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3g|c|lrittg pamilcalct J. VJW llYKEt Editor i*d PobllMw. ICoHENHY, ILLTMOTf m Aurai now the typewriter ljas been tfobbled up by a trust. About the only thing left for these gentry to grab is the air. • •--» .THAT man had a wonderful genius lor drawing a little out to irreat length who wrote a column an the morals of Omaha. BACK in New Jersey a man recently smoked cigarettes all day without anv particular harm resulting. The only visible eflcct was the dea^oX the man. CHINESE objections to registering •eems to be directed largely against the photographic feature of the pro- •cesa The Chinese cannot be blamed tpi this. They are not blind* the "Tenderloin" and tough down­ town districts. The first of these carts is coining money, it is said, and when all of them are started the churchly proprietors expect to make a good thing out of their investment Some people may criticise this min­ gling of spiritual and temporal cater­ ing. but if the churches will stick to religion and sandwiches and abolish bazaars and fairs the public at large will give them enthusiastic support in their new venture. ri-h , \ i A MAN in Maine owns a candle •which came over on the Mayflower. Hfs claim for it la not disputed, as it is a well-known fact that those old- timers never burned the article at tooth ends. r - THE Philadelphia ^Times wants to fellow why men don't goto church. t)ut here they do. Not as numer­ ously as they should, but they go. perhaps it's different in Philadelphia where overv day is Sunday. 'i £ LATIMEB, the tripl3 murderer in r Michigan, says he did- not intend to kill the man to whom he administered prussic acid. Perhaps not, but there are less robust methods of not killing people than to feed them on this particular drug. t- A YOUNG man in Kansas being an­ noyed by a charivari party made known his displeasure by shooting into the crowd, establishing a death rate therein that stopped its foolishness. He killed two hoodlums and wounded a cowboy. Some regret is expressed over the latter circumstance. IT would be hard to depict or even to imagine the emotions which the great city of Chicago and the great fair must excite in the breast of that fierce old warrior, Rain-in-the-Fhce. There is no doubt that many of the Indian chiefs who in the past have so valiantly led their people in their vain struggle against the encroach­ ing civilization of' the white man have had but an imperfect idea of the latter1 s power and resources. They have believed that civilization waS represented only by what they saw in the far West, and that the troopers led against them formed the chief strength of the white man's army. Perhaps Rain-in-the-Face now gains for the first time a correct idea of the'puissance of civilization and of the certain extinction that awaits any people, however brave, who oppose it. A PAINT mine has been discovered Dear Tacoma which contains an in­ exhaustible quantity of pigment in two colors--Venetian red and ceru­ lean blue. The use of the first Satur­ day nights and Sundays for decora­ tive purposes will bo recompensed by « liberal application of tne latter Mondays. THE conviction of a highway rob* ber 10 years old would be an unusual event in any community, and is doubly so in a civilized city. Vincent Shevlin of Chicago, who is not much more than a baby, held at bay last February a street car load of people, including a policeman, and wounded the officer with a revolver when the latter attempted to arrest him. It is an instructive fact that young Shevlia has been brought up in & ncsb of robbers, and that two of hhS elder brothers belong to a notorious gang. Early associations and incorrect train­ ing are responsible for a large propor­ tion of the criminals that afflict so­ ciety. The future career of young Shevlin will be a matter of consid­ erable interest. Ihe State will ab- tempt, at the reform school, to cor­ rect the wrong impressions of life wnich he has gained. It remains to be seen whether the criminal instinct canobe removed oy education from the mind of a 10-year-old boy. PERHAPS the armies of Europe are formidable, but Uncle Sam has just been figuring on tne number of young chaps on his farm fit for military duty and finds that he has P, 000,000 of them. He does not feel in imme­ diate danger from an invasion by Chileans or Canucks, no matter %csy Iliad they may get at him. "MRS. MARY MOORE fell down three flights of stairs at her home, in Kcw Haven, the other evening, with her baby in one hand and a lighted lamp in the other, without breaking either of them,"--Philadelphia Ledger. And yet some folks say women are not capable of becoming success­ ful politicians. WILLIAM HOOAN, the pugilist, thought his muscle was bigenough to enable him to bulldoze a Deadwood bartender. The pugilist received a chunk of lead where the ben got the I a x and t he da i s i e s now b loom ove r j him. The Deadwood bartender may | not be an angel, but there will be no general complaint If the court deals gently with him in this, case. He has abated a nuisance OF course there will be Incredmitj over the assertion that in a couple of barrels fuel enough can be carried to run Atlantic liners across in three days. George Sheffield maintains that sugar and chlorate of potash can be substituted for coal and that, dipped in sulphuric acid, when commin­ gled in a rod, they will work a piston driving the machinery like a gas en- i gine. Without materially altering i the construction of works now iu use, I lie predicts that this new fuel will I reduce time between the continents two-tlfths, perhaps more. Wild claims t are continually made by speculators ' and experimenters, but none that have proved futile were wilder than Fulton's or Stephenson's. When it was proposed to run steamers across the Atlantic with coal fuel for steam a solemn treatise was published In London by a scien tific society declar­ ing that any huircapable of carrying the necessary quantity of coal could not be kept afloat by any machinery | man was competent to devise. The ! Great Eastern reached port when the j book emerged from the press. Shef­ field may be more poet than me­ chanician; more dreamer than engi­ neer. Which reminds us--what has become of Keely and his motor? CRUELTY, once natural, and still natural with those who are in the Stage of simplicity, is becoming sc i wn natural to a large proportion of j mankind, and especially of woman- j kind, that they may be inflinod to I deny that tne title of this article em- j bodies a truth. It is a diminishing ; it not a disappearing fact that men ate naturally cruel, because the ten­ dency is overtaken by our training of the youug before It has Jiad time for expansion. - REPUBLICAN LEAGUES. GRAND RALLY PROM THE ENDS OP THE UNION. THE Cramps of Philadelphia have j begun to lay down the keels of the two gigantic steamships that arc to I be added to the new American line I as consorts of the Paris and. New ' York. These ships wilt Be" oil feet thf.5apaJ, long, and have a displacement of ou c ^ 'about 15.000 tons. We hope that ' ihey will prove superior in every re- ,, fcpect to the Campania and Lucania, which the .Cunard people are to - Add to their fleet, for, like the Paris and Sew York, the new American Vessels arc to bo available as cruisers In time of war. l-fcir Am Welcomed to Louisville--D»to- (*te» from Thirty-three States--Presi­ dent Clarkson'a Address--W. W. Tracy Elected President--WtU Meet In Denver. That Could Be Dispensed With. A newly made father rushed into a telegraph office the other day and commenced to write on the blanks which bestrewed the desks. It seemed bard for the writer to suit himseit with his productions, for he tore up several sheets before he handed to the operator a dispatch which read as follows: "Jnmoa Bigger staff, Cohoes. N. Y.: Twins arrived this morning. Mother and babies doing well. We are so happy ! JOHN NOOPOP." The operator read it carefully spelling out the names in tne way they have of impressing senders with the carefulness of telegraph com­ panies, and then said, in a business­ like voice, which cared naught for j twins or oth&r forms of infantile population: "Fifty cents." • I thought a small message like that would go for a quarter," said fe THE Chicago river is, metaphoric­ ally speaking, between the devil and •the deep sea Since the United^ States government declared it navi­ gable water the city solons refuse to pay for dredging it, rightly enough claiming that the cost of the work should come out of the national river and hartor appropriation. The gov­ ernment doesn't seem disposed to look after its self-claimed protege, and hence tho turgid stream is fill­ ing up and will soon be impassable to large craft- Meanwhile as a sani­ tary nuisance the river remains the same old howling success as of yore. THE churches of Gotham, says the Chicago Times, have gone into the peripatetic lunch business. They will run all night sandwich carta In Preparing »or *96. Where the "convention met, was taste­ fully decorated with flags and banners, and the front of the stage was banked up with Bowers and tiopical foliage' plants. It was nearly 11 o'clock on the first day of the meeting, before all the dele­ gations appeared, though the galleries were packed to the doors for nearly an hour before. When the delegations had all been seated. President J. 8. Clarkson of the league called the con­ vention to order and the Rev. Dr. Hey- wood. pastor of the Unitarian Church of Louisville, invoked a blessing upon the assembled Republicans. At the close of the prayer Mrs. J. Ellen Foster was ushered on the stage, and her presence was greeted with a storm of applause. Colonel Andrew Cowan, a member of the local Republican League, then Introduced Mayor Henry S. Tyler, who welcomed the delegates In the name of the city. The Mayor was heartily ap­ plauded when he came on the stage, and when he finished speaking Colonel D. L. Crawford, President of the Ken- tamm Interesting sign tun this. Let a* make a < for Investigation and discos- door to open ud so wide that cam send ten words for a quarter. You have fourteen here." •'All right. Leave off we are so happy." "--Smith, Gray & Monthly. , . aoeial-polltlcal club in New Yorti a tew weeks ago, la re fusing admission to a splendid young American because of race, of religion* preju­ dice. I hope to see this convention, while standing bravely for the spirit of Amerioantsm in all its noble tactions and ambitions, disown that act, and denounce it M being unworthy of this country and of the Republican party. Make the gates of the Republican party vm enough for Republican victory. Report on Resolutions. At the second day's session the Com­ mittee oh Resolutions reported as fol­ lows: We, the representatives of the UepuhMcan clubs iu the United States in National con­ vention assembled, reaffirm our devotion to the principles 01 the Iiepublican party as enunciated, by the National Republican Con­ vention In lbVfi. We point with pride to the passage of a gen­ eral law for, the safety of life and limb of lallway employes upon the recommendation of President Harrison, by a Republican Con­ gress. and in conformity with the a*pressed pledge of the National Republican Convention. We declare that we are heartily in sympathy with every legislative enactment .which will LEGISLATIVE "DOINGS. WORK CP THE' ST&TB ftOttOKt AT THE CAPITAL. ^ Mn--»•» mVI Bmlniw CimHiria and Whsl Our Public Servants Are Doing.-- In and ground Legislative HaUa. . m S. CLARKSON People Who survived scalping. In San Francisco there lives a man at the present time named Carroll Bronson, a pioneer of the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia, who was scalped by the Sioux Indians in 186t5, and still enjoys comparatively good health, although more than 75 years of age. He was quite an In­ dian tighter in his time and his face is scarred from arrow wounds received in many a bard fought battle. The marking of the scalping is not visible except when he lifts his long, white hair from the side of his head,* then it shows a great circular scar extend­ ing from above his right eye around the right side and. back of his head almost to tne left ear. Mr. Bronson tells of another man who was scalped at the same time be was. The scalp was torn completely off from the whole top of his head, so that It had to be swathed in, cotton and olive oil. He lived a year, but, as Mr. Bronson says, "If ever a man knew what suf­ fering meant, that man did."