Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 12, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 July 1882 — Page 4

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FroomuxD, the shatter whobti&koed Hon. Charles Francis Adams at Boston, has received Ave years in tha penitentiary A. firo in the utorenonse of the PaciSc mrHg, at Lawrence, Mem., deMroyei the building, including 300, flu 0 pounds of woowve;meala, dyoe, ta The k ib estimated ii ,000,000. Tax Jewish relief committee at New York tas on iU bauds 1,600 exiles wbo will not attempt to help themaelvoi. The euperintenaeat of Castle Garden will no longer tolerate tuem, because ot' their filth, boggishacss and indolence.

The Des Moines Register estimates the ksaa of property by the recent cyclone in Iowa its follows: Boone county, 30,000; Story county, 690,000 ; Jasper county, 430,009 ; Poweshiek county, $30,000 ; Keokuk counts $100,000 ; Henry coontr, $900,000-. Mount Ptoasaut, 700,tMO ; QriuneU, 4600,000 ; Malcom, S180,000; Fonda, Poeauoaias eowity, 310,0 JO; the Chicago and Rock Itdand railroad, train merchandise, 916,000 ; Ciuoago and Bock bland Kail read Oooipany, 015,000 ; Central Iowa Railroad Corapanv, 410,000 ; uncnumerated, 305. (WO. Total, $2,5,71,000. Some estimate the actual loos will exoeed 3,000,000. Thkkk young girls employed ia a boariu (sj-hoamj at DutviUs, I1L, named lain Hills, Mattie Ogle and Mary Jones, resolved to take their lira by arsenic. Two died within a few hour in great pain, Ksa Jones, at this writing, linger in a condition which g;ives but little nopes of her recovery. Haa Hilla left a letter for her father, upbraiding him for living with an abandoned woman On a farm on the Big Miami river, in Ohio, baa been found a human skeleton of enormous site, surrounded by a tomahawk, chisel, spear heads and dim shells. . . . .On of the shop of the 8U Paul road at Milwaukee, containing five second-clans earn, waa damaged f 52,(100 by fire. Own Owen, reewiving teller of the Third National Bank of . Louis who was also engaged in the eommission business baa Seen arrested for embezzling 9150,000 Of the bank' funds. The bank's officers give assurance that the stability of the institutions in no danger. A babk phenomenon occurred at Cleveland, Ohio, front the pladi snrfaos ot the lake suddenly arose a vave virioualy estimated at from en to twenty-five feel in height and two to fair miles in length, which swept to the shore with resistless force, destroying everything in its progress. It is atacriued by scientists I a a cyclone wave simitar to the tidal wave in miil-ocean ; but nobody seems to know precisely what caused it when something of the kind may occur again An outbreak occurred amocg the Heacaleio Indians in tbe neighborhood of Fort Union. The Agent was wounded twice, and the Indian ponce killed some prisoners wbb tried to escape. . . . .Thomas J. Foster, representing Jjy Wayne in the Indiana Senate, and publisher of tbe Journal, killed bunsulf with a revolver.... Gti(;e S. Woods was publicly executed at Durangc, Col., for the murder of M. O. Buchanan. . . . .sirs. Henrietta Baudall, of Spring field. Mo., who liad for seme tim-i goffered frooi nerroasnt8 and the loss of speech, hanged herself to a tret, leaving her chil dren asleep in bed. A iabqs area of the North-west -was visited by a series of tremendous wind and rain storms on tbe Stt'i and 25th of Jane, causing ranch damage to crops, farm buddings, dwellings and other property, and in a few sections attended with consider Able loss of life. Iowa, as nsnal, was the greatest sufferer. At Eomiettsbnrg, the mire town of Palo Aito county, the wind desnoOKhed a number of bongo and injnrvd several perrons. AlBosper, fifty inQeB northeast of Sioux City, the depot, a hotel, an elevator and eighteen cars were demolished and one man fatally injured. The town of Primghar, O'Brien county, was parbally wrecked, and six or seven persons injured. In the Bontbem part of Clay county five persons were killed and twenty-five injured. In Kossuth county a number of houses were blown down an several persons fatally injured. Butler, Saunders, Lancaster, Cass, Ooe and Nemaha combes, in Nebraska, were wept by the storm. In Saunders county the hail beat down the corn and ruined the small grain. Two residences in . Wahoo were blown down, and a herd of 12S porute was swept eight mites over fields and through wire fences. Several lives, were lost. At Grand Island, Neb., beside doing other damage, a storm prostrated the telegraph wires for a long distance. The tens do visited MarvHVUle and Kerwin, Kan., curat ng much damage to property and crops An luxadent attended with shocking loss of hfs Qeonrred a tSe Manitoba railroad near Atwt ter, Ham. A work train, running at a high rate of speed, jumped tho track and roUe-1 over a high embankment into a ten-foot pool of water. On the train were fortyetghu laborers, Swedes and Norwegians, beskle the engineer, unman and brakeman. Nina of tbe nnfortunato men were launched into eternity without an instant's warning, an some half a dozen others were badly maimed.... A cnaeh in which a mrmbsr of young people from Sin Francisco, who had been ramping out, were taking a ride, went over the bank cf a turnpike near Felton, CaL, killing Misses Ira Oowdery, Eva Susser, Cettn Scoat and Master George Scott, and won vhnr Masters Burr, Benjamin Burling and Wilham Hocklea. Thb accident on the Manitoba road, m Vinrmsnta, proves to have been a more sorioes affair than Brut accounts represented. The total death-roll mounts up to seventeen, with a prospect of a sull-furtber increase. Some of the allied were literally broken to pieoja, Ono poor fdknr had an eye forced from its sockot, a jawbone fractured in six piacoe, three limbs broken and other wounds in different parts of tbe body. ' At Baton, N. , Deputy Sheriff Dolmatt attempted to arrest a gambler named Gua JteitzeL Mentzel fired two shots at Dolman. sBgliOy -vpnndiraj him, also Charles Fox and Jacob Hurra, who were standing near them. Shortly afterward Dolman made a second attempt to arrat Mentzel at his gambling bouse. Meutzd again opened fire on the Deputy, whim resulted in the death of Harry Monlton, Justice of the Peace ; Hugh Edelsten, one of tho propnetocM of ti.3 Monlton Hotel; & H Jaccson, a saloon keeper, alf instantlv killed. Mei.Uel also wounded H. Latimer awl Depnty SberuT Bergan, the tatter's injuries being mortal Immediately after the killing Mentzel was seized by the enraged ehizeasand hanged to a sign over Baton Bank Navajo Frank was lynched at Las Vegas for lassoing It. H. Hauler and dragging him behind a horse for 900 yards. Thh Bank Examiner at St. Louis thinks the embezzlement of Oby E. Owen, rt-ceii-ing teller of tbe Third National Bank, will amount to 230,000, . . .From Kansas and Dakota the crop reports are in the highest degree encouraging. A splendid yield of wheat, corn, etc, is virtually assured in Kansas, andXiaketa seems qnaily certain to double her latt yeert production of spring wheat. In Southern Minnesota heavy .-aios accompanied by wil d have damaged the crops somewhat. An mnntmse gram crop will be harvested in Nebraska..;. At Baton, New Mexico, a hard character named Bradley was hanged by a mob of erhzena. He was a pal of the gambler and murderer Mentzel; who had been previauily

