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" THE ONION TIMES. cs . : . . ^=3 UNION, 8. C. New York Citj has 5000 lawyers, of whom 500 are classed as shysters. President Krager, of the Transvaal, has been offered a big pi!o by Borao enterprising Yankee to como to America and lecture on South African af- , fairs. Tho Illinois State Hoard of Health' took a decided step forward placing j medical education in that State upon j u proper footing by passing a rule re- j quiring all colleges recognized by tho ' Hoard to establish a courso of four years for their students. A performance of "Hamlet" was ' given recently at Nngpur, India, in < the Mnrathi tongue. Tho young 1'riueo took tho part of tho royal Dane. | | AVlicn bo came to tho place where he, Hamlet, exclaims "Look here, upon | this picture and on this!" he drew p from his pocket u photograph of Jiis r lamented father. This is n very up- I' to-dato ago. ! ni A Now Jersey farmer who raises v?\g- |, etables for tho New York market hits j it spent ?23,000 in electric culture and J acilities and is said to have increased ' > , . ? , . I XI his production from tortv to sixtv per I s| cent. There should be no trouble in ' i. 1 keeping boys on tiio farm, maintains !\v the Atlanta Constitution, when the 1 w ' tl work is conlined to touching a button ; |. and cutting coupons. I p , |,, Leopold Strouse, of .Baltimore, Mm., Li lias presented to Johns Hopkins Um* p1 versitv a sum of money, as the begiu- ; | [| | mug of a fund for tho purchase of j ?j rr.bbiuical hooks for the university li- ! (U hrary. About dOO books ?iil bo pur- i hi chased us tho first installment, and ; w thev will come mainly from Frank-1 11 1 ai fort-on-tho-Muin, in which thero is a p. line collection of rabbinical literature. : t*i . j 01 A little whilo ago it was "Matabelc." > tl Now it i? "Matabiii," instead of j HC "Matnbeles." Nobody in this nnrt of : 1 Itc, W.,M .com. tn know ckotbir it i, I r< "'S" O' ".man u or Moimlik? Until there ncro E0frl,,b n,nrq0ise,. Ko? > of ^7 ?Dl'T MatqooM ,1t w !?*- *?. ** ? **" proposed to bring aixMil T^f Sloflw "< progressive lin;i n?-i;tl system. I ?? 'A i!- " olinir >- Ii*| _|||t .. hict.,,ho United States Geographical uSocietv decides is IIabe.ua. And ho to 8 tiie cud of tho world. h i t] According to tho New York Tribuno lthe Leo family, of Virginiu, bus had no s 10] resentative in tho Federal Army for " more than thirty-four years. Tho sue- ^ cession in this service is how to bo re- | ucwed in the jiersou of George Ma-on ] Lee, the nineteen-year-old m>u of. General Fit/.hngh Lee, the Conic lo- ' rate cavalry commander. This youug aspirant for military honors will enter West Point Militury Academy. Young Lee has already spent two and a half years at tho Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington. For nioro than 150 years tho Lees have occupied prominent places in tlio military history of the colony of Virginia or tho United States Government. Says tho Chicago Legal Adviser C harles Oshorn was a rich broker He died, leaving a widow, a son an " ~ - 'in,,, ?n? ?-ie sovt nil million tion.ir . . ua.i >o did the widow. Anion-; otlu r- .j io ti she renminbi rcil hor luwyi to the tune of $100,000. The la\vy< iviis surprised and deeply affected 1 this kindness anil promptly turn the money hack into the estate. ! Mich evidence of legal generosity n p< ars en the pieces of American li tery. There uro mem people w insinuate that this lawyer was sal lied to act as one of the eseeutori her will; but the fact remains tint lawyer did refuse to accept ?10", leii to him under the terms of a wil The Sun Francisco Chronicle m tains that "hostility to Knglund part of American education. E boy of twelve years of ago imbili with his study of American his! He kiio^'8 the stori- of Danker Hi Coruivallit), Lord Howe, 15nrg< Turlctou, Andre und Arnold by 1 and it lias had a powerful infli < ; jj0 roads the st< upon nih iiiiuu. 