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AN appeal was issued, on the 23d by
Gen. Horace Porter, president of the
Grant Monument association, asking
the citizens Of New York to subscribe.
before Decoration day, the $4,000 re
quired to complete the fund Of $3.50, 900
for the building Of Gen Grants tomb.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

THE French minister Of justice has
submitted a bill directed against the
anarchist journals. Itprovidcs for seiz-
ing the papers when it is believed
they intend to publish prohibited
matter, and for the arrest Of journal
lists believed to be engaged in writing
articles melting to unlawful deeds.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

THE demonstration in honor Of the
thirteenth annual session Of the su-
preme castle Of Knights Of the Golden
Eagle, which commenced in Atlantic
City, n j., on the Esd, exceeded any
thing Of the kind in the history Of the
organiza ton. Notwithstanding the un-
favorable weather, which doubtless
kept many away, $4,000 knights were
present at the opening,
The state capital., 1892-05-28

THE editor Of the socialist journal, the
Munchener Post, Of Munich, Bavaria,
has been arrested On a charge Of trea-
son, based on certain violent articles In
bis paner.
The state capital., 1892-05-28
ROnUh on the Farmer.

From all over the state complaint
comes that farmers are weeks behind
with work. On thousands of acres OF
bottom lands no crops will be raised
The state capital., 1892-05-28
Took Rough on Rats.

Mrs. Ida Knapp and her husband
quarreled at Galcsburg, and after he
went to his work she swallowed one
third of box Of Rough on Rats and
died in a few hours. They were mar
ricd in Burlington, Ia. three months
The state capital., 1892-05-28
Fatally Injured.

Several days ago Eli Murray. prom
inent farmer who resided several miles
northwest of Macomb. was thrown from
4 road-cart and received injuries which
proved fatal
The state capital., 1892-05-28
Fairbury May Get Tt.

1t is stated that one of the power
houses of the Chicago & st. Louis elec-
trio road may be located at Fairbury.
1t depends on the inducements the town
offers
The state capital., 1892-05-28

THE resolution Of the Belgian senate
and chamber Of deputies providing for
revision of the constitution having
been approved by royal decree, parlia-
ment has, according to custom, been
dissolved and June IA fixed as the date
of election for the new parliament
which will acquire the powers Of con
stituent assembly to act upon the pro
posed amendments.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

THE celebration Of the golden. we'd
ding Of the king and queen Of Denmark
began, on the 23d, with private divine
service in the kings residence, when
the royal family partook Of the Lords
simmer
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Carried Off hy Pnpunl onia.

DR.. Charles Laning, ex-president of
the Illinois Homeopathic Medical asso-
citation, and prominent in the faculty of
Hahnemann college. died in Chicago of
pneumonia
The state capital., 1892-05-28

ADvIcEs from northern and north
western Wisconsin are to the effect that
the heaviest rainfall in years occurred
there on the 10Th, turning into a furious
snOW-StOrm.
The state capital., 1892-05-28
Ereeport to Have q Tobacco Factory

Tucl1ett & Son, of Danville, Va. will
move their large tobacco factory to
Freeport. They make this change in
order to be closer to the Chicago market.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

THE steamer Oceanic arrived at San
Francisco on the 2lst, from Hong Kong
and Yokohama. Among the passengers
We're Lieut. J. II. Hetherington Of the
United States steamer Marion. who was
recently acquitted Of the murder of
Cover Robinson, at Yokohama. He
was accompanied by his wife and child.
The representatives Of labor in session
al Leicester, England, resolved, on the
gath, to make the payment Of mem bers
Of parliament test question in the
coming general elections. Those can
didates who fail to declare themselves
in favor Of salaries for members are to
be opposed by the influence and votes
of organized labor.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

THE Brazilian senate has passed law
granting amnesty to political prisoners,
Of whom there are large number con
fined in the prisons at Rio Janeiro.
The state capital., 1892-05-28
Free MethndiStS.

The Free Methodists recently closed
a very successful quarterly conference
at Fairbury. Quite number of minis
ters and delegates were present.
The state capital., 1892-05-28
Killed Isv the Cars.

