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Rf. ""v«J v/Vf** * -T .. . 'J|ifc> uilfci'S J**v. iifi « •1 ">' f \ -4-i 3;#' v. -! fM 3»'i tnrj flaindfaltr. J^VASSLYKE, PotlmhA. ^r-trt?\TD\f pivam^i A«A| -- TT .T TVATa t A W515 CULTURAL AHD DOMESTIC. .- Aroaad the F»ran. , &* have and repeatedly that the * fc<est way of treating the cabbage worm -fe to leave it m the hands of its parmgt**, --Rural Herald,. - . ESOUSE farmers gladly purchase ikidua at good prices. They find them the Ij^est and cheapest destroyers of Which infest their plants. THE writer oaoe lost a large jar of but | y:#er down a well where it remained for | Ibree years. On cleaning the well the j "butter was found to be perfectly good, except an inch on the top. Good butter " will keep any length of time when com­ pletely excluded from the air, in a cool (* jflace.--Prairie Farmer. ,' ' Bra of and sell to men whom you know t personally, or who are engaged in regu- *r, permanent business, whenever mis -can be done. Other things being equal, tmy and sell in the market nearest home. •. ^ Western Rural. *•" < i . I t is just as easy to build a stack of I Ifheat as to load a wagon. While build- 45 if&g the butt of the stack the heart must be kept full. When you begin to take it in keep it fuller, TO that the stack will never take rain. If the heart is not kept full it is very easy to build a stack that looks well, but it will not save. I have built hundreds of stacks, and never had -due spoil, while some of my neighbors [ who iiave much nicer looking stacks ai-\ Alleys have more or less spoiled, wheat. »* THE Rural New Yorker says the cause •of most poor land and bad farming is that fanners too often sell off all the valuable parts of the crops and do not return enough to the soil. Very good farmers sell the grain and keep the straw to make manure. But manure made of straw is of little value; either for nitro­ gen or phosphates, and unless these are supplied the soil must deteriorate. Clo- T»r furnishes nitrogen, but the phos­ phates have to come from some aburce, generally by purchasing commer­ cial fertilizers. THE Kansas Farmer says a breeder of hogs in that State took 100 hogs and Pn' 5® ™ peM and fed com, and 80 and fed wheat, with the following result: Those with corn made 11 pounds per bushel; the 50 with wheat made 17 pounds of good solid pork per bushel of wheat. The wheat was ground like meal, boiling water poured over it, and then let . stand 42 hours. I MR. J. L PERKINS. of Hamsrm nrmn- ty« Iowa--who thinks his locality has "the greatest soil in the world for pota­ toes, when the season is just right, as this has been in all respects"---sends the New York Tribune a statement of the .yield of several varieties from one" pound of seed of each. The tubers were cut into single eyes, and planted three feet a]3a?t each way in rich, loAmy land, con­ taining a large proportion of decayed ^ vegetable matter. Mo manure was used either before or after planting. holding it toward a candle or ike sun, and when shaken* slight ahoek if lelfcit lie egg is not fresh. f Yield, Variety, pounds, ^Eureka.. 890 Snowflake...., . . . . . .830 Koneeueh 730 Compton'H Surpritie. .728 Early Ohio 825 Berlin Seedling M0 Early Vermont 416 Late Rose 415 Brown'8 Seedling... .413 Early Favorite 410 Morning Glory 364 Browne ll'n Beauty 330 Ioe Cream... 320 Yield, IMHtftfZfi Early Eclipse .315 General Grant. 312 Peerless 305 Early Roee. . 3(H) Excelsior. ,s... . 281 Carpenter's Seedling. 280 Strawberry 251 Prince Albert. 240 Climax 218 Buckeye 214 White Peachbtow 200 Jersey Peachblow.... 181 Campbell's Late Rose. 130 According to Mr. P.'s experience, Snowiiake is the best potato he has ever grown. With him it is a splendid crop­ per, very uniform in size, perfectly smooth, peels without waste, cooks through evenly, is very white and floury, and, in short, has no defect whatever. About the Hmue. To DESTROY ants, wrap a piece of gum camphor in cloth or paper to keep it lrom dissolving, and place it in or about your cupboard or sugar, and it will drive «way those pests. PUTTING cream on onions instead of butler (oi even a little milk if one has no cream) removes much of the strong fla­ vor and renders them less likely to affect weak stomachs unpleasantly. GINGER SNAPS.--One-quarter of a pOund of sugar, one-quarter of a pound of butter, the same of lard; beat them well together ; one pint of molasses, two tablespoonsful of ginger, one teaspoon- ful of soda dissolved in a wine-glass of milk, flour sufficient to roll thin, and bake quick. ' COLD COSTARD.