Thb Kentucky Bureau of Agriculture esfcmates the wheat yield in that State st, 12,500,000 to 13.000,000 bushels, which a a larger erepby nearly 2,000,000 bushels than Kentucky ever raised before. Com, oats, potatoes and totaeco all promise an unusuaHy large yield. Iavs-sxcoK men at Baltimore and Ttemfty are greatly exerted over the discontry of pk uro-p nerunonia at the stock-yards there. 6ov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, has been "converted " through the powerful exhortation of Bev. Geo. O. Barnes, formerly of Chicago, but cf late erssading agamst sin in Kentockr, where he ia known as the "mountain evangelist.'' Four negroes, one a woman, were banged at rIiagstroet-S. CL, two for murder zed the others for arson. BjawBT W. Pobbes was attacked by yel low fever at New Orleans and died in a brief fame with the black vomit. Every boose within two blocks of the one in which he was taken sick has been disinfected, and a meeting of the Sltnte Board of Health has been, held to eon(rifler the case and prevent a spread of tkodia-

HriTY thocsahd Chinese laborers who hare finished a contract in Cuba appbol for -permission to go through His United Stales on th.iir way home. Beeretary Folger plaeed toe milter before the Cabinet, which decided that tho request could cot be granted, arid tho coolie will be compelled to return by say c f EngUnd. Thb Cabinet nt Washington made the cm of the assassin Guiteau the ooeasioo of a spiicial meeting on Saturday, June 3t, and it wis nnanhnoqsly voted that no reprieve a'aonld be granted. The i rult was communicated to Ot itesu by his spiritual adviser, Bev. Dr. Hicks. TLe announcement did not bare a depressing effect upon him. The assassin afterward .-nt to Mr. Hicks the foUo-nng: ")o and see Arthur, and shake your fist in his fa- e. Tell Urn I made him President bvmy impirstion, and he must give me an nncomutioiial pardon, and if he doe not God Almighty will Mast him forever, I tell yon, Btother

Hicks, I am God's man, and God take care of His own," Mks. Christian ot, having failed to fasten the charge of cruelty upon her husband, has withdrawn her cross bill, which will give the ex-Minister a divorce. roLlTICAL. Gbx. Wn.uAH B. Bats, a soldier of

the Mexican war and a Major General in the Confederate army, was nominated for Governor by the Tennessee Democratic Convention, at Nashville. The convention adopted a resolution declaring that the settlemeut of the State debt at 68, with interest at 8, i, 5 and 6 per cent., was unwise, and favoring a readjustment. The "State Credit" Democrats thereupon withdrew, held a conference and decided to call another Stats Convention. J at A. Htjbbkui, Chairman of the Republican Congressional CnnmUtee, in an open letter to George William Curtis, asks tho latter to join him in requesting tho President to submit to the Attorney General the quostion of liability under the law for making campaign contributions. . . .On tho fourteenth ballot of the California Democratic State Convention Stoneman was nominated for Governor.... Tbe Iowa Republican State Convention, iu which 769 delegates are entitled to seats, will meet at Dee Moines Aug. 2.... The Michigan Democratic Convention has been called to meet at Jackson on Aug. S3. Thb Maine Domocratic Convention met at Lewiaton. Gov. Flaisted was renominated, and S. J. Anderson, Daniel H. Thing, Hon. George W. Ladd and Hon. Thompson H. Murcfa were placed in the field for Congress, the latter throe being Grornbackora. Among the resolutions was one denunciatory of the

Tariff Commission, on the ground that it was organized in ijvor of rrotection. SSKIIIEItAL. Br a decision of Her Majesty's Privy Council, the electors of each municipal district in Canada are given power to control the granting of liquor licenses. Thbbb American forgers, said to be from Chicago, mot with only partial success in uo attempt to defraud the bank in Montreal. Tney secured at Ottawa a draftfor $21, making a lithograph comib-r c for 9i,S0, which was deposited m the M results' Bank at iUonlivnl, against which tlwy chocked out 92,5 K). By a iimilur process -fSjJwusohtainei attho Itnuijuo Natiomle. bet tho susniciiin aroused prcvenled

the pavmont of auytl.nig further on a forged j drart for 2,93. FOREICIf. ! A coitBKSPOXDEST at Alexauclria tclo- i

graphs that if Franoo and Englaivl iuterfom actively in Egyp-, Arabi Pasha intends to blow np the Suez canal, cut tho railway to Cairo, and oppnso the lauding of European troops. Franco has sen, five morn iron-clads to Alexandria, and will forward 1,300 ni vines. The French Senate rejected tbe bill for the importation of American pork on tho ground that it lacUs sufficient guarantees against trichiniasis. Ikish noblemen and large landholders havo formed a company to work farms from which tenants have been evicted, to defeat the influence of tbe Land League.... An official dispatch received at Madrid announces cholera hu appeared ia Japan and the Loo Choo islands Locusts have totally consumed the crops in the island of Now Grenada, W. L, and com is valued at $6 to 97 a bag ... Arabi Bey, in reply to the Sultan's invitation to visit Constantinople, has responded that ho is willing to obey, but the army wilt prevent him, . . . .The Russian Minister of tbe Interior has emphatically announced that officials will be dismissed wbo do not prevent further outrages on the Jews.... A syndicate has been formed in Moscow for the promotion of cotton cultivation in Central Asia. American experts will be introduced to superintend the work. Thb Khedive has written to the President of the Egyptian Council that foreigners fxitinue to flee, coramerce is dead, and specie is being steadily withdrawn, and he demands a saTohing inquiry as to the cause and leadership of the nots, in order that severe punishment may be inflicted ... .A threatening letter, purporting to come from a Fenian association, canoed the placing of special police around the office of-the Times, in London. Joachim Raff, the composer and pianist, a native of Switzerland, died in Frank fort, where he was Director of the Conservatory of Music Engta!h is still making preparations af a warlike character. A report is current that Geo. Sir Evelyn Wood has been ordered to be ready to proceed to Egypt ;whilo it is a fact tho British squadron, under the command of the Duke of Edinburgh, has arrived at Gibraltar, and at Malta work is going on preparatory to embarking troops In case of necessity. A consular officuU has advised Englishmen at Alexandria that news may arrive at any moment from Constantinople which might again arouse tbe populace; and Arabi Pasba has stated none of the participants in the recent massacre shall be punished until justice is meted out to the JCnropeans who fired on the rieten.... The crowning of the Czar, despite Nihilist plots and rumored postponements, Is announced posifavoly for Sept 7. Troops are twiner detailed from every province, from Finland to the Don-Cossack region.... Decrees have been prerjared in Dublin for the ejection Of 2,000 persons from farms inConuemara, ADDITIONAL NETTS. At Alexandria there are nearly forty men-of-war, and others are expected soon to arrive. English military preparations are being poshed rapidly, and it is reported that if necessary France will support an armed intervention with 10,000 troops. England is bitterly opposed to any arrangement with Arabi Pasha, Ragheb Pasha informed the Italian Consul that 30,000 natives were starving, and a Cabinet council will be held to consider the question . . .At Tralee, Ireland, a care-taker named Cahill was shot dead...., Count Wannowski, the Russian War Minister, has resigned on account of ill-health. Tas Illinois State Republican Convention met at Springfield and nominated for Treasurer Gen, John C Smith on tbe first ballot On the fourth ballot the Hon. Chules Strattan received the nomination for Superintendent of Public Instruction. . . .George M. Dallas presided over the Pennsylvania Drtacraric State Convention. The leading phvnks in the platform are in denunciation of the boss system and the levying of political assessments. Eight men were named to the convention for nomiuatiou as Governor, Robert E. Fattison, of Philadelphia, being chosen on the sixth ballot.... The Michigan Prohibition Convention, in session at Jackson, nominated tbe following ticket: For Governor, D. P. Sagendorpu ; Lieutenant Governor, William G. Brown Secretary of State, A. H. Lowry ; Treasurer, Emory L. Brewer ; Attorney General, J. H. Tatem ; Auditor General, A. H. Osborne j Superintendent ot Public Instruction, W. H. Walbridge ; Member of State Board of Education, T. W. WcKsenan ; Commissioner of the State Land Office, E. C. Newell. . . .The people of Iowa voted on the prohibition amendtnout to be constitution on tbe 27th nit., and estimates are sent out fium Des Moines that the document will have 40,000 to 50,000 majority. A olotjd burst in the neighborhood of Frenchburg, Menifee county, Ky., doing great damage to that town. Mrs. Burns and her two danghters were drowned before they could escape from their house. Two Misses Watkina and Mrs. Fox were also drowned, making six id all. HaQMrr Oout, a prominent Cincinnati lawyer, shot bis wife Sarah and daughter Nettie, aged 19, and immediately afterward shot himself. He was temporarily insane on account of financial troubles. PosTJCAflTEB General Howe, in a communication to the Senate Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads, takes decided ground against the reduction of letter postage from S to a cents. He is still of opinion, however, that postage on newspapers should be abolished. At the commencement exercises at Harvard College President Eliot announced that the bequests for the year were neatly 9400,009. Among those present was the oldest

