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mrnmmmi itmsisms Ufa ppit^enrj fllaindealfr, *« P <t. VAN 8LTKE, Ptnnjouun. McHEttRY, ILLINOIS. i how to thrink and live. & agricultural and domestic. Grapea, TVln«, and Vinegar. Weary "and mated, nigh worn otit, You sigh ud Bhikt. white hairs, an<3 iur. " Ah, you will find the troth ens day Of life and nature, do not doubt 1" anvtjoir - And nations w iiicb has more chance to r©6 aright The many oolor'd bUqwb of time. Trcsli uuiuwi eyes in Healthy prime Or custom-dulled mad fading sight? <Jon« from the primrose and the rose Their diversely delicious breath. Since no One wafting vlaiteth An old, perhaps a snuffy, noeeI Touth has its truth: I'd rather track, Of two extremes, the ardent boy, Erneas of life and hope and Joy, Than this dejection and disgust. exptrScTicr.•--"drink!" Why so, and set our teeth ouedge? Nay, even Welt not ani . grant w tfcipatcj 1 think. Who missed, or loses, earlier truth, Though old, we shall not count him i Bun the strong mellow'd wine of age hlne-npen'd grapes of yoiUQ. iOUgh ( --ii-e the From sunshine- Magazine. Around the Farm. The California wheat crop aft ninety fflftitsper bushel will be worth more than all the gold and silver that Stele will dig «jpm her mines this year. Ouotthbsbs will grow to a trellis as readilyas grape vines. Let those who have small gardens hear this in mind. A few vines ean be grown occupying •vary little spaoe.--Detroit Tribune. . THE town authorities of Chioo, CaL, have passed an ordinance declaring •warms of the common honey bee a nui­ sance within the corporate limits of the town. They are destructive to fruit. *~"Wawjhr should not enter the tile ditches, except through the soil. If the luad of the drain opens into a swale, the inlet should' be protected by a wire net­ ting or gauze cap, which will not admit any soli a or floating matter. If would be safe to have also a filter of gravel to oover the inlet. Dn Venetian, red makes a good mark 411 o2y-woolec» sheep, On any sheep tte Venetian red and oil, or turpentine wiU do instead of oil, Keep it in the bam all the time, toaid your memory in keeping run of thfe flock, especially the breeding of your best ewes, or the bleeding of the new ramvvou are trying ths year. Bri'i-jl-JuB hoofs are sometimes caused by the continual rasping of the crust by farriers or blacksmiths ; sometimes by the use of tar upon the hoofs, and often they are a constitutional defect of the horse. To remedy the defect in the first two cases, refrain from the causes, and in any case the hoof is softened and made less brittle by rubbing it daily with pure glyoerinc and avoiding ail eon tact with water or grease. Taudow from the kidney fat of an ox is too hard for oandles. It should be softened by mixing one pound of lard with every twelve pounds of tallow. Some mix one pound of finely powdered alum, and four ounces of beeswax, with twelve pounds of tallow, the whole being Stirred together until cold. This is then melted and poured into the molds, and the candles are oodled slowly. If oooled too quickly, the oandles will crack and Ml to pieces. • A farmer states that he planted five rows of corn with seed taken from the cob thiree inches below the top of the ear, rejecting the imperfect grains at the ex­ treme point; then five rows taken from the middle and base of the ear, rejecting the imperfect grains at the butt. The result was that the five rows planted from the middle and butt of the ear ripened about two and a half weeks be­ fore the other rows, the oorn of the for­ mer being better cured and filled to the end of the oob.--farmers' Monthly. Periods of Gestation and Inocba- •tiok--The periods of gestation and in­ cubation of the most common of our ' domestic animals are as follows: Average. Known limits. .............340 GAYS 380 ** 1#0 " ISO " •y,,; xaa " 63 « 30 -•« -Cow .. Ewe.. Goat.. Sow... Babbit Turtcey 86 Hen Bwmi 85 Goose 80 DacI 38 Be* Hen 28 Tlgeon i# •260 to 300 144 to 168 unknown 1C1 to 138 69 to 67 unknown 26 to 33 18 to 24 35 to 42 38 to 34 34 to 30 37 to 29 16 to 17 . A QftCTBiBPTOB to the Horticulturist buys bones of a butcher at a dollar the hundred pounds, and opnsiders them the cheapest fertilizer % can obtain. He tnnsforms them into meal by the follow­ ing simple process : " I have a large, water-tight hogshead standing out of doors, near the kitchen. In the spring I cover the bottom about six inches deep with dry soil. On this I put a layer of bones, about the same depth, and cover them entirely with unleached ashes. On •these another layer of bones, then ashes, and so on till the hogshead is full. I leave it then exposed to sun and rain all summer and winter till the next spring Th*i on removing the contents of the hMphead, I find nearly all the bones so soft that they will crumble to powder uglier a very slight pressure, and they a nice little pile of most valuable ure, ready for immediate use. Any bones not sufficiently subdued! to the hogshead again, far months' slumber". About the Hoot. lbs Beetles ob Roaches.