--Take three pints of milk, sfir in three or four tablespoonsful of rennet wine, stir it and strain it through a sieve into dishes; keep it in a warm place until it hardens. For sauce, take half a pint of cream, add a few spoonfcM of white wine and sugar ; grate nutmeg over both sauce and cus­ tard. - HASTY PUDDING.--Boil some watevand thicken with flour, as you would for thin starch ; sift come coarse meal and stir in until it is quite thick ; keep it boiling all the time you are putting 111 the meal, which must be done gradually ; salt to the taste ; boil it well; put it in a bowl and turn but. Eat with cream and mo- To MAKE UNFERMENTED CAKES. Soak one pint of oat meal for tea or twelve hours in one pint of sour butter­ milk. Then rub one quarter of an ounce ©f carbonate of soda, and a little salt, into one pound of flour, and mix with the oat meal. Boll it out to any thick­ ness required, and bake in a moderate oven. SLOPS from the kitchen can be ran upon a heap of dirt, which may be occa­ sionally shovelled oyer and changed after it has Absorbed a good deal of filth. It is then well worth removing as a fertil­ iser. It is better than running under­ ground into a pit where the odors gen­ erally find sqme way of escape, often into the kitchen, cy^ac&otmt of some defect or stoppage offne^ipe. An egg if-generally called fresh when It has been paid only one or two days in itunmer, and two to six in winter. The •hell being porous, the water in the inte­ rior evaporates and leaves a cavity of greater or less extent. The yolk of the .t|gg sinks, too, as may be easily seen by The DMUPBFBIA. an two remedies for said by those who *' have to be infallible: 'First, eat onions. Sec­ ond, take two parts of well-dried and ponnded pods of red pepper, mixed with one part of ground mustaid, and sill it ottar everything you eat or drink. MtRABD PLASIBBS. It is stated that in making a mustard plaster, no water whatever should be naoii , but the ssHJsisrdi nsil?'! «ith ihs white of an egg: the result will be a plaster that will " draw " perfectly, but will not produce a blister even upon the akin of an infant, no matter how long it is allowed to remain upon the part. TO CURE A WART. Procure the best quality of sulphuric acid; drop a little on the wart, and let it remain as long as you have leisure to hold your hand still, say a couple of hours. Repeat one© or twice, and your wart will never trouble you again. lEhm is a sure core, and entirely painless. In cases of a sudden jar, knock, or jam of the hand or Angers, immediately after the blow press the injured part with the uninjured hand, say between the thumb and fore-finger, and grad­ ually let up on it. It will nearly always remove the pain, and generally any swelling that might occur under tne cir­ cumstances. cm FOR RINGWORM. A simple and harmless application, said unfailingly to cure this troublesome eruption, is found by washing with a solution made from the root of the com­ mon narrow-leafed dock, which belongs to the botanical genus Bumex. Use vinegar as the solvent. CORING CHILBLAINS. A writer in the Household reoom- mends taking muriatic acid and diluting it with water. Try it on your nails; if it does not turn the nail yellow it is not too strong. Apply repeatedly with a small swab. It is a sure and safe rem­ edy, and the writer has tried it on him­ self and others with marked success. Be sure not to apply too strong, but dilute it just enough not to turn the nail yellow. WORTH KNOWING, Every little while we read of one who lias stuck a rusty nail, in Ms foot or some other portion of his person, and lockjaw has resulted therefrom. All such wounds can be healed without any fatal conse­ quences attending them. The remedy is simple--it is only to smoke such wound, or any wound or bruise that is inflamed, with burning wool or woolen cloth. Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool will tftke pais out of the worst, case of inflammation mused by any wound we ever saw. HOW TO CUBE A BOBS THROAT. "One who has tried it" communi­ cates the following sensible item about curing sore throat: Let each one of your half million readers buy at, any drug store one ounce of camphorated oil and five cento worth of chloride of pot­ ash. Whenever any soreness appears in the throat, put the potash in half a tum­ bler of water, and with it gargle the throat thoroughly; then rub the neck thoroughly with the camphorated oil at night before going to bed, and also pin around the throat a small strip of wooieii flannel. This is a simple, cheap and sure remedy. CURE FOR WHOOPING- OOUGH. One of the London journals