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I fgcf cntg f ImkM J. VAN SLYKE. Editor and Publisher. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. DAKOTA ha?) a larger population than Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Dela- ware, or Florida, and wants to be a State. QBH. ARTHUR, the new Vice Presi­ dent, will spend most of the winter in Washington studying parliamentary practice, with which he is unfamiliar, so as to qualify -himself for presiding over the Senate. * THK price which England is to be galled upon to pay ont of the pockets of the English, Scotch and Welsh taxpay­ ers, in order to settle forever the dis­ quieting Irish land question, is, accord­ ing to the Statist, the very modest amount of $1,500,000,000. CENSUS returns from all but a small stgip of Alaska show that we have bagged more Indians, if less ice, than was expected. Out of a population reaching 30,000, there are 300 white males and 4 females. Those of mixed Russian and Aleut blood number 1,500. IN the United States Circuit Court at 'Omaha the Ponca tribe of Indians has obtained judgment against Red Cloud and the Sioux nation for possession of the islands in the Niobrara river and other lands contiguous, from which the Poncas have been unlawfully excluded by their red brethren. COL. GORDON, of Egyptian fame, who has lately visited Ireland, says the con­ dition of its people is worse than that of any other people in the world. He says that their condition is attributable to landlordism. He recommends the Gov­ ernment to buy out the landlords of the -distressed districts, and resell to the tenants on easy payments. THE intolerance shown in Ireland to obnoxious landlords is instanced by the way in which the family of Boycott, who has lately come into such notice, as well as himself, have been treated. His niece, even, who went into Ballinrobe and asked a jewelar to put a new crystal in her watch, was refused, with the re­ mark that nothing would be done for her or for any one else in the family. THK terms of the bargain recently made by the Dominion Government of Canada with the syndicate'formed to build the Canadian Pacific railroad have been published. Put in tabular form, the statistics of the cost and the land-grant for the different sections are as follows: A ere*. Lake Superior $12,000,000 12,000,000 Red river to Rocky mount­ ains 6.400.000 5,000,000 British Columbia. C,000,000 8,000,000 Total $25,000,000 25,000,000 The whole of the land is to be taken it is stated,, from the fertile land in the Northwest. MRS. WATSON, during the lifetime of her husband, the astronomer, was his devoted and enthusiastic assistant in all, his scientific studies and researches. She accompanied him to China, and was there of great help to him in fiis work. That his will should have apparently slighted her has been the cause of un­ pleasant comments in many journals. It is now explained that Mrs. Watson has a considerable property of her own, and that, being childless, she and her husband had long ago determined to bequeath their worldly goods to scien­ tific objects. A SAD and dramatic eviction took place in County Wicklow. An old man named Arthur Kavanagh, in feeble health, who had a cabin on the property of Earl Fitz William, had fallen behind in his rent. A decree of ejectment was obtained by the Earl, and his game­ keeper, with two bailiffs, went to exe­ cute the decree. They had to carry Kavanagh out of the house, and, as he was crossing the threshold of liis cabin, the poor old man gave one gasp and died in the gamekeeper's arms. His body was laid by the roadside. Over it for hours sat his only mourner--a grand­ daughter. Kavanagh was formerly in a good position. He had been unable to work for two years, and was bedridden for some time. THK following table contained in the annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture shows the value of the most important of our agricultural products during the last two years, and the value of exportations thereof for the same period: Breadstuffn, animals, animal matter. etc., for 1879 For 1880 (estimated) .. .$1,919,9.U,397 2,000,000,000 are not far to seek. The crops have been unprecedontedly large ; immigra­ tion has steadily poured in upon us at a rate that is unparalleled ; our manufact­ ures have awakened from their long slumber of years, and industry in all its branches has taken on an activity that is truly surprising. IF the electoral vote had been aft all close, there would have been three chan­ ces for a row. First, the defeat of a California elector, which would have been set down to Republican partisan zeal ; next, the defeat of an Indiana elector, which the Democratic Canvass­ ing Board would certainly have accom­ plished if the vote would have made a difference ; and thirdly, the stupid fail­ ure of the Georgia Electoral College to tote on the day appointed. The occur­ rence of these blundersy likely to be re­ peated every four years under our com­ plicated system, should teach Congress Board of Agriculture reports the wheat product of the State in 1880 at 56,508,- 000 bushels, including both spring and winter. The following are this year's wheat products of the several Western States, by bushels : .... 4.>,tiOO,<lQO ,..^,000,000 Illinois..../;..