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> T V . - ; • • - ' " -- ' • ̂ ' - ' * * _.J^„i- . > • • J-.. r !•* " ';:V V;< Y " • \V V* '^0' .-..<•> . * , *\- i -- ' ,̂,r.. " f§cf cntg flaittdeale* J. VAN 8LYKE, EDITOB AHD PPBUSHE*. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. k* PU$' JVFENZLKS. t -;V :- i^r The Little Buff Surprlte-PartU. OOek, ctiickarre! (.thick, chickaree! , : , three little birdies high up In a teoet ^ ̂ f, Tacked in our cradle, no round and ao MR,* Hocked by these branches that awing up aloft. Chick, chick, chick! Chick, chickaree! Chick, chickaree 1 When in the world can our mother-bird B»t BM we are waiting, so cosy and SNAG, <. Waiting for some one to bring NA a bug! * - J) Chick, chick, chick 1 ̂ X. Chick, chickaree! Chick, chickaree! Where in the world can our father-bird bet Bare we are waiting, 'twixt chatter and HALTING FOR some on® to bring ua a WMBSF R /||* Chick, chick, chidkt F F ' S Ohick, chickaree 1 Chick, chickareel Here theycome! Here they come I See, ice, see! . Hp we'll stretch up our mouths, and we'll shut up ' ./'--j. ,• our eyes, ' • JbMj^lay we're expecting a nice bujc-*urprt*e! *'t ?"'? • <*W»ohhi,(*toll -J.«\ > <th» LW«r nf KUuinmm. * " * "There is one chap in my tile's history that I al ways have kept locked in my heart," said John Haviland, as he laced the little group in the parlor; "" but to-night I feel as if it were my duty to open it for your inspection, and J do it for the love of woman--fo* the love of a woman who made me what I 4un worthy to he, the husband of a good woman." " Why, John!" said Mrs. Haviland, «oftly approaching--babe still held tight to her boiom --you frighten me." " Let'J have the story," said the rest of the group, certain that something good might be anticipated; and John •commenced, at first a little timid, but gaining confidence as he proceeded, " When I first came to New York, at the age of 12 years, to seek my fortune, I can call myself a precocious chap with­ out danger of being accused of an un­ usual degree of self-appreciation. I was •quick to learn everything, the bad as well as the good. My employer used profane language. I picked up the -oaths that he dropped with a natural­ ness that surprised even myself. The boys in the office all chewed tobacco. This was a little the hardesi job I ever * Attempted, but, after two weeks of nausea and indescribable stomach wrenchings, I came off victorious, and •could get away with my paper a day with the best of 'em. "True, every word of it!" said the speaker. "One afternoon I was sent with a note irdm my employer to a house in the up* per part of the city. I hadn't anything to read, but I had plenty of tobacco, and with that I proposed to entertain myself during the two or three hours I must spend in the passage. For some distance I did not notice who were be­ side jne, but by-and-byalady said, very softly and pleasantly: 'Would you please, little boy, be more careful. I I am going to a party this afternoon, and I should hate to have my dress spoiled.' "I looked' into her face. It was the sweetest I ever saw. Pale, earnest and loving, to my boyish heart it was the countenance of an angel." "What did you say?" interrupted Mrs. Haviland, her bright eyes filling with tears, as she saw how tlje memory of this beautiful woman affected her husband. " Say! There was very little I could ny. I/ think all I did for some time was to look. "I managed to dispose of the tobac co, however, and wiped my mouth very carefully, all of which I felt certain she saw and mentally commented upon. "' Have you amother, little boy?' she next asked, in the same low tone. " 'No ma'am,' I answered, and felt my throat filling up, and I knew I must swallow mighty fust to keep from sob- - bing. You have a father, then, Icupposef she kept on. " 'No, ma'am; no father.' " 'Brothers and sisters?' "'Neither, ma'am.' "' Then the little boy is alone in the world?' %' AH alone, ma'am.' ,f 4 How long has his mother been dead?' and the dear woman looked away from my face, and waited till 1 Could speak. "' Two years,' I answered. s •*4 And you loved her ?' came next. $ 'Dearly,' was all I could say. ^ She was silent for a moment, and then she said so sweetly--oh! I shall never forget it-- u* And what do you think your dear mother would say--how do you think she would feel-Mo know that her little boy was guilty of such a disgusting habit as this?' pointing to my cheek, where the tell-tale quid had vainly tried to stand its ground. * 'I must leave now/ die continued; '* biit here ij my card, and, if you come to me most any evening, I shall be glad to see you, and perhaps we shall be of some service to each other.' "She gave me her little gloved hand, and to my dying day I shall never for­ get the sensation of that moment. •onld not