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Ctttll Jlawdcalcr J. VAX BLYKE, EDITO« AKD PCTTLTSHE*. CHENEY, a£S ILLINOIS i *•» OUM JUrEXILEM ms X£:M iThe ikt&e Big Wtman mnS the pt§ JUUU " QlrU A little big worn tea had a big little girl, - And thejr merrily duMd all the day; Yhe woman declared #>e was too small to iml; And tbe girl said: "I'm too big to ptajr." i So they merrily danced *• While the sunlight RtayeC, ;W4" And practiced their |t«f* £ ' In the evening's shade. . *Wt>Hmteat," said ih^ little Mg w9mjm.-,«Wky .??*» . not?" ' ' S "Why not? " aaid the trig little gM; % *'h '#> they alpped as they skipped when they wanted a drink, And swallowed their cifce in a WMrl. ' *Jmd they toerrily danced *,i V •. * While the aunlight stayed, ' . a . ,̂ i|a4pMttoed their step* - ' > . to the evening"* shaded ' • •* • <^-Marg Mopes Dodge, in St. Ifichotatfor April. f *' ; Mou> Mice Behave, Once I saw a little sooie bump las •iose. He was afraid of me, and was running away as fast as he ootild, when ike ran against a hard wall. I think it Jgiust have hurt mousie's nose, for he f»t up straight, and rubbed it with his little foot so long that I had time to pitch him. Another time a mouse was running •way from me, and I threw a bit of cake to him. Mousie turned around, picked fip the cake, and sat still, holding it in las little paws while he ate it, watching Be closely all the while with his bright Wack eyes. I did not disturb him, and when he had finished the cake he "Scampered off again to . i r Youth's Companion. Cherry*4 Ifi raHl. It was the 1st of April, a balmy, sun* ay morning; the sky was blue, and the pavement beneath dazzling with fresh , snow, now fast melting and running in Washing streams down the broad gut­ ters. Little Cherry was bustling about her pretty room, hurriedly making her bed. "Tom, come here and be useful! Boys are always whistling and stannin* about With their hands in their pockets, while girls are 'most killing themselves with work. Dust that bureau.1* Lazy Tom, with a chuckle, seized the duster, and set himself to work awk­ wardly,, "Let me catch anybody April-fooling Hie this morning!" said Cherrjr, punch- #tg the bolster into shape. Tom laughed outright. "Just let me!" repeated Ghenry. TomJ could not help laughing again lis he looked at the back breadths of Cherry's short skirts, which, on leaving flie breakfast-table, he had slyly decor­ ated with a profusion of paper tags and Streamers. CI The bed tilde, Cherry briskly slipped on her hat and coat. . "You see, Tom (dust the legs of tSe table, Tom!), I'm in a hurry to get off, lor (duet every one of the legs; no tioy?' slighting now!) before I go to suhbol I've a very petticklar errand to do. ^Fhete, 1 liked to have forgot to see to the birds!M While Cherry was darting about for the seeds and water, Tom contrived to •tick a handful of straws from the broom into her hat, and, as she stood up in a chair to reach the cage?, he nimbly pinned upon the back of her saek a staring announcement of " A. F«" .on a large expanse of white pa­ per. Cherry jumped from the chair, call­ ing out, , you wish you knew what was in my pocket fox Miss Hitty Titus?", Tom leaned against the wall, ftrfrly choking with laughter at the comical 1 aspect of his little skier. "Boys are always giggling!" mut­ tered Cherry, speeding down the stairs and out the hall door. She almost ran over small Frank Fisk,who was strutting to school in a pair of new rubber boots, his toes care­ fully turned out, and his eyes turned down, admiring these same new boots. "Aren't you 'shamed turning in your toes like a parrot, and splashing through paddles right over the tops of your old boots'? * called out Cherry. "You want to die of consumption and mumps, tco, don't you ? " Frank looked at the shining boots, and then sank down on the curbstone, and thrust his hands down those great rubber legs to feel of his stockings, visions of "med'sin' "-spoons and gruel- enps filling his brain. Naughty Cherry flew on, every sepa­ rate broom straw wagging in the wind, while she gleefully whispered toher- *>U, "A. F.," "A. F." Miss Titus' door Was reached at last. Belated Cherry banged away at the brass knocker, but nobody appeared. "Why, oh dear me! p'raps she's dead or something! and I shall be late to school and get a mark, and "-rat-tat- tat, rat-tat-tat went the knocker again-- Tve a great mind to go," groaned Cherry, "and then I shall be 'A. F.,"stead of Vim*™ Titus." , < "Oh, it's you, is it?" cried a voioe from the window. "The plaguey boys have pestered me considTole this morn- Jfe, ing, and I set down my foot I would not open the door