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a i Mi It >f w mw llaiuslealet J. VAN 8LYKE * SON, PuBMsmra* McHENRT, ILLINOIS. I THH population of New York, acc ing to the census of 1880, is about 1,500,000; Brooklyn, between 600,000 and 700,000 ; of both cities and adjacent places, nearly 2,500,000. The oldest man in the city is a colored man, aged 118. The mother of the most children has twenty-two--all fjprls. THKRB are now 42,677 postoffices in the United States, an increase of 1,838 ~in the past year. The number of of­ fices paying more than $1,000 each, and therefore called Presidential postoffices, is 1,764. New York heads the list, vjith 189. Illinois comes nest, with 163; then Pennsylvania, with 132, and Ohio, with 112. , GBN. BUTLEB has been making a -speech in Los Angeles, wherein he praised poetically California's wonderful climate, opposed the Panama canal -scheme as inimical to American com­ merce, and stated that if we are indebted to anybody for the Chinese it is to En­ gland, who theoretically and practically -controls the shipments of the Celestials to this country. PARLIAMENTAK y campaigns in England • are very expensive affairs. In compari­ son our Congressional elections are - economical, not to say parsimom >ius. Ac­ cording to returns from, the recent Par­ liamentary campaign in England, it is shown that in Manchester the candidate spent $100,000; in Birmingham, $65,- 000; in Bradford, $50,000; in each of three other constituencies the expendi­ ture was $30,000 ; in another, $35,000. THE preliminary workings for the tunnel uniting England and France have had the most satisfactory results. 'The promoters have sunk their shaft to the stratum in which they propose to bore the tunnel, and are now going to sink another shaft, and lower all the machinery for the bore. In eighteen months they expect to have reached two kilometers, about two and a quarter miles, under the channel, and in three -or four years to have completed the task. a duel ; to enforce the laws against duel­ ing in every case of their violation hereafter occurring, whether the same shall consist of sending, accepting, or bearing a challenge of the fighting of a duel, or the counseling, aiding, or abet­ ting any of these offenses." A PARIS authority on American affairs tells the following truthful story about an adventure thnt befell the dancer, Sangalli : " Once, when a manageress of a traveling circus in the wilds of Ohio, she was suddenly attacked by a band of savage Sioux Indians, led by the re­ doubtable Sitting Bull. Everybody fled, and all was consternation and despair, many persons being drowned in the tempestuous waves of the Ama­ zon. Suddenly this heroine sprang upon an unsaddled horse, rallied around her P. T. Barnum and a few others of her employes, and, with a revolver in hand, attacked and dispersed the mur­ derous red devils. Kansas City reward­ ed her with a commemorative medal, and CoL Buffalobill, of Lieut. Qen. Sheridan's staff, knelt at her feet and of­ fered her his hand and fortune." THE POET AND THE EDITOR. feY MAX ADELEK. IDAHO Territory holds court at Boise, where is located all the Government offices, and is the home of the United States Marshal. He goes to Lewiston, 400 miles distant, twice a year to attend district court, and also twice a year to there was. Mai ad for the same purpose, traveling a distance of 525 miles to reach there. To «imply attend the courts in the three dis­ tricts requires him to travel 3,700 miles. But to do all his official work last year -caused him to travel by stage 9,000 miles. THE word census had its origin from the office of Censor in Rome, one of the duties of which was to estimate (censere) the number of citizens and the value of their property, and apportion taxes ac­ cordingly. In the Middle Ages the word was applied principally, if not wholly, to the practical' work of taxation, but in modern times it has lost this meaning. The enumeration of the people of the United States provided for in the consti­ tution is the first modern instance of an undertaking of the kind. The first United States census was taken in 1790, and the first British census (exclusive then of Ireland) not until 1810. In the United States, the census serves chiefly a political purpose, affording the basis of representation in the lower house. In Great Britain its object is entirely sta­ tistical and economical. GERMAKTOWX, close by Philadelphia, is a demure old Quaker town. One of its peculiarities is a free public library of 10,000 volumes, from which fiction is rigidly excluded. The works of Shakspeare, Byron, Pope, Dryden, Thackeray and Kingsley are among those that are kept out. "Have you any of Mark Twain's works here ?*' a Philadelphia Times reporter asked. " No; his book of travels, I suppose we hardly considered reliable enough," the Librarian replied; "I don't know, though ; there's some truth in them, I suppose -- at least I've heard it said - While Cel. Bangs, editor of U*# Ar­ gus, was sitting in his office one day, a man whose brow was clothed with thun­ der entered. Fiercely seizing a chair, he slammed his hat on the table, hurled his umbrella on the floor, and sat down. " Are you the editor ?" he asked. "Yes." " Can you read writing?