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'•"jHere is a speckled, cunning little pig, 'wfor fruit-caie and cider he doesn't care a flg; -vile ne'er wears a collar around his snowy neck, And ne'er fairy slippers his little feet deck; ' He ne'er falls in love with the pigeon or the quail, JBut loudly hesqueala when you catch him by the tati. •. 'Here's a little toojr'wffh a new bOw and arrow, He now takes aim and shoots at a sparrow; . But far wide of birdie the feathered dart sped, And hit the old tomcat square on the toad. --B. JT. MunkUtrici. Carving a fTame. The children had been playing in the •woods all the afternoon. They had been a band of gypsies for a while, when they made a fire and roasted some pota­ toes. Then they concluded to be In- •dians; they built a wigwam and shot a great quantity of imaginary game with their bows and arrows. After that they became civilized children, once more, «nd played hide-and-seek among the bushes until they were tired enough to «it down and rest. It never took Joe long to rest, and by-and-by he wandered away from the •others, and, finding a great s&ooth tree, began to carve his name upon it as high up as he could conveniently reach. It was slow cutting, and before he had flushed it the others came to look at ibis work. "Oh, cut my name, tool" said JLily; ""won't you, Joe?" " I haven't done my own yet." "Well, you needn't cut it all; only make your first name, and then put * Lily' under it," she coaxed. "But, you see, I want my whole name, and real deep, too, BO it will last for jrears and years," answered Joe. r "Never mind, Lily; ni cut yours," «aid Fred, good-naturedly; and, select­ ing another tree, he drew h's knife from bis pocket and began to carve the let­ ters, while the little girl watched him. "There! I've put mine where it will *tay for one while," said Joe when he had completed his work. \ "Fred has put his where it will stay, too," said Aunt Lucy, who Mad been •quietly looking on. "Fred? I don't see where he has •carved his name, at all," answered Joe. "Once upon a time--" began Aunt Lucy, leaning back against a tree. "A story! a story! " laughed the chil- ' -dren, gathering around her. "Once upon a time," she repeated, smilingly, "there was a very ambitious man. He knew that he must some time •die, but he did not want to be forgotten, so he determined to put his name •where it would always last. Perhaps he began by carving it on a tree first; but the owner of the forest felled the tree, and his name was gone. Then he built a great monument, and graved his name on the top of it; but the lightning is drawn to high points, and his monu­ ment was shattered in a single night. Then he said, 'I will find the very highest and most solid mountain in all the world, and I will cut my name on its topmost rock, and then it will last.' •So he traveled over oceans and plains, through towns and villages, to find the mountain. He passed tired people by the way who asked him to help them; but he was too anxious about carving bis name, and he would not stop. At last he found the highest mountain, .and, after long and toilsome climbing, be cut his name on its top. Then an . -earthquake shook the mountain and tumbled great rocks from its summit to the valley below, and his name was • swept away. " Tired, disappointed and growing old, he said,' It is of no use! Nothing on earth will last, and I will not try any more. I will be as happy as I can, and make others happy, too, and think no more about my name.' So he began to help the poor, to feed the hungry, and <lo deeds of kindness wherever he could. And people began to love him. One •day a little girl said to him,• I «h*ll lore you always for helping us so much; I'm sure I shall never forget you if I live a thousand years.' * " ' B u t y o u w i l l n o t l i v e s o l o n g , ' h e Answered, with a smile at the child who looked up to him so lovingly. " ' ¥es, I shall --a great deal longer,' «he said. ' Souls do not die, and I'm sure IH remember in heaven, and I will remember you.' "Then the man knew that he had now . 4.': done what he had been trying to do for1} so long--put his name where it would- not be forgotten; written it on some­ thing that could not be destroyed." The children were silent, and after a minute Aunt Lucy added, thoughtfully, "But any one who had been living auch a life of unselfish service to others--a a true, good life--would have ceased to be anxious about his name by that time, because he would have learned to know the Lord, who says to all that serve him,' The righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance.'"