DELUSIONS OF T1IE DAFT. /
i _ _ _
Some Qaoer Coses of People Cracked In the
i Upper Ktory.
"Hlusional insanity ! Why , certain
ly there is such a thing , " said Dr. D.
D. Richardson yesterday. "Nothing
'more certain. And no species of in-
'sanity is more easily or more common
ly feigned. At the same time the sub
jects of that variety of mania arc often
the most difficult to prove insane ,
remember the case of a man named
Frank Devlin who was brought to me.
'His ' family assured me he was insane.
I had him in my charge for several
days , but-failed to discover his weak
point until one day his son , I think it
was , came to me and told mo that
Devlin had invented an infernal ma
chine with which ho hoped to blow
up the house in which an objectionable
neighbor lived.
"Now , this neighbor lived in the
same house as Devlin did and was his
own lodger. I questioned him about
this story. He told that the neighbor
.was in aconspiracy with his ( Devlin's )
wife , and then when ho paid her for
his weekly board she give it back ,
and so robbed her husband. Mrs.
Devlin-was quite an old woman and
was held in good estimation among
'the neighbors , but they could none of
them believe in Devlin's insanity.
"Consequently their indignation at
his confinement became so trouble
some to her that she took him homo.
He had not been home a week when
one evening the lodger was shutting
up the shutter , and Devlin , who was
sitting on the steps , drew a pistol and
shot him through the heart. When
his trial came off I had to testify. He
called me to the dock and whispered :
" 'Now , don't you try to prove me
insane , because 1 am not , you know. '
" 'But they will hangyou if I don't. '
" 'Oh no they won't ; it was neces
sary to rid the earth of such a man ;
they won't hang me. '
"Well , he was found insane , of.
course , and was sent , I think , to Nor-
ristown. To show how this kind of
insanity may be feigned , 'the case of
Solomon Squires will do for an exam
ple. He followed his "wife to church ,
and shot her in the back. Insanity
was set up as a plea , but he was sen
tenced to'death. While awaiting the
' execution of his sentence , his friends
did all they could to procure a com-
mutation. In the meantime he pre
tended to be suffering from melan
cholia , refused food , read his Bible
from morning till night , and went
through all the usual symptoms. His
spntence was commuted. On the day
that this news was 'brought to him he
was sitting in a , corner of his cell
reading , when the warden said :
" 'Squires , your sentence is com
muted. '
"He jumped , up flung the Bible to
the other end of the cefl and danced a
jig with delight.
" 'I'd sooner spend two lives in a
penitentiary , ' he cried , 'than be hang
ed. '
"Emotional insanity "is a common
cause of murder. I remember a case
of a man named Thayer. He had
been three times confined for a mania-
a-potu and was an habitual dnmkard.
For this reason his wife left him and
went to live with her brother. One
evening Thayer went to the house ,
asked her if she would return to him ,
and on receiving a reply in the neg
ative , shot her through the head. He
was dazed and stupid when taken to
the police station , and showed no
consciousness of having committed a
crime. His former employer was at
first much incensed against him , as
\vere indeed the whole public.
"Before he was brought up for trial ,
however , his employer , who had re
flected on the case , and in consider
ation of former services , and remem
bering many little occasions when his
actions had suggested some brain dis
order , decided to procure the best
counsel possible to defend him.
"I was a witness. The prisoner was
found insane and acquitted. His old
employer did all he could for him ,
sent him to Cuba and found work for
him. there. But he was of no use ; his
brain was quite gone. After a while
he found his. way to Boston , where
he died of dementia in a hospital.
"Solitary confinement and the dark
cell ? Yes , sometimes it is productive
of insanity , but in how many instan
ces does the insanity exist before the
criminal is confined ? That is where
the difficulty exists in making a diag
nosis for a jury. A physician may be
.perfectly convinced of the insanity of
the criminal , but the absence of proof
renders him incapable of convincing
the jury.
"The causes of insanity are varied
and the origin of the causes are equal
ly varied and obscure. A genuine lu
natic does not like to be thought one ,
but caref jl questioning and patient
observation will discover the weak
place in nine cases out of ten.
