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^ v V;T#**- . »• ' <^, I > ii %' P ^ T ("*" * ^ A % *3 ?v " *** ,'* <v i J" *' S» *? -- ^ - -- I r jGt- rones. :W K r-' * ^ / .* ¥• *r: &£<1 v*' >»*' A V \ --'h ,-/ * .*',*$ & . . . |$fpieiw|» flainfifaki' 3. YAN 8LYKE, EDITOR AND PUBLISH**. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. m THE PAST WEEK. B^MESTIC HEWS. The Eat. Tint Philadelphia Clearing House l»Te wbo1V«| that, after the 1st of January, they will treat gold and legal-tender currency M of equivalent value... .Louis A. Qodey, publisher of Godey't Lady'1* Booh, ia dead: aged 74 THE Pacific flour, grain and feed «iiil« and grain elevator, at New York, burned the other day. Loss #200,000. GEORGE WEST'S cotton mill burned at Ballston, N. Y., a few days ago. Lorn, #60,- 000} iastired for half that amount Sko ffeti. TH* Indians in Western Nebraska are again upon the war-path, and are burning ranches, VilHng Rattlers and stealing horses ia that region. Vs TWELVE indictments have been brought by the Grand Jury of Yankton, D. T., against Dr. Livingstone, ex-Indian Agent at Crow creek... .Orson Hyde, one of the Twelve Apqattes of the Mormon Church, is dead. The Sowth, THE recent New Orleans commercial convention voted with great unanimity to urge the passage of the Texas and Pacific Railroad bill now before Congress. THE people of New Orleans recently gathered in a mass-meeting numbering 2,000 souls, and declared that the unspeakable grati­ tude which still lingers in their hearts for the charity and mercy or their fellow-countrymen has consecrated their lives to the maintenance of indissoluble national unity and brotherhood. Washington, THE public-debt statement shows an increase dnring the month of November of $3,214,342. The increase is due to the payment of the #5,500,000 Halifax fishery award. The amount of ooin in the treasury is #223,564,756; currency, #14,669,896, including #10,000,000 held for the redemption of fractional currency; special deposit held for redemption of certifi­ cates of deposit, #37,060,000. THE following nominations have been sent to the Senate by the President: New York --Edwin A. Merritt, Collector of Customs; Charles R Graham, Surveyor of Customs; Silas W. Burt, Naval Officer: ^Thomas Hill- house, United States Assistant Treasurer. United States- Consuls--G. W. Fish, of Michi­ gan, at Tunis; John L. Frisbce, of Michigan, at Bio Grande, Brazil; John S. Mosby, of Vir­ ginia, at Hong Kong; John C. White, of Illinois, Secretary of Legation in Brazil; G. Harris Heap, of Pennsylvania, Consul Gen­ eral to Constantinople. Collector of Customs-- John N. Fuller, of Ohio, District of Miami, Ohio. Collectors of Internal Revenue--Flem­ ing W. Robb, of Nebraska, for the District of Nebraska; John L. Pennington, of Arkansas, for the District of Dakota. Albert E. Paine, Wisconsin, Commissioner of Pat­ ents; Lewis Wallace, Indiana, Governor of New Mexico... .There are 1,300 claims be­ fore the House committee already. IT has been directed by Postmaster General Key that a letter be transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives fore­ shadowing the discontinuance of the postal- car service in all parts of the country on the 18th of January next unless Congress shall in the meantime make an appropriation to con­ tinue it....A recent Washington dispatch to a Western paper says that "a very careful inquiry among leading Senators and Representatives leads to the belief that there will be no supplementary silver legisla­ tion at the present session of Congress, nor even the passage of a bill regarding the trade dollars. There is a very strong element in both branches desirous of either legalizing the trade dollar or to provide for its withdrawal from circulation, but the opinion of those best in­ formed i« that it will not be possible to get passed, aithiB session, any law changing the present status of this silver piece." Only l,000 1nhabitank twenty more village*. escaped A NEW ministry has been formed in Turkey, with Kheireddin Pasha at its head. THE Emperor William of Germany, who has been spending several months in his rural retreat (the duties of the imperial offioe having meanwhile been intrusted to Prince Frederick William), has returned to Berlin, and will at once resume th ̂functions of his high office.... .According to a dispatch of "the 5th inst, Gen. Roberts has gained a complete victory over the Ameer's forces, capturing Pei- war pass, and all the Afghan cannon. The en­ emy's loss was heavy. The British loss was eighty killed and wounded....The English Parliament has reconvened. The Queen's speech was unusually