--Kate W. Hamilton, in the Sabbath School Vis­ itor. _____ • MemmmendaHon mf m Jteyt A gentleman advertised for a boy to assist in his office, and nearly fifty applicants presented themselves to him- One of the whole number he, in a short time, selected, and dismissed the rest. "I should like to know," said a Mend, "on what ground you selected that boy who had not a single recommenda­ tion." " You are mistaken," said the gentle­ man ; w he had a great many. He wiped his feet when he came in, and closed the door after him, showing that he was careful. He took off his hat when he came in, and answered my questions promptly and respectfully; showing that he was polite and gentle­ manly. He picked up the book which I had purposely laid upon the floor and laid it upon the table, while all the rest stepped over it or shoved it aside; and he waited patiently for his turn, instead of pushing, showing that he was honest and orderly. When I talked to him, I noticed that his clothes were carefully brushed, his hair in nice order, and his teeth as white as milk; and when he wrote his name, I noticed that his finger nails were clean instead of being tipped with jet, like the handsome little fellow's in the blue jacket. Don't you call those letters of recommendation? I do, and I would give more for what I can tell about a boy by using my eyes ten minutes than all the fine letters he can bring me." HISTORICAL. IN 1559 Cardinal St. Croix, himself a great smoker, introduced tobacco into Italy. Ws learn from the Bishop of Lon­ don's certificate that, in December, 1567, there were then in London and its immediate vicinity, or places which are now included in the word " Lon­ don," 3,838 Dutchmen, 720 Frenchmen, 137 Italians, 14 Venetians, 56 Spaniards, 25 Portuguese, 2 Grecians, 2 Blacka- mores, 1 Dane and but 58 Scots, mak­ ing a total of 4,851 foreigners. IN June, 1269, a French law provided that all Jews, male or female, living in the kingdom, should wear a wheel- shaped piece of yellow cloth, as big as the palm of the hand, on the breast and back of their outer garment. By way of securing due enforcement of this edict, the garment not so decorated became the property of the person who espied the omission, its confiscation not exempting the negligent Israelite from a fine for the use and benefit of the church. THERE is an interesting anecdote of a boy, in one of the rudest parts of the county of Clare, in Ireland, who, in or­ der to destroy some eaglets lodged in a hole 100 feet from the summit of a rock, which rose 400 feet perpendicularly from the sea, caused himself to be suspended by a rope with a scimeter in his hand for his defense, should he meet with an attt^k from the old ones, which precau­ tion was found necessary, for no sooner had his companions lowered him to the nest than one of the old eagles made at him with great fury, at which he struck, but, unfortunately missing his aim, near­ ly cut through the rope that supported him. Describing his horrible situation to his comrades, they cautiously and safely drew him up, when it was found that his hair, which a quarter of an hour before was a dark auburn, was changed to gray. DURING the siege of Gibraltar, in 1782, the Count d'Artois came to St. Roch to visit the place and works. While his Highness was ̂ inspecting the lines, in company wiflv' the Duke de Crillon, they both alighted with their suite, and all lay flat upon the ground to avoid the effects of a bomb that fell near a part of the barracks where a French woman had a canteen. This woman, who had two children in her arms at the time, rushed f^rth with them, and having seated herself, with the utmost sang froid, on the bomb shell, she puf out the match, thus extri­ cating from danger all who were around her, many of whom witnessed this cour­ ageous and devoted act. His Highness rewarded this intrepid female by be­ stowing on her a pension of 3 francs a day, and engaged to promote her hus­ band after the siege; while the Duke de Crillon, imitating the generous example of the Prince, insured to her likewise a daily payment of 5 francs. THE Connecticut courts have ruled that, in that State, cigars may be legally bought on Sunday, but cannot be le­ gally sold on Sunday. *•»*• K DR. HALL. J* When a mother disregards the of health in the treatment of her little one, no matter from what cause, she snffers in the care, toil of nursing, and anxiety regarding the child in whose system die allowed to be laid the foundation of disease. And it will not alter the case that she did not know the laws she violated, or did not think of them, or was so placed that she could, not pay to them deserved respect. In^ exorable law is asserted, and die is pun­ ished. & * When a man eats or drinks what does not conduce to the healthy nourishment of the body, he suffers for it