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I e MR. WILSON ACCEPTS. Practical Farmer of lowa Chosen for Secretary of Agriculture. Congressman James Wilson of lowa will be Secretary of Agriculture in President McKinley's cabinet, he having announced his acceptance of the portfolio. James Wilson was born Aug. 16, 1835, in Ayrshire, Scotland, of parents belonging to the farming class. His parents fmmigrated to Connecticut in tha spring of 1852 and began farming in the vicinity of Norwich. They went to lowa in the fall of 1856, buying government land in Tama County. James is the oldest of a family of fourteen children—seven boys and m, John Wilson, s ’ N began at an early e vaowous—rol the Bastern mar--0 ;7_” o~ ’;’\\ A S » - ‘\ i W=7 g [ W \\‘:'\ NS, /l",".{f. e e S g LP & N /{r"= ?r IE, ‘:'Ji'l"[{" i ““}i &k g "n : ’/;’.f’g, 1 W G ¢ Sy EEI ] WST Al . \\\* N RSN i L \\\\\\\\\_\\\}\‘ﬁ\\'u’_ )’ ‘,\'\ " "“’, . ‘:7‘7!!' “,j RN W 5\,&/ )74 i \N\ N \‘»‘ Y/] ﬂf,,‘/; SRR \\‘"\"\\%\\\\M‘» L gm )AN 7 \& -y \N\ : A A S et ey (4 \\\ 'M \% S ‘>\-{f/ /\ 3 d //\\{ g/ § A\ /1) o 2 l/17 JAMES WILSON. ket. The family pursued diversified farming, having the dairy feature prominent from the beginning, as well as that of meat making. James was sent to the Xllth General Assembly 10 get the stock acts enacted, changing the custom permitting stock to run at large. He was re-elected to the Xlllth and XlVth General Assemblies, being speaker of the House in the last Assembly in which he served. The code of 1873 was enacted while he presided, HHe was elected to the XLIIId Congress during his last term in the House and was reslected to the XLIVth Congress. He retired at the end of his second term to his farm, when he was appointed by Gov. Sherman a member of the Railway Commission. After serving one year he 11’signed to take his seat in the XL VIIIth Congress. At the end of this Congress he again retired to his farm, when several editors of county papers arranged with him to write weekly letters for their papers, which he has continued to do until the present time. In 1891 he was elected director of the lowa station and professor of agriculture by the trustees of the lowa Agricultaral College, a position he has held up to the present time. FARM ANIMAL FIGURES. Hogs Show Increase in Spite of Serious Losses by Cholera. The Orange Judd Farmer Says: 1y spite of serious loss from cholera and oth er forms of sickness in Indiana and part: of Nebraska, and the most severe los ever known in lowa, the total number o hogs, estimated at 47,546,000, shows a: increase over last year of 3 per cent Cheap corn and a better profit in market ing it on the hoof rather than in the meas ure induced more general breeding thaj usual. The increase in” numbers in 1l nois, Missouri, IKXansas and Nebraska ex coeds the loss in Towa. To prevent mis apprehension of the market situation, ] might be said that an expectation of ma keting up to July 1 about equal to las year would not seem unreasonable. Shee ghow a decline in numbers of about 4 pe cent, but the slaughter of flocks has no ceased and a period of rapidly increasin aumbers is now at hand. The demand so ewes for flock foundation has already ad ed 20 per cent to the value of all sheep i the country. The total number is estima

State Funds Snow-Bound. One of the most remarkable episodes in connection with the blizzard in South ' Dakota was the blockading of the train - containing about $200,000 of the State 7y funds. Having lost a large amount /I through the peculations of State TreasJ urer Taylor, now in the penitentiary, the /il Governor and Legislature determined that g’/ if the State treasure was not now intact Z’,{thoy would know the reason why. Ac- ¥ cordingly the treasurer was compelled to have all the funds deposited in banks J¢ throughout the State brought to the capi;l tol. This was done and every dollar / counted by State officials. While trans/ﬁ porting the money back to the banks the / train containing the largest amount got /[/ hopelessly stuck in snow banks from five ’ to twenty feet high, and there it was, # guarded by State militia, until by the aid / of snow plo‘ws it was enabled to proceed. i Firemen Frozen to the Ground. 