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The Advance. A. P. MILLER, Publisher. \V ORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA. Charles King, of Middleton, Mass., claims to have five hundred descend* ants. He is 107 years of age, and tays he was attended but twice during his life by doctors. Railroad gross earnings during No vember, 108 roads being included in the computation, as given by the New York Financial ^Chronicle, are largely in excess of those of the same month in 1886. The increase is $4,000,760. This exhibit is particularly encourag ing. Within the last four or five weeks Lee, Mass., has had-forty-five cases of starlet fever, many of them fatal, and the end is not yet. The public schools have been closed, and the energies oi the place set to work to discover the cause of the epidemic. The evidence is that the disease is due to several families' use of water taken from a well located neat a nal. contaminated ca The bill to establish a United States postal telegraph, introduced in the senate by Mr. Cullom of Illinois, pro vides for a very elaborate system of electrical communication between the principal cities of the country, east, west, north and south, by meAns of trunk lines, from which branch wires are to be extended as congress shall from time to time direct, the intention being ultimately to establish complete service at all points. It would seem that the scandalous accusations against M. Wilson, the son-in-law of the late President of France, were "a tempest in a teapot." The tribunal that has been investigat ing the charges has declared him in nocent. Either a great wrong has been done to the accused and to his father-in-law, or there has been a lib eral employment of whitewash. If M. Wilson is innocent, the popular clamor which forced to. Grevy out of the Presidency was idiotic. That wicked French playwright, Sardou, is the last impetuous individ ual to take up the cudgels and batter the memory of Shakespeare. Sardou is out in a screed in which he says that the writing ot the play "Hamlet" ought not to be considered a credit to anyone, because there are so many absurdities in it. Certainly it must be time to draw the line when men of the moral and intellectual characteristics of Sardou take it upon themselves to give the Bard of Avon a set back. It would seem that many members of congress feel that their whole duty consists in the introduction of bills without the slightest idea of their passage. Five hundred bills and more have been already introduced in the Benate. It is not extravagant to es timate that the number of bills likely to be introduced in the house at the first time set apart for the reception of bills will be 5,000. There were more than 15,000 bills in troduced in the last congress of which more than 12,000 failed. A very large proportion of these 12,000 bills are to be reintroduced in the Fiftieth con gress. Each member of the New York legis lature is required to take an oath,not only to support the constitution,etc., but the following:' "And I do further solemnly swear that I have not di rectly or indirectly paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, or or promised to contribute any money or other valuable thing as a consideration or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at the election at which I was elected to said office, and have not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding any such vote." It is thought that not a few will have difficulty in reconciling the above with their practices at elec tion time. After many years ot talking about it, New York is to have an under ground railroad—a four-track tuunel extending from the city- hall, in the lower end of the city, to Forty-second street, by which one can go from the city hall to the Grand Central station in seven minutes. Broadway is not to be disturbed the route will be along Elm street and Fourth avenue. The scheme involves an arrangement with the authorities for the construc tion of a special tunnel for containing all underground pipes and wires, in addition to the railway tunnel. The latter will have stations every four or five squares for the way trains, and double this distance for express trains. The tunnel will be brilliantly illumi nated all the time with the best elec tric lights and all trains will be run ether with fireless steam engines or Uectricftf. Cholera A as heretofore been intro daced into this country by way of New Orleans, and the epidemic of 1854, which created such ^ravages in Pittsburgh,, found its highway of death up the Mississippi and Ohio val leys. Recently 600 immigrants from the cholera-infected sections ol Italy were landed at New Orleans from the tyalian steamer Alesia. The claim is made that they are all in good health, and that their clothing and baggage have been thoroughly disinfected. This may be true, but there is some thing very suspicious in the fact that those immigrants were taken to New Orleans instead of New York. It is a very unusual thi^g for so large anum berof immigrants to be 1 Aided at New Orleans at one time, and in view of the recent'severe quarantine impos ed at New York on an immigrant ship from Italy, and the stringent precau tions in force in the city, the conclu sion is justified that the Alesia landed her passengers at New Orleans to avoid Jfew York quarantine regulation^, RESUIE OF THE MEWS. Washington News Items. Congressman Mason will introduce a resolution to investigate the charges against the coal 'and sugar trusts. Reports to the navy department from the New York and Norfolk navy yards, where preparations are making to build the great G,000 ton armored war ships, are highly satisfactory. Morey Hale Bartow was found dead in his room in Washington. He was sixty years old, a bachelor, and lived alone thera. The greater part of his time was spent in solitude with his books. The postmaster general has prepared a bill, which will be introduced in the house, materially modifying the present law re lating to permissible writing or printing on the wrappers of second, third .and fourth-class matter. The president spent Christmas Sunday very quietly at the White House. In the morning he and Mrs. Cleveland attended divine service at the Rev. Dr. Sunder* land's church. There were no guests at dinner. The churches all held special services, and they were well attended. The following pensions were granted: Wisconsin—E. Cochran, Oshkosh M. Hohlriali1, Oconomowoc M. Grisworld, Tonuih J. H. Harris, Knapp L. C. Her rick. Sparta B. Smith, Fond du Lac A. B. Franklin. Osseo D. 8. Hawler, Osh kosh A. J. Gould, Oregon. Dakota—C. W. Seelve, Clearwater H. Richardson, Red field. Minnesota—If. A. Baxter, Browns dale A. S. Seelve, Mabel A. Rudall, Was ioja. A statement line been prepared at the penaion office which shows that the aver age length of military service of soldiers in the last war who during the last three months been granted pensions is 2 years, 4 months and 13 days. The average length of service of soldiers in the navy for the same period averages 1 year, 10 months and 3 days. Tho average service of Mexican war claimants under the act ol June the 29, 1887, is shown to be 1 year and 12 days. In widows, Mexican war claims, the service is shown to be 1 year and 24 (lays. Maj. J. M. Wright of Louisville. Kv., has been appointed mnrshal of the United States supreme court, to succeed John J. Nicolav, who retires to devote himself to literary work. The position is one with a ealary of $3,000 a year. Maj. Wright is one of Louisville's best citizens. He i9 a graduate of West