Peter Olson. of Kewanee, was fOun d
dead the other morning under freight
train in the yards at Galesburg. The
wheels had passed across his body.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

QUEEN VICTORIA was rs years old on
th2 oath. She has reigned nearly fifty
six years.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

DEEMING, the wife murderer. was
hanged in Melbourne, III one minute
after 10 o'clock on the morning Of the
sd
The state capital., 1892-05-28

EXPORTS Of specie from New York
during the week ended on the 21st,
as officially reported at the custom
house. We're $4,000 Of silver and Sl7S,-
G3s Of gold. Imports Of gold were 50. :
5O2, and Of silver s27,73 from Mexico
and the West Indies.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

TT is stated that President CarnOt will
probably pardon Mr.. Edward Parker
Deacon on July IA, the anniversary of
the fall Of the Bastile. and that there
fore no appeal will be taken by Mr..
Deacon from his sentence to higher
court.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

IF ADVISE all young men to let liquor
alone" was the dying injunction of
Patrick Fitzpatrick, who was hanged
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, for the
murder Of Samuel Early as the result
Of a saloon quarrel last September.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

The apple crop in many portions of
illinois is said TO be ruined. Peaches
pears and cherries and other small frui.
are said 10 be pninjured
The state capital., 1892-05-28

THE senate committee on military
affairs, through Mr. Proctor, made
favorable report to the senate, on the
23d on bill providing that vacancies
in army post traderships shall not be
filled. The object is to abolish post
traderShins
The state capital., 1892-05-28

Mr.. BEAL, United States minister to
Persia, arrived in Washington, on the
22d, on leave Of absence 1t is said that
his presence in this country is for the
purpose Of marrying Miss Hattie Blaine,
the youngest daughter Of Secretary
Blaine.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

Mrs. MARGARET MACDONALD PULL
MAN died at the residence of her faith
er-in-law, Rev. Royal H. Pullman, in
Baltimore. Md, on the 10Th. She was
the wife Of Mr.. G. H. Pullman, of Chi
cago, and native Of Logansport Ind
She was an artist of national repute.
and up 70 one year ago was president
OF the Palette club of Chicago.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

AT o'clock on the morning Of the o1st.
north bound train No. IA on the Jackson
vile, Tampa & Key West road, was held
up short distance from Sanford, Fla.
by four masked men. who attempted to
rob the express car. During the en-
counter Express Messenger Saunders
was killed and Soliciting Agent Cox
was badly wounded in the face. The
robbers escaped.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

Gov. Fifer, on his return from tour
in the flooded districts, issued the fol
lowing:
The state capital., 1892-05-28
IRON DUKE Mining
DENVER.
CAPITAL STOCK, $4,000.

Divided into 10000 shares Of s1.00
each. Stock worcestershire.
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Main Office at Denver, Colo.
OFFICERS:

Owners Of the Hamilton. Iron
Duke, Brown and Jackson IIodes,
situated in Jackson Mining District,
Clear Greek County.
The state capital., 1892-05-28

Reports Received from Thirteen states by
tho Farmers Review Showing the Con
dition Of the Growing Spring Wheat
Crop.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
Vegetable Intelligence.

An illustration of apparent intelli
gence in plants is the behavior of the
!Egyptaian lotus in this climate. In
the warmer countries. where it is at
home, the roots of the lotus spread
laterally close to thesurface. In this
country the plant learned, after sin
gle year'sexperience of n New Jersey
winter, to prepare for this freezing
season by abandoning it's surface
lateral roots in early autumn and
sending out a crop of roots lower
down-so far down that they were
below the reach of frost. In this
way the plant kept up its life contin-
hously over winter, and when spring
returned the deep level roots were
abandoned in their turn and the
surface roots once more sent out.
| Then there are certain minute
plants, some of them quite micros-
copie, which grow in wayside pools,
and which move continually in
whorls or spirals, without any NOV
ing influence in the water. In the
myriad forms of this minute life tho
erudition of the protoundest men of
science is required to determine
whether they are animal or vegetable
in their nature. And then who
knows whether the scientists are
quite right? The moral of the whole
matter is that life in the two forms
is identical. But what have you said
when yon have said that? Does the
fact OF the identity prove that there
is spirit in matter, or that animal,
human intelligence is merely II phase
of matter? You pay the money of
your education and take your choice
of the two horns of the dilemma
Boston Transcript.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
Burdette on Buddha.