4 Two Chicago firemen fighting the flames which consumed $500,000 worth of prop- © erty on lifth avenue, found themselves frozen to the street when they attempted to move. With difficulty they made known their predicament to their fellows, and it | - was only after several minutes’ work with | J axes that they were chopped out and re- | leased % i - Wanders for Days with Frozen Feet. | After wandering with both feet frozen ‘ for six days, Thomas Burke, a South Da- | kota farm laborer, applied at the police Z station at Sioux Falls for heip. Burke | was out of work and was tramping the | country in search of a situation. He was |

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ed at 31,455,000, with an average value of $1.95 per head. Horses reach a total of ' 1 15,623,000, a decline of 1.0 per cent; mileh cows, 18,113,000, an increase of 2 per | cent; other cattle, 32,647,000, practically | an unchanged number.” PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. Shows Increase for January of Over Fourteen Millions of Dollars, The statement of the public debt shows the debt, less cash in the treasury on Jau, 31, to have been $1,007,008317, an increase for the month of $14.078,735. This !invrvnsv is accounted for by a decrcase lof nearly 813,000,000 in the eash on hand. | The decrease in the cash is the result of - | the redemption of $U,086.000 in matured . | Pacifie railroad bonds, which will be held | as a debt against the company, and the ! interest payments for the month, which amounted to $6,764,036, The debt proper, independent of the cash on hand, was increased during the month by $2,120,774, which is chargeable to the increase in the amount of national bank notes outstanding. The comparative statement of the tiovernment receipts and expenditures shows the total receipts during January to have been $24.316,9904 and the expenditures $30,269.380. This leaves a deficit fur the month of $5.952,395, and for the seven months of the present fiscal year a deficit of $43,854,792, The deficit for the % same seven moiths of last vear was ¥IIN,- . 686,377, The receipts from customs durlin_'.' the last month amounted to $11.276, lh‘T-i. a falling off of over $5.100,000 as i compared with January, 1886, There was also a slight falling off in the receipts from internal revenue. WHEAT ALL OVER THE WORLD. Grain Is Always Beinz Harvestod in some Part of the Globe. { The wheat ecrop is always being har-g\‘t‘-stw] somewhere, Just now, while the | American farmer is not thinking of wheat, | the crop of Australia, Chili and the Ar | gentine Republic is being put on the mar- | ket. In February and March the fields 'Enf upper Egypt and those of India are ;gh;n‘vn-s!wl. That of lower Egypt, which

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S~ TNP U e OSRIS ST ss T n | is irrigated by the overflowing of the Niie, i- |is harvested in April, while Syria, CypX- | rug, Persia and Asia Minor also gather 8- | crops during that month. Cuba’s wheat it | will also be gathered in April. r- Texas is the first of our States to send st | wheat to the market. This it does during p | May, at the same time that the fields of or | Algeria, central Asia, China, Japan and w | Morocco are making their yvields. In June 1g | those of California, Oregon, Mississippi, or | Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tend- | nessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Axin | kansas, Utah, Coloerado, Missouri, Tuzt- | key, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and

_o -e S g ) — T — S i — S—caught in the blizzard and froze both feet up to the ankles. e begged at a dozen houses to be_taken in long enough to thaw them out, but was everywhere refused and finally remained out of doors, almost without food and with his feet frozen until he reached Sioux Falls and asked the chief of police for help. The skin of his feet had turned black and his vitalI | em—b~ =2 |MERCURY ) | [quing ve .—'ﬁ / N ﬁ , ‘l,/ gn I N — i ity was so low that the surgeon f«‘ar(-\l: amputation of the limbs would kill him. | Burke was removed to the hospital, where | it is expected he will die. % Sleighing Under Difficultics. | A number of North Minneapolis young | people had a chilly experience that cold | Monday night, the remembrance of which | will make them shiver when they are | gray-haired. The sophomores and senjors | -»