contains a statement by Dr. Berry of his success­ ful treatment of uncomplicated whoop­ ing cough with dilute nitric acid, in doses of from five to fifteen minims, ac­ cording to age, with simple sirup, given every throe or four hours, alleviating the cough and spasm, and apparently cutting short the disease. During an epidemic of the disorder he prescribed this fre­ quently, and with very satisfactory re­ sults. He offers no suggestion as to the operation of the remedy, but he believes its action to be that of a tonic, but its refrigerating properties are not to be lost sight of. In all the cases treated, he has, of course, paid attention to the state of the digestive organs, and in such cases as have required it, ho has given an aperient combined with au alterative. mmmm «r <* •< \ A' £ I : - - ' 'i ; ILLINOIS IT Bill* have THB Hebrews of Bock faland formed a church association. prospect f <*r winter wheat through out Geulnl Illinois is sissllsst. lit Macoupin -ooonty a colored juror has been elected lot fte December term of court THB Ymlen coal mine now gives em­ ployment to sixty miners, who raise 5,000 buahftls of coal per day. A TRACT of 160 acres of good corn was bnmed at Areola early in (he week. Chil­ dren accidentally set it on fire. t* !- * "UMvim; mtenuiy 01 Bureau county, talk strongly of erecting a Masonic temple at that place. Miss TILLIE RERUN, of Springfield, has been adjudged insane, and oommit- ted to the Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville. J. OTIS HUHPHBKX, who carried off the second prize at the intercollegiate contest, in Jacksonville, is a farmer's son of Macoupin county. .JAMES L. BRANNAN and "Enoflli D Brannan, brothers, were married in Greene county last week, at the same time and place, to Laura E. Williams and S&mh. A. Williams, asters. WHILE threshing wheat, lately, Mr. Cram Casey, living in Paradise Prairie, Perry county, lost about 250 bushels of wheat in the stack and a thresher by fire. The stack caught fire from a spark from the stationary engine. ST. LOUIS gives her paupers and crim­ inals just twenty minutes to leave town, which means that they are banished across the big bridge to East St Louis, It is hard on "this side," but makes a big increase in population. A DASTARDLY case of incendiarism oc­ curred at Rantoul, last. Monday, when F. B. Sackett's large, new flooring mill, costing $12,000, was completely con­ sumed. Sackett is ruined financially. There was $6,000 insurance. Two HUNDRED men have recently been employed on the Havana, Rantoul and Eastern Narrow-Gauge road, with head­ quarters at Rantoul. Seven miles are finished from there eastward. Forty miles will be completed this fall. A TOUNG man named Hannan, living in Coles county, had a tooth drawn last week, and hemorrhage was so excessive that he was unable to leave the dentist's office. All efforts to check the flow of blood failed, and he died last Saturday. IN a trial of fire engines, terminated at Danville, last week, between the Silsby Company, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., and the Clapp & Jones Company, of Hudson, Y., the Silsbv engine won in almost all the tests, and was purchased by the City Council. A test severe slnrnt n# rain and wind, accdBpssiod by ste|? IMituisg, visited the vicinity of Springfield last Friday night. Near Edinburg, a few miles east oi' that city, Mrs. J. K. Porter and her father, Isaac Botkin, were killed by lightning while arranging a stopepipe. SAM WHITE, a respectable farmer, liv­ ing n* Du Quoin, took a horse from that village the other day and rod© off to St. John, where he was overtaken by the City Marshal. White was intoxi­ cated at the time, and claims he did not know what he was doing. Anyway he is in serious trouble. ingibair bastme-iL Yon oertainly never saw anywhere in the world healthier or steuoger women than those of tlie great marketa. What is their rale of Hfe? Dinner and to bed. Take another, the very ontoosite «4imh aefavmrwnewL They ketp late hours. Their best meal as taken when the stars say goed=aigtit, Then they go to sleep. Did yoaever hear of an astronomer dying under 100 The mat majority of servants and me ehaniea go to deep immediately after taking their beet meal. They are right. They obey Nature's voice, which always gî eS judi cial counsel. w m • '*>«/ f - DEVOU&ED BT CAHH1BALS. LYNCH LAW* Kcntuckifins (jetting Harried la Indiana* "Stop that boat," was the cry on the Louisville wharf at 10 o'clock Thursday night, but the cry came too late, for the ferry-boat had cut loose from her fasten­ ings, and was steaming