Did you ever notice. my son, that
the man who tells you he can not be
lieve tho Bible is usually able to be.
lieve almost anything else? You will
find men who turn with horror anG
utter disbelief of the Bible, and Joy
fully embrace the teachings of Budd.
ha. 1t is quite the thing, my son,
for a civilized, enlightened man,
brought up in Christian country
and in an age of wisdom, to be q
Buddhist. And if you ask six men
who profess Buddhism who Buddha
was, one OF them will tell you that
he was an Egyptian soothsayer who
lived two hundred years before Moses:
another will tell you that he brought
letters from PhGnicia, and introduc-
ed them into Greece; a third will tell
you that she was beautiful woman
mt Farther India, bound by her vows
to perpetual chastity; fourth will,
with little hesitation, say he was a
Brahmin of the ninth degree. and a
holy disciple of Confucius; and of the
other two, one will frankly admit
that he doesn't know, and the other
will say, with some indecision, that
he was u dervish of the Nile, what
ever that is, or a felo de Sc, he can't
be positive which.
Before you propose to know more
than anybody and everybody else,
my son, be very certain that you are
at least abreast of two-thirds of
your fellow men. don't want to
suppress any inclination you NAV
have toward genuine free thought
and careful, honest investigation.
my son. l only want you to avoid
the great fault of atheism in this day
and generation. / don't want to see
you try to build a six-story house on
q one-story foundation.
Before you criticise, condemn and
finally revise the work OF creation.
my son, be pretty confident that YOU
know something about it as Il is.
and don't, let me irnplore you, don't
turn this world upside down and sit
on it and fatten 1t entirely out, un.
til you have made or secured another
one for the rest of us to live in while
you demolish the old one.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
CITY Of Bow Legs"
"Are yor bow-legged? Nearly ever

"Are yor bow-legged? Nearly every.
body else IL Tacoma is"
Such w.s the remark of'one gentle
man to another as they stood listen
ing to tho music on the Tacoma
hotel porch one evening. The per-
son addressed had his lower limbs en-.
cased in extra wide trousers, and,
therefore. the crookedness or
straightness of those articles could
not be CLEANED by asuperfcial glance.
Acting upon this remark of the ap.
parently observing gentleman, who
was visitor on his way to Alaska,
Record reporter started out to in.
yestigate the subject for himself.
While walking up Ninth street this
morning he kept his eyes open, and
what he saw indeed surprised him.
Hardly u man or youth trod up
the hill from Pacific avenue to Rail,
road street who was not afflicted
with n bow in either or both legs.
The victims were in oil stages oil
the terrible affection, and the eye oil
an observer could easily detect he
who had but recently started to curve
underneath and also he who had
sheen there" for years.
Out OF so men, youths and boys
who struggled up that hill, just 80
were bow-legged, some much SO and
some just q little bit 80. In every
group Of three or more the majority
carried with them bent lower limbs.
One man almost tread one foot up.
on the other as he walked, while an.
other, handsome young fellow with
q beautiful blond moustache, stepped
out in q curious way, apparently
conscious of the fact that his limbs
were beginning to turn, and evident
~ seeking to hide the fact from the
general public.
The cause OF so much crookedness
in the City of Destiny is a natural
one and surely insurmountable one
the hills. To climb them, and Ia
comans cannot do without climbing
them in come degree, is strain on
the neither limbs, and gradually they
give way and in some cases bring hui
to their owners. There are
plenty of handsome young mvn in
Tacoma to-day who would give asy-
thing to have theirleg Strengthened,
md as much cnn be said of plenty OF
the young ladies in Tacoma.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
Total Depravity Of Youth.