1S1'2 with a patriotic tjlow ovi imvul victories and with the hoi of slmmo over its laud disasters, in his school career he comes iieve that lOnvpund is the hen foe of his country, and as he j?r and becomes a citizen he re;.:ar Power with deep disfavor. Th incut bus beeoine habitual to h i 'riiusoiibonk "Do you Know ion, lhe eonu'Sist V" Yeast lives wilhili gunshot of me." you must l>ea t rightfully laid Yolikel's Statesinatt. Some people are not known because tl.eir pai'tlcular kind h been class'.lb d. Lovis I: r* n EATHERY palm trees, banks of llowers, soltlv | hued fairv lumps, and delicious strains of ^^Ivy /o->0? over-chaugiupc music, these go to make up p JJTouchuutmeut! So, at least, thought <ord Ronald d'lvsterre. Ho hud but just returned from a wo years' sojourn in the heart of Alien, a sojourn lilted with dangers and rivations; his years numbered but vo and twenty, ho was possessed of n t-11 -1:n;t. Ktiriii'rv frame mid a keen. , 4 n. ? lear eye; and he had come back from is travel;! with fame, couraero ami enuranee, hot without a penny that he imld call his own. What was ue\t to bo <lone? This as the problem that tilled all his >aro thoughts. His elder brother a 1 fitted him out for his expedition ith the polite iutimaliou that the act as a virtual washiug of his bauds of se superiluous cadet; his aunts had issed him so warmly at parting that e was amazed to liad them "not at 0:110" wlieu he returned to Loudon ; is godfather had given him a twenty annd uoto and such a hearty farewell, lat it was bewildering to bo cut by im when they met once more in the ub smoking room. "It really seems i if they wish I had never come nek !"suid the youag man to himself, ith a smile at the iuevodiblo idea; ut as time passed 011 his smiles died .vuy, and he ground his teeth savage as lie realized that his relations had lought it a good investment to lay it ?o()>) and an infinity of farewell in 10 hope of getting quit of a troublo>me encumbrance. The thought was bitter one, and iu his first fury lie jwed to leave his native sbores by the jxt ship, and never return to them pun. But upon the heat of his pasuu there fell a cooling breath, as if om heaven itself, and the lion was raightway changed iuto a lamb, ord Ronald d'Esterro had been accusmied so long to bo looked upou us a .letrimoutah" that at first ho scarcely 1 m ice of n nmiisiH ,U; I cholera iutd diiurlioca ^ ,r him m Vlolct Harvcj II ,fo rny eyes ami son, is amazement, however, ho fotitul Unt obstacles melted away miraeulonsf at his approach. Violet herself was hv and retiring, it is true, but hei author smiled sweetly upon hira aui ler father shook lam warmly by thi lam). Was ever man so blessed before? "True iovo does run smooth some times, after ali^" he said to himself o this bright Juno evening, as he walki homeward after a meeting with Mr Harvey in the park. "Shall you bo at Lady Chestc , field's party to-night?" she had *ni j "Violet and I are going, and wo sli ' be disitppointed if wo do not see yoi Ills holiest face had glowed with ? | light, as she spoke, and he seemed | bo treading on air as he wall I away. "liven Aunt Maria has taken j back into favor again," he thong "she was horriuly cro-s when I i came home, but now she is sugi satin whenever L come near her hire ss.y it was my fault, i know J I was an ill-conditioned brute i j Violet came to soften me !" Lady Maria's 'lowered hcaddrcs: r llio Iir-1 object that met Lord lion -T eyes when ho entered his lio cr crowded drawing rooms that evei ui'l somewhat to his surpriso it in close proximity to Mrj. liar V frizzled gray head. So "I shoalI net have thought I?- Aunt Maria would ha\ o any tlung ,js- with her!" he reflected. ".She u ,i says that she can detect the fu tincture of trade, and she must " 4-....I \lr. Harvey perfectly wen iui.? ' ?* his money iu malt." t n At this moment, however, he 00j sight of Violet, and forgetting? I ho elbowed his way eagerly tl ; the crowd until he reached her ! It might have heeu only fan ain- i ^ nny rate it seemed to him tl t* welcome was a warmer ono tl very I had ever given inia before, i ics it heart beat fa.-cer as he bent ov "Will you not come into t ? J * 1 nervatory ?" he said, pleadingl; II. of j0 hot liero." ->yue, ! She rose without a word, a icart, walked away together, ueneo "I)o von know that it is < i weeks since I tirst saw you?" ory of ,,j cnn hardly believe it mysi jr its seeius as if 1 had known yo t tlusli life." Karly ' H'' had an idea even as , that he had seen the remark ? " every love story that lie had jditary |lf? could not r. tram Iron owh up it, for it seemed so exact a >l.s that sion of his feelings. \ lolet 1 -i.n. heard it before, 0 BOUtl- ,, Kouiihl s lins it sounded 1U1, now, ami lior lonjj oyelashe I*Hf l;or- lower upon her chook as sin V,.y he They wero walking betw "\V. 