short Her Majesty re­ grets being compelled to summon Parliament earlier ih&n usual, but the action of the Ameer of Afghanistan compelled the sending of an ex­ pedition into his territory, and the earliebt op­ portunity has been taken to call Parliament together and to make to it the communication required by law. THE Secretary of the Treasury has suspended Mr. Hill, the Supervising Architect of Public Buildings, from active duty, pending his trial under an indictment by the Chicago Grand Jury for corruption in the erection of file public building at that place;...A large boiler exploded in a Columbus (Ohio) mill, the other day, killing five persons and scalding a number of others. The force of -the explosion was terrible. SCOTLAND has received another terri­ ble finnnnia.1 shock by the suspension of the Caledonian Bank, having its principal office in Inverness, with several branches in other cities. A*, a meeting in Washington of the Central Executive Committee of the National party, an address to the people of the United States was issued, reviewing the rise and progress of the party, predicting continued success and the rapid spread of its principles, and expressing confidence that the party will elect its candidate for the Presidency in 1880, with majorities in Congress and nearly all the State Legislatures. The address Bays the contest is not between the Repub­ lican and Democratic parties. It is be­ tween the money power and the people, be tWeen bank bills based on untaxed bonds and a Government legal tender. An appeal is made' for organization in the interest of the National party in every school district, city, town and ward. It was claimed that there are sixteen members in the neit Congress who will act independently, not joining either party in caucus. A resolution was adopted that the National party " denounce the resump­ tion or specie payments as a fraud and a de­ lusion, impracticable in this or any other civ­ ilized country; yet, if persisted in by the Secre­ tary of the Treasury, we insist that it shall be so carried out as to be equal in its operations in all sections and to all classes, and enforced for the redemption of national-bank notes as well as for legal-tender notes issued by t&e Govern­ ment" REPRESENTATIVES of trades unions to the number of 108 met at Philadelphia recently for the purpose of forming a political organiza­ tion, They decided to call a national convention about the middle of January at either Chicago «r St Louis. Miscellaneous. EXPORTS from seaboard ports last f week include 100,700 barrels of flour, 1,737,000 bushels of wheat, 695,073 bushels of corn, 6,781 bushels of oats, 44,291 bushels of rye, 150 bushels of barley, 8,985 barrels of pork, 6,299 ̂ 434 pounds of lard, and 13,611,FIGS pounds of bacon. . , F FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SULEIMAN PASHA has been degraded and confined in prison for his conduct during 3$te war... .Her Majesty's steamship Orontes, OB lj||' passage from Halifax for Bermuda, lost a nip overboard. The boat's crew of thirteen, who Wen t to the rescue, were all drowned by the capsizing of the boat....The Bashi-Ba- maaks and Circassians have defeated the Bul­ la Macedonia, and burned CONGRESSIONAL. TUESDAY, Dec. 3.--SENATE.--Mr. Paddock introduced a resolution looking to the making of trade dollars a legal tender, and the enlargement of {he standard silver dollar to 490 grains... .Mr. Beck submitted a resolution calling upon Secre­ tary Sherman for information aa to what amount of silver coin has been received in payment of customs dues since the beginning of the fiscal year, and also whether or not he has applied the silver coin so received to the payment of interest on bonds. Agreed to Mr. Matthews called up the Texas Pacific Bailroad bill, and made an address in favor thereof. HOUSE.--Bills were Introduced as follows: Re- coining the silver trade dollars into standard silver dollars; repealing/the Resumption act; for the ap­ pointment of committees on yellow-fever Epi­ demics; to give notice of the termination of the treaty of 1668 with the North German Confedera­ tion; to abolish the tariff on matches; to punish election frauds; to authorize tobacco raisers to sell their products without pay­ ment of tax; to prevent corruption in elections; for improvement of the Mississippi river from its mouth to its headwaters; in relation to the expul­ sion from Germany of the naturalized American citizen Julius Bauer; for the admission and registry of foreign-built ships; for the.terinination of the naturalization treaty with Prussia The Military Academy and Fortifications Appropriation bills were passed. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4.--SENATE.--Messrs. Fer­ ry, Davis and Randolph were appointed a commit- ee to inquire about the omission of the Hot Springs clause from the enrolled Sundry Civil Appropria­ tion bill at the last session....Mr. Saulsbury in­ troduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, in redeeming United States legal-tender notes, as required by the Specie Resumption act, to pay 75 per cent, in gold coin and 85 per cent, in standard silver dollars Mr. Harris1 resolution regarding the prevention of epidemics was agreed to, with an amendment that the committee may sit with a similar committee of the House... .The mo­ tion of Mr. Matthews to take up the Texas Pacific Bailroad bill was rejected--IS) yeas to S3 nays--on the ground that it would lead to a long discussion. HOUSE.--The session of the House was very brief, llie bill providing for a Hot Springs Commission, with an amendment that free baths will be maintained for the Indigent, was passed. ... .Mr. Fort offered a resolution de­ claring that a refusal by any national bank to receive and trqat aa a legal dollar the standard silver dollar of 413% grains shall be deemed a de fiance of the law of the United States and providing for the punishment of all banks so nullifying the lawj by the passage of a bill with­ drawing their notes from circulation. THURSDAY, Deo. 5.--SENATE.--The Vice President announced as the special committee on yellow-fever investigation, Messrs. Harris, Matthews, Lamar, Paddock, Conover, Garland and Eustis .. Mr. Morrill submitted a resolution call­ ing upon the Secretary of the Treasury for informa­ tion aa to the amount of deposits in the treasury to the credit of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company. In his opinion the original managers of the institution should have been criminally prose­ cuted. The resolution was agreed to The following changes in the standing committees were made by unanimous consent: Mr. E$ton is to retire from the Committee on Appropriations, and Mr. Wallace is to take his place; Mr. Morgan is to retire from the Committee on Patents, and Mr. Eaton is to take his place; Mr. Wallace is to retire from the Committee on Foreign Relations, and Mr. Morgan is to take his place After an executive session, the Senate adjourned till Monday, Dec. 9. HOUSK.--The Naval and Diplomatic Appropria­ tion bills were reported from the respective com­ mittees and referred to the committee of the whole. The resolution for the appointment of a yellow- fever commission passed....Adjourned till Mon­ day, 9th. A PERPLEXING THOUGHT. A certain little girl up town lived with two aunts, one married, with a whole lot of children and lots of worry and bother, and the other single and having quite a comfortable time teach­ ing school. The child had contrasted the respective situations, but was not old enough to understand the difference in the position of her two relatives; One day she threw her doll aside and assumed an attitude -of profound thought, which was interrupted at last by the question, "Well, Julia, what are yOu thinking about?" then the child let loose a ten-acre lot full of crude phi­ losophy by answering, "I WPS finkin' whewer, when I growed up, I'd teat school or have a baby."--Cincinnati Times. Ex-Gov. SEYMOUR offers a prize to the factory in New York which will pro- dude a cheese best fitted for army use. AN order has been promnlgated by the Navy Department changing the style of uniform of naval officers. The naval cap gives place to the cocked hat. AFTER a notable trial, Dr. Jacob Ben- tum has been found guilty, in the Su­ perior Court f,of Grand Bapids, Mich., of manslaughter, brought about through criminal surgery. The charge was the first ever carried to a verdict of convic­ tion in that region. A BOUNDARY question threatens to disturb the relations of Turkey and Persia. The latter, under Bussian in­ stigation, demands the surrender of a border district now held by the Turks, and has sent troopsto the frontier to enforce the demand. THE plan of introducing California salmon into the rivers of Germany, En­ gland, France and the Netherlands has been attended thus far with a degree of success that promises well for the ulti­ mate stocking of those rivers with fish bred from eggs imported from America. ENCKE'S comet, which fills so large a place in the astronomical studies of a boy, is now making its twenty-fifth re­ corded tour. It is only visible in the southern hemisphere,,is very small/and '. * . , J ,-• / . , . . , \ b e i n g a n y t h i n g b u t a g r e e a b l e , of course is unfavorably situated for observation*.