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tcttts f laiudcalw I. VAN SLYKE. Editor ami PublWiw. MoHENRY, ILLINOIS. W E E K L Y I E W S R E V I E W THB EAST. BUBNS' statue *M unveiled in * 4- id Central Park, New York, on tho 2d inst. **' 'George William Curtis delivered tho oration. HBEGHENY'S wholesale drug store and McLand A Reftrdon's hardware store at Troy, N. Y.. have been burned. Loss, $100,000; in- mired David Douglass A Co., importer* of linen* at New York, who ten yearn ago were worth #250,000, have miHpondwL.. beat 8chat'for in a game of hillianin at New York for 91,000 and the championship of America. Two OF the largest buildings com- prising the Holmes, Booth A Hayden works, containing many costly machines and tools, have tieen burned. Estimated loss, $200,000; ^ ICTine„ well insured Charles H. \oorhm, mem >er of certificate* of deposit... CorurroBS from Sew Jernev, liaw nw® iimicUSU j Fractional enrreuty for embezzlement The heaviest canting ever . oolil au<i silver certifl- attemptod in the United States lias just l**n ; catea made at the Black Diamond Steel Works m 'Pittsburgh. ^ wan an anvil block weipuiiig 160 " tons The preparations consumed HOViiul months of labor, and were of the most elaborate kind. OHABXIBS NILTHKW, of Potteville, Pa., shot his unfaithful wife and then killed himself. . .Two cotton mills at Lowell--the Chase nnd the Faulkner--have been burned. Loss, %300,- the part of the insect, if tee only receives the active oo-oper&tion of the planters. A NKW YORK dispatch OF the 6th inst. aayn "the epidemic now raging among the horses » spreading to all the animals in the stables of the car and stage companies. It is estimated that 10,000 animals are suffering from the disease in New York and Brooklyn/* The disease is also spreading in the cities of the Middle and Western States. THE Mexican House of Representa­ tives. by a large majority vote, has passed a resolution declaring Gen, Gonzales President of the republic. His term is to begin Dec. 1 nest. The electoral vote stood as follows: Gonzales, 11,528; Benitez. 1,868; Mejia, 529;, Cadena, 1,075 ; Vallarte, 185; Zamacona, 76 ; scattering, 285. WASHINGTON. ( i Following is the pubiio-deW state­ ment issued on the 1st inst.: sir aiUSEXENT NOTES. 8n per cent, bonds Five per ccnta Four and one-half per cents Four wr cents Refunding certificates Navy pension fuud Total coin bonds $1,700,698,400 Matured debt 8,011,665 Legal tenders 346,741,841 9,965,000 7,181,940 2XL819.AS0 474,r>:n,-r>o 25<>,oo<*mo 7H8,'ir>3,'.r,Q I,oki,.H,-,O 14,000,000 Total wigioat interest., v Total debt Total interest .. 4. Cash in treamuy. 98,033,6M #89,922,441 $3,096,632,fifl6 18,SMX5,P36 199,945,2W •00. AJI express train ON the Fitchborg railroad left the track near Littleton, Mass. Two passengers were killed and several in­ jured The firm of Moore A Jenkins, of New York, have made an assignment. The liabilities «f the firm amount to 1887,274, and the nom­ inal assets to $234,9D8. Debt lean oMh In treasury.,....., Decrease during September....... Decrease since June 30 Current liabilities-- Interest due and unpaid. 9 Debt on which interest has ceased. Interest thereon Gold and silver certificates............. United States notee held for redemption of certificates of deposit......... Ctoh balance available Oct 1 Total. Available i Cash in treasury.... ... $1,915,594,182 8,974,891 ... -*6,578,113 2,401.809 6,011,aa 764,356 26,033,660 9,965,000 164,768,769 199,945,260 199,945,SAO WM. GEOROE HAMILTON, of Sacra­ mento, OaL, sent a note, asking an interview with iMn&usband, from whom she had sepa­ rated. ̂ He called on her, and during the con­ versation she shot him dead. Cause, jealousy, liast winter she shot and severely wounded a yonng girl who had ejtcited her jealousy. A SIX-HORSE coach containing Chief Justice Donohne, of New York, and several other tourists, capsized at Milton, Cal., while returning from the Yosemite. Father Trayner was fatally injnred, but the other members of the party escaped with slight bruises. THB rag-cutting rooms of the writing- paper mill at Elkhart, Ind., have been burned. Loss estimated at $35,000 A systematic Tobbery of the Kansas Pacific road, which has Ibeen going on for several months, has just been unearthed by detectives, and the princi- Bonda Issued to Pacific railway compan­ ies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 969,352 Intc-rent paid by United States. 47,589,861 Interest repaid by companies- Interest repaid by transportation of mails 13,824,654 By oanh payments of 5 per cent, of nel earnings. 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 33,110,007 GEN. SHERMAN has telegraphed to Washington that President Hayes and his party will not return to the White Honse till the 7th of November The report of the local in­ spectors of New York upon the wreck of the Rteamer Vera Cruz has been received at the treasury. The officers are entirety exonerated from blame, the wreck being attributed to the work of Providence. THE aggregate cost of the United States postal service doting the year ending June 30 last was $22,296,269 Mr. Russell, a A WASHINGTON dispatch says : "Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, has made his report of the investigation in the ; South Carolina census matter to the Secretary I of the Interior. Gen. Walker declines to give I any information as to the nature of the report, j and Assistant Secretary Hall will not nuthorize any statement in the absence of Secretary j Schurz. It is confidently stated, howewr, by persons who claim to know, that Gen. Walker, in the report, holds the theory that the census of 1870 was defective, and that the census of 1880 is correat, and that the apparent disorep- ei* tiomng purchasers to I wave Denver on a certain train, thereby taking them through