer, he parted the curtains and looked in and next in­ stant fell into a seat across the aisle. We went to see what was the matter and found the old man dead and col'd, with his hands locked across his breast. • He had been dead lor two or three hours. "Have you any advice to offer him?" one of the men queried of the kicker, who sat pale and trembling. At that moment the train came to a halt at a station and the kicker grabbed for his grip and disappeared from the train without a word in reply; Ralflth'i Death. The record of men who live nobly may be worthily supplemented by that of the souls who depart this lite like Christian gentlemen. Charles I. and Louis XYI. went through the ordeal of execution with the fine solemnity befitting a king in such extremity; and Sir Walter Raleigh died in a manner befitting his life and purposes. On the morning of his execution he turned to his old friend, Sir Hugh Creston. who had tried to approach the scaffold and was repulsed by the sheriff, with the smiling remark: "Never fear but I shall have a place: A little later a very bald man pressed forward to see Raleigh and pray with him. Sir Walter took off his own embroidered cap, and placed it on the head of this spectator, say­ ing: "Take this, good friend, to remem­ ber me, for you have more need of It than I." "Farewell, my lords," he said to the courtiers who came to take af­ fectionate leave of him. "I have a long journey before me, and I must .say good-by." Then he reached thq. scaffold, and said, as he did so, "Now I am going to God." He touched the axe gently, and continued: "This is a sharp medicine, hut it will cure all diseases." The very executioner shrank from beheading him, but the illustrious prisoner exclaimed: "What dost thou fear? Strike, man!" and so ended a gentle and (ear* less life. --Youth's Companion. CURED BY t**' TtHMf ' Ph.vnlrlan Ertr Afl ing to get a good look at the country. Proceeding to the wash-room section I discovered, to my utter amazement, a tall, raw-boned man with one foot in the marble wash-bowl. The ex­ tremity couid not have been less than thirteen inches in length, and. al­ though the bowl was of the ordinary hc had t,nished the attendant kindly size, and filled to the top with water, ; yet his toes were nowhere submerged, j The sipho took the wind out of me. | "'Look here,'1 said, 'that bowl is j not for the feet, but for the face and ; hands. You should have taken a bath before starting on your trip' and immediately removed the cup from his hand. The drinkers always felt that "delightful tingling sensa­ tion," and rejoiced that they had found the fountain of youth. Some imagined they even felt the new blood coursing through their veins. A small induction coil ingeniously con- j ceale l and connected with the cup ' and railing was a cheap method for i producing that "invigorating feei- ! ing."--Electrical Review. "He looked at inc for a moment, and then replied: 'I have always been accustomed to ' wash my feet once a week, and the time being up thi s morning,! thought I would give them a little souse and kinder soften up my corns, as they were beginning to give me some uneasiness. You se •. 1 wear home-made woolen socks, and they cause considerable perspira­ tion, and if 1 didn't throw a little cold water over my feet at least one e a week, I would have the entire car to myself this wash out of the way in that- At the farm j j1(J wante(j ̂ jjave circulate the wash basin serves the same pur- j jnsi£je an(j outside of his body and to pose, and I know that, my family is > cn(j r],j0riS 0f winter as particular as anybody.' j came oa he 8pUrned thick clothing, \«ri,morni?K I w^hed in another whic^ j insisted on wearing. If we Whpn rolutinfT r.np intM/lpnt. t,n ' - .. ° rode together, the heaviest garment A Victim to HI* Theory. Some time ago an eminent Cincin­ nati physician.said: "When I began the practice of medicine a young man whose constitu­ tion was even more powerful than my 1 wouiu nave uic entire tar . QWn starte j In the practice wlth me befcreloM. As for as nt'| Hls pet thl,ory WHS that a mnn 1 1 . [ couUln't have too much fresh air. car. When relating the incident to a fellow-passenger, he said, .