Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — Page 7

A LITTLE RIM OF BTEEL.

(All There Is Between a Railroad Passenger and JEterntty. if '+ ~ Tsnsss City Star. I “i’ll tell you what it is," remarked ; j#B old railroad man to-day. * ‘it used to jbe that they couldn’t turn a wheel any too fast for me, bul it’s different now. The way these fellows run nowadays 'makes my hair stand on end. We ;used to think that twenty-five orthirtv •miles an hour was fast running. People were just as well satisfied, if not 'more so, than now, and there weren’t so many accidents. Those days when Jiman got on the ground there was some chance of his getting away alive, but when you touch ground on one of these fast trains now you’re mighty liable to stay there. People are getting to look on a mile a minute as a ieommon thing, afid are just howling fmad at a road that doesn’t make it. (They never Btop to think of the dnniger. All they think about is getting to their destination, “Why, when I stop and think of •being whirled across the country fifty ior sixty miles an hour, down hills and. mround curves, with only an inch and a half of iron between me and eternity, jl get sb scared I swear never to get on •a coach again. W'hat do I mean by an •inch and a half of iron? Well, you •know what a passenger coach is, don’t you? You know how they are built. A coach is a pretty solid thing nowadays, and to look at one a person would think they were pretty safe, but that’s because you don’t know anything about it. The coach itself is allright as far as it goes, but it’s the wheels. Did you ever look at the wheels? Ilf you did you may have noticed how ■they’re made. A. good size, and ibroad enough and heavy enough, and with a tire of the finest kind of steel. •But on the inside of the tire you see a sort of rim or flange. That flange is about an inch and a half thick and about the same depth. It doesn’t look •as if it amounted to much, that little piece of steel, but that’s just what the |lives of all the passengers depend upion. That flange keeps the wheel to tthe rail and keeps the coach from running of the track. r “Well, now, when the train is going •fifty miles an hour around a curve you Beehow much depends upon that flange. The whole weight and speed of the train are against that flange on one wide, the outside curve, and it is all 'that keeps the coach from whirling •from the track. Suppose the flange broke, or as is often the case, was worn down and been missed by the car inspector. The chances are ten to one that the flange couldn’t hold, but would climb the rail and there’d be another accident. The reporters •would be told the rails spread or something of that kind, and no one but the •company would know what caused the .accident. “There are a good many accidents that happen that way, but it doesn’t •appear to be any of the public’s business. As a general rule a coach wheel is watched mighty closely, and the minute a flange begins to wear •new ones are put on, but many a time an inspector will miss a wheel, and then the chances are big that there’ll be an accident. ’’

Hilton Has a Defender.

Col. Tom Ochiltree says that, next to John W. Mackey; Judge Henry Hilton is the best rich man ho knows. “Those snobs down at Newport,” Col. Ochiltree 6ays, “build walls around them. They shut everybody out who doesn’t belong to their set. Here is Hilton, living like a gentleman in his magnificent park. The gates are open, and every body in Saratoga is .free to ride or walk through Wood Lawn. You can tell something of a iman by his home life. Judge Hilton has built his home in the midst of his park, and close around him are grouped the houses of his two married daughters and of his two sons,one married, the other a bachelor. In the Judge’s house is the finest private diningroom on the American continent That single apartment represents an outlay of $150,000. The walls are paneled and hung with the finest tapestries. In that dining room Judge Hilton delights to gather about him at every meal his sons and daughters and their children. If you had seen him as I nave with that family group of sixteen about him you would say he could not be a bad man. ( He lives like a gentleman. His cellars contain the finest wines in the country. He has been thirty years adding to

the contents of his cellars. But he isn’t a snob and he [isn’t selfish. His action in throwing open his private park to everybody is characteristic of hftp. Down in New York City people Mine to me to help them out in all of charitable schemes. I have been to Judge Hilton fifty times with appeals of all kinds, and he has never failed to respond, and liberally, too. ! When the newspaper people were getting up a benefit entertainment to endow a bed in the hospital Judge Hilton came forward and put down 1 SSOO for a box.” j “Who are the Stewart heirs?’’ asked Col. Ochiltree. W'ithout waiting for a reply he continued: “Do you suppose they would have mado such good use of the Stewart] millions as Hilton has? Don’t you suppose that Mr. a: d Mrs. StewaH knew their own relatives better than other people did? Don’t you think that they intsnded Hilton should have the money? Of course they did. If it hadn’t been for Judge Hilton Stewart would have been selling tape and thread when he died. Hilton gave up his seat on the bench and devoted himself for thirty years, j His mind conceived the gigantic enterprise which resulted in the building up' of this collossal fortune. He suggested the ideas. Stewart carried out the) details. Hilton made Stewart the. wealthy man be was. He is entitled morally to every dollar he has got’’

