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vfm Tf"-~^| P,«GR*?">' W; WTW '̂JP TPWP^ |ppni)| ftonleafot J. TAN 8LYKE, EorroB AKD PUBLISHER. ILLINOIS. 'S -* ; %';, -_ ;:?% *>"'$ ??5 v 2V) *f * QUE JUVENULES^ SSWrwwMNr "ftmwlHyi*,'; •v .,>;%} .W,-t W4 ' A ,1 4' •sm> ^WsTv, "V-% ••(». vo *• J..* f. 4 ililtey '̂body ttsses me, And tells me I am «weet. 4adujri, "What pitty Itttokaa Vlat tooiila' 'ittle ieetl" ad Hain't BO fan for "ittl« BM. Bo massed and hauled abost, Wis rough old whiskers all Haratchsdvpt I wnb my noie and pout. flay, now, big folks, how would oo UkS To be in Snowd'p'a p'aca-- * , HAT* each old poke dat cuma along Pnt times on oor face? •.. Oo would not like It, I know<Hi-- How would oo? Tell me^iH^ v$ ^ Now oo must eezer tell a fib , Or div oonelf away. m <*j«{ / iBhtartrti Side. Jfcwas * mite of a boat jus* luge enough for two, that belonged to Gas* ass's 14-year-old brother, Robert. : It was painted blue and white, and was named the Arrow because it .flew oyer the water BO swiftly. It was Gussie's one great wiah to aide in this pretty boat all alone. He wanted to make it go "just his own self," he said, and his mamma had answered: • , "Gussie is too null » b^f. Be must wait till he wears pants. Then aome time he shall go iij thfe boat* Gussie did not forget the promise, though his mamma did, and the first thing he did when the long-coveted trousers were put on was to straighten .himself up to his very biggest, and aay: "Now, mamma, don't you be at all worried about me! I sha'n't be a bit." Of course mamma laughed at this apeeeh, and then went away to her work, while Gussie, with Bover at his JL\eels, went as straight as he could go dpwn turough the garden path to the liver. the Arrow was rooking larily to and fro on the water. Gussie loosened the chain that held it, Then he got into the boat, Rover followed, and away they went, slowly at first, but faster as they neared the middle of the stream. 7 Gussie clapped his hands in delight. "It's nioe to wear pants and go boat­ ing all alone, ain't it Rover?" said he, and then in the next breath-- "I hope they'll have lots of pudding Jolr dinner. S'posel'll eat more now, «onrse." Pretty soon Gussie thought of some­ thing. "Oh, Rover, I shall be nervous, I Jmo^f. We didn't bring no oars." Rover blinked his eyes very hard, and looked as if he was very well satis­ fied as things were, and presently Gus- «ie said: " It's just as niee this way, after all, and nicer, for if I had oars I'd have to oar the boat, and now I've got nothin' to do but 'joy the ride." Rover was fast asleep now, and Gus­ sie hoisted ah umbrella which he found under the seat, "just for company," as he said to himself, and then he fell to watching the trees and bushes go past with eyes that wouldn't stay open try as Jw would. Once thd boat bumped against a stone, and that brought them wide open enough, and Rover's, too. " I guess that was a big fish--hope taint a whale, though; we might be swallowed up, mightn't we, Rover? " Kover blinked, as much as to say he thought so, and Gussie leaned over the eide of the boat to look for the fish. * O Rover, there's red things away d?wn inthe bottom that maybe goldr or pearls, or something, and, if you wasn't the sleepyest-headed dog in the world, you'd dive down and bring up some." Bover knew something was wanted of him, no doubt; for he went over and sat down behind him, watching him as closely as if he had never blinked in his life. &ussie had his hands in the water. He thought he could almost reach what was the bottom. He tried a little harder. His heels flew up iu the air, and the next instant he would have been in the river had not the dog caught his clothing, and held him back, Gussie. didnt care for the red stones after that. So he turned round, and patting his arm* about Rover's neck, atod drawing the umbrella over them went to sleep. '/. The boat Went on and on, tall it came to a bend in the river, where it followed the current in near the shore. Then all of a sudden it lodged in the branches of a fallen tree, and Goasie's boat-ride wip ended. * *When he awoke he was conscious of two things, hunger and loneliness. Sven Rover was not with him. The leaves were so thick about him that he oould see neither the bank nor the water. j. V*'.. :,V "When Gussie was sure theft the dog really gone, and that the boat was .last, he buried his hands in the pockets of «kn new pants, alnd cried with all his stopped «niag to ft - " f listen. Some one was wading in the water; then his father's form parted the branches of the tree, and Gussie was in his arms in a moment. Rover had guided the gentleman to Gussie's enforced retreat. " Pants is no good I" said Gussie that night. "You might just as well wear dresses for ail the better you're off with them."