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She Jjftclgenrg flaittdtaltr. J. YAH BLTKE, Pmno. IfcHENRY, ILLINOIS. •# AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. Frlsrhtoned Birds. How! hush S " said the little brown ftwuii To her mate on the nest in the elder-bosh; ' Keep still! don's open your bill I "There's a boy coming bird-neetingover the MM, Xet go your wings out, so That not an egg or the nest shall show* -Ghee! chee! it seema to me I'm as frightened M ever a bird can bit f " •Then still, with a quivering bill. They watched the boy out of (right o'CT the MW . At, ttsen in the branches again, Hieti" g!*d song rang over vale and glen* Oil S oh ! if that boy could know How glad they were when they saw him go, Sly, do ypTV tWnlr nert iHt He could possibly steal those efgs away t Around the Farm. HAVING occasion to build a post fenoe on one side of my orchard, about a dozen of the holes were left unfilled for a .oouple of days, and on going to set the posts from one to eight field mice were found in each hole, having fallen in and being unable to climb the smooth sides Of the hole.--Mains Fa-nnsr, Ws have long beeu satisfied that the best way to get rid of these evQs grow­ ing out of boarding the farm laborers in the farmer's family is to build tenant bouses and hire married men to occupy them and work for $he Isomer. If it seems best to employ some single men in addition, make arrangements to have them boarded with the tenants.--Rural Home. • A hoot* should be so placed that the direct rays of the mm shall have free ad­ mission into the living apartments; be­ cause the Buu'i rajs impart a healthy and Invigorating qnahty to the air, and stim­ ulate the vitality of human beings as they do those of plants, and without sun­ light. human beings, as well as plants, would sicken and die. The aspect, therefore, should be southeast.--Apu* lor Science Monthly. , IT is a good plan, both for the wheat and the catch of clover seed, to harrow wheat in the spring. Seleot some dav when the ground is dry enough to pul­ verise freely, and if possible, just bo- lore a rain. Where wheat haa been drilled-in a common heavy drag will only break down the ridges between the rows and cover exposed roots. If sown broadcast,, the Thomas smoothing barrow should be used, and is prefers- ble under any circumstances. IT is a fact that all the domestic ani­ mals fatten faster in dimly-lighted places than in the fall light of day. This is well known in respect to poultry. Froia experiments made with sheep, it has been ascertained thai in a dark shed, well ventilated, and keptat a suitable tem- ©eratom they will make most mutton bom a given amount of food. But dark stables are not good for horses, or breed­ ing stock of any kind; with such, fat ia •no*, the *mpofftfwi$ ©bieefe In view. - I KOMOK that some of your correspond­ ents recommend feeding onions to poul­ try. If they themselves eat the eggs that are produced on, onion feed® it is all well enough; but if the j sell them it is * little too ' bad. 1 like a well-flavored egg, if I eat one; ©spotiaHy if I buy them at present prioes. I would just m soon have butter flavored with onions as eggs. I have seen fresh eggs--those not two days old--that were but little better than rotten. 1 believe it to bo impossi­ ble to obtain good No, 1 eggs unless hens are fed on proper food. Onions ace good in their place, but not for fla­ voring eggs. -Cor. Country Gentleman, DB. JAMBS, the Commissioner of Ag­ riculture, of Georgia, writes as follows: ** Taking into consideration the oost of production, the chemical analysis and comparative freedom from stealage, oels are cheaper as stock food than <\>rn. One bushel or thirty-two pounds of oats costs twenty-nine cents, making & differ­ ence of thirteen mixta in the cost of 100 pounds of the two* Chemiml analyst shows that oats contain twelve per cent, of albuminoids, on flesh and musci© -pro­ ducing principle, while com contains ten per cent. It will thus be seen thp.t for work animals oats are more valuable than corn as fo#d when equal weights are used. Consider, now, that 100 pounds of oatu cost thirteen cents less than 100 pounds of corn, and the case steads decidedly in favor of oats for wcrifc sfessk. How HP PAYS TO SITB GOOD COWS.--I herewith send a statement of the income of eight Jersey cows for the year ending January 1, 1867: Twenty-five hundred and sixty-six pounds •leven ounces of butter made and sold at 40 cents per pound $1,086.®? Cream sold a co Might oalvea (six heifers) raised............ ISKOO Ten pigs raised and fatted on sour milk and 96 bushels of meat.... Total. , Less 35 bushels of mtrsl. 207.50 $1,491.17 96.00 woe a growtl bushel T o i t t l , • C $ 1 , 8 0 6 1 7 My oows are full-blooded jerseys and three grades.^ I feed meal all the lime they are giving milk. In the saaaiaer they have two quarts of oom-and-cob meal per day* ^ .Fall and winter, three craarts---one-hall oorn-and-oob meal, one- half bran. We never have any soft but­ ter in warm weather. I feed no roots of any kind, nothing but meal and all the good, early-out hay they will eat-- Ver­ mont Farmer. A PKNNSIIIVANIA farmer tells, in a eon- tamiroary, how he treats muck, and it may o® a good way, though many per­ sons prefer to keep it a year exposed to the weather, and then, when dry, use it as an absorbent in the stables id oow ywds. As the muck was dug, he mixed wrtJi every five loads one bwrol of fresh lime. This was spread evenly i* layers between layers ef muck a foot thick la twenty-four hours the heaps were smok­ ing hot. He threw more muck over the top and beat the surface closely to ex­ clude the air, and in a few days the h««4 went down. When he came muck, it had beoome a black, rich that exb<J«d a very pungent odor, 2 like barn-yard manure; and9 although it was late m October when it was spread upon the grass, the color of the field be­ came at once a deeper green, and a rapid wth started. Wpod ashesg half a or more to a load of muck, will produce equally good results, but more time is required for decomposition. - -- t*e BOOM. ior painin a hollow tooth is alum and oommon salt, applied with a lock of cotton wool. A sensation Of ooldness follows the ap­ plication, after which the pain gradually subsides. SinvBB GAUL--Two cups of sugar- two and one-half cups of flour ; one-naif cup of butter; three-quartets of a Cupful of sweet milk; one-naif teaspoonful of soda; the whites of eight eggs; one tea- spoonful of dream of tartar. Moiudnan CAMBV.---One pint white coffee sugar, one pint mo'sihen, one tablespoonful of vinegar, one teaspoon- ful of butter; oook Slowly a long time until it " strings " from the spoon when dipped up; pour upon a greased tin pan ; then pull it until it beoomes white. To WASH WnrB BEOANTEBS.--Soak the decanters for some hours in warm soda and water ; if there is much cutting on the outside, a brash will be necessary to remove the dirt and stains from the crev­ ices. Cut a potato into small dice, pui. a good handful of these into the decanter with some warm water, shake the decan­ ter briskly until the stains disappear, rinse in clean cold water, and let them drain until dry. Yiaagar and sauo" «rn«tH can be oleaned in the same way. Scnup-noox PJJHB.--Dissolve a tea- spoonful of alum in a quart of water • when ©old, stir in as much flour as will give it the mnsistency of thick cream, being particular to beat up all the iumps; stir in as much powdered resin as will lie on a dime, and add also «ir cloves ; put a teaonpful of boiMng water on the fire, and pour the flour mixture into it, stirring well all the time. It will soon be like mush. L»et it cool, and keep if cooL Lav a ©over on it. For two. soften witn warm water. It will keep twelve months. Tax American Orooer «ja it ia a lamentable fact that few have the proper facuities for keeping butter at any season of the year* aad'fewer still know how to properly make and paok it for long keep­ ing. A very small percentage of the butter that reaches the principal mark­ ets is strictly fine; and much of it that1 is stele and unmarketable would have brought a fairprioe had i*. been marketed when new. This almost inevitable and rapid deterioration of butter is a strong argument against its retention by the produoer, ii the hope of higher figures, vhen rcztfmerative ones are at onoe within hiu mi It is better to sell any article when it is ready for the market and the market ready to receive it at paying prices. Cause ant Cure af HogChslera. Probably the direct losses of Ameri­ can farmers have been greater in hogs the past two or three years than in any other kind of stock, or in any farm crop. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga­ zette discourses on the origin of hog dis­ eases general!y, and gives a remedy which he has found effective • Among some of the causes which pro­ duce cholcTf, may be mentioned extreme and r-jtucen changes; long hot and dry veetL^i., as ia the year 1874; long dry and cold, as in the years 1874 and 1875; followed &V) mpreoedented miw which foil dmxmg the rammer of iST&o These rajas cawed m extremely rapid growth making it M washy," mnutritieus and defective in the «T?uali- fciaa oaleulated to excite the secretions; and producing biliary derangements and congestion in an already over-taxed liver® that had suffered from an unparalleled long, cold winter, forcing the blood from the surfaoe, unequalizing the circulation, and centering an undue amount of the internal viseera of the hog. Another cause is found in hogs occu­ pying one field or pen from year to year, without cleansing or plowing under the accumulated filth, having the hog con­ stantly "rung," denying him a tote or smell of f?eah earth, or the use of an in- sti>afc that teaches him, in bilious de- rangocxeats, to search for bugs, worms, or vegetable roots, the natural excitants 01 8tommbs liver and bowels. Another cause is scanty feeding, muddy, stag­ nant and filthy water, obliging than to allay their thirst often from the 02 meix own dieckaa-ges, ° TThen the diserM fbesd made its ap- poasfte.®ej a few years ago, it was charac­ terized by many symptoms resembling cholera in the human being, even watery uiscbaiQQS, emaciation, and rapid mste. Its JTPCN# vsual IE loss of come. The surfaoe having, afterward, been smoothed over, we waited the reS salt. This proved more **in satisfac­ tory. We had a wild garden indeed! The plants came up as thickly as they could grow, and flourished and blossomed as freely as though they had e®Joyed all the care given to delicate hot-house exotios. Sweet alyssum, mignonette, phlox drummondi, seemed to cover the ground. Morning glories of every shade, and delicate Cypress vines, tried to oover the fences and run up every tree. Quaint little yellow and green gourds appeared "u i x?os* une*P®cted places, and the ^seemed in a blaze with the brilliant esohscholtzia, marigolds and zinnias. "Every morning would find some new and unexpected flower in bloom. In short, the plaoe was a «onstant delight au summer to each member of the fam­ ily, as also to the neighbors. The chil­ dren, especially, who reveled in a gar­ den where they were allowed to pick whatever they pleased, were never tired of the excitement of hunting for some­ thing new. "A quantity of the same seed was sown in the adjacent woods. Many of these germinated--and the sight of morn- ing glories morning rm the trees in. th« IB BLACK HILLS. Emigration Fowtag Into the HUls--labor, W»ges, etc.--An Kle«tion at Ouster City. [Cor. Chicago Times.] Coster City is located in a narrow, beautiful talley on French creek, a very desirable site indeed. The citizens num- ber upwards of 2,000, and I can add 600 more who are on claims up and down .the jarulcli. The buildings are mostly A large number are eaved, and buist with care, making very neat and ooisifortable quarters, Since the saw­ mills have began operations logs are too oommon, and large frame buildings are taking their place. These saw-mills are at work, and have all they can do in famishing lumber at $30 per M. One large hotel is being roofed, sad several commodious store-rooms are under the 1/\fa AM tml_ ued at from POto 3500,size 50xl50feet. Bents are reasonable. A good store- r?°?1 bring 925 per month. Most all branches of mercantile business are represented on a fair scale. Provisions are high at present on acouuui of the Poads being so heavy that freight teams cannot get through. The first „ . herd ®f beef cattle arrived .on yesterdayt and I , . .. - - , • • •• had ths plemnse of eatiiig choice wweet part, of the woods, bunches J at 20 cents per pound. Large numbers of ** *""" " ' deer have been brought in, r-hich sell form now _ vitality, emanation, and dry­ ing up, with occasional paralysis, or an entire suspension of secretions : no dis- etea'gei ; with an inflammatory olate of tha liver, ^^pathetk-llj affwiiag •head, threat, aad lungs. Preventive and Memevig.-̂ Oon- pound of madder,, one pouiid sulphur, one .pound resin, one pound saltpeter, one pound black antimony, three ounces as- safetida. Pulverise and mix well; feed three tablespoonfuls to five hogs, three times a week, in a little salt, more bma &m& ashes. €ommenoe feeding before the cholera gets into your neigh­ borhood, and continue until it ceases from the same, and if, during the time, and before your hogs are properly medi­ cated, one should take the disease, im­ mediately remove it to a dry pen. Give one tablespoonful of this mixture in one gallon of water or table slops, onoe per day; and in order to make the cure doubly sura, take one-half pint of soft soap, one tablespoonful pine tar, one ditto lard; warm and mix well, and drenoh the hog ; and my word for it, it will cure