sooner or later. Nor will it avert the penalties that he can plead his ignorance of the effects of his indulgence. The diseased brain or disordered stomach vindicates the dignity of law. When a lady deceives her husband in the matter of expense, obtains goods on credit when he wishes to buy only with cash, she endures the conse­ quences when the bills come at length, in the just displeasure of her husband, in the loss of his confidence, and, per­ haps, later, in the evil influence of her example on her children. That she has excuses, reasons of her own, and the like, will not avert these sore evils. When parents make the one son a plaything, forget their obligations to train and restrain him, indulge his every whim and foster every form of self in him, in self-assertion, self-pleas­ ing, self-will and self-indulgence, they reap as they sowed in the young tyrant who rules them before he is in his teens, and breaks their hearts before he has attained his majority* That they loved him, or did not think of the future, or had but the one, is no barrier to the flood of misery. Men can see this prin­ ciple in operation on the narrow field of individual or family life--but they are slow to notice it, and still more slow to lay it to heart, for practical uses on the broader field of social and national life. When we allow an ignorant and vic­ ious population to grow up in the com­ munity, we are punished by the ex­ ample, the contaminated atmosphere, the injuries inflicted, the costly defenses against the evil, or the expensive ma­ chinery for detecting and punishing the criminals. The school is cheaper and better than the jail; the Sunday-school and the church are better than the po­ lice court. Let us ignore the cheap and heedful agency, and we must, in tardy self-defense, provide the oostly and im­ perfect remedies for the consequences of our neglect. virjme of humility, one onest in poverty nor virtue consists in integrity of A JFXW PRRCEPTH WHOM COtfflTCIUS Be severe to yourself and indulgent to others; you thus avoid all resent­ ment. The wise man makes equity and jus­ tice the basis of all his conduct; the right forms the rule of his behavior; deference and modesty mark his exte­ rior; sincerity and fidelity serve him for accomplishment. Love virtue and the people will be virtuous; the virtue of a great man is like the wind; the virtue of the humble is like the grass; when the wind passes over it the grass inclines its head. Children should practice filial piety at home and paternal deference abroad; they should be attentive in their actions, sincere and true in their words, loving all with the whole force of their affec­ tion. Return equity and justice for evil done to you, and p^y goodness by good­ ness. Without the can neither contented in fl.bundanc6 Real heart and loving your neighbor as.your- self. What I desire that others should not do for me, I equally desire not to do to them. Think not of faults committed in die past when one has reformed his con­ duct. 8MOKKB8. / " Robert Hall is said to have'fjreached his most eloquent sermons after smoking a pipe in his vestry; the same with Dr. Parr, who sometimes smoked twenty pipes in one evening, and "never wrote well except under the inspiration of tobacco." According to Bishop Kennet, Thomas Hobbea, the philosopher of Malmesbury, retired to his study every day after dinner, and had his candle and ten or twelve pipes of tobacco laid by him; then, shutting his door, he fell to smoking, thinking, and writing for several hours; and, although such an excessive smoker^ lived to the good old age of 92. All know how the great Sir Isaac Newton smoked; and how, on one oc­ casion, in a moment of profound ab­ straction, he placed the little finger of his "lady-love " into the hot bowl of his pipe, in place of a tobacco-stopper. Thomas Carlyle smokes, as do Lord Lytton, Tennyson, and many other emi­ nent men. Campbell, Byron, Moore, and Lord Eldon were moderate smok­ ers, and frequently bore 'testimony to the comfort of tobacco. Sir Walter Scott was a great smoker; so was Lord Palmerston--and the use of the weed did not •shorten his days. We wish we could say so much for Charles Lamb, "the gentle Elia," who toiled after it as some men toil after virtue. To say all that can be said iu Savor ©f tobacco would require volumes. sSrr-'fM ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. •SATURDAY, JUL 11.---SENATE.