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m -rrTzn St -- • • . . •"- ••rtn f: • HAASS waif, - - - ILLINOIS, THE modern battle ship has proved it* efficiency as a killer--of its own crew. , ANARCHIST JOHANN MOST always ought to wear a storm-door over his main entrance. f l ' v ^ Ho 8LATB3 will he Carolina's State saloons. or no tipple. l&i»iisa*4oii. Why should not the W«TOl® fraternity unitedly make the effort? Ttzj arc jousa public spirited, and Intel­ ligent as a rule. Why not enter upon a reform that will add to their own pleasure and the comfort and ]jap- pinessof the millions? AFTER much delay, and sotfea fears that other places were to bfc favored before them, the people of Buffalo have received an assurance that not i (B. it, l*ter than the close of this year they will be electrically supplied with It's cash BRCENT events have proven con- dnsively that Wall street is not the capital 6t this country. THBY are looking for "a t'dal wave" in "New York. A vessel with ••800 boxes of baking powder sunk in the harbor." IT is really a pleasure to seo that several States are taking steps to pre­ serve the timber yet remaining. Within their borders. power from Niagara Falls. IT has been thought the design of those in control was to operate extensively at the Falls before distributing the power outside, but it is now decided that the transmission line to Buffalo will be ready for work about the time the power is ready to be furnished. There . is a large demand in Buffalo foi I power, and it is reported that a con- I tract is about to be closed lor deliv­ ering 10,000 horse power to Rochester. THE Illinois Central Railroad pro­ poses a new departure in railroad management. It has decided to en courage the buying of shares of its stock by its officers and employes* the company paying interest on the sav­ ings of those who deposit $5 or any multiple thereof at one time at the rate o' four per cent, per annum , ... .. „ .. , . This it is believed will insure more about with Mm a collection ot pet . lnterest work animals. Other English noblemen ' THE number of banks doing busi­ ness upon theory, instead oT cash, appears to be unusually large. The sooner all of this sort close their doers the better. fa* Duke of Newcastle carries sometimes do the same thing, they take bromide for it. hut AN Ohio couple, parents ot four­ teen children, are in the divorce courts after a married life of thirty- nine years. Isn't the statue of limita­ tions applicable in this case? GRADUALLY but surely monarchy is going to decay. Formerly the prices of kingdoms were battles and gore. Now comes Queen I^liuoka- lani with an offer to sell out her Queenship for lucre. s-.Ss-fpHB man whose home shows a care- fol regard for outward beauty, atten­ tion to the appearance of house and grounds, and a vigorous carrying out of intelligent plans to that end, is always a man worth knowing. THE Prague Opera Company of Bo­ hemians is coming to this country with a repertoire that includes "The Bartered Bride," "The Kiss," and ••In the Well." When it has been here long enough it will get "In the Soup/' GEORGE GUESS, to whom a monu­ ment is soon to be erected in Indian Territory, was the Cadmus of the Cherokees, so to speak, for he in­ vented am alphabet for their own use, and in that way distinguished them above other American Indians. FOOT-BALL seems to be as danger­ ous as going to war. Last year the results of this sport in Great Britain were twenty-six deaths, thirty-nine broken legs, twelve broken arms, j twenty broken collar bones, and j minor Injuries too numerous to men­ tion. ! ANNOUNCEMENT is made that a Tacoma gentleman has gone East for the purpose of having hands grafted upon a pair of stumps that are all that remain of his arms. The per­ son making the announcement should also go. Perhaps a conscience could be grafted into his - system at the same institution. LAWS are well enforced when there is a strong public sentiment in favor of their enforcement, and the people do not unwittingly hinder it by their own actions. If people would do what they can and what they ought- to do to protect themselves, there would be much less trouble about en­ forcing laws. who hold stock'. The Illinois Central is a wealthy corporation, always pay ing dividends, and its stock is a se curity not likely to depreciate. There will be a good effect in having stock in such a road held by large numbers who are entirely familiar with its operation. Railroad stocks are usual­ ly held in very large blocks by capital ists. If those with smaller capital can become interested in railroads it ought to be better for all parties. WHEN a plebeian sausage vender gets the better of the World's Colum bian Exposition it is time to inquire, Whither are we drifting? This sau­ sage man obtained a subconcession from the Old Vienna Company, and