-why, I know that old chaft he is worth at least $1,000,000, but he has no more id'a.of the ordinary rules of pro­ priety than a prairie hog.'"--Great Divide. Ivory »nd the Preservation or the Elephant. The number of elephants killed for the sake of their ivory is every year becoming larger in proportion to the number of existing animal?, and at the present rate of slaughter the main source of the ivory supply will toon become extinct. An English naturalist has put forward a sug­ gestion with a view to meeting this contingency. He savs that a rich man who desires to attain an inter­ esting result in the province of natural history and is willing to prevent ivory from becoming a lost commodity, might do worse with his money than introduce the elephant into Equa­ torial South America. In the coun­ try watered by the Amazon and its tiil'Uta-ries there is an enormous field unpopulated enough for its quiet in­ crease and suitable for its healthy life. Of course it would take many years to get up a "head" of elephants, but it should not be forgotten that hc had was an ordinary sack coat. I wore muffler- and a great coat but­ toned up to the chin. My young and ambitious partner has occupied a narrow home in the cemetery a great many yea*s. placed there after a long and painful wrestle with con­ sumption. He stuck to his thin clothing and became a martyr to his pet theory. I stuck to my heavy clothing when the weather demanded it, and I think the graveyard is a good many years from me still.*' Tea Lead. One of the industries in connection with the tea trade is the collection of the lead with which tea chests are lined. China has been noted for many centuries for the purity of its lead, and this tea-chest lead, as it is called, is recarded as the finest in ex­ istence. There are many/ uses for it; it is found very valuable if) making the best kinds of solder^ IF the devil ever feels proud of his work, it must be. when he has made a man mean enough to starve his wife and children to death while helping to keep some saloon-keeper fat. mes Very few practical j slightest excuse: bu happens that a grave' vice can be rebuked i way more effectively t, or even by open di Youth's Companion. A case i'n Doint is found in the anecdote related of the late Prince Dolgorouki of Russia. He had many friends, among Whom was a young physician, whose habits of intemperance had grown shocking and alarming to those who hakl his interests at heart. Besides! his tendency to intemperance, the doctor had another strong characteristic. It was his hatred and contempt of monks, who make an important part ot the life of Russia. He took everv opportunity to rail against these worthy friars^ On one occasion, at a dinner, the yountr doctor became hopelessly in­ toxicated, and, lying down on a sola, fell into a heavy stupor. Seeing the young man in this dis­ graceful condition, a project came into Prince l)ol«orouk»'s mind for giving him a severe lesson, lie sent at once for a barber and had the top of the doctor's head shaved precisely in the fashion of a monk. He then took the young man. still in an in­ sensible condition, to a close carriage, and drove with him to a monastery. "Father,"'he said to the friar in charge, "here is a youngHnan who needs the discipline of a monastic life. Give him a very closcceli, dress him in the garments of a monk, and treat him with the full severity of your rules--exactly as if he were a monk under discipline." As Princfc Dolgorouki was a very powerful man in the State, the monks did not hesitate to obey, especially as the Prince ieft with them a purse of gold more than sufficient to pay them for any expense which might be in­ volved. When the young physician awoke from his stupor he found himself in a monk's cell, and completely clothed in monk's garments. He put his hand to his aching head, and almost fainted when he found that the top of it was shaven. Presently he heard the soft sound of bare feet approaching in the cor­ ridor, and an old monk brought in a plate of black bread and a cup of water. "Here are food and drink, Friar Ivan," said the old monk, and went away. • Friar Ivan! What did it mean? The voung physician tried to believe that it was a dream, but his aching head, the palpable walls of the cellL the beating of his own heart, con­ vinced him that he was