* Iowa ..... Indiana. Minnesota Ohio Michigan..;,..., Missouri K'.IUHH*.. ... .... Nebrawka. Wisconsin USEFUL HINTS. A VAST warm bed-quilt may be im­ provised by pinning newspapers between two sheets. THOSE who ought to know say that poultry thrives upon cooked food, and like their corn boiled. Do NOT keep rubber shoes or sandals on the feet longer than necessary. They should never We worn in the house. :lUKXI .VKI.OOO *R>,750,<K)0 "I'iuivloo I FOR soft corns dip a piece of linen ...l^iso'ooo ! cloth in turpentine and wrap it around The Alton Telegraph is justly exultant | the toe on which the corn is situated over the fact that that county (Madison) ! night and morning. The relief will be " has the honor of being the banner | immediate, and, after a fepr days, the j he has been represented to us in litera- county in this banner wheat-growing corn will disappear. | ture and by the drama he does not find State." That county's acreage in winter LIP SALVES.-- One gill sweet oil, one wheat in 1880 was 141,576, and the yield ounce white wax, three-quarters of an ounce spermaceti. Dissolve them over mous weight of 48,500 pounds, or more than 24 tons. The Sui>eriuteiident of the association is satisfied that the various articles of freight enumerated, twenty- three in number, will average fully '27,000 pounds per car, and the whole will not average less than 25,000 pounds per car. The fact that such loads can be safely carried now is due to the vastly improved condition of tracks as well as to the heavier construction' of the car. Farming in France. The typical Frenchman can hardly .be said to be domestic in his instincts.* As reached the enormous aggregate of 3,- 539,400 bushels. Montgomery county ; the fire and stir till oool. Another comes next, with 138,611 acres, and a [Oil of sweet almonds, eight ounces; his supreme happiness in the home cir­ cle. But when we look farther into the substance of French society and investi­ gate the causes of French vitality and stability, the conclusion is forced upon the necessity of amending the method! OA , } ,' . . 0. - ll(. r , . , f. _ ., , . ; 24 bushels, and in St. Clair 20 bushels, of electing the President, so that escape j jn addition, Macoupin reports 769 bush from revolution quadrennially may not i els of spring wheat, and St. Clair 1,244, yield of 3,326,664 bushels. Macoupin j white wax, three ounces ^spermaceti' us that> after al'> France is a nation of comes next, with 114,524 acres, and a I three ounces ; rhodium, fifty drops and 'lomC8- The rural life and the city life | yield of 2,975,024 bushels. St. Clair ' white sugar candv form an excellent lip 1 of tliat "Cresting country present a j r.tands fourth, with 129,149 acres and i salve. * ( »t™"ge contrast. They may be alike in j 2,582,980 bushels. The crop in Madi- | Avr« nmrr y^j thinking that there is no place like son averaged 25 bushels per acre; in Macoupin, 26 bushels ; in Montgomery, " in * / , . , , uiuiKing inai mere is no piace lute from a. nantra i J K ! France, but totallv unlike in the methods from a pantry or store-room by strewing employed by society for making the clove* 6 ^ t small quantity of j most nf its opportunities. And it will ' whole or ground. We ; probably surprise the casual reader to country is com-ose the former, as not being so likely to ! h^w much of that be considered a signal mark of divine mercy. MACEDONIA is said to be in a terrible condition. Bands of brigands, strong in numbers and well armed, are infest­ ing almost all parts of the country, t$k- Madison and Montgomery report no spring wheat at all. State At ttie recent meeting, of the State Board of Public Charities, the Com­ missioners were unable to fully com- jet into the food placed upon the shelves. The cloves should be renewed occasion­ ally, as after a time they lose their strength and efficacy. MOSQUITOES, says somebody, love beef preliended by rural France. The total population of the rural portion is esti­ mated by a correspondent to be not less than 25,000,000, and as many as 23,000, 000, are directly engaged in agriculture. blood better than they do any that flows j The number and importance of the in the veins of human kind. Just put a j French middle class have been demon- couple of generous pieces on plates near j strated to the credit of the nation, not. There are now ing advantage of the weakness of the > their report to the (Toveruor, but , your bed at night, and you will sleep j once but many times authorities a.,<l enriehW ! &greetl ul>°" the estimates of the appro- ;nn troubled by these pests. In the 5,800,000, distinct estates or properties authorities, and enriching themselves j pnatlons necessary to be made by the j morning you will find them full and ! in France. Of these it is calculated that by the indiscriminate plunder of the in- • next General Assembly for the State in habitants without distinction of race or j stitutions subject to the supervision of creed. Beys and other high dignitaries are being seized, and there are even cases in which all the members of Provincial Councils have been carried off in a body and sent into the mount­ ains. One of the bands demands the sum of £5,000 sterling as ransom for the liberation of two Turkish dignitaries and three Christians who hold the rank of Councillors. Communication is everywhere interrupted. In Epirus incredible atrocities are reported to have been perpetrated. In one case two women are said to have been thrust alive into an oven. The inhabitants are powerless to' defend themselves, and are look^ig for pity and protection from the West. IN "Some Recollections of Merchants of New York," the Dry Goods Bulletin mentions a curious circumstance connect­ ed with lotteries. J. A. Moore, of Hinton & Moore, had a brother George in the lottery business, then legitimate in New York. George, as the agent, had a cer­ tain number of tickets placed in his hands. Those unsold had to be returned by a certain^time or paid for. One evening he found that he had accident­ ally omitted to return to Virginia a $20 ticket. He was very hard up, ami begged his sister-in-law (his brother be­ ing at the tim ' rich) to take it. She rather reluctantly did so, and did not say a word to her husband. The ticket won $100,000. Not long afterward J. A. Moore failed. His creditors sued him for the lottery money, asserting that it really was his. After considerable liti­ gation Chancellor McConn decided that the money unquestionably belonged to Mrs. Moore, and that payment--hither­ to restrained by injunction--must be therefore made to' her. ILLINOIS SEWS. the board. The amount appropriated by the last General Assembly for the support of nine institutions (not includ­ ing the Eastern Insane^Asylum at Kan- kakee), for ordinary expenses for two | magnesia, fuller's earth, or buckwheat, years trom July 1. 