--There- WM not much business to transact, and the regular order was got through with in It few minutes. ... .The President presented a petition praying for equality in medical practice, which was re­ ferred to the Committee en State Institutions.... New bills were introduced as follows: Fixing the time of holding the County Court of Boone oounty; limiting the commission of brokers and auctioneers for selling real estate to 2^ per cent of the value in ca«»38 where there is no contract; amending the school law so as to provide that Township School Treasurers shall hold office two years instead of one... .No business being before that body, the Senate adjourned to meet at 6 o'clock Monday afternoon. MONDAY, Jan. 13.--Both houses met at 6 p. m., and, after roll-call and reading of the win, utes, adjourned without transacting any busi- TUKSDAT, Jan. 14.--SENATK.--Petitions were presented at* follows: That the nomination of Dr. J. H. Rauch as a member of the State Board of He&lth be not confirmed; for the amendment j of -.he liquor law; that the road and bridge law be amended so that delinquent road taxes may be extended on the County Clerk's books.. New bills wej-a introduced as follows: To pro­ vide that conveyances made by any assignee in bankruptcy shall be received as evidence in &U courts; m regard to practice incourtaof record; to amend an act to establish Appellate Courts; to amend the law relating to fences, so that barbed-wire fences mav be lawful: to require the Clerks of Appellate Courts to send to the Supremo Court the record and all the papers on file in his office in cases which are appealed to the Supreme Court; to require that, before any petition for pardon shall be consid­ ered, notice Bhall be published in the county where the crime was committed; to amend the law relating to forced sales uuder trust-deed or mortgage; to provide for the li­ censing and taxing of merchants and peddlers; to amend the law relative to the granting of li­ censes to keep dram-shops; to regulate stock yards; to regulate the management of stock yards; to regulate the charges and fees of State's attorneys....A number of bills were given a first reading and referred, after which the Senate adjourned. HOUSE.--Mr. Eld ridge, the new member from Pope county, and Mr. Holdeu, of Vermillion, appeared and qualified The Speaker an­ nounced his appointments of Private Secretary, policemen and pages The following Com­ mittee on Ventilation was announced: Dewey, Thomas and Hall... .Mr. Wentworth, from Com­ mittee on Rules, reported a draft of a set of rules for the House, which was adopted. The new rules provide for forty committees. An order to print 500 copies was adopted, and the Speaker was authorized to appoint a joint committee on joint rules.... .Wie following bills were introduced and ordered to first read­ ing: To regulate bridges which are controlled bv cities, villages or towns; to provide for fore, closure of real-estate mortgages oontaining powers of sale and trust deeds in courts of record; to amend the practice act: -to amend the mortgage law; to amend law ro!*W«p to Judgments and de­ crees ; to amend act in regard to organization of towns; to revise the law relating to' mortgages; to amend the interest law; to disconnect terri­ tory from cities and villages; to amend law re­ lating to official bonds ; to amend inter­ est laws ; to amende revemie law ; to regulate the drug business; to amend prac­ tice act; to facilitate payment of interest on railroad bonds of municipalities; to regulate foreclosures of mortgages, and to allow redemp­ tion; making appropriations for Illinois Eastern HHMPi tor tho Ioasae; regarding praatiae be­ fore Justices of1 Peace; to regulate manner of employing labor of convicts; to amend act in relation to Justices and constables; to amend Interest laws; regulating employment of con^ vict labor; to revise the interest and usury laws; to provide for payment of Illinois National Guards for services during the strike of 1877; to amend garnishee laws: to amend exemption laws; to amend law of forcible entry and detainer; to amend revenue laws; to give effect as evidence to deeds exe­ cuted by officers of courts... .Mr. Fov intro­ duced a resolution providing for a constitu­ tional amendment Its substance is as follows: "That the Illinois and Michigan canal shall never be sold or leased by the State unless the ques­ tion shall first be submitted to a vote of the people, and that the State shall never lease the credit of the State or make appropriation from the treasury in kid of railroads, but may in aid of the extension of the canal to the Mississippi river." WEDNESDAY, Jan. 15--SENATE.