"In the tenth case the cleverest and
most skillful observer is often baffled ,
until by some accident frequently the
patient develops the necessary symp
tom which goes to prove the wanting :
element in his or her mental organ. "
Philadelphia Times.
John C. Eno , Jr.
In speaking of the absconders from
New York now in Canada , the Post-
Dispatch says :
John C. Eno heads the list. He is
living at Quebec , The house he rents
is large and the situation delightful.
It is two miles and a half from the
postoffice. The rent he pays nearty
. $2,000 a year is , for Quebec , enor
mous. Tbis means , proportionately ,
.about $ G,000' or $8,000 per year in
New York. Rents are very low in old.
Rock City , and Eno's house at Beau-
voir is one of the finest in the suburbs.
Financially he seems to be at ease. He
drives good horses and is liberal with
hts money , but socially he is not
known. Neitherhe , nor his wife .is ev
er invited out nor are they visited by
the society people. Eno has neve'r
been asked to the garrison mess , and
does not belong to the only social or
ganization in Quebec of any preten
sions the Garrison club. The old
French families do not ask him to their
houses. The doors of the Langevins ,
the Tascheraus , the Bosses , the Du-
8 * Chaneys or the DuVals do not open , to
receive him. His acquaintances are
principally made at bar rooms. Some
low society men have a nodding ac
quaintance with him. I found people
wondering that Eno stopped at Que
bec. Society is exclusive , and the old
noblesse have long memories. When
EDO , gives "dinner parties" they are
only attended by his legal advisers or
speculators who * may wish to use him.
The commercial club he belongs to is a
small place where men of business
meet. Jt has no social significance and
does not pretend to it. These mon
meet Eno in a business way. They do
not ask him to their homes. Some of
them may drink with him at the St.
Louis hotel when they meet him there ,
that is all. He visits the houses of two
or three personal friends , but these
stories about his being received into
society are , I was assured , exaggera
tions. He paid many yisits on New
Year's day. Most of thsm were not
returned. He attends cocking mains
and billiard tournaments , and he is a
constant visitor to St. Roch. This is
the roughest suburb of the. city. Mrs.
Eno is admired , but society people
will not receive her. This is owing to
her husband's irregularities.
It is rumored that he intends to
build a large ho.tel on the island of Or
leans , a few miles down the river from
Quebec. It is a summer resort and
much frequented by the people of the
ancient capital during July and Au
gust. It is said he is to have a part
ner in his legal adviser. The place
proposed for the new hotel is delight
ful. The falls of Montmorenci and the
great Laurentian range of mountains ,
said to be the oldest in the world , will
be in view on one side. On the other
there will be old Stadacona , with its
Indian and'pioneer traditions. People
say that John C. Eno has shown good
taste in selecting such a spot for his
proposed speculation , but I found pub
lic opiaion in Quebec unfavorable to
Eno.
The St. John Sell Oat.
Whether or not Clarkson and Mc-
Cullagh will be able to establish their
original intimation that St. John'sold
out to. the Democrats , the evidence is
already very pointed which shows that
negotiations were undertaken by Le
gate , of Kansas , to obtain § 25,000 from
the Republican managers to induce
St. John to lean toward Elaine in his
speeches as between the Republican
and Democratic candidates. Legate's
advances appear to be known to
Clarkson , R. C. Kerens and Col. Dud
ley of Indiana , acting for the Republi
can committee , and to Senator. Plumb ,
of Kansas , with whom he is said to
have consulted before approaching the
committee. It would appear also that
letters and telegrams are in existence
which supply documentary evidence
of Legate's negotiations. It is not
proved that Legate was authorized by
St. John to proceed in this matter or
to commit him for the sum of $25,000
demanded by the former , but one Wil-
lard , said to"be a nephew and private
secretary of Legate , is reported as
saying that he wrote a letter to Elkins
at the request of Legate in regard to
the payment of the money ; that he
also telegraphed to St.- John under
Legate's instructions asking if the
financial negotiations with Elkins
should proceed ; and that Legate sub
sequently told him ( Willard ) that it
was all right and he shoud go ahead. '
If all the outlined evidence shall ma
terialize , Mr. Legate will be compelled
to show St. John's assent to these
negotiations or stand convicted of
having attempted to use his relations
with the prohibition candidate to make
some money on his own account. The
situation is certainly growing interest
ing. Kansas City Star , , Jan. 24.