* "Of course." •' Read that, then " he said, thrusting at the Cclonel an envelope with an in­ scription on it. "B /'said the Colonel, trying to spell it. " That's not a B; it's an S," said the man. , "S? Oh, yes, I see. Well, the words look a little like ' Salt for Din­ ner,' " said the Colonel. " No, sir," replied the man, " nothing of the kind. That's my name--Saml H. Brunner. I knew you couldn't read. I called to see about that poem of mine you printed the other day, on the ' Sur­ cease of Sorrow.'" "I don't remember it," said the Colonel. " Of course you don't, because it went into the paper under the infamous title of 'Smearcase To-morrow.'" " A stupid blunder of the compositor, I suppose." " Yes, sir; and that is what I want to see you for. The way that poem was mutilated was simply scandalous. I haven't slept a night since. It exposed me to derision. People think I am an ass. Let me show you." " Go ahead," said the ColoneL "The first line, when I wrote it, read in this manner: Lying by a weeping, willow underneath a gentle slope. That is beautiful, poetic, affecting. Now, how did your vile sheet present it to the public? There it is. Look at that Made it read in this way : Lying to a weeping widow, to induce her to elope. Weeping widow, mind you ! A widow! This is too much--it's enough to drive a man crazy!" "I'm sorry," said the Colonel; " but--" " But look a-here at the fourth verse," said the poet; " that's worse yet. What I said was: Cast thy pearls before the a wine, and lose them In the dirt I wrote that out clearly and distinctly, in a plain, round hand. Now, what does your compositor do ? Does he catch the sense of that beautiful sentiment ? Does it sink into his soul ? No, sir ! He sets it up in this fashion: Cart thy pills before the sunrise, and love them if they hurt. Now isn't that a cold-blooded outrage on a man's feelings? I'll leave it to you if it isn't." "It's hard, that's a fact," said the Colonel. " And then take the fifth verse. In the original manuscript it said, plain as daylight : Take away the jingling money; it is only glitter ing droMS. A man with only one eye, and a cataract eral attempts to break a cocoannt with a handkerchief. His mode of procedure in this case was to roll the handk«4-chief tightly in the shape of a ball, find then to throw the ball upon the nut. Pull­ ing a piece of sugar-cane into two exact­ ly at the joint, and bending a thick iron plate, were among other feats per­ formed. The company then went out on the balcouv, where the athlete cut a sugar-cane so as to throw up a piece •thereof 1,000 feet high. It was done thus : A man held out a cimitar with the edge downward, and Barbaje * struck the cane upward against the edge of the sword, the piece thus cut off Hying a great distance into tlio air. This THE UNHAPPIEST OP WOMEN. Am Itellaa fitailnuui'i •nairHfT*. The life of Montenegrin women may be epitomized in two words--work and suffering. In some countries women work as much as men--m others more; but on the Black Mountain they alone do the work of both men and beasts of bur­ den. The variety and intensity of their sufferings baffle description. I do not hesitate to affirm that nowhere else does the female sex live in suph a wretched condition. Outbursts of wild joy, noise of gun shots, clashing of glasses, and songs and erect.sd in retired nooks. More land is required for this arrangement, but its attractive, rural character seems to com­ mend it to all. HANCOCK AND THE DEMOCRATS. [From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.} The National Democratic Convention has nominated the man for President who was beaten by Seymour in 1868, by Greeley in 1872, and by Tilden in 1876. ILLfNOIg NEWS. a handsome shawl.--New York World. FOUBTEEN girls, students in a West­ ern college, are writing a continued story which one of the county papers is publishing from week to week. Each girl in turn writes a chapter. Already twelve chapters have jBpeared, and the story thus far concernstwelve splendid fellows, with long, silky mustaches, twelve beautiful maidens with hair that reaches the ground, and twelve stern fathers. Six of the heroes had each a " St." in his name, and the other six are "De" somebodies. I heard it, though," said j over that, could have read the words cor- the Librarian, looking a little dubious, I rectly. But your pirate up stairs there in a way that didn't altogether satisfy j ^J',u know ̂'» ? H» me. We don't put any plays in, and j T#ke Shakspeare stays out on that ground. Of course there are some works on gen­ eral literature that contain his quota­ tions, but we can't help that. We hold that the'mind should be led to take up wholesome reading--books on travels or natural history or biography--some­ thing that will amuse and instruct to­ gether. Our idea is that in reading a person may become dissipated, just the same as by drinking whisky." the Jeering monkeys, on a aorely glan- lOSB. 01? J Those Fleas! "A suffering reader'" inqmies how to get rid of fleas. That is a question which would have puzzled Solomon, with all his wisdom. There is a mystery con­ nected with fleas which has never been solved. From whence they come and whither they go, no one can tell. The subject is a lively one, and I have never been able to keep up with it I have seen more interest displayed in a re­ search for a flea than was ever invested in scientific research. Indeed, there is a science in catching fleas winch few pos­ sess, and which can be acquired only and lively practice. If you v dered h< By George ! I felt like braining him with a shovel. I was never so cut up in my life." "It was natural, too," said the Colonel. " There, for instance, was^the sixth verse. I wrote: I am weary (with the tearing of the ocean as it heaves.' It is a lovely line, too ; but imagine my horror and the anguish of my family when I opened your paper and saw the line