--Mix equal T>artji of brown sugar and Indian meal witliParis green. Offensive Brkai*.--A good disin­ fectant for offensive breath when arising from afoul stomach, is a small half-tea- ;spoonftfl of Soda dissolved in a third of • a tumbler of water taken in the morning. Savory Dish.--Melt a quarter pound good cheese in the" oven. When this ia •done add one beaten egg and a wine .glass of milk. Seat all these well to­ gether, then bake in a hot oven till a light brown. Eg© Batjce.--Work well together four •ounces of butter and two spoonfuls of -flour; then mix in two spoonfuls of milk. , over a alow fire. When melted, add half a pint of water, and when simmering add two spoonfuls more of milk; give it one boil, and just before serving add two hard boiled eggs, chopped. To coiiOB materials green : Make a dye of one pound of fustic and wa|er enough to cover two pounds of yarn or cloth. Let the article remain in the dye for two years. Wring out and add to the dye a sufficient, quantify of ex­ tract of indigo to make it of tne shade Inquired. Let the cloth remain in this half an hour. i A Child's Bed.--A child's bed should llops a little from the hmd to ttw foot, (Bo that the head may be a little higher than the feet--but never bend the neck to get the head on to a pillow. This snakes ths child round-shouldsrcd, Cramps the veins and arteries, and inter­ feres with the free circulation of the blood. Even when a child is several years old the pillow should be thin, and tnade of hair, not feathers. To Keep Hams.--There is no better way to keep hams through the summer ;free from taint or insects thaw by hang- •ing them tip in the smoke-house, which is to be kept perfectly dark. Where there is no smoke-house or dark room, sew each ham up in a canvas bag and thoroughly whitewash it. We have also kept them perfectly by rubbing into them wood ashes, packing them in Ur­ iels, and covering them with ashes, ^ A lady writer of professed experience gives the following advioe to mothers whose children have the croup : First i Sat a piece of chamois skin, make a lit-e bib; out oat the neck and sew on tapes to tie it on ; then melt together some tallow and pine tar; rub some of this in the chamois, and let the child wear it all the time My baby had the croup whenever she took cold, and sinoe I put on the chamois I have had no more trouble. Renew with tar occa­ sionally. I - Poker and Politics. They were talking politics and play­ ing bean poker, twenty beans for a quarter. There were three of them, all Democrats, and for convenience we will call them Smith. Brown and Robinson. Smith was dealer, aud while be was deal­ ing the cards Brown and Robinson were discussing the overwhelming corruption among the officials of the land and shew­ ing cards up their sleeves. The cards being dealt, Brown, who sat next the dealer, passed, at the same time remark­ ing : " As I was sayin'f the fearful cor­ ruption which runs through every branch of the public service is horrifying to every true patriot; the blush of sliame mantles my cheek when I think of Grant, the President of the United States, lending himself to all kinds of thievery and jobbery, and surrounding himself with a horde of blood-sucking robbers, who are draining the very life- blood of the people." " It's perfectly awful. I chip," said Robinson, as he neatly disposed of his 1 hand and got four kings out of his sleeve. " I pass out," said Smith. "Just look at Belknap and Babcock and Blaine and the rest of them fellows. I raise you twenty beans," remarked Brown, as he deftly got from his sleeve the four aces which were there con­ cealed. " Yes, and I think of Bristow and them mules. Let's see; I call that raise and go you twenty better," replied Robinson. " That sizes my pile. Just go back a few years in the administration and ponder on the Credit Mobilier, the baek-pay steal, the raisin' of the Presi­ dent's salary, and the use of money to carry elections in New York. Such things as them were never heard of in Andrew Jackson's time, or when the Democrats were in power. I call you; what have you got?" said Brown. " I've got pretty nigh an invincible-- here's two little pairs of kings," replied Robinson, as he laid his hand on the table. " Oh, I can rake them--here's four bullets," said Brown as he reached for the pot. "Great snakesI" exclaimed Robin­ son; "you're a nioe pill to be talk­ ing about the corruption of the ad­ ministration, ain't you f If I couldn't play goksr honester's you I'd never ta1^ about other folka. You and Mr, Smith continue this game while I go out«nd rustle moce soap. Austin (JYcv.) Reveille. THE SADDLE. A tndnranee Pit FtoetwoWdr Jhtri, Kmw York--A Mexican Bides On® Han dred and Fifty-five Miles In Seven Hoars. [From the New York Times.] Francisco Peralto, the Mexican rider suooeeded yesterday in running twenty five mustangs 155 miles in seven hours. The exact time of his riding, from start- to finish, was six hours, fifty-eight min­ utes, and forty-three seconds, Thel manager of the raoe advertised that! some of the numerous sloughs in region and overflow their pasture-land in the dry season. The mouth of Salt, or at. Louis Camp slough, is fifteen miles above Hill's Ferry, ana five miles up the slough stands one of Miller's ware­ houses, which has a storage capacity of . wmcn nas a storage capacity L,2G0 tons of wheat, and which is soi twenty miles from his principal houses.--Stockton Newspaper. some _ ^„V|S Horrible Scene ft an Execution Peralto would ride twenty-five mustangs t*Km Ml Account of Hanging of Samuel Froii] 155 miles in seven hours for a stake of _ at Boston.] Frost had risen from hfa phtu'r when of which backed the , .t -- ; ^qcx) backed warrant was begun, $10,000, $5,000 horses, and the time. At the start there were 200 peo- S? r® behind him had fastened pie ; at 1 o'clock there were 500 ; bv 2 i~* 8tr*P8 aronnd his legs and arms, and o'clock the number had reached 1,500, the reading was finished had shut An Eccentric Editor® Some personal reminiscences of Mr. Bloss, the well-known editor of the Cin­ cinnati JSnnuirer, are furnished by that paper. At the time of the sad accident which resulted in his death, Mr. Bloss had been connected with the Enquirer twenty-four years. During the last few years of Ms service he was a privileged character,, and could write as much or as little as he chose. His uncompromising honesty and independence often placed him in a position of antagonism to the policy of the paper, and the responsible editors were frequently obliged to cross out what he had written after it had been put in type. He has been known to write an editorial in direct opposition to one that had appered in the Enquirer a few hours before. Productions of thin sort, of course, never saw the light of day. Before his matter Had been put in type none of his editorial associates could read it. There were just four com­ positors In the office--known as Bloss' compositors---who could decipher his manuscript. Three of them have been working for the Enquirer over twenty yeai'Bs, and the fourth eighteen years. He was a man of large information, in­ tense vanity, lovable disposition, un­ wearied indiistry, and convivia ] habits, without dignity or balance of mind. He never traveled, and was never easy away from his desk. Once when he had been almost ordered away for a vacation he retorned at the expiration of three days, wid, complaining of loneliness, was allowed to resume his work. Bloss was not more than five feet six inches iu Jieignt, and scarcely ever reached 120 pounds in weight. He was forty-nine years of age. tfreat Borrowers. W.3S? °Vci,y of the Spaniards for bor- v- ,18 , ̂ markable. Although they SShNn' i!eS*ov®r ^<*>0.000,000 to their public debt since 1872 thev are trvine to nme $10,000,000 mire bypled^J t""8 reTeBn« of Onba. British nd from that time to the close the spec­ tators filing into the park enclosure made a continuous 'procession. Every train on the Harlem road was crowded with passengers for Fleetwood, and the highways leading to the park were cov­ ered with vehicles of everv possible description, pres-nng on witfi full loads of passengers* The sheds at the park were inadequate to the oar- riageSj said the late comers batched up wherever they could find a free or post with sufficient hold on earth to keep their horses fast. Then came