1879, to July 1, 1881, -- • - - - - - was §1,021,500. The amount asked by these nine institutions for the two years from July 1, 1881, to July 1, 1883, is 81,335,000; but after careful figuring the board decided to recommend an ap­ propriation of SI,041,000, divided among them as follows: Northern Intone Hot-pital Central Insane Hospital Southern Innniu> Hospttal IiiKtituti m forD. af and Dumb Institution for the Blind Asylum for Feeli!.-Minded Soldiers' OrjiUnnv Home Eye and Kir Infirmary Slate Hetorni School." Sprinkle on the spot, and let lie until all the grease is absorbed; renew the earth, magnesia or buckwheat until all the grease is removed. Time and pa­ tience will in this way renjovfc the worst of grease spots. To DETECT GENUINE COFFEE.--Those foolish persons who buy ground coftee may find out whether what they buy is genuine cof­ fee or not by the following method : Take a wine glass or a tumbler full oi water, and gently drop a pinch of the ground coffee on the surface of the water, without stirring or agitating; genuine coffee will float for some time, whilst chicory, or and other Bweet root, will soon sink ; and chicory or caramel will cause a yellowish or brown color to diffuse rapidly through the water, while pure coffee will give, no visible tint, under such circumstances, for a considerable length of time. IT noo I ^TARCH POLISH.--The old receipt of 7$<» stirring the starch with a bit of wax 4,'oou | candle is not nearly so good,in the opin- TotaI " fcT&aio I 'on °* an experienced laundress, as a 1111 much1 cheaper plan. She uses mutton lllinoiM Railroad* I *uet instead of wax ; it makes the starch Reports from the railroads to the State 1 ?™or-f Be*?re roa8tfm»or ^8 5°™ ,. . . . , , . | joint of mutton, cut off whatever suet authorities show a considerable increase you want from it. " Render " it in a tin '21*0.000 15M,0n0 l."i(>,00i) 170,000 47,OUO 10i,UUJ 85,000 32,000 r>.->,ix)o Total $1,041,000 The amounts asked for special pur- j>oses by the several institutions are as follows: Northern Insane Hospital ... Eastern Intaue Honpitai Central In«:me Hopital Soij!tner:i IiiKane Hospital. institution tor Deaf und Dumb JiiKtituti'iu for the Blind Atn'uui for the l'Vehie-Miuded Soldier*' Orpheus' Home Kye iiiid Kar Infirmary State lielorm School ' .$ 2(5,000 . 35'.»,400 . 87,000 . 45,fi35 . 35,a00 . 55,010 . 30,775 stupid with the beef blood, and the j 50,000 average an acreage of 600, while meat sucked as d~y as a cork. I there are 500,000 averaging sixty acres, STAINS.--Remove ink-stains from car- • an(^ ramaiiuler, of over 5,000,000, pets with milk, and afterward wash | ̂ Pre8en^ properties under six acres, with fine soap, a clean brush, and warm j Compare this with the divisions and the water. For grease spots use powdered l ^g^ation of landed property in Great - " • - Britaan, where a comparatively few bar­ onial proprietors own more than half the land of the whole realm, and it is easy to see the weakness in England's armor and why France when seemingly crushed has within herself the recuperative power to lift her from almost any disaster upon the solid ground of prosperity. There are . 8,000,000 inhabited dwelliugs in France, 3(X),000 uninhabited and 57,000 in course of construction. As the entire population is about 37,000,01)0 the aver­ age of only a little over four to a dwelling is not unreasonable, and would fill with contempt and a horror of such wasteful­ ness of space the soul of a New York tenement house proprietor. We are told that "next to the educated English, the uneducated French love their country more than other people in Europe," and it is certainly more than a blind affection which they feel for it. The statistics that we have given show that they are blest beyond any other people of their class in Europe, and they instinctively lielieve this even though they may not have education enough to prove it to themselves by comparison. in the number of killed and injured. In 1879 the thirty-seven roads mentioned reported killed, 25G; injured, 711. For 1880, ended June 30, the same roads report killed, 3;>9 ; injured, 1,033. The following comparisons arc made between the net earnings in 1880 with the net earnings in 1879 : CHICAGO AND ALTON. Nel eamii'g--, 18H0 Net earnings, 18(tf... Ineren*' $1,070,074.31 CHll'.UiO, lu r.I.lNdTON AND QUJNCY. 'Net earnings, $d,:i4i9,305.7' Nci earnings, 1870 4,f4G,340. 