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ILLINOIS ITEMS. 4. Chria MMUPVB. R. M. Pe.v-*ou,B. •arish. ft. WUO Mr nDKflntft* »M< ^fHclicnvg |?laint!ca!ct v J . V A N SLYKE. Editor and Pufclistwr. McHENKY, - ILLINOIS. ALL of Gen. Grant's children--three b |ions and a daughter--are now married. iV;; a S A OIFTBD statistician has ciphered out ^he cost oi toe late jolitieal campaign, sand makes it $3,000,000, , TWO-FIFTHS of the inhabitants of New ^Mork are of foreign birtb, and in Chi- tiijago the proportion is about the same. COMPLETE census returns from Texas =sliow that the fttate has a population of 1,565,483. The population ia 1&70 was -Only 818,579. NEAIJ DOW received sixty-six votes for President in his own State of Maine. Not enough to be dignified with the title -of scattering. ypunger ward than the Nineteenth and embraces all the territory to its west­ ward--contains IK,000 inhabitants, a number several thousand in excess of the population of Washington, Newark or Louisville. The Seventeenth ward-- which is a great Germ fin district to the southward of East Fourteenth street from Fourth avenue to tli^e East river-- number 104,000 inhabitants. ,, . 7r__--, - • I A wtmHBt of the Philadelphia bar j sleeps Jn his office at night. One night j he was aroused by a loud rapping at the | office door. " Why could you not come j at a reasonable time ? " " Because I am { a cook and cannot get off any sooner. I have a caaafor yum." Visions of a big fed instinctively arose in his mind; and, wrapping himself up in a blanket, he opened the door and admitted two col­ ored men. One wished to obtain a di- Gov. WOOD ia to have a monatnfent at Quincy. •* • THE 601 Masonic lodges III Illinois hfve a membership of 36,570. r % * THE pay-roll oi the Springfield wateh factory for the last month was &21.000. THE Canton artesian well is now down over 1,000 feet, most of the way through solid white limestone.* . JUDGE J. J. CASSELS died suddenly of heart disease at his home in El Paso, last meek, in his 40th year. PETER FLORET, of Piano, was badly burned while attempting to light his kitchen fire with benzine. HON. JOHN R. EDEN, of Moultrio county, has recently lost about 100 head of hogs from cholera, and they are fotjll dying. 1 ; ' FROM March 34, 1853, until April 30, 1880, the Illinois Central Railroad Com­ pany paid into the treasury of the State of Illinois $8,404,656.19. PATRICK FENTON, of Springfield, has been found guilty of the murder of his S. W.T. 0.<iMrgeE. 7. W«u J. Campbell, B. a George Klrk^^., ftaE-FnllW,*. know the facts. Where can we have a •States army, the- old Indian fighter, is ^82 years old, six feet three inched in height, and stands straight as an arrow. A WHOLESALE exodus o| freedmen from the South is reported as about to 4» inaugurated. A hundred thousand •of them are said to be-already organ­ ised into emigration bands. MRS. HAYES has invited Mrs. Garfield "to visit her this winter in Washington, in order that she may become initiated into the domestic and social responsibil­ ities of the White- House. 1 vorce, and waa willing to pay a good fee. " But I do not want that gentleman to | wife, and his punishment is fixed at " twenty years in the penitentiary. THE Lincoln Monument Association has ordered the payment of $9,000 on the cavalry and artillery groups for the monument, which are soon to be cast at Chicopee, Mass. TIMOTHY ROGERS is making arrnnge- private conversation ?" Thb lawyer GEN. W. S. HARNEY, ~dTthe United \ fex)k 1,im into the ENTR3R' sti11 ha™g the blanket around him, where they mailed some minutes, when the visitors left. He turned to the chair where he had placed all his wearing apparel and <, ments to establish an extensive fishery found it gone, including even his shirt • on farm 11 ^ Fall cieek, near Quincv. and shoes. A kind-hearted policeman i wiI1 fifteen+ acrff ou hf . , , . , . , \ place, securing deep water, the ponds loaned him sufficient raiment to go to, ^ supplied from springs adjacent. his mother's home and procure another j Mrs Nanoy pILOHKR died at her suit. This young lawyer declares he j home in Hanover, Jo Daviess county, will in the future hear no case unless one >3ay last Week, in the 95th year of 11. Charles 12. Isaac Rî , E. 1**. R. HarafcaJl, B. S - '-.if vW, 14. H.B.EraM,B. 15. 8. W. Munn, R. 16. Conrad 8eo*feat, B. 17. & E. Lewis, B. 18. George Torrew*, B. 19. L. D. Whiting, &. | Ml Thomas Shaw, IK aSL 23. A. W. Berggren,R. 1 28. W. H. Neece, I). fully recompensed at the start. THE Boston Herald claims to have pointed out, and established by a most plausible line of reasoning and proba­ bilities, that the indications all point to Roscoe Conkling as the Presidential •candidate in 1884. her age. She leaves children, grand­ children, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren to mourn her loss. THE Chicago and Alton railroad have purchased about forty acres of land about half way between Girard and Virden, and by building some dams expect to have a mammoth The AMONO the candidates for the Penn­ sylvania Senatorship, mentioned by the Philadelphia Times, are ex-Speaker Ga- luslia A. Grow, Gov. Hoyt, ex-Gov. Hartranft, Representative W. D. Kelley •and Simon Cameron. ALLEN G. CAMPBELL, who opposed Mormon Cannon for Delegate to Con­ gress from Utah, will contest Cannon's «eat, on the ground that he is ineligible, being a polygamist. This has been tried on Cannon before without success. " GATH, " in one of his readable letters from New York, gives the following gos­ sip about Jay Gould : " Gould is very closely studied now in England by finan­ ciers who know what his movements arc. The Hollanders are also impressed j reservoir that will never be dry. with Gould, on account of his large j object is to always have a reliable sap- ready-money resources. He'wanted to J P'y wa^r *or engines. get hold of the Kansas Pacific railroad, ! ^PE ^ reasurer s report shows the . ii , ., . , ; total receipts - of the State from all and they agreed on the terms, and then | sonree8 forP tUe two vears ending ^ t said: ' Now, Mr. Gould, what time do; 30, 1880, to be 88,475,149.09, aud the you propose to make these payment", j total disbursements$8,595,935.69. There anu what securities have you to give us?' j ?