Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1892 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1892.

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WHERE PROTESTANTS LACK

They Kecd the Aid of Symbolism in Teaching Religion to the Masses. The Hearts of People Keached tbrongh Ejes &3 Well as Ears-Chnrch-Doors Should Stand Open Every Day in the Week. Xlerecce Hardin Ptrl in The Inrtereurtent. All of the good Christian folk whether tbey call themselves Presbyterian. Methodists, Baptists, Unitarians, or by some other partisan name are now no doubt busy making plans for the betterment of themselves and their neighbors during tbe year just begun. Indeed, ' they are perpetually devising new method for drawing the mines of tne people about tbem away from money-getting and money-spending up to God. Tbey deserve credit for their new methods, some of which arehelpful enough; but may I ask tbein why they do cot try some of tbe old ones which have proved efficacious for many centuries! Why, for example, have they cut themselvesoffwholly from tne mighty aid of symbolism in teaching their religion! Take any bouse of worship (outside of the Roman y and Episcopalian sects) in onr smaller towns and Tillages, and there is nothing in its appearance to suggest to tbe child or ignorant man the idea it embodies any more than if it were a theater or a town halL Inside there may bo soft fieats for the luxurious comfort of the church-goers, or stained glass to please their eyes; but their is neither painting, sculpture nor symbol to remind them of the life of that Jesus in whom they profess to believe. Music and the efforts of t&e preacher are the only methods used to attract their attention, to warm their emotions, or to kindle their devotion. Why should not the eye be appealed to as well as the ear! Let us talk common sense about this thing and put aside for awhile the prejudices of our grandfathers. It is folly to nay that symbols and paintingor sculptnre do not powerfully influence the majority of men. The very people, ftood. well-meaning men and women, who would shudder at the introduction of a picture or crucifix in their meeting-houses, touch their betrothal rings with tenderness, and look with brimming eyes at the clothes which their dead baby wore. Does not tbe poor photograph on the wall soften their hearts toward the prodigal son who is sowing his wild oats, tbey know not where! Did they not march to battle with stouter hearts for the sight of the old Hag going before! ATrEALIXO TO THE EYE. They all know the value of symbols. They nso them in their college clnbs, their political organizations, their friendships, their tenderest home ties, their treatment of their dead; every where but m their religion. Why! The American, passing through continental Europe, finds in almost every town galleries of paintings of scenes in the history of the Savior. At the street corners there is the carven figure of the infant Jesus, His handsloutstretcbed to bless. The . roofs of tbe houses, even sometimes of the bams, of pionsjpeasants bear liis name; in the fields or in solitary mountain pauses stands tbe rude crucifix, to remind the lonely traveler of Him. What is all this! "Romish" superstition yon have been . taught. Clear your eyes, look for yourself, and see that it is a great object lesson, by which the facts on which the Christian faith is based reach the knowledge and hearts of the people through their ey es. , You "fear that these people believo that the poor picture or stone figure is the real Jod, and make an idol of itV . Do yon believe that it is your real son who hangs on tbe wall in tho photograph, or your country itself that flatters in the liag. Do not fall into the vnlgar error of supposing that the man whom von do not know is necessarily less intelligent and more of a savage than yourself. We Americans, tor the most part, utterly reject this object teaching of our faith. YY e adhere to the purblind foolish policy of the Puritans, who threw away, without discretion, every method, however good, of the church which they left. They dealt according to their light with the needs of their day. Let us deal with the needs of oars. There are literally millions of men, women and children In tbe United States now. both jgnorant and educated, who never read the Bible, never go into a church, never hear a sermon. Licept an occasional cross on a spire there is no outward visible sign in this country of tbe religion which it professes to believe. Here is a method by which the main facts underlying that religion can be brought belore every man. Shall we reject tho method because Cotton Mather did not like it! Is that reason enough! KEEP THS CHURCH OPEN. Another question I should like to ask is, why all churches are not open at all times! If it serve a good purpose to have a house devoted to the worship of Almighty God by a hundred people on Sundays or on Wednesday nights, why should it not be devoted to His worship by any one of the hundred on any day or hour! Yon will say, lot the man and woman who long to come closer to their Heavenly Tather for comfort and help on a week day titer into their closets, and. when they Lave shut the door, pray to Him. Hut suppose there Is no closet! The manufacturer in his mills, swarming with workmen, the lawyer in his o thee, the overworked mother in the wretched shanty. In which there is not a corner where she can "be alone for a minute with her Maker, apart from the children to whom she is giving her life it is not easy for them to find a secret place of rest and silence. Why should their church offer them a refuge only for six hours in tbe week, and then surrounded by a crowd! It should be always open; the place where they could bo snre of finding, what every hnman being should find eaeh day, solitude and quiet for a brief space, to recollect himself, to seo where he stands, to lace his own soul and his Uod. 1 shall be told, perhap. that nobody would seek this place. A woman would not, probably, be ashamed to be seen going apart to pray on a work-day morning; but what would induce Mr. Smith, on his way to his shop or his bank.orthe youngSmitbs going to school, to have the world know that they had turned aside for a moment to be alone with Uod! The act would be peculiar, eccentric: it might be mistaken lor tho hypocrisy of tbe Philistine, etc., etc. The people whom we accuse of idolatry beiore their pictures and crucifixes are not troubled by these qualms or fears. Spend a morning in a cathedral in .Kouen or Antwerp, and you will see not only young women and old crones on their way to market come in and drop on their knees in silent prayer, but . merchants going to 'change, fashionably dressed young fellows and school-boys. They do not heed yon or tho crowd. They say their prayer and go out as simply and qnietly as they would have bought food. One act is apparently as necessary to the day's rodtine as the othor. I remember one old woman who was kneeling one rainy afternoon, last August, "before a crucifix on a bridge in Heme. She was in an agony of supplication, her hands were clenched, the tears streamed down her old cheeks, her eyes were fixed ou the lace of Christ. She was as utterly unconscious of the passing crowd as if they had been but the stones of the highway. What American could have done this Without shame! 1 do not say that the prayers of many of the worshipers are not formal, or o lered ignorantly. ilv point is that even if the wan .prays to the Virgin inothe r. be i not ashamed to do it: he in not ashamed of his need or of his faith in a higher power who can help him. We are ashamed. The majority of American men do not go into a chnr. u on Sunday, much lea openly on a .c day. witfi their heart's hurt to be heale I. Why is thief Is it becau we have shut tip oor churches, kept our religion out of sight, unfamiliar toourrI..ldren and young pvople, made of Jesus a doctrine, an idea, rather than a loving man. ready to helo them in their smallest needs! There are many things, it seems to me, which in our frantic haste to escape from

the older sects we have thrown away, which some day we will go bao k and pick up again remorsefully. , A MATTER OF COMPLEXION.