13,108,886.06 1,•192,812.85 cup and set it aside in a jar; it will ] keep six months or longer. The fat | about the kidney in a hind quarter is the firmest and best. When you want I thick starch for collars and shirt bosoms, take fourtable-spoonfulsof starch to one | quart of water, and a piece of the clear ! suet about the size of , a walnut. This makes a crcod quart of starch. Bread. A large meeting lately was held at the Town Hall, Kensington, in England, under the auspices of the Bread Reform Curiosities of lite Voice. Dr. Delaunay, in a paper rend before the French Academy of Medicine, gives some details on the history and limits of the human voice, which he obtained after much patient research. According to the doctor, the primitive il 111 abit an ts of Europe were all tenors; their descend­ ants of the preseut day are baritones, and their grandsons will have semi-bass voices. Looking at different races, lie calls attention to the fact that inferior races, such as the negroes, etc., have higher voices than white men. The voice has also a tendency to deepen with age--the tenor of sixteen becoming the baritone at twenty-live, and bass at thirty-five. Fair complexioned people have higher voices than the dark skin- Increase $3,r>2:t, ILLINOIS CENTRA I* j Net earning*, IS»0 l Set eamlni.'a, lK7tt 4,F40,340.'.<7 | " , JIAVE nigner voices man tne tiara SKIU- ---- -- : League, to advocate the universal use of j lu?(j ^]ie former being usually sopranos S3,:,At,018.80 j what is technically known as "wheat or tenors, the latter contraltos or basses. .,$3,457,S31.02 .. •>4<0,8.>6.00 Increase MICHIGAN CENTRAL. Net earnin :P, 1P>0 Ni. I cartiiugH, 187'J Ineeane. y CHICAGO, MIUVAl'KKF. AM> Net earnings, 1880 ».... > i t earnings, 1879 Net earnings, 1KS(I Ket earning.-*, Increase OHIO AND MIHSISKIITI. Net earning?. 18-(' Net earnings, 1S71> Value of agricultural exports for the flgcal vear eliding June 80, 1879. 146,641,233 Tot 1880 106,400,428 Breadstuff*, etc., for 1879 21tVWl,o6.'> For 1880 288,0 0.201 Cotton, etc., for 1879 173,158,200 For 1880 221,517,323 Wool, etc., for 1879 20,122.'.«'"7 For 1880 22,00'*,000 Miscellaneous, 1879 R3,84'<.<i2tt For 1880 .. 4»,oo«, Mi Total for 1879 5 604,150,492 Total for 1880 746,967,952 Total'exnorts of all kinds for 1879 717,OI>3,777 For 1880". 823,94G,353 " POOR'S Manual" states the net earn­ ings of all the railroads in the country last year to have been $219,916,27-1. S j far as reported this year it appears that the percentage of increased earnings on the trunk lines is smaller than that on the other lines ; yet the former will di­ vide among their shareholders some $55,000,000 more than the year previ­ ous. which is about, 2[ per cent, addi­ tional on the total railroad capital exist­ ing in the country at the close of the year. A steady increase of earnings continu°s to be reported, and the work­ ing capacity of the railtoads is put to its utmost service. We have had no such year of railroad activity before as we have had this year. The reasons for it THE artesian well at Canton has reaeht <1 1,200 feet. SCARIJTCT fever and diphtheria are prev­ alent at El'Paso. THE city of Lacon is trying to get up a glucose factory. THF.BE are over 4,01)0,000 feet of lum­ ber ice bound in the Alton slouch. A VEIN1 of coal* six i'eut in thickness has been struck near Ni.uiti", M.icon county. THE cleari'I?s of the Chicago banks for week before List week reached tho unprecedented figure of SGI ,150,527. The citizens of Princeton, Tiurer.u county, are making a movement to gravel all the roads in that township. A PEKIN lad gave up his pistol at the | command of his father, and the latter, j while investigating the thing, was shot . through the hand. ~ CADET BYRON G. PIERCE, who died aW the Annapolis Naval Aeademy, on the | ̂ -t eamiiu f, i88o. 28th ultimo, was buried in Warren, Jo NOT umii tu, 1879. Daviess county. FORTY new cattle pens have just been completed at the stock yards, Chicago, each of which is calculated to hold a car-load of stock. LITIGATION has fallen oIT over one-half in circuit and county courts of Cham­ paign county, and the number oi Deputy Sheriffs will be reduced to correspond. J. M.TRACY, of Urbana, who murdered his business partner, Whitocomb, and who has been in the penitentiary several months under sentence of Twenty-live j Net deficit, IHHO... years, lias been granted a new trial by | Net earnings, i*7<j.... the Supreme Court. He is now at home under 310, (X)0 bail. THE Warden of the Joliet peniten­ tiary reports as follows for last month: Convicts in the peiytentiary Nov. 1, l,40o ; received during the mouth, 69; discharged, 73; convicts in the peniten­ tiary Nov. 30, 1,402, of whom 21 are females. ABOUT 100 druggists met at Spring­ field, last wet k, and orgauized the llli- j nois P/iari«:!ceutieal Association. Mr. j W. W. M; orinau, of Bioomiugton, was j chose-i I resident of the association, and j Mr. George Buck, of Chicago, first j Vice President. J THE Warden of the Southern peni­ tentiary made his report for the month of November to the Governor, as fol­ lows : Prisoners on hand Nov. 1, 338 ; received during the month, 20; dis­ charged during the month, 12 ; number in prison Nov. 30, 31'>, of which num­ ber 4 are females. DR W. H. BUCHANAN, of Paris, re­ ports a wonderful freak of nature that has happened there-- a child burn with a fully-developed body, but with a head like an owl or hawk, the eves being almost together. The nose began to protrude below the Hue of the eyes, and was long and hook- shaped like a bird's beak, had only one air-passage, and was m>t connected'with the air-pass»<<e to the lungs. In the back part of the head the.- < was an open­ ing through which could be seen the working of 4he brain. The child only- lived thirty minutes after its birth. ILLINOIS leads all the othdrS /ites as a grower of wheat. The Illinois State meal bread." l)r. B." *}¥. Richardson, the well-known autftorJIj on hygiene, presided. Oue of the speakers riiaiu- tained that the bread in common use was 40 per cent deficient in sustaining qualities. An entire grain of wheat con­ tained everything that was required for nourishing purposes, and yet the better half of it was wasted, and this half was ; a much healthier food, especially for increase ?i.44'j,,.»i'i.'i8 ; <»liil<lreii. A white loaf, in faet, was only CHICAGO, ROCK lSt«ANI> AND PACIFIC. lit* i 0 * 1 * ±\ Net earniuafs, 1880 f\728.505.83 ! half a loaf, for a large portion of the .