e s the south of I'rance are harvested. July | 'sees the crops in the other Ameriean States and all except the northernmost part of BEurope harvested. Rusgig then begins to gather her grain, mo ".\eing harvested in August, when Mapitoba, i lower Canada, North Dakots dfid the | northernmost countries of Europgiare the | | scenes of the harvest. Sweden, Worway : {and porthern Russia are the onllf wheat | fields covered with the golden Sin iﬂé September and October. But justiils these f crops are gathered the crops of cand | Sough Afrien are ready, and in Dd - I‘} New South Wales gathers hee hadiiet, A New Pros'dential Ofigs i President-elect " NN ] | drawn a bill chauging the official vßle of | I:hv President’s private secretary nmti |of secretary to the President. MB Ao ! | Kinley has in mind a plan to enlgie v, | powers and add to the dignity of tiSoffice | { and to cause it to rank with that &men- | | bors of the cabinet, 1t is said thaf@#® has | asked Hon., Bellnmy Storer, the XAncin- | nati lawyer and ex-Congressman, to accept the position, representing that under the new sdministration the office of Secretary to the President, which at present is that of a clerk and chamberiain of the Ixecutive Mansion, will hereafter be one of great dignity and hiluence, the incumi bent of which is to be the confidential legal adviser of the President of the United States. ! st S A oo : A Surplus of Gold. ! Just at the present time the tr«‘ﬂsuryi of the United States ia enjoying the novel | experience of being in ;nmn«:aﬁ(\l! of more cold than it knows what to do with, The | total cash balupece in the treasury at the | close of business Wedne .\\l:l)’ was $22ﬂ.020,200, and of this amount no less than | $143,880.380 was in free gold, :\\‘Ml:}bh‘% for current expenses, or to act as a re- | serve to redeem the outstanding paper | money. This leaves in the treasury as a | fund to be used for ordinary purposes only | [ $86.,031,019. This is far from being an | enormous smn when the extensive opera- | tions of the Government are taken intn)i consideration. The treasury is running | behind still, and for the first month of the | vear the excess of expenditures over re-

e B T 22 s ’:t—'-'.._—_"‘é;‘:‘zl i ceipts is $7,293,516 and the deﬁdt for the | fiscal year thus far is over $45,000,000. e ; Melting Snow to Obtain Witer. ;. Many complaints of the scarcitytof wat- { er were made at the city hal in e'hit‘ﬂg(‘- | In many houses on the West Side resi- | dents were unable to got water akove the | first floor. In many places the pipes were | ‘ frozen and there was no water attall. It I | was no unusual thing to see people scrap--1 ing up snow and taking it into the house l | to melt for washing and drin?inz Jur: I | poses ]

- ———le . &8 of the North Sifle High. School chose the‘r night for a sle de to Minnetonka, thir- 1 ty miles away. fThe trip was eventful ad extremis on acgourt of badly drifted roads and poor sledd#g. It was also a very cold night for sleigh hiding, ang the entire party was aimest frozen, | L m— Family St ing and Baby Dying, Os the five @®aths from cold which occurred in Chigigo within two days, four were children.§ One of the saddest cases is that of R, B¥chenberg, a Russian Jew, living with hig wife and eight children in one little roogi. For eight months the father has beßh out of employment, and when a phys 4;rand two policemen from | the Harrison®" §treet station visited the family they fofind - hem starving and ni nine-mohtkEE &5. dying for want of proper nouris gAeut- i TP eeeE ‘f v 08 Puzzle a Janitor, The Jones $4) 00l in Chicago is attended , mostly by IMians, Russian Jews and colored childßßn, The janitor acts as sur-geon-in;chief ':‘ll and tries to treat all | colors alike, i rubbing their noses with snow until rostbites are removed, but - he is sometitgsg puzzled. “How are we to tell when #eolored boy's nose or ears are frozen?" Wl asked. Hugged e Stove Too Ciosely - An inciden®®f the blizzard in Chicago was seen io ® Madison strect car. Sit-j] ting close bekide the stove, which was glowing Wiﬂlr‘h('ﬂt. was a woman who ! wore a fur c¢llk. Os a sudden there was a flash and the garment burst into o tlame,