IHomle Women Are Said to b Growiag Scarcer, Giving Place to Brunettes. WaaMocU n Star. "Blonde women are becoming scarcer every year," said an eminent anthropologist to a reporter. "You have not lived long enough to remark the fact, but women with blue eyes and licht bairare gradually, though purely, passing away us a tvpe. In each successive generation there are fewer oi them than in tho last. Already sucna thing as a real blonde, purely such, is so rarely seen in this country as to excite remark. Golden tresses are so very infrequent that real onca are usually suspected of being dyed. In short, it ha become evident that before very long there will be no blonde women any more. "Tne same thing is true of men. Among their sex light hair nnd blue eyes are fast disappearing. You may.judge how rapidly they are going when you consider the fact that wherever a brun man mairries a blonde woman, or vice verso, CC per cent, of the children born have dark hair and eyes. At that rate not very many centuries will be reqnired to wipe out the blonde type altogether. You wonder how this matter has been determined with such accuracy! Simply by including such statistical observations in the censusof nations. In Germany and France the very school-children are examined and have their characters recorded from an anthropological standpoint. "Observations made in this way so as to cover millions of persons of both sexes have resulted in the discovery that the dark people bring mora children into the world than do the light p-ople. Furthermore, they have greater muscnlar vigor and tbey live longer. Thus in -.very point which has to do with the perpetuation of a species they are superior. The rule in nature seems to be that pigment, which produces the color of the hair and eyes, is an indication of force. Albinos among animals and pallid plants are always weak. "After all, thero are comparatively few light people in the world. All the straighthaired races are dark. All tho aboriginal Americans are dark, from the Arctic circle to Cape Horn. All the Asiatics are dark. AlltheOceani people are dark. All the Africans are dark, except a few blonde tribes in the Barbary states. Likewise, all the southern Europeans are dark. The dark people have the great advantage of being able to stand any climate, while the light-complexioned raccscannot endure the heat of the tropics. XT HEATS NATURAL OAS. An Invention That Provides Artificial Fuel at a Very Moderate Cot. Dostoa Transcript. It has long been a serious problem with economists bow to produce illuminating and heating gis at a low cost. The high price of coal has proved an insurmountable obstacle, and so experiments . have been made from time to time with crude petroleum. It seems that at last these experiments have been crowned with success and such a process can be seen in actual operation in a manufactory on Dudley street, Chelsea. Tho inventor is Charles H. Wilder, who has in operation a plant which is so extremely eimplb and inexpensive as to raise a doubt as to its practicability, consisting of three cylindrical retorts, each five feet long nnd fourteen inches in diameter, inclosed in brick-work. The first is an open cylinder, affording an unobstructed passage. The second and third are supplied with a series of diaphragms between two and three inches apart, through which and over, and around which the gas is obliged to pass on its way to the cooler and holder. About eight feet beyond the third retort stands the cooler and hydraulio main. The process in brief consists in the introduction of the crude oil into the first retort lrom a tank in which a percentage of water of a certain temperature has been forced to facilitate the flow of the oil. In this retort it is immediately volatilized. Almost simultaneously a volume of air is injected into the retort from a blower. This is also heated to the same degree of temperature as the vapor from the oil. and both readily assimilate. Tho air, acting as a pressure, forces the gas through a five-inch pipe into the second retort. Here It passes through and over the series of diaphragms already alluded to, and is conveyed into the third retort, where it is similarly treated. In this retort the gas is thoroughly fixed. The diaphragms in the second and third retorts, as well as all tho pipes and cylinders, are perfectly carbonized a fact which provents the gas from coming into contact with any heated metal. Consequently there is no destruction or loss in transit. Through a six-inch pipe tho fixed gas is carried from the third retort to the purifier and cooler, and thence into the holder outside the building, where it is stored for use. As to the quality of the gas produced, its superiority was acknowledged, while the claim is made by tbe projectors that it can be produced at a minimum of the cost of making under present methods. All OUT CHICAGO. TXIgh Pressure State of Existence In the City of the World' Fair. Julian Ralph, In Harper's Monthly. I have spoken of the roar, and bustle, and energy of Chicago. 'This is most noticeable in the business part of the town, where the greater number of the men are crowded together. It seems thero as if the men would run over tbe horses if the drivers were not carefnl. Everybody is in such a hurry and going at such a pace that if a stranger asks his way, he is apt to have to trot along with his neighbor to gain the information, for the average Chicagoan cannot stop to talk. The whole business of life is carried on at high pressure, and the pithy part of Chicago is like three hundred acres of New York Stock Exchange when trading is active. European visitors have written that there are no such crowds anywhere as gather on Broadway, aud this is true most of the time: but there is one hour every week-day when certain streets in Chicago are so packed with people as to make Broadway look desolate and solitudinoos by comparison. That is the hour between 5:30 and 6:39 o'clock, when the famous tall buildings of the city vomit their inhabitants upon the pavements. Photographs of the principal corners and crossings, taken at tbe height of the human torrent, 'suggest the thought that the camera must have been tnrned on some little-known painting by Doro. Nobody but Dore ever conceived suen pictures. To those who are in the crowds, even Chicago seems small and cramped; even her street cars, running in breakneck trains, prove far too few; even her streets, that connect horizon with horizon aeem each night to roar at the city officials for further annexation in tbe morning. We shall see these crowds simply and satisfactorily accounted for presently, but they exhibit only one phase of the highpressure existence; they form only one feature among the many that distinguish tbe town, in the tall buildings are the most modern and rapid elevators, machines that fly up through the towers like glas balls from a trap at a shooting content. The slow-going stranger, who is conscious of having been "kueaded" along tbe streets, like a lump of dough among a million bakers, feels himself loaded into one of those frail-looking baskets of steelnetting, aud the next instant the elevator boy touches the trigger, and up goes the whole load as a feather is caught up by a gale. Tho decent is more simple. Something lets go, and you fall from ten to twenty stories, as it happens. There is sometimes A jolt, which makes the passenger seem to feel his stomach pass into his shoes, but, as a rule, tbe mechanism and management both work marvelously toward ease and gentleness. These elevators are too slow for Chicago, and the managers of certain tall buildings now arrange them o that some run "express' to the seventh story without stopping, while what may be called accommodation cars halt at the lower floors, pursuing a course thatmay be likened to tbe emptying of the chambers of a revolver in the bauds of a person who is "quick on tho trigger." If. i the same everywhere in the business district. Along Clark street nro home gorgeous underground restaurants, all marble aud plated metal. Whoever is eating at one of the tables in them will see the ushers standing about like statues until a customer enters the door, when they dart forward as if the building were falling. It is only done in order to seat the visitors promptly. Being of a sympathetic aud imprt'Sfionable nature, 1 bolted along the streets all the time I was there as if some one on thnnextblcck bad picked my pocket. In the Auditorium Hotel the guests communicate with theclerk by electricity, nnd may Hash word of their thirst to the bartender as lightning dances from the top to the bottom ot a steeple. A sort of annun

ciator is used, and by turning an arrow and pressing a button, a man may in half a minute order a cock-tail, towels, icewater, stationery, dinner, a bootblack, nnd the evening newspapers. Our horse cars in New York move at the rate of about six miles an honr. Tbe cable cars of Chicago make more than nine miles an hour in town, and more than thirteen miles an hour where tbe population is less dense. They go in trains of two cars each, and with such a racket of gong-ringing, and such a grinding and whir of grip-wheels as to make a modern vestibuled train seem a waste of opportunities for noise. But these street cars distribute the people grandly, and while they occasionally run over a" stray citizen, they far more frequently clear their way by lifting wagons and trucks bodily to one side as they whirl along.' It is a rapid and a business-like city. The speed with which cattle are killed and pigs are tnrned into slabs of salt pork has amazed the world, but it is only the ignorant portion thereof that does not know that the celerity at tho stockyards is merely an effort ot the butchers to Keep np with the rest of the town. The only slow things in Chicago are the steamiailway trains. EVERY MAN KNOWS IIEIC