®nc'8 treasury, Oct. 1, 'I shan't give you any securities at all,' said Gould, '.and I don't want any time. I will give you my check 6n Morton, $2,468,(502.89, and, after paying off all the State debt, there will remain in the treasury about 3100,000. COOK county heads the list of popu- Rose & Co.' And he did, for $1,500,- ! lous counties in Illinois with a vote of 000. As an instance of Gould's excess 1 100,336. Then follow in order LaSalle, of capital it is said that the New ?'lth a vote of ; McLean, 12,830; 24. John Fletcher, & 2$. K Walktt, ». 96. A. 3. i 27. X. Mayfleld, D. • i. 28L J. W. FlfW,^ 29. W. T. Moffelt, B. v 30. Jamee 8. Wright, H. 31. Oeorge Huat,&. 31 H.8. Clark, I 33. E. N. Rhinehart, D. 3«.,W. D. VindHW) D. 35. W. E. Shtttt, D. 36. Ed Lannlnit, D. 37. M. Kttofy D. showed the Fourth National Bnuk to have a balance of over $4,000,000, and, on inquiry, it was found that this was Gould's money. A number of German bankers had heard a rumor that Gould meant^to borrow large sums of money, , , i St. Clan*, 11,924; Sangamon, 11.892; York Clearing House a few days ago Adams, 11,654; Peoria, 11,464; Will, " '* " ' * 10,484; Madison, 9,839; Fulton, 9,436 ; | 38. R. Archer, S. Kane, 9,188; Vermillion, 8,717; Cham- j paign, 8,760. NEWS has been received of the sudden GBEEN PATTERSON and James Henry j °aniters naa neara a rumor that Would 3^^®; a^i^oprieto^of | Young were riding in a lonely hollow J me;mt t0 borrow large sums of money, i Advocatc, and a successful 41- A-PMWIMWO, near Wild Goose Postoffice, McNairy 1 and Pibch the street about the time they j journalist. He was aged 38 yearn, aud ! •oountv Tenn when Patterson d*ew a i some important financial movement' leaves a wife and two children. The de- I *2. Thoa. B. Xeedlea, R. knife and stabbed Youne to the heart i to mal£e- So they went to Gould with j wa® at one^'ditor of the ! Knne ana stanoea xoung 10 ine neari. 1 I )| extern Rural, ot Chicago. He had Patterson then fled, and Young died be- j ftUt* borrowed $6,000,000 cash 1 accumulated $20,000 by great industry. fore he was able to tell the cause of the j *rcmi 118 uot P^ne'x i A COMPLETE list of all applications for | 44. John R. Tauner, R. } street, in a little while they went back J license, and also all corporations fully : ^ j with the money and demanded their col- j organized in this State the past two A HIUHLY-ROMANLLFC escape from jail'l lateral, whereupon Gould, having no | .years shows that licenses were issued to 39. w. P. Gallon, ft 4A a A. Walker, D. 43. T. E. Morritt, D. 49. Wta. c. Witeon, ig reported from Missouri. A murderer j under sentence of death, lying in the jail at Lebanon, Laclede county, not only made his escape from the jail, but took with, him the pretty 17-year-old niece of the Sheriff «ad~$75 of her unele's moneyi , . , IT is no wonder those two banks in Hackensack, N. J., burst up, when the enormous amount of work performed by Berry, the Cashier of one and Treasurer •of the other, is taken into consideration. Berry ran the two banks ; was President of the Foncier's Association ; kept half a dozen Wall street brokers busy ; was « connoisseur in thei matter of dogs, a chicken fancier, and edited a newspaper •devoted to the poultry interest. 44 BUCK " GRANT is 23 years old, and Miss Fannie J. Chaffee, his bride, is "23. Miss Chaffee has been educated in Europe, is the only daughter of her father, aud is the owner and mistress of a beautiful home in the fashionable part •of New York, which, with its elaborate decoration and furnishing, cost little less than $100,000. " Buck " is worth in his own right from $100,000 to $150,000. The couple received from Senator Chaf­ fee $400,000 in Government bonds. THE practice of shooting animals who are so unfortunate as to break a leg will have to be given up. In England a val­ uable cow who had that misfortune is now pursuing her customary vocation with a wooden leg, upon which she moves with ease, if not with grace. • In the case of a race-horse it might be diffi­ cult to secure as gjood service with an ^artificial as with a natural leg, but .among the lower order of equines there is no roason why art shouldn't furnish -an effective substitute for a lost limb. place to put the monej, paid the larger part of it over to the Fourth National Bank." . Br. Cayler's Joke. Tlie Rev; Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D., 920 incorporations for pecuniary profit; final certificates were granted to 741 companies organized for pecuniary profit, of which 267 were mining com­ panies, and 359 organized not for pecun­ iary profit. _ THE Chicago Times says: "The was in attendance at thtt^rwab^terian ^<pro{«cticd ship <"ftOal from Chicago to Council. One day in the week the I the Mississippi will not be allowed to butchers had a festival of some kind, and ! slumber in a period of such prosperity were to have a grand parade. That' as now envelopes the land. Congress-} morning Dr. Cuyler visited a barber shop I mau Farwell will urge the widening of. " • KHy^nrtaH, it. to get shaved. When the knight of the j the Illinois and Michigan canal to'La ! razor had stretched his enstonu r s neck ! Salle, and the improvement of the llli- and pushed his head as far back as pos- i nois river, but Charles Randolph favors sible, and filled his eyes, nose, and mouth j a new cut from La Salle to the most 46. John C. Edwards, ,1), 47. 