The Art of Seeing
In every day life it is much more im
portant to be an acurate observer than
a mere book learner. I have frequent
ly seen the latter made to blush for
her deficiencies by the most unlearn
ed , says a correspondent in an English
contemporary , for in a. contest be
tween eyes and no eyes , eyes have
generally got the best of it.Nature
has given us such an inexhaustable
store of interest that those who go
through life without "seeing" lose
much of the zest of it. The savage
who necessarily depends on his keen
eye and his quick ear , cultivates those
faculties in an extraordinary degree ;
for does he not see indications and
hear sounds which to an observer
would be utterly unintelligible ? So
also with all persons who live near
the heart of nature. The English
shepherd , while perhaps ignorant of
the very formation of the alphabet ,
stores up a fund of interesting know
ledge derived entirely from observa
tion. He can give you simple , inter
esting astronomical facts which might
astonish a scientist , as well as trust
worthy information on natural history
and even botany. One may possess '
everything in the way of scholarship ,
but if she or he have that alone , th&se
who are unlearned but observing will
often make them feel very small. I
would , therefore , urge my readers to
cultivate the' art of seeing or observing ;
there is nothing like seeing things for
ourselves. . Our ideas become fresher ,
more natural and more in unison with
latter-day tastes when they are form
ed from observation. Nature's book
is the one wherein we find the richest ,
the most varied and the most inex
haustible subjects for thought. Scien
tific American.
The Philosophical Side.
Lower animals , as the horse , the
dog , the elephant , the beaver , and such
insects as" the bee , have intelligence
and memory , but * we have no knowl
edge that they are conscious. Those
who affirm. their consciousness must
prove it. If the horse is conscious we
ire not conscious of it , nor can the
liorse assert it. Nature has not yet
been so unmerciful to the horse as to
make him conscious of his lot. The
difference between these two kinds of .
mind force is this : The man thinks ,
and he thinks about his thoughts he
knows that he knows he .is conscious
of his own consciousness. The horse
thinks , but he . does not think about
his thoughts. He. may know , , but he
does not know that he knows. Roch
ester Chronicle.
THE APOSTLES OF POLYGAMY.
"What the Latter-Day Saints Are Doing1
in the South.
Interesting Facts About What They Teach
and How They Teach It.
An Interview "With a Brand-New Saint.
It is wonderful how this question of
Mormonism is beginning to agitate our
whole country , writes a Spartanburg ,
S. C. , correspondent to The Charleston
( S. C. ) News-Courier. It is giving our
law-makers at Washington some
trouble , and the preachers are talking
about it from their pulpits , and the ed
itors have their suggestions as to the
best methods of dealing with the evil.
The southern people have considered
the matter only m the abstract until
lately , when in certain sections , they
are forced to meet it in a more prac
tical way. Near Chattanooga two of
the elders were shot down , but that
did not end their work. Chattanooga
is still their stronghold in the south ,
and that is where the president for the
southern states has his headquarters.
In the summer of 1882,1 believe it Was ,
a Mormon elder or two visited the
northeastern part of our ceunty. Some
little notice of this was taken by the
local press , and the people were dis
posed to consider it a joke. During
the summer of last year their visits
were more frequent , and they are now
becoming more aggressive. They
have the true missionary spirit , and
are willing to preach wherever per
mission is given.
Some of the citizens about Parris'
ford , on the Pacoiet , twelve , miles
north of town , have , fiom time to
time , mentioned the fact that these
elders were coming among them , and
they feared that they would do harm.
Their suspicions were increased , no
doubt , by reading Joaquin Miller's
Mormon story , published in a country
paper last year , and some of our citi
zens would not have been surprised to
see one of these elders traveling
around with a coffin after him , as diH
the leading character in Miller's story.
A few of them talked about driving
the elders from the county by force
and causing their converts to follow
unless they behaved themselves. This
being the feeling of the people , your
correspondent thought the subject
worth looking into. The "gentiles"
could give no information , except that
the elders put up with one James S.
