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When Rande received the bullets in his lungs he tell to the floor, saying ; “ Let me lie down now; 1 am dying. I am shot through the lungs‘“ A moment later he had whipped out another revolver, and was \VI'ru REVOLVER IN EACH HAND and put four bullets into Scholes. two in the head and two in the heart. A hundred men, well armed to the teeth, were soon in gut-unit, many of them mounted. Overtak- mg the fugitive, Frank Barnes, who was sllqhtl) in advance, called out to him. “Halt l or you are a. dend man.” Rande’s only reply was four pistol shots, two strik- ing Barnes, and two penetrating the skull of Frank Wiaemen. Both men fell dead in their tracks. Turning his fire then on the other men in the party, he dashed upon them w1th a yell, atampeding the entire crowd andAwounding several of them. Although the identity of the murderer was still unknown, it was soon decided that the St. Elmo and Gilson desperadoes were one and the same person. Heavy rewards were offered for his capture not only by several counties but by the State, and dozens of armed bends hunted for weeks in a vain endeavor to apprehend him. The search had been all but abandoned when news was received that the offender had been taken in St. Louis. 0n the morning of Nov. 17 Rmde entered a pawnshop in that city to redeem a. valise. The keeper of the place suspected the fellow and sent n clerk out to call the police. Policemen White and Hoflerman strolled in. sized the man up, and concluded he was a bad one. As they reached for him, Rande sprang with the agility of a tiger three feet in the air, and before his feet touched the floor his revolv. ers were barking and bullets were flying so thick and fast that a panic seized every body in the neighborhood. White received a. se- vere wound in the leg, but Heiferman and the pawnbroker managed to hit Rande twice, the former sending two bullets through his lungs, and the latter putting one or two into his legs. ll him was carried away insensilrle, and died soon afterward. imaginative farther Would drive madly to the nearest town to report that the James and Younger boys were in his neighbor- hood. Hundreds of men turned out and scoured the cauntry in all directions, but nothing further was seen or heard of Rude for three weeks. One day in September John Scholes of Gilaon, Knox county, 111., found a. thief in his house and gave chase. Overtaking the fellow in an open field, Mr. Schcles called out to him to halt. The thief turned squarely in his tracks This tragedy caused the wildest excite- ment throughout Illinois, and the most ex- aggerated tales of the man’s prowess were circulated. Many believed that the fellow was J 236 J ames, and almost every day some Purchasing two magnificent revolvers of the largest calibre, he wore them outside his coat in a harness specially made for the pur- pose, which held the weapons about on a level with his vest pockets, so that with the slightest movement of the hands he could seize them. For several months nothing was heard of him, but during August he appear- ed in the vicinity of St. Elmo, 111., where he made daily and nightly raids on houses, barns, and stores. On Sunday noon it was discovered that the residence of Wooliord Pierce had been robbed while the family were at church, and a number of citizens started in pursuit of Rande, who was known to be hiding near the town. Starting him from his cover, the posse ran him into a corn field, where, apparently enraged by the pur- suit, he mount: (1 a rail fence and gave a wonderful exhibition of his skill as 9. marks- man. With a revolver in each hand he dis- charged both weapons at once. killing two men, Charles Belden and Charles McKeown, at first fire. His firing was so sudden and the execution so deadly that the pursuing party became panic-stricken, but he shot tw0 more men before they could get out of the range of his pistols. THE mos'r TROUBLFSOME MAN they ever had in charge. It was one unend- ing round of floggings, solitary confine- ments in dungeons on a bread-anJ-water diet, and punishments by ball and chain as long as he was there. He was a prolific writer, and in mapping out schemes of rob- bery and murder he had the ingenuity of the devil. Several times while confined at Michigan City he drew up elaborate des- scriptions of proposed prison delmries, giv- ing maps, diagrams, &c., of the penitentiary, the town, and the surrounding country, with the fullest directions to be observed by confederates on the outside. In one of these productions he went so far as to de- signate the particular people about the pris- on whom it would be necessary to