to Kansas City under the supervision of the three con­ ductors engaged in the conspiracy. THOMAS FORREST, who fatally stabbed Michael Corlis for discharging him from em­ ployment at the California mine, at Silver Reef. Utah, was taken from jail by masked men and banged. A SINGULAR accident is reported from LaCrosae, Wis. Joseph Umber, a farmer liv­ ing a few miles from town, while returning home in companv with IIIH wife, was fatally j ancies are to be attributed to the assumed im- tmrned and his wife seriously. Tho man was perfections in the former cemiifl." under the influence of liquor and, having a ; THE White House is literally torn to lighted pipe in his mouth, he let it fall in the < . • , ^ , wagon, setting fire to some hay in the box i Plece8» undergoing repairs. The main entrance and igniting their clothing. Before assistance i to the building is closed, and persons who have arrived, their clothes were nearly burned off occasion to visit the President's secretaries are them. The wagon was entirely consumed ex- compelled to enter through a window, which 43ent two wheels....A wood chopper named has been bridged over. The front vestibule "Hellers, living on the Mississippi river, six ; has l>een newly tiled, and the wood-work gen- -•niles west of New Canton, IU., wanted i erallv is being newlv painted. • fto marry a Miss Baker, who refused him. He ! . ,, T „_ „ ItheD shot and killed the girl, her Mother and i FOR the year ending June 30,1880, the m- m »,111,111 *•'*'» 'rtSfcWUMteSMK ***•«» «»^P#jiBvjjlot>eg the UtnSrJohX^^bff^ ; *nd ^ ^ tie revenue of t& 4 at the <fctalA, having b#e®T ttamed department main(y depends) aggregated in tfae Indians. When last seen alive 1 va,ne *32,087,342--9 per cent, increase over the wa# in the custody of three white j Previou" year. ' f m e n , o n e o f t h e m a G o v e r n m e n t | agent, who were taking him to Gunnison City. T I:I _» , . . . , . It is thought that these men surrendered him ; editors of the chief journals in to the savages, wha were clamorous for his St. Petersburg have been summoned before blood, without a protest, and they will be se- ! Qon. Melikoff, and told that their continued verely dealt with when caught. | discussion of a constitution for Russia has highly displeased the Czar ; that nothing more on the subject would be allowed to appear, and that during the present reign it would be prema­ ture to discuss the question of a constitution. The social warfare in Ireland, says a London dispatch, grows in intensity. The murder of the Viscount Mount- morris indicates the presence of the worst passions, and tho likelihood steamship Castello left Savannah, Ga., a few ! of a revolt among the discontented peasantry, days ago, for Liverpool, taking 7,118 bales of Lord Mountmoms was a poor, unknown no- cotton. This is said to be the largest cargo of j bleman, unpopular as a landlord, a magistrate cotton ever taken from any Atlantic port j and a neighbor. The motive of the murder is At Fort Smith, Ark., a white man and a negro, the subject of general discussion. Everybody • both intoxioated, quarreled and drew revolvers. , in England denounces the crime as agrarian, | The white man was shot twice through the j and many call for coercive measures. The | stomach and once throtigh the lungs. The ne- ! Irish organs declare it to be in no way connect- gro was shot once through the stomach. Both , ed with the land agitation, and urge'the Gov- are dead. j ernment to resist the demand for repression. THB pork-packing establishments of FOBS A Homer and Paul Gable, at Canton, in • BOOT of armed men entered the town of Dalton, Ga., and rescued a lot of con­ traband goods seized by the revenue officers. The Washington department has telegraphed the Collector to use all his force and authority to capture and punish the raiders The A DupLiN dispatch says that at a land meeting at Armagh there were cries of " 8hoo the suburbs of Baltimore, have been destroyed ! the landlords;" "Down with the Queen and toy fire The United States Grand Jury at | Government." ^The leaders of the meeting Atlanta has found true bills against thirty-eight J ~~ Georgia moonshiners who have made attacks on the United States revenue officers. A PORTION of the St. Charles Hotel- "New Orleans, has been destroyed by Are. Loss, $30,000. ...Bv the explosion of gasoline three children of William Clark, a leading business man of Jacksonville, Fla., were burned. His wife-is not expected to recover Armagh. THE Italian Government is about to fatal?" : "uppreen the newly-arrived French Jesuits . . . . ' J a c q u e s O f f e n b a c h , t h e c e l e ' r a t e d m u s i c i a n a n d A new English colony called Rugby, was I composer, has just died in Paris, aged 61 years, formally established last week in Tennessee, ! •••-Cable dispatches report that the Russian afterward made inflammatory speeches at New ry, and great excitement "prevailed. Rvan i Foley, a farmer in Ballinlonton, Comity Hligo, ' has- been murdered. One Bovlan, a process- j , - . ,, server, has been killed at Crossmaglan, County i "er> 7ou are almost tempted to declare Miere is but one prima douna! -- London Letter. MB, HBNBY IEVINO, the English actor, offered to oomo to this country for $2,- 600 a night, but his terms Mere not ac­ cepted. THB Graphic says: "Dolls modeled after Sara Bernhardt are being imported, They can also be used for crochet needles." Punch says tho French marriage law is intended to supply dramatists and novelists with plots and materials for their work. AN acquaintance of Mr. Payne's once informed him that her daughters were going to tho theater to see Shakspeare's "Turning of the Seretv." MISS KBLLOGO is making a great suc­ cess in opera at Vienna. She is the only cantatriee who, during the past few years, has been allowed to