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i. if. Tiii:covr:ir's nisTixansttci in: in Gen. Logan's llemaln I.tUely to be Hurled in Cliienuo. WnsliiuRton special: All the Hiirroundincs of Calumet IMnco. hore Senator Logan' body lies, tell of tlio Rrciit prlef tlnt Ml upon the household Sunday afternoon. Sentrii's pncc to mid fro; the blinds ate closed; and carriages in almost unbroken procession come nnd go bringing friend, who would servo the bereaved household or do honor to the dead. Telegrnnia of condolence still pour in from every state and from all classes of people. The expression of sorrow nnd regret is in deed univeisal. In deference to the wishes of Mrs. Logan, nnd from the fact that tho final resting place of Cioncrnl Logan could not bo deter mined upon, owing toa complication which could not 1o overcome at the time, the body "ill, after the funeral on Friday, re pose in n vault at Oak Hill Cemetery, until .such time as final arrangements tor burial can be made. A movement has been formallv started in this city to raise n fund of S'JOO.000 lor Mrs. Lngaii. .Mr. (ioorge H. Lemon has charge of I he collect ions, and ICx-l'ostnins-ter-Oeiicrnl Cieswell, president of the Citi zens' National hank, will art as treasurer. A large number d subscriptions have been icceived by telegraph, many of them for $1,(10(1 each. Among those sill. scribing SI. 000 aie Sena I or Sawyer, Keprescntative William Walter Phelps On v. Alger of Mich igan, John 11. Drake. Gen. Creswell. Oienrge K. Lemon and (teorgo M. Pullman. It is thought Unit SIOO.OOO will be raised be foie the end of the week. There is a movement on foot lo have exeoiifederfUe soldiers represented in the funeral procession that will follow the re mains of Senator Logan. Many of the ix confederates have expressed a desire to participate and it is probable that t place will bo provided for tlieinin the procession. The following have been selected pall bearers: (Jen. Simon Cameron, Hon. Itoscoe Conkling. Hon. Hubert T. Lin coln, C. H. Andrews, of Yotiugstow n, C, Col. Ijred (iraiit, (Jen. Lucius l'airchild, M. L. Lnggelt, of Cleveland, 0., (leotye .leieiuiiih I!usk, of Wisconsin, On. W. T. Slicrniiin, (Jen. W. F. Vilas, (!ov. John 0. lilack and Charles McMillan, of tin; Loyal Legion. The ltev. Dr. Newman is to be the ollkiating clergyman, assisted by Dr. liulli-r, chaplain of the senate; llishop Fowler ami the ltev. Dr. 0. II. Tiffany. I'ticit (N. Y.) special: The undiTtnkmg firm of Oneida received tho order for (Jen. Logan's casket late Monday evening from It. W. Harker, the funeral ditector, of Washington. Tho casket is of Florida cedar, inside of which is n copper casket, self-sealing, absolutely air tig'it. The cop per casket is upholstered with line French satin, cream tinted in shade and tutted throughout the body nnd top. A pillow made of tho same material, handsomely embroidered, will furnish a fitting final renting place for the dead senator's head. The casket is covered with the llnest rrepo broadcloth, handsomely draped and fes tooned, and the whole inclosed initcedar outsido box tiimmcd with copper mount ings. Till: ILLINOIS o. a. it. The following order was issued by Gen. Post, commander of the department of Illinois G. A. It., on the 127th: HlI.UKJlJAItTnUN Dlil'AliTMUNT OP ILLINOIS, GUANl) AltMY 01' Till-: IiUI'l'IIMC, Gali:sui-ho, Dec. 127, LSSIi. General Order No. 115. Anothercoinrade has gone! Another great leader has fallen! The first commander-in-chief of tho Grand Army of the Itcpublic has been gathered to Ids eternal rest. Of all thoso who offered themselves and shed their blood in defense of the union none deserve more from fnmo than John A. Logan, in tho lirst rank of soldiers, in the lirst rank of statesmen, his fenrless independence anil aggressive integ rity drew to him tho hearts of all witli whom he came in personal contact. Im pulsive, genial, chivalrous, hepossessed the nobility which fitted him to bo a leader of men. Himself a, brilliant representative of the citizen soldier he was tho champion of the rights and defender of tho cause of those who were citizens in pence and soldiers in war. Fully iipptcciating how much tho country owed bis comrades in arms, ho was their ablest advocate aad never swerved in Ids duty to them. Who shall now be their champion? The fust commander-in-chief of I he (!. A. It. deserves to bo first in the hearts of his comrades. Reverse, tho arms and place tho flags at lialf-nuist in honor of our distinguished comrade, John A. Lo gan. The department commander recom mends that each post should bold some suitable memorial service and that tho colors of the post bo draped. The usual badge of mourning will bo worn by all com rades for sixty days. dots A.n dashes. Captain William W. Moore, for twenty-six years connected with the National Jutelli ijeitcer. nml at one time grand sire of tho Odd Fellow s, died in Washington Thursday, aged H. The naval board of lmpr6Ve.mciits has re ported to Secretary Whitney that the Tennes see can not he repaired within tho statutory limit of 120 per cent, and will have to bo con demned. Comptroller Durham has disallowed tho claim of John K MoMiv for $5,01:1, collected as fees while consul at Hong Kong;. James S. Walsh, a prominent member of Tamnianv hall, has been uppolnted Inspector of 'hulls at New York by Secretary Manning. A St. Petersburg dispatch says the govern ment has difco.