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aihi JJtcl J. VAN SLYKE, PUBLISH**. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. ®AtrRICBSMTJBAJi IIS DOMESTIC. Around the Farm. A SEED. A wonderful thing is a seed 1 The one thing death le<w forever-- Worever old and forever uew, • tWtf rlj faithful, utterly true-- FicKle and faithless never. Plant Mies and lilies will bloom; I'ktiit rosea and roses will grow; Stent hate and hate to life will spring; Phut love and love to you will bring Tfce fruit of the seed you BOW. HERE IS a seasonable hintAlways •use China eggs for nest-eggs, and never put eggs under a hen until she has set one night on a China egg, and is found upon her Best the second night; then at evening put the eggs under her--eleven to a large hen, and nine to a small one. THE Eastern dairymen have been sin­ gularly unfortunate this season. The elements have seemed to combine against them, and the prices obtained by them .have ruled, on an average, 2 cents lower than last year. On the other hand, the cost of production and the management of a dairy have been as great as last year. The factory reports show a corresponding decrease per cow. THE wool-growers of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsyl­ vania, at a meeting at Circle ville, de­ cided to erect a capacious storehouse at Steuben ville, Ohio, for the purpose of storing their product and assorting it before placing it upon the market. This iq a Patrons' movement; and th«* stock will be disposed of directly to manu­ facturers. A WRITER in the Country Gentleman advocates rye bran for calves. He says: " I have never known a calf to die with black-leg that was fed rye bran and salt, together with hay, during the first win­ ter. Rye or rye bran is loosening, and that with a few small potatoes will do wonders for your calves." WOOD ASHES AS A FERTILIZER.--To comprehend the part that ashes play as fertilizers it is necessary to understand of what they are oomposed. The com­ position of the different woods is as fol­ lows : Oak. Potash 8.43 Soda 5.65 Lime 75.45 Magnesia 4.49 Qxide of Iron .57 Phosphoric acid 3.46 Sulphuric acid 1.16 Ohlorine 01 Silica ." 78 It will be seen by a glance at the above that wood ashes contain all the inorganic constituents of plant food, and it is no wonder that they are appreciated when their merits are known. Besides fur­ nishing direct food for plants, ashes op­ erate indirectly by aiding in the decom­ position of the vegetable and inorganic matter found in the soil, and setting their latent powers free. Sprinkle the or­ chard, therefore, liberally with ashes, if you wish for good fruit and plenty of it. HOP STATISTICS.--The increased con­ sumption of malt liquors of late years has so stimulated the demand for hops that the cultivation has become highly remunerative. The acreage of the world is now ostimated at 250,000 acres. Of this amount the United States produces 25,000 acres, or 10 per cent, of the world's crops. Germany cultivates about 40 per cent., England 30 per cent., Austria 7 per cent., Belgium 6 per cent., France 4 per cent., the balance being produced in small quantities in various countries on the globe. German hops are supe­ rior to any other grown, and Bavarian hops bear the highest reputation of any in Germany. A good continental crop is estimated at 85,000,000 pounds, and the annnftl consumption at 60,000,000 pounds. The crop of 1876 is rated at 35,000,000; - hence the foreign demand for American hops to assist in making up the defi­ ciency. According to the last census re­ port, the hop production of 1870 was nearly 17,500,000 pounds. The princi­ pal hop-producing States of the West are Wisconsin, Michigan, California, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Ohio. It is not probable that the production is greater now than then, since the ravages of the hop aphis some y^rs ?ince acted severely on this industry. Under the stimulus of high prices, however, con­ siderable activity is again manifested in this direction, and when the soil is suit­ able, and capital enough can be com­ manded to properly care for the product, it will be remunerative. Nevertheless it is an uncertain crop at best, and re­ quiring exact knowledge in cultivation and unremitting care. Elm. 21.92 13.72 47.80 7.71 .38 3.62 1.28 &07 Beech. 15.83 2.88 63.33 11.29 .79 3.07 1.35 .14 1.32 Pine. 9.97 46.15 13.46 3.26 4.49 3.03 .71 8.38 it is, bt; a superabundance of acid in the stomach. WATERPROOF BOOTS.