sing in Italian in the Imperial Opera-house, all others singins in German. MR. CARTVIXE was visited in Scotland by Mr. Bartley Campliell, the dramatic writer, and the Hartford Post records the disappointment of the latter at find­ ing the venerable sage engaged in killing a rat with a poker. M'LJIE BERNHARDT has received from King Christian, of Denmark, the order of the Danebrog, a red-bordered white ribbon, with a gold medal surmounted by a royal crown in diamonds attached to it. The only other ladies who have received this very exceptional honor are Mines. Trebelli and Nilsson. ONE of Ole Bull's tricks was, when he had diminished his tone to a nearly in­ audible pianixshno, to continue the atti­ tude, as if he was playing, but actually having drawn off the bow entirely from the violin, holding it in the air and pro­ ducing no tone whatever; while his au­ dience, in raptures at the softness of his really inaudible sighs, made ear trum­ pets of their hands and bent forward, eager to catoK the sound which did not exist. Then the violinist, as if suddenly awakening from a trance, bowed to the enraptured audience. Miss ANNA LOUISB CART is having some hew gowns made in Paris. Among them is a princess wrapper of light blue cashmere, finished around the lower edge in points trimmed with silver braid. Below the points is a knife plaiting cov­ ered with Valcnciennes, and above them • quilling of the same lace. A purple morning dress, made with a skirt and half-fitting sack, is also trimmed with silver braid, and is quite as pretty as the wrapper. A brown walking suit, a short dinner dress of two shades of blue, are among theotlier gowns which the singer is to have? for herself, and not for the dear public, for which her finest gar­ ments are designed.--Cincinnati Ga­ zette. THE Duchess of Connauglit, one of Queen Victoria's daughters-in-law, be­ came, says the London Truth, a great admirer at Olxrammergau of Joseph Mayr, who represents the Christ of the PaHnionnpirl. He is more than six feet high, has large, dark eyes, a fine com­ plexion, and long, brown hair, falling over his shoulders in curls. English ladies generally throng his cottage, where he lets the spare rooms, and sometimes call at four o'clock in the morning to take leave of him. He is married to rather a plain woman, a good housewife, and the mother of his four children, who fears, however, that some English Duchess will elope with her husband. You may rely fully upon the reports that Mme. Patti will visit the United States in another season or so; she has taken advantage of the monetary embar- lassment* of Mr. Maurice Stralcosch, her toutfaer-t»4awv.-i»- .huy- l»uu oft frdia the otntroct signed wifcn nim years ago. This contract gave him absolute •ontrol over her in the United States, and was, for many reasons, a great obstacle in her path there, viewed from her own standpoint. She consulted lawyers, who held that there was no way to avoid its obligations save by a com­ promise. Accordingly, on the occasion of his present visit to England, Mme. Patti arranged it amicably, agreeing to pav Maurice Strakosch 100,000 francs ($20,000). Part of this was paid then and there; the rest will be hauded him the day the diva sails for the States. What a furor she will create! She will appear first in concerts, supported, as goes without saying, (I had almost said without singing!) by that dear Nicolini, who makes a full stop l>etweeu every fourth note and is afflicted with an exag­ gerated tremolo in the bargain. It is proposed to charge $10 a seat for these concerts! This will do for a time, but not for long. However, I can assure you that to listen to Patti, the < n of song, to use a mncli-abused term, is well worth saving and scraping and going without other things. I never heard anything half so delicious as her rendering of Within a Mile of Kdinhoro Toien. There is only one Patti, and listening to Abont Ex-Senator Stewart. The fickleness of fortune, the heart- lessness of Hash society and the follies cinnati Southern railroad/ The reli-ious serv- , death in all parts of the interior of the empire. ! C- Cann7 *fttcr icee were conducted by Biahop Qaintard, of the j an^ that the gran&rieu at T&ganrog are In-ing j J^ustrated than by giving a few facta re- Epincopal Church. Mr. Thomas Hughes, M, P., ; »pwlly emptied to Hupply the Buffering district*. I to a late celebrated family in delivered an address. - PARIS telegram: "One of the great I Washington. The wife was the hand- THB centennial of the battle of King's dry-goods houses of Paris was visited one day i son?e.» basiling daughter of a well-known Mountain, at Charlotte, N. C.( was celebrated, last week bv no less than 67 000 people. On ' ^)^^c^an> now in office in New Orleans. Oct. 6, in an appropriate manner, many officers ! Monday alone the same store sold goods to the I Si*!"8 & <ll®tuiKulsr|^d United States of the United States army participating. There j value of ^280,000. ' These aro hard times ' °ena*or years ago. The husband was a was a sham battle in the afternoon. j say the French husbands."... .Lieuts. Rogers I K°°d lawyer, a United State# Senator of JAMES M. STBWABT, Postmaster of the ' SJ1?"3 0,1(1 Wi'!lum H. Bixbv, of the United j great ability, and a heavy mine operator United M, House of Itepr«»t.ti»«. ated | Legion of Honor for their part in last week at Alexandria, Ya., of lingering ill- j the recent military maneuvers in Paris on the ness, aged 54. He served in the Mexican war : occasion of the anniversarv of the fall of the and in the Confederate armv. He was elected ! Bastile. Paymaster of the Honse M1876 j THE British Government has ordered DAVID THOMAS and George Ix,wne have Lho barrackH at Athlone, CarloW) 81igo> and Nelson county, , other place() in th(J WeHt of Irela)|d to ^ pre_ been hung mob i M • • Peace, was holding court, and J. W. j ing, Reid & Co., the largest in S^UalriT* .'