ninety-nine cat of the hun­ dred. If you will treat the first one or. two in this way, the disease will spread no further And jou remember that as fast as the disease spreads, or fa »tio to the number infected, its malignancy in­ creases, until it will almost defy oontroL If the season should be wet, keep your hogs on short timothv pasture; if dry, on the best growth clover you have, and these are valuable helps. Sweet millr alone ia said also to be good. A tiardea Extraordinary. One of our considerable seed firms, in arnoging their stock for last spring's business, laid aside a large quantity of flower seeds which remained over after the previous years" business. Unwilling to sell seed of doubtful vitality, the fol­ lowing plan was hit upon for a disposal of ^t which should promise an unusual if not a profitable return. The article i« published in the American Garden, and we give as much of it as our space limits: " W© plowed a strip about six feet wide all around a five-acre field, «®se to the fenoe. On this plowed 81*>«nd the seed--previously well mixed --was thrown, just as it happened to of balsam and mamas and asters lock­ ing up through fche underbrush was, in deed, passing strange and promotive of intense enjoyment." Those who putter over the planting of such aeeds in pans and frames, may learn a lemon from the above routrh and nadii treatment. -Moons'* RwaX. Fire Insurance The annual convention of the National Board of Fire Underwriters was held in New York city last week, The princi­ pal oompanies of the United States and Great Britain were represented. The Treasurer's report for the year showed the receipts to be 9134,000, and the ex­ penditures $183,000. President Oakley delivered the annual address. The cap­ ital employed the past year was $55,000,- 000, an inorease of $2,000,000 over 1874, The dividend on this capital averaged 1821-15 per cent. The total amount of premiums reeeived during 1875 by the Amerioan companies was $50,000,000, and by foreign oompanies $11,000,000 a decrease of 1 TO-100 per oent. as com­ pared with 1874. The losses for the year past were $28,000,000, and the increase in the amount of risks assumed during 1875 is $290,000,000. The loss rate dur­ ing the nast year steadily increased, and remunerative rates should be adhered to. The report of the Committee on In­ cendiarism and Arson shows that during the past year at least thirty-five per oent. of the number of fires were caused by inoendiaries, while fully fifty-five per oent. of the property destroyed was lost by the same cause. The report recom­ mends offering rewards for the arrest and conviction of incendiaries The fires for the year were 3,946, and were caused m follows: Defects, 868 ; matches, • ispw»tJMieonsE. 100 i acci­ dental, 517 i carelessness, Til: mismiia- neons, 843 ; unknown, 461; incendiary and supposed incendiary, 898 ; petro­ leum in all its forms, 308. Defective flues and foul chimneys cause daily fires. The report of the Committee on Fife Department, Fire Patrol and Water Supply recommended the establishment of fire patrols in every city,and that they should be partly sustained and support­ ed by the eities where they are located. New York city had not got sufficient water supply for its protection in oaSe iff' emergency. Chicago was credited with having the best fire department. A resolution was adopted oondenjiing the law requiring oompanies to deposit eertain sums with the State as security for policy-holders. Petroleum as a lubrioator was consid­ ered dangerous and the cause of many Area. Planet-Butt^. Prof. WkifBS, oF the Michigan uni­ versity, and Prof. Peters, ofHamilton oollegt have not yet finished their great planet-shooting match, in which they *re engaged for the belt (Orion's) and the championship of the globe. They challenge the world to oomp?te. W© do not know exactly how the soore stands at present, but, as a matter of State pride, we are bound to say that it has ceased to be an affiiir of skill with Prof. 'Wstsan. His reputation is now j so TncUcsprcad that whoa say aknllring J jpiassp st jsj'liis Isiuaeope -pointed toward | it, it k nooks under at onoe like Capt. I Scott's coon„ slid iuuiarks, " Don't look ; I'll some down/' His latest success was achieved when he was out hunting on Monday night. Me had ti >ed the "varmint* the sight previous, but partly because it sneaked in behind some olouds, and portly on account of the Professor's respeot lor the Sabbath, he did not capture it. The next night, however, was favorable, and he discov­ ered she " critter " in the constellation Virgo, and came np with it at right ascension thirteen hours and twenty- nine minutes, and declination eleven degrees and forty-seven minutes south. When he fairly oovered it its motion was one minute daily in right ascension and north two minutes daily in declina­ tion. It proved to be a pretty Mr speci­ men---ane of the eleventh magnitude, from muzzle to tip of the tail.