Point, and wns at one time on Gen. Buell's staff. He was for some time an editorial writer on the Cour ier-Journal. Afterward he was made su perintendent of the board oi trade, and later president of tho stock exchange. It is stated at the general land office that 5,170 patents under the homestead, pre-emption and other public land laws were issued between the 1st, and 24th of the month. This is a large increase over the record for December, 1SS6. In a few days Commissioner Stockslnzer will as sign at least ten additional clerks to the contest division of the general land office, to work exclusively upon the appealed contests now awaiting action. The force thus argumented, the acting commissioner thinks, will dispose of fully 150 of these cases a month. Fostoffices established: Dakota: Am herst. Marshall county. Wisconsin: Stin nett, Washburn county. Fostoffices dis continued—Dakota: Glenwood, Clay coun ty- Montana: Johnstown, -Choteau county. Postmasters commissioned— Montana: Diamond City, C. M. Ells worth. Wisconsin: Greenville, W. G. Jamison Gresham, G. J. Huhn Glen wood, D. W. Woodward. Fourth-class postmasters appointed—Wisconsin: No ra, J. Thorstad Centerville, S. P. Crist man New Prospect, Bertha K. Rosenthal Paris, Harriett Powell St. Killian, Cath erine Flasch Spuulding, F. Rhodes. Personal News Notes. It is said that Jay Gould never smoked but one cigar. This made him so sick he never tried another. John M. Barclay, for many years jour nal clerk of tho house of representatives, died at Washington. Rev. S. G. Smith, of the First M. E. church, St. Paul, resigns his pastorate to become tho head of an independent peo ple's church. Herr Schett, the German tenor, has de voted the money he earned during his en gagements in America to the erection of a Lutheran church at Abenbeg. P. H. Kelly is on the road to recovery, and improving very rapidly. It is expect ed that he will be able to sit up in a few days. Criminal Calendar. A gang of Kentucky toughs tried to clean out a saloon near Covington, Ky., and are perforated with bullets. A barkeeper who couldn't be bulldozed. A ghastly discovery, recalling deeds similar to those of the Bender family, has been made on a ranch nine miles from Oak City, in No-Man's Land. At Wausau, Wis., while Policeman Drost was trying to arrest Pat Burns, a saloon keeper, lor being drunk and disorderly, Burns was shot and fatally wounded. At Nashville, John J. Littleton, editor of the National review, the leading Repub lican paper of Tennessee, wns shot near his home recently by Joseph R. Banks, a real estate agent. Banka is a Republican, and he and Littleton belong to the oppos ing factions of the Republican party in Tennessee. Percy N. Hatch, the defaulting cashier of tho Baltimore Ohio Express company, is now supposed to be living in Can ada. An examination ol the books show ed that he was short $7,000 to $10,000. Hatch is said to have led a wild life. He was once a resident of St. Paul, and his mother now lives there. Nuggets of Foreign News. The steamer Ludgate Hill, which left London lor New York, has on board a complete menagerie consigned to Messrs. Barnum & Baiiey. Crown Prince Frederich William took an active part in the Christmas festivities to which the members of his household, who are with him, and their attendants, de vote themselves. Premier Norquay and Provincial Treas urer La Riviere have lesigned their port folios. Dr. Harrison, minister of agricul ture, has been chosen by the Tories to succeed Norquay. Advices from Sydney, N. S. W., state that the French commandant ot the New Hebrides has been ordered by his govern ment to evacuate the island in January. A French company is buying land from the natives of the New Hebrides for the pur pose of establishing trading stations. Winnipeg Special: A caucus of Conser vative members of the Manitoba legisla ture was held recently. Norquay and Lar riviere will retire from the ministry and form a government which the late minis ters supported. This, it is thought will allay the hostility to a Conservative ad ministration. The Canadian Pacific railroad has been having hard luck on its mountain divis ion. The rock slide at Sailor Bar bluff, which carried away about 150 feet of bridge, had no sooner been repaired than he bridge at Nicomen was swept away &iiv- necessitated an extension of about 200 iu-t. A dispau-h from Constantinople to the Daily News Bays: "The government Is alarmed at its neighbor's war prepara tions, and the sultan is inquiring as to the advisability of cajling out 50,000 men for Ezeroom and Bulgaria. It is stated that M. Nelidoff, the Russian embassador to Turkey, has informed the porte that un less the indemnity arrears, amounting to £750,000 be paid Russia will be obliged to take pledges in Asia Minor for the pro tection of her interests. The Berlin Tageblatt refers to the recent attempt of a court clique to influence the crown prince to resign in favor of Prince William, his son. The accepted version of the affair credits Prince Bismarck with renewing the pressure on the crown prince by sending Count Von Munster to San Remo, to represent that the gravity of the situation and the imminence of a fateful war necessitate his abdication to enable Prince William to act beside the emperor. The crown prince's reply to this was that so long as ho drew breath he would not surrender his rights or his duties. Record of Casualties. St. Aloysius academy at Yonkers, N. Y., burned to the ground. A Wisconsin Central train was derailed between Fifield and Phillips. One person was killed and fifteen mors or less injured. George Bessey, living fivn miles east of Merrill, Wis., on Pine river, was killed in woods, fie was fslliqg trees, when a ——s— limb struck hie head, crashing a iole in the sknll. At Chicago 28 draft hones and their stables, all belonging to Daniel Corkery, coal dealer, burned. Loss, $15,000 insur ance, 90,000. The family ot Corkery'a foreman narrowly escaped cremation with the horses. Mrs. Maroney was badly cut by glasa in jumping otft through a second- story window. At Fargo a disastrous fire occurred on Northern Pacific avenue.. Among the. buildings destroyed were Hintoon'srestau rant E. E. Cole's building Doyle's stable, owned by Conrtlandt Babcock ot Minneap olis John Hayden'e saloon David Stew art's saloon, and damaged Stanford's feed store. The buildings burned were valued at $34,000 and the contents at 912 600, while the insurance aggregated 922,100. General News Items. Thomas Hanson, ot Black River Falle committed suicide by hanging. The building operations in Minneapolis for 1887 amount to $9,311,372. McNeally, the thieving young bank teller of Saco, Me., was captured on returning from Europe. A large cash donation and other pres ents are sent by New York Catholics to the pope in honor of Ids jubilee. At Columbus, Miss., it was snowing all the afternoon of the 24th, the heaviest pnow fall ever seen in that section. A leading democrat says the two Da* kotas and two other territories will prob ably be let into the union forthwith. President Delano of the National Associ ation urges the wool growers of the United States to organize and fight a reduction of the tariff as proposed by the president. Willam Sehulp, a farmer living on Bells Fourche, was shot and instantly killed ovor a game of cards at Minnesella, Black Hills. An accident on the Minnesota & North western passenger near German Valley. Wis., results iu a general shaking up and bruising of those on board. The Northern Dakota grain warehouse at Montpelier burned with contents. The capacity of the house