8. L Cheaaey, D.* " V £a*i« Ifeorn, B. JT NA W. A. S. with lather, he saidto him interrogatively, and speaking as a friend: "Well, you're going to turn out to­ day ?" , "Eh?" said the Doctor. "I say you're going to have your big *1 ! Cullom his report for the two years end- remark^ I didnt catch your ;ing Bept 3^ 1880. The total admis- " I vou butchers are going to turn 1 !j0n8,ff°r ^ P^0'1 were 286-less than out. You re a butcher, ain't yoS" I tlieftwo Previou» 3'ears. owing " Well, not exactly. I eat a good deal i ^ ̂ tra"sf,c™ trom other hospital,, - - • K which swelled the number at that time. direct point on the Father of Waters. The estimated cost of the scheme is $15,000,000 to $18,000,000." DR. E. A. KILBOURNE, Superintend­ ent of the Northern Illinois Hospital for the Insane, has forwarded to Gov. Senate-- Republicans JJi'moorata.... Sooialist J. U Parish, L McMahrti, D. W. A. PbelpH, R. 8. D. "Hi^rnlawaki, D.£!te • T. atcKolie, D. H. H. Thomea, R. ' Charles Piotke, B. ; A. 0. Sexton, D. *; ;• L. O. ( '.ollin -. Jg. •• O. C. Strnckinan, K. B. T. Wdbcr, D. O. tj. Digpii?, R. J: mea P.iilot-k, R. Janws Thompeon, D. O. H. WriRht, B. U. SuumeiyR. LaWrcnoo McDmtald, |L Wilii;au ( ' x, R. , Joseph MiM>re,- R. E. L. Croi.khltc. D. K. Stover. R. ' ' - W. H. Allen, It. H. Dlincr, I). ^ A. P. Dy(iart,flL • A. F. H.xtwii, B, • t .,!* John H. Whiii, D. Hi rain Lor.c 1W.R. Henry Ww>d, R. John Clark, D. O. P. Chicholm, R. J. O. Wrijiht, R. Janies Herrington, Di M. C.illins, R. Strattun, 8. E. B. Shumwajr.l). Ed Runiley, H. ' Thomas Chat field, R. 0. B. Winter, D. « Ixaac Ames, R. FnuiciH M. lloMnxon, R. Alex. Vaughev, D. A. O. Goodei)etf<L R. Jonn H. Collier. R. L. L. Green. D. Charles Baldwin, R. 8. F. Otinan. R. John Welch, D. J. D. Thornton, R, Oaivln StoweU, R. Euclid Martin, P. A. R. Mock, R. J. W. Himotmon, R. Patrick O'Mar*. D. A. H. Petrie, R. H. P. Wood. Ri- "•'•v - • ' M. A. Bovil, D. P. D. Parry, R. 8. B. Davis, a, W. C. McLeod, D. H. M. Wh tniau, U. J. Petemm, B. R. A. McXinley, D. J. L. McCcne, R, Innion Btackaby, D. Winim:i C. Kenno, D. David Hei yer, R. ' J. Oallup, D. J. M. Newhanii, D. Allen Ltica*, D. W. B. Harvey, 11. John C. Cranaull, II. ' Thoa. F. Mitchell, K. G . B. O l t f ' Vn. Hill, P. Lewis I.uclinjfton, R. Jason Rogers, R. B. K. Durfoe, D. A. H. Bailey, R. H. D. Peters, R. C. F. Tenney, P. J. G. Holden, R. B. BntterfleUI, R. J98. J). Matm, P. Thoa. E. liundy, R. E. a Buck, D. John W. R. Morgan, P. George I). Chaffee, K. F. M. Richardson, 1>. A. C. Canipt«>l!, 1). Robert Mc Williams, R, G. W. Paisley, D. George R. sharp, D. James M. Garland, It. A. N. J. Crook, D. De Witt Smith, D. Linus C. Chandler, R. William Duff, D. J. H. shaw. I). JOH. X. Carter, R. John Me \ darn*, D. W. A. lUnhardaon, D. J. L. lTnderwood, R. William MorUmd, I). 8turkey R. Powell, D. Oman Pii rRou, R. 'Oliver C iulUig, P. J. 8. Curr, I). Balfour Cowan, R. A. H. Ynnce>, D. J, N. English, P. •1. M. Parson, R. •Tones Tout?,, R. H. O. HiUinga, P. J. L. N :chols, R. E. H. Sinimona, R. Fred Becker, D. Iverson M. Litt e, R, M. A. Hm-riH, p. Tihnan Racer, D. Nathan Crewa, R. K. B. Keen, R. Jamc 8. Ketn, D. Jacob C. O.win, R. J. C. lirynn, D. W. H. H. Mien re, I>. Ohar'.i s T. Strattan, li. 11. A. l>. Wiilltanka, D. 8. H. Martin, D. Milo Mrwin, K. F. M. Vouii^'ltlood, D. J. M. Gregf.', D. 1. W. Kelly, 11. Austin .lames, D. Joseph Viele, R. J. N. Perrin, P. Harmon 1>. Black, R. P. T. Li.iegar, D. H. R. Buckingham, D. W. 8. Morris. R. J. P. Young, 11. W. A. Spaun, O. Ht'MMABV. Republican majority I toiler-- Republicans Democrats Republican majority... * Republican majority on joint ballot. .18 . 1--19 H2 71 . . . . 1 1 . . . . 2 2 DR. MARY WALKER, like Elizabeth •Cadj Stanton, tendered a vote at the 'polls in the Presidential election--a vote which would not be taken. Mrs. Stan­ ton's effort was made in New Jersey, Mrs. Doctor's in Oswego, N. Y. * The inspector said that she was not a legally- qualified voter, and they could not re- •oeive the ballot. She insisted on her right to vote, and, the oath respecting the qualification of the voter being read i»*her, she said : " I'll take th$t oath ; I am a fe male citizen, and therefore a male citizen." She threatened to com­ mence proceedings against the inspect­ ors, but thus far they have escaped. of meat, but I can't say that I kill much. Still, I belong to an order closely con­ nected with the butchers." "Youdo. What's that?" "The Order of Cleavers." " Oh! and what d;> you do?" " We cleave unto the Lyrd." The astonished barber had sufficient presence of mind to collect his fee from the member of the Order„of Cleavers. But, Dr. Cuyler couldn't help telling the story. --Sew York