bear to part with her; with­ out her I felt that 1 could do nothing-- with her I could grow to a man's estate --a man in the truest sense of the word. Prom that moment tobaeoo never passed my lips. • "As soon as I Could summon courage I called upon the lady. Well do I re­ member how my heart beat as I waited in the elegant parlor for her to come down, and how awkward I felt as I fol­ lowed my guide to her private sitting- room. She got at every point of my life, and before 1 bade her good-by it was arranged that I should spend two evenings of each week at her house, and study on the oocasion just what she thought best. "No lover ever looked forward to meeting with the mistress of his heart any more ardently than I did to these meetings-with my friend. " I grew careful of my personal ap­ pearance, careful of my conversation, and strove in every way to be worthy of the noble friendship. Two years passed in this delightful manner--two years that made me. My friend not only attend­ ed to my studies, striving also all the while to sow the right kind of spiritual seed, but she procured me a business situation with a friend of hers, where 1 remain to this day. Nobody but God knows what I owe this woman. During the last three months of those two years I noticed that she grew constant­ ly pale and thin; she never was betrayed into speaking of herself. Sometimes, when I would ask her if she felt worse than usual, she would reply: "'Oh, no! I am only a little tired-- that is all.' "One evening she kepi die by her sofa much longer than was her custom, while she arranged lessons, and laid out work enough, it seemed to me, for months. # " 'Why so much to-night?'I inquired, oonscious that my heart aohed, and vaguely suspecting the cause. " 'Because, dear,' she answered, 1 do not want you to come for the next week, and It am anxious that you should have sufficient work to anticipate, as well as to keep you busy. 1 think I can trust you to be a good boy, John?' " '1 think you can, ma'am,' I an­ swered, almost sobbing. '"If I should see your mother, my dear boy, before long, what shall I say to her for you?' "Then I knew all, and my grief had no bouuds. It is no use to go on. She died two days after." avoided, and, the rays being reflected in strictly parallel lines, it is claimed that the loss of light by such transmis­ sion is hardly enough to be taken into account at all. The inventors claim that they are able to produce by their system 195 lights per horse-power, giv­ ing a light equivalent to 1,958 candies, and that the cost of lighting is ltgig f|tn one-twentieth the cost of gas. 1 GOOD HEALTH. : It it no exaggeration to say that health is a large ingredient -in what the world calls talent. A man without it may be a giant in intellect, but his deeds will be deeds of a dwarf. On the oontrary, let him have a quiok circulation, a good digestion, the bulk, thews and sinews of man, and the alacrity, the unthinking confidence inspired by these, and though having but a thimbleful of brains, he will either blunder upon suc­ cess or set failure at defiance. It is true, especially in this country, that the number of centaurs in every community --of men in whom heroic intellects are allied with bodily constitution as tough as horses--is s&all; that in general a man has reason to think himself well ofi in the lottery of life if he draws the prize of a healthy stomach without a mind, or the prize of a fine intellect with a crazy oonBtitntion. A pound of energy with an ounce of talent will achieve greater results than a pound of talent with an ounce of energy. The first requisite to success in liie is to be a good animal. In any of the learned professions a vigorous constitution is equal to at least 50 per cent. With judgment, imagination, eloquence, all the qualities of the mind attain thereby a force and splendor to which they could never approach without it. But intellect in a weakly body is "like gold in a spent swimmer's pocket." A me­ chanic may have tools of the sharpest edge, and highest polish, but what are these without a vigorous arm and hand? Of what'use is it that your mind has be­ come a vast granary of knowledge if you have not strength to turn the key? ARTESIAN 1 A BIRD'S NEST. " What will you give to make a bird's nest?" was the name of a game we used to play when I was a child, where every one would tell of something, the funnier the better. You would sup­ pose that a lot of children had been giving, in earnest, everything they could think of, if you could see a cat­ bird's nest there is in our syringa bushes. The birds really did it all themselves, for we saw them. First, they picked up some snarls of white wrapping-yarn, and tangled it all in among the branches in the midst of the clump. Then they brought sonie- crooked pieces of