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The democratic ladies of Monmouth,
in this state, have Frances Cleveland
club and appropriately celebrated the
anniversary of Thomas Joierson's
birth day.
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The people Of Millington, up the Fox
river road, are suffering for want Of a
good reliable barber who will pay at
tion to his business. A good living is
guaranteed to such an one, If he can
be had.
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Don't Whip q Sick Horae. NJ p.

Nor take Cathartic Pills when your
bowels or liver ere sluggish They are
whips. But try once at Festivities Nerve
and Liver Pills. They act through the
pprvaa
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The farmers about Colfax, Mclean
county, are suffering from an extraor-
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r. G. HIT.

M ASrEReS 5ALE.-6rATE0 OF LLINOIB.
Court
In the matter Of Henry J. Monoit vs.. The Utica
Pottery Company and William Z. Armstrong; btIs
70 fovecl0se rt1a0e.
Public notice Il hereby gwen that In pursuance Of
decreiA order entered in The above entitled cause y
said court. the eighteenth day OF March, A. d. i0.
l. Thomas c. Fullerton. master In chancery Of aid
court on Saturday. the nineteenth day Of April. A. p
1890 AZ two o'clock In the NJ " said ay shAl
sell AZ pubic auction the highest and best bid
der for cash at the north door Of the County Court
real estate situate In the county Of L. Sale and state
o. Illinois, to wit Lots xteen as seventeen I'D.
sub division OF lot ole ( ia block III in CsrEa thi-d
addition 10 North Utica together with the heredita
ments ana appurtenances and machinery and ioOlo
emenis and hert dit ments thereunto belonging.
THOMAS c FULLERTON,
inch NV Master IN Chancery.
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Forum In 1888 and 1889. Price SC. by

Forum In 1888 and 1889. Price sc. by
mail. .r ~r
''Sumptuary Laws and their Social
Influence" will be discussed by DR..
William A. Hammond, In the Popila,
Science Monthly for May. DR.. Ham
mOnd shows the absurd failures of
laws against fine dress, costly food,
in Rome, France, Turkey, and Eng
land, and against the selling and
drinking Of alcoholic liquors in some
of the United States.
Herbert Spencer has decided to pub
fish the opening chapters of one of the
uncompleted parts Of his system of
philosophy, dealing with morality.
Three of these chapters, treating re-
spectively of "Animal Ethics" Sub
human Justice" and "Human JUS
tice," will be printed in the May Pop
Science Monthly under the general title
On Justice.
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A few days ago the Chicago Journal
had this item: "Several gentlemen
who are interested in the development
OF Streator, H., where they own about
1000 acres, held a private meeting at
the Pacific Hotel this morning, the OBJ
ject OF which was to offer manufacture
ers and business men cheap land and
the putting in of coal at 81 cents per
ton" The Streator papers publish the
item but offer no explanation. The
gentlemen were doubtless representa-
tives of the st. Paul syndicate that
lately made large land purchases near
Streator, upon which the talk was
huge iron works, &C., were to be built.
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Congressman Hill has notified May
or Kelly of Joliet that he has caused
the Joliet public library to be selected
as a depository of public documents,
under law of congress that requires
one such depository in each cOngressio-
nal district. The deposit will amount
to two or three hundred ponderous
volumes year of the dreariest imagi-
nable reading matter. though valuable
for reference. The books, however,
will make a big show in small library,
being bound in law sheep with nice
gilt backing.
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THE RECEPTION.

Immediately after the close Of the
lecture a reception was given in honor
of Gen. and Mrs. Black at the Clifton
hotel parlors. Mrs. Black received,
assisted by Mesdames Reed. Eckels,
Hapeman, Evans and Nicholson and
Miss Reed. The parlors were COM
fOrtably filled with people during a
pleasant half hour.
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number of public squares, parks and gar
dens as this same capital, and already her
plants are in full flower and her trees are
covered with the green leaves that come with
the sun of spring. Within a fortnight
nearly 500 600 plants were got ready in the
city's nurseries and then 500 gardeners and
their assistants placed them all over Paris.