nvmg graduate, Wilnam Thomas, of Plymouth,

ot the class of 1807.

The Court Adjonrned. The first, last and only court held at Clinton, Ky., tinder the provisional government accomplished nothing except to convene and adjourn, for the reason here stated: The first case wna called, with Judge Silvertooth on the bench. The defendant answered, and the trial was about to commence, when a young man, half crazed by fear, rushed into the court-room and shouted: "Save yourselves ! The devil's to pay ! Four hundred Yankee cavalry galloping into town!" The Jndge sprang from his seat, exclaiming: " '".he you say I Gentlemen, this court is adjourned and every mansave himself who can 1" Never was court-room cleared more effectually in a shorter time; but the Judge was the first man out; Tbtjst men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show thejaaelveji greatly. meron.

DOINGS OF COS6RKSS. Mr. Tan Wyck offered a resolution In the

Senate, June 22, which was adopted, calling for

correspondence with the Spanish Government in relation to the claim of Pedro de Buzz, a naturalized citizen. A bill was passed granting the rigbt of way through Indian Territory to the Mississippi, Albuquerque and Intor-ocian

railway. Chairman Davis presented a copy of the proposed constitution for the State of titan. A joint resolution was passed appropriating $S!!.O0O to continue Arctic explorations. The polition and bill of Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, in relation to properly in San Franoisco, was placed on tho calendar. A resolution granting uormisston for tbeeroction of a statue to Garibaldi in tho National Cemetery at Vicksburg was referred to tho Mihtury Committee. Tho bill to oxtond the charter of national banks was thou takon up. Mr. Vest off orod a substitute forbidding tho creation of new national banks and authorizing an issue of treasury notes in Floco of bank notes. Mr. Morgan proposed to orco banks and their depositors to receive silver certificates. Mr. Allison said he had never heard of an instance outside of Now York whore banks refused silver eortificatea. Mr. Voorhees remarked tbat bank officers were hostile to what they termed 85-cont money. Mr. Sherman dopreoated any attempt by Congress to regulate the value of the two coins ; tho Government itself had depreciated silvor, whioh should stand as eighteen to ono in proportion to gold. Mr. Allison thought the ratio abonid be 15!i to L as in France and Germany. Tho propositions bv Mo.-'srs. Vest and Morgan were rejected. The bill was then passed by 34 to 13. The House wont into oom-. mittee on the bill to reduce internal revenue taxation. Mr. Wnito gave notice of an amendment to repeal the internal revenue system so far as it affected tobacco. Mr. Morrison obarged that the Chairman of the Commute of Ways and Means was striving to empty the treasury without relioving tho burdens of the peoplo Messrs. Page, Aiken, and itoagan announced that they would vote against the bill, and tho committee rose. A communication from navy officers was road, asking that tho ago for retirement bo not changed. Tho Democrats of tbe House held a caucus after adjournment, at which there were fifty-two members present. The substance of their action was that, so far as they were concerned, they would support tho tobacco provisions of the Internal-Revenue bill, and, if those failed; move to recommit. The House bill to ratify the agreement with the Shosbones and Bannocks for a right ol way for the Utah and Northern road was passed by the Senate June 23, as also the Senate bill creating tho Oregon Short-Line Railroad Company. Mr. Frye called up the rule allowing the President pro torn., when temporarily absent, to designate in writing aSenator to perform tho duties of tho chair, which was debated and referred. Condemned cannon were granted to organizations at Vmeonuos, In.' ; Marsballtown, Iowa: Ironton, Ohio; Danville, III., and Council Bluffs. A bill was passed to pay for tho use of tne orphan-asylum property at Natchez during the war. The House resolution otra-nom-oraUve of tho lato Thomas Allen, of Missouri, called out several tributes of respect

lie House wont into committee of Hie whole

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n thn hilt in rednnn intnriml taxation. Mr.