kill. When his term of imprisonment was up the officials were very glad to part company with him. He left Michigan City and the State, threatening vengeance on all of his former keepers and promising to return some day and clean out the entire establishment. In the spring of 1872 he was arrested at; Fort Wayne for a. safe burglary, and on con- viction was sent to the penitentiary at Michigan City for five year:. His service in this institution seems to have hardened him. The keepers declared that he was THE JAMES BBYS BUTMNE. The “ Brilliant Bandit of the Wabash.” IIThe “Brilliant Bandit of the Wabash," as Frank Rande I‘ved to call himself, llCS low in the prison hospital in Joliet, 111.. with two or three big welts across the skull, a bullet hole in his ear, and another in his side. Although desperately hurt; thare are in the prison hospital in Juliet, 111.. With two or three big Welts across the skull, a bullet hole in his ear, and another in his side. Although desperately hurt. there are fears that Rande will recover. He has. been shot through and through before this. but has always managed to rally, so as to be a little tougher than he was before, if possible. There is not an officer or a convict in the penitentiary who, if left to himself. would not take pleasure in finishing this fellow’a career in short order. He is probaby the moat desperate man with whom the au- thorities of Indiana. Illinois. and Missouri, have ever had to deal. Starting out in 1870, when about thirtv years old, as a burglar and general thief, Rande visited almost every towu of any size in Indiana and lllinois, stealing everything he could put his hands on. It made no difference to him Whether the article taken was of value or not._ If it was portable he took it. Doing his plunder up in bundles, and, when possible, packing it; in satchels or trunks, he would leave these things at railroad stations. lio« tels, and express offices to be called for. giv- ing in each case a. different; name as that of the owner. Hundreds of these satchels and bundles were in existence at a time, and vey few of them were ever called for. _ ma] day IdJoliet, Rande has been a troublesome prisoner. He had been feared and hated by his fellow prisoners, and the officers always kept him under a. close watch. He had an idea that he was a sort of leader in the pris- on by reason of his pre-eminence in crime, and he used to refer contemptuously to " these crooks,” as if they Wu‘e far beneath him in social status. At first he devoted his spare time to Writing novels based on in- crdents in his own career, in which he al- ways figured as the hero. These works he called “The American Brigand.” "The Knox County Desperado.” "The St. Louis Pawn Shop Fiend,” and “The Brilliant B’indit of the Wabash.” When be dis- covered that none of these could ever be printed, he turned his attention to inven- tions, and during the last three or four months he has drawn plans and specifica- tions for several curious contrivances. He had a scheme for perpetual motion which he was sure would do away with the use of steam on railroads. Besides a fire escape of some merit he got up What he called a. crim- inal detector. If he could only get out of prison to perfect it, he said, no guilty man could ever escape. It would ferret out crime better than any detective. He had an entirely new plan in telegraphy, by which he could send information instantly to any distance without the use of electricity, and just before he made his last deadly assault A man in London ha to talk by writing th card, and placing it on animal would know v The average bull-dog kind of instruction. 1 always knows where t calf without any kind ‘ Michilet » agys woni Em his keeper he was at work on the plans and specifications of a. gun which was to 511301; a._nd ‘kill_at thirt)y miles rapgg. A Rsnde is desperately wounded. but he may recover. He has had some rational spells, and in these he has boasted that he has killed thirteen men, and expressed the hope that the \Varden would die, so as to make the fourteen. To all inquires as to his condition he says he is all right, and will be out in a few days, as he has had worse wounds than those from which he is now sufiering and has recovered. It seems almost impossible to kill him. The ball which he received the other day in the ear was fired with the muzzle of the revolver not three inches from his head, and the bullet passed through the skull at the case of the brain, but the prison surgeons say that he will probsby get well. Sifice the'al'iove was in type word has been received that Rauc‘e finished his career by hanging himself. A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT to every citizen of Knox county, but there was no move in the direction of violence. During the trial Rande wore the same suit of clothes which he had on when he was shot in the St. Louis pawnshop, find there were ragged holes and blood stains very sugges- tive of the carnage through which he had passed. Some people believed that this fact, an} the additional one that Rmde was still feeble and apparently irresponsible for his med-dog proclivities, induced the jury to forego the deft}: sentence in his case. He wrote a great deal for the newspapers, in prose and doggerel, and mane no conceal- ment of his intention to kill everybody who had been instrumcntal in lringing him to jail if he ever regained his liberty. “ I will kill you and you ” he would say. “ and that feller down in Sit, Louis when i get out of this. " His enjoyment of the sen- sation he had caused was intense, and was marred only by the refusal of the authorities to let him Wear his pistols, He begged pite- cusly to have the weapons given up to him- unloaded, of course, for he said he appeared much better with them on. The Sheriff finally consented to let the fellow have his picture taken with his harness and revolvers in place, and theso photographs were sold in large numbers. While Rande was in jail at Galesburg he received a long letter from Jack Lingdon. then under sentence of death in Texas for murder, in which the Lone Star desperado expressed the greatest admiration for the Illinors murderer. Jack had killed nineteen men in his day, but he magnani- moust refused to claim greater distinction than that which he freely gave to Rande, for he said the quality of Rande’s victims was higher than that of his, some of whom were only “ nigger: and half breeds," and "didn‘t count for much.” Jack recited a few of the biggest things he ever did for the entertain- ment of Rande, and expressed a consuming desire to read the life of the Illinois murder- er, which he urged Rande to write, if he had not done so already. He enclosed a, copy of his own life and adventures, and only re- gretted that he had not been able to make the narrative still more interesting. Rande began work on an exhaustive biography, and continued his labor throughout his trial. The trial was a good deal of a. farce, and re- sulted in a verdict of murder with a sentence to life imprisonment. fixed by the jury it- self. The defence was insanity, but the only impression that could be made on the jury was in the direction of mitigation of sentence. The result of the trial was lieved that he would he lvnched be reached Galeeburg. Extra. precautio taken, however, and he was emfer lo jail. Once secure behini the bars levees daily, reciting with evident the numerous murders he had com he was s was put he was v and, beh deter of Iuctantl} Illinois a he w and. dere luctz Illin whc not recover, but in the c be was strong enough t: was put into the Four C he was visxted by many and, being thoroughly i< deter of Gilson and St Iuctantly urrendered l Illinois authorities. N he could lieved L‘ iifi but in the course ofz g enough to be mov the Four Courts" pr ’d by many peopie fn at Court any peo; 1y idemi 1 St. El of labe Michele ’ he would say. :. Louis when I ment of the sen- mtonse, and was f the authorities He begged pita- ‘iven up to him- I he Sunday of at. We think Aucuu Mum, I committed. : newspapers, .e no conceal- erybody who aging him to 1W. few Weoks ad, and he Illi e halt pride sitted M 'lhe appointment of a. chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons “ to read prayers with the House daily” commenced with the Long Parliament. Previous to that the rule was “ that the litany he read every day and a. prayer be said by Mr. Speaker, as he shOuId think fittest for the time, to be begun every morning at half past eight, and every member making default to forfeit 4d. t0 the poor man's box.” The present chaplain is the Hon. F. Byng, son of Earl Spofi'ord. Theevidenceseemedoverwhelminglyagainst Edward Johnson, a colored man, on trial for burglary in Bativia. Ohio. His trial had lxsted tour days, and the audience in court thought him sure to be convicted. He ask- ed permission to speak and talked for forty- five minutes. He fairly tore to pieces the State's network of evidence, plunged most of the jurors in tears, amazed the Court, captivated the audience, and made a speech which the Cincinnati papers say has no narallel in rude eloquence since the days of Chief Red Jacket. He was acquitted. Last year 220,922,650 lottery tickets were sold by the lottery offices in Italy, on which 71,826,683 francs were staked, being‘Zfrancs 44 centimes on an average for each of the 29,000,000 inhabitants, The winnings on these ventures amounted to 44.4ll,5‘28 francs, leaving a. net profit of 27,415,154 francs to the State. Only forty-four win- nings were above 10,000 francs each, the highest two being one of 78.000 francs made in Turin, and the otheriyf 50,000 francs in Naples. Apropos of the club gambling scandal in Paris a correapondent writes: Louis XIV. himself was not: free from the vice of cheat- ing. One day he Was playing with the Mar- quis do Rohan, his first valet de chambi'e. '[ have got four kings,’ said Louis.’ The Marquis sus ected atrick, an be hold a king himself, am? the Heathen Chinee was not yet invented. ‘I have got five knaves,’ cap- ped the Marquis. ‘ How can that be ‘3” ‘On the same principle of your Majesty. who in- cludes himself. Four knaves in my hand and myself make five.’ A knave is called valet in French. The inexorable law of centralization la the cause of overcrowding in towns. In 1851 the rural population of England amounted to 8,700,000, and the town popu- lation 8,000,000. In 1881 the rural popu- lation was $600,000, and the town popula- tion l7,000,000;showing that in 30 years the town population was nearly doubled, While the rural population was diminished to the extent of 100,000. H5 For thirty years prior to 1850 the con- sumption of wine and spirits in Paris was at the rate of about 100 litres per head. Be~ tween 1850 and 1860 it rose to 119: between 1860 and 1865 it reached 160; in 1872 216; in 1881, 227. Those who ought to know say that the increased consumption has Worked no improvement in health or morality. The Duluth papers mention the discovery of a "certain cure” for gout. A peasant who was confined to his bed by a. sharp attack was stung by a bee, and almost immediate~ 1y he felt better and the next day he was well. A short time after another patient thought he would try the same remedy, and having induced ahee to sting him on the part affected, he also was cured. The population of Ireland is now very nearly the same as it was in the year of the Union, 5,100,000, the great increase up to 1841, when it reached 8,199,000, having been entirely loet. But whereas in 1832, on the passing of the Reform bill. Ireland had 32 3‘2 per cent. of the population of the United Kingdom, it has now but 14.81 per cent. and its electors who were 11.32 per cent of the whole in 1832, are now but 7.45. The Bombay Chamber of Commerce has submitted a. memorial to the Viceroy urging that railway extension be prosecuted at the rate of 2,000 or 3,000 miles annually for the next ten years, at a. coat of $20,000, 000 per annum. They recommend that this sum be raised by sterling loans in Loncon. at guer- anteed interest of 3;; per cent. in perpetuity. The greater the railroad extension in India, the less risk of (amines. of each plate, These telephones were hill on td a. hall in which a. band was plaving no that each guest could get snatches (f music between the courses. A singular accident happened lately at a mill in Nashville, Tenn. A workman was thro wn toward a circular saw, and thinking he would strike it, died from fright. VVben picked up he was dead, but there was no The Berlin eight months 1883 inflicted PM“ that have pm Led New use for the Telephoneâ€"Population of Irelandâ€"Gambling in Paris- Bnthing Children. etc., etc. A woman who cc-ntracfed a. cough in a. newly plmtered hotel at. Cleveland has been awarded $2,000 damages. The F ,0 tryra E ‘et war hich an At afa a. means 1t 10f |, Is off a. diam adilly onl INTERESTINB ITEMS. econ rmany 16m! tench railway compames are vstem of warming cars by pi; ance, quick trains, in lieu c mers now used. the changi xths of imprisc ;ted on the e the province 1 two of the p( )ln 'maz a1 ‘ enabling electricity ally answer as a sourc l action, mechanical 0.000 disturbs passengers Lble dinner party re ephoue was found a ovm ‘ the ‘ome action, mechanical ansmiuting intelliqem Tageblatt states that imprisonment were pay his bod of I ,oliti dearly for their an to all mat in Dacember1 of six news. 11 alone, and papers there :ditora out of of heart: power :ntly the si durifig ionali . 