for two mouths he dispensed the toothsome frapkfurter with the ac companiment of horse-radish and rye bread to patrons of the estab­ lishment from the banks of the beau tiful blue Danube. Bound by his contract to render to the World's Fair 2{> per cent, of his daily receipts, the sausage man, scooping 1n with both hands the debased silver cur­ rency of our country, yet pleaded poverty and implored extension of his notes. Indulgence was granted him until patience ceased to be a virtue, when he was ordered to liqul date or submit to the alternative of having his sausage shop closed up. But the man of many links knew a thing or two. He neither paid the 25 per cent, demanded nor did he shut up his shop. On the contrary, he sneaked down town and secured an injunction, in approved American fashion, restraining the exposition people from interfering with him Now the sale of sausages goes merrily on, the court refuses to dissolve the injunction, and the exposition au­ thorities are inquiring excitedly as to their own exact whereabouts in lan­ guage that is "frequent and painful and free." It Is evident that the business capacity of the subtle Viennese has been underestimated. He seems to be all right. TO/ MOST NOTED. How tfca World's itlr City Tains Car* •( It* Poor, Its VlckMM, Its tMimjitiirt •ad Ite Sick--Th* Tory Asm of ftfttean Is OhwrwJ. latoMsttn* iMtttattMMb r,/^ Chtaio aoziwpondence: The charities of a great city form a theme well worthy of study, and there are many who find, in the same a source of even deeper interest than in surveying grand monuments, artistic parks and the manifold ordinary wonders of a metropolis. For such, Chicago presents a truly representa­ tive lino of charitable and oorreo- tionary institutions, and while these are simply prototypes of asylums found in smalW towns, their opportunities, benefits and workings are upon such a magnified scale that,hftfe the very- acme of system and utility may be ob­ served, and deductions eliminated to guide and instruct. The problem of poverty and the amelioration of hu­ man misery will never be solved satis­ factorily to every phase of thinking, hut the way in which the World's Fair city takes care of its poor, its vicious, „ .lata#* la 1848, FRKSBYTBBXAa HOSPITiJU its incompetent and its sick certainly approximates excellence very nearly perfection. There are so many varied institutions for charity in Chicago that even a list alone wotud occupy pages. Their mis­ sions are widely diffused; they dot every portion of the city, they afford shelter for the blind, the deaf, tha dumbs the crippled, the worthy poor, even the unworthy poor. Every class is provided for, ami these classes are in turn divided up, and in many instances apportioned to institutions controlled by representatives of the nationalities to which they belong. With a view cf marking out the moet interesting and easy of access of these asylums, a few may be described, which, inspected by the stranger, will afford a very fair idea of the general run of local charities. The main home for the indigent is of course the county poor house, and for the sick the county hospital. The latter is easy of access, being located at the corner of Harrison and Wood streets, and is noted for its prompt, good work. The former, how­ ever, is some ten miles from the city, being situated at Dunning. The Mil­ waukee and St. Paul Railroad has a branch line running to this institution,* which comprises many buildings, and, while scarcely a model of its class, is extensive in its scope, and fairly suc­ cessful in ite efforts to systematize the care and comfort of its inmates. As it harbors mainly hopeless and chronic paupers, however, dark pictures with a bright eide are more common among as/iums within the city's borders, where love and devotion take the place of & necessarily rigorous system the mean* theveis no Li words and'aottv* The charitable <are very numerous. the Mercy Hospital. controlled by the Sisters of Merey, and supported entirely by voluntary con­ tributions: the Michael Reese Boa* pital, a Hebrew oharity which admits patients without a test of religions faith; St. Luke's Hospital, supported by collections taken up on St. Luke's Day in all the Episcopal ohurches of Chicago; and scores of minor hospitals, all of which perform a noble and hos­ pitable work. The visitor desiring to thoroughly inspect a model lustltu- tion or this rind, however, should visit the United States Marine Hes- Pjital, the offloe of which is in the Government Building. The institu­ tion is eitnated atLaxe View, on the lake shore, six miles north of the City Hall, and aoeeesible by the North Tn- visionoabte ears. The grounds oom- prise ten JMTOS) and the building is a handsome granite structure, four stories high, with a basement. It is 300x75 feet, and has accommodations for 150 