A lad of 8 going into the police
station the other night told a pitia-
BILE story, saying that his father SO
abused him that he had run away
from his home in Rome, N. Y. The
police pitied him, and after giving
him n supper tucked him away COM
tortably in n bed. The next morn
ing a man who lived only a few doors
from the station wandered in and in
quired for his son. He was told that
only one child was there, a poor lit
tie fellow from New York state, who
had been badly treated at home.
He naturally felt for the child, and
expressing q desire to SEQ him he was
escorted to the bed, when he recog-
nized the sleeper as his missing son.
He angrily demanded an explana-
;tion. Jakey forgot all about the
,cruel Rome father and trembled in
anticipation of the reception await
ing him ut home. When Sergeant
Logan heard that he had been vast
ling pity and good victuals on the
Had he felt a trife queer, and did not
regain his composure until the pat
ter OF single accompanied by sup
pressed sobs and yells fioated out of
a house near by and fell like music
on his enr.-Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
= A Laugh Producing Plant.

While the Stanley expedition was
crossing portion of the Sahara
Desert, they were made acquainted
with the peculiar properties of a
plant known only to that region,
called by the Arabs cuili koia, or the
laughing plant. Prof. Salchi, at
tached to the expedition, was fortu-
nate enough to procure several fine
specimens of this peculiar plant,
which he is at present cultivating
with n view to practical Experiments.
The production of laughter by ar
tificial means, it is thought. can be
reduced to science now that the
discovery of plant, the properties
of which are a direct incentive to
laughter, has been made. Any
amount of exclamation can be pro-
duccd by simply increasing or dimin-
ishing the lnugh-producing dose.
There was a time when the somno-
lent effects produced by the poppy
were not generally known, but the
soporific properties OF this plant are
now beyond cavil, and in u short
time it is expected that Prof. Salchi
will have crop of the laugh-produc-
ing plants large enough for practical
experiments. The now almost I'M
known plant will soon become q
staple article of commerce, and the
principal cereal cultivated in many q
vast grader will be the laughter-pro-
ducing plant. AS opium is certain
to produce sleep, so can the laughter
plant be at all times relied upon to
produce laughter in oil animated
creatures, from the micro organisms
of the oscillatori@ up to the genus
homo.
This strange plant grows in the
arid deserts OF Arabia and on the
vast sea OF the white sand known Us
the Desert of Sahara, in Africa. The
plaHtsis of moderate SIZE, with bright
yellow flowers and soft, velvety seed
pods, each. OF which contains two or
three seeds resembling small black
beans. The natives OF the district
where this strange plant grows dry
the seeds in the sun and reduce them
to u fine impalpable powder by
process OF maceration between two
stones. A small dose OF this powder
has similar effects to that arising
from the inhalation of laughing gas.
Il causes the most sober person to
dance, shout. and laugh with the
boisterous excitement OF n mndman,
and to rush about cutting the most
ridiculous eapers for about an hour.
At the expiration of this time ex-
haustion sets in and the excited per-
son fulls asleep = to awake after an
hour or more with more or less wy
Id recollection of having been in the
seventh heaven OF cnjoyment.-Phil-
adelphia Times.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
The First Chew.

The boy said it was q peculiar kind
OF tobacco and was known as molns.
ses tobacco, because it was so sweet.
The other boys did not ask how he
came to know it's name or where he
got it-boys never ask anything
that it would be well for them to
know-but they accepted his theory
and his further statement thati was
of mildness singulnrly adapted to
learners without misgiving. The boy
was himself chewing vigorously on n
large quid and launching Juice from
his lips right and left like grown
person and my boy took as large n
bite as his benefactor bade him. He
found it rs sweet as he had been told
it was and he acknowledged the apt
ness of its name of molasses tobac
co, II seemed to him golden op.
portunity to acquire noble hab. t
on easy terms. He let the quid rest
in his cheek, as he had seen men do,
when he was not crushing it between
his teeth, and for some moments he
poled his plank up and down the
canalboat with u sense of triumph
that nothing marred.
Then all of q sudden he began to
feel pale. The boat seemed to be go
ing round and the sky wheeling over
head. The sun was lodging about
very strangely, Drops OF sweat
burst from the boys forehead; he let
60 his pole and said that he thought
he would go home. The fellow who
gave him the tobacco began to laugh
and the other fellows to mock, but
my boy did not mind them. Some
how, he did not know how, he got
out OF the canalboat and started
homeward, but ut every step the
ground rose as high as his knees be-
fore him, and then, when he got his
foot high enough and began to putt
down, the ground was not there.
He was deathly sick, as he reeled and
staggered on, and when he reached
home and showed himself, white and
haggard, to his frightened mother,
he had scarsely strength enough to
gasp out a confession OF his attempt
to retrieve the family honor by
learning to chew tobacco. In an
other moment nature came to his re-
lief and then he fell into deep sleep
which lasted the whole afternoon, SO
that IL seemed to him the next day
when he woke up, glad to find him
self alive, if not SO very lively.
Perhaps he had swallowed some of
the poisonous juice of the tobacco;
perhaps it had worked on his brain
without that. His father made no
very close inquiry into the facts, and
he did not forbid him the use of to-
bacco. 1t was not necessary; in
that one little experiment he had got
enough for a lifetime. 1t shows that
after NIL a boy is not so hard to sat
isfy in everything.-W. d. Howels in
Harper's Young Folks.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
Recapture OF a Convict.