-ered the existence of an ex tensive nihilist organization, the members of which nru principally workmen in the large factories In that city! Moscow and Vladimir. Gilbert A. Pierce, who recently resigned the governorship of Dakota, has accepted the position of associate editor ot the St. Paul Pioneer J'rtn for Dakota. His headquarters will be at llismaick, where, he will conduct a Dakota department for the J'iotiter J'r'ts. The first edition under his management will be published January 1. The farm house of Caleb Russell, r.ar Say brook, O., caught Are at an early hour theother morning. When tho neighbors arrived Rus sell, who was 80 years old. and his wife, aged 50, had escaped from the house, but thev were fo much overcome by the heat and smoke that they died shortly afterward. A demented son, who slept up stairs, was burned to death. William Ward, of Polk county, Mo., while out hunting, accldentaly shot and killed him self. Ho was a wealthy farmer, aged !ii year, and left a wife and one child. President Cleveland has approved tho act appropriating money to supply tho deficiency !u the fundi neeued by the public prlutcr. A guaranty of right of way nnd depot grounds for the Atchison cxtons'on to Chicago has boen slgnwl by one hundred cltlzeus of lialujuurg, HIIuols. Daniel Pine, who was borr. within a few yards of the old Mate-house at Hoston, cele brated his centcunlal birthday at Paw Paw, Illinois, In the presence of four generations of his family. Judge Blodget Imposed a flue of 2,500 upon Jonathan Peacock, a brewer of Rockford, Il linois, who pleaded guilty to selllug unstamped hear. The secretary of the treasury has accepted the offer of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Loul road to pay $153,600 In compromise of the claim of the government for unpaid In terest on bonds transferred by the state of Tenoesice. tui: alleged unrui.r. Said to Hare llcen Instituted Aijatnst Mas ter Workman IVuiffrWf. Scrniiton (Pa.) special: Mr. T. V. Vow derly in an interview last night was asked: 'Do yon know anything ( Hie .illvged re volt against, you in the order'?" "No, I don't know anything nbout it," was tho reply. "There may bo a tew dissatisfied people in Chicago. It would be unreasona ble to expect that I could please every body. There are n few men in Chicugo who, up to last spring, hnd no use for the Knights of Labor. They did everything in their power to discourage tliopatient. persevering work ers of tho order, anil when the boom began that brought us so many members Chicago was not behind hand in furnishing her full Uotn of recruits. Those new men in that city, who claimed to bo leaders ot thought null radical sentiment, seeing tho rapid in crease of membership, jumped in to lead that which they could not throttle." Mr. Powderly did riot regard the influence of these men as being ot particular moment and smiled us he produced a large bundle of ciirrespondeneo marked "Ch en go," and said: 'See for yonifelf. 1 have the en dorsement of nine-tenths of the order in Chicago and thoso who oppose me are the loudest in their protestations of friendship to the organization. If the older of tho Knights of Labor were handed over to tho men who profess to bo leading the revolt against me, D'.I'J out of every 1,000 would desert it rather than follow such leader ship." "Is the nnnrrhist rlcmentcrowdingyou?" wns next asked. "No," was tho reply, "there has been no special pressure from that direction, nlthough certain unfriendly newspapers have endeavored to make it appear so. Some persons have represented to Parsons that I attacked anarchism since his trial. I have never mentioned his name; I know nothing about the details of his case, and I Teel, as every otherfair-rninded man should, that if passion or prejudice had anything to do with his conviction or that of his associates, it would bo nothing more than fair to givo them another trial. Justice has nothing to fear trim a searching in vestigation into every case. I have riever regarded tho actions of the anarchists of Chicago during the early days of Mayas having anything to do with the Knights ol Labor, no'inatler how much certain people may have endeavored to identify that ino'nieiit w itb our order. Tho men who threw Hie bombs in Chicago did not receive, their teaching in nn assembly of knights." .i.i.vr MiuAdssiroi. ri:n. Decision Ilendrred fn mi Important Mining Suit in Colorado. Denver dispatch : Tho most important mining litigation ever tried inColorado was conrluded