again to-day--no, not if the Legislator, and the Governor, and the President thrown in, all stood on their knees a-knockin' at that door to­ gether! ni come right down, dear." Down she came. Cherry's little heart went pit-a-pat while she plunged first into one pocket and then another for a paper parcel. "Please, would you like some flowers, Miss Titus?" quavered Cherry, stretch­ ing forth a small, trembling hand with la crushed package in it. ^ "Oh, I like flowers so much!" said Miss Hitty, with twinkling eyes, lifting the paper to her knobby nose. " Good-by!" cried Cherry, wishing down the steps and fairly leaping over the walk, while Miss Titus sat down on ^her lowest stair and laughed over the gaudy paper flowers in the parcel and the queer little figure racing away in the distance. " I do believe Miss Titus' nose is so very old it won't know the difference between paper flowers and real ones, and I'm sure her eyes don't," said re­ pentant Cherry, as the clock struck and school was still so far away. " P'raps I shall be the April fool, after all. P'raps it wasnt being very polite to Miss Titus, either." " The next time Cherry went to see Miss Titus, the paper flowers were re­ splendent in a tall vase on the mantel. " They are as pooty as pooty can be," said Miss Titus. " I guess I was the April fool, sad 37m glad I was, dear Missis Titus," said Cherry, hugging the good old lady.-- Elsie Oorham,in Youth's Companion. A CUBIOUB CIBCUMSTANQB. An elderly lady, the mother of gen­ tlemen well known in politics and busi­ ness in this city, herself in a low state of health, who now has her residence in the southwestern portion of the city, awoke from a sleep, last Monday after­ noon, and at once broke out in a fit of violent weeping, which attracted the at­ tention of all in the house. When quieted, she said that her husband, long since dead, had appeared to her in a dream and told her that her daughter was dying. This incident was related to persons in another part of the city, during the same day, and before the person who told of it had any knowledge of what is recited hereafter. That the mother, who \new that her daughter had been for some time sick, should become impressed with the idea that she was dying was not singular, as that might easily have resulted from appre­ hensions which had, no doubt, been en­ tertained. The remarkable fact is this: On the same day, and, as near as can be ascertained, at the exact time when the mother was manifesting distress of mind, the daughter roused herself in her bed of sickness, in a house on Ar­ bor hill, and said to her attendant: "Why, how my mother is crying!" and, a moment later: "Don't you hear her cry?" The nurse heard nothing, and was oblige,d to say so, although the sick woman repeatedly asserted that her mother was crying, and endeavored to convince the nurse that she heard her. The younger lady died on Wednesday and was buried on Saturday.--Albany Argus. A BORWABB SBABOtf. .... An old negro named Sam Clark, who cdunts a Griswold street lawyer among his friends, called at his law-shop yes­ terday with a very f nxious look on his face, and said: _ "Boss, Ize clean twisted up dis time, an' I want to ax a few queshuns." " Well, go ahead, Sam." "Wall, all de white folks tell me dat de sezun am at leas' a month ahead. I h'ars 'em talkin' *bout it on de kyars an' all ober." ' j "Yes, this is a very forward spring. I think we are at least a month ahead." "Well, if dat's de ease, will de Foth o' July oome on de fo'th o' June, or when, an' hain't ApriMule day dun gone an' passed by two weeks? " The lawyer tried to explain, but Sam was more mixed than before. He scratched his head and went slowly out, but in half an hour he returned with a face longer than ever. "Got that through your head yet?" asked the lawyer. "Fo' de Lawd, but lie Inn struck sgin!" whispered the African. "If we am a month ahead now, dis ya'r will either have thirteen months or only 'leven! Splain dat, now!" But the lawyer couldn't, and Sam went out saying: "Dese white folks am a werry curus set, >dey is. Dey go an' git de sezun all outer gear, an' den a nigger can't tell whether to plittt taters or dodge icicles!"