Add to these plants and flowers the 200, 900
trees that line the boulevards and broad
avenues and perhaps you can have some
idea of how Paris looks now that she is
dressed in her "best suit of clothes"
1 do not know that ought to say her
best, either. for summer has yet to come,
and there are thousands and thousands of
lovely flowers that will only bloom here
when the sun is very warm, that is to say,
in July and August; and after that Paris
has also a fresh toilet to put on for the
autumn. 1t looks now as if Paris was
always beautiful, but it was only about 35
years ago when her gardens, parks and
promenades were laid out as they are to-day,
and when the town really began to be beau
tilted.
HUNDRED BREATHING PLACES.
The first two places thus adorned were the
little square of the Tour Saint Jacques and
that about the old Temple; now there are
more than a hundred such breathing
places" in the city, and their extent is more
considerable than you would suppose. The
BoiS de Vincennes, which stretches its
woods and open places, its lakes and streams
along the eastern edge of the capital, has
1900 acres and is very popular
resort for the lower and middle
classes. In the West, twixt town and river
Seine, is the Bois de Boulogne, with It's
1000 acres, its 60 miles of carriage rides and
bride paths, its As odd miles OF lakes and
20 of running waters, and its famous
restaurants, as for instance, the Pavilion
d'Armanonville and the Cafe Madrid,
though, truth to say. this latter is not
within the boundaries of the park. Mid
way between these two splendid forests we
have the Tuileries Gardens and the famous
Champs Elysees, not to mention other
splendid grounds like those of the Lu1em-
bourg, Montsouris, Buttes Chaumont,
Batignolles and lovely Monceau.
All these open places are under the d.
rection Of chief gardener who has about
400 men under his instructions. The total
number of rlants employed Tor the toilette
of Paris is about 1000, 600, and the nurser-
les which produce them are situated in
various parts OF the city. In the Bois de
Boulogne, near the race course of Long
champs, are the nursery grounds of trees
with caducous leaves.
CULTIvATING TREES.
AT Auteuil, on the borders OF the Bou
logne route, in a sandy soil, excellent for
their propagation, are placed collection of
resinous trees, plants with persistent leaves
and heath-mold plants; on the banks of
the river Marne, at village called Petit
Buy, the trees that are planted along the
bOulevards are cultivated, and, finally, out
at Nlncennes, near the Reuilly
barrier just beyond the Notifications,
large assignment of land is reserved for the
ornamental plants. The central establish
ment where the cultivation of luxurious
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mind, and that adjustment and design,
whether they have been wrought out by
special and sudden creation or by gradual
evolution, mean will. And that behind all
that we see about us is an intelligent will.
We look up, as Napoleon did, into the
stars and say, who made all these? We
look around, as the Arab did In the desert,
to whom they said: "How do you know
that God made the world?" and who an
swered, 'just as know that man passed
there along the plainly the mark of his
footprints"
When Franklin's skeptical friend came
into his room and saw an orrery on his table
and asked: Where did that come from?'
Franklin answered: nowhere" And
when his friend, somewhat taken aback,
said: franklin, don't think you under
stand me. Who made this?" Franklin
said: Nobody" And when his friend
said: Franklin, you must take me for a
fool!" that wise philosopher replied, with
some emphasis: eyes, / do take you for a
fool: Here is this little toy, with its brass
balls for suns and moons, and you turn it
about and watch its motion and say this
came from somewhere, and somebody made
1t, and then you look up into the great
universe of real suns and real moons, of
which this is but a childish imitation, and
say this come from nowhere and nobody
made it. 1 do take you for fool, indeedI'
Did certain atoms of matter, driven by
blind force, somehow "fortuitously" drift
together into a seeing eve, into a thinking
brain? 1t you leave your room some morn
ing in disorder and come back in an hour
and find all things in their places, do you
say, Surely, the wind must have got in
here and blown things into order?" Can
the unthiuking wind set things in order?
GEORGE HODGES,
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known. Pretty results have been produced
by carpeting the ground beneath masses of
tender subtropical plants with quick grow
ing ornamental ANNALS and bedding plants,
which always bloom before the large sub
jects have put forth their strength and beauty
of lea. If all interested had opportunity of
seeing the charming effects produced in the
Pare Monceau by judiciously intermingling
fine-leaved plants with brilliant flowers
there would be immediate improvement in
American flower gardening. Verdant grace
all the brilliancy of color that could be de-
sired might be introduced at the same time.