\et earnings, 1879 4, ,97,2f>i.oo ! material that formed muscular flesh, and increase iUi.iiTs.i ! nearly all that formed bone, were taken CHU'AIIO ANi> NI•KTHWKHTEBN. ; from it. Children fed on white bread Net earnings, 1880 $10,155122 7o ; were very liable to suffer rickety bones, et earnings, lSij " " ; consumption, and bad teeth, because Increase $ 8,037.i2i.7i | their food did not nourish them properly. LAK;-. SHORE AND MICHIGAN BOCTHKKN. Net earnings, 1.SS0 $7.9t>8, >17.04 Set earnings, 1879 (i.242,814.00 ,$.\0i 7,'*.>70.02 .$3,222,883.08 2.840,M0.U0 * 3S2,353.(i3 *T. PAt'L. $>,<145,^72.28 ;i.l!>5.10<!.00 Increane $1,72 CHICAGO ASH KASTKBti ILLINOIS. 703.64 .$ 3X7.957.85 235,019.0!" 52,908.85 , .$1,280,201 <13 ,. 924,852.M) I . . $ 1,409.03 increase WA' AHH, ST. LOUIS ANI> PACIFIC. $ 3.320,184.24 l,421,'.Vi.O0 Jru-rease $ l,8Uo,2>1.24 HT. I.OI IJ, VANDAL1A ANI> TEltUE HAI'T!'. Net e- rnings, 1H80 $ 3S'.t.935.7S NL-1 v trnings, 1879 3jl,'.'j0.00 Increase S ILLINOIS AN1> ST. LOl'IS. Net earnings, 1880 $ Nut earnings, 1879. Decrease $ INDIANA, ULOOMINOTON ASI» WESTERS. Net earnings, 1880 $ 475,940.28 Net earnings, 1879 G5,00.'. 78 42,091.84 50,000.00 8,008.1 320.488.00 Increase -- f CAIRO AND VINCKNNES. Decrease $ CAIBO AND ST. LOl'IS. Net earnings 18H0 $ S*et deficit, 1879 Increase . •$ 00,1^7.78 ST. LOUIS, ALTON AND TEERE HACTK-- or Fit AT f.li BY THE INDIANAPOLIS AND ST. LOUIS llAlr.HOAD COM­ PANY. Net earnings, 1880 $ 41:'.r,?2 89 Net earnings, 1879 Increase With but one or two excepti >ns the increase of business over the preceding year is ni&rked. Some of the iarge cor­ porations for the year ending June 30, 1880, double their 1879 net income. The Chicago and Northwestern makes the largest showing in net earnings--£10,- 155,122.75--which is an increase of $8,037,124.75 over the net earnings uf 1879. The Chicago, Burlington and Ouincy couies second, with am increase j over 187'J of $3,52; v018.80, and the Wa- | hash, St. Louis and' Pacific thir.l, with j aa increase of then fol- i lows the Chicago ;.nd Alton with an in- j crease oi .'rl ,('"77,074.;il. The amount of freight carried in 1830 \ on t'i " "whole line" is lar;/' !y in exces.- | of that c.u'1 ied in 1879. 1'iie Cisieago, | Bui hn^rtoii 1 Quincv railroad earned The outward whiteness of the tlour j might be considered an outward sign of j the starvation within. One shilling's | worth of wheat meal bread contained three times the flesh-forming, seventy times the heat-producing, and three times the bone-forming material to bo found in a shilling's worth of beefsteak. Dr. Richardson maintained that if the mothers of the United Kingdom were to give their families whole meal, which contained the structure of the skeleton, in from three to four generations all the deformities of children, not caused by accident, which they now saw, would I Hiss away, as by the hands of an invisi­ ble enchantress. 0o London Fogs Kill if It has often been, disputed whether Loudon foj^s, though they certainly de­ press vitality, do actually kill. The question serins to be settled by Dr. Arthur Mitchell, who, in the Scuttinh .\t/>t' oroto</i< '(l Journal, shows that dur- 152,452.23 ! j„g the fotf, which lasted from Novem­ ber, 1879, to February, 1880, and which was one of the most remarkable fogs on record, the deaths from certain diseases increased in a striking degree, while the ordinary death rate from other causes did noi decline. The fogs made bron­ chitis, pneumonia and whooping cough more deadly, but raised astlnaa to the rank of an immediately dangerous dis­ ease. Tho deaths rose from this caus« 27I,»h».OU | thr.mgh December to 43 per ecut. above 13LU3..89 j the average, and in January to 220 per (••cut.; while in February, when the log cleared away, the rate sank to 30 j>er cent, below the ;;om\°l level. The re­ maining preat towns of the island were remarkably free l'ro:n fog, and the death rate from asthma did not increase. There is every appareut probability of a simi­ lar fog this year. London having been dark with fog in the upper air almost throughout the week, and this in spite of unusually brilliant weather all round. Some oculist of standing should publish a report .on the effect of the special ab­ sence of light i;; London upon the eye­ sight of tin; population.--L;mdon Spec­ tator. 09.417.71 21,229.00 91I.64C.71 50,327.78 3,820.00 The Load of a Freight Car. A rapid increase has been going on j ,in^ it during recent years in the amount of maximum load 1 0.,i) 317 t more this veor than it ' lieight regarded as the came.i the p;-„ceding Tear." - tfie Wa- . 1'ormerly 20,000 pounds was b h St. L-niis and Ptieiiic 9.%,272 tons : the h»Mt.; now according to tne West- more; the Chicago and Alton 855,415 | Weighing Association the^ average tons more, and the other roads in the <he ditierent classes oi freight. as de- sam-v proportion of increase. : ^maned by tue weights of oO.OM «tr* MAffkYING TITLES. A Wmm IM BrgnnUac Sarh Mil I lagll [Paris Cor. Tnl<wftph.