--Detroit JVee Press. Two MOTHEB8-IN-LAW in one house produced a tragedy in Louisville. Each tried to rule the household, and, of course, was opposed by the other, while the young couple endeavored to keep peace. There were frequent fights and police-court episodes. The wife's mother claimed that the husband was brutal, and attempted to shoot him. Then the husband's mother retaliated fey poisoning4he wife, and is now in jail DIAMONDS, One smile for the living is worth a dozen tears for the dead. Laziness is a premature death. To be in no action is not to live. A wan owes his suooess in his life- work to the woman who walks beside The sweetest thing on earth is a little child when it has learned to know and love. After friendship sad love oasas be­ nevolence, and that compassion which unites the soul to the unfortunate. How contagious is the laugh'of some people; how jarring that of others, like playing on a worn-out piano. The innocenoe and purity of child­ hood brings bitter pangs to the sin- hardened man and worldly woman. It is better to wear out than to rust out. We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike until it is made hot. People who cannot heartily love and hate will never command the first or know the clearing influence of the latter. If the loved ones could oome back to earth only long enough to be forgiven, it would relieve, many a remorseful heart The object of all ambition should be to be happy at home. If we are not happy there we cannot he happy else­ where. Tears are the gift which love bestows upon the memory of the absent, and they will avail to keep the heart from suffocation. "It is a curious fact that on the track of knavery a misplaced switch will be found somewhere, and it is sure to wreck the train." Show me the man who cares no more for one place than another, and I will show you in that person one who loves nothing but himself. Good pictures are great teachers. A fine work of art hanging in one's house speaks to him constantly in lan­ guage of tender beauty that wins its way to the heart. How few realize that the strata.of love and hate lie so close together that it takes but little to bring the latter up­ permost, when under pressure of un- kindness or injustice. We smile at the ignoranoe of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach the fruits; but the fact is that a blunder of this description is made by every person who is ever eager and im­ patient in the pursuit of pleasure. Two gifts are offered to men in this world; they very seldom can have both. One is success with weariness; the other failure, with hope. The last is much the best. The man who succeeds finds that his success does not amount to a great deal; the man who fails, but keeps his hope, is a happy man. You are more sure of sucoess in the end if you regard yourself as a man of ordinary talent, with plenty of hard work before you, than if yon think yourself a man of genius, and spend too much time in watching your hair grow long, that you may convince ^people that you are not like other folk. LUCKY AMERICAN WOMB* The following American ladies have been married to British peers, or the sons of peers, since 1825: In 1825, Mrs. Patterson, eldest daughter of Richard Caton, of Maryland, to the Marquis of Wellesley; in 1828, Louisa, third daugh­ ter of Richard Caton, and widow of Sir Felton Bathurst Hervey, Bart., to the Duke of Leeds; in 1836, Lousia, second daughter of Bichard Caton, to Lord Stafford; in 1845, Mary, daughter of John McTavish, of Baltimore, to the Hon. Henry John Howland, brother of the late Earl of Carlisle and the Duch­ ess of Sutherland; in 1850, Elisabeth, sister of the late Gen. Wadsworth, of Geneseo, to the Hon. Sir Charles Au­ gustus Murray, son of the Earl of Dun- more; in 1852, Ellen, daughter of Ed­ mund Dwight, of Boston, to the Hon. Edward Turner Boyd Twistleton, son of Lord Saye and Sele; in 1874, Miss Je­ rome, daughter of Leonard Jerome, of New York, to Lord Randolph Churchill, son of the Duke of Marlborough; in 1876, Miss Consuela Yznnga, of New York, to Viscount Mandeville, heir apparent to the Duke of Manchester; and, in 1877, Sophia, daughter of S. Wells Williams, of New Have^, to the Hon. Thomas George Grosvener, son of Lord Ebury. If to these should be added the names of American ladies wedded to grand­ sons of peers, Baronets or Knights, the list would be considerably extended. one occasion, a number of chiefs who came to thank him for a slight shower lift had just fallen were astonished to flat him asleep; but the ready-witted knave instantly pointed to his wife, who was ehurning some goat's milfe in a skin bag, and said coolly: " Don't you see my wife shaking the rain out of that mokV But a prolonged drought succeeded, and the people, enraged at being thus trifled with, declared that th0 rain-maker should die. The sen­ tence was commuted to banishment at the entreaty of the missionaries; but he was murdered a year after by the Bauangketsts, whom he had similarly deceived. r MSB AT Otr TMMt MLMfMAN9^> The elephant is the that walks. He's as big as a whole