--A large number of bills and resolutions were introduced and referred; but the only matter of interest on which final action was taken was the struggle over Senator Whiting's silver resolutions. The resolutions declared that the silver dollar, coming to us from colonial times, and as it existed under the republic for nearly 100 years, should be restored as a unit of value, with unlimited coinage, with the issue of bul­ lion certificates and other privileges accorded to gold. After discussion, and a failure to refer to the Committee on Federal Rela­ tions, the first resolution was amended, so as to read, "as a unit," instead of " the unit." Tho second resolution was then stricken ont The resolutions, as amended, were adopted by a vote of 40 to 7. The\ Secretary of State was instructed to send attsstM copies of the resolu­ tions to each of our Senators and Representa­ tives in Cqngress, .with a request that they pre­ sent them vto their respective houses as the choice of the people of Illinois.... Senator Jones introduced a bill requiring banks and banking associations, organized un­ der the laws of the State, to make quarterly statements, and to provide for the examination of the affairs of sucH banks and banking asso­ ciations, and for closing the same Mr. Herd- man introduced a bill to regit Iftte the ftppoiat- msnt of Penitentiary Commissioners at Joliet. and provide that llie'y shall hold their office for six years Senators Merritt and Riddle were added to the Committee on Corporations, after which the Senate adjourned. _ Bouse--Bills were introduced: To repea the amendments to the Forcible Entry and Detainer act passed by the last session of the General Assembly; amending section^ of an act in relation to liens; providing for the exemption of funeral processions from the payment of toll on the roads in the State; to amend section 50 of an act estab­ lishing and maintaining a system of free schools, in which it is provided'that the County Superintendent shall grant certificates of quali* fications of two grades to all teachers after they have successfully passed an examination --the first grade for two years, and the second grade for one year, acoording to the respective qualifications of such teacher; repealing the act enabling counties to establish normal schools; limiting the rate of interest to 8 per cent After exhausting the bills on first read­ ing, and referring them to the proper commit­ tees, the House adjourned. THURSDAY, Jan. 16.--SENATE.--Petitions were presented: Asking the repeal of the Registry law... .Resolutions were presented: For the printing of 1,000 copies of the State Education­ al Report with reference to the normal and in­ dustrial schools; providing that the various committees of the Senate shall perform their own clerical 'duties; congratulating the country on the resumption of (speciepayment; amending the ninth section of the fourth chapter of the con­ stitution, to the effect that the General Assem­ bly shall meet but once in ten years, with the necessary intervening ones to elect United States Senators, or consider any special busi­ ness presented by the Governor at any extra session called by him; the regular session shall last not longer than one year; the intervening ones not to exceed two months: to ascertain where the Stite money goes in the payment of salaries and expenses; indorsing the present sys­ tem of national finances, and asking as little legislation on the subject as possible; that printed copies of all bills pending in both houses be L sent to the Chicago Law Library... .Bills were introduced: To amend the act relating to the administration of estates; to revise thelaw re­ lating to ©stray animals; to amend the Dower law; to aid the State Horticultural Society; to amend the law relating to bridges, roads," etc. • in relation to the exemption of property from execution; to amend the Insurance law; to revise the law of partition; to amend various of the Reyenne Iw; to *he CorpcraHen act; t.o ijtherize tho Circuit Judges to appoint stenographers; to confer additional IQthnrity mv>n oAyfifoJ City CoilHCils cf this 8tate A communication was received from the House, asking the appointment of two members to act with three of the House as a Committee on Joint Rules. It was adopted, and Senators Hamilton and Herdman were ap­ pointed. HOUSE. --Petitions presented: AtMng for an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State; asking for an enactment for the encouragement of the culture of the grape and the manufacture of wine Bills introduced: 1 roviding that, in all civil actions to be com­ menced before a Justice of the Peace, the sum­ mons shall issue from a Justice in the town where the plaintiff or defendant resides; for the purpose of stopping the profes­ sional jury system in our justice courts; amendatory of the act to prevent the destruc­ tion of fish; prescribing tho manner in which notice shall be given of suits in chancery; pro­ hibiting the employment of children unde.t 14 years of age in manufactories; amendatory of sn act relating