proudly up the river, fully a hundred feet from the Ken­ tucky shore. The cry came from two men who had hotly chased a young man and Me sweetheart from a back county In the State to the river and there lost them by being about two minutes too late, for they were safe in the boat, sit­ ting side by side each other in a carriage. The horses panted, and the lovers sighed and congratulated themselves on their escape from the dark and bloody ground and their cruel parents. When the boat landed at our wharf the horses were given the reins, the whip applied, and off dashed the bridal party for Charlestown, the county seat. The pursuers were too close to tarry at Jeffersonville. A brisk, rapid drive of an h»ur and fifteen min­ utes brought them to Charlestown. County Clerk Ingram was aroused from pleasant dreams, and the marriage li­ cense obtained. Next, Elder Howe was awakened from his slumbers, and in less time than it takes to tell it Mr. Okana Owens was the true and lawful husband of Miss L. Jessie Parrent After spend­ ing a pleasant hour the newly-married Jair left Charlestown, returned through effereonville slower than they went up, much less disturbed in mind, and as happy as & newly-elected country Squire. How those Kentucky lovers do laugh at locksmiths. --Jeffersonville Ledger. Holers. t the following to memory, and you will have at your '* tongue's end" the names of the monarch* of England, from the time of the conquest down to the present date: .. . . . > First, William the Norman, tben Henry, his (Ton, ** Henry, Stephen and Henry, then Richard and John. Next, Henry the Third; Edwards, one, two and three; And again, after Richard, three Henrys we gee. Two Edwards, third Richard, if rightly I guess, HenryB, sixth Edward, QUK-H -Mary and Bms; Then Jamie, the Scot; then Charles whom they B16W j nien followed Cromwell, another Charles, too. . • Next, James, oalled the second, ascended the inrone; Then William and Mary, together came on, Anne, Georges four and fourth William all mat, God sent them Victoria, the youngest and laat. THB barn of J. B. Hanley, two miles east of Oswego, was burned last Mon­ day night, about 11 o'clock, supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The barn was nearly new, being built this sum­ mer, and contained five horses, harnesses, farming tools, oats, hay, eto., all of which was burned, making a loss of fully S3,500. POSTMASTERS have recently been ap­ pointed at the following named places m this State : Central Park, Cook county, Charles Hunt; Eberle, Effingham coun­ ty, Ancil M. Clark; Greenwood, Mc- Henry county, A. W. Washburne ; Howardsville, Btephenscu county, D. M, Durkee; Pierce, Will county, .Tabez Harvey; Vermillionville, La Salle coun­ ty, F. W. Bullock. THB plates of Driggs, the oounter- ffiilflr. nriTO bos?? C-SIlt "nl"- and are now in the possession of Chief YvVMnaii. They consist of two fibre plates, the famous $5 plates complete on tHe Traders' National Bank of Chicago; four plates, respectively, bearing the names of Canton, P&xton, Aurora, and Peru banks, and complete sets of plates for Stanton and Dexter heads on frac­ tional currency, fifteen in all. EARLY one morning last week, while Mr. Worts was limiting turkeys near Clayton, Adams county, he saw an ob­ ject trying to hide behind a log, and at the same time making a noise like a turkey. He raised his gun and fired, and to his astonishment found he had shot one of his neighbors by the name of Taylor, one shot entering his shoulder- blade, another just above the heart and the third in the hip. Medical aid was called, and the unfortunate man cared for. The doctor says the patient will recover. A Plea fw JL&te ~ Sabers. "mA Paris correspondent, who has fallen, doubtless, into the European practice of eating late suppers, says it is a mistake to suppose the medical faculty hostile to sleep following supper. He discussed the question recently with an able physi- cian, who said to him: There is nothing more absurd to pretend 'tis unhealthy to sleep immedi­ ately after the day's Last meal Is not man an animal ? I)o not ariimftla| with­ out exception, sleep immediately after eating ? Do we not feel like sleeping after each day's last meal? and is it not isy ftn effort that we shake off sleep ? Evidently the body yearns for sleep. Exercise immediately after every meal is pernicious, llest is healthful. What rest can compare with sleep, which reposes the raind, the lungs, the heart ? See the peasants. No persons enjoy better health than they do. Supper is the best meal of their day. No sooner have they supped than they go to bed. Look at the act­ ors. There was Kubini. He dined at three, went to his dressing-room in the Italian Opera-House, and slept till the theater opened its doors. At midnight lie supped heartily, and straight to bed he went. He died of sheer old age. Yon know Mons. Thiers' habits? The moment dinner ends he stretches him, self out to deep, and sleeps an hour. The truth is, if you look about you there will be found that the pretkt majority of men go to sleep immediately after mak- Graphic Account of the Lynching of th« Ooartwright Brothers, at Stoven*' Point, Wis. The Milwaukee Journal of Oommeroe PTC?