patients, is the largest hospital of its kind in the conntry, and coal the government 1460,000. Over 3,000 pa­ tients are treated annually In its dis­ pensary. It is maintained by a tax on all Umnage. American citizens are treated free, and foreign­ ers at a small charge. The Presbyterian Hospital, corner Wood and Congress streets, is another large institution, which, while providing medical and surgical aid, also' aims at the ministration of the gospel agree­ able to the dostrine and forms of the Presbyterian Church. The miner ch*tf t*lt>ie insfltwtions of the city numberless, and the stranger can, find scarcely a neighborhood where mis­ sions, creches, dispensaries or fre® kindergartens do not abound. There are likewise orphan asylums, half orphan asylumns, homes for strangers, for working girls, emergency and deten­ tion hospitals, and industrial schools for boys and girls. An inspection of these gives the visitor a glance at phases of rare human interest, and a conception of the really good work that is being done quietly and systematically in the great World's Fair city. The stranger visiting Lincoln Park may discern © practical demonstration of this by inspecting the pier devoted to the supporters of the celebrated urtosh^Ckir luuu lur cliiiurwu. Str hived-up little ones of the poorer classes are brought regularly, and, surrounded by water, fresh air, and open sunshine, enjoy the comforts and luxuries provided for them by kind hearts and willing hands. It is a spec­ tacle that will send the visitor home- aggregrate misery in and ATHLETICS IN GERMANY. ANTIPYRINE, which people use a good deal nowadays, is made by the condensation of a halogen butyrate and phenylhydrazine; the metbyl- phenylpyrazine resulting is converted by a weak dehydromethylphenylpyra- zine, and this by methylation yields dehydrodimethylphenylpyrazipe. The process is patented, however, so that it will not be legal for you to make antipyrine for. yourself. THE Massachusetts Legislature has passed a bill providing that, after August 1, 1896, the tires on the wheels of draught wagons used in that State shall be .from three to five inches in width. This is a long stride in the direction of good roads. There is no reason, however, why light buggies should be permitted still to cut the roads up with tjres an Inch or an inch and a quarter in width. Let them be brought within the pro­ visions of the law also. AN amendment has been added to the code of ethics governing the medical profession. A Denver physi­ cian sued the estate of an ex-patient lor a fee, and the fapt was then brought out that be had been engaged to the patient. The court opined in The Way the Tonn( Emperor la Shocking 'the Schoolmasters. The German boy, up to his 18th or 19th year, when he leaves school, is looked upon merely as a machine for grinding out Latin, Greek, and math­ ematics, writes Poulteuey Bitrelow in Harper's Magazine. If he has in eacb week two or three hours de­ voted to gymnastic exercises he con­ siders himself fortunate. It never enters his head that he should spend at least three hours a day in out-door games of some kind. His teachirs hold up their hands in horror at the idea of devoting as much attention to the phvsical cul­ ture of their pupils as to the cram­ ming of their minds with dead knowledge. Even my excellent Ger­ man tutor, who fitted me for Yale, and jyho was himself a teacher of gymnastics, regarded it as monstrous that boys should spend two or three hoqrs a day in playing football or rowing. The whole professional caste Of Germany, loyal as it is to the Hohen- j zollerns, regards this Emperor with I ill-disguised surpicion, because of his (desire that the German school-boy j should be a vigorous typical creature i as well as an educated one. The j drudgery of the school-boy's life can scarcely 4 e credited by one who has | not lived it, and it is only because the Emperor has suffered under it ! that he is so strong an advocate for j improvement The injury to health, which is the | direct result of the unnatural life ! led by the Germaa boy, has become i strangely apparent in late years, j through published statistics; but even ! without them the evils manifest themselves to Impartial eyes in the difficulty of getting men of proper build to till the ranks of. the officer's corps. . . . . „ I f t h e W a r D e p e r t m e n t a c c o m p - effect that the administration | lisbes iiothing more than to bring potions under the pills and stances was clearly A doctor of mercenary instincts should, in cases similar, hire a fellow practitioner aud whack up on the fee. THKRE should something good re­ sult to the people from the general introduction of the bicycle. If all wheelmen would heartily unite in the demand for better roads, they would nat, anH tho pntirft wnnlft arnnM " Wft "Paw* • jFJ " " ~ circum- j