to liens; in regard to roads and bridges in counties under township organisa­ tion; providing that, judges of election in anv town, city or ward shall act as a board of regis­ try and make up the registry list: authoring the Judges of courts of record to appoint stenographers for their respective courts; amending the act coneeruivig jurors; appropri­ ating $4,000 per annum for the next two years for the State Historical Society; providing that, in cases whore the punishment is confinement in the penitentiary, when the case is tried by a jury, it shall simply pass upon the guilt or in­ nocence ot the accused, and the court shall fix the term of imprisonment: amending the act to establish Appellate Courts; amending the Ex­ emption act; amending the School law; appro­ priating $195,085 for the Asyluni for Feeble-Minded Children; to insure greater safety in the management of steam-boilers; amending the law in relation to wills; repealing an act concerning the appointment and removal Of city officers; to establish a Bureau of Statis­ tics ; to repeal the act to prohibit any person from obstructing the regular operation of rail­ roads : to amend the act in regard to liquor li­ cense; to draw up a new military code; confer­ ring additional authority upon* City Councils; to eeeure to laborers the pavment of their wages promptly on or before "the fourteenth day of the first month in which the wages are earned; to amend the Registry law; to prevent the double taxation of property bv permitting persons in listing property to deduct their boua- ilde debts from the gross amount of their property. The Senate committees are as follows: Judiciary--Hunt, Hamilton, McClellan, Bonfleld, Riddle. Fuller. Munn, Campbell, Taliaferro, Kuy- kendall. Archer. Dearborn, Hanna, Delaney, Shutt, Lee anil Southworth. Judicial Department--Bonfleld, Mayborne, Mo- Clellau, Fosdick. Hunt, Ford, Kuykendall, Lewis, Parkinfiou, Herdman, McDowell, Ware, Neece and Merritt. Railroads--Hash. Whitinfj. Riddle, Mayborne, Boutteld. Bent, Ford, White, Mofflt. Dearborn, Hanna. Cation, JOBM, Walker and Kelly. Warehouse* - Johnson, White, Thomas. Davis. Fuller. Marshall, Lee, Frantz, Merritt, Brink and Callon. Finance -- Ford, Joslyn, Johnson, McClellan. Parkinson, Kelly, Rinehart, Mayflald and Cheany. Revenue -- McOellan, Riddle, Dement, Mann, Whiting, Campbell, Thomas, Joalyn, Ford, Hanna, Hoener, Morritt, Cheany, Wilson and Rinehart. Appiopriationa--Davis, Hamilton. Foadick. May- borne, Bash, Bonfleld, Lewis. Bent. McDowell, Jones, Hanna. Frantz, Scott and Delany. Expenses of the General Assembly--Mofflt, Davis, Joslyn. Artley. Shutt, Houthworth and Jonea. Municipalities--White. Whiting. Thomas. Fuller, Riddle. Johnson. Parkinson, Campbell, Callon, Herd- man, liCe, Kelly and Neece. Insurance--Campbell, ltiddle. White, Bonfield, Hunt. Parkinson. Mofflt, Munn, Merritt, Lee, De­ lany, Scott and Wilson. Corporations--Fosdick, Fuller. Bent, Artley, Lewis. Archer, Walker, Neece and MayAeld. Banks and Bauking--Riddle, McClellan, Artley, Fuller, Bent. Taliaferro, ('anipHell. Jones, Mayfteld, Hanna, Merritt, Walker and Ware. State Charitable Institutions--Mayborne, Da via, Fosdick, Bonfleld, Hamilton, Ford Bent, Lewis, Taliaferro, Jones, Hoener, Brink, Callon, Cheany and Mayfteld. Penal and Reformatory Institutions--Dement, Fosdick, Bash, Artley, Fuller, Riddle. Hunt, Munn, Kuykendall. South worth. Herdman, Shutt. Frantz, Hanna and Delany. Public Buildings and Grounds--Whiting, Bon­ field. Marshall. Kuykendall, Dement, White, Hhutt, Dearlxirti aud Ware. Education and Educational Institutions--Davis, Bash, Artley. Hamilton. Whiting, Kuykendall, Mar­ shall, Ware. Wilson. Walker and Kiuehart. Canals ami Rivers--Whiting. Hunt, Bash, Lewis, Munn. Campbell, Parkinson, Joslyn, Lee, Archer, McDowell, Dearborn, Hoener, Walker and May- tleld. Agriculture and Drainage--Taliaferro, Whiting, Davis, Joslyn, Hamilton, Kuykendall, I^ewis, Mofflt. Thomas, Brink, Archer, Jones, Frantz, Scott and Dearborn. Horticulture--Parkinson, Lewis,Marshall,Thom­ as, Scott, Wilson and Merritt. Mines and Mining--Thomas, Hunt, Munn, Fos­ dick. Bent. White, Neece, Cheany, Franti, Hoener and Ware. w Labor and Manufactures--Artley, Dement, Ford, White. Houthworth. Hoener and Brink. County and Township Organization--Ford, Camp­ bell, Joslyn, Dement, Taliaferro, Thomas, Mofflt, Johnson, Kelly, Bcott, Southworth, Rinehart and Callon. Fees and Salaries--Kuykendall, Bash, McClellan, Marshall, Johnson, McDowell, Kelly, Neece and Cheany. Printing--Bent, Marshall. Whiting. Parkinson, Artley. Rinehart, Lee, Wilson and Mayfteld. Military Affairs--Munn, Taliaferro, Mayborne, Dement, Bash, Artley, Marshall. Ford, Herdman, Neece, Merritt. Cheany