“Does he mind the attacks that have been made of him?” repeated the Colondl. “Not a bit. Why should he? He is right. He has the respect and support'of his friends. Such attacks do him no harm wit)?; those who know the facts. He Is toe good a philosopher t? be troubled by such things.”

WHAT BACTERIA LOOK LIKE.

Million* of the Infinitesimal Organ* isms Massed Together. St, Louis Republic. In this age of wonderful discoveries, when every day adds a score or more new “isms,” “obes” and “erias” to o ur language; when every breath of air contains millions of microbes, and every bite of meat a whole menagerie of microscopic monstrosities. It will be interesting to know exactly what “bacteria” are, how they multiply, and what they look like. Fred I). Chester give; the following interesting account: ■ - The greater majority of these microscopic plants are what the botanists call “bacteria,” the smallest form of* vegetable life. So small are they that it would take, in some cases, as many as 15,000 of them arranged in a row to extend one inch. They have different forms, some being round, some oval, some rod-shaped, while others are much the shape of a corkscrew, in all cases they are so small that one needs a powerful microscope to examine them, and in no c.ise can we perceive them singly with the naked eye. When countless millions of them are grouped together in a mass, or colony, we can see them about as we are able to see an approaching army, of which we are unable to distinguish a single soldier. I have said that these bacteria move about; and this is true of most of them, although there are some which do not appear to move at all, but remain fixed wherever they find a good feeding place. Those that have motion behave in a very peculiar manner; some wobble about in one place without moving forward in the least, others dart hither and thither, back and forth, at an apparently furious rate rocking and twirling as they move along. Bacteria multiply very rapidly, and they do this in a very curious way. A single one breaks itself in two; and then each half grows very rapidly until it becomes as large as the original. Then these in turn divide up again, and so on, until from a single one we have many thousands in a very short time. To give you the figures, such as they are, a single one can multiply at so enormous a rate that in forty-eight hours it can produce something like 280,000,000 of its species. Great consequences follow this enormous increase of bacteria, for, while one, so small of itself, can do but little harm, the army resulting from such rapid multiplication makes it possible for them to accomplish a vast amount of damage.

Life in Oklahoma.

A recent issue of the Champion City Boomer thus mirrors life in Oklahoma: , y • v . y “There was a little lively sport at the running out of a claim jumper, Tuesday. He showed fight and the boys went farther than was first intended, and tarred and feathered him. We learn that next day he was shot by a near-sighted sportsman, who mistook him for an ostrich. “There was an exciting time at the Dewdrop Music Hall, Wednesday night. A party from Texas objected to the way the farce ended and went up on the stage to set it straight. Two minutes later he came out through a hole of his own making in the drop--curtain and lit head first in the bass drum, ruining the latter. The Texan’s neck was broken. “We are no rabbit. The lily-Uy-ered coyote who perpetrates the Pioneer sneaked into our sanctum,Thursday, with a club, and tried to make us, apologize for stigmatizing him as a hyena. For particulars of our denunciation of this whelp, see last issue of this paper. Although he climbed on our back before we were aware of his presence we were too many for the reptile, and soon had his alleged head in the ink keg and were dancing a breakdown on his neck. Next time, if he recovers, we will tear him to pieces. We are no rabbit. Now is the time to subscribe. V

The New Giffard Gun.