Graphic. " First Efforts." I long for some patent method for con- est will cease after that day. From the yincing even* man, woman and child, : report of State Treasurer Smith, it ap- wlio is poor, unhappy, or wants pin- pears there is still outstanding $23,000 money, that they cannot rush into litera- ] of State bonds which have been called ture pell-mell, and make money at will, j for by former proclamations, but not Above oil, I should like a legal penalty presented. Thirteen thousand of this is imposed upon every one who sends a i canal bonds called for many years ago, -"first effort" to me. It is an equal f and it is now considered certain that "effort" qnd by no means my "first" | these are lost aud will never be present- for me to read their poetry, and for them ' ed. It is possible, however, that some to write it. I am fast becoming a ' of the other unpresented bonds may yet misaiitliroi>e from the amount of trash, ! appear, but this proelamation pmeticii.ly The total number discharged was also j 28G, leaving 525 inmates in the hospital ; at the close of that period. The total | number under treatment has been 811. ! Of those discharged, 88 were restored, 46 " much improved," 27 "improved," | 68 " unimproved," 56 died, and 2 were ; "not insane." ! Gov. CriiLOM has issued his procln- ; mation calling in for payment $257,- ; 459.11 of the State debt outstanding. It i must be presented on or before the first Monday in January, 1881, and the inter- garnished with neither sense, grammar, rhyme, nor metre, that my fellow crea­ tures perpetrate with a view of fame and fortuue. Will anyone ever convince this crowd of imbeciles that to write even decently demands previous cultivation, information, and common sense; or that real genius is like any other diamond, and needs careful cultivating and )>olish- ing? I suppose not!--Atlantic Magazine. liquidates tiie $281,059.11 which is the total outstanding paper of the State. SINCE Oct. 1, 1878, there has been re­ corded the following list of additional cities and villages, which have been re­ ported organized under the general law for the incorporation of cities and vil­ lages : Griggsville, Pike county ; Mat- toon, Coles county; Henry, Marshall county; Macon, Macon countf; Rock A FRENCHMAN visiting this country, Island, Rock Island county; Rockford, Tins official tabulation of the popula­ tion of New York city makes the popu- ' Istion a little more than 1,200,000, of Trhich three wards contain about one- fourth. These wards are the Seven­ teenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-second, ""the World says : " The Nineteenth-- on being called upon to address a com­ pany composed in large part of those whose heads were venerable, and not alone for the want of hair that clrnrac- terized them, began by saving : "I am very embarrassed in addressing so many barren heads " (barren of hair he meant). The compliment was received with a burst of lautihter. THE competition for the proposed monument to Victor Emmanuel has been thrown open to sculptors of all na­ tions. The cost, wlieu completed, is not to exceed $1,800,000. Three prizes of $10,000, $6,000 and $4,000 are to be given respectively to the authors of the tlirte best models, these models to re­ main the property of the State. Winnebago county ; Byron, Ogle coun­ ty ; Dal ton City, Moultrie county ; Peo- tone, Will county; Gulva, Henry coun­ ty ; Woodlawn, Jefferson county ; Avis- ton, Clinton county ; Breese,* Clinton county: Buffalo, Sangamon county; Germuntown, Clinton. county; Cable, Meroer county; Coatsburg, Adams county j La Grange, Cook county ; Ra­ ma, Randolph county ; Augusta,* Hnn- coek county ; New Brunswick, Johnson county ; Vermont, Ramsey, Fayette county Greene county ; Clayton, Adams coun­ ty ; Crete, Will county ; Thompsonville, Franklin county. The Sociable Scorpion. An African traveler, speaking of the scorpions there, says : As during three or four months they haunted our tents, so they did our thoughts. Their bod­ ies were as broad and almost as full as a finger; their fangs as broad and plump as those of small crawfishes, and usually measured, with their snake of a tail, from three to five inches. They found out almost every camp, and we found them usually, when starting in the morning, under the packages, saddles and tent carpets. One was detected by a colleague in a pocket. Another stung the same man before lunch in his tent. One was caught during a meal on the back of a chair, crawling toward the sit­ ter's neck, while he was just scanning the ground to see whether any were about. My servant more than once turned them out of my bed, usually be­ fore I turned in, but once at least from under my pillow immediately after I had risen. A special short pair of tongs, however, was at these times always with my ready servant, and he used grimly tc exhibit to us, with a grin, while we wert at table, any remarkable si>ecinien v. hick he happened to catch, secured in thetf tongs. The smaller and slender speaiee with narrow fangs of gall and IISIB low--which warns us when seen ia the ribs of deleterious mushrooms and in the flowers of poisonous plants--I found to be more numerous on the main stream and in the Delta of the Nile. These crawl with tail curled up in ali seasons. When we asked our Nubian friends about the manslaughtering power of the dark, hard ones, we got the indi­ rect answer that they will kill a camel. % A NSW electrical