--The best mate­ rial we have ever tried to make boots or harness pliable and waterproof is linseed oil, applied hot; and, if the leather be en­ tirely free from water, the oil may be boiling hot without the least injury to the leather. One oiling of a pair of boots with linseed oil will do more ser­ vice than three or four with tallow or neat's-foot oil. To TAKE OFF STARCH OB RTTST FROM FiiAT-lRONS.--Tie a piece of yellow bees­ wax in a rag, and, when the iron is nearly hot enough to use, rub it quickly with the wax, and then with a coarse cloth. If irons become rough, rub them with fine salt and they will be smooth. To BEHOVE SMOKE AND DUST FROM WALL PAPER.--Tie a large piece of clean white cloth over a broom and brush the wall down well. Then take a stale loaf of bread, cut it open, and rub the soft side all over the paper. It will clean it " as nice as new." It will also remove spots of lime or whitewash. A NICE RELISH FOR BREAKFAST.--Take half a pound of fresh cheese, cut in thin slices and put in a frying-pan ; turn over this two cups of sweet milk. Add a pinch of dry mustard, also of salt and pepper, and one spoonful of butter. Stir this mixture constantly. Roll evx Boston j crackers very fine, and stir in very grad­ ually, then turn at once into a hot diah and serve immediately. About the House. A NEW YORK lecturer on health ridi­ cules the Graliamite system. He recom­ mends less starch and more mastication, less tea and more milk. He said bran bread had killed nearly all of his family, and rendered twenty-five years of his own life miserable before he discarded it. QUICK WEDDING CAKE.--Two and one- half cupfuls flour, one and one-half cup- fuls sugar, one cupful butter, three-quar- ters cupful milk, two eggs, two table- spoonfuls rum, one-half nutmeg, one-half pound raisinB, one-quarter pound cur­ rants, OLe-quarter teaspoonful soda. A SMALL quantity of carbolic acid is recommended to be used in whitewash and in paste for laying paper-hangings. It will repel cockroaches and other in­ sects, and also neutralize the disagree­ able odor consequent upon the decompo­ sition of the paste. OiiD newspapers will put the finishing touch to newly-cleansed silver knives and forks, and tinware, betterthan anything. Rub them well, and make perfectly dry. They are also excellent to polish stoves that have not been blackened for some length of time. ' A SMALL, piece of paper or linen, moist­ ened with spirits of turpentine and put into a bureau or wardrobe for a single day, two or three times, is said to be a sufficient preservative against moths. PARENTS should be very careful and Dot let the rays of the sun shine directly upon the faces of sleeping children. Strong light is very injurious to the eyes, especially if they are inclined to weak­ ness. Two TEASPOONFUiiS of fiaely-powdered charcoal, drank in half a tumbler of •water, will often give relief to the sick headache when caused, as in most cases Hugged by a (Jrizilj. Last week, a man named Walpole, who resides in Lassen county, had a fearful combat with a grizzly. It ap­ pears that Mr. Walpole started out early in the morning of tne day on which the adventure occurred, for the purpose of visiting a deer-lick. He had his rifle, bowie-knife, and a large deer-hound with him, and was crossing a deep can­ yon, when he espied a huge grizzly about fifty or seventy-five yards off. The op­ portunity was too good a one to let pass, so he pulled up and blazed away; but his aim was not very accurate, and he only succeeded in wounding the animal, and before he had time to reload his rifle the bear was close upon him, and there was no alternative but to stand his ground and trust in Providence and in his weapons. The bear came right af­ ter him, and Walpole, who was on the alert, succeeded in hitting him one on the head with the butt of his rifle, but ere he could repeat the blow his bear- ship returned the compliment and dealt him one on the shoulder that paralyzed him for a second. Being now fully alive to his situation, he drew his bowie-knife and made a lunge at bruin and suc­ ceeded in planting his knife deep in the beast's breast. This only enraged the animal still more, and, seizing his de­ stroyer in his powerful arms, he gave him an embrace that he will not be apt to forget for some time, and which ren­ dered him totally unconscious. He lay where the bear had dropped him until late in the afternoon, when a neighbor who was passing was attracted to the spot, and -his astonishment may be imagined when, upon going a short dis­ tance from the wounded man, he found the bear dead as a door-nail. The ani­ mal measured eleven feet in length and weighed in the neighborhood of 1,400 pounds. Mr. Walpole, although badly bruised, is not seriously injured, and he says he is "a wiser