still awake. But how did he become a monk? It was useless for him to try to understand it. . When the monk who had brought him bread and water came again, he tried to get an ex­ planation from him, but the monk only said, "Poor Brother Ivan!" ami went his way. The young doctor spent three weeks in the monastery, doing very severe penance. lie had plenty of tim* to meditate on the vice of intemperance, both in drink aud in speech. One night at the end of that time a masked and draped figure of appall hav4 reason to believe, of the Divine Spirit; something of t!iat goodness whicM| detect#, amidst oar own evil doings, a redeeming quality; somej-. thing which even in osEr-fallen nature we possess in common with the angels; which had its being in the cai» olden time when thej, tro4 the-earth, irds and liatfer in it yet in pity. ABOUND A GREAT STATE. Electricity In a Shrtwd Swindle. It was but a plain mineral spring, but the cups that the patients drank from were fastened by a brass chain to an iron bar which inclosed the mouth of the bubbling spring. You were preveuted from coming too close A Haxanton* Waiter. Making wagers is by no means a sensible way of settling differences, and it is seldom that so much ingen­ uity as well as nerve is displayed in a dispute of this character, as in the following adventure, which took place a century ago, when all Mexico was under Spanish rule: A wealthy gentleman of Basque descent lived in the City of Mexico. Hejwas a good deal of a madcap, and was noted for his daring eccen­ tricities. The reigning viceroy, a Spanish nobleman, was especially objection­ able to him, and one day when the Basque gentleman was among some lively and congenial friends, talk fell on the law which provided that none other than the viceroy might drive about with spotted horses. This was a privilege which the viceroys* were very zealous in maintaining. As a result of the discussion, the Basque gentleman wagered with a Mexican marquis that he would himself hitch lour spotted horses into his coach and diive through the principal streetsof Mexico. Twenty thousand dollars was the amount of the wager. In a few days a handsome coach with four spotted horses, was driven up the main avenue of the city, past the present Iturbide Hotel to the very gates of the vice-regal palace. The coach was driven several times up and down in front of the palace, while sentries presented arms, think­ ing it to be the vice-regal coach. Some one informed the -viceroy of the presence in the street of a coach with spotted horses, and out went the pompous Spanish vice-king to a balcony ̂ t.o see with his own eyes the defiance of his privilege and infrao tion of the law. The Basque gentleman leaned out of the window, saluted the viceroy most graciously, and ordered the coachman to enter the main court­ yard of the palace. On reaching the very heart of the vice-resal authority, the gentleman alighted, passed up the staircase to the viceroy's apart­ ments, and to the astonished and dazed functionary said,-- t "Knowing how fond you are of horses, 1 have come-" to present} -you with a coach and lour as an expres­ sion of my sincere admiration." ' ' The viceroy perforce had to accept the handsome ?ilt and could say nothing. The coach and; horsed cost, three thousand dollars, and the clever Bas­ que pocketed seventeen' thousand dollars profit when the wager was s e t t l e d • ' ' ' ' ; ' MOM and Ear Plerbtng. The ornaments put through the walls of the nose vary greatly. There may be but one perforation in each wall or there may be.several. In New Zealand flowers, in New Guinea »a boar's tusk, in the Solomon Islands a crab's claw, in New Britain thorns, set upright, are the objects thus worn These are all original and primitive. After the natives come ERikf^SS1I2SS.