-^e ^^"iog particulars of the lynching of Amos and T«ai»h Court- wright, at Stevens' Point, Wis., for the murder of Sheriff Baker: There were forty men, disguised, formed the lynchers. The two old men *®fe armed to the teeth with revolver* and knives, waiting for the death-strug­ gle which they knew would come some day before they reached the bar of the oonrt which could only slightly punish them for their great crime. The old men expected that an attempt wouid be made to lynch them, and wiey had, in some mysterious way, been provided with anas with which to resist assailants to the bitter, bitter death. The two wretches took in the situation at a glance- as they beheld their executioners. They made a move to draw their weapons, but old Isaiah was knocked down and lrinV«if| almost senseless before he could begm his fight--which he was afterward des­ tined to wage with all the ferocity of a demon, and the strength of fear and despair. Amos made no resistance just then, but began to beg and (iray. He was probably watching his chance, though, with all the cunning of a captured fox. Isaiah was stamped and pounded until it seemed as though nothing was left of him; vet he had the wiry frame of a cat, and frtl its tenacity to life. When the outside of the jail was reached, sudden­ ly two shots were fired, it is supposed by Amos. One of the bullets cut a lock of hair from a masker's head, while another bullet passed through his shirt-collar. The Courtwrights were evidently de­ termined to forfeit their lives only at the sacrifice of more valuable ones,' When Iwiali liad revived somewhat from the awful pounding and kicking he had re­ ceived, he was placed in position behind one of the wagons in attendance, and the procession started south on one of the two main roads leading to the depot,, and, beyond, to Plover̂ Befote the strange cortege bad gong jp wyje tianlata of their horrible fate, and newrly front of the " Geon the Hon. George Hungerford, old Isaiah renewed his fight With cat-like quickness he had drawn a knife and began cutting right and left among tho men nearest to him. Prob­ ably no human being ever made more desperate efforts to fight his way to life and liberty. To the right, to the left, to the front, to the rear, struck the thin and sinewy arm of the crazed wretch. The maskers who were there will never forget the - awful picture of that night. ** 7 It is an ora, old man that Is at bay. His form is thin, and wiry, and bent, and shriveled. His white hairs glistened here and there from among the patches of clotted blood that had gathered from the blows and kicks he had received. His clothes are torn and ragged. Words cannot tell the horrid wrinkles in that distorted face, nor the quick breath ; they cannot give the look in the sunken eyes ; are powerless to describe the writhing, struggling form that is making its last effort to live. The old is strengthened by his despair. He cuts wildly about him, and one of the avengers receives the knife-thrust that may add one more victim to Isaiah Courtwright's murderous list. Then the old man is again overpowered, knocked down, trampled upon, hitched by ,the neck to the wagon, and Jhis body drags the ermdv raadwn.Tr which he had once walked a respectable mnn, He never lived to be hung. Long before the placo where the liangiug v.os to be doue was reached the old man's life had gone out of its dishonored body. Amos adopted a more sensible, but cowardly course. He tried to soften the hearts of the maskers by the most piteous pleadings, accompanied by tears and wails and prayers. But the men who had determined upon doing what they considered a sacred duty were not to ha moved. Amos was given a certain length of time to pray, and then the two bodies of the murderers of Joseph Baker swung lifeless in the waning moonlight. A. terrible but, according to the general belief, rignteous retribution had over­ taken Isaiah and Amos Courtwriglit. The man who was stabbed by