.aZ Glover made a disturbance and was ordered i Primrose, who was in command of the British under arrest by Owen. Patois were at once troops at Candahnr at the time Gen. Burrows drawn by both, and hnng commenced by each, was defeated at Kushki-Nakud, |liMl I™ Uwen fell de:id Glover ran about 300 yards, ; called to EngUnd, and will probably bepla<£l • and felL He died after lingering eight hours. ; on trial to answer for his conduct in'connectii»> / ^ nn.inrii- I with Burrows'defeat. F 'QVR. COLQUITT (Democrat) has been I °EBMANY announces that she will not re-elected Governor of Georgia by about 40,000 j in coert,>v'e measures against Turkey un- majority. His opponent was Judge Norwood, j alJ the l'°wers participate in them A also a Democrat. , Berlin despatch says an accident occurred in a TH.BE W«. .1 etertio» in Delaware » I 1,7 "hi"' *"> the 6th inst for Inspectors and Assessors. A ' ---------- Cost of a Boy. , A clergyman, who has been discours- majority, b5G. P^Jt|jeJO,'cot^,^or^SBU'»aors the [ ing about lioys, has devoted considers ble attention to the cost of these some­ what necessary individuals, and he esti- dispatch from Wilmington says : " Full returns from the State give the Democrats, for Inspect­ ors, 9,529; Republicans, 8.(173. Democratic Democrats received 9.495; Republicans, 8,806. Democratic majority, 689." •EKEBAI- WALTER "WINSOB, a 16-year-oki mur- 4ent of Providence, Ontario, has been sen­ tenced to a life term of imprisonment. Two brothers at Richmond Hill, Ont., quarreled, and one dealt tho other a fatal blow. The father saw the fight, and fell dead Over 12.000.000 bushels of grain were shipped to F.urope from this country during the mouth of September Prof. Riley, the entomologist, who hn.s spent several months in the South in- vestiRutmg the habits and ravages of the cotton- worm, announces that be has reached a stage He had more money than he could spend. His family went abroad. He built a grand house, copied from some nobleman's palace somewhere abroad-- round rooms, square rooms, oblong rooms, banqueting rooms, ball rooms, drawing rooms, picture rooms and every­ thing tliat was grand. And the wife abroad furnished this grand house. I was told by a very intelligent upholster­ er, a trustworthy man who knows his business, that the Gobelin tapestry in one wndurt"in"c^nMll^n | of this house cost 45,000 francs, ' and that the chair-covers, of the same material, cost 2,000 francs each. Think of it! The seats and backs of a dozen or so chairs costing $400 each! The same authority also says that one rug in this house cost $2,000, and that the cur­ tains in tlie whole house cost $30,000. To-day, the Senator is no longer in Con­ gress, but is practicing liis profession like any lawyer, in San Francisco, and is getting a good living. His house in this city is vacant. He cannot sell it, and nobody can afford to hire it. No , . - doubt the moths are having a good time I mates tlie expense of bringing a good j in the Gobelin tapestry and the point lace y' i-f1 ordinary advantages of j curtains. Wealth that is made in a day i.-t0 a=e °* at about j is ignorant, ill-mannered, thoughtless, 0 0 0 ; t l i e s e f i g u r e s a r e a b o u t d o u b l e d ' " - - - - - by the time the boy is of age, if he goes tlirough college. A bad boy, arrived at inconsiderate, ephemeral.-- Washington correnpondcncc. the age mentioned, costs fully as much, ! even if he has not been to* college | JVew York Herald. The Largest City in the World. (London is spread over about seventy square, miles. There is one death there every six minutes andU>ne birth everv the rage for parlor ornaments; but al- j four. The growth of the population is way8 wait till the mule looses it off his | at the rate of 72,000 a year, or 205 each in his investigation which leaves no doubt of his hind foot before you attempt to bronze day. The total length of the streets of ability to put a stop to any future ravages on it. I LoIi(]on ^ alJOut 7,000 miles ; there aro built, every year about 9,000 new houses, by which the length of the streets is in­ creased by twenty-eight^jjules. In the jails there is an average of 75,000 pris­ oners. The foreign residents of London number about' 100,000 ; but 87 per cent, of the whole population were born out of the city. Urer-ExertlM. lion g-oon tinned exertion, without proper intervals of rest, is followed by a peculiar sensation of fatigue, and often by tremor or cramp. Fatigue is due, in part, to the failure of contractile material, and an accumulation of waste- products, in the muscles, but, in the main, to tho exhaustion of the nerve cen­ ters that supply stimulus to contraction. Both tremor and cramp are probably caused by excessive muscular irratibil- ity, the former being duo to short, ir­ regular explosions of muscular force, the latter being a prolonged contraction oi the muscle. When over-exertion is confined to a small group of muscles, these, instead of becoming enlarged and strengthened, as is the case when exertion and rest are duly interchanged, suffer chronic ex­ haustion, which shows itself in a species of paralysis--as in palsy, or cramp, sev­ erally peculiar to writers, telegraphers, type-setters, violinists, pianists, tailors, milkersf, and men of various trades whose work is mainly with the hammer. R is computed that the pen-blade forger, if industrious and disposed to (lo full work, delivers nearly 29,000 ac­ curate strokes a day, and in ten vears j over 88,000,000, eaoh stroke involving expenditure of nerve force, both in the | nerves of the brain which calculate the distance and amount of force neccssary, and the nerves of the muscles engaged in the act. Another result of over-exertion is ir- ratibility of the