transformed into: I am wearing out my trousers till .they're open at the knees. ' That is a little too much ! That seems to me like carrying the thing an inch or two too far. I think I have a constitu­ tional right to murder that compositor, don't you?" " I think you have." "Let me read you one more verse. I wrote: I swell the flying echoes as they, roam slong the hill*, And I feel my soul awaken to the ecstasy that thrills. A DRUGGIST'S assistant was charged before the Correctional Chamber in Paris, a few days ago, with causing the death of a man by misreading a pre­ scription. The doctor, whose writing is very clear, ordered eight drops of lauda­ num, which the assistant carelessly read as eight grammes, or about a quarter of an ounce. The overdose naturallv killed - . , , , the patient, and the sensed the j j "J# th^an^S asked through the Cincinnati Gazette, "What shall I do to gejt rid of fleas?" and prisoner to three months' imprisonment. His advocate urged as an extenuating circumstance that, if the mistake had cost the deceased his life, it had at least provided him with a painless death ! Now what do you suppose your miser­ able outcast turned that into ? Why, in­ to this : after long would succeed, you must give the whole • j , of your mind to it and be resolved to i And Iw^n,y "°le mi8fakeu to 016 ercUry *•* I slay A SINGULAR incident occurred in a Cape May county (N. J.) church, the other Sunday, when the sacrament of the last supper was to be administered. The service had proceeded to the point when the pastor takes the bread, when it was found that there was no bread under the cloth. The pastor arose from his knees, requesting the congregation i ing water once a day. to do likewise, and proceeded to explain that there was doubtless some provi­ dence in the matter, which a brother disputed, saying that it was a case of pure neglect on the part of the sexton. TftI sexton, being an aged man, was finally let down softly. and a lady replied, "Clean up; none but dirty people have fleas." The inex­ perience of that lady is refreshing. She evidently has not seer, all the world yet. Fleas are not respectors of persons. My theory is that people who live on high, dry, organdy ground are more liable to be troubled with fleas than those who live on low, flat ground. My grand­ mother was once grievously tormented with fleas four or five summers, and she was the sworn enemy of dirt. She took up her carpets and laid them away dur­ ing summer, and mopped kitchen, sit­ ting-room, and bed-room floors with boil- This gave relief, but did not cure the evil. I would advise those afflicted to use a little carbolic acid in the hot water for mopping. Some dark night gather all your cats up and " He's out just now, "Come in to-morrow." " I will," said the poet; come armed." Then he put on his hat, shouldered his umbrella, and drifted off down stairs. said the ColoneL and I will A Hindoo Hercules. An entertainment of "a novel character wiis lately given at the house of Mr. Morarjee Goculdus, at Bombay; who in­ vited a large number of guests to wit­ ness some extraordinary feats of strength on the part of the celebrated Deecau athlete, Barbajee Tulsiram. The com­ pany, which included many of the lead­ ing inhabitants of the city, sat in a semi­ circle, at either point of which were placed pretty little native boys arrayed in brilliant and costly apparel. The --0-- 0 t picturesque dresses of the native ladies drop them gently into tte back yard of a j who were present, the white robes of distant neighbor. Take your dog to the j the Parsee gentlemen, and the gay col- creek and hold him three feet under j ors of Hindoo attire had a remarkably How quickly a demand for mechanical improvement is supplied in this country may be shown by the story of what the Scientific American call's a shower of Tailroad spikes. The latter could not be furnished rapj^lly enough by existing mills when railroad-building, long sus­ pended, was suddenly revived, but a machine to meet the demand wap soon perfected and set at work in Pittsburgh. Two of them now turn out fortv tons of water for one hour and a half; that will drown the fleas on him. Sheep in the yard may be a good idea; it might also be a good idea to take them into the house. Try these remedies, and if they fail, you can burn the house; that is a sure way to kill fleas, and about the only sure way.--Doll// Varden. finished spikes in a day of ten hours, | tilesj and bricks and tiles for stamping, and five of them, working double time, make 1,100 kegs of spikes (thirteen to the ton) each spike-machine about one-tenth the number of spikes j just now perhaps the greatest interest, j fine effect when seen in conjunction with j the beautiful surroundings. After some j preliminaries in the way of handing ; round for inspection the 'material with j which he intended to perform, and hav- I ing satisfied the company that there was i no deception, the athlete, a tall, soldier­ ly man, some 27 years of age, and with a magnificent development of muscle, A Paper htove. proceeded to crash a number of cowries Perhaps the most remarkable object | between the palms of his hands. He ever fashioned from paper was a tire- j completely ground them to powder in stove with a cheerful tire burning in it. j this manner, uttering during the process We have from time to time noted the an- ! sharp, shrill cries, wliieli were probably nouncements of newly-in vented railway intended to express the magnitude of carriages and carriage wheels, chimney j his exertions. Then the performer pots, flour