Isaiah in his desperate fight for life 'was a promi­ nent citizen. He is very badly cut, but it could not be ascertained what Ms pros­ pects of recovery were. At one time, after old Isaiah was dis­ armed, he shouted: " Yon oowardly -- ; . give me but a toothpick, and I will fight my way clear of all of yon*" The Crewi of Thr«« Ships Killed and Bsten 1»T XMIm of the Auckland »-«riml» A Horrible Story. A y«ir la-4 F^sraaay thefcaik Jewess, of Boston, sailed from New South Wales in the dixectiuu of the ^uoldand Islands, a group which lies in 8outh Pacific Ooean near New Zea- k«d. A few days later the Boston bark ZMia M. Long and an bark, name unknown* followed on the sama course. No tidings of the two Boston vessels were received till recently. *hen Oapt. Bremer, of Biddefod, Me., of the bark MimiiaoB, N«w York, retaining from a royags around the world, brought pack a terrible story in regard to them. At one oi the ports at which he stopped he had fallen in with a sailor, or some one who knew him, who purported to be the sole survivor of the three crews. The vessels, he said, had become be­ calmed in the vicinity of the Auckland Islands, and laid there together several days. They were boarded at night by cannib&lsf who came in huge nnmbera, overpowered, the crews, plundered the ships, and scuttled them. The men were carried prisoners to the shore and fur­ nished food for the horrible feast of their captors. No particulars of tho fight or of the survi vors' tooape were obtained, but the facts are pretty well authenticated, and the long absence of the vessels fur­ nishes good ground for believingthat the story may be true. The survivor was one of the crew of the Jewess, and he is said to have related that the surprise was complete--the vessels being some distance from land, and no signs of ene­ mies having been seen. The usual pre­ caution taken when a ship is becalmed in the vicinity of land inlaKjM by sav­ ages is to drive sharp nails, placed close­ ly together, through boards, which are placed over the decks, and fastened firm­ ly down, leaving the sharp iron points sticking up. It is then impossible for the barefooted savages to step upon the deck, and they are shot off at leisure. This precaution was not taken on board the Jewess, the survivor said* because no danger was suspeoted. It is under­ stood that no ship of the United States Navy is now stationed in the South SUma, or within reasonable distance of the vi­ cinity where the terrible tragedy is cred­ ited as having been enacted. The Jew­ ess was nearly 600 tons burden. Capt Mayo, of Chelsea, was the owner, and Mark Googins, of W tons Caleb Eaton, and Frank Lane were part owners. Frank Lewis, of East Boston, was one cf the sates on the three vessels. There were probably thirty men, but the names of any cannot be ascertained, most of them having been shipped in foreign ports. Time wiUprobably bring to light fuller par- "SK",.: S • purpose avorifod by the President is in. it vnth their being regarded at New York Sun, t" An Unpleasant Predicament, James Hewson and Raymond Hunter of Watervliet Centre, N. Y., were dig­ ging a well recently. They drilled a hole through the rock 12 incheB in depth, crammed the powder in, applied the torch to the fuse, and shouted to the boy above at the windlass to haul them up. But that youth was not et bis post; they cried louder, but there was no response. They became desperate, and one of them thought to draw the fuse out of the hole, but it was too late. They now saw Hint. their only hope of escape was to get out of the hole, and they must do it in less than a minute, as the fuse would be nearly burned up by that time. They once again shouted at, the top of their voioes, and were rewarded by seeing the boy at the windlass, and he l^egan to haul them up as fast as he could. Before they were half way up the blast went off, knocking them out of the bucket, and they fell insensible. The windLass was also knocked off by a rock, and fell, striking the insensible body of Hewson. A man was lowered and found the two men at the bottom of the well, with nearly 18 inches of water over them. Hunter's skull was fractured. Hewsen was not much hurt Wonderful Memories* Pliny says that Cyrus had a memory so prodigious that he could name every officer and soldier in his armies; and that Lucius Scipio knew every Iwmiio, citi­ zen by name when that city contained more than 200,000 capable of bearing arms. Seneca speaks of a friend, Pon­ tius Latro, who ooulcl repeat verbatim all the speeches he hud heard declaimed by the Roman orators. It is said