--Mr8. A.B. Story, in Youth's Companion. * A Fight with « Jtoarw We make the following extract from a hunting story entitled, "The Big Bear of Wannetola," printed in St Nicholas. The incident took plaee in the back oountry of Arkansas, in the year 1860, and the hunters were Harvey Richardson and the narrator. They were after a Wg bear, whose depredations had made him the ohief topic of conversation; and they started out with their dogs early one November morning: Just at day-break we came to a cross­ ing of the bayou where we felt sure the bear must pass on the way to his den. Harvey placed me, the dogs, and him- self. A fallen tree was in my front, and through its interlaced roots I could see in every direction. Hardly had we com­ pleted our ambush when a quick move* ment of one of the dogs startled me. But, in a moment, noticing that his looks were directed toward the crossing, I, too, looked thither, and heard the sound of a heavy animal sauntering slowly over the sodden ground and ap­ proaching my lair. In an instant a pair of yellow eyes glared at me, and with as wide a look of surprise as there was in mine. Recovering myself I fired at the monster, which appeared like a huge, animated black cloud as he rose up be­ fore me. The brute disappeared with the smoke of my gun, but in a moment I was startled by the report and shook of a second discharge. The other load of my gun had accidentally exploded. Looking in the direction that the bear had taken, I saw he had run along the other side of the fallen tree, and met at the farther end the two dogs, when he turned about and came toward me at his most rapid speed, and in savage humor. Then there was a fearful crash and rush. The black mass came on, with eyes gleaming, and bewildering me with the reflection of their glare in the sunlight. I was conscious that my gun was use­ less, and so instinctively grasped my pistol, but found it hopelessly entangled in my belt. For a second, despair came upon me; but a sudden revulsion aroused every sense and prompted me to defense for life. Quickly drawing my knife, it was presented at a thrust as the dark mass sprung at me. At this moment, one of the huge dogs leaped at him so fiercely as to di­ vert the monster's attention from my­ self and make him miss his bite. He reared, and, as he again came down on his forefeet and was in the act of going over the bank, I plunged my knife to the hilt into his body, in tlie region of his heart. He turned and made a ter­ rible snap at my legs, but at the mo­ ment I fell backward over a bush, and so we all went into the bayou together, floundering in the water and mud. , I scrambled to the edge of the slough, and watched with intense anxiety the result of the battle. In another mo­ ment, and when the bear bad nearly leached the further side of the pool, desperately fighting with the dogs ev­ ery inch of the way, I heard a rushing sound and tho whirring flight of more of the pack as they sprung over me. IQ the spme instant a flash shot out from the brown barrel of Harvey's rifle, and the bear rolled over, though he still feebly fought the pack, and kept on fighting to the last moment of his existence. To my mortification, an examination of the huge carcass showed that my shot had not made any visible mark on the animal, an FARM AND HOME. , V-- ArmitoMnfik ' avenge consumption of wheat for each individual of the population of Great Britain is eight bushels per »nnnm. THE Utioa Weekly Herald says an unusual breadth of potatoes has been planted in that section this'year, on ac­ count of the high prioe they brought last year. * IN Holland, where sand is plentiful and cheap, it is extensively UBed for bedding cows. In the East, where sawdust is plenty, that material is used. In the West, where there are unlimited quantities of straw running to waste, it should be saved for the same purpose. It will pay. NEW ENGLAND has now over 230 farmers' clubs, with 72,000 active mem­ bers and library books to the number of 21,000, and in.the United States there are nearly 2,100 agricultural societies, with 58,000 volumes in their libraries, and with access to 360 different agri­ cultural publications. COPPERAS water--a solution of sulphate of iron--five pounds to forty gallons of water, is recommended as valuable for tomato plants at three ap­ plications during the season of growth. It is reported as increasing fruitfulness and earliness, and prolonging the sea­ son. It is also said to be beneficial to roses and other flowering plants. PROF. LAWKS says that native weeds thrive well enough on home-produoed food; but when suoh a luxury as nitrate of soda, or any other effioient commer­ cial fertilizer, is placed within their reach, they will fight with the groin