if not a better man." --Downierille (Cal.) Messenger. A Boy's Composition. Girls are the most unaccountable things in f the world--except women. Like the wicked flea, when you have them they ain't there. I can cipher clean over to improper fractions, and the teacher says I can do it first-rate, but I can't cipher out a girl, proper or im­ proper, and you can't either. The only rule in arithmetic that hits their case is the double rule of two. They are as full of old Nick as their skin can hold, and they would die if they couldn't torment somebody. When they try to be mean they are as mean as parsley, though they ain't as mean as they let on, except some­ times, and then they are a good deal meaner. The only way to get along with a girl when she gets at you with her nonsense is to give her tit for tat, and that will flummux her ; and when you get a girl llummuxed ehf is as ,niw> as a new pin. A girl «an sow more wild oats in a dav than a boy can sow in a year, but girls get their wild oats sowed after a while, which boys never do, and then they settle down as calm and placid as a mud puddle. But I like girls first-rate, and I guess the boys all do. I don't care how many tricks they play on me, and they don't care either. The hoity-toiti- est girls in the world can't always boil over like a glass of soda. By-and-by they will get into the traces witli some­ body they like, and pull as steady as an old stage horse. That is the beauty of them. So let them wave, I say; they will pay for it some day, sewing on but­ tons and tiying to make a decent man of the feller they have splioed on to, and ten chances to one if they don't get the worst of it. A Queer Phase of Wold and Silver Work. On the closing up of the Smith & Rogers silver-plating concern in New Haven, a few days ago, preparatory to its removal to Meriden, the iloor of the plating-room was taken up, burned, and the ashes analyzed, with the result of procuring pure silver to the amount of $981. This result is not so strange as appears at first sight. The precious metals are capable of extreme volatiliza­ tion under heat, becoming mere vapors, which may be condensed, resulting in the production of the metal in a pure form. But, even without heat, the par­ ticles of gold and silver are made so ex­ ceedingly fine, in the processes of the manufacture of gold and silver goods, whether solid or plated, that no devices for saving the material abraded or thrown off in the various manipulations are en­ tirely effectual. Even in the Govern­ ment assay offices the soot deposited in the chimneys from the melting of the crude metal is valuable; and in most manufactories of articles of gold and sil­ ver the proprietors do not allow the work­ men to retain their work-clothes when worn out, but pay for them a price gen­ erally sufficient to procure new gar­ ments--an old tattered vest belonging to a bench workman sometimes being val­ ued by his employers, even when worn to rags, at $20.--Hartford (Conn.) Times. CIVIL-SERTICE REFORM. The Policy of the Administration Ontiined. The civil-service programme of the new administration, says a Washington correspondent, involves the temporary revival, so far as it is possible to enforce them, of the rules and the machinery of examination which were established by President Grant's civil-service commis­ sion, authorized by the act oi March <i, 1871, and terminated in the summer of 1874. It is the aim of Secretary Schurz ultimately to introduce rules and exam­ inations similar to those in the English civil service, but for the present the system introduced by Geo. Wm. Curtis, Joseph Medill, ana Dorman B. Eaton will be made use of. They divided the civil service into four divisions, as fol­ lows : First, officers elected; second, employes below the grade of regular clerks; third, those higher officers who represent the policy of the dom­ inant party, such as sustain re­ lations of personal confidence, judicial officers, etc.; fourth, the residue of the civil service, being the great body of subordinate officers and clerks by which the Federal administration is car­ ried on, in number perhaps 25,000, not including Postmasters. The rules of examination adopted by the old Commis­ sioners applied onlv to the latter class. This class was divided into four grades, and appointments were only made to the lowest grade and vacancies in the several higher grades were filled by promotions from the next lower grade. In addition to a certain degree of knowledge of pen manship, grammar, arithmetic, book­ keeping, history, geography, and the Government of the United States, the rules required written proof