Russell , and made frequent visits to
the neighborhood. They said that
Russell had increased the Mormon
population by moving about twenty-
five Indians from Rock Hill and giving
them houses on his land. Thi ? is
about all the information they could
give. A note was addressed to Mr.
Russell asking for an interview. This
he cheerfully granted.
James S. Russell , the first convert
to Mormonism in this county , I think ,
was born near Rock Hill , in York
county. Ho had only a common
school education , and his reading is
limited. He is about 40 years old , and
married a Miss Burnetto f this county.
When he was a young man he travel
ed around and took pictures. The
people of Union county may remem
ber him , for he was about Wilkinsville
some time. In this county he was in
dicted for illicit traffic in whisky
about the time of the Kuklux excite
ment. Of late years he has been a
quiet , law-abiding citizen , the owner
of a farm , and he is doing about as
well as the average man of his neigh
borhood.
Mr. Russell was disposed to talk
very freely about Mormonism , and
seemed to have no sort of malice
against those who opposed this new
relation. He says the church at Salt
Lake has sent out missionaries to all
the southern states. In South Carolina
lina there are only four , with head
quarters at Whitaker's station , in
York county. To that county and one
corner of Spartanburg they have con
fined their operations up to this time.
They have twenty to twenty-five con
verts in York and four in this
county. The elders travel on foot ,
and are not allowed to receive col
lections from their corigregations.
They bear their own expenses , staying
where night overtakes them , if per
mission is given. If a charge is made
for lodging they always pay for it.
The president of the southern work
resides at Chattanooga. " He visits all
the state conferences , which are com
posed of the elders and all the mem
bership. It was not such a conference
as this" that was broken up at Rock
Hill some time ago by indignant cit
izens. There is a family of Gor
dons about Whitaker that has
united with " these Latter-Day
Saints. In this county , James S.
Russell and his wife and Hamp Robin
son and wife are the only converts up
to this time. Russell says he moved
two Indian families from Rock Hill to
cultivate his lands. He has known
them since he was a child , and says
'they are quiet , industrious people.
They are Mormons.
The elders will preach in any place
where permission is given. They
would even come to Spartanburg and
let the new light shine in the court
house or any other place. They are
anxious for controversy , and , as Rus
sell says : "They glory in arguing
about their church and doctrines. "
They teach that a plurality of wives is
"
authorized by the Old and" New Testa
ments as well as by the book of Mor
mon. They receive the Protestant
bible as the word of God , but they
claim that the Mormon bible is of
equal weight and authority.
When Russel was asked if negroes
were admitted to their church he said :
"No , God never makes a revelation to
negroes. All of our members are ex
pected to preach , if necessary ; but one
to whom no revellation comes can not
preach. We baptize the negro when-
he asks it , but that does not entitle
him to membership with the saints. "
This doctrine will make Mormonism
popular with some of our citizens of
the "Ariel" stripe. The names of the
elders in this state are Cragan , Bingham -
ham , Humphrey , and Willy. They
are all sent out from Salt Lake. North
Carolina and Tennessee each has about
twenty-five missionaries. Humphrey's
grandparents lived near Cross Anchor ,
in this county , and he has relatives
here. Two of the ciders in this state
are married and two are single. The
wives of the married men are in Utah.
They baptize by immersion and believe
that baptism is essential. They also
rebaptize those who come to them
from the Baptist church. They seem
to make a sort of "straddle" on Calvin
ism , preaching that doctrine in a wav
that would have pleased Jonathan Ed
wards , but at the same time they
preach free agency. As to their belief
in the book of Mormon and the infalli
bility of the teachings of their elders ,
they are as devout as the best secta
rians in the land. They do not preach
that men should have "a plurality of
wives in a state that forbids it. In all
cases they advise their followers to
obey the laws of the country. I asked
Mr , Russell what he would do if he and
his wife were to move to Utah ? Would
ho take other wives ? He said : "That
would not be as I please. The church
would have to be satisfied as to my
character before permission would be
granted , and it may be that a revela
tion is necessary. They allow only
such persons to marry as are able to
support families. "
On the temperance question they are
as dry as St. John or Mrs. Chapin.