crops for a portion of the repast, and, if permitted, will take the lion's shore. A MOST valuable remedy for heaves and said to be a sure cure: Forty sumac buds, one pound of resin, pint of ginger, half a pound of mustard, one pint of unslacked lime, one pound of epsom salts, four ounces of gum guiacum, six ounces of cream of tartar. Mix thoroughly and divide into thirty powders, and give one every morning in theifeed beforer watering. THE average yield of wheat pat acre is five and one-half bushels in Russia, twelve in the United States, twelve and one-half in Austria, sixteen and one- half in France, and twenty-nine and one-half in Great Britain. In the United States the average yield might easily be doubled, but the cheapness of the land, the use of machinery, and the cost of fertilizers, makes it oheaper to cultivate larger areas rather than to work for large averages. ONE of our Brooklyn friends relates that he has accidentally discovered a very efficient remedy for gapes in chick­ ens. It is dry, caustic lime. One of his chickens got the gapes; he caught the fowl, and with a pen-knife dropped some caustic lime that happened to stand by into its throat, Mid let it go. Next day the fowl had recovered. He mentioned his suocess to a friend of his, who applied the same remedy to three chickens with the gapes with the same result.--Bural New Yorker. , A GERMAN authority says that, when lettuce shows signs of running te seed, if a knife be passed through one-half of the stem of the shooting head, the plant may be preserved good for an additional week. The best plan we have, ever known for preserving lettuce late is to transplant twice,/once from the seed bed, pricking the (plants out four inches apart, and they transplanting in the open ground £*x by twelve inches opart; as the rows/begin to fill out out one- half of the plants, and the balance will form l#rge fine heads, if the ground be rich and moist, and they will remain well into the summer.--Prairie Far- ' WITH beets we have been most suo- essful in those of Our fields the soil of hich we have described as a sandy uck. For field culture, the rows ould be thre^rjeet apart and the lants thinned out in the row to ten ches at least. For garden culture, e rows need not be over two feet art. There is now a tendency to >lant all crops further apart than in by- ;ene days, and the tendency is no doubt ;ood. In our desire for large yields, overlooking the importance of air and n light, as well as the extent of wind which the roots should be per itted to traverse freely, we are too rone to estimate the yield of the crop >y the number of plants cultivated, he proper cultivation of beets has es- eciallybeen ignored in this conntiy.-- !ural New Yoi her. > By-and-by ljg>> A 15 . ' ^ •. -f ' \ii._ ) f . - ... * • ' \ A V * tl* ' women rmort to all sorts of strategy to obtain the pernicious drug. AmoDg thoee addicted to opium are several young people.---Ittooe {M* Y.) Jowr nat ' ^ 4* naise French m 1 ' '^4,1 BRINK FOB CORN-BEST.--Five gal- of water, one gallon of salt, one- pound of saltpeter, one and one- f pounds of brown sugar. Boil this ture fifteen minutes. When cold ur over the beef. POTATO SALAD.--Six large oold boiled >es cut fine, two small heads of lefctuoe\>roken in small pieces, half a small onspn cut fine, two hard-boiled eggs, one\ table-spoon capers, Mayon- BEET GREENS.--Pull when young, Wash and look over very carefully, but "do not separate the tops from the roots. Put into a kettle which is half full of boiling salted water, and boil from half to three-quarters of an hour; take out and drain in a colander, pressing down with a spoon BO as to get out all of the water. Dish and pour over a dressing of vinegar, butter, pepper and Bait. GINGERBREAD.--One cup of molasses, one cop of sugar, one cup of laid, one cup of sour mitt; or buttermilk, one table-spoonful of ginger, one teaspoon- ful of cinnamon, one full teaspoonful of soda flour. Beat the molasses, sugar and lard well together, then the spice; stir in sour milk; now add some flour, with the sodfc in it; beat in flour until a stiff hatter, B*kf *u » nxodej^ely- quiok oven. S H c « T - O A i c i i . - ^ i i k ' i n ­ quiry I will give my mother's recipe for short-cakes, knowing it to be very good: One pound of sifted flour, one-fourth pound of butter and half as much lard; a little salt; soda as large as a pea, dis­ solved in half a teaspoonful of vinegar. Mix well together with ice-cold water to a stiff dough. Roll half an inch thick, out into round cakes, prick with a fork and bake in a quick oven. BROILED HAX.