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» ,v • ̂ ̂ 1 5 ( i ,|v J. „ -'j *- J. ' * . - * ' \ ' * * r *. S. .. * ' " " ' * ' * i r " J. TAN BLYKE, EDTTO* Ain> McHENBY, ILLINOIS. •>'t- > - ĵ irrjfjriu& v- , Tfce Mtnhtnfa WMMtoy. ! -fh» monkey married tk* baboon* iMir, ::y|a»etod M« My --* toen I* Mint 1m, XClaMdao hardb« nOMd »bllal#, She ut up a yell. . : i^ftiatfUlasattld stuck on mii'iiu lUis'if illliiwf* , Jt stack ao fast it conltat attek any fsstar; -*'; •, fTasn't that a tad disaster? 4 Pretty »oon it got wall. ' What doyoa think the bride waa dreaaed in} '"w ' ifbite ganse Tall and a green-glass breastpin, £ Jted-Hd AMI; ahe looked qnlte intereattaf-- She waa qnlte a belle. ' -'lithe bridegroom wore a bine shirt eolls*, A black silk at«ck that coat a dollar. Xarge lalae whiskers, the fashion to follow. \ He cnt qnits a awell. %hat do yon think they had tor suppe/t " week-eyed beans and bread a®d buttery** 9nckain the dnck-house all in a flnttajfcv-. ' Mckledoysters,too. ,\iy;*v, fiheetnata boiled, ud raw, sad roastsd^v•;/, ^pplea atewed and onioca toasted; " "flfaalc in the corner poeted, ;'|i" - :::'£y£c ̂ '4" 'vj' •' Waiting lor the CM.: What do yon think waa the taneffcey! ®h6 drunken aailor and sometimes Jim'Crow; Tails in the way, and aome got pinched, too, Becanae they were too loaf, v t do yon think they had for a fiddle? :;jKn old banjo with a hole in the middle; « - jj( tambourine made oat of a riddle, And that's the end ot my -JsiMhi Smith. Little Jatk Mmmeat little Jack Harner ' Sat in a corner. Bating bia Christmas pie; He put in hla thumb And polled out a plum, And aaid, " What a brave boy in It" These six lines, I suppose, are as fa­ miliar to yon as your A. B. 0.--indeed, I wouldn't much wonder if you knew all about Jack Horner, Mother Hub­ bard, Jack and Jill, long before you ever knew there wore such torments in the world as As and Gs, and Ss and Wa'. I do not believe you have ever heard the true story of the small Jack, this celebrated person in the literature of the nursery. Will you listen while I tell you the story, the real, true story ? There is a tradition in Somersetshire that' the Abbot of Glastenbuxy, hearing that Henry VIII, had spoken with in­ dignation of his building suoh a kitchen as the King could not burn down--it being domed over with stone--sent up his steward, Jack Horner, to present the Sing an acceptable present, viz., a dish whioh, when the crust was lifted up, was found to contain deeds tiansferring twelve inanors to his sovereign; and that, as Jack Horner traveled up to town in the Abbot's wagon, h« lifted up the •crust, and stole out the gift of the manor of Wells, still possessed by his descend­ ants, and, when he returned, told the Abbot that the King had given it to him, but was found, or suspected, to have im­ posed upon his patron. Then there is another version of the story: When the monasteries and their property were seized, orders were given to take th© title deeds of the abbey es­ tates at Wells, whioh were very exten­ sive and valuable. After some delay, it was determined, by the Abbot of Glas- tenbury, to give them up, and, for want of a safe mode of conveying them, it was decided that the most likely way to Avoid their being seized by any but those for whom they were intended was to send them injf. pastry. The safest messenger, and least likely io excite suspicion, was considered to be a poor lad-- our young hero--Jack Horner, who was the son of poor parents living in the neighborhood of the grange. The lad set oat on his journeyon foot, laden with the pastry. It was a weary road, and, England not being so thickly inhabited as now, he sat down to rest in as snug accruer as he could find on the roadside. Hunger at last overcame him--as it will some small children--(do yon know any children who are ever hungry, who like bread and butter and sugar ?)