Kaeeou cxpresaod the hope that the uovorntneut would not become permanently dependent upon whisky shops for its revenue. Mr. Wilson gave notice of an amendment to forbid national banks from receiving interest eicoedng 6 per cent per annum for loans. Mr. DuunoU thought it too early tc begin to ropoal internal-revenue laws. Mr. Hewitt alluded to the strikes in progress, and remarked that Congress should speedily abolish levies on the products of industrv. whereas tho Ropnlillcan party offered the workingman tho abolition of the tax ou matches. Mr. Sparks attacked the entire internal-revenue system, as did also Mr. Springer. Tbe committee then rose, when eulogies were delivered upon the life of the late Thomas Allen. A resolution for a final adjournment of Congress on the 10th ot Jnly was adopted by the House on the 21th. A bill was passed authorizing the construction of a p:mtoon railway bridge across the Mississippi nvr at the mouth of the Upper Iowa river. The bill to rednce internal-revenue taxation was taken np in committee of the whole, Mr. RnlKmon moved an amendment striking out tbe tax on bank capital, as agreed to by the Republican party. After considerable debate it was rejected. Mr. Randall's proposition to relieve tobacco and cigars from internal-revenue taxation was lost A score of other amendments were votccl down. The Senate was not in session. The resolution for an inquiry into rolitical assessments cams np in the Senate, June 20. Mr. Fepdloton commented vigorously upon the demand made in Jay A. Hubbtill's circular to Government employes. Mr. Beok asked ir ofiicials who fail to contribute will be allowed to retain their positions. Mr. Allison stated that but little mora than 10 per cent, of the Government employes iu 1889 made contributions, yet not one officeholder w&a removed for his reins aL A confeieuce report ou the Army Appropriation bill was agreed to. Mr. Allison reported back the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, with amendments increasing the amount S32G.00O. The House, after passing some District of Colembia bills, went into committee of the whole on tho bill to rednoe internal-revenue taxes. A dozen amondmente were proposed and voted down, and speeches dononnciug political assessments were made by Messrs. Cox and Springer. The previous question waa ordered on tho bill and amendments, when the House adjourned, A resolution was passed by the Senate, on the 27th inst, to print additional copies of Mr. Blaine's eulogy on President Garfield, for the use of the bereaved family and the orator. The Pension Committee reported in favor of the claims of the widows of Maj. Gons. Custer and French, A bill was passed tc amend the act donating public lands to States establishing agricultural colleges. Sixty-eight pages of the Logislntivo Appropriation bill were disposed of, Mr. Plumb arguing against any increase in tbe salaries of officials. A brief executive session was held. Iu tbe House, in the Alabama contested-election case of Strohach vs. Herbert, the former wai, granted leave to withdraw his papers ; and in the case of Smith vs. Shelley, from tbe same State, the committee reported a resolution declaring the seat vacant Mr. Page, as a question of privilege, explained how it happened that tho bill passed to regulate immigration was not the one agreed to by the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Van Voorhis declared that, in handing the bill to Mr. Page, he had no Intention to deceive anybody. After a hot debate the error was corrected by the passage of the committee bill. The act to reduce internal-revenue taxation was then taken np. Mr. Springer moved to recommit tbe bill, with instructions to report a measure abolishing all internal-revenue taxes except those on bank circulation and distilled spirits. Tbe motion was rejected by a vote of 66 to 125. Mr. Hewitt said the bill gave no relief to the great industrial interest: of the country. Mr. Bunnell warned the Republican side that the measure would not meet the approval of the people. Mr. Kolley exprussed regret that the bill did not make a more sweepnig reduction. The Bank Charter 1)111 was taken np and most of the Semite amendments were concurred in, the exception being the one relative to Kold certificates. A conference report on the Consular Appropriation bill was agreed to. Bills were passed by the Senate, on tho 23th alt, giving one yoar'a salary of Ministers Hurlbut and Kilpatrick to their widows. Mr. Blair reported a substitute for the resolution directing an investigation into labor strikes. The bill for the extension of bank chatters and the Legislative Appropriation bill wore considered. In the House Mr. Orth reported a resolution, which was adopted, reimoHtine the President to state if any oflicur of th3 United Stairs had made propositions to American citizens in British prisons to accopt their release upon condition. Mr. Robinson insisted that for 100 days the President had been ou his knees before Lord Granville, and gave notice that he .would movo to impeach Minister Lowell. Tbe Naval Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole, and Mr. Robeson reviewed its chief featuro. Mr. Whitthornn, after criticising tho provisions of the bill, mado tho charge that Secretary Robeson squandered 54,000,000 of navy funds during bis administration. The committee rose, when a Senate bill was passed appropriating -20,000 for a manorial column on tho battle-field of Monmouth. the iowa Tornado. Tne Cyclone Described Nlagnlnr Incidental sand Hftir-Hreftdlh Kncapca. Much has been written with regard to the appearance of the cyolouo, but I can not refram, in this connection, from reproducing, as nearly as 1 can, a description given me with unconscious eloquence by an eye-witness to the descent of the boreal monster upon tho fated town, . "The sun wont down," hesnid, "behind i bank of peculiar clouds. They wore of fantastic shapes, and the last rays of tho setting sun imparted to them a crimson, angry hue. I couldn't help, for the life of me, tmnking of the ferocious red eyes of an untamable bull dog, when I looked at the lurid spectacle Night came on, and with it the storm. Incessant lightning Illuminated the northern and western hoartns. Tho clouds grew blacker and the atmospheric agitation increased. Tho balloon-shaped cloud about which you already know could be seen approaching a quarter of an hour before it retwl- d the town, and for at least five minutes I ofore its arrival the roaring sound, which has bten itptly likened to the rumbling of fifty freight trains across an iron bridge, filled the air with its ominous echoes, . It was preceded by a violent wind, which blew down trees and drove people into the house. I was standing iu an open space on oi e of the western slroeti of the town, and, feeling that 1 was safer there titan L eoiild be in a house. I detertmiicd tn

stay there, tubush T admit I was frightened half to death, The rumbling roar came nearer, and tho lc woring mass seemed to reach out black arms to the earth, when, with a horrible, whistling shriek, the monster swept by within a hundred yards of the spot where I was rooted with amazement and fear. The raging thing swooned down upon the place, licking up everything in its path. Some of tho houses were in ashed down and swept along, whilo others were picked up bodily, torn to pieces, and tho furniture and occupants lifted into the air, either to be hurled to the earth again or blown the Lord knows where. The droadiul giant pursued its way, crushing, crunching and destroying with cruel wantonness. In tho unearthly glare produced by the blazing lightning, which flashed wickedly and incessantly, and by the balls of fire with which tho gyrating mass seemed to be alive, i could see the air filled with flying objects of every conceivable form, from scraps of paper to sections of roofs and floors, to tbe hoight of 4n0 or 500 feet, and I don't know tow much higher. A house would be crushed like an eggshell and in less time than it ta'tos to loll the materials that oomposcd it would he climbing skyward with iuorodible rapidity. Tbo air was charged with oloi'tneitv. and where I stood tho atmnsnhero was of a gitouly pallor. The whining monster throw out rtuhoH, and sparks, and balls as it passed along;. Mingled with the frightful roaring of tho cyclone could bo heard tho shrill, blood-oni'dlirg Bhrieki of wommi as they were caught up and borne away to their death. The demon concert is ringing in my ears yet The cvcloue was probably a minute, or a minute 'nd a half, assiug me. It seemed an age. Nothing ever tilted me with such unspeakable awe as this relentless riot of the elements this niorcilctti inarah of death." After the s ;orm canio a blinding, drenching rain. It wna dark as tho bottomless pit so dark that the blackness could almost bo felt and through this inky air groped hundred of men and women trying to find the mangled remains of tho viotiras of nature's oruel rovolt Tho City Hall was converted into a morgue and the other public buildings into hospitals. Relays of doctors hastened to the scene of butchery from ail quarters. Mr. Moffatt, wbo had charge of the doad-honse, tolls of the spectacle Unit was presented there Sunday morning : "We worked half the night and all Sunday forenoon getting the bodies into shape for burial. Thore wore forty of thorn ranged about hi the room, nearly alt women and children. It being Saturday night, tho men wore mostly down iu the Ijiisinoss part of town making purchases for Sunday. Tho bodies wbou first brought in were unrecognizable. Dirt, sand, plastor and cinders were eroitnd into tho flesh, and in many insunces it could not be washed or scraped off. It was as though the victim had been mashed into an ash-pit and rolled about under tremendous pressure. I can think of no other umilo that will convey my idea of how they Loted. "Tbe c'otliing was torn from the bodies in a few cases, btit only a few. The shreds tbat were left dinging to the forms had to bo out away, hcvovor. That was the only way it could be done. Every single person brought to tho n oif-ue was mutilated hi a shocking manner. Perms wero sometimes hammered and beatn into shapeless masses. Spines wero drnen into the skull, urolruding through the top "f the head; back's were broken, or telescope. I ; skulls crushed like egg-shells; eyes hanging down tho cheeks ; arms and legs torn from tho bodies and hanging, disjointed, by shredt of flesh ; entrails protruding from frightful iraps, and vitals scooped out and do? tached ei lirely from the bodies. The picture was sicke ring. It took me two hours to lay out the rnutil .ted remains of what had once been a beautiful young girt Her head bad beon crushed ( own into her trunk and could onlv lie extricate i by ouUiug away tho flesh in a manner that i oemed almost barbarous. There waa only ono ray of doing it, however. I pray God I may never be called upon to see another suob a sight" Astonitiing stories of the freaks of the tern .lest are told, and I am in a fit frame of mind to believe almost anything alter having gone over the track of the cyclone for a dc on or more miles, and seen witn my own eyes the havoo wrought Who has not beard of the wind blowing hard enough to take tho hair from a dog's back? That is ono ot the things 1 never believed. Neither could I quite swallow tbe statement that, out in Nebraska, the inhabitants have to wall up their wells to keep the hurriiauas from blowing out the holes. The story about chickens having been denuded of feathers is scarcely less diftiouii to believe than the dog story ; yet to-day there is an old hen and brood of chickens in Orinnell literally slipped by the wind of every feather, aud as clean as the day they broke through tho shell Of the egg that gave them life, and I am told that flocks of prairie chickens have been seen plucked iu a similar way. In Milcoir a stable belonging to Bradbrook, a noted sportsman, was lifted from the ground, transported over I ho tops of a grove of trees, and landed tit the foot ot a hill an eighth of a mile away, and none of tho three horses in the barn wero billed, or even seriously injured. One of the animals was thrown through an open door, alighting "right side up, with care," in tbe mud. On three of the four corners of the two main streets iu Malcom are flimsy framo buildiugs, and on the remaining corner stood a strong two-story brick block. The cyclone spared the wooden buil.iings, and knocks' i the bncksti notare into flinders. Up the street, half a block, was located a three-s oiy iron aud brick building owned by J. H. Duff ns. It was crushed like a shell, and pieces of the corrugated iron veneering blown to the outskirts of the town. A farmer living seven miles away brought in a piece of Du (Tils' iron, weighing several pounds, it having been dropped ia a fluid near his farmhouse. A one-arniod student jumped from the third story of the brick dormitory and was carried a considerable way before he si l uck the grouad, without a scratch. Thp student immediately ran downtown and rang the alarm bell. Mud and dirt wore blown into the sides of bnild.ngnst.il standing with such force that thodisngnr.ng blotches cannot be removed. Ortvcl was not vplatheu up against tho buddings, but driven iu, as though discharged from a mortar. I saw a delicate mantel ornament takon unU'jured from a mass of mortar and other rub: bish in Orn uell, and within twenty feet of the place waa a dark spot, showing where a young child had boon driven into the earth and crushed out of shapo. A largo house, owned by Lucius Sanders, in Grinnell, wf.s lifted clear of the cellar, in which were concealed ten persons, and hurled upon the ground 150 feet distant, while a barn iu tht rear of tho same lot was pitched tho same dis tanco in an Madly opposi o dirostion. A young woman living less than a block from tbe Bander residence was drawn through hei bedroom wiudow on the second floor, and gently waftud sixty yards away and deposited softly on the ground unhurt. Other member.of tho game household wore treated with equally del.cnt" consideration, having been blown to tt.e same place without tin infliction of serious injury.