in the United States circilitcourt ro lo-day. Millions of dollars devolved on the result ol tho trial and a precedent was bet which involves the title of nearly 500 claims in the vicinily of Aspen, Pitkin county. Col. The question at issuo was vlicther the Aspen mines contained lisstiro veins or deposits of ore. If tho fissuro theory was correct, then the owners' claims on the apexs, or where outcropping are visible on tho surface, had u right, under the United States statute, to follow a dip vein into other claims, but if the deposit theory was maintained, then a vast num ber of mines on the siilo of Aspen moun tain could bo operated by their owners as far as tho boundaries of their claims. Tho present suit was brought by D. M. I ly m mi, ol Cincinnati, against J. II. Wheeler, of New York city, and other cap italists. Hymaii owns the Diirant mine, nn open claiiii,'and Wheeler and friends own tho Kinniii mine, which lies immediate! v be neath tho Ditrant, on tho sido of the Aspen mountains. Tho Durant is tho older loca tion, but rich ore was first strin'k in the Kmina. Ivgliteen million dollars worth of ore iiad been taken out i f the Ktiiinn, when the Durant people brought tho suit to guin possession of the Kmina on the apex theo ry and the courts enjoined the Kmina, from further operations, Tho ease has been on trial for three weeks, tho best known min ing exports in tho west being about evenly divided on eacli side. To-night the jury brought in u verdict in favor of the Duriiut mines. Tho Aspen mine, tho richest in tho ramp, lies immediately beneath the Emma nnd the suit now pending is to ob tain possession of it by tho Durant people. Two million dollars luivo been taken from tho Aspen mine and as much more was in sight when work on it was enjoined. The other apex owners have been awaiting tho result of this trial and will now bring suit to recover possession of those mining claims lying below them. This is tho fust case involving tho apex theory tried in Colorado since tho Lead villo litigation was begun in tlio early his tory of that camp, and which was nettled about threo mouths ago in tho supreme court of tho United Slates nirninst tho apex theory. In tho Leadvillo cases tlio imaging was claimed to bo porphyry and tho lootwall limestone. In tho Aspen caso it is claimed that tho hanging wall is of cilcilo and tho footwall of volomitic limo- LOIID CIIUHCIllLL'S UESIGXATIOX. It Creates a Great Sensation In London and Elsewhere. London, Dec. 123. The Times announces that Loid Randolph Churchill has resigned his scat In the cabinet owing toa disagreement with tlio admiralty and the war office with ref erence to increasing the expenses of the coun try In view of the existing financial difficulty and also because he disapproves the home leg islative measures of the cabinet. Lord Randolph Churchill considers that Mr. Smith and Lord George Hamilton prepared exorbitant estimates for the army ana navy departments respectively, which are unculled for by the state of foreign aflulrs. Lord Sal isbury supported Mr. Smith and Lord Hamil ton. Lord Randolph further considers that the legislative measures for Gicat Britain pro nosed for the next session of parliament are inadequate. WHAT THK IIIISIONATIOV MEANS. The Time approves Loid Salisbury's decis ions to support the defenses of the country. It reproves Lord Churchill for acting hastily and desiring reckless economy Instead of try ing to reform tho departments and secure greater efficiency without any Increase of tho estimates. His resignation, says the Times, deprives tho government of Its ablest member and completely changes the political situation. "Lord Salisbury," It continues, "will do well to renew overtures to Lord Harilngton for a coalition government. A reconstructed con servative cabinet without new blood can riot last long nnd will lead to the return of Mr. Gladstone to office." Prohibition iit Vermont. Many amiuliig Incidents are hauded down of tho experiences of those days. Among others was that of nn estimable old slut-p farmer, of Vermont, who, though a church member and a deacon, was sadly addicted to the nrdeut. Ho was Induced by the teform committee of the church to take tho abstain ing pledge, subject only to the sheep-washing period, during which tasking times It was deemed essential to allow of some stimulant. Hut matters did not seem to mend with tne worthy deacon very much, and the committee paid another romonstratlng visit after awhile, when they found him lu a woeful state of lu toxlcatlon. "Vou see that 'ere sheep?" he asked, with a hiccough, and pointing to a dejeetod-lookltig CoUwold; "that's the cleanest sheep In Ver mont; wash hlra every flfteeu minutes." run sun x t essvs. A Falling tiff In the .nmtrs Xoted Sine I.aii Year. Theinteriorileoixrtnieiit Iris just received the returns of a census of the Indians on the great Sioux reservation. The count was made bj direct ion of Commissioner Atkins by the agents at the several agen cies, and the returns givt a description of each Indian, his parentage, and the band to which he belongs. The total number of Indians on the reservation entitled to rat. oris is 2!l,S;il, of whom ."