pressure upon the academic bodies in a labor of love. j this one direction, it will have justi­ fied its existence, and If the present Emperor should die having done nothing greater than to leave every school child the right to physical de­ velopment as well as mental, he will have earned the gratitude ot every mother and school child in the father­ land. MASCULINE breach of promise suits will never succeed until there are fe­ male. iurie& dealing with helplessness. Home for the Friendten. The Home for the Friendless, at 1026 Wabash avenue, may be reached by any of the South Division cable cars, and is one of the most notable of Chi­ cago's charitable asylums. It occupies handsome brick buildings, four stories and an attio in height, well lighted and ventilated, supplied with shaded porticoes, and surrounded by grass plats. The interior is elaborate in its appoint­ ments, and has about 100 rooms. This institution is an important factor in the social and moral condition of Chi­ cago, its guidance being in the very best of hands, its benefits in­ calculable, and the care of its inmates conducted on a system that has rescued hundreds from despair and helplessness, and placed them on the road to usefulness and right. The waifs taken in here have a home in every sense of the word, motherly at­ tention, happy amusements, ana a school training most thorough, and yet pleasant. A mile and a half farther south BOMS rOB TEE rBI@NDI.K8a •X V \ - ' j^Y>. is the Old People's Home, and both insti­ tutions may be visited the same day. The last-named represents an invest­ ment of some $70,000, and at present houses eighty did ladies. It is intend­ ed to erect a duplicate structure for the accommodation of old men. In the West Division the most noted charity is the Foundlings' Home, just off Madison on Wood street. It compx-ises two large connected brick buildings on© three, the other five stories high. Its capacity is for about one hundred children, but no little wayfarer left at its hospitable portals is ever turned adrift. Kelying almost solely on donations from the benevolent, its success has demonstrated the abiliity of one good man--the lamented Dr. George Shipman, its founder--to carry out a great enterprise when based on unfaltering faith, as also the kind­ ness of heart of a community at large. A visitor cannot help but be absife-bed in watching the workings of a system here displayed that mothers infants from one month to several years of age, and not a few World's Fair visitors may adopt and take home as a "sunshine" the little ones who are only waiting to brighten childless or bereaved homes with the sunshine of their presence. The North Division has, at the cor­ ner of Market and Hill streets, a some­ what remarkable asylum and reforma­ tory for women, girls, and female chil­ dren, known as the House of the Good Shepherd, the noble work of which in years past cannot be overesti­ mated. [t is under charge of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, and occupies a large inclosure. partly taken up by the building, and partly by sev­ eral yards. The institution is divided into five departments, isolated from aach other--the penance reformatory for women, the juvenile reformatory for young girls, the industrial school, the Magdalen asylum, and "Our Sisters' Community." There are accommoda- pons ior 400 inmates, aad the insutu-, JUt X**#* AO#ir All IhH < Secij of ma Clerks. " ITNNRVL.TSAS' HOIRA. ward-bound with the pleasantest and tenderest memories the human heart can experience. CttmaclM Condensed. THOMAS EDWARDS, 15 years old, fell from a tree at Brazil, Ind., and will probably die. THE Cleveland Chamberof Commerce passed a resolution demanding tha re­ peal of the Sherman law. A GANG of thiqvos who made a busi­ ness of robbing box cars has been run to earth-at Wabasha, Minn. ^ BEV. LEIGH VEKNOM, who eloped with Mrs. Marie Parson, was sentenced to six months in jail at Pittsburg, Kas. MARTIN FOY, JR., murderer, was sentenced to be electrocuted at Denna? mora (N. Y.) prison in the week of Aug. 27. ANNA WIKOWKWL a ma!d at the Psl- mer House in Chicago, and Baron Sohl- berg, an Austrian nobleman,*have been united in marriage. WITAAM RAWABS, a demented and intoxicated imitate of. the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, Kan., tried to drown himself, but was rescued. WHXIAMJ. KINSEIXA, a Chicagt policeman, who murdered Charlea Smith last Thanksgiving, was found guilty and sentenced to a term of fivs years. BECBNT reports of a popular upris* ing among the people of Corea against foreigners appear to have been with* out foundation, according to advices re> coived by the Presbyterian Board oi Missions in New York. HABBY BAKER, agent for the Singei Sewing Machine Company, left Leba­ non, Ind., with a livery rig to make a seven mile drive. Nothing has sincc been