1887 _b_e ap D). ade eighty-five years ago. When Austeriitz was fought Schramm was an old soldier With six campaigns behind him; and when after Waterloo, he retired for a time into private life, he had earned his repose by fifteen years of active servxce, which included the terrible Russian expedition of 1812. He emerged in 1830. and for a quarter of a, cen- tury afterward took an acnive share in all the military affairs of his country, became War Minister under the Second Empire, and, as an able old veteran, lived to see the armies of the nation he had helped to crush at J ens. take their revenge is second time at Gravelotte and Sedan. The “Chronicle of the Drum," as toll be;Sch1-a.mm, should have been worth hearing An earthquake observatory is being start- ed in Japan by Prof. Milne of the Imperial Engineering College in Tokio. This novel obserVatory is fitted up deep down in the coal mines of the island of Tekashinto, not far from Nagasaki. Instruments are placed at different levels in the mines, which will afford measures of the relations of time, in- tensity, &c., between earth-tremors below ground and those observed at the surface. These minute and almost imperceptible movements of the earth's crust have already been the subject of experiments, in the re- searches into the lunar disturbance of grav- ity by the brothers Darwin, who suggested two or three years ago the necessity of un- dergwund observations in order to get ridof the accidental disturbances which seem to be fatal to successtul experiments at the surfaceâ€"Pall Mall Gazette. \Vhatever they may say, all that they are doing at Panama looks to the construction of a canal that must have 124 feet lockage, and will then cost $200,000, in addition to the $100,000,000 called in on stock or ob- tained on bonds. About $20,000,000 has gone to the founders and sub-founders ; about as much more for the purpose of the Panama. Railroad, and ten er cent. in ad- vertising and extra. fee to ankers ; and as much more to contractors as shown. I have it from an engineer, conversant with the work, that every cubic metre of hard ground ex- cavated costs $2.50, which is five times what it should cost even there. But the difiiculty, even for a. lock cnnal. is to get rid of the ex- cavated material. An enormous amount of excavation will be required to get proper slopes in the Calebra cut. This is almost wholly in earth, and the summit level of the railroad is a. more " hog’s hack."â€"that is to say, it has very steep grades on both sides. The cut was made twenty-five feet deep, be- cause of the tendency ut the earth to slide. In fact a tram was caught in this gap by a slide. and it required days to dig it out. The earth had to be carried 011 in buckets and it was like putty. If the canal has a lockage of 125 feet then the deep cut will be at least 200 feet. So you see what a. cut in width it must be, and what the land slides will be alter heavy rains.â€"Rear-Admiral Ammen. «MM Au Earthquake Observatory in Japan. ony caused to many delizate children through the ignorance of mothers and nurses by making them stand in cold Water of in a. cold room in the depth of Winter (while frequently the process of bathing is anything but a. brisk one), must in a. good many cases make the bath, instead of being a pleasure and a. luxury, a very trying ordeal to the shivering little victims. To none but the very strongest is a. perfectly onld bath in cold weather either pleasant or profitable. The water, as a. general rule, should be of the same temperature as the body, so that no disagreeable shock is caus- ed by plunging into the bath ; while on no account (in the case of the daily bath) should it be so warm as to prevent the invigorating and refreshing sensation on emerging. 811' James Paget, the eminent English surgeon, says, “ have the temperature of the water just as you like it.” A rural friend wants to know what i best thing to feed hogs on. He might tham on the ground. or, if he wishes, trough. We never did approve of fixin up mahogany tables with marble to} hogs. The London T171572 gives particulars respecting the ob club of the Rue Pwyale, which much discussion in Paris : “Tl been members of the club for 2 have an open credit of 20,0 which they can draw. The r Being entertained by a. romance isn’t what is usually meant when the types say " a novel entertainment.” a shell‘ of the h‘ am free with 30 the h fan or and wh A Tremendous Task. nd the halt is 1 iput I}; An Old Warrior. curl ther they 20,000 francs on he member Whose trough!) to light, When 11 :11 has [ed to so Those who have ' a. certain time :en DOX‘D neany .zsving entered of ten. The Marchal vou and the fathers lseley probably I: camp on par- ‘hen Austerlitz he following Ming in the eir hair 1t marry is the .lnd for At present about 19.000 persons are exiled to beeria. annually, and about sixty per cent. are nobles. Happy is the man who eats only for hun- ger, and drinks only for thirst ; who stands on his legs, and lives according to reason, and not according to fashion ; who pro- vides for whatever is necessary and useful and expands nothing for ostentation and pomp. In France there are 2,150 lady artists, of Whom 602 are oil painters. 