grapevine, with the bark dang­ ling, and tucked them round in a kind of framework. On this they put dead twigs; then spying some long strips of woolen rags, they added those, leaving one end hanging down about a foot. The next thing we saw, one of the birds was coming with a sprig of evergreen that had been swept out of the church with the Christmas trimmings, and had lain under the snow all winter. Then, as if not to be outdone, the other bird came with a tail-feather, shed by the rooster at the barn-yard, and the two worked by turns sticking these things in and making them stay, and they seemed to think they had done something wonderful. After the nest was all completed, and four eggs had been laid in it, we went out and peeped in. Such a tumble-down affair, and such a ragged one--for, in addition to the rest, they had woven in a large piece of white cloth and some yellow carpet- ravelings--and there it was! All these materials, beside small sticks and roots, a few shavings, and s lining of little flower and grass-stems! But, notwithstanding they had so much material, it did not look strong enough to hold a bird. But it was, and four bright, strong, happy young one* were hatched there, grew up and de­ parted, and the rickety house thej lived in is left there yet, just as good ai new. suBDir/vjyo nut jsjLEnjmrc ltg bt A novel solution of the problem of subdividing the electric light is claimed by Messrs Molera and Cebraiu, which is explained atlength in the Scientific American. Their method is to have one central light, in close connection with the generator of the electricity, and to distribute this light by nwans of reflectors fend lenses through pipes to the street lamps, and through public and private buildings, and to all points where it is desired. By this means the loss by the division of the current is #1 if: •* XO HIDING Itr PARIS. The population, floating or perma­ nent, of every arrondissement or ward in Paris is counted officially every month. Be your abode at hotel, board­ ing house or private residence, within lorty-eight hours you are required to sign a register, giving your name, age occupation and former residence. This, within the period mentioned, is copied by an official ever traveling from honse to house with the big blue book under his arm. The register gives, also, the leading characteristics of your personal appearance. Penalty attaches itself to host or landlord who fails to get and give to the official such registration of his guests. There are no unmarked skulk in g-holes in Paris. Every house, every room is known, and under police surveillance. Every stranger is known and described at police headquarters within a few days of his arrival. Once within the walla of Paris, and historic­ ally, so to speak, your identity is always there. In case of injury to any person, the sufferer is not dependent on the nearest drug store for a temporary hos­ pital, as with us. In every amndifjgti ment may be seen the prominent sign, "Assistance for the Wounded, or the Asphyxiated, or Poisoned." ' Above al- wavs hangs the official tri-color. I say "official," because a certain slender pro­ longation of the flag-staff denotes that the establishment is under Government supervision, and no private party may adopt this fashion. The French flag is not flung higglety-pigglety to the breeze like the St^rs and Stripes, so that none can determine whether it indicates a United States Government station or a beer saloon. USB OF QUXrOWDKR. It may not be generally known that gunpowder prevents infection from fever. A sojourner from tropical dis­ tricts says that he has been able to es­ cape infection and miasma by use of gunpowder, supplemented by a few sim­ ple precautions against sudden changes of temperature, sunstroke, bad water, and the like. He uses no water that has not been boiled and afterward kept from air contact; but his main reliance is upon the practice of burning a thim­ bleful of gunpowder in nis bedroom and very small quantities in his warclrobe, trunk, etc., so as to keep his clothes in an atmosphere feebly charged with gun­ powder gas. In Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius, the east coast of tropic Africa, and other fever-smitten lands he has found such simple means a sure preventive of epidemic dis­ eases. That gunpowder, the engine of death, sometimes pieserves life, "is greatly to its credit." THK sea 'is the largest ©MIL ceme­ teries, and its vast numbers sleep with­ out monuments. Over their remains tbe storm* beat, and the same requiem by minstrels of the ocean is.snngto their honor; there unmarked the weak and the powerful, the plumed and the un- honored, are alike undistinguished. JENNY "LISP sang in the chorus at the first concert last season of the Bach Society of London. flNmitiiritto»a»<l ***--r---- TTirflrrjriMiris and Other H«t Spring*. Artesian wells are carried, in some instances, a third of a mile below the surface, and so abundant is their sup­ ply of water that a single well of this kind near Paris has been computed to yield more than 700,000 gallons of water daily. The elevated end may be several hundred miles distant, it mat­ ters not how far. Parts of Algeria bordering on Sahara, once considered an irreclaimable desert, have been sup­ plied with water, and thus rendered habitable, by means^of artesian wells. There are three conditions essential to the successful boring of an artesian well: 1. A fountain-head more elevated than the locality where the boring is to be undertaken 2. A moderate down­ ward dip of the strata toward the site of the well. A steep or high angle of inclination of dip is unfavorable, as the water is apt to flow away beyond the reach of the boring which must needs pass at %n acute angle through few lay­ ers of rock. 3. Alternations of porous and impervious strata beneath the sur­ face soiL It is sometimes the case that the head of water is at so high an ele­ vation that the column bursts forth from the ground as a fountain, throwing up a continual jet. The principle is precisely that of artificial fountains. The first artesian well bored at Ar» tois, France, over a century ago, has since then flowed steadily, the water rising eleven feet above the surface at the rate of 250 gallons a minute. The famous Grenelle well in the Pari* basin was oommenced in 1833, with the expectation of obtaining water at 1,200 or 1,500 feet, in the secondary green sand formation which underlies the chalk, the uppermost Of this series. At 1,500 feet the Government would have abandoned the enterprise but for the urgent appeals of M. Arago. It was continued till on Feb. 26, 1841, at the depth of 1,797 feet, the boring rod suddenly penetrated the arch of rock over the subterranean waters and fell fourteen feet. In a few hours the water rose to the surface in an immense vol­ ume, and has continued sinoe. It is well known that at the depth of a few feet below the surface of the earth the temperature never changes. At St. Louis, Mo., the temperature of water at 1,500 feet below the surface is 18 degrees higher than the mean tem­ perature at the surface, making the in crease 1 degree for 83£ feet descent; and, strange to say, the increase of tem­ perature is 1 in every 52| feet at Charleston, S. O. The hot springs that flow out to the surface in many parts of the world are natural artesian wells rising from great depths. In Virginia these springs are found along the lines of great faults or breaks in the stratifi cation of the rooks, by which forma­ tions usually separated by thousands of feet are hpraght into contact with each other. There is a class of hot springs called geysers whose force would be as serv­ iceable as that of the hydrostatic presses if it were practicable to use it. Geysers, or eruptive fountains of boiling water, are found in different parts of the world. There are some very large gey­ sers in the southern part of Iceland. In a circuit of about two miles are more than 100 springs whioh send forth hot water. These springs are differ­ ent dimensions and exhibit differ­ ent degrees of activity. Geysers are to be found iiv California and in New Zealand. The two principal geysers in Iceland are called the Great Geyser and the Strokr or Chum. The Great Geyser, when .quiet, presents the ap­ pearance of a circular mound of sile- ceous incrustations, inclosing a pool with sides sloping inward and outward. The height of the mound is about twenty feet. The diameter of the basin varies from fifty to sixty feet, and its average depth is about four feet. In its center is the mouth of the vertical tube which connects it with the subterranean passages. The tube is about nine feet in diameter at its mouth, and seventy feet in depth. When the geyser is in­ active the basin is filled to the edge with clear water, which has a mean tem­ perature of 185 deg. Fahr., and runs gently down'the mound, emitting clouds of steam; but, for several hours after an eruption, the tube is empty to the depth of four or five feet. At intervals cf about an hour and a half a rumbling noise is heard, and the water heaves up in the centra, throwing an increased quantity over the margin. The great eruptions take place at irregular inter­ vals, sometimes exceeding thirty hours. At these times loud explosions are hear<lbeneath the surface, the water is thrown into violent agitation, it boils furiously, and at laat is suddenly sent forth in a succession of jets, whioh in­ crease in force till they become an im­ mense .fountain, that is lost to view in the clouds of steam in which it is en- veloped. The heights reached by those jets are