was 100,000 bushels, and there was that amount ot wheat in store. At Chicago, after forty-eight hours the stream of natural gas which flows through the water main of the Cooke Brewing com pany continues to burn steadily and with somewhat more strength than at first. The twenty-first annual meeting ol the Minnesota State Horticultural society will open at Market hall, Minneapolis, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, and continue for four days—the Minnesota State Amber Cane association meeting in joint seasion on Wednesday, the 18th. At New Bedford, Mass., a deep, rumbling sound, lasting three seconds, accompanied by a tremor of the earth, was noticed shortly after midnight. The disturbance aroused the people from their sleep. The shock was felt at Acushnel and the towns in that vicinity. The probabilities are that a match will soon be made for a glove contest between Jack Dempsey and Dominick McCaffrey. McCaffrey is now in Philadelphia,but when in New York recently asserted that he was anxious to meet Dempsey. Indeed,he offer ed to guarantee Dempsey $500. Dempsey does not think $500 sufficient. New York Special: A tall, handsome girl named Mary Calligan is missing, aud her friends fear that her mysterious disap pearance is connected in some unexplained manner with William C. Rhinelander, a member of one ot the wealthiest Knicker bocker families ot this city, who shot Law. yer Drake, and Was tried and acquitted by the jury. The loggers have been feeling rather dubious over the prolonged warm weather. I has drawn the frost out ot the ground and leaves it in a soft condition. It was hoped that a hard freeze would come be fore the snow, but such was not the case. The loggers who have campB situated near railroads and have short hauls will not suffer so much in getting their supplies. Two young people from Montana are wed in the National Park in sight of tbe incense-breathing hymen terraces. It was a most romantic marriage. The par ty drove at a brisk trot three miles from Cinnabar until they were within the sa cred, domain in sight of theTerrace mount ain. The mother gave away her child and H. E. Klamer gave away Mr. Allen. Tho committee of gentlemen who have charge of the fund to purchase and present a residence to the widow of the late Gen. W. S. Hancock, expect that the amount will be subscribed immediately. It IN stated that $15,000 has been subscribed by friends of the late general and the com mittee hopes to secure the remainder re quired in time to present Mrs. Hancock the houso that .has been selected during the holidays. At Shamokin, Pa., all coal and freight trains on the Mahanoy & Shamokin divis ion of the Reading railroad have been stopped, and the men are firm in their de termination to move no traffic. Owing to the Christmas holidays there Is little or no coal at the mines for shipment. Tbe gen eral opinion in this region is that the strike now in the Lehigh region and this one will be adjusted in the course ot sever al weeks. For weeks past J. W. Coffee, a living skejeton, has been on exhibition at De troit, announcing in his advertisements that he had a fortune and was desirous of marrying. The matter was looked upon as a huge joke until Saturday the 24th, when Coffee and his manager repaired to the county clerk's office and procured a marriage license, the victim being Miss Eva Courtwright, daughter of a farmer living ten miles weat of that city. Miss Courtwright is quite good-looking, and be fore this craze struck her was accredited with ordinary common sense. Death of Ex-Secretary Manning. Hon. Daniel Manning, Ex-Secretary ot the Treasury, died at Albany on the 24th, Soon after 1 o'clock his son, JameBS. Man ning, saw that the end was close at hand. Members of the family in other parts ol the house were quickly summoned. At 1:20 Mr. Manning's eyes were turned on those about him. Then they closed and life ebbed away. The news of the death of Mr. Manning spread throughout the city and everywhere sincere sorrow was ex pressed. Flags on all the principal state state and municipal buildings were at once placed at halt-mast. After the partial paralysis which occurred in March, 1886, a thorough medical examination resulted in the dis covery that ho was suffering from chronic Bright's disease complicated with hypertrophy and degeneration of the heart, and that the paralysis was probably due to a hemorrhage into the brain. There was no recurrence of the paralysis, and his mind remained perfectly clear to the last. The usual official notice of his death was taken at Albany and Washington, and in addition thereto, the Presi dent sent the following telegram to Mrs. Manning: Though in this hour of unutterable grief your sorrow is too sacred to be shared, and too deep to bo reached by earthly comfort, may I express to you my sincere and tender sympathy, saddened by my own affliction at the loss of a true and trusted friend and associate who, but lately, stood at my side in the discharge with patriotic zeal of solemn public duty. GBOVEU CLEVELAND. Rather a Bad Egg Is Brother Par ker. About ten weeks ago a gentleman of pleasant address about forty years old named F. H. Parker, secured a position as travelingsalesman with an Omaha whole sale house, and shortly after handed in a letter to the Methodist church. Hewassoon recognized as one ol the most devout com municants. A handsome widow named Mrs. Lgclede came to Omaha from Chicago and also united with tbe church. Brother Parker soon began paying his addresses to her. She took a particular fancy for the elegant home of A. J. Poppleton on Spruce street, and he promised to deed it to her if she would marry him. She consented, and tho ceremony was performed on Thanks giving day. He made her the deed he had promised, but when she went to have it re corded she found it was worthless. The -church had about $1,000 coming to it in the way of pledges, and Brother Parker was asked to collect it. Hs did eo, and about two weeks ago disappeared, leaving his wife and the deluded church members in the lurch. White Beaver's Pseudo Son. White Beaver of La Crosse warns the public against a swindler now traveling through the Northweet claiming to be his son. White Beaver has no eons drunken confidence and the fellow claiming each relationship is a man whose proper home is tbe Penitentiary. F1FT1ET1 69HKSS. Abatraot of tho Proceedings otthe Senate and House. Senator Cell renewed Us notion to Brint in the Record the memorial of the tab consitional convention. Edmunde and Call indulged in a sarcastic personal dispute over the motion and finally Mr. Call said the memorial having been read by him, it would neceesarily be printed in the Record. Ae he did not desire to provoke any further contention in tbe matter be withdrew hie reeoiution. Mr. Blair encceeded, by a vote of 37 to 15, in inducing the eenate to make his educa tional bill tbe regular order of business. The nay vote was as follows: Bate, Beck, Butler, CockrelL Faulkner, Gorman, Gray, Harris. Hawley, Hearst, Morgan, Reagan, Saulsbury and Vest- Senator Dayis of Minneeotamade his first report from the cqmmittee on pensions, presenting with favorable recommenda tions the bills granting 92,000 pension to the widows ol John A. Logan and Frank P. Blair. He asked immediate considera tion for the bills. Berry of Arkansas ob jected to the Logan bill and Gorman to the Blair bill, and they bad to go over. Berry objects to this character of bills, be lieving that ths widows of private soldiers should fare as well as the widows of major generals. Gorman objscted because Sena tor Vest, who