road- wagons, buggies, gigs, phaetons, and dog-carts, everything up to the great hotel coaches, which came into the park with a rumble like distant thunder, The grand stand was packet! like a herring- box. The entire number of spectators oould not have been less than 15,0(H), and of this number it was stated that over 12,000 paid the admission fee of $1. The company was of more than average respectability. It was made up of »»wn and woman who had been attracted by the novelty of the raoe, and who to witness the performance of the frisky little mustangs and the wlHll and endur­ ance of their rider. There was veiy few betting men on the grounds, rndvery little betting. One man sold pools and his trade was very slow. At the outset pools sold even on rider and time. At the beginning of the fifty-Ant mile, Pe­ ralto being over two minutes behind time, owing to a rest of four which he had taken, the selling and sold $20 to $12 in favor of tune. At the end of the sixtieth mile, Peralto was 10$ seconds behind time, but & con­ trary impression prevailed about the poolseller's stand, and the seller was dy­ ing, "Peralto twenty minutesahe^l and was by this deception again Balling pools without odds. This unoertain state of affairs continued to the end of the race. Peralto's riding was admired by every­ body. He sat upon his horse with per­ fect ease and graoe. Helooked part and parcel of the mustang that he rode. They might dance about as much as they pleased; they could not shake him off nor tire him. He has been accus­ tomed to a saddle ever since he was old enough to straddle a horse, and is prob­ ably one of the best riders that ever visited New York. The horses seemed to behave better with him than with Parker. There were a few bolters, but the bolts were not attended with the serious losses of time that bothered Parker so much. The care that was taken of Peralto was in marked contrast with the treatment of Parker, the rider of the last race. Parker was left to himself, and a com­ mon stableman. He ate hard-tack, ham sanwiches, and mince pie, and drank ice water by the quart. He" rode always in the same direction, and came in at tiie end of the 226th mile blind in conse­ quence. Peralto was in care of Dr. C. G. Stanley, and was treated in a scien­ tific manner. His food was principally of beef tea, taken with proper frequency in proper quantities. He was furnished with fresh caps, with long visors, at in­ tervals of five or six miles, which not only kept his head cool, but also by rea­ son of the changes in the colors of the visors greatly relieved his eyes. He was also required to change his direction re­ peatedly, and though the greater part of the race was run from the right to the left, a very considerable number of miles was made in the opposite direc­ tion. He drove his horses much faster than Parker drove them. Parker's best time was 2:20* Per-wlto made several miles Jn 2:17f. The beiitime, was 2:112 and 2:12*. The first fifty miles was completed in two hours, thir­ teen minutes and fifty seconds, the first 100 miles in four bouts mid thirty-on© minutes. Following is the actual running fa'twa taken at the dose of each ten miles : Chanqe* MiUt. of horses. 10 « 20 5 30 .8 40 .6 60 7 60 « 70 « 80 Ji •Five-mile heat. Time 24:44* 24:30* 24:33V 26:56 24:31U 24:50 24.-33W 23:13* Chanffu Miles, qf Korte*. 90 s 100 8 110 .» 120 « 130 5 140.. « 169 6 ...8 Time. 25:20 *32M 26:02 ̂ *:12\ »-A%% *:3fl* *6:19# 1*04* immense California Land Barons. The possessions of those land proprietors, Messrs. Miller A Lux, extend a distance of sixty-eight miles, and this body is from five to forty miles wide. On the east side they have other smaller tracts. Henry Miller, who takes personal charge of the real estate of the Ann, here and in other parts of the States displays a wonderful executive ability, and furnishes employment to hundreds of men. He has what is known mi the " Home Ranch " and the " Canal Ranch," besides several dairy ranches on this body of land. He keeps an army of carpenters, wagon-makers, fence-build­ ers, teamsters, farm hands, etc., not omitting detectives, and it is said he knows what all of them are about. This year the average of grain is not so large as in some former years, being onlv about 3.000 acres, There are on the premises 2,500 acres of alfalfa, from which last season three crops were taken and the fields twice pastured; there are also 1,400 acres just sown the present season. We are informed by one of