107 sculptors. 193 miniature painters, and 754 painters on por- celain. There were in Eng‘and in 1883 pauper; numbering 1.069,:296, in a. population of 26‘- 700, 000, or one pauper to every twenty-five of the population. Bind together your spare hours by the chord of some definite purpose, and you know not how much you may accomplish. Gather up the fragments of your time that nothing can be lost. No money is better spent than what x5 laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that; his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that; she is dressed. Rusaia. produces annually about $4,000.000 worth of honey, or over 18,000 tons, besides 5,000 pounds of wax worth $2,000,000. It in nearly all consumed in the empire, how- Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another’a prosperity, like the zcorpxon confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Prejudicee are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose 3011 has never been loosened, or fertilized by education. They grow there firm as weeds among stones. The greatest of fouls is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which be has least studied, and of which he is most pro- f cundly ignorant. There are said tohmve been 500,000 Chris- tians in the worl-l at the end of the first century, 10,000,000 in the time of Constan- tine, 30.000,000 in the eighth century, 100,- 000,000 at the time of the Raformam'on and 450,000,000 in 1883 and the very history 0! souls inspires a man with as they ate-educated to tt aim in life is to please. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Who- ever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. A firm faith is the best divinity ; a good life the best philosophy; 3 clear conscience the best law ; honesty the best policy ; and temperance the beat physic. All along the pathway stones, by the side of wnic ised to strive for heaven. Never expect wameu t9 No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct. of life as nut to recmve new in- formation fr Philosophy an to the probabi there is a. vast s tainty, Four things are creviously empty: A head without brains, a. wit without judgment, 3. heart without honesty and a. purse without money. The imports of wool in the United States have increased sinca 1876 about seventy-five per cent, and last year was 70,575,478 pounds. The home clip has increased about thirty-five per cent, amountingnow to 290,- 090,000 pounds annually. heart can pleasing. Prejudice and aelf-suficinncy naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind. He who can irritate you when he likes 13 your master. You load better turn rebel by learning the virtue of patience. There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. In New York city, according to some figures recently published, there are more than 890 rag-dealers, and the pickers, who are mostly Italians, gather $750,000 worth yearly in the at'reets and roads, while the money realized for cotton rags alone in the Unlted States is put: at $22,000,000 per 311- num. The gross value of the city of Landon in April next will be £4‘237,000, and the rat- able value £3 532,000, While the gross value of the rest of the metropolis will be £30,. 745,000, and the ratahle 925,372,000. Thus despite the rapid growth of the metropolis, the one square mile of the city keeps up its propartion of about one-seventh of the ratable value of the whole 120 square miles. Statistics are being collected in France for the purpose of formin an estimate as to whether the total num er of inhabitants in the country will be greater or less than it is now at the close of the century. Thus far the figures tend to show that there is likely to be a decrease rather than an increase in the population. There are not upon an average more than two children now in each family in France, and though there has al- ways been an increase in the population since 1806, the rate of the increase has been constantly declining from 38 per 10, 000 yearly to '26 per 10,809. Returns also state that out of every 100 inhabitants of Paris only thirty-six are born in the department, fifty-seven coming from the provinces, and seven from abroad. Moreover, while the number of births remains nearly stationary in France, the rate of infant mortality is en- ormous, being as much as 27 per cent. in Normandy and 15 per cent. for the whole of France. MORSELS FACTS AND FIGURES. arr 3m SUNDAY 1hr ieuce can lead us only of immortality, and ~om probability to cer- L151] flows from th xternal manner of life We b k that their (ix-E): eye ADING tomb prom- :txons publw‘l ughta