has taken a strong interest in the bill, wae out ot the chamber at the time. The senate has removed the injunction of secrecy from the following nominations, which were confirmed on the 15th inst: Charles 8. Fairchlld, New York, secre tary of the, treasury George L. Rives, New York, assistant secretary of state Isaac H. Maynard, New York, assistant secretary ot the treasury James W. Hyatt, Connecticut, United 8tates treas urer Bayliss W. Hanna, Indiana, minis ter to the Argentine Republic Alexander S. Lawton, Georgia, minister to Austria Hungary. Senator Beck introduced a bill to pro vide that every person who carrias on the business ot a retail dealer in liquor, manu facturer ot tobacco, enutf or cigars,or deal er in tobacco,without havingpaid aapecial tax therefor shall be liable to a fine ot $500 or imprisonment in a jail, without hard labor, of not more than one year. Mr. Teller, from the committee on pub lic lands reported to the senate a bill to quiet title of settlers on the Dee Moines river lands. Placed on tbe calendar. Mr. Morgan, as a member of that committee, expressed his dissent to the reporting of the bill. He concurred in the viewe ex pressed by the president in his veto of this same bill last congress. HODSB. Mr. Barnnm, of Pennsylvania, ottered a preamble and resolntlon reciting that it is currently reported that the coal operators in the Lehigh region are now importing, or are about to import 2,000 Belgian miners to take the place of miners now on a strike in that section, and requesting the treas ury department to prevent the land ing of the Belgian miners, and to see that the law against the Importation of labor*under contract it strictly enforc ed. Referred to committee on labor. Propositions to increase the membership ot the committee on rule to seven, and to provide tor a committee on the American isthmns were respectively introduced by Messrs. Townsena and Baker, of Illinois, tind referred to the committee on rules. Delegate Gilford presented iu the house tho petition of the late convention ot soldiers and sailors at Woonsocket, Dak., praying for a law providing that all pensions shall date from the beginning of tbe disability for which they are allowed. SENATE. Mr. Allison in the senate called up the holiday recess resolution, and moved its adoption. Mr. Plumb opposed tbe resolu tion because he thought that the-proposed recess was against tne public interest. As long and tedious political debate sprung up after which the adjournment resolution was concurred in—yeas, 11 Republicans and 26 Democratee: nays, 17 Republicans and 2 Democrats. A bill was introduced by Sen ator Ingalls to amend seetion 6 of the act tor the adjustment of railroad land grants so as to provide that when the lands in question have been sold for state and county taxes and the grant aft erwards forfeited,the purchasers of the land shall have for one year a prior right to pur chas tbe lands from the United States at the goverment price. Senator Spoener, from the committee on public buildings and grounds, reported favorably a bill for ths «r«ctlou .i» lie building at Milwaukee, the cost of the site and building not toexeeed $1,200,000, or 91,100,000 in case the eite of the pres ent building in that city is unused. Mr. 8pooner ottered a resolution in the senate, which was adopted, inetructing the committee on privileges and elections to inquire into tne expediency ot tbe adop tion by the eenate (for the guidance ot the executives ot the several states) of a form of credentials ot the election ot United States ssnators. The senate has passed a bill tbe purpose of which is to place the United States fish commission upon a permanent basis. Hitherto, the fish commission has been a sort of charity annex to the Smithsonian institution. HOtiSB The house has adopted the main body of last year's rules with some minor changes and unimportant additions. The contest over the new propositions goes over until after the hollidays. There is Btill an additional propossd change. It is that tbe printing of the Congressional Record be abolished, and that the number of copies of each public bill to be printed shall be reduced from 1,900 to 500. Mr. Randall, from tbe committee on rules, submitted a partial report, whfch recommended the adoption of the rules of the Forty-ninth congress until further or* der, with the following changes: A stand-, ing committee is established to consist of fifteen members to be known ssf the committee on merchant marine^ nnd fisheries. The addition ot the representation ot a delegate on the com mittee on privato land claims is recom mended. Private bills are to be presented through the clerk aud given proper refer ence by that officer. Tho following select committees are provided for: On reform in the civil service, to consist of thirteen members on election of president and vice president and representatives in congress to consist of thirteen members on the eleventh census, to consist ot thirteen members on Indian depredation claims, to consist oi thirteen members on the alcoholic liquor traffic, to consist of eleven members. Mr. Randall explained the proposed changes, which he stated were, with one exception, recommended by the unanimous vote ol the committee on rules. That exception was the recommendation tor the appoint ment of the special committee on the al coholic liquor traffic. Reed, Cannon and himself constituted the majority of the committee on this question. The report was adopted. BENATE. The following special eenate committee to investigate the condition ot the fivo eivilized Indian tribes has been appointed: Messrs. Butler, Morgan, Dawee, Cameron and Teller. The senate took up the resolution in troduced by Mr. Dolph proposing a con stitutional amendment on the eubject ot marriago and divorce, and prohibiting bigamy and polygamy. The proposed amendment is in the following words: Congress shall havs power to legislate on the subject ot marriage and divorce by general laws applicable alike to all states and territories and neither bigamy nor polygamy shall exist, or be permitted within the United States or any place sub ject to their jurisdiction. Mr. Dolph spoke in support of the reso lution, which was ordered to lie on the table- Senator Voorhees introduced a bill to extend the laws of the United 8tates, ex cept those providing lor pre-emption, tim ber culture and desert land entries of the public lands, over tho public land strip, south of the Indian Territory. It creatcs the land district of Cimarron. 8enator Dolph introduced a bill to pro vido for the payment of claims for dam ages by Indian depredations. He said that there were some 4,500 each claims, ngregating some fourteen or fifteen million dollars. HOUSE. The moet important modification ot the rules adopted by the houee, wae that which provides for eending private bills to the committee without requirini them to be read by their titles in the hearing of the house. This will result in saving an enor mous quantity of good printing paper. The house has adjourned until Jan. 4, and only two committees—elections and rules have been announced. The general belief is that the new Democratic members of the ways and mean* committee will be 8. S. Cox of New York, Mr. Turner of Georgia and Mr. Gay ot Louisiana. Mr. Qay is a protectionist, at least with retard to sugar, ST. PAUL IOK PALAOB. The management of the carnival associ ation Is working diligently for the encceee ot ths coming event. It ie tho desire of the aeeociation that the third earaival should be a galaxy of attractions never before witneeeed, from the opening of tbe gates on Wedaeeday moraine, Jan. 25, to tbe dosing et the came on Saturday evening, Feb. 4, as far as possible avoiding a repiti toon ot what has already been produced. The revised programme is ss follows: Wednssday Morning—Reception ot visit ing clube reception of lee King at 2 p. m. line ot march from SeVen Corners, where the chief of the Northland will he met and eecorted to his palace by way of Third, 8ibley, Sixth, Minaceota, Eleventh and Robert etreets. The mayor and council, county officers, governor, staff aad state officers, Gen. Ruger and etatf, visiting guests and officers of the carnival will re ceive hie royal highness with appropriate ceremonies. 