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Site ^Icfjriinj flatntoltr. J. "VAST KLYKB, Tmxjmxxx. Mc^ENltf TLLIHOI& asd domestic. i|ynillJUBAL 4 A Son* of the Country. "IwtiT from the roar and the rattle. The dust and the din of the town, lHHere to live is to brawl and to battle. Till the strong treads the weak man J^way to the bonnie green hills, Where the sunshine sleeps on the bCM And the heart of the greenwood thrills To the hvmn of the bird on the Bp ray. JMW from the smoke and the smother, The vail of the dun and the brown, The push and the plash and the pother, " The wear and the waste of the town I Away where the sky shines clear, • And the light breeze wanders at will, Jkua the dark pine wood nous near To the light plumed birch on the hill. .Away from the whirling and wheeling, And steaming above and below, lyherc the heart has no leisure for feeling And the thought has no quiet to gnrttU <. .4.way where the clear brook purls, And the hyacinth droops in the ebacb^ . And the plume of the fern uncurls Its grace in the depth of the glade. • -Away to Ihe cottage so sweetly Embowered 'neath the fringe of the wood, 'Visere thy wife of my hosom shall meet 'toe ' With thoughts ever kindiy and good; More dear than the wealth of the world, - J?ond mother, with bairnies three, And the plump-avmed babe that has curled Its lips, erectly pouting for me. , 7*b«n away from the roar and the rattle, The dust and the din of the town, ' Where to live is to brawl and to battle > Till the strong treads the weak man down; Away where the green twigs nod In'the fragrant breath of May, *" And the sweet growth spreads on the sod, • .Ana the blithe birds dng on the spray. •--JohnStuart Rlackit. Around the Farm. BEFORE concluding that nothing will destroy the onion maggot, let readers pour over the bed attacked, water just off the boil, and perhaps they will be surprised to find how much more heat the vegetable can stand than maggot life.--London Journal 0/ Horticulture. Fia*s can be kept away from cattle And horses by applying a mixture of one ounce of creosote to one quart fish oil once a day. This is a harmless applica­ tion and entirely effectual. The flies will not tarry in contact with the mix­ ture. "We have had it in use for two sea­ sons on our herd, and find it as stated. YESTERDAY we hadi occasion to pass over the farm of John Geltfcauser, and were surprised at the thrifty appear­ ance of its productions. Several vari­ eties were growing in all the various stages--from that just planted to the same articles ripe and ready for use. So remarkable is the producing quality of the soil that corn planted two weeks ago stood two and a half feet high.--Banner, J&uttqr county, Cal. I 6N0E killed bigfe in my wantonness --GoMkrgive dHknerely to test my skill xfl|E a rifle, ^pit I received a bet­ ter lesson. While once passing through the woods I carelessly fired at a bird, caring only to discharge my gun so as to make my next fire sure. 1 wounded a bird which sat upon the fence. I felt guilty stricken at once, and tried to catch it. Failing in that, I thought it would be humanity to shoot it. Before I could reload my rifle it fluttered across the field, where I followed it, and found the panting sufferer at its nest and blood dripping upon the young. My cruelty flashed upon me in all its nakedness, and I cringed under my reflections like a guitty butcher as I was.--Our Dumb Animals. How COMMON id it for the kitchen au­ thorities in a farm house to throw the slops upon the ground, just outside the kitchen door, and perhaps within six feet of the well. I have known of a boarding house epidemic of diarrhea which could be traced to no other source than the contamination of well water by a shallow pool of sun-exposed, foul smelling slops. A cemented cistern should be built about 75 or 100 feet from the house, and at a distance from the well, and to this all the kitchen slops, vegetable waste, etc., should be con­ ducted through a suitable pipe or con­ duit. From the cistern these matters may be fed to the pigs, or thrown upon the ground at a proper distance from the house.---Cot. New York Tribune. drop them into jars or bottles of spiced vinegar. GOLD CAKE.--One and a half cups sugar, one-third cup butter, half a cup corn starch, two cups flour, one tea- spoonful cream tartar, half a teaspoon- ful soda. Lastly, add the yelks of six eggs, beaten very lightly. SELVES CAKE.--One and half a <mp su­ gar, half a cup butter, half a cup corn starch, two cups flour, one teaepoonful tartar, half a teaspoonful soda, a cup milk, the Whites of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and added last. TOMATO PRESERVE.