-.Detroit Post. A CMuidru. "Hay. Jane, why is--why is Butler's eye like a favorite fruitf" "Like a fa­ vorite fruit f--which eye f" 4' Either of 'em/' 80 Why--because, Sam, it's one of a pear." "No--no--great deal bet- ter'n that." "Because--Sam--because --its apple " "Not at all! Jane, you ain't nowhere near it." "Lemme try again, Sam: Butler's eyef--because it is under glass conservatories, yon know." "Jane, my opinion of you is that you're growing idiotic. You'd bet­ ter hire a halL" "Don't git made Sam­ uel, because I can't guess it the first tone. Is it anything about eyea-in- glass?" "No, simpleton, it is not" " Butler's eyê Sam--fruit I--because it's subject to excise--X-eyes, you know." <vNo, that ain't it, Jenny, though that's very good." " OrauRes--oranges-- -let's aee--because on© of his eyes is a lame 'un." "Oh, no; you'll make me sick." " Because it doesn't gage quite plum." "NOI Jane, be still!" "Bemuse it's afflicted with strawberr'iamus--you un­ derstand?" "Jane, stop I---my he*d aches awful--It's beoanae it's qnmts I"--- Graphic, by the meag at 12 to 15 cents per pound. Oaaae is getting very scarce in this sec­ tion. Indians, deer and bnflMo cannot stand civilisation. Labor is very hard to get, and wagee low. Mechanics demand from IKL50 to $4 per day. There are too many saw and axe men for them. Common laborers get from $2 to $2 60 per day The sup­ ply of men far exceeds the demand, and so many are compelled to work that *ages will be no better until mining commences; then they will talk $4 and $5 P®* day. , We have nothing but an acoominoda- tion mail line yet, but live in strong hopes of having a regular established line in a few days. We received a mail on the _ 3d inst, of M0 letters. How happy it made the boys! Beading mat­ ter is scarce. I have seen but one news­ paper since I have been here. Most of the immigration ii from Ne­ braska and other Western States. But few from the East have arrived yet. A and freight line has been estab­ lished between this city and Port Peere. The distance is 170 miles, with a good road. They claim that supplies can be freighted at $3 per hundred. The sup­ plies at present come from Cheyenne, at $7 per hundred. Two stage lines are established from this city to different points in the Hills, and several other lines are proposed. 1 see in several plaoes in traveling through the Hills preparations being made for farming, and I think it will prove a grand success. The soil in the valleys is very rich and deep, and with­ out a doubt will produoe very large crops. The grass in these valleys has furnished abundant pasture for the stock brought id. Lai^e h#rda of horaas de­ pend entirely on it for subsistence. 1 saw four yoke of eattle that have worked every day since February 4, except two. They have eaten nothing exoept this grass, and they are In first-class working order. [From Another Correspondent.] Emigration to this plaoe is enormous. The eitj ia growing mushroom fashion. Over 500 houses have been built inside of two months. Last week there was ft Jttgr alaetion, and 800 votes were poled. The fight was nip and tuck between the people? ticket and t'other tioket. The candidates might have been seen ten miles out on the Sioux City, Sidney and Cheyenne, roads drumming up voters, Chinamen voted, foreigners vot&d, wo­ men voted, and miners voted, We birds who have been caught in the nets of this excitement laugh at ttyj fools who still AjkflBlIof Sioux Indians aiade ® raid on Rapid City, miles north of here, last Sunday, and captured two men on the way to the Dead Wood country, and also ran off thirty-one head of horses. Very little mining has been done yet, and the prospect for gold is thin. However, the country will be well developed this summer. It is not a good policy for any man to oome here unless he has at the least calculation $400. Tte SMSOBI Loss to t!