barrels, cottage walls, rooting I placed a cocoanut upon the head of a ' - - - - - • ]e3 for stamping, j l>oy, and, with what appeared to be a all made of paper. A material capable . fearful blow, broke the nut in pieces of so manv uses, so diversified in char- I and scattered the milk in all directions, STAGE AND ROSTRUM. LOTTA, the actress, is reported to be the affianced wife of Clarence Bainbridge, an actor. THERE is talk of Miss Ada Dyas star­ ring next season in a new play by Joaquin Miller. MAGGIE MITCHELL'S husband is willing to spend all of his wife's money. The voice of the Cricket is sad. ZAZEL, the girl who is fired out of a gun in Barnum's circus, is now called " the loadstar " of the arena. MRS. JOHN DREW will travel next sea­ son with Jefferson, playing "The Rivals," it is said, the greater part of the time. hang over the house if a girl comes to j increase the number of the warrior's I children. Should you congratulate him | on the birth of a daughter, he is sure to I cut short your intended compliment by ' saying, " I beg pardon, sir, 'tis a girl, ' and sometimes "'tis a snake." The poor little thing grows up ignored and despised until her bodily strength be- : comes in some way a source of revenue | to the family. The boys monopolize all > the affections of both mother and father. The former freqnently suffers the tor­ tures of Niobe, but for fear of her hus- band dares not show her daughter any tenderness. The little waifs of the Mon- j tenegrin family can hardly walk alx>ut the house before they are initiated into ! household work, and sent up the uioun THE claims against the State that haw - been filed with the Court of Claims fqgr adjudication aggregate $436,763.39. J Gov. COTJUOM has appointed I. N. nold to be one of the Lincoln Pa Commissioners, vice fijartsberg, ceased. Gov. CULLOM has appointed X. K. Fairbank, of Chicago, and David T. Littler, of Springfield, as Commission^ * ri__ tt„„„ . , , | era for Illinois to make arrangement! Wu Gen. Hancock lias been a standing for the international Exhibition at New 1 Democratic candidate for President j York in 1883. " ^ ever since the defeat of McClellan in > COL. DAVID L. PHILLIPS, editor and i»b4. ±le, m liis person, reputation and j proprietor of the Illinois State Journal. represents the same element that . died at his residence at Springfield last * n,, the .nomination of McClellar, in ! week. Col. Phillips held the office of , ' ̂ ~f nomnmti°n now is but a United States Marshal during Lincoln's re urn to the veneering policy of that administration, ran for Congress against campaign. j j0}m \ Logan, in 1860, and against McCleljan was nominated in the face j Mr. Springer in 1876, but was unsu#> °« . V1° ?t ? f Copperheads j cessful on both occasions. He has bee|| of Ohio and Maryland, and he, received Postmaster at Springfield since 1877. ? only twenty-one electoral votes out of rr™, . ,? . „ " a total of 233. In the convention of ' JFff, ques.tu>n of the power of a Cot*. 1868 Hancock fell naturally in the line of j * successors for succession, but the experience with a ' ^• "£• je&T*h? ™aku* military candidate had been so disas- ' °h ^ trous that the convention, abandoning the veneering policy, went back to first n,™* w • * i™ i • principles and nominated that old Bour- , T11- ' ^ J been adjudicated in th» bon, Horatio Seymour. The campaign ' h™* tlf11,,Pmion» was made on the theory that a military , ci(je8 with ^view S bJ-T^« brought the performance to a close, and j dances accompany the birth of a boy in I He, in his person, reputation and | proprietor of the Illinois State JournaL the perfornier was then presented with ' Montenegro; gloom and disappointment j ;ame> represents the same element that - - - ' - - ' ' • • " ' ' 1 forced the nomination of McClellar, in o man was dangerous to the country, i ,, ™ , r | Seymour received seventy-one electoral j o f tt F ' t i r L!WAh J ! of .t!ie East St Louis Judg» case was that tains to gather dry wood. lieturn they • votes, to 214 for Grant. j Coke romnInv^^tn^tTl>/^^^^f must in the evening, bending under loads j In the convention gf 1872 Hancock gt Louis to MifrnU* a ml n Miss KATE FI E L D i s m a k i n g a t o u r t h a t f e w m e n w o u l d c a r e t o c a r r v , o r t h e y w a s a g a i n m e n t i o n e d , b u t t h e h o o k w a s ! N F F V with her "Musical Monologue," under i get a sound flogging and no supper. The ! baited with Greeley, an old Republican, 11874 Octobei^ the management of Mr. H. J. Sargent, | flower of their vouth prematurely fades and again the Democratic campaign ! Ane decislon. of th® Svprem© and it is probable she will go as far as San Francisco. JOE EMMKTT is at home in his new tenor-drum specialty introduced in the last act of "Fritz in lreliind." He started in the profession as tenor-drum player with W. W. Newcomb's minstrels, and received the munificent salary of $5 a week for his services. P \ULINE LUCCA, according to a French newspaper, "cares but little for money. Lately an American impressario offered her a million of dollars to make a tour in Australia. But the diva refused, saying that she had money enough to live on, that she liked to sing for the love of art, and that she had no n^ed of Australian gold." HENRY IRVING, the English actor, asks $100,000 for fifty nights in this country; but at present 'longshoremen in New York are only getting $1.50 a day. Tliis because nature has no time to shape and develop their forms. Excessive labor stamps their faces with precocious age and a repulsive manliness. The body of