that the ap­ plicant was a citizen of the United States had a good moral character and temperate habits, was of suitable age and health, occupation past and present, place of residence, etc. Three persons appointed to represent each department were to have charge of examinations in that department. The appointments were to be made from among those who stood highest on the examination lists. The several States and Territories were grouped into five districts, and exami nations were directed to be held in the cities of Boston, New York, Washing­ ton, Savannah, Memphis, Cincinnati St. Louis, and Detroit Political as­ sessments in the departments were pro hibited. Congress at its next session will be asked to make an appropriation to enable the system above described to be put fully in operation. Until this is done it will be possible only to hold ex­ aminations in Washington, and perhaps New York, but the rules in regard to examinations and promotions can be fully enforced here without an appro­ priation. The New Petroleum Fever. The excitement of the early days of the petroleum discover^ in Philadelphia is exceeded now through the recent find­ ing of oil about Bradford, in spite of the stubbornly held opinion of geologists and experts that oil did not exist so far north. The first believer that oil could be found in the valley was Job Moses, who had made a fortune in patent med­ icines at Rochester, N. Y. He bought large tracts of land about Limestone fourteen years ago, and bored diligently, but he found only indications. He spent all his money in his venture and when it was gone tried to induce specu­ lators to invest, and was so enthusiastic that people called him crazy. The oil was found two years ago, and since then not less than $10,000,000 has been in­ vested within a circuit of twenty miles. Land tftat two years ago would have been dear at any price now sells at $1,000 an acre. Within a distance of four miles three flourishing towns have sprung into existence, and the town of Bradford, formerly consisting of a lum­ berman's tavern and a few scattered farm-houses, now has 3,500 inhabitants, and the furore has extended north into New York State. The oil belt is about two miles wide, and has now nearly 400 producing wells. One peculiarity is that the oil is found at a great depth, the average being 1,100 feet, and some wells are 1,400 feet deep, and the daily prod­ uct is about 2,000 barrels. There are three pipe lines connecting the wells with the Erie road, thirteen miles away, and one is to be built sixty miles long. A branch of the Erie road that runs through the district and whose business, a few months ago, was but $3,500 a month, now does $35,000 a month. Much of the land is bought outright, but in most cases it is leased and the owner paid a bonus and royalty, one-fourth being now claimed. Capital is now pouring into the valley, and owners are tdl •' yar a dri|>r- $5({|ie M(, bfl"-r six'111- pa\ a Mtyli. wL,. seF $5Car- wei1'!'" but ud exception of the nose, which was gone. The doctor, being present, immediately carried it to his home. This was, indeed, a great curiosity, and many of the oitizens of Claysville and vicinity came to the doctor's office to see the body. But the strangest part is not told. The child, wluch was 2 years old when it died, was very fond of flowers, and more especially of the dam­ ask rose, and when taken by its grand­ mother, with whom it was a great pet, it would go to this rose bush. When the child was dying its grandmother pulled two damask rosebuds, not yet bursted gave them to the -child, and it died with them in its hand. After preparing the body for burial the rosebuds were placed upon its breast and buried with it. When the face-plate was removed from the case the roses were not only in a .perfect state, but the leaves were as green as ever, and, instead of being buds, as thev were when placed upon the child's breast, had become full-blown rpses. Louisville Courier-Journal, Webster on Farming. 