Miller's men that there were two strings of fence on the land, each sixty-eight miles long, besides the various cross fences. To give some idea of the cattle belonging to this young kingdom, we were informed that this year they brand­ ed 25,000 calves. Aside from owning a large interest in the San Joaquin and Kings River canal, which runs from the mouth of the Fresno slough to Los Banos creek, a distance of forty miles, Miller & Lux are also constructing a canal on the eastsideof the San Joaquin, which is intended to take water from out the light from him forever by draw- mg the black cap over his head. There was not. an instant's delay, and less than five minutes had passed between the time the doomed man first took his step opo?i the gallows stairs and that in which kss body was thrown downward by the release of the drop. The drop fell with aardly an audible sound, and the light >°dy of the murderer brought ths rop« s> a strong tension. The firet thrill of i shudder had not run through the more •enwtive of the spectators when the kxjy wm seen spinning at the end of the rope, almost headlews, a fearful tear ex­ tending over the front of the throat, and the blood gushing out in steeftnns, Every eye wm riveted on the Startling and un­ expected spectacle as the body turned round, first disclosing and then oonoeal~ mgtMs gash. The Wood, foroed up- J"**® V th® arterial movemente, spurted fouatun-like upward from one to two feet, the stream falling to the floor in a circle round the hanging body. This oirole extended even to tne framework of the gallows, which was in many places sprinkled with the blood. The welling life-blood poured from the wound down the front of the body and triekled from the feet, forming a pool directly h*>n*mth tte bodv. This recital doubtless seems full of horror, but it falls far short of the realities of the scene. For some two minutes the arterial gushings of blood oontmued, and the slow dripping of blood continued a little longer. Drs. Woodward and Jewett then stepped un­ der the gallows and made their examina­ tion of the body. The knot of the rope nad been placed under Frost's left ear, almost around to the center of the neck. Frost was a man of no "special muscular development, and, though he weighed but 120 pounds, the drop was enough not only to break Ms neck, but to sever me spinal column entirely, leaving the body hanging by the integuments of the rear portion only. The body was allowed to hang a few minutes after the exami­ nation by the doctors, when it was lowered and carried from beneath the gallows. - Notes on Weights and Measures. Our American bushel is the same as tiwt which in England is known as the Winchester bushel. An imperial Eng­ lish bushel is equal to 1.03152 Winches­ ter bushels, a difference < f about three per cent. In the London markets grain is quoted by the quarter, equal to eight imperial or to 8.25216 Winchester bush­ els. In Liverpool grain is marketed by weight instead of bulk, using the cental of 100 pounds. Flow, for some reason, is bought and sold in England in parcels of 280 pounds. In London maise is quoted in quarters; Liverpool, in par­ cels of 480 pounds. American flour is the only Hour marketed in barrels of 1J6 pounds each ; California barrels contain 200 pounds, or two oentals, each. Some­ times flour imported into the United Kingdom is designated by hundred weights (cwt.), each of which is one- twentieth of the "long" ton, equal to twenty centals, 2,000 pounds, is univer­ sally used. East of the Rocky moun­ tains both the long and the short are used, but for different measurements. A shilling in English money is equal to twenty-five cents. --Department of Ag­ ricultural Jieport. Hotes in Colorado. Nvca Crinkle describes, in the Worlds an unusually accomplished man whom he has discovered living in a rough part of Colorado. This individual is mi Eng­ lishman who settled there out of choice. Ho "can throw © ladafc sad dicoass Car- Ivle with equal skill, and can decipher the glacial marks on his own bowidem and ride a refectory bwrro wife aijtidl skill This convinces Crinkle that ""the Daniel Boon© business has not died out." Twenty milee from Colorado Springs he found an English castle reproduced in logs, and occupied by an educated Eng­ lish family oi cattle herders. In the same region he met a fellow in a white corduroy suit, looking at first glance like a dandy, and having a hang-dog air. "You see," was the fellow?s ex­ planation of his sliamefacedness, " I was all tight till I got to Canon City, and I Imd these duds washed^ and they come out white. 