the woman of the Black Mountains is ill-sli apen and most ungraceful. She is wanting in that elasticity which is the soul of all form. Her carriage is heavy, her step long, and her shoulders are huckle-backed, like the shoulders of all who pass ther lives in journeying up and down mountainous roads with loads not in keeping with their physical strength. She walks with her head inclined on her breast, as though she was crushed by the feeling of her own abjection. No wonder, therefore, that she looks on the erect figure of her father, brothers and husband as on superior beings, in whose presence she ought to tremble and keep silent. No wonder that those superior beings, in turn, never miss an oppor- country is not buying English, bodv and ! *pity to their superiority and to * * ... " . u. . • . . vitfot f 1m nbnma wln/tli fliav lraiM\ HAV boots, so Henry will probably remain at home and help Sullivan complain of a want of taste in the American people.-- Norristown Herald. THE new play, "Edgwood Folks," will require a cast of twelve people. Sol Smith Russell, will, of course, be the leading feature. Among those already engaged sxe Charles Rockwell J. W. ; ^ ^ the nece88itie8- o{ every-day life Lanergan, Walter Lennox, jr bol Smith, &hJrh M their ti and the cflsto£s o{ B. T. Ringgold, William Warmuigton, j ̂ con ̂ the femalt} sex rivet the chains by which they keep her as submissive as a slave. Outside of household duties the woman of Montenegro has no opportunity to develop her mental faculties. It is only of late years that little girls have l)eeu permitted to attend such schools as the country affords. The improvement, however, cannot be very great for a long was to the effect that under the power conferred by the Legis­ lature in a general charter no municipal corporation can lawfully bind its suor cessore in the manner * attempted, the contract was held to be nnanHyfji-r-n and void. Mrs. Sol Smith, Mattie Earl and Nellie Taylor. They will open the season Au­ gust 23, at Park Theatre, New York. F. C. BTTRNARU: "TO adopt the stage as a profession, means to practice the art of acting not merely as a pastime for one's self, and perhaps for the amusement of others, but only for the entertainment of the public, who pay the actor for his trouble, and so make his employment in their service furnish him with the means of living. 'Giver me a song,' says the public to the actor, 'and 111 give you your supper.'" THE London Sunday Times says of Sullivan'B "Pirates of Penzance:" "The secret of the entire work is that it was written down to American tastes, that it succeeded 'Pinafore,' and was perforc® cast in the same mold." Not complimen­ tary, but true. It also adds: -"As a writer of opera Mr. Gilbert is eccentric, seeming to inhabit a kind ofworfd whoM vanities are to be looked at upside down. Though this is admirable in its way, it does not bear frequent repetition. People become tired of standing on their heads, so to speak, and want to regain their legs; but they will not be able to do so over the 'Pirates of Penzance.'" THE success Pauline Lucca has met Aledo Alton Aniboy Anna Areola ....... Atlanta Auburn Aurora Batavia Beardstonn. Belleville.... Be'.vidoro ... Bloomington Bruidwood.. Bunker Hill. . Buehuell .... Cairo within the narrow and brutalizing sphere of the lowest manual labor. Long will they be doomed to climb rocks and leap from ravine to ravine to carry home the needed fuel and provisions. These women strange as it may seem, pride themselves on the hardships they endure. One day, while going to Nicsic by the the mountain path, I met a number of them carrying up the baggage of a party of English tourists. One was Beated on a rock, weeping bitterly. On being questioned concerning the cause of her grief, she replied that she had been in­ sulted by one of the party. He had told her that she would never be able to carry her share of baggage to the top of the mountain. The novelist in search of plots and in­ trigues would lose his time by visiting the Black Mountain. Aside from patriot­ ism and self-denial, there is no romance in the life of Montenegrin women. The rude mountaineers have no gallantry. They shrink from the simplest civilities to women. A compliment, even to the girl he loved, would subject a Montene­ grin to, ridicule. Young girls traveling alone in the heart of the region are safer than those under escort. Woe to the however, who dare address her an was made on the idea of hostility to a military candidate. Mr. Greeley carried six States, giving sixty-two electoral votes, and Grant received 286 electoral votes. Discouraged by this experiment, the convention of 1876 turned again to Bourbonism and nominated Tilden. In 1880 the party that tried McClellan in 1864, Seymour in 1868, Greeley in 1872, and Tilden in 1876, decides with re­ markable unanimity to call out the re­ serve candidate in the person of Gen. Hancock, and, in so doing, decides to abandon the war cries of uie last three campaigns. The men who opposed Grant because he was a military man are now asked "to vote for Hancock, not because he ever framed or supported a Democratic meas­ ure, but because he is a noted soldier. The men who raised the cry of no mili­ tary candidate when Garfield was nomi­ nated are commanded now to catch step, and declare they always wanted a military leader. j The Democratic party, despairing of success under the old flag of Bourbon­ ism, hopes to sneak into power under cover of Hancock's military record. Fearing repudiation at the hand* of the people, the solid South puts forward Hancock just as the anti-war or peace- | carbondaia.!.'