} Now, without entering into any further argument on this much discussed topic, I shall briefly sketch the results of a few of these unions as they came under my own observation. Case No. 1 is that of a titled gentleman who espoused, after the usual prelimi­ naries of dowry and settlements, the daughter of a celebrated American financier. After a few years of marriage the lady died, leaving for her spouse the father of an only child--a daughter. Time passed on, and the husband con- soled himself with oue of the most beauti­ ful and notorious members of the drmi- mondr of Paris, and finally ended by marrying her. The famiy of the first wife were naturally anxious to rescue the little girl from the contamination of her step-mother's influence and training. But the titled papa set so extortionate J side, paper the in, put carpets on thJ floors, lace or muslin curtains at the windows with gilt-paper cornices, aiuf finish the front with curtains looped beck on each side. The accessories will rag* gest themselves to any one, but amount of comfort which wee little girt* * can take in a soap-box mansion and 4 family of jointed or even raar deUa, i* beyond compute. p-'op i'wvntv railroads doing business 111 Ili;uois siiow aggregate net earnings to the amount of $59,318fV0S.3(J. "Tenors," says the doctor, "are slen- dedy built and thin; basses ture stoutly miuTo and corpulent." This may bo the rule, but one is inclined to think there are more exceptions to it than are neces­ sary to prove the rule. The same re­ mark applies to the assertion that thoughtful, intelligent men have always a deep-toned voice; whereas triflers and frivolous persons have soft, weak voices. The tones of the voice are pereeptibly higher, he points out, l>efore than after a meal, which is the reason why tenors dine early, in order that their voices may not suffer. Prudent singers eschewed strong drinks and spirituous liquors, especially tenors, but the basses can eat and drink generally with impunity. "Tho South," savs the doctor, "furnishes the tenors ami the North the basses;" in proof of which ho adds that the majority of French tenors come from the South of France, whilst the basses belong to the the northern department. Was There a Ulacial Man in America! But was there any Glacial man in America? To this question the answer is distinct, though given with the reserve which the subject justifies. For the best that is known, we are chiefly in­ debted to l)r. C. C. Abbott, who was the lirst to call attention to the stone imple­ ments found in the glacial deposits of the Delaware valley. These implements are chiefly of argellite, though examples of flint occur at higher levels. They have been found at the blull's near Tren­ ton, both in position where deposited and among the debris at the base. Dr. Abbott says: " Perhaps it is a wise eatition that is exercised, in but provis­ ionally admitting the great antiquity of American man, but were these rude im­ plements not attributed to an inter-glacial people, their eo-cqual age with containing ix'ds would never have been questioned." On this poiut tlie curator of the Peabodv Museum at Cambridge observ< d, in his tenth annual report: "Dr. Abbott has probably obtained data which show that man existed on our Atlantic const, during the linie of, if not prior to, the formation of the great/gravel deposit w hich extends toward the c.i.ist from the Delaware River, near Trenton, and believed to have been formed by glacial action. From a visit to the. locality with Dr. Abl>ott, I see no reason t-o doubt the general conclusion he h;i3 reached in regard to the existence of man in glacial times-oil the Alkintic coast of North America."--It. F. De- Covta in Popular S< icncc Monthly. Ceramic Buttons. The fashionable millinery world is turning its attention to ceramic art for buttons. Miniature plates, exquisite imi­ tations of Wedgwood Dresden China, and buttons with small views on them, are in demand for costly drefcses. No member of the pottery trade can have any reasonable objection against this, seems to me that some of our manufacturers should watch the beiit of fashionable taste in this direction. In aristocratic circles it is the thing for all the furniture and arrangements of rooms to match. A story is even told of a well- to-do bachelor, who contemplated getting married, but he objected to a certain lady becaitse she would not match his furni­ ture! I see no reason, if the ladies do A Remarkable Madrfn*. A machine has been invented by Dr. Mosso, of Turin, which measure* thought. It is called the plethysmo- graph, and its revelatiops are based on • the fact that thought creates nervous ac-8 tion, which consumes in its performance a certain quantity of blood, and thaf quantity may be measured. In an ad-»' dress before the American Association of Paris, Professor G. F. Barker describes the machine and its working as follows;, _ ^ The forearm, for example, being th a pride on the possession of his child j ?r£an to experimented on, is placet^ that her grandparents were forced to op-I a cyhnder of water and tightly in- pose a negative to his demands. Con- j * rubber tube connects the in- sequently the daughter of the American ' terior of the cylinder with the recording belle remains in the hands of a woman I apparatus. With the electric circuit by who was famed for her depravity, ever *'hich the stimulus was applied to pro- among the depraved women of tho class j ce contraction were two keys, one ot from which she sprung. I which was a dummy. Case No. 2 opened with a fair prospect ^ waa noticed that, after nsing UMI of happiness on the part of the newlv- j actlve key several times, producing vaiy- wedded pair. The bride was Ixjautiful, current strengths, the curve sank as gentle, intelligent, accomplished, a de- p«*<we on pressing down the inactive vout Catholic, and passionatelv in love Smc* no real effeot was produced, with her husband. He. on the other i th® ref!ulfc was caused solely by the im- liand, was young and handsome, and I agmatr°n\ blood passing from the body though he had sown his wild oats rather , *° "ie hrain in the act. _ To test further the effect of mental ac­ tion, Dr. Paghani, whose arm was in the apparatus, was requested to multiply