DE LONG'S SUFFERINGS.

Terrible Sufferings Endured br the Party Dog: Blurt, Alcohol, WHIfflw? Ten and Glycerine Used as Food by tbe Wanderers One by One Tlioy fence ti nib to tbe Intense Cold, and Sleep to Never Wakes, The Navy Department, at Washington, is in receipt of a report from Engineer Melville, giving in detail the story of his search feir Lieut De Long and party, and the discovery of thendead bodies. The following extracts fere from De Long's note-book : Under date of Monday, Oct. 8, DeLor.f writes that his party thought they saw a boat, but upon reachiug the spot found only a mound. A camp was made in a hole in the bluff, aad a roaring fire built, soon drying and burning their clothoi, whtln the cold wind ate into their backs. Nothing was left to oat bnt their dog, which was lolled and dressed, and a stew made of such parts as could not be cured. All partook of the stew except De Long, Dr. Alexy was sent off to examine what they thought was a hut, and on me back at night with a favorable report It was decided to wait till morning before leaving. It waa then below zero. A watch was set to keep the fire going, and all huddled around it, and thus a third night without sleep was paused. If Aluxy had not wrapped his sealskin around De Long, and kept him warm by the heat of his body, he (De Long) thinks he would have, perished, an he was steamed, and shivered and shook. At 8am. the party reached the hut, which was large enough to hold thorn, and for the first timo since Saturday they managed to get warm. Erickson was very low, and prayers wept read for him before the others sought rest At 111 a m. all except Alexy laid down to sleep. Aioxy went off to hunt, and at noon returned wet, having fallen into the river. At 6 p. m. they roused up and had a pound of dog-meat for each person and a cup or tea, tbe day's allowance. But tboj- were so grateful that they were not exposed to tbe terrible gale whioh was raging tbat they did not mind the short rations. . . . . On Wednesday thoy bad tea and dog moat for breakfast Alexy again want off hunting and camo jack with nothing. On Thursday they had a run of third-hand tea, with half an ounco of alcohol in it Alexy wan again sent out to hunt and Erickson died while he waa gone. Alexy relumed empty-handed. Tho notes at this pour, say: " What in Uod's name is going to liooomc. of us ? Fourteen pounds of dog moat left, and twenty-five miles to a possible settlement" They could not dig a grave for Erickson, as tho ground was frozen too hard, aud thoy bad nothing to dig with ; so they sowed bis body up in laps of ti nt, covered bun with thoir flags, and buried him in the river. Three volleys from thoir Romingtomi were fired over him. Undor date of Oct. 6 the Dotes say: "117th day Breakfast consisted of tho last half pound of dog-meat and tea. Tho lost grain ot tea was put in the kottlo, and we are now about to undertake a journey of twenty-five miles, with some old tea leaves and two quarts of alcohol. HpiroveriUrusUa Qod, jt t believe that Ha

who has fed us thus far will not suffer us fo die of want now," The party loft a record In the hut, which was found by Melville as already reported. They got under way at 8:30 a. m., aud proceeded until 11:20 a. m., by which time thoy had mado about three miles and were all pretty well done up. They had half an ounce of alcohol iu a pet of tea for dinner. They went ahead and soon struck what seemed to be the main river again. Here four of the party broko through the ice in faying to cross, and, fearing frost bites, a fire was built Alexy was sent off to look for food, being directed not to go far or stay long. He came back about. 5:30 with one ptarmigan, of which soup was made, and with half an ounee of alcohol made their supper. Saturday, Oct. 4, the notes say: "Called all bands at 5:30. Breakfast of half an ounce of alcohol and a pint of hot water. Alcohol proves of great advantage, keeping off tho cravings for food, preventing gnawing of tho stomach, and has kept up the strength of tbo men, who are given throe ounces a day. Went ahead until 10:30, and after flvo miles struck tho big river again. Have to turn back. Only mado an advance of ono milo; a eold camp, but little wood, Slid half an ounco of alcohol. "Sunday, 9th. All bands at 4.30. Half ounce of alcohol. Bead divine service. "Sent Ninderman and Noros ahead for relief. Thoy started at 7; cheered them nuder way. At 8 crossed tbe creek, Droke through ice, all wot up to the knees. Dried clothing and under way again at 10:30. At 1 struck tho river bank ; halt lor dinner half an ounco ol alcohol. Alt-xy shot three ptarmigans ; made soup. We are following Ninderman's track, although he is long since out of sight Found a cave ; lay our heads iu it and go to sleep. "Monday, Oct 10. Last half-ounce of alcohol at 5:30. At 6:30 sent Alexy off to look for ptarmigan. Eat deer-skin scraps :. yesterday morning ate my deer-skin foot-tips. Under way at 8. In crossing the creek three got wet ; built fire and dried out Ahead ag.tin till 11 ; used up. Built fire and made drink out of tea leaves and from alcohol bottle. On again at noon ; very hard going. Ptarmigan tracks plentiful. At S halted, used up. Crawled into a hole in bank. Alexy in quest of game. Nothing for supper except a spoonful of glycerine. All hands weak and feeble, but cheerful, God help us. "Tuesday, lltb Sale, with snow; unable to move; no 'game. One spoonful of glycerine aud hot water for food. No more wood in our vicinitv. 'Wednesday, 12th, Breakfast last spoonful of glycerine and hot water. For dinner, a couple of handfuls of Arotio willow in a pot of water, and drank the infusion. Everybody getting weaker and weaker, and hardly able to get firewood. Gale, with snow. "Thursday, 13th. Willow tea. Ko news from Ninderman. We are in the hands of God, and, unless He relents, we are lost Wo cannot move against wind, and staying here means starvation. In tbe afternoon went ahead for a mile ; after crossing another river missed Leo. Went down in a hole in the bank and into camp. Sent back for Leo. He had laid down, and was waiting to die. All united in Baying the Lord's Prayer, and cried. After supper a strong gale of wind ; horrible night "Friday. Breakfast, willow tea; eiinnur, one-half teasnoonful of sweet-oil and willow tea. Alexy shot one ptarmigan. Had soup. Wind moderating. "Saturday, Oct IB. Breakfast, willow lies and two old boots. Conclude to move at sunrise Alexy breaks down ; also Lee. Come to empty grain raft ; halt and camp. Signs of smoke at twilight to southward. "Sunday, Oct 16, Alexy broke down. Divine service. "Monday. Alexy dying; doctor baptized him; read prayers for the sick. Mr. Collin' birthday 40 years old. About suncet Alexy died ol exhaustion from starvation. Covered in the ensign and laid him in the crib. "Tuesday. Calm and mild; snow falling buried Alexy m the afternoon; laid him on the ice and covered him with slabs of ice. " Wednesday. Cutting up tent to maie fortgear. Doctor went ahead to find new camp. Shifted by dark. "Thursday. Bright and sunny, but viry cold. Lee and Koack done up. ' Friday. Koack was found dead about midnight, between the Doctor and myself. lies died about noon. Read prayers for the sick, when we found he was going. " Saturday. Too weak to oarry bodies of Lee and Koack out on the ice. The Doctor, Collins aud myself carried them around the corner out of sight Then my eyes closed up. "Sunday. Everybody pretty wk; slept ot rested to-dav, and then managed to get enough wood in by dark. Bead part of the divine service. Suffering in our feet ; no foot-gear. "Monday. A hard night "Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 27ta, tbe 137th day. lverson broken down. "Friday. Iverson died during the earl; morning. "Saturday, 28th, Drossier died during the night. "Sundav, Oct 80. One hundred aud for. tioth day, Boyd and Sartz died during the night. Mr. Collins dying." i Note. This is tho end of De Long's diary. De Long, Surgeon Ambler and Ah Ham, the cook, must have died soon after the last note was written,!