11. of llitw. r utnl forn, ami tho shot." twoou thorn was too sw broken at once; but Uc that their solitude mi^ht li ;is fools ut any moment, an I runs as never Irom his ilroain he had jus' lips to speak, when u voice 3 Blind. hidden speaker cniue plainly to their ours. "It is almost certain to eomo off tonight, I think. T got him nu iuvitatiou on purpose." Houald started ; it was Lady Marin's voice, but ho ha t not tho remotest idea to what she was alluding. In aui other moment, however, she reeeivod her answer and it was Violet's turn to ! strtrt, tor it eamo in her mother's aoj cents: "\Vo shall be only too gratoful to you if it does come oil', tor hor papa i and I have always set out hourtn on I, .. I 'IM ? i mx.4 111.^ i? iiiu vurjr iuiua I nte tint Violet tells me lie 1ms proposed, the check shall bo sout to you." Hot\u 1>1 drew back a step, his cheek growing white beneath its bronze; his j hands clenched involuntarily, and for u moment Violet expected to see liim ii.. it :t upon the conspirators; but their voices were already receding in the distance, and as he looked around ho saw tho anguish in her face. ' Violet, Violet!" he cried, seizing | her hands in his, "you knew nothing I of this ! 1 swear it with my dying breath!" She drew her hands away, and turned to escape, but lie followed her. "? have not much to offer," ho said, "but all I lmvc is at your feet." She quickly looked up, and a light I of gratitude eume into her eyes. "How good you are." sho said. llouald looked at her in hewildcri meut ; the words were not what he had ! expected. "You do not understand," ho said, i "I want you to be my wife. "I do understand," sho answered gently, "and I honor you for | asking me, after what has happened; i but 1 will not take advantage of your I generosity." I "It is generosity," cried HonaM, "it is sheer seltishnees !" But Violet showed no signs of yielding. "I will not leave you unless you tell me one thing," said Honald. "If your heart is lree, I claim it; but if not, I j " j icom. i AV^,y,iT:(i ,?rp rr>ffT'"'-,r?;? tCIITDt", T??? Tirn if1"'' She looked ut him with a face that grow pale under his gaze. "Yes," she said, "i do." i "That is enough," said Ronald | hoarsely, and dropping her hand he i turned and went. a j "It is strange how ungrateful young j people nr.-!" remarked Lady Maria, a | lew days later, to the friends gathered ?- around her tea table. "1 had aril ranged a most suitable match for my al nephew, really done every thing in nay a. jpower to promote it; and yet he actually eanie here the other day and ir- ; u-ed the most terrible languag<?said d. that 1 had spoiled his lile. and al all kinds of dreadiul things; an I now hi i." has gone olY abroad, nobody know .le-1 where. I am sure 1 only hope that t:> shall never see him again." tod | Lady Maria's wish seemed likely t I he fultillcd, for live long years can me j and went, bringing no news of Ronald lit; anil though live years could not tal irst the bloom from her cheek, nor tl ired j gol 1 from her hair, they could, ai , I | did add vt ry materially to the i that filial ties of her frame. Rut wheu lutil i last he did reappear, she was willi to overlook tho past in spite of 1 swas resentment, for Ronald had found aid's way into a profitable foreign parte ite.ss' ship, and instead of fame he brou; ling, j back money. ; was "Que of the best things I ever , for you was getting you out of 1 ? ?^ ? I entanglement!" sue I'luu.mv.. that vently when they met, for Lady M to ?lo came of military stock, aud she k ilways that one of the most suece tiiite.st . manuuivres is to carry the war know your ouciny's <pi irt> r->. made ( Kotiald shot :v glance at her i mid. r his dark eyebrows, but caught 1 nothing, and she continued gayb dl else, ' "Mr. Harvey went bankrupt a hrough or two after you went away, aud side. I are ?piite in poor circumstances cy, bu't I That upstart girl waits upot tat her lodgers, I believe." tan she "You don't say so !" remarked uid his aid. "Where are tl.ey living?" er her. "In Worthing," saui Lady ho con- deceived bv his coolness. y ; "it is Heunington was there last monl she told me that she saw .Mrs. i nd they on the Parade, and that the ! actually ha l the audacity to sj ?uly six her! Can you believe it?" iio said. "I don't know," said llonalc tdf, for it ! I am go to Worthing this aft u all my ! aud I shall seo whether she wi ?? i lo me : lie spoke j "Oh, my dear hoy!" crie in ulmost Miiriu, in genuine distress, ever rend, pray don't ?' ? anything so .1 uttering i Vou have no idea how design u expres- I people are?" hut heryi she cc ,, too, had the sound of the loudly clos hut from informed her that she was al< absolutely s drooped "Hut why did vou sond in o listened, si.id llonnld, a few hours la een hanks and Violet stood together i silence ho- stars, and heard the wavoi eot to he upon the h.