St T eet s oo T REED BREAKS THE RECORDWill Be the Father and Probably the Speaker of the Honse, : Thomas B. Keed will be the father of | the House of the Fifty-fifth Congress, and | iin all pr’\»h.'\h:h:y will be Speaker also, swhich \\'3!! break the record, as no one g"’"’" was Speaker and father at the same ! itime. Reed's friends say that he is still | { rabust enough to wear both honors eredit- || ;ab!y. ‘ It caused surprise when it was discov- | ered that Mr. Reed had been a member | {of the House longer than any one else. | ’.o.“';“ elected to the Forty-fift:. Con- | ‘; ‘ ;degn «!%mm«# g Texas, waus eected In ISTS, and was father of the | [ . s i i - - % ."\ v B & ‘\‘;-\;\ | : \ | B ﬁ . \ W7 j o Ao S ;“ ' i ‘} 3 '. 1 ! > , 2 L '*:"s':\ i T PRV - j i AR/ G - | : THOS. B. REED. t | House in the session of the last Congress, I i but he has given way to another Demoi erat, John W. Crawford. Coengressman | Harmer, of Philadelphia, was elected in { 1871, but he was ont in 1875, i Another old member is Gen. Bingham, iuf Philadelphia, who was elected in 1879, { two years later than Mr. Reed. Benton l | McMillin, of Tennessee, was elected in | {1879. Joseph Cannon, of Illinois, \\‘:lsg i elected in 1873: but he get into tl'uuhlvg | through lapsus linguae in a stormy de- | tl-:nn in 1889 and failed to be returned for { | the lifty-second Congress. ‘ | Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, was }u member of CCongress back in 1849, when i {he was Speaker of the House. He and | il\ll‘. Reed are the only living ex-Speakers { now members of the House of Representa- | tives. Mr. Grow,. however, was out of | ‘pn]itin's from the Thirty-seventh to the | | Fifty-third Congress. t RANCE WANTS A TREATY. The Europzan Republic Wishes to Abolish War’s FPossibility with Us, The initiative taken by Great Britain and this country relative to an arbitration treaty between them is closely followed by France. Rather. indeed, France | claims the distinetion of being the pioneer in arbitration proceedings, for as long ago as July, 1805, the minister of foreign affairs, M. Handtaux, was desirous of having a treaty of arbitration established | between the great republic of Europe and the great repablic of America. The affair, however, never came to a head. ‘ Now, however, that a treaty has been arranged between Great Britain and the l United States, France is desirous for the drafting of a similar treaty with this country. Her public men strongly advo- | cate it and it is proposed by some of them to immediately bring the matter before the Chamber of Deputies. ' Let us hope that the matter may be 1 pushed to a satisfactory conclusion so that | never may the sword be raised between : the chivalric French people and the re- | public here which they sacrificed lives and wealth to found. { Mrs. James Smith buried her Irish set- ' It(.-x' dog I'ranklin in the Lexington ({Ky.) cemetery at the foot of her husband’s | lzl'ave. She is the widow of Samuel M. | Smith, a retired New York broker, who | ' raised the dog from a pup. :

e B =T, T T WITST LN P y P SAPRPE 207 VRPN U OIS PE TSNP m ALGER GETS A PRIZE. MICHIGAN MAN IN M'KINLEY’'S CABINET. Is Offered and Accepts the FPosition of War Secretary—Has an Honorable War Record and Has Been Governor of Hig State, To “ucceed Lamont. Gen. Russell A, Alger, of Michigan, is to be Secretary of War in McKinley's cabinet. Gen. Alger was summoned to Canton, where the portfolio was tendered and aceepted. In speaking of the matter Gen. Alger said that not until the interview were there any overtures made to him in counnection with the cabinet. He said also that none of the appointments of his department had vet been disposed of | or decided upon, and that it would be some time before any announcements in that line could be made. Gen. Russell A. Alger was born in Lafil."t‘"f‘ township, Medina County, Ohio, Feb. 27, 1836. His grandfather served in the revolutionary war and is claimed to have been a descendant of William the C‘anul‘rm‘. When 11 years of age both his parents died. For the next seven years e worked on a farm, earning money to defray his expenses at the Richfield, 0., academy during the winters. Subse’quom?r' he tauzht school, and in March, 1857, entored a law office in Akron. Two \_}4 =SO - A0 %‘-77-_\\\ \LPE P, kg\\f_ \*-.