barnyard full of cows all rolled into one. He has fore legs in front and two hind legs, which my Uncle John says makes six legs, but the elephant that I saw at the circus hadn't as many, and I guess i he lost some of them foolin' around a ] mowing-machine. His legs look like | saw-logs standin'on end, and his feet ! are as big as wash-tube. He has two | tails, one at the front end of him, and one at the hind end. The front-end tail is called a trunk, but I dont know j what they call it that for. It don't look ! any more like a trunk than like a car- pet-bag. The hind-end tail is a little | thing, not much bigger than a dog's : tail. I think both tails was one in the ' first place, and that it stuck way out I behind big enough for suoh a big ani- ! mal; and then I s'pose it was hit by a 1 pile-driver or something and drove clean i through so that the butt stuck out in j front That's why they call the front ! part the trunk, 'cause the trunk is next to the root--anyhow that's so with the ^ trees. The elephant has two ears hung on the side of his head. They look like barn doors. They are very useful for to keep the flies off in summer time, 'cause his tail is too shorti for flies. I guess he uses them for blankets to keep j him warm when the weather is oold. ; The elephant has a wonderful memory. ! My Uncle John says there was a man | once that gave a elephant tobacco in a j circus. Next year the show came to that town again, with the same elephant, ' and the man went to the show again and 'the elephant nearly killed him. He | recognized the man, my Uncle John says, though the man had been married more than six months. know about the elephants. QABRXTTHVILLK, Ohio. , gVll* •' 1 •• • J ^ SOLDIXJW OttATMB. E ft probably generally remembered that some sears ago--in 1878--Con­ gress passed a law providing for the erec­ tion of durable headstones over the graves of soldiers of the regular and volunteer forces of the United States whose remains are interred in the na­ tional military cemeteries. This law has been carried out, and the graves of the nation's dead in these oemeteries are now permanently marked. At the instance of the War Department, Con­ gress has recently authorized the erec­ tion of similar headstones over the graves of the Union soldiers who are buried in private and village oemeter­ ies. This will be done as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. In the meantime the Quartermaster (General, at Washington, will at once proceed to collect the necessary infor­ mation as to where these headstones are required. All persons having any knowledge of the burial places of sol­ diers in private cemeteries, whose graves are not marked, are requested to communicate the faot to the Quarter­ master General, and give regiment, company, and date of death of deceased, if known. Similar information is de­ sired from parties in charge of such cemeteries. Of oourse it is not intend­ ed to furnish headstones for graves over which monuments have already been erected by relatives or friends of the deceased. p .w. JtAItT MAMINO. One of the most universal of the countless superstitions of South Africa is the belief in " rain making," a power attributed to certain famous native sorcerers, who go from tribe to tribe, feasted and rewarded while the illusion lasts, and not infrequently murdered as soon as it is exploded. One of these impostors gave considerable trouble to the Rngliah missionaries, Hamilton and Moffat, while at work among the Bakalahiris. Seeing that they were not to be deceived like the rest he at­ tempted to drive them out by assert­ ing that their white faces soared away the olouda as fast as summoned. Oa AJTOTUBK AUBCDOTB OW LIMCOLM Mr. Colfax tells the following story of President Lincoln: " On one occasion during the war he was closeted with three Generals, when Gen. Tom Thumb was announced. Turning from the busi­ ness of the interview, the President gave instructions for the admission of the dwarf. On the latter's entrance Mr. Lincoln turned his back on the three Generals, and, after greeting his new visitor, held him in conversation for a few minutes, much to the chagrin of the officers. On the dwarfs departure one of title Generals ventured to remark that Tom Thumb was a very small man, whereupon the President replied: ' My Generals, judged by results, are consid­ erably smaller.'" OB A TIflBD AMBITION* The average small boy's ambition is to be a trapper, a pirate, or a song-and dance performer. "When I wath a little boy," lisped a very stupid society man to a young lady, "all my ideath in life were thentered on being a clown." "Well, there is at least one case of grat­ ified ambition," was the sharp reply. OF the mothers who had infants last year in^New York city, 442 were over 60 jesra of age. ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. SATURDAY, April 13. --Swat*.--The tfn&iige bills were set down for the special order <m Thursday next... .Am amendment to the oooati- tattan QQ flat mtMjf h|Uatkm waa pre­ setted irrBsiior MoOMlan aQd referred.... Mater Jtash eaBsd vp tbe Towa Orgaoim- ticto bill, which JpMipd to third reading. ..,.Tbe Apnv.M&Uoo h&s tben earns on. The Blind Aqjrlaai, *48,000 for the next two year*, and, for additional buildings, 16,184;'or SoathernNormal t jiveraity, |15~206 i>er Rnniim: for qt^uraatira expenses at OMTO, M.951; for damages on the little Wabash river, 113,087 ; for damages to pareoos occasioned by deat notion of dams an the Illinois, river, #34,219 • for a ooat of anna of the State or Illi­ nois, io be plaoSd at Xoont Vernon, #150. Bills appiopriatleg all thsse samu were ordered to a; thr d vending, wbereopon the Senate adjourned over to 5 p. m. Monday. HOUSE.--As tberewas barely a qtiorsn pres­ ent, further oonmdecatkn Of the pending Bey- enne b;lla waa postponed till Tuesday... .The following bills ware neuf to third reading: Taylor's bill for wa'gbfrg ooal; in regard to County Treasurers; to license the oarryiag of concealed weapons; amending the Appellate Court law; in relation to park bonds; allowing anyone to piactace law before Jasticesof the Peace; to authorize tbe Railroad and Warehouse Com­ missioners to gather eiatkriioN regarding the improveme lot toll and oUier roads....Bills passed: Attending the act for the relief of disabled po ace a> 1 fiiemsn; amending the law in relatiou io criminal jurisprudence.... Simon- son's bill punishing tramps wsa ordered printed. Kootjat, April i4.~-8SKATB.--AI f pt m. thiitmn Senators called at the ttsnate Chamber and listened to tho reading of the journal, and then adjourned. HOUSK.--No quorum was present until after recess, when Mr. Wilson's Park b01 wss taken up, and, after discnaeta, ordered to third reading....The bill for the ex­ tension of County Court jurisdiction, and one on the subject of drainage, were sent to third reading On motion of Mr. Murray, the bill ordering payment to the militia for ser­ vice? in tbe riots of 1877 was made a spedal or­ der for to-morrow Mr. Carter's Bteam- Boiler lnepeotion bill was killed... .The uni­ form text-book subject consumed the remainder of Jhe ('ay. TUKSDAT, April 1& --SENATE. --Bills were in­ troduced to authorize officers who receive bail bonds to administer oaths to bondsmen, and to abolish the Southern penitentiary The bill to authorize coal miners to select weighers was passed... .Borne time waa passed upon appro­ priation bills, ami several small ones were sent to third reading The Revenue bill was seut to third reading, after a long discussion.... A long debate occurred on the bill to tax tele­ graph companies a per cent on their capital stock, hut an amendment to reduce the tax to 1 per cent, was carried, and the Nil was ordered to third reading. „, .The bill to tax exprsM oom- pauiua wan takeu up, and, after a tedious dis­ cussion, the maximum rate of taxation was fixed at 1 per cent, and the bill ordered to a th" <l reafling. HOUSE.--The bill to provido for the printing, by the State, of school books; to amend tlie law of gim-dian and ward, and to complete the Dongl&s monument were advanced to a third reading....Mr. Granger's bill to require assignees and receivers of brokcu bauka to file with courts a statement showing the smmes of debtors, etc., wss passed.... The Mil to pay the militia and other expenses incurred in suppressing the riots in 1877 wis passed with an emergenoy clause... .The bill relative to baek tsasa went to third reading,... A report of the Committee on Rules tor ad­ journment sins dis on May 7th was tabled.... Fending discussion ot the Railroad Block As- mssnt bill, the House adjourned. WSDNXSDAT, April 16.--HasATa.--A bill fix­ ing the terms of County Courts in a number of counties irm passed The House bill to pay the militia, @te.s was read and ordered to a second reading.... Mr. MunnVt bill for the ap- poini.i»e<>» o .' grain inspectors in warehouses of Clas* B WM passed, with an emergency clause. Tiie Chicago Justices weie confirmed wiih the exception of Waller and Foote... .The Appellee Court b!*l was taken up again, but no. disnosed o*....Senator Jounsoi's bill to amerd the law establishing Houses of Correc­ tion was o •("e»ed to third reading... .The Canal bill was taken up, a»d was under discussion when the Senate adjourned. HOUSE.