two hundred and sixty-seven by eight men­ tally. and to make a sign when he had finished. The recorded curve showed very distinctly how much more blood tha brain took to perform the operation. Hence the plethsymograph is capable of measuring the relative amount of men­ tal power required by different persons to work out the same mental problem. Indeed, Mr. Gaskell suggests the use of the instrument in the examinations room, to find out, in addition to the amount of knowledge a man possesses,, how much effort it causes him to pro­ duce any particular result of brain-work. Dr. Mosso relates that, while the ap­ paratus was set up in his room in Turin, a classical man came in to see l»im He looked very Contemptuously upon it, and asked of what use it couid be, saying He, the representative of ^?t it couldn t do anybody any good, est and noblest houses of • • Mopo replied, " Well, now, I can tell you by that whether you can read profusely, and reaped therefrom a plenti­ ful crop of debts, there was every hope! that under the influence of his fair bride and hi the enjoyment of a fixed and set­ tled income he might see the error of his ways aud settle down into a steady mem- j ber of society. As regards the fortune, j he displayed, as is usual in such cases, j a vast amount of anxiety respecting it, i refusing even to drive out with his betrothed and her mother before all1 financial preliminaries were arranged, for fear of compromising himself. Nor! coidd he well forgive his future father-1 in-law for so tying up the yoiyig wife's! dowry that it could not be squandered. However, their wedded life began smoothly enough. Then came rumors of the conjugal iufidelities on the lius-i band's part, of gross neglect, and finally; of actual corporal ill-usage inflicted on his charming wife. In the language of my information, "he nsed to beat her like a sack. one of tlie oldest Europe, chd not disdain to lift his hand against the hapless lady who, for her! ^ readily as yon can Latin, * « < i 7 i > • i • ' Aa /llitaoiAlot n own sorrow, had bought him and paid for him with a price. The end of the whole matter is a legal separation. The husband has gone off to his lady-love, and the wife, not yet thirty and in the very fullness and perfection of hex womanly charms, has taken refuge once more under the parental roof. Case No. 3 is that of an American girl who l>ecame the wife of a noble of long descent a few years ago, aud who in­ stantly "cut" every one of her former acquaintances, avowing her intention of henceforward associating only with "the aristocracy." Of late she has had no chance to associate with the particular specimen of the aristocracy who became herlmsband, as they are legally separated, and while she resides in Paris in a rather modest style, he is to be seen at half the prominent watering-places of Europe driving the most dashing members oi the drmi-mondc on tho public prome­ nades, in his open carriage. President fiarfleld's Children* The children are two boys,'one girl, and two more boys. Their first child was a girl, wluch died when a few months old. The last one was a boy, that died when about two years old. Harry, the oldest living, is sixteen; Abram, the youngest, is eight; "Jim" is fourteen; Molly, twelve, and Irvin, ten years old. Harry is a quiet, steady boy, very Obedient and dutiful, particularly respectful towards his parents and grand­ mother. The writer had an opportunity of seeing a characteristic lfetter which he wrote to his mother, shortly after the Chicago Convention, he and "Jim" being in school at Concord, N. H., at the time. He spoke of the fact that some of his schoolmates had manifested a great deal more interest in himself and "Jim" since their "pa" was nominated for President. He evidently thought this a little snobby, aud said he didn't consider that they were a bit bigger or better than they were before, and that he would respect his father just as much "eveu if he were nothing but a Congressman all his life." He didn't seem to think it a very big thing to l>e a Congressman. Jim is what is called a rollicking boy. He is never known to be still unless asleep. Both physically and intellectu­ ally he is very strong aud very quick. He masters his studies almost without effort and in an incredibly short time. At school he likes the gymnasium; he excels on the traj>eze aud the spring­ board. At home he stands on his head, walks on his hands with his heels up, turns handsprings and somersaults, and jumps the fence in preference to opening the gate. He is good-natured, kind- hearted and accommodating, and famous for boyish devilment. Molly is a rather quiet girl, with remarkable good sense for her years; she keeps her lessons pretty close and plays the piano very well. Irvin is the queerest genius of the family, though I don't know how to de­ scribe him. "Abe" is an artist. He is always making pictures, and seems to prefer drawings of machinery. A train of cars is one of his favorite drawings, and he will have the engine, baggage, and mail cars, the coaches and sleepers, all so perfect that it would take nu ex­ pert to find a part left out.