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% < 7 * -- | ^ °*w 3rTF,'* *v~rr&Hv**M& tv*. - . . _ „ - . '^V*3 an Igfpwntg paindcalct I. VAN SLYKE. Etttr ani PablMttr. * HcHENBY, ILLINOIS. TGBOKOIA added 21,320 to tbe number dt: her small farms between I860 and 1870, and the change is now going on still more rapidly. Commissioner of Ag- , riculture Henderson says that there are twice as many men in the State who own small farms as there were five or six years ago, and even the big places are divided and farmed out between dif­ ferent tenants. This growth of small proprietors is not confined to the ne­ groes. The " poor white " has invaded the hill country with his cotton-fields, and every year sees more of the great staple raised by white labor upon the lew acres of its own. DK. B. W. RIOHIBMOH, the well- known English authority on hygiene, referring in a recent lecture to the divi­ sions of temperament established by Hippocrates and Lord Bacon, said that his own division was into the Banguine, which he associated with the Celtic race, the nervous, which characterized the Saxon race, tlie bilious, which showed itself in Eastern or Semitic blood, and the lymphatic, which was noticeable in the Northern or Scandinavian kind. He believed the time would come when the schoolmaster would be able to classify his scholars by a study of their temper­ aments, and gave some practical hints as to the particular modes of dealing with children distinguished by the tem­ peraments to which he had referred. THE recent decline in coffee, of which this country uses more than any other nation in the world, qpyl five times as much as Great Britain, will probably prove permanent, as it is due, not to the casual over-supply, but to a change in the manner of conducting the trade. Railroads, recently constructed from Bio Janeiro, bring the coffee more speedily from the plantations, and steamers, which have supplanted sailing vessels, have greatly shortened the trip from Brazil to this country. The trade in coffee, in other words, has gone through the same secular change as the trade in tea. The day for great firms buying by the ship-load and carrying great stocks has passed. Orders by cable, ship­ ments by steam, and purchases by job lots have taken the place of the slow but princely methods of a few years back. THE betting men of California are puz­ zled and excited An enormous amount of money was risked on the result of the Presidential election in that State. It is said that over $100,000 of stakes was placed on deposit in the Bank of Cali­ fornia. The point on which the wagers were made was whether Garfield or Han­ cock would carry the State. Now, all the Democratic electors except one wore elected, the exception being Judge Terry, whose name was extensively scratched because he had long ago killed Broderiik. Consequently Gar­ field got one vote in the California Elect­ oral College, and the rest were cast for Hancock. The question is whether Hancock has carried the State in the sense meant by the terms of the betting. Several law suits have been begun, and probably the bets will oil be declared off. THE Postmaster at West Mentor, Ohio, has suddenly become a person of import­ ance. One citizen of the town, during the first week of December, received 1,301 pieces of mail, which is more than was received in the entire six months preceding the Chicago Convention. The Postmaster, who used to 'tend store and ran the mails at the same time, with plenty of leisure to read the papers, has been pleading with the Postmaster Gen­ eral for an assistant, and his application, indorsed by James A. Garfield and oth­ ers, has been granted. His bond has been increased at the same time, and the poor man has a chance to rest. Gen. Garfield alone receives twenty times as much mail as the entire town of Mentor, and if the Postmaster is an object of pity commiseration should be bestowed upon the man who has to read and an­ swer the letters. street men put his wealth all the way bom $20,000,000 to $60,000,000; and many believe that if he lives he will be the richest mm in. the couafcty, if oat in the world. i ife -i: MB. ECWATO LJUTOTBY, dtt mswiy, England, who is entitled to distinction only as the husband of a famous beauty, is in New York, and the interviewer has kept him busy since his arrival in this blasted country. Mr. Langtry is a flu- j ent person, and it does not appear dis- j tasteful to him, as it would be to some men, to be asked questions about his wife's personal appearance. He admits with candor that she has been the hand­ somest woman in London for three sea­ sons, and believes her to be the most beautiful being in existenoe. His visit to tlie United States is of a purely busi­ ness character, but he promises to come over again and bring Mrs. Langtry, so that we .can all have a good look at her. If Mr. Langtry is correctly reported he is the most consummate snob England has ever sent across the water. MB. C. C. COFFIH, of Boston, lately lectured in that city on "The Future Commercial Relations of the North­ west" He described the physical feat­ ures and the productive capacity of the northwestern portion of the country, and referred to the excellent climate to be found in Montana, on account of the influence of the current of Japan, wider and deeper than the Atlantic Gulf stream, and having a temperature of 76 degrees. The area of the habitable re­ gion of the Northwest amounts to 200,- 000,000 acres, of which only 35,000,000 of acres are now cultivated. This vast granary of the continent is in direct nat­ ural communication with the eastern sea-coast, by means of the St. Lawrence river and the great lakes, and, with the completion of projected railroads, will