and Archer.. Roads, Highways and Bridges--Lewis, Mofflt, Thomas. Fuller, Dement, Frantz, Scott, WilBon and McDowell. Federal Relations--Marshall, Johnson, Hunt, Bonfield, Joslyn, Mnnn, Archer, Kelly and Rine­ hart. Elections--Kiddle, White, Parkinson, Hamilton, Davis, Johnson, Callon, Ware and Scott. State Library--Fosdick, McClellan, Mayborne, Taliaferro, Mofflt, Walker, 8hutt, Callon and Herd- mail. Engrossed and Enrolled Bills--Fuller, Bent, Jos­ lyn. Delany and Herdman. Geology and Science-- Hamilton, Bash, McClellan, White, Mofflt, Cheany. Neece. Mayfteld and Wilson. Miscellany--Hamilton, Dement, Hunt, Taliaferro, Mayborne, Davis, Brink, Herdman and Lee. Following are the House committees: Corporations--Sherman. Chairman; Churchill, Johnson, Collins. Nichols, Taylor of Winnebago, Smith. Hamilton. Tyler. Harts, Barry. Brumback, Butterworth, Vasey. Prickett. Weber, Fosbender. Railroads--Thompson, of Cook, Chairman; Gran­ ger. Mason. Dysart, Pearson, Bisbee, Core, Spencer, Jacksou, Cockle. Herrington. Butterworth, Murray, Reavill. Price. Zimmerman. Green. Judiciary--Shaw, Chairman; Mathews, Morrison, Crooker. Bisbee, Neal, GOBS. Thomas, Jones of Wash­ ington. NefT, Ficklin. Trusdell, McKinlay, Jones of Christian. Day. Wentworth. Judicial Department--Morrison, Chairman; Sher­ man, Wilson. Layman, Wright of Boone, Carter of Adams. McFie, Allen of Whiteside, Ewing. Hall of Tazewell, Green, Jones of Christian, Walsh, Sexton, Zink. Appropriations--Mitchell, Chairman; Cockle, Taylor of Winnebago, Churchill, Lovell. Hopkins, Neff. Layman, Shu man. Allen of Warren, Ficklin, Durfee. Robinson of Fulton, Hammond, Zimmer­ man, McKinlay. McBride. Printing--Burt. Chairman; McFie, Jones of Wash­ ington. Bowen. Ehrhardt. Konka, Wright of Boone, Taylor of Cook, Bisbee, Snyder, Reavill, Reaburn, Halliday. O'Malley, Tracy. Municipal Affairs--Gross, Chairman ; Peanon, Pratt, Marston. Carter of Adams. Nichols, Moss. Mock, Ehrhardt. Halliday, Graham. Robison of Fulton, Wentworth. Butterworth. Snigg. Education--Neal. Chairman; Scroggs, Millbeck, Layman. Warren. Stevens, Frew. B.vers. Jennings, Chase, Snyder. Bower. Murray, Rogers. Bolt. State Institutions--Wright. ofJDnPage, Chairman; Abraham. Davis. Thomas. Secrest. Warren. Miles. Scroggs. Simonson. Jennings. McCreery. Cremer, Fosbender. Rogers. Snigg. Reaburn, Hammopd. Public Charities--Lyon. Chairman; Latimer, Lovell. Struikman, Core, Bingham, Marston. AUej) of Warren, Pleasants. Wall, Vasey, Traminell, Powell. Warehouses -- Mason. Chairman: Richey, Veile, Clark, Scott. Wright of DuPage. Ingham. Byers, Abraham. Carter of Johnson. Sexton. Robinson of Jackson. Bridges. Cremer. Hinds. Lewis, McBride. Commerce -- McFie, Chairman; Thompson of Cook. Savage. Neal. Jennings, Otmau. Latimer, Kei:iston, Cremer. OrendpriT, Hinckley, Scarlett, O'Malley. Finance--Lovell, Chairman: Gregg. Moss. Dewey, Simonson, Crosthwait. Clark. Holden. Meyer,Suter, Prickett, English, Tracy, Snyder. Hammond. Mines and Mining--Kenistoc. Chairman; Cockle, Davis, Kouka, Foy, Ewing, Allen of Warren, Wightman, Pravsrt, Tracy, HaU of Gallatin, Barry. ,wr Feps and Salaries--Thomas. Chairman; „ Elliott. O tin an. Jones <>{ Washington, Bowen „ Churchill. Wall. Kamoel, Robison of Fnlton, ham, Weber. : , Rules--The Speaker, Chairman; Shaw, Matthefe Wentworth. Herrington, Frew. If Miscelloneous Subjects--Spencer. Chairmjk Thomvna v,"jji, Elliuit, Svd, Foy, ' Hall oi Tazewell." . Libraries--Carter, Of Adftiug; fihai»roan • Ly Milbeck T^H, SfcW, Eldrcd^, Butterworth, \ Engrosser and Enrolled Bills--Wilson, Chairma*; ' Wright of Boone. Layman, Thomson of Will. HMO> llton, Ryan, Scarlett. I"ish and Game--Secrest, Chairman; Hopkins. Crooker Matthews, Wheeler, Wright of DupaasL V«le. Peters, Frew, Hinds, Price, Hall of Gallatin, Seiter, Sexton. Thomason. Geological Survey- Dewy, Chairman* WightmM. Pearson. Tiee, Rogers, Snvder. Kimmennan. Printing--Scroggs. Chairman: ClarK, Marston, Struck man, Davis, Peters, Stevens. Simonson, Hop- Pleaiams™^' Bower" 8b1^' Thomason, Orendorn, Roads, Highways and Bridges--Ranney. Chair­ man; Allen of Whiteside. Pratt, Buck, Johnson. Latimer, Nichols, Black, Jonea of Washington Bngham Zink, McCreery, Bolt, Powell, Sloan, Gra- haus . Robison of Fulton. Executive Department--T^ler, Chairman; By to*. Bowen, Smith. Mitchell, Neal, McKinlay, TrusdsU. Robinson, Jackson. • * • Drainage--'Wheeler, Chairman: Holden, Carter of Adams. Richey, Matthews. Eldmlge, Hamilton, Mack. Gross. Scroggs. McBride, McKiulav. Prova«t» Reaburn, Hall of Tazewell. Pleasants, Saimuel. Contingent Expenses--Tice. Chairman; SecregL Harts, Jackson, Thomas, Meyer. Reavill, Ficklin. .Ryan. F7 Elections--Wright, of Boone, Chairman; Re WOT, Ewing, Granger, Gregg, Carter