--Pitts­ burgh Dispatch. TRUST no one, and put very confidence in yourself! little promote the interests of the wage-earners, and to equalise the conditions and harmonize the relations between labor and capital, always regarding the moral and material welfare of the people as the primary object to be at­ tained, and recommend as one of the most ef­ fective means to attain this end the establish­ ment, of a system of arbitration for the ad­ justment of differences arising between labor and capital. We declare our faith in genuine secret ballot laws, fortified by efficient acts for the suppres­ sion of corrupt practices in elections. We demand the enforcement of existingla we by the duly constituted officers of the law, and demand the abolition of tne system of private armed forces represented by tne Pinkerton and }UtP acr^ru'ipjJL We demand the suppression of all publio gambling, whether in food products or by means of lottery tickets. We heartily urge an amendment to the Con­ stitution making the President ineligible to a eecoad term. ' , We recommend to the favorable considera­ tion of the Republican clubs of the United 'Btates, as a matter of education, the question of granting to the women of the State and nation the right to vote at all elections on the same terms and conditions as male citi­ zens. The fcreisrn roller of Benjamin Harrison and James w. Wntno deserves and receives the commendation of all Americans who believe In preserving the rights and dignity of the t'ntted States, and in extending the scope of its In­ fluence. In accordance with that policy we trtffltm our d>'terminRtlon to encoumste the enforcement of the Monroe do. trine; not only as it applies to North and South America, but also to those islands in the Atlantic find Pacific, which are or may become necessary to the pro­ tection of our coast line end onr trade.. Where the American flag covers American interests and American honor it must never be lowered. WHERSAS, 'the Democratic party for tile first time in this ty -two years has succeeded to pow­ er. in both executive and legislative depart­ ments of tho Government, we now direct at- .t it'.jfcoialcl the people a fair trial of the policies advocated in its national platform or admit that it gained supremacy by gross misrepresentation and hypocrisy. The report was adopted, section by section. Kleetton of a Pmaident.. When the report bad been adopt e-J President Clarkson directed the Secre­ tary to call the roll of States for nomi­ nations for the office of President. William W, Tracy, o! Springfield,'111., was elected President for the ensuing year on the first ballot. His only op­ ponents in the contest were the Hon. M. H. DeYoung, editor of the San Francis­ co Chronicle, and Gen. Daniel Hastings of Pennsylvania. The election of Mr. Tracy was immediately made unani­ mous. He made an extended speech ot thanks, eulogizing the Republican party. The election" of a secretary and treas­ urer was referred to the Executive Com­ mittee. and a committee was appointed to investigate the condition of the Re­ publican party in the Southern States. SENATORIAL APPORTIONMENT' A FRESIDEMT TRACY The league then adjourned, to meet in Denver May next. v tueky State League, was introduced and tSw visitors in behalf nt the State. He said the delegates were not only the guests of the city of Louis­ ville, but of the entire Bine Grass State. In the oourse of his remarks he referred to the fact that in that State were over 1,00ft Republicans who Kad cast their vote for Abraham Lincoln. At the men­ tion.Of Lincoln's name the entire au­ dience, delegates and lookers-on, arose and cheered most enthusiastically. President Clarkson next introduced A. E. Wilson, who welcomed the league in behalf of the Republicans of Ken­ tucky. In conclusion he said that the first Republican league ever organized in the country was organized in Louis­ ville. It was an organization for the sowing of Republican principles. It was the fault of the Republican party that the South has been so solid for the Democracy so long. Colonel Cowan presented President Clarkson with a gavel made of nineteeu uiiTei-eut kiuua of wood, all grown in Kentucky. When Mr. Clarkeon arose to respond he was greeted with a storm of applau-e. Mr. Clarkson's Addrrg.4. The formalities being over President Clarkson arose and delivered his annual address, in substance as follows: We meet here to-day in the name of the Re­ publicanism of Lincoln, (irant and B!aine. This is the Republicanism whose eternal word Is human liberty. It is fighting Republican ism aud all the world loves a man or paity that believes enough in its own cause to fight for it. For ten years the transition has been toward younger men and different methods in party mana/ament. To-day a man must be gained at his home before he goes to the polls. Mr. Blaine, earli­ est of all our leaders, saw the new demand for a more diffused or structural form of party or­ ganization, He foreshadowed the league form of organization and the coming of the young men. With the coming of the rule of the younger men let us hope that we shall have a party of greater courage in cardinal things and a larger tolerance ofminor things. A ma­ jority of the voters of the United States aro Republicans on the real Republican issues. Too many voters have been alienated by what might be called the intolerance of morality. Let us make the platform so broad that any man, native or foreign born, of any church, may find a welcome place in our ranks. Thus we shall gain new votes and elements. As we begin hero to-day the march of victory in I89f> we have neither complaints, nor apolo­ gies, nor explanations to make for the defeat of last year. We have had a Democratic Pres­ ident and a Democratic Congress sixty days and Cleveland lias hauled down the American flag where Harrison and the Republicans ran it up in the name of Liberty on the Sandwich Islands. He and his Secretary of the Treasury have already frightened the business world and created uneasiness and fear where safety and prosperity ruled before. They have shown an adverse balance of foreign trade in the last four mouths of f80.ouo.oou. as against a favora­ ble balance of $70.