that Joseph Scaliger committed to memory both the Iliad and the Odyssey in twenty-one days. Sir William Hamilton tells us of a young Corsican of good fam­ ily who had gone to Padua to study civil law, in which he soon distinguished himself. " He was a frequent visitor at the house and gardens of Muretus, who, having heard that he possessed a remark­ able art or faculty of memory, though incredulous in regard to reports, took occasion to request from him a specimen of his power. He at Once agreed; and, having adjourned with a considerable party of distinguished auditors into a saloon, Murteus began to dictate words, Latin, Greek, barbarous, significant and non-significant, disjointed and connect­ ed, until he wearied himself, the young man who wrote them down, and the audience who were present; ' we were all,' Jbe says, 'marvelously tired.' The Corsican alone was the one of the alert uiKl frc-sli* uiul cu-- tinualiy desired Muretus for more words, who declared he would bo more than satisfied if ho could repeat the half of what he had taken down, and at length he ceased. The young man, with his gaze fixed upon the ground, stood silent for a brief season; and then says Mure­ tus, 8 Villi facinus mirificissimum.' Hav ing begun to speak, he absolutely re­ peated the whole words in the same order in which they had been delivered, with­ out the slightest hesitpt.ion; then, com­ mencing from the last, he repeated them backward till he came to the first. Then, again, so that he spoke the first, the third, the fifth, and so on; did this in any order that was asked, and all without the slightest error. Having subsequently become familiarly acquainted with Mm, I have had other and frequent experi­ ence of his power. He assured me (and lie had nothing of the boaster in Siim) that he could recite in the manner I have mentioned to the amount of 36,000 words. And what is more wonderful, they all so adhered to the mind, that after a year's interval he could repeat them without trouble. I know, from having tried him, he could do so after considerable tana." --Scribner for November. I All Sorts, Tn estimated cost of the timnel der the channel from Wsmm to is 980,000,000. " Mima and MOk Featitals," mi "Apple Butter Parties" axe now tfett rage in Pennsylvania. THKRK are great complaints of wulterated guano among the farmers of Southern Nw Jersey. i FRANKUN PIERCE wae the only Presi­ dent who went out pf office with a Calph net aB originally appouit?fti y WHHN Wales gets to Luoknow he Itfo nde an elephant one hundred years "M once used by Warren Hastings. A CHICAGO dentist says sugar anct candy preserve the teeth, and the eh2» dren should get a gold medal for Mm. X • A NEW YORK boy, charged with killing an unborn child by kicking its mother! pleaded guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree. THB past summer has been noted Mf meteorologists as being cooler by five jp grese than the average season low nMtffe th£ya eighty years past. A NEW YORK paper lias discovered that chocolate drops are composed moet- ly of day. bnt who w&s fool enough to wink they were all sugar. IT has just been discovered that Qt||» . kers invented all the railways and canaK Aye, and two of them they own--Penn­ sylvania and Baltimore and Ohio. IT was a mean trick that nature played? on Simon Bartholomew, of Delaware^*' After living a drunkard's life for forty years he died of water on the chest. A FETBnrmD plug of tobaooo, latehr found in Colorado ̂is thought by sonift.; antiquaries to show the habits of 'prime­ val man. Others eschew this belief. THB great water-wheel at Saacey, lsft» of Man, said to be the largest in th» world, is seventy-two feet six inches in diameter, six feet in breadth, and weigh* ten tons. MR. WTOEE, the noted checker player. ' has just finished a trial of Ids powers Rutland, Vt., where he won 157 games ;v and lost only one. Twenty-four gamst were drawn. * CHICAGO, the largest grain market . the world, handles 90,000,000 bushel* annually, and has now in operatic* eighteen steam elevators, with a capacity of 15,35© 000 bushels. s A NEW HAMPSHIKB Poormaster says* " Folks are making a great fuss ju«t 'cause I broke a pauper s ribs. Wabft was I hired for I'd like to know--to sit around and do nothing ?" , . Thibb's a man for you I The of tha PstfvIdeiiOtt Stress says that "oough" shall be spelled "koff" a§ long as he runs that paper. NowM ̂ him go for the word " dough." FRANCE counts up 824 oolleges, witftt 69,500 pupils, beside 657 private and 278 ecclesiastical institutions, with an aggre­ gate of 77,000 students. Each Bishop - Iim at least one training school fc# priests, NEARI-Y600,000persons were employed during last year in and about the ooaL fire gLm, uGu-SaGue, euid ihnltt idutM ij( Great Britain and Ireland, about four* fifths of whom were oociimed uuden ground. 