heart, similarly due to exhaustion of nerve-force. The heart may become dilated, so that valves--one or more--cease fully to close the open­ ings, or tho valves become thickened and incapable of ready and complete action. The elastic tissues of the great arteries leading out of the heart may be weakened by over-distension, and the walls may, during some strong effort, so far gave way as to form a pouch, or even to stretch out into a fatal aneurism. This irritability of heart gives rise to palpitation, cardiac pain, and rapid pulse. It is estimated that 38 per cent, of cases of this affection among our soldiers during the late civil war were due to long and raptd marches, or other forms of over-exertion. Professional pedestri­ ans are proverbially short-lived. Mountain-cliinbeie, and persons who carry gymnastic or athletic exercises to excess, and, especially, laborers whose work is severe, and who also suffer from intemperance, foul air and improper diet, are peculiarly liable to heart dis­ ease. . Died as a King Should. J. E. Murdoch has written a book on the stage, in which occurs the following story : Mr. Macready was fond of telling the following story as his experience of American independence, exemplified in a Western actor, of the self-satisfied kind. "In tho last act of 'Hamlet,'" said he, "I was very anxious to have the King, who was rather of a democrat­ ic turn of mind, to fall, when I stabbed him, over the steps of tlie throne and on the right-hand side, with his feet to the left, in order that when I was to fall I should have the ceiiter of the stage to myself, as befitting the principal per­ sonage of the tragedy. No objection ' yw mwAyto W* ^Oft. thtt-iMixt. of., the actor, but at night, to'lily gf eat Sur­ prise, he wheeled directly round after receiving the sword thrust, and deliber­ ately fell in the middle of tlie scene, ju->t on the spot where I was in tne habit of dying. Well, as a dead man cannot move himself, and as there was no time for others to do it, the King's body remained in possession of my place, and I was forced to find another situation, which I did, and finished the scene in the best way I could. " When I expostulated with his Maj­ esty for the liberty he had taken, he coolly replied : * Mr. Macready, we Western people know nothing about Kings excepting that they have an odd trick of doing as they please ; therefore, I thought, as I was King, 1 had a right to do whatever I pleased ; and so, sir, I fell back upon my kingly rights, from which, you perceive, sir, there is no appeal.' I retired," said Mr. Mac- ready, " to my dressing-room to have a hearty laugh over what I felt more like crying over a moment before." Fasting Homed. To determine the capacity of horses to undergo the privations incident to a state of siege a series of experiments were made with these animals in Paris some years ago. The exi>erimeni s proved (1) that a horse can hold out for twenty- five days without any nourishment, pro­ vided it is supplied with sufficient and good drinking water. 2. A horse can barely hold out for live days without water. 3. If a horse is well fed for ten (lays, but insufiiciontly provided with water throughout, the same period, it will not outlive the eleventh day. One horse, from which water hud been entirely withheld for three days, drank on the fourth day sixty liters of water within three minutes. A horse which received no solid nourishment for twelve days was nevertheless in a condition, on tin- twelfth day of its fast, to draw a load of 279 kilos. Batter Three Thousand Years Old. A sample of Irish bog butter, prob- ! ably 1,000 years old, on analysis, yeilded ' tlie following results: Volatile fatty acids, calculated as butyric, 6 per cent.; : soluble fatty acids, not volatile, 42 per ; cent.; insoluble fixed fatty acids, 99.48. j>er cent.; glycerol, minute trsices. The I insoluble fatty acids contained 9 per cent, oleic acid and 91.0 per cent, stearic and palmitic acids. An older sample of an- ' cient butter was taken some time ago j from an Egyptian tomb. It dates from aliout 400 or 000 years before Christ. It ' was contained in a small alabaster vase, j and had apparently been ]x>ured in while j in a melting state. In apj>earunee, color, j smell and taste it corresponds closelv I with slightly rancid butter. Analysis i showed that the sainolc had not under- I Kone any notabl4 decomixwition. ! Use of Woolen Clothing. j Prof. Jaeger, of Stuttgart, recom- j mends the use of woolen clothing lx>th j in summer and winter, and has invented a sort of normal dress by which he claims the accumulation of fat and water in the system can l>e prevented. This normal clothing has two essential prop­ erties : 1. It consists exclusively of wool, avoiding all materials woven from plant fiber (cotton or linen). 2. It makes a strong point in keeping warm tho middle line of the frout of the body. But the principal peculiarity of the clothing is tlie exelusive use of sheep'n wool, even avoiding pocket n*i/l other linings of cotton. $HE KAffGOiTRIcit ffotr M U Dn«-!