IMPROVING ON NATURE.
There are those who look on the Buttes
Chaumont as the most distinct and interest
ing park in Paris. 1t has peaks and valleys,
immense masses of rock, open lawns with
tasteful fringes of shrubs and groups of
trees, and everywhere an airiness that is
admirable. The spot was once old quarrles
surrounded by acres of rubbish, but the
ground on three sides of these enormous
stone quarries was cut away, soil was laid
down and trees and flowers were planted.
Now it is very picturesque. There are
hardy plants, shrubs and trees, an extensive
cliff surrounded by an artificial lake, with
large stalactite caves hard BY that are 90
feet in height from floor to ceiling, and
through the top of one of them stream
dashes in, and as its course as it tumbles
down the steep is gracefully planted the
effect is pretty. Enormous curtains of ivy
drape the great rock walls at all seasons
with verdure, and here and there toward the
base OF these ivv-clad rocks the Japan pear
and the Forsythia, now that real spring has
come, are in sparkling blossom.
As for the Bois de Boulogne it is in most
respects park such as great Capital like
Paris should possess, and know of no other
that equals it. A noble system Of roads,
ample space, and fine sheets of water con-
tribute to render it deserving of visit from
all persons within the walls of this beautiful
city. As q combination of wild wood, noble
pleasure garden and lovely drives, the Bois
is simply magnificent. In some spots it has
more beauty and finish than any American
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ing, the ensemble is OF unequalled grace
and gradeur. Sacrilegiousn hands burned
the Tuileries, but they thus unconsciously
added beauty to the spectacle and gave a
resplendcnt conservation to this part of the
town. ..-
AVENUE AND GARDEN.
West of the Jardin des Tuileries is the
grand open space known as the Place de la
Concorde, and alter that come the Champs
Elysees. These Elysian fields happily COM
bine grand avenue and public garden; tie
wide belts of varied shrubs are encircled
with choicest flowers; the grass spreads out
widely here and there and great clumps Of
rhododendrons and trees shroud the build
ings that are occupied as cafe concerts,
restaurants and dioramas. s-
1t was only in 1850 that the Champs
Elysees were thus laid ont, yet they look as
If much longer established. The gardens
finish at the Rond Point, circular
open space in which there are large
beds of flowers, fountains, etc., and
from which radiate seven streets
and avenues. From the Rond Point to the
Place de PEtoile, where all is breadth,
dignity and airiness, the Avenues des
Champs Elysees is solidly built up with
private residences. though here and there
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CARVING A TURKEY.
There Are Several Ways of Doing It That
Are In Very Good Form.

There Are Several Ways of Doing It That
Are In Very Good Form.
Henry Haynie's Paris Letterl
The first turkey cock ever seen in France
was served up at Mezieres, on the 26th of
November, 1870, on the occasion. of the
marriage of Charles TX. and Elizabeth of
Austria. There are more ways than one of
carving turkey. One way is to cut from
the breast square slices and proceed in the
same way for all the 1eshy parts of the bird.
Though this is an easy way for the carver,
it has the drawback of allowing all the
natural gravy to escape and to leave the
most delicate morsels clinging to the car
cass. Or, you may remove the legs separ-
ately, place them to one side and then do the
same for the wings, but cut. them up in
pieces OF suitable size; next cut off the white
meat as close to the carcass as possible, and
lastly, break up the carcass.
A third way, after the wings have been
removed, is to break the carcass above the
crupper. which remains attached to the
legs and form a sort of hood, vulgarly
called the bishops cup" This is good
way to carve when there are only few per-
sons at the table; if the guests are numer-
Gus, the second way is the better one.
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spots in q narrow open space between those
wings of the Louvre that are occupied on
one side by the Minister of Finances and on
the other by the National Gallery. 1 love
to look at them. On the lett is the bare
Place du Carrousel with its small triumphal
arch at its further edge. and then, close by
us. the Gambetta monument; in front, back
and to the right OF us the grand walls and
flushed facades Of the Louvre. On the one
hanu there is space as devoid of vegeta-
tion as the African desert; on the other,
sculptures in stone and the lines of great
buildings are relieved by the living grace
of plants and flowers in pretty gardens that
cover space which otherwise would be mo-
nopolized by paving stones. These gardens
are small, simple in plan-a circle of grass,
shrubs around the whole, with an edging OF
ivy-and all is green and quiet.