-aeh. land knew "Hecau-e I thought, after e disturbed overheard, you felt yourself mg himself j say what you did out of con t opened his I for me." j lrom some j "60 your prido eamo in 4 BILL A UPS LETTER. LiIR PIIIV.OSOrilKR'S UXPBRI. ICNCK AS A GAUDKNUU. i Tells of Ills SurcfM in Raisins ^ae Vegetables. I "Fate cannot harm me?I have dined I today." That in the way we feel just I after r pood dinner, especially if we i have earned it?worked for it bodily ' and wanted it. l?ut I have heard folka 1 say they were never hungry and not I even the odor of cucumbers aud onious , iu the dining room would excite their | appetite. I have heard others say I they had the appetite, but were afraid j to indulge it because of digestion. my little one! Don't you know that pride is one of the deadly sins? However, I can't preach to you now, because I want to ask yon another question. If you really have loved me all along, why did you toll euoh a dreadful lie?" "A lio!" exclaimed Violet. "Yes, a lio; a regular big black ono! When I asked you if you had loved auyoue, you said yes. >iow,theu, confess at once, because I'm not going to let you oil !" He held her away from him so that ho could look into her fucc, and waited inexorably lor her answer. "I saw that you would not listen to any other objection," she said, "and I thought that you were sacrificing yourself, aud so?" "Ye?, I know all tha*," ho interrupted ; "but you had no business to say what you did ! Unless, of course, there really was tomu ouo? Come, now, tell mo." A (lush camo over her face, and as she raised her eves he could seo her tours shining 111 tho starlight; ho grasped her hands more firmly in bis now, and looked down at Iier from tho Leiglit of his six tcet. She trie?l to speak, but her quivering voice would uot be controlled, aud with a great wave of love surging up in his heart, be drew her close to him. "Who was it?" ho whispered. She turned to hide her face upon Irs shoulder, and breathed her answer into his car bent down to catch it. "You dear, blind boy, it was you I" ?Household Words. Tlcnint'linhle Memories. "Some men are gifted with remark* able memories," said S. 15. Bostwiek, a Now York traveling man, at the National. "I have ft customer named Lyons at Marble Falls, Texas, who has naturally the most wonderful retentive faculties in tho world, I believe. Lyons is wholly uneducated and lias never learned to even read or write. Originally, of course, this was boeauso he lacked opportunities, but since ho has been grown lie has rather prided himself upon not needing book knowledge. He can count, so far as addition is concerned, always being able to tell just how much certain figures in a busiuess transaction aggregate. In fact, I am told that he was never known to make a mistake. He owns a largo general store, a stone quarry and a farm, in all, employing ubout one hundred men, each ot whom iiiu? tiu UUUUIIUI in- mn an ui his transactions he retains in his memory, ami jean tell ut any time the exact amount he owes or that is owing to him. In buying be remembers just what he bought ami at what price. Several attempts have been made to cheat him on account of his inability to keep books and his refusal to employ a bookkeper, as ho says such an employe would rob him, but they havo T&ota is not a tigure or a detail in the wholo range o? \,i? extensive business transactions that ho does not remember. He is very pr jud of the faculty, and having becomo rich, is not in favor of education, saving that ho would have been poor if lie lad used up his early years studying N'o once can convince him to tuo co trary."