6 WASHINGTON, March 13, 1822. JOHN TAYIOOR: I am glad to hear from you again, and to learn that you are all well, and that your teams and tools are readv for spring's work, whenever the weather will allow you to begin. I some­ times read books on-fanning, and I re­ member that a sensible old author advises farmers "to plow naked and to sow naked." By tliis lie means that there is no use in beginning spring's work till the weather is warm, that a farmer may throw aside his winter's. clothes and roll up his sleeves. Yet he says we ought to begin as early in the year as possible. He wrote some very pretty verses on the subject, which, as far as I remember, ran thus: While yet the spring is young, while earth unbinds western winds! Winle mountain snowa dissolve against the sun. And Htrc&inH, yet now, from precipices run-- dawning of the year, plow and yoke th^ sturdy Rtf*erf Opium. Smoking. T110, San Francisco Daily Bulletin thus describes one of the opium dens in that city, and the method of smoking the drug : " A first-class opium den is fitted with a table about eight feet long and five feet wide, and two and a half feet high. This is covered with matting', and fine mats are placed on this. In the center of the table is a tray contairhng opium, opium pipes and a peculiarly shaped lamp, "which has a Bniall flame. The opium pipe is made of^-a piece of mahogany or ebony wood. The stem is about three- quarters of an inch in diameter, and about two feet in length. A hole about half an inch m diameter runs the whole length of the stem. About six inches from the end is the bowl of the pipe. It is made of a peculiar kind of sand and clay in China, and is very hard and fire­ proof. The bowl is about two inches in diameter. The top of the bowl is en­ tirely closed, except a small hole in the center, about the size of a large darning needle. In the bottom is a hole about half an inch in diameter, into which is inserted a brass coupling, connecting with the stem of the pipe. Opium is kept small box, made of horn. Every 1873 :. t . .'rirjuloor- 1871 « It,40 1S75 15.36 1S78 15,5>> And goad hiiu till he smoke beneath his toil! And the bright share i* buried in the soil. John Taylor, when you read these ^ou uo^ 806 ^ie snow melting and the little streams beginning to run down the southern slopes of your Punch- brook pasture, and the new grass start­ ing and growiug in the trickling water, all green, bright and beautiful? And do you not see your Durham oxen smok­ ing from heat and perspiration as they draw along your great break-up plow, cutting and turning over the tough sward m your meadow in the great field ? The name of this sensible author is Virgil, and he gives fanners much other advice] some of which you have been following all this winter without even knowing that he had given it: Bnt when cold weather, heavy snows and rain The laboring farmer in his house restrain Let hiai forecast his work with timely care, Which clue in huddled when the skies are fair; Then let him mark the sheep, and whet the whiwiTip Bhare, , * Or hollow trees for boats, or number- o'er His sacks, or measure his increasing store j Or sharpen stake?, and mend each rake and fork. So to be ready, in good time, to work; Visit his crowded barns at eurly morn ; Look to his granary, and shell his corn; Give a good breakfast to his numerous kine, His shivering poultry and his fat'ning swine. And Mr. Virgil says some other things which you understand up at Franklin as as well as ever he did: In chilling winter swains enjoy their store, Forget their hardships, and recruit for more; ' The farmer to full feasts invites his friends, And what he got with pains, with pleasure spends; Draws chairs around the tire, and tells once more Stories which often have been told before ; Spreads a clean table with things good to eat, And adds some moistening to his fruit and meat. They praise his hospitality, and feel They shall sleep better after such a meal. John Taylor, by the time you have got through this you will have read enough. The sum of all is, be ready for your spring's work as soon" as the weather be­ comes warm enough, and then put your hand to the plow and look not back. DANIEL WEBSTER. Plunging Over Niagara. About noon last Monday a man passed through the upper gate of Prospect Park, Niagara falls, and walked along the bank to a point just below the " tail-raoe " that empties into the river. One of the guides, who followed him to tell him where lie could get the best views, was astonished to see him wading out into the rapids. "Come back, vou fool; you will go over the falls !" The stranger paid no heed to the warning, but throwing himself forward on his face struck out for the brink of the cataract. Just below wl.