‘,.’\ 4 k;}“\' Fr«’i : LN "“ " . e 0 .‘,‘,l:(«Pl RN ‘\.}".’\‘ ""’%fy’ﬁ (S A e _ Dt RO 4/ g 1»: "":A'f', 22 ‘l/Ly ¥ P R AR L - ] =% ~,,)-’,__\;‘ Kt A P e A o I 8 X B = > "‘"' I ;'7 % . ~y G s g 4<N 27 © // /, & w;"' 3/’ l F 3 GEN. RUSSELL A. ALGER. years later he was admitted to the bar, but abandoned the practice of law the following autumn on account of failing health, and moved to Grand Rapids, Mich.,, where he engaged in the lumber business, and where in 1861 he was married to Annette H, Henry. In 1861 Alger enlisted in the Second Michigan Cavalry, and was made captain of Company . He was wounded in the battle of Bognevilie, Miss. Owing to his part in this engagement he was promoted to the rank of major. In 15862 he became Heutenant colonel of the Sixth Michigan Cavaley, and in 1863 was made colonel of the I'ifth Michigan Cavalry, his regiment being in Custer's famous brigade. lln 1864 failing health induced him to retire sdier and Tnlor ponTrar TN meritorions services,” and was on private service in 1563-4. re iving orders per- | onally from President Lincoln. In 1865 he removed to Detroit, where he has since heen extensively engaged in lumber and pine iamd business. Gen. Alger was ¢lected Governor of Michigan inv 1884, receiving a plurality of 3,950 votes over Begole (fusionist). His administration of State affairs was considered highly successful. In 1888 he was one of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination for President. Gen. ;\ﬁ_'-r served one term as commander of the G. A. R. o<W = ¥ \”’Q-P,"E‘ ) v S (T Sl i ARSI ]g — . FeREIGN - lw" £2 R IR e, N D LSRR AND vt [l gk‘e Je~ ?ﬁ AN Beean } Ry NTEEES S e The cases of cholera on board the Nubia, at Plymouth, have been confined to the troops Queen Victoria has donated £SOO to the India famine relief fund, which has been opened by the Lord Mayor of London. Serious floods have oceurred in the Island of Montserrat, resulting in the loss of seventy-five lives and the destruction of roads and bridges. The revernue of Newfoundland for the firut six months of the fiscal year exceeds that for the same period of the previous year by SIOO,OOO. ITuncary has given formal notice to Austria its intention to terminate the customs and comime rceial convention be- i tween Austria and Hungary. The lighting of certain of the ILondon prisons by electricity is under (:uusulcx:ution. and it is proposed to erect a special description of tread wheel to supply the motive power. The Italian general medical council has just presented a request to the Govern- }]‘,_!” the effect of which is that all foreien doctors shall be prohibited from practicing in ltaly. A creat bush fire has been raging in the county of Montagu, in Tasmania, and the !m\;:\.l; p of Pengana has been nearly destroved. Hundreds of people have been :.““‘,i”.,, homeless and the damage done is estimated at £15,000. A few weeks ago the German firm of Friedrich Krupn presented £IO,OOO to the workmen's pension fund of their works, and novw a further donation of £25,000 § o wade to the fund for the widows and orphans of ti oflicials. ¥i . savapted t Count Muravieff, i v appointed Ilussian minister ol . g { S 1« been charged to for- ,‘ it ;’l»,: ient I"aure to St. ;’,'vf'l (iietalf Wolff. acting German consul at Tacoma, Wash, was married to Miss l Christiana Smith of Chicago, w no arrived from the IZast a few hours before the ceremony, Intimate friends of the late Alexander Dumas. fils, have resolved to keep the remembrance of the dramatist alive in their minds by a special dinner every three wonths in Yaris.