--Well, jub I was saying, hunger overcame him, and he was at a loss what 20 do, when he bethought him of the pastry, and thought there would be nd harm in tasting ever so little a hit of the pie which he was carrying. .He therefore inserted his thumb un- •dqr the crust, when lo! there was noth­ ing but parchment--poor, disappointed b«ty--nq pudding and no plums, and parchments are not very satisfying to a ̂ hungry stomach. Although Jack oould not read iht̂ e parchments, he thought they might be of value. He therefore pocketed one of the papers, and pur­ sued his journey with the rest ol the pastry. Upon his delivering the deeds, it was found that one of the chief ones was missing; it was thought that the Abbot had withheld it, and an order was sent fqr him to be executed. This was all from Jafk's stealing the plum. The sequel was that, after the monasteries despoiled, there was found in the sion of the family of Jack Horner a piece of parchment--which was his title-deed of Wells Abbey--the Abbot having been executed for withholding the ieeci, as was supposed. * * confessed stealing JwjioiljfcUohm r the plum and not allowed the poor Ab­ bot to lose his, head. I am real glad our plums are real, live ones, and not dried tough parchment--Francis Stevens. Mnfjflllf HK9 .<1140*0 JCWCflMRe Boys, I want to ask you hew you think a conqueror would make out who went through country he was trying to subdue, and whenever he found a fort hard to take left it alone. Dont you think the enemy would buzz wild there, like bees in a hive, and, when he was well into the heart of a country, don't you fancy they would swam out and harass him terribly? Just so, I want you to remeniber, will it be with you; if you (ikip over the hard places in your lessons and leave them unlearned, you have left an enemy in the rear that will not fail to harass you and mortify you times without number. "There was just a little fait of fey Latin 1 hadn't read," said a vexed stu­ dent to me, "and it was just there the professor had to call upon me at exam­ ination. There were just two or three examples I had passed over, and one of those I waa asked to do on the black­ board." The student who is not thorough is never well at Ms ease; he cannot forget the skipped problems, and the con­ sciousness of his deficiencies makes him nervous and anxious. Never laugh at the slow, plodding student; the time will surely come when the laugh will be turned. It takes time to be thorough, but it more than pays. Besolve, when you take up a new study, that you will go through it Hke successful conqueror, taking every strong point. If the inaocurate scholar's difficulties closed with his sohool life, it might not 'be so great a matter for his future ca­ reer. But he has chained himself to a habit that will be like an iron ball at his heels all the rest of his life. Whatever he does will be lacking somewhere. He has learned to shirk what is hard, and the habit will grow with years.-- Schoolday Visitor. I POPULAR SCIENCE. DR. POLU says that no human being should die before the 100th year is at­ tained. PAPBB teeth are a new invention in Germany, and a number of specimens were displayed at the late exhibition in Berlin. They are warranted folly as durable as any other teeth. DR. WACHPMTTTH, of Berlin, says that if one-third part of the oil of turpen­ tine is added to chloroform the latter be administered as an ansesthet$c can without the risk usually attending it CHSVBXUL supports the view of artists and dyers that there are only three simple colors--red, yellow «tnd blue. By an apparatus having a maximum motion of 160 to 220 turns per minute, and a minimum of sixty turns per minute, the complementary of every oolor ma/ be produced. BELIEVING that the difficulty of sepa­ rating phosphorus in the ordinary Bes­ semer converters and open-hearth steel furnaces is due to the highly-silicious lining usually employed, Osman, of Dusseldorf, Germany, has patented a carbon lining, by means of whioh he hopes to eliminate the phosphorus pretty thoroughly. THE Scientific American myuot the patent system: It is intended to bene­ fit the public, as a whole, through the protection of inventors. The obnoxious features of the proposed amendment are, indeed, to benefit a few, through the protection of infringers. Thn choice between the system as it is and as the change would make it would seein to be an easy one to make by all clear-headed and honest men. A BURLED forest has been discovered in the Valley of the Fulda, in the neighborhood of Bothenburg. Two or three hundred trees--oaks for the most part--were found covered up in the bed of the river, six to nine feet below the surface, and extending over an area of about thirty miles. The trees are large, and the wood, which is in an ex­ cellent state of preservation, although quite blaok, is well adapted lor pur­ poses of ornamentation. IK the instanoe of the iron steamship City of Venice, which went ashore on the rooks, after every other plan to raise and haul her off had failed--she