° ° . . . . , - T f e w o r n o n e a d o p t e d i t . It has no tail, and none but the astrono­ mers seem interested in it. THE General Government has had to pay $74,000 for the transportation of troops, on those railroads ^vhich called for protection during the strike of the summer of 1877. The Attorney Gen­ eral decided that the United States is bound to furnish troops on a constitu­ tional call of the Governor of a State, and that this must be done at the ex­ pense of the General Government, and not of the State or citizens' whose property is threatened with destruction. A WASHINGTON paper says that Sena­ tor Jones has made $2,000,000 this sum­ mer in Sierra Nevada, and come back to the capital in excellent financial condi­ tion. Last winter he was so hard up that Gen. Butler had to let his house^ rent go. The nurse in his family had $1,000, which, by the Senator's advice, she invested in the lucky stock. She now confesses with ecstasy to being worth $60,000, and very likely will be able to marry an impecunious Congress­ man and go on Mrs. Jones' visiting-list. THE Norwegian nation is the smallest of all European nations, but its com­ mercial fleet is the third largest in the world. The Norwegian flag is, of all foreign flags, that which is most fre­ quently seen in the harbor of New York, and through the sound which connects the Baltic with the North sea, and forms the highway from London to St. Peters­ burg, often from 300 to 400 Norwegian craft of every description pass during one day. In Norway, although not every man is a sailor, every person is, nevertheless, more or less directly con­ nected with the shipping interest THERE is a very wealthy familv who live a few miles out of Boston, who have eaten nothing but fruit and vegetables for years, who have not a servant in the great mansion they live in, a woman coming in to do the heavy work. The family consists of three persons only, father, mother and one daughter of about 10 years, who is literally brought up in a case, her play-room, study and nursery all being at the top of the house, where walls and roof are of glass, the continual sun-bath being considered necessary to the child's physical and moral health and well-being. The mother, formerly a normal-school teacher and a great student, is the child's teacher, and, wi|h the exception of her daily airing in the handsome grounds of the place, the little girl never goes out, and rarely does she ever see another child. THE arrival in the Dominion of the Marquis of Lorne and his royal wife brings to mind the fact that when the Queen admitted the Marquis within the circle of her own family as a suitor for the hand of the Princess Louise she made an innovation upon a courtly cus­ tom which' required an alliance fOr her children with some royal^iloule outside of her own country. The lady had the courage to accept the suit and take a husband from among her own people, for lice on cattle is water in which po­ tatoes were boiled. For every one of your cattle take two quarts^ of water and eight middle-sized potatoes cut in half. If you have ten cattle, you must take eighty potatoes and twenty quarts of water. When the potatoes are soft take them out. Get a large sponge and wash them freely, choosing a warm day. Comb them with a currycomb, and you will be astonished to see the effects of the-potato water.--Practical Farmer. and her royal mother felt free to uphold LICE ON CATTLE.--A good remfeti^ **er daughter's choice. Parliament did njj?t object, and at the wedding the bride was given away by the Queen herself, who, after the ceremony, kisSed her daughter with a matronly warmth of af­ fection which was accepted by all pres­ ent as unmistakable proof of the great gratification which the union afforded her Majesty. • THE Capitol at Washington is to be lighted by electricity.' 7 he invention is that of Mr. Bogers, electrician of the building. Four machines will illumin­ ate the Hall of Bepresentatives, aqd re­ place 1,800 gas-jets. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says: "The cost of the new light will be about 10 cents an hour. Mr. Bogers' has been fully tested and found satis­ factory. Its principal features are the placing of two long, slender carbon points inside small tubes, converging at an angle of about forty-five degrees on the negative and two on the positive pole, of course opposite to each other. A constant distance between them is maintained by a gearing of weights and pulleys, while the contact of the sepa­ rate points in each set during the com­ bustion prevents the formation of the concave 'cup' on the positive and the stalagmite on the negative pole, thus insuring a steady non-flickering, even light of any duration that is desired* HISTORICAL. INNOCENT IY. first made the hat the symbol or cognizance of the Cardinals, enjoining them to wear a red hat at the ceremonies and processions, in token of their being ready to spill their blood for Jesus Christ. JEWS of past centuries have always been depicted as bearded, and it was only toward the last century that any of them shaved. An ancient law forbade the use of any metal instrument in re­ moving the beard, and any one desiring a smooth face was required to rasp the hair with pumice stone. The process IN 1464, Sir Stephen Forster was Lord Mayor of London. He had been long in prison and penury on account of his inordinate profuseness. It chanced that a most fantastical widow, who knew not how to get rid of her im­ mense Wealth, saw him begging at the gate; she admired his fine person, learned his history, paid his debts, and married him, asking of him only this one favor, that he would lavish away her fortune as fast as'he could. Forster, probably from perverseness, became a sober husband and a prudent manager, and only expended large sums in adding a chapel and other advantageous ap­ pendages to Ludgate. wh«r« he had suffered so many hardships. THE funeral of Marat was celebrated at Paris, July 17,1793, with the greatest pomp and solemnity. All the sections joined the procession. An immense crowd of people attended it. Four women bore the bathing machine in which Marat was standing when he was assassinate^,; his shirt, stained with blaod, was carried by a fury, in the shape of a woman, at the top of a pike. After this followed a wooden bedstead, on which the corpse of Marat was car­ ried bv citizens. His head was uncov­ ered, and the gash he had received could he easily distinguished. The pro­ cession paraded through several streets, and was saluted on its march by several discharges of artillery. OF all the articles of luxury and os­ tentation known to the Romans, pearls seemed to have been most esteemed. They were worn on all parts of the dress, and, such was the diversity of their size, purity and value, that they were found to suit all classes, from those of moderate to those of the most colossal fortune!. The famous pearl ear-rings of Cleopatra are said to have been worth $800,000, and Julius Caesar is said to have presented Servilia, the mother of Brutus, with a pearl for which he paid above $240,000, and, though no reason­ able doubt can be ascertained in regard to the extreme exaggeration of these and similar statements, the fact that the largest and finest pearls brought im­ mense prices is beyond all question. It has been said that the wish to become master of the pearls, with which it was supposed to abound, was one of the mo­ tives which induced Julius Caesar to in­ vade Britain. But, though a good many were met with in various parts of the country, they were of little or no value, being small and ill-colored. After pearls and diamonds, the emerald held the highest place in the estimation of the Romans. UNIQUE REMEDY FOR A LOST VOICE. Miss Sallie E. Patterson, of Boone county, lost her voice on the 10th of July last. She has since that time been unable to speak in an audible tone of voice". At the suggestion of her attend­ ing physician she went before the Boone County Medical Association for examination. The ^sociation sug­ gested the idea of an electro-galvanic battery, which was tried, together with other remedies, without any perceptible benefits. Recently while in Columbia she me* a Mrs. Hume, who proposed to cure her by the UBe of ardent spirits. Miss Sallie, having but little confidence in the virtues of that from which so much evil results, did not accept the offer of her most generous benefactor. Their remedies having failed, a few days since she determined to try the spirits, the result of which was the recovery of her voice while in the worst stage of in­ toxication.--St Louis Republican. THE commercial and financial situa­ tion throughout England and Scotland not inpnm. i • THE LITERARY WEST, /•'?. » v / BT HALUCT a. HEWITT. recently had occasion to cor- respond very extensively with Western literary people, I have found out the rather curious fact that fully seven- tenths of the writers of the day, and the contributors to the Eastern literary pa­ pers and publications, were born and raised or at present live west of the Mississippi river, while nearly all„the rest live in Illinois and Michigan. But in this article I can only mention a few of these "writers, and show to what extent literature is cultivated and represented in the West--Iowa and Missouri especially. Many of the great­ est writers of America were born, edu­ cated and made famous in the West, who, as soon as they began to reach the highest rounds of the ladder of fame. acquainted with the man oneonly needs to read his works. Every one I sup-.. f. pose knows the origin of his nom daft?