*e Eatlroads* iho JadlcL-,rj committee, has submitted to the House *• Mil cad report on the Uaion Pa '̂flc railroad. The following are the con­ clusions of the latter: The land-grant railroads shall create two sinking funds --the first one to meet the principal of the subsidy bonds when due, and the seoond one to meet the interest on the subsidy bonds which the Government has advanced or shall advance to these oompanies. The bill by which it is pro­ posed to carry these condusions into ef­ fect fixes a specific sum which is to be paid to ike Government by each com­ pany semi-annually as a attifeing fund, to proyide for the ultimate payment of the faoe of the subsidy bonds, and it provides that these sums shall be invest­ ed by the Government at interest. The sinking fund to secure the repayment of the interest is already partially provided for in the sections of the law which per­ mit the Government to collect from the oompanies five per cent, of the net an­ nual earnings, and to retain one-half of the sums due from the Government to them for services performed. The bill further provides that, to oover any de­ ficiency that may arise in the seoond sinking fund after the application of theee two funds, the oompanies shall pay to the United States such additional sums as, when added to them and'in­ vested, will meet the interest when it beoomes due. The theory on which this bill is based is this: First, that the right of the Gov­ ernment to amend the oharter of the Union Pacific railroad which is reserved to Congress carries with it the power to make such changes as will s t eure the ap­ plication of the assess of Ilia company to protect the Government m a creditor; second, that th® right to alter the char­ ter ia the right so to alter the contract between the Government and the com­ pany as to impose liabilities upon the oompany whioh did not previously ex­ ist, provided the new liabilities designed to accomplish the original object of the law « fulfill the duty of the oompany to the Government; third, that this power to afb r, as affecting the individ­ ual liability of stockholders, has received consideration from the courts which mav throw some light on this subject. 48,000,000. aalal Population of ft, States. vwwa It is to be regretted, says the Chicago J o u r n a l , t h a t C o n g r e s s d i d n o t , a t i t e iMtMMQD, provide for the enumeration of the Amerioan people in 1875. Mmt in this centennial year we might know exactly where we are standing as to population. Our status herein,"as com- pared with that of other great nationali­ ties, is at this time a subject of peculiar interest. The Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia will enable us to compare the works of our mechanic arts, our manufactures, our fine arts, the wares of our merchants and the products of our agriculture with those of most nations of the earth, and it would be exceedingly gratifying were we also able to lay before our foreign visitors and exhibitors com­ prehensive statements of our exact growth in population, wealth, and in our material interests generally since "the sword of Bunker Hill" was drawn and we started in as a nation. Though this cannot be done, an ac­ count of the neglect of Congress to pro­ vide for a census in 1875, yet it is pos­ sible to calculate, with a imax approxi­ mation to hTorrectness- present popu­ lation of the United States. And this because a number ©f States did actually enumerate their people in 1876. This was done in thirteen of the tad the same thing was done in WwMfw in 1874. The States in which the people were enumerated in 1875 were Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Min­ nesota Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Bhode Island, South Caro­ lina, Tens, Wisconsin. It will be seen from the MsA that they - are scattered all over the country, so that the facts shown thereby may fairly be taken as a basis of calculation for the whole. With the aid thus rendered by actual enumerations in 1874 and 1875, with further aotnai enu« mentions which have been made in many cities, and with the aid also of careful estimates as to some States and Terri­ tories, based on the number of popular votes poled at the general elections of 1874 and 1875, w© have constructed the following table showing the population of the United States fn 187^ m com­ pared with the population in 1870. W© believe it is not very far from the facte as they would have actually been shown had a census been taken during the sum­ mer of 1875. According to our careful calculations, the population is as fol­ low* s nt IXOUNO STATM. Apwtattoa in 10TO. 636,916 New Hampshire.. 818,909 Vermont..... 390,661 MsssMhnaetta"..... 1,467,SSI Bhode Island* 917,363 Connecticut. 637.464 M1B1>UI ITATM. New York* 4,38X759 PennsyWsnU 3,531,961 New Jersey* 906,096 Delaware 133,015 •OBTHWZrrEHN 8T ATM. 3,666,3 1.