street lamp-lighter has been exhibited in Boston with .which is only thirty-three years old, and \ marked success. In three circuits about -which embraces the territory between fortieth and Eighty-sixth streets, East * fiver and Sixth avenue--numbers 158,- •000 inhabitants and outnumbers the present population of San Francisco. The Twenty-second ward--which is a three miles of wire are laid. In an in- 1 stant every lamp connecting with the wire is lighted. HARVARD Divinity School ha* just re­ ceived a bequest of $10,000 for the edu­ cation of needy students intending to be­ come clergymen. lllinoltt Legiklalnre, The names of the Senators and Rep­ resentatives-elect to the Legislature of this State at the late election are as fol­ lows : | A SUBSCRIBER desires to be informed, | through our valuable paper, " if it is | considered proper for an engaged young | lady to dance frequently with gentlemen at entertainments which her affianced j does not attend." It depends upon j where you live. In Boston or New York | it might do, but in Carson City or Lead- I ville an engaged girl never dances with | any gentleman except her affianced. Fulton county; j Very few men are willing to die for the lty ; Itoodhouse, j sake of one evening's anjoyment.--Chi­ cago Tribune. A CABLE dispatch from London says : " Most of the London papers express disappointment at Booth's representa­ tion of Hamlet." It serves him right. If Booth thinks he is so big a gun that he can get along without any free tickets to the press, he will have the conceit taken out of him. Talk With Ml «M I^Hd B«nlw Qgwr. , . . |From the Chicago Times.] If there is a man living pre-eminently entitled to talk about wind it is Sergeant \Villiam Line, of the Signal Service Sfca- *"on in Milwaukee; the officer who, for ve long years, held the post of honor "juid danger at the summit of Mount Washington--the very home-stretch of the winds of this hemisphere; where one lmndred miles per hour ia a zephyr, and where the inconceivable velocity'of two limidred miies per hour is not unusual; where the cups of the anemometer, after Itanding the test of one hundred and (ninety-six miles per hour, become twisted and torn, and fail to testify further of fhe tornado's wrath. "I have seen it blow some, in my lime," remarked Mr. Line, "but for liometliing definite about my experience On Mount Washington I prefer to refer you to the official records." So the rec­ ords were brought out and the corre­ spondent examined them. Under date of December 16, 1876, is the following entry--rather Ifcodest and t>usiuess-like under the circumstances; ft being borne in mind the locality yas Mount Washington, and the plevation i,286 feet: Temperature fell to --40 degrees (forty de- tprees Wow zero), and the mean temperature for the day was 22.5 degrees, with the wind at ©0 mile* at 7 a. ra. ; 120 miles at 12:22 p. m.; 160 miles at 4:57 p.m.; 100 miles at 5» p. m.; and 180 miles at midnight. The force oi the Wind was terrible, ami at times masses of ice VonM be bl :>wn loose from the roekn. • December 17th---Hurricane utill continues; lowest temperature forty-five degrees below *»ro. The wind's velocity was greatest from 1.15 to 1:30 a. in., when it must have reached 200 miles per hour, and continued until lotiK after daylight. On one occasion Sergeant Lime expe­ rienced a change of 42 degrees in tem­ perature (falling thejjpumieter) in less than two hours. For months he lived in a constant gale, with the attending cold of mountain-top in winter. Upon several occasious Sergeant Line estimated (the anemometer failing to register) that the wind blew at the rate of considerably over two hundred miles per hour on the summit of Mount Washington. " But," said the officer, " it will be necessary for you to explain that the pressure of the wind at an elevation of over six thou­ sand feA is much less, relative to its speed, than it is at the sea level. Just what the proportionate difference is I will not undertake to state, yet it is con­ siderable. In our official calculations we estimate everything on the basis of the sea level; so that, for instance, when we give the pressure at this (Milwaukee) station we really approximate, and do not give the exact pressure. Some calculations may be of interest: A velocity of a little moire than 14 miles per hour gives a pressure of one pound to the square foot; a velocity of 28 miles per hour gives a pressure of 4 pounds; 50 miles per hour gives a pressure of only 12J pounds per square foot; yet a velocity of 100 miles per hour strikes hard at 50 pounds to the square foot. There isn't much need of estimating fur­ ther than that, and so we stop right there. However, the actual foree of wind dej>ends greatly on attending circum­ stances of raiu, snow, hail, A-e. kc.; and, as I said before, we only approximate the real pressure during any gale. There are some things about winds that would seem very strange to the average person," continued Sergeant Line, "and they are the subject of constant study and experiment. Now there is no in­ stance on record of a hurricane having crossed the equator, nor of having l>een encountered on the equator. A cyclone, or hurricane, has not only a general for­ ward movement--avering from ten to forty miles per hour--but also haB a f j ratorv motion about the storm ceuter tat wifl give a velocity to the wind of a hundred or more miles per hour. As 1 said before, a hurricane never