8peeehee of welcome, freedom of the city, keye ot the palace, will be quickly exchanged atod the lee King (Hon. £. W. Durant, Stillwater,) will be turned loose on the town. In the evening, the formal opening ot the grounds, toboggan ing, skating and other amusement*. Thursday—Gatee open at 2:80 p. m. equipage display at 4:80 p. m., from 8even corners down Third to Sibley, up 8ixth to Minnesota, thenee to the grounde, returning by way of Robert, Eighth and 8ibley to Third street bande in attendance during 'the day and evening skating, eurling, to bogganing, skiing, ete. Evening—Indian enow shoe racing also races by Indians and white meu. Friday—The great international races, snow-shoeing, curling, tobogganing and skating. Evening, first storming ot the ice palace line of march eameae that already g(ven Col. Robertson will relate the scien tific research and labor be has been to in order to produce tbe fireworks, manufac tured expressly for the occasion. Saturday—Children's day juvenile pro cession, tiny clube in uniform and schools in procession, their reception and enter tainment, words ot wisdom, sugar-coated pony and dog sleighs in procession. Even ing, spicy programme of club amuse ments. 8unday—Grounds open free no exhibi tions. Monday—Old settlers' day every old timer in the state invited Indian proces sion and display of dogs. Prises awarded to the persons making the greatest num ber of toboggan slidee in a given time Red river carte display. Tuesday—A morning of sports parade from the Seven Corners at 2 p. m. exhibi tion of floats, etc. Evening, band concert exhibition of winter sports. Wednesday—Industrial parade line of march from Seven Corners to the grounds it will be tho most colossal display of the kind ever witnessed on either continent. Evening, sham battle between Chippewas and Sioux Indians, to be followed bj the scalp dance illumination ot the palace by colored lights promenade concert. Thursday—Minneapolis day fireworks aud exhibition of cluos competition drills and athletic exercises. Evening, storming, followed by a waterfall, in honor of our honored guests "Fire King" arrives. Friday—Secctid gala day and prize day of equipages. Evening, left open tor carni val balls at ths request of charitable socie ties. Saturday—1Grand jubilee Children's day the close of the third earnival. Bad Railroad Aocldents on the Wisconsin Central and on the Minnesota and Northweatern. On Friday the 23d, a Wisconsin Central train jumped the track below Ashland be tween Fifield and Phillips. The accident resulted from a broken rail. Every car of the train—the baggage, smoker, day coach and sleeper—left the track and were piled up among the big pines of the forest. The track was left clear of debris. August Man toi, who took the train at Butternut, at tempted to get out of a window, but was caught as tbe car toppled over and was crushed to death. Conductor J. H. Green field, in charge of the train, was caught be tween the seats of the smoker while pass ing through and held prisoner for a long time. He has serious internal injuries, probably fatal. Mason, one of the pas sengers of the train, who sat in the seat with Mr. Mantoi, who was killed, says that he tried to get out of the window feet first just as the day coach careened, and that he wae literally torn to pieces. Fif teen other were more or less injured, in cluding Mr. Baker, a millwright, Mrs. Sul livan, wife ot a conductor, George Clemens of Detroit, M. Mohoney of Ashland, etc. On the same day a bad accident haoDen ecl to tbe Minnesota & Northwestern pas senger train with a large excursion party bound tor Canadian points. About thir teen miles from Freeport, 111., near Ger man Valley Station, the train encountered a broken rail, and the cars, seven in num. ber, were all hurled down the twelve-foot embankment on either side. One of the cars was thrown fully fifty feet and turned completely endways. All the other cars but one were thrown over on their sides down tbe embankment. There were nearly 150 passengers on board ths, train. It is somewhat remarkable that not a passenger was killed, though a large num ber of them were bruised, and among them thofollowing: John Cayley.son of M. Cay ley, Minto, Dak. A. Schrimiger, St. Paul A. Kemp, Devil'sXake.Dak. Mrs. William Wood, Forest Kiver, Dak. J. W. Mayer, Minto, Dak. Mrs. James Brett, Park Riv er, Dak. B. F. Mason, Minneapolis Mrs. B. F. Mason. Minneapolis John Costello, Minto, Dak. M. Cailey,Minto, Dak. James A.Ward. Minneapolis E. A. Lilley, Minneap olis A.Feltenstein.ChicugojMrs.Frank Une, Dubuque W. L. Hoover, Battineau, Dak. Daniel Volleck, Le Sueur, Minn., bruised back and head. L. W. Young, Chicago, leg hurt Mrs. Cleopatra Mayhew, Cavilier, Dak. G. F. Andrews, St. Paul, W. Lemon, St. Thomas, Dak. James A. Cunningham, Lordsburg, Dak. Thomas Athinson, Will iam City, Dak. Andrew Laing, Pembina, Dak. Eugene Fish, Mouse River, Dak. A. Msrcellne, Olga, Dak. Sam Flood, Chicago, bead hpakeman of train, ribs broken and injuries. OairofSthe coaches caught fire, but the flamee were extinguished by the train men before they gained any headway. The loss to the railroad com pany will probably aggregate near 9150, 000. Engineer L. D. Holder of Chicago had charge ot the locomotive. Ho says that the train was going at the rate of twenty-two mile an hour. At the spot where the wreck occurred the track crosses a creek, and also makes a sharp curve. This, coupled with the tact that it is down grade, confirms the railroad men in the opinion that a spread rail was the probable cause of tbe disaster. The United 8tates the Greatest Mineral Producer In the World. The United States geological survey, Maj. J. W. Powell, director, has issued tne statistics of the production of minerals during 1886. The report gives primarily the production and value of every promi^n^A^Diineral substance mined in the&U&tM States and in addition a compi|criMtement of prices, sources of Bupply and j|e technical matters which proved important during the year. It ap pears that the total value of the mineral products, taken as nearly as possible at the points ot production, was more than $465,000,000 the largest minsral produc tion yet recorded in any country. In 1885 the value was about $429,000,000. Many substances shared in this in crease, but particularly iran and steel, which alone showed an increase ot $30,009,000. In 1885 bitumi nous coal .was the most valuable mineral product, hut in 1886 it was passed by pig iron, which had a higher total value than silver and gold combined. Wonderful progress is shown in ths use ot natural gas, 'tho consumption being more than double that of 1885 and twenty times that of 1883. It is estimated that the value ot the coal displaced by natural gas in 1886 wae more than 99.800,000. This is slightly lese than halt the valuo ot the petroleum. Another Amerloan Cardinal. Boston Journal: An interesting rumor \thich comes from Rome and is credited by the Catholie clergy of Boston, is that an incident of the eelebration of the pope'e jubilee next month will be the ele vation of Archbishop Williams of Boston to the rank of cardinal. The rumor goes further in asserting the intended transfer of Bishop McMahon of Hartford to Boston as condjntrr to Archbishop Williams, and the raising of Vicar General Byrne of Boston to the episcopacy, with Hartford as his see. Bishop McMahon was reared in Charlestown, where he wai one ot the firat two boye to be graduated from the high school in 1852. His brother,the Rev. John W. McMahon is now pastor of St. Mary's church, Charlestown. Until official action is announced there will be no means of verifying the rumor, but its origin is such as to lead those who are conversant with the ueual course ot such matters to actoept it as foreshadowing correctly the course of IIMESOTA STATE IEWS. 