--A motion to reconsider the vote by which the resolution for a sine-die adjourn­ ment was lost was rejected by a vote of 46 to 73... .The bill to amend the Game law, as sug­ gested by the Hportsmen's Association, was passed....The bill relative to certain Circuit Courts was heuii to third reading... .The spe­ cial oi der, Mr. Gross' bill for a new rule for the assessment of railroad capital stock, audi to im­ pose tbe duties of the State £oatd of Equaliza­ tion on State officers was taken ut>. The latter clause was stricken out, and the bill sent to third reading....The committee to investigate cor­ ruption reported that all reports were based upon rumor, and reoovniiiencung the discharge froai jail of iue Chicago Tribune correspond­ ent. Thi wiMs clone Mr. Thompson offered a resolution adjourning the Legislature sine die or. May 20, Sent to the Committee on Rules. ....Several little bills were read a first time and ordered to second reading. THURSDAY, April 17.--SENATB.--The Penal and Reformatory Committee reported on the Chester penitentiary, recommending the ap­ propriation of f 225,000 to complete the build­ ing. The minority asked time to make a re- Sort agaiust its completion....The Miscellany ommittee made a report in the McCrea case lli&t the evidence entirely exculpated him from all the charges made, and recommending his confirmation..... .The Canal Mil was the special order on its third reading. After speeches tbe bill was passed by a vote ot 33 to 12. • It appropriates #30,000 per annum for repairs... .Both Drainage bills were made special orders for Tuesday next.... The bill appropriating #8,000 for ordinary ex­ pense, etc., of the museum in the Capitol was passed HOUSE.--A resolution for three sessions a day went to the committee....The Appellate Court bill went to third reading....Mr. Man- ton's bill authorising the support o* paupers by to wnships waa put on its passage and beaten -- Bills passed: For the appointment of a Fish Commission; to enable townships to discon.- tinue high schools by an election; to repeal the act by which certain fines and penalties in Cook county go to the Chicago Law Institute; to provide for s system of land surveys; tbe compromise Drainage Ml!; relative to jurors. ....Mr. Wheeler's Tcvnship Insurance bill was killed. contract together for a water supply; to ament tha law relating to the disturbance of thR» P«tee; to lepdiM the sisetfen of thegtfpnS* Court Clerk of Cook eounty; to provide fm- «»unty, eta, sbddaf flmdte... JBMWS I James wsa jprSsenttf with an nlsgsii vassby fits lams of the «apttsl....BtUsws5 tnsn passed: PunisMog body tnioUng; toe Practice art; flung Times of hotdiag oourt in Pops eennfer; to sTBfiiil th* fo«mrtssTrew^f; ameSfee in relation to official bonds so as to moifc amplir secure public moneys and isfrNs of wards sfr, widows against peculation; toenails eitfs% towns and villages to contract with saoh other for sewerage; amending tha Circtrft Court "J"! • NOMADIC INDIANS., " ' £ ' ' « An American who hag been 'slttdVlftiffe s April 18. --8DU.TB. --The bill to ap- 150,000 to pay tha debts of the Joliet penitentiary was ordered to a third reading, after a long debate... A minority reportagaiast the completion of the Southern penitentiary was introduced....Senator Bash introduced a bill to authoi ize stockholders of railroads to give voting power to the holders of mortgage-bond#.... Appropriation bills were passed as follows: Elgin Insane Asylum. #115,047; Appellate Court of First district, #4,000 per annum for room- rent, the same for liabilities, and expenses #8,850; Pontiac Reform School, #30,300; Kanka­ kee Asylum for Insane, #100,000: for expenses Blind Asylum, #47,300; Joel Jonnson, for re­ turning fugitive from justice, $529; Kankakee Asylum, for building, #ltH,000; for transfer­ ring prisoners from Joliet to Chester, #1,642; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, #159,500; Normal University at Normal, #3H,000; Industrial University at Champaign, #23,OOu; Feeble-Minded Asylum, $20,000; Soldiers' Or­ phans' Home, 885,500; Eye and Ear Infirmary, #42,W0; Southern Hospital for the Insane, #191,500; State Board of Agriculture, # 1,880: Jacksonville Insane Asylum, $25,150; Deaf ana Dumb Asylum, for purchase of land and re­ pairs on buildings, ill,000; Blind'Asylum at Jacksonville, tor buildings, #7,000; Blind Asy­ lum, expenses, #47,000; Normal School at Carbvriidsils, #&)5,000; quarantine expenses at Cairo, §4,U51. HOUSE.