^ Pernty Conviotj at Chester Tn^er Wtm rtraint--Thought Himself Toa Wlrkefl to Llvf--Two Ran*way Gir1» --Swindled an Old Mm, •'A ing appearance presented itself at the jn contact with whftes, these give door of "Friar Ivan's" cell and bade ^lace to metal buttons and rings. In him come out. The masked figure I the Sturgis collection is a rather Washing Corns. ^ *I/*as going from Omaha to Den- ; by another circular iron railing about ver and turned out earlj in tife mom-; „jWht. fwt, sicrnai. Th« urnnnii nimnt qight feet across. The ground about the spring was naturally moist, and it was either this ground or the iron which was one of the ends of an open electric circuit The cup held by the chain was the other end. The per­ son drinking simply completed the circuit through the body, and when led him through one dark passage and into another. He fe t himself sud­ denly seized from behind and blind­ folded. Then he was carried a long distance and was laid down upon something Which seamed to him verv soft indeed, after the hard bench upon which he ha(t slept in the monastery. Then the bandage was removed from his eyes, and gazing about, tie found himself in a brilliantly illuminated apartment. It was the same room in which he had fallen into a drunken slumber three weeks before. Grouped about him were Prince Dolgorouki and the other friends who had been with him on that unlucky occasion. The j)pung doctor was entirely cured of his' intemperate habits by this singular experience; and whatever his opinion' of monks may have been [ .'who he never again expressed it in oublic. Did itavachol'M Head Utter a Word? Ever since the execution ot Rava- chol a lively controversy has been go­ ing on as to the real nature of the "last cry" when hc uttered just as the knife of the guillotine was falling upoii his keck. Whether he intended to shout "Vive la Republique!" or "la revolution!" or "la revoite." will never be known, as he had only cried "Vive la re--" when his head was severed from his body. Several per­ sons who were close to the guillotine declare that they distinctly heard the final syllables "--publique" issue from the lips as the head fell into the basket. A controversy arose as to whether such a phenomenon is phys­ ically possible and has assumed such proportion that the Academy of Med­ icine has become interested in the matter, and a letter has been read before that learned body which wiil probably settle the question once and for all. It is communicated by an eminent physician, who explains that no sound can possibly emanate from the head when severed from the body, no matter on what part of the neck the knife descends. The same does not, however, apply to the trunk, provided the larynx Le left with it. If a criminal goes to the scaffold, as llavachol did, with all his wits about hinrhe instinctively contracts all his muscles when placed under the knife. On the severance of the spine the muscles suddenly distened and the air which has been confined in the chest may, in passing through the vocal organs, produce a sound which could be mistaken for the syllabic "ique." This sound was probably heard by the persons in question, whose natural emotions caused them pretty nose ornament from New Guinea. It is V-shaped, and the anus fit by stud shanks, one into each wall of the noss. Nose ornaments were known to the Jewess of the exile: Ezekiel xvi, 12: "And I will put a jewel on thy nose;" and Isaiah iii, 21: "The rings and the nose jewels." The cheeks are pierced bv some Esquimaux, who wear litjie round stud buttons in the- holes. Ears arc pierced the world over. A few cases must suffice. Schwein- furth says that Babucker women pierce the rim of the ears repeatedly, and wear therein bits of straw an inch in length, having twenty *uchf perhaps, in each ear. This repeated piercing ot the ear is common among barbarous people, and we have seen a woman of the Sac and Fox Indians wore seven brass rings in one ear. Ears may be slit and stretched instead of pierced. They then hang in long loops. Catlin gives a picture of an Indian whose beauty had been increased in this way. The Anchor­ ite Islander silts bis ears, while the Fijian often has them slit and stretched to such an extent that the two fists might be plac d in the open­ ings. Slit ears may be of practical use. The Kaltir carries his snuff-box in his earhole. and CapL Cook figures a Mangaia Islander who carried a largo knife in his right ear.