'Several boys have been arrested and punished at Faribault for disturbing a meeting of the Qoepel Army. This affair caused a call from all the Qoepel people to the governor for assistance. On the Southern Minnesota railroad, two trains telescoped, killing Engineer Bucklin. Bucklin lived in Austin, and leavee a wife and two children. En gineer 8earles, of the other train, was se verely but not fatally injured. A blinding snow etorm wae prevailing, and Bucklin supposed be was at least two miles east ot Lakefield instead of at the station. At Rochceter, Robert Robinson, found guilty of larceny, wae cent to Stillwater for 18 months. Allen Wilson, convicted of forgery,was also sentenced to 18 months in the penitentiary. At Currie, Murray county, Jndge A. D. Perkins filed his decision in the mandamus eases against County Auditor Weld and Register of Deeds Johnson which cases were argued at the last term of conrt. He orders that a peremptory writ of mandamus shall be issued to compel an immediate return of the offices and books from Slayton to Currie. Whether the defendante can or will take an appeal to the supreme eonrt has not yet been found out. The board of trustees of the proposed insane asylum at Fergus Falls-met in St. Paul and opened bids for the erection of the building. Nine bids were received, but all exceeded 950,000, the amount voted for the purpose by the last legislature. The members ol the board present were: Ex-Gov. Barto, Sauk Center Burr Deuel. Dodge Center John F. Meagher, Mankato William Schimmel and A. L. Backet. St. Peter H. B. Strait, 8hakopee M. R. Tyler und C. D. Wright, Fergus Falls. .. Agent Shehan is disbursing the annnities to the Indians of the various reservations. The Leech Lakes were paid over 97,800, the full amount of annuity, but no part of their long-claimed damages from over-flow ed lands has been paid. Presbyterians, outside the parish of Shiloh church in Northeaat Minneapolis, will learn with sorrow ot the death of Rev. E. B. Caldwell, which occurred on the 20th. Charles Peterson, employed in Henry Sharer's lumber camp, a tew miles north west of Brainerd, wae injured, probably fatally, by a load of saw logs running over him. Red Wing 8pecial: A young lad from Mankato, hardly out of knee-breeches, was detained here, having left hie home with the intention of joining the "Fun in a Boarding School" troupe. Cafft. Ed. S. Bean, the popular com manding officer of Company D, First regi ment, M. N. G., was quietly married to Miss Lizzie A. Bennett of St. Paul. R. W. Jordon, a prominent real estate dealer in Minneapolis, commits suicide. Senator M. S. Wilkinson met with a tall a few days since, which has confined him to his house since. He is on the gain-again. At Brainerd, J. H. Hallett, the post trader, has received and shipped B30 sad dles of venison with more to come in from thp November killing. There was quite a large fire at Monte video, a few days ago. The losses were as follows: T. L. Cousino, building, 92,000 household goods, 9400 insured $500 Clark & Utley, grocery stock, $1,500, no insurance W. F. Kusell, building, $2,200, stock $1,000, insurance $1,300 Wm. Al len. household gqods, $500, insurance $150. T. T. Mork, building, $2,000 no insurance Misses Hoffman, household goods. $500 no insurance J. M. Severns, stock, $1,300 insurance, $500. The fire originated from defective flue. News was received by Attorney General C'liipp fro in St. Peter that the district court in the Ninth district had rendered judgment in favor of defendant in the case of Conrad Bohn against the State of Min nesota for $10,000 which he claims was duo him on a contract for building the hos pital for the insane at St. Peter in 1881. A bill was introduced in the senate last winter asking for an appropriation for Hohn's relief but, owing to a strenuous fight made by Senators Ives and Daniels, it was defeated and a substitute passed, authorizing the appropriation if the dis trict court found the claim a just one. Rarely has any criminal court room wit nessed a more dramatic and painful spec tbcle than that presented in Minneapolis, when Henry Barrett deliberately repeated in evidence his confession convicting his bruilMr Tim of cold-blooded murder, in the face of the brother himself and the rest of tbe Barrett family. Henry's story was circumstantial and complete, and it not broken down by the defense or disbe lieved by the jury, it will place Tim Bar rett in an awkward position, and Henry in one scarcely more inviable. Vice Consul Sahlgaard at St. Paul, re ceived a letter from Baron L. Reutersk jold, Swedish minister at Washington, an nouncing that the decoration of knight of the Order of Wasa bad been conferred up on Mr. Sahlgaard by his gracious majesty, the king of Norway aad Sweden, in acknowl edgment of his distinguished services to that country. Mr. Sahlgaard has been vice consul of tbe Scandinavian dominion for about ten years. At Caledonia, the postoffice, depot and Clem Hundt's saloon were burglarized. An attempt was made on the safes, but with no serious results, and $120 was all that was secured. Some 150 liquor dealorsot St. Paul have applied for $1,000 license. J. R. Woodward, second lieutenant, Company C, Second regiment, Winona, has handed in his resignation, to take effect Dec. 22. It was accepted by Adjt. Gen. Seeley on recommendation of Col. Bobleter. H. A. Willard ot Red Wing passed a creditable examination for the position of second lieutenant of Company G, First regiment. "I think it is impracticable and visiona ry," said P. D. Armour at Chicago when a schome from St. Paul was proposed to him. Some St. Paul men are talking about slaughtering cattle in transit to sea board. "I think tbe scheme is impractica ble," said Mr. Armour, "but is hardly worth consideration, as there are no hogs to be had from up that way." At the solicitation ot his congregation Dr. Seaver decides to remain in charge ol the Park Church in St. Paul, and it is sup posed the scheme to get Rev. Sam Smith into that pulpit has collapsed. The Winona Herald publishes its annual review of the milling interest in that city. During the past four ears the flour mills of that city have ground nearly 900,000 barrels fcf flour, and bandied over 5,000, 000 bushels of grain. J. Panchot of Hastings, will go into training alter the holidays to enter an in ternational six days' pedestrian race, to come off at the Madison Square Garden, New York City, on Feb. 5. One thousand dollars will be given (extra) to the man who brakes tho record—610,miles (Fit* gerald's). Engineer W. B. Bucklin, who wae killed in the railroad accident at Isnours, on the Southern Minnesota division, lived in