--Take them when quite small and green, and simmer them in the "preserving sirup," allowing fpound for pound, till very tender. Throw in a few sliced lemons and pieces of ginger root to flavor. Cook till very tender. SOILED clothing, put together when damp, and allowed to remain so some time, is often covered with mildew. The remedy here, too, is in the prevention. Dry the clothes before putting together, and never allow an article to be rolled up damp and thrown into the basket for soiled clothing. BOILED HUCKLEBERBT PUDDING,-- Three pints of huckleberries, one pint of molasses, teaspoonful of cream tartar, half of soda, teaspoonful of salt, flour to make a stiff batter. Mix all but the soda, and add that last dissolved in as little water as possible and stir it into the pudding. Boil from two to four hours. This is delicious if served with wine sauce. APPLE BUTTER.--Fill a large present ing kettle with apples, pared, quartered and cored. Add cloves, allspice and cinnamon, not too strong. Cover with good cider and boil slowly, mashing with a wooden spoon till all becomes a thick, brown jam, with no more juice than suffices to keep it soft and buttery. Several hours are required to cook it. Peach butter and plum butter are made in the same way. GERMAN PASTE.--Three pounds of pea meal, one pound of honey or sirup, three eggs, one-fourth pound of fresh lard, one quart of hemp seed (crushed), ten cents worth of maw seed. Put the lard in an iron kettle over a slow fire; stir in part of the meal when the lard is melted ; also the eggs, after having been well beaten ; take it off the fire, and mir in the remainder of the ingredients ; mix and beat thoroughly, and spread on a platter or pan to cool; put the paste in a stone jar in a cool place. Power Better than Law. Commodore Vanderbilt was once ad­ vised "to get the law" of a certain matter. " Law!" he exclaimed ; " why I have the power already." Long be­ fore the famous Erie litigations fell into such a hopeless tangle that he and Mr. Drew were compelled to settle their quarrel themselves, he had conceived a great contempt for the courts of justice. His first experience in the courts was in the course of the steamboat litigations which grew out of the charters granted to Fulton and Livingston by the New York Legislature, and which Chief Jus­ tice Marshall brought to an end in 1824 by deciding that the State could not grant an exclusive right of navigation. Capt. Vanderbilt in 1818 took command of the steamboat Bellona, of the New York and New Brunswick line, which was chartered by the New Jersey Legislature. The Troy Press describes his first appearance in court: " He was arrested by the Sheriff of New York on an an attachment for contempt, and brought before the awful presence of the great Chancellor Kent, at Albany, to an­ swer to the charge of violating an injunc tion awarded in the case of John R. Livingston against Aaron Ogden and Thomas Gibbons, prohibiting Gibbons, his agents and servants from navigating with any boat or vessel propelled by steam or fire the waters in the Bay of York, or in the Hudson river between Staten island and Bowles Hook. The Chancellor held that as Vanderbilt was not in the employment of Gibbons, and as Gibbons had not been running the Bellona since the injunction was served, and that as no collusion had been shown between Gibbons and Tompkins, Vanderbilt must be discharged from the attachment with costs. " ajBOOT the -cheapest or-'ani^.iition of. & country home is trees* On this point we can't do better than quote the words 0? John G. Baker, in the "Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural So­ ciety:" " It is a fact admitted by all persons of taste that trees add to the charms of any location. In summer time +>hey protect it from the scorching rays •of the sun and provide pleasant and cool retreats from the heat, and in winter are of no small Value in protecting our homes from the cold and piercing blasts. Trees around a house impart a homelike and attractive appearance. A few maples, elms, lindens, or mountain ashes, with the larch or Norway spruce, will render the humblest home an attractive spot." "With- all due respect to Mr. Baker's opinion we should substitute the white pine in place of the larch and Norway spruce. Besides being a much hand­ somer tree its balsam is a fruitful source of health, A "READER" sends the Canada Farmer his process for curing a balky horse. He says: " The animal had grown old in his viciousness, and was one of those case-hardened stagers