The Mother of a Hoy Her Secret Joys and Sorrows Watching; Baby Grow. New York Recorder. It is to no ordinary hand that falls the successful rockings and spankings of future Presidents. Ostensibly, any woman may be a girl's mother aud find her eiiofTs crowned with success, but with a boyVi mother it is different. From the first day of a boy's introduction to atmospheric existence, when his paternal progenitor receives tbe congratulatory hand-grasps of his friends about town the congratulations that are bestowed with more zest than had the new-comer been u girl tho discipline toward the making of a boy's mother begins. Regretfully does she watch the energetic young scion kick his way through the cherished lace and dimity dear to her feminine heart. There are thrills of maternal joy at the first tooth and pulsations in the domestic realm at the first step. Little by little the finger marks on the doors and windows ascend, and by aud by the baby garments are folded away, the long curls those dear, beautiful baby curls are shorn, and the heir to the throne Is self-announced. Then comes an age of bumps, and bruises, and griefs. There are fingers to be tied up and healed with rags, and kisses, and love. There are tears to be wiped away, manly tears they are, too, and there are whole wells of sorrow to be absorbed by the rays of sunshine from a mother's eyes. There are endless draughts drawn from the magio anodyne of a mother's heart. The supply Is unceasing in its How. Then comes the exploring age. Tho whole world seems in delightfnl solution, to be reached for and spilled. Who but a mother could invent excuses therefor, and then put the soluble world on a higher shelf! Who but a mother can remove the traces of ink and jam so that no stain bears willing witness to juvenile marauders! Thus does discipline beget patience, and endurance, and other fruits of the spirit. The successful mother of a boy must be an intelligent, versatile person. She must know how to rig a 6hip aud cover a ball; .she must know how to make a kite and a paper hut, and work fractions, and make cookies, aud trousers, and turnovers. The mother a boy can depend upon will save all the pieces of twine, aud when she has a neat ball of it. she will ofier it at his shrine ungrudgingly. She will plan little surprises in the shape of stray pie and dessert and dishes of custard and otter delectables. carefully hidden away till a time when a boy has a sharp edge on his appetite. She feigns not to sea him when he slides down the banister. She allows him to make flour paste and lemonade, and when she sweeps, if the marbles roll and roll and seek snug, inaccessible hiding places, she patiently captures them and puts them away lor a time when a boy needs them. A boy's mother entertains a proper respect for the contents of a boy's pocket tne nails, bolts, crumbs, taffy, screws, wire, bits of rope and pieces of rock, lucky stones and other juvenile treasures; aud when a boy loses his knife some one with a gentle voice knows where it is where she placed it for safe keeping. When tbe boy is in trouble tbe same gentle voice intercedes In his behalf, and when he is in disgrace the sad look in tho loving eyes is hardest of all for him to meet. But there is some one to believe in him again whate'er befalls, some one in whose heart confidence never dies nor hope and a little voice within him sings of her. Ah! a boy's mother is bis foundation rock of truth in the world. Aud one day after he has grown to manhood she will go to a long-closed drawer and from its sacred depths she will take in her trembling hands sacred little garments stained with time and perfumed with lavenderthe while an involuntary lullaby springs to her Hps and the eyes will dim with unbidden tears as tbey behold all that is left to a bof 's mother all save memory, which in her heart of hearts has enshrined the image of a boy. Margaret Fuller. M. E. Rherwood, In Lipplncott. Margaret Fuller, a very plain woman, with what struck roe as a bump-back, was the oracle. 1 believe my youthful love of beauty caused me to do her injustice. She had a very long neck, which Dr. Holmes afterwards described as resembling "tho great ophidian who betrayed our Mother Eve." and perhaps her habit of craning it caused me to think her slightly deformed. But al! was forgotten when she begau to talk. It was a long, low ripple of fascinating and well-rounded sentences, a certain originality in tbe use of words, and that Cambridge pronunciation which I have always admired. Mr. Everott aud Mr. Longfellow had it. Miss Fuller gave lessons in tho art of conversation afterwards, and I am sure every girl who attended tbem has talked hotter ever since. Although an intense egotist herself, Miss Fuller uttered the wise axiom, "Never talk about yourself, your diseases, your domestics or your dresses. Talk about your friends interests, not your own." She also said (and how good it was!). "To have unity, one must have units: one cannot be unanimous alone." She was an original thinker; and after I beard of her romantic marriage, her tragio death as Marchioness Ossoli, I was grateful for the privilege of having once touched this sparkling mind. m m Science Befuddled. Jewelers Circular. Dr. Optycuss Yon aro standing at eighteen feet. Can you read these letters! Patient No, sir. Dr. Optycuss Approach two feet nearer. Now! Fatient No, sir. Dr. Optycuss This is strange! Come four feet nearer. Now? Patient No, sir. Dr. Optycuss Most remarkablo case I ever met. Stand four feet away from the chart. Can you read now Fatient No, air. Dr Optycuss Great Pisistratus! Am I mad! Youug man. yon are the most remarkable caso that has come to my experience. You conquer me. You can know more about yourself than I do. Have you any idoa why you can't read tbeso letters! Patient Perhaps because I never learned to read. . lie Lost Her. Detroit Free Press. He had asked her to marry bim, and was waiting impatiently for bor answer. "Will you expect me to keep house!" she finally asked. "No, indeed, my love; the servants will attend to all that." "You won't ask roe to make the bread, or broil beefsteaks?" "Certainly not, my anjel; we will hare a cook." "Aud I will not be compellod to pound tbe washboard!" "How can you ask such a question! No, no, no." "Then I cannot marry you. I have been brought up to do all those things, and 1 could not be happy in a life of idleness." When he realized what a treasure be had lost, be went sadly to his luxurious home, and vowed to remain a bachelor forever. A Moan Trick. Lif. "I can't pay this bill, doctor. It's ex orbitant. 1 m no better than 1 was. either." "That's because you didn't take my advice." "Ah well of course if I didn't take it I don't owe you for it. Thanks. Good morning." Canter tc Banking, 41 Vance Block, general agents for tbe New England Accident Company, have written over. $500,000 of business within tho past three months.