GARDENS OF THE TUILERIEs.
In the Tuileries gardens are orange trees
in tubs. gigantic water basins, broad
stretches of gravel, green trees, and no grass
anywhere. The wide saharas of gravel, and
the meaningless water basins, are denounced
by some people as uglier than the tubs of
orange bushes. Well, myself do not see
the use of these basins, but it is real pleas
ure not to see such offensive reminders as
"Please keep off the grass" in the play
ground.
There is new part to the Jardin des
Tuileries which few OF my readers have vet
seen, for it was constructed only last year,
and covers the gronnd where once stood the
famous palace. A modern magician by the
name of Alphand has made it very pretty.
And there are times, for instance. in
the evening, when the sunset brightens
the sky with its last rays, or
late at night, when the moon sheds its sill
very light over everything, that feel as if
there was not another city in the world that
presents such pretty sketch of garden plot
as this new one. One side, the Louvre and
the two tiny gardens already described; on
the other, seen through trees, basins and
fountains. an immense perspective slowly
rising, and gloriouslv terminating with the
Arc de Triomphe The details are raYish-
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ADVANCES IN ASTRONOMY.

New Wonders Open Up Before the Magn H.
cent Instruments Lately Produced.
New York Star.I
''The wonderful discoveries" said Prof
Rees, of Columbia, yesterday, "that have
been made Of late by larger. finer and more
powerful telescopes by the spectroscope,
and, above all, by the application of the
Photographic camera, have aroused enthu-
siasm in both Europe and America. The
last named process enables US to see and
study stars which would be invisible to
telescope five times as large as that of the
Lick Observatory. No less than three
monster telescopes are now in process Of
construction for Western universities, and
twenty for colleges and private owners.
cat the present rate of progress the year
1900 will find it necessary to rewrite all
the old standard textbooks and replace the
former volume of 300 pages with one four
times as large. The astronomer of the
future, odd to relate, will have to be more
of mathematician than at present. He
will have to be, besides, a chemist, physicist
and good photographer.
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NOBLE OLD IRONSIDES,
Very Little Now Left Of the Original Frignte
Constitution.

Very Little Now Left Of the Original Frignte
Constitution.
New York Herald.I
The Constitution is one of the six frigates
built to protect American commerce from
the depredations of the North African pi.
rates. Her keel was laid in 1894 at Hart's
shipyard in Boston. She was victorious in
every battle, and took the Guerrero, the
Java, the Cyane and the Levant. OF the
original ship there remains only small
part of the deck and two iron stanehions.
She was repaired frequently, but in 1S4S she
had become mere hulk and it was proposed
to break her MP.
The proposition called forth DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes poem, which caused an
outbreak of popular feeling. and the glorious
old veteran was rebuilt in 1850 at more than
her first cost, by Hart, the son of the
original builder. In 1876 abe was again re-
built at Philsdelphia by the grandson of
Hart, for there was always much sentiment
associated with the old ship. She never had
steam power, but always remained the
frigate Constitution.
Her last duty was transporting goods to
the French Exposition of 1873, since when
she has been in honorable retirement rs a
receiving ship at Portsmouth.
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REPORTED DEAD, YET ALIVE.
Cases in History Recalled By the Story Of
Wilkes Booths Sweetheart.

Gases in History Recalled by the Story of
Wilkes Booth's Sweetheart.
Apropos of the story of Louise Worcester
that J. Wilkes Booth was not shot in Gar
rett's barn as popularly believed, the Birm-
ingham Age Herald recalls similar cases in
history. One Of the most notable, probably,
was that of the French Dauphin. son of
Louis XVI, who, according to official ac-
counts died in the arms of his jailer, June
9, 1875. No less than five pretenders have
since claimed to be the prince. 1t has al
ways been thought bv some too, that Mar
shall Ney was never shot, and mysterious
Frenchman, who taught school in North
Carolina, has been supposed to have been
no less person than Napoleon's great
lieutenant.