that turn their h~ads round and look you steadily in the t.ye while the fit is on. I had uied whipping, petting, the ear- wfish, gravel in the mouth, backing, poking, in short, everything, without effect, until at length, on one occasion, becoming thoroughly enraged for the horse had come to a dead stop in the middle of a river we were crossing), I sprang out, hitched a logging chain around hi» neck, and proceeded to draw him out by means of another horse. For upward of ten minute3 he stood his ground, and it really seemed as if the head alone was to come without the body, but finally the body followed like a lamb. From that day to this no fur­ ther attempt at balking has been made. Once, indeed, about a week after the occurrtnoe just mentioned, he acted like one nesirous of renewing an old habit, but a mere rattle of the chain cured him." About the House. PICKLED ONIONS.--Boil small onions after they are peeled until they are half cooked in salted water; then, while hot, ON THE RAMPAGE. Two ffimdred Bushels - of Crickets. In Bull Run valley, Nevada, the crickets nave played sad havoc with the growing crops. The ugly pests attacked one wheat field of thirty acres, and in an hour destroyed the whole crop, eat­ ing the stalks off close to the ground, and then marched on to other conquests. Millions of crickets that have been killed strew the ground for miles around, while vast numbers found their way into the streams, and have imparted a most dis­ agreeable flavor to the water, rendering it unfit for drinking. A novel means of cleaning out crickets is the sewing together of three gunny sacks, leaving small holes in the bottom one for the egress of water. This large sack is attached to the end of a sluice- box, placed so that the water will run into it The people £hen assemble, armed with bells and boughs, and with a great noise drive the crickets into the stream, wliicli swiftly carries them down through the sluice-box into the bag, a*d there they are speedily drowned. At Painter's ranch, a few days ago, there was a grand "drive," the result being seventy-five sacks full, or about 225 bushels of crickets.--Sacramento {Cat.) Union. Base Ball in Delaware. At a match played in Wooddale, be­ tween the Avalanche and Centerville clubs, the Centerville club came out best. The Avalanches declare that they would not have done so had it not been for the assistance rendered by a oow, which, upon the striking of a ball, picked it up in her mouth and ran away. This puzzled the umpire, and it took the united effbite of six of tha Ava­ lanche to get her to disgorge the ball, two holding her by the tail, two by the horns, one choking her, and one holding his hands to receive the ball when the cow delivered it.-- Wilmington Com­ mercial. " OH I my dear sir," said ja poor suf­ ferer to a dentist, " that is the second wrong tooth you've pulled out." " Very sorry, my dear sir," said the blundering operator; " but, as there were only three altogether when I began, I'm sure to be right the next time." The Wild Pranks of a Texas Steer la the Streets of New £ork. [From the New York Sun.] A long, lean, lank Texan steer, suit­ ed to rapid transit rather than to slaugh­ ter for eating, with branching horns shai-p as a needle, and eyes like a stag, was yesterday one of a large drove land­ ed at the foot of East Forty-fourth street. The smell of blood from the many slaughter houses in the neighbor­ hood maddened him, and he forced his way through the cordon of shouting butchers and started at a gallop up Forty-fourth street, followed by a throng. He had a clear way, and did no harm until he reached the west side of the city. There a party of boys threw stones so annoyingly that the steer de­ termined upon mischief. At Seventh avenue he turned and ran to Fifty-first street, scattering the pedestrians in all directions. Then he turned down Fifty- first street. Among the few who did not get out of his way was Mary Hughes, who was wheeling an infant of Mrs. Beach, of 318 West Fifty-first street. The steer made straight for the girl, knocked her over, and tossed the car­ riage and baby high in the air. Mary was severely bruised and a little fright­ ened. The child escaped with a slight bruise, but the carriage was a wreck. On went the steer, followed by a thou­ sand yelling boys and men. At Tenth avenue he turned down. A man ran out with widespread arms to stop him, and in an instant was tossed on a pile of sand. At Fiftieth street he turned east­ ward. In Broadway, James Mitchell, a conductor on the Broadway railroad, was getting off his car to go the stables. He