Another Iowa Cyclone. Independence, Iowa, waa visited by a devastating hurricane on the afternoon of Juue 2L The day had been a most oppressive one. X; 4:30 p. m. rain began to fall, the wind at thai; time blowing briskly from the southwest In It few minutes another current seemed to comn from the northwest, and they met near Independence. Suddenly it grew dark, and thopeopl i were wild with flight The citizens nearly tU went into their cellars, bnt there were thousandi of country people in the city, who had come hi to see Sell" circus, and they not only filled tlui stores but lined the streets. Tho darkness c ut not last long, but an opening appeared in tin) clouds, and at that spot there were rapidly changing colors of purple, pale greeu and othor colors, and that seemed to be almost ilirectly ovor tho city. It was then the hurricane commenced, and the time of the dostmoti in was not over three minutes. The scene wan one of the wildest confniion and terror. Houteil wero picked np and dashed to the ground, demolishing them an badly as were those at Grinnell. Roofs, boxes, boards and gravol stones wero flying promiscuously through tat! air. Wagons were overturned aud demolished, horses were ruuniug away and becoming tntangled in the telephone wires that had been thrown to thegronnd, and everything seemed to bo iu chaos. There were nearly twenty-flvo bouses completely wrecked and more than that number ot barns, while of those that won damaged from $50 to $100 each there were over 100 houses and a; many barns. Hundreds w.;ri unroofed, or partially so, had their vriiidc wi broken and were damaged by falling trees. Cellars were generally chosen by tbe resident! as places ot refuse, but tbe rural visitors tcolt shelter at the most convenient places. Th deaths will number four, and the damage t) property will approximate 9175,000. Thora were many miraculous escapes, and the only wonder is that more lives were not lost Ths citizens of Iowa now anxiously watch for the appearance of the ominous black clouds. Questions aud Answers for Lazy Lawyers. Q. .'What is a summons ? Ans. The breakfast bell. Q. What is a writ of attachment ? Ans. A letter from my lady-love. Q. What is a Court House ? Ans, Tho residence of prospecti.v father-in-law. Q. What ia a stay of proceedings f Ans. Finding a roach in a plate o:! Bovjp you have been eating. J. What is an adjournment? Ans. Leaving the court to go oat for a drink. Q. When do you discontinue suit'' Ans. When another fellow cuts you out Q. At what bars have you practiced the most ? Ans. Iu those of the loading bote Is. Q. What ia an appeal ? Ans. When cornered by your waiihwoman to ask for more time. Q. What in a sale? Ans, A rid 3 on a body of water. Q. What is personal property ? Aits. A wife and children. Q. What is a "quo warranto ?" Ans. A writ inquiring by what right ono man can kiss another's wiio, Q. What in a distress? Ans. A pain in the stomach. Q. What ia a lion? Ans, A man at 13 p. in. embracing it lump-post. The Bod. My master whipped me very well; without that, sir, I should have done nothing. 1 would rather have the rod to bo general terror to all, to make them learn, than to tell a child if you do thus or thus you will' be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. 1 he rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and thero's an nd on't. Whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundations of lastiug minohief. Tou mitke brothers autl sisterii hate each other. Samuel Johnson, Neveb, under any oiroumstanoes, assume a responsibility that you can avoid consistently with your duty to yourself aud others.

THE WOBLli'S TIMDEB SUPPLY.

How AiareM(lT late:chavsllble Foreete liaTf Una fat, mm wauu Mult Meu.nlna. .Ki -.m lln Kw Voik Ctmmcrciiu Bulletin. The substitution ol' iron for wood in ninny brunches of manufacture, more especially in the case of iron vessels and .sleepers for railroads, has by no means e-urtuili'd the world's demand for timber. The multifarious uses of wood, tho vast amount of building that is going on in ..11 civilizei' countries, to say nothing of Die- rapid multiplication of all kinds of factories, bring us to face with the questlrni, Is the wood supply sufficient for prospective rcquirementa? The United .States and Canada, as is well known, have been the greatest shippers of American lumber of late years, but time was when as many as 900 cargoes of timber were annually loaded at Memel for Great Britain alone. Not only is the demand increasing, but, what are the most serious features of tho situation, forests are rapidly disappearing, and thus far no efficacious steps have been taken in any country to renew them. Sweden and Norway were one time regarded as inexhaustible sources ol! supply. All the great forests there were bought up by English me rchants and contractors, and uow these countries have partly to draw their supplies from further north, and impoit their oak from Poland. Northern Hussia, which was at one time an immense forest all the way from the Baltic

to tho Ural Mouutaiim, has increased its , cuttings so rapidly that St Petersburg ;