It is reported that the Colts, of Hartford, have bought the American rights to the Giffard gun patents for | $1,000,000. The gun is simply A small tube of toughest steel, only nine inches in length, ehatged with liquefied carbonic acid gas, which is one of the most powerful explosives known. *lt is fixed to the barrel of the rifle in such a way that when thd trigger is pulled a drop of the liquefied gas is forced into the breech of the gun behind the bullet, where, instantaneously resuming a gaseous condition, it develops a force equal to 500 pounds pressure oa the square inch. The bullet iu then expelled at any degree of velocity dosired, for the power can be increased or diminish" Iby a simple turn of tlio the screw. T io.e is no txplos on; no smoke, no noise, no recoil, no smell, no heat. A slight fizz, like the so mil of a soda fountain, is the only sound It sends the bullet an immense distance, isnot affcoted by heat or-dam;', and is so cheap that 125 bullets c m be fired at the cost of a cent. .

Youthful Logic.

Ma, said a littlo girl, if you was in some countries you’d be i a duchess. Wouldn’t you? .No, dear; why would l 9 Oh, 1 donao, only, pa’s a Dutchman, Isn’t he?

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

An low* woman has named her twin daughters Gasoline and Kerosene. Edwin Booth has earned a quarter of a million during the past three years. There are 82,390 tenements in New York, not counting the better class of flats. Miss Nellie Bly has been presented with a Jersey cow by a Tennessee friend., i : A new-elected school teacher at Berneville. Pa., is but thirteen years of age. Baron Albert Rothschild, of Vienna, is an enthusiastic amateur photographer. The Bismarck monument fund amounted to $190,000 at the end of September. ! Bears and deer are more numerous in Dismal Swamp of Virginia than for many years. A corn stalk at Dyersburg, Miss., bears an oar thirty-six inches long, weighing fourteen pounds. Rubenstein’a musical education was completed at thirteen years of age. After that time he had no teacher, i Berlin drank in 1889, 268,247,100 quarts of beer—that is, about 150 quarts to every man, woman, and child. From noon till 4 o’olook every day P. T. Barnum tdkes a nap. and during those hours no one is allowed to disturb him. The season’s sensation at Cadillac, Mioh., is a Seventy-five pound squash. Last year it had a horse which climbed up stairs each morning and kissed the chambermaid.

Continuous heavy rains have greatly injured the rice crop on the Savannah River. One planter who expeoted to clear SIB,OOO on his harvest now says he will be satisfied if he pays expenses. Mrs. Kate Williams, of Denver, ColQ., has obtained a verdict of $12,000 against Mrs. E. S. Williams, of Brooklyn, her mother-in-law, whom she claims was the cause of her husband leaving her. Susan La Flesh, an Indian girl, who graduated in medicine from one of the colleges of Philadelphia after going through the Hampton (Va.) school, is practicing among her tribe, the Omahas, with success. Miss Emma S. Trapper has made an investigation and found that out of fifty New York hotels visited, in eighteen of them female servants were required to Sleep in rooms under the ground. In one hotel the ceiling of the sleeping room was four feet below the sidewalk. Miss Flora Grace, of lowa, is the inventor of a cooking thermometer, which, instead of registering “summer heat,” “blood heat” and “freezing point,” marks the boiling point, the gently simmering altitude, and the vary ing baking points for meats, bread, cake and pies. When some boys and a dog were chasing a pet rabbit, at Rich Hill, Mo., it took shelter under a hen with a brood of chickens. The old hen nearly picked and scratched the eyes out of the dog and kids, and from that day to this the hen and the rabbit are inseparable.—Kansas City Star. At the public land sale at the State House in Augusta, Me., on Wednesday, not a single person appeared to bid. By telegraph and letter, however, five bids were received and twenty lots Were sold. This absence of bidders in person rendered the sale the most novel in the annals of the State. “I don’t see why I can’t keep my husband at home.” said a distressed looking little woman. “Why don't you try to make home attractive to himP” “I have. I’ve taken up the parlor carpet, sprinkled saw-dust on the floor, and put a beer keg in the room, but some way or other it doesn’t seem to make any difference. ”•—Wash-