had rooks through her bottom in some plaoes four feet high--dynamite was tried. The rocks protruding through the vessel were first removed by use of mall charges; the tops of the rooks outside of the vessel were then blasted away, and ike vessel got off without further injury, and was saved. SYMPATHY. Poor people have more time to be sympathetic) than their rich neighbors. Lost objects of love or esteem live lon­ ger in the feelings of the poor than of tho rich, since the former have few sources of gratification to fill up the void, while the latter are possssssd of a great number and variety. TMX WMECKS OF GENIUS, BY I*. H. WELLS. Gleaming out from among the friftfuat constellations, which ornament the heavens above us, a star of more brilliancy Sum* the others is seen-- among the diamonds, found in the do- bris by the gleaners after wealth, a pearl of greater value and purity than the others; and among the bright whose achievements have % glorious ©ffnlgenoe over the pages of history, is seen an intellect whose scintillations dim the splendor of all others. Such an intellect is endowed with the holy office of creation, and bears the mint-stamp from heaven. Ideas which never before ranged through the chambers of thought purify Mid feed, the world through the medium of this intellect The graceful curves of Hogarth, the sublime imagery of Hilton, the profound philosophy of Bacon, and the practical inventions of the past ages and the age in which we live are the manifestations of the power possessed by this wonderful intellect Such is the prerogative of true genius --unlike the slow, plodding destiny of the sluggish mind, it springs over the interval usually oocupied by lesser in­ tellects in toil and preparation to the dazzling height of creation. God-like in its conceptions and thoroughly prac­ tical in all its originations, genius is the fountain, pure and original, from which the busy world, with its count­ less throng of workers, gleans the crude materials for life occupations. Every creative genius that has existed since the world began is a fatherhood, the ex* istence of whose posterity is coequal with time. Heroditus was the father of history, and all who have followed in his footsteps are members of his school, and, in a measure, copyists. Bacon was the father of a peculiar sect of philoso­ phy; Shakspeare, Spenser and Byron were the fathers of distinct poetic schools, as were Horace, Virgil, Homer and Ovid, and the satellites of each are to-day and have been heretofore as countless as the leaves on the forest trees. The inventions which we have to-day in suoh endless profusion, the broad range and value of our literature, the magnifioenoe and wealth of our art repositories are the oreations of genius. But God did not make a genius of every man--he created the artist, the teaaher and the taught, and to one of these classes the body of mankind belongs. We are either artists, teachers or taught I do not believe the Soottish theory that the minds of all human beings are equal in capacity and endowments. I do not believe that Baoon could have con­ structed the magnificent epic of "Para­ dise Lost" any more than I believe that Milton could have been the author of Blackstone's "Commentaries on English Law." Each was a genius distinct, filling the place on earth assigned by a will more powerful than that of man. But, rolling back the scroll of time a decade of centuries or more, all along the beaten path of the past are seen the broken monuments and wrecks of genius. Castle rook has stood for years in the gorge the Columbia river has out through the Cascade mountains--a rug­ ged witness of apparent waste in the economy of nature--and whose only purpose seems to be to bear testimony of the war of mountain and river. In the pathway whicu humanity has trav­ ersed a thousand monuments perpetuate the wreck of genius. The winds which grieve and sob among the last resting plaoes of earth's children sound a re- quium over a myriad of brilliant minds that have been wrecked while on earth, as the ship Upon the treacherous waves of the sea. Napoleon, the genius of war, at whose oommands nations trembled; ha who " made his throne on a pyramid of bones amid a sea of blood," went down in the grandeur of complete ruin. Genius, in every age, armed with the subtle stilleto--war--irascible and vin­ dictive, has made the world a mountain of bones and an ocean of blood. The melancholy fate of Stockdale, the