crosses the equator; but a cyclone north of the line will have its gyratory motion from right to left, while south of the equator the motion is invariably directly opposite, or from left to right. Presence of Mind. John Wilkes, says an English paper, was not a great general, but he might have been one had his tastes led him into military life. His presence of mind never deserted him. He held many places of trust and responsibility. He was Alderman, Chamberlain of London, and Memlier of Parliament, and no man was mote outspoken and daring in his criticisms cpon the Government Once upon a when Wilkes had been more seveea Skaa usual, and had reflected keenfy capon the King and his chief min­ isters, mthv North Briton, a warrant was issued from the Court of King's Bench for his apprehension, and for the appre­ hension also of the poet Churchill (Char­ les), Wilkes' bosom friend and supporter. The chief culprit knew that the warrant was out, aud that his friend's name was in it, but he had not thought to speak of it. The King's messenger, with the warrant in hand, found Wilkes in his chamber, Churchill being at the time | with him. " Ah, Mr Wilkes, I mnst arrest you-- in the King's name!" " You have a warrant?" "Yes; here it is." "And you've got Charles Churchill's name down also?" "Yes." " Thompson my dear fellow," said Wilkes, turning to his companion, " do you run round to Churchill's rooms and tell him what's coming. Tell him to lie off for a few days and I'll have it all right for him." Churchill nodded to his friend aud at once hurried out, the officer of the law little dreaming how the fish was slipping from his net before his very eyes. carriage, the crowd, if any, quietly fall* back to open the passage-way, white she walks to the window or opening, bo» hindwhieh sit the cterk and election- judges, gives her name, drops her vote on the 1)OT, and returns. Her age is not inquirefi into." • " " . Immigration Ktatbttes. » l^ie whole numt>er of passengers ar­ rived in the United States for the year endiug with Jupe, 1880, was 534,465. Of j these about 130,000 were by land pass- I age from Canada, Mexico, etc., and in j round numbers 43o,000 by sea, of whom j 302,000. or nearly 70 per cent., landed. | at New York. Boston, Philadelphia, Bal­ timore and San Francisco follow in or- I der of numbers. i . The principal occupations of the adult' | immigrants arriving in 1879, as far as j known were : Musicians, 341 ; clergy- ! men, 320; teachers, 203; artists, 140; j physicians, 125; actors, 41 ; architects, | 46; chemists, 43 ; druggists, 44 ; dent- ; ist», 21; editors and journalists, 21 ; j engineers (civil), 22 ; engravers, 61; i lawyers, 39 ; painters, 25 ; photogra- I phers, 28; sculptors, 43 ; surgeons, 16. i The whole number of "professionals" ; was 1,512 males and 114 females. In j other business the larger number were : j Carpenters and joiners, 2,759 ; clerks, | 1,724; miners, 2,472; shoemakers, 1,119; ] tailors, 1,062 ; farmers, 21,889; laborers, ! 36,897 ; merchants and trader*, 4,861; ! servants, 6,804 (6,352 females). The | aggregates were as follows : * Malf*. Fcnutlt*. | ProfrsFdionate 1,515 184 j Skilled work«ra...... 20,729. 634 > Miscellaneoqa. 65.801 j Jfo occupation...'.... 23,838 ^ ill lln --TT ^ And an the pedestal, loafcftig down, A msrMejgkst ot Cljrtfcw-P.MiiMi «M ' if-* Is thin etstbege npon (a* wall, Aa<! T l»avo named li -wold yms t>il] j The wna.de. plum* T doe* uut ytmrlwrt wawr i * • * * * • > A Inmldon fair fa driving by; ^ ^ ' *• fipr efeu have answered with their unik; _ Mte Is Oiytle. ' * ' Ho T 'iS* - .Ami !.u't i'oiul<!i- all the wt»He..- I erowuwl siiv < 'JVTIO fsir : . * F .•* zm answered with a •talfcc'" j Jhriuip* (BSTSterions awcrt the word) I can but in the after while. • "• % JS* •*,, X&.WAUKSK, Wte. yff" PITH AND P0HTE. . £ comparison--Mairfifag1 Totals.... Total*. 1.689 21,3f>J 73,053 #1,775 944 177,820 7,253 57,934 ..111,883 -Ireland ia no longer the source of the largest immigration, though the present agitation there will lie likelv to ffiatft the flood anew. In 1872, 1875 and 187^-79 England sent more to other countries than did Ireland, while within late years Germany sends the largest number to _ the. United States--much the largest, if ! ought to pay him something for we count Scandinavians Germanic, as is ! marrying her. According to English statistics, Em th* chestnut worm will ! when roasted. IT is the flat who krrea to hsv» ' flatter .him. •*"* & I* don't take MTOty fast harm to Caleb f i the epizootic. J: THE man who missed his footing ; ; probably had his boots stolen. : - ' No DANGEB of counterfeit coins lat|| I Spain. The money there is real, Lover' a cottage is more common. 1 than lovin' the cottage's mistress. r TEEB killing of the devil may soon ba ; expected. It's an impending event. BOBBOT COMPTER preached inNewYosk I on " The Man Who Lied for His Faltf,** ̂ ; and the next day seventeen pew-holdecs sent in their resignations. Is; Ax insignificant little barrel-hdop ! lying upon the sidewalk has -been M known to yank a man right out of tike ! church ana hurl him into the ranks d -J , backsliders. M ; AN Ohio maiden sued a man for breach : j of promise, and proved him such a mean : | . scoundrel that the jury decided that she p proper. 