(«t • W fm-manre. i fn!ir|»r'e Wi-exljr.J With eertain Indian jugglers the "mango" trick is their most effective feat A mango seed is produced, and a flower pot filled with mold, and niter a lot of ceremony (in plain English fuss), the seed is put under the mold and sev­ eral coverings of baskets and cloths are placed over the pot. Then thero is more ceremony and fingering al>out the cov­ ered basket, and the pot is shown with the mango leaves just sprouting up. Then it is covered over again and more hocos.sing gws on, and the cover is lifted up again and tlie plant is seen to have grown. The covering, hocussing, f jo on, the plant meanwhile having urtlier grown and l>ecome strong enough to bear fruit, the blossom to appear, the' fruit to ripen, which is th«n pluoked off and given to be eaten. Now, we, for our part, oan not under­ stand how any one can see through the performance. Nay, even when to a ^fellow spectator, who once viewed this j)erforu^iift'e, we explained the details of the trick after it was oveV, he would not believe, but reckoned the affair wonder­ ful, and even partaking of the super­ natural. We can only attribute it to his having been so mystified as to have been ,aetually mesmerised, though partaking of conscience. The real truth about this feat was that the green and ripe fruits, and every branch and uhoot that was exhibited, were actually there, just as much as the seed and the flower pot-- all in the wraps and folds and baskets which formed the covering. We were carefully watching the man's proceed­ ings, and at that time had acquired some knowledge of juggling tricks. As we were not allowed to touch the in­ struments of the exhibition after tho par­ ticular performance began, the baskets, wraps, etc., could not be disturbed; but with our own eyas we saw the performer (lraw out the branches, etc., from the folds of the cloth, and noticed liim' stick­ ing them into the pot l>eneath the cover­ ing, w or lung away with his hands, and as we thought, very clumsily. The question may be asked by a doubter of our account of the process, how about a green and a ripe fruit, as well as blossoms, being produced sim­ ultaneously, say at a period when there were no such things; that is, when they are out of season ? This, indeed, lias been brought forward as a complete answer by those who believe in these jugglers. To answer this is not so dif­ ficult, however, as it appears. India is a vast continent, and from its southern­ most limit on the Indian Ocean, where there is little difference between summer and winter, to its northern boundary on the snowy Himalayas, there is existing every variety of climate at any given time of the year. The mango flourishes equally in Ceylon and in the sub- Himalayan countries. We have our­ selves, in passing through the plains into the upper Himalayas, in the course of successive weeks, seen the mango season just over on the plaius; a little higher up mangoes were just in seawon; the fruits forming higher up still; the blossoms in full llusli a couple of thousand feet higher; while higher still the blossoms had not yet made an ap­ pearance. With this fact are to be taken two others, the first, that Indian jug­ glers all l>elong to one Masonic brother­ hood, and are in intimate communica­ tion with one another, all ever on the move; and tlie second, that even they will decline at times to perform this par­ ticular feat; that is, when they are not provided with the blossoms, green and ripe fruits. The seeds, shoots, etc., are -alwairs everywhere procurable. U fhe¥e be ^fcill any1 other -do&bfer, let us only add that after tiie jjerformance detailed above we took the man aside (unwilling naturally to expose the man, and destroy the credit by means of which he made his living) and asked him if it was not true that the branches and fruits were all there in the wraps. The glance of our eye told him that we knew everything that he did, and so he con­ fessed that what we said was the truth, and apologized by saying that he must make a living. Early Steamboating on the Hndson. The Albany Argun has an article on Hudson river boating of early days, it says : "Opposition" in the earlier days meant a great deal more than at pres­ ent. The Captains and pilots of the different lines of boats made it a point of duty to interfere with tho business of their opponents in every possible man­ ner, and the feelings of passengers were frequently enlisted in behalf of the ves­ sel they chanced to be on. Many sto­ ries are told of boats running into each other, of pilots exchanging pistol-shots, and of other like encounters on the river iH'tweeu opposition boats and their crews. One of these, occurring in Sep­ tember, 1835, is related in the Argus of the 22d of that month. While the North America was preparing to land its passengers at Coxfacluo, the Emerald came along and collided with lier, but so lightly as to do little damage. After the boats had left Coxsackie, however, and wliile, i s tlie officers of the North Amer­ ica assert, she was pursuing lior course quietly, the Emerald started directly across the river toward her. She struck the North America's wheelliouse with her larboard bow, carrying away side- house, railing, boat-cranks, etc. The Emerald's wheel passed over the North America's small boat, which was lowered down, and stove it to atoms. As the North America slowly cleared from the Emerald, the Emer lid raked her whole side, from the wlieel-house aft. Im­ mediately after she cleared a cheer was started at the wheel-house of the Emer­ ald and resjionded to by her passengers. The Directors of tlie North America Steaml>oat Company assert that they had in their possesion a certificate of a I>erson on board tlie Emerald who heard the Captain and pilot agree to run into the North America and do her all the injury they could, and that in the ful­ fillment of this agreement the boat was steered directly across the river so as to strike tlie North America, and the pas­ sengers were re juestxl to go to the star­ board side so as to put the Emerald in a position to do as great injury as possible. A Bank Robber's Persoa.il Effects. The sparkling gems which tho bank robber Rollins had smug^l. d into th« Eastern penitentiary in a shaving-brush handle, and which Rollins promised to give to the keeper, Hustis, if lie would assist Rollins to escape, have been ex­ amined by a lapidary, on behalf of the Administrator, J. McDowell Sharp, of Cliambersburg, and prove to be paste, instead of Brazilian diamonds. The y were undoubtedly prepared with the sole