also t>e in communication with the Pa­ cific ports. By taking tho Bed river valley route, Mr. Coffin said, this great whea't field is 170 miles nearer to Boston than to New York. OF Arizona little is known to the world at large, and many there ore, doubtless, who regard the Territory as a desolate waste. A correspondent of the Boston Herald, who has been over the line of the Southern Pacific railway, writes that the Territory is increasing rapidly in population, and the comple­ tion of the railroad will naturally bring more immigrants. Although mining is now the great interest the prospects for agricultural pursuits are encouraging. It is estimated that there are from 15,- 000,000 to 20,000,000 acres of rich land, but,^pwing to a scarcity of water, only about 3,000,000 acres are available. It, is believed that water for irrigation can be obtained from artesian wells. The climate, owing to the various altitudes of different parts, ranges from that of the Northern States to that of the tropics. The canons of Arizona are among the grandest on the continent, the most not­ able being that of the Colorado, which pinks to the depth of 6,000 and 7,000 feet. This river is navigated at all sea­ sons 513 miles from its mouth. PROBABLY fifty years henoe there will be abundance of trees in the .West. Agriculturists are rapidly awaking to the necessity of planting them. The Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Company has begun the planting of hundreds of acres of trees on its lands. A Boston capitalist has engaged a company of raisers of forest seedlings in Illinois to break and plow a large area in Kansas, and plant no less thau 2,720 trees to the acre, and cultivate these until they shade the ground. At the end of that time-- say ten years--the plantation will be de­ livered over to the owner. No trees less than six feet high are to be counted. The Fort Scott railroad has adopted this plan, one advantage of which is that the tree enterprise will be attended by experienced men, whose interest it will be to make as much of a success of it as possible. JAT GOULD made his first stake in 1859, and, when the war was over, was known to be worth millions. When he went out of Erie he sold 50,000 shares •of the stock of that road short at 65, .and gathered them in at 40. The opera­ tion netted him $1,000,000. He next ibouglit 25,000 shares of Cleveland and Pittsburgh at 70, and after the consoli­ dation closed out at a net profit of ^1,500,000. He was supposed to be -worth $10,000,000 when he went into Union Pacific, buying the stock at 20 in 1873, and holding on until it is worth "95. He bought Wabash at 5, and holds it at 80 for the preferred and 45 to 49 for 4he common. Kansas and Texas, which «ost him 8, is now worth 48. Well- The Bonanza King. A citizen of San Francisco, who had amassed wealth by a fortunate invest­ ment in mining interests, determined to cultivate the fine arts. He sent to Flor­ ence for a copy of the Venus of Milo in marble. In the course of time the com­ mission was accomplished, and the mar­ ble goddess, protected by wrappings and securely boxed, safely crossed the ocean and was transported across the continent to the residence of the owner. Tlie box ww .unpacked, and the goddess, in her celestial beauty, was revealed to his eagu- gaze. His consternation may be imagined when he beheld his costly treasure un­ veiled, but without arms ! How could such an accident happen, and what had become of the missing members, for not a vestige of broken marble rewarded his j anxious search? His indignation and disappointment were unbounded in be­ holding a woman without arms where he had expected a master piece of art. All tne money in the world in itself will not give culture and taste. The bo­ nanza king had never heard the story of the famous Venus of Milo. He did not know what almost all intelligent young people could tell him, that this master­ piece of sculpture was dug up in the island* of Milo just as it now stands in the museum of the Louvre in Paris. Fruitless search has been made for the missing arms, and connoisseurs in art would give its weight in gold a hundred times over if they could be found. The statue, in which the rich miner saw nothing but imperfection, has drawn forth the admiration of lovers of art ever since modern eyes have looked upon it. Few are the visitors in Paris who fail to spend hours before the marble shrine where the Venus of Milo stands enthroned, in rapt appreciation of its almost celestial beauty, and few are tlie intelligent persons in the civilized world who, in marble, bronze, engraving, or photograph, are not familiar with the perfect lineaments and the faultless form of this embodiment of the genius of the past. A bonanza mine is not to be despised, but it fails alone to give to its possessor the resources for happiness hidden in a cultivated mind and refined taste.-- Youth'a Companion, Improved Mortar for Plastering. A new method of making mortar for Elastering walls has been devised, which i confidently said by those who are in­ formed as to it to i>e superior to any other ever yet tried. Stucco or plaster- of-paris is used instead of lime in mak­ ing the mortar, one jjart of stucco, by measure, being used to two parts of sand. No hair is used for the first or 'scratch' coat, and three coats of plastering are put on. In mixing the stucco and sand a quart of glue water is used to the pail­ ful of sand and stucco mixed, and then elean water is added until the mortar is of the right consistency. The mortar must be used as soon as made, and only made in small quantities at a time. It is claimed that it will make a harder, more perfect wall, can be used to better ad­ vantage, and is little if any mora expen­ sive.