! at-any-price Democrats did McClellan in 1864. It will not do. Hancock cannot change the spirit of the Democratic party. He cannot stretch his splendid record as a soldier, as he would a man­ tle, to cover all the sins of his party. His work at Gettysburg, placed side by side with the work of the Democrats in Congress, makes a painful contrast. Principles and motives come to the front, and leave the candidate in the rear. The party that nominates him is the party that makes the fight against the election laws in Congress ; is the party that organised the White League j !!!.*!!M1 and rifle clubs in the South; Is the | Elgin.. aJseo'Pittsfieid.T party that bulldozed and disfranchised the colored people in Alabama, Missis­ sippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana. Hancock may lend himself to the party just as McClellan did, but he cannot alter its record, change its purpose, I Farmer'* City i,aooiKockford *,«uo modify its programme, or save it | 5 defeat. His fame as a Union General j Gaieua... i,aooisaiem a,SOO| Sandwich 1, with in Berlin has been almost suffocat- ] improper word. She would have a pro- him, and will not support him. His IttlMb PMMtOcea. The Second Assistant Postmastjpt . General, Gen. Tyner, has nearly coin* pleted the work of readjusting the «*!». ries of Postmasters under the new lair. The change in compensation is very great. The following is the new list of salaries for the Illinois offices that are changed. These salaries went into ef­ fect Jllly 1 : -:;v Abingdon U,3001Lena. JUH 1 ,M»iL«wis tO* . . l 5» 3,000 Lincoln UK I,80l> Litchfield 1,700 l,a0t»jLook{xWt 1,9m 1,3001 Mar on* 1JS» l,"J00j Marenjgo L400 1,000' 1^89 Marshall 1JM l,tKN>|Ma»oti City 1,400 1,400 Mattoou. 3,300 2,100 Maywood 1^0» 2,000 Mendota. 2,100 3,000; Metropolis City..... 1,100 1,401' LlOt 1,100 Minon* 1,400 1,501* Moline aIS09 2,100| Mocmiovtll 2,100. Cambridge 1,200:MonticeDo. UN Canton... 1,900 Morris 1,800 1,601. Morrinoii. U« 1,90IM Mr. CarroU 1^00 1,500)Mi, Morrfa UOO 1,700 Mt. Pulaakl. 1,400 1,7001 Mt. Sterling 1,100 1,9001 Mt. Vernon. Champaign. 1,800 Xaperville^ 1JOO CbarJeaton 1,800 j Nafhville. 1,300 ChatHworth......... 1,100 N atinnal 8tock Ciienoa 1,100: Yard* ' 1,400 Chester. 1.400 Normal 1,780 Chicago 4,000 Odeij. UN Clinton I,700i01ne>-.n 1,900 2,600!0uarga 1.100 2,500l0regoil 1,300 1,<IO(l! Ottawa. 2,400 l,300!paua U800 2,000 Paris 1,600 Paxtoil Dwiglit l,70o,I'ecatonto*.. 1,100 Earlvllle 1,000 Pekiu 1,'JOO East St. Loula l,800j Peoria. 8,000^ ^ fceoo 1,T00 - K'.mburat 1,200 Plauo 1,100 Kim wood..., l,300!Polo 1,700 El Pano l,2LN)|Pontiac !,80» Englewood.... 1,500'Princeton 2,000 Evanxtoo l,t)UOjQuinoy 3,000 lairburjr... < 1,700 !Koch<9lle. 1,600 Fairfield.... l,l*»:Koek Falls .-..'1,300 Carrollton Carthage (Vntralia, I Danville., Decatur.L De KalbCei Delavan... Dixon Dnquoin weighs little against the domination of men like Wade Hampton, Hamburg Butler, Ben Hill, and others of that class. The nomination is a weak one, n^t be­ cause the man is not strong in liis way, but l)ecause the rank and tile of the party never have been in sympathy with ing. On the night of her farewell per­ formance, in response to loud plaudits, she advanced before the curtain and ex­ pressed her gratitude in a few sentences broken by emotion and other considera­ tions. Passing from his box to the stage, the Emperor took the opportunity of thanking Lucca for the great pleasure her singing and acting had given him, and subsequently she was presented, in his name, with a beautiful and costly bracelet, set with diamonds and other precious stones. CHARLES WEBB has taken some extra- .... .. . . , . , • i. ordinary liberties with Shakespeare in ,18 ^ f k-n • W1| preparing Twelfth Night for 1 use by ! ^hose indolence or lack of skill in pen- llobson and Crane, the comedians. The tector in every passer-by, and 011 reach­ ing the village, a score of young men would vie with each other for the honor of washing out the offense with the blood of the offender. The Woman Who Writes. \Vfe all remember the strange little woman in "David Copperfield," who kept Steerforth's nails 111 order for him and rendered similar service to other folk for moderate hire. Her industry was not stranger than is that of a little woman here in New York whose business seventeen changes of scene are reduced to five, but there is more than a mere rearrangement. Much of the material is discarded, and new language and inci­ dents are put in. The most daring of the latter are the tossing of "Malvolio" in a blanket and a duel between "Sir Toby " and "Sebastian." Mr. Webb is kind enough, too, to unmistakably unite "Sir Toby" to "Maria," the "Dnke" to "Vi­ ola," and "Sebastian" to "Olivia," at the end of the play. mansliip or in the art of epistolary com- IKisition forbids them to write notes for themselves. This obscure worker knows how to turn sentences cleverly; she oan say graceful things gracefully; she c«n write a note which sparkles all over with good humor and effects its purpose. This is her skill, her equipment, her capital in life. Of its kind it is as genu­ ine as any. The things that she knows how to do are things that need to be done. There is as positive a need for her skill as for that of the plumber--if we may imagine a plumber who really has skill-- and, however completely without recog­ nition her business may be among trades and professions, it is as legitimate as any. There are women who cannot write the notes and letters required of them with satisfaction