utter ruin of Dryden, literary geniuses, illus­ trates that this world is strewn with wrecks of intellects far more numerous than the ships that are moldering in the depths of the ocean. The oold in- difference with whioh the world looks upon the aspirations of genius chills the native ardor, and the wild delirium of consolation is found in the intoxicat­ ing drink. This last delusion com­ pletes the ruin--a mind fashioned es­ pecially by the hand of the Omnipo­ tent with a creative power utterly de­ stroyed by the evil desires of man! Genius is not an ephemeral meteor, whose gleams flash out a moment and THE nswa! original stump-pullers The A1 * IN "•*, h:j*. * <^>*> 3 Genius is destroy the dia- le dust, and the shine out low of rains. fadeaway in no] eternal. You mond by casting it' qualities of true through the gloom Boonmo, Ore. MO COMN A little girl who first month on a larm in was asked, " What do y in the country? " Replied " I like the country because there are ao corners 1 When I am home. n«th« 1 ^ ding her tells me not to go farther titan the cor­ ner of the street; but, don't you see, there ars no ooaapMoes hem, and I oango anywhere 1" nYSFjgjprioa. Where can you ind * more WtiwVihed object than the confirmed dyspeptic? Life has no charms for him; the simple pleasures of eating and drinking have lost their zest; he views everything through smoke-colored spectacles; he is lachrymose and gloomy. Yet, in most oases, he has only himself to blame for this state of affairs. Who are the people that are always talking about their digestion and dyspepsia? Not sailors, nor agricultural laborers, nor mechanics, nor boys and girls, nor, for the most part, men; in other words, not those who live much in the open air, and use their limbs and muscles. But who are the people who are half afraid of their meals, and have miserably to oonsider what shall we not eat, and what shall we not drink? They are in­ door sort of people--tailors and shoe­ makers, milliners, clergymen, literary men, and nervous, fidgety people, who are always worrying themselves. Then there are people that weaken their stomachs by things whioh , they take--not only by too much beer and spirituous drinks, but by living too much on tea, and taking too much to­ bacco. What can they expect but dys­ pepsia? If men weaken their stom­ achs with exoessive work when they are tired, it is natural that digestion should not go on well. rntizw or fxnmjig, In the course of a lecture on the "Ef­ fects of Oooupations upon Health,* re­ cently delivered at Leipsic by Dr. Heubner, he drew attention to the fre­ quency of lead-poisoning among type­ founders, compositors and pressmen. In Leipsic itself, the great metropolis of the German book trade, 77 per cent, of all who are thus affected belong to the trades enumerated. Type-founders are poisoned by inhaling the fumes of the metal, while compositors and press­ men inhale minute particles of the same material. Fraught with still greater danger is, however, the fre­ quent practice of compositors bringing their type-stained hands in contact with their lips or keeping eatables in com­ posing-rooms, etc. The great prevent­ ives against all suoh chronic poisoning are cleanliness, both of person and in the work-room, and ample ventilation by the frequent opening of windows, etc. As regards lung diseases, too, printers compare unfavorably with most other trades, the proportion of deaths from this cause being exceptionally large. The one safeguard against this danger also is ventilation, whioh, as we all know, is sadly neglected in printing- offices generally by reason of the almost universal dread of draughts. MMirBlTMS TO MIDMVUJUL It is a well-known fact that animals are sensitive to ridicule. A writer tells of a pony of his own whioh gets very oross when disparagi.Bg remarkg are made upon Mm, and "becomes furious, and stamps about his stall, putting bask his ears, and attempting to bite," if he is openly laughed at, while praise great­ ly pleases him. The truth is, that it is only those creatures whioh oan enjoy praise that oaa also appreciate ridicule. The horse sympathizes evidently with many of his rider's feelings and amusements, while the dog can enter into no small proportion of his feelings. But birds and oats, al­ though often exceedingly affectionate, and lull of attachment to individuals', hardly ever attempt to enter into human feelings--as Cowper's dog "Beau," for instance, entered