--Bills were passed: To regulate the issue of city, county and town bonds; to allow witnesses in Justices' Courts milasge; Io pro­ vide for the organization of cities as villages; to give cities, efe^e^trol « T ' <' A ' tri?' i • k ' »sr V »i; 5 ' *• %fK Si * • 8 . ,-J; : si! ; "-I: ir 4 the life, habits and traits of the manches, thinks that there arte *>.? ,)ph0\ > ent from 10,000 to 12,000, of whom 2,50flt" •re warrioTB.. Wholly nomadi;, they' have no villages or fixed habitation^, bnt roam and plunder 890 to 900 mile* from north to sooth and 700 miles froift east to west. They own large herds of ' horses and mules, obtaining horned tie only for their immediate wants, bi* ; cause they cannot drive thorn it fast as they want to mom All their animals are prmmred by nab­ bing the Mexicans and Americans, twA all their war* are undertaken more for plunder of this sort than for any ot-h# purpose. They never take men priso||̂ ers, though they kill and scalp then|g; but they carry off women and children^- make wives of the former, and rear thi; latter as their own. They have nevee had any permanent places of abode, i> the absenoe of all mounds or tumuli iji the territory they range over clearer proves. They seem to have been bom ' on horseback, where they do all the|r fighting, and in attacking trains thajr always endeavor to stamped© thi» animals by cries and war-whoops-̂ * stampede rendering destruction of it train almost certain. If they attack *' village, they kill everybody they e|r oounter, and then drive off the stocks The chiefli of these Indians do not herit their authority, but acquire it tj|r superior knowledge, personal bravery, or sucoess in war. Any social disagree- meBt is adjusted by a council of chidb and seniors of the lodges; but tiusa* disagreements are few, and family feuds are rare. Indeed, they live together more harmoniously than many civilised people do. ^ OI law thej have no notion,, nor have they any conception of n*r tional policy. They never observe treer ties any longer than self-interest prompts, in which they resemble moat enlightened people. Their religion* ideas are very crude and indefinite. la an evil spirit they do not believe, but ascribe both good and evil to the good spirit. Their conception of a future life is indistinet; but they hold tha* men who have stolen the most horses and taken the most scalps will have the best chance of happy hunting grounds in another world. Fire is sacred with them and used in all their religious ob­ servances. Ties of kindred are veij^ strong, and extend not only to relatival' by blood, but by marriage. Offenses against any member of a family are promptly avenged by all or anyone con- . nected with it. They are polygamisig^ some chiefs having ten or twelve wives^ The husband exercises absolute do» minion over the wife, who does all the work while he fights and steals. Going into a fight, they divest themselves ot, everything except breech-cloth and leg­ gings. They call themselves Haling- meaning live, or first-alive, peopk* ' -r ' -1 • ' • I '• • '*V(; : ; i-'i-i ft <,,• •' DOCTQB8. ? • i'i It is often aaid that the medioal prf. feesion in the United States is-ovev* * V' crowded. Over eighty medioal oolleges *:f.' send forth every year more than 1,000 new graduates to be supported by sot* - f e r inghuman i ty . The number of doe# • ' • •A tors is increasing far beyond the in** K| crease of population. In 1810 theft - ,j were in the whole country 600 medical students, or one to 12,000 people; ^ J whereas, in 1877, there were 9,646 stt* 1 f dents, or one to 4,700 inhabitants. No ^ country has such an abundance of doe- " "o tors, for in no country can the medioal diploma or lioense be obtained so easily ^ as in our republio. As a result of this we have one doctor to every 600 peo- | | pie; whereas, oar neighbor, Canad% / ^ has one doctor to 1,200 people; Great Britain, one to 1,672; France, one to 1,814; Belgium, one to 2,048; Austria one to 2,500; Germany, one to 3,000; Italy, one to 3,500; Norway, one to 3,480; Russia, ene to 50,000. Tho physicians of this country, under tho double pressure of hard times and pro- fessioiial competition, have begun to think that the time has come to adopt measures of protection. One proposi­ tion, which will not be adopted, is it abolish colleges as private corporations and put medioal education under tho control of the States; that is, to estab­ lish otate colleges with salaried pro: sors, who shall not depend upon tho students for their income, and so will not be tempted to grant diplomas to the largest possible number of grad» natflSi 9*15 ' 1 h^\l -J •M 1 ' Ttto Sophomores enterthone-oar; the first takes the only vacant seat, and i the second sits in his lap. Presently a 71 young lady enters, and the second Soph., rising, MTake my.»«eafl*.