."12:1 are male ndit'ts, 7,'153 females, o.ItL'O males under eighteen years, nnd f femaleti under sixteen years old. The numbers of Indians at the different agencies are us follows: Stan. ling Rock, I.OO'.t; Crow Creek. 1.012!!; Lower P.rule. 1.220; ( heyeniie River, 2,lt:i7; Pine Ridge, l.SSIl; Sante. 1.122; Rosebud, :t.O'iC. This shows a lulling off since last ve.n of U.OIl at Pine Ridge. 257 at Rose b d, 1.V.) at Standing Rock, 200 at Lower Urit'e, and a sin ill reduction of numbers at the ot her (igeuiit's. It has long been bo liee. that the number .f mtiotis Issued to the Indians on tlio reservation was largely in v-esH of the nnniberiif Indians actually there. The agents report that the number of fa . ilies cngiued m agriculture are as fol lows. Standing Rock, l,Ht."; Rosebud, ODD; Pine ltdge, Co0, Clieyentie River. 17."; San tee, 2oS; Crow Cieek, l&'.l; Lower Rrule, 1 GO. tllS LAST IHCAI. IS MADTi. Chicago special: William Sturges, bet ter known throughout the commercial world as "Jack" Sturges, died in this city yesti rday. He was noted all over the country as having engineered several grain corners on the board, the greatest one being tho corn corner of 1S7-1. Sturges had an eventful career. In lS,"7heleft Saratoga, N. Y.. and went to Keokuk, la., and in five or si years built up the largest grocery business in the state and amassed considerable money, being at ono time con sidered worth $1100,000 or $700,000. Ho moved hero with bis family in lS(i') and entered the grain business. He soon he roine noted on the board of trade as n dar.iig and successful operator and did an immense business. His gieatest notoiiety came through the corn corner of July and August, 1 ST I , in which lie was the most prominent ligure. The corner eollaps'd disastrously to its originator, Sturges re fusing to fill his contract, ami tho boaid of trade passed a resolution to expel him. lie carried the matter into the courts, wheie it remained util 1 S7S, when he was expelled, but finally got back in July, 1S7!, on a writ of mandamus. Sturges then went into bankruptcy. Two years ago he went back to loitu and began running tho Keo kuk Klevator company. Ho got into trouble on charges of issuing warehouso receipts for grain when there was no grain on hand, but tiiially proved his innocence. He then went to New York as agent of Chicago houses to teach New Yorkers how to speculate on the Chicago board of trade, but his transactions were not satisfactory, mid ho returned to end his days here. l'Aitooss ran offexokus. Washington-, 1). C, Dec. 23. The presi dent has granted a pardon to Ah Hoot and Slnnnotz, two Umatllhi Indians, now confined In prison at Salem, Ore., for the murder of n white man. They are In bad health and are not exjiected fo long survive their release. John S. Williams (colored) of Natchez, Miss., who Is serving a term of imprisonment for perjury In a pension case, has also been pardoned. Another case in which tho president exer cised executive clemency Is that of Rohcit 0. Morchead of western Pennsylvania, convicted of n violation of the jxstal law and sentenced to two rears' Imprisonment, ills pardon will take elfect February 20, 1S7, by which date he will have served one-half of his term. The president lias declined to Interfere In the case of James O. P. lliirnslde. i barged with defrauding the government while hold ing tho position of disbursing cleik of the postotllcc department. Heforo Ids trial llurn sido was adjudged Insane and bus since been confined lu the government asylum for the In sane. His friends asked h s discharge from the asylum and promised to take c.ire of him. The president refused their petition on the ground that If liurnslde was still insane he was better off In the asylum and If he was not Insane he had better'hc remanded to jail for trial. Till; OKLAHOMA HILL. Washington Hpecial: Mr. llarnes, of Goor gia, whose brilliant opposition to the Okla homa bill won him tho admiration of the house, if it did not convert its friends, ex presses tho beliof I lint tho measure is dead for this session. Ho says I hut tho territor ial committee has exhausted its privilege of two hours, and the bill must now go to the calendar and (ako its turn. Mr ISarncs siivs he was placed on tho teriitorial com mittee against his will, but finding himself there ho determined to give time and the right to tho iiieasiireB which come heforo it. This he bus done, nnd as a lesuit in satis fied that congress lias not the power or tho right to override a solemn agreement. Mr, Springer is very persistent, however, and Mr. IlariKH. in making the above statement may bo reckoning without his host. JliMlTTISG Till: TiaUtl'lOlUF.S. Washington. Dee. 27. Representative Springer