ington Post. While the annual banquet of the Electric Club was in progress in their New York club house on Thursday svening a band in the offices of the Long Distance Telephone Company, two miles away, played for the entertainment of the assemblage. The music was transmitted by a curious contrivance, the transmitter of which was concealed in the chandelier above the table in the Electric Club. This problem is puzzling thousands to-day. as the old 15 puzzle did. Add any six of these figures together and make 21: 1 1 1 3 8 8 6 5 6 7 7 7 9 9 9 As a fact, a solution is impossible. Any two odd numbers added together make an even number, and six odd lumbers are merely three sets of twos. In other words, one odd number added to a second odd number makesan even, a third odd added makes aa odd; a fourth odd added makes an even; a fifth odd added makes an odd, and a sixth odd added makes an even. Therefore, neither 21 nor any other odd number can be obtained by adding together six odd numbers. j Four years ago Miss Lena Woodard, living on Thorn Creek, near St. John, Washington, sowed the seed from one head of barley. She harvested the crop with a pair of shearß, and sowed the amount received the next year, again harvesting it with her shears. The third crop her father cut with a grass scythe, getting enough barley from this crop to sow f orty acres last spring, which averaged forty bushels to the acre when threshed, making a total yield of 1,600 bushels from ©he head of barley in four years.

Progress In Sciece.

The largest gold mine in the world is said to be in Alaska. It is lighted

by electricity and is run day and night. Utilizing scrap steel rod by welding it and drawing it into fence wire is one of the recen successes of electric welding. The high-explosive carbonic has recently given very satisfactory results, and it has been proved that it is a staple compound that can be stored for a length of time without deterioration. • From geological observation on the Alps vegetation on the higher portions seems to be retreating, and the poplars that at one time adorned the crest of the hill are now nearly all dead. A gold medal has been offered by the Dutch Academy oi Sciences in Haarlenrfor the best work of microscopic investigation of the mode in which different parts of plants can unite with one another and the phenomena which accompany healing after grafting. The accumulation of explosive gases in a room, mine, or ship’s hold, can now be asertained by means of an indicator. It consists of a porous cylinder closed by a’ thin metal membrane, and the penetrating gases raise the membrane, close a circuit an give alarm. Experiments are being conducted in the English channel near Folkestone for the purpose of Resting the geological structure of that portion of the sea bed upon which it is proposed to construct a bridge across the Strait of Dover. Thus far the sea bottom has been found very solid and suitable for the proposed structure.

CONDIMENTS.

Edith: “It’B the little things that tell inthis life.” Alicer “Well, you’d think so if you had two small brothers, as I have.” The following conversation took place in an office: ,l Did you ever realize anything in the lotteries?” “Yes, sir; I tried five times and realized that I was an idiot.” TT There has been a tide in the affairs of many a young lady which rolled by and left her on the shore because she said “No” when she meant “Yes.” The reason things go wrong so often in this world is because men won’t take women’s advice.—H-you don’t believe this at first, just go and ask the women. “To spend life at your side, Miss Elsie, I would give up everything—parents, title, property.” “But, my dear sir, if you sacrifice all those, what will be left for me?” When it comes to saving dollars a man is more of a genius than a woman, but when it comes to saving pennies a woman will save a dollar before a man has saved fifty cents. “Did you make much on your last stock deal?” “No; lost $700.” “But I thought that Mac Dollars gave you a pointer.” “He did; but it proved to be a disappointer.” “Well, I must go now,” said Chollib. “What’s your hurry?” asked Ethel. “It’s five minutes of 12, and my motto in life is ‘Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. ” To induce country custom an enterprising Chicago man has issued the following advertisement: “If your lungs are too weak to blow out. the gas please use hand bellows, which you will find In the washstand drawer.” “So you've got married, old man. while I have been away?” “Yes.” “Well, I oohgratulate you on having shaven off that she-dragon of a housekeeper of yours at last.” “Oh. don’t make any mistake, my dear boy; she's the woman I have married.”