Austin, having moved Irom Wells last spring and built there. He only lived fifteen minutes after tbe accident. He leaves a wife and 'two children. Hon. Charles Kittelson was pleasantly surprised by a call from his friends in St. Paul, it being the fiftiethSannivereary of his birth. Probably no body of water in the North west affords better ecope for ice boating than Lake Pepin, and since it closed in this fall the Conditions have been favor able up to this date for the enjoyment ol that exhilarating amueement. The board of civil service commissioners announces the following dates for holding examinatione in Minnesota during 1888: St. Paul, Saturday, April 14 Brainerd, Tuesday, April 17 St. Paul, Monday, Nov. 26 Mankato, Wednesday, Nov. 28. In the case of Carrie Glenn againet Will iam J. Glenn, Judge Simons of St. Paul has granted a decree of separation to the plaintiff, and has ordered the defendant to pay $25 a month for the eupport of the plaintiff and her child, beginning the firet Monday in January. At Winnebago City, the handeome reei dence of Postmaster A. B. Davie was burned the family were abeent at the time. Loss $15,000 partially insured. Senator Davis has been appointed con sulting trustee of the reform school at Washington for four years. Mrs. Theresa Wierwalt ot, 8outh 8t. Paul was adjudged insane In the probate court, and committed to the Rochester asylum. Tho senate has confirmed the nomination of William Lee as postmaster of 8t. Paul. At St. Paul, a bold thief breakee the show window of Bergh'e jewelry store and escapee with $1,000 worth of jewelry at 7 I o'clock ia ths 4Venin{. A C4AIRYOYA1VT ORAU SM Tlmmgk a XKaa*s WeaS. AU rn«lctaisDoath. From the New York Sua. "Do I bslievs in olairvoyantsT" said a well known citizen of Rahway, tor marly a medical student, recently. '*1 cannot say that I do, but I was one* almost ready to believe in them. In the year 1845 the building at the southeast corner of Barclay and Church streits, New York, which ia now a factory, was occupied as a pri vate boarding house. As the location suitfcd my convenience, I engaged* room there, and took possession of it one Saturday about the middle of January. Among my fellow-boarders was Dr. Hathaway, a surgeon of the United States army, who had been on duty at the hospital on Staten Island. During my first evening at the house a young laay visitor was present, who was introduced to me simply as Mary. She was blind. I had listened but a short time to the conversation of those people before I learned that they were almost monomaniacs on the subject of mesmerism, and I afterward learned that the bling girl Mary was a clairvoy ant subject of Dr. Le Grand, a well known French physician, whoprofessed to cure diseases by mesmerism. "Before retiring that night I went out to a restaurant in Pane Row fora plate of oysters. When 1 returned to the boarding house, having been gone a little over naif an hour,* the front door, which I had carefully fastened, was wide open, lights were glancing about, and there were sounds of con fusion in the upper part of the house. I was told that lr. Hathaway had had a fit, and that Dr. Van Duren,Dr. Journal. Jere Dunn ia one of the bad men of New York city. He is a man of invin cible courage, and gamblers and fight ers of every degree are in absolutefear of him. *It is not only because he killed Elliott and Hughes, but because he is known to be always armed, quick as a flash, and utterly ignorant of the meaning of the word fear. If Dunn happened to be a little more refined in manner, he would be a double of the gambler John Oakhurst,-whom Brete Harte introduced in so many of his early sketches. He is usually called a handsome man. He has a square face, a well-trimmed dark beard, parted in the middle, and he always wears a perfectly-fitting frock coat and a high hat. The expression oi his face is stern, alert and fixed. He is as tranquil as a wooden Indian. The first time the writer ever saw him was immediately after the killing ol Elliott in Chicago. A party was goins to a prize fight in Flushing, ana among fifty or sixty persons present there were about forty of the toughest citizens of New York. On the way down to the grounds on the boat th one subject of conversation was the death of Elliott, and vengeance loud and deep on Dunn was pronounced everywhere. It was said that h« would never dare to come to New York again. While the crowd was waitinj for the principals to appear, then was a rustle, a whisper and a move ment among the toughs as their eye« turned on Jere Dunn, who suddenly walked in among them as calm, col lect od and unmoved as over. He wai correctly dressed, evidently in admire able health, and he looked around at the scowling faces without a trace oi embarrassment or apprehension. At Toledo, Ohio, OOO.OGO V. H. Ketchum, Jr., twenty-two years old, baa recently come into r""Beas on ot a property worth Mark Twain Child 1 Par ker and anotherphysician whose name I can not recall, had been sent for and were in attendance. Finding I could be of no service, I went to Ded, and next morning the landlady informed me that the Doctor's fit was a slight attack of apoplexy, unaccompanied with paralysis, and that he would probably be all right in a few days. He was not all right, however, either in a few days or a few weeks. "Before tne end of the month I mov- found Dr. Hathaway seated in his room in an invalid chair, not quite cheerful, but apparently not ailing much, although ne complained of a slight pain in the right side of his head. As I was leaving tne house the land lady drew me into her room and ask ed me what I thought of Dr. Hatha way's case. My reply was: 'TheDoc tor is doing well. If he will get out and take moderate exercise ne will soon be entirely well.' "She shook her head mournfully, and said: 'He will never get out again. He will never leave that room alive.' 'What reason have you for such a melancholy supposition?' I asked. 'Mary says so.' 'What! Has Mary been frighten ing you with her flummery?" I asked. "'No Mary has not been in the house since the night you met her here," she replied. 'At Dr. Hathaway's re quest I went to consult her at Dr. Le Grand's office. She went into a trance and examined Dr. Hathaway. She says that the inside of the skull, on the right side, is all sore and ulcerated, and that there are three lumps on the right side of his brain as large as hick ory nuts that he will never Mt over it that it will all be over with him by the 1st of May, and that you will be pres ent at the post mortem examination.' 'Me?' 'You.' 'What suggested such an idea as that?" "I don't know. She sometimes takes great interest in strangers she casually meets. She knows a great deal about your future.' "The fortune telling charlatan." I thougbt. Of course I was a trifle too polite to express my opinion aloud, and after a few commonplace remarks took my leave. "Duringthe next month my mind was otherwise so much occupied that I al most entirely forgot the afflicted phy sician: but on the last day of April, when I sat down to my dinner, I was startled to find on my plate a note an nouncing Dr. Hathaway's death, and inviting me to be present at a post mortem examination at 10 o'clock next morning. When I entered the death chamber at the appointed hour I found several eminent physicians and surgeons assembled there. Dr. Moses, who was then demonstrator of anat omy at the university of New York, was conducting the autopsy: When the top df the cranium was removed from the brain, and handed around for inspection what was my surprise to see that the lining membrane on the right side had been extensively inflamed, exactly as the blind clairvoyant had described, and further, upon cutting into the substance of the brain on the right side, three large tubercles were found, a rare and remarkable patho logical condition. "That was very remarkable." "Yes, but at the funeral I chanced to ride in the same carriage with a rel ative of the deceased, who told me that a sister of Dr. Hathaway had died some years before, after suffer about the same length of time with similar symptoms, and that the same pathological conditions had been found on post mortem examinations." Glimpse of an Attractive Mur derer. Kcw York Correspondence Albany Evening* 92,- He has organised a female minstrel troupe, with which he will take the road ia a few days. Mr. Ketehum's lamllj s«io\Mly Object to Hit flutMpfa* For whippings are not given in out houso for revenge they are not pvai.