1 'xpect I look like a darned horse thief, anyhow I" Being clean, un­ wittingly and unexpectedly, he was un­ happy. How Md It (Jet There! Mr. Laughrey, of Jeffeifon township, in digging a well, last week, at the depth of fifty feet below She surface struck what appeared to be » drift or deposit of soil containing large quanti­ ties of vegetable matter and parffedly de­ cayed wood. Among the pieces <fif wood taken out was a board one inch in thick­ ness, six inches in width and eighteen inches in length. The board is tongtttsd and grooved, and in every particular re­ sembles a piece of modern flooring. Ths land upon which the well is dug is a« high prairie, and no improvements had ever before been made upon i£, to the certain knowledge of old settlers in the vicinity. Now, how did that piece of man's unmistakable handiwork get there ? Is it a relic of the Mound-builders, or some pre-historic raoe 1 -- Lineville (Iowa) Tribune. ILLINOIS ITEMS. A Bioomington judge has decided that a washing bill cannot be collected. In Perry county they are working up » big fourth of July celebration, and Don Morrison has been invited to be one of the speakers, The Rockford City Council has voted not to license the sale of liquor in that city, and consequently all the saloons have had to close. Br the death of a relative in Europe Mr. John R. Cropper, of Bloomington, has come into a fortune of several thousand pounds. An effort will be made in Peoria to lay the corner-stone of the new oourt-house on the Fourth of July, as a part of the exercises of that day. Work on the Adams county oourt- house is progressing rapidly. The base­ ment is nearly ready for the dressed stone, and the contractor expects to have the building under roof this fall. _ In the case of the Railroad Commis­ sioners against the Midland Railroad Company at Decatur, for non-compliance with the State law regulating charges, etc., the jury failed to agree, and were discharged. Thk Union Steok-yards Company, of Chicago, have filed a certificate of in- OTewe nf capital stock to $4,400,00®, in the office of the Secretary of State. The Western Toy Company, of Chicago, cap­ ital $50,000, filed a report of organisa­ tion. some are served on the spot to exctysio* parties from Philadelphia. The latter are " planked," which means roasting them on cedar planks before a fir% Shakspeare. William Shakspeare was born on the 23d of April, 1564--he died on the flfty- second anniversary of his birth, April 23, 1616. According to one account, he died of a fever that was brought on by drinking too much at a "merry meet­ ing " he had with two other poets, Ben Johns on and Michael Drayton; and Haw­ thorne mentions the Stratford gossip that lie was "the victim of convivial habits, who met his death by tumbling into a ditch on his way home from a drinking-bout" A firs at Bloomington, one night last week, destroyed the main part ofMayers & McPayne's two-story frama flouring- mill, involving a loss of $5,000. The mill was built only a few weeks ago at a oost of $7,000. Matche* found lying in the building indicate incendiarism. A. J. SpcNKR, town constable of Cob- den, is missing. About two weeks ago he ordered a body of tramps to leave town, and was out watching them dur­ ing the night. It is generally supposed he was f oully dealt with by the mob, and his body hidden from view. The mill- ponds have been dragged, but nothing leading to the diaoovery of his body found. THIS wife of Thomas Q. Gorman, a resident of Springfield, but employed as Superintendent of the Crystal (Sty (Mo.) Glass-works, has received intelligence that she is heir to the estate of herbach- elor cousin, Mr. Plumb, of London, Eng., deoeased, who leaves property val­ ued at £125,000. There being only one other heir, she expeots to receive about $300,000. ON Wednesday of last week, Wiw Alioe A. Early, daughter of Senator Early, was married at her father's resi­ dence in Rockford, by the Rev. W. H. Burns, to Mr. Daniel B. Simmons, of Beloit. Mr. Simmons has for many years been a suitor for the hand of Miss Early. The wedding was eminently a quiet and unostentatious affair, but a few intimate friends and relatives being present at the ceremonies. The pres­ ents were numerous, and some of them most elegant. The happy couple left Rockford, on the morning tram, for Des Moines, Iowa, which city will