heard from him. Hia accounti with the company are short $120. THE epidemic of typhoid fever at Ironwood, Mich., is abating somewhat, but is not ended. A conservative esti* mate of the number of cases sine© the beginning of the epidemic in Junaii 400. About fifty deaths have oc­ curred. W. L. OAKLEY, of New York, walk­ ing from San Francisco to New York on a wager, was killed by a Union Pa­ cific train a few miles west of Omaha. Oakley was identified by papers on his person. He was endeavoring to make the trip without money. New Words. The progress of invention and dis­ covery and applied sciences is con­ stantly adding new words to our language. The words and phrases under the letter "A" in Worcester's dictionary is 6,933,in Webstor's 8,358, in the Century 15,621, and in the Standard, now in process of publica­ tion, 19,736. Ten years ago scarcely one of the following words were com­ mon; now they feave forced their way into dictionaries, even those pub­ lished in Great Britain: Antipyrine, aquarelle, bacteriology, blizzard, to boom, to cable, center-board, cocaine, cowboy, to cycle, dude, dynamo, fad­ dist, flabbergast, glissade, hypnotist, impressionist, lanolin, log-rolling, Machine gun, magazine rifle, Mahat- ma, massage, melinite, menthol, mugwump, Keoplatonism, occultism, philatelist, photogravure, plati no- type, polopody, prognosis, qa^uii- form, range-finder, referendum, re*' Ugiosity, saccharin, ship railway, sloyd, telepathy, tuberculosis, vas­ eline and xylophone. KATE FIELD says that Edwin Booth oast a vote for Abraham Linooln for President, but never voted before that 'occasion or after; GOETHE married %n ostimable "fima" who made him quite content with his . ^,rrrr- We have been to the "Bon March* " Almost every one knowb t,ha"t won­ derful store, but I think not many know that it is an addairable benevo­ lent work as well as a successful busi­ ness undertaking. We were in the reading-room of the store when a gentleman entered and offered to show the household and business parts to as many as were curious. This offer is made every afternoon about 3 o'clock. Mr. Boucicaut began life as a poor boy, and when able to have a little store of his own his at­ tention was at once directed to the welfare of his clerks, and he gave them, as soon as he was able, a home in his own house. From this small beginning the work has grown won­ derfully. Mr. Boucicaut died a few years ago worth millions of dollars, and to-day the '*Bon March'e," car­ ried on by his widow, employs 3,000 people. Two thousand of these people live in the building, and the 3,000 take their meals there. We were first taken to a large hall filled with desks, where a great many boys and young men were studying bookkeeping. They have the benefit of reviewing all the books of the store, and are paid a small amount on every mis­ take they find. In the evening les­ sons are given gratuitously to the em­ ployes in English, German, instru­ mental, and vocal music, and fenc­ ing. Concerts are given by the store, in summer, in the square by the side of the building; in winter, on the ground floor, which can be cleared by the porters in twenty minutes of counters and goods wh&i it is needed for that purpose, or balls. There are four dinlne-rooms--one for the men clerks, one for the'girls, one for the workwomen, and one for the porters, messengers, and drivers. The menu for dinner we saw; it consisted of soup, one kind of meat, one kind of vegetables, and dessert, and for each person a half-bottle of wine. Coffee is extra; it costs two cents for a small CUR and three cents for the larger ones. The kitchen was vp.rj interesting. Thiee hundred people are employed there as waiters in the dining-rooms The kettles are perfectly immense; they must be cer­ tainly three feet high, and I am sure no man could meet his arms around one of them. Of course, when they are full and hot, they are beyond the abilityof any man to move, so pulleys are arranged which lift the kettles from the tire and place them where they are wanted. For the clerks there is a room for amusement, where there &re billiarJ- tables, chess, checkers, dominoes, etc., but no card-pla.yinsr is allowed. The lady clerks have also a pleasant little parlor, where there is a piano and where they can spend their even- lnvs when they choose. Each girl has a room entirely «o herself, which is plainly furnished. There are rules to be observed by all, but they are not burdensome or oppressive; the doors are not closed on week-days un­ til 11, and on Sunday until 12:30 at night; but tho occupations and enter­ tainments must make it more ent'e- ing to remain at home than to go out. Every one in the service of the "Bon Marche" receives a certain com­ mission on everything sold or deliv­ ered, and after a certain number of years' service each acquires an inter­ est in the store that increases yearly. It seems to me this is one of the most complete, most bencflcial works of benevolence that 1 have known. It would be almost impossible to think of any details that are not attended to. There is a barber's shop in the building for the use of employes; a physician is employed by the store, and bis services are free to all; more­ over there is an infirmary in another part of the city where these who are siCK are cared for; indeed, a pair of boots is blacked for every member of the establishment every day. We asked if any board was paid, and the answer ^vas "No;" but I suppose at least some difference is made in the salary.