- re ho enU red there was a small cascade, over which he was car­ ried. When he emerged his hat was off, I and a moment later he obtained a foot­ hold in the rapids, and stood waist-deep in the foaming water; The guide was by this time at Prospect point, whither he had hastened, in the hope of being able to reach the man. The stranger, standing in the*rapids, instantly struck irtgain, swimming lustily out further J* the shore, and successfully placing Chinaman carries one. When a person desires to smoke opium, he re­ clines upon the table upon one side. With a piece of steel about as long and the size of a large knitting needle, and sharpened, a little of the opium is taken from the box. It is held over the blaze of the lamp until it i® cooked. The piece of steel is kept motion all the time, and the opium, when oooked, is formed into the shape of a small pistol cartridge. The point of the steel needle is then inserted into the small hole in the center of the bowl of the pipe and gently drawn through the cartridge of opium. The smoker then turns the bowl of the pipe to the frame of the lamp, reposes upon a wooden pillow and smokes. He gently draws in his breath in long and rapid respirations. He must be careful, how­ ever, to slightly remove his hps from the °f the pipe when taking breath. If he should breathe slightly into the stem | it wouuld stop the flow of the ifinoke of the opium. When the flow is stopped the sharp-pointed steel is used to open the small hole in the bowl of the pipe. It takes about three minutes to prepare the opium for the pipe, and about one to smoke it out, ten or twelve whiffs only being required. From six to twelve •f pefuls are generally smoked before the smoker is satisfied. A little over a year ago a great many white people of both sexes patronized the opium dens. The Board of Supervisors deemed it best to put a check upon the growing evil, and a stringent law was passed, making it a penalty of not less than $10 nor more than $o0, for the keeper of any opium den to allow a white person to smoke in the place. It was also made a criminal act for any white person to be found in an opium den, the fine being fixed at not less than $50. Since the passage of the law the dens drive a less lucrative business. Their customers are all Chi­ nese, two generally occupying one table and using one lamp. The Chinese re­ sort to opium-smoking for any slight ailment, and it is regarded by many' of them as a panacea for all their ills." elf beyond the aid of the man on the JOIIN M. SMLTIQ JJE clasped his hands over his and went down to his death. This iu :i'OKT. de ig as extraordinary as that of the The following is the report, of 1 whan chemist, near Detroit, who two Mellem y Publlii School for the f< L ^fore had ended his life in order to w. the efficacy of a resurrection powder. , ew York Tribune. da weeks euding MAITII 23, 1877 number enrolls d, 119. Average attendance, 100. HIGHER DEPARTMENT. Number enrolled. 46. Average throwing his money around loose among the boys, and is the modified Johnny Steele of this new dispensation. A Remarkable Story. Mr. William Whitehead, who resided near Claysville, Ky., died in June, 1870. Early in that year he made a will, and bequeathed the sum of $2,800 for the purpose of moving the bodies of the de­ ceased members of his family, and to im­ prove the grounds, to a burying-ground near the mouth of Beaver creek. The executor, Mr. N. R. Whitehead, pro­ ceeded to discharge his duties by em­ ploying Mr. John B. Hamilton to remove them, improve the grounds, and erect head and foot stones at their graves. Among those to be removed was a child of Dr. Will Curran, of Claysville. Mr. H. disinterred the child, which was buried in a metallic case on the 6th day of July, 1855, in the Whitehead burying- ground in Claysville, and being unable to remove the screws in the face-plate of the case was compelled to saw it off. Upon removing the face-plate a sight was revealed that struck them dumb with as­ tonishment. Instead of finding, as they expected, a few bones as the remains of their household pet, they beheld, as it were, a sleeping infant. The child looked as natural as life, and was in a perfect state of preservation, with the The National Capitol. The corner-stone of the Capitol was laid by Washington, on the 18tli day of September, 1798. The building was opened for the meeting of Congress No­ vember 17, 1800. Enlargement and new dome completed in 1867. The edi­ fice fronts the east, is 751 feet long, 348 feet wide, and* covers 31 acres; court yards 3i acres; in all 7 acres. The predominant material of the exterior is white marble. The dome is of cast iron, 135 J feet in largest diameter, and 287$ feet high, surmounted by a statue of liberty 19J feet high. The interior of the dome forms a remarkable circular chamber, or rotunda, 96 feet in diameter, 180 feet high. One thousand gas-jets, flashed by electricity, illuminate the in­ terior by%night. The walls of the ro­ tunda are adorned with historical paint­ ings by eminent artists. The Senate chamber, House of Representatives, Su­ preme Court rooms, and other apart­ ments, are splendidly decorated. The