even nos to uruig iui neavy luuuer now from the center of the Empire. The once great forests of Finland also are almoht cleared away. The forests along tho Vistula and the Ifieman, whioh may be considered as tho sources of supply for the great Memel wade, have receded, we are told, to suob. an extent that it is difficult to fill ordeis at Koenigsberg, Tilsit and Dantzig. Germany has upward of 30,000,000 acres of forests, Prussia possessing the larger portion ; but their value is greatly diminished by the inferior quality of the pine in the northem provinces. Austria had moguificent forests formerly, and there still remains to her 18,343,810 hectares, or half as much more as possessed by Germany. These are mostly in Bohemia, Gaiicia, and Transylvania, lud the fact that they are) so far removed from navigation renders them practically unavailable for the European mvrkets, The forests that once covered the eastern shores of the Adriatic are entirely gone. Italy has a considerable extent of forests iu round numbers, 13,000,003 acres ; but the difficult nature of the passes in the Alps and Appenines render it impossible to work them to commercial advantage. S'in has some 8.500,000 acres of forests, but the woodman is hampered here also by the nature cf the ground. Portugal, with a good seaboard, has no difficulty in getting rid of the small extent of forest land that now remains that is to say, not more than 1,000,000 acres. Turkey has extensive forests in Boumelia, near Constantinople, and also in various parts of its Asiatio possessions; but the population has been what Turks proverbially are destructive, and no provision has been made for systematic replanting. Fntnce figures for about 22,000,000 acres ol! forest. In Great Britain the supply of home wood is simply nil ; trees are there chiefly for ornament; while in Ireland impoverished landlords have iiithlessly cnt down woods that has served very important meteorological purposes. Let us now see the export capacity and consumptive needs of the various countries : Exnorli. Imports. Norway and Sweden.- 16,O0,00O . Finland 11,000,000 ...,. . Uussia .. I0,00l,000 Austria ....... ..") Fsncy and dyeticrmnny , ............ i woods onlv. Holland f 10,000,000 lk'lgium 680,000 8,300,000 Ureal Britain.........- 91,000,000 franco . . . ,9SO,00 SA, 800,000 The smaller countries import, but generally through England or France. The supply and demand being thus roughly estimated, it mar be observed that the cost of tapping the immense forests of Central Africa and America would at once cause a revolution in the present condition of the timber trade. While the supply of lumber in the United States is t ully equal to present demands, it is difficult to foresee what may be the increased requirements, domestic and foreign, in the early future. It is very certaiu that due provision is not made for replanting, and while some States have shown commendable care and energy in that respect, others have been singularly negligent.

The Bine Laws of Connecticut. The famous Blue Laws of Connecticut, about whioh so much is heard, are as follows. They were enacted by the people of the "Dominion ol New Haven," and became known as the blue laws because they were printed on blue paper : The Governor tind Magistrates convened in General Assembly are the Supreme power, under God, of this independent dominion. From the determination of the Assembly no appeal shall be made. No ono shall he a freeman or give a vote unless he be converted and a member of one of the aunrehes allowed in the dominion. Each freeman shall swear by the blessed God to bsar truo allegiance to this dominion, and that Josusia the only king. No dissenter from thb established worship of this dominion shall be allowed to give a vote for electing of magistrates or any othor officer. No food or lodging Bhatl be offered to a heretic. No one to, crews a river on the Sabbath but an authorized clergyman. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep houses, out hair or shave on tho Sabimth day. No one shall kins his or her children on Sabbath or fasnng days. The Sabbath day shall begin at sunset Saturday. Every ratable gperson who refuses to pay hii proportion to support the minister of town or parish, shall be fined & and 4s. every quarter. Whoever wear clothes trimmed with gold, silver or bone lace above 1 s. per yard, shall be presented by the Grand Jurors, and the selectman shall tax the estate 300. Whosoever brings cards or dice into this dominion shall pay a fine of .5. No one shall oat mince pies, dance, ploy oards, or pi y any instrument of music except thu drum, trumpet and jewsharp. No gospel minister shall join people in marriage. The Magistrate only shall join them in marriage, as he may do it with less scandal to Christ's church. When parents refuse their children convenient niari ioge, the Magistrate shall determine the point. Adultery shall lie punished with death. A man who strikes his wife shall pay a fine of 10. A woman who strikes her husband shall be punished as the law directs. No man shall court n maid in person or by letter, without obtaining the consent of her parents; 5 penalty for the first offense ; 10 for the second, and for the third, imprisonment during the pleasure of tbe court.

Why the Prairies Are Treeless. Mr. L. F. Ward gives in the Kansas City lii'vicw some toiisons why the Western plains are destitute of forests. Whcro tho unniif.l rain -full exceeds twenty-four inched the ubson r of forests is undoubtedly elue to tho raiwated burnings which take place on the prairies from human agency. When the annual raitifall is below twenty, or perhaps twentyfour, inches theno on be no growth oi forests, and this : the true cause of the absence of trees on the great plains. Bnt

this does not prevent the existence in arid regions of certain specialized typts of arborescent vegetation. The sage brush that covers the dreary wastes of the Hock mountain region, tho Laramie plains, the Bitter Creek valley and such "ast areas of tho West, while in its botanical character it is littlo more than an overgrown weed, is to all intents and purposes a tree, aud often attains a great nge. The region it occupies is even more arid than the great plains, yet no lires occur and no forests grow. In the nearly rainless plains of Arizona, Southern Utah and New Mexico, and stretchjug eastward into Texas, there occur a : number of arborescent forms, the creosote bush (Larrea Mexicans), the mess quit (Prosopis juli flora), various acacia- j nnd mimosas and one yucca (1. hrevifolia), together with the tree cactus (Oereis gigan tens'). These grow scattered at irreat distances from each other and rarely form thickets or groves. Why no nuch characteristic species are found ocoupying the great plains is not known, una it is probably a mere accident that :ione happen to exist, adapted both to -heir temperatures and their arid coudi'.ion. Sid any such exist, there secros no reason why they might not thrive as well as the sage brush further west or Che meequit at t' south. The Have Men. According to .''rot Boyd Hawkins, the numerous discoveries made in France, Belgium and Switzerland have enabled scientists to form a tolerably definite idea as to the cave man's habits and mode of life Ho dwelt for the most part in caves, and he accumulated enormous masses of refuse, bones of the xnimals on which he lived. In these refuse heaps were numerous implements of stone, bone and antler, Bjiear-heads, arrow-heads, scrapers, elaborately-cut harpoon-hcads, elaborate needles of bono and antler, and along with these occurred curious carvings representing the surroundings of the cave man, and for the most part reproducing the forms of the animals on which-he lived. From tho numerous implements for scraping skins, it might be inferred that the cave mun dressed in skins, sewn together by