INCREASE OF TWO MILLIONS

January Clearings Exceed Those of the Sarao Month Last I ear bj That Sum. Receipts of Grain of All Kinds Continue Lieut, and the Market Is Quiet and Easy, with Onlj Slight Changes in Trices. MONEY AND STOCKS. Clearances for the Day, Week and Month Compared with Like Periods of 1801. Tbe clearances on Saturday amounted to $1,00S,61L14; balance. $4L93S.29. For the week the clearances were $4,034,531.W; balance, $502,401.61. For the month of January, 20.20a.854.G3. For the corresponding periods in 1601 the showing was as follows: Clearances for the day, $481,515.21; balances, fS9.415.10. Clearances for the week, $3,076.183.61; balances. 3)1,732.76. Clearances for the month, $18,001,126.90. NEW YORK QUOTATIONS. At New York Saturday money on rail was easy, with no loans, closing oSered at 1V& per cent Frime mercantile paper, ZM'SS1 per cent. sterling exchange was quiet but steady at $4.fr4 for ixty-day bills and $4.16 for demand. Tho total sales of stocks were 1C9.01S shares, including the following: 'Atchison, I0,)0; Chicago Gas, 4.8C0; Erie. 8,100; Louisville & Nashville, 10,50; Manhattan, 2,134; Missouri Ecibo. 2,955; Northwestern, 2,110; Northern Facifio preferred, 4,214; Reading, 7.6C0; Richmond fc West' Point 4.155; St. Faul, 10,700; St Paul & Omaha, 3,775; Union Pacific. 3,700; Western Union, 3,070. Tbe stock market was nothing but the fag end of the week's speculation and considerable weakness was seen in all portions of the list. A marked doarth of commissionhouse buying encouraged the bears to again attack the most vital points. The banner weak stock still continued to bo Distillers, and stop orders in it were uncovered witn tbe effect of dropping the stock in the early dealings 2l per cent. The bears sold the grangers freely, but only Omaha showed any material impression and the selling of Atchison sufficed to depress it a fraction aud largly increase the anlount of business done in it Tbe eame may be said of Louisville, which was the next most prominent mark for drives. Consolidated Gas made a sharp upward spurt,the action of the directors in raising the rate of dividend from 5 to 6 points, and making it nayable quarterly instead of semi-annually, furnishing the moving power. The stock opened up 1 per cent at 105, and rose to 11134. closing at 1114, a gain of OTs percent. Distillers rallied handsomaly in the late dealings, but closed with a material loss. The bank statement with its further large gain in cash and deposits, seemed to have no eflect whatever, but covered operations caused a slight rally In the final trading which closed the market firm at better than the lowest prices. Kailroad bonds were active and firm as usual of late, but the final changes were in all oases insignificant, and while the Union Pacific furnished $105,000 out of the total of 8l.303.0uO, they failed to move more than a slight fraction. The market closed aotive and firm. Government bonds were dull and steady. State bonds were active. Closing quotations were: Four per cent regllG Four perct. conp..llG Pacino 6e of '95.. 109 Louis. & Nash... ... 7334 L. & New Albany- 2M?9 Missouri Pacific... 62 H N.J. Central llSs Northern Facifio.. 23?9 X. Pacltlo pref tH1 Northwestern 1183 Northwestern pref 141 N. Y. Central 1153 O. & Mississippi .. 223 O. &M.pref 85 Peoria, D. &K 2013 Pullman Palace. ...189 Hock Island 1)24 U.S. Express 49 W., St. L. k P. 13 W., 8t. L. & P. pref 30 Wells-Fargo Ex... 140 Western Union.... b4a Atchison 407a Adams Express. ..148 Alton AT. If.. 31 Alton AT. II. pref. 12$ American ExpressllO Cbes. AOhlo 2G C.& O. rref. lsts. tJlW C. A O. pref. 2ds.. 43 C.,B. AO 109 C.CC.&Bt. L... 71 ?i Eel., Lack. AW. ..145-14 Fcrt Wayne 152 Lake Erie A V... 22 L.E. A W.pref....71J4 Lake Shore 122 s Lead Trust... 20 , Ex. dividend. The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Keeerre. Increase.... S3.018.000 Loans, Increase 6,380,100 Specie. Increase 2,790,200 Legal tenders, increase 3.238,200 Deposits. Increase 12,041,000 Circulation, decrease 78,400 The banks now hold 36.020.900 in excess of the requirements of tbe 25 per cent rule. Bar Silver At New York, 91c per ounce; at London. 41 13-l(5d. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. t A Quiet Day on 'Chance Small Inspections la Wheat and Other Grain. On 'Change yesterday wheat was easier, corn and oats dulL There were inspected in seven cars of wheat twenty-seven of corn and three of hay. Prices were: Wheat No. 2 red, 91c; No. 3 red. GXKc: rejected, 75S63c; unmerchantable, 05 75c; wagon wheat, 91c Corn (all new) No. 1 white, 40Hc; No. 2 white, SOMjc: while mixed. S9c; No. 3 white, 39339MiC, latter for one color: No. 2 yellow, S8Vac;Ko. 3 yellow, SSc; No. 2 mixed, SSVfcc; No. 3 mixed, SSc: ear. 3SMsc. Oats No. 2 white. 33c; No.3 white, SlHc; No. 2 mixed. Slc; rejected, 29c Hav Timothy, choice, $12; No. 1. $11.50; ' No. 2. $9; No. 1 prairie, $8; No. 2, $0.50; mixed hay, $7.50; clover, mixed. Si Bran, $14 per ton. TOULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. Poultry Hens. 8c Ifc; young chickens, 8c lb; turkeys, fat, choice hens, lOo lis, and 8c for fancy young toms; ducks, 7c lb; geese, $0 for choice. Eggs Shippers paying 18c. Butter Choice country. ll'Slftc; common, 8l0c; choice retailing from store at 25 SOc. Cheese New York full cream, 133; 14c: BKims, o7c V re. loeuing prices.) FeathersPrime geese, S5c 1 IB: mixed duck, 20c beeswax Dark. 5c: yellow. 40o fsellinir Wool Tub-washed and picked, 0383c; unwashed medium aud common grades, if in good order, 20223c; burry and cotted. Iodise; fine merino, l$c. Tlutcs, Tallow, Etc. Hides No. 1 G. 8. hides, 5c; No. 2 O. S. hides, 4c; No. 1 green, SVic; No. 2 ereen, 2Vjc. Ilorso Hides $2.5CS3. Tallow No. 1. 3lGlc: No. 2, 3c. Grease White, 3c; yellow, Sc; brown, 2M?c. Bones Dry, $1213 per ton. GREEN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.' Apples-Choico. $1.752.25; fancy, 52.50$ barrel. Grapee Catawbas. 25o for 10-15 baskets and 15i for 5-ft; Malagas. $7 for lightweight kegs, and $78 for medium to full weight. Cranberries Cape Cod, ?6w50S7 f brl, $2.25 i bu; Jersey. $5.500 $ hrl. Oranges Floridas, $2.J box; single box lots. $2.50. Lemons Choice. $44.50 box; fancy. $4.5025; Malaga, $4. Bananas ?lL50t bunch, according to size and quality. Celery Home-grown. 30c bunch; Michigan, 15? 20c for common, 4045 for fancy white plumes. Cabbage Home grown, $1.75 barrel; choice Michigan. $520 100; $l.?5l brl; imported. $2.25 brl. Potatoes Indiana, 40o bu from car; Michigan. 45c: from store, 45250c Sweet Potatoes .Jersey. $3.252)8.50 fc brl; Kentucky. $2.25; Illinois, $3. Onions-Yellow. $2.75 barrel. $1 bushel; red. $1; bpanish onions, $1.50 crate. Cider-DufTy, pure. $4.75 trade brl; half oris. (3; Oliver Bros, sand relined, $5.5025,75 y brl: half brls, $3.25aa50: Carson's New York puro, $4.50 4 brl: half brls. $2.50. Hickory Nuts Large, 50o i bushel; small, $1. THE JOBBING TRADE. f Tfie Mtofation girm below are the selling prices of tcholcsale dealers. CAXDXCS AND NUTS. Candies Stick, Co per R; common mixed, Cc; U. A. It mixed, c; cream raised, 10c; old-time mixed, 7c; crimp mixed, 10c Nuts Soft-shelled almonds, 17c; pecans, 15c; English walnuts, 10 13c; Brazil nuts.