saw a steer walking slowly down the street, but paid no attention to hiim, The next moment he heard some one cry, "Run, Mitchell, run; he's after you." Mitchell did run, and the steer ran, too. Just as the conductor was en­ tering the stable door, the steer taught I him. One long horn went over his left' shoulder, grazing his cheek, and the other struck his left shoulder, ripping off coat and vest. He was hurled vio­ lently against the side of the building, bruising his face, and unfitting him for duty for a day or two. Then the steer charged toward a group of boys. All got out of his course except little John Penny, who lives at 172 West Forty- eighth street. The steer tried to toss him, but the sharp horns missed him by a hair's breadth, and the little fellow was knocked down and trampled on. His injuries are severe. At Fiftieth Btreet the steer entered the alleyway that leads to Makey and Mitchell's building establishment. There was a scattering of the workmen, and the multitude surged around the entrance and tried to shut the doors. Sergt. Russell, of the Forty-soventh street police, with a party of his men, were there, but before the doors could be closed, the steer came tearing out. When he saw the immense gathering in the street--the Sergeant says there were 3,000 at least--he stopped--lashed his roan sides with his tail, gave a low bellow, and turned back. Then the doors were quickly fastened, and the policemen and Mr. Mitchell began firing at the steer with revolvers. Before he was brought down, he broke many panes of glass and de­ molished valuable woodwork. As soon as it was safe to go in, he was hit on the head with an ax. A rope was fastened to his hind leg and thrown over a beam above. He was drawn from the ground, And his throat cut with a carpenter's drawing-knife. and finally got the horses away, but sub­ sequently they died. The rage of the bees still continued, and on the follow­ ing day they attacked the owner's house, and the family were compelled to vacate. --New York Sun. '•3J|g»v ILLINOIS* ITEMS. JVDOE S. WELLS HARRIS died at Mor ris on the 1st. His death was caused by a carbuncle on the back of his neck. J SECRETARY FISHER, at Springfield, has received from 3. G. English, of Dan­ ville, a basket containing a dozen varie­ ties of Australian plants grown from seed distributed last fall bv the State Agricultural Department. IT is rumored that work will soon be­ gin on the extension of the Carbondale and Shawncetowu railroad from Marion to Eldorado. This route, once opened, will give Southern Illinois a direct con­ nection with the East via Cincinnati. A YOUNG girl by the name of Crooks, living about six miles south of Gardner, was taken with spasms last Wednesday, and it proves to be that dreaded disease, hydrophobia. She can not last long. Still, every one in those parts keeps a good-for-nothing dog. THERE is much popular comment at Bloomington on the discovery that J. T. Calhoun, an old resident, and a »rtan supposed to be quite rich, is in a posi­ tion of financial smbarassment. His liabilities, chiefly in Bloomington, reach 030,000 ; assets not known. CHARLES M. CLAJRK. a highly esteemed citizen of Springfield, endeavored to commit suicide late one night last week by taking a dose of strychnine. Until a year ago Mr. Clark was the wool prince of the West. Recently he lost $150,000 in the wool speculation, since which time he has been melancholy and de* pressed in spirits. He is lying very low, but will probably recover. CROOKED ball players at Bloomington --Gleason and Roach, center-fielder and right-fielder of the Bloomington nine-- were by resolution expelled from the Bloomington nine, at a meeting of the stockholders, last Saturday night, for selling out the game the previous day with the Springfield club. It is gener­ ally understood that these two received $25 ea"h from certain parties who bet and won heavily on the Springfield nine. One member of the Bloomington nine says openly that he was offered $25 to throw the game. A BOLD attempt at highway robbery was made near Quincy one night last week. Three men who live in . the city procured a horse and Horrors of the Shampoo in Japan. A tired friend, who had walked far, sent his Japanese servant to fetch a cele­ brated operator. Two old women came. One practitioner took the patient, the other, unasked, took me. Both were wrinkled, pl>un-headed, brown female persons, with carefully blackened teeth and shaved eyebrows, to prove their en­ tire respectability. I saw my prostrate comrade on the fiat of his back, and this terrible old black-toothed being