to themselves, and other women who can do so but dislike the oc- Moralltj of Good Ltrtng. A man of the kindliest impulses has only to feed ujjon indigestible food for a few days, and fortwith liif> liver is af­ fected, and then his brain. His sensi­ bilities are blunted; his uneasiness makes , him waspish and fretful. He is like a ! cupation, and many of tliem are glad to hedgehog with the quills rolled in, and ! pay for the service. The professional will do and say things from which in j letter-writer has managed to discover health he would have recoiled. Sydney 1 this need and to turn it to account in se- Smitli did not exaggerate when he ! curing employment for herself. She has affirmed that "old friendships are often | many clients. Some of them engage her destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard for specified hours of each day, to write salted meat has often led to suicide." whatever notes there may be occasion to Even so intellectual a man as William send, while others employ her only upon Hazlitt, writing to his lady-love, could I particular occasions where there is more say: "I never love you so well as when I j writing than usual to be done. Her ex- think of sitting down with you to dinner j periences are varied and interesting. 011 a lx>iled scrag-end of mutton and hot j Sometimes she has to preserve answers to ix>tatoes." * * * Justly did Tally-1 notes that she has herself written upon a rand inveigh against the English that ; few occasions, when invitations not yet they had one hundred and lif^y forms of j received were known to lie coming, she religion and but one sauce--melted but- : had to prepare answers to them at one name will have 110 talismanic influence among the Bourbon herds in New York, and will not call out the old Golden Circle men in Indiana. The fact of his nomination being in the nature of a concession to the strength of the Repub­ lican candidate, will aid the Republicans in making telling points against his party. His personal record, standing in contrast with the record of the party leaders who push him to the front, is in the nature of a finger-board directing public attention to the principles at stake in the contest. The spectacle of even so reputable a soldier as Gen. Hancock playing cat to pull the chest­ nuts of the Democratic monkey out of the fire may grieve the people in the old loyal States, but it will not excite their sympathy, or turn them aside from the merits of the contest. Hancock is simply a new experiment of a party that has tried many schemes for deceiving the people. He may carry the solid South, simply because the old Confederate leaders will it. But he will lose Indiana and New York, because, as against the legislative and other govern­ mental experience of Gen. Garfield, he has only his military record to present to men who have professed for sixteen years to be violently opposed to all mili­ tary men. On one side is Gen. Garfield, thor­ oughly identified with the principles and measures of the Republican party. On the other side is the figure-head, Hancock, making a vain endeavor to di- Oale^butg ! Gaiva l,0OO[8hawneetown. i;aoo 1 (ruiieeej l,700;8helbyvil]e 2,000 Geneva 1,2m 1'Sparta 1,400 (iibeon City 1,400 Springfield 0,000 Oilman 1,100: Sterling 2,000 Greenville l,400i Stivator 2,100 Harvard 1,200 Sycamore 9,000 Havana 1,000 Taylorvlll* 1,700 Huveloek 1,100 Tuscola. .. 1,600 Henrv 1,700 I'rbaua 1,800 Heiglilaild. I,l0o| VandaUa 1,400 Hillsborough 1,400 Virden... 1,200 Hooi>etiton. 1,2001 Virginia 1,900 Hyde Park. MOOjWarrea 1,300 Jacksonville.. Jerpeyville. Joliet Kankakee Kewanea Knoxville I. noon Lake Forest Lanark La Salie Lemon t . 2,2001 War^a* . 1,9IK) Wellington . 2.MNI Wat«eka . 1,900 Waukdgan . 1,800 Wenoua . l,20tjl Wheaton . 1,300; Whitehall.... . 1,10(>! Wilmington.. . l,«0Uj\Vmciieater.. . 2,000 Woodstock.. . l,100j ... 1,000 Jefferson's Manaers. When Jefferson became carried his simple manners and iastiea into official life. He determined that his inauguration as the chief officer of the Republic should be as free from dis­ play as possible. Dressed in plain Maok clothes, he rode on horseback to the old Capitol, without guard or servants, de­ mounted without assistance, and hitched Ids horse to the fence. On the steps be was met by a number of friends, wfco accompanied him to the Senate Cham- l»er, where he delivered his inaugural ad­ dress. During the Administration of General Washington and John Adam the sessions of Congress had been opened in a style similar to that by which the English sovereign opens Parliament. The President, accompanied by a laxge escort on horseback, drove in state of the Capitol. Taking liis seat in the Senate Chamber, and the House of Representa­ tives being summoned, he read his ad­ dress. Mr. Jefferson, to whom suoh ceremonies were distasteful, swept tli« all away by one act He sent a written vert attention from the measures and } message to Congress, which was read to principles of his party. It is a fight for j both houses by their respective clerka, principle, and men of principle will 1 ^ that practice has been observed ewr fight it to the end. Garfield is just the j since. Against one of liis reforms, how- ter. The celebrated scholar, Dr. Parr, confessed a love for "hot lobsters, with a profusion of shrimp sauce." Pope would lie in lied for days at Bolingbroke's, house before writing them at the other, but being a discreet little body she keeps , _ her own counsel in such cases, and does \ Paris green into common use out of man to put Republican principles