(.00,000 In the first four months of Harrison's administration. We go into this conflict to maintain our old principles with undiminished faith, favoring the rights of men, protection to American workingmen and American interests. The Re­ publican League corn^j to Kentucky to deny the charge that there is a revival of sectional- Ism and the "bloody shirt," and to prove that it is false. We come to -gay that the negro question Uas merged iu the larger one of equal rights of all parties. We come to prove that the Democratic party has so far surrendered to the Republican position on the equal rights of all parties as to admit that the ne«ro has the right to vote or hold office if he will act with the Democratic party. When the Demo­ cratic party thus accepts the negro as a voter it can no longer challenge the right of the Re­ publican party to do the same. Public opin­ ion as to the negro is rapidly divid­ ing. The Democratic party has ceased the cry thBt he is an animal and not a man. The cry of ignorance no longer holds agaiust the negro race alone. The negro of slavery days is Republican. The new negro, like the young white man, will make his own terms with the existing political parties. The South has already injured Itself on this line more than it can recover in generations. In teach­ ing its younti people dishonesty in politics It has been logically teaching them dishonesty in all things. Of the millions of immigrants who come to America all seem to know that political liberty in some States of the South is for Democrats only. On the laboring men of the Northern cities begins to fall the greater injury of the injustice toward the Southern negro. This comes in the menace of the de­ graded and cheap labor into which the Demo­ cratic party has forced the black man. Al­ ready some of the large manufactories in the North with- whom skilled and free labor. is straggling for fair wages are substituting this cheap labor fro'n the South for tne skilled men. As to money and banking the conntry will depend on the Republican minority in Con­ gress for defense from threatened harm. Bi- metallam will, of course, be maintained by the Republicans, and the sagacity of the Repub­ lican minority in Congress will doubtless pro- Tida with the aid of conservative Democrats some provision in substitution for the Sher­ man act, whi«!h will preserve a continued parity in value of coined gold and silver Nollher the extreme Eastern view that would torn this country to a gold basis, or the view that would make money dearer and all other property cheaper, will solve the problem or save the country. This is a silver-producing nation.-and our money should be of gold, sliver, and paper, every dollar of which should be as good as the other.and the volume of safe money made and kept sufficient for the demands of our expanding nation. If our banking sys­ tem c^n be extended to smaller towns, so as to giveHhe solvent farmer the ready benefit of his credit and aa low a rate of interest as the business man is given, and If changes can be made in city banking so as to give the sol vent jvorktagman as low a rate of interest as business men have, very much good will have been attained. This question of smaller banks nearer the people is not a small one, however much the large money centers may decry it. The views which are given are my own and neither the RepubUcan party nor any faction in it can be held responsible for them. As the Republican party is the only one that has ever been able to legislate successfully for the protection of American labor, b&s the time not come for it to consider whether it can not do so ertlll for the benefit of the business welfare and social life of the great mass? The lcsjrue clubs could find no more inter­ esting or profitable question to discuss or. in- , . .. . . . vestigate than the co-operative system, Fac- 'are also numerous dialects Of tne tories of aU kinds, dames, farms, railways and banks are testing it and find increased profits to themselves as well as larger rewards to their employes. Arbitration and conciliation should be encouraged. Another thema lor dis­ cussion is the growing auestion of better roads in America; and still another, the polit­ ical rights of women. Ho subject could be How the Ciane Panlthed His Teaser. There was once a crane in the Zoo­ logical Gardens that taught an Im­ pudent sparrow a lesson in good man­ ners. The sparrow kept on teasing the crane while the latter was at dinner. No one likes to be annoyed during a meal, and we cannot he sur. prised that the big bird took a cruel revenge. Pretending to take no no­ tice of the sparrow, the crane allowed it to come within striking range, and all on a sudden drove its beak into it. Failing to kill the little thing, how­ ever, the passionate crane then held it below the water in its tank, and but for the keeper (who managed to rescue it), the sparrow would have been drowned. Both birds were io the wrong, were they not? How to l's« an Eg?. The white of an egg applied to a burn excludes the air and prevents inflammation. An egg beaten up lightly, with sugar If desired, is good to give in a case of dysentery or diarrhea. Two or perhaps three a day given in this way will not only be remedial, but it will furnish sus­ tenance, so that very little other food will be required, and the stom­ ach can rest. DB. BEDLOE, formerly of Philadel­ phia, now United States Consul at Amoy, China, sends in a report to the Secretary of State in which he deals principally with the numerous varie­ ties of disgusting insects that swarm in the city of Amoy. There are grubs that bore into furniture and render it unreliable. These grubs afterward develop into fat, winged ants that swarm by the bushel at meal time. There are millions of cockroaches that poke Under the toe ajnd finger nails of persons asleep. There are large and ferocious spiders, red ants of poisonous bite, and insects that bore into the human skin, producing itch. Dr. Bedloe should not be dis­ turbed. He