^ for spite nor even in anger: they arf given partly for punishment, but main-1*-* ly by way of impressive reminder, a protector against a repetition of thj offense. The interval between thj promise of a whipping qnd its inflio tion is usually an hour or two. By that time both parties are calm, and the one is judicial, the other receptive. The child never goes from the scene o! punishment until it has been loved back into happy-heartedness and a joyful spirit. The spanking is never cruel, but it is always an honest one. It hurts.. It hurts the child, imagine how it must hurt the mother. Her spirit is serene, tranquil. She has not the support which is afforded by anger. Every blow she strikes the child bruis hes her own heart. The mother of my children adores them—there is no milder term for it and they wor ship her they even worship any thing which the touch of ber hand has made sacred. They know her for tho best and truest friend they have ever had, or ever shall lurve they know her one who never did them a wrong, and cannot do them a wrong who never told them a lie nor the shadow of one who never deceived them by even an ambiguous gesture who never gave them an unreasonable command, nor ever contented herself with anything short of a perfect obedience who has always treated them as politely and considerately as she would the best and oldest in the land, and has al ways required of them gentle speech and courteous conduct toward all of whatsoever degree, with whom they chanced to come in contact they know her for one whose promise, whether of reward or punishment, is gold, and always worth its face, to the uttermost farthing- In a word, they know her, and I know her, for the best and dearest mother that lives— and by a long, long way the wisest. You perceive that I have never got down to where the mother in the tale really asks the question. For the rea son that Icannotrealizethesituation. The spectacle of that treacherously reared boy, and that wordy, namby pamby father, and that weak, namby pamby mother, is enough to make one ashamed of his species. And, if I could cry, I would cry for the fate of that poor little boy—a fate which has cruelly placed him in the hands and at the mercy of a pair of grown-up children, to have his dispositionruined, to come up ungo.vernea, and be a nui sance to himself and everybody about him, in the process, instead of bein^the solacer of care,the disseminator of hap piness, the glory and honor and joy of the house, the welcomest face in all tbe world to them that gave him being—as he ought to be, was sent to be, and would be, but for the hard fortune that flung him into the clutches of the paltering incapables. In all my life I have never made a single reference to my wife in print be fore, as far I can remember, except in the dedication of a book and so after these fifteeen years of silence, perhaps, I may unseal my lips this one time without impropriety or indelicacy. I will institute one other novelty: I will send this manuscript to the press without her knowledge, and without asking her to edit it. This will save it getting edited into the stove.— Mark Twain in the Christian Union. Fashiona In Dancing. "There has been a great improvement in the style of dancing in England dur ing the last three or four years," sayc the London Graphic. "The fashion oi mad gallops and waltzing which resem bles the charges of foot-ball players,has temporarily gone out, and tho" valse I trois temps has come back into favor. Shall we ever see a resurrection of th« old minuet, which so perfectly conveyed the poetry of motion? It is a rather cer* monioos dance for these times, but a little cultivation of that courtliness ol demeanor which first gave rise to the term "ball room manners" would per haps do some of our English youth na harm. Beau Nash would have bees scandalized at the style in which manj of our young gentlemen bob their heads instead of bowing, and we doubt wheth er the curtesys of our best-trained young ladies would muster before his critical eye. There is a cubbishness in some youngsters which maket them ashamed to be graceful in deport ment before ladies. They are graceful enough in their athletic sports, theii riding, rowing and cricket, for in these pursuits grace is called "formbut no form has yet been set up as a standard to bo attained in ball room6. So we see young fellows who are very Apollos with their zephyrs, on shrink up into slouching figures when they put on their dress-coats and shamble forward with awkward .gaits to ask a girl ro dance just as if they were afraid of be ing laughed at. Yet we have nevei heard of a really well-mannered and graceful dancer being laughed at even by the most gawkish contemner of so ciety pastimes. Perhaps if the fashior of slow dancing is kept up for a fen yes.rs longer it will lead naturally to a revival of the ^.*aco which comes from carefully executed movements, and the result will be seen in a greater polish ol manners ontside the ball-rooms as well as in them." Wooden Hailway Ties. Wooden ties for railways are becom ing more expensive every year, and the time is coming when possibly some sub stitute will have to be devised for them. The chief engineer of the Beading rail road is about to try some experiments with steel ties. They would be the same in size and shape as the present wooden ties, except that they would be hollow and they would practically last until-they rusted away, while the best oak ties last only about eight years. Some of the advantages claimed for the steel ties are that the expense of main taining the track would be largely re duced, the road-bed would be firmer smoother, and trains could ran at much higher speed over them. The wear and tear on track and rolling stock would also be lessened, because the track is smoother. For these reasons trains could run faster without increasing the expense proportionately. The Heal Holer of Canada, The central figure in the Canadian parliament is also the greatest figure in Canada. He is Sir John A. Macdonald, the real ruler of Canada, with but a short interruption, for twenty-fiveyears, and the greatest man British North America has produced. Other politici ans are there, a dozen of them, who have been knighted by the queen, but immaad- «d by the queen, while lie than, bight Conuni er of the Provincial Order of Michael and St. George, he is more than that. Hs St. i« Knight the Bath, and, more than that, he is a member of the Imperial Privy Covnefl, which is a distinction enjoyed by no other man in Canada. The othert are honorable he alone is right honorable, like William E. Gladstone. Sir- John ia 70 years old, and has a legislator for forty years.