--Popular Science Monthly. Ceremony Among BlrtL>. The singular wattled, wing-spurred and long-tosd jacanas have a queer kind of meeting. They usually go singly or in pairs, but occasionally, in response to a call by one of them, all who are within hearing leave off feeding and fly to one spot, where they walk about and with their beau­ tiful wings erect or half open, or waved up and down with a slow and measured motion. With these two species both sexes join in the display; but that of the spur-winged lapwing is altogether pe­ culiar. < inasmuch as it takes place with three individuals only. These birds live in pairs, and at iptervals during the day, or on moonlight nights, one bird will leave its mate and fly to another pair a short dis­ tance away. The-e will receive the visitor with signs of pleasure. r • First going'to meet him, they place themselves behind him, and all three march rap'dly. uttering special notes. Then they stop: the leader stands erect with elevated wings, uttering loud nbtes, while the other two, with pulled-out plumage, standing side by side, stoop forward till the tips of to imagine that it proceeded from the their beaks touch the grpuud, and lips after the decapitation -^London Telegraph. , Flii<t\ng the Ocrina of Comfort. Ill the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials must ever occupy the foremost place: not only because it supports and upholds us when we most require to be sus­ tained, but because in this source of consolation there is something, we with a low mu muring sound remain for some moments in this strange posture. Then the visitor gets back to his own mound and mate, and later on they receive a visitor whom they treat in the same ceremouious man­ ner, They are said to be so fond of this form of visiting that they indulge in it all the year arouuil' > ,. , * | THE Lord loves every one, which is k an indication that His heart Is better that His taste. From Far and X«ntV. TOT Keiranee Boiler charged sixty men lwr organizing s union. FARHEB GBOBOK H. HEX<37CX, ot; near Mascoutah; Was arr*e»te»f to &a- . swer a charge of beating; wile wfHi a fence rail. AT Yandalia. Mrs. Jane- WILbright. while preparing the morning meal, i dropped dead of heart disease. MM; was 50 years old. AT Ramsey Edward Stephens, section foreman on the Illinois Cewtral, was struck by a trahu receiving injuria* from which he died. JUDSON G. HAT,T, and Miss Flo ! sell, of Lincoln, ©loped to'Kansas City, where they were married. Mr. Hall is a traveling salesman, and Miss Kussei! is the daughter of James H. BusselL ' OIL has been found in artesian wells in the vicinity of Belleville. The price of land in some localities has dotsbled within a week and several companies* have been organised quietly to invest!-; gato the oil. THE Illinois Horticultural Society tea elected these officers: President, .% A Henry Augustine, Normal; "Vice Prest- . dent, Dr. Daniel Berry, Carnal; Seere- tary, A. C. Hammond, Warsaw; Treas- * €"i urer, A. Bryant, Princeton. :; A COUPLE of confidence men haver^ left for parts unknown with $2,000 of • the earnings of John Daley, a well-to- $ do farnr.er living near Springfield, hav- Tr^1 ing secured the sum by working the •* , ? a n c i e n t " g o l d b r i c k * h u m b u g . M r . : [ Daley is 76 years old. * * Miss MAGGIE STRICKLAND and Miss t ̂ Jennie Crens. two young girls residing, at Greenfield, created a sensation by • ^ running away. An officer was at once^"' ' sent after them and after an exciting" chase they were capturod. They gave!*'; v no reason for their escapade except thatir they wanted to see the country. • O. 0. Wis®, a young fwraer, memr ' Qulncy, ended his life because he 1 •->, ] thought he was too wicked to live. He had been attending a series of camp- ^ meetings and became crazed on the % pk < subject of religion. He hanged himself' , <j in the barn, leaving a letter to the effects that all his sins had been forgiven and.' ^ he wanted to leave this wicked world.. He was 26 years old and unmarried. " S ^ H. W. PARK, of Williamson County. • died in a St. Louis hospital from the ^ effects of a terrific beating. John Leo Leudeftr,'baggage*wagon drivers, aretftS|^.;; under arrest. Park hired the two to- ' t * drive him about the city in search of a place to purchase lottery tickets. They: demanded $2 as their fee, Park re-v fused to nay, and the beating followed. v * Park was a farmer. The Leuders are JS held1 upon a charge of manslaughter. -s|.l AT the meeting of the Illinois State Board Secretary Bartlett of the State