almost incredible. Van Troll, traveling in Iceland in 1772, saw an eruption of which ascended, ninety-two feet. Sir, John Stanley, in 1789, saw one ninety- six feet. Lieut Olshen, a Danish of­ ficer, in 1804, saw an eruption of jet which rose to the height of 212 feet. This intermittent action* of the Great Geyser is supposed to be owing to the sudden production oi steam in subter­ ranean chambers connected with the channels through which the waters flow. The water from the geyser has its origin in mountain land, and in issuing forth is only seeking its level. It is hot, and in some instances boiling, because it comes up from an immense depth-- from a depth where the earth is of a high and uniform temperature. The water of the geysers is always boiling at the time of en eruption. The temperature of cold springs is also uniform, because they take their origin at some depth from the surface and below the influence of the external atmosphere. The same spring water which is deemed warm in winter is deemed cold in summer. But it is really of the same temperature at all seasons, the difference being that in summer it is surrounded by a warmer atmosphere and objects than in winter. OLLA-PODRIDAJ TO - I Iwed not that my t little of earth in it, i years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: I mourn not that the deaolata •re happier, sweet, than I, . Bat that you sorrow for my fate, / P»sa« by, - 'a ' <-'&• r' will doubtless go on unabated while it is the habit of the people to thmw all responsibility upon the Government, and while ignorance, poverty and help- ' lessness prevail among the masses. As Kussia now is, she represents a huge combustible body. In, no coqntiy is fire so destructive as in Russia. The Government has found it necessary to take the Fire Department out of the hands of the police and transfer its con- trolto the City Councils. The police kept the fire engines in order for pa­ rades, but inefficient for practical work --Paris Golos. 'e ^ >-'U • t y ̂ iOVMBENT ITEM*. ' "* i 1 / ' . \ I • vHi. "TABBY." The name "tabby cat" is derived from A tab, a famous street in Bag­ dad, inhabited by the manufactur­ ers of silken stuffs called Atabi, or taf­ feta, the wavy markings of the watered silks resembling pussy's coat. DR. BUSBT was head master or prin­ cipal of a high school or college in En­ gland. He was a remarkably strict dis­ ciplinarian, seldom, if ever, allowing a transgressor to go soot free. A cer­ tain soholar had in some manner one day disobeyed the rules--be it known in the good old time of the worthy doc­ tor punishment tfaa inflicted through tHe aid of a well-made birch rod--the offender was called up to Busby's desk. The doctor before administering the thrashing said to the youth, "If any­ body knows any just cause or impedi­ ment why this birch rod is not joined to this boy's baok let him speak now, or forever hold his peace." "I do," quick ly answered the youth. "Wherefore?" angrily quoth the doctor. "Because," the boy replied, "the two do not agree." Busby laughed, threw down the rod and dismissed the soholar to his seat. SPOKJESHAV*. WAUBJECJC, Wis. Y., ,, X I ;V, '". &con>. ' Th« foHotring extract is about as (dear as the plots of the majority of the sen­ sation novels: "One cold winter's night In the month of July, a poor man, clad in the habili­ ments of the rich, was footing it along on horseback in an open boat over a long and dreary desert. Not a tree or spot of green cheered him on his tedi­ ous course up vast mountains, whioh lay spread out before him, in fertile heaps, as far as the eye could reach. Huge precipices lay scattered in his pathway, and ever and anon would his footsteps mingle with the black waters of the yellow sky, whose ambient green were firmly buckled to a large bottle of old London Dock Gin, whose inspiring effervescence greatly assisted him in his tedious passage over the grassy verd­ ure of the cold, white sepulchre be­ fore hjm. At length, while thus he stalked along in the midnight grandeur, he met an aged youth, whose gray beard of blushing brown hung in am­ ber curls from his eyebrows upward. His feet were incased in a large wooden bag thrown over his shoulders in rich profusion. He was dressed in a yellow frock coat of fiery red, and carrying his nose, which was slightly turned up at the end, under his left arm, he present­ ed an appearance, with his skeleton arm stretched out in the gaunt shadows of the pale moonlight of the young moon, altogether striking and luminous." » OBJSAT FIRMS IN RUSSIA. Official reports have been received of 1,264 cases of fire, all the fires that oc­ curred in all the provinces of Bussia during the past month. The total loss is estimated at 1,500,000 rubles. Of these fires, 159 were from incendiarism and 476 from carelessness; the