has studied out the most Ingenious scheme for holding a job that ever entered the mind of man. Th» Lnw-Uskcn. Transacting ' no bualnaaa Frldajr, tha Rouse adjourned until Mcudty ai 5 © clock. chief subject ef discussion in the Son- iM was the report of the committee ap­ pointed to investigate the alleged school t>ook and school furniture trusts. The re­ port that the American School Book Com­ pany Is not a trust, while the furniture company is, was vigorously opposed by Mr. Berry, who moved that the report be re­ committed -»i*h Instructions to revise and print it, which was carried, Mr. Craig's t>lll awarding certain free scholar­ ships In the State University at champaign was passed. Bills were ordered to third reading aa follows: Cor­ recting defects in the law establishing a State reformatory; increasing the number >f Superior Ccurt Judges in Cook County to fifteen; providing that the matter of assessing a poll tax ihall be decided locally, and providing that proceedings begun In County courts In pursuance to ordinances for local Improve­ ments shall not be stayed except upon the petition of a majority of the property jwners on the street where the improve- nent is to be made. 1 he House bill for the organization of sanitary districts along rivers subject to overflow was or­ dered to second reading. The attendance is the Senate Monday afternoon «as very small when President 3iU called that body to order, and but lit­ tle buslneas was transacted. Mr. Camp­ bell's bill to compel .custodians of public funds to account for interest on such funds inder their control was made a special order for third reading Tuesduy morn'ng. The •ame disposition was made ct Mr. Ford's bill on second reading, amending the sducational law. Mr. Hlgbee's Mil to pro­ vide for the organization of drainage dis­ tricts was ordered to third reading. Mr. O'Mallev's bill for the enlargement of Lin­ coln park was made a special order for next Wednesday, while the committee bill pro­ viding for the establishment of a State in­ surance department and the appointment of nn insurance superintendent was made & special order for Tuesday morning. The bill appropriating $20,363 for improve­ ments at the institution for the blind at Jacksonville was advanced to third read­ ing. The Senate then adjourned. In the absence of a quorum la the House no busi­ ness was transacted. In the Senate. Tuesday, the following ap­ propriation bills were called up and pa«sad: Appropriating 14,200 for improvements at the Northern Insane Asylum; appropriat­ ing f100,000 for the ordinary expenses of the penitentiary at Jollet; appropriating ane-half of the Interest of the college fund and $25,000 for the ordinary expenses of tho State Normal University at Normal. Sen­ ator Ford** bill amending the educational law was then read a second time and ad­ vanced to third reading. Senator Arnold's bill to appropriate $287,500 for providing the necessary power, tools machinery, and ap­ pliances for the Illinois State Penitentiary at Jollet. to keep the prisoners therein em­ ployed, was read a third time and parsed by a bare majority--yeas. 26; nays. none. The next bill considered on third reading was that of Penator Ferguson to establish a weather service in Illinois for the purpose of co-operallug with the United States Weather Bureau in the collection of climate data, and appropriating 91.500 per annum therefor. The roll wa* called and the bill failed to pass. The House met only to discover no quorum. Representative Carson's street-car blM consumed much of the time of the House Wednesday, and was not disposed of. Kep- reseniative McIClnlay's bill for the orgatil- tatlon and management of iraternal and benevolent associations passed almost unanimously, 'these measures also passed: To prevent and punish the abandonment of a wife by a husband, or the abandonment by a father of his children, and providing a penalty of not less than S100 nor more than 1500, or Imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than twelve months; to prevent the use pf uncovered patrol wagons In cities baring a population of 100.000 Or more for the conveyance of prisoners and providing a penalty of not les* than 810 nor more than $200; to amond the act In. regard to evidence and depositions In civil cases by providing for the preservation of the testi­ mony of any person upon any matter which may In the future becoiue a subject of liti­ gation; to amend the act concerning jurors by providing that the uatnesof jurors shall be drawn from the list furnished by the Board of Supervisors In the presence of the County Judge and County Clerk. In the Senate, Senator Salomon's bill con­ cerning land titles, known as the "Torreos system," was passed, as also Senator Letourneau's bill appropriating $44,600 for tho Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane, the bill appropiatlng 1802.000 tc pay the expenses of the nest General As­ sembly, and for the salaries of tho officers of the State government, aud the measure- appropriating 9109,750 for the Northern Hospital for the Insanfe The Hou*e bill providing for the establishment of an In­ dustrial home for the blind and appropri­ ating 8100,090 tiierefor was read a third time and passed. ThU cleared the calen­ dar of apprqprlution bills. The Honse Thursday passed the Sen­ atorial apportionment bill la the Sed­ ate these bills were passed: Appropri­ ating $20,663 • for improvements at the Institution for the Education of the Blind at Jacksonville; giving Macoupin County an additional term of Circuit Court; to fix the compensation of members of the General Assembly at 91.000 u. regulai session and f5 per day for a special session; amending the law providing for the construction of drains, ditches and levees; providing for the management and organization of life insurance companies; to compel State, county and city treasurers and other custodians of public money to account for interest on public funds In their possession. A com­ munication was received from the Gover­ nor nominating the following persons a« members of the Board of Commissioners ol Labor: August F. Ricbter. of Cook County, to succeed William P. Bend, resigned; C. G. Stivers, of < 00k County, to succeed P. H. Day. resigned; Miss Mary E. Kenney, of Cook County, to succeed Ethelbert Stewart, resigned; Joseph Farrls, of San­ gamon county. to succeed David Boss, re­ signed; Louis F. Iumaghl. of Madison county, to succeed Henry A Alnsworth, re­ signed. Senator Hlgbee then oifered reso­ lutions concerning the death of Bepresen* tatlve Meyer. The resolutions were adopt­ ed by a rising vote, and the Senate ad- foamed. ' A Queer Norwegian Superstition. A curious superstition prevail! la Norway. Wnen people are in quest ol a drowned body they row to and fro with a rooster in the boat, fully expect­ ing that the bird will crow when the boat reaches the spot where the corpse lies. . Personal Par»pr»ph«. IT it believed in Wilmington that ex- Secretary Bayard will seek to return to the Senate when Mr. Higglns* term ex­ pires. MB. ASTOR is referred to by the New York Sun as "an eminent Ameri­ can of the New York type who has a lace upon the editorial staff of the Pali rail Text sf the Hew BUI aa It Lht. ' The folloirtnjr is the Senatorial ap­ portionment biA in full aa It finally passed the two houses: A bill for an act to apportion the State of Illinois into Senatorial districts and .to repeal En act therein named. tiL*rjoN-1. Be it enacted, etc., that until the taking and return of the next Federal census, and the apport ionment thereunder as provided In the Constitution, this State shall be divided into Senatorial districts, each of which shall be entitled to one Senator and three Repre­ sentatives, an follows, to wit: First--The First and Fifth Wards, and the Second Ward except that part lying south ot the center line of -22d street and west of the center line of 8tate street in the city of Chl- AJROUNDAGREATSTAIEp BRIEF COMPILATION OF :^iiiois NEW®. OF the modern languages, the Chinese is the most difficult. In Chinese the alphabet is not composed of letters, but each word has a cer­ tain character peculiar to itself; and hence tbe number of characters cor­ responds with the number of words In the language, and as words differ­ ently pronounced express different objects, the number of written char­ acters must necessarily correspond, so that the number of characters in the language is over 40,000. There Chinese, but it is said to be spoken most purely and correctly at Nankin. The best grammars and dictionaries of the Chinese language are those of Morrison and MedhursU pi a Mall Gazette of London." DJEVAD PASHA, the grand vizier ol Turkey, refuses to keep a harem. He has but one wife, who, ever since he married her, many years ago, has pos* sessed his undivided affection. IT is said of J. Sterling Morton, the new Secretary of Agriculture, thai while he is in no sense of the word a dandy, "there is ever about him the at­ mosphere of the perfectly appareled man." DB. KLEMPEBEB, of Berlin, has be­ come convinced by patient experiment and observation that proof against cholera infection can be best secured by the use of milk froai an immunized goat. THE German rmpress paid a totally unexpected visit to a children's hospital in Berlin the oth-r day, talked with the little Inmates over an hour and left cast), in the county of Cook, shall constitute the First District. Second--The Twelfth Ward and the whole of the Tenth Ward except that pert lylntr south of the center line of vist street and east of the center line of Campbell avenue in the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook, shall consti­ tute the Second District. Third--The town ot Calumet, in Cook Coun­ ty, the Thirty-first. Thirty-third and Thlrty- fourth Wards in the citv ot Chicago, In the county of Cook, shall constitute the Third District. Fourth--The Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Wards of the city'pf Chicago, in the county of Cook, shall constitute the Fourth District. Fifth--The Third, Fourth and Thirty-socond Wards, and that part or the Second Ward lying south of the center line of 22d street and west of the center line of State street in the city of Chicago, in the connty of Cook, shall consti­ tute tne Fifth District. Sixth--The Twentieth and Twentv-sixth Wards, that part of the Twenty-fifth Ward ly­ ing north of the oenter line of Montrose boul­ evard, and that part- of the Fifteenth Ward lying east of the center line of Western ave­ nue in the city of CMCBKO, in the connty of Cook, shall constitute the cixth District. _ Seventh--The towns^of Thornton. Bloom. Rich, Bremen, Gri«iiiu, Lkiuuui, V»OrIu, Lyons, Cicero, Proviso, Leyden, Norwood Park. Maine, Bilk Grove, Schaumbnrjr, Han­ over, Warrington, Palatine, Wheeling, North- iield, New Trier, Eranston, and Niles, in Cook County, shall constitute the Seventh l>ljtrict. Eighth--The counties of Lake, McHenry, end Doone shall constitute the Eighth Dis­ trict. Ninth--The Sixth Ward, that part of the Twenty-eighth Ward lying between the Illi­ nois and Michigan canal and the center line of 3!ith street, that part of the Ninth Ward south of the center line of loth street, and that part of the Tenth Ward south of the center line of 21st street and east of the center line of Camp­ bell avenue in the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook, shall constitute the Ninth Dis­ trict. Tenth--The counties of Winnebago and Ogle shall constitute the Tenth District. Eleventh--The Fourteenth Ward, the Fif­ teenth Ward west of the center line of Western avenue, the Twenty-eighth Ward except that part lying between the Illinois and Michigan canal and the center line of :wth street, and the Twenty-seventh Ward of the city of Chi­ cago. in the county of Cook, shall constitute the Eleventh District. Twclftn--The counties of Stephenson. Jo Daviess and Carroll shall constitute the Twelfth IMstttct. Thirteenth--The Seventh Ward, the Eighth Ward, and that part of the Nineteenth Ward bounded [on the north by tho center line of Taylor street, on the east by the center line of Desplaiaes street, and on the sonth by the center line of Twelfth street, and on the west by the center line of Newberry avenue, in the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook, shall constitute the Thirteenth District. Fourteenth--The