?Washington Star. Herman Hoar Hounds, ttiis story comes from a man who hnwatelv visited Austin Corbiu's t'a^ iuo1" place in New Hampshire, where, ! ^ I as verybodv knows, tno Long Isl^ I aninagnate preserves all manner of wi game : 1 fine years ago Mr. Corbin import? I e<3 lew wild pigs from the forest of 1 Aenues and turned 1I10 "critters" I lep in his preserve. They have in' , cwed and multiplied in the wilder1 . I n beyond belief. Lately it became * i eldient to import some German boar tu. I bids, wherewith to hunt their tuako.l ml I obriitled predecessors. I pack of these noble dogs arrived on j . I cent steamer and were despatched I Ht I tie New Hampshire estate. As scon I ley became acclimated one of the ! ?^l9Pcr3 conceived the idea of putting p to the test of a hiuit. He selected 'at |llPl? promising brutes and os? le t them to that portion of the os1i^ 1 wherein the boars most do eon, jute. The brutes scented their for- 'r- * n old black boar, .ft the chase began. Let the man , told me the story t*nish it: . ful^t worl;otl l'K" :l charm. Hoar and ntotu^s xvt>ro 8Gori lost to the keeper's I When at length that lunctioufropCamo upon the scene he found Mr. aRr seated on his haunches, with ling eyes anil bloody jaws. He had ' * p one of the hounds and was wait . jfor the other one to come up to ' 1 ujh the meal."?New York Herald. uo? 1 *Hsses of lienor for French Towns. I llol10 French Government has just ferred the Cross of the Legiou of Marlor 1,11 the town of Uylfort an<l on iifjulhcrvillers, a small place in tho ih uKe* Mountains, as a recognition of larvP'nllaut resistance they offered to wotlGeriuaus in 1870 an<l 1871. )Ualtelfort surrendered only under ori from the French Government, peace armistice having been concrnclt;(l* Its garrison left with the II sp?rs ?f war, and although part of ice, it was left to Franco on ac im or me lnnnruitaoin courage ot oppnel Denfert-Kocherenu, a I'rotesfQOt of llochelle, of the garrison, ami ing ^lo townspeople, who allowed their nsei)SCH to be battered to pieces withdug ?penkiug of capitulation. jUe.[ho town of Chatoaudun was ''dec^od" with the Legion of Honor by e n^ibettii, having signalized itself by ter Resistance to the invader, followed indi reprisals. Two or three other s p ns were decorated with tho Natal Order of Knighthood by Na, w i>on I. in 1815 for heroic resistance \?>i (he allies in 181 1. Altogether nine sjj( lis in France have the Cross of tho (ion of Honor en their coats-of* tits. ? London News. ! Such folks are to be pitied. They Imvo , i my sympathy. lhit I sincerely believe I 1 that work or physical exercise is u ' , remedy for both. I suppose that ! Shakespeare suffered in this way, for j I lie says, "Now, let digostiou wait on appetite and health on both." Certain j \ it is his death was sudden and prema- i ture, for he lived only fifty years. ; Milton understood this trouble too, I for ho says that Adam's sleep was sweet, | I being bred from pure indigestion, i ; That's the secret?working in the garden? I inherited that trait from tho ! old mau?Adam, L mean?and I sleep sweetly, too, after I have worked in j | my garden. There is no insouioniu 1 about me, but Mrs. Arp suffers from i I at sometimes when I am snoring like a j ! hippotamus. i I was ruminating about the value of i a good garden to the family?we had | 1 an excellent dinner today, and I j counted up the cost. "We have live in I I the family ami the dinner cost lis only I | 5 cents apiece, ami there was euongb ! left for two or three more. We had a ! small piece of middling moat, about , i half a pound, that was boiled with the] . beans, and there were seven ditl'erontj ! kiuda of vegetables from my garden. J : The butter and buttermilk were home-1 ' made. The rice and corumeal and ' , huckleberries cost a little?not much, j j Kverything was well cooked, and all that was wanted was an appetite and ' good digestion. I am reasonably proud of my garI den, for it is all my own work. I proI pared the ground and dressed it and ' opened the furrows aud planted the 1 | seed and cultivated the plants and killed the weeds, and it is my espocial ' pleasure to watch everything as it I grows, and gather the vegetables ami I wash them at the back door aud call the good wife and children out to see i them and listen to their compliments. ' We have had a long drought, but I | hail fortified against it. Every hill whs first spaded out a foot doep aud filled with water, and after it bad soaked into the ground I tilled np the i l b?.lc. with a mixture of top soil and ! 