be their future home. A TEKMBiJc tragedy oocurredftt Qtrincy on Tuesday last, which resulted in the death of William Dallas, a colored po­ liceman and detective, and one of the bravest men on the foroe. For some weeks there had been a series of com­ plaints from the north of the town that midnight marauders were stealing every­ thing that could be carried off, and a resident of that part of the oity found a quantity of stolen goods secreted under liis bam. Dallas and O'Brien were de­ tailed by the chief of police to watch the goods on Monday night and capture the thieves when they came for their booty. Soon after midnight four men came to the bam, and the offioers ordered them to surrender. The robbers immediately commenced firing, and several shots were exohanged, Dallas receiving three terri­ ble wounds iu the face, from the effects of which he died. The thieves escaped, and no arrests were made. Thebs is quite a coterie of free-think­ ers at Peoria, among whom CoL Rob­ ert G. Ingeisoll is the recog­ nized leader, and they now and then, when there m a "departure" of one of their number, have funeral rite entirely in accord with their pecu­ liar notions. The other day one B. W. Parker died, and the burial services, as conducted by CoL Ingersoll, were sim- gle but impressive. At the proper time e stepped forward and spoke as fol­ lows: "Friends and neighbors: To fulfill a promise made years ago, it ia neoessary for me to say a word. He whom we are about to lay in the earth was gentle, kind, and loving in his life. He was ambitious to live only with those he loved. He was hospitable, generous, and sincere. He loved his friends, and the friends of his friends. He returned good for good. He lived the life of a child, and died without leaving in the memory of his family the record of an unkind act. Without assurance and without fear we give him back, as it were, to nature, the source and mother of us all. Friend, husband, father, fare thee well/' This was said at the late residence of the deceased. Beside the grave the Colonel, In Oh earnest and im­ pressive manner, made the following re­ marks: " With morn, with noon, with night, with chaliging clouds and change­ less stars--with grass, and trees, and birds, with leaf and bud, with flower and blossoming vine, with all the sweet in­ fluences of nature, we Jeave our dead. Again, • fkrewell." •frV* A Precocious Philosopher.' A young philosopher of seven yeainjl * of age, \frho had got far enough to heajf ? the Holy Scriptures disputed by soienee '̂. listened attentively i^ his father's parnw*"*,"-M* lor, the other evening, to a warm dis» cussion on the Darwinian theory, and* after the guests had departed, somewhatt '̂;;? surprised the paternal with : '* " . "-r'ather, I don't believe Mr. Darwiit^'IS'* isnght." "What!" said the parent § -%-• i looking down at this unexpected reason-* ̂ rru7^ s£K)dv beJore him with a littl&- - Bible m his hand; "yOU do not, an<f • ":rt' why* i<# .-t# don't believe it was a monkey." Well, well," said the sire, laughing^ ran along, Tommy, you are too yountf^fsi to talk about such things," • "But, papa, almost fhe next vewrik V^ says, 'God paw everything He hatf > K made, and behold it was very good.' Now it wasn't good if men were mon- koys, was it? For you are gooder than a monkey, ain't you, papa?" A Centennial Suggestion. A correspondent of a Chicago news* paper, writing from Joliet, HI., makes 4 proportion for doing honor to inde^ pendence day that seems appropriate* and entitled to consideration of patriotic -•< / citizens. It is this: Plant a gun ony Bunker Hill, as a starting point of a lin&. of cannon; from there to San Fran- cisoo, each within sure hailing of its predeoeseor At sunrise, on the Fourth, fire this cannon, or line of ar«^fln tilleiy stretching across the continental , starting at Boston and closing at the Golden Gate, and then repeat a like re­ turn salute, or round, of tne same guns, beginning at the latter place, and closing at Bunker HilL There would be something grand and sublime (the correspondent says) in thus ushering in this glorious day with such patriotic thunder, as it mingled with the mighty voioe of two ooeans, and went booming through the valleys, minding its echoes in successive peals from hilttop to hill-top, and from, shore to shore t Inferior Beings, " It is indeed remarkable," said a noble Burlingtonian, sitting in his parlor con­ versing with a few visitors, "mostre­ markable, that in