--Boston Traveller. tb*m with me. But throCMtik with that* now that the walkffkjr delegate it likely to step in aod hold me up any minute. The lellowa arc thinking more how they «an shirk work than do it and raise their pay than earn it They struck in a busy time when 1 could not re­ fuse their demands, but when the dull times arrive, in a few weeks, I shall close my doors and they can get OHfc^V-New York Sua tx>neliness of the Pacila. :"v ̂ I notice an item in the press stat­ ing that the City of Peking in her re­ cent trip sailed 1,240 miles without meeting a single sail, and this fact is cited as showing the loneliness of the Pacific Ocean, says a writer in the Washington Star. In the summer of I860 I left San Francisco on a sail vessel (formerly from Baltimore) for Panama, distant 4,000 miles, and on the entire route, which lasted forty, three days, we never saw a sail! loneliness is. no word for it, especiallv when we lay becalmed in the tropics, with our vessel floating as helplessly about as a chip on a mill pond, the ground swelle keeping up the monot­ onous roll of the vessel from side to side all day and nigtrt and day after day, each roll being accompanied by a flap ot the sails and a creaking of the rigging that misrht have passed for the flap of the wings and the wail of lost spirits. When we read about Noah and hi; ark we are apt to think that he must have had rather a lonely time, but then he was out only forty days, and besides, with all the ani mals, eta, on board, he had plenty to occupy his time and attention, and if he wanted amu-ement to while away the time he had only to start a sparr­ ing match between his monkeys and parrots. True, there is no report of any such proceeding on his part, but that is doubtless because there was no modern newspaper reporter on board. I tell you, a man can't real­ ize what loneliness or comfort is un­ til he has made some such trip, and if he wants to complete his educa­ tion in that line he should preface It with a tramp of 2,000 miles over the mountains and across the deserts amid wolves and wild Indians* as thousands of '49-ers did. SOBER OR STARTUNO, FAIL FULLY RECORDED. Hmibaro CUM Bavin* wttfc --Depot Burned at Altoa -- IU Killed by AlfcmUew Sea Kitted 1y IT I !• j " BU Father. The Teeth of Children. Children have twenty temporary teeth, the germs of which as well as of the permanent exist in the jaw prior to birth, and begin to appear about the sixth or seventh month, perhaps later. Tl« period of the eruption of these teeth is the most critical and troublesome of the child's life. About the second or third year the temporary teeth are complete and fully developed; they need just as much care as the permanent teeth. All parents who value the health, comfort and beauty Of their children should remember this. Preserve the first set of teeth from neglect and decay. Better that the child's face should be unclean than that the teeth should be neglected. One of theirst things you should teach your child is the use of powder and brush. It is essential that the mouth should be cleaned before the morning meal is eaten. And atler every meal, see that the mouth is washed clean with a glass of tepid water, and all par­ ticles of foud removed from the teeth. For this purpose a tooth-pick is best. In selecting a toothpick, see that it iS composed of some elastic and ten­ acious substance, so that it may be readily inserted between the teeth. Stock Gambling. On the Stock Exchauge a "bear" is a person interested in having stocks go down in price--he bears them down. A "bull" wants stock to go up. To "corner" a stock or a &Hm- modity is to get control of all of it and so put the price up to persons who wish to buy. A person who has contracted to deliver stock at a cer­ tain price is "cornered" or 4-caught in a corner" when other persons get control of that stock. When a per­ son has plenty of stock on hapd he is "long" on it, when he has little he Is • •short" and a man (<sells short" when he sells stock which he doesn't possess, intending to buy It, and so flulflli his contract; a man who sells short is a "bull" always. When you buy 'ton a margin" you give your broker one-tenth of