--Grand Rapids Eagle. THE 'New Orleans Picayune thinks that a man, like a razor, is made keen by being frequently strapped. FACTS FOB THE CDRIOUS. Ax.THouoH t.be Ohinese had gunpowder many centuries before it was known in Europe, they did not employ it in war, but used it only in fireworks. THE leaning tower ol Pisa was built in the twelfth oentury. It is 190 feet high and leans thirteen feet from the perpendicular. The inclination was caused by the settling of one side of the foundation. THIS thread for the glass cloth, now made at Pittsburgh, is drawn out of a molten bar by means of a rapidly-re­ volving wheel at the rate of 2,000 yards a minute. The weaving is done on looms, about the same as with silk, The coloring is done with mineral* when the glass is originally melted. IT is the opinion of the Rev. J. G. Wood, a popular English writer on nat­ ural history, that tlie cockroach and red ant, which abound in England as in this country, are not indigenous there, but were imported in merchandise from America. The numbers of ants are so great in some houses as to render the buildings uninhabitable. The houses have had the floors relaid, cement and }x>rcelain tiles used wherever possible, tut the house ants have retained pos­ session of the premises. The passages to their nests are so small that t>oihng water loses its heat long before the few drops which can trickle through them can touch the nest. Insect powders are equally useless, and sulphur has no terror for these insects, THB proportions of the human figure are six times the length of tlie feet. Whether the form is slender or plump, the rule holds good ; any deviation from it is a def>arture from the highest beauty in proportion. Tlie Greeks made all their statues according to this rule. The face, from the highest point of the fore­ head, where the nair begins, to the chin, is one-tenth of the whole stature. The hand, from the wrist to the middle fin­ ger, is the same. From the top of the chest to the highest point of the fore­ head is a seventh. If the face, from the roots of the hair to tlie chin, be divided into three equal parts, tlie first division determines the place where the eyebrows meet, and the second the place of the nostrils. The height, from the feet to the top of the head, is the distance from the extremity of the fingers when the arms are extended. - Fires In Japan. A fire in Japan is apt to lie disastrous on account of the unsubstantial nature of the light wood, paper-windowed houses. One or two steam engines, maintained by the joint subscriptions of the foreign insurance companies who have agencies here and are interested in property in Japan, and a number of old- fasliioned hand engines belonging to the Japanese Government, and managed by natives, from tlie fire guard to the for­ eign settlement and native town of Yo­ kohama. The Hong Kong Fire Insu­ rance Company, l»eing an English house, provide their volunteers with uniforms of English pattern--brass helmets for the officers and black leather helmets trim­ med with brass, for the men; blue flan­ nel shirts, faced with red, corduroy trous­ ers, top boots and a belt, with a hatchet and spanner on either side. The relief men wear the American fire hat and red flannel shirt, but in ottier respects their dress is the same as the Victoria. At the sound of the alarm bell the steam en­ gines are not long in reaching the scene of a fire, and the steady streams from their hose as a rule soon have a very per­ ceptible effect on the flame, though at times the men have to work unremitting­ ly from night till morning, and when at last the fire is extinguished the tired vol­ unteers draw the engine back to their houses and retire to the rest they have so fairly earned by their labors. After the steam engines are drawn off the Japs are left to play on the smouldering ruins with their hand engines, which, though al­ most useless when a fire is at its height, are sufficiently powerful to keep it from breaking out again. Tlie Japanese po- licomen, though brave and quick enough, are absolutory worthless at a fire. They jabber and shout like a parcel of monkeys struck suddenly mad, give orders where they have no right to interfere, and chop at windows and doors with their hatchcts, destroying property unnecessarily, where in most cases it should l>e saved with no other damage than would be caused by the water pumped from the engine. The uniform of the Japanese policemen, like that of all government officials, is of for­ eign pattern, and is made of navy blue cloth, faced with yellow; their caps, something of the same shape as a navy cap, have a yellow band sewed around them, and a brass chrysanthemum, the crest of the Emperor, is fastened jusS above the peak. At some of tlie fires three or four hundred houses are burned to tlie ground, and as many poor fami­ lies left homeless.