A Georgia convict working on the
improvements at Crawfish Springs
broke his chain and managed to es-
cape from camp the other day. Blood
hounds were put on his trail, butlost
it in a few miles, the cunning rascal
having stolen "a mule and mounted it.
After riding a short distance he was
thrown of by the animal. He sue
ceeded in eluding his pursuers, but
was captured by a citizen on Mission
airy Ridge, who hearing noise as OF
hammering followed it, and found
the convict sitting on rock pound
ing the fragment OF the chain still at
tached to his ankle. A neighbor
came to the scene armed with O pis-
tol, and the criminal was captured.
He now wears q chain attached to
his neck.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
freed by Rattlers.

This season has been a remarkable
one for snakes in Connecticut, ac'
cording to the Suns Norwich Chron.
icler. Not only are they unusually
plentiful, but they behave queerly
A North Stonington lad had asingu.
lar adventure with rattlers the other
day. He had been out huckleberry'
Ing, and climbed an apple tree in apas'
ture for fruit. While eating an apple
rs no sat astride of low limb he
saw two big rattlers come up to the
tree trunk, and it was evident to the
hoy at once that they wanted him.
They. couldn't climb the tree, so they
camped out under il, and now and
then lifted their ugly heads, cracked
q little, and looked at him meaning.
ly. The inference was, SO the boy in.
terpreted the look, that they had
plenty of time, and were going to
wait tor him to come down.
The North Stonington hoy sat on
the limb about half an hour, and in
that time hat ched up plot that he
fancied might circumvent the reptiles.
He had O fish line in his trousers
pocket and sandwich in his jacket,
and, batting the hook attached to
the line with piece of the biscuit,
he dropped the bait down toward
the biggest RATHER, which, with swol.
len neck and uplifted crest, was
prancing about directly beneath
him. With a skillful twist of the
wrist lie dropped the hook and bis
cult squarely into the serpents nav,
nnG the big snake instantly swallow
ed it, Then he pulled the line in, SO
that the RATHER was left swinging
about two feet from the ground, tied
the line to the tree bough, and cut
the string in two. To the severed
piece of string he hooked another
hook, baited that, and began to.an.,
gle for the mate of the suspended SER
pent. But that snake had reasoned
out the plan, and as soon as the boy
made his first cast he lodged out OF
the way of the hook. Then instant
ly he became very much alarmed,
and, giving his rattlers farewell
shake, turned and glided quickly
into the greenwood. The boy skin,
ned down the tree n moment later,
and scurried off home, leaving the
hooked snake dangling from the
bough.
One of the largest rat tiers killed in
the state in many years was slain by
Dwight Monroe, hired man on the
William Il. Smith farm in West Hart.
ford, a few days ago, Monroe was
walking near the reservoir, when n
huge serpent suddenly reared up in
front OF him and shook out warn,
ing rattle. Monroe hastily stepped
back, then went and cut q chip, re-
turned, and found the serpent exactly |
in the same posture as Mt the begin
ing of the encounter. With a single |
stroke Monroe killed tho serpent, |
and took him into Hartford. The
reptile was three feet ten inches long,
six inches in girth, and wore eleven
rattles. His color was rich velvet
brown. Monroe had taxidermis'
stuff him.