clawing his throat and the place where his heart ought to be and his dinner was. I tried to sketch them, when my own left leg was grasped, and down I went beside my friend, tip one leg and down the other, up arms and down, traveled the talons of that terrible old anatomical witch with nil the skill of a surgeon beDt on vivisection. Every muscle seemed to be familiar to her fingers as strings to a harper. Each, in turn, was pulled and rolled and stretched and replaced exactly where it ought to go. The knee- pan was rolled about and eased ; the soles of the feet were slapped and the ankles arranged. Every bit of the body that would have suffered from hard work was treated with the skill of a dress­ maker folding crumpled clothes. * * Ari- gato," said I, when properly smoothed out. "Thank you." "Arigato," said my comrade, who was a Private Secre­ tary in the Gladstone Ministry; and then we presented coins in paper to the operators and compared notes. " Do yon like it?" "Well, not much." " How do you feel after it ?" " Much as I felt before." " So do V Some thirty and odd years ago I was tired and dusty, and took a Turkish bath at Napoli di Romagna, in sunny Greece. A very muscular old Greek shampooed me, and I never shall forget him. I can see him now in a haze of steam. He cracked every joint in my body. The last thing he did was to cross my arms on my chest, kneel on them, put a hand under my back, and give a sudden wrench, which made something my shoul­ der-blades ctwzL 1M ~ n whip. Since then I have read the Water Poet's de­ scription of breaking a man on the wheel. The Japanese proceeding is the least unpleasant of the three; but I don't seem to care much about being sham­ pooed again.--Campbell's Travels. Ferocious Bees, A pair of horses, valued at $400, be­ longing to Dr. Webb, of Boonton, N. J., were attacked by bees a few days ago, and were so fearfully stung that they died. The day was very warm, and the animals perspired profusely. On pass- ing by six or seven hives, it is supposed the odor from the horses offended the the bees, for they attacked the animals in swarms. The driver tried to unhitch the horses, but was unable to do so in consequence of their plunging and kick­ ing. He then went for assistance, and returned with long gloves on his hanrin and his head covered with several folds of mosquito netting. He had to scrape (the bees from the horses with his hands. buggy and overhauled a farmer on his way home, near Gen. Single­ ton's residence, about three utiles from the city. The men drove past the farm­ er and presently returned with only one man in the buggy. A little further on a man stepped from the roadside, and, presenting a pistol, ordered the farmer to halt, but, seeing that an attempt was being made to rob him, the farmer seized a pitchfork and struck nt the highwayman, at the same time falling forward in his wagon. The fall un­ doubtedly saved his life, as, at the same instant, the robber fired his pistol, the ball entering the farmer's coat. Another shot was fired at him, but, as his horses were by this time under full headway, he made his escape. He went to town and, being able to accurately describe the horse and buggy with which the rob­ bers overtook him, the turn-out was v^^ound to belong to one of tlifl livery- stables, and by this clue one of the ras­ cals was arrested and bound over for trial. The other two are still at large. THE Board of Equalization assembled at Springfield last week, and an informal report was received from Cook county of the assessment in that county. This shows a total valuation of $155,086,932, or $10,104,817 less than last year. The total assessment of property in the State now foots up $956,691,680. or 868,736,- 609 less than last year. The total assess­ ment of personal property of the State is $211,219,642, and is in detail as follows: Number. Horses 939,9(0 Cattle.. 1,857,901 Mules and asses..... 123,275 Sheep 821,854 Hogs 3,065,939 Steam engines In- 80,418 Valxie. Average. $31,332,380 24,827,032 6,016,728 1.185,786 8,934,678 36.92 13.37 40.70 1.41 3.35 eluding boilers.... Fire or burglar-proof safes Billiard, pigeon-hole, etc., tables Carriages and wag­ ons Watches and clocks.. Sewint? and knitting machines 165,728 Pianos...... 17,575 Mi'lodeons and or­ gans . 