--Exchange. Cruelty and Civilization. The mutilations of prisoners exhib­ ited on Assyrian sculptures are not sur­ passed in cruelty by any we* find among the most blood-thirsty of wild races; and Rameses IT., who delighted in hav­ ing himself sculptured on temple walls throughout Egypt as holding a dozen captives by the hair and striking off their heads at a blow, slaughtered during his conquests more human beings than a thousand chiefs of savage tribes put to­ gether. The tortures inflicted on captured enemies by Red Indians are not greater than were those inflicted of old on fel­ ons by crucifixion, or on suspected reb­ els by sewing them up in the hides of slaughtered animals, or on heretics by smearing them over with combustibles and setting fire to them. The Damaras, described as so utterly heartless that they laugh on seeing one of their num­ ber killed by a wild beast, are not worse than were the Romans, who made such elaborate provisions for gratifying them­ selves by watching wholesale slaughters in their arenas. H the numbers de­ stroyed by the hordes of Attila were not equaled by tlie numbers which the Ro­ man army destroyed at tlie conquest of Selucia, and by the numbers of the Jews massacred under Hadrian, it was simply because the occasion did not permit. The cruelties of Nero, Gallienus, and the rest may compare with those of Zingis and Timour ; and when we read of Caracalla, that after ha had murdered 20,000 friends of his murdered brother, his soldiers forced the Senate to place liim amoag the gods, we are shown that in the Roman people there was a ferocity not less than that which deifies the most sanguinary chiefs among the worst of savages. Nor did Christianity greatly change matters. Throughout mediaeval Europe political offenses and religious dissent brought on men carefully de­ vised agonies, equaling, if not exceed­ ing, any inflicted by the most brutal of barbarians. --Herbert Spencer, in Fort­ nightly Review. ' Electricity as a Corrective. In the Ohio State'prison at Columbus the punishment of refractory prisoners is accomplished in a scientific manner, electricity being substituted in place of the degrading lash. The convict is stripped, handcuffed, and placed in a bath tub, a parallelogram in shape. It is partially filled with water, and the bot­ tom, which is of brass, Is connected with a powerful battery. An attendant seizes two sponges, which are likewise connected and charged, and gently touches the convict's body. A circuit is thus formed, and the patient receives • shock that he will remember to his dying day. This playful exercise is contiuuea until the convict cries enough. He is unable to move, and for the time being suffers excruciating torture, so that he will never hanker for a repetition of the dose. The punishment leaves no wounds, and, while more severe thau flogging, it is not so humiliating. POLITICAL NOTES. nxcroiB HEWS. EVKRY time the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt sees the signature of James A. Garfield it will remind him of the sixteenth verse of the twentieth chapter of Exodus. THK most rabid of the Southern Bour­ bons admit that if fair election methods prevail in the South there will be an end to solidity. This is a confession of the truth of the Republican charge that the South is solid for nothing that is good. SATS an exchange : " This is the old Democratic game in Congress. Intro­ duce some iniquitous measure, and when the Republicans oppose it charge them with obstructing the public business. President Hayes was charged with ob­ struction when he distinguished himself with his series of vetoes, and the vote of the country since has shown who the real obstructors are, THERE is a very good prospect for the election of*f a Republican Senator from Tennessee. The low-tax Democrats are willing to vote with the Republicans to elect Governor-elect Hawkins Senator, on condition that the Republicans vote with them in electing the Speaker of the State Senate. Hawkins' election to the United States Senate would create a vacancy in the Governorship, which would be thus filled by a low-tax Demo­ crat Speaker. It is rumored and be­ lieved that this plan has been agreed on by a sufficient number of the Tennes­ see legislators to give it effect, WHO killed John Kelly T " I," said young Cooper, MI jnBt did whoop 'er Up for John Kelly." Who'll to!) tho bell? " I," said old Sammy, " Though feeMe, why, HIMM^ 111 ring the bell." Wboll day the prayer? M I," «aid McCHwky ; M With Rricf I'm quite husky, Bat I'll «ay the prayer." GEN. CHALMERS, the Representative of the Mississippi Shoestring district, has been interviewed as to the manner by which he was counted in at the Novem­ ber election. He said it was all right according to Mississippi law, which, like all men of his politics, he thinks is su­ perior to the national law. He admitted that several thousand votes for Lynch, the Republican candidate, were thrown out without shadow of right, or jus­ tice, or reason, and on the merest tech­ nicality. r^he disappearance of ballot- boxes from strong Republican precincts he attributed to a frolic of the boys, or to Lynch's friends, the latter making away with them in order to give their candidate grounds for a contest! The paucity of voters at the polls he ascribed to the reluctance of the Mississippi un­ willed to vote without being paid for it. Gen. Chalmers'explanations were as flimsy as they well could be and his charges against the Republicans would hardly hoid water, even if he were- be­ lieved to be an honest politician. THB Chicago Tribune says: " During the late political campaign the Southern bulldozers mider#5S5k to intimidate the business men of Cincinnati who sup­ ported Gen. Garfield. Subsequently nu­ merous protests were made by the same gentry because many of the prominent business houses in New York had given substantial aid to the cause represented by Garfield and Arthur. This indigna­ tion has now taken shape, and it is pro­ posed by a number of organs of South­ ern opinion to withdraw as far as may be the trade of the cotton States from the cities which have offended in the way descril>ed. The general scope of the proposition is, that the merchants of the South shall organize unions in all the principal cities and towns in their section to the end that the wholesale dealers of New Orleuns, St Louis, Charleston, Baltimore and Atlanta be patronized rather than those of the Northern cities. It is proposed, fur­ ther, that these unions call a gen­ eral convention at an early day, and that there be