--Cut in thin slices and place in oold water to soak over night. In the morning turn off the water, put into a saucepan and pour over boiling water. Set on the back of the stove where it will keep hot without boiling. When all other preparations for the meal are made, take out the slices, wipe dry and broil on a wire broiler over a clear fire. Turn and tend as oarefully as you would toast bread. To.GRILL SHKKPB' TONGUES. --Take four sheeps' tongues and lay them in salt and water for two or three hours; then boil in fresh water with half a tea­ spoonful of salt; when cooked remove the skin and divide the tongue in two in its length. Put them to stew with a bunch of herbs, some celery and a few mushrooms; pepper slightly and add a half-teaspoonful of salt and a pint, of stock; stew slightly; remove the tongues, dust them with bread crumbs and broil on a gridir ;̂% the sauce and serve. - Y •' ' l:'r • • To BAKE FISH.--Rinse the fish in cold water, wipe the inside dry and fill it with stuffing, then sew up the edges and place it in a dripping-pan with a very little hot water. Melt a table- spoonful of butter and pour over-the top, then sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper and lay over it a few strips of Bait pork. Bake in a hot oven and baste very often; when done serve with the gravy from the pan poured over it, and have Worcestershire or some pun­ gent sauce, so that each may season to taste. BERTIE'S PUDDING.--One cup of bread crumbs, one good-sized cocoanutt four eggs, one pint milk, three cups sugar, two ounces butter, one lemon. Soak the bread crumbs in the milk of the cocoanut, add the milk scalding hot, then the butter, beat well the sugar and yelks of the eggs with two of the whites, stir in the cocoanut grated, keeping out one full cupful cocoanut. Bake in a quick oven until thick and a fine brown before removing from the oven. B4eat the remaining whites very light with a cup of s\igar and the juioe of the lemon, stir in the cup of grated cocoanut, drop with a spoon over the pudding and re­ turn to the oven a few minutes until a very delicate brown; watch closely. To be eaten cold. or a dressing made , oil and vinegar. of & and BUNNY BOOMW. Every woman is wise enough eareful enough to secure for her house- plants every bit of available sunshine during the cold winter months. Great care is taken to get a southern exposure for them. Indeed, if one can secure no other than a north window for her plants, she has too muoh love for these unconscious, inanimate things to keep them at all. She would sooner leave them in the cold to die outright than linger out a martyr existence in the shade. Folks need sunshine quite as much as plants do. Men and women who have a fair degree of strength, and the use of their legs, can get out into the world and get a glimpse of sunshine now and then, and, if they choose to do so, let them live in rooms with only a north­ ern exposure; but, if it is possible, let us secure rooms into Vhich every ray of sunshine that falls in winter may en­ ter, for the little babies who are shut up in the house, invalids who cannot leave their rooms, and aged people who are too infirm to get out of doors. ILet us reflect for a moment that these classes of persons, if kept in rooms With only north windows, will suffer just, as much from the absence of sunshine) as green, growing plants would do in the same rooms, and their sufferivg is of ac­ count in proportion as a human being is better than a geranium or a fuchsia. Everybody knows how a bright, sunny day iu winter gladdens every one who is situated so as to enjoy it. Let us make some sacrifices, if need be, in order to give the sunshine. fflflhla miM thftir jneasnre of * .. ; -a.iV : :f ILLINOIS NEWS. t RITLVMULIMIA of the New RE*ran« ' SENATE BLI£ 191---ASSESSMENT OV CAPI- TAL STOCK. The General Revenue law of 1872 provided for the assessment by the State Board of Equalization of the cap­ ital «fcodk of all companies and associa tions organized under special or general laws of tiiis Eftate. In the interest of manufacturing corporations, the Twen­ ty-ninth General Assembly amended the general act by providing: That, In smimmiwg companies and associa­ tions organised fur purely manufactoring pur­ poses, or for printing, or for publishing of newspaper*, or for the improving and breeding or stook, the assessment shall be so made that such companies and associations so organised shall onlybe assessed as individuals under like circwnstanoes would be assessed, and no more; and such oompaniee and associations shall be allowed the same deductions as allowed to in­ dividuals. The oourts held that this clause did not change or modify the law, for the reason that such companies were not assessed at any greater rate than indi­ viduals were under like circumstances. Senate bill 191, which is now a law, and take3 effect July 1, takes from the Board of Equalization the right to as­ sess the