halls are 'incd Tvitli polished marbles from every State in the Union. Frescoes, paintings and sculptures abound. The front porticoes are supported by 100 Corinthian columns of white marble. The cost of the building was $13,000,000. Eight Children Poisoned. nong the mining population of t, lit- , village caled Stockton are three lilies named Bevans, Davis and Jones. On Monday Mrs. Bevans went away to obtain work or assistance of some kind for her family, who were suf­ fering with hunger. She left her three childreu, aged 2, 4 and 6 years, respect­ ively, alone. While she was gone the children went out, as one of them has since explained, to find something to eat. They went out to a swamp some distance from the house, where they dug up a white root--probably wild parsnip--that they discovered there and ate of it. They were joined by three of Mr. Davis' children, and two of Mr. Jones' in the meantime, and they all partook of the root. In a short time they were seized with violent convulsions, and were found by a boy named Johns, who came along and heard fearful cries coining from the swamp. Millie Bevans, aged 2 ; GusBie Jones, aged 6 ; and Mary Davis, aged 2, were dead. The others were rolling in agony on the ground. The boy pro­ cured aid, and the children were con­ veyed to their . homes. A doctor was for Sale by A. B. GILBERT, McHenry, March 13th 1877. treat tame (^iKU, PjTtle is scher mem sort4®1- Col. Mulberry Sellers' Weakness. Matching coin is the favorite diversion of John T. Raymond, according to the Dramatic News, which says that he will go out with a couple of hundred dollars in his pocket in the morning and return in the afternoon for more. Last fall, when in San Francisco, Raymond met Maurice Grau on the street, and they went together into the bar-room of the Palace Hotel. Raymond proposed matching. They matched two $10- pieces. Grau won. They doubled it. Grau wdn. From tens and twenties they went up to hundreds, a streak of luck accompanying Grau throughout. From hundreds they soon got to thou­ sands. In less than half an hour Ray­ mond had lost $32,000. So the story runs, at least. It was on honor, of course, as neither had that amount of money. Raymond was excited and nerv­ ous, and proposed matching the whole $32,000 on one cast. Grau consented, and put down head. Raymond matched him and won. Conundrums. What is harder than earning money ? Collecting it. When is a horse not worth a dollar ? When it is worth less (worthless). Who is that lady whose visits nobody wishes ? Miss Fortune. What word of five syllables is that, from which, if you take one syllable away no syllable remains ? Monosyllable--no syllable* Why is a room full of married folks like an empty room ? Because there is not a single person in it. Why is a palm tree lik,e achronologer ? It furnishes dates. ,E is a project on foot in Virginia utilize the hot water pumped from vage, Hale & Noreross, and other It is proposed to erect bath Call at the Fine Art Gallery of I ^ ^ ^ ^ w ^ Gorton, over Perry & Martin's StL laimdrie^^etc., and negotiations and examine his specimens. Uniting for the nontml nf'thw hnilinpr Pictures or no pay is his rei<\tto, r ° ALL SORTS. EUROPEAN colleges are being gradually opened to women. LAST year 23,187 German emigrantmgw rived at Castle Garden. LOWELI, is to have a hew oottoa mQL running 20,000 spindles. THE United States is exporting VM! quantities of apples toEngland. THERE were 552 suicides in the Unified States during the centennial year. THERE are 1,100 hands emplpwed iB New Haven making cartridges tor Turks. AT Sacramento, CaL, the young ladies have organized " morning mwahtinw parties." OVER 20,000,000 young forest trees were planted in this country during ft* past year. THE sweepings of Paris are sold for $600,000. The old paper collars bring $20,000. J THE Missouri Legislature has j--nr--rl a bill making it a misdemeanor to pay for lobbying. IT was all in the family when a Utah Mormon married a mother arwl her four daughters the other day THE New York Graphic, in the five years that it lias been published, has published 15,662 illustrations. Of these 11,220 were original and 4,442 repro­ duced from foreign journals. Among the illustrations were 986 cartoons tod 2,276 portraits. A NEW dance has been introduced inft» Paris. It is called "The Boston." Though not described it is presumable that it is one step forward and hitch eye­ glass, two steps back and repeat, nose up, toes in, all hands around and waits down stairs to a lunch of cold beans. SIXTY Indian convicts are in the old fort in St. Augustine, Fla., and the guard is daily selected from their