/ plume; by hearing the lead-line man onsH?; a steamboat, while taking the depth of ' the water, sing out "mark twain " (three*. feet deep). He resides in or near Hart- ., ford, Ct», in a house which is described as being fully as eccentric as himself^ seeming to be all windows. " Nothing like plenty of light onUie subject," he says. IOWA CITY. Iowa. » • •' •Our contributor iaa little off regarding Mack1*, nativity. The great humorist first saw the light of day in the county of Hawkins, away op in tht mountains of East Tennessee.--EDITOB. THE MATHEMATICS Of CAT-KILL- IN G. It requires ten well-directed blows with an ordinary boot-jack to kill tho average cat, and at the distance of a foot have been tempted by the high offers of i the chances are ten to one that you will Eastern publishers to forsake the West j miss the cdt. If you don't believe it, and sell their work to them, and to make their homes in the East. The rugged "West developed their talents and made them famous, but now the East claims them as their poets and writers, and monopolizes their works. Among these are Joaquin Miller, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and many others nearly as fa­ mous. Joaquin Miller and Bret Harte were nur­ tured and developed in California, and as all the world knows their history I shall not mention them; but Mark Twain, I believe, was born and raised in Iowa*. When he was a young man he learned the trade of printer in Musca­ tine. He lived ^number of years in Muscatine and was for^a long time, con­ nected with a paper there. I have often talked with compositors and others who knew him well in Muscatine, and I will only write what they told me of him, for that is all I know. Like all printers he was a great hand to get on a "jam­ boree," and, as my informant expressed it; "when he got on a tear all Musca­ tine was sure to know it," for he was the greatest fellow to set the town wild ever heard of. He was always playing prac­ tical jokes, not only upon individuals but uponT the whole town, and was eternally up to deviltry of every des­ cription. He was the terror of the place, and the citizens actuallyd beaded to go to bed, not knowing what surprise would be in store for them in the morning, or what mad pranlk would be played upon them in the night. He would always play his jokes upon a large scale, and seemed to delight in keeping the town in a ferment of excitement all the time. He would throw people into an ex­ citement by <a rapidly-circulated report of the death of some prominent person; by terrible accidents in a dozen parts of the town at the same time; by a steam­ boat collision or explosion in the river, and by anything else he might happen to think of that would create a sensation or make sport. He would have the whole town aroused at midnight by a false alarm of fire, and would always manage to get the fire companies into/a grand fuss. If he knew of a young man who had been forbidden to visit another man's daughter, he would confidentially inform the father on the street that he had just seen "young so-and-so" drive rapidly past in a carriage, and when the "old man," half crazed by the idea of a pos­ sible elopement, would wildly dash after the retreating buggy, throwing cane, hat and coat aside in the^hase, he would quietly and quickly tell a dozen that "that wild fellow running up the street" was an escaped lunatic, and would have a crowd chasing him instantly. If they caught him, the old fellow, wild at the thought of delay, would fight to get free, shouting "daughter," "elopement," etc., which would fully show his captors that he was crazy. While this was go­ ing on, Sam would spread the report that there was an "awful big fight" in progress up on the corner of such a street, and have crowds running there in no time, when the "roughs," seeing one man apparently struggling with twenty, would think it not fair play, and would pitch in to "back up the old cock," and --then there would be a big row. And so Clemens would keep it up ab libitum, until it would get wind that the whole thing was only one of Clemens' big jokes. The town was never dull while he was in it, and yet he was so sly and quiet that no one would ever Suspect him of loving mischief. He was generally considered at that