sa s ho Intends to secure, If jiossible, the passage by the present congress of Ids bill to provide an enabling act for tho ad mission Into the I'nloii of Dakota, Montana, New .Mexico and Washington Territory. He says It will probably not he possible to get the committee on territories to rcjiort Ujxin the 1 111 but that, ho will try to have It substituted by the house for some other territorial ad mission bill when the latter comes up for con sideration. He thinks the Idea ot admitting all nt once will prevent opiKisitlon on party grounds ns they would be equally divided jHilltlcnlly, as tho now stales will have no voice In the presidential election lu lSS-j. Theodora Tilton and Wife. It Is now nearly a score ot years, says The J'Mlatlttphia Timet, slnco n comely, graceful woman stood between the lace curtains that shaded the window of a lovely home In Brook lyn watching a slender, dark-haired man, who turned to wave his hand before passing out of tight. There was a smile on both faces as tho hurrying feet of the pedestrian carried him around a corner and tho woman leaned out of the w indow to watch his vanishing form. Two children played about her feet, and, so far as the ordinary eye could see, the house Itself was the nlxxleof domestic contentment. If notlovp. The dark-haired man was Theodore Tilton, and the woman. It Is needless to uild, wns his wife: but what home has undergone a sadder and greater oliange in tho sauio relentless time! After loamiug from place to place the rest less Tilton has settled down in Pari, where it U announced that h means to stay. In a lonely chamber of the Protestant convent at Newark .Mr. Tilton slu und sews from day to day, the gray light of November falling up on her furrowed face and lending uu ahen color to her alwuy pullld cheeks. Ot the little girls that plaied at her feet tlwt Septum tier morning In llrooMyu, one, Florence, 1 living a student's life lu Switzerland, and the other hat found a home among fr lends In Chicago. Their say that Tlltou cxeclH to inairv again, but the rumor U only u rumor. H Is quite too late for lilm to retrieve hie former errors, whatever they were, and he ltests serves himself by Ids dignified silence. For tho other prtles to the great controversy rierhaps the same ran also be charitably said. All the clement of a tragedy arc contained lu the affair, excepting the neeoseary death, and that Is more than equaled bv the unbroken slleuce which at least two of the principal! tnalntalu. r.ti.'ii!nt !u't:i s..:of tii" r:.trfii. Tho r-sirl i-r attempts at cakttiatins tlu si't of tin iiobi' were li.-wil o. tisIionoinii.il lib ivuliotis. It v.ottM lio d.tlietilt to-ilu. t miv within what iliMjro of aociuwv tin- Henri's then ob tained fottlil liavo been ivlifil upon, as tin' units of liii'iisuri'iiu'tit tM'd bv tlioso p'otii'i'i-s liavo biu'ii Iot. am! I'otiid not liavo boen ooinpatuil with tlio units now in UM. One of tho earlier tittempls at ob taininjr tin aetual letifrtli of Hie earth's meridian by direct measurement of n portion of the miiiio was niadu in the HiMoenth eentorv by a I'renoh doctor. The means enipioyed, although very in jienious, would lie considered perfectly clumsy and inadequate by the modern NL'iont".st. There was in this early measurement no attempt at mathemat ical precis on as utidi't stood in the pres cut century, and, considering the sim plicity of the method employed by the doctor, it is only to lie wondered tnat no sireatef error was obtained in its litml result. The measurement consisted s inph in dr vinjr from Paris to Amiens, and countiu!; the revolutions of tiie wheels of Hie carriage, and from the. iiumliT of revolutions of the wheels obtain the distance between the two dies, which could servo as a basis for calculating Hie length of lid meridian. Of course, this culculatinir could not bv auv ni 'tins be considered accurate, but, taking into account the means euiplnv i d. the result obtained has been Mib-e-qiientlv found lo lw wonderfully pre-c.-c. The. most curious thiiii; about il is that what would now bo considered jjravc errors and inexactitudes were so distributed that they alnio.st compensa ted each other, :iud the dinioiis;ons then obtained show only slight diiTcr ences witli Hie dimensions jjiveu by tlio most recent measurements. Thus c linncc. (and no better name could bo found) permitted of the sumo results. Willi only a small filial error, beinj; ob tained with that crude method, that are now obtained with thn most precise in struments nnd with the mosl complica ted calculations. Popular Science Monthly. CoiikTuitr Defends Lawyers. Mr. Conkling bus wonderful faith in the members of the profess'on. A friend asked him a few days ago if he did not th nlc that a certain well known lawyer had sold his client to the other side. "No, sir," said Mr. Conkling. solemnly, "1 have never looked upon the face of tlu lawyer who I believe would sell out his client. It is, in my opinion