into the poet's desire to possess himself of the water-lily. The hatred of ridicule always accompanies capacity for sympathy. Certainly dogs and probably horses, know the differ­ ence between being laughed at in de­ rision, as we langh at a fool, and being laughed at in admiration, as we laugh at a good comic actor, and enjoy the latter as much as they resent the former. MAKKTKD AGAINST MIS WIZZ. Aooording to a Baltimore paper, George Soates is at present residing in Joliet, in this State, under circum­ stances Eomewhat peculiar. Scates went to Baltimore recently, and was soon followed by Miss Carrie Tilton, to whom, it is said, he was engaged. Scates had been a visitor at the house of a Mr. De Ford, and had paid some attention to Miss Mattie De Ford. One evening last week he reoeived a polite note, ask­ ing him to call on the De Fords. Com­ plying with the request, he was ushered into the presence of Miss De Ford, her two big brothers,, her father and a cler­ gyman. A marriage license was shown him, and he soon discovered the part he was to play in the domestic drama. His protests were in vain, and the knot was tied. The next day he took the west­ bound train, with the intention of living beyond the confines of Maryland for one year, when he will apply for a di­ vorce.--Chicago Herald. Wa. KrrOwgLET, a well-known jour- nalist in the Southwest, died reoantly at Hot Springs, Ark. ' . - • ..... ea-ittef THE WOUKSHOP. 'JLVEMACATOR is now manufactured from soaprtone dnst carefully prepared ohemically, and then mixed with com­ mon grease or lard for heavy bear­ ings. A sunvnom's ohain, called Grater's, after the name of the person who adopted it, is four rods or sixty-six feet long, made of No. 6 to No. 9 wire, and haa 100 links. Ten of these square chains are equal to one acre, A NEW method has been invented for propelling the street oars in New York; it is an engine worked by compressed air contained in tanks under the .mats, and operated by the man on the plat­ form; it will run ten or twelve miles without the WALNTTT stain for pine and wiiite woods: Very thin sized shellac, 1 gal­ lon; dry burnt umber, 1 pound; dry burnt sienna, 1 pound; lampblack, i pound. Shake until well mixed. Ap­ ply one coat with a brush; then sand­ paper and apply a coat of/shellao var­ nish. SOME matches are made without sul­ phur, thus avoiding the offensive smell of that material. A German composi­ tion for this purpose constats of phosphorus, four parts; water, ten; fine glue, six; red ooher or red lead, five; smalt, two. The ingre­ dients, in the order named, are incor­ porated with the liquified glue to form a paste. Fluted silver is obtained by rolling together a plate of oopper of the first quality and one of silver; these are either welded or simply united by plao- ing their hot and clean surfaces to­ gether, wetted with a oonoentrated solu­ tion of nitrate of salver. The two metals are reduced and drawn out about equally by the pressure of rolls, and long sheets or bands of silvered metal are thus obtained. believed in by the eradhdotis of theaameparU, is the wearing of a skein of silk round the part affected.--the nd. WXINOISLETTLSLLTUM. a&TDSDAT, April 1& -Sa^ATS. as6 mmMng the Bogbrtry law went to ssssad reading, as did th« bill autlwrimng eUtm to wtfnrtvHfc a^BFATE toaaifte *• •BPPIJ * **** aadsimmat •ilimriim T\ Mil to prohibit Hie loaning of SMiTf* WSSR fo!!o*«d by fSfifc flute ot tfcliStatatobe plainly stumM*?*! togsnchfaet, waaraada--ooodttmaaadahot i . 1 * * » * « • * < : V it The roll being Hoosa.--The following uv Mils • dao0d,and read a ftm time: Bj Xr. LovaU, to prevent fishing through the toe after the 1st V ordinances de tor an ...JCr. lov- MwmaAttaraey of the Alton CityOwut; by Mr. Ingham, to enforce penalties ud »«>w flnee tor violating tCTortiiw ef etnas and vilhgea: to m iddUttnit Jttlli fa* flwA aawnH eiPe bffl in regard to criminal Juinrndetm went to third reading... .The Senate Appropri­ ation bilk whieh pawled that body were read a firet tbne, and referred to ooamitteee....