appointed by such a meeting an Executive Committee charged with "the duty of disseminat­ ing among Southern merchants a better knowledge of Southern markets, their shipping facilities and the rates for transporting merchandise charged by railway and steamship lines leading from them." This non-intercourse scheme is an old one. It was agitated and tried liefore tlie war. We remember it was tried on a Connecticut comb manufacto­ ry, whose managers were notified that if they supported Lincoln for President the patronage of the " South" would be withdrawn from that concern. Tlie re­ ply of the manager was that if the chiv­ alry did not want his combs they need not buy them, but they oould go lousy. A Ureat Invention. A Frenchman has invented a device by which passengers can be put on and ta­ ken off an express train while it is in motion. Of course, an energetic man can get off an express train now while it is going at thirty miles an hour, but the feat is attended by many drawbacks. Tlie aforesaid Frenchman would have his patent car^tarod on a side track, from which it could run on the main line with­ out necessitating the turning of a switch. This car contains at one end a small en­ gine and a big drum, connected with a set of steel springs running the whole length of the car underneath. A wire rope is wound around this drum, and when it is unwound it tightens up the set of springs to their utmost tension. The unwound end of this cable terminates in a hook that is placed on a post beside the main track, so that a similiar hook on the express train will catch it. Do you catch the idea? When the express comes booming by the passengers are seated at the other end of the patent car, the ex­ press hook catches the patent hook, and rapidly unwinds the rope from the drum, the patent car meanwhile slowly moving forwards By the time the rope is un­ wound from the drum the car is going as fast as the express. The small engine winds up the rope again, assisted by the springs, and this draws the car up to the rear coach of the express. Passengers and baggage are rapidly transferred, the car unhitched, and the small engine helps it back to the station. The experi­ ment has been tried in France, and is quite successful. There was no shock when the patent car started, and every­ thing worked like a charm. A FARMKR in Towanda, McLean coun- ty, owns a mare that was foaled May5, 1845, and can still eat corn. THK question of removing the county seat of Greene county from Carroll ton to Whita Hall is being agitated. SnvBRA.ii new coal shafts are talked of in Montgomery county, among them <me at Raymond and one at Hillslxmx. THE acreage of winter wheat in Cen­ tral Illinois is the largest in history, and the prospect is all that could be desired. TWENTY tramps took possession of a house in Springfield, and resisted the police who tried to. dislodge them. One t*anip was shot. THE Illinois Tile Convention will meet at Springfield, Jan. 18, 1881, in the rooms of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture. , Gov. CciiLOM has appointed Am- mund Miller, Justice of the Peace for West Chicago, vice C. & Matson, elect­ ed Coroner. JTOOK JOHN MOSKS, of Scott county, is the Secretory of tlie Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission, Col. Ham­ ilton having resigned. MRS. DAVID LANSIS, of Smithfield, died in a dentist's chair, at Lewiston, from the effects of chloroform adminis­ tered by a physician. LXZZIB BARTON, a chambermaid at Quincy, has been arrested by the police of that city tor stealing a horse and buggy and having it sold by her parents. She confesses her crime. JOHN C, ARMSTRONG, a farmer of Car- rollton, quarreled with his brother Clin­ ton about a buggy trad.e. The latter struck the former with a wagon yoke, killing him instantly. GEOROE N. LEWIS, the former hus­ band ot the famous "Sylph," died at Jerseyville lately. Gen. McDonald's first wife recently passed away at Ripon, Wis., and John aud "Sylph" are said to be living at Nokomis, in this State. ^ THE Illinois State Horticultural So­ ciety was in annual session at Warsaw, last week. The attendance was good, the weather delightful, and visitors from Indiana, Iowa and Missouri were in at­ tendance. The exhibition of apples was very large and very fine, and the center of attractidh for visitors. THB stock of lumber in ninety-four yards in Chicago on the 1st inst. amounted to 598,870,283 feet of lumber and timber, 200,039,000 shingles, 59,- 186,826 lath, 47,726 cedar posts, and 2,706,303 feet of pickets. Tlie above figures show an increase over last month and for the corresponding month in any previous year. JACOB JACOBS, a young man of Lisbon, Kendall county, died recently after a life of weary pain. He wns afflicted with anaesthetic leprosy. Although 21 years of age, he was in stature and weight about the Bize of a 10-year-old boy. His nose was eaten off and his arms were rotted to the bone. His whole body was impregnated with the disease. AMONG the President's appointments are those of Edgar Stanton, of Illinois, to be Consul General at St. Petersburg; John R. Brown to lie storekeeper, and J. E. McDermott-to be ganger, of the Fifth Illinois district, and George W. Curtis to be Postmaster at Urban a; James B. Brown, at Galena; Miss Mol- lie E. Jenkins, at Murphysboro, and Miss Abbie M. Lawton, at Griggsville, MILTON M. DILL, a prominent citizen of Paiis, died at Saylor Spring last week. The cause of his death was dropsy. The deceased was in the 68th year of his age, and had been a resident of Paris for hity-tivo years. Ho was a lawyer, having l>een admitted to the bar in 1838; was for twelve yeirs u Justioo oi the Peace, and in 1862 was elected Mayor of theoty. •Iltaote Fiuaacm. The reoeipts and disbursements at the State treasury for the two years ending Sept. 30, 1880, as shown by Auditor Needles' report, was as follows : MKCKIVKD. For roveuue .