ranks. About once a week each shoulders s inushet as one of the garrison, and does sentry duty over his comrades. They do not escape, because they prefer to stay and be fed. CARDINAL LEDOOHOWSKI has been sen­ tenced by the District Court in Inow- raziaw to two and a half years' imprison­ ment and a fine of 300 marks for having violated the Prussian ecclesiastical laws, and offered resistance to the authority of the state. The Cardinal is also fonnd guilty of high treason. THE exorbitant rates at Harvard Col­ lege excite considerable complaint. Tha best rooms cost $150 more than those equally good at Yale, while the best rooms at Williams command only $30. The cheap apartments are few, compared to the high-priced ones, so that only the wealthy class of students are able to room in the college at all. ANDERSON M. WADDEM., a sporting man well known at Cincinnati and Louis­ ville, who killed Al. Kirkland and was recently acquitted, has deposited $5,000 to be invested for the benefit of Kirk- * land's widow and children. This is his own opinion of his guilt, regardless of the court's decision. IT is announced that Mile. Albani, the opera singer, is to marry early next sum­ mer Mr. Gye, son of the London im- pressario. The lady has long been en gaged to him, and their marriage has been repeatedly reported as having taken place privately. FINANCIAL distress rapidly increases among the working classes of Germany, and the Government is loudly called upon for employment. New railroads and canal, are suggested, but, as these re­ quire long preparatory surveys, work cannot be immediately commenced upon them. All that can be employed will bs placed upon the repair of roads. JAMES L. WINFREY, on returning to his home, in De Witt, Mo., after an absence of several years, found that his wife had replaced him with Mayo HalL Winfrey did not care to recover his wife, but he did want his furniture, and went with a \»agon to remove it. Hall argued if he retained the woman he must also have the furniture, and he threatened to shoot whoever attempted to take it away. Thereupon Winfrey killed hii% and was "exonerated" bya Justice of the Peace. THE line " Consistency^ a jewel," originally appeared in Murtagli's oolleo- tion of English and Scotch ballads. In the ballad of " Jolly Robyn Roughhead** are the following lines : Tush ! tush! my lassie ! such thought reeigne : Comparisons are cruelL Fine pictures suit in frames as fine, ConsiHtency's a jewel. For thee and nie coarse clothes are best; Rude folks in hoinelye raiment dreet, Wife Joan and Goodman Robyn. THE WESTERN WINDS. Yet on my cheek I feel the western wind, And hear it telling to the orchard trees, And to the faint and flower-forsaken beea, ' Tales of fair meadows, green with constant nhrwiMr And mountains rising blue and cool behind, Where iu uioint dells the purple orchis gl< MM, And starred with white the virgin's bower ia twined. So the o'er wearied pilgrim, as he fares Along lifcV summer waste, at times is fanned. Even at noontide, by the cool, sweet airs Of a serener and a holier land, Fresh as the morn, and as the dewfall bland. Breath of the blessed heaven for which we pmjf; blow from the eternal hiila!--make glad Our earthly way I --John G. Whit tier. The Earth's Aye. The age of the earth is estimated from the increment in the temperature as we penetrate its crust. The rate at which the earth cools can only be determined by making use of data confessedly imper­ fect, and from these Sir William Thom­ son finds that 100,000,000 or 200,000,000 years ago it first began to be crusted over by a solid film of rocks; thfit 10,000 years after its first crusting over the tem- . perature of the crust increased two de­ grees Fahrenheit for every foot vertically descended below the zone of constant temperature. The present rate of in­ crease is calculated at 1.51 of a degree. A Poetical Preface. Tennyson is a contributor to the new English review, the Nineteenth Century, an-1 has written for the first number the following introduction : Those thnt of lare had fleeted far and fas* To touch all shores, now leaving to the skill Of other# their old craft, seaworthy still, Have eharter'd this : where, mindful of the Our true co-mates regather round the mast, Of diverse tongue, but with a common will, Here, in this roaring moon oi daffodil And crocus, to pu^h iorth and brave the blaat;- For some, descending froiu the sacred peak Of hoar, high-templed Faith, have leagued aftta •Their lot with ours to rove the world a»bt>ut : And some are wilder comrades, sworn to st»ek If any golden harbor be for men In aeas of Death and sunless gulfs at BovllC