tho rarest crime on earth, tho very minimum instance of depravity. If the ease were otherwise it would, lo quotu uu old judge, 1 once admired, roll humanity of the last v r tue that clings to degradation itself." New York bun. '1 he Leasing System. If there are any, says The Savan nah News, who think that the leasing system is not a criminal one let tlium look at the figures. When il was in augurated in (leorgia a few years ago there were !5.r)0 convicts. There are now 1..V27. There has Iweu some in crease in the population of tho stale since the system was authorized, but the percentage of that increase is small compared to the increase in the num ber of convicts. If tlie. system with all its abuses is continued lite number of convicts within a generation will be .something fearful to conteniplale. A Case of Kleptomania. Once when Air. Justice llyles was trying a prisoner for .stealing, a medi cal witness was called, who said that in his opinion the accused was stiller ingfrom kleptomania, "anil your lord ship, of course, knows what that is." "Yes," sahl liyles, quietly, "it is what I am sent here to cure." St. James' 3 Gazette. Out of a .lob. "Say, ni'ster, don't yer want a boy?"' "Arc you out of work?" "Yes." "What did you do during the sum mer?" "I stunk Hies onto fly-paper in drug gists winders, but lly tune s over now. I'liiladelph ia Call. JIo Know What It Was. Teacher. What is an island? Smart Pupil (whose father is a club man). Hotly o land s rounded by wa tcr. Timelier. Oood. What is a strait? Smart I'upil. I hoard pop hiiv it was a hard hand to get anil boats threo of a kind. New lork Sun. Ail Every Day Occurrence. Pythagoras beliovcd that man came from a bean and returned to one. This. happens every day in this country, es pecially in Hoston. It is a common spectacle to see men come from beans and return to them at tho correspond iutr meal next da v. Norristown lkrald. There Is a Halm. "Is them no balm in Gilead?" yelled u teinperanco orator tit a picnic. "No, but there's some mighty good licker down hero behind I'eto lliloy's barn, if you're very dry," sung out u stump-logged man sitting on u front seal. J ui-isii. He. Had His Wish. "I wish this woro a chestnut boll," 'he said, us he took her hand in his. "Why so?" sho blushingly asked, "Hecauso I would ring il," ho ans wered. "You may consider it so," sho said, and tlio tlay is named. Hoston Courtv. Philosophy In it Nutshell. Francis Murphy is doing tomporanco work in Cincinnati. When asked his opinion about legislation against tho liquor trailio ho said: "Jf leglidntlon would save people Moses would hav been tho Christ." Neto York World. i ZNCINC. Unite. Torre ( omit tor T.ttt'r, hut Kiulii! iiritf. Mill), mitt .tiutmiiciii Ate tlie (Jtnilltli'H Hint Tell, As two well known professionals and Milhni:i3ts arc soon to meet in this i!y at a gymnastic tournament in a "out with the fols to illustrate the art hut has mi long been recogni'v.-i! aiiiong ;he sporls of the world, a few points )ti a legitimate department of indoor iiustiincs seem timely, says Tfo Voiv' ienre Journal. There nr. sour" goo.l .'eneers and oine very t cellent cx jorls with the foils of this city, lint tiie .lever ptofessional handler of the foils u this community, where duc-ng lever wa in ogiic, is not without his ;lory. lie is the clearly recognized mil honored man among thoM who eek to become epert, nnd they look up to him witli a good deal of lofty or tie. in nuinv athlet o aociations ,'iiere are special prize for profit ency i n the art of tViicing. just as there are in 1 joxing. and no tu-.t-elns gunnnstie ! Nitertainuient in many couiinunilies j iceins to lie complete w.thoiit the intro- ' Miction of a little combat with the tods. I'.ut in the swell athletic cnteitain uieiils there are few Hillside of the egular professional fencer.s who ap ical' in public. Thev stud and prac tice the art just for iivrcailou and imuscuif nt, as does the devotee of the "manly art. " They are not desirous U pulling it into actual practice, and i hey are elilom to be found making a ji.iblie exhibit .on of their accomplish incut. It seems strange, but a good swordsman, who devotes hi time to each ng a class of pupils how to use Hi.