They preach against the use of ardent
spirits , and practice what they preach.
There were no dram-shops , gaming
houses or brothels in Utah until the
"gentiles" introduced these civilizing
and elevating institutions.
It seems to be the intention of these
people to continue this missionary
work until the elder tramps over every
county of the state. They are gener
ally quiet and well-behaved people ,
and are well 'read in their own litera
ture. Books , tracts , pamplets , and
papers are distributed. The Desert
News is their organ. It is rather diffi
cult to ascertain what is the object of
the Mormon church in sending out
missionaries to the south. The gener
al opinion is that they wish immi
grants to go to Utah in order to keep
up a Mormon majority there , and at
the same time colonize Idaho , Colora
do , and Wyoming. They do not ex
pect memb'ership or church organiza
tion here.
Our government officers are , per
haps , doing wrong when they attack the
Mormon church as a church. They
should attack polygamy and prevent
that in states and territories. Take
that practice away from the Mormon
church and it , the church , would cease
to be a natural evil. Their revelations
and Mormon bible and titles would not
be a national calamity.
Our people here have the question
to meet at home. Shall the elders be
driven from the country or permitted
to remain and preach their doctrines ?
On this you will find our people divid
ed in opinion.
American Skies.
Americans have long been , in a lit
erary way , the vicarious victims , to a
certain extent , of the climate of the
British Isles. The low t9nes of the at
mosphere of those islands , the shifting
veils of fog and rain rising and falling
over them the soft gray fight filtered
through mist and cloud all these
have caused the blue skies and
endless sunshine of Italy to seem di
vinely fair to visitors from English
shores. And as among these visitors
have come the poets and the romance
writers , this fairness , embalmed in
prose and verse , has taken its place
in literature , has become classic. The
imaginative New World student , eager
to learn , passionately desirous to ap
preciate , has read these pages rever
ently ; he knows them by heart. And
when at last the longed-for day comes
when he too can make his pilgrimage
to these scenes of legend and romance ,
so dominated is he , for the most part ,
by the spell of tradition that he does
not even perceive that these long-
chanted heavens are no bluer than his
own ; or if by chance his eye , accurate
in spite of himself , notes such a possi
bility , he puts it from him purposely ,
preferring the blueuess which is his
toric. The heavens lying over Venice
and her palaces are , must be , softer
than those which expand distantly and
impersonally over miles of prairie and
forest ; the hue of the sky which bends
over Rome is , must be , of a deeper ,
richer tint than any which a New
World has yet attained. But generally
this preference of the imaginative
American is not a choice , it is an un
conscious faith which he. has cherished
from childhood , and from which he
would hardly know how to dissent.
He is gazing at these foreign skies
through a long , enchanting vista of
history , poetry , and song ; he simply
does not remember his own sky at all.
Only recently has he begun to re
member it , only recently has he begun
to discover that , in the matter of blue
at least , he has been gazing through
glasses adjusted to the scale of Eng
lish atmosphere and English compari
sons , and that , divested of these aids to
vision , he can find above his own head
and in his own country an azure as
deep as any that the Old World can
show.
Even when this has been discovered
it remains but blue sky. The other
treasure of those old lands beyond the
sea their ruins , their art , their an
cient history these he has not and
can never have , and these he loves
with that deep American worship
which must seem to those old gods like
the arrival of Magi from afar , men of
distant birth , sometimes of manners
strange , but bringing costly gifts and
bowing the knee with reverence where
the dwellers in the temple itself have
grown cold.
Compared with those of the British
Isles , all the skies of the United States
are blue. In the North this blue is
clear , strong , bright ; in ihe South , a
softness mingles with the brilliancy ,
and tempers it to a beauty which is
not surpassed. The sky over the cot
ton lands of South Carolina is as soft
as that of Tuscany ; the blue above
the silver beaches of Florida melt as
languorously as that above Capri's en
chanted shore. From Constance. Feni-
more Woolsorts new novel , "East An-
qels , " in Harper's Magazine for Febru
ary.