the face value of the stock you want bim to buy, and he "carries" it for you; if the price of the stock goes up, you make money; if it goes down, you lose. If it goes down more than "ten points" you lose the money you have put up as "margin," and. unless you put up more 4'margin," you lose ail claim on the stock, even though the price should advance again immediately. In England they call buying "on a margin" buying "on cover." In "putting and calling" a broker sells to other brokers the right to 4 'put" a > certain stock to him at a certain fig­ ure, or to 4,cail" on him for the stock at a certain figure. Thus you may have a ,4put" oti this broker for 1,000 shares of this stock at a certain fig­ ure; if the stock goes below the figure, you "put" your 1,000 shares on him, Or, if you have a "call," and the stock goes up beyond that figure, you make him sell you what your 4tcall" requires at a lower rate than the y, margin rate. A "lamb" is a green, horn. All of these terms apply to speculative trading, whatever arti< e is bought or sold. A Ifajral Technicality. The following anecdote is vouched for by the stenographer and will be appreciated more especially by law­ yers: At a term of the Circuit Gourt held not long since In one of the up-river counties a horse case was on trial, and a well-known horseman called as a witness. ; * - Counsel--Well, *MV yotl saw this horse? Witness--jYes, sir, I "What did you do?" "I jest opened his moattr^H#%nd out his age, an' I sez to him, sez I: H~>ld feller, 1 guess you're purty good yet'" Opposing Counsel--Stop! Tour Honor, I object to any conversation carried on between this witness and, the horse when the plaintiff was not present. The objection Was sustained Rochester Post-Express. #• r Times Have Changed. A carriage builder who reco/tly suf­ fered from a strike in hi/" factory, said recently: "In th/ old days, when 1 had Americaryfeechanics, 1 used to take an intej^t in them and do whate'ver I coul/ for them per­ sonally. They feU^hat t was their friend, and we/got alonsr well to­ gether. Man^fa time I've run my piaceata ' " • Home News from Abroad. The following interesting scraps of information have been collected by English travellers. As they are fre­ quently published in foreign journals, they are doubtless accepted as'facts. Americans sweeten their tea and coffee with rock candy. Boston society people entertain evening visitors with the singularly intellectual device of writing a capi­ tal D on a sheet ot paper while stand­ ing at a table, and trying at the same time to swing the right foot in a direction exactly opposite from that in which the pen is moving. Prizes are oflered for the most suc­ cessful in the exploit. Servants in America, excepting i large cities, are admitted to al privileges of the family, and quently, in hiring a maid-of-aliyfork, a mistress kas to agree to "Wo^ the street door herself. Corn-Husk The ingenuity of m^ is ever on the increase. As oneeubstance gives out another one iwmediately takes its place, and thtywork goes on. We have had paper/hade of many things, but the latest *eems to be corn-husks. The husk* ari boiled in caustic soda, which educes them to a pulpy, glu- tenou^ mass. Under pressure, the gju^n is extracted, and there re­ us a fibre which is converted into per. If corn-husks can be utilized in this way, why not corn-stalks. It seems as if there should be a fortune in store for some one who puts the fibre of corn-stalks to practical use. An Imperial Railway Train. The Emperor of Germany has an imperial railway train consisting of twelve carriages, a drawing-room, nursery, reception room, and kitchen. Marble statuary, Gobelin tapestry, and many other touches of elegance add to the beautv of the famous traveling house, which has been three years in building and cost T.' ^ WILLIAM BUTLER, COLOI^, ^LI(«E#^ with having produced an abortion^ , committed suicide near Sumner BY> hanging. 4 ANOTHER stampede took place in tl Govennment Building at Chic caused by falling material. No was hurt. Miss MARCELLA BERG, • trainer the Hagenbeck wild animal showg World's Fair, was attacked by a tig«V and badly bitten.