time ak a dissolute, madcap sort of a fellow, who would sooner or later go to the gutter. He is of a very humorous and fun-loving nature, and it can be seen by the joke he played on the preacher in " A Literary Nightmare," by repeating the "horse-car rhymes" to him, that he fias not yet lost his love for practical joking. I consider his most enjoyable works " Innocents Abroad" and "Roughing It." From these works it appears that, like a great many other writers,* he has knocked about all over the world, and has been, by turns, almost everything, from the owner of a million-dollar silver mine to a Mississippi steamboat pilot. He is at present one of the greatest American humorists, and to become thoroughly try it. Secure the cat by a string one. foot long, so as to give the cat plenty ot- play, and after a week's practice you will consider this a scant estimate for the cat. Therefore, at a distance of one foot it will require 100 boot-jacks. But your chances of killing the cat decrease as the square of the distance increases. This is an axiom in natural philosophy and a fundamental truth of felinology. Therefore, at a distance oI . ten feet it will require 10,000. I Again, the force of the projectile de­ creases as the square of the distance in­ creases. Ten squares equal 100; 10,000 xlOO, 1,000,000 equals number of boot­ jacks on this count. But, then, the darkness of night de­ creases the chances of a fair hit 10 to 1. Hence, at night, it will require 10,000,- 000 boot-jacks. Fourthly, the tomcat being black de­ creases the chances 20 to 1, according to the well-known rule of optics. Fourth count, 200,000",000. At this stage of our solution we will leave, the domain of science and draw a couple of logical inferences. First, after a man has hurled 200,000,- 000 boot-jacks he will be old, as we «TIR1I hereafter show, and very feeble. We have no means of knowing how much his projecting force would deorease or his aim fail. But at a very fair allow- anoe the chances from these two causes would decrease in the ratio of 100, to 1. Count fifth, 20,000,000,000. It is trueBsthat 20,000,000,000 boot­ jacks thrown round promiscuously might afford the cat almost invincible shelter, but, to save paper, we will suppose this to diminish the chances only as 10 to 1. Count six and answer 200,000,000,000. It is true that the man might improve in his aim, but the cat would improve equally in his dodging. Now, suppose Adam to have thrown, on an average, 500 per day (this is a lib­ eral estimate, when we make no allow­ ance for Sundays, "bums," mending his breeches, blowing up Eve, etc.), he would have a job of 1,056,220 years. At present the cat would be l-186th dead. Or, suppose the weapons to contain one square foot of inch pine and six eight- penny nails. The lumber, third clear, wduld cost $26 per 1,000 feet, or $5,200,- 000,000; and the nails, 15,400,000,000 pounds, at 3 cents per pound, would cost $452,000,000. Those figures are startling. If ever a tomcat is killed, it is by a special inter­ vention of Divine Providence. No SEASON within memory has been so unfortunate for the Greenland whal­ ing fleet as that just past. The whole Scotch fleet secured but six whales, and one steamer was totally lost. THE MARKETS. NEW YQRK.V BXKVKS . .$7 50 Hoos 3 00 COTTON » FLOUB--Superfine R~8 40 WHKAT--No. 8 ... 1 00 CORN--Western Mixed.\.. A 45 OATS--Mixed A STTTY RYE-1--Western .1 68 POBK--Mess 7 60 IiABD 6 CHICAGO. BBEVKS--Choice Graded Steers...... A B0 Cows and Heifers 2 00 Medium to Fair 3 40 Hoos 1 75 FIAJUB--Fancy White Winter Ex ... 4 50 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 3 76 WHSAT--No*2 Spring..../. 83 No. 3 Spring../. 69 CORK--No. S 31 OATS--No. SI .7../. SO RVK--NO. S 44 BAKLEY--No. iff ISUTTER--Choice Creamery 20 EGOS--Frosh../. 18 POBK--Mess... 6 10 LARD 6% MILWAUKEE. W H *AT--N O. 1 . A NO. 8 OOBX--No. 2 OATS--No.8 RYE--No. 1 42 BARLKY--No. 8 S3 St. LOUBs. WHKAT--No. 8 Bed Fall 87 CORN--Mixed .' 28 H10 00 @ 3 20 @ 3 86 @ 1 08 47 81 69 7 66 S toy ! 0 4 75 & 2 80 © a w © 2 76 & 4 75 & 485 & 84 71 88 81 1 S & 26 <9 20 & 7 67* & qr 48 84 88 89 80 48 & 7 75 OATS--No. 2 19 RYK .-. 48 PBRK--Mees 7 60 CmCQINATl WHKAT--Red.. 7^7. 85 © 96 CORN 31 @ 88 OATS...... 22 @ 85 RYK B0 @ 68 PORK--Mesa ...7 90 @8 00 LAKD ... \ 6|& TOLEDO. • ~ WHEAT--No. 1 White ' No. 8 Bed.... CORN OATS--No. 8 DETROIT. FLOUR--White........'. WHKAT--No. 1 White No. 1 Amber CORN--No. 1 OATS--Mixed.......... PARLEY (per cental) PORK--Mess EAOT LIBEBTY, PA. CATTFCB--Best ..I.... 4 60 Fair 4 10 Oomaon....tr t"'- 9 26 H o o a . » « • • « • • * « ^ • . 8 0 0 878 • * I - 1 ft. 4 75 @ 1 75 & 9 00 a 4 80