$8,3-J2,146.fl6 State school. > » a,0U'J,7X>.V3 Military I t... 1IW,2KW2 Illinois Central railroad .-... 6(>0,4<>7.2.l Unknown and minor heir* 550.82 Local bond fund* 3,2'.>1,057.23 Total |8,475,H9.0i> DMBcaarn. On account of revenue $3,639,038. W BUtc Kcliool Miitary 127,44 l.VMt Illinois Central railroad * 587,J87.4") Ulinoitt river improvement. 3tt7.:>.i Unknown and minor heirs 78.57 Local bond fundi) 2/220,478.0'J Total dlshurnemente. .$&S95.!>35.8'.t The balance of all fuuds in the State treasury Oct* 1, 1880, was : T net funds State funds Registered bond fund otter. MM.1M 9,937,951 WHAT is life? In infancy, a battle with colic; in youth, a straggle to keep out of mischief; in manhood, a struggle with indigestion, and in old age, the pre­ lude of a contested will case. ( 502,101.11 l,96B,50-->.78 Total $3,4*18,600.89 The amount of warrants drawn on the State treasury during the two years was $8,583,909.39, which may be classified as follows: Legislative % 295,040.27 Executive 278,280.12 Judicial 667.W4.20 Educational 2,273,05:1.76 Charitable 1,417,062.72 Penal and reformatory 608,:>17.28 Agricultural and jdatlcultural 45,29<5.5() Commerce 57,141.41 Militury 218,:<fi7.H) State indebtedness 587,287.45 RnfuudiuK aud transfer warrant* 5.'>,824.fi:t Monumor.tal 18,125.00 Local-bond-fund dlsbui»ement 2,216,429.67 Minor heirs' 78.57 Total ..$8,583,909.38 The estimated expense of the State Government from Oct. 1, 1880, to July 1, 1881, is $1,881,461.84. The above expenses are payable from funds as follows: Cienera! revenue fund $1,671,707.51 State Hcliool fund 6,558.78 Illiaois Central railroad fund 290,000.00 State military fund 13,1(15.05 Total $1,881,431.34 Tlie equalized assessment of the State for 1879 and 1880 was : FOB 1879. Personal property $151,266,831 Lands.......V/. «#,<>72,534 Town and city Iota 187,418,145 Railroads 37,649,670 Capital Block of corporations other than railroad! 2.218,370 Total $784,623,550 FOB 1880. Penonal property. $164,394,066 Lands 381,396.600 Town and city lots 184,044,453 Bailroads. ." 44,601,815 Capital ntock of corporations other than r&ilroada.. 2,179,460 Total .$786,616,394 Number and assessed value of live stock: FOB 1870. Sumber. Horses. 887,288 Cattle 1,862,265 Mules and asses 121,373 Sheep. 846,101, Hogs 2,799,061 FOB 1880. Horses 912,996 O-tt'e 1,999,788 Mules and asses 116,360 Sheep 964,686 Hogs 3,133,567 Aggregate taxes chax|ped on State County Registered bold fond City ... Town, district and other Total..... $34,259,281 The total amount of State debt out­ standing Oct. 1, 1880, was £281,059.11, of which $23,600 has been called in but has not been presented for payment. The amount of bonds outstanding Sept 30, 1880, which were issued by counties, cities, incorporated towns, townships, and registered in the Auditor's office,was $18,888,274.93. UK FAULT rrnmtUM. i Ik *ny complaint • | perspiration do not go I cold at liostj afar to the hsflsidt. I GRAHAM wafers for the siek ^ One amp of Graham Hoar, one sad <ne-third< Total.. State County Vitivf. $23,(124,921 18,893.811 3,498,111 9.KI.607 3,812,328 $?4,239,984 19,855,483 3,461.109 1,246,822 4,800,J«4 the book*-: ...4 3,614,aw ....I 6,557,445 .... 1,506,517 7,576,8.82 .... 10,941,658 «. ..489,197,858 FOB U7». .$ 2,715,685 4,730,UM iniaela Ceaaa* MatMlcs. The Census Bureau at Washington has issued an official circular, giving a partial report of the census returns of Illinois, embracing thirty-eight counties. We copy the following : Conntit*. Malt, Adams 59,148 3»,«52 Bond 14,87s 7,703 Boone.... 1 11,5*7 6,886 Hrowa 13,044 6,616 7.4T1 3,998 16,986 8,746 14,494 7,897 28,932 14,961 18,196 8,185 18,718 #,971 16,190 8,887 18,924 9,804 23,243 12,171 41,249 21,256 23.014 11,961 ... ...16,738 8,770 16,646 8,080 44,966 22,511 .13,084 6,986 26,041 13,'.'35 .* 37,70% 19,532 ....... AGM 11,974 ,..l%ttM 7,749 16,244 8,507 13,028 6,7»T 28,096 14,515 - .31,519 15,985 .......29,946 15,539 •, 33,761 17,307 6,555 2,897 16,546 7,908 61,850 32,655 52,902 27,323 Schuvler 16,249 8,239 Scott 10,745 S.505 Stephenson 31.970 16,136 Warren. 22,910 11,793 Winnebago. 30,518 15,176 The following shows the number of native-born and foreign-born, and the whites and colored in uie population of the comities named: * FtrreitjK. Colored, Calhoun.. Carroll Caes Christian... Clay Clinton Crawford. ..... Effingham..... Fayette Fulton Greene..... Grundy......... Jersey Kane. Kendall......... Logan..... 4 . . . Mao upin....... Marion. , MarelnU. Mason....... Menard. ,i. Montgomery.... Morgan.......,, Ogle.; u Pike Putnam Richland. St. Clair Sangamon.... female. 29,496 7,170 5,641 6,429 3,533 8,239 6,897 13,331 8,010 8.747 7,333 9,120 11.072 19,9*.K) 11,053 7,0B8 7,466 22,445 6,098 11,806 2,658 7,638 29,195 25,579 8,010 6,240 15,834 11,145 15,342 CtHintie*. Satire. Adams 49,132 Bond 13,776 Boone 9,222 Brown. 12,335 Calhoun 6,6(50 Carroll 14,893 Caas -..12,684 Christian 96,791 Clay 16,740 Clinton 14,610 Crawfdrd ....15,892 Effingham. 16,220 Fayette 91,721 Fulton. 39,353 Greene 21,466 Orundyt 12,360 Jersey 13,479 Sane .33,901 Ki'nilall 10,287 Logan... 21,887 Macoupin 32,867 Marion 22,340 Marshall 12,610 Macon. 14,449 Menard 11,646 Montgomery. 25,438 Morgan 27,687 Ogle. 25,432 Pike 32,138 Putnam 4,702 Kicli'and. 14,644 St Clair. 4.<,870 Sangamon 45,115 Schuyler 16,692 Seott, 9,835 Stephenson 96,074 Warren 20,759 Winnebago. 