all ages, the records of which are bright with the glorious musio of masters whose names are written on every page of the world's history in let­ ters of gold, no woman has ever witten an opera or oomposed an oratorio that could link her name to undying fame. In the mery walks of art? where one- would suppose woman should reign upon, an undivided throne, she is little more than a menial, an humble attendant wait­ ing upon, Mid meekly subject to, the whims of her master, who- " Just : then a woman's voice from the back yard > split the April air like the sweep of a • saber: "John Jenkins! You come here and keep this baby out of the soapsuds while I put out the clothes." And then the committee rose, and the noble Bur- lingtonian being exoused by unanimous consent, the house soon after adjourned. --Burlington Hawk-Eye. live Hundred Liquor fenders AjnrwteC in One Day. It was a sweeping enforcement of the Sunday law that was undertaken yester­ day by the police of the city. Nearly 500 dealers in liquors and lager beer were arrested at their places of business " * > and taken to the courts, some of which »# were open all day, and one of them up .^5^1 to a late hour last night. There were " 300 cases brought before the Washing* ton Place Police court alone. The vie tims were taken from establishments of all classes, even from the Hotel Bruns­ wick and other places of the same grade. Some of the liquor dealers resorted to sundry devices to evade, the law; but, in most instances, with poor suooess. The parties put under arrest were nearty all let out 011 bail, or discharged; through the day, or in the course of"the^wt evening. The r&id was earned oat ns-#. der too. ystom of tb» BoHaa aioners.--If. Y. Sun. ' ' _______________ ••'•lilUut .. 1# Bead-heads Heed '• TPJie charter of the Nevada jMf- ^ * row gauge railroad in datifornia, ® »W*!' > road just completed, prohibits the4 W company from issuing free puses I "><3» to any but persons in its employ. The insertion in the charter of this pro- vision was the first effective expression of public sentiment in California against dead-heading by railroads, a sentiment which culminated last winter in the pass­ age of a law forbidding all railroads in the State from issuing free passes except to their employes and members of the transportation commission and their servants. wsjtt- >»h "' »!$$.• •: Sure to be Fleeced* Ah ettfttetot Scottish divine happened to meet'at the house of a lawyer, whom he cOusWMed too sharp a practitioner, two ot'1 Ms parishioners. The lawyer jocularf |̂M 'ungraciously put the ques­ tion, t?!iodtor, these are members of your flocfc; may I ask, do you look upon them as white or black sheep f" " I don't knotf," answered the divine, dryly, " whether they are black or white sheep; but I knew if they are long here they are pretty su*e to be fleeoed." Fishing for shad Is done on a large scale at Gloucester, on the Delaware. A net 475 fathoms in length, and a boat rowed by thirty aegroes are used, about 500 shad being taken at each haul. Some of the fish>are sent to market, and Blackguard Journalism. Said Horace Greeley : There i« notb. ing easier than to edit & blackguard pa- ,1 per, and nothing more difficult than to * get up a newspaper free from foulness k** and blackguardism. Fish women and bar-room loafers are skilled in the art of ^ bandying; epithets and bespattering each -< • other with diily words. It requires no • brains to do this ; but it does require " botn heart and brains to print a news­ paper that a decent man or woman oaa read without a blush, A woman has been making a living in Chicago by applying to persons who ad­ vertised for servants, but making her visits tardily that the places would be previously filled. Then, with a woe­ begone air, die would say that she had come from the country to get the em­ ployment, and had no money with whiob to return. About a dollar in each plaoe was the profit of the business, until th* police interfered. Hkbw is the punishment the Bain- bridge (Ga.) Democrat would have meted to Rev. A. C. Kendrick, of At­ lanta : "He deserves to he branded, stripped to the skin, and made to run the gauntlet of the outraged people ol Georgia, each one of whom, being armed with a whip of steel, to lacerate his car­ cass of human rottenness as he passes, until he fails to earth dead, an example to the country for all time to come." One of the recent "lights" of the gospel is a prayer book which weight but one ounce. 4