- fo Is seicutilically, declares that it s not necessary that a pupil should in vc other athletic i-serciM in order lo .ii'comu a good fencer. Hy jud eious t ul. with the sword, if nature lias nit given a person strong arms nnd legs he may acquire them. A person ivoultl ilo very pooilv who hid not a jood athlete ligiuv. liver,) thing .hat is tlcmauiletl in a good illilete is considered necessary to make a good feiuer -strength, agility, solid and speedy judgment, and -not least endurance. I'eiic ng appears to be tlie highest form of physical contest, mil uaturullv the best kind of sport. It is nrgu 'd that sport without contest is partially worthless. In fencing there is the contest, that makes sport l he truest kind of athletic exercise. A man w ill run a mile in training liecause lie is about to try his powers w.th someone else. Men will run farther, swim faster, row harder, and jump higher just because I hey are ambitious to beat some other man. And il is this qiirit of emulation and direct rivalry that gives zot and life to this training for muscular i ctivitv . In wrestling and boxing anil a great niativ similarsporls It s seen that brute force generally wins in the contest. In the art of fencing the case is directly the reverse. Hrnto fore-' counts for little or nothing, but endurance, skill, and judgment are the qtinlit es that tell anil conio out nkoad in a contest with the brisk little steels. As in boxing and wrostl ng. lien a'o positions in feuc'ng, ai.d Ihcy are vcrv tlilllcult for I he novice to learn anil acquire correctly. First of all, in fencing, ns in gymnastic exer cises, a sict adapted to tlio qu'ck, in spiring changes, and the general ac tivity of body that are indulged in is necessary. So the thing on the pro gramme" for consideration is a complete change of clothing. There tire shoes or slippers especially suited to the ex crc sc of fencing. 'I'hoy are light, arid when on tlio feel, being thrown hero and there in the fray, they touch tho floor as gently as "baby s slippers. A pair of "trunks.'' usual In gvninast'c exercises, are also worn, 'then there is the notieeablu padded jacket. This is the most, re markable feature of a fencer's suit. It Is fttllv tight-fitting enough for easy muscular movement, anil it has a thiek-ly-paildcd woolen front covering the entire breast and stomach. 'Hum there is a wire mask that is hardly dis tinguishable from a base-ball pitcher's mask. And to complete the .strange costume the fencer wears a big slull'eil glove similar to a boxer's glove, but not so fixed. Each linger on the lencer's hand is separately sheathed, and his glove is flexible, nnd tho lingers are as free in the movements as if no glove wore worn. The mask worn by the fencer entirely protects his cars ami eyes from the assaults of his rival or opponent. The articles spoken of aro tlioso usually worn by tlio novice the pupil. Thoy aro somewhat different in tlio caso of the teacher or tho export. A professor of fencing usually wears in place of a thick padded jacket a broast plate, thick and hard. Tho reason for this is that while tho professor can pro tect his pupil from tho thrusts of his foil ho himself is liable lo suffer from the vigorous attacks niado by a begin ner, and if ho had not tho thick breast plate lie might stifl'or soinuwhat. To go through tho lirst lesson in fencing without weariness would bo a very difficult thing for a pupil, it is exceed ingly tiresome to take the first lesson and attempt therein to learn one or more of tho positions. There are eight positions of the body and tho same number of the hand to learn. Ono has to learn thotn slowly, as it would bo impossible to acqulro them nil at once. Kach one is peculiar, nnd tho pupil must acqulro them moderator, 'iho wrist is mostly in doinnnd, and tho novice finds that ho is unablo to enduro tho strain. The wrist work causes a painful sensation, ami thoro is a numb ness, but tho strain that is brought to bear upon the fencer is never harmful. After the elementary exorcise und tho positions have been learned tho rest consists in constant, regular practice with tho professor, and noth ing but this presisteucy will givo the pupil full control over himself and his foil and soeuro him tho grcatot proli clcncy. Men can fence much bettor now than thoy could many years ago. Then they did not understand tho sci ence of tho thing. It was bruto force more than now. Tho masters have tho sport down to an art, nnd thoy are drawing tho linos Miner each year, Tho re is no bettor oxcrcslo in tho world than fencing, and it is conoid red all-sufthnut for muscle-making. All tho cords anil sinews are brought ,nt i ,"( u p'n. i.ud vr't't nn ever changing v.inety of liiovoni 'iils, that no partof the body is brought mfotisp moro than another, except prnbablv the wrist. The muscular development of the sword-arm may be grnater tlian the oilier, but it will in no event lie to the detriment of the fencer. The si vie of fencing lias greatly changed in the last one hundred u-ars. In past prriods It was customary to stand in an erect p s.tion, and eery tiling was dcpn lent on the lunge that was math, Now there has b"cn acquired a graceful ninveinenl to the legs, nnd tint-bo l W inclined forward or back war I. t It leg U advanced, and an agreeable pose Is in vogue. In the mod -rn at. tinleone tnav nunc casilv draw back from a lunge. The defense nowiidats is usually eileet ed with the sword, and the use of the left arm by elevation is almost, discard ed. Few teachers intlulgij- in the prac tice at the pre cut tlay. A bout of seven to leu or elevn minutes is usimlly cotisidered long enough as it is never worth wh'le to go to the extreme in ex