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B ——————— - ' i, of the LSE IQ gopee “*PReSs Wealth and Poverty, In the matter of feeding the poor the time has come for action. Quit playing the hypocrite. Do something.—Chicago Dispatch. Russell Sage says that the poor are not growing poorer, and of course he has exceptional facilities fer knowing.—Washington Times. It is the rich misers and skinflints, rather than the Bradley-Martins and their ilk, who awaken popular criticism and contempt.—Boston Herald. The weather is pinching, the needs of ‘the poor are felt severely, the efforts of charity ought to be manifested quickly and intelligently.—Chicago Inter Ocean. : The wretches who have cornered grain In starving India deserve the execration of the eivilized world. There is no opportnnity that greed will not seize upon.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. By giving a lavish ball the BradleyMartins will put a great deal of money in circulation, but so they would do if they devoted the same amount of money to a etter use.—New York Journal. - R 2 o i ery wealthy Chicagoese money they have been enabled to keep by tax dodging, it would muke a great fund for Chicago’s 8,000 starving families.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. i Mr. Russell Sage's opinion that a social entertainment that costs $240,000 is a vicked waste of money is one whose sin‘erity cannot be questioned, although its Xpression can hardly be set down as one of the surprises of the season.—Washington Star. A ery for help comes from Chicago. It is said that 8,000 families in that city are actually starving to death. The dispatches say that the city has 10,000 wives, husbands and children begging for bread—begging for a pittance of food to keep body and soul together—hudd!>d into single rooms, and freezing in the blizzard that visited the city Thursday. It has =2 mightier ery for pity than it had at the close of the World's Fair.—Fall River News. Fantering the Britishers. Henry Irving has a sprained ankle. It s said to decidedly jmprove his walk.— leveland Plain Dealer. Doubtiess the Prince of- Wales thinks the (neen is old enough to abdicate if she wants to.—New York Press. Great Britain does not seem to be keeping up the standard of its work as nurse to the Indian Empire.—Chicago Record. It is row rumored that the Prince of Wales will be the leading candidate ior the head of the waiters’ union.—Chicago Joarnal. It costs Great Britain $15,000 a year to maintain the Queen’s pack of deerhounds. We thus see that a good deal of British gold is going to the dogs.—Commercial Advertser, 5 The chances are that Lord Kimberley, who succeeds Lord Rosebery as the Libapal leader awill posemble bis predecessor S . €S cuwßTCEßßogton Herald. 2 England’s surplus th yvear rﬁm xpressed in pounds sterling, but theguassee. r.eal way to puc it is that it amountsito four more new battleships.--St. Lomnis «ilobe-Democrat. The Queen’s speech had a good desl more to say about arbitration than about unjust taxation in Ireland, but Lord Castletown and sundry others will see to it that the latter subject is enforced upon Parliament’s attention.—Boston Globe. Lord Salisbury announced to the memhers of the House of Lords that if the wnssacres in Turkey continued pressure would have io be applied. And yet, socine 2ritics insist that the otlicial British mind is immpervious to humor.—Baltimore Awmerican. Tacklinx the Treaty. The Senators who let loose the dogs of war before adjournment will find most of them in the Olney pound.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. We are ready and anxious to arbitrate any subject of dispute with the Inglish, p,\-;-w;,t the cut of the amorphous horrors they call trousers.—Kansas City Times. When England rejoices over the acceptance of a treaty to which she is a party, it is always safe to infer that the other party has the short end of it.—Detroit Tribune. While there is some disposition among American statesmen to criticise the arbitration treaty a unanimity of sentiment is reported from the other side.—Buffalo [Express. It is not surprising that the Senate should hang up the arbitration treaty. Anvthing the Senate might do §\'~n?:l not he surprising, unless it should l};ll?:‘v:f;';" do something sensible.—Galveston I'ribl' latest attack upon the treaty just made with England will not be able to rob that instrument of the title it has earneodeccs as the crowning diplomatic triumph of the century.—Cincinnati Commercial. No treaty can cover a question of nationa! honer. War is the only arbiter of that. And Great Britain is likely to be auite as aquick on the trigger and quite :‘:‘:: car ful not to offend as we can be.— New York Press. Cenate and Senators, Qenator Mills, of Texas, is still going abeut with an *‘all-hell-shall-stir-for-this’’ 4 xposed on his face.—Memphis Appeal " ator Tillman says he would like to have “Author of the Dispensary Law” carved on his tombstone, but he doesn’t sav when.—New York Press. \ at all that will be remembered of the ITon. J. Don Cameron when he closes his twentv-vear term in the Senate will be his .‘E:;\H“in.'w.\ father.—thicago Tribune. Senator Sherman seems to be trimming his Cuban corns to the exact imits of the Olney shoes.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Senator Thurston says: “There are thincs that are worse than war.” He talks like a man who has been inveigled into attending the afternoon session of a seowine circle.—Chicago Times-Herald. If any of those commiserating Washmgton M»l‘;'n--<}-n:ie’.n-m.~‘ who eXPpPress sorrow :A\-q-z' John Sherman’s decadent mentality desire to change their opinion let them encaege the old man in a horse trade or a real estate transaction.—Kansas City Times,