23,930 10,016 I,097 2,305 709 1,111 2,002 1,810 2,441 466 4,108 298 2,704 1,522 1,896 1,548 4,388 2,067 II,055 2,797 3,154 4,848 1,351 2,426 1,795 1,382 2,648 3,832 4,514 1,623 853 902 15,980 7,787 557 910 5,896 2,1*1 6,588 57,262 14,547 11,479 12,985 7,470 16,965 14,488 28,106 16,113 18,365 16,153 18,903 28,204 41,177 23,924 16,614 15.215 44,407 13,009 24,688 37,271 23.389 14,999 16,224 12,974 27,920 30,585 29,838 33,460 5,512 15,510 59,276 51,072 16,173 10,714 31,947 22,649 30,374 1,886 326 48 59 1 90 . 6 126 89 353 37 91 39 79 90 124 331 649 75 363 434 302 37 90 54 166 934 108 301 43 38 9,574 1,830 76 31 93 991 144 Oiabuo, beat thoroughly, and sai away to cool. When ooot spraadai sheets or pans as thin ss the blade of m knife. Bake in s moderate oven about' twelve minutes. Stale people eaa cat this when they can eat no other hniail. A CURB FOB NIGHT SWXATS.--A pow­ der known as three parts ot salicylic add ana ninety- seven parts silicate of magnesia, Is MM in Germany as a core far sweating of the feet. Keoently a Dr. Kohnhom. tried its end cases of night sweating by obcununp- tives. The beneficial effect was iaae- diate and permanent. The powder was rubbed over the whole body. To vent any breathing of the dost sad sequent coughing a handkerchief Mil be held over tbe patient's mouth and nose while the powder is being apfdasd. MEDIC AT Use OF £GG&--For burns and scalds nothing is more soothing than the white of an egg, which may b» 18.1-1' P°TlTT'̂ OTer the woundT It is softer as 11*717 | a varnish for a bum than collodion, ukL 7,287 j being always at handr ©an be applied | immediately, It is also more, cooling 13^571 ! than the "sweet oil and cotton," whifOu i4*4?7 ' was ^ormer*J supposed to be the sonal 16*454 : application to «lay the smarting pain. ' It is the contact with the air whifih gives the extreme discomfort experi­ enced from ordinary accidents of tins kind, and anything which excludes air, and preventeinflammation îs tbe thingto be at ono^fpplied. The white of AM egg, into which a piece of alum abort the size of a walnut has been stewed un­ til it forms a jelly, is a fine remedy lor sprains. It should be laid over tk* sprain on a piece of lint and changed as often as it becomes dry. CHILDRKN are not apt to believe they drink too much water, and yet they <kx When you come into the honse, r*nti"fl and thirstv from play, yon will take * tumbler of water and drink it down as you can, and then rush out to play, and, perhaps, repeat the Now, the next time you feel thirsty, try this experiment: Take a goblet of water and slowly sip it. Before it is goss your thirst will be fully quenched, attd you will feel better for having drunk only that which you need. And agate, we are all apt to acquire the habit of drinking while eating our meals, Natunt gives 11s all the saliva we need ; and if any one will chew his food slowly and thoroughly, and not take a swallow «f drink until through eating, the desire to do so will leave, and he will require only a few sips of water, tea or coffee after tlie meat is finished. This practice, too ̂ will do wonders in the way of keel** off indigestion, dyspepsia and sickness. Some Astonishing Memories. Of Fuller we are told " that he could write verbatim another man's sermon after hearing it once, and that he could do the same with as many as 500 words in an unknown language after hearing them twice. One day he undertook to walk from Temple Bar to the furtheafc end of Cheapside and to repeat on his return every sign on either side of the way in tlie order of their occurrence^ s feat which he easiljagMomplialied," And what has lately oflp reported of the Rev. Orlando Hyhfl̂ as an example of his most distinctive facultv, "that lis memory was such that as lie read lid- dell and Scott's Greek Dictionary beds** troyed the successive pages, content with having mastered their contents," is told of Bishop Bull, at the end of » masterly array ot intellectual powenu 44 And as his reading was great, so bin memory was equally retentive. Its never kept any book of references of commonplaces, neither did he ever need any ;" the writer adding that, " togeth­ er with this happy faculty he was blessed with another that seldom accompanied it in the same person, and that was an accurate and sound judgment." Meaa- ory was in a past day more systematic* ally cultivated than with us. People set themselves tasks. Thus Thomas Cromwell, of the Reformation pe­ riod, as a traveling task, committed to memory the whole ol Uraemias*- " Paraphrase on tlie New Testament." Bishop Sanderson eould repeat sll the " Odes of Horace," all Tully s " Offices,** and much of Juvenal and Persists without book. Bacon alludes to receipts for its improvement, as well as what herbs, in the popular mind, tend to strengthen imperlect memory, as onions, or beans, or such vaporous food. Again, he writes, " We find in the art of mem­ ory that iuiagep visible work better than conceits " in impressing things on the mind. A feet which finds modern il­ lustration in the case of the Fifth Ave- enue Hotel waiter, who daily receives some 500 hats from chance persons din­ ing together in one room, and, without any system of arrangement, promptly returns each hat to its owner, explaining that he forms a mental picture of the wearer's faee inside his hat, and that on looking into the hat its owner is instant­ ly brought before him. Again, to recur to Bacon's speculations, he finds that " hastv speech confounds memory.