$80,637 1,184,069 1,064,670 2.1M,999 439,706 133,993 Ohio Indiana.................. lUtiMte Michigan Wisconsin*.. ..., Iowi*.. Minnesota*. Vtbftikft*,,.... Missouri.... 1,731,396 K""*' 364,999 BOaMBSTATSS. Maryland 780,994 Virginia 1,335,166 West Virginia. 443,014 Kentucky 1,821,011 SOCTHKBM STATES. North Carolina. 1,071,961 South Caroliaa*............. ?0\S96 Tennessee 1,358,919 Georgia 1,184,109 Alabama 996,99a ••••»••*» irr,-3 837,933 Louisiana* 73«S>I5 T«*»s* 819,879 Arkauat* 484,471 PACIFIC STATES. California 660,347 Nevada*. 49,491 Oregon 90,939 Arizona 9,658 Colorado 89,894 Dakota 14,181 District of Columbia. 191,700 wahd. w* Montana New Mexioo 91,874 Utah 86.786 WsRhington 33.965 Wyoming 9,118 T°*I .38,668,871 43,884,979 fiiiais. 896,915 316,300 338,376 1,651,903 958,389 576,lOt 4,705,308 9,839,831 1,014,503 131,370 3,838,150 1,845,743 9.053,84! 1,371,524 1,336,599 1,350,644 599,891 346,389 3,040,938 538,437 837,814 1,300,168 476,608 1,403,676 1,110,781 898,447 1,383,889 1,347,619 ItQlUrr MM18 846,983 857,039 S,27S.0<)0 808,981 650,372 63,640 110,168 13,000 110,000 18,861 160,010 16,000 M.OOO 96,000 110,041 30,136 12,000 [*The States marked with an * are those in which a oenHiiH was token in 1875.] We thus perceive that, aooording to the best calculations and most careful sipprosimatio&s of which the ease is ca­ pable, we have, in round numbers, a population of 4b,000,1100 .souls where- v.ltlial to oolobyato our jiiLiiea and to demonstrate the £ood and pro­ gressive inHnonee of free ittstituti®w,e„ If we oompar© oar population with that of other countries, we shall find that we considerably outrank any na­ tion, exclusively Christian, on the globe. The populations of the great nations of the worid, according to the latest enu­ merations and estimates, were as fol­ lows. British Islands France Germany Russia Spain............... Austria Italy.;. Chin* Japan The population of Russia is probably half Mohammedan, fire-worshiping ana heathen. The immenm Empire of Brazil, in South America, contains a population of only about 14,000,000 souls, or less than our Northwestern States, Idol-worshiping China contains 'iuha}ais^.u4 almost equal to those of all Christendom. 9996M**** .. 81,466,886 .. 86,103,931 .. 40.600,000 ,. 86,300,000 .. 83,000,000 .. 86,578.800 . 96,801,164 .400,000,000 . 88,000,000 All Sorts. MKSTTBA, a converted thief, is D veHj successful revivalist in the IMflhmltli oountry, India. YAMDERBIUT, Stewart and Astor paid real estate taxes on an valuation of $3,000,000. PBOPKRTT has depreciated fn fThlnii|> forty per oent., in New York tbirty]MV cent., and In Boston twenty-five p«r cent. A rHiijOSOFHicAii poor boy's plaster: "1 would not, for any money," snya Jean Paul Bichter, "have had money in my youth." A LEAVENWORTH lawyer offered -J* man's nose in oourt as evidence that tha owner of it was a drunkard. The oouft ruled it out. . THE Independent says there is notfctx uig in the Arabian Nicrhts which suit* passes the sudden rise of Judge Hiitd* to fame and fortune. .^R- D»TJM, of Troy, lived and died without knowing what a curiosity lit wa<* i but the surgeons found out by difc® section that lie Lou oiily OHO kiuiiey. ACCORDING to a decision of the S#» preme eourt of Nebraska railroad eoi# pames are liable for damages resulting from prairies baing set on fire by e* flfines. " DTDBINO the period of» «70-5 the pon- ulation of KSOWM uui incrsased feott 4^8,437 to 5XS,427, and in the latter ye# thesw were 4U ̂ 10,000 ncses of ground n# der cultivation. ' Or the seven children of John HalL of North Troy, four of them, rul nn^y fourteen years of age, weigh exactly 906 . pounds, and each has ten fingers, toU thumbs and twelve toes. THB King of Burmah has ordered tte oourts and publio offloes to be closed fat forty dam during which time the cere­ mony of boring holes in the earn of tip prinoossoB will be perfumed. j:' BIT. Bonn Oouurm, in hisaddreil at the Shakspeare memorial perfarmauoe at MoVioker s theater, Chicago, recent­ ly, said that he had listened to aMnji|: sermon from the lips of actors. AT Yen-ring, China, placards hunting the populaoe against foreigners are posted on the walls of the city, and AMES bearing the inscription, "Expel anddft> stroy the foreign barbarians," lying I* prominent localities. CAN onr weak women carry the# purses in their hands when silver oomes into general use I If the resumption of sperie payment should cause the aboli­ tion of this familiar horror, we will not have suffered in vain.