21,608 5,233 2,616 360,955 283,740 Franchises. Annuities and royal­ ties Patent-rights Steamboats, sailing- vessels, etc 49 42 71 t;ai3,62t 314,981 146,141 8,995,366 1,291,433 2,893,200 1,541,061 898,510 36,877 42,547 10,801 408.86 65.88 65.86 34.92 4.55 18.32 87.68 41 68 742.88 1,018.02 152.19 715# 733,328 1,010.94 Total value enumerated prop­ erty $92,424,600 Merchandise $ 29,169,448 Material and manufactured articles..., 3,501,005 Manufacturers' tools, implements, and machinery 2,149,551 Agricultural tools, implements, and ma­ chinery : 6,090,194 Gold and silver plate and plsted-ware.. 124,875 Diamonds and jewelry 49,470 Moneys of banks, bankers, brokers, etc. 8,242,213 Credits of banks, bankers, brokers, etc.. 1,322,0'28 Moneys of other than bankers, etc 14,111,717 Credits of other than bankers, etc 20,862,7*8 Bonds and stocks 1.639,370 Shares of capital stock of corporations not of this State 386.961 Pawnbrokers' property: 18,118 Property of corporations not before enumerated. 1,091,926 Property of saloons and eating-houses.. 483,164 Household and office property 15,671,944 Investments in real estate and improve­ ments thereon 629,187 Shares of stock, State and National banks 7,921,220 A:I ither personal property. 10,609,833 Total value of unenumerated prop­ erty $118,795,042 Total value of enumerated property... 92,421,600 Total value of personal property $211,219,642 The lands are assessed at $745,072,- •38. Americans vs. Englishmen. In his address before the late meet­ ing of the American Scientific Associa­ tion at Buffalo, Prof. Huxley, the Eng­ lish scientist, said: "The English universities are the product of Govern­ ment, yours of private, munificence. That among us is almost unknown. The general notion of an Englishman when he gets rich is to found an estate and benefit his family. The general notion of an American when fortunate is to do something for the good of the people, and from which benefits shall con­ tinue to flow. The latter is the nobler ambition." * HOW TALL WE ARE 2 Americans Occupy the First Bask la gtat- We-Somo Interesting Figures. , [From the Scientific American.] In discussing the results of the tables jot measurement of drafted and enlisted gen, prepared from the records of the rovosS: Marshal General's Bureau, made during the late war, Dr. Baxter remarks that probably no question of anthropolo­ gy has been more debated and none left in a more unsatisfactory condition than that of the mean stature of the full- grown mau. The reason for this he finds principally in the confused manner in which measurements have been pre­ pared for the purpose. " Hights of young and old, of men of widely differ­ ing nativities, of picked men, such as soldiers and militia, of men and women, of students under the age of full growth; of oonvictfl, a class generally below the mean liight of their countrymen; of men measured in shoes and men meas­ ured without shoes, have been compared together in tables pretending to exhibit scientific conclusions! " The half million sets of measurements, from which the conclusions to be sum­ med up in this article were derived, are open to none of these objections. They were actual measurements, not guesses. They were measurements taken with a reasonable exercise of care by surgeons sworn to do their duty, furnished with needful aids and appliances, and without Object or interest in evading or slighting their official instructions. And the rec­ ords include the measurements of re­ jected as well as of accepted men, so that they fairly represent, not a picked por­ tion of the men of the country, but the whole. It is proper to observe here that the measurements made use of in this report were chiefly those of men examined to­ ward the latter part of the war, after the finest fighting material of the country had been enlisted; consequently they uuder rather than overstate the average development of the American people. It was a time, too, when large bounties invited many of the better class of for­ eigners to enter our service; a partial ex­ planation, perhaps, of the fact that in every instance the mean hight of our foreign-born soldiers was above that of the nation represented. Under such circumstances, it is gratifying to see that the first rank in stature is won by our native Americans, a somewhat discouraging circumstance to those who assert that our country and climate are destructive to the white race. Curiously, the list is headed by a small number of aboriginal Indians. Dr. Baxter is of opinion that this is not due to their being picked men, but to the fact that the Indians are really a tall race. In Mr. Gould's tables of statistics, gathered by the Sanitary Commission, 517 Indians show a mean height con­ siderably above that of the following table. If compared with the natives of the United States only, the Indians (en­ listed Indians, that is) would rank as ninth in the list of States. Here follows the table showing the superiority in stature of 501,068 men, of different nativities: Onfrr of Number of Sit peri- Mm orfty. Nativity. Examined. 