counties of Kane and Du­ page shall constitute the Fourteenth District. Fifteenth--The Nlneteeth Ward except that part bounded on the north by the center line of Taylor street, on the east by the center line of Desplaines street, on the south by the cen­ ter line 01 iifch street, and on the west by the center line of Newberry avenue, the Eleventh Ward sonth of the center line of Lake street, and the Ninth Ward north of the center line of lfith street in the city of Chicago, in.the county cf Cook, shall constitute the Fifteenth Dis­ trict. Sixteenth--The counties of Kankakee and Iroquois shall constitute the Sixteenth Dis­ trict. Seventeenth--That part of the Eleventh Ward north ot the center line of Lake street and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Wards in the citv of Chicago, in the county of Cook.shall constitute the Seventeenth District. Eighteenth The comntics of Ford and Ver­ milion shall constitute the Eighteenth dis­ trict. Nineteenth--The Thirteenth Ward and all ot the Sixteenth Ward except that part lying east ot the center line of Noble street and south of the center line of Division street to the center line of Milwaukee avenue in the city of Chi­ cago, in the county of Cook, ahaU constitute the Nineteenth district. Twentieth--The counties of Marshall, Wood­ ford and I .lvlngston shall constitute the Twen- tietSi district. Twenty-first--The Twenty-first, the Twenty- second Ward, and that part of the Twenty- fifth Ward sonth of the center line of Montrose avenue in the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook, shall constitute the Twenty-first dis­ trict. Twenty-second--Tbe county of MoLean shall constitute the Twenty-second district. Twenty-third--The Twenty-third Ward, the Twenty-fourth Ward, and that pare of the Six­ teenth Ward lying east of the center line of Noble street and south of the center line of Division street to the center line of Milwaukee avenue In the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook, shall constitute the Twenty-third dis­ trict. Twenty-fourth--The county of Peoria shall constitute the Twenty-fourth district. Twenty-fifth--The county of Will shall con­ stitute the Twentv-liitti district. Twenty-sixth--The counties of Fulton and . Tazew> 11 shall constitute 'the Tweuty-slxtb district Twenty-seventh--^The connty of La8alle shall constitute the Twenty-seventh district. Twenty-eighth--1 he counties of HanoooflE. McDonough and Schuyler shall constitute tj|e Twenty-eighth district. Twenty-ninth--The counties ofLee. DeCilb, Kendall, and Grnudy shall constitute the Twenty-ninth district. Thirtieth--The counties of Champaign. De- Witt. and Piatt shall constitute the Thirtieth district. Thirty-first--The counties of Whiteside, Bu­ reau. Putnam, and Stark shall constitute the Thirty-first dlstiict. Thirty-second-The counties of Cass, Me­ nard. Mason, aud Logan shall constitute the Thirth-second district. Thirty-third--The counties ot Bock Island and Henry shall constitute the Thirty-third district. Thirty-fourth--The counties of Pike, Scott, and Morgan shall constitute the Thirty-fourth district. Thirty-fifth--The counties of Knox, Warren, Henderson and Meroer shall constitute the Thirty-fifth district. Thirty-sixth--The counties of Greene and Macoupin shaU constitute the Thirty-sixth district. Thirty-seventh--The counties of Adams and Brown shall constitute the Thirty-seventh district. Thirty-eighth--The counties of Montgomery, Bond and Fayette shall constitute the Thirty- eighth district. Thirty-ninth--The county of Sangamon shall constitute the Thirty-ninth district. Fortieth-The counties of Douglas, .Coles and Shelby shall constitute the Fortieth dis­ trict. Forty-first--The counties of Macon, Chris­ tian and Moultrie shall constitute the Forty- first district. Forty-second--The countlea of Clay, Marlon, Clinton, and Washington shall constitute the Forty-second Distriot. Forty-third--The counties of Edgar, Clark, Cumberland, and Effingham shall constitute the Forty-third District. Forty-fourth--Tbe counties of Wabash. Ed­ wards, White, Gallatin, and Hardin shall con­ stitute the Forty-fourth district. Forty-fifth--Tne counties of Jasper, Craw* ford, Richland, and Lawrence shall constitute the Forty-fifth District. Forty-aixth--The counties of Franklin, Jef­ ferson, Wayne, and Hamilton shall constitute the Forty-sixth District, Forty-aeventh--'The counties of Madison, Jersey, and Calhoun shall constitute the Forty- seventh District. Forty-eighth--The counties of Monroe. Ban* dolph. Perry, and Jackson shall constitute the Forty-eighth District. J "* Forty-ninth--The connty of St. Clair shall constitute the Forty-ninth District. Fiftieth--The counties of Williamson. Union, and Alexander shall constitute the Fiftieth D i s t r i c t . . . . » Fifty-first--The counties of Pulaski. Massac, Johnson, Pope, and Saline shall constitute the Fifty-first District. _ .. Sec. % Wherever the word ward or -wards* In the city of Chicago is used in this act it shall be construed as meaning the warus as existing; to said city at the time of the passage of this set. Sec. 3. An act entitled "An act to Apportion the State of IlliBols Into Senatorial Districts, approved May <>, MS2, in force July 1.18&1, la hereby repealed. - "WHt ••Take the Cake." Concerning this expression, which has been much discussed of late, the following, from "Scenery and An­ tiquities of Ireland," describing a dance in front of a shebeen, is an in­ teresting illustration: "A churn- dish stuck into the earth supported on its flat end a cake, which was to become the prize of the best dancer. The contention was carried on for a long time with extraordinary spirit; at length the competitors yielded their claims to a young man, the son of a rich farmer in the neighborhood, who, taking the cake, placed it gal­ lantly in the lap of a pretty girl, to he was about to whom I understood them a scrapbook male by her 6-year- J ^ married.