--CAioop* ZWp tins. PmiiADiffiPfnA has move daily paper* than all other cities combined. We have dreaded for a year to make an­ nouncement, but as it has got so that a new daily makes its appearance hers with every mail, the fact can no longer be suppressed.--Danbury New*. THB execution of the plan of n«Vg £hi% Coaszens hotel property near West&riai as a home for oonvalesoente has been prevented, temporarily at leasir, fey# legai obsteole. There is some defect ift the mortgage foreclosures, and the pur­ chase money has been returned. IN the Taunton lunatic asylum there is a patient who for one year refused to eat, and doWn whose throat were poured three quarts of milk daily during that time. On the last of the 366 days she said, "Well, it's just one year sinoe I've been willing to eat. Now 1 guess III eat like other folks," and she did. Mm Moufl gsKktitf, 61 Win**, muooa, N«f., hat pnUished a card in the local paper of uiat plaoe explaining why she " whaled" her schoolmaster. " Although I am only fifteen yean of ajfe," writes the young woman, "I am well aware that the poor female is too ©ffcen trampled down without just causa*" A tootg lady at a party, when invitoi to wwrtake of the pudding, "No, many thanks, my dear ^J LG manner o» 1 h&Wahea^r indulged the clamorous c^1* Of a anting appetite until the manifest senM of all internal fullness admonishes my stay; my deficiency is entirely and aatiafa* torfly satisfied,,'* A Novaij locomotive has been made in California to ran on the long flumes ths are used to float lumber down from the mountains. The wheels fit on the edge of-tfco eiilca of $2a> sad sS the ends of ifee aar are peddle wheals dipping iaio ilio ,. itor, and vhich are tamed ISO Z-77Z1Z coixont. By ment this, jiowar is soad® to px«m«4 tlia Lsc^othw up Iba flame, "and It ^rrrns back itself. IiATX OOKIOBT. % I ww my body dead, upon a day; ' * ""* No tsm, no kiss had fallen npoa wtf ftdl But common hands within my loTaiass plaoe Gave me scant heed and left me where 1 In. Bat, while I watched about the twilight nay, . One entering, knelt beside my .body there; She had not lored me to the days that WMfe. Fooistore she was aiiu weary of the way. * And when she saw the iast love sons I uila , The last, nneaded. in my flnceraMd, ̂ Her warm lip* fell on my cold lips dead *4 And then I saw her kisses and her taaraF And I forgave her all the cruel yeara, ~ Knew shs had loved me, and was eaamiM|»' Paper Bed Coreriif, A suggestion that has been frequently made in the newspapers, that a sheet of blown paper nsei as a bed covering be­ tween or on top of other wrappers, will impart additional warmth ana be w mt• vio64»ble as a blanket, has been acted up- j on by Mr. Loder, who has taken out a patent for paper blankets. They are perforated at distances of about four inches, in order to promote the ventila­ tion which the density of the brown pa­ per material interrupts. Theee paper blanket* may prove " ' '* and as they are for use in any emergency, aooeptable in hospitals lor the supply of which Mr. Loder 1m already obtained two or three oontrastm THZ Boston Pilot has been soid to Archbishop Williams and John Beyle O'Reilley. The price paid was 128,000, in addition to which the purchasers take up a mortgage of $6,500 and fulfill the existing contracts of the paper to sub­ scribers. êrrvpta xnese paper >ve a boon to the poor, economical, and re6uiy smergsney, they will be. The first Bed Oeni An item is going the ronndst of the papers, stating that "the first cent was proposed by Robert Morris, the great financier of the Bevolution. It began to make its appearance from the mint in j 1792. It bore Hie head of Washington [ on one side, aad thirteen Hnks on the | other." The oent recently referred to in the Detroit belonging to MT R. E. Roberts, ef that ciW, has on one- side the sun and dial, underneath which me the words, "Mind your Business," wad on the sides, •• Fugio " and " 1787." On the reverse a circle of thirteen rings, linked together, surrounding one ring, on which is stamped " United States," and in the center, "We are One." It has always been understood to have been designed by Dr. Franklin. Such is a correct description of the first mrnk In this oentennial era, correctness ia matters of history is important. In this connection the question arises^ as it has about pins, where have tim millions of old red cents made by the government gone to 1 Mr. Roberts has also in his possession a copper coin, about the size of the old United States cent, bearing the head of "LouisXVI., Lois des Francois. 1790." TKUftf* em*a ** th0 8an cisoo' dUft board, and sinoe hurt tbeir pries has advanced from 930,000 till now $85,000 are vainly hid for one