classes of corporations named in the 1875 amendment quoted above, and relegates the valuation of their property for taxation entirely to looal assessors. Many nioe questions will arise under this change of phraseology. Gas companies (manufacturers of gas), brewing oompanies (manufacturers of beer), and packing companies (manu­ facturers of provisions), all declare that the board has no longer anything to do with their property. Should it be so held, that branch of the Equalizers' duties will he considerably lessened. Out of the forty-six companies against which a capittd-stock assessment was made in 1878, twenty-seven will be ex­ empt under this amendment. HOUSE BILL 840 -REAL-ESTATE ASSESS­ MENT. Though voluminous because of the many sections whioh the change affeots, this measure contemplates but two de­ partures from the old law. First, the assessment of real property quadren­ nially instead of annually, and, second­ ly, the consolidation of books used by officials in the assessment and collection of taxes. It is provided that in 1880 and every fourth year thereafter there shall be a general assessment of real property. It is to have an annual "overhauling" by the Assessor for the noting of additions to and destruction of improvements. Equalisations are to be made, and per­ sonal property is to be assessed annu­ ally. Little or nothing is suved either in time or money by this alteration, ex­ cept as it may be viewed as a part and parcel of the scheme for the consolida­ tion of tax-books. The original intent of the framers and promoters of this bill was that there should be but one book, which should start with the original as­ sessment of the realty, contain the four years taxes based thereon, and be the record of payments, judgments, sales, forfeitures and redemptions for each of said years. Somebody, in attempting to figure the Bpace that would be required to hold all these entries, discovered that each double page of the tax-book would hove to be from six to ten feet in width to accom­ modate ordinary handwriting in making them. A clause was then inserted al­ lowing the making of a special book for each " off" year when so ordered by the County Board. As the provisions of the law do not affect the books of the current year, there will not be much harm done u the system should prove a failure. HOUSE BILL 842--PERSONAL-PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS. Under this bill the M numbers, amounts, quantity and quality " of per­ sonal property must be scheduled by the tax-payer under oath. It will be noted that the statute does not require the valuation of the property to be stated in the schedule. This is left en­ tirely to the Assessor, as in the old law. The same bill increases the penalty for allowing forfeiture of property for taxes to 25 per cent., and makes all delin­ quent tax bear interest at the rate of 1 per cent, per month after the 1st day of May until paid or forfeited. In providing for the increase of the penalty for forfeiture from 10 per cent, to 25 per cent, there seems to be an awkwaid gap. The County Clerk is directed to charge up on the tax books annually all back tax due on real prop­ erty, " with one year's interest at 10 per cent, on all taxes heretofore forfeited, and 25 per cent, on all taxes hereafter levied and forfeited." ] The third change made by this low consists in making a judgment for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes conclusive as to all objections which might have been presented as a defens# to the application for suoh judgment. * In amending section 227 to conform to the provision for increased penalties OB forfeitures, a clause of the old law is re-enacted which hijui been passed upoi adversely by the ecmrts time and again. The County Clerk is authorized to sell property after forfeiture to any appli­ cant who may offer to pay the tax, pen­ alty and costs due thereon. This is simply an example of careless legisla­ tion. It is in direot conflict with sec­ tion 4 of the 9th article of the consti­ tution, which allows no sale for taxes except by some general officer having authority to receive State and county taxes, and upon the order or judgment of some court of record. Such judicial sale implies a notice fixing time and place, with a description of the prop­ erty to be sold, and a statement of the amount due thereon, and entities the owner to a competition sale, in order that no more of his property may be in­ volved than is necessary to produoe the amount demanded.