Senator Sharon is not alone in the role of a
western millionaire to whom sudden wealth
has brought much trouble. The woes'of hlg
friends , Baldwin , Fair and Tabor have in theit
time been spread before the public , and were
eqnsllv enterUiatnR to the class which thrives
upon "the literature of scandal and blackmail.
INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES.
An attempt is being made to account
for the remarkable powers exhibited
by some dogs on the presumption that
"scent" is a faculty perse altogether
distinct and different from the sense
of smell. This is , as all physiologists
must know , a misconception. The
truth is that each species of animal
has some specially developed faculty
of relation by which it is , inoro than
by other faculties , placed en rapport
with the external world. The differ
ences are great even among small
classes of beings ; for example , among
dogs some use sight more than smell
as the greyhound. .The sense of
smell is , however , generally developed
to a high pitch among those animals
which have in a state of nature to hunl
for their prey or to avoid predatory
enemies. There is nothing , that we
can perceive , difficult to understand
in the intelligence exhibited by the
lower animals. The scientific doctrine
of evolutionary development affords a
satisfactory solution of every problem ,
.and renders the facts plain to see.
The trustees of the University of
Pennsylvania have determined to build
a large hospital and stable in Philadel
phia for the treatment of diseases of
dogs , horses , cows , and other domest-
c animals. A great deal of prepera-
don has already been made in the
direction of founding a veterinary
faculty , and several professors have
been in Europe fitting themselves for
this work. There are more fancy
cattle owned around Philadelphia , it
is said , than any other city except
Boston , and some of the finest animals
die from want of surgical atten'tion.
A special department is to be devoted
to the care of pet and sporting dogs.
A well known Philadelphia lady pro
poses endowing a department for cats.
A recent dispatch from Ottawa says
that a contagcous disease in the form
of "scab" has broken out among the
sheep in the province of Quebec , which
will probably lead to the importation
of Canadian sheep into Great Britian
being prohibited for the present. Sir
Charles Tupper , Canadia's high com
missioner in London , cables that a car
go of sheep just landed at Liverpool
from Montreal is badly affected with
the disease. The Dominion govern
ment has issued orders that all diseased
sheep be at once slaughtered , the gov
ernment to pay the owner two-thirds
of the value of an animal.
Boston hide-dealers attach but little
importance to statements concerning
the poisoning of men in New York
from the handling of hides previously
treated with arsenic for purposes of
preservation. They are of the opinion
that some of the cases are due to ani
mal rather than arsenical poison , and
that the latter is to be feared only
when the man handling the hides is in
poor physical condition , or when there
are peculiar circumstances of a similar
character.
It is reported that an English spec
ulator visited south Russia some time
since to buy up cattle for the purpose
of exporting their flesh to England.
Now other speculators are buying ani
mals in Bessarabia and sending them
by sea to England. They are paying
at present the high prices ( for Russia )
of 10 and 11 a head , and it costs 4
10s a head to transfer them to Eng
land.
An Iowa farmer thinks all the meal
made from ilaxseed should not be fed
to animals. He advocates mixing 10
per cent , of flaxseed meal with wheat
flour or Indian meal for making gem
and griddle cakes. He states that it
improves their flavor and renders
them more wholesome. He also ad
vocates using a small amount of it in
making ordinary corn bread.
Mr. Watkins , of Michigan , says that
the white shorthorn cattle feed better
jhanred. He deems the latter "sports. "
Other stockmen of the late Michigan
breeders' meeting agreed with him.
Prof. Johnson , of the state college , is
of the opinion that color will receive
less attention in the future than indi
vidual excellence.
Tne commissioner of agriculture
says that , while in some of the states
the pure-bred and high-grade cattle
are but 8 per cent , of the whole , in
Ohio and Kentucky it is 40 per cent. ,
in Indiana 22 per cent. , in Illinois 35
per cent. , and Massachusetts 32 jper
cent , of the whole number.
Carrots are recommended as feed
for farm horse ? , as they save corn
and give a fine gloss to the skin ,
besides promoting a healthful condi
tion of the system , i rom fourteen to
is liberal allowance
twenty-one pounds a
ance , anything over that being apt to
affect the kidneys.