Then there is the remarkable story of
Perkin Worbeck, who claimed to be the
Duke Of York, one OF the princes whom his
tory teaches was murdered in the tower. He
was acknowledged by the Kings of France
and Scotland as the genuine heir to the En-
glish throne, AMI the Duchess of Burgundy
recognized him as her nephew and openly
received and maintained him as such. Num-
bers Of the English nobility and thousands
of the English people espoused his cause,
and many heads were cut off by Henry VII
on that account.
These incidents furnish problems that no
one will ever be able to solve, and the al
legged death of Wilkes Booth is another Of
the same kind. q. 49,.
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PARK L know o., while in other large spaces
are covered with a thick scrublike wood In
which there is growth of wild flowers such
as we never see in prim Central Park or on
Boston Common. There are plenty of cow
slips dotted about even over the best parts of
1t, and almost everywhere it is more natural
than it is artificial. In the artificial lakes
are Islands, and if you take boat and 90 on
them you can stroll in varied collection of
ine shrubs and trees.
THE RACE TRACKS NEARBy.
Just now the scene is animated nv the
cheerful flush of bloom of the MANY shrubs
that burst into blossom with the strength
enlng sun Of spring, the oaks are leaving
and the swollen buds of the magnolias are
already conspicuous at long distance. Fine
roads and avenues intersect the Bois. and
the woods are dense, but here and there are
open airy spaces where children pIay. and
where boys and men indulge in outdoor
games: Along outside of it is the Jardin
d'Acclimatation, on another side is the race
course of Longchamps, and then, not far
from the once suburban town of Auteuil. is
another turf track where gentlemen and
Jockeys are constantly riding over hurdles
and steeplechases.
Some writers condemn the Paris authori-
ties for having ever formed these two race
courses in the Bois, and say that "France is
large enough to accommodate her racing
men In the way usual in other countries %
One English writer says: "Imagine the
best part OF Regents Park, London, or Cen
tral Park, New York, prostituted to the
purposes of suburban race meetings."
Much he knows about it, the growler.
These race courses do no harm to the Bois
whatever, and it is because of their nearness
to the town that the races are SO very popu-
lar. 1t is no uncommon sight to see all the
way from 10000 to 100000 spectators at
Longchamps or at Auteuil on racing days;
and when the Grand Pri1 is run next june
there will be close on to half a million spec
tators 60 to see it of Sunday afternoon.
HENRY HAYNIE
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plants takes place is ont at Passy. This
great horticultural laboratory is, believe.
one OF the most considerable in the world
1t has 80 Conservatives, several of which
are colossal. Immense cellars lit bv gas
form the depository of tubercular plants
during the winter, and there are special hot
houses for larger species of plants. One
large greenhouse is set aside for palm trees;
others are plants with abund snt foliage.
No doubt all this costs a great deal, but
what is the expense compared with the SER
vice rendered to public health by such
plantations? They are indispensable in
order to purify the poisonous air of a great
city. as they absorb the carbonic acid that
they decompose and transform into oxygen.
They procure the necessary shade for that
numerous public who move to and fro in
the large thoroughfares of Paris, and they
contribute enormously to the appearance of
the capital Parisians have only their pub
lie gardens to remind them that elsewhere
there exist space and air.
A WONDERFUL SQUARE.
The Tour Saint Jacques Square was one
Of the first ever thus embellished. This
tower, originally part OF an old church, and
in the midst of tall houses, is now one of
the most striking objects of Paris. No
gardens contain more beautiful or diverse
objects than are in this square, and it is a
source of much pleasure to the poor people
in this central neighborhood. There are
plots o. fresh grass, and between them iso-
lated trees to give shade and dignity to the
place, and in nearly every case the stems
and trunks of these are clothed with climb
ing vines. Between the walk and the tower
is little lawn. and in one bay of Its green
carpet is 9 specimen of the noblest of fine
leaved plants, the Abyssinian Muss. There
il o groundwork of mignonette near the
base Of the famous old tower, and at every
step the square presents new charm.
There are two very pretty little garden