A • Fish Commission submitted sketches for a preity and effective ftsh exhibit at t : the Fair. Instead of the regulation j glass tanks Mr. Bartlett'» design con- templates the construction of a min-'7^'fel> iature waterfall, twenty feet in height. flowing through a series of pools, re-^o, jri productions of famous fishing grounds;" in Illinois. The banks of the stream: <Y»* will be lined with wild flowers, ferns jj' and reeds, the whole picturing an ideal , retreat for disciples of the rod. . WARDEN MURPHY says the trouble at ' Chester Penitentiary is over. The- leaders are still confined. The trouble began in the paint shop, where Ave •• "L men worked on light tasks which thej" j* did in two or three hours. In idleness," . f* they got into mischief; the Warden gave^ Vifc them work to occupy all their time.:-./' The men spread the report that all tasks • would be doubled. This led to the re- j volt. The con vie ts had an idea that, j ; 4 / because the present administration. would soon be dispossessed, the disci- 1 pline would be relaxed, but Warden," * Murphy said: ""If it had been the las^; hour of my administration I would have.;,, locked them up, and turned them over ' to the new Warden with, the handcuffs upon their wrists. * MAYOR MORBISON, of Bameay, thrown from a read cart and received: severe injuries. RrssEi.ii B. DIOOIKS, of Milwaukee, , and Miss Blanche Jackman,of Harvard, ., , were married. * jl; BURGLARS secured $200 worth goods at Liter &, Coon's and J. H«>' s"< Liter's stores at Liter berry. v BENKIE, the 3-year-old son of Mr.aad. Mrs. George Steigler, of Alton, wa»\> burned so badly that he died. THE Rockford City Council has in­ vited the Illinois Press Association torf3 meet at that city next February. 11? £ AT Kewanee Albin Redin became sud- denly insane, and with a knife savagely -#• stabbed hiB wife and tour other persona. Among his victims was an infant child --^ ,/s liv ;«lj ' y1' m 'is • • W- -v- ; p.*'-'.s-r. - j; # •<• •• * *1? A. *4 * % i of a neighbor. A LIST of the members-elect of the ^ ^ next General Assembly shows fifty , farmers in the House and sixteen in the Senate. In the last General Assembly^^Jf , there were sixty-six farmers in the^-f 'I House and twelve in the Senate. A THREE days* session of the Statet \ / Grange was held at Springfield. At- - ' 'f, tendance about 200--rather light. The^"> :-tM increase of membership for the year is h 1,751, in ten new granges, rhe Treas- 5 urer had i n hand Dec. 1,1891, $3,551.22; 4, receipts, $3,378.32; expenditures, $3.- 155.34; now in the treasury, $3,634.70. . . An animated discussion of the beat methods of marketing products for prof- it re^ultfd In nothing new. Grand; Master Thompson favored free mail de-~ livery in the oountry, the anti-option' bill, and the pure food bill. The follow- ing officers were elected: President, My. D. Q. Trotter, Jersey Country; Vice President, Mrs. Hattie Olmstead, La £}alle County. Directors, A. J. New- man, Coles County; Alexander Keady. s %.| McLean County; J. P. Smith, St Clair,/-' County. SHERIFF GECBOB HOT-, of Madison County, has been arraigned in the Cir­ cuit Court at Edwardsville charged "With meddling with juries while they were considering cases, and advising them as to their verdicts. He was iriven time to answer for contempt ol. court. ^ ";m FOB several weeks Alton haa been overrun w}th burglars. Several nights ,4 | ago the Johnson Hardware Company J was robbed of several hundred dollars' ' worth of cutlery. Two of the thieves were caught. The residence of George R. Hewitt was entered and a diamond ring valued at $300 was stolen. JAMES SCKLETT slipped on the ieo as he was descending the steps in front of his house at Chicago. His neck was broken and his skull fractured. He died in a few moments. * JACKSONVILLE has again been is-^ fested with burglars. They have en­ tered houses in broad daylight while the families were at home. A bold attexffc was made by three from St. Louis to loot a jewelry store and it was frustrated to accident. A grocery is next door Ml extends around behind the store, so that the scamps broke IntotfcT rear end of the grocery instead, o»* while they were fumbling about theii ' they were found by the police a*d QM of them was captured. ..wo! fly*,.