10c; filberts, 12c; peanuts, roasted, 5 7c: mixed nuts, 12c CANNED QOOD3. Peaches Standard, 3-ponnd. $1.7522; 8- ponnd seconds. $1.S021.40; California standards, $2,252)2.50; California seconds, $222.5. Miscellaneous Blackberries. 2pound, 85295c: raspberries, 2-pound, $1.20 1.30; pineapple, standard. 2-pound. $1.40 22.50; seconds. 2-ponnd. t.2022.2.); cove oysters. 1-pound, full weight $1.0521.10; light tf)70c: 2-pound, full. $1152.25; light. $1.20; string beans, 85'2,.5c; Lima beans, gl.lO 1.20; peas, marrowfat, $L1US 1.20; early June, $1.251.50: lobsters. $1.85 S2: red cherries. 95c2$1.10; strawberries, $1.201. SO; salmon (lbs). $1.352.50. COAL AND COKE. Anthracite coal, all sizes, $7 ton: Pittsburg and Kayinond City, $4.50 ton; Jackson. $4.25; block. $3.50; Island City, '$3.25; Blossburg and Enalish canneL $5. All nut coals 50 cents below above quotations. Coke Connellsville,$3.75 load; crushed, $3.25 load; lump, $3 load. DRIED FRUITS. Apples Sun-dried, 4Vs25c per IB; evaporated, 82 8lc. Peaches Common sun-dried, 4H25o per lb; common evaporated. 8-2 9c; California sun-dried, 7l4 2) 11c; California evaporated, 9215c. Apricots San-dried, 9211c per Id; evaporated. 10212c Kaisins Loose Muscatel. $1.7522.25 per box; London layer, $222.50 per box; Valencia, 829c per lb; layer. 9Via10c Currants G'Soo per 15. Prunes Turkish, 728o per lb; California, 7Mi10c. Figs Layer. 1S1Cc per ft. Alcohol. $2.8222.45: asafetida. S02S5c; alum. 425c; camphor, 55260c; cochineal, 50255c; chloroform, 00S&5c; copperas, brls., 85c2$l; cream tartar, pure. 30235c; indiuo. 02Slc; licorice, Calab., genuine, S024oc; magnesia, carb., 2-oz., 2)2)35c; morphine, P. k W., oz.. $2.20; madder. 14218c; oil, cantor, gab, $1,152)1.20; oil, bergamont, lb. $4.50; opium. $2.25; quinine, P. & VY.. oz., 31230c; balsam copaiba, 70 375c; soap, Castile. Fr.. 12210c; soda, bicarb., 4V26c; salts, Epsom. 4 25c; sulphur, llonr, 52Gc; saltpeter. 8220c; turpentine, 40245c; glycerine, 12 22c; iodido potass., $2.8523; bromide potass., 40242c; chlorate potash, 18c; borax, 13215c: cinchonidia, 12215c; carbolic acid, 30235c. Oils Linseed oil, raw, S523So per gal.; coal oil, legal test, 7214c; bank. 40c; best straits, 50c; Labrador, 00c: West Virginia lubricating. 202) SOc: miners', 45c Lard oils. No. 1, 60255c; do., extra. G02G5c ; White Lead Pure, 727Vfcc. DRY GOODS. Bleached Sheetings Androscoggin L, 7Mic; Berkeley, No. 00. 9c; Cabot, 7c; Capital, Cc; Cumberland, 8c; Dwight Anchor, 8Mic; Fruit of Loom, 8Vfcc; Farwell, 7c; Fitchville, 6Vc; Full Width. 53ic; Gilt Edge, 5c; Gilded Age, 5c; Hill, 734c; Hope, 73-ic; Lmwood, 7c; Lonsdale, SVtc; Lonsdale Cambric. 10cj Masonville, 8Hc; Peabody, bHc; Pride of the West, ll'Sc; Quinebaug, 6"?4c; Star of the Nation, GVac; Ten Strike, Cc; Pepperell, 9-4, 19Mic; Pepperell 10-4, 21Msc; Androscoggin 9-4, 19 c; Androscoggin 10-4, 2lMic. Brown Sheetings Atlantio A, 7c; Argyle, Clic; Boott C, 5V4c; Buck's Head, 634c; Clifton CCC. Cc; Constitution, 40-inch, 7l2c; Carlisle, 40-inch. 7c; Dwight Star, 7c; Great Falls E, 7c: Great Falls J, 6c; Lood Luck LL. 5 Vic; Harper LL. 5c: Hill Fine, 7c; Indian Head, 7c; Lawrence LL, 5Uc; Lockwood B, 614c; Nabob Koyal. SU; Lone Jack H, 534c; Pensaoola A, 5io; Princess, 6l4c; Saranao H, 6Mjc; Trion Sea Island, 5Hc; Pepperell E, 7c; Pepperell K, 6c; Pepperell 9-4, 17Vjc; Pepperell 10-4, 19c; Androscoggin 9- 4, 17Mic; Androscoggin 10-4, 19M2& Prime Cambrics Manville. 5Mtc; S. S. & Son's, 5M:c; Masonrille, 5c: Garner, 5c. Tickings Arooskeag ACA, 12c; Conestoga BF, 14c; Cordis 140. 134c; Cordis FT, 134c; Cordis ACE, 12Vftc; Hamilton awning, 104c; Kimono Fancy, 18c; Lenox Fancy, 20c; Metbnen AA. 12c; Oakland 200, 74c; Oakland 250, 8c; Oakland AF, 7c; Portsmouth, 124c; Susanehanna, 144c; Shetncket SW, 74c; Shetucket F, 8c; Swift River. 634c. Grain Bags Amoskeag. $16.50; American, $16.50; Franklin ville, $17.50; Harmony, $16.50; Stark. $19.50. Ginghams Amoskeag Staples, 634c; Amoskeag Persian Dress. b4c; Bates Warwick Dress, 8c; Johnson BF Staples. 94c; Johnson BF Fancies, 84c: Lancaster. 7c: Lancaster Norn anda, 8c; Carrolton, 44 c; Renfrew Dress. 84c; Renfrew Novelties, 104c; Whittinton Heather, 734c; Calcutta Dress Styles. 74c Prints Allen dress styles. 514 c; Allen's staples, 5c; Allen TR. 54 c; Allen robes. 54c; American indigo, 54c; American robes, 04c; American shirtings, 5c; Arnold merino, 0c; Arnold indigo,54c; Arnold LCC, Cc; Arnold LCB, 10c; Arnold Gold Seal. 10c; Cocheco fancy, Cc; Cocheco madders, 54c; Hamilton fancy. 0c; Manchester fancy, 6c: Merrimack fanoyt Cc; Merrimack pinks and purples. 64c; Pacific fancy, Cc; Pacific robe, 64c: Facifio mourning. 6c; Simpson Eddy-