1 United SUtes, Indians.. 121 United States, whites.. .315,620 Norway...,. 2,290 Scotland 3,476 British America 21,645 Sweden. 1,190 Ireland.... 50,537 Denmark. 383 Holland 989 Hungary. ' 89 England 16,196 Qenuasy..,.. 54,944 United Pistes, colored... 25,828 Wales 1,104 Russia.... * J 123 Switzerland 1,803 West Indies 680 France $,343 Poland 171 Mexico. 91 Italy 839 South America 79 Spain 148 Portugal 81 JVnm Bight in Inches. 67.934 67.672 67.187 67.086 67.011 66.896 tW.711 66.647 66.584 66.577 66.536 66.531 66.418 66.393 66.381 66.307 66.277 66.211 66.110 66X00 65.899 65.635 65.142 Total and mean of total..601,068 67.800 Two-thirds of the native-born white Americans were fair-complexioned, but their mean stature was one-tenth of an inch below the dark-complexioned. Amoug the natives of British America, England, Ireland, and Germany, the fair exceeded the dark in about the same pro­ portion, while the dark show a slight superiority in stature, except in the caso of Ireland, the light and dark-com- plod ne4 natives of which had precisely the same liight. Graded according to tlio ucau statute of the inhabitants (American born whites), the different Northern States stands as follows : Order of Number of tSuperi- • State. Men Ex- ority. amined, Kentucky.... Kansas Minnesota... Missouri California.... Nevada .. .. Indiana 4,352 729 3,682 6,031 1,308 21 38.354 West Virginia ,... 5,187 Wisconsin "... 10,922 Maine 12,363 Iowa 7,823 Illinois 36,165 Michigan .. 12,583 Maryland 6,918 Ohio 39,311 Vermont J 3,374 Delaware 1,215 Pennsylvania...... 47,121 District of Columbia 2,883 Rhode Island 3,013 New York 43,798 New Jersey 17,084 New Hampshire 2,801 Massachusetts. 6,280 Connecticut 2,099 Mean Might in inches. 68.677 68.55! 68.371 6tU37 68.306 68.^86 68.080 68.005 67.911 67.895 67.895 67.835 67.826 67.811 67.782 67.583 67.490 67.170 67.353 67.290 67.271 67.023 66.929 66.891 66.587 67.672 Total and mean of total. .315.620 Accrding to Dr. Coolidge's examina­ tion of United States Army statistics, from 1839 to 1855, the : '"in stature of recruits from Georgia, Tennesse, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Virginia ranged between 68,272 inches for the first and 67.4®8 for the last named, named. The average for the whole country, obtained from Dr. Coolidge's tables, was 67.357 inches, about one- third of an inch below that derived from the records »f the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (67.672 inches) for the Northern States ; while that obtained by Mr. Gould, from the statistics of the United States Sanitary Commission-- on the whole less accurately taken-- was smaller yet, by about one-hun­ dredth of an inch. The close corres­ pondence of the three sets of obser­ vations is an indication of the accuracy of the whole. Altogether tney are the results of measurements of nearly a mil* lion and a half of American born white men, and the resulting mean stature of the whole is 67.646 inches. Even the lowest mean obtained would entitle the American people to the first rank among the nations in point of stature. All Sorts. PEACHES are twenty-five cents in London. . A STORY is told of a New Yorker who won a $5,000,000heiress at Xiong Branch, and was " not ashamed of her rough old miner father." It seems incredible, A SCORE of the citizens of Manchester, N. H., were fined in the Police Court, last week, ^ for keeping dogs without licenses, rich and poo* being served alike. A ofiRAT many rats of large aiae have been seen m the Centennial Exposition buildings, and it is supposed tliey were imported with English and wocian goods. _ MB. WATKBS, on horseback, near Fair Haven, Md., was recently attacked by an ?®fP?a^ed bull. THE HORSE w»o in^tsntly Killed, and the rider escaped with severe injuries. THK hard times are felt more in iho smaller German towns than in t.hi> country, and it is estimated that 200,000 Germans have of late gone into France after work. AID. BIODOKTT, of Marysville, CaL, has a one and one-quarter acre lofc on which he has raised this season 900 bushels of choice potatoes, weighing 45,000 pounds. A LouisviLiiE (Ky.) mocking bird can whistle correctly "Dixie," "St. Pat­ rick's Day in the Morning," "Over the Fence is Out," " Old Scissors to Grind,'* and "Yankee Doodle." AiiBBBT RHODES asks in the September Galaxy, " Shall we drink wine ?'* This invitation is too general. Let Mr. Bhodes make it more personal and he will find out.