A new game among amateur photographers is called “the guessing bee.” Tbe photographers take a lob of pictures and he who succeeds in guessing what they are supposed to represent is rewarded by not having any of them presented to him. Mr. Justice Norris, in the Calcutta High Court, reoently delivered what is understood to be the shortest summingup on record. It was as follows! “Gentlemen of the jury, the prisoner has nothing to say, and I have nothing to say; what have you got to say?” 1 Husband (newly married): “Don’t you think, love, if I were to smoke it would spoil the cut tains?” Wife: “Ah! you are really the most unselfish and thoughtful husband to be found anywhere;'certainly it would.” Husband: “Well, then, take the curtains down.” This world is like a crowded bus A few good men perhaps Hay find a seat, but most of us Must hang on by the straps. 1 - —Chicago Journal. Lot us then be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing. Catching fish or cutting bait. —Harrisburg Telegram. ■> THE JURY. We daze them by quibbles. Confuse them with riddles, And tell the truth—by llttles; But back their sense dribbles, When in their poor middles They fesl the need of “Tittles." A recent article in Brad street’s gives some surprising statistics of the commerce of the great lakes. During 284 days of navigation last year tonnage passed through the Detroit river to the amount of 10,000,000 tons more than the entries and clearances of all thff seaports in Unjtod States, and 8,000,000 tons more combined foreign and coastwise shipping of Liverpool and London. This does ndt irfclude traffic between Lakes Superior and Michigan or Lakes Erie and 00. tario. or local traffic between .ports on these lakes. The growth of shipbuilding on the lakes has been very marked in the last few years. In 1886-7 there were thirty-one boats built, valued at $4,Q74,000, and in 1889-90 there were fifty-sfet built, valued at $7,866,000, the tendency being, as elsewhere, toward iron and steel for large ships.

THE OFFICIAL VOTE.

Indian* Gives the Democrats aPi ttralit* Exceeding 20,000. The official vote for Secretary of State at the recent election, by counties, is ac follows:

' . ~*ir Z ~ ‘ T; ■ COUNTIES. sj II || || a_ £ «_ * Adams ••••••••• •••• ......... 2544 9431 106 108 Alien 7561 3479 201 737 Bartho’omew 2895 2190 77 jj 8ent0n...... ...1201 1425 75 24 Blackford Boone 2063 2957 *5 211 Drown.l32l 522 54 43 Carroll.... .. 5366 2256 H 3 50 Cass „ 8759 3230 315 56 Clark. ...' 3893 24>5 90 37 C1ay...,. 3360 2622 165 64 Clinton 3030 30371 198 81 Crawford 1477 1086 19 166 Davit ss 1791 1895 22 1541 Dearborn 2976 2093 69 65 Decatur. jgßo 2395 150 i 6 DeKalb 2916 25-9 "216 80 Delaware 2167 3561 194 306 Dubois 2398 689 22 490 Elkhart - 4033 4121 339 58 Fayette. ... ; 1390 1608 74 <55 F10yd.....: ..................... t 266 2339 76 Fountain j 2230 2091 47 j;5 Franklin..., ! 26,9 1403 66 20 Fulton... .. ...| 2155 1944 19 Gibson .... T97S 2126 253 70a Grant. *467 3521 593 &61 Greene *433 2567 69 202 Ham lton 2292 3173 342 79 Hancock *241 1663 97 69 Harrison. . 2286 16?6 87 172 Hendricks 1931 2760 217 f 8 Henry... „• I»«9 2997 283 763 Howard 2-230 3079 802 m Huntington., ............. 8261 2996 264 98 jack50n............... 254 1951 23 51 Jasper 843 1188 74 223 Jay 2j45 2364 220 193 Jefferson 234 2871 55 63 Jennings i 486 1731 f 9 102 Johnson 219 J 1874 155 143 Knox 2891 2109 s*B 429 Kosciusko 2900 3556 *ls 24 Lagrange.... 1835 1777 - —95 60 Lake— 199 j 1989 102 <6 LaPorte 4023 2813 105 36 LawTenC%..».. 1378 1866 1* 397 Madison 4024 3514 259 226 Marion 17434 14865 578| 185 Marshall 7861 2277 99 95 Martin .. 1266 1013 11 421 Miami 3/15 2578 222 56 Monroe 1657 1639 87 258 Montgomery 3j9i 8371 131 06 Morgan 1988 2126 66 50 Newton.. , 761 1015 76 50 Noble.. 2734 2547 169 88 Ohio 56; 649 4 8 Orange 1334 1350 19 4 Owen ......... 1761 1377 69 Ja3 Parke 2058 2272 215 92 Perry . 1939 1693 W 87 Pike ... • •«•«*« •.i . . ...... ••. * ••*} 1614 1661 74 416 Portgr..-. S ItUMUIMUtH*, ... 1744 1839 L 1591 86 Posey *262 1241 £2 823 Pulaski 1321 080 55 48 Putnam ... 2733 213.’ 124 81 Randolph 2033 3868 214 233 Ripley 2143 2188 39 48 Rush 2183 2275 156 37 Scott 943 640 39 15 Shelby 5095 2224 225 63 Spencer 2256 1856 31 451 Starke 893 690 28 23 St. Joseph 5089 426« 235 29 Steuben 1106 1896 134 211 Sullivan 2909 1595 42 85 Switzerland 1577 1449 12 56 Tippecanoe 8628 4Q46 167 6 Tirnon.- 2150 1654 109 184 Union 782 913 58 9 Vanderburg 5258 4t93 116 110 Vermillion 1466 1464 51 42 Vigo {556 4964 299 271 Wabash ... 2333 3192 266 223 Warren 904 1567 68 ;9 Warrick 204 i 1327 82 798 Washington 2125 1525 19 67 Wayne 3155 4810 312 123 Wells 2494 1215 182 C 67 White .. 1754 1644 101 93 Whitley 2190 1784 1681 29