view of hoodwinking Hustis. OLIO of Ro lins' wiver., who has been waiting the rejw>rt of the expert in the hope that she might realize something to reim­ burse her for the 810.000 worth of real diamonds of which Rollins despoiled her, left the city yesterday and is said to be on her way to California to be married. His other wife in in Chicago. Tiie only effects Rollins leaves, beside the paste diamonds, are a pair of French gaiters with false heels, in which were bidden some fine saws when Rollins reached the penitentiary, a reversible silk cloak, cap­ able of being folded up and carried in the vest pocket, and a marvelous hat, purchased in Paris, which could be changed into six different shapes and two colors. Pull a string and it became a light, black hat; pull again and this chameleon head-covering turned into a light cassimere ; pull once more and the crown sank and it was metamorphosed into a low-crowned Derby ; another pull and the brim rolled up and a cap took the place of the* above-mentioned tiles. It is said Rollins had this hat made for the express purpose of baffling identi­ fication while conducting his heavy forgery operations in New York. He took it with him to Cliambersburg, along with a pair of beautifully mounted revolvers, a heavy bowie-knife, and sword-cane, when he and Wicks at­ tempted to gag Cashier Mesersmith and rob the bank at Cliambersburg.--Phila­ delphia Times. " The Prodigal Son." Now, there was a man who had two And the younger of them said to his father, "father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me." And he divided unto him his living, sum of 8250,000, leaving only $50,000 to- ILL SORTS. TUB Mormons are planting a colony Hi' Salt River valley, Wyoming. A BITING dog deserves io have fleatt JS the biter should be bitten. SARA BERNHARDT weighs 110 poun<S&*. Her wardrobe fills eighteen trunks. THE Prince of Wales has presented! President Grevy with a gun and four- setter dogs. PRESIDENT HATES has accepted an election as Vice President of the Ameri­ can Bible Society. THE Archbishop of Quebec, Can., ad­ vises all clergymen under his charge not to interfere in politics. WnjiiAM H. ENGLISH lives in the hoiue Henry Ward Beecher built when- ftn Indianapolis pastor. THE colporteurs of the American Bible Society distributed 10,253 Bibles in- Texas during the last four months. SOUTHERN planters hope to findj the English sparrows an efficient remedy for the ravages of cotton worms. PARTRIDGES have not been so scarce for many years in London. Well-grown young birds are sold at $1.75 per brace. . THE subscription to the fund for tiie Cincinnati Art Museum has reached the- and the younger son purchased himself an oil-cloth grip-sack and got him out of that country. And it came to pass that he journeyed even unto Buckskin and the country that lieth over against Leadville. And when he was come nigli unto the gates of the city, he heard music and dancing. And he got him into that place, and when he arose and went his way, a hireling at the gates smote upon him with a slung-shot of great potency, and the younger son wist not how it was. Now in the second watch of the night he arose.and was alone, and the pieces of gold and silver were gone. And it was so. And he arose and sat down and rent his clothes and threw ashes and dust upon himself. And he went and joined himself unto a citizen of that country, and he sent him down into a prospect shaft for to dig. And he had never before dug. Wherefore when he spat npon his hands and lay hold of the long-handled they be raised. THE deadly quicksand in the San Pe­ dro river, Arizona, lately swallowed up- a carriage containing a gentleman ana three ladies. THE railroad up Vesuvius has flortn such a flourishing business since ite~ opening that the value of the stook has increased 50 per cent. "MARRIED--In Chillicothe, Iowa, Her­ bert L. Rollingstone and Emma J.. Moss." Thus does one familiar prov­ erb receive a death-blow. FOR several years the estate of Post­ master General Maynard, in Tennessee,, has been in charge of a man whn wee,', at one time, one of its movable chattels'. SIXTEEN young Indian girls have ar­ rived at Northfield, Mass., from tho In­ dian Territory, to enter Mr. MoodyV-. school. Their traveling expenses were paid by Jay Gould. EMPRESS ELIZABETH of Austria, whoan a Paris gossiper styles " the first Aim, zon of the world," is about to receive, it is said, the title of honorary Colonel of a regiment of Russian Uhlans. shovel, wherewith they are wont to shovel, he struck his elbow upon the wall _ _ of the shaft wherein he stood, and he | _ TERESA TUA, of Turin, a young girl of • the broken rocks ! bore off tlie first prize as a violinist. at the Paris Conservatory last year. She poured the earth and against the bock of his neck. And he waxed exceeding wroth. And he tried even yet again, and be­ hold! the handle of his shovel became tangled between his legs, and he filled his ear nigh full of decomposed slate, and the porphyry which is in that region round about. And he wist not why it was so. Now, after many days the shovelers with their shovels, and the pickers with their picks, and the blasters with their blasts, and the bolsters with their hoists, banded themselves together, and- each said to his fellow: Go to! Let us strike. And they stroke. And they that strake were as the sands of the sea for multitude, and they were terrible as an army with banners. And they blew upon the ram' horn and tlie cornet, and sacbut, and the flute, and the bass drum. Now it came to pass that the younger son joined not "with them which did strike, neither went he out to his work, nor on the highway, lest at any time they that did strike should fall upon him and flatten him out, and send him even unto his home packed in ice, which is even -after .the fa-sluoicof