needles. They also wore gloves, as was known from the representationsof gloves, with two, tiiree vt four fingeni, and running most up to the elbows, like the twenty-six-button gloves of the present time. Perforated stones and nhells, and the teeth of bears, lions and wolves wore used as necklaces and amulets. They adorned themselves with red raddle, which might be looked upon as the lin -eal ancestor of rouge. In their hunting they used gpears and arrows. On one bit of antler found in France they saw the hunter carefully creeping up to the gigantic ox the great urus ; in others they saw figures of bisons, reindeer, horses, ibexes; and in others the great woolly mammoth waa represented so faithfully tbat ware it not for the discovery of the creature in the frozen morasses of Siberia it would be said that the drawing was quite wrong. On other slabs of si one might be seen the birds and fishes on which the cave men lived. All those outlines had been mado with a splinter of flint, and were engraved in a great many cases upon the bones and 1eeth of the animals which were represented. The cave men also were sculptors, and the) handles of some of their daggers mad.) of reindeer antler or ivory represented the form sometimes of a kneeling reindeer and at other times of elephants. The cave men were hunters pure and simple, without knowlelge of the metals, without domestic animals, ami were even ignorant of the potter's art. Nor had they left behind them any evidence that they were in the habit of burying their dead. Could the eave men be identified with .my living race ? The answer was to be found in their habits, implements and strt. On the shores of the great Arctic ilea, on both sides of Behring's straits, and along the north of tho American ixmtinent and Greenland, lived the Esquimaux, a people cnt oft from all others, and whose origin was a puzzle to the ethnologists. These people had exactly the same habit of accumulating refuse, their implements were exactly of the same kind, and their art was identical with that of the cave man in Europe. They live, also to a great extent on the same animals, and they were cureless as to what happened to their dead. From all these lines of argument it might be inferred that the Esquimaux ws in all probability the living representative of the cave man, just as the musk sheep now living in Esquimaux-land was undoubtedly the representative of the musk sheep then living in France, Order, for Druggists. "Ogsattegassett" A clerk ma retail drag store pointed to the above strange word, written on a small piece of paper that was pasted into a scrap-book. The thick book contained more than a hundred puzzling ordara that had been received at the store and saved as literary curiosities. " There it is. Now tell me what it means," said the clerk defiantly, addressing a newspaper frieno. When the reporter had confessed his inability to translate " ogsxttcgassett " Lite English, the clerk explained ; " Te person who wrote that wan ted oxalic acid. We were some time, however, in understanding the other. The Latin prescriptions of physicians are not as hard to decipher as the written applications for drugs we frequently get from unlearned people. By experience we learn to read the latter, but I must confers we have to study some of them a loag time. For histance, take this one : 'Avis chatara pills.' You would not suppose that this means 'Ayer's cathartic pills.' Herd's another: 'Seena mone.' I had to ask several questions of the person who presented this bei'ore I discovered that senna and manna were wanted. There on that page yon see 'box yelape cillacca,' which was somebody's way of asking for a box of yellow basilicon. This ' tinker mur ' stands of course, for tincture of myrrh ; and uhis one, ' grose of sepliment,' for corrosive sublimate. Many of these other "onea yon will understand at once. " The clerk continued to turn the leave and point to his curiosities, among which were these : Send me one jil of jin. Two ounces of hickery pickery (hiera piora); also called for as hide pik. Suffer is ink (sulphate ol zino. Ten cents worth Ari Pariok; idso spelled padygorick, prigoriok, pariorigoric Pommy stone. Duse ruburb mgniste (magnesia), Glereson ; also spelled gliser Irene. Antenodium wine (antunonial wine). Bose shell salts ; also spelled Boe caeel alts. Five cents Shoemakers ginger (Jamaica ginger). Gobble salts (Glauber's salt), Sprinn a city (spermaceti). Gumaraznaoii (gum arabio). Oil of ganen (origanum). Bilier'a pills. And seead corgel (anise seed cordial).

Liokwith of oanan (liquid qitiixUHi). Ktttizicou wine fcolohioum wine), Erryroot for ohildess food. Kreem ut otter ; also spelled cream tater and cream tatter. "In almost every drug store," said the clerk, " a book of this kind is kept. Ours is a dreary sort of business, and these funny orders oome in every little while as an antidote for our many dismal experiences, "--.(Veto York Sum, A Florida maa killed a rattlesnake by throwing a glass of whisky in its face. Now we understand why Oil City hunters invariably take a quart bottle of whisky with them when they go gunning. We had been told that it vras a good rattlesnake antidote, but. ww never knew how it was usL Derri ck,

A 'RIIiORT OH SPAHXIrfa.

My Bill JTy. An Eastern exchange, edited try sot old maid, nays .- " Nevur whip children just before they retire to nwa Let the father! caress, the mother's kiss be tfte last link between the day's pain or pleasure awl the night's sleep. Send the children to bed happy. If t here is sorrow, punishment or disgrace, let them meet it ia the day. time, and have hours of playandthought in which fo recover happiness. Let the weary feet, the busy brain, teat in bed hoppy." That's nil right, of course, to some extent. We used to talk that way befont we weif a parent. We knew a good deal mora about children anyhow bfof we had to grapple with them thaix wo do now. We used to be a greater tickler for moral suasion and love and pt entd guh thi a we are n w. Our theory now in relation to children is changed from what it waa forn.erly. We maintain now, after several years' study ol the-, primary biped, that tht re U a .style of child that cannot go to sleep at night unless spanked. Wo have in our mind a little eUIl of the masculine style of architecture, who will lie and soli, acd kick the clothes off and be moan and restless for two hoots if you forget about him, but if you go and turn down the coverlid and fan his person trith an overshoe he will quiet down arid be asleep in five muiute. He is not to blame for being the victim to thin habit, but he is that way, and he can't help it He ia, tied to his spank just as yoo, gentle reaehir, are tied to your mutiurer habits. Strnnire freaks do often grow into -confirmed habits that sue almost impo sible to shake off. Children are often the victims of strange and unnatural customs like other people. This child, for instciioe, did not at first apparently care whether he had his spanking nt 8 p. m, or earlier, but later he was ho regular in his demand foe corporal puxishment that you ooohl set

your watch try turn, tie waa also no attached to a certain style of Arctic ovet shoe that y ou couldn't acoorapliah anything by palding him with any other style of chiistisement. Love ia a good thing, and we often wish thai mora of it had been lavished on us dotiea one past lift., but after all there are chudrea who do licit yearn for afCeotion half as much an they do for armed aggrMsion, Of course your conscience smite yon at intervals when von tro rmst tha littla

bed alter the conflict is over nnd peace and slumber are the victors, Bexnathtag may come up in your throat whim won. see the little rebel lying with his feet on the pillow and bis head dorm itt the foot of his cot, and a little teat n his cye-iaslies. Fon feel, perhaps, as though it looked like taking an rindae advantage for a 200 pound man 'to oatcli a 6-year-oi l boy when he ia unpropared and paddle him with an erverahoe, and yet) sometimes it has to be done. We know that in our own cane earporul punishment was reeeirtod to white all the otbar boys in the family escaped with moral suasion. The result :s nit what might have been expected, ata tKa r.ni v ntiA fif oil ihaa mnniasw

collection of boys whose proniissory notes lmv-9 gained a world-wide cu-cula-tion to-day. While the dther boys wen. contented to plod along and run up lit petty acoountB at tbo state, we struck out boldly toward fame and insolvency. You can encourage a child with Eress-board sometimes and thus giv im an im.petart which will aid him sit through his life. What Kelh ttreen Has Seen In ts Xoralag.

I have, made lome of my most interesting studies in the morning, said Green. That is the time to see the insects at their bed to see the mud wasps stinging the spiders without killing thorn, and pac'ring them away where they are

Kepi aii 'e ror weeats ee ua nsca wussa needed. I have seen a smalV green worm bunging down on a web. An ant, stationed on the limb above, ftallsup the web and just as the worm cornea within rew.ch of his tiny claw.r down drops Mr. Worm. The ant pills up again at d again the worn lets out another re sf and goes down. This sort of thing continues until finally tbe sat grapple-, the worm, and both go down together in a grand scramble, in whioh tliA wAfrm mntiffA tn aIiasm Aflf IllA enfc.

This leaves the worm on the rrronnd. His web is so strong that the other end is stiH fastened to th limb above. What does Mr.. Ant do ? Give it up f So, sir, 1 have s sen him go up the trunkot that tree, cre.wl out to the same limb, and go to work again pulling up the same web. TIin,elteir another Wtle,.I have known the ant to get the bettr of the fight and lug the worm off to his. hole three rods awny. Why, talk about reasoning powers I ' Tue perseverance aud instinct of these l.ttle creatures is wwtderfaL People go out to fish. They splash around, stand up in the boat, drop their lines thie feet away, and wonder be-

cause iL.ry uuu a utuvia uwa A.ua?jr get that trout can see. Fish learn, tho tackle, nnd fish aro, as role, lot a! in their tiiibitation.ArorA Wood letter m Uttei 06erver. Whkm President Arthur was a schoolteacher ho did not punish tho big bay) boys by seating them with the cirb; ha placed them on the lowest benon in tbs primary department and mods them recite the alphabet with the httle children. By this simple method ha- TtermanenUr

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