2,415,000 persons left Ireland from Mayj 1851, to the close of 1876, and of these 95 per cent, came to America. The enormous immigration now arriving, not only from the British islands, but from | the continent of Europe, has attracted wide attention and evoked much discus­ sion as to its effect upon our country. Already we have taken in over 10,000,000 of immigrants, but we have room for 100,000,000 in our vast territory. Let them come from all decent lotions; all we ask is that they shall, as won as may be, become American citizens. Calculations have been made of the amount of money brought by immi­ grants, and $100 for each person has been thought to be within the mark. Tuis would makeiU,000,000,000 iu cash; but the bone and muscle that come with the gold and silver has been worth far more than that great sum to the indus­ try and progress of the great repubtia -̂ JS't w Vork Herald. IHnt. Senate. 1. Geo. E. White, B. 2. L. D. Condee, R. a. & krtimj, a tfoiw, M. R. Harris, R. A. L. Rockwell, R. D. Sullivan, D. O. 8. Cook, B. Randall H. White, B. J. R. Ook, D. G. W. Kro.l, R. J. Gorman, D. P. Cloonan, D. THE monster python, which is kept alive in the Antwerp Museum, having had inflammation of the jaw, a Belgian doctor volunteered to enter its cage in order to cure it; but the brute attempt­ ed to suffocate the poor doctor, who was glad to escape with his life. " Patronizing " a Paper. Some ignoramus writes us about " patronizing " the ledger. Patronize is good English, but not good American. We have no use for such a word in this country. All honest and just trade is an ad­ vantage to both parties* We make money manufacturing and selling the Ledger. Our subscribers, in buying it, get more than thfeir money's worth. Both parties are benefited. There is no patronizing on either side. Only persons not imbued with the true American doctrine--the true Amer­ ican spirit--ever talk about " patroniz­ ing "a paper. Of course, the relationship of pub­ lisher and reader, especially when con­ tinued for a long series of years, natur­ ally begets a strong tie of mutual friend­ ship.--New York Ledger. Women at the Polls. A correspondent at Cheyenne de­ scribes how women vote in Wyoming: " The law requires a cleared space of fifteen feet square in front of the ballot- box. The utmost quiet prevails, and when a lady walks up to deposit her ballot she meets nothing but deference and politeness from officials and specta­ tors. Usually they ride up to the poll­ ing-places in carriages provided by the party managers. The lady, with her vote already prepared, alights (torn the Fish for Food. During the last twenty yenrs chemists and physiologists have been studying the nntritious value of various foods. 1'hey liiive advanced so far as to com­ pute the relative values Of the common articles of diet. These have been so ar­ ranged iu tables that the bread-winner of the household may see at a glance what food will give the most nourishment to his family. A prominent subject of these studies has been the common food fishes. At the recent meeting of the Ameiean Asso­ ciation of Science, Professor Atwater, a chemist, gave some of the results of these experimental studies. In one hundred pounds of the flesh of fuesh ood there are eighty-three pounds of water, and- only seventeen pounds of solids. In the same Weight of saimou there are sixty-six and one-half pounds of water, and thirty-three and one-half pounds of solids. The meaning of these figures is that a family eating one hun­ dred pounds of cod would be nourished by only one-sixth of it, while if they feed on the same weight of salmon, they would find one-third nutritious. Next in nutritive value to salmon come fat halibut, shad, and whitetish. Then follow mackerel, bluesfth, lean halibut, striped bass, flounder, and lake trout. The order in which they are placed indi­ cates their relative value as food. Lean beef is less nutritious than salmon, as it contains seventy-five per cent, of Water and twenty-five per cent, of solids. Wliile fish is highly nutritious and healthy, there is a somewhat exag­ gerated notion that it is- particu- ) larly valuable for brain food on ac­ count of the large amount of phos­ phorus which it contains. The notion owes some of its popularity to a remark alleged to have been made by the late • Professor Agassiz. "When I wish to l>e very brilliant," he is reported as saying, "I eat fish for dinner." But Professor Atwater says that the notion is not founded upon fact. While fish is excel­ lent there is no evidence to prove that the flesh of fish is richer in phosphorus than are other meats.--Youth s Compan­ ion. ' Journalistic Enterprise. There is nothing so encouraging to the proprietor of a great modern jour­ nal as to T>e able to make improvements on his organ. Artemus Word tells a good story about a visit he made to the sanctum of the Bungtqwn Bugle, and the interesting interview he had with the editor. The editor waB preparing his leading editorial, which he read over to Artemus. It was to the effect that "we hav3 just had«some extensive re­ pairs made to our sink. A new bottom has been placed in it at an immense ex­ pense, in which two holes have been i liored, through which the water passes into the entirely new bucket below. I What has the hell-hound of the Gazette • to say to this ? We shall continue to make improvements as great and ex­ haustive as .pur rapidly increasing circu­ lation will justify. We have also about closed a contract for the purchase of a new paste-pot." "DOES the cistern ever give out?" asked the gentleman who wanted to rent the house. "Never