stone, 6c; Simpson Berlin solids, 54c; Simpson's boil finish, 7c; Simpson's - grey's 0c; Simpson's mournings, 6c GROCERIES. Coffee Good, 204'22l4c; prime. 214 224c; strictly prime to choice. 232234c; fancy green and yellow. 2542274c; old government Java, S52St5c; ordinary Java, 2942304c; imitation Java, 2742284c Roasted coffees i-lb packages, 19 "4c Sugars Hard, 44434c; granulated, 44c; confectioners' A. 4e; off A. 4 Vi 248 0; extra C, 3?s24V4c; good yellows, 88 23c; fair yellows, 34 c. Molasses and Syrups New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 30240c; choice, 402) 50c; syrups. 30042c. Honey 10218c & lb. Rice Louisiana, 52C4c; Carolina, 425c Beans Choice,, hand-picked navy, $22) 2.25 bu; medium hand-picked, $222.10. Spices ISspper. 16218c; allspice, 12215c; cloves 20225c; cassia, 10212c; nutmegs, 80 S85c lb. i Salt In car lots, 95c; small lots, $101.05. Woodenware No. 1 tubs. $77.25; No. 2 tubs, $626.25: No. 3 tubs. $525.25: 3-hoop pails, $1.7021.75; 2-hoop pails, $1.4001.45; double washboards, $2.2522.75; common washboards. $1.502L85; clothes-pins, 502 85c box. Wooden Dishes Per 100. lib. 20c; 21b 25c; Slbs. SOc; 5!bs, 40c. Twiue Hemp, 12218c lb: wool, 8010c; flax, 20030c; paper, 18c; jute, 12015c; cotton, 16225c. Shot-$1.50'2)1.55 4i bag for drop. Lead 727l4c for Dresned bars. Flour-sacks (paper) Plain. 1-32 bbl, 1.000. $3.50; 1-16, $5; H bbl. SS; U bbl, $16; No. 2 drab, plain. 1-32 bbl. i 1,000, $3.75; 1-16,-56.25; 4. $10; 4, $20; No. 1 cream, plain, 1-32 f 1.000. $7; 1-16. $8.75; 4. $14.50; Vi, $ 28.50. Extra charge for printing. IRON AND STEEL. Bar iron (ratos), 1.9022c; horseshoe bar, Sc; nail rod, Cc; plow-slabs. 3c; American cast steel, 9c; tire steel, Sc; spring steel, 5c NA1L9 AND HORSESHOES. Steel cut nails, $1.80; wire nails. $2.10, rates: horseshoes, i keg, $1.2.'; mule-shoes, i keg. $5.25; horae-nalls, $425. LEATHER. Leather Oak sole, 24033c; hemlock solo, 22228c; harness. 21231c: skirting, 31033c; black bridle. doz., SG02C5: fair bridle, $60078 doz.; city kip. 650S5c; French hip, 65c $1.10; city calf-skins, 70c $1; French calf-skins, $101.80. OIL CAKE. j Oil cake, $24.50 per ton; oil meal, $24.50. PROVISIONS. Hams Sugar-cured, 20 lbs average. q 94c; 18 lbs average, 9V0934c; 15 lbs average, 94010c; 10 to 124 lbs average. 94 0104c Breakfast Bacon Clear, English-cured, 10011c. Bacon Clear sides, 25 to SO lbs average, 734c; 40 lbs average. 74c; clear bellies, 10 lbr average, 8 "4 c; 19 to 22 lbs average, 74 c; clear backs, 8 lbs average, 74c. Shoulders English cured. 12 lbs average, 7c; 16 lbs average. C3ic. El Dried Beef inside pieces and knuckles, 94c; outside, 64c. Pickled Pork Bean pork, clear p brl 200 lbs. $16; family pork brl 200 lbs, $15; rump pork. & brl 200 lbs, $11. Lara Kottle-rendered, in tierces, 84c; lower grades. 7274c SEEDS. Clover Extra choice reeleaned, 60-lb bn, $4.7504.90; prime $4.6004.75: English, choice. $4.2524.50; Alsike. as to quality, $7.5009: Alfalfa. $5.5007; white Dutch, ns to quality. $709.50. Timothy Fancy, 45-lb bu, $1,700 i.tt); choice, $1.55 1.60; stnetly prime, $1.5001.55. Blue-crass Fancy Kentucky. I4-lb bu f2.5O02.75; English choice, 24-lbbu, $1.8501.95. Orchard Grass Choice, 14-lb bu, $1.3521.50. Italian Rve GrassChoice, l$-tb bu. $1.5001.75. Red TopChoice, 14-lb bu. 45255c. TINNERS SUPPLIES. Best brand charcoal tin, IC, 10x11, 14x20. 12x12, $7.50; IX. 10x14, 14x20 and 12x12. $9.50; 1C. 14x20. rooting tin, $5.7526; IC. 20x23, $1L50212.50; block tin. in pigs, 20c; in bars, 28c Iron 27 Biron, 3l4c; Ciron, 5c; gal vanizod, 50 and 10 to CO per cent discount. Sheet zinc. 7c. Copper bottoms, 24c Planished copper, 28c bolder, 15010c

GRAIN TENDING DOWNWARD

Steady Stream of Offerings at Chicago Finally Had a Telling Effect. Opening at 90 3-4, Which Was 1-Sc Lover ' than Friday, May Ccntinuod Falling Until It Touched S9 7-Sc, Eecoverinj3-8c Later. TRADING AT CHICAGO. Corn, "Which Showed Firmness Early, Afterwards Yielded to the Decline. CHICAGO. Jan. SO. Wheat ruled dull and lower to-day. The news was nearly all bearish, local sentiment was in accord with it, and offerings were in excess of tbe demacd. Cables were depressed and domestic markets tending downward. The export business for the week was nearly a million bushels less than the week previous and the trade was figuring on an increase of 500,000 bushels in the visible supply. New York and St Louis had liberal selling orders here and some of the largest local longs dropped their holdings through sheer discouragement Pardridge and othor local bears sold heavily for a time, but the purchases against puts and tho covering by shorts, who had a satisfactory profit, absorbed the property very readily. But finally the continuous stream of offerings began to tell, and, buyers drawing our. there was a recession from early figures. Charles Wright was tho largest individual buyer, covering a big lino on which he has been short for a considerable time, while Pardridge wan. by ail odds, the heaviest seller. McDougall, Schwartz-Dupee. Logan and Milmine-Bod-man each covered considerable which they had put out at the high prices that ruled early in tbe week. There was some talk of good buying by some local capitalists who, it was reported, were taking wheat on all the breaks, but it did not appear that their operations were important On tbe break Guilford, Hatley Bros., Mitchell and some of the private-wire-bouies were good buyers, largely to cover short sales. Closing cables showed no improvement, and iu the opinion of some dealers it begins to look as if Europe bad become indiilerent to our wheat-crop movement as stocks everywhere abroad are said to be nnusually large, and the prices for the week 3c loner. Tbe foreign situation, as indicated by the late cables, caused renewed selling and increased weakness. May opened 4c lower, at DOTic which proved to bo the highest price of tho day; worked slowly on" to IKJ'ic, tinned upja litle, then weakened to b'J"c. strengthened on covering by shorts near tho close, but ched easy at 'JO'ic Corn showed considerable firmness in the early part of the session, in spite of weak cablos and selling by Pardridge. But it weakened later, in sympathy with the weakness in wheat and provisions. Shorts were not doing much in tho way of coverlug, while soino of the late buyers were liquidating freely. May started 4c lower, at 40Tgc, firmed up to 414c, weakened to 40'Uc, and closed at 40?ac. Oats were quiet and easy; May shows a loss of x4c. Hog products were lower on the larger receipts than expected, and a decline of 501Co at the yards. The weakness in grains was also felt sympathetically, though there were several little rallies during the session, and the close was at a loss of only 5c in pork, .030.074c in lard and.024o in ribs. Estimated receipts for Monday are: Wheat ISO cars; corn, 2o0 cars; oats, lbO cars; hogs, SG,0(,0 head. The leading futures ranged as follows:

Options. Op'ning Highest. Lowest. Closing. Wheat Jan 8C gf b534 86 May 0 4 S03 8i 90 1 Corn Jan... 38i 88 384 Feb 387h 39 1$ 3934 May 407e 41 404 40 Oats Jan 2fv 5132 2Si . 284 Msy 30- 8Q7e 30s 30-S Pork Jan.... $11.70 $11.75 111.00 $11.67 May 12.00 12.00 H.85 11.974 L&rd-Jan.... 6.45 6.45 C37k C.40 May C724 C.72 C.f3 c.f.74 8h't ribs-Jan. 5.724 6.75 6.77 h 6.724 May 6.00 C.02k 5.1)5 C.0

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steadv and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat bfic; No. S spring wheat feX)4c; No. 2 red, hflc; No. 2 corn, ;&40ajjc; Nc 2 oats, 22c: No. 2 white. 30Ac; No. 8 white, 294c; No. 2 rye. 794c; No. 2 barley, 5G5S; No. S, f. o. b.. 450COc;No. 4. f. o. b.. S5052c; No. 1 flaxseed, V4c; prime timotbv-seed, $ 1.25 S 1.2.; mess pork. brl. $?.450&fO; lard, per pound. C. 4000.424c; nort-rib sides (loose), 5.740 5.774c; dry-salted shoulders (boxed), 4.C240 4.75c; short-clear sides (boxed I, C0ti.O5c; whisky, distillers' finished goods, per gal, 81.10. On the Produce Exchange, to-day, the butter market was firm and unchanged. Eggs. 22023c Receipts Floor. 10,000 brls: wheat. 72,000 bu; corn, 125.000 bu; oats, 158,000 bu; rye, 14,000 bu; barley, 4S.O00 bn. ShipmentsFlour. 17,000 brls; wheat S2.C00 bu: corn, 214.000 bu: oats. 257,000 bu; rye. 3,000 bu; barley, 24,000 bn. AT NEW YORK. Ruling Prices In Produce at the Seaboard's Commercial Metropolis. NEW YORK, Jan. 0. Flour Receipts, 20,257 packages; exports, 1.0C5 brls and 15,850 sacks. The market was dull and weak. Sales, 16,550 brls. Low extras. $3.2503.85; winter wheat low grades. $3.2503.85; fair to fancy, fr3.fO04; patents, $4.4505.15; Minnesota clear. 104.75; Minnesota straights, $4.5005; Minnesota patents, $4.50 05.25. Wheat Receipts, 45,753 bu; exports, 130,800 bu; sales. CS0.000 bu futures. 17.000 bu spot. . Tbe spot market was quiet, lower and weak; No. 2 red. $1.01 5g in store aud in elevator. $1.03401.033 alloat, $l.O2?fe0 L044 f. o. b.: No. 3 red. 9S40O9c: ungraded red. 9OC0S1.O44; No. lNortliern. $1,044; No. 1 hard. $1.008 01.OOH: No. 2 Northern. Wd rO'ic; No. 3 spring, 9oc Options declined 08O on weak cables nnd larger receipts in tbe Northwest, reacted 40Uc, declined 40Uo on Itght clearances, and closed steady at 40 nnder yesterday; No. 2 red, February, l.O1401.Ol5s, closing at 81.01V. March. $1.020 UE3. closing at $1.02;; April. $1.02s: May, $1.0141.01 11A6. closing at $1,014; June, l94 Pitt's c, closing at I4)4c; July.U4'0&c. closing atrt'c. Rye was dull and nominal: Western, 1)3 ',7) &44c. Barley dull; No. 2 Milwaukee. C20 71c Barley malt quiet. Corn Receipts. 112,375 bu; exports, 4,840 bn; sales, 315.000 bu futures. 30,000 bu spot. The spot market wan dull and weaker; No. 2, in elevator, 50Uo alloat; ungraded mixed, 405O4c; No. 3. 4Sc: steamer mixed. 4S40494c. Options declined ?s04c on weak cables, reacted Ibftht on coverings, and closed firm at 403sc nnder yesterday's; July, 49049c; February, S9V-; March. 4940490, closing at 4'.1ec: April, 4Uc; May, 4S40494c. closing at 4Vf04!Hc. Oats-Receipts, tfVJSO bu; exports. 325 bu: sales, 2,000 bu spot. The spot market was weaker. Options were dull and nominal; February, 35Sc; March, ZGr; May, 37c; spot No. 2 white. Sb4c; mixed Western. 50SC4e; white Western, 37242c; No. 2 Chicago. 3C08Gc. Hay quiet and weak; shipping, C5c; good to choice, 750'.K)c. Hops quiet and easy; State, common to choice, 20227c; Pacilio coast. 200264c Collee Options opened steady from 5 points down to 15 points np. and closed steady from 5 points up to 5 points down. Sales. 10.225 bags, including the following: February, 13013.15c: March. l2.7O012,rf'c; April. 12.40c; May, 12.10a 12.35c; June. 12.20c; July. 12c; September, 11.5Cc; spot Rio quiet and iirm; No. 7. 14c. Sugar Raw dull end steady; centrifnc.aU. 06 test. 3 7lCc; rehued quiet and steady. Molasses Foreign nominal; New Orleans dull nnd steady; common to lancy, 2b0Xc. Rice quiet; domestic, fair to extra. 40G4c: Japan. 4',.i0.Vfcc. Cotton-seed oil quiet and steady: crude, 250254c; yellow, iii0J94c. Tallow quiet and easy; city ((2 for packages), 4c. Rosin quiet aud steady; straiucd, common to good. $1.32401.374. Eggs steady aud quiet; Western, 21025c; receipts, 2,097 package. Pork in moderate demand and steady; mess, $10.75; extra prime. $9.50. Cut meats firm; pickled shoulders, 5c; pickled hams, Vc Middles quit and steadv: short clear, C40c. Lard lower and dull: Western steam closed at C774c: 1.00U tierces at CL77 4 0C874c: February. f.7ic. closing at f.75c: March, u.t4c: May, G.9JiC.95c, closing at j cvsc I Butter inactive, and firm; Western dairy.

lSS2Cc; Western creamery. 22032c; Western factory. 104021c; Elgin, iZc BALTIMORE, Jan. 30. Wheat quiet and lower: No. 2 red. spot and January, $l.tO:4 0LOu4; February, l.no40LOO W; March, i 1.0; May. $LO2h01.i)24; steamer. No. 2 red. useiaUe. Receipts. r.',50s bo; 6tock.G12.(i55 bu: ales.S0.0U0bu. Corn steady; mixed, spot and January, 4V 'a. 4U4c; February. 4401S14c; March, 4S401SUc; April, 45 c; May. 4S4c; steamer mixed. 4O404OH c Rereiuts. 'J-J0.O1 bu; shipments. 142,355 bu; stock. Srj3.V5C bn: sales. U7,0f bu. Oats quiet: No. 2" white Western. 3$4e: No. 2 mixed Western, 27c Receipts, 5,000 bu; fftock, 83,450 bu. Rye dull, barely steadv: No. 2, Wc Receipts, fi.3X bn; stock. t'J,Ws5 bu. Hay firm: good to choice timothy, $13,53215.50. Provisions qnict and steady. Butter very firm and unchanged. Eggs. 23 d 2ic. Co3ee lirm and quiet; Rio cargoes, fair. 20c: No.7. lie DETROIT, Jan. 3a Wheat-Cash. white. 924c; red. 02lie; January. WUc; May, tCc. Corn Cash. 404c Oats No. 2, cash. S2r; No. 2 white, 334c asked. Rye. S4c U ceipts Flour, tt-5 brls; wheat7,0O0 bu; corn.