** Again^-as writing makes an exact man, so--" if a man writes little he had need of a great memory." And he criticises the exercises used in the universities as making too great a divorce between in­ vention and memory in tbe cultivation of both faculties. --Blackwood's Maya^um. "Including, in A duns county, 4 Indians and half- broedn ; in Fulton county, 2 Indian*; iu Jersey coun­ ty, 1 Indian ; in,Kane county, 2 half-bri>ed Indiana; ill Morgan county, 1 Ohiut-Ho and 1 Indian; in Ogle county, 1 Ijalf-biwMl Indian ; in Sangamon county, 1 Chinese; In Warren county, 1 Chiuaw; in Winne­ bago county, 14 half-breed Indiana. Shocking Calamity. Between twenty and thirty lives were loft bf the bv ruing of the large wall-paper mannfaet̂ rrj of M. H. Birge 4 Sons, in Buffalo. The structure was a five-story brick, 300 feet in depth and 80 feet wide. About ISO men and boys were employed in the building. A dispateh from Buffalo gires tho following particulars of the sad disaster : About ten minutes before 9 o'elnck one of the men employed in the third story reported to the foreman, Thomas Henry, who wss on the floor below, that one of the printing m&ciiincs was on fire. He speedily made bin way up st unt, and saw the press at the rear of the room enveloped in flames, which had, by this time, spread to the adjacent woolwork, while the place was filled with dense smoke. As a temperature of 60 degrees is maintained continually throughout the factory, to axRist the drviug process, ;and as this had rendered everything as dry ai tinder, Mr. Henry realized that the spread of tli* flames would"be terribly rapid, and it was folly to think that anything could to done to avert it. Ho turned and ordered tlie employes to fly for their lives, immediately warning as best he could those who wore in the fourth and fifth stories, they being principally boys. Ia the meantime an alarm had been sounded, to which a portion of the department responded, and a second and general alarm brought tin remainder. The sci-ue now presented was one that would touch the stoutest heart.. The building wax wrapped in seething flames. Em* ployea jumped from the highest windows, while many boys in tho two upper stories, wha had been unsuccessful in their efforts to «s- eape, or became too bewildered to follow the example of their companions, appeared at tne windows with white ana ter- rifled faoes and frantically shout­ ed for help. But thoir torture was of brief duration, for, almost simultaneously with their cry for aid, they sank back, overcome by suffocation from the smoke, and, within twenty minutes from the time the alarm was sounded, the walls cramblod and fell with a crash. One small boy, whose name could not be learned, courageously jumped from the fifth story, and, catching the' telegraph vsirw, which then gave way. ahd down one of them, and escaped with badly cut hands. John Malone, aged 15 years, jumped from the fifth story, struck the sidewalk, and was almost instantly killed. John Fields, employed as ovcrxeer among the boys, jumped from the fourth story and was picked up dead. John T. Berry jumped from one of the upper stories and sustained a fracture of the spine and of both arms. He will probably die. A number of others saved their lives by lead­ ing from the windows of the burning building, but nearly ail of them sustained injuries more or lexn severe. As far as ean be ascertained twenty boys, if not more, were roasted alive is the fire. Shakespeare** Mother. Both young men belonged to the sa­ cred jeune*>se doree of Harvard, but Picture even their brilliant intellects had sue- . .. .. combed to the power of wine. They v&ty •eraceabie ana jjJWy t stood upon the step of a Cambridge car, i frames can be madteoirt of pasteboard, and talked loudly, wholly unconscious ®°3 eabinet photographs, outfourstripe, that Miss X., the young lady upon whom they were to call the following evening, sat juut inside the car door. Theatrical topics were the subject of their conver­ sation, and one remarked, loftily, that for his part he never cared lor Shakes­ peare. "O, dash Shakespeare!" the other returned; "he'a nobody. I knew his mother. She was nothing but an old nigger washwoman down on Joy street!" On tbe following evening the two youths, in faultless attire, were sun­ ning themselves in the smiles of Miss X., when Shakespeare was casually men­ tioned. "1 am always smashed on Shakespeare," tlie second youth remark­ ed. What was his horror when Miss X. returned, coldly, "That is very natural; I believe you are acquainted with his mother."--Boston Courier. 2 Terrible Advetur "Now," said the officer, "take this horse and come to my quarters." Then, turning around, he shouted out, in Spanish, to the chief of the guerrillas: " Francisco, if I hear of another prank like this, I shall send my ordeny to blow out your brains." At the officer's quarters, in the city, our countryman received every possible attention, and ns soon as he was rested and refreshed he was furnished with horses and money and eeoorted safely to Vera Cru* two six inenes and two eight inches long. Lap them across the corners, In the same way as the rustic frames in joined, and punch a hide through the two pieces so that yon oan fasten them with a button. You can find four ot a kind enough in the button- box on the shell Gut steel axe the best, but any kind will da Strips ol paper ai-. tlie beek -will hold the pasture m it» place. - These frames axe pretty, made ef Hsck card-board or coveted with black silk, little gilt stars, or strips of gilt paper down the oenter, have a pleasant effect on the black. You can cut little pieoes of paper to represent gilt buttons if you do not happen to have any in tbe house. If yon can, embroider a mmm vine on strips, with a duster of leans or flower s at the oomem. Almost any oom- bination ol materials and styles is effect­ ive for these frames, and tteyaiea» agree able change from the perforated card so long used. Glove and handker- chief boxes, and, in fact* bases of snj kind, mil lb in this line of mannfafttnre. Miss BIBS, the traveler**,4 C* her Japanese factotum **:- fid day!" andsoob M in hand, he said: *% RUM* * 4 say?" »44a*4C%