The agricultural college of Califor
nia raises and distributes every year
large quantities of seeds , ruttiugs and
cions. It has introduced many new
plants into the state which are tested
on the college farm , and if found to beef
of value are sent to farmers who ap
ply for them.
It is proposed to establish a dairy
school in England that shall be superi
or to anything of the kind in the world.
Subscriptions are asked for $300,000.
A farm of 830 acres has been secured ,
and it is hoped that the school will be
opened the present year.
It is said that the wood on the north
side of a tree will not warp as much
as that from the south side , and that
if the trees are sawed in planes that
'
run east and west as the 'tree stood ,
it will warp less than if cut in the op
posite direction.
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment
station calls attention to the fact that
in its experiments potatoes raised
from larg , whole seed ripen nine days
earlier thau those from seed cut to
single eyes.
Doors have been so far improved by
a recent invention that they may be
tiung so as to open either "way and
from either end with equal'facility.
IN South America a shrub of the cac
tus family has been discovered whose
[ lowers are visible only when the wind
blows. The plant is about three feet
in height , and on the stalk are a num
ber of little lumps from which the
flowers protrude when the wind blows
upon them.
I
A BASTARDLY OUTRAGE.
PerpttratedbythoDynamlterUn the City of
London.
In London the 31th , an alarming explosion
took place. The house of parliament and gov
ernment offices were severely shaken and coa-
ilderable damage done. There were two ex
plosions Instead of one , as at first supposed , at
the parliament house. The second came about
three minutes after the first. One was near the
house of commons , the other at Westminster
halL Fourteen persons were Injured. Tlio
outrage was the most successful yet made up
on any of the public buildings since the raau-
curatlon of the dynamite warfare.
The force of the explosion was so great that a.
man 800 yards distant was thrown to the
earth. The lobby of the house of common U
completely demolished. A clue to the per
petrators Is thought to have been found. Justj
before the explosion occurred a man and a >
woman carrying a hand-bag encaged a cab
outside the parliament yard and drove rapidly
away , giving no direction as to their destina
tion. They bad not gone far when the ex
plosion happened. The cabman hiSirlng thisi
stopped the cab , and the man and woman at
once leaped out and hastened quickly from
the spot The cabman went In pursuit of the
runaways , who were soon overtaken and.
arrested by the police.
The attack was made on that portion of the ;
building known as the "White Tower. " It-
was fairly filled with visitors , and most of
those hurt were moving about the tower at >
the time of the explosion. The White Tower
was almost completely wrecked by the force of.
the explosion. All the persons known to have
been Injured were visitors. ;
The Fall Mall Gazette summarizes Its ac
count of the explosion In the house of com
mons In the following language : "The whole
Interior of the house of commons presents a remarkable - ;
markable scene of devastation. Although
there Is 11 great litter , everything may be put
right In a week's time. Nothing Is more 8ur- |
prising about the whole dastardly outrage than !
its utter failure to effect any substantial In
jury. "
News of the introduction in the American :
congress of the bill by Senator Edmunds to (
prevent and punish dynamite conspiracies In
the United States has had the effect In London'
of turning aside the bitterness of fettling
against America which has been engendered
by the explosions.
A Xffarloun Ituslncs.1.
The newspapers of San Francisco have en
tered on a crusade against the iniquitous
practice just discovered of white mothers
giving and selling their illegitimate btibics to
the Chinese. Inquiry shows that a systematic
truffle in them has been going on for a long
time , mainly through the agency of private
lying-iii in the hospitals. Four cases of white
babies in the possession of female proprie
tors of Chinese brothels have been % lreadjr
discovered , and there are good grounds for
believing there are hundreds of others , but
the Chinese , fearing discovery , have hid tticm.
It is assorted on excellent authority that these
female children are purchased bv Chlneao
speculators and sent to China , where they
are raised till they arol- years old , when they
are sold for larga suras to rich Chinamen ,
who place them in their harems.
Tobacco Tax Drawback.