TOTALS. Democratic....233,Bßl I Prohibition... 12,1,06 Republican....2l4, Bo2 | People’s 17,864 Matthews’ plurality, 19,579. OTHER PLURALITIES. Henderson, Auditor 20,610 Gall, Treasurer . 16,501 Mitchell, Judge.... 21,252 Smith, Attorney General 20,026 Sweeney, Clerk Supreme Court..... 20,539 Vories, Supt. Pub. Instruction 19,814 Gorby, Geologist 14,618 THE CONGRESSIONAL VOTE. FIRST DISTRICT. Parrot, D 17,730 Wright, R 16,875 Land, Pro 573 Plurality 855; majority 283. ‘second district. Bretz, D 14,697 Darnell, R....... 11,9% Fox, Pro 369 Cox, Peo 649 Plurality 2701, majority 2317. THIRD DISTRICT. Brown, D 16,369 Durham, R , 13,429 Poindexter, Pro 319 Plurality 3940, majority 3621. FOURTH DISTRICT. Holman, D 15,639 Rankin, R 18,899 Wright, Pro 3:4 Plurality 1750, Majority 1390. FIFTH DISTRICT. Cooper, D 17,070 Dunbar, R 14,375 Shelt, Pro 711 Plurality 2695, majority 1984. SIXTH DISTRICT, Trowbridge, D . 13,137 Johnson, R 19,386 Edgarten, Pro . i,i7B Plurality 6249, majority 5070. seventh district. Bynum, D 27,399 Billingsley, R 22,086 Culbertson, Pro. 1,076 Plurality 5313, Majority 4237. eight district. Brookshire, D..... 21,401 Mount, R 18,333 Askley, Pro 64 > Gurry, Peo r. , 176 Plurality 3068, majority 2246. NINTH DISTRICT. Templeton, D 19^192 Waugh, R....: 22,754 Hanson, Pro 1,130 —- Plurality 1558, majority 498. —; ~ TENTH DISTRICT, I Patton, D 17,262 Owen, R .....„„.16,100 Adams, Pro ; 1 955. Mllroy, Peo j »i Plurality 1162, majority 176. ELEVENTH DISTRICT, A Martin, D .....20,813 Bryant, R 19,000 Dickey, Pro 1 627 Plurality 1813, majority 180, TWELFTH DISTRICT. McClellan, D 17,970 Babcock, R 13,920 Hubbard, Pro. t 39 Plurality 4050, majority 8111. THIRTEENTH DISTRICT. Shively, D... . 20,318 Wilson, R 17,614 Claidr, Pro 345 Maughemar, Peo 16J - Plurality 2701, majority, 1693, Evidence has been secured of a conspiracy between Hocking Valley Railroad employes and ticket brokers, by which the company was cheated out of thousands of dollars, Whole blocks of forged ticket* and passes have been discovered-^

BOODLE IN THE STREET.