- F THE Trades and Labor Assembly Quincy has passed resolution# inac ing Governor Altgeld'S action in doning the anarchists. J. E. BOWSER and Ashbury Rhodes r«|': ceived two worthless mortgages froflB Thomas West at Litchfield, for whiclbf they gave a pair of horses. ] GOVERNOR ALTGELD pardoned Jc'-- MeDermott, of Cook County, out of penitentiary. He was sentenced 1890 for a term of seven years for glary. THE Union Depot in Alton was tially destroyed oy fire Sunday ing. It was almost an exact repet of the fire two years ago, and, LUW one, the most damage was DONE by water. The Chicago and Alton, Four, Burlington AND Biuff line offices were flooded. Loss about 92,' A SHORT time ago the little 12-yeai* old daughter of Isaac Jeef, of Towel Hill,' was bitten by A house DOG: Wednesday the girl showed signs o( hydrophobia, ana she is now with the fearful disease. - It is she cannot recover. The dog has shown any signs of going mad. AT Alton, two corner-stones for NEW! churches were laid Sunday afterne-- The first was for St. Mary's new 911 000 church, and it was done with _ pomp. The stone was laid bv Rev. P, J. Roan, Bishop of Alton. Hie othi was for the Zion Methodist Churc' (colored), and a large crowd also at­ tended there. Rev. Henry PNRKM sealed the stone in this instance. -1 ALBERT OLMSTEAD, a wealthy farm­ er living about six miles south oi Marengo, was burned to death whiW trying to save the lives of two horsesl imprisoned in a burning barn which! had been struck by lightning. HM wife has lost her reason from the terrM ble shock. The fire also destroyed MGF merous farm implements and about 1W tons of hay. Loss about $5,000; INSU^J ance unknown. | AT St. Lous J. E. Lavery gave up hi* life to save his aged father's, meetingr with a fearful death. James Laveryjj Sr., lives at Carrollton, Mo. At the St. Louis depot the old gentleman stepped on the rails of a rapidly ap­ proaching train. Not realizing his danger he stood still, when his (on made a bound for the track, seised his father by the shoulders, and threw him across tne track out of danger. For some reason, probably the shock the, fright had jjiven him, the son tell back apparently in a faint, and was struck by the engine and killed. DEAD fish floating on the surface cf the water in the Mississinewa River near Marlon have been accumulating until they will reach thousands in nun»> ber. They are bass, carp, pike, and suckers, many of them weighing sev­ eral pounds each. Their destruction is attributed to alkalies turned into the river by a new pulp reducing process adopted a few days ago by a paper mill at. Gate City, five miles abovv. The health officer has ordered the dead flak hauled to the crematory. Fish Com­ missioner Kirsch has been notified bw, telegraph and vigorous measures wiflf be applied to prohibit the wholesale slaughter. ANDREAS OTT, a stonemason, coott mitted suicide at Alton by outting hia throat. i ADJUTANT GENERAL ORENDORF# has issued an order disbanding Gssnsesm D of Quincy. 4 E. J. THOMPSON, clothing dealer at Quincy, has assigned. Iiabllitiee, t2S*» 000; assets, $23,000. / WHILE the family of The©. Launer, of Jacksonville, was absent from hoine a thief entered and stole considerable^ money. ; JAMES LARRABSE, of Wheeler, wants to be Collector of Internal Revenue fog the Thirteenth District. F! THOMAS PERKINS was run dowp an engine on the Jacksonville South­ eastern Railroad NEAR LitohfieJK and instantly killed. | BURGLARS raided' the jfUage AD Huey. They secured at & Johnson1!! real estate office $50 in cash and paper* valued at near ly $3,000. JOHN BURNS, of Easl Alton, stantly killed by s fle«n of lights He was sitting undef * tree, whioh also struck. His bogy was badly by the electric FI' WHILE H. \\YTF was cutting wheat three miles jr>rth of Freeburg, his 3-year-old O>MD was caught in the sickle of tlyireaper and had both cut off, CASING its death a few houre later. BON/V BETZ. a single m&n aged 4S yeara end Jacob Talkingtoaof Athens* vili/were found dead on the tracksNEM# WHITEHALL, about four milee apart* paving been killed during the night by . rains. . WILLIAM PETERS, residing east of, Vandalia, had both eyes put out, thl result of the accidental discharge O^ a shotgun in the hands of his brothell. Joseph, who did not know it wai"L loaded. The boy cannot recover. A VANDALIA freight train WA|^ wrecked at Formosa. The tracks wer#,;'* blockaded and the Vandalia passenger* were hauled into St. Louis over the Ohio and Mississippi tracks. ^ A MAN found dead near Addieville proved to be John Casneer. a prospers,? ous farmer of Venedy, WASHINGTON- County, who also owned land in St* Clair County. Deceased had domestic troubles. The cause of death is ne known, but it is supposed that he lumped from a running train and killed in that manner. A large amoral of money was found upon his remains, 5 M which disposes of the robbery theory. ' P > PETER WEIS, at Mascoutah, used V. John Haus, father of his first wife, and . ~ was awarded possession of two daugh-, ters. aged 11 and 13 years. When BE < attempted to take them in the court -•% room they escaped and returned their grandfather's home. The parties^ are wealthy farmers. | IHE receiver oi the St. Luui* ir*. Chicago Railway has notified the lee*i sees of the Jacksonville Southeafltew One that they have forfeited TIKE 1 tract under which the St. Lonis and * Chicago Line has been operated the past three years, because of payment of rent and taxes aad fatten to maintain the property in good EO* lit •m . \ "v • j y 5 " . V • a. Ah-M, .A.5U?' * :