but once, and that was before they kept beer far sale in the corner grocery." "Srr down," said a handsomely I dressed and vivacious young lady at a fashionable watering place; " ait down ; it's about the only thing you cam do here without being obliged to pay for it." A YOUNG lady of two and-twenty re­ fused to wed a man of 50, saying he was neither one thing nor vet another. He was too old for a husband and too young to hold out any immediate hope for wid­ owhood. ^ " SCIENCE enumerates 588 species of organic forms in the air we breathe." Just think of it. Every time you draw in a breath a whole zoological garden slips down your windpipe, and no free ticket to the press* A YOUXO man, while attempting to fix a "misplaced switch" on a young lady's head in a ball-room, stepped cm her dress and " wrecked the train." She told him to " oonductor to a seat, and be more car-ful in future." " I UNDERSTAND," said the Galveston Recorder, " that you are a confirmed drunkard." " Pat's wliar you is too soon, Jedge. I ain't been confirmed in no church yit, but d§ blue-light Baptises _ is giben Satan a heap ob worry shook* me." . LATKLT, WHEN-EW«T breeeee blew, > , The masher, blithe and gay, " ' Bloointxl nuiiaist iu a flannel suit, His nlster packed away. ; But uow «imt wiuds blow cold aadohm, ' < f Hi* spiritsKet reduced; * , ' . He hoHtea to ^hoot the flannel 8ait, * For ulsters rule the roort. "UFHAT a relief it is to political editorials in.. _ calm, dignified statements to in the local notices of patent medi­ cines. There is no lying in patent-med­ icine advertisements.--Peek*® Miiwau- ke&Sun. "WHAT," exclaimed Demosthenes, as he looked around upon his hearera, "can be more valuable to a great people than a free ballot, a full vote, and a fair count?" "A biri," growled Diogenes, as he put his tuTTon his head and moved on.--Puck: WHEN a Tankee is struck by a thun­ derbolt, and knocked endways clear across a ten-acre lot, the only regret he feels upon recovering consciousness is the disheartening fact that he can't capt­ ure the bolt and exhibit it for money.-- Norristown Herald. A FOND mother said to her little aon : " Tommy, my dear, I am going to give you a little companion soon; which would you prefer, a little boy or a little girl ? " " Well, mother," replied Tommy, " if it is the same to you, 1 would rather have a little donkey. " MR. SMITH, you said you once offi­ ciated in the pulpit. Did you mean that you preached ?" " No, sir; I held the light to the man that did prea'h." "Ah! the court understood you differently. It supposed the discourse came directly from you." " No, sir; I only threw light upon it." KNEW BETTER.--An old mother heard one of her daughter-in-law's callers say, " My father was an ambidexter." After the visitor's departure the listener ex­ pressed her indignation by saying, " That stuck-up huzzy was lying all the time. I knew her father well, year ia and year out, and his name was Smith.** THE VIOWN.--A young artist who lives in a boarding-house wants to know how he can learn to play the violin with­ out disturbing the other- boarders. " Soap your bow, young man, soap your bow, and bathe the strings twice a dsr in sweet oil. Then you can sit up all night and play overtures, and upab w3l mind it" Oriental w Progress.** ' What in the modern slang of social science is called "progress" is breaking out in Oriental lands where hitherto it has been kept under with little difficulty. But the notions peculiar to countries of railroads and steunboats seem to accom- 11 T, » ./ ... . » il„ rauruuus tuiu BU?IUU[>OBI.S set ill K> WXUUI* It was the same j pany that sort of locomotion wherever ii who got out an extra with big headlines j ^ Thus in Constantinople within a few years the Turks are beginning to> announcing: , " The course of the Bugle indorsed by the people. One more subscriber • yesterdav." The same paper also claimed that it I had trebled its circulation, which was a fact, for at the time it had three sub­ scribers instead of one, the number it started out with. AN elephant is used in a spectacular play in Philadelphia. He is kept in a stable several blocks away, and taken to the theater every evening at the proper point in the piece. One afternoon he look it into lus head that the tiiite had come to perform. Throwing his keeper aside, he burst into the street, overturned a wagon and several street-stands on his way to the theater, smashed a door, and took his usual place on the stage. The absence of lights aud audience seemed to convince liim that he hail made a mistake, and he suffered himself to be led back to the stable. go to public houses and drink ***** openly, even in the neighborhood oi the mosques. Tliis is in the face of the strict prohibition of the Koran, which enjoins total abstinence. The women, too. imitating their European sisters, am gradually dropping the veils which con­ ceal their features. They now wear a thin gauza veil which practically hides nothing; but on seeing an official ap­ proach, they drop a heavier anew Still further East the English inagistf in the district of India when Iks of Juggernaut" is brought oat has, allowing it to move on its t siou of crushing the faitlifBi 4NM wheeia, ordered upon the esc. "Ou» age," ssi.ya ftik Maffttzine, "is aiuMMi pamed by a who does not puV| chin upon reading. AN international railway ; safely conclude ti|ai will be held at Berlin in. litjk ' V* not * ' /*> • J •- \