A Chicago Bank Meuangtru Baltovad *4 % Large Sam Myitcrloaslyi A* Messenger Austin, of the PnlpU State Natonal Bank, of Chicago, was returning from the postoffice, on the 15th, he discovered that a satchel containing sev oral thousand dollars in currency sad clearing house checks for $87,000 had mysteriously disappeared from the buggy. The sachet was lost between the postoflee and the bank. Messenger Austin became frantic, and rushing into the hank told the officials of his loss. The officials were im mediately notified, and soon a dozen officers were out searching ! for the missing sachel. The messenger and an official of the bank jumped into the buggy and traversed the route that bad been taken from the postoffice, but without finding the missing sachel. A little boy who runs errands for a tailor found the satchel two minutes after it had fallen out of the' bag , gy. He shouted to the driver to stop, but his cries were not heard.' The boy oarried the satchel to his employer’s shop where it was opened. When the tailor saw the rolls of greenbacks he nearly fainted. From' the papers in the valise the tailor discovered its owner’s name. He put on his. coat and hat and hastened to the bank. When he walked into the bank with the satchel in hand the clerks rushed at him: as though he were a long-lost brother.’ There was rejoicing all around and the tiilor was awarded handsomely for his honesty. The lad who found the satchel was not forgotten by the bank people ’ The above is the story as told by George Van Zandt,vice president of th*- bank. At other sources it was said that instead of the money being lost from the buggy it was stolen. The vice president stated em« phatically that it was not a theft. His rc fusal to give the name of the boy who found the sachel and his employers lends credence to the report that it was a robbery.

WASHINGTON.

Shortly after Christmas, Minister Lincoln will sailfor Europe, to resume his duties in England as the representative of this country. In response to the inquiries made by Postmaster General Wanamaker, unde the date of October 0,1890, as to whe the advertisements in newspapers of the “guessing contest” in its various phases are in violation of section 3984 of Revised Statutes, as amended by the anti-lottery act of September 19, 1890, Attorney Gen eral Miller has submitted his opinion, in which he holds in the negative. * The Secretary of War has submitted his! annual report to the President, in which he says that the number of court-martials for the year has been 1,783, or 311 less than last year. In regard to coast defense he urges the appropriation of $8 OXI,OOO qc $10,000,000 annually, which appropriations will, he thinks, in ten years, render the principal harbors of the nation reasonably secure. Desertions have been reduced 34 per cent., there being 2,086 last year. He says the recently enacted law npon this subject was passed too late to have had much effect up te the date. This law permits a man to purchase his discharge after a year’s service for a sum sufficient to reimburse the government for its expense in recruiting a new man, or, at the end of three years, he Is entitled to free discharge.' He suggests that every enlisted man should, under fixed rules, he allowed to compete Tor a commission, rather than upon recommendation of a company commander. In discusing retirement of officers he says it should be carefully limited into some proper way. The privilege of retiring an unlimited number of superanuated officers, while the number of those retired of neces-. sity if limited to 400, is an unjust one, and it should, be amended rather to favor the latter class. During the year the department expended $17,8 57,756, and $62,799,095 is appropriated for the present year.

I LLINOIS POLITICS.

It Will be a Fight to the Finish in the Hew Legislature. The politicians have settled down to a fight to the finish for supremacy ia the Illinois Legislature. It is to begin with applications for injunctions to prevent the Returning Board from certifying elections to the Governor, and will be followed by proceedings in quo warranto to keep Rep-resentatlves-elect from exercising the duties of legislation. Then the cases will be taken to the House in an effort to unseat those who are claimed to be ineligible. Two cases of this kind have, already been unearthed. The Democrats will make a fight against the seating of Collins, of Rook Island, and the Repub licans against the seating of Geber, of Peoria; Gustave Csrtrlght, wife and child lived in acabiu six miles from Rookford, S. D. f where he .worked a placer claim. The family had recently got a Newfoundland dog, of which they thought a great deal. While the husband was working the claim the wife had occasion to punish the dog for something, and immediately thereafter went down to the spring, which was about one hundred feet in the rear of the" houseShe left the baby and dog in front of the house. On her return she discovered tha* the dog had attacked the child, and had literally eaten off its head. The mother gave one piercing shriek and fell senseless to thj ground. The cry was heard by the husband, who hastened to the cabin, and seising an ax killed the dog on the spot. The mother is reported to obe a raving maniac.

Running roses must be tied op to the supports as fast as they send out shoots. They do not oiimb. but must be fastened in place. Clover hay can be used to advantage as summer feed if, the crop is large. Hay Bhould not be sold but fed oa tbe farm. 1 .. *•