* old son Oscar. m f guilty pending • 3*s sounthieds tit fcswpe Entire Family Drowned, at Cartnl-- Killed by Caving Banks--Several by Fire--Cyclone at ZaneavUl*. From Far and Wear. FIRE in John Powers' wagon tietutf at Cairo caused $10,000 damage. THE Catholic church and pareooagB at Franklin burned; loss $18,000. A. H. PHILLIPS, for several years# Supervisor, died at Vandalia, aged 8# years. AT Cairo the American steam laundry was destroyed. The loss Is $6,060; iar sured for $4,000. * THE steamer Dolphin passed Alton with 2,500,000 feet .of lumber in tow, the largest on record. J. B. CROWLET, Judge of Crawfort County, has sent in his resignation of the office to Gov. Altgeld. THE Bate in the hardware store of Frank McClure at Haoe was blow* open Monday night and nearly $200 la cash and checks taken. THE Ricker National Bank of Quina£r sent the following tele-gram to Secretary Carlisle: "This bank offers you $100, gold coin." The offer was accepted. , MRS. ADIJ.\I E. STEVESSON, wife of the Vice President, who was indisposed quito seriously during her visit to Chi­ cago, arrived at Bloomington much bit­ ter. THE corner stone of the new Luther­ an memorial churoh was laid at Quinoy in the presence of a large crowd. The ceremonies were conducted by Rev. 1% B. Barnitz. THE Auditor of Publio Accounts granted a final certificate of organiza­ tion to the Chicago City Bank at Chi­ cago, which commenced business wtfch a capital stock of $200,000. A small cyclone passed northwest ot HUlsboro, doing considerable dam­ age. At Atwater and Zanesville, small villages, several buildings were blowa down and a number unrooted. NEAR Marshall's Ferry, White Coun­ ty, Peter Jackson was caught in the current of the Wabash River, which ia now miles v-ide, and his skiff was over­ turned and Jackson, hl3 wife and tw* children were drowned. CHARLES GATES was killed near Cdiv ran by tho caving in of the banks of a trench in which he was working. Geow Cox, who was also buried in the trench, was rescued alive by a third man who stepped onto the bank a moment before the cave Occurred. ' JTTBOE 8HAW, of Boekford, has soma doubts about the sanity of William Burke, the matricide, and has decided to set aside his plea of an inquiry Into Burke1 mind. If it is found that he is not ia.' sane the death penalty will be imposed. Is special orders the Adjutant Gen- eral announces that a permission has . been granted to the Centenary Cavalry ̂ Cadets of Chicago to drill and parade with arm? but without ammunition «m- i~ til Dec. 31. Privates Frank Lambert ami Gottlieb Fgle of Company B. Third Infantry, have been honorably dls- charged, Corpses EASLET, of Greenville, war called to Mulberry Grove, to hold an inquest over the remains of Mrs Jell Harper, who had committed suicide by slashing her throat in a horrible manner with a razor. Just before cutting her own throat she killed her married daughter by cutting her throat with the same razor. Insanity was the cause. Fom boys named Stewart and Ber- ̂ rin, brothers, from 9 to 12 years old, went into Burton Cave, ten miles east of Quincy, and their torch going oat they become lost in the darkness. For three days and a half they wandered - around in their living tomb trying t« find the entrance, but without avalL They had no food, and their condition was pitiful. Searching parties were organized, and the boys were foundL... .-«!?• AFTSB twice trying unsuccessfully to wreck a Burlington train in Adams County, an unknown gang succeeded Thursday in ditching a fast west-bound passeneer train, near Colchester. The whole train ran into a ditch. The train was running at the rate of a mile a minute at the time, and the englno and five of the six coaches in the train were demolished, but as If by a miracle n.o one was seriously hurt. The coaches sank in the mud above the wheels, 4Btd the engine was half buried. All the workmen in the Ide foundry Springfield, have eone out on a strike, owing to the discharge of four-yeax contract apprentices. A DESPERATE negro, supposed to be West Harris, was arrested at Mascou- tah. He shot and killed Sam Chase, another negro, at East Louis. Harris was well armed and made a desperate resistance when his arrest was at­ tempted. He shot at Officer Scheel at short range, but his aim was broken by a blow from another officer. He is now safe in the steel cage at the City Hall. Ho is sullen and refuses to talk of his arrest. GEORGE B. EWING was killed by an Illinois Central train at Chicago. He was standing on the north-bound track and was trylna to cross. The engine struck him, throwing his body against the guard surrounding the elevated trackway. The fence was carried away by the blow and the man fell to the street surface, together with the wreck­ age. He died instantly. He was 50 years old and leaves a widow and child in Pittsburg. THE $25,00^ capital of the new Stats bank in Carmihas been subscribed. The stockholders elected the following di­ rectors. C. E. McDowell, John Land, Fe­ lix Viskuiski, George Wust, James A. Miller and Thomas W. HalL After ad­ journment of the stockholders* pieetiax the directors organized by electing C. E. McDowell President, Felix Viskqiski Vice President, and Thomas W. Hall Cashier and Secretary. The bank tfltl be opeu for business June h One of the most interesting lot of ap­ pointments in the gift ot the Governor of Illinois was announced Tuesday, It consisting of new members of the State Board of Health, who were promptly confirmed by the Senate: George Tliilo, of Cook County, to succeed F. W. Reilly, term expired; William Quine, Of Cook County, to succeed Daniel H. Williams, removed; Sarah HackettSte­ ven son, of Cook County, to succeed Wil­ liam K. MoKenzie, resigned; James B. Fatrirk, of Cook County, to succeed William A. Haskell, resigned; Julius Kohl, of St. Clair County, to succeed A. L. Clark, resigned. Gov. Altoei.0 has issued a requisi­ tion on the Governor of Missouri foe the return of Joseph Clark and Fraak Williams, wanted at Jacksonville for robbing a store. THE first box of California chenriea was offered at the Chicago^ Auction Company bv Messrs. Barnett Bros., and although it only contained about on* pound of cherries it sold quickly for Fibe at Greenview destroyed ftto frame business houses occupied by T. C. Pond, M. A. Moore. E. M. Grogan. D. A. Petrie. Pugh Foster and Adaui Part man. The aggregate loss is about $10,000, with less than jtM*> ance. - j*<