ercise, it is tlie sine' in all ex Teio. A regular Icsmiii reqii'rcs some resting moments between tlie bouts. Altogetn er it is a ver popular exere.s , a id taken in moderation, just enough t make the face flush, the perspiration start and the wrist nche perhaps a lit t lu. it becomes the best tonic and a wonderfully good plivsieial exercise. CONSUMERS OF TOBACCO. rvinny People Smoke, but lv Know How 'I lie Northern nnd tho southern stylc. As even body knows, says Thr Ci i cinnati Enquirer, a consumer of tobac co by lire is not ex neccxsila'c ret to lie ranked among the royal brotherhood of .smokers, lie may be tlie raw be ginner who gets sick long enough be fore the end of his cigar the rich nnd nicot nish part of il is reached; or ho may lie the dilettanti amateur, who throws his expensive "weed" awa be cause its bouquet 's not quite tho prop er thing just now, you know: or he may be a very oung man who is sturdily trying to make hiins lf and others bcl eve that he reallv loves a cigarette: an 1 in any of tlies.i t-isos he is not a smoker, properly so called ho is not of the family who s"e pictures iu tin wreaths and rings of smoke, and sigh when thoy fade away. Tho tough as a smoker ever) body knows. Who has not scon hint on tho corners and passed him just as a whill tif the smoke of his v lo cigar is being blown out upon the air? Who does not know his favorite attitude, a vcrv mod el of lounging worth lossncss, with his "Iwofor" tilted toward his nose and his hat drawn down upon his eyes? The cigar, with him, is a matter of toilet, rather than of taste a decorated ornament, a something to complete tho loul cnscmhlc of the bravado which ha affects. He is of the sort who degrade smoking, bringing it down from tho place left vacant for it in every think ing brain from good old Christopher North to Ik Marvel dreaming iii his summer garden, to a mere thief's hab it and a pollut on of the highway. men, again, the northern is as tiitior ent from the sou I Hern style of smoking as lto.ston Knglish is from Louisiana French. The northern man clips oil' the small end of thu spiral with a pre cise, almost artistic nicety, and u fleets tlie habit of holding it plumb botweou his lips, now and thon taking it from between (hem to satisfy himself that it is bin ning evenly. The southerner, as a rule, bites oil the end, grasps it viciously between his tooth, and, light ing it with a single puff, strolls on as if lie were quite unaware that lie is smoking. $In po nt of fact, however, no ono learns to smoke a pipe. That is really tho only instrument of warfare against the "devil's weed" which has with stood the waves anil weathers of the. ages and never for ono moment lost its place, in the heart ot tho world's demo cracy. Tho man may walk w th a ci gar top-tilled iu his mouth, and wither tho cigarette diulu with tho ferocity of ids glance: he may crush his compan ions on tho street with the opulence of his "royal imported" at $000 a thous and but never never in the history of the good old world did ho fail to bo subdued by the gray-hairod-old mau with a clay pipe, lit by live coals from an old-fashioned wood lire, who placid ly pull's his natural leaf whilo ho tells of tho things that usod to bo. It may be summarized in a word: Many peo ple smoke fow know how. Tho Fuel of tho Future It is a fact well known In manufact uring circles that tho vast bulk of tho heat contained in coal is wasted. Only fourteen out of tho hundred parts of carbon is actually utilized. Ilenco, ono of the problems of ohomistry has been to got moro power, in tho way of heat aniT light, out of a given quanlty of coal. Prof. T. S. C. Lowo claims to liavo solved this problem, a mattor which is of vast importance, if it is a fact. Tho procoss Is to pulverize tho coal, nut), lu converting it into gas, tho coal Is reduced to n powdered form so lino that it will float iu tlio atmosphere, and it is carried into tho burning fur nace by a current of air artificially pro duced. Iu tho powdcrod form every thing is consumed, as it makes no smoko nnd leaves no ashes. This would utilize tho mountains of so-called waste, now piled up near coal mines and manufactorioi. Hut Prof. Lowe's invention goes farthor. Tho coal is converted into a wntor gas. A ton of authracito coal will generate from eighty to a hundred cub e foot of gas. The cost will bo about nine conts a cu bic foot. This invention Is already in uso in tho city of Troy, in tho luuudrics of that place, anil is also used for tiowor and for heating and cooking in hotels and restaurants. Tho gas fur nished is non-luminous nnd resembles that from alcohol. It has no odor and is intensoly hot. Thcsu facts havo come out in a report to tho Scranton board of trade, which calls tho now in vention uutiiracito gas. The result will bo u marvelous economy in the heating of houses and tho cooking ol food, while one ton of coal will go tu far as n hundred of toua nowadays. DtmorcsVs &IotUhj.