7% SING Sum is a Chinese word (Tsfaik * Sing) imported by an old Dutch Knick­ erbocker who had been in the trade. The Penitentiary there was built s 1 by convicts from Auburn and ocoooiei in 1828. * >i - •> • . . When Did the War Begin 2 The Supreme Court to-day affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals of New York in the case of McStearvs. Matthews. Mr. Justice Strong delivering the opin­ ion. This was an action upon the ac­ ceptance of a bill of exchange by the firm of Branden, Chandliss & Co., of New Orleans, it being alleged that Matthews, living in New York, was at the time of the acceptance a member of that firm= The only question was whether the part­ nership existed at the date of the ac­ ceptance, April 23, 1861, the war being then flagrant. The Court held that al­ though war existed at the date of the acceptance, still, as it bad not been de­ clared or publicly recognized by the President, it did not have the effect to work a dissolution of a partnership, of which a member or members resided in New York and the others in New Or­ leans. The proclamation of April 17, 1861, is not regarded as a distinct recog­ nition of an existing state of war, nor yet is that of the 19th of April, which an­ nounced the blockade. The reference to the people of Louisiana in these cases is to J' citizens of revolutionary States," and in the judgment of the Court the MiGiTEii CORDOVA, a Spaniard in Satt Francisco, has a thousand finger ringB from all quarters of the globe, repre­ senting every nation and age ; the mo# valuable collection in the United State% • > if not in the world. , ; .y ^ M. Bourns, who saved the lives of flf- * * tv persons at Toulouse, France, during | tne late inundations, was recently drowned himself in the Seine by the up- :r setting of a pleasure boat. He was allfH s Mioomplfehedewfcswsr,-. >J DANCING is said to be on the dediu» w ^"1 in London, and poiitc setfefy appsk: be acting on tho hint given by theShali . u>,-<' - of Persia when he inquired of the Prine»'" ' i of Wales, ata ball, "Why don't yonem^# ploy servants to do this for you r* ' VERY good kindlings are made ia Eu» U-f, rope of corn cobs. They are first steepedL,, in hot water containing 2 per cent, of ;t *.£.} saltpeter, and are saturated with 60 pe»j cent, of resinous matter. These lighter* t v' are sold at from $3 to $4 per thousand. "*£fl3:t, A CANDIDATE for a vacant vicarage injF Arfr England announces an invention of hit^ ; ,n»;, v ^ own which may prove to be useful. It> V • is a peculiar arrangement of the pulpit,. <, , " . with a clock to give warning. When at * the end of the half hour the olock sounds an alarm, if the preacher does not ©on-^?,'*v$)""' \ • e lude wi th in t h ree minu te s , down oome&l . Mt ; ' the pulpit, with the parson and the , JMf of tue appendages. * ------ '*' . .... '•'* * Vanished Fractional Currency. *>1 | v An interesting fact in connection with"'" the loss and destruction of IraotionalP^^ ? currency is asoertained from thetAv' Treasury Department. It is very V known that the government is yearly the* gainer to a large amount by the disap­ pearance of small notes and currency. But the figures regarding the three and * five-cent issues of fractional current, i fit ; when it is remembered how many of^^y. them are required to make a dollar,' are, , particularly interesting. The issue of1K' these notes ceased in April, 1869, atvu:-"1"' , ;< which tune there had been issued #602,-®'>-• •*? ' - -« QQQ of .the denomination of three oente» ^ W5700,(XI0of the five-cent series. Although over six years have elapsed, theie are still outstanding #92,000 in three-oent notes, and over $1,870,000 of the five-cent issue.-- Washington Star, Death of a Noted Darkej. \ Jack Campbell, a famous negro, has just died at Miadison, Ga., ag«d 80 years. His reputation as a broad humonst ex­ tended throughout the State of Georgia, and lasted for many years. He was a slave owned by an inn-keeper in Madison, and brought great prosperity to the estab­ lishment with which he was ooanected. His name appears in the " Statistics of Georgia" ana '"Major Jones'Courtship," and many of his jokes and witty sayings have appeared in the publications of the Harpers. It is reported that at one i Barnnm offered the owner of Jack am of $10,000 for him flfe- 1, 'L Mr ate"' W:. ftaSsSS f$A