& eall of tike House ehowed 78 members pnaent, and the Honae adjonrned. SIokut, April IL-tattm-Tbm being no qnoaram, th® Smato adjourned till the aftats noon....Senator Mefi bill in regard to stamping artiofoe mads in ihe pemteotiarjr waa reoammitted Bent to third reading: Senator and eonditiboaS sales of iraUway extending the time ef their operation to period oontraetad for, and requiring them to be recorded in each ooonty through the whioh the road paaaee; the bill in ragsnl to the B Uroad and warehouse OomadaaloMt% requiring life- OCKAtf BTORM THACKS* Prof. Loomis' examination of the storm tracks of the North Atlantio in 1874-75 showed that, on an average, only eighteen storms a year oaa be traced from the United States to Eu­ rope; that nearly all of these pursue ft north-easterly course and pass consider­ ably to the north of Soot?and; and that the probability of a storm's passing from this country and striking the En­ glish coast is only as one iu nine. The storm chart No. 4, just issued by Gen. Myer, of the Signal Service Bureau, contains the tracks of eight storms crossing the Atlantio in the first two months of the present year, and con­ firms Prof. Loomis' deductions. Of the storms noted only one struck the En­ glish coast, two passed across France and one over Spain ; the rest curved toward the pole, and passed several hun­ dred miles to the vorth of the British isles. By the regular publication of these charts Gen. Myer is doing admir­ able work iu promoting the study of me­ teorology as a saience, and thoroughly deserves the oompliment paid him by the Vienna Meteorological Oongress. JBALTIMOM* AND OMIO MAILROAMK At the late annual meeting of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad directors in Baltimore, a dividend of 4 per oent. was declared on the capital stock of the main stem for the half year, and a semi­ annual dividend of 5 per oent. upon the stock of the Washington branch rail­ road. The financial statements pre­ sented in connection with these divi­ dends showed that the net earnings of the main stem for six months ending March 31 were $2,064,012.97, being $499,319.27 more than for the same period of the preceding year. It was also stated that after payment of inter­ est and taxes, and in addition to ex­ penditures of $200,000 in cash for new locomotives and oars built at the shops of the oompany, and investments for the sinking fund in reduction of the mort­ gage debts, amounting to $829,743.11, the floating debt incurred in aiding the construction of connecting roads was further reduced during the six tnonths by the application of net earn­ ings to the extent of $761,640.09. SOMM POPULAR CUJSMS. ' The spider is still a pbpular chfe. Put into a box and allowed to pine away, it is a remedy for the ague. The spider, by the way, plays a very diverse role in folk-lore. In France and Belgium there is a superstition that it has a penchant for the brains of infants, and that, if not watched, it will suck them. It is also imagined that one crossing the forehead in the night causes headache. One caught and buried is a cure for it. Ac­ cording to other folk-tales it is Highly detrimental to destroy one. In Kent the popular saying is: If yoa wish to lire and thlife, Let a spider run dive; and in Surrey there isa dread of killing them. To return to the remedies for the ague, a correspondent of Notes and Queries gives a charm whioh came un­ der his own notice. It was to tie a bunch of common groundsel on the bare bosom. Certain incantations ac­ company the application. In Cam­ bridgeshire, a ring of tar around the body is regarded as a cure for the Another popular remedy for the in a much-amended condition; insnranoe companies to donoalt I with the State Treasurer inetead of the Auditor. --The bill to repeal the Vagrant act was re­ fused a third reading....Banato bill No. SOS WA* postponed to Wednesday of next waek. No qnoram being present, the Houaa adjourned till afternoon,.. „ .Advanced to third reading: Amending the twl in relation to Jus­ tices and oonatables; to facilitate the coDeotion of wages; providing for the time of opening the polla at town elections: in relation to ofl insbeo- uon; in relation to toll-roads; revising thelaw in regard to eetrays... .Xr. XcBride introdneed a Mil for the levy and ooUeatfonof taxes.... After considerable talk on varioua sabjeots, a eall of the House showed no quorum. Ad­ journed. TUESDAY, April 22. --STOAT* --The Hense bill to appropriate $80,000 to par the militia and other expenses in patting down the riota of 1877 was passed, with an emergency clause, by a vote of 84 to5... .The remaiuder of the morn­ ing was spent on toe Farm Drainage bill, which was recommitted to the Judiciary CommiMee.... In the afternoon the Matthews Drainage bill was taken up, and toe remainder of the session was consumed iu debating whether to amend or not Benator Whiting suggested a large num­ ber of changes, but the whole matter was ly consigned to the Judiciary Committee. HOUSE.