1 barnyard scrap!dri nmv r-i rtr-n ?..... Deep plowing to begin with is abso- ! lately accessary iu farming. I don't j ineftu deep turning, hut deep plowing. I know a farmer who always follows j the turn plow with a hull-tongue in the same furrow, and ho makes good crops whether it rains or not. My good neighbor, Widow Fields, lias no hydrant in her garden, hut she always has the finest garden iu the town, and tho secret is deep plowing nud fertilizing. I can overlook her work from my window, ami it excites me to keep in hailing distance. She has an acre in the highest state of cultivation, and will make ' more on it than will he made on fifty ' acres of that land helow Marietta. 1 Work on tho gardens must not stop. 1 ' niiil put on some more water. Every furrow I opened for bonus and peas and beets 1 let water run in it, and then put tho fertilizer in and i planted tho seed. I had eighty holes to dig for tomatoes and forty for squashes, and as many more for encumbers, and notwithstanding the drought, everything has grown vigorously. It is hard work, ami takes patience to lay the foundation in this way, but it pays. My squash viues j cover a space of four feet square to | each hill, aud my tomato plants nro five feet high and full of healthy fruit. Well, now, to tell the whole truth, I have a hydrant iu the center of tho garden, aud when tho dry,hot weather was at its worst I opened small trenches 1 close by tho roots of tho plants and ' turned tho water on and let it run ! slowly and soak in, and afterwards ( covered the trenches with dry dirt. | This too, is trouble, but it paid well, Some folks sprinkle, but that does I harm and no good. It bakes the surface and never reaches the i roots. Sprinkle nothing but grass. I Wlmre water is plentiful and conven- i Iirui kiiriv in uu r.vL-Iiau HIT II poor gOT" I ' den. It is hettt r to dig deep an 1 for- ' tilize and cultivate a Mjuare roil well than to skim over half an acre "nigger iuslilon' and see it all drv i;p alien lUe <lry drought, as Col>e calls it, comes. The intensivo system is the best for gardens, I know from long experience. It made me sad to see the crojis on the railroad between Marietta ami Atlanta the other day. Acres and acres of corn not six inches high and cotton almost invisible. It did 1 ?ok like perishing to death in the name of the Lord. It is a pcor country, I know, hut they could sow it down in peas "and gradually improve it so that a Georgian wouldn't he ashamed for travelers to lookout of the car window as they ride through it. It is astonishing how much influence one good farmer has over tho neighborhood in which he lives. They are very envious of each other and will try to keep up with the best. I hear some say that their oats crop is a total failure and will not ho lit to cut. I see a few acres of oats in a field not far from me that will make a good crop. 1 Of course there is something in tho land, hut there is more in the farming. Keep planting successive crops every ten days or two weeks, and have a fresh supply. A good, largo family cau live well on an ucre for live months in tho year, ltaiso your own strawltnrrttiu ntnl rnunliorriru find liiiv wild "v" J " berries enough for jam ami jelly. Then, if you have grapes and peaches around, you can live like a priuco and always have som'cth ng nice for company. A few flowers in tho garden will lie'p to make it attractive; aud my wife wants all tho old-fashioned herbs, liko sago and mint aud balm aud thyme and calamus aud camomile. $ She has horse radish enough for a hotel. Gardening is tho first work of which wo have any history, aud it is tho most ; pleasant and healthy of all occupations. If a man is a (. 00J gardener ho will be good farmer. As you travel ovorlaud through the country you can tell a good lurmcr by looking at his garden, just ns you can tell a good wife aud daughter by looking at tho flowers and vines iu tho front yard. They are a sign of good tasto and refinement aud good housekeeping uml eoutentmeut. They save doctor bills, for half the diseases come from diseased minds? meutsl misery?borrowing trouble and nursing it. The cultivation of flowers is a good tonic for indigestion. I have noticed that tho people who nro the most ililicent in such occupations are the le:iit concerned iibout politics ami silver ami gold ami tho next presidential election. Tho farm ami tlio homo absorb ttiem, and are a bigger thing than the spoils of ollioo. Tho averngo politician wants something for nothing. As Cobo says, "Ho is