--Springfield Journal. gamtnary The Department of Agriculture prepared a table containing a summ of the reports reoetved by bi eorro- 7 \ i- '-w - ^ spondents throughout thin State as to the condition of the corn crop. Tho total acreage iu 1878 was 8,672,065. This year, 8,965,706 acres. The re- jnry by inwwts and drought. The total yield of 1878, in bushels, was 25O,660> 810. The amount of the crop of 1878 in producers' hands June 1 was 45,681,- 070 bushels. The acreage of the wheal crop in this State, this year, is 2,070,58&, or 42,851 acres more than it was ill 1878. The estimated number of eatHe in the State, this year, m 1,729,067, as •gainst 1,775,101 for 1878. The esti­ mated number of fat cattle for market, ^ this yea£ is 866,586, the average coj^di- y * tion of these being very good. » State Items. " _t( \ THE Auditor has advertised the sale : of lands of the Irvington Agricultural ,, - * College, at Irvington, Washington * county, to take place July 22. THE new Registry law passed at the recent session of the Legislature pro­ vides that hereafter there shall be a reg­ istry of all the legal voters in the in­ corporated cities of this Stat© for every • local election, the same os is now re- f , quired for State and general elections. | THE assignments of Judges to the , Apjeellate Courts of the sevend districts | of this State, made by the Illinois Su- V preme Court, at MT Vernon, aw as < follows: | First District--JamM. Bailey, William K. ® McAllister and Isaac G. Wilson. Second District--Gkso. W. Pleasants, Lyman, Laoey and Nathaniel J; PObbnry. „ TUrd Distriot--Chaunoey L. Higbj, Oliver K Davis and D. McOnlloch. Fourth District-,t, Baker, George W. Wall and Thomas 8, Casey. GOVERNOR CULLOM has appointed William H. Osborn and L. V. F. Ran­ dolph as his proxy and alternate proxy, respectively, to act for him as a Director of the Illinois Central railroad. Under the Land Grant act, under whioh the Illinois Central railroad was built, the Governor of Illinois is a Director in that company. fig t rJ . ' • CURRENT ITEMS. Mm si 31 St POPULAR opinion ia the greatest He in the world. HOUSTON, Texas, is building two new opera houses. WHAT oomes after death? Why, the undertaker, of oouraet AN extensive lead mine has been di»- ^ ^ ; covered near Berne, Texas. * GRECIAN ladies count their age from ; their marriage, not from their birth. OUT of 1,015 convicts in the Texas $*\ % J \< penitentiary, 915 cannot read or write. MORE snow fell on Mount Wadhing- ton the pest winter than for forty , years. NEWBURYPORT, Mass., is happy over the improved condition of her silver m i n e s . ^ V ' ' AN«KRtwhen itislongin ooming. is the stronger when it oomes and the longer kept. ^ > MESSRS. MOODY AND SANKEY'B "Hold C the Fort" was played by the band of i, the besieged in Ekowe, Zalaiaud, every .,r • v Sunday. THERE passed over the Lake Shore ^ and Michigan Southern lost month an empty freight train a little more than *" t, ten miles long. "MADAM," said a tramp on Cottage _ hill, "would you give me an old pair of %; pants, for rm starving to death t *---. ;. Norris tovonHerald . - ! *•] THE Railroad Gatette thinks that - Hash Knife, the last new postoffice in | Texas, may be fairly held to balance Fried Liver in Arizona. J H THEY are asking who invented spec- . tacles. It is on record that the Emperor ^, < t; Trajan viewed the games at Rom® with , a glass of some kind. ^ ^ . THE orchards ir. Northern Pennsy^ vania, whioh is the great fruit-raisini* region of the State, never looked more promising than now. * \ J EGYPTIAN wheat is attracting attca- ^ tion in California, for the climate is par- ticularly favorable to its growth. It ^3 yields enormously. THE fishing season has aided on Ilia " * : Potomac, and the catoh has been a fifth larger than last year, being estimated at 6,000,000 herring and 350,000 ehod. SHERMAN, Ct., with about 800 in­ habitants, has had seven suicides and 'a I': two murders in the last fifteen years, six of the suicides being closely related, to ̂ , each other. • A TRIAL now going on in St. Peters- V ^ burg has led to the disclosure that poor . v c people" arrested for not paying their taxes are liable to be beaten with rods steeped in salt water. v J AN Ayrshire cow belonging to the Sears brothers, Elmwood, Ct, gave 386 "V pounds of milk in ten days. Seventy :< four ounces of butter was made from . : the milk drawn in one day. EMPLOYES of the New England Pin '{V " Company, of Winsteod, Gt, marched in a procession to the postoffice, and 'v bought $10,000 worth of the Govern ­ ment $10 certificates. ENORMOUS drip-pans have been placed ^ beneath the irook of the New York Elevated road near the stations, to catch V the oil and water which drop from the k. ^ engines when the trains are stopped. THE allopathic physicians of Phil*- ; delphia have agreed to collect bills 0 monthly, or at the end of service in. each case, and have employed a finan- , agent to attend to collections, J/. 1' * h t,*: •>L>" V- ' > ^ " * •» 1 «• j(Sj I '% * J- "**; i