--The bill to Ngulate stock-yard00M- panies and fix their maximum rates of ehargea «a>iiaidere<i oa ammH iwading. Tk* mm mittee's amendment to give the Railroad and Warehouse Commieaionei-ti power to fix the ra'es was rejected, and the mil was ordered to ft third reading, with an amendment fixing the rates at s&) oenta for cattle and muiea» 6 oenta for hogs, and 5 cents for sheep.... Bills passed: To change the time of hotding County Courts in Macon, Williamson, Johnson and Clay oounties; to protect policy-holder* in life-insurance companies; Trueedell's bill iu relation to fire-insurance eoapa- Dies; for the regulation of pawnbrokers; in relation to the iucoiporation of eitSee and villages; incorporating building associations; amending the Bastardy act; amending the law of criminal jurisprudence; to pMtoot laboMMl miners, mechanics and merehanta. WsDmsDAT, April 88.--SmtATB.- Herdman'a bill amending the want to third reading... .At the request of Bast- ator l̂ent, his bill providing for the examina­ tion of banks was made a special order for Friday next... .Bills were paasw: lb appro- prfate il3,(*7 to pay for damuea eauiefi py the erection of the dam at New Haven, on thi little Wabash river; to pay for a Slats coat at arms to be plac<"i in the Washington mansion si Mount Vernon, Yx., and to pay #3,000 saeh fc» the two men wuo were disabled by the dia- eharjre of a cannon at Decatur, in October.... The MB to pajPfor an additional four antes for toe new Stato House was sent to the Judkiary Committee... .The Ml to pay tor the damage caused tor the dam at Henry was reoomtoltted to the Judiciary OommiUoe In exeoutive sestfon, li H. MeOrea was confirmed as Park Commissioner. HOUSE.--Mr. Btabee moved to reoommil to the Appropriation Committee the bill to appam- priate 910,000 to pay for a library foe the first District Appellate Court, and, after debate, the •uotiou was adopted... .Bilia passed; The bill for a new militia code; ooneerning vdnntaay assignments; in regard to the law of garnish mems: allowing convicts in the penitentiary a credit a diminution of their sentence; to amend the charter of the Father Msttkav Tampemass Society. TBUBSDAY, April 21--BKXATB.--The bill to submit t@ the people at the election In 1800 to* question of abolishing the Stato Normal Uni­ versities. was made the special order for Wedneedav... .Hie Hoaae bill ao pi feesions of judgment, eaoa open oourt, was laid on the table The Ju­ diciary committee returned toe 8ny Carte Drainage bill, and, after a long debate, it was ordered to a seoond reading....mils psssed: To appropriate #50,000 to pay the debts of the Joliet penitentiary, to amend the law relating to administration of estates;" posing a tax of |1 ahead on dogs--toe] to go to payment of sheen destroyed; 1 Industrial Hchool for Girls: allowing towns «o refund their indebtednees at a lower rate of la toreet; limiting oontraet rate ef interest to 6 per cent; authorising a visiting wnmitte of the Legislature to toe Mtoto tnsHtutiuaia; to prevent fraud in the making of bettor; ran- If« lower berth, and 13 for etato-roosat- HOUSE.--Mr. Mason's motion to rsooasiiar the vote by which Mr. Trueedell's Iusuiauoe bill was' passed was rejected....The bill to authorize cities and villages to mtgsdm- two days' road labor annually was passed. ....11M bill to require trains to ton aft county seats was ordered to a third] The bill to require druggists to from the State Boerd< _ One of the bills prepared oy the Bafnaus Oosi- mittee wap passed, as were thebiOs pMUbWif toe^£tota£eatitelinQ0r st tO»*t amend- in« toe School law, to relation to JitMom of the Peace, and for the proouring of sand and £r* _?or v -The bill in regard to torol- ble entry and detainer waa lost As adept in ocean travel urges thoee Mho fear sickness to take a ten-grain blue pill the night before sailing, and a dose of citrate magnesia the following morning. Then eat breakfast and go on board. He has followed this practice for several years, and been entir ̂free from qualms. All thoee who have imi­ tated him have been equally fortunate. f4'.'" sit? life i f - prohibit con- " BBXVOCB," " Long Primer,* Pica,* and * Pica " are the names of the four children of the editor el th* B . Hawkinsville (Tenn.) Dispatch, msrkTmT: T ' v r > . ^ $ w : * • 1 ' MM,- £S4^S!;."