tlu*t people.. And he began to be in witofc " And he went and joined himself unto a citizen of that country; and he sent him into the lunch room to find tourists. And he fain would have filled himself up with the adamantine cookies and the indestructible pie and vulcanized sand­ wiches which the tourists did eat. And no man gave unto hiin. And when ho came to himself he said: How many hired servants hath my father on the farm with bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger? . And he resigned his position in the lunch business and arose and went unto his father. But when he was a great way off he has been offered 840,000 for a five years' tour through the United States. ITALIAN laborers at home and abri^uli stick to their national diet of bread, macaroni, and fruit, with an occasional dish of meat. In Italy this diet is bused on necessity and abroad on economy. THE Revue dee Deux Monde#, found­ ed fifty years ago, and to-day the prin­ cipal review in France, failed to pay during the first twenty years of its ca­ reer. It now numbers 20,000 subscrib­ ers 810 a year. DM. HASTINGS, of Boston, says he won 1.1 as soon think of hiring some man to cu'. his breakfast as to lure some one to do liis singing in church. According to hi* view, singing is the natural ex­ pression of religious joy. Jons- BRIGHT is in l>etter health than he has enjoyed for several years. It is said that he often takes notes, in the House, as if intending to make a speech,, but when the time comes changes his- mind and tears up the notes. A PHOTOGRAPH of tlie express train known popularly in England as " The Flying Dutchman" lias been taken as it posted through Twyford st^btioii^ott^ta; Great Western railway, at' the rate <5 sixty miles an hour, by a photographer of Henley. THERE is a revival in crochet in En­ gland, but instead of being done in white thread it is made in colors, both lacea- and quilts being worked in two contract­ ing hues. Germans crochet jackets of cotton for small children, instead of lift­ ing worsted, as is the custom in America. GEN. GRANT stamps as absurd the story that a $10,000 set of diamonds, presented him by a Japanese Prince, was stolen from him by his Private Sec- retary and sold to a Washington pawn- wueu ue » Kie»t way ou lie , f $r 000> Ho never ha<] BUch H telegraphed to his father to kill the old !llui ' , cow and make merry, for, behold! he had struck it rich; and the old gentleman paid for the telegram. Now, tlie elder sou was in the north field plowing with a pair of balky mules, and when he came and drew nigh to the house he heard music and dancing. And he could not seem to wot why these things were thus. And he took the girl by the ear and led her away, and asked her, whence cometh this unseemly hilarity? And she smote him with the palm of her hand, and said: "This, thy brother hath come, and was dead and is alive again," and they began to have a high old time. And the elder son kicked even as the government mide kieketh, and he was hot under the collar, and he gathered up an armful of profanity and flung it in among the guests, and got liim up and girded his loins and lit out. And lie got liim to one learned in the law, and he replevied the entire ranch on which they were, together with all and singular the hereditament*), right, title, franchise, estate, both in law and in equity, together with all dips, spurs, an­ gles, crooks, variations, lemis, veins of lead or silver ore, mill-sites, dam-sites, Humes, and each and every one of them firmly by these presents. Audit was to.--Hill Nyc in Denver Tribune. YFNO KWAI, tlie Chinese boy. who was graduated from the Sprinfrfield (Mass.) High School last June with the saluta­ tory address, became a Christian, and wrote home alxnit it to hiR father, who is one of the highest of the Chinese nobles, though not of royal blood. The father wrote a very indignant letter, and ordered liim to return home, threatening to starve and beat him into renouncing his views. As the boy was determined to be true to his new faith he looked upon his return to China as going to almost cer­ tain death ; but he started quiotly with other boys for Boston, whence thev were to sail for home by way of Europe. Yung Kwai, however, stepi>ed from the train in Springfield, and that is the last [ Lakd that has been seen of him. If he suc­ ceeds in keeping hidden for a year, he will then lw twenty-one. and can becomo a citizen of the United States. THE residence of Mr. Peekhrtm, of Neenah, took fire last week, and a neigh­ bor yelled fire. Mr. Peekhani was taking a bath at the time, and when lie found that it was his own house Unit was on fire lie was a little flurried, at first, but he had been a member of the assembly once, and he was quick to gra;-p the sit­ uation. Putting on a sunbouuet and a long stocking, so that jwople would not think lie was a man, he picked up the wash tub, carried it out on the roof and dashed the soap suds on the fire, nnd put it ont. That was a clear case of stealing tho livery of heaven to make a fire de­ partment.--Peek's Sun. present and never met such a loss. DANIEL J. DONOHUE, the boss war­ bler of Brooklyn, challenges the world at large and anybody in particular to whistle with him for 850 to 8500 a aide and tho championship of America. He lays great stress on the flute-like char­ acter of his piping, and defies the uni­ verse to match it. SAYS the Philadelphia Times : '• 'Rio sooner a girl selects which course she will take, the better it will be for her. She may go to school and learn, or she may take an exclusive course of party and grow up a beautiful dunce. The season advances, and the girl should make her choice early." NEARLY 10,000 people were killed by snakes in the Bengal Presidency last year. 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