LIVE STOCK. . , Cattle In Good luiaud at tTnchaoged Prices Hogs Weak and Lower. INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 30. Cattle Receipts, 250; shipments. 350. There were tut few fresh arrivals and the market continues about the name. Mockers and feeder wero in good demand. Fancy exports f 1.3334.75 ootl tocuoice shippers... .......... 34.10 Fair to medidin shippers 3.25 a .U55 Common ehlppers ".Maa.OO Feeders 95U to 1,150 lbs 3.25 3.75 fctockcr , WJ to bOO lbs 2.25 d 3.00 Good to choice hi.-lfers 3.0O33.5O Fair to medium heifers '2.40 32.75 Common, thin heifers l.S5aa.2a Good to choice cons 2.7333.25 Fair to medium cows 2.20 a 2.5 Common old cows 1.00 i 1.75 Veals, common to rood..... ........ 3.5035.00 Hulls, common to medium.......... 1.5032.00 Hulls, good to choice 2.25 33.00 Milkers, cemtnou to medium... .....10.iKi2f20.00 Milkers, good to choice 25.00335.00 Hogs Receipts, 4.CO0; shipments. 2.500. Quality only fair. The market opened slow and lower and closed weak. All sold. Ileavy ; $4.4534.62 Mixed. 4.3534.50 Light 4.254.50 Heavy ro'ugas. 3.504.oo . 3.5034.20 Sheep and Lambs Receipts. 100; shipments, 300. Supply light and prices higher on all cood grades. Good to choice sheep................ $4.7535.25 Fair to medium sheep 4.00 4.50 Common sheep 3.253 3.75 Good to choice lambs 5.25 8 6.00 Common to medium lambs 4. 00 3 5.00 Lucks, per Lead 3.503 5.0O Klsewnrr. BUFFALO, Jan. 3d. Cattle Receipts, 87 car-loads through and 1 car-load for sale. The market was steady and firm, with but few here Hogs Receipts, 30 car-loads through and C5 car-loads for sale. The market was steady for light grades; good heavy strong. Heavy grades, $4.b5'Sl.,JO; packers and inedinuis, S4.754.S0. bheep and Lambs Receipts, 4 car-loads through and 25 car-loads tor sale Tho mar&et was 10215o lower for lambs. Sheep barely steady. Sheep, extra fancy. $5.50 5.75; good to choice, $5.1025.40; lambs, good to extra natives, 3.5030.75; fair to good natives, $00.40. CHICAGO. Jan. 30. The Evening Jour'nal reports: Cattie Receipts, 1,500. Best grades steady. Others strong; natives. $2.10 '4.ST; storkers. $22.75; cows, $1.50a2.W)L Hogs Receipts, 22.000. The market was slow and lower. Rough and common. $3.m'S4.C5; mixed and packers, 4.10 d 4.45; prime heavy and butchers weights, 8L:-5tt4.&5; liffht. $4.20 4.51. Sheep Receipts, 1,000. The market was steady. No change from yesterday's quotaKANSAS CITY. Jan. CO. Cattle Receipts, 3,500; shipments. 2.10& Steers were dull aud 103 lower at &i .; cows steady at $L503.75; stockers and feeders quiet but steady at ?3.253.75. Hogs Receipts, 8,100; shipments. COO. The market opened dnlland 5 10c lower, but closed steady. All grades, $3.804.35; bulk, SU0S4.20. Sheep Receipts, 200; shipments, 100. The rncrket was steady and unchanged. FAST LIBERTY. Jan. :w.-Cattle Receipts, 1,113; shipments, 045. There was nothing doing, ail through consignments. No cattle were shipped to New York to-day. Hogs Receipts, 4.400; shipments, 4, sou. The market was firm. All grades. $U'0 a 4..S). Thirteen car-loads of hogs wero shipped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts, none; shipments. 200. Muttons were firm at yesterday 'a prices. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 30. Cattle Receipts. 500; shipments, 200. The market w&s steady at yesterday's prices. Hogs Receipts, 1.800; shipments, 2.0C0. The market 5210o lwer; fair to prime heavy, $4.35S5; mixed, ordinary to good, 53.804.40; light, fair to best. 4.25 4.40. Sheep Shipments, 100. The market was nominallv steady. CINCINNATI. Jan. SO. Hogs fn good demand and strong; common aud light $3.50 ttl.Vr, packing and butchers, $4.25'34.C5. Receipts, 1,UX; shipments. 1.300, Cattle steady. Receipts. 25; shipments, 120. Sheep firm. Receipts, 40; shipments. 220. Lambs ecarco and hrm; common to choice, SltfG. TUE FCECH SCHOOL-GIRL'S LIFE. She lias Fewer Vacations and Distraction' Than Her American Sitter. Tien etta Cuauning I'tns, In At'sutlc lluntbly. Before we consider the subjects studied in a French private school -there are two things to be borno in mind. First, tbe element of stability in s sohool-girl's life. She enters at tive years ot age, sometimes at lour, tbe school where she will remain till her education is finished. Her teachers know her from earliest childhood; they watch her character develop and her mind unfold. They under stand her capacities. Perhaps her mother has been trained in the same school before her, or she may have relatives auiong the nuns. At any rate she is their child: they know and love her, and they lay the foundations of her education well, for they are responsible for tbe whole structure. They- have the end in view from the beginning. They lead bcr up gradually from one thing to another. They calmly lay out for her courses of study embracing live, six, ten, and even twelve years. There is always plenty of time and no hurry. Thirds are taken qnietly and gone into deeply. The fcchool terms are longer and hchool life is less broken into by vacations than with us. The girls study more hours a week; nnd more weeks in tbe year than we do. School opens the last week in September, nod docs not close until the second weefc in August There are no spring cr winter vacations and no Saturday holidays. Six weeks in the late summer, a few days each. atNew Year and Faster, all Sundays and the principal church holidays, and usually a half holiday on Thursday are all tbe breaks mado in school life, which goes on almost uninterrupted in slow, healthful regularity lor ten mouths and a half out of the twelve. Another element in French school life is concentration. A girl s tune is Jess broken into by outside interests than with us. and there is less strain upon nerves and imagination. Not till her growth is attained, her school life over, and c?r mind nnd character are fairly formed is she allowed to read novels, to co to parties and dances, to attend the theater, or to indulge in any of tbe distractions aud dissipations so frequently permitted to growing school-girls in America. No matter how wealthy and aristocratic her parents she is inured to early hours, simple lood, pUin surroundings and regular occupations; and her dress is the Quiet dark uniform, without ribbon or ornament, which is customary in day schools as well as boarding schools. In my experience of private schools in both countries it ban seemed to me that the French girl is', more simple and achildlike. on uue hand, and more serious-minded, more capable of sustained work and thought, on tbe other, than tbe average American cirl.o? the same age. From tho fact of not having frivolous amusements and eutimental vagaries to disturb her mind and work on her nerves, and bring better disciplined from infancy to obedience, regularity and self-control, she throws her youthful energy and enthusiasm more wholly into the interests of ber school-work and ber family life; and. as a consequence, she is less nervous than her American sister, less subject to backaches and headaches, works with less fatigue, la more o -tlre and merry at play, more simple in ber tastes, more tasily amused nnd eontented with everyday life and labors, and. perhaps, more frank." loyal aud allectionate in her family relations aud shool friendships.