to the front in a way to attract attention, while Hancock is not the man to turn public attention away from Democratic policy. Too llnch Paris Green. It is reported that a family has just been poisoned by eating lettuce upon which Paris green was found, and many other unpleasant stories of the same kind have been heard every year since the arrival of the potato bug brought not reveal the nature of the replies, al- unless he were told that there were • ready prepared, to the client whose in- turned out by the new machine. AN anti-dueling association has been formed in South Carolina, with ex-Judge Kershaw as President. "We intend," the resolutions say, " to train, educate, and organize the public opinion and moral sense of the people to a true per- and which are among the latest novelties | in this way, are paper "blankets." At- I tention has frequently been called to the j value of ordinary sheets of paper as a : substitute for bed clothes, or, at least, as ; on addition to bed clothes. The idea : seems to have suggested the fabrication j of "blankets" from this cheap material. ; The fact that they are not as durable as | the genuine article is in their favor, as, in the case of the very poor, where the ception of the criminality of this wicked and pernicious practice ; to take proper : same bedding is used" for years, a very measures to secure an adjustment of all ! t'heap material that will last only a com- pê o-al difficulties whijh might better tluu. . , , " ««« durable articles that are rarely or never 10 involve any of our fellow-citizens m cashed. it. One of the most extraordinary parts of the performance was the following : The athlete placed a betal leaf betweai two of his fingers and then, by pressing the fingei-s together, cut the leaf so as to throw the upper part several feet high. But the most startling feat was the breaking of a stone laid on his chest. The man toy down at full length on some chairs, and a huge stone, weighing four Bengal maiuids, was placed on his chest, which was simply covered by a thin tunic. Two men then struck the stone some tremendous blows with heavy hammers, and, after one or two attempts, the block rolled off the man's chest in two pieces. He next made sev- stewed lampreys for dinner, when he would rise instantly and hurry down to the table. Handel ate enormously, and when he dined at a tavern, always ordered a din­ ner for three. On being told that all woidd be ready as soon as the company should arrive, he would explain: "Den bring up the dinner, prestissimo! Iam de company." A MONTH before the Chicago Conven­ tion a fine boy was born in Manchester, Ct., and named Arthur, with the under­ standing that his middle name should l>e that of the Presidential candidate. It is a singular fact that he now rejoices in the name of both the Republican candidates--Arthur Garfield. vitations they are meant to answer.-- New York Post doors. ~ Such accidents should remind the owners of farms and gardens that the favorite remedy for potato bugs is not one of the simple insect-powders that are advertised as harmless tp human beings, but u virulent poison to whatever being tastes it in small quantities. Owners of large crops that are subject* to inseot ravages may be justified in using it, but Cemeteries. The old system of cutting cemetery grounds into small lots surrounded by hedges bids fair to pass away entirely. , ~ . Allover the country the park landscape ! even these should take special care that or lawn system is gaining favor. It con-* the wind or some other force does not gists in a series of plantations of shrubs carry the poison to berries Or to vegeta- and trees, so arranged that the effect of | bles of which the leafy portions are the entire cemetery, from the main I eaten. In home gardens, drives, is that of an extensive park, all evidence of existing burial grounds be­ ing shut off by foliage. Of course, in this system, the hedge-and-fence mon­ strosity finds no place. Vaults or cata­ combs are excavated "in the hillsides, where the various vegetables and smtdl fruits are grown near each other, it should not be used at all. Small boys pi k pota­ to bugs at 3 cents a quart may cast a little more than Paris green, but, on the other hand, they are cheaper than doc- ever, the ladies of Washington rose ap en masse. Mr. Jefferson, disliking the levees which had been held at the White House, abolished them. He established two public days for the reception of com­ pany--the 1st of January and the 4th el July. On other days he was at home to all others who came on business or ant of courtesy. Many of the Washington ladies, indignant at* their social pleasures being thus curtailed, determined to force the President to hold the customnflty levees. On the usual levee day they resorted in full dress to the White House. The President was out taking a ride on horse­ back. On his return he saw that tike public rooms were filled with eleganthr- dressed ladies. At once divining the plot, he appeared before the fair gueata l>ooted and spurred and covered with dust. So courteous was his reception of them, and so graceful his manners, the ladies went away delighted with President, but cliagriued with selve. They felt that they had guilty of a rudeness in visiting a who did not expect them. It was their last attempt to break through rales of Jefferson's household.-- Youth's Com­ panion. ' I""!0***?* ami memorial buildings of all kinds 1 tors or respectably funerals. j production of live •took ia so vast i too much attention tmmffrt be besfcHnli t upon this business.