just sidewipiug around hunting tho orthogrophy of au olliee," ami when ho gets it the lirst lesson ho learns is how to log-roll. Ho will voto for uuvbody's bill if they will voto for his. You tickle mo and 1 will tickle you is tho motto, ami they call it a compromise of conflicting interests. Congress has at last voted every member a private secretary with SI,200salary. Merciful heavens ! When will this thing stop? Now let them noply for a receiver and sell out the concern. But I am ofT the subject, and will get in a bud frame of mind uud have a lit of iudigestion ; and so 1 will quit The Secret DIetl With lliiti. Tho Zingg Paint ami Varnish < ontpany, of Now York, has applied to the Supreme Court for tho voluntary dissolution of tho eoreortion. The company was organised to utilize the invention, a process of Mr. Zingg, in the manufacture of paints and varnishes. An important part of the praetieal application of the process was a secret with Mr. Zingg. lie died a few months ago.and nobody knows Ids secret. 'I he others interested in the eompany were unable, therefore, to carry out the work, and so they decided to have the company wound up. Carlisle .lust liies tho llorid Issue. Qii/intln et' <\f (ha 'I'r.ei jure f'nellela haa v.v plied to tho enquiries of tho siih-eommittea on flnanoo of tho United States Senate Bhargod with the investigation of the sale of bonds of tho United States In tho years 1891. '115 and '9t?, Ho traces tho beginning of the troutne nncK to inn t-i... i, ? yrnr or rresldcnt Harrison's administration. He justlflc^-ntr ? liie bond issues, ami affirms his belief that they preserved tho credit of the country. Spain Anxious for V/.tr. A dispatch from Springfield, O., says: .Tames < reeltnan, an exiled Cuban war correspondent, says lie thinks there will war wit h Spain, lie asserts that the Amerieau people will be thunderstruck when the documents in possession of the State Department are made publie, Spain, be savs. is anxious for war. Twenty live million dollars worth of American property has been destroyed in Cuba, aeeordiug to his story, and many Americans have been killed without provocation. Minister to Spain Taylor 111 In I*arls. Mr. HnunisTaylor; United States minister ;o Spain, is ill in l'uris. A cablegram to th '* fTeet w.as received in Washington Monday, it is understood that his departure from t'ngland was not due to any liistruetiou from tho Stato department to return to bis [H>?>IL Cyclone Cleans Up an Alabama Town. The little town of Wyeth City, with 300 inhabitants, situated on the Tennesson river in Marshall county, Ala., was totally demolished bv a cyclone Monday morning. Eighteen bouses wore wrecked, llvo being swept ompletely away. Fifteen persons aro iVoUUtled, si:; fatally. A famous llonk. Concerning the making of Mmt most popular of all child's books, "XhoekIle.ailcil I'eter." iis author. I?r. IIolTniann. of Frankfort. Ccrinany, tells this story: lie lad boon searching high and low for a suitable picturebook for iiis t wo-yenr-ohl boy, but in vain. At last lie purchased a blank copy-book and told his wife he was going make a picture-book for the liny "one lie cmi) understand. and in which tin* tedious morals 'lie obedient,' he calm.* 'he industrious,' are brought home in a manlier which impresses the young child." lie knew nothing of f drawing, hut lie set to work and produced ihe gruesome picture of ail the naughty hoys and girls which everybody knows. Ilis child was delighted, and when some of his circle of literary friends saw it they urged lilin to have it published before the hoy spoiled It, and 11 publisher said he would bring it out. "Well," said Dr. llnlYmnnti, "give me eighty gulden" (about .Slio), "and try your fortune. Don't make It expensive, and don't make it too strong. Children like to tear books as well as to read them, and nursery-books ought lot to be heirlooms. They ought to last only a time." An edition of fifteen hundred was ipiickly sold, and now one hundred and seventy-live editions have appeared in Dermany and forty in l-'.ngluud, and it has been translated into Russian. Swdisli. Danish, Dutch, I lill' H, ll.'lll.lll allHI I <>I I UgUI'SO, Mill it I his penetrated India, Africa and Australia. Mrs. .Musirus "I >id yon ha\e much trouble in learning; to sing so lie::ntifully'/" .Miss Frankly- "Yes; (specially ivitli the neighbors."?Chicago l'laiu 1 h-jiler.