of Johnson, Lyon, Graham. Samuel. Thornnsson, Miieham. State and Municipal Indebtedness--Granger, Chairman; Dewey. Gray, Otman,Btuith.CwinftSs' Core. Miles. Millbeck. Wail. Traiutueli, Weber,Difc Ficklin, Green. Insurance--<Crooker. Chairman; Thomas, Shaw, Ingham, Brighton, Holden, Gray. Frew. Burt, Wil­ son. Butterwcrth. Durfee, Herrington, Prickett, Day, Bolt, Cremer. Federal Relations--Warren, Chairman; Morrison, Neal. Jackson. Matthews, Bisbee, Jones of Chris­ tian Trusdell, Day. Claims--Taylor, of- Winnebago, Chairman; Churchhill, Tice, Tyler, Veils, Toy, Zimmennaa, TrammeM, Tracy. . Miiitia--Mock, Chairman: Thompson of Ootik^ Harts, Peters, Ewing. Sherman, Grow, MoTle, Wheeler, Bowen, Miieham/ Hinckley, Lewis, Mc- Oreer. Weber. Retrenchment--Taylor, of Cook, Chairmia; Black. Abraham, His bee. Johnson, Savage, Strisfc- man. Veile, Stevens, Bridges, Brumback, Engliftb* Green, Hinds, Murray. Public Buildings and Grounds--Gray, Chairman; Black, Scott. Miles, Hamilton. Thomson of Will, Collins, Buck, Crosthwait, Price, Fosbender. HaU of Gallatin, Zink, Ryan, Robinson of Jackson. Revenue--Matthews, Chairman; Miles, ColliM, Spencer. Bowen, Wilson, Allen of Whiteside, Ste­ vens, Warren, Thompson of Cook, Trusdell, Har­ rington. Halliday, Wentworth, McBride, Bridgsa, Hall of Tazewell. Banks and Banking--Neff, Chairman; Stevens, Buck, Wheeler, Peters, Burt, Morrison, Allen'Of Warren. Prickett. Durfee. English. Seiter, Wall, r County and Township Organization--Latimer, Chairman; Carter of Johnson, Pratt. Tyler. Bysis, Ewing. Gregg, Dysart, Eldredge, Sloan, McCreacf, Hinds, Halliday, Hinckley, Orendorff. Agriculture and Horticulture--Dysart. Chairmaa; Ranney. Pearson, Moss. Mitchell, Secrist, Wight- man, Kouka. Savage, Brumback, Provart, Bolt, Sloan, Vasey, Lewis. Labor and Manufactures--Hopkins, Chairman; Ingham, Jackson, Meyer, Clark, Carter of Johnson, Taylor of Cook. Simonson, Granger. Durfee, Bairy, Lswis.KWalsli. Robinson of Jackson, Ryan. Canal and River Improvement--Cockle, Chair­ man; Keniston, Harts, Wheeler, Mason, Ricbsgr, 8cott. Carter of Adams, Eldredge, Wightman, ftoa- bender. Chase. Hall of Gallatin, Pleasants, Walah, Orendorff, Scarlett. -V, CURRENT ITEMS. VICTOR HUGO is sitting for a portnit for the first time in thirty-six years, CALAMITY never leaves na where it finds us. It either softens or hardoM. THE finest flour in Germany is now said to be made with glass mill-stones. THE Russian infantry ore being pro­ vided with spades to enable them to dig rifle-pits^ ^ THE wood of the poplar tree has come to be used extensively in the manufact­ ure of paper. * A YOUNG girl in Baltimore has Men wearing boy's clothes and making lovt to her girl friends. H JEVFEBSON DAVIS is the sole survivor of Pierce's Cabinet, in which he served as Secretary of War. AN enormous bat, of unknown special, was recently shot near Irvine, Ky. The wings of the animal measured two feet from tip to tip, and its dawn inn long and strong. * A NEW street-railway track has been tried successfully in England. The rail is a flat plate, regularly pierced witjb holes, into which fit protuberancos an the wheels. THE Established Church of England is solemnizing fewer marriages than it used to do, and the marriages before the oivil magistrates are proportionately increasing. " ^ A CASE originally involving $50, but which has swallowed up the estates of both litigants, besides costing the coun­ try a large sum, has been "settled ami­ cably " at Bath, Me. , EVERT man with a gift for speaking in public knows when to get up; but hardly one in a million of them has talent sufficient to discern the right mo­ ment when to sit down. ^ " WHO brayed there?" asked a mem­ ber of the Canadian House of Com­ mons of the persons who were trying by interruption to silence him. **H was an echo," retorted a voice. THE potato crop of the United States is set down as amounting to 200,000,000 bushels. Three million bushels are consumed annually in the manufacture of starch in the Eastern States. OF the Americans who went to Braiil to work upon the Mamore railroad, not more than seventy are still at work. The remainder have scattered in all directions, finding it impossible to ac­ commodate themselves to the climate and work. AN author took a short cut to nohea in England, recently, by writing a de­ famatory biography of Lord Beacons- field--the whole issue of which--100,000 copies- is said to have been immediate­ ly bought up and destroyed by the Government. A wirMARKAttT.T: cavern has been dis­ covered near Coliimbia, Tuolumne coun­ ty, Cal. It has been explored over a mile. Some of the chambers are de­ scribed as being of remarkable beauty and grandeur. Crowds ate visiting th» cave daily. , 4