--Skcteh of the Oarfteld Family, by T. L. Niehol. Cheap Telegraphy. In Switzerland, if one wishes to send a telegraph message, he must pay six cents to begin with, and then for one-half cent As the classicist would not believe it, his own arm was put into the apparatus, and he was given a Latin book to read. A very slight sinking of the reserve was the result. The Latin book was then taken away, and a Greek book was given to him. This produced immediately a much deeper curve. Ho had asserted before that it was quite as easy for him to read Greek as Latin, and that there was no difficulty in doing either. Dr. Mosso, however, was able to show him that he was labor­ ing under a delusion. Again, this apparatus is so sensitive as ' to be useful for ascertaining how much a person is dreaming. Wlieu Dr. Pagliaui went to sleep in the apparatus, the effect upon the result­ ing curve was very marked indeed. He said afterward that he had been in - a sound sleep, and remembered nothing! J|| of what passed in the room--that he had > jf* been absolutely unconscious; and yet* • every little movement in the room. sucl| as the slammiug of a door, the barkinjgj» < of a dog-, aud even the knocking dowijf of a bit of glass, were all marked on the- curves. Sometimes he moved his lips, and gave " other evidences that he was dreaming. They were all recorded on the curve, the tho amount of blood required for dream­ ing diminishing that in the extremities. Waterte* Hints. There is a great diversity of ophifoo^ as to how often horses should be watered|, during a day, whether in summer or iijf winter. We have an article now befor|f us of a writer of some distinction as aiL, agriculturist, who advocates frequenp watering of work horses, as a renewer of the vigor of the animals. We can­ not agree with him. We think both man and beast are generally watered toe much. Men and horses at hard work im warm weather perspire just in propor­ tion to the quantity of fluids taken into the stomach. Frequent drinking in hot weather, according to our exi>erience^ emasculates instead of refreshes. Some years ago, being at Cape May, in drill­ ing out in one of the stand-coaches at the place on a very hot day, we asked the driver how it was that his horse per­ spired so little, while the horses of pri­ vate carriages, going at a slower speetL were covered with foam. He replied that he watered his horses three times a day only, though he sponged their mouths frequently, while the private drivers watered their horses whenever they stopped. He said, and it seemed to us very sensible, that the frequent watering of horses effected no good pur­ pose, while it made them very uncom­ fortable and lethargic. Horses, no mat­ ter what their work was, did not need watering oftener than three times a day. Our own experience with horses all our life is to the same effect.--AU.CtuwiffH. « Give Me Kaggles.** A well known lady artist, resident io Borne, relates that while standing ou« day near the statue of the Apollo Belvi- dere, she suddenly became aware of the presence of a country-woman. The new comer a well-to-do-looking American wo­ man, introduced herself as Mrs. Haggles, of--, Missouri, and then asked: "Is this the Apollo Belvidere?" 0 Miss H-- testified to the identity of the work, and the tourist then said: "Considereda great statue?" The interrogated lady replied that it was a word he can send a message to any part of the country. For instance, one ; ^ ^ o{ th~ „orld may send a message of nve nunuieu - - words from Genoa to Constance--a dis­ tance of nearly two hundred miles--for $2.56. Or, if a message of ten words will suffice, it will cost him only eleven y ! generally thought to be one of the maa- ne ' ' rpieces of the world. "Manly beauty, and all that' sort of thing?" said the lady from the land of the setting sun. "Yee," responded the now amazedt . . . • .artist "It is said to be one of the cents. Yet, even at these low rates tho blest representations of the human net profits of the Swiss telegraphy depart- I {rame •> r " Well," exclaimed Mrs. Haggles, clos­ ing her Badeker, and with arms akimbo. ment last vear were about 8100,000. : The English Government, when it took j over the private telegraph companies j a jast auj earnest look at the mar- and made them an adjunct of the 1 ost- <lFve tho Appollo Belvidere office Department, paid liberal and in ^ rv0 seen Haggles, give ma Kag- l many cases extravagant puces to the g!ea»_AWon Commcwial Advertiser* I companies. But one may now send a j » message of twenty words to any point iy^. weighed diirhic? u period of six wcoVs, was fiom 23,750 for machinery to 29,9^5 for ore. the maximum in nearly all cases-! not, why the buttons on their costumes exceeding 30,OOJ pounds. Certiiin class- I should not be in keeping with their din- ExGiiisH prejudice or English judg- en of freight rea -iied, respectively, HH | ner or dessort sets of table-ware. There ment places Edwin Booth as an ini-rior high as 35,000, 37,750, 39,300. 39,600 ! are many worse matches in the world jo Henry Irving in the role of Hamlet, v and even, in the case of ore, to the enor-' than this would make. the United Kingdom for one shilling-- twenty-four cents--an<l.i>ostal telegraph ; is making money for tho government. j A Dell's House. | Get a smooth, light pine box half a I yard square, more or less. Put a divid- ! ing sheif in the box so as to have two , stories to the house. If there is a car- ' penter in the family a roof and .chimney ! would add to the l>eauty of the struc- ! ture. Saw out openings in the back for 1 windows. Isinglass will answer for the ! glass and black straws, split, for the di- i viding lines of the sash. Paint the out- Soap Suds for Flowers. No wise woman who has flowers in hMF house or gardeu will throw away h«f soap suds. They are a most yr.lualdl fertilizer for flowers, and especially It* p the verbena. If this floral favorite is-. . ;4| plentifully watered with s« *ap suds and Ha seed vessels picked off, it will flower pro* 4| fuselv. Soap suds are good for vines and ^ current bushes and fruit tm«: indeed they are the food for plants, oorr-'aponiV ing to milk for animals, and it is very wasteful to throw them away if the** ai# plants anywhere within reach that be benefitted by them.