--N. Y. Sun. AN experienced city missionary in New York gives this advice about charity: " Don't give either money or food on the street or at the door. To do so fos­ ters poverty and incrmses crime." A NEW religious sect, the doctrines of which remain secret, is spreading in Japan. The new faith is said to resem­ ble neither Christianity, Mohammedan­ ism, nor any form of Japanese religion. A PECULIAR case is that of a Holyoke boy, whose spine has been weakened by illness, and is consequently obliged to run on all fours like a dog. He bears it well, however, and hops along in a very lively manner. A RESIDENT of Brighton, near Cleve­ land, Ohio, while boring in his yard a shojjt time ago, struck, at a depth of 470 feet, a vein of gas which in now ftoving in sufficient quantity to light the whole city of Cleveland. IN ten years the screw has entirely re­ placed the paddle in transatlantic navi­ gation, the weight of marine engines has diminished one-half, the steam pressure has quadrupled, and the consumption of coal has decreased two-thirds. Ex-Gov. SPRAOTTE is working hard in his Providence mills to redeem his for­ tunes and pay the firm's debts, duo next February. "When the dams weye over­ flowed recently he went to work among his laborers, and as one of them. THBRH is said to be increasing evi­ dence on the part of college boys of ft disinclination to study oratory. The Boston Advertiser suspects tliat this dis­ taste of the subject is connected with a distrust of declamation, and a fear of falling into what is called, by a forcible figure, the spread-eagle style. COLORADO is puffed up till she can't sleep by her satisfaction at coming out in the Union society, or in other words, at being admitted as a State into the Union. " Good-by, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Utah, Da­ kota and Washington--we leave your pleasant company and join a bigger and better crowd," shouts a local journal. THE GREAT NAPOOHEON. Be captured many thousand guns; He wrote " The Great" before his name; And, dying, only left his sons The recollection of his shsine. Though more than half the world wis bis, He died without a rood his own; •ad borrowed from his enemies Six feet of ground to lie upon. He fought a thousand glorious wars, And more than half the world was his, And somewhere now in yonder stan, dsn tell, mayhap, what greatness is I --Thackeray. M. DE PetJNAT, who recently died in Paris, was called the most scientific carver in Franco. He was often engaged for mouths in advance for state dinners. A snob once asked Mm if ho learned his art at the King's table or kitchen. " At neither," replied the carver; "it was from having so often to slice off the ears of insolent puppies that I acquired it. You now see how I can cut up a goose." MRS. SARAH F. Hour, an aged lady of Nashua, Mass., expired suddenly upon her husband's coffin last week. She had gone into the parlor, where the remains of her husband had been prepared for burial. Looking into the face of the dead, she said, quietly: " How can I live without you, Henry f" Then, put­ ting her hand to her head, she tottered and was abort to fall, but, being caught by a friend, she was assisted to a chair and immediately expired. Br the will of Henry Baine, a London brewer, a fund was some time sinoe estab­ lished to provide for the " marriage of poor maids." Before his death he estab­ lished an asylum where forty young girls are trained for domestic service. On ar­ riving at the age of 21 any girl who 1>M been educated in the asylum and wm show that she has behaved well may be­ come a candidate for a marriage portion of $500, for which six girls are allowed to draw Iwice a year, the 1st of May and the 5th of November. The portion drawn in May is given, after a wedding, on the 5th of November, and the November money is given in like manner on May day. An Archbishop no Match for a Woman. At a grand marriage which has just taken place in Paris Faure, Mme. Gar- valho had agreed to sing in the church, but, the cure, upon applying to the arch­ bishop for the necessary permission, was informed that on no account could the great prima donna be allowed u> sing ir a sacred edifice. This was >> sad blow, but. the great lady whom it aunoy^d was equal to the emergency. •She prevailed on Mme. Carvalho to hide herself be­ hind the organ, and then put a lad with a missal in his hand to stand up in the choir and pretend to singwhih the prima donna poured forth her enchanting notes. The chorister boy hau an im­ mense success, but they had to send him away next day, so many churches OOI»- tended to lay hands on him. TL^X liTl