exact origin of the other 629 has not been dis­ covered. The summer fires are, as it were, a necessary feature of Russian life. Fire is an unavoidable scourge, and every year destroys the people's property to the extent of tens of millions of rubles. The straggle against fire is difficult, for the majority of houses in Bussia are of wood. As soon as hot and dry weather sets in a very large number of fires al­ ways break out, especially in the vil­ lages, the residents of which are charac­ terized by ignorance and carelessness, and which are totally destitute of any 1::; ? •• w' 'W r \ boiling water from the Great Geyser s fire-extinguishing apparatus. The evil WHY is did fruit like ten years af ime? It's decade. TRUE wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do that which s best worth doing. AT the marriage lately of Lord Dur­ ham's second son, eight of the eleven bridesmaids were the bride's sisters* THXRK is but one country to which we do not export any of our hog pro­ ducts, and that is Turkey in Europe, THE Bev. Dr. Samuel Smith Hai&v the new Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, was a practicing lawyer for many yean before he entered the ministry. A NEW HAVEN child's father, eloped with another man's wife and its mother eloped with another woman's husband. The little one goes to the*poor-house. IN Kieff, in Russia, about a dozen Jews have been tried for endeavoring to defeat the provisions of the Army law by submitting to the mutilation of an eye each at the hands of a Hebrew surgeon. \ ^ EDISON has exhibited in Philadelphia an improved telephone, wijkh spiaks much louder than the ordinary ap­ paratus. The improvement consists of the attachment of an electro-motograph receiver to the carbon transmitter. WE have evidences of better times all around us. A dime novel can now be bought for 8 cents, George Wash* ington's body-servant has stopped dy» ing, and three Pinafore companies ool- lapsed last week.--Norristown HeraltL A KANSAS Cm man was stabbed* while drunk and disorderly, by a Mar­ shal. During a slow recovery from his wounds he repeatedly declared that as soon as he could get out he would kill the Marshal. When able to ride he went to the Marshal's house, asked him to the door, and shot him through the heart. IN reference to recruiting a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons writes to the Pall Mall Gazette Aiat "men of fair complexion attain the proportions of imanhood earlier than dark men, but the medical statistics of the American war show that they more quickly break down, and are more liable to every dis­ ease." THE bell used by the President of that French Chamber of Deputies dates from the empire. It bears aa eagle,the letter "N," and the inscription, " Horn* mage au President de l'Assemblee Leg- islatif; par A. Fichet." The desks and tribune of the Senate come from the Conseil des Anciens, and those of the Chamber of Deputies from the HU1 Council of the Five Hundred. FOB some time past it has been pro- posecl to introduce some distinctive dress to be worn by Judges in Germany while administering justice, but opinion has been divided as to whether that dress should be a semi-military uniform or a black gown. The Government haa just decide 1 the question in favor of the latter. The official dress of Judges is henceforth to consist at a black gowft and black cap. THE second sale of the diamonds and jewels of Queen Christina has produced over $52,000. The chief articles were a magnificent necklace, containing 529 pearls, which was sold for $14,860, the clasp, which was disposed of separately, bringing $4,280; a necklace of 2,500 pearls, which was sold for $6,700; a broad girdle of sapphires and brilliants, which was sold for $8,420; and a corre­ sponding necklace, ns'lmk was sold for $2,900. ABOUT 200 European quails, which are migratory birds, have arrived at Wareham, Mass., and will shortly be re­ leased. It is hoped that sportsmen will spare them for a few yews. They are great breeders, and will soon stock the woods, if not molested. The native quail"*,' not being migratory, are fre­ quently killed by our severe winters, and these birds have been introduced in the hope that they may become as plenty in Massachusetts as in. the Sooth- era States. BSFOBMTO Episcopahswsm APPSAWS' to have received a heavy financial blow by the death of Thomas H. Powers, of the Philadelphia firm of Powers & * | j Weightman, chemists. Mr. Powers*waa " an ardent supporter of the movement, , •, J?' ^ and lent over $100,000 to churches ia ^ ^ various parts of the country. He died . ̂ , j without turning these loans into gifts. jH and his heirs will insist oa payment in " |« every instanoe. The denomination ia j poor as yet, and some iiifi rMi. > i t ;„V-' ,i may have to be sold. J it ' '<±*\ 1 ,