Judge Kelley , the Pennsylvania member of
the house committee on ways and means , be
lieves the bill establishing manufactories for
export trbacco , and providing drawbacks for
tobacco exported , will become a law before
the end of this congress. These manufac
tories or warehouses will be operated some
what on the principle of the warehouses for
bonded spirits. Jt will be the design imply
to exempt from tax tobacco manufactured
for exporting purposes. It'is said the tobacco
dealers and growers are universally in favor
of this measure. AVhilo the export trade for
American tobacco goods is not large , when
compared with that of some other countries ,
it is thought it can be largely and very rap
idly Increased if the export trade Is encour
aged by the removal ot Internal revenue tax.
THE MARKETS.
OMAHA.
WHEAT No. 2 .
BAIIL.EY No. X . St 5 *
RYE No. 3 . 48 & 49
CORN No. 2 mixed . 24&
OATS No. 2 . 207
BOTTEU Fancy creamery 28 & GO
BUTTER Choice dairy . 15 & 10
CHEESE Young America . 34 &
EGGS Fresh . _ 24 & 25
ONIONS Per bbl . 140 & 175
CHICKENS Per doz. , alive 200 © 225
CHICKENS Dressed , per lb. . . . 7 ® 8
TUHKEYS Per lb . 9 & 10
APPLES Barrels . 3 25 & 375
LEMONS Choice. . . ! . . 475 © 5 25
POTATOES Per bushel . 30 © 35
CATTLE Fat steers . 350 @ 425
HOGS Mixed packers . 4 25 445
SHEEP Fat . SCO 300
HAY Baled , per ton . 650 & 700
NEW YORK.
WHEAT No. 3 spring- . . . 93 ©
WHEAT Ungraded red. SO © 08
COBS No. 2 , January. . '
OATS Mixed western. . . . . . so ©
CHICAGO.
FLOUR Choice Winter 475 © 550
FLOUR Spring extra 375 @ 450
WHEAT Per bushel ' 77J
CORN Per bushel
OATS Per bushel 28
PORK , 1220 < ai3J5.
LARD 6 83 © 6 82
Hoas Packing and shipping. 455 @ 4 05
CATTLE Exports 5 75 & 620
SHEEP Medium to good 250 & 375
ST. LOUIS.
WHEAT No.2 red & > ? ;
CORN Per bushel
OATS Per bushel
CATTLE Exports GOJ ( Z 625
SHEEP Medium _ 250 < & 30U
HOGS Packers 440 & 453
KANSAS CITY.
WHEAT Per bushel 611 61 ? *
CORN Per bushel J ©
OATS Per bushel y& ©
CATTLE Exports 540 © 5 CO
Hoes Medi um to good 4 2J © 45Q
SHEEP fair to good 250 © 325
Chicago , review : The wheat market on
change is heavy , chielly because or the radi
cal falling off in the export demand for both
wheat and Hour , and private advices to the ef
fect that other countries are now freely un
derselling Americans in the British markets
though they were unable to compete on the
low basis a month ago.
Corn is steady , beingsupported by the heavy
shipping movement. The price paid by ship
pers has been so nearly up to that for May as
to discourage the country alike from cribbing
and selling for that month , and most of the
selling is done by local speculators , 'i'he
early period at which the drain on the new-
crop began , and the fact that the extreme cold
weather has enormously" increased the con
sumption both lor feed and fuel , has made
many strong men bullish.
Alter a rather unsatisfactorily etart the
cattle market has ruled strong with on ad
vancing tendency , especially ror good , even ,
well finished aroves.
Provisions prove much stronger than grain ,
and many think have alone prevented a big-
break in the cereals. The chief factors are
smaller receipts of hogs tnsn were looked for
and a much more active shipping movement
of product than usual.
Great Salt .lake as it Was and is to be.
At -Highest stage , Great Salt Lake
covered about 35,000 square miles of
surface. The water is generally sup
posed to have disappeared by evapora
tion , or , in plain terms , an approxi
mate eVaporation occurred of about
L10 cubic miles of water. .If the lake
lowered at the average F and